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ABC World News Saturday-20101219-01:54:00

>> it's like the culmination of everything we worked for. i'm overwhelmed. >> we're going to rock this show. >> we're going to rock this. so worthy of their oscar moment. can't wait to see it. when we come back on "world news" this evening, the college football star who walked off the field, and the question tonight, would you do the same? it makes it hard to do a lot of things. and i'm a guy who likes to go exploring ... get my hands dirty... and try new things. so i asked my doctor if spiriva could help me breathe better. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance treatment for both forms of copd... which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva keeps my airways open... to help me breathe better for a full 24 hours. and it's not a steroid. spiriva does not replace fast acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. stop taking spiriva and call your doctor right away if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, have vision changes or eye pain... or have problems passing urine. tell your doctor if you have glaucoma,

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NBC Nightly News-20101219-01:35:00

tell" influenced her retirement. >> it's not right to make people hide part of their lives. >> reporter: most recent poll numbers show that 70% of america's troops feel the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" will have mixed, positive or no effect. but among combat troops, numbers changed dramatically. 48% of army and 58% of combat marines strongly oppose serving with gays. >> the law has changed, successfully implementing repeal and assimilating openly homosexual marines into the tightly woven fabric of our combat units has strong potential for disruption at the small unit level. >> reporter: at this coffee shop outside joint base louis mcchord near seattle, opinions are mixed. sergeant marcus mcgivney recently served in afghanistan. >> if you have homosexuals in combat arms, it would be the same as men and women working together. >> reporter: but a retired soldier says it's time for change. >> [ inaudible ]. >> there are gay people serving right now in every rank and

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NBC Nightly News-20101219-01:39:00

way, but for those heading overseas, not a good mix. a lot of holiday plans are in chaos as flights bound to and across europe have been disrupted by a severe winter storm. we have more from london. >> reporter: covered in a blanket of snow, this is a picture postcard image of buckingham palace most tourists never see. but anyone hoping to hop across the pond may want to think again. all flights into and out of the uk's busiest airport are grounded tonight. this flight from miami did manage to land in arctic conditions only to be frozen out on the runway for more than five hours. >> migraine passed away. i won't be getting back to the states for her funeral at this rate. >> reporter: roads have been paralyzed by blizzards while many motorists were trapped in their vehicles overnight, hundreds of cars were abandoned in germany and italy. in britain, despite heavy duty equipment, rescue services are struggling with thousands of breakdowns each hour.

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CBS Evening News-20101219-02:26:00

people in a faraway country that you might think wouldn't even need our aid. celia hatten has their story. >> reporter: china's inner mongolia province hasn't seen a good harvest in years, but a local farmer is surviving after switching from crops to livestock. i can afford my daughter's tuition fees now, she says. she borrowed $750 through wokai, a microfinance charity run by 26-year-old american casey wilson. wokai matches online donors with aspiring chinese entrepreneurs from a tailor sewing traditional clothing in northern inner mongolia, to dumpling makers in sichuan, southern china. >> they repay the capital and you get to support someone new. >> reporter: while studying chinese in beijing, casey was inspired by a friend, a restaurant worker trapped in poverty, earning just $100 a month.

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ABC World News Saturday-20101219-01:51:00

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ABC World News Saturday-20101219-01:53:00

staten island just to tell the fifth grade chorus she's a huge fan. >> wow, you guys are incredible. >> she discovered them just as we had on "world news" from their performances on youtube. millions have now watched them. ♪ the eye of the tiger >> when we first visiting the school, the music director said he started the chorus as a sort of musical escape in a school where three quarters of the children qualify for free lunch. he told them, forget sheet music. just sing. but it turns out anne hathaway was not there to simply applaud them. she had an invite for them. she's co-hosting the oscars, and they had no idea she now wants them to come to perform. >> i'm here to officially invite you guys to the oscars. >> her invite was drowned by the excitement. the entire chorus will now be flown to hollywood in february. even the actress was overwhelmed. and for the teacher, it was getting an oscar himself.

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ABC World News Saturday-20101219-01:56:00

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ABC World News Saturday-20101219-01:34:00

some say it could take up to a year. david. david kerley tonight starting us off. and as he pointed out, this goes to the president for his signature and the pentagon is expected to slowly roll it out. how smoothly will it go. we go to christiane amanpour, who has covered this overseas in countries where a similar decision was made long ago. what if anything can we learn from what we have seen elsewhere on this? >> some 30 countries or more from canada to europe to australia and israel have now openly gay service members in their militaries and these are countries who have served alongside the united states in campaigns as recently as afghanistan and iraq, and on high military alert with significant military and unit combat cohesion and readiness. so it's gone well. there have been no complaints from the militaries i have talked to. they're saying the minute it's enacted, implementation goes much smoother than anyone could have foreseen. >> while we have you,

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ABC World News Saturday-20101219-01:48:00

in the grim sleeper murder investigation after l.a. police released 180 images thursday found on the suspect's property. >> we have about five we have tentatively id'd. as this rolls out, we hope we identify every person of the 180 photos. >> authorities are getting calls from women who recognize themselves and others. police believe some in the photos could be victims of lonny david franklin jr., a 57-year-old mechanic arrested in july. he allegedly killed several women in a south los angeles neighborhood in the '80s and then more than 15 years later, began killing again. because of the apparent time gab, the media dubbed the serial killer, the grim sleeper. franklin is accused of nine murders. there was dna evidence from his son earlier this year that led police to him. sglo definitely going to bring my family some closure. >> in many of the pictures, the women are topless or completely naked. some even appear to be unconscious or perhaps dead. franklin's attorney's outraged

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ABC World News Saturday-20101219-01:59:00

>> alan: the second punch in a series of storms is approaching the bay area tonight. in the sierra, chains were require at 5,000 feet on what turned into a very slushy day. you might call this the lull between the storms. leigh glaser is watching a long stream of systems heading our way. >> leigh: they're luck fluctuat. the one we anticipated to bring is quite a bit of rain slipped into southern california, so we got a nice break. but things are starting to get a little more active. live doppler 7hd picking up moisture. much of this is on the light side, but you can see this stuff

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