which is on hold until the lawsuits are settled. and under government pressure, ford is now expanding a huge recall of pickup trucks. more than a million late-model ford f-150 and lincoln hd pickups are being recalled due to ineffective air bags. shorts in the electrical steering wheel. ford will repair the problem after recall notices are mailed now the a few weeks. now to stunning medical news. doctors say they're running out of a critical drug that some cancer patients rely to stay alive. it's in such short supply they're actually turning patients away. dr. richard besser has more from boston. >> reporter: imagine you have cancer and a powerful drug, the one you need to stay alive is not available. that is the horror alison kern is facing today. battling leukemia. her doctors here at mass general says supplies of what they need to conquer her cancer had to be rationed. >> i want to live and i want these people with leukemia not to go through the pain and the suffering that i've been going through. and now the medicine is at arm's length and i can't grab it. >> reporter: this drug is the difference between life and death for patients with certain types of leukemia. but alison's doctor could only give her 1 1/2 grams of the drug. instead of the 34 grams he wanted to use. >> and i found it incredibly frustrating. >> reporter: does that make you angry? >> yes. >> reporter: john's hopkins in baltimore. "we are really worried." tufts medical center in boston "there is no new stock in sight." nebraska medical center in omaha, "at one point last week, we were completely out." and oncologist at md anderson cancer center in texas has been told by colleagues in 20 states that they're experiencing the shortage. >> i'm very concerned that as a leukemia doctor i'm not fulfilling my moral obligation toward my patients with leukemia. >> reporter: of the three makers of this drug two had manufacturing issues and one could not meet increased demand. a similar situation in past december. when we reported on shortages of drugs used for cancer treatment and emergency care. so for now, patients like alison fight to be heard. >> i just lost my husband of a brain tumor and i promised my kids after i was diagnosed with leukemia that the same ending wasn't going to happen to me. >> reporter: do you worry now that you're not going to be able to keep that promise? >> i do worry because this drug is important to me. >> reporter: dr. richard besser, abc news, boston. >> and some health experts are now calling for a popular diet pill to be pulled off the shelves. millions of people have tried alli but a growing number of reportss of side effects p. public citizens says the risks of pan createitis and liver damage are just too high for the drug. alli is the only approved fda-approved weight-loss drug that's sold over the counter. two icons of daytime television will be fading to black arch generations on the air. abc nurngsed its canceling the longtime soeps "all my children" and "one life to live" as diana alvear reports the shows are victims of changing times. >> reporter: "one life to live's" lifetime has run out. along with "all my children" replacing these icons of daytime programming lifestyle and cook shows. both shows have increasingly older audiences and many of these stay-at-home moms and wiechs who are glued to erica cain's antics weren't home anymore. they were at work. diana alvear, abc news, los angeles. a baby orangtaining is stealing the hearts. >> take a look at boo. made his first public appearance yesterday. i love the hair. born last july but his mother sadly died in february. >> only has to be fed by a bottle but zookeepers is making sure that he's accepted by other oranga tans. who they hope some day would show up in the ropes. >> little stuffy. boo is named after a children's show. my daughter has hair like that. i love it. we'll be right back, everyone, with more "world news now." you go next if you had a hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible ith a hoveround., tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor rand founder of hoveround., when we say you're free to see the world, we mean it. call today and get a free overound information kit, that includes a video and full color brochure. dennis celorie: "it's by far the best chair i've ever owned." terri: "last year, 9 out of 10 people got their hoveround for "little or no money." jim plunkitt: "no cost. absolutely no cost to me." breaking news...when you call today, we'll include a free hoveround collapsible grabber with the purchase of your power chair. it reaches, it grabs, it's collapsible and it's portable. it goes wherever you go. get it free while supplies last. call the number on your screen to get your free video, brochure and your free hoveround collapsible grabber. call the number on your screen. with listerine® total care. its multi-action formula works to restore enamel, help prevent cavities, and kill bad breath germs for a whole mouth clean. whooo... 