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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20101202-01:48:00

troubled teenagers up in maine. >> if i got kicked out of this one, that's it, my life is done. >> reporter: but within weeks, the problems started again. >> i would ask you if you could be screened -- >> reporter: including marijuana use. >> that will prove that you did smoke. >> reporter: at one point, dan simply disappeared and i spent an anxious week waiting for the phone to ring. in the end, dan was kicked out yet again. he spent the next year living on his own in boston, and doing surprisingly well. he studied for the ged, and even considered joining the u.s. army. but when both of those plans fell through, he fell into a deep funk. >> like, i've never been so depressed and so sad like i am right now. >> reporter: despite my pleading, dan decided to go home. and so, two years and four months after he arrived, i took him back to the airport. >> i guess this is it. >> reporter: yeah. >> thank you, dude. >> reporter: in the movies, when the reporter swooped in to help

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20101202-01:35:00

held the same job in the clinton administration. >> it's just, we can't afford it. >> reporter: economists say, look at the pie chart at our spending. social security and then medicare, a bite as big and growing. today, that bold call to limit the annual increases in medicare, and we wondered, is there any way to avoid it? can medicare be left untouched? and still rein in this deficit? >> oh, no. medicare is part of the problem and indeed a bigger problem than social security. >> reporter: an even bigger problem because of the aging baby boomers. and, again, we heard agreement from president clinton's adviser. >> there is no way to rein in the deficit without slowing the rate of growth of medicare spending. >> reporter: and back at the chart, look at defend spending next. considered untouchable by many, so, again, we asked both sides, do you have to cut defense spending to bring down the deficit? both said yes. >> first thing you should look at, don't buy anything that the defense department doesn't want. >> we spend money on weapons systems that the pentagon doesn't want. >> reporter: saying virtually the same thing there. two economic advisers to two

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NBC Nightly News-20101202-01:42:00

generation. and sober up, we're sweeping the streets. >> tough words. we talked to them today while they were making their rounds on capitol hill. after being lit just last night, the world famous christmas tree here at 30 rock in new york got a good shaking to its core today, as winds hit 60 miles an hour in the city of new york, and there were some places with stronger gusts and a lot of damage. you can imagine what today's monster storm system did to air travel along the eastern seaboard and elsewhere. weather channel meteorologist jim cantore has been watching it blow through at new york's laguardia airport all day. jim, good evening. >> good evening. it whipped up the hudson in quite a way. the ferries heading over to ellis island had to be postponed as a result of that wind. that happened at about 2:00 this afternoon. back to the airport situation. here's how we got here. take a look at this 12-hour radar loop. all this green area, rain with winds, 30, 40, 50, even 60 miles an hour as you mentioned here. that created a tremendous backlog. delays at times up to six hours

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20101202-01:40:00

dozens of school districts are considering it. in michigan, this principal already banned sweets for birthdays. >> you look at an average student's birthday party at school, it contains about 750 calories. we have 350 students. they are calories that are really not necessary. >> reporter: instead, kids get 30 minutes of extra p.e. to celebrate. lawmakers in pennsylvania are proposing guidelines that would limit sweets at parties in school. on a recent trip to the state, sarah palin mocked the measure. >> i brought dozens and dozens of cookies to these students. >> reporter: pennsylvania lawmakers say they have no plans to ban homemade sweets but did suggest consolidating parties so there would be just one celebration a month. palin called it, quote, a nanny state run amok. >> who should be making decision about what you can eat at school. should it be the government or should it be the parents? >> reporter: and congress is expected to vote on this

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20101202-01:30:00

course a major jewish holiday. >> that is tonight on "world news," drowning in debt. the panel trying to end the deficit releases its plan. what would they cut and what would they save? dangerous storms. december off to a wild start. tornadoes, thunder and torrential rain. diet duel. lawmakers arguing over cupcakes? how much should the government do to get kids to eat right? and dan and dan. our dan harris, and the iraqi boy named dan he tried to hard to help. a personal journey with a twist that changed both their lives. good evening. we begin with four words designed to get the attention of every american. the moment of truth.

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CBS Evening News With Katie Couric-20101202-01:53:00

the university of florida freshman has no criminal record and works two jobs. turns out the real murder suspect is also named zachary garcia, though with a different spelling. someone in the sheriff's office goofed and released the wrong picture to the media. so what are people searching for on the internet these days, besides themselves? yahoo!'s list of the most popular searches of 2010 has pop princess miley cyrus at number three, soccer fans helped make the world cup number two, and the top search on yahoo! this year, that's right, the b.p. oil spill. coming up next, this family might very well change the way you think about hiv and aids. ÷ ,,

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CBS Evening News With Katie Couric-20101202-01:41:00

david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> couric: two other big programs that can't be allowed to fail are medicare and social security. but they and other entitlements are also being targeted by the commission. all told, they account for more than six out of every $10 the government spends. social security makes up 20% of the total budget, medicare 13%. that health insurance program for americans 65 and over is extremely popular but very expensive. so as national correspondent ben tracy reports, reining it in will require some tough choices as well. >> reporter: the challenge for medicare is to keep the program alive while also keeping aging patients alive. 47 million americans are on medicare at a cost of $468 billion, about 13% of the federal budget. barbara hayes is on medicare. she's dying of colon cancer, i could have six days. i could have six months. i don't know. >> reporter: for her recent

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20101202-01:36:00

different presidents, bush and clinton, both agreeing on the cuts to social security, medicare and defense spending, diane. did you ever think you would hear a democratic administration, a republican administration, agree on these? >> shows something about how alarming this deficit is right now. thank you, david muir. and, we have a note tonight about sobering words today from a top u.s. security official, who is the director of the national counterterrorism center. he acknowledged that preventing attacks is getting more and more difficult. >> i'll speak for the entire counterterrorism community. we aim for perfection. perfection will not be achieved. just like any other endeavor, we will not stop all the attacks. >> and again, he said when an attack gets through, of course, lives will be lost. it is the great fear in the u.s. counterterrorism effort. turning next to the deadly weather affecting millions of americans tonight. we know the saying that march comes in like a lion, but today it was december roaring in.

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NBC Nightly News-20101202-01:52:00

a festival of lights tonight in washington, d.c. jews around the world celebrating the first night of hanukkah. earlier today, the giant national menorah was lit. today is world aids day and a large red ribbon symbolizing support for the fight against aids has been hanging this week on the north portico of the white house. more than 33 million people around the world are living with hiv currently, the virus that causes aids. most of them in subsaharan africa. in this country, the cdc estimates more than a million americans are currently infected. it was this day 55 years ago that a woman named rosa parks

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NBC Nightly News-20101202-01:50:00

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