into the industry books. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: it was a triumph of technology and a moment of national pride. >> they got the flag up now. you can see the stars and stripes. >> beautiful, just beautiful. >> reporter: it's been 37 years since a rocket like this last boosted an apollo mission to the moon. now there are plans to return and eventually to go further to mars. carla wohl, abc news at the kennedy space center. >> here's a look at your friday forecast. a wet day for much of the east coast with scattered showers and thunderstorms. much of the same along the gulf coast. showers along the great lakes and thunderstorms from the western plains to southern rockies. >> 84 in colorado springs. triple digit highs in phoenix, sacramento and boise. new york hits 90 for the first time since april. a cool 63 in minneapolis, 68 in fargo, 77 in omaha. >> a southern californian teen-ager as has sailed into the record books, surviving storm after storm and even a confrontation with pirates. >> 17-year-old zach returned it a heros' welcome yesterday after becoming the youngest person ever to circle the globe by boat alone. the 28,000 mile journey took zach 13 months and took him across the pacific and under the horn of africa. >> his next big adventure, he plans to climb mount everest. >> certainly a young go-getter. only 250 people have ever sailed the seas alone like this. already there's a clal jer, another young person who is about three weeks young are than zach who now says he wants to do it. the guy is from great britain. for zach's case, i sort of hope he doesn't do it. >> makes you feel like a slacker. what are you doing this summer?^? nothing. climbing mount everest. >> watching tv. we'll be right back. ♪ rome around the world imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your mobility and your life. one medicare benefit that, with private insurance, may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it. 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wife and her sister in a plane crash oft coast of martha's vineyard. >> a decade later there's still a sense of loss for what might have been. claire shipman reports. >> reporter: it was ten years ago we woke up to a beautiful, clear saturday morning, one that gave no hint of the dangerous and dark storms of the night before until we turned on the television. . abc news news has reports his plane is missing. >> we are spending these couple of hours -- >> reporter: we watched with a growing sense of foreboding and group anguish. despite his very private nature, john kennedy, jr., his very existence had somehow come to represent a critical link to our fairy tale past and always, always the possibility of another chapter. >> i this this terrible sense of horror for my friend and i also had a personal sense of oh, my god i'm going to be mourning my friend my whole life. >> reporter: for the first time after ten years, close friend rob littel decided to share this never before seen home footage of john, toasting him and his fiancee at the rehearsal dinner for their wedding. >> i just met fran and she made quite an impression on me. >> reporter: rob described a man motivated by a strong sense of decency but what's most compelling about what his friend has to say ten years on is that although he never admitted it publicly, john had very clear political ambitions. >> he wanted to become the president of the united states. and over the years that i knew him, he had been preparing for that. >> reporter: john would have been close to 50 today and there are times, rob says, that he still indulges in the what ifs about a certain matchup, for instance. >> i predicted that john would go for 2012 but things moved quickly, obama showed up, he had three years as a senator. they probably would have had a similar set of experiences. >> reporter: a decade later it's still the potential we remember, the what might have been. for "good morning america" claire shipman, abc news, washington. >> kennedy was born just 16 days after his father was elected as president. you may remember those iconic pictures of him playing under his father's desk. >> especially seeing him under that desk in the oval office. the world always really wondered would he have been president, could he have been president? it's interesting, perhaps the other side of the argument ashes lot of people say he only ever wasn't to law school to please his mother. they say as proof of that, he failed the bar exam twice. you could say maybe he doesn't have the chops or the credentials. i guess it is a game of what ifs. >> as his uncle said, he had every gift but the gift of years like his father. >> when we return, our top story, the hotel explosions in jakarta. we'll look back at the previous attacks in 2003 and what investigators uncovered. you're watching "world news now." >> welcome back it "world news now" and back to our top story this morning, what appears to be twin sue i'd bombs in jakarta, indonesia tarring elting american hotels. nine are dead, 50 wounded. >> it's the second time the marriott there has been bombed. the first was in 2003 with the terror attacks of 9/11 still very fresh. from the abc news vault, "nightline" from august 3rd, 2003. >> announcer: from abc news this is "nightline." reporting from washington, chris bury. >> reporter: so why should we sit up and take notice just because a car bomb exploded in jakarta? at one time today's attack might have been dismissed as the work of indonesian religious radicals whose beliefs seemed exotic and remote, but since september 11th all of us are paying closer attention to the strands that connect a spider's web of terrorism. for example, that today's