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>> you know i think that it's important to understand the vantage point of a senator versus the vantage point of a president. when you're a senator, traditionally what's happened is -- this is always a lousy vote. nobody likes to -- tagged as having increased the united states by $1 trillion. as president you start realizing you know what we can't play around with this stuff. this is the full faith in credit of the united states. and so that was just an example of a new senator making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country. and i'm the first one to acknowledge it. >> i thought the president would take a pass when i brought up donald trump but i was wrong. he actually appeared to enjoy it. >> and all of us have been struck by donald trump rising to the top of the republican field by feeding fantasies about your background. what do you make of that? >> yeah. i think that over the last the 2 1/2 years, there's been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short term for republicans but creates i think a problem for them when they want to actually run a general election, where most people feel pretty confident, the president was born where he says he was in hawaii. he doesn't have horns. we may disagree with him on some issues, and we may wish that the unemployment rate was coming down faster. we want to know his plan on gas prices. but we're not really worrying about conspiracy theories or birth certificates. and so i think it presents a problem for them. >> and as the president headed to his hometown for the first fund-raising rallies of his last campaign, he sure seemed to be warming up for the fight ahead. >> it's not enough just to say, i'm going to keep your taxes low and make government small. we've got to make real choices. do we want to maintain medicare? if we do, we've got pay for it. if we believe that it's unacceptable for our seniors not to be able to go into a nursing home when they need care or you know children who are poor, not to be able to get a good education, then we've got to make sure that we're paying for it. but ultimately the vision of society that i have is one in which we are rising together. and we are competing with other countries around the world. and in order to do that, we can't just be thinking about ourselves. >> and you can catch more of george's interview coming up on "good morning america" >> and also coming up here on our show, she works in a bike shop and she's turned into a media darling. you'll never guess why. >> it's because she has something big in common with prince william's fiancee. just about his whole life practically everything about prince william has been pretty well documented but this place wales will go down and history as the place that denied the future king a table. >> whoops. william and a couple of buddies there, some friends, mates were nearby his air base hoping to dine there last sunday night but seacroft could not have them in because a cook called in sick. so they had to find another place to eat. >> did they not recognize him? he's about to get married. the guy needs a smile don't know, not good. >> he and his fiancee kate middleton will be wedding. everybody in the world will probably be watching. a lot of attention paid to this next person. >> the one in concord massachusetts. wccb wccb's. >> ata cycle. >> reporter: the phone call was yet another request for an interview with kate middleton at the bicycle shop in concord where she has worked about six years. this is the kate middleton that facebook thought was a fake. >> i had an e-mail from them saying that they had indeed de-activate mide account for using a fake name so lito e-mail thom say i am in fact kate middleton. i have nothing to do with the lady in engsquloond she got her facebook account back where she mostly post pictures of her dogs 37 she and her friends have had some friend with the whole kate middleton royal wedding thing but there's been some drudgery too. >> i don't print me cards at the shop here, business cards anymore. because i don't want to go through the whole thing. you are kate middleton, yeah? where is the wedding? why you are still here at work? >> reporter: middleton since her name became an issue six years ago. she applied for a job and the person doing the interview googled kate middleton. >> when i got a call back the person said, well, i didn't know that you were dating prince william? and i said i didn't than either. what are you talking about? >> reporter: since then, middleton born and bred in louisville, kentucky, googled her own name and found some interesting stuff. >> i even found some articles where they had extrapolated information from an interview from me in louisville and put it into an article about the woman dating prince william as if i was her. >> reporter: and despite the presumably fabulous life of the woman who would be queen, this middleton's thoughts about prince william -- >> not my type. >> reporter: she does wish for them happiness, privacy and long lives and can't wait for all of the hoopla to pass. >> and she doesn't even really look like kate middleton. >> tall, slender. >> but you kind of look like kate middleton actually. >> here it is again. i wish di. look at that long, luxurious hair and those hats. >> are you excited for the wait? 