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in anxclusive interview with abc news, i asked thomas about the changes. >> hello, john. thank you for visiting us on the island. >> reporter: your fans are going to get to hear you speak in your own voice for the very first time. how do you feel about that? >> every useful engine has their own story to tell. the stories will make your fire box fizz! >> reporter: you and your friends are getting a complete makeover. how will that change your adventures? >> you'll see soder like never before. now our stories are better than ever. >> reporter: it's hard to knock thomas off message. there is of course a business side to this, a chance for the company that produces thomas to make a splash and also stay modern. think of greta garb >> thomas is like garbo, thomas talks. >> it's a big thing in the life of that property. i think it makes it more personal for kids, makes it more. possible for them to relate to thomas. >> reporter: a great deal of thinking went into the voice itself. >> it personifies thomas exactly, it's a nice, precocious little engine who isn't perfect, gets if

and abc news has a team headed to the region. we'll have more comeling up on "good morning america." >>> in other news this morning, the white house begins a high-level review of its afghanistan strategy today. the top u.s. commander there says the situation is getting worse. and without more troops, the mission will fail. the president has to decide whether to send more troops or change the mission. here's martha raddatz. >> reporter: for the next three weeshgs the white house national security team, commanders from afghanistan, general david petraeus, will hold a series of meets. >> we're going to have to have additional resources to turn the momentum around. >> reporter: some of them will involve president obama. president obama has many questions about the strategy in afghanistan. >> the president himself has said, we're there to prevent al qaeda from re-establishing bases. we probably can do that from offshore. drones, air strikes, special forces, cruise missiles. >> he will not be given the troop numbers that general stanle

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it is an abc news exclusive. >>> welcome back. these are the latest headlines from abc news. solemn ceremonies are set to remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks, eight years ago today. president obama meets with family members at the pentagon. >>> president obama hits the road this weekend. his first stop, a rally in mieapolis tomorrow, aimed at keeping health care reform in the spotlight. house speaker nancy pelosi says, she is confident the president will be signing a bill by year's end. >>> and the fbi has joined the search for a missing yale grad student. annie lee who was supposed to get married on sunday, has not been seen since tuesday. >>> although it has been eight years since the worst terrorist attacks ever on u.s. soil, at least one nagging question remains. could they have been prevented? >> now, an fbi informant is coming out of the shadows for the first time. and he says he has the answer. chief investigative correspondent,rian ross, has the details. >> reporter: as a highly-praised undercover operative for the fbi for the last 13 years, he was known as moham

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carla wohl, abc news, los angeles. >> i may have forgotten. i see the signs at walgreens and places get your regular flu shots. people are getting the reminders. we just have to heed them. >> as for the swine flu shot, the news you may only need one shot instead of two is good news for everybody. the idea of having two shots is very confusing for people. might make some people less inclined to get it at all. od news on all fronts. >> when we come back, we'll remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks. >> you're watching "world news now." ng "world news now." >> welcome back. president obama marks the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks today. he'll have remarks and lay a wreath at the pentagon's victim memorial. >> at new york's ground zero, huge lights symbolizing the fallen world trade center towers lit up the night sky last night. vice president biden will attend ceremonies in new york later today. >> here's some of our coverage with charles gibson anchoring three years ago as the nation marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11. >> repo

these are the latest headlines from abc news. "new york times" reporter steven farrell was freed from his taliban kapters in afghanistan this morning. his interpreter was killed in the commando raid that freed him. >>> president obama makes a do-o or-die speech to a joint session of congress. robin roberts has an exclusive preview coming up on "good morning america." >>> and hurricane fred is now a category 2 storm, gaining strength off the african coast with winds topping 105 miles per hour. the forecasters say it will not threaten land. >>> thousands of cases of green onions are being recalled because they may be contaminated with salmonella. two california shippers imported them from mexico and distributed them across the country. government detectors detected salmonella in a routine test. >>> budget-minded shoppers are flocking to so-called salvage grocery stores to save a few dollars. these markets have showed up in a half a dozen states. clayton sandell looks at the bargains. >> reporter: it doesn't look like grocery stores

carla wohl, abc news, los angeles. >> i may have forgotten. i see the signs at walgreens and places get your regular flu shots. people are getting the reminders. we just have to heed them. >> as for the swine flu shot, the news you may only need one shot instead of two is good news for everybody. the idea of having two shots is very confusing for people. might make some people less inclined to get it at all. good news on all fronts. >> when we come back, we'll remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks. >> you're watching "world news now." ng "world news now." >> welcome back. president obama marks the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks today. he'll have remarks and lay a wreath at the pentagon's victim memorial. >> at new york's ground zero, huge lights symbolizing the fallen world trade center towers lit up the night sky last night. vice president biden will attend ceremonies in new york later today. >> here's some of our coverage with charles gibson anchoring three years ago as the nation marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11. >> re