attack was on an american-owned hotel, the marriott, popular with u.s. citizens and diplomats, that the terrorist group suspected also bombed a resort in balle last october, killing more than 200 people, mostly foreign tour cysts. that the same organization conducted surveillance on americans in singapore, which was discovered on a videotape found in afghanistan, where many of the group's leaders trained with al qaeda. those strands of the spider's web make today's car bombing in jakarta hit home. particularly in a week when osama bin laden right-hand man is vowing revenge against the united states and the attorney general is warning that al qaeda remains intent on carrying out more attacks. more on all of that a bit later. we begin with the latest from jakarta in this report from abc news correspondent neal karlinsky. >> reporter: lunchtime in jakarta. it was the busiest time of day in one of the busiest parts of town. the shining 2-year-old marriott hotel was a favorite for americans and had plenty of security inside. the bomber didn't go inside. police say the huge blast came from a black toyota van in the driveway outside the lobby. the explosion devastated the entire first floor, left a crater near the lobby and blew out windows 30 floors up. i felt a big blast when i was in the building next door, this man said. then i saw the dust coming. i heard two blasts, this man said. i came out of the hotel first and when my friend followed me out, we heard the blast. a nearby hospital quickly ran out of beds for the injured, many with terrible burns. this man will be flon home to singapore for treatment at first light. but most of the victims are not from other country, they're indonesians. many were simply having lunch or walking nearby when the bomb went off. this was the bomber's path. police believe he drove his vehicle up this road here and right as he reached the edge of the driveway of the hotel, far before any security, that is where investigators say the explosives were detonated. police have found a registration number in the wreck of the van. they're still not sure if this was a suicide attack or if the driver parked his deadly cargo and left. but the target seems clear, a well-known western hotel sometimes used by u.s. embassy officials in jakarta. embassy staff even held their 4th of july celebrations here. it's too soon to know exactly who is to blame but investigators believe it is likely the militant muslim group jemayah islamiya. it was just ten months ago the group bombed a hotel in balli killing 200. robert gel bart was ambassador to indonesia from 1999 to 2001. >> i personally spoke with the new defense minister of indonesia ash very respected man, educated in great britain. in my first two meetings with him i offered intelligence briefings about the nature of foreign terrorist groups inside of indonesia. he showed no interest. >> reporter: but since the balli bombing, there has been a crackdown and many arrests. the marriott attack comes just two days before the first verdict in the balli bombing trial. no one has claimed responsibility for today's tay tack yet but it almost certainly won't be the last. this is neal karlinsky for "nightline" in jakarta. >> a look back in light of what happened yesterday, twin bombings in jakarta happening at a marriott and ritz carlton. people saying it could be the sailed al qaeda-connected group, jemayah islamiya. >> apparently the manchester united soccer team was to arrive tomorrow and some were staying at that very hotel. >> we heard from one of our reporters earlier saying this is really an icon in terms of america overseas, the sort of western culture there. we'll have much more on that story as it develops. stek around, your morning papers coming up. t around, your mornin coming up. when morning comes in the middle of the night, [ rooster crow ] it affects your entire day. to get a good night's sleep, try 2-layer ambien cr. the first layer " dissolves quickly... to help you fall asleep. and unlike other sleep aids, a second dissolves slowly r to help you stay asleep. when taking ambien cr, sleepwalking, .and eating or driving... while not fully awake with memory loss for the event... as well r as abnormal 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tick. it's friday, july 17th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. i'm john hendren in for jeremy. >> i'm vinita nair. on this busy news day we're following a developing story from indonesia where a pair of powerful bombs have rocked the capital of jakarta. >> at least nine were killed and dozens injured in the blast which is being blamed on an al qaeda-linked terror group. >> reporter: once again indonesia woke up to news of major explosions early this morning. at 6:45 a.m. local time, the blast was heard coming from the ritz carlton and within two minutes the nearby j.w. marriott blast as well. the people of jakarta are living in fear because they're afraid there will be more explosions happening. and rightfully so because three hours after another blast was heard coming from the toll road halfway through the airport. at the moment people are milling around, unsure of everything and soldiers and security people are manning the place. the president made a statement to the effect he is going to come to the location and try to assess the situation himself. lots of people were wounded and were taken to the nearby hospitals. at the moment the population is unsure as to how the security situation will be in the capital city of jakarta. abc news, jakarta. >> the marriott hotel in jakarta was hit once before by terrorist in 2003 a suicide car bomb blew up outside the lobby. 