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>> reporter: more than 90 republicans in the house have signed on to a bill that would deny citizenship to babies born here unless at least one of the parents was a legal citizen. but to change that law, you would almost certainly need to change the constitution. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. and coming up next, the discount airline that has no intentions at all of being the best. >> cutting costs while many addressing so many complaints. a look inside spirit airlines, next. welcome back, everybody. welcome back, everybody. spirit airlines has made its name for extremely low fares and its extremely high fees. >> the latest move to make money, spirit wants to charge you for talking to a person. jeffrey kofman got a rare look at what makes spirit fly. >> reporter: fasten your seat belt. adjust your seatback to the upright position. ♪ and make sure you've got some spare change. >> attention in the terminal. spirit airlines is boarding flight 180 to new york, laguardia. >> reporter: welcome aboard spirit. the airline that calls itself the ultra low-cost carrier of the americas. taking cheap to new heights. and new lows. like this not-so-subtle commercial. >> dude, there's no way your mom is cheating on your dad. >> that wasn't jay, was it? >> yeah. that was your son. >> you think that's low? spirit airlines' fares are even lower. now, you can fly spirit for as low as $1 each way. >> reporter: how do they do it? they squeeze every penny out of every airplane. >> this is an airbus ac-19. we operate with 145 seats, which is the most the faa will let us us put on the airplane. >> reporter: when other airlines operate, how much seats do they put in? >> 126. >> reporter: how much leg room is sacrificed? >> couple inches per seat in general. >> reporter: that is ben baldanza. he believes that passengers will sacrifice a lot to save a lot. he took over the struggling airline, called spirit. and gave it, well, a new spirit. >> the way we like to think of it is that the biggest difference between us and other airlines is they give you a free coke. but they charge you $150 more. if i want to sell you a can of coke for $150, that's what you pay on airlines. >> reporter: it's not that they charge $2 for a coke. they also charge $12 to reserve a seat. and they're the folks that introduced the idea of charging to check a bag. $19 for the first. $25 for the second. $100 for the third, each way. and as of this week, spirit is even charging for carry-ons in the overhead bins. $30 if you check in online. $45 at the gate. that no-frills approach is how spirit undercuts its competitors. often by $100 or more on the same route. but at a high price. in 2008, the u.s. department of transportation said it received more complaints about spirit airlines than any other airline by a factor of seven. spirit airlines, your greed will cost you. spirit airlines, i've renamed them evil spirit airlines. spirit airlines' service is designed to scam the customer. disgusting florida check-in staff at spirit airlines. you can't be proud of that stuff. >> i'm not proud of that at all. but our staff is not disgusting in florida. and the reality is it's a very small percentage of who we fly. >> reporter: a big chunk of the complaints come from the hidden fees. online booking automatically charges you $12 for travel cancellation insurance unless you uncheck the box. miss your flight? whatever the reason, the change fee is $110. spirit doesn't just rebook you like a traditional airline. >> every cost is important. >> reporter: that is clear in spirit's operations center. >> what you're looking at here is where our airplanes are right now. >> reporter: where controllers track the movements of spirit's 28 aircraft. all airbus, as they fly to 40 destinations. they fly to the caribbean and latin america. planes spend an average of 14 hours a day in the air. the time between flights is about -- what? 30 minutes? >> 30 to 40 minutes. that's right. >> reporter: you can clean the planes? >> we can clean the planes. service them. get everybody off. get everybody on. get et plane moving again. plane makes no money on the ground. >> go down that way. make a right. >> reporter: spirit has its critics. but make no mistake. the airlines' ultralow-cost obsession has earned it a loyal and growing following. spirit carried more than 7 million passengers last year, an increase of 50% in just three years. i'm jeffrey kofman in ft. lauderdale. >> they take that cost-cutting seriously. get this. no receptionists. they take out the lightbulbs. they don't want to waste electricity. the employees take out their own trash. i mean, it's -- no furniture in the lobby. they're bare bones. >> well, it wasn't that long ago we talked about continental airlines. and they're thinking about not having the boarding agents, the people who scan your ticket. >> you scan your own, right? 