Underground bunker dykes built behind his house. Police and s. W. A. T. Teams carefully negotiated through a ventilation pipe. They flew drones over his house, looking for signs ethan was arrive. Authorities handled the situation slowly in order to keep ethan safe. You have to be extremely careful. Any sort of device you might use against him could obviously harm ethan because hes right there. Reporter interesting, the standoff extended beyond midland city, alabama. Even president obama praised authorities for saving the boy. Rob and diana . Great news he made it out alive and right in time for his birthday. Tahman bradley, live in washington. Thanks, tahman. Gun control, of course, is a top priority for the president. Mr. Obama took his message on the road yesterday, with a visit to a Minneapolis Police station. Heres abcs jonathan karl. Reporter faced with an uphill battle in congress, the president took his campaign for new gun control measures on the road. Were not going to wait until the next newtown. Reporter the central component of the president s plan is requiring virtually anybody buying a gun to get a background check. But the audience in minneapolis has seen that thats not enough. Last september, just a few miles from where the president spoke, minnesota suffered its worst ever mass shooting. The local sheriff met with president obama and believes the Current System simply misses too much. Weve identified gaping holes in the background checks. Its really become what is americas dirty little secret about these background checks. Reporter last year, there were nine mass killings in the u. S. Eight of the gunmen had a history of Mental Illness. Background check is only as good as the database used to check a gun buyers record. Consider this. Only 12 states actively submit Mental Health records to the federal database. The president has proposed fixing this by giving states money to improve recordkeeping. And by urging doctors to report Credible Threats of violence to law enforcement. Mental Health Experts say the other key to addressing this problem is identifying and treating those with Mental Illness at a young age. The white house wants to give states the resources to do that. But thats going to require money. And it is also the kind of thing that will take a long time to show results. Jonathan karl, abc news, new york. And the president is taking action on two other pressing national issues. He signed a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit, preventing a shortterm financial panic. And he meets with lawmakers on ways to reform the immigration system. An iraq war veteran remains on suicide watch as he sits in a texas jail cell. Eddie ray ralph is accused of killing chris kyle and his friend on saturday. They used a stun gun on ralph on sunday when he was being unruly in his solitary confinement cell. A Bipartisan Group of alabama lawmakers is moving to exonerate nine black men who became known as the scottsboro boys. They were convicted of raping two white women. Today, lawmakers will introduce a resolution to exonerate them. A second bill would lead to posthumous pardons. Only one of the men was pardoned when he was alive. Here, it was an allstar tribute to mayor ed koch. Clinton said koch had a big brain but a bigger heart. Michael bloomberg said koch would be loving all the attention he was getting from so Many Political heavyhitters. Koch died last friday, at the age of 88. Boisterous he was. Time for a look at the weather across the nation. Rain from seattle to northern california. Up to six inches of snow in the cascades and northern rockies. Light snow around minneapolis, chicago, detroit and pittsburgh. Also, snowing this morning from philly to boston. Showers from houston to tallahassee. 70s in miami and new orleans. 20s from boston to minneapolis. 40s in the northern rockies. And 50s from seattle to sacramento. And coming up, a secret no more. Meet americas youngest female billionaire, with a b. I like that. Hook me up. Then, Business News today. Is it getting easier to borrow money . An important sign of economic recovery. And later on in the pulse. Inspiration. Meet the skillful skateboarder who happens to be blind. Welcome back, everybody. We are seeing the biggest weekly jump in gasoline in two years. The Energy Department says gas prices rose 18 cents in the past week to an average of 3. 54 a gallon. Americans now spend 4 of our income on gasoline. More than 2,900 bucks a year. Thats more than anytime in the last four years. It should be easier to get a loan now. Banks are slightly loosening their standards and lowering Interest Rates for businesses and developers in hopes of generating more loans. A few lenders are offering better terms on car loans. Economists say, its a sign that the economy is improving. And the flu was bad for us. But good for clorox. The company had a big increase in earnings, thanks for strong sales of its disinfecting wipes and other products. Clorox bleach is also doing well in stores. Apples upgraded ipad hits stores today. This version of the ipad 4 will be chock full of storage to the tune of 28 gigabytes. It will cost about 800 bucks for the wifi only version. But it will cost more for lte. A penny for your thoughts . Maybe not. Canadas decision to stop minting pennies have many wondering how long the u. S. Coin could lost. It costs more than a penny to make a penny. The canadian government is telling shop owners to round up their prices to the nearest nickel for cash transactions. Interesting. Imagine this. Being a billionaire at 30 years old. Owner of a wildly popular hamburger chain. Bloomberg has blown the cover on lindsay torres. Innout burger, the chain with a cult following across the western states and texas. It was started by her grandparents. But torres had to take over when she was just 17. That makes her the nations youngest female billionaire. That might have made her the youngest billionaire, period. 