betsy stark, abc news, new york. >>> they're all such good people. so where is the job market headed. diane sawyer has just interviewed treasure secretary timothy geithner about prospects for recovery. >> so for people out there who believe there are two recoveries, one for main street and one fowall street, you say it's true? >> i would say there's no recovery yet. we don't have in place a real recovery. we define recovery, and the president will define recovery as people back to work. people able to get a job again. businesses investing again. and we are not at the point where we can say that yet. >> you can see more of diane's interview with secretary geithner tomorrow on "good morning america." and tomorrow, our series "where things stand," check-ins with people who saw their nest eggs evaporate as stocks collapsed. >>> still ahead on "world news" -- police zero in on the suspect of a murder of a yale student saying this was not a random killing. >>> pat tillman, in his own words. what he wrote about the war that crossed his life. ba bah bob wood

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these are the latest headlines from abc news. russia is welcoming a major change in u.s. defense policy. president obama is reversing bush-era plans to put an anti-missile shield in eastern europe. >>> the lab tick charged with killing grad student, annie le, has been moved to a maximum security prison. co-workers described raymond clark as a control freak. >>> police cadaver dogs will be back to search the property of phillip garrido today. the home may hold evidence in two other kidnapping cases. >>> former vice president, dick cheney, is recovering from elective back surgery in washington. cheney had the operation yesterday to relieve lower back pain. cheney has a history of health problems. four heart attacks, angioplasties and quadruple bypass surgery. >>> a former kentucky high school football coach has been cleared of charges in a landmark case. he was accused of causing a death of a 15-year-old player, by ordering a strenuous workout on a hot, summer day. eric horng reports from louisville. >> reporter: it was on a 94-degree day last summer, that stinson, angry af

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these are the latest headlines from abc news. police in new haven believe they have found the body of annie le found in the building where she worked and was last seen. >>> president obama is on wall street to make a major speech on the economy and will look back at the lehman brothers' collapse one year ago. >>> just days after the 9/11 anniversary osama bin laden has issued a new message. he says president obama is powerless to stop the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >>> the first swine flu shots could be coming in less than a month. health and human services second kathleen see bealous says the first round of h1n1 shots could be ready by the first week of october. that is sooner than expected and ahead of the peak of the flu season. the first shots are intended for vulnerable groups and health care worke. >>> chicago police are investigating the death of a disgraced political fund-raiser. christopher kelly raised money for ousted governor blagojevich. kelly was found unconscious on sunday. he later died. kelly was heading to pr

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we work at abc, we anchor world news now. >> send us some! so this next story, chalk it up to a slow, skinny day. if you've looked on any web sites, everyone is buzzing with about chloe kardashian and lamar odom. the thing that caught us and that we want to talk about today is not this beautiful four course dinner wed be they have, it's the price for the wedding photos. given that setup we just gave you, you probably are wondering how much would photos like this bring in? $300,000 for an exclusive on the sunday nuptials. the interesting thing is that chloe is going to pocket all of it. lamar odom doesn't get in of it. >> he probably doesn't need it. >> probably not. the thing that's interesting is their show is still taping. so keeping up with the card ash i didn't knows is taping. yet still "okay" magazine is going to play exclusive money for exclusive photos. >> i take it you don't want to hear any of details about all this. >> how's this for a first night on the job. you're on tv, comedy show, first night premiere on saturday night live an

. >> the results of an abc news investigation suggest that the problem goes much deeper. senior justice correspondent pierre thomas has the story. >> what you're about to see is a truckful of illegal immigrants, a road customs and border protection officer green lights their trip waving them right through their border inspection clan. for $100,000 in bribes, michael looked the other way. this fbi surveillance taps catches a texas sheriff's deputy in the act of corruption. >> you either pay me here or you follow me and you can pay the judge. >> reporter: for cash payment, the deputy tells an fbi agent posing as a mexican national that he can go, even though he just broke traffic laws. >> the fine is 150. >> 150, no? >> mm-hm m. >> so i don't worry about nothing? >> no. >> reporter: the fbi says corrupt border officials willing to betray their badge for a price represent a lethal national security threat. the bureau is investigating more than 100 such cases. >> it is our first line of defense for both people and material coming north of the border. >> reporter: are one of t

