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Magnolia bakery and 1-800-flowers. >> new york city has announced plans to build the biggest ferris wheel in the world. you look like you don't want to get on it. >> you know, my first reaction was, why? i'm not entiring sure we need this, but anyway, for $230 million we're going to get the biggest ferris wheel in the world. mayor michael bloomberg wants to build it on staten island. it's taller than the current record holder in singapore at 541 feet. it's going to reach higher into the sky, chris, in the high roller wleel planned for las vegas. construction expected to begin in two years' tim...

Here's abc's ron claiborne. >> reporter: you may not have noticed it when tajikistan's record-setting 541-foot-tall flagpole was officially unveiled last august. but for 7 million tajiks it was a very big deal. there was even an official from the "guinness book of world records" on hand to certify it. to really a get a sense of how tall this flagpole is, you have to get up as close to it as you can and look up. in a country where the per capita income is less than $1,000 a year it may seem odd for the government to spend a reported $40 million on a flagpole. the tajikistan flagpole eclipsed th...

and this is an ipad for $69. the big mistake that had people thinking they had gotten the bargain of the year. i want to start with another apology today. this from rupert murdoch. responding to the hacking scandal from the u.k. what this shows you, this tape, it is murdock going into a meeting with the family of the murdered british teenager. it was that teenager's hacked voice mails that sparked the outrage into the scandal. listen. >> shame on you. shame on you. shame on you. shame on you. >> mr. murdoch, will you tell us what you said to the family? >> if you just keep silent f...

sears was offering that deal yesterday. today, they're offering an apology. the big mistake that had people thinking they had gotten the bargain of the year. but let's now turn to the 405 freeway. the infamous 405 in los angeles. it is shut down this weekend. and you might be thinking, if you're not familiar with the area, big deal, freeway's shut down for construction. but think, folks, what if you are in new york and they shut down the brooklyn queens expressway? what if you're in chicago and they shut down the dan ryan? what if you're in atlanta, they shut down 75/85. you're in ...

Later right into a prison cell block. this wasn't like "the great escape" in which prisoners planned the breakout themselves. all these taliban prisoners had to do was wait. the taliban releasing a gloating statement saying "the tunnel reached its target last night from where the prisoner mujahadin were led away through the escape route by three previously informed inmates." according to a military official the prisoners were awakened one by one by those in the know and then lowered into the hole. they had to crawl through the dirt in dark, the length of four football fields. and they had to d...