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>> we're talking about sort of the argument that you should never get an animal a pet which you say that you have never had. >> not just get one but a certain place, yeah. >> shouldn't get one at a pet store. lots of places like malls and stuff like that, they sell pets. people say the source isn't so great. a shop in l.a., a los angeles shopping center, they're now putting on display shelter pets because they say -- >> that's good. >> -- sometimes they're out of the way. may not be in the best parts of town. people don't go to the shelters. put it in front of you. adopt a pet, love it. >> top party schools. >> alma mater. >> says playboy number ten university of california, santa barbara, number five university of texas at austin. maybe some of you are watching right now. the university of western ontario. >> interesting. >> i know, right? penn state. and number one, your alma mater the university of colorado of boulder. >> bulldogs you know what i'm talking about. >> stories for us? >> the number one parent school when i was there as well. i'm not saying i had anything to do with fla. >> polka time. >> we polka'ed a lot. >> i bet that you did. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ my name's reggie. just recently, my wife and i took in her sister's children. now, we already had 4, sso i went from becoming aa family man n to a man with a bigger family. and you can't eat love, so i don't know how i'm going to feed them tonightht. how w was that, reg? i think i look more like denzel. that's cold, man. announcer: play a role in ending hunger. visit feedingamerica.org/hunger and find your local food bank. this morning on "world news now," deep divide. just how far apart are the house, the senate, and the white house on the budget? the political muscle being flexed in the federal program cuts that could hit home. it's friday april 15th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone. i'm peggy bunker. >> and i'm mike marusarz i am in for rob nelson. well, the budget battle is putting republican paul ryan against president obama and his democratic supporters in an intense fight over the federal money and the deficit. >> yeah a lot of fighting words there between those two. also ahead, you've seen these wildly advertised diet pills in stores, well now some serious safety questions about the weight loss romdy called alli, should there be a ban? >> and later actor paul giamatti facing major personal burdens. hear what he says about his new movie called "win, win." >> i love him, so versatile. looking ford seeing that one. >> it should be a good one. >> yep. but first, congress has approved that bill. and it's on its way to the president's desk. >> and that budget fight was a skirmish compared to the all-out war. john hendren has the latest from washington. good morning. >> good morning, mike and peggy. the differences between the two plans could hardly be starker. it's starting to look very much like the 2012 election season has already begun. >> reporter: it's the closest thing in washington to a wrestling match. in one corner, president obama, who told abc's george stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview about his plan to cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years. $3 trillion by cutting spending, $1 trillion by raising taxes. >> there are going to be some areas where we can agree now and there are going to be some areas where we don't agree but we can get a process going and some of it will be settled by the american people in the election. >> reporter: in the other corner, republican house budget chairman paul ryan. his plan would cut the deficit by $4.4 trillion while preserving tax cuts for the rich and eventually replacing medicare with taxpayer's subsidized private insurance. >> we're going to have to make some tough choices. and the sooner the better because our children will have to make much, much tougher choices. >> reporter: the budget for the rest of this year, the one that almost shutdown the government, sailed through the house and senate. >> these are real cuts and a signal to job creators that we're serious about stopping washington's spending binge. >> reporter: perhaps, but while bill was described as cutting more than $38 billion, the nonpartisan congressional budget office now says it would really cut just $352 million. the real battle comes now as the president and ryan go toe to toe with dram at like different visions for government spending in 2012. >> the house also passed two purely symbolic bills. one defunding planned parenthood, the other stripping funding for the president's landmark health care reform law. both were instantly rejected in the senate. but it gives you an idea of just how deep the differences between the parents are. mike and peggy. >> all right. and sarah palin will be in wisconsin tomorrow to speak at a tea party rally at the state capital. take a look at the scene here. these are those huge protests over legislation that stripped most public workers in wisconsin of their union rights. yesterday a judge dismissed 1 of 3 challenges to that law which is on hold until these lawsuit, settled. a high-profile military mother is outraged at president obama for appointing general stanley mcchrystal to a commission to help military families. mary tillman, mother of nfl player and army ranger pat tillman, says mcchrystal turned a blind eye to the cover-up to her son's death in afghanistan. it took the army nearly three years to admit that pat tillman had been killed by friendly fire. >> someone who has a heartfelt desire to help families would not have been involved in the