so immediately, rebecca's mother ran home. they started going through her friends and couldn't find her, and notified the sheriff's office. ultimately, at 2:30 the next morning, one of our sergeants and one of our detectives found rebecca lying at the bottom of an abandoned cement plant, at the bottom of one of the silos, deceased, where she had obviously jumped from above. >> as you conducted your investigation into her death, what did you learn about the two who you arrested? >> as the investigation went on, we determined that our victim, rebecca, was bullied. the bullying started november before this event in september. so as a result, our detectives started talking to witnesses. we started gathering information. we found out that rebecca was a very fragile child, and that at the end of the day, the bullying by these two primary suspects, one 14 and one 12 were kind of like the final straw. when we found her, she was deceased. our investigation told us that she was bullied, and therefore we brought these criminal charges be

because today was rebecca's 13th birthday. and instead of being able to have a party for her and celebrate when he to go to her grave and it was very hard on everyone. >> i can't imagine. you know, rebecca had a lot of pain that she went through the last ten months before she died and i understand that her mom, your daughter, took her out of school and, you know, ended up home schooling her, but they continued to bully her. how did that happen? >> well, when initially it got really to the point, trisha took the phone away from rebecca. she didn't give the phone back to her until she re-enrolled her in the new school this school year and after she confirmed rebecca was doing better. >> go ahead. >> she thought everything was fine. >> when rebecca got her phone back did you have any idea did her mom have any idea that the tormenting was continuing? >> no. all of us in the family had asked rebecca and trisha was very vigilante and she just kept insisting everything was fine but we all believed at that point she just believed that

rebecca. >> hadu. >> incorrect. on thursday, a passenger on an amtrak train overheard and tweeted about a series of off the record phone interviews given by journalists by the former head of what agency? >> the nsa. >> correct. >> instant bonus. name the former head of the nsa who was involved in this? >> michael hayden. >> back with this, according to a new gallup poll, 58% of americans now say -- rebecca. >> legalization of marijuana. >> lauren marijuana. they say pot should be legal. >> that is correct. 100 point question, after boycotting it for four decade because of its portrayal of americans, former new york governor mario cuomo finally watched what movie this week? susie? >> the "goodfather." >> joey, a little assist. no points. 100 point question the white house accepted responsibility on thursday for a readout that resulted in a quote miscommunication. after this, democratic senator claimed on facebook a house senator told president obama i cannot, rebecca. >> durbin. >> durbin is correct. put on his faceb

but look -- "yes, i bullied rebecca, and she killed herself. but that" -- that is an acronym. >> i don't -- >> give a blank. how outrageous. that's the poor girl no longer with us. they held a press conference and said we have to take some kind of action. i'd have to agree. that is crazy. >> she was bullied not only on the internet but physically, as well. it mean these kids were touching her and pushing her around. it wasn't just happening in cyberspace but school, as well. apparently she either didn't speak up and got no help or she did speak up and still didn't get any help. either way a sad story all the way around. >> disturbing indeed. >>> now the disturbing video of a school bus attack near philadelphia. grainy cell phone images show two students bullied before one is hit by a sucker punch and for reasons that are unclear the driver refuses to stop the bus. the incident was not reported to police. now the tape has gone viral, investigators are looking in to it. >> you almost have to wonder does it take a videotape for somebody to do some

. >> reporter: florida police say 12-year-old rebecca sedgwick couldn't take it anymore. after a year of taking threats. she killed herself. jumped from the top of an abandoned cement plant. >> we've lost sleep over that child dying needlessly. and we want to see things change. >> reporter: today a stunning development. >> we have these wonderful photographs of our two new felons. >> reporter: we're not showing their faces. they're only 12 and 14 years old. charged as juveniles with felony aggravated stalking in connection with rebecca's suicide. >> she should be here. she should be here to see justice getting served. >> reporter: rebecca's mother says after both school and police officials failed to stop the bullying, she moved her daughter to another school. but rebecca still had her cell phone, and the bullying continued. >> the difference with cyber bullying is that it is etched in stone, that people can access the history of it, review it, rewind it and reread it. and it makes it much more painful for the child who is experiencing bullying. >> reporter: legal experts

