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♪ the needle and the spoon what a thrill to the moon we're going to take you away ♪ the death of "glee's" cory monteith drawing attention to heroin abuse among young people. >> the number of americans using heroin has doubled over the last decade, and it's spreading to some unlikely places. abc's byron pitts has more. ♪ living in a lonely world >> reporter: cory monteith, clean-cut star of the show "glee" shocked his fans when he died from a heroin overdose. but he's now the new face of the next generation of heroin users, a growing group found mostly in of all places suburbia. police lieutenant thomas dombrowski drove us through bergen county, new jersey, where the recent spike in heroin deaths sparked concern. >> every part of bergen county

is touched in some way, shape or form by the heroin epidemic. >> reporter: 28 overdoses here last year. most of the victims under the age of 22. in what parents may not know, the gateway drug could already be in their medicine cabinets. it was for 23-year-old dylan young. >> started using prescription painkillers that my father had, and it went from there. >> reporter: at 13 he was smoking pot and drinking then stealing those pills from his parents which led to smoking heroin. >> heroin is much, much cheaper than prescription medication. >> reporter: give me the ratio. >> a 30-milligram oxycodone $30, 80 milligrams of oxycontin, a bag of heroin, $40. a lot of addicts are missing something, and they fill that void with drugs. >> reporter: the hold it had on him so strong he ended up in

rehab six times. >> when you're in that situation you usually don't see hope for a life ahead of you. you just see, you know, your next fix. >> reporter: most agree intervention and treatment are key. but there is a bitter irony that goes with rehab. just like monteith many heroin addicts die when they start using again right after leaving treatment. >> most of the overdose deaths that we're getting are people that come back from rehab, they get high for that first time coming back from rehab and that high is what kills them. >> reporter: dylan has been clean now for three years. he knows heroin is a dark dead end. more and more young people enter and never leave. byron pitts, abc news, new york. >> so scary, and they start out with, you know, oxycodone, and heroin is actually cheaper, so it becomes the cheap alternative to stealing prescription medicine. >> a harder drug, harder to get rid of and does all kinds of damage to your body, is cheaper than what's in your mom's medicine cabinet. >> the purity these days is

double, triple what it was back in the '70s when you see those old movies people shooting up in the galleries. >> cory monteith was in his early 30s. obviously when he passed away, but according to a stat, half of all first-time users are younger than 26 years old and now in bergen county, new jersey, there is an epidemic where they can't control it. it got so bad where they had to kind of start to intervene. >> yeah. >> incredible. >> sure is. still to come, a young man who proves that a person can do just about anything they set their mind to. >> what you get when you take engineering know-how and combine it with fierce determination. and later seeing double in the maternity ward, a big surprise, twin sisters going into labor on the same day. in our next half hour on "world news now." e day. in our next half hour on "world news now."

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♪ you're really built for speed you're built for speed babe ♪ now a story about a guy loving life in the fast lane against all odds. >> he is designing the fastest cars on the planet despite being born without airports. john donvan has more on this young man's stamina and speed. now a story about a guy loving life in the fast lane against all odds. >> he is designing the fastest cars on the planet despite being born without arms. john donvan has more on this young man's stamina and speed. >> reporter: he's going all his life because he's figured out what a shoulder can do, what a foot can do, what a chin can do to get him on the road, and though he's as safe a driver as there is, it's as if richie parker has never seen a stop sign. >> i don't know that there's a whole lot in life, period, that i could say i can't do, just things that i haven't done yet. >> reporter: like how he makes his living. an engineer designing high-performance cars. the ideas that come from his head then play out as racing

high speed on the nascar circuit. he's on the team at hendricks motorsports, the most winning designer in nascar. >> he sat down and shows me how he works on the computer and how he does his design work. i write with my right hand. you write with your left hand. he happens to write with his feet. >> reporter: who would have guessed when he was born back in 1983 in buford, south carolina -- >> you know, he was the cutest little boy. >> reporter: the doctor pulled his dad aside -- >> and said the baby did not have arms, and i just was dumbfounded like, what do you mean? >> reporter: it meant engineering solutions as his mom said -- >> we wanted his childhood to be as close to any other child's childhood as possible. that's always been our attitude. we are going to make it work. >> reporter: where it turned out richie himself was chief engineer. watch richie the kid figure out how to open the refrigerator or long before learning to drive how to get going on a bike his

dad rigged with extra long handlebars or nowadays how to have a meal with that classic handheld device, the spoon, so, yeah, speed bumps sometimes but no stop signs. >> i had two parents that from day one tried to make it so that my life was, i guess you could say, as normal as possible, whatever normal is. >> reporter: well, really this is better than normal. john donvan, abc news, washington. >> that guy is amazing. >> that's incredible. >> what a story. >> i am absolutely speechless, but i'll read to you what magic johnson tweeted out after the espn segment on him aired. he said "richie parker's story proves you can do anything you set your mind to. we should all stop complaining and giving excuses." >> we're not allowed to complain today after seeing that story. >> not at all. >> what an amazing young man. >> yes. and he's the type of young man that will inspire other children out there who may be going

through the same thing. >> no doubt about it. hats off to all the people who give him a chance to show what he's got. >> that's true. we'll be right back. back.

welcome into "the mix," everybody. when you work in television, especially live television, you know that when things go wrong, and they do, it literally sucks. >> oh, yeah. >> there's few things that you can really control when you lose things like graphics or pictures or, let's say, a weather computer if you happen to be this poor weather anchor who lost his entire weather computer. it crashed right before they went on the air. but he's a genius in my eyes because check out what he did. >> so i made these this morning very fast so please be patient with me. my art skills are not the best. here's a little snippet of that seven-day forecast that's coming up in just a little bit. >> we can ignore the fact that he misspelled yesterday but you got to love the fact that he not only did more than one graphic,

he had his whole seven-day up there, too. >> used multicolored pens, too. >> and there was a drawing of the day. yes, he apparently had four sharpies, a purple one, a black one, a red one. >> better make news notes in case our prompter goes down. >> i know. >> can pull it out. >> when our prompter goes down it's not nearly as great as that. >> not pretty. start looking down and putting on my glasses. like i'm about to do right now. a woman goes to jail to marry her groom who is behind bars. she's free. this is in alabama. she says to the officer can i kiss him during the ceremony. they say sure but they noticed that her teeth keep jiggling. her dentures and something doesn't look right so finally they search her dentures and inside is crystal meth. let's put up a picture. here's the woman. britta west. according to the sheriff's department she had crystal meth and the idea was to kiss the bride and sneak in the crystal meth through the mouth. the prisoner willard -- that happened on sunday and asked if they could search her handbag and found more methamphetamine as well.

charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, and she's being held on $25,000 bond. so i guess she's going to join her new spouse. >> so she wasn't in jail and now she's in jail now and she ain't got no teeth. that's a sad situation. >> a little jingle in the mouth. didn't seem right. >> i hate when that happens. okay, this story is inspiring. i love this story. this is a young marine who is doing a 5k in michigan. >> great story. >> his name is lance corporal miles kerr. so he's running along with his marine buddies and a 9-year-old boy who got separated from his party was kind of running along and was lost and asked do you mind running with me, sir? i can't find the people i'm running with. he ends up having the worst time out of all his buddies. but that doesn't matter because he is now an internet superstar for his kindness. he ran with the little boy until the very end, helped him reunite with his party and encouraged him when the little kid wanted to quit. >> he had no idea he would be famous because of this act of

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this morning, sentencing day. the man cleveland police held three women captive for years faces a judge while prosecutors release jaw-dropping details from the victims' diaries. major league threats. some of the best known names in baseball could face extremely harsh punishments very soon. but the players and league's now say about the doping scandal. sisters give birth on the same day in the same hospital. seeing double in the maternity ward. country star randy travis and how suddenly things are looking up. that's coming up in "the skinny" on this thursday, august 1st. ♪ an 18-wheeler >> from abc news, this is "world

news now." >> happy august 1st. where did summer go? >> i'm already complaining about the fact that summer is gone. >> we have a month left. let's make the most of it. >> that means in one month it gets cold, and i'm already sad. we begin this half hour with a countdown to judgment. we're talking about ariel castro. >> the 533-year-old former school bus driver faces a sentencing hearing in cleveland for imprisoning and torturing three women for nearly a decade. >> castro agreed to plead guilty to 937 counts including rape, assault and aggravated murder. prosecutors will ask the judge for life plus 1,000 years. castro has agreed to pay $22,000 to demolish his house of horrors. >> castro is expected to speak at today's hearing, but prosecutor tim mcginty is quoted in court documents as saying he remains remorseless. and in an odd twist, castro is taking credit for the women's freedom saying he purposely left the door to amanda berry's room unlocked when he left the house that day so she could escape.

