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mayhem, especially in joplin, missouri. and lookups for tornado photos jumped this week by 278%. hundreds of locals are uploading their own images of the destruction to our photo sharing site flickr. so far, more than 2,480 photos posted. people are anxious about what is next as violent storms continue. we have seen lots of queries about what causes tornados and how to build tornado shelters. all of this concern about the weather comes as we head into memorial day weekend. and high gas prices are also top of mind, once again affecting people's getaway plans. and in addition to lots of searches for cheap vacations and low airfare, greyhound tickets and amtrak discounts are spiking too. now to entertainment news and oprah's big farewell. we took a look back at the oprah effect over the years she hosted her ground breaking show and we were able to quantify in searches just how influential the queen of talk really is. for example, the day oprah and her health guru, dr. oz, touted benefits of steel cut oatmeal, we saw a 5,400% spike in lookups for it. as for the other big finale this week, "american idol" and the buildup to the crowning of country crooner scotty mccreery sparked more searches than in the years past, attributed to new online voting introduced this year. and finally, yahoo! users can't get enough of kim kardashian's engagement ring or should i say bling and her fiance. they also want to know more about the sunner and about groom-to-be kris humphries. the nba player fast becoming a star on line thanks to his mega celebrity partner and her family. we wish them well. back to you guys. >> hold on, rob, you have some drool on your collar. >> let's hear it for k.k. >> kim kardashian. >> how can you not like kim? >> you giggled when oprah was on. what were you giggling about? you busted out. >> they were saying in my ear to make fun of you about kim kardashian. >> that's how much i talk about her. look at my baby. >> you bear a resemblance to donny osmond in that photo. >> didn't think you were going there, donny osmond. >> that's what's striking about that besides kim who is beautiful. >> engaged now too. >> you are out of the game. >> feeling cheated on. >> he is a pretty good looking guy too. really tall. >> i know. >> nothing wrong with 5'8." >> nothing wrong with 5'8." >> long deserved day off. oprah winfrey reveals her style of r & r. >> the skinny is coming up. mariah carey facing a serious investigation. we've got the scoop. wswswswswsws ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >> sing it! i miss this show! i miss "the skinny." >> this is everyone's favorite part of the show. we should hop to it. >> i get to start it off today. as a recently lactating mother, they handed me this one. because tmz. >> very personal, stephanie. i like it. >> mariah carey was investigated by child protective services for drinking a guinness while breast-feeding. and she was actually interviewed by child protective services for drinking a guinness, by the way a lot of lactation consultants told me drink a half a pint of guinness when you are lactating there is a lot of iron. i don't understand why child protective services would waste the time to interview mariah carey. anyway, the latest news is she has been cleared. they interviewed her though. they wasted their time interviewing her. >> was this in the hospital or was this -- >> i don't know where they interviewed her. she was told in the hospital by a nurse to drink a guinness. apparently she did. as you know, she had twins recently. >> morocco -- and mango or something? >> it's not the same thing. drinking while you're lactating is not the same as when you are pregnant. doctors say absolutely don't do. >> there is iron, it can be good for the kid. >> as long as you are not getting drunk. >> the kid needs to relax. it's friday. he had a rough nine months. he can finally breathe. all right. this sort of cracks me up too, remember the judge on "american idol" kara, no longer on the show. she told a very interesting story on "george lopez's show. she was crashing at paula abdul's house, and paula was not there. so she is hungry. so she has the maid get her something to eat. the maid leaves in the fridge these brownies. well, then kara says she pops about six of the brownies and take a listen to how she described what happened next to george? >> the maid at the time found some brownies and took them out of the freezer and left them in the refrigerator. six hours later i was like, hey. what's going on? i had six, i almost died. >> you had six? oh, my -- >> i was like -- >> kara says i fell out of the bed on the floor, stumbled down the stairs, the ambulance comes, and even the guy like -- the paramedic who came was like, this girl is high as a kite. paula said they were left at a party, someone else's brownies. they weren't paula's. seemed fishy. apparently, paula likes pot brownies in the fridge. that's all -- explains so much. >> it is all making sense now. actually. >> it's all clear now. >> i know you are a big oprah fan. you are going to like this one. there is all this new information about what she did the day after the final show. she tweeted she was staying in her pjs all day, getter her hair braided for summer vacation. and reading all your e-mails. rob is responsible for about 200 of those by the way. she also said she is going to go visit her mother. take a break, get some sun and get rest. she is reading the e-mails but not on vacation. don't plan on that. >> yeah, 25 years in the making. a break 25 years in the making. chill out, oprah. we talk about lindsay lohan, you will be happy to know she is under house arrest. she started yesterday. because of jail