she and he have quite lengthy arrest records. you see mugshots with black eyes. he s been arrested more than 15 times. they were married in 2001. a lot of these arrests stem from domestic problems. he s been charged with battery, violating a no contact order. domestic battery, assault with a child present, even drug charges here. he s also been found guilty of a dui. in terms of her, a lot of things she s been charged with relate to her attacking him as well. the two of them she has quit her bank job. there s not any comment on what s going on here. but it s just interesting. you had this one couple that won it, a beautiful retired couple. and at that the story everyone wants to hear about. but this poor young lady, holly lahti, having some home problems and that immediately comes to the public attention. you can t imagine that, you know, a boatload of money is going to make that situation a lot better. but we ll see. stay tuned, as they say. well, not funny, but humorous, at lea
david shookman reports on the extreme conditions. reporter: a woman stranded as her house collapses. a lifeline is thrown. clasping her dog, she takes the plunge. she s tied on, but the dog is swept away. people plead with her to hold on. and astonishingly, she is hauled to safety. the torrents of flood water have been ripping through towns and villages without warning. we shouted, please help us, this woman said. the flooding took only seconds. i lost everything, says this woman. this is a poor region and the flimsy buildings didn t stand a chance. this man lost his wife. it was by a finger, he says, that i could not save her. this is a landscape that s scarred by floods. it s a horribly familiar scene. the problem always exacerbated by overcrowding and illegal construction in steep terrain. the soil there is unstable, saturated by too much rain, too many people living in housings that are built out of code. they are on hillsides. and this is obviously something uninevit
local walmart. reporter: on the morning of the shooting, loughner s father saw him with a black bag. police also know loughner bought ammunition from walmart on the morning of the shooting. this was one critical piece of evidence that we ve been looking for. reporter: if it is the same bag, police are hoping it will provide an answer to the nagging question. why did loughner want to kill congresswoman giffords? that s the frustrating thing. police, friends and neighbors say we may never know why this happened. pierre thomas, abc news, tucson, arizona. and you can stay with abc news throughout the day as we continue to cover the tucson tragedy. you can get the overnight leads from investigators on america this morning and hear more from gabby giffords doctors on good morning america. one of the senate s more moderate republicans, kay hutchison of texas, is now headed for retirement. she will not seek reelection next year. by that point, she will have served texa
would have to say about this. i d love to hear him weigh in. he s such a savvy businessman. he d probably have a lot to say. let me get to this. i m excited. everyone has been wondering who won the mega millions. we saw the cute couple in washington that came forward. but then there s this woman who has waited a little while to come out saying she s won this mega millions. who is she? she s a northern idaho woman. she has $190 million. look at that big check right there. she s not coming forward. her name is holly lahti. she s from rathdrum, idaho. she s the second of two lottery winners from the big mega millions drawing. the $380 million jackpot. now, we know about america s newest millionaire. she s a single mom who works as a bank teller. probably worked, not sure if she kept her job. and talk about luck.
matt gutman, abc news, port-au-prince haiti. here s a look at your weather. two feet of mountain snow from the cascades to montana. rain along the coast of washington and oregon. lake-effect snow across michigan and upstate new york. still cold across the south. 40s in dallas and new orleans, a cool 65 in miami. 34 in atlanta and 29 here in new york. 20s for minneapolis to indianapolis. 33 in salt lake city and 71 in phoenix. we finally know who will split the whopping $380 million mega millions jackpot. a week after a washington state couple claimed their half, lottery officials say that a 29-year-old mother of two in idaho was holding the other winning ticket. holly lahti is not ready to face the public and she has 60 days to decide whether or not to collect her fortune in a lump-sum payment.