michelle knight is expected to make an impact statement at sentencing today. >> now, it comes as we learn the three women kept detailed journals of those ten years of terror that they endured. donita harris has that part of the story. >> reporter: the three survivors, amanda, gina and michelle, marked the passage of time by writing down their feelings and thoughts in diaries. the three women documented their physical and sexual abuse suffered at the hands of ariel castro. speaking of being locked in a dark room, anticipating the next session of abuse, being chained to a wall and being treated like a prisoner of war. but remarkably, somehow these three women found a way to also keep hope alive inside that seymour house by desiring their freedom. they dreamed of escaping one day and being reunited with their families and longing for the lives they once enjoyed. in cleveland, donita harris, abc

news. >> we're also learning that while she was in captivity, one of ariel astro's victims may have had her social security number stolen. michelle knight was described as having a mild disability and a young son when she disappeared, but investigators don't know who might have profited from that stolen income. meantime, cleveland police have posted this handwritten thank-you note on facebook penned by michelle knight. knight thanked police officers, going above and beyond the call of duty in collecting cards and gifts from well wishers for her and the other two victims. she says she's overwhelmed by the love expressed by complete strangers. george zimmerman can't seem to stay off the radar. this time on a highway in texas. an officer pulling over zimmerman outside of dallas for speeding. the video shows zimmerman telling the officer he's carrying a firearm in the glove compartment. the officer just gave zimmerman a warning. it is legal for zimmerman to transport a weapon in most

states including texas. now to a bittersweet victory for o.j. simpson winning parole but not freedom. >> this morning he faces an uphill legal battle. we get the latest from abc's brandy hitt. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. o.j. simpson's current attorney says he's pleased with the parole board's decision. he pleaded with that board last week for leniency, and it worked, but only on some of the charges. a small victory for o.j. simpson. nevada has granted the former nfl great parole on some of the charges stemming from his 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping conviction involving sports memorabilia simpson maintains was stolen from him. >> i would give it all back to these guys. they can have it all to get these last five years back. >> reporter: after this hearing last week, the nevada board of parole commissioners granted simpson's request, noting his positive institutional record. >> we expected mr. simpson to

make his parole because there's no reason he shouldn't have. >> reporter: but despite their decision, simpson won't be leaving prison any time soon. he was convicted on multiple charges and still has to serve jail time for using a weapon during the robbery and also for assault with a deadly weapon. >> his key to the door is a lot closer because he now may get paroled on those remaining charges. >> reporter: in a separate effort at freedom, the juice is also hoping a las vegas judge will grant him a new trial. back in may, simpson took the stand and argued his 2008 trial attorney, yale galanter, botched his case. if a judge does grant him a new trial, prosecutors will have to decide whether a retrial is even worth it or if they want to set him free with time served. john? diana? >> brandy, thank you very much. now to baseball's doping scandal and the game's highest paid player, alex rodriguez, of the yankees. a-rod's representatives are negotiating a possible settlement with major league

baseball that could result in a lengthy suspension. insiders still believe the league could pursue a nuclear option. >> major league baseball is going to try to ban alex rodriguez for life, but if they do, they know they're going to get an incredible fight with the union. >> the league is probably hoping a-rod will accept the long suspension that could keep him off the field through at least next season without the time and trouble of an appeal. the suspensions of several players could be announced at any time. >> this is getting really hot and heavy with a-rod. he walks away, if they do finally settle and he still gets a good chunk of change. his name is tanlted forever but it's pretty much tainted anyway. >> he makes so much money. even if he takes a year off. i don't know how many millions he makes a year. it's the highest salary in baseball. >> here's the question. only because -- and forgive me for not understanding how this works -- but he takes a year off and then he comes back? what happens? he can't come back. then he loses out on any other money he's making.

>> he loses the salary and that he'd be able to come back and play after that. whether or not that would void his contract with the yankees -- >> i don't think the yankees would touch him with a ten-foot pole. so i guess the deal is if he takes this settlement and he loses a year of play, he's pretty much done forever here. >> who knows? i mean, he could still come back. he's young enough. if i was him, i'd take the deal. >> just walk away, right? apparently espn has a source saying mlb has evidence that he attempted to coerce at least one of the witnesses. and that's why the league is saying that he deserves even a bigger punishment than the rest of them. >> he will find out shortly. another giant recall of contaminated ground beef by the same kansas company. the latest recall by national beef packaging company involves 50,000 pounds of meat sold mainly to wholesalers in 40 and 50-pound cases. the usda says it's unclear which retailers sold the meat. it recalled meat in june after a

similar e. coli scare. the bipartisan bill that would lower student loan rates by tying them to financial markets was overwhelmingly approved last night. undergraduates borrowing this fall will pay about 3.9% interest on subsidized stafford loans. the rates will fluctuate with the economy, but they can't go much higher than 8.25%. if you haven't checked facebook's value lately, you might be surprised. shares traded above $38 briefly yesterday before pulling back just a little bit. that's the price at which the company hit the market for the first time back in may. facebook stock is up 39% since it reported better than expected earnings just about a week ago. so it's sunny skies for facebook's shareholders. let's check the weather for us, see if it's sunny as well. it's all about rain on the east coast. not so much. it will be heavy in the mid-atlantic where flooding is possible, and there will be severe storms in the plains and rockies. >> 97 in denver and 80s dominate along the coast for most of today. miami hits 89.

82 in seattle. 81 in the windy city. you may have noticed it's going to be about 103 today in the dallas-ft. worth area. >> check out belle, the three-week-old baby elephant. too cute. at the fort worth zoo. she may be young but she knows that baby pools are just the place to cool off on a hot day. >> that's her mom there with her. she's about 330 pounds. she looks small but she's not. >> bigger than an nfl lineman. >> yes, she is. the zookeepers call it pachyderm pool time. we call it some adorable video. >> isn't that great? >> so at the beginning it kind of looked like, what's this thing all about? but now she's laying in it and fully immersed. >> by the way, whatever company makes that pool, that's a quality product. she's just rolling all over that thing. >> inflatable pool. >> isn't that great? they've got to put that in a commercial. too cute. >> i want one.

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♪ ♪ i want to know have you ever seen the rain ♪ so if you're in the market for a used car here's a buyer beware story we think you should see. >> cars flooded by hurricane sandy. making their way onto the market. the prices are low, but the cars could be too dangerous to drive. here's abc's bill weir with more. >> reporter: just look at them all. flood cars, as far as the eye can see, filling the runways of an abandoned airport after superstorm sandy and each one a potential highway hazard. >> flood cars literally rot from inside out. days, weeks or months down the road parts are going to fail. >> reporter: which makes it a bit worrisome when you see that packed runway now empty. and when you see this demonstration by the folks at used car tracker carfax. they make a flood car look brand new after just a five-hour makeover and estimate over 100,000 sandy battered cars are now back on the road. this flood mobile should have

been should for parts but we found it up for sale on this lot for $20,000. to investigate how, we bought it and held a reunion with former owner mike kennedy. >> she was underwater for two days. >> who watched seawater swallow his beloved truck. >> i had tools in the glove box and believe it or not, the tools are still here. they're no longer functional tools because they're rusted shut. that water was up to here. the front seats don't work. i can't imagine what else doesn't work. >> reporter: these guys will. they're jersey shore mechanics, and they know a flood vehicle had they see one. >> that's definitely water driven. there's no doubt about that. that's like fine silt. >> oh, my god, man. >> this thing might catch fire. if an air bag blows up on you you could crash. >> reporter: would you put your family in that? >> absolutely not in a million years. >> i wouldn't even drive this truck out of here. >> reporter: even more alarming is that that particular truck was sold with a clean title. so the takeaway is that

sometimes a car history report is worth investment and definitely an inspection from a mechanic you trust. bill weir, abc news, new york. >> that is scary. $20,000 that pickup. it looked great to me. it wouldn't have occurred to me. >> i would have bought it. i would have driven right off that lot, gotten into an accident and blown up in a fiery hell. >> they say a lot of these come from online purchases. the person selling the cars themselves, not a reputable dealer. >> a couple of tips. only deal with reputable dealers, places that have permanent showrooms. if you have a problem you can go back and you're not stuck in a lurch if you end up buying a car for $20,000 and you have nowhere to go when you realize it's been flooded and beware of these sweetheart deals. where you end up paying -- although that's $20,000 for a truck. i don't know that's a sweetheart deal. they got a good chunk of change. but it looks really good but costs nothing, probably not a good deal.