12 were killed and 150 injured in that blast. which was also blamed on the al qaeda linked jemayah islamiya terror group. since then the country has launched an extensive antiterrorism crackdown. stay tuned to abc news throughout the morning for more details on this developing story. >> here at home family and friends are preparing to say billings.to byrd and melanie mourners filled their church last night before today's funeral. the couple was gunned down one week ago during a home invasion. police are sticking by their belief that robbery was the motive but say there is much more to this crime. jeffrey kofman is in pensacola. >> reporter: investigators believe this was the getaway vehicle. it was used, they say, to transport several guns, including the murder weapon and under that sheet the safe stolen from the billings home. the van belonged to this woman, pamela wiggins, charged as an accessory after the fact. >> in our opinion this was a home invasion robbery where the people stole a safe and we recovered the safe and we think it is as simple as that. >> you're heading down now to our investigative section. >> repter: in an interview with abc news, sheriff david morgan said the bulk of his department's work is now done but he added there is a lot more that the public does not yet know. >> i think you've used the word in the last week hum dinger. is there a hum dinger that you simply can't tell us? >> yes that, is a true statement. >> reporter: is this a you wouldn't believe what's really gone on here? >> if i had determined to write a book, i'd write about this. >> reporter: the sheriff refused to say more but he did say the details will be public in a matter of weeks or months. do you believe they set out to murder the billings? >> i can't speak to that issue but i would say offhand i don't believe so. >> reporter: he does not think we will ever know why anyone would murder the parents of nine disabled children. when you look at the act, can you understand it? >> no. i cannot understand it and i can tell you that the images will be with me for the rest of my life. >> reporter: jeffrey kofman, abc news, pensacola. >> president obama sent home a message to african-americans nationwide during his address at the naacp's 100th anniversary celebration. he told the audience in new york last night that the civil rights group has fought discrimination for a century and that made his election possible. he also said the future of african-american families relies on education and effective parenting. >> for our kids to excel, we have to accept our responsibility to help them learn. that means putting away the x-box, putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. it means attending those parent-teacher conferences and reading to our children and helping them with their homework. >> reporter: the president returned to washington last night after a very turbulent flight. he also told parents that children should look beyond sports and rap music so they can aspire to be scientists, teachers and supreme court justices. >> all this week the president has also been pushing congress to pass a health care reform bill before summer recess but now he is getting resistance from some lawmakers worrying about the cost of covering every american. here's jack tapper. >> reporter: at a rally in new jersey, president obama continued his health care reform push. >> the health care debate is starting to heat up. >> reporter: the president said containing health care costs is essential. >> the price of doing nothing about health care is a price that every taxpayer and every business and every family will have to pay. >> reporter: but the president's case was dealt a blow when the head of the congressional budget office said democratic health care legislation in the senate will not reduce the government's health care costs which the president had said is vital. >> on the contrary the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. >> reporter: the administration said that bill is just one of three democratic bills working their way through congress and does not account for the savings they hope to achieve from medicare and medicaid. but how to pay for reform is the big conundrum right now. house democrats would impose a sur tax of up to 5.4% on top wage earners, which a study by the nonpartisan tax foundation said would push top tax rates to over 50% in most of the country. that has moderate house democrats concerned. >> the tax increase on small businesses and upper income people is worrisome. you doesn't want to hurt job creation at a time like this. >> reporter: if the president signed the house bill into law, which he has not ruled out, he would be breaking this campaign promise: >> everyone in america, everyone will pay lower taxes than they paid in the 1990s under bill clinton. >> my understanding is that the house bill would raise them even higher than that. >> well, we're going to watch the process unfold. >> reporter: the president has ruled out an idea endorsed by many senators, to tax health care benefits, arousing the consternation of the chairman of the senate finance committee. >> basically the president is not helping us. he does not want the exclusion. that's making it difficult. >> reporter: one other thing. you might recall harry and louise, the tv ads that helped sink health care reform 15 years ago. harry and louise will soon be back, this time courtesy of the pharmaceutical industry. they're supporting health care reform. jake tapper, 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"harry potter and the half-blood prince" took in 32 million in ticket sales. >> only "transformers" beat that opening beat that. it raked in nearly 22 million ticket sales for wednesday's midnight showing