to the finish line. he is a controversial figure. expect there to be a lot of stuff. and the front-runner after the big debate saturday night. also this morning, a south florida man captures his own shooting on his iphone video camera. he was afraid something might happen when he stopped at a his soon to be ex-mother-in-law's house. sure enough, she is now accused of shooting him. a smart guy to have the phone. >> you can videotape anything these days. >> he felt something was going to happen, and it did. and later, today could be a billion-dollar day for online retailers, and holiday shopping boom is having quite an impact on the shipping business. will you be heading to fed-ex or the post office today? >> two weeks to go before christmas. crunch time. get it out there. >> all right. first, newt gingrich as we said, facing fire this morning. not from democrats though from members of his own party. >> top republicans fear the former house speaker is not presidential material. with more on "your voice, your vote," here is abc's david kerley. >> i'm proud -- >> reporter: with the decent debate performance, many republicans are worried about newt gingrich and they're going public. representative peter king from new york. >> i saw the damage he did to the republican party and to the congress. i think i owe it to my constituents and country not to let that happen again. if he did that as speaker i'm concerned what he would do as nominee for president. >> reporter: not just one republican, former colleague. many have been speaking out >> tom davis served and was promoted by gingrich but won't give him his endorsement. >> some republicans told me this is a guy who couldn't run the house of representatives. how will he run the country? >> you can say a lot of things, sometimes ruled with an iron fist. you can't say he was a bad speaker. >> he took the republicans to the promised land out of 40 years out of power. >> complaints -- gingrich had a million ideas. many were a distraction. he lacked discipline and often put himself before the party. some republican were fed up, there was a coup led by house member lindsay graham in the late 90s failed. graham said gingrich matured but won't get his endorsement. >> i think he's -- uh, leveled out as a person. all of us -- even his worst critics will say newt is a guy that can hold a room. >> reporter: i spoke to many republicans critical of gingrich. many would not go on camera. why? they believe gingrich could win the nomination and seek retaliation. david kerley, abc news, washington. >> wow. >> you don't want to talk too much trash about the guy who could end up be the nominee and possibly the president. >> i'm surprise they'd think he will be vindictive enough to go after them. >> they know politics is a dirty enough game anything is possible. he's been smart. nutd has handled criticism well. he said, look, i have one opponent. that's president obama. maybe a smart tactic. >> he's been in politics long enough. >> an insider. in more political news, as the democrats wait to see who will emerge as the republican candidate. president bush is laying out his argument for a second term. speaking last night on "60 minutes," mr. obama said bluntly if voters believe in the republican agenda of lower taxes even for the wealthy and weaker regulations, then he will lose. >> i don't think that's where the american people are going to go because i don't think the american people believe that -- based on what they have seen before that is going to work. >> the president says it doesn't matter who the republicans put up to challenge him since all candidates share a core belief that is in sharp contrast to his own. a florida grandmother is >> a florida grandmother is facing attempted murder charges accused of shooting her son-in-law. all part of a bitter custody battle. and the violent confrontation was captured on the victim's iphone. we get the latest from wplg's kelly butler. ♪ >> reporter: this is what residents in this neighborhood like to hear this time of year, the sound of christmas carolers going door to door. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: but this is what it sounded like wednesday afternoon as salvador mcleeno was shot at allegedly by his mother in law. in the rib cage and the shoulder. >> i can't believe you did that! i can't believe you did that! what, are you crazy? [ bleep ] >> you [ bleep ] -- >> you shot me! >> reporter: he was at the tamarack home of his in-laws to pick up his 3-year-old son. his mother-in-law brought the boy's pillow and bag outside and asked him to step inside to speak with her husband. when he refused she allegedly squeezed off three rounds. [ gunshots ] [ screams ] >> reporter: he told the 911 operator he expected trouble at the house. >> reporter: i recorded -- i knew something would happen. >> reporter: the mother-in-law, 66-year-old cheryl hepner, told her own story to an emergency dispatcher saying it was mcleeno that shot. >> he's going to say that i did this -- he's such a [ bleep ]. >> reporter: her daughter and son-in-law have been locked in a nasty divorce and custody battle. still neighbors out here wonder how a family feud could ever get to this ugly. >> families have problems but don't usually go that far. >> i'm shocked at that. imagine if he hadn't caught it on the camera. >> he has evidence. a good thing. he survived his injuries. doing okay. checked out of the hospital. sad part, a 3-year-old little boy in the middle. adults always screw up. remember the kid. shooting daddy may not be in the best interest. >> never in the best interests of anyone. >> glad he made it out okay. all right. shifting gears, a new development in the penn state sex abuse scandal. claims by assistant coach who first blew the whistle on jerry sandusky are being called into question. mike mcqueary had told investigators and the grand jury he witnessed sandusky molesting a boy in the shower. but mcqueary told a family friend a different story. he said that he only heard what was going on in the shower but actually did not see anything sexual. milwaukee brewers slugger ryan braun is fighting a 50-game spoing suspension over allegations he's used performance enhancing drugs. the national league mvp tested positive for elevated testosterone, synthetic. a spokesman says there are highly unusual circumstances supporting braun's innocence. last spring the team extended his contract through 2020. and the world of college basketball is still reeling from a bloody, bench-clearing brawl involving ohio's cincinnati university and xavier. both schools have suspended their players. >> reporter: a black eye for college sports, literally. college basketball, and an all out melee as the game winds down. benches clear, fists fly and blood gushes from a center's face. it is so out of hand the game is called with second on the clock. boys being boys? the heat of battle? or something a lot worse? >> the brawl is so bad, got a player bleeding. that's bad. you wonder, in some ways, is sportsmanship dead or dying. >> reporter: as bad as the flying fists were, consider what happens after the game. xavier lets players speak at a press conference presumably with cooler head and humble hearts. surely the university regrets these statements. >> we got disrespected a little bit before the game. guys calling us out. we got a whole bunch of gangsters in the locker room, not thugs but tough guys. we went out and zipped them up. >> reporter: saturday's game and press conference, the latest in a string of high-profile incidents that show sportsmanship on the ropes. a detroit lions player earned a two-game suspension for stomping on a green bay packer on the ground. over the summer the georgetown basketball team went toe to toe against a chinese team. not exactly the aim of a ten-day goodwill tour. maybe most disturbing, the bad sportsmanship trickling down to our kids. this viral video shows a youth football referee in florida getting attacked by three coaches to be slammed to the turf by a kid player. the frequency and severity of incidents are troubling. tough words from cincinnati's head coach following the basket brawl. >> if my players don't act the right game they will never play another game at cincinnati. >> reporter: videotape will be analyzed to see who threw the first punches as the question will linger -- is sportsmanship itself under assault. john muller, abc news, new york. >> wow. sports gets heated. tempers flare. it's intense. no excuse. that's sad. >> i think it is ridiculous. i'm floored there are so many examples. i was watching that with my mouth open. >> the whole time. xavier's coach, chris mackey, gave a press conference talking and got emotional. saying i have to go home and explain this to my young daughters what happened. a bad situation all the way around. >> just ugly. >> players have been suspended. they're paying the price as they always do. maybe have a career in boxing if basketball doesn't work out. >> yeah. here's a look at your monday forecast now. everybody, rain from southern california to phoenix, albuquerque. heavy snow in the southern california mountains, southern rockies and much needed rain across south texas. showers in florida and georgia. freezing rain from minneapolis to the upper peninsula of michigan. >> 38, detroit. 41, omaha. 51, dallas. warm 81, miami. 40s from atlanta to boston. cool 60 in phoenix. sacramento, 55. this next story is a little crazy. we have all seen how far some charities will stoop using silly stunts to raise money. >> that's right. this is no stunt. this is a cat with 26 toes, eight more than normal. an animal shelter is banking on the freaky feline, daniel, to to help raise funds so it can relocate. >> the shelter's owners learned the rent would be double coming january 1. now they're asking for donations of $26, yeah, that's one for each of daniel's toes, to help with the move. so far they have raised $50,000 cute cat. 26 toes. i mean, you are a pet person. would you, mind that? 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