>> buyer beware. we'll be right back. in 1977, an 8-year-old boy picked up the game of golf from his father. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the u.s. open once twice? 1 in 1.2 billion. the odds of him having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 88. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism.

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>> twisted web. >> pay attention. "the x factor" judge expected to be a dad, have a baby with lauren silverman. this is according to "e!" news. the source says the mom-to-be is still technically married to real estate mogul andrew silverman, who just happens to be a friend of simon's. >> did you get all that? >> an insider tells "us weekly" lauren is around ten weeks pregnant, and this happened after her marriage began to deteriorate. so simon is having a baby with a woman who is his friend's still wife. did you get all that? >> this is so weird and twisted. >> first child for simon. >> and wrong. >> well, who knows? you wonder if they're still friends. i guess all of that -- >> that don't make it less wrong. >> who knows? maybe he's like knock yourself out, simon. i don't know. >> i mean, to each his own but that's a little kind of twisted. if you ask me. it's a little twisted. some good news here, remember randy travis, country superstar who was in the

hospital, he had a stroke and he had a heart attack. kind of all at the same time he was being treated for one, the other one happened while he was being treated. anyway, he has been released from the hospital but he's not going home just yet. he's going to a rehabilitation center, physical therapy center. which is what he needs. his fiancee is saying thanks to all their continued friends and fans. as randy continues on this road to recovery. he's headed home. you know, he was involved with a couple of embarrassing incidents before all this happened. now all we're doing is praying for his recovery. >> thank goodness he is on the mend. >> yes. >> you know about the "sharknado" phenomenon. >> oh, everybody does. >> everybody is talking about this. the premise, a sci-fi made for tv movie about a storm that herds sharks together, and they get caught up in a tornado and sweeps over los angeles hence the name "sharknado." >> it's ridiculous. >> anyway, it's a phenomenon like the twioded

so much so this made for tv movie from syfy is coming to theaters in theaters august 2nd. it's just a crazy phenomenon. one of the most socially tweeted movies ever. >> it's awful. >> and august 2nd tomorrow as i heard in my ear because it sounds like it's far away. it's tomorrow. today's august 1st. >> it's going to only happen for one day. better run out and get this done if you want to see it. >> "sharknado." let's get to this because i want you to hear this. kristen chenoweth was on "the tonight show." and she says she's obsessed with anthony weiner and his entire situation that's going on. let's call it that. so she rewrote a very popular song called "popular" just for him. take a listen. ♪ carlos danger is no more ♪ he's out the door ♪ and now for sure >> she wrote her song "popular" which she made famous in the musical "wicked."

it's about becoming popular. kristin chenoweth, by the way. >> carlos danger. what a voice. kristin chenoweth, by the way. a great voice. joo

♪ little sister don't you ♪ little sister't you ♪ little sister don't you ♪ little sister don't you sisters share a whole lot of things, secrets, classrooms, clothing. but two women in southern california have taken their sisterhood to a whole new level. that's why this is our favorite of the story. >> rob mcmillan shows us the twins shared a once-in-a-lifetime experience they will never forget. >> reporter: when you have a baby, sharing the same hospital room with someone else who has just given birth on the same day isn't entirely uncommon. but when the woman on the bed next to you is your sister, your twin sister who's just had a baby on the same day in the same

hospital, well, that's something they never would have imagined. >> never. we assumed we would be two weeks apart at least. >> i had my c-section scheduled and when i found out she was going to be induced i was excited to know that we would have the same birth dates for our girls. >> reporter: for their entire loves, anel and bianca have shared the same birthday. >> nice that our girls get to share the same thing. >> reporter: not that it's going to be easy. >> we both live in different cities and families but i'm sure me and my sister will work it out. i'm sure when they get older they're probably not going to like it. >> reporter: here at riverside community hospital it's certainly a big day. have you ever seen something like this before? >> no. it's my first time. >> reporter: for the record, bianca's child, noemi is 6

pounds 12 ounces and annelle's baby is 8 pounds 4 ounces but it's little noemi was born first by about seven hours. >> she wanted to beat me. [ laughter ] >> she wanted revenge because i was born first. >> reporter: we're happy to report that both babies are doing just fine. as for annelle because she had a c-section she'll have to stay here at the hospital for a couple more days. as for bianca, she's hoping to go home tomorrow. yes, the sibling rivalry continues. this is rob mcmillan for abc news. >> cutie pies with the little bows in their hair. >> that's really cool. i didn't know that the kids would not like it when they get older in life. got something to share. >> absolutely. >> including their birthday. >> j to have twyou you happen to be born oe

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good morning. good morning, i'm john muller. >> and i'm diana perez. here are some of the top headlines we're following on "world news now." the day is the day of reckoning in cleveland for ariel castro. the former school bus driver faces a prison sentence of more than 1,000 years for imprisoning and torturing three women for nearly a decade. george zimmerman caught up again by the long arm of the law. police dash cam telling the officer he's carrying a firearm. he also let zimmerman go with a warning. president obama meets with congressional leaders at the white house today to discuss the nsa surveillance programs. the agency is acknowledging the existence of a program that allows the u.s. to snoop on nearly everything an internet user does in realtime. a man sleepwalking apparently had a bad dream at the same time and shot himself in the knee. the man says

when he woke up the gun went off. no charges expected. those are some of our top stories on this thursday, august 1st. >> from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. that is one dangerous sleepwalker. >> yeah, if you're going to sleepwalk, lock up the gun. >> very good advice. >> thursday, throwback thursday. >> we've got good stuff going on throwback thursday. first, cars. >> talk all about cars and our first jalopies. >> pictures of them, too. >> yes, we do. >> that's all right. >> you got to start somewhere. >> you've got to start somewhere. >> i'm still driving one. >> you're not driving your first jalopy. >> no, a new jalopy. >> as long as it's not your first jalopy. we're good. all right. we have to start somewhere. we'll start with baseball's doping scandal. could today be the day that alex rodriguez of the yankees and other players are suspended by

the major league? >> word from espn is that a-rod and his attorneys have been talking about a settlement with the league. it's a way of avoiding a lifetime ban. abc's paula faris has more. >> reporter: they say a possible lifetime ban, alex rodriguez, dodged questions as he drove off in his near half million dollar car. just moments earlier, continuing his rehab stint at the yankees training facility in tampa hoping to get back on the field this year. but there's a chance he won't return this season, if ever. in what could be the biggest bust in major league baseball history, reportedly 20 players have been implicated for using performance-enhancing drugs and getting those drugs from the biogenesis clinic in florida. >> baseball is trying to drop the hammer as hard as it can. >> reporter: former league mvp ryan braun was the first to fall accepting a 65-game suspension. but a-rod at the center. arguably the biggest star with the biggest salary. that bat earning him $28 million this season. while major league baseball reportedly claims to have enough

evidence to impose a lifetime ban, the question now is will they try to? it would be one of the heaviest penalties since pete rose was banned from the game 24 years ago for betting on his own team. >> and as you can imagine, this is a very sad day. >> reporter: rodriguez hasn't played since october of last season due to an injury. his fate could rest in the hands of baseball commissioner bud selig who according to some experts will attempt to take him off the field this season one way or another. >> well, major league baseball is going to try to ban alex rodriguez for life but if they do they know they're going to get an incredible fight with the union. >> reporter: most of the players involved in this investigation expected to accept their suspensions but a-rod's legal team has repeatedly said it will appeal. now, baseball insiders that i spoke with say no one stands to benefit more from this possible lifetime ban than the yankees. they're on the hook to pay alex rodriguez $100 million.

