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Your whistleblower brought it to light. and these students sucked in by the ad sign up for courses that lead to nowhere. >> reporter: sarah fisher feels duped. >> $24,000 in the hole for a job i cant use. >> reporter: sobeks claims got a boost by a federal judge. she recommends the case move forward in federal court. mark greenblat, abc news, new york. >> a lot of questions about that situation too. when you consider that their outstanding student loan debt in this country is $1 trillion, buyer ...

Hopes to use the cease-fire to help israel strengthen its internal security including addressing the smuggling of weapons into gaza by hamas. mark greenblat, abc news, new york. brandi, rob, back to you. >> thank you, mark. very telling here that u.s. officials are describing this peace as tenuous. a cease-fire here. interesting number here, 0. that is the number of past cease-fires that have held together since hamas took control of gaza back in 2007 so there is not a good track record here wha...

First right now, the truce between israel and hamas appears to be holding for now. there have been no significant attacks in the hour since the agreement was first announced. >> but the basic hostility remains very much unresolved. abcs mark greenblat joins us now with the very latest. hi, mark. >> reporter: rob, brandi, good morning. just hours after the cease-fire went in effect, the israeli defense forces announced that they have already tracked at least five more rockets being fired into isr...

It hurts. hes lost weight. he ended up in the hospital. abcs mark greenblat is documenting this. >> reporter: for the last 13 days for nearly every wake hour, mickey cheney tried just about everything you could imagine to get the hiccups to stop. all to no avail. >> i drank red apple vinegar. i, sat upside down. drank water. >> reporter: the problem eventually landed cheney in a hospital in portland, maine, earlier this month. his worried wife says its become a serious health concern. >> ive wat...

Anything youre going do is going to have a potential. >> reporter: mickey cheney far from alone in his suffering. one journal says 4,000 americans are hospitalized every year due to persistent hiccups. as a teenager, jennifer mees hiccups gained notoriety as the hiccup girl when she couldnt stop for five weeks. as for the cheneys, theyre hoping mickeys hiccups have a happy ending, one they want to see sooner rather than later. mark greenblat, abc news, new york. >> longest recorded bout of hiccu...

>> he is frederick humphries, a veteran agent who infamously sent shirtless pictures of himself to a key player in the scandal. and president obama now has spoken out about the unfolding mess. abcs mark greenblat has the latest on that. good morning, mark. >> reporter: paula, rob, good morning. the presidents remarks came in his first press conference since the election. and he tried to remind the nation that there is more to the david petraeus story than just an affair. the president weighed in...

Well, we all know people can lose their homes after missing their mortgage payments, but would you believe more and more folks are at risk of becoming homeless because they did not pay their utility bills? >> abcs mark greenblat investigates. >> reporter: on hbos "the wire," richard burton played a gangster, but burton lost his job when the wire went off the air. and today the accomplished actor and musician is in the middle of a real-life drama, at risk of losing his home to foreclosure all ove...

Refused to sit down with us. youre taking homes from people for small unpaid water bills. >> like i said, i decline the interview. >> reporter: and in the end -- >> thanks for your time. appreciate you coming by. >> reporter: you have nothing to say to the people that lose their homes to you. many cities like houston will shut your water off if you dont pay. but theyd never give anyone the right to fore close on your home, but its different everywhere. so if you have questions, call your local u...

Numbers and influence. >> women have been the bastion of bipartisanship in the senate, well see whether thats true with the new crop of women who are a little more from the extremes of their parties than the women theyre replacing. >> the republican speaker of the house said that even he wants to do everything that he can to help barack obama succeed. but not as a liberal and not as a conservative, rather as the president of the united states and some one who can bring everyone together. live on...

>> one headline, the divided states of america. it is a little divided. we need some healing, neosporin and a band-aid. >> yeah, get over it and move on. asian stocks tumbled overnight after a steep drop on wall street. global investors are nervous about new forecasts that show slow economic growth in europe well into next year. back at home, the concerns about the fiscal cliff. as mark explained, if a deal is not reached by january 1, tax increases and government spending cuts of $800 billion...