overcrowding. she gets to chill out in her mansion in venice beach with a landscaped roof and wraparound views of the ocean. because of the stealing the necklace. like all rich people do she gets house arrest in her phat pad. >> so happy to know that. thanks. here's some stories to watch today on abc news. bosnian serb military commander, ratko mladic returns to court in belgrade to face charges for international war crimes. mladic has been a wanted man for 16 years until his arrest in a village in northern serbia. secretary of state hillary clinton visited pakistan this morning. relations between the u.s. and pakistan have been very strained since the navy s.e.a.l.'s takedown of osama bin laden. crowd are already gathering here in new york to see lady gaga. she's kicking off the "good morning america" summer concert series in just a few hours. >> all those little monsters. >> oh, yeah. they're going to go wild. >> should be a good show. all right, finally this half hour, with prices at the gas pump pain fully high these days, commuters are doing all they can to save a buck here or there. and some are even sticking out their thumb and hitching it to work. >> like you do. but in washington, d.c. they don't call them hitchhikers they call them sluggers. here is sharice fam. >> sluggers. >> reporter: they're called sluggers, name for the fake coins bus drivers used to get from sneaky passengers the but their gas savings are real enough. >> $160. >> $300. >> close to $100 a week. >> reporter: sluggers are commuters usually from virginia or maryland and hitch rides to d.c. with complete strangers. sluggers get a free ride. and drivers get to use carpool lanes. >> i see more and more people using this because it saves a lot of money. >> reporter: people used to complain that sluggers clog traffic. and now as gas prices tick higher they're lining up for a free ride. analysts say high gas prices will be around for some time. so if you want to save money, the best way to do it -- drive less. >> that's certainly the best way to help insulate your pocketbook from what is happening. >> reporter: alinda valenzuel savelf 50 she drives just a few miles fro her home to the slug lines. >> with the gas prices, i think soon people will start walking to the slug line. >> reporter: she says she saves nearly $90 a week by slugging. she is not the only one cashing in. >> reporter: you are driving at speed, you are not, it's not traffic where you would be burng more gas. >> reporter: there are slugging rules, you can't talk on cell phones and should say hello to and good-bye to drivers on the way in and out. overall not a bad deal to protect the wallet from the pricey pumps. >> it would freak me out to ride with a total stranger. >> right. but i hear that it's like the same drivers over and over, it becomes like a community of people that know each other. that's how it works. >> after a while you get to know bob from. got you. in case you are interested there are web sites for slugging, slug-lines.com. and slug this morning on "world news now" -- he was hiding in plain sight. that's what intelligence agents say about the notorious ratko mladic wanted for 16 years. >> the bosnian serb mastermind behind several thousand deaths. it is friday, may 27th. and good morning, everybody. happy friday. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm stephanie sy in for peggy bunker. well mladic is due back in court today even though his health is poor. the former military general is connected to unspeakable international war crimes in bosnia in the 1990s. also in this half hour of the show, the tornado that made joplin, missouri, look like a war zone. there is new surveillance video out showing the twister ploeing a home apart. one former first lady's cause, a rare sight to see rosalynn carter on capitol hill, the issue she spoke to lawmakers about hits home with so many people. we'll have that coming up. before all of that, one of the most brutal killers of the 20th century has now been brought to justice after 16 years of hiding in plain sight. >> this is a big deal. ratko mladic, engineered the deaths of thousand in a notorious campaign that came to be known as ethnic cleansing. christiane amanpour reports on his takedown. >> reporter: behind that smile, that round face, those blue eyes, was the mastermind of modern slaughter. ratko mladic. for years he had evaded arrest. while home video showed him at parties, dining at restaurants, a conspiracy protecting him. until a frail-looking figure now arrested in a relative's home. mladic went down without a fight. >> on behalf of the republic of serbia, i announce that today we arrested ratko mladic. >> reporter: a far cry from the general i met in bosnia so many years ago. he would insist he was only defending his own people. in the early '90s, while yugoslavia was splitting apart, mladic was the architect of a policy that became known as ethnic cleansing, determined to kill or expel moslems and carve out an ethnically pure serbian state inside bosnia. i covered his brutal bombardment and siege of sarajevo and other towns and villages. from the hills, mladic's forces would fire down on innocent men, women and children. peter jennings was there, too, in the aftermath of the bombing of the sarajevo marketplace. >> the worst attack since this war began. >> reporter: then came the massacre in the summer of 1995. serbian cameras followed mladic and his soldiers as they handed out candy to terrified children and told them not to be afraid. but there was much to fear when those cameras were turned off. the women and children were separated, and the men and boys were cruelly gunned down, executed in cold blood. in the end, more than 7,000 bosnian moslem men and boys were