a lot of money for a 38-year-old player who's undergone multiple hip surgeries and according to some experts may not have much of a career left. paula faris, abc news, new york. >> and that brings us to our facebook question of the day, is a lifetime ban from baseball too harsh a punishment for alex rodriguez? share your insight at wnnfans.com. another pro athlete in the news for the wrong reason. this morning philadelphia eagles' receiver riley cooper apologizing for using a racial slur. cooper caught on video using the "n" word. at a concert in philadelphia back in june. after the video hit the internet yesterday cooper explained the situation and expressed his regret. >> there was a confrontation with me and one of the security guards and i'm not going to get into what happened, but i said something that was absolutely disgusting and terrible and i should not have handled it the way i handled it. >> cooper admitted he had been drinking at the concert and said that it's no excuse for using

the language he did and he apologized to his teammates. the team already fined him what was called a significant amount of money. >> new york city mayor hopeful anthony weiner's campaign is in full tilt crisis management as the embattled former congressman scrambles to keep his candidacy afloat. it comes as a growing chorus of leaders urge him to get out of the race. abc's jim avila has the latest. >> reporter: anthony weiner brushing by reporters letting his new campaign ad speak for him. >> quit isn't the way we roll in new york city. >> reporter: his wedding pictures strategically behind him as weiner vows to stay in. >> we fight through tough things. we are a tough city. >> reporter: some of that toughness on embarrassing display from weiner's young press aide. as she lashed out profanely at a former intern who penned a tell-all front page story claiming the weiner campaign is amateurish. the weiner aide, barbara morgan firing back calling the intern a fame hungry

expletive. terrible at her job and much worse apologizing on twitter, not my best day yesterday, should have known better, been better, gotta pay up. weiner's wife, huma, top aide to hillary clinton, is reportedly taking time off from that job, but has not reemerged on the campaign trail. the man who ran bill clinton's presidential campaign became their closest ally to publicly urge weiner to quit. >> if you follow him, would i get out, yes. if i was working on his campaign would i say i can't take this anymore and resign, yes. >> reporter: but james carville tells abc news hillary clinton feels more personal pain than political damage. >> i know she doesn't feel very good for her friend. >> reporter: the clintons themselves sources say preferring surrogates to deliver the political hammer. jim avila, abc news, washington. president obama and the first lady are giving their daughters a reality check in an online interview for kindle

users, the president said they're constantly reminding malia and sasha they're growing up in a slightly unreal environment in the white house. the president said having relatives in the middle class or even poor allows their girls to see their life is not the norm. >> well, life is getting back to normal in the city of moore, oklahoma. volunteers pitching in to rebuild the first new home since that massive tornado ripped through back in may. the ef-5 packed winds of 200 miles an hour and injured many others. 11 homes were destroyed. >> today's weather, hot in oklahoma but no rain much the severe storms will be further to the north as well as to the west. heavy rain also along the east coast, pleasant for most of the west. >> 108 degrees of dry heat in phoenix, mid to low 80s from sacramento to seattle and much the same for baltimore up to boston. 87 in kc. 89 in miami. 80 in minneapolis. now to the mother of all sandwiches mexican style big

enough to feed hundreds. >> oh, man, this is a mouthwatering sight in mexico city as dozens of cooks whipped up what they claim is the world's biggest torta ever, 190 feet long. whoa! they used thousands of pieces of bread stuffed with gallons of sauce and more than 50 different ingredients and did it all in just 4 1/2 minutes. >> wow, after admiring the gigantic creation the crowd got a chance to dig in. >> oh, that looks yummy. >> i want to try one of those mexican torta sandwiches. >> i want to know what the other stats are. 190 feet long, 50 different ingredients. what are they? thousands of pieces of bread, thousands of pounds of sauce, tomatoes. lettuce. what else is in there? >> nice. >> beef. >> you should be ashamed of yourself. >> i can't help it. when i see a torta, i burp. >> i want one of those. do you feel better? >> i do. yeah. it's all out. coming up katy perry one on one talking about playing an

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>> reporter: for the first time, "consumer reports" is rating hospitals on how patients fare during and after surgery. and some of the country's most prestigious hospitals didn't fare as well as you might expect. some of the biggest surprises, johns hopkins bayview medical center in baltimore, the mayo clinic in austin, minnesota, and the cleveland clinic. >> most important finding is that big-name hospitals don't always perform better than your unnamed hospitals you don't recognize. >> reporter: the top rated are some of the least well known like oklahoma heart hospital enloe medical center in chico, california, and the greater baltimore medical center. "consumer reports" worked with a firm and analyzed billing claims and records involving 27 categories of commonly scheduled surgeries. "consumer reports" says it wanted to give patients a better idea of hospital quality. >> i'm a little concerned with some of these ratings. the hospitals they rated poorly, some of them are taking care of the most complex patients out there and clearly i'd expect

that people in those hospitals would be staying a little longer than people in community hospitals. >> reporter: and many of the hospitals that have reacted to the report have said just that. that it doesn't take into account many of the complex cases taken on by these world renowned hospitals. they also took issue with some of the methodology in general. john and diana? >> thank you. interesting, the big names are not necessarily the best. >> this is the kind of study i think a lot of people -- it's an eye opener. when people start to realize, okay, i think -- i'm sold that these big hospitals, name recognition hospitals are the best ones to go to. now you know that's not the case and you have to do a lot more research. how do you do the research to find out the best hospitals out there? >> do it before you get sick which means nobody is going to do it. >> nobody is going to do it. end up at a hospital and you're powerless when it comes to that kind of stuff. >> i never want to wind up there on a weekend where you got -- the weekend shift on. you know what i'm talking about? >> no disrespect to weekend shifters out there. >> yeah. >> now we'll get twitter hate but i absolutely -- i agree with you.

we've all been in an er where it's like an all-nighter. >> holiday shift or whatever it is. >> all-nighter. skeleton crew. we've seen it all. it happens in every kind of industry. when we come back throwback thursday. a trip back in time to mark henry ford's 150th birthday. >> we'll turn back the clock to revisit some of the hottest cars in history. you're watching "world news now." a trip back in time to mark henry ford's 150th birthday. >> we'll turn back the clock to revisit some of the hottest cars in history. you're watching "world news now."

♪ ♪ a lot of guys try to catch her ♪ >> beach boys there. one of the great car songs of all time. >> and on this throwback thursday we're making note of henry ford's 150th birthday with

a celebration of the coolest cars in history. ford was born 150 years ago this week. and he didn't invent the car but developed and manufactured the first car that middle-class americans could afford. >> and developed the assembly line technique of mass production and revolutionized the industry. >> a lot of people think ford made the first mass-produced automobile. it's not true. it was an oldsmobile. >> check it out. this baby called the curved dash oldsmobile. produced in 1901. no steering wheel. it used a tiller like in a boat. >> the initial cost, 650 bucks and it was delivered by train with a sales representative on board to present the new owner personally. >> man, where is the engine in that thing. >> where is the steering wheel. the most expensive car ever sold, well, it wasn't sold from a showroom at an auction. >> wow, 1954 mercedes-benz w-196 formula 1 racer, final price, at auction, 29.5 million bucks.

that's cool. chump change? please. >> fastest car ever, the super sport boo bugatti. it can do 267 miles an hour. >> this happens to go from 0 to 60 in 2.4 seconds. >> 2.4 seconds. that number is pretty significant. because that's about how much it's going to set you back a cool 2.4 million bucks. whoo. now for a little car quiz. why not? see how much we know about these cars. >> diana, we'll start out with an easy one. what was the best-selling car of all time? a little multiple choice for you. i know what i'm going with. >> oh, "b," honda civic. >> volkswagen. >> no question. >> what is the answer? are we going to find out? >> we'll find out the answer. which is it? which is it? which is it? >> toyota. >> corolla. >> how about that. >> here's a guy question that you should know the answer to. this one is about the batmobile.

what real car was it based on? here are your options. chevy corvette, lincoln futura, aston martin series 1 or the ford mustang? >> it was bigger than a sports car. i'll go with the lincoln. >> the lincoln and you would be correct. >> really? >> the lincoln futura. >> it was designed by -- rather it was inspired by an encounter with a shark the designer had while he was scuba diving. kind of looks like a shark like a hammerhead shark. >> very cool. >> now with all of its bells and whistles, imagine a time when cars didn't even have radios. >> pretty good. listen to this. our next question. when was the car radio invented? >> here are our options, '55, '29, '14 or '43. >> '29. i'll go early. >> i'll go with '43. what is our answer here? '29. you were right.