17. A hamburger fortune. Must be nice. That young. A lot of life. And hamburgers for a lifetime. Hamburgs and 1 billion in the bank. Call me, girl. Nice life. Coming up next, two winning Lottery Tickets in the same day. Meet these new millionaires, if your werent jealous enough from the billionaire story. There you go. Plus, the game that everyone is still talking about. And new details on why those lights went out. Lets go. [ male announcer ] introducing the allnew cadillac xts. Another big night on the town, eh . And the return of life lived large. Has twice the protein of regular lowfat yogurt. And at 80 calories, its the lightest greek yogurt with fruit. 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If youre flying today, weatherrelated airport delays are possible in the following cities. Chicago, detroit and here in new york. After weeks of sensational testimony, a jury is hearing directly from jodi arias, the arizona woman who confessed to savagely killing her exboyfriend. Arias tells the court she was abused as a child and claims she acted in selfdefense. Brandi hitt has more. Reporter good morning, rob and diana. Jodi arias takes the stand this morning. Now, jurors are expected to hear arias explanation of what happened the night of that murder. Did you kill Travis Alexander on june 4th, 2008 . Yes, i did. Reporter in a surprise move, jodi arias took the stand in her own defense. And explained to the jury why she brutally murdered her exboyfriend, Travis Alexander. He attacked me. And i had to defend myself. Reporter speaking quietly, with her hair pulled to the side, this is the same woman prosecutors say stabbed alexander 27 times in a jealous rage. Also slashing his throat, and shooting him twice in the head. But her story has changed several times. And in an interview with inside edition, arias also said no jury would convict her because she was innocent. On the stand, she gave a new explanation. At the time, i had plans to commit suicide. So, i was extremely confident that no jury would convict me because i didnt expect any of you to be here. Reporter jodi arias system and crossexamination is expected to take several days. If convicted, she could become the fourth woman on arizonas death row. Rob and diana, back to you. Thank you to brandi. Records show the bus involved in that deadly crash in Southern California sunday was cited for 22 safety violations. In the last year, including brake problems. Survivors say the bus started picking up speed, going downhill. And the driver shouted for someone to call 911 because the brakes had failed. Seven people were killed. A bombshell this morning about that super bowl blackout in new orleans. Get this. It turns out, officials at the superdome there in the big easy were worried about a power outage well before sunday nights big game. Back in october, they warned the domes electric feeder cables were decaying and could fail. Improvements were made. But it is not clear what caused the outage over the weekend. The ravens are back in baltimore for their big parade today. The new lombardi trophy will be with them. Get this. It was actually missing for several hours sunday night during the ravens postgame party. And super bowl mvp joe flacco will be attending the parade, following his visit to disney world on monday. Soon, he will sit down with ravens management and could end up scoring a 20 million a year contract. Its good to win the super bowl. And its good to be joe flacco. Time, now, for some hoops. The highlights from espn. Good morning. Im Zubin Mehenti with your sportscenter update. The best in the east, taking on maybe not the best in the east. The bobcats and heat in south florida. Dwyane wade steal, back the other way. Miami looking for their tenthstraight win over charlotte. Lebron james puts them up by nine. 1 30 to go. A twopoint game. Chris bosh puts miami up by four. Theyre starting a fivegame home stand, are the heat. And its off to a good start. The fivegame home stand began with a fivepoint victory. Hot on their heels in the east, Carmelo Anthony and the knicks. Just a percentage point behind them, hosting the pistons at the worlds most famous arena. Carmelo had 27 minutes on saturday. He was nice and fresh. Ready to go. Second quarter. Amare stoudemire had a great performance in that win over the kings. Coming up. Another big one here. Knicks by 20. Then, felton, raymond felton, to tyson chandler. Wow. Great performance for him. Knicks up by 22. Who says carmelo and amare cant play together . Finishing, one dishes to the other. Still, an 18point game. Out of reach for the pistons all game long. Felton chandler again. Knicks win by 14 in new york city. And that is your sportscenter