the death of rebecca is a horrible, who ib tragedy. and i don't think the answer is locking up a 12-year-old child, throwing her out of school, and then going around on national television with her mug shot and things like that, especially since there isn't and there doesn't appear to be any evidence that my client specifically had -- is responsible for the death of rebecca. you know, there's nothing worse that you can do than tell someone you're responsible for the death of your former friend. and i think it's extremely traumatizing for this young girl and i'm concerned about it. >> it seems like some of the public comments that you've been making since you took on this reputation that perhaps your defense is to shift more of the blame towards the 14-year-old, shaw. and in this, i'm wondering if your client has made any overtures towards rebecca's family, apologizing or taking any responsibility for what happened directly to rebecca's family? >> first of all, my client has done nothing but express tremendous remorse from the very begi

rebecca's generation. ordinarily, people making an official accusation had to put up money as a bond to prosecute to show the assistance of the charge. this was overlooked many times in 92. ordinarily ministers recommended caution and an examination of one's own soul, or then magistrates dismissed it and take the accusers themselves open to defamation from the accused. mary in which his mother had successfully sued a neighbor, but little about 92 was ordinary. not all early records have survived but between 1638 and 1691 more than 120 individuals, 88 women including come after two men were accused of witchcraft in new england as a whole. the evidence, the argument was a long suspected never followed by crop failure, livestock illness or death from the indus or even death of family members including children. there were actually more pre-1692 new cases but a number of those suspects turned out to be on the quakers. in 1692, however, some of the accusers were quakers. the families both believed bridget bisho

the trigger for the bullying that police say led to rebecca's suicide? >> it was over a boy that she was dating as only 11-years-old can date. one of her friends were sending him inappropriate messages and told her that she didn't want to be friends any more. they started calling her a goody two shoes because she didn't agree with what was being said. >> reporter: this is the former boyfriend. he is 14. >> it shocked me. it made me mad. >> my little girl lost her life because she felt she was worthless. because that's what everybody kept telling her. >> she was beautiful, smart, funny. she wanted to go into the air force and she wanted to be an astronaut. >> reporter: instead she has a facebook memorial page that reads, stop bullying. no one deserves to feel worthless. rosa flores, cnn, reporting. >> i want to bring back our panel former federal prosecutor sunny hostin and criminal attorney danny cevallo and attorney mark geragos joins us live from vancouver. he couldn't be with us. he's too fancy. these two girls are charged with aggravated stalking. is

yes, i know i bullied rebecca and she killed he's. but i don't care. >> i took her to my room. that's what we have been doing. we take the computer to the room. the only time she could have used to send this message is my cell phone. and my cell phone is always with me. >> reporter: rebecca's family said that the bullying happened on several sites. >> you don't know about what your daughter's activity was on these sites. >> i never come across those websites that they're say might daughter was on because the only one that she had was facebook. >> to our knowledge. >> this is our family occasion. >> rebecca's mother tried to stop the bullying but deactivating her facebook account and moving her to another school. >> she stopped telling me about it in june. >> reporter: police say the night before rebecca killed herself she messaged a boy she met online. i'm jumping. i can't take it any more. the trigger that led to the suicide? >> it was over a boy that she was dating as only 11-years-old can date. one of her friends were sending her inappropriate messages and said she didn't wa

up to 15 girls ganging up on rebecca. >> she should be here. she should be here to see justice getting served. >> reporter: the sheriff sending a message to would-be bulliers and their parents. >> if you don't discipline your children and if it rises to the level of a violation of law, don't worry. we'll discipline them for you. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news, lakeland, florida. >>> and tonight, the former mayor of san diego is back in the headlines. you'll remember bob filner, forced to resign after 17 women accused him of sexual harassment. today, he pleaded guilty to charges involving three of those women. he will be sentenced to three months of home confinement. >>> and another new update tonight on madeleine mccann, who vanished from a hotel room in portugal seven years ago. there has been an overwhelming response to the new crime documentary that aired last night. an avalanche of tips. nearly 1,000 calls and e-mails and after seeing the so-called e-sit images of a man, spotted carrying a small child that night, several different peopl

