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They are stopping traffic and driving people from their homes. building hives in the walls? were talking about bees gone wild. so, what is behind this surge of bees? heres abcs nick schifrin. >> reporter: in texas today, bee keepers had to break through brick to rescue a house invaded by 750,000 bees. the home was so infested, jocelyn ruben ran for cover. >> they already came through the sheetrock. now its real bad. its in the dining room area. >> reporter: but despite the buzz-kill of bees beha...

Doesnt make enough money and paying to much for benefits. >> i put off having a family. i put off buying a home. i had to short sell my home two years ago. >> reporter: right now, san jose contributes an amount equal to half whittingtons salary to his pension. >> im not going to lie-- its been very stressful for us. >> reporter: leaders in other cities have been watching closely. public pensions in california have a shortfall of more than $400 billion. these are not only cities to vote on pensio...

Jetliner. it went down in an apartment complex near the lagos airport after flying from nigerias capital, abuja. all 153 people on the plane were killed, as were some people on the ground. the pilot radioed he was having engine trouble just before the crash. four decades ago an american soldier wrote home telling of the horrors that he saw in vietnam. he was killed before he could mail the letters. they were later taken by the north vietnamese. but tonight they are finally coming home. wyatt and...

>> so many of us watched this nsci train wreck happening and asked, well, why are all of these smart people running smart companies consciously producing more gas than the market needs? everybody knew this. >> reporter: chesapeake has had to borrow more than $6 billion to stay afloat. chesapeakes stock, valued at over $69 per share in 2008, now sells for less than $15. shareholders-- including some of the largest state pension funds en the country-- worry the company is being run into the eround...

Admitted he beaned a player as an introduction to the league. hell get a five game suspension and hell be fined. he was told to play dumb and the saints say in their pay for pain bounty scandal would blow over. well, he didnt and the scandal is not going away. reports say that the former saints defensive lineman now with the packers testified he was told by the former defensive coach greg williams and assistant coach joe vitts who denies there was a bounty pool. the comments prove the bounty poo...

Will smith that got suspebbedded t. looked like there could be more because the league said between 22 and 27 players had been involved in the bounty. but only two players were suspended. >> you take a defensive lineman and i ask this selfishly. anthony hargrove and i ask this selfishly, he has been traded to the packers. so now the packers are paying the penalty for what a player did in a saints uniform, in which the coach apparently is now ousted for the season? so is there some leadership res...

Will smith that got suspebbedded t. looked like there could be more because the league said between 22 and 27 players had been involved in the bounty. but only two players were suspended. >> you take a defensive lineman and i ask this selfishly. anthony hargrove and i ask this selfishly, he has been traded to the packers. so now the packers are paying the penalty for what a player did in a saints uniform, in which the coach apparently is now ousted for the season? so is there some leadership res...

And abcs bob woodruff was there. >> reporter: with this one beam, the world trade center reclaimed the skyline. new yorks tallest building, 1,250 feet high, so high not even eight statues of liberty would reach the top. for six years, 900 workers labored around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, driven by more than a paycheck. >> everybodys on a mission. theres nothing they cant accomplish. >> reporter: this is your mission. we set out to meet those crane operators at their perch. traveli...

Some of the men who were in the smoldering pit in the days after the attack are at the top of one world trade center now. we went up to meet them. the trip is not for the faint of heart. iron worker kevin murphy was our guide. how high are we now? >> standing on 89. >> 89? >> last floor of concrete. after this, we have to take ladders and stair towers. >> the stairs hang off the side of the building more than 1,000 feet above the street. the views will take your breath away. dont look down, righ...

Time. and this is just the beginning. the torrential rain and winds have already battered the florida keys and miami, with seven to eight inches of rain in some spots. a more than 100 power crews are being moved into western new york. the fears that heavy wind and snow will rip down tree limbs and power lines, just like they did during last octobers rare pre-halloween storm. >> we have leaves on the trees now, so, the leaves are going to act as sort of collectors, and theyre going to make the br...