alone. >> the woman who created harry potter, hogwarts and their magic world is j.k. krouling. >> she's an intensely private author but she allowed a british crew to spend an entire world with her. the film reveals how her own life influenced her characters. >> what's your favorite virtue? >> courage. >> what vice do you most despise? >> bigotry. >> what are you most willing to forgive? >> gluttony. >> what's your most marked characteristic? >> i'm a trier. >> what are you most afraid of? >> losing someone i love. >> what's the quality you most like in a man? >> morals. it >> what's the quality you most like in a woman? >> generosity. >> what do you most value about your friends? >> tolerance. >> what's your principal defect? >> short fuse. >> what's your favorite occupation? >> writing? >> what's your dream of happiness? >> happy family. >> reporter: like her orphaned hero hate harry potter, joanne was brought up on british streets. she lived outside bristol in the south of england. her house even had a cup board under the stairs. but unlike harry potter, rowling didn't have to sleep there. joanne wrote stories from an early age, not only there was a forest nearby but the family even lived next to a graveyard. the rowlings lived in this house. joanne and her sister earned extra pocket money cleaning nearby st. luke's church. >> i cannot overstate how cold it got in this church in winter when we were cleaning it. it was freezing. we must have been here loads because we used to sign this book all the time. oh, god, i never -- oh! me and di together. it's the name i stole for harry potter for an unpleasant character as well. hide the book, lock it away. forgot about that. yes. >> reporter: joanne's religious beliefs and her thoughts about love, death, heaven and hell were tested when her mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1980. >> she had a very virulent form of illness and there were no drug treatments at all. they said, well, you've got multiple sclerosis, see you. >> reporter: she says the absence of any meaningful relationship with her father and the long, slow loss of her mother are two of the most important influences on her writing. ann rowling died in 1990. she never knew about harry potter or the magical journey her daughter was about to begin. >> i'd been writing for six months before she died. the weird thing is the essential plot didn't change after my mother died but everything deepened and darkened. harry was always going to lose his parents and it seeped into every part of the books. i think in retrospect, now that i finished i see just how much it informed everything. >> i have to say after watching a good portion of that documentary, i don't want to be a mugle anymore. i thought she was really a fascinating person 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relics, this golf course in new jersey, built on once contaminated soil where gm demolished an old factory. >> we believe it's one of the finest nine-hole courses in all of new jersey. >> reporter: the new gm doesn't need to be in a golf course business. much of what is collecting dust and growing weeds is not exactly beach front property. here in bedford, indiana, gm's cluttered garage includes this abandoned pent costal church. it's among more than 50 properties the old gm plans to ditch in this small town alone. after toxic waste leaked from its plant here, gm had to buy entire blocks of homes. they've since been cleaned up. how difficult is it going to be for gm to sell these properties? >> well, with more properties coming on the market when we already have an overabundance of homes for sale, it's going to be a little difficult. >> reporter: the attic is stuffed with odds and ends, looking for a used crash test sled? how about an old robot? a shot down factory or two. hardly a gold mine for gm's creditors. >> these assets are not going to produce a lot of money because they're not the good assets. they're not the most valuable assets of general motors. >> reporter: cleaning out the attic could take many years but gm boasts of bargains galore at motors liquidation company, including one slightly contaminated golf course. chris bury, abc news, bedford, indiana. >> i guess gm will be clear of all those burdensome contracts. the bottom line is they still have a very tough international market. this is the worst auto market in 26 years. it still will be a strong uphill battle for them. >> that is the news for this half hour. we've got much more news coming up. stick around. >> fatal attack. the developing story in indonesia's capital city. >> in the lobby everything was destroyed. >> where two hotels were bombed. >> then family matters. the president's advice for parents. >> that means putting away the x-box, putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. >> during a big address to the naacp. >> and dialling for dollars. experts reveal new ways to save money on your cell phone bill. it's friday, july 17th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, i'm john hendren. jeremy is off this morning. >> i'm vinita nair. we are following developing news this friday morning from jakarta, indonesia where two luxury hotels have been hit by bomb blasts. >> at least nine were killed and dozens injured. it has always the signs of an al qaeda-linked terror group. >> reporter: early morning blasts at two luxury hotels have stunned the indonesian capital. parts of the facade of the ritz carlton were blown out. a second separate incident targeted a neighboring marriott hotel. hundreds gathered outside of the hotel, the crowd consisting of civilians and police. emergency crews rushed to the scene. some of the victims have been identified as foreigners, their bodies removed to a nearby hospital. indonesian police have not yet confirmed the deaths and damage were acts of terrorism. >> and the marriott hotel in jakarta was hit once before by terrorists. in 2003 a suicide car bomb blew up outside the lobby. 