the evidence seems pretty clear that she was bullying this girl rebecca. we'll see if that all in the end is what happens in court and if there is a conviction. in terms of the parent's attitude there, it is difficult. i don't want to be massively fair to them because i feel much more emp threaten tick to the family of this poor girl that killed herself and at the same time, having had, you know, three teenage kids, how far can you really say parents have to be legally responsible for every word they may post on social media? >> i don't think they can be for every word, but if a parent acts in a way in my opinion is grossly negligent and law enforcement and i want to congratulate sheriff judd for what he did in this case f a parent doesn't act in a way which is responsibility and act in a way which is grossly neglect and ignore a child's internet presence, that's ignoring if a child is carrying a gun or have the keys to the car. we have to put responsibility where it lies on the parents. my suggest says if it can be proven in the court of law that a parent

with me, rebecca's mother, pa trish that norman and her attorney from tampa. thank you so much for being with us. and tricia, our condolences to you on your daughter. >> thank you. >> sheriff jud said that your daughter grew up in a disturbing environment. how did you feel when you heard that, trisha? >> she didn't have a disturbing environment. we were very close. she was happy. the only thing that she was unhappy with as far as her life was her father was not, he did not play an active role in her life. >> but before this bullying, she didn't have any of the, any of the emotional problems that the school saw and you saw when she was in middle school and these two girls went after her. >> i didn't understand that question. >> in other words, did rebecca have any emotional problems before the actually bullying? by the other two girls? >> no. >> all right. >> no, none at all. >> okay, so why do you think the sheriff would say that about you? >> i don't think he was saying that about me. >> that she had a disturbing home environment? >> it wasn't the home enviro

yes, i bullied rebecca. and she killed herself. but i don't give a -- and you can add the last word yourself. >> reporter: but the parents of one of the girls charged, flatly denied it. saying their daughter's facebook had been hacked. >> is that something that your daughter would write? >> into no /* she wouldn't write something like that. she's not the type of girl that would say something like that. >> reporter: this has been so intense, the parents asked their faces not to be shown. abc news is not revealing either identity because both have been charged as juveniles. the girls' arrest brought a sliver of relief to her mother. >> i felt a weight had been lifted. i cried. it was a mixture of tears. it was relief. it was sadness because becca's not here. >> reporter: this weekend, robin, would have been sedwick's 13th birthday. now, the other 14-year-old is waking up in this jail behind me. the parents of both girls worried that after all of this exposure, their daughters' lives might also be destroyed. robin? >> all right. matt,

yes, i know i bullied rebecca and she killed herself, but i don't give a blank. her parents say her daughter didn't write that incriminating post and suspect someone hacked her account. >> took the computer to the room. only thing she could have used to send this is my cell phone. and my cell phone was with me. >> reporter: after that interview with cnn, the woman was arrested on child abuse and neglect charges. investigators discovered a facebook video allegedly showing her punching and screaming at two young boys. she's still in jail and hasn't posted bond. meanwhile, rebecca sedwick's mother hired a team of lawyers and they're preparing to file civil wrongful death lawsuits against the students that taunted rebecca, their parents, and the school district who she says knew about the abuse and didn't do enough to stop it. >> the parents of the bullies failed and the school failed because they didn't take it seriously when becka was coming to them, i went down there myself, showed them stuff posted on facebook by these girls. >> reporter: ed lavendanderlava lakel