cover-up of a soldier's death and i think it's a slap in the face to all sold ieriers to app this man. >> we failed the family and i was a part of that and i apologize for it. >> late last night the white house issued a statement defending the appointment. it said that pat tillman's tragic death was mishandled but that general mcchrystal was found to have acted honorably. and now to a tragic twist in the story of that mom who drove her minivan into new york's hudson river killing herself and three of her children. police now say that la shanda armstrong changed her mind at very last minute. herpvan was found in the river in the reverse position. her 10-year-old son escaped through the window and told police that his mom kept repeating "i made a mistake" as the van filled with water. there's also evidence that armstrong had unbelted her children and was holding them. ford is iks panding its recall of f-150 pickup trucks under government pressure. originally, ford was recalling 150,000 vehicles. now it's recalling 1.2 million of those f-150 pickups. the most popular american vehicle. abc's lisa stark reports the defect is caused by an electrical short. >> reporter: the recall involves the model years 2004 through 2006, and the problem is the driver's side air bag. now here's what's happening in some cases. the drivers are getting into the vehicle. they're simply turning on the car. and then the air bag is suddenly popping out unexpectedly. ford says the issue is a wire right inside of the steering column that can chafe and cause that air bag to deploy. been more than 300 complaints. 122 injuries. everything from burns to sprain, eye injuries and loss of consciousness. now ford has been resisting this massive recall. it has argued that the air bag warning lietd, you can see it when the car comes ork that the air bag warning light comes on very, very early. weeks before the air bag would actually deploy giving consumers plenty of notice. but the government has insisted on this recall. ford has now finally agreed. and next month more than 1 million truck owners will be getting those recall notices. >> and that is abc's lisa stark. the government is also getting tough with the makers of toddler beds. the consumer product safety commission now requires the guardrails on those beds to be at least five inches above the mattross avoid accidents or deaths. the agency also would like to test more are of the bed's slat the and it's also ordering new warning labels about child entrapment and strangulation hazards. probably seen commercials for alli. it's a diet pill that promises to help you lose weight safely. millions of people have tried but complaints about side effects keep rising and now some health advocates want it yanked from the shelves. jim avila has the details. >> reporter: alli is the only over-the-counter in the pharmacy adorned with fda's seal of approval, a huge marketing. >> for every two pounds you work to lose, alli can help you lose one more. >> reporter: debutted with great fanfare in 2007 as a breakthrough in dieting, the pill that let's you eat fatty foods and made them slide right fly your system with minimal effect sold to more than 10 million dieters convinced that this is the real thing. >> you feel like if it has a stamp of approval from the fda, it's probably -- a pretty safe bet you know? >> reporter: monique thought it would help her lose a few extra pounds and further her acting ambitions but from the time that it was first marketed unpleasant digestive side effectancy then last years fda warned users of both alli and xenical of rare cases of liver disease. monique says she was forced to get a new one. >> they discovered that it was not repairing itself. and that i would most likely need a transplant. >> reporter: when? >> asap. by the time i was admitted to the hospital i had 48 hours to live. >> reporter: along with all of the health problems came a sales tailspin. today perhaps the death nail for the once most popular diet drug on the market public citizen, the consumer advocacy group petitions the fda to ban it from the pharmacy. saying it identified rare cases of hepatitis, 47 patients with accump apancreatitis. and it notches it up enormously in terms of how risky it is. >> reporter: glaxosmithkline which makes alli. insists that safety has been established through 100 clinical studies involving more than 30,000 patients. even so and what may be the final straw just hours after the call to ban the drug, glaxosmithkline decided to sell the brand. that once had so much promise and now may join the long list of disappointing and now off the market magic diet pills. jim avila, abc news, new york. here's a look at your friday weather. stormy again in the pacific northwest today. dry in the southern california region. and the southwest. more rain in the upper plains states and areas west of minneapolis. and more severe storms in the nation's midsection today. >> 52 in seattle. 72 in sacramento. upper 50s in salt lake city and colorado springs. 58 in boise. 