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[ female announcer ] new iams senior plus. see the iams difference or your money back. [ dog ] i am an iams dog for life. ♪ well, now to our favorite story of the day. and i love this. we've all heard of the rule, right? you drop food on the floor and you have three or in some cases five seconds to pick it up before it's no good. >> the five-second rule is usually my rule. five seconds. if i'm hungry, hour and a half. but is it really true? a new study says not all food is created equal when it comes to on the floor resiliency. with more on this story, here's abc's t.j. winick. >> reporter...

Revolution and the rippling effects it may have on your 401(k). president nicolas sarkozy with his tough talk on austerity and his supermodel wife there is now officially out. and a socialist, francois hollande is now in with a promise to raise taxes and also emphasize growth. that makes u.s. markets very nervous as does the result of a vote in greece that put its austerity plan at risk as well. also investors in asia are the first ones to have a chance to react to that result in france and they do not like it. all the major indices across the region are down this morning. somewhere around 2...

>> and you're going, oh, my god. >> a lot of times it was a lot of reading. >> reporter: he wrote his thesis on the value of humor in leadership. he's a natural leader who loves to laugh. clearly joking around is just part of who he is. the graduate hopes to become a motivational speaker. >> you ever get tired of looking down? >> nope. >> and he's not done studying. next on the agenda, law school. and that doctor title is no joke. >> are we allowed to call you shaq anymore? >> no way. only the children can call me shaq, but the adults have to address me as dr. o'neal. >> reporter: his beaming ...

Finish line to win the first leg of horse racing's triple crown. >> i'll have another has won the kentucky derby! >> reporter: as the champion basked in the winner's circle, there was no hint that a scene of celebration would soon turn into a crime scene. just hours after the race and just yards from i'll have another's barn, a track employee discovered a body in a barn occupied by louisville trainer angel montano sr. >> our investigation is ongoing to determine specifically why he would have been at this location. >> reporter: police are treating the case as a homicide. >> there is foul play ...

Speech in two key swing states. abc's rick klein joins us with the details. >> reporter: rob and sunny, if you look inside the speech from over the weekend you'll see the strongest argument that team obama thinks they have against mitt romney. it's not just the policy. it's the person that they are running against. they want voters to know all about the proposals they say would take the country backward. more than that, they want you to know about the very wealthy and they would argue out of touch person at the top of the ticket. now mitt romney's folks are turning things around on president o...