>> why not? radio has been around for a long time. >> 2 for 3, not bad. >> two out of three ain't bad as the song says. >> here's what we found while doing research today. a record player in a car -- >> you thought eight track was cool. check this out. this is the highway hi-fi from chrysler and it was actually pretty popular in the 1950s. >> now, to prevent the record from skipping which i'm sure happened a whole lot, it was cushioned and counterweighted and didn't last very long because the gadget required special records different from the average records people had in their collection. you had to not only play a car with a record player but special records. >> it's not going to work in new york city with potholes. no way. >> that probably didn't go over very well on the cobblestone streets back in the day. >> apparently our producer searched high and low for images. what was your first ride? >> my first ride was a 1996 chevy lumina. it was a green -- it was that color, too. it was green. yes. the thing had -- there was no

end to the front of it. >> a chick like you in a lumina. >> i cannot tell you how many types i rammed that into somebody's back bumper. my dad had to come rescue me every single time. the thing wouldn't even -- after a while. i was driving it home. all wrapped up. >> how long did you have that car? short-lived or -- >> i guess it was -- it was, well, my dad said i had to have it before i owned a car because he knew i would crash it. boy, was he right. probably a good four years through college. >> so you earned it. >> how about you? >> 1980 datsun 200sx. that's about right. >> is that the car from "back to the future"? >> no, that's a delorian. i kept it in my grandma's garage going to nyu. didn't need a car in new york city. and i kept it knowing that i would go on the road with my first job in tv. i knew it and learned how to drive a stick shift on my way to savannah, georgia, in that car. my first car. and my first tv job. >> how many types did you stall it?

>> pulled out of my mom's driveway, that was it. once i got on the highway, i didn't have to use the shifter. >> kept it on one gear? yeah, that was it.

♪ oh ♪ i need someone to read me stories ♪ ♪ oh ♪ someone just turn the page >> she's a glamorous chart-topping singer with an alter ego that's a little blue. >> katy perry is once again bringing smurfette to life on the big screen. cameron mathison sat down with her. ♪ baby you're a firework ♪ come on let your colors burst ♪ >> reporter: she is katy perry, international singing superstar. ♪ california girls we're unforgettable ♪ ♪ daisy dukes bikinis on top

♪ la la la >> reporter: and she is katy perry or -- >> i'm smurfette. >> you're smurfette. >> i'm smurfette. >> so smurfette gets kidnapped and taken to paris. >> yeah, that's not too bad, is it? >> come my naughties, we must capture smurfette. >> everybody wants to be kidnapped and taken to paris but not necessarily by the villain gargamel. >> let me get smurfette. >> i'm going in! >> got you. >> oh, no, they're taking smurfette! >> she has a bit of an identity crisis, a bit like growing pain thing, who am i, where do i come from? does it matter what situation i was born into? can i change my environment? >> reporter: and the answer is to those? >> you can. >> reporter: and katy perry is living proof. she seems to do anything she sets her mind to. ♪ kiss me ♪ infect me with your loving

♪ fill me with your poison >> then why are we going so slow? >> reporter: do you have any long-term plans as far as the acting side of things? >> i'm kind of the director in the position of where i'm at in music right now so i get kind of final cut and i just don't know if i'd have that in the other world. but, you know, if ridley scott called me for "blade runner 2" to play rachel, of course i'll oblige. >> reporter: and if you're katy perry, don't be surprised if he does. cameron mathison, cancun, mexico. >> i think it would be great if we saw katy perry's outfits somehow incorporated into smurfette's outfits like the turning boob thing. >> i don't know. that might be adult material. i'm not sure about that. >> i think that would make -- i would go see that movie. >> not so much. >> i would go see the smurfette movie if that's what they did. alexa saw it. did she like it? >> she saw the katy perry movie and she loved that. >> we recommend it anyway.

this morning on "world news now," trouble in texas. george zimmerman's latest run-in with police. far from his florida home. what did the man in the middle of the trayvon martin case admit to police? edward snowden, what he's saying about government spies, your e-mails, phone calls and the websites you visit. then hooked on heroin. it claimed cory monteith's life. now new warnings about this highly addictive drug. >> a lot of addicts are missing something, and they end up filling that void with drugs. >> the renewed threat from hollywood's middle-class american suburbs. it's thursday, august 1st. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." with john muller and diana perez. >> happy thursday, everyone. august 1st is here. >> august 1st.

man! >> summer is coming to an end. >> depressing. i know. we've still got a good month of it, but still. >> i know. but there's so much of it that's already gone and passed, and it makes me sad. >> me, too. we're already lament iing summe. >> that's what we do. we complain to mother nature no matter what. another run-in with the law for george zimmerman. >> the acquitted shooter of trayvon martin is stopped on a highway in texas about 20 miles outside of dallas. brandy hitt has this story. >> reporter: dash camera video shows an officer in texas pulling over george zimmerman's speeding pickup truck sunday. seconds later zimmerman reveals he's carrying a gun. that's when the officer takes zimmerman's driver's license and learns he's just pulled over the man acquitted in one of america's most controversial trials in years. the shooting death of trayvon martin.

>> nowhere in particular. >> nowhere in particular? why do you say that? >> you didn't see my name? >> huh? >> you didn't see my name? >> na-uh. what a coincidence. >> reporter: in the two weeks following the florida jury's verdict -- >> not guilty. >> reporter: -- zimmerman had been in hiding. his legal team tells abc news he's apparently on a road trip and also posted on twitter, "for his safety, we won't make any comments about zimmerman's whereabouts, and we will work to protect his privacy. with his conceal and carry permit reinstated, it is legal for the 29-year-old to transport a weapon in most states including texas. what he can't do is speed. zimmerman's brother tweeted "a heavy foot, nothing more. and this officer gave him a break." >> this is a warning for your speed. >> reporter: brandy hitt, abc news, los angeles. today sentencing in cleveland for ariel castro the man

charged with kidnapping and torturing three women. he's pled guilty to 937 counts including rape, assault, aggravated murder. prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence him to life in prison plus another 1,000 years. the judge is expected to accept the request. meantime, we're learning those three women kept detailed diaries of the horrors they endured in that house on seymour activity. they include shocking details of the captivity including the use of chains, access to only plastic toilets in their bedrooms which were rarely emptied and the use of the cold basement and the heat of the attic as punishment. >> that's absolutely incredible, the things these women went through. castro is apparently said to have locked all three women in a vehicle for hours at a time -- for days. >> it was three days. >> three days when he had a visitor in his home. i think that speaks to the fact that these women were so incredibly afraid of him that they were locked in the car outside of his view, because he was inside this house, three days, three nights and nobody made an attempt to leave? >> they were bound.

>> oh, my gosh. that's even worse. >> well, he will not be free again. >> no. no, he won't. my goodness. okay. moving on to this now. a michigan man is under arrest for showing up at a movie theater with a loaded gun, body armor and more than 30 rounds of ammunition. police were called when someone spotted the armed men watching a movie. they say another 100 rounds was found in his car. he has not been charged with any gun-related crimes, but he was charged with possessing a fake cia identification card. and a day after new u.s. surveillance secrets were revealed, president obama meets today with bipartisan congressional leaders at the white house. he'll address concerns about the nsa surveillance program. one of those secrets came from a familiar source as martha raddatz reports. >> reporter: while national security secrets were leaking all over washington, general keith alexander was at a las vegas hackers convention, facing down hecklers. >> we stand for freedom. >> reporter: the heckler took issue with that statement, but

the director fired back, saying congressional investigators have found no illegal activity by the nsa. >> that's not bull. those are facts. >> reporter: but another blockbuster revelation. a still top-secret nsa program leaked by edward snowden to a british newspaper that it says allows u.s. analysts to snoop on, quote, nearly everything a user does on the internet in realtime. "the guardian" story provides a 32-page training guide showing how the xkeyscore program works, sucking up data from 150 sites from around the world that can show e-mails, phone calls sites being visited, words being searched. snowden discussed a surveillance program this extensive when his story erupted last month. >> i sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone. >> reporter: it was a story that brought vehement denials. >> i think he was lying. >> it wouldn't just surprise me,

it would shock me. >> reporter: we spoke to the reporter who broke the story from brazil. >> one of the problems with allowing an agency to engage in these extraordinary activities is that they're able to say whatever it is they want about what they're doing with no accountability. >> reporter: the nsa acknowledged this so-called xkeyscore program after it was revealed calling it lawful, and the head of the house intelligence committee said the program does not target americans. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. o.j. simpson has been granted parole, but he will not be allowed to walk free just yet. the parole only applied to some of the charges. stemming from simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping conviction. he still faces another four years behind bars on sentences ordered to run consecutively. simpson is also waiting to find out if a nevada judge will grant him a new trial over the holdup to take back his memorabilia. overseas a crime wave has gripped the french riviera. in the glittering town of cannes. just four days ago a thief made

off with $136 million in diamonds and jewels in under 60 seconds. now another brazen robbery has taken place down the street. our reporter is there. >> reporter: cannes, home to europe's most celebrity-packed film festival, is in the midst of a crime wave. wednesday two men, one with an automatic pistol, one with a grenade, walked into this high-end jewelry store and walked out with 40 watches. it's the second heist this week. on sunday, a lone gunman walked into this hotel and made off with a whopping $136 million in diamonds. they both happened half a mile apart on the same street the exclusive promenade and both happened around the same time of day. >> cannes is an easy target because they have poor security. the security guards are unarmed. a lot of wealthy people buying high-dollar items and easy access to other countries. >> i see one imperfection.