12 people were killed and 150 injured in that blast. it was also blamed on an al qaeda-linked terror group. stay tuned to abc news throughout the morning for more details on the hotel bombings in jakarta. >> in new york last night a historic convergence, the first black president and oldest civil rights group celebrating a century of promise. but it was tough love from president obama that brought the naacp delegates to their feet. >> reporter: the president took the stage in new york city determined to praise the civil rights movement. while acknowledging the struggle is not over. >> we want everybody to participate in the american dream. that's what the naacp is all about. >> reporter: the nation's first african-american president used the centennial of america's oldest civil rights organization to inspire hope, and he urged his audience to seize the moment. >> yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face. but that's not a reason to get bad grades. that's not a reason to cut class. that's not a reason to give up on your education. >> reporter: obama said america's achievements in civil rights should inspire not just african-americans but all americans. >> 100 years from now on the 200th anniversary of the naacp, let it be said that this generation did its part, that we, too, ran the race. >> reporter: marion bell is a teacher in east harlem. >> first thing that resonated with me is all the comments he made about education. i certainly believe education is a definitive factor to moving our agenda, moving this country ahead. >> reporter: harold roberts is 14 years old. cool when you go to your friend and you say you want to be the next 50 cent and next lil wayne. we have to assert ourselves into every aspect of society to be successful as a people. >> reporter: on his way back to washington aboard air force i, they apparently hit fairly severe turbulence. the plane dropped considerably before levelling off. nobody was injured and they later landed safely at andrews air force base. >> the fight against h1n1 swine flu is far from over. new cases are still spreading around the world. president obama has set aside nearly $2 billion to prepare for the swine flu's predicted comeback this fall. the money would pay for new vaccines, the program to distribute flu shots and speed fda approval of the vaccines. >> early this morning a house committee approved a plan to tax the wealthy to help pay for health care reform. that follows a week-long push by the president for congress to speed up action on health care. at a new jersey rally he says doing nothing makes health care more expensive for business and taxpayers alike. but the head of the congressional budget office was telling democrats implementing their plans probably will not reduce spending. >> on the contrary the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. >> the tax increase on small businesses and upper income people is worrisome because you don't want to hurt job creation at a time like this. >> senator max baucus said the president made it more difficult to pay for health care when he ruled out an unpopular tax on health care benefits. >> the senate judiciary committee will vote next week on the supreme court nomination of sonia sotomayor. >> the senate could vote on her nomination next month. viviana hurtado reports on tough questions on the final day of confirmation hearings. viviana? >> reporter: good morning. the judiciary committee is allowing more statements to be added to the record today but yesterday was about final words from senators, witnesses and judge sotomayor. the senate confirmation hearings for sonia sotomayor are over but before the day ended, supporters and critics spoke, include it would go new haven firefighters. they were at the heart of the appellate judge's ruling that the supreme court recently reversed. the money said they suffered reverse discrimination when sotomayor sided with the city to pass them up for promotion, even though they scored better on an exam than african-americans. >> i was shocked when i was not rewarded for this hard work and sacrifice, but i actually was penalized for it. >> reporter: this sharp criticism was matched with praise. in 1995 sotomayor's ruling helped end a baseball strike. >> i believe all of us who love the game, players, owners and fans are in her debt. >> reporter: senators had their last stab at sotomayor. republicans argued her views on abortion, gun rights and controversial comments proved her judicial philosophy is not in the mainstream. the judge addressed the so-called wise latina remarks. >> i regret that i have offended some people. i believe that my life demonstrates that that was not my intent. >> reporter: this answer helped change one republican senator's tone from confrontational to conciliatory. >> you know what, judge, i agree with you. good luck. >> reporter: legal analysts say the sparring between republicans and democrats is more about president obama's future supreme court picks than sotomayor, whose confirmation is all but certain. >> the shuttle "endeavour" is speeding toward its docking this afternoon with the international space station for a two-week stay. astronauts spent most of the day inspecting the ship's heat shield for damage. nasa engineers are trying to figure out why a section of the fuel tank lost so much foam insulation during yesterday's liftoff. >> the apollo 11 team reunited yesterday to celebrate their pioneering achievement. nasa has sharpened some of the moonwalk video but it remains fuzzy. the original tapes of the historic mission were erased. >> thunderstorms from nebraska and kansas down to new mexico and arizona. scattered showers and thunderstorms up and down the east coast and across the gulf states. cool with showers also around the great lakes. >> 75 in detroit and indianapolis, 79 in st. louis. 