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it's wednesday, august 4th. from abc news, this is "world news now." it really is a disturbing shooting. and this workplace rampage, i think a lot of times, we wonder why do they open fire on so many colleagues? in this particular case, we know there was a phone call placed to the mom before. and there was a specific reason why he opened fire. he felt a lot of injustice in the workplace. >> and it's scary. it happens -- it's not uncommon anymore. that's the scary part. it's a growing trend in the country. it's the latest horrible example. good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. a federal judge in san francisco is expected to make history today, to rule on t legality of the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. >> most believe he will overturn the ban. and activists on both sides are organizing rallies. rob stone is in san francisco. good morning. >> reporter: rob and vinita, good morning. this is the day same-sex couples in california have been waiting for. ♪ what the world needs now >> reporter: the trial started back in january. and then took several months off. the judge, bringing everybody back for closing arguments, had very pointed questions for the attorneys. the attorneys fighting against the ban could not be more different politically. ted olson and david boies were on opposite sides in 2000 on bush v. gore. ted olson, on bush's side. david boies on gore's side. but here, they have come together to fight against the ban. the judge is expected to rule later today, announcing the future of same-sex marriage here in california. both sides have said, if they lose, they will immediately appeal. rob? vinita? computer hackers have launched a sophisticated, new attack on power plants and factories. their weapon is a malicious computer code that can seize the inner workings of power plants and industrial plants. investigators are calling it the struxnet worm. u.s. power plants are particularly vulnerable because a successful attack could shut down an enticomm six teenagers drowned in shreveport, louisiana, while trying to save another teen who had slipped into deep water. none of those teens, though, and no adults nearby could swim. as ron claiborne reports, that is true of so many african-americans. >> reporter: in the sweltering heat, a group of adults and teenagers went down to the red river to barbecue and cool off. suddenly, a 15-year-old boy wading close to shore, apparently slipped under the surface, where the river dropped off to 28 feet deep. six teens raced into the river to try to rescue him. the boy was pushed to safety. but the others all drowned, including maude warner's three children. >> i didn't see my daughter. but i could see my two sons saying, help me, please. >> reporter: warner and the other parents wanted desperately to help. but none of them knew how to swim, eithe >> you can imagine watching your child drown and not being able to do anything. >> reporter: this tragedy exposes a grim statistic. the drowning rate for african-american children is more than three-times that of white children. a recent usa swimming report found that minority children are much less proficient at swimming than whit african-american adults and children cited several reasons. the cost of swimming lessons. a fear of water. almost a tradition among blacks that grew up with little acces venelf at up with little acces swimming is something white people do. a legacy of segregation. cullen jones, the first black olympic gold medalist in swimming, nearly drowned when he was 5 years old. this summer, he's trave ty n.summer, he's trave >> even if you're not be compe you know, that's ather ju >> reporter: at 56, wanda b is lea me. she runs a program offering low-cost sw les children in toledo, ohio. the josh protect. she named it for her son, who drowned in 2006. >> i know now how important it is that the children learn how to swim. i know now that swimming is a life skill. i know now that drowning is preventable. >> reporter: ron claiborne, abc news, new york. now, to a pretty unbelievable story in atlanta. a woman used her head and her feet to call for help after she was robbed. a masked and armed intruder invaded the woman's home, robbed her, and tied her to the bed. fortunately, her laptop was on the bed, too. after a while she figured out a way to send a message to her boyfriend who called 911. >> with my left foot, i got the power cord between my toes. started typing. and realized that was a good size for typing on the keys. >> wow. the victim, who obviously wanted to shield her identity, said the robber wanted to take her computer. but she told him it could be traced. and he left it behind. >> may all of us be that smart in that kind of pressure situation. wow. this morning's "new york times" reports the government will announce today that about 75% of the oil spilled into the gulf of mexico has evaporated, dispersed or otherwise been eliminated. >> and the operation to permanently seal off the blownout well could be finished as early as today. t.j. winick has the latest. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob according to a leader of th operation to plug the blow