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Wabc's dave evans reports on the bash. ♪ that's what friends are for ♪ >> reporter: it was the theme of this evening. dionne warwick belting out "in good times, bad times." plenty of friends are still with charlie rangel on this, his 80th birthday fund-raiser at the plaza hotel. >> i've been to a lot of funerals where they worked it out but this damn sure ain't no funeral, is it. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> reporter: tonight's parade of politicians included attorney general and gubernatorial front-runner andrew cuomo. senator chuck schumer, up for re-election in the fall. and the mayo...

Called them "the professional left." yunji de nies has more from the white house. >> reporter: robert gibbs opened his mouth to prove that, in fact, his foot was not in it. >> i have no plan on leaving. and there's no truth to the rumor that i've added an inflatable exit to my office. >> reporter: the press secretary is in hot water after scolding the so-called professional left. liberals who say the president has sold out his ideals to make deals. gibbs told "the hill" newspaper, "those people ought to be drug tested. they will be satisfied when we have canadian health care and we've eliminat...

Brain scan could help them detect it immediately. the process of scanning joe's brain takes about 15 minutes. the images are then fed into a computer which makes minutely detailed measurements. to the naked eye his brain looks pretty much like anybody else's. but those measurements should reveal telling differences. the colored areas are key. the blue ones control behavior, the red and yellow ones, speech and vision. >> so you look on this screen here, joe, you can see on the left -- >> reporter: joe's scan puts him firmly at the autistic end of the spectrum. researchers say the trial is more ...

Law enforcement finally caught up with them in nicaragua. reese is also being held now as an accomplice to murder. armed with a warrant, police searched hacienda cortez. five bodies turned up. cher hughes, beau isler, the entire brown family in back of the house holbert allegedly bought from the browns. do you sense any remorse? >> no, i don't think so. i think he's -- he seems to be very calm. >> reporter: panamanian police chief gustavo perez interviewed wild bill in jail. how did he kill all these people? >> he used a .30 caliber. he was saying very proudly that he shot them in the back of ...

Korea's hyundai, whose cars have been a hit here, are turning out an ibm clone called the blue chip. it sells for less than $1,000 and is headed for stores like kmart. this sort of competition is not what ibm had in mind but for the past two years, it did little to counter it. >> you cannot be in a fast-moving industry, which changes literally every six to nine months, and have a product line out there for five or six years and then hope to maintain market share. >> reporter: and ibm didn't. its share of the market dropped from nearly 30% to below 20% and it seemed even mighty ibm might go the...