update. Im Zubin Mehenti. Have a good morning. It turned out to be a very lucky fishing trip for one arkansas couple. Take a listen to this. David and terry weaver stopped to buy a Lottery Ticket in little rock. They stopped at the same store and bought another ticket. The first ticket turned out to be a 1 million winner. The second one netted them 50,000. Wow. Amen. Luck on your side like that, cant hey. I guarantee that whole trip, she was going, i dont want to go on this trip. Nagging him the whole way there and back. Bet youre happy now. Drive back in your benz. Up next, the pulse. Punch lineturned guest. Governor Chris Christie showing David Letterman who really deserves the last laugh. And someone youll be talking about today. He has the skateboarding skill. But what he doesnt have is sight. 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I have made jokes about you. Not just one or two. Not just ongoing here or there, intermittent. But and he put it on the desk. Thats right. Down, governor. Christie said he thought roughly 40 of lettermans jokes about weight were actually funny. That was good television. Hes a good sport. He can laugh at himself. Everyone likes that kind of selfdeprecating humor. Nicely done, governor. Skateboarding can be a challenging sport. We all know that. Even under the best circumstances, requiring balance, coordination and even bravery. We want you to meet Tommy Carroll who has all that and then some. The Northwestern University student has been blind since he was just a toddler. He spent hours honing those skateboarding skills, by listening to the sounds of the wheels on different kinds of surfaces. Thats amazing. His message of empowerment has been seen more than 500,000 times on youtube. Welldeserved attention, for sure. Nice, nice, nice. And finally, a San Francisco 49ers fan who was a lady of her word. She is larisa shaw. Dressed in black. Mourning her niners loss. She lost a bet that her team would win the super bowl. She had to take a pie to the face onair from her coanchor. She did it. But shes not done paying. As if this is not awful enough, shaw still has to dance outside of the station in a chicken suit. Its a tough loss that keeps on getting tougher. You have to face your bets, man. Thats right. A good sport there. That is ugly. For some of you, local news is next. [ male announcer ] considering all your mouth goes through, do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean . While brushing misses germs in 75 of your mouth, listerine® cleans virtually your entire mouth. So take your oral health to a whole new level. Listerin®. Power to your mouth™. Can be the worst part. My medicine alone doesnt always give me all the Congestion Relief i need to sleep. 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The 24 selfhelp depression, we have recovered from the super bowl. A day makes the difference. Will the weather cooperate. Mike nicco . Well start with live doppler 7 hd you can see the cloud cover again but no radar returns. Maybe drizzle along the coast but it will be dry for the morning commute and milder. Check out the temperatures. The cool spot is 42 in antioch and 50 in oakland. Everyone is in the midtoupper 40s this morning. Now, as we head through today, at the coast we will have partly sunny conditions and we will see a slow reveal of sunshine again. Lowtomid 50s at coast and midtoupper 50s around the bay and inland so the afternoon is brighter like yesterday. Sue . The traffic is light at 4 29 on tuesday morning. 80 westbound we have road work with the crews in the right lane but that will be picked up by 5 00. Road work on the north portion of the Golden Gate Bridge off the waldo you down to one lane on the northern portion of the spain. Then it opens up. Two lanes, now, in the southbound direction. That will open up further as the commute goes on. Road work 880 from 980 until action this or. Traffic is easy but new this morning, bay area drivers can no locker say at least their traffic is not as bad as los angeles. Cornell bernard is live along 880 with a new study on traffic congestion. You will not like this, cornell. No, it is not that good. The big question, how much time could you spend in traffic if you like most of us . That answer would be way too much. Here is a shot of his 80 in emeryville. A Study Confirms it gets really bad. Researchers at texas a m found u. S. Commuters spend a total of 121 billion dollars of wasted time and gasoline sitting in traffic, last year alone. That is 800 for each of us on the road, so commuters are building big delays into their schedules by allowing for an hour drive time for a trip that could take us 20 minutes without traffic. Worse commutes in the country washington, dc. Los angeles. San francisco. And new york city. When we break it down that is a delay each day of 53 minutes for washington, dc, 48 minutes for los angeles, and 47 minutes for the San Franciscooakland area. The study could be food for thought or fuel for thought for transportation officials who are trying to ease congestion and keep traffic flowing through the bay area and all of the country. Cornell, thank you very much. Oakland police are looking into a devastating crash caught on camera, the video is startling to see and a story we brought you here on abc7 news. The crash shows the driver of