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so far authorities say they have no specifics on potential targets but officials tell abc news zazi's computer had images of grand central station and researched football stadiums, baseball stadiums along with sites used last week for the well attended fashion week in new york city. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> many of zazi's cell members are still at large so security in new york will be tighter than usual. s president arrives for the united nations general assembly meeting. for more we're joined by john hendren in washington. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning. if you turned on the television at all over the weekend and watched the news you probably caught some of president obama's media blitz on health care reform but this week domestic issues take a backseat to international concerns. president obama spends the week addressing a daunting array of international relations issues acknowledging the nation's put topics like afghanistan on the back burner. >> we lost that focus for awhile. >> reporter: he will spend much of the week in new york talking on the economy to

. >> the results of an abc news investigation suggest that the problem goes much deeper. senior justice correspondent pierre thomas has the story. >> what you're about to see is a truckful of illegal immigrants, a road customs and border protection officer green lights their trip waving them right through their border inspection clan. for $100,000 in bribes, michael looked the other way. this fbi surveillance taps catches a texas sheriff's deputy in the act of corruption. >> you either pay me here or you follow me and you can pay the judge. >> reporter: for cash payment, the deputy tells an fbi agent posing as a mexican national that he can go, even though he just broke traffic laws. >> the fine is 150. >> 150, no? >> mm-hm m. >> so i don't worry about nothing? >> no. >> reporter: the fbi says corrupt border officials willing to betray their badge for a price represent a lethal national security threat. the bureau is investigating more than 100 such cases. >> it is our first line of defense for both people and material coming noh of the border. >> reporter: are one of the

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these are the latest headlines from abc news. actor patrick swayze is being remembered by colleagues, after losing his battle with pancreatic cancer. e "dirty dancing" star was 57 years old. >>> hundreds of people gathered on the campus of yale university, to honor annie le, whose body was found in the lab where she worked. police say her murder was not a random act. >>> and president obama speaks to the nation's workers today. first, gm employees in ohio. then, to the afl-cio in pittsburgh. >>> near in new york, members of the terrorism task force, local police, and the fbi, have raided several apartments, looking to break up a possible terror attack. >> they were apparently tracking a suspect linked to al qaeda who just arrived in new york, after travels to pakistan. here's our chief investigative correspondent, brian ross. >> reporter: it was just after midnight when new york police and federal agents raided this apartment house and several other locations across the river from manhattan, in the borough of queens. officials sa

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these are the latest headlines from abc news. president obama delivers that controversial back-to-school speech to students today, after seeing an advanced text, some critics now have no problem with it. >>> with three, new deaths of school-aged children because of swine flu, the president will remind students to wash their hands and stay home from school if they're sick. >>> and the crews of "discovery" and the space station have said their good-byes. the shuttle detaches today for a thursday flight home, carrying several tons of trash. >>> a milwaukee man who is accused of being a serial killer is now in custody. police and prosecutors say a man named walter ellis is linked to the murders of nine women between 2006 and 200 7. it's believed that eight women of the cases were prostitutes. and the ninth was a runaway. ellis is only charged with two counts of homicide right now. but authorities say more charges will be filed this week. >>> an illinois grandmother accused of helping to hide her 6-year-old grandson inside her home fo

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rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >>> that is all for abc 7 news at 5:00. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> we begin with breaking news of a massive water main break. >> dundalk avenue and done haven road in baltimore county are flooded after a huge water main break. one roadway is even washed out. richard reeve has been monitoring the story. >> the authorities have been battling this at least two hours. the water continues to spread. this is aerial video. these are live pictures. there is a man in a canoe right now on the streets. those are some of the main streets in dundalk. this act and act dundalk and dunhaven -- this happened at dundalk and dunhaven

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martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >> now to the political crisis in honduras. the interim president appears to be backing down by suggesting be backing down by suggesting he would resolve civil liberties by the end of the week. soldiers had shut down two broadcast outlets loyal to manual zelaya. roman polanski's wife is asking for support to beat extradition on a child's sex charge. his attorneys are claiming the american extradition request was illegal. sarah palin has already finished her memoirs. the release date has been moved up. >> sully sullenberger and will soon return to the cockpit of an airline yet. back in january sully ditched his air bus a 320 near new york after a bird strike killed power in both engines. >> a look at your tuesday weather: more thunderstorms for south texas. a high of 69 in baltimore, 104 for thinking, 9 for minneapolis, detroit hits 71 today, atlanta 73 and miami 1. >> like most newborns she gets a bottle every two hours. but unlike most newborns, this baby weighs about 130 pounds. cute, though, don't you think? >> she was rejec