57 in billings and also 57 degrees here in new york. 43 in boston and 80s along the gulf coast. well, peggy, are there cops who ride horses, cops who ride bicf bikes, maybe a few that rides some trikes. >> i've been chased by them all. >> well what about a kayak. >> this is new. brian michaels is not only cleaning up crime he's cleaning up the bayou on his way to work. michael says at first a bayou was like a land fill so he arted to pull out bags and bags of trash. >> it is a good idea because he says some days he paddles all wait to work without seeing one piece of trash so his efforts are not going unnoticed and in fact he's inspiring other people do the same. >> i think even if you're walking loojt sidewalk and see a little bit of trash and nabyour neighborhood, just pick it up. >> yeah and you think that maybe tell attract more wildlife to the bayou. >> i like that idea. we'll be right back, everyone, with more "world news now." ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil. welcome back. it is early on a friday morning, which means it's time for a look back at the week gone by. >> went by quickly this week. >> it did -- really? >> not bad, yeah. maybe because i was here -- >> one day. >> -- one day. such it is. let's look back at what some people were covering this week. >> we will all need to make sacrifices but we do not have to sacrifice in the america that we believe in. >> if we're going to resolve our differences and do something meaningful, raising taxes will not be part of that. >> what we got was a speech that was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate and hopelessly inadequate to addressing our country's pressing fiscal challenges. >> it will have to do a lot less of, our lives will be significantly diminished. >> it's painful. you have to make a decision what you drive and where you go nowadays. >> i'm probably driving a little bit less. taking the bus a little bit more. >> the plane shake very, very violently and the next thing that we know, told to hurry. >> roll the emergency trucks. we've been hit. >> and who was that? >> comair pilot. compare 553. >> compare 55 too 3. okay we are calling them. >> how high is the water here? >> it's about 4 1/2 feet or so. >> and the only thing between you and it is -- >> just the twlood. >> there's zero chance that donald trump would ever be hired by the american people to do this job. there may be a small part of the country that believes these things, but mainstream americans think it's a sideshow. >> i'm running for president. i'm not putting my head in the ring rhetorically or ultimately for vice president, so i'm focused on running for president. >> i was trying to go to work, do my job, but how are you supposed to report on the news when you are the news? it was tough. it was embarrassing. it was humiliating. ♪ >> you're the queen of unexpected mishap. i mean, whose shoe comes off? >> i know! >> she didn't miss a beat and you have to give her credit for that. >> my gosh. >> you do. it would be interesting to see how kirstie does. >> i know. >> she's the queen of the mishap. >> i think that she may win. >> she's doing pretty well. >> a lot of fans. >> a big fan base, that's true. when we return the unconventional family situation in paul giamatti's next film. >> talks about his role in "win win" plays a struggling high school wrestling coach. you're watching "world news now." well, it's friday, so that might mean that you're heading to the movies this weekend. and you might want to see the next one that we're about about to talk about. it's called "win win" taken stars favorite paul giamatti and it's getting a lots of buzz from the crit 6. >> gia plati talked about the film wi film. >> i'm paul giamatti and i'm a professional entertainer. >> you do card tricks? >> i do all of that. anything that you need me to do i can brain. >> wow. >> yes. >> nobody has said that. >> that's how i like to think of myself. >> i love that you're just there to give people. >> you know joy. >> yeah. >> joy, that's what i'm all about. >> it doesn't matter how many strange people you have played on the screen. >> no hopefully it brings joy, yes. >> and yet you've done a movie if it wasn't as good as it is, would be a disaster or a gift to critics like me, called "win win." >> no kidding. >> because -- >> i've thought of that. we've thought of that. >> it's so perfect. >> yeah. >> you think so? >> yes. >> you're playing an eldercare lawyer. >> very exciting. >> everybody wanted that. >> instant action, yeah, action packed. >> was searching for an eldercare role. >> it's going to be big. >> and they said i'm giving it to paul giamatti who also coaches -- >> the high school wrestling team. >> the high school wrestling to do this. >> yes. >> and why did todd mccarthy an old friend of yours. was it the eler care law or the wrestling. >> when he came to me with it he said i want to see you play a happy guy, a guy who is relatively content, a guy who's not, you know, he said i want to give you a challenge and see you play a guy who's not -- doesn't go dark. the only problem he has is money problems. and then other than that, he's relatively happy. and i thought this is going to be an interesting challenge. because i haven't done something like that, ever. >> i'm serious. >> i know you are, i just eye don't think that beating the crap out of everybody is the best solution, that's all. >> and then comes the wrestling angle of it. >> uh-huh. >> so what do you know about wrestling? >> i did wrestle one semester, is that what i would call it in high school in yeah and i was not very good and i didn't enjoy it. so i mean i knew a little bit