some had the suspicions about rebecca nurse's mother that extended in 1692 to rebecca's generation. ordinarily people making an official accusation had to put up money or goods to show the seriousness of the charge and this was overlooked many times in 92. ordinarily ministers recommended caution and an examination of one's own sold. ordinarily magistrates dismissed the evidence and accused found themselves open to defamation suits from the accused. mary english successfully sued, a but little was ordinary. not all early records had survived but between 1638, and 1691, more than 120 individuals, 88 women including bridget bishop and 30 men were accused of witchcraft in new england as a whole. the evidence, and long suspected neighbor followed by crop failure, livestock, illness or death, elvis or death of family members including children. there were more new cases, a number of suspects turned to be -- in 1692, the accusers, the family's believed bridget bishop be which their children. some of the accused like bridget bishop were caught more than once. about 121 free 1692 trials inv

thank you, rebecca jarvis. one more note out of washington. the government shutdown now in the rear view mirror, remember this image, a symbol of the stalemate, a toddler holding on to the gates of the national zoo and turned away. today the national zoo is back in business. and so is the panda camp right here, meshong and her cub, what a difference 16 days makes. this is the baby before the shutdown on the left, and after on the right. and my, how we've grown. >>> we heard the giant reaction from all of you to our report last night, a congressman challenging his fellow lawmakers, he is returning his paychecks for those 16 days of the shutdown. our team continues to call all the members of congress who voted against reopening the government, and as of tonight, 35 say they, too, will return their paychecks or donate the money to charity, 15 say they'll keep their pay. 112 others, well, we're still waiting for an answer. and you can check your congressman on our web site. >>> and we have a passing to note tonight, tom foley, for five years servi

. >> reporter: florida police say 12-year-old rebecca sedwick couldn't take it anymore, after nearly a year of ugly on-line taunts and harassing messages, including drink bleach and die, last month, rebecca killed herself jumping from a cement plant. >> we all lost sleep over that child dying needlessly. and we can't to see things change. >> reporter: today, a stunning development. >> we have these wonderful photographs of our two new felons. >> reporter: we're not showing their faces, they're only 12 and 14 years old, charged as juveniles with felony aggravated stalking, in connection with rebecca's suicide. >> she should be here. she should be here to see justice getting served. >> reporter: rebecca's mother says after both school and police officials failed to stop the bullying, she moved her daughter to another school. but rebecca still had her cell phone, and the bullying continued. >> the difference with cyber-bullying is that it is etched in stone, that people can access the history of it, can review it, rewind it, and it makes it much more painful for the child who is experie

after a month of text extorting rebecca to kill herself. she climbed a tower in an abandoned cement plant and hurled herself to her death. >> she didn't feel like she was worth anything. they would tell hershey was ugly and stup and i had needed to kill herself. >> the sheriff lashing out at the parents and equally to blame for rebecca's death. one of these girls is 12 years old. how can a 12-year-old be prosecuted for bullying, is there a precedent for that? >> florida has no statutory minimum age of being tried as an adult. it is up to the prosecutors and not the judges. there are examples of children young as 11 being tried in florida and that state sends more children to adult prisones than any other state. it is up to the prosecutor, and if convicted up to five years behind bars. >> thank you so much. >>> irain telling the world it wants to love the dark world of desolation. israel's netanyahu warned that iran cannot be trusted. >> i know rouhani doesn't sound like ahmadinejad, but when it comes to the iranian nuclear weapon's program,

the evidence seems pretty clear that she was bullying this girl rebec rebecca. we'll see if that all in the end is what happens in court and if there is a conviction. in terms of the parent's attitude there, it is difficult. i don't want to be massively fair to them because i feel much more emp threaten tick to the family of this poor girl that killed herself and at the same time, having had, you know, three teenage kids, how far can you really say parents have to be legally responsible for every word they may post on social media? >> i don't think they can be for every word, but if a parent acts in a way in my opinion is grossly negligent and law enforcement and i want to congratulate sheriff judd for what he did in this case f a parent doesn't act in a way which is responsibility and act in a way which is grossly neglect and ignore a child's internet presence, that's ignoring if a child is carrying a gun or have the keys to the car. we have to put responsibility where it lies on the parents. my suggest says if it can be proven in the court of law that a parent