>> reporter: and this former jewel thief says if the robbers do it the way he used to do it, the goods are already sold. >> the piece that came in, whether it was a watch and had a marker on it, would be out of my possession within 24 hours. >> reporter: the recent crimes have many wondering why haven't they beefed up security? well, the city of cannes normally only has 20 police officers on duty during the day. the chief of police is doubling that number. abc news, cannes. and here's possibly the most bizarre story we will present this morning. this happened early yesterday in concord, new hampshire. a man who was home alone apparently sleepwalking having a bad dream. while he was doing it, he woke up and found himself shot in the knee. police say they've seen similar situations but not many. >> we'd like to know what happened, more details, but again, the only witness was the person who was shot. and it sounds like he doesn't know exactly what happened. >> the man's injuries considered nonlife threatening. police don't anticipate filing any charges.

>> i wonder what happened there. >> note to self, if you're a sleepwalker, lock up the gun. lock up the gun no matter what. >> no matter what. we all know that president obama is a big basketball fan. yesterday was a very big day for him. >> that's right. that's because he had a chance to welcome the university of connecticut huskies to the white house. it was the eighth time the ladies from uconn got to visit with the president. >> the team awarded him with an autographed basketball and a warm-up jacket. he thanked them for being role models for women including his own daughters. >> i want to see one-on-one. i know he likes to play. i'd like to see them out there. >> the huskies, by the way -- >> dynasty. >> invincible. >> eight times, we're going to the white house again. >> again we've got to go to the white house. >> incredible. >> that's amazing. i wonder eight times, what's the timespan? has it been in the last eight years? last ten years? >> i don't have the answer to that. i think it's more like the last 10, 11 years. >> they've become invincible rather quickly. >> yeah, no doubt.

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♪ the needle and the spoon what a thrill to the moon we're going to take you away ♪ the death of "glee's" cory monteith drawing attention to heroin abuse among young people. >> the number of americans using heroin has doubled over the last decade, and it's spreading to some unlikely places. abc's byron pitts has more. ♪ living in a lonely world >> reporter: cory monteith, clean-cut star of the show "glee" shocked his fans when he died from a heroin overdose. but he's now the new face of the next generation of heroin users, a growing group found mostly in of all places suburbia. police lieutenant thomas dombrowski drove us through bergen county, new jersey, where the recent spike in heroin deaths sparked concern. >> every part of bergen county

is touched in some way, shape or form by the heroin epidemic. >> reporter: 28 overdoses here last year. most of the victims under the age of 22. in what parents may not know, the gateway drug could already be in their medicine cabinets. it was for 23-year-old dylan young. >> started using prescription painkillers that my father had, and it went from there. >> reporter: at 13 he was smoking pot and drinking then stealing those pills from his parents which led to smoking heroin. >> heroin is much, much cheaper than prescription medication. >> reporter: give me the ratio. >> a 30-milligram oxycodone $30, 80-milligram oxycontin, a bag of heroin, $40. >> a lot of addicts are missing something, and they fill that void with drugs. >> reporter: the hold it had on him so strong he ended up in rehab six times. >> when you're in that situation

you usually don't see hope for a life ahead of you. you just see, you know, your next fix. >> reporter: most agree intervention and treatment are key. but there is a bitter irony that goes with rehab. just like monteith many heroin addicts die when they start using again right after leaving treatment. >> most of the overdose deaths that we're getting are people that come back from rehab, they get high for that first time coming back from rehab and that high is what kills them. >> reporter: dylan has been clean now for three years. he knows heroin is a dark dead end. more and more young people enter and never leave. byron pitts, abc news, new york. >> so scary, and they start out with, you know, oxycodone, and heroin is actually cheaper, so it becomes the cheap alternative to stealing prescription medicine. >> a harder drug, harder to get rid of and does all kinds of damage to your body, is cheaper than what's in your mom's medicine cabinet. >> the purity these days is double, triple what it was back in the '70s when you see those old movies people shooting up in

shooting galleries. >> cory monteith was in his early 30s. obviously when he passed away, but according to a stat, half of all first-time users are younger than 26 years old and now in bergen county, new jersey, there is an epidemic where they can't control it. it got so bad where they had to kind of start to intervene. >> yeah. >> incredible. >> sure is. still to come, a young man who proves that a person can do just about anything they set their mind to. >> what you get when you take engineering know-how and combine it with fierce determination. and later seeing double in the maternity ward, a big surprise, twin sisters going into labor on the same day. in our next half hour on "world news now." "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations.

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♪ you're really built for speed you're built for speed babe ♪ now a story about a guy loving life in the f now a story about a guy loving life in the fast lane against all odds. >> he is designing the fastest cars on the planet despite being born without arms. john donvan has more on this young man's stamina and speed. >> reporter: he's been going all his life because he's figured out what a shoulder can do, what a foot can do, what a chin can do to get him on the road. though he's as safe a driver as there is, it's as if richie parker has never seen a stop sign. >> i don't know that there's a whole lot in life, period, that i could say i can't do, just things that i haven't done yet. >> reporter: like how he makes his living. an engineer designing high-performance cars. the ideas that come from his head then play out as racing

high speed on the nascar circuit. he's on the team at hendricks motorsports, the most winning designer in nascar. >> we sat down and he showed me how he works on the computer and how he does his design work. i write with my right hand. you write with your left hand. he happens to write with his feet. >> reporter: who would have guessed when he was born back in 1983 in buford, south carolina -- >> you know, he was the cutest little boy. >> reporter: the doctor pulled his dad aside -- >> and said the baby did not have arms, and i just was dumbfounded like, what do you mean? >> reporter: it meant engineering solutions as his mom said -- >> we wanted his childhood to be as close to any other child's childhood as possible. that's always been our attitude. we are going to make it work. >> reporter: where it turned out richie himself was chief engineer. watch richie the kid figure out how to open the refrigerator or long before learning to drive

how to get going on a bike his dad rigged with extra long handlebars or nowadays how to have a meal using that classic hand-held device, the spoon. yeah, speed bumps sometimes but no stop signs. >> i had two parents that from day one tried to make it so that my life was, i guess you could say, as normal as possible, whatever normal is. >> reporter: well, really this is better than normal. john donvan, abc news, washington. >> that guy is amazing. >> that's incredible. >> what a story. >> i am absolutely speechless, but i'll read to you what magic johnson tweeted out after the espn segment on him aired. he said "richie parker's story proves you can do anything you set your mind to. we should all stop complaining and giving excuses." >> we're not allowed to complain today after seeing that story. >> not at all. >> what an amazing young man. >> yes. and he's the type of young man that will inspire other children out there who may be going through the same thing. >> no doubt about it.

hats off to all the people who give him a chance to show what he's got. >> that's true. we'll be right back. >> that's true. we'll be right back. back.

welcome into "the mix," everybody. when you work in television, especially live television, you know that when things go wrong, and they do, it literally sucks. >> oh, yeah. >> there's few things that you can really control when you lose things like graphics or pictures or, let's say, a weather computer if you happen to be this poor weather anchor who lost his entire weather computer. it crashed right before they went on the air. but he's a genius in my eyes because check out what he did. >> so i made these this morning very fast so please be patient with me. my art skills are not the best. here's a little snippet of that seven-day forecast that's coming up in just a little bit. >> we can ignore the fact that he misspelled yesterday but you got to love the fact that he not only did more than one graphic,

he had his whole seven-day up there, too. >> used multicolored pens, too. he got into it. >> and there was a drawing of the day. yes, he apparently had four sharpies, a purple one, a black one, a red one. >> better make news notes in case our prompter goes down. >> i know. >> can pull it out. >> when our prompter goes down it's not nearly as great as that. >> not pretty. start looking down and putting on my glasses. like i'm about to do right now. a woman goes to jail to marry her groom who is behind bars. she's free. this is in alabama. she says to the officer can i kiss him during the ceremony. they say sure but they noticed that her teeth keep jiggling. her dentures and something doesn't look right so finally they search her dentures and inside is crystal meth. let's put up a picture. here's the woman. brita west. according to the sheriff's department she had crystal meth and the idea was to kiss the bride and sneak in the crystal meth through the mouth. the prisoner willard -- that happened on sunday and asked if they could search her handbag and found more methamphetamine as well.

charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, and she's being held on $25,000 bond. so i guess she's going to join her new spouse. >> so she wasn't in jail and now she's in jail now and she ain't got no teeth. that's a sad situation. >> a little jingle in the mouth. didn't seem right. >> i hate when that happens. okay, this story is inspiring. i love this story. this is a young marine who is doing a 5k in michigan. >> great story. >> his name is lance corporal miles kerr. so he's running along with his marine buddies and a 9-year-old boy who got separated from his party was kind of running along and was lost and asked do you mind running with me, sir? i can't find the people i'm running with. so he stops. he ends up having the worst time out of all his buddies. but that doesn't matter because he is now an internet superstar for his kindness. he ran with the little boy until the very end, helped him reunite with his party and encouraged him when the little kid wanted to quit. >> he had no idea he would be famous because of this act of kindness.

way to go, right?

this morning, sentencing day. the man cleveland police held three women captive for years faces a judge while prosecutors release jaw-dropping details from the victims' diaries. major league threats. some of the best known names in baseball including alex rodriguez could face extremely harsh punishments very soon. what the players and the league now says about the doping scandal. sisters give birth on the same day in the same hospital. seeing double in the maternity ward. and brush with death. country star randy travis and how suddenly things are looking up. that's coming up in "the skinny" on this thursday, august 1st. ♪ an 18-wheeler >> from abc news, this is "world news now." with john muller and diana perez.

>> happy august 1st. where did summer go? >> i'm already complaining about the fact that summer is gone. >> but it's not. we have a whole month. let's make the most of it. >> that means in one month it gets cold, and i'm already sad. >> me, too, a little bit. we begin this half hour with a countdown to judgment. we're talking about ariel castro. >> the 53-year-old former school bus driver faces a sentencing hearing in cleveland for imprisoning and torturing three women for nearly a decade. >> castro agreed to plead guilty to 937 counts including rape, assault and aggravated murder. prosecutors will ask the judge for life plus 1,000 years. castro has agreed to pay $22,000 to demolish his house of horrors. >> castro is expected to speak at today's hearing, but prosecutor tim mcginty is quoted in court documents as saying he remains remorseless. and in an odd twist, castro is taking credit for the women's freedom, telling authorities he purposely left the door to amanda berry's room unlocked when he left the house that day so she could escape.

one of castro's victims, michelle knight is expected to make an impact statement at sentencing today. >> now, it comes as we learn the three women kept detailed journals of those ten years of terror that they endured. donita harris of our cleveland station has that part of the story. >> reporter: the three survivors, amanda, gina and michelle, marked the passage of time by writing down their feelings and thoughts in diaries. the three women documented their physical and sexual abuse suffered at the hands of ariel castro. speaking of being locked in a dark room, anticipating the next session of abuse, being chained to a wall and being treated like a prisoner of war. but remarkably, somehow these three women found a way to also keep hope alive inside that seymour house by desiring their freedom. they dreamed of escaping one day and being reunited with their families and longing for the lives they once enjoyed. in cleveland, donita harris, abc news.

>> we're also learning that while she was in captivity, one of ariel castro's victims may have had her social security number stolen. michelle knight was described as having a mild disability and a young son when she disappeared, but investigators don't know who might have profited from that stolen social security income. meantime, cleveland police have posted this handwritten thank-you note on facebook penned by michelle knight. in that note, knight thanked police officers, going above and beyond the call in collecting cards and gifts from well wishers for her and the other two victims. she says she's overwhelmed by the love expressed by complete strangers. george zimmerman can't seem to stay off the radar. this time on a highway in texas. police dash cam video showing an officer pulling over zimmerman outside of dallas for speeding. the video shows zimmerman telling the officer he's carrying a firearm in the glove compartment. the officer just gave zimmerman a warning. it is legal for zimmerman to transport a weapon in most states including texas.

now to a bittersweet victory for o.j. simpson winning parole but not freedom. >> this morning the former football great remains in prison facing an uphill legal battle. we get the latest from abc's brandy hitt. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. o.j. simpson's current attorney says he's pleased with the parole board's decision. he pleaded with that board last week for leniency, and it worked, but only on some of the charges. a small victory for o.j. simpson. nevada has granted the former nfl great parole on some of the charges stemming from his 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping conviction involving sports memorabilia simpson maintains was stolen from him. >> i would give it all back to these guys. they can have it all to get these last five years back. >> reporter: after this hearing last week, the nevada board of parole commissioners granted simpson's request, noting his positive institutional record. >> we expected mr. simpson to

make his parole because there's no reason he shouldn't have. >> reporter: but despite their decision, simpson won't be leaving prison any time soon. he was convicted on multiple charges and still has to serve jail time for using a weapon during the robbery and also for assault with a deadly weapon. >> his key to the door is a lot closer because he now may get paroled on those remaining charges. >> reporter: in a separate effort at freedom, the juice is also hoping a las vegas judge will grant him a new trial. back in may, simpson took the stand and argued his 2008 trial attorney, yale galanter, botched his case. if a judge does grant him a new trial, prosecutors will have to decide whether a retrial is even worth it or if they want to set him free with time served. john? diana? >> brandy, thank you very much. now to baseball's doping scandal and the game's highest paid player, alex rodriguez, of the yankees. espn reports that for the first time a-rod's representatives are

negotiating a possible settlement with major league baseball that could result in a lengthy suspension. insiders still believe the league could pursue a nuclear option. >> major league baseball is going to try to ban alex rodriguez for life, but if they do, they know they're going to get an incredible fight with the union. >> the league is probably hoping a-rod will accept the long suspension that could keep him off the field through at least next season without the time and trouble of a long appeal. the suspensions of several players could be announced at any time. >> this is getting really hot and heavy with a-rod. he walks away, if they do finally settle and he still gets a good chunk of change. of course, his name is tainted forever, but his name is pretty much tainted anyway. >> he makes so much money. even if he takes a year off. i don't know how many millions he makes a year. it's the highest salary in baseball. >> here's the question. >> he's getting killed in the pocket as well. >> only because -- and forgive me for not understanding how this works -- but he takes a year off and then he comes back? what happens? he can't come back. then he loses out on any other money he's making.

>> he loses the salary and that he'd be able to come back and play again. whether or not that would void his contract with the yankees -- i don't know about that. >> i don't think the yankees would touch him with a ten-foot pole. >> i think they'd like to see it go away, too, at this stage of the game. >> so i guess the deal is if he takes this settlement and he loses a year of play, he's pretty much done forever here. >> who knows? i mean, he could still come back. he's young enough. if i was him, i'd take the deal. >> just walk away from this, right? there's all kinds of stuff. apparently espn has a source saying mlb has evidence that he attempted to coerce at least one of the witnesses. in this whole doping scandal. and that's why the league is saying that he deserves even a bigger punishment than the rest of them. >> that's right. we will find out shortly. >> yes, we will. another giant recall of contaminated ground beef by the same kansas company. the latest recall by national beef packaging company involves 50,000 pounds of meat sold mainly to wholesalers in 40 and 50-pound cases. the usda says it's unclear which retailers sold the meat. the company recalled 22,000 pounds of meat in june after a similar e. coli scare.

a student loan deal is heading to president obama's desk after sailing through the house. the bipartisan bill that would lower student loan rates by tying them to financial markets was overwhelmingly approved last night. undergraduates borrowing this fall will pay about 3.9% interest on subsidized stafford loans. the rates will fluctuate with the economy, but they can't go much higher than 8.25%. and take heart, holders of facebook stock, if you haven't checked facebook's value lately, you might be surprised. shares traded above $38 briefly yesterday before pulling back just a little bit. that's the price at which the company hit the market for the first time back in may. facebook stock is up 39% since it reported better than expected earnings just about a week ago. so it's sunny skies for facebook's shareholders. let's check the weather for us, see if it's sunny as well. it's all about rain on the east coast. not so much. it will be heavy in the mid-atlantic where flooding is possible, and there will be severe storms in the plains and rockies. >> 97 in denver and 80s dominate along the coast for most of today. miami hits 89. 82 in seattle.