about it but i found the whole culture of it really fascinating. i thought oh i'd like that. i like it in a movie when they bring in some off-center, weird, out of left field thing to study that closely. >> i was very taken. because i know so little about wrestling with in idea of -- >> smacking the kid, yeah. >> what is that? >> that's to get the kid worked up. that's get on the kid jacked up, yeah. >> just smacking him? >> yeah it's to get the kid up, you know? and they do did to these kids. >> so i'm completely -- >> are you seriously going to smack me? >> i'm going to smack you. >> hard? don't might ear, man. part of the reason is the guy has got an ear guard on, dude. i can't smack the kid without thing on me, man. no, i was hitting the kid really hard. >> i want dod that and you can do it right back. i want to know how it was done in the movie. >> he had a head gord. yes, i could. i hit that kid really hard, man. >> what kind of person. >> i belted that kid as hard as i could. he had a thing on his head. i'm serious. >> what would you do if you were a real coach and the kid didn't have the gord? >> i wouldn't be able to do it it. i would have hit him in the back of the head. smacked him in the back of the head. i went like that with the kid. >> that's it? >> yeah. >> i could do like that. >> yeah okay that'sin? and he wins. >> you're doing good. >> that's exactly it. >> but you want to do harder. >> i can't actually hit the kid like that. >> no. >> but thing on his head helped me do it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> carry the weight a long time ♪ >> that's a good song. >> it really is, man. jesus, man. >> thank you. i don't know what this was. >> it's like james joyce. >> it's really strange. >> he's so versatile. >> yeah. >> paul giamatti and might remember him as john adams really an acclaimed role. and also private parts where he played the infamous pig vomnight the howard stern there. >> good stuff. >> oh boy. coming up we'll talk about kate's royal wedding. that's coming up. >> right, see how their marriage will also get into the history books. hó ♪ very cool. >> and finally this hour, we're getting really close, just two weeks from right now about 2 billion people, yes with a "b" people will be cooking their chips and dip and getting the wing and pizzas ready for the big game. >> like it's a super bowl, hold on now. >> it's the british royal wedding. >> talking about a wedding. bust out chocolate-covered almond things. have been anything but tradinitial their courtship and as diana alvear reports they plan on continuing that way. >> reporter: they're just two people in love and that's what makes will and kate's wedding so extraordinary. >> we're hugely excited and we're looking forward to spending the rest of the time, the rest of our lives together. >> reporter: there is a marriage unlike any other in the british monarchy's history. for starters, kate is not a blue blood. her family is firmly middle class. >> this is a real first. for the royal family to welcome in a girl who is a genuine commoner. >> reporter: she met her prince during her freshman year at scotland's university of st. andrews and began dating soon after, even living together. a first for any british heir to the throne. consider will's parents, charles and diana. their courtship lasted less than a year. in fact, diana had only actually dated charles a few times. she was deemed suitable by buckingham palace thanks in large part to her royal lineage in her presumed status as a virgin. will and kate's wedding itself will break a tradition. in lieu of gifts the coup vel asked to donate to their charities of choice. the guest list will feature several neighbor and friends from kate's hometown and veterans of the british military. after the honeymoon, they'll subtle into a farmhouse in wales. where the prince is based for the next three years while he flies as a search and rescue pilot with the royal air force and the couple will do their own cooking and clean. will and kate reportedly do not plan to have any servants at their nuptial home unlike prince charles who employs a staff of 149. >> i would say i'm getting better at cooking. kate would say i'm getting a lot worse. >> reporter: and while that may not sound like a typical fairy tale ending it may be the ending that's most likely to leave them living happily ever after. diana alvear. >> do you guys have lots of people around your house? >> no, no, we don't. it would be nice. although what's interesting we were just talking about it, it is really the new generation. >> it is. >> wedding band talk, the heir. >> a picture with you and wills hanging out. >> and now you see what i do the hanging out. >> and now you see what i do the rest of when a woman is having a heart attack chest pain, like there's a ton of weight on your chest. severe shortness of breath. unexplained nausea. cold sweats. there's an unusual tiredness and fatigue. there's unfamiliar dizziness or l light-headedness. unusual pain in yourur back, ne, jaw, one oboth arms, even your upper stomach, are signs yore having a heart attack. dot make excuses. make theall to 9-1-1 immediately. ar learn more at womemenshealth.gov/heartattac. this morning on "world news now," furious family, corporal pat tillman's mother aims her anger at the white house. >> first she lost her son, a