98 in dallas, 89 in new orleans and 94 in miami. warmer than normal in the pacific northwest, 87 in seattle and 93 in portland. >> with a new movie out, kids across the country are getting swept up in the harry potter frenzy. >> you knew they would. a summer camp in iowa is getting into the spirit. frogwarts is a week-long camp focusing on the adventure of boit wizards. kids can get up close and personal with frogs, tad poles and dragon flies. >> under all the magical wonder of harry polter, the goal of the camp is to teach kids character. >> then they take all those costumes and stand out in line for the movies wearing all these things. you always see all the kids all dressed up outside, don't you? >> right. >> are your kids going to go see? >> they're a bit younger than that. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now." ♪ better believe we are magic, don't let your head ever stray ♪ >> former treasury secretary henry paulson was called to capitol hill to testify about bank of america's takeover last fall of merrill lynch. he was also questioned about the $700 billion tarp program. lawmakers accused him of using money meant to cover bad mortgages to bail out banks instead. he said he had to shift gears because the situation of crumbling. >> the world's largest real tailer, wal-mart, is putting its power behind the green revolution. it plans to give every within of its product an environmental impact rating. >> reporter: if you want to know how healthy your food is, you can check the nutrition label. now wal-mart want you to be able to check a label on all products from toys to now wal-mart wants you to be able to check a label on all products from toys to televisions to tennis shoes to see how green they are. wal-mart announced it will be asking all of its tens of thousands of suppliers 15 questions, things like how much does making or using your product contribute to global warming? how much waste was produced in making it? are the materials environmentally friendly? >> the company will then use that information to create a sustainability index, rating products for consumers. >> we'll help to create a new retail standard for the 21st century. >> reporter: wal-mart executives say it could be five years before this green information actually shows up in the stores and they admit they don't know how or where they're going to give you this information. it could show up on the pricing sign or it could be the sort of thing you take your smart phone and place it on a product like a pair of jeans to get the information. >> they could see the fields that that cotton came from, probably a picture of the farmer that raised the cotton. >> but there are questions like can we trust this system? >> i think one of the biggest challenges for wal-mart is going to be the verification of this system. is it real, can we really believe it. >> reporter: another issue, will it raise costs? would you be willing to pay for if a product are more environmentally friendly. >> yes. >> reporter: would you pay more? >> we're trying to save money. i don't think so. >> reporter: wal-mart insists greener will be cheaper. >> you're using products with less energy. you can reduce the cost. >> reporter: it says it hopes every retailer joins this process, this that becomes a global retail revolution changing literally everything you buy. dan harris, abc news, carney, new jersey. >> next to another global giant, starbucks. the gourmet coffee change is giving one of its branches a makeover. it will reopen with a new name and new menu that will include beer and wine. the company says if the new shop succeeds, they might try it in other cities, too. they have been struggling in the recession and is looking for new customers. >> wow. did i hear that right? >> lattes may be one small luxury people are giving up because of the recession but who could give up their cell phone? >> a recent survey finds 60 million americans are looking for ways to pay less for mobile service. carla wohl got some advice. >> reporter: it is a necessity in today's connected world but cell phones can be very expensive. >> about 150 per month. >> reporter: figuring out how to save can be confusing. consider the four major carriers offer 210 plans and those plans have optional add-ones. >> as a matter of fact, there's about 10 million combinations of add-ons and plans you can come up with among just the four national carriers. >> you can import your bill or manually estimate your usage. >> reporter: then the computer does its thing, analyzing your usage and comparing seven million plan combinations. it takes into account signal strength. this customer could save $830 over two years by switching plans. they say most people can save. >> we find 8 out of 10 people are paying too much for their wireless service and often by 300 or more dollars. >> reporter: for customers who use a cell phone sparingly, prepaid plans can be the best way to go. there's no contract and no early termination fee. >> with a prepaid plan, they could go $20 a month if they chose to and they could save a lot of money. >> reporter: another tip you can avoid all those extra charges for dialling information. instead dial 1-800-free-411 or 1-800, goob-411. it doesn't cost a dime. >> it's interesting because people really are cutting back on cell phone usage. you