rebecca sedwick jumped to her death in tampa, florida. her family just moved to a new home to escape the painful memories of their old house and all her mother has left is a shelf filled with momentos that has become a shrine. >> this is five or six, and this is just a few months ago. >> reporter: she would have been 13 on saturday and her family plans a grave side birthday party. meanwhile, controversy has broken out. >> we have wonderful photographs of our two new felons. >> reporter: the pope county sheriff held up mugshots of the 12 and 14-year-old girls accused of bullying rebecca. juveniles are not normally identified. cbs, nbc and abc chose not to identify them. fox news did. the sheriff is earning widespread praise for making the arrest after he saw a heartless facebook post about the suicide. >> the reason we rushed these arrests quicker than we wanted to is because of this post. yes, i bullied rebecca and she killed herself but i don't give a, and you can add the last word yourself. >> reporter: the 14-year-old denies any wrong

why did your client say online after rebecca killed herself, i feel like rebecca is dead because of me? i deserve to die? >> well, this is a child in the grieving process and how many times do we have someone who dies in our life and we feel guilty for the bad things we said to them or perhaps the things we didn't say to them? this is a child who was never had to face death before and this has been extremely traumatic. she feels horrible for all of the things that these two friends went through but it nowhere near raises to the level of a criminal offense. martha: let me ask you, jose, so people understand the backstory on this what i have learned is that your client was rebecca's best friend, is that true? >> they were friend. martha: they were friends. all right. we'll categorize them as friend. would you say they were good friend? >> yes, i would. martha: okay. so then, you know, it is a boy-girl thing of the other young, the other 14-year-old starts dating somebody that used to be involved i guess to the mention tent that 12-year-olds might be with this same boy. that is when the t

>> i thought someone hacked her. >> how often do you think of rebecca? >> almost every day knowing she got bullied. i could have stopped it. >> he is just a baby himself. >> the 14-year-old girl is in jail and she and another 12-year-old are charged with stalking. >> a criminal investigation is underway avid i don't surfaced showing boy scout troop leaders knocking over rock formations in utah that are millions of years old. ♪ wiggle it ♪ just a little bit >> these rock formations may have taken up to 20 million years to form and only a few seconds for boy scout leaders to knock it down. they posted this on facebook and state park officials say the actions were highly inappropriate and could have severe consequences. >> what were they thinking? >> mike nicco is ahead with, hopefully, some pleasant news. >> if you like the patchy fog and the cooler conditions, and some of you do, it is out there. from our camera on mount tamalpais, that is looking to san francisco, and this is going do bring a temporary cooling trend and i will show you how long it wi

me voy a juntar con la reina del estilo mexicano, y punto. >>> con rebecca de alba. le voy a preguntar de todo del estilo. >>> ay quÉ llegaste puntual. (risas) >>> iba a hablar mal de ti. >>> quÉ? >>> que llegais tarde, de divas, no tÚ, llegaste puntualita. >>> mi rey, cÓmo estÁs? >>> cuÉntame, el outfit. tÚ sabes? >>> vamos a empezar, no soy fashion victim, sino que hago la moda mÍa. >>> Ándale. >>> como dijo channel, no luzco de moda, soy moda. >>> no hago el glamour, soy el glamour. >>> no que estÉ a la moda. >>> el glamour existe en una. >>> sÍ, crees que viajo a mÉxico para ponerme con una que no tiene glamour o estilo, me quedo en mi rancho con las cabras. viaje porque tienes estilo, y quiero secretos. >>> no hay que abusar del maquilla maquillaje, es uno. >>> es comÚn en la comunidad latina, van pintadas como puertas. >>> la tendencia, quitarse el maquillaje. >>> tÚ eres reina de belleza, hay cosas que no te gustan? >>> sÍ, claro, claro. la nariz sale ancha, a veces. >>> no, pero eso. escÚchame una cosa, es una enfermedad mexicana, las narices