former nfl star, in the war in afghanistan. now she says she's been dealt another blow. it's friday, april 15th. good morning, everyone. i'm mike marusarz in for bob nelson. >> and i'm peggy bunker. pat tillman's mother is furious with the president for appointing general stanley mcchrystal to a job where he will help military families. tillman's family says that mcchrystal did anything but help them. >> and the white house also speaking out. we'll hear what their stance is. also ahead, one air traffic controller after another, got busted sleeping on the job. and now it's cost one faa boss his job. see where this investigation is headed next. scary news for anybody flying. >> anybody and if you are landing late at night and you might be wondering, gees is anybody up helping us with this plane. how an ipad helped her autistic son when everything else had failed. but first a controversial appointment of general stanley mcchrystal to help commission military families. one prominent military mom is now calling that move a slap in the face. >> but this morning the white house is standing by the appointment. jake tapper broke this story and has the latest. >> reporter: to mary tillman, the mother of late corporal pat tillman, it came as shocking news. president and first lady obama ere naming to co-chair an new initiative for military families. >> general mcchrystal. >> reporter: one of the last people this military mom would pick. >> someone who has a heartfelt desire to help families would not have been involved in the cover-up of a soldier's death. it's a slap in the face to all soldiers to appoint this man. >> pat tillman. >> reporter: mary's son pat left behind on a multimillion-dollar contract with the nfl to enlist as an army ranger in 2002. two years later corporal tillman was killed in afghanistan. within a day or so general mcchrystal, then the commander of special operations, learned tillman had been killed by friendly fire. but the tillmans and the public were instead fed a false story that tillman was killed by the enemy. part of which was a misleading silver star citation that mcchrystal signed off on and even while the general warned his higher ops not to say anything publicly that might contradict the real story. for fear of embarrassment. the tillmans were kept in the dark. >> he deliberately helped cover-up pat's death. he caused pain to us in a national forum. >> reporter: the pentagon inspector general recommended disciplinary action against mcchrystal but the army ultimately cleared him for wrongdoing. mcchrystal, who declined to comment to abc news, has expressed general remorse. >> we failed the family. and i was a part of that and i apologize for it. >> is the president aware of the role that general mcchrystal played in the cover-up of pat tillman's death. >> he's aware, very aware, having worked closely with general mcchrystal of the general's resume. >> reporter: the white house issued a statement saying they have enormous respect for the service and sacrifice of pat tillman and his family. what they endured as a tragedy that should never be repeated, however they say general mcchrystal was found to have acted honorably in the controversy, and they say he deserves the honor. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. now to libya, where moammar gadhafi made a defiant tour of tripoli on thursday. libyan tv showed him waving at supporters through the sunroof of a car as he was driven through the streets. it came just after more nato air strikes on the capital. earlier this morning, gadhafi's only daughter led a rally at the family's compound that was struck by u.s. bombers 25 years ago today. a human rights group is urging haitian authorities to prosecute former dictator baby doc duvalier. he returned to haiti in january after a 25 year exile. a haitian judge launched an investigation into his brutal regime but so far it's gone nowhere. yesterday human rights watch released a report that they say shows baby doc knew of the killing and the abuse during his watch. now to washington, where that hard-fought budget bill is on its way to the president's desk. the white house is cheering the compromise it took. >> but everybody in the capital is now stealing themselves for a fiercer battle ahead. john hendren has the latest from washington. good morning, john. >> good morning, peggy and mike. this picture says it all. two dramatically different visions, little in common, and a debate that is sure to erupt on capitol hill in the coming weeks. the budget for rest of this year, the one that almost shut down the federal government sailed through the house and the senate. >> these are real cuts and a signal to job creators that we're serious about stopping washington's spending binge. >> while the bill was described as cutting more than $38 billion, the nonpartisan congressional budget office now says it would really cut just $352 million. now the real battle comes as president obama and house budget chairman paul ryan go toe to toe with dramatically different visions for government spending next year in 2012. >> we're going to have to make some touch choices and the sooner the better because our children will have to make much, much tougher choices. >> yet another fight comes in may, when the president wants congress to raise the debt limit as the nation maxes out