slaughtered. like so many of these types, he would deny with a smiles face the appalling atrocities. and mladic turned bosnia into the worst killing ground since world war ii. christiane amanpour, abc news. secretary of state hillary clinton paid an important visit to islamabad this morning. she addressed strained relations with the pakistanis. and of course, ties between the u.s. and pakistan have been very tense since the raid that killed osama bin laden. for the first time, pakistan is allowing the cia to inspect osama bin laden's compound. agents will search for any intelligence materials the navy s.e.a.l.s missed during their raid. president obama signed a bill to extend parts of the patriot act that were set to expire at midnight. the bill allows the government to track terrorism suspects using wiretaps and searching buzz records and allows agents to monitor lone wolf suspects, even if they have to clear ties to terror groups. congress approved the extension late last night. now we turn to missouri, where order is beginning to emerge from the chaos of last sunday's tornado. power lines and telephone poles are going back up there. >> and in joplin, people are learning who survived the twister. now that a list of those missing has been released. t.j. winick has the latest. t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob and stephanie. the real focus here on thursday was making sure everyone on the missing person's list was accounted for the few days ago the number was 1,500. thursday morning, 232. later in the day it was even fewer than that because many of the people on the list actually came forward to tell officials that they were, in fact, alive and well. >> i'm glad you ain't missing. >> reporter: the death toll is no surprise as we see more evidence of the tornado's force. this home security video shows what happened as the tornado blasted through a backyard. sweeping away everything in its path. while a family of five huddled inside for their lives. thankfully they survived. >> i just got home from the theater. and heard the siren go off. and thought, it goes off, i thought, it's nothing. then i had a gut feeling. picked up the dogs went to the basement. and it hit that fast. it was there. if i hadn't moved quickly, i would have been out somewhere. when he pulled me out, i said, does my house look as bad as yours? he said, it's gone. i went, oh, my god. >> you can see the kitchen in the house the only room that remained barely intact. joplin officials are trying to figure out when to ask the army corps of engineers to begin clearing the six-mile long, half mile wide field of debris. rob, stephanie. >> t.j., thank you. the president will be in joplin sunday when the community will remember those killed in this tragedy. there will also be some unwelcome guests as well. members of the controversial westborough baptist church known for picketing soldiers' funerals, are now planning to protest. church members say god punished joplin for america's acceptance of homosexuality and started a god hates missouri campaign on their website. the sexual misconduct lawsuit against atlanta megachurch pastor eddie long has been settled out of court. four young men had accused long of using his money and influence to coerce them into having sex. their attorney would only say the case has been resolved and there will be no further comment. a spokesperson for long said he settled to bring closure and move forward. former first lady rosalind carter appealing to congress on behalf of caregivers especially those watching over older family members. she went to capitol hill to share her personal ordeal that actually started when she was 12 years old. here is ron claiborne. >> reporter: appearing before a senate committee on aging, rosalynn carter spoke of her struggle as a child helping care for her ailing, aging father. >> i was the oldest child. and i felt the burden of helping care for my father and three siblings. >> reporter: the former first lady now 83 years old, appealed to congress to reauthorize the older americans act, one of whose services is assistance to caregivers of elderly parents. also testifying, elizabeth marshall who says she depends on meals on wheels which is funded by the act to be able to live on her own in her own home at the age of 92. >> an old song by joseph burke, called "a little bit independent" is my theme song. >> reporter: this year congress must decide whether to continue funding the older americans act, and if so, how much. the great society program that dates back to 1965 serves millions of people over the age of 65. it pays for information and counseling for caregivers. meals brought to homes and served in senior centers and transportation for people who would otherwise be shut in. the stanley isaacs community center in manhattan gets nearly half of its $300,000 annual budget from the federal program. allen flemister depends on them for everything from social groups to daily lunch. how important is it that these services are available to you in your life? >> if i didn't have the services i would probably be in the bowery some place. >> skid row? >> this is my home. >> reporter: an ever growing number of older americans in need of what the older americans act provides. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> as we enter memorial day weekend, a reminder of what it is all about. soldiers placed more than 267,000 small american flags by the fallen service members grave stones at arlington national cemetery. all of the flags will be removed after the holiday. a great honor at one of the nation's most hallowed places. >> that is the meaning of this weekend. let us not forget that. all right. here is a look at your weather now. stormy from