up to 15 girls ganging up on rebecca. >> she should be here. she should be here to see justice getting served. >> the sheriff is sending a message to would be bully yes, sirs and their parents. >> if you don't discipline your children and if it rises to the level of a violation of the law, don't worry, we will discipline for you. >> abc news, lakeland, florida. >>> a soldier's gesture brought battle tested warriors to tears and now the photo has gone viral. look at this. a wounded army ranger salutes from his hospital bed moments after emerging from surgery. he was wounded when a suicide bomber targeted his unit in afghanistan earlier that day. four other rangers died. he saluted when his commander gave him the purple heart. the doctor tried to get him 20 rest his ban good eveninged arm. >>> a mom is being called fit after her facebook photo created an uproar. she was in this photo with a sports bra with the caption, what's your excuse. it has received more than 16,000 comments and many critics trying to shame overweight mothers. she said her i

rebecca committed suicided last month jumping to her death. her family says she was pushed to the edge after shaw and another suspect, 12-year-old roman sent messages calling her ugly, telling her to drink bleach and kill herself. as many as 15 additional girls may have also harassed her. >> was this contributing factor to her jumping off the cement towers on that fateful dirk we believe that it certainly contributed. >> shaw and roman are charged with felony aggravated stalking. police say the girls began feuding when shaw began dating a former boyfriend. >> she didn't like that and she began to harass and ultimately torment rebecca. >> the suspects have never been arrested b. they were released in the custody of their parents and are under home detention. >> parent, you be responsible so that you discipline your children and we don't have to. but if you don't discipline your children, and if it rises to level of a violation of law, don't worry, way we'll discipline them for you. >> allison harmlin kpix 5. >> reporter: police say shaw had no

up to 15 girls ganging up on rebecca. >> she should be here. she should be here to see justice getting served. >> the sheriff is sending a message to would be bully yes, sirs and their parents. >> if you don't discipline your children and if it rises to the level of a violation of the law, don't worry, we will discipline for you. >> abc news, lakeland, florida. >>> a soldier's gesture brought battle tested warriors to tears and now the photo has gone viral. look at this. a wounded army ranger salutes from his hospital bed moments after emerging from surgery. he was wounded when a suicide bomber targeted his unit in afghanistan earlier that day. four other rangers died. he saluted when his commander gave him the purple heart. the doctor tried to get him 20 rest his ban good eveninged arm. >>> a mom is being called fit after her facebook photo created an uproar. she was in this photo with a sports bra with the caption, what's your excuse. it has received more than 16,000 comments and many critics trying to shame overweight mothers. she said her i

decÍa: rebecca, la niÑa muerta. >>> es importante supervisar y si esta persona tiene esta situaciÓn por facebook, que tambiÉn sean amiguitos de ellos dentro del facebook y de vez en cuando verificar que estÁ pasando. >>> en la escuela preparatoria donde se quitÓ la vida cuenta con una poblaciÓn 85% hispana, y no cuenta con detector de metales, sicÓlogos estarÁn disponibles para hablar con los estudiantes luego de estos hechos. >>> gracias. y hablando de hechos terribles, hay uno que pasÓ hace varios meses, ninguna huella quedara de la escuela sandy hook, el metal serÁ derretido, y el material pulverizado. >>> se acerca una fecha limite, y los legisladores siguen sin avanzar sobre el endeudamiento del paÍs. y lideres dijeron que maÑana habrÁ una reuniÓn. >>> presidente obama dijo en un dialogo con univisiÓn que presionarÁ a los legisladores republicanos para que sometan a votaciÓn el proyecto de reforma migratoria el dÍa despuÉs que se apruebe el presupuesto. y jhon boehner dijo que sometera esto a votaciÓn cuando cuente con el apoyo mayoritario de su bancada. detec

up to 15 girls ganging up on rebecca. >> she should be here. she should be here to see justice getting served. >> reporter: the sheriff sending a message to would be bulliers and their parents. >> if you don't discipline your children and if it rises to the level of a violation of law, don't worry. we'll discipline them for you. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news, lakeland, florida. >>> and tonight, the former m mayor of san diego is back in the headlines. you'll remember bob filner, forced to resign after 17 women accused sexual harassment. today, he pleaded guilty to charges involving three of those women. he will be sentenced to three months of home confinement. >>> and another new update tonight on madeleine mccann who disappeared seven years ago. there has been an overwhelming response to the new crime documentary that aired last night. an avalanche of tips. nearly 1,000 calls and e-mails and after seeing the so-call ed images of a man spotted carrying a small child that night, several different people have given detectives the same name.