81 in the windy city. you may have noticed it's going to be about 103 today in the dallas-ft. worth area. so it makes this next one understandable. >> check out belle, the three-week-old baby elephant. too cute. at the fort worth zoo. she may be young but she knows that baby pools are just the place to cool off on a hot day. >> that's her mom there with her. she's about 330 pounds. she looks small but she's not. >> 330 pounds, bigger than an nfl lineman. >> yes, she is. the zookeepers call it pachyderm pool time. we call it some adorable video. >> isn't that great? >> so at the beginning it kind of looked like, what's this thing all about? but now she's laying in it and fully immersed. she knows what's up with that. >> by the way, whatever company makes that pool, that's a quality product. she's just rolling all over that thing. >> inflatable pool. >> isn't that great? they've got to put that in a commercial. too cute. >> that is too adorable.

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♪ ♪ i want to know have you ever seen the rain ♪ so if you're in the market for a used car here's a buyer beware story we think you should see. >> cars flooded by hurricane sandy. making their way onto the market. the prices are low, but the cars could be too dangerous to drive. here's abc's bill weir with more. >> reporter: just look at them all. flood cars, as far as the eye can see, filling the runways of an abandoned airport after superstorm sandy and each one a potential highway hazard. >> flood cars literally rot from inside out. days, weeks or months down the road parts are going to fail. >> reporter: which makes it a bit worrisome when you see that packed runway now empty. and when you see this demonstration by the folks at used car tracker carfax. they make a flood car look brand new after just a five-hour makeover and estimate over 100,000 sandy battered cars are now back on the road. this flood mobile should have

been sold for parts, but we found it up for sale on this lot for $20,000. to investigate how, we bought it and held a reunion with former owner mike kennedy. >> she was underwater for two days. >> reporter: he watched seawater swallow his beloved truck. >> i had tools in the glove box and believe it or not, the tools are still here. they're no longer functional tools because they're rusted shut. that water was up to here. the front seats don't work. i can't imagine what else doesn't work. >> reporter: these guys will. they're jersey shore mechanics, and they know a flood vehicle when they see one. >> that's definitely water driven. there's no doubt about that. >> that's like fine silt. >> oh, my god, man. >> this thing might catch fire. if an air bag blows up on you, you could crash. >> reporter: would you put your family in that? >> absolutely not in a million years. >> i wouldn't even drive this truck out of here. >> reporter: even more alarming is that that particular truck was sold with a clean title. so the takeaway is that sometimes a car history report

is worth investment and definitely an inspection from a mechanic you trust. bill weir, abc news, new york. >> that is scary. $20,000 that pickup. it looked great to me. it wouldn't have occurred to me. >> i would have bought it. i would have driven right off that lot, gotten into an accident and blown up in a fiery hell. >> they say a lot of these come from online purchases. the person selling the cars themselves, not a reputable dealer. >> a couple of tips. only deal with reputable dealers, places that have permanent showrooms. if you have a problem you can go back and you're not stuck in a lurch if you end up buying a car for $20,000 and you have nowhere to go when you have a real problem with the car, you realize it's been flooded and beware of these sweetheart deals. where you end up paying -- although that's $20,000 for a truck. i don't know that's a sweetheart deal. they got a good chunk of change. but it looks really good but costs nothing, probably not a good deal. >> buyer beware. we'll be right back. >> "world news now" continues

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it is a twisted web. listen to this. "the x factor" judge expected to be a dad, have a baby with lauren silverman. this is according to "e!" news. the kicker here, the mom-to-be is still technically married to real estate mogul andrew silverman, who just happens to be a friend of simon's. >> did you get all that? >> an insider tells "us weekly" lauren is around ten weeks pregnant, and this happened after her marriage began to deteriorate. so simon is having a baby with a woman who is his friend's still wife. did you get all that? >> this is so weird and twisted. >> first child for simon. >> and wrong. >> well, who knows? you wonder if they're still friends. i guess all of that will eventually come out. >> that don't make it less wrong. >> who knows? maybe he's like knock yourself out, simon. i don't know. >> i mean, to each his own but that's a little kind of twisted. if you ask me. it's a little twisted. some good news here, remember randy travis, country superstar who was in the

hospital, he had a stroke and he had a heart attack. kind of all at the same time he was being treated for one, the other one happened while he was being treated. anyway, he has been released from the hospital but he's not going home just yet. he's going to a rehabilitation center, physical therapy center. which is what he needs. his fiancee is saying thanks to all the fans and friends for your continued support as randy continues on this road to recovery. he's headed home. you know, he was involved with a couple of embarrassing incidents before all this happened. now all we're doing is praying for his recovery. >> thank goodness he is on the mend. >> yes. >> you know about the "sharknado" phenomenon. >> oh, everybody does. >> everybody is talking about this. i want to talk about the premise of it. it's a made-for-syfy tv movie about a storm that herds sharks together, and they get caught up in a tornado and sweeps over los angeles hence the name "sharknado." >> it's ridiculous. >> anyway, it's a phenomenon

like the twitterverse exploded when this was on tv, so much so this made for tv movie from syfy is coming to theaters now. it will be in theaters august 2nd. it's just a crazy phenomenon. one of the most socially tweeted movies ever. >> it's awful. >> and august 2nd tomorrow as i heard in my ear because it sounds like it's far away. it's tomorrow. today's august 1st. >> it's going to only happen for one day. better run out and get this done if you want to see it. >> "sharknado." let's get to this because i want you to hear this. kristin chenoweth was on "the tonight show." she admits she's obsessed with anthony weiner and his entire situation that's going on. let's call it that. so she rewrote a very popular song called "popular" just for him. take a listen. ♪ carlos danger is no more ♪ he's out the door ♪ and now for sure >> she rewrote her song

"popular" which she made famous in the musical "wicked." it's about becoming popular. kristin chenoweth, by the way. >> carlos danger. what a voice. kristin chenoweth, by the way. a great voice. joo

♪ little sister don't you ♪ little sister don't you sisters share a whole lot of things, secrets, classrooms, clothing. but two women in southern california have taken their sisterhood to a whole new level. that's why this is our favorite story of the day. >> rob mcmillan shows us the twins shared a once-in-a-lifetime experience they will never forget. >> reporter: when you have a baby, sharing the same hospital room with someone else who has just given birth on the same day isn't entirely uncommon. but when the woman on the bed next to you is your sister, your twin sister who's just had a baby on the same day in the same hospital, well, that's something

they never would have imagined. >> never. we assumed we would be two weeks apart at least. >> i had my c-section scheduled and when i found out she was going to be induced i was excited to know that we would have the same birth dates for our girls. >> reporter: for their entire loves, anel and bianca have shared the same birthday. >> nice that our girls get to share the same day. >> reporter: not that it's going to be easy. >> we both live in different cities and families but i'm sure me and my sister will work it out. i'm sure when they get older they're probably not going to like it. >> reporter: here at riverside community hospital it's certainly a big day. have you ever seen something like this before? >> no. it's my first time. >> reporter: for the record, bianca's child, noemi is 6 pounds 12 ounces and annelle's baby is 8 pounds 4 ounces but it's little noemi was born first by about seven hours. >> she wanted to beat me. [ laughter ]

>> she wanted revenge because i was born first. >> reporter: we're happy to report that both babies are doing just fine. as for annelle because she had a c-section she'll have to stay here at the hospital for a couple more days. as for bianca, she's hoping to go home tomorrow. yes, the sibling rivalry continues. this is rob mcmillan for abc news. >> cutie pies with the little bows in their hair. >> that's really cool. i didn't know that the kids would not like it when they get older in life. got something to share. >> absolutely. >> including their birthday. >> joint birthday parties. >> just such a unique experience to have twin moms, you know, and you happen to be born on the same -- that's a story they can carry forever. >> i hope they grow up close by. she said she was out of town, right? >> i wonder how they wound up at the same hospital. >> we need a scoop. expose.

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making news in america this morning, new developments in the cleveland kidnapping case. as a suspect prepares for sentencing. today, we're learning more about what went on inside that house, including detailed diaries. steroid scandal. baseball fans waiting for verdicts. the possible deal in the works between the league and alex rodriguez. packing heat. george zimmerman is pulled over by police with a gun in the car. and a baby elephant stars in what could be the cutest baby animal video ever. good thursday morning, to