wouldn't know it here in new york because everyone is glued to their phone but they're saying people are really cutting back on texts and e-mail services like the video options. anything that could cost extra money, people are saying no thanks. >> like those premium texts bill weir was talking about yesterday. >> i didn't know they exist. up next, misha barton's trip to the hospital >> and why orlando bloom had to call the police. >> looks like the questions have actually gotten a little tougher here. watch. >> okay, judge sotomayor. for the lifetime appointment to the supreme court, here's your final question. final question. what television series did raymond burr win two emmy awards? >> it was perry mason. >> that's correct. thanks for watching, america. the supreme court confirmation hearings are a mark goodson, bill todman television production. ♪ skinny, so skinny >> well, it certainly feels like they've asked her every other question under the sun. why not ask that one, right? >> what a great inspiration. that was a big show for me as a kid. >> oh, yeah? on to your skinny. all this week we've sort of been talking. you missed some of this, you're dying to know about the tony romo and jessica simpson, they called it quits. the two of them have decided they're going their separate ways. it was a big debacle that he reportedly dumped her the night before her birthday. she said we were going our separate ways. i don't want to say he is countering all of this but he has his own video. take a listen. >> i endorse over 50,000 different products, everything from arch supports to ball pen hammers, fresh panty liners, is it a brake pad, a panty liner? no, it's both. i stand behind every single product that i endorse. kind of. >> spoof of himself there in the sense that this breakup has not slowed him down in the slightest. he's also rertedly filming a pepsi commercial, he's expected to attend all kinds of celebrity golf events. if the breakup was painful, you sure wouldn't know it if you looked at tony romo. >> remember orlando bloom? he had a bad week. he was film being out of town. while he was away somebody robbed his house. >> oh. >> yes, the pirate had his booty removed. among the things they took was a rolex watch worth $250,000 according to the daily news. >> wow. i didn't realize they could cost that much. so he was out of town filming? is this his house house? >> this is his house house. he's out of town. relatives found out it was robbed. >> the watch was one of the minor items. i shudder to think what else they might have got away with. >> you can bet he had insurance with that. >> so misha barton, john didn't know who she was. >> i'm only a muggle. >> remember the show "the oc"? she was one of the main stars. some very sad news from her neck of the woods. it was a 911 scare. west hollywood police were called to her house. lo and behold they had to place her under involuntary psychiatric hold. she's been transferred to cedar sinai medical center. she's had some problems before. previously she was charged with a dui. she had some marijuana possession charges last year. certainly was a scare and you hope the best for her and you hope it isn't a real psychiatric problem. >> apparently that was the same police code that britney spears was called in on twice. britney spears was called in on twice. watch today on abc news: indonesian police are beginning their investigation into two hotel bombings in jakarta. the explosion killed several people and injured dozens more. secretary of state hillary clinton meets with leaders in india today to discuss tensions with pakistan. >> and wildlife officials in florida begin trapping and killing pythons today. a 2-year-old girl was strangled by an unlicensed pet python near orlando this month. >> finally this half hour the unusual branch of science that proposes bringing back to north america plants and animals that became, tint. it's called wilding. >> if it succeeds, we could see camels or even lions roaming the planes. >> reporter: yes, we are a nation of immigrants. from all over the world we came here and many of us stayed. but what you may not know is we are also a nation of emigrants. a lot of us started here and then left. for example, millions of years ago the only camels on our planets, the only ones on earth, lived in north america. >> all three of those guys over your shoulders, those are all american camels? >> yes, these are all american camels. >> reporter: some were huge like this guy and some were very little. >> may come up to your hip or so. >> reporter: but for 30 million years camels roamed between alaska and florida and nowhere else until around 11 million years ago during an ice age, sea levels went down and camels could then cross a land bridge that took some of them into asia, then over to africa. while they died off in america, they survive today as one humped arabian camels with child, two humped mongolian camels. another land bridge opened south so they could migrate to south america where today we call them lamas. everywhere you see a camel or lama today, you should know their great, great, great, great grandparents were originally american. and this happened not only with camels. >> you could say the same about horses. 20 million years they were in north america and nowhere else. >> reporter: and then horses also left over land bridges. some of them interbred, evolved and became seeb bras. yes, see bras look very africa. >> they're horses and all sources come from north. >> so all these l oo maas and camels are arguably former americans. we are everywhere. robert krulwich, abc news, new york. >> interesting stuff. >> lamas were camels. we'll be right back with more "world news now."