Mickey Cheney News Today

Trashtalking. But i will admit, ive covered some dicey stories before. I was nervous. I was petrified. I thought, this is taking it a bit too far. Ginger, you were actually scared. I was scared. I dont get scared. I was so nervous. And it was mostly learning to drive a stick shift. Dan was learning to drive a car. Picking up on what ron just said, this little experiment turned out well for some of us. Not so well for others. Also on the show, we have the latest on the disastrous Oil Rig Explosio...

Speed. We go from the anchor desk to the drivers seat for a daredevil nascar race with some of the sports biggest stars. Bring it on. Im ready. Good morning, everybody. We all did a certain amount of trashtalking. But i will admit, ive covered some dicey stories before. I was nervous. I was petrified. I thought, this is taking it a bit too far. Ginger, you were actually scared. I was scared. I dont get scared. I was so nervous. And it was mostly learning to drive a stick shift. Dan was learning ...

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...

friday. 80%? take over/under. >> it is thanksgiving week, the media does nothing but black friday stories. and all those people stampeding each other at the best buy. also this morning, what agony. a man in maine has had the hiccups for two weeks, and hes running out of remedies as well as out of patience. turns out he is not the only one rushed to the hospital looking for that hiccup cure. >> hiccup hangover, right. later, last nights amas, american music awards, whos taking home ...