and the 14-year-old started bullying rebecca and she also convinced the 12-year-old, who was rebecca's best friend to bully her as well. even to fight her at school. that resulted in a suspension. there were efforts made to calm down the situation and it just went on and on and ended up on the internet in the cyber world and ultimately rebecca, who was very fragile, saw these words, took them to heart and this tomorrow meanting that she endured forever and ever and ever, caused her to send a post to a friend of hers saying, i can't take it anymore. i'm jumping. that is exactly what she did. heather: these social media posts said things like drink bleach and die. go kill yourself. wait a minute, why are you still alive? but initially you were not going to charge the parents until you saw this, and you mentioned it earlier, and we can pull this up. this was a facebook posting i believe was put on one of the young girls after the fact and in it she says, yes, i bullied rebecca and she killed herself but, fill in the blank, i don't care basically is what she is saying. that is what caused

rebecca. what is salt? right. foodie call for $400, please. rebecca. what are truffles? correct again. foodie for $600, please. mike. what is the cooking institute of america? no. rebecca.

one of them sergeant rebecca wood far from the stereotypical face you might imagine working at a place like this controversial military base as we soon learned the first of many surprises this is a really big break for me in my career from my military resume the people i work with every day day they share the same idea like they're all very proud to be here she joined the u.s. military a decade ago with no money for college a twenty eight one ton a most her second deployment you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really it is just a place that people forget about like they don't ever think about it getting to the main part of the beast is a slow pace trip we have to wait for a ferry to take us across the bay and are taken to visit a beach first one of a handful of scenic locations you wouldn't really expect here we're going to see the logic area now it's ninety minutes very right one side of the area where the airport is. several rebadge insists but the main part of the people and the

narrator: rebecca jim is the director of l.e.a.d., a community-action agency. through the years, she has witnessed firsthand the effects of toxins in picher. jim: i was an educator here in this community for over 25 years. and what i found when i first got here was children that were ready to learn, and they were able to, and they were eager, and they were excited, and they could learn easily. and through those years, those children became more exposed, and, i think, became damaged. man: rebecca jim contacted me in the mid-1990s and asked me whether i could measure some of the teeth that she had collected from school-age children for lead. we measured those teeth. the levels were relatively high. narrator: the tests further confirmed rebecca jim's suspicions -- that the children were being affected by lead poisoning. many of the problems lead causes in the human body appear to be associated with its ability to mimic or inhibit the action of another metal -- calcium. calcium can only enter the body's cells by binding to a specific protein. once in the cells, it

up to 15 girls ganging up on rebecca. >> she should be here. she should be here to see justice getting served. >> the sheriff is sending a message to would be bully yes, sirs and their parents. >> if you don't discipline your children and if it rises to the level of a violation of the law, don't worry, we will discipline for you. >> abc news, lakeland, florida. >>> a soldier's gesture brought battle tested warriors to tears and now the photo has gone viral. look at this. a wounded army ranger salutes from his hospital bed moments after emerging from surgery. he was wounded when a suicide bomber targeted his unit in afghanistan earlier that day. four other rangers died. he saluted when his commander gave him the purple heart. the doctor tried to get him 20 rest his ban good eveninged arm. >>> a mom is being called fit after her facebook photo created an uproar. she was in this photo with a sports bra with the caption, what's your excuse. it has received more than 16,000 comments and many critics trying to shame overweight mothers. she said her i

