silver and gold silver and gold silver and gold silver and gold everyone wishes abc news is getting some action because of a report we first brought you during the summer. you might remember when we told you about all the unused dollar coins minted by our government. abc s john carl tells us now the production has practically ground to a halt. reporter: the government has been sitting on more than a billion unused and unwanted dollar coins. so what have they ve been doing about it? they ve been making more of them as we found when we visited the u.s. mint over the summer. a million and a half every day at a cost of 32 cents a pop. now treasury secretary timothy geithner says enough is enough. we shouldn t be wasting money on money. reporter: virtually nobody uses the coins, they go right to storage. a boondoggle that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars since 2005. here at the federal reserve in baltimore the coins are stacked into bags all
of violence like nothing seen before. a man threw hand grenades into crowd of shoppers. in the end he killed four people and injured more than 120 before take his own life. police say the gunman had a history of drug and weapons convicti convictions. but it is still not clear what motivated this rampage. now to a christmas controversy in california where nativity scenes have been a tra dings one city for decades until now. messages from atheists are take the place of traditional holiday displays. reporter: santa monica churches have most of the 21 spots for holiday displays at palisades parks. it s been that way for 60 years. atheist groups applied for and received most of the spots through a lottery held by the city. that left three spots for nativity scenes and a menorah display. the rest are signs displaying atheists beliefs. an atheist helped put up the spots. not to be used to promote religion. it is promoting religion and has been, even though the city is not dire