. >> reporter: police say rebecca sedwick was relentlessly tormented by two classmates for a year. the arrests were made after the 14-year-old suspect boasted on the internet about the bullying. sheriff grady jud. >> she made a comment in reference to "yeah, i bullied rebecca and, yeah, she's dead, but i don't give blank." we saw that and thought that was over the top. >> reporter: the 14-year-old and 12-year-old accomplice allegedly harassed sedwick at school and then followed her online. taunts included "you should drink bleach and die, no one likes you." and "you should go kill yourself." sedwick jumped off a tower near her home after writing friends "i am jumping. i can't take it anymore." we spoke to her mother tricia norman last month. >> i want them to pay for it because they took my baby away. they took her confidence away. they took her self-worth away. they just -- and now she's gone from me. >> reporter: the sheriff hadn't ruled out charging the suspects' parents. >> if you can't supervise your child, if they don't behave then take away their devices! don't allow them to

rebecca cooper is outside the .apital with the latest >> as you say, the house will be in session on saturday and part two vote on the compensation measure but also to continue to pursue the republican house strategy of passing both -- bills to partially fund the government. democrats say they will not negotiate on partial funding. with no sign of compromise today, both sides opted for optics instead. >> surrounded by press, president obama and vice president biden took a surprise i.ip to taylor gordon delhi republicans #lettouted their new hashtag -- #letstalk. the american people do not want their government shutdown, and neither do i. >> wall street largely shrugged shutdown, but congress will need to raise the debt ceiling by october 17 or risk a possible default. if the u.s. default, the treasury department warns credit departments could freeze and interest rates could skyrocket. congress passed the debt ceiling in 19 70 and intending to limit u.s. debt by limiting how much treasury can pay for. the problem -- congress decides how much money is spent, so the law ends up only lim

rebecca would not defend herself. she tried to flee, and police say her mother did everything possible to keep the 12-year-old safe. pulling her out of school, home-schooling her, shift though to a different school, but in today's time the bullying followed her online, and the sheriff himself expressed a great dole of frustration that somehow after a suicide the parents of one of the accused continued to allow her to post-online. >> i'm not alarmed. i'm aggravate that the parents aren't doing what parents should do. my first question is, after guadalupe's already questioned and involved in this, why did she even have a device? why didn't her parents say, you've lost the ability to have this, when you send nasty, hateful, ugly things to rebecca and other people. my goodness. wake up, girl. but the parent didn'ts didn't do that. had the parents done that earlyline, maybe rebecca would have been alive. >> reporter: the investigation is going on. the cell phones and laptops of 15 middle schoolers have been confiscated by

meteorologist rebecca stevenson. rebecca. >> this is the greatest satellite update, due to the government shutdown, we've had trouble getting right up to the minute pictures from nasa. the storm moved on shore, we know it brought significant storm surge at least five inches of water inland. as that inland area moved in these very low lying areas the particular eye of the storm did not go quite as far south as expected. so it didn't take in as many areas of shallow water as we'd expected it to. still we anticipate a lot of flooding, it is in the w wee hos in india. the winds over water had been 124 miles an hour so it made landfall as a category 3 and then it's just falling apart as it moves in because that wind runs to the ground causes friction slows things down so we get areas of very, very heavy rainfall. in fact we have places reporting well over seven inches of rain so far in parts of india and we expect the winds to continue and mudslides. so a lot of danger ahead here. another thing that we're watching is a pa

rebecca. >> we've had quite a bit of rainfall in india. devastation across parts of india due to mudslides flooding and the winds. winds were reported 125 miles an hour and a lot of roadways are cleared out of branches and debris but also buses and transportation flipped over by those winds. now we're seeing phailin fall apart, still plenty of rainfall into the northeast and into the northern portion of india. we are seeing issues from the amount of rainfall in this particular storm but it will slowly diminish. what isn't diminishing is rain for places like vietnam. the philippines have been hammered by tie 15 nari. as you can see in our latest satellite picture the storm starting to move towards vietnam. we are also seeing the first band of rain and the showers and thunderstorms start to approach danang. joint warning center for the typhoons is showing this particular track directly east. right now it's about 200 nautical miles offshore from danang. a lot of rainfall again to areas in japan, thomas. >> rebecca thank you. the international