its credit card. as the president tells abc's george stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview, he made it harder on himself by voting against raising that debt limit when he was a senator. >> they're going to be some areas where we can agree now and there are going to be some areas where we don't agree but we can get a process going, and some of it will be settled by the american people in the election. >> now senate republican leaders are talking about possibly voting en masse against raising the debt ceiling that could leave just 51 democratic senators to carry that unpopular vote. mike and peggy. the search for more victims of a serial killer is now going high-tech. the fbi's supplying helicopters and airplanes with special high-resolution cameras for the search. now they can spot items such as bones that are as small as an inch in size. investigators will use the new equipment on 15 miles of long island, new york. that's where at least nine bodies have been found so far. now to a sad development in that story of the mom who drove her minivan full of kids into the new york's hudson river. police now say she changed her mind at the last minute and actually put the van in reverse but it was too late. she and her three young children drowned. her 10-year-old son escaped through a window and later told police that his mother kept saying "i made a terrible mistake." she apparently called her own mother as the van was filling up with water to ask for forgiveness. >> that's a hard story. the air traffic controllers caught sleep on the job has now claimed a victim. the head of the faa traffic organization has now resigned. >> the government wants to reassure the public though that air travel is safe. diana alvear has more and joins us from los angeles. good morning, diana. >> reporter: peggy and mike, good morning. as expected, there was major fallout from all of those controllers falling asleep on the job. including increased staffing and a change in command. one was bad enough, but five incidents of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job was too much. thursday hank krakowski resigned. a day after an incident at the reno airport. an air ambulance was forced to circle while carrying a seriously ill patient. the pilot tried to call the tower seven times. no answer. the controller on duty i was sleeping. >> all right we'll circle, some more. we've got a pretty sick patient we may just have to land. >> reporter: the plane finally landed 16 minutes later with no guidance at all. >> this shouldn't happen in nevada. it shouldn't happen anywhere in our country. it shouldn't happen in any airplane. and it certainly shouldn't happen in an air ambulance. >> reporter: news of what happened in nevada was criticized on capitol hill and by the controllers union. >> no mistakes can be made so it's really a concern of ours. >> reporter: and it might have been prevented. immediately after a similar incident at d.c.'s reagan national airport the reno airport added a second controller to the overnight shift but faa ordered the tonight go back to a signal controller while they reviewed their nationwide staffing. that move may have cost the air traffic operations officer his job. the faa announced its conducting a top-to-bottom review of their operations. they also added a second controller to the overnight shift at 27 airports effective immediately. next week members of both the faa and the air traffic controllers union will travel to airports around the nation to empsieptz the need for professionalism and the need to stay awake and alert. mike, peggy. >> all right, thank you. imagine looking out of your office window and seeing this. baltimore firefighters were called in after a window-washer got stuck outside of a tenth floor window. just hanging there like that. >> whoa. >> this is why i have never done that job. he was taken a maryland trauma center, as you can imagine his injury were not life threatening but what an ordeal to be dangling there, ten stories up in the sky. >> yeah. gets a call from his buddies, what are you up to? i'm just hanging out, literally. but we can joke because he's okay? >> you can say that because he's all right. >> he's okay but in his wild ride he should get some time off, a vacation for that guy. >> and a bonus, maybe. >> yes. maybe people who are off today you may want to check your weather. not so good in some parts of the united states. rain and snow in the seattle area, in fact, which is not great if you are off today. windy in denver, rainy south and east of minneapolis, and severe storms in kansas and arkansas. partly cloudy in the northeast. >> i'm from seattle, there is always rain there it seems like. it's so beautiful anyway. 72 in sacramento. 55 in portland. a little cooler in seattle. 40 degrees in fargo. and 47 in omaha. minneapolis and detroit will reach 51. 54 in indianapolis. 57 here in new york. 75 in dallas and atlanta. and 84 in new orleans. 86 in miami. >> there's a rare sight at the st. petersburg's zoo in russia right now. >> i love this. three newborn -- oh my goodness -- baby jaguars. take a look it's this. two baby boys and a bouncy baby girl. my gosh they are so cute. these cats don't normally breed in captivity so the zoo is celebrating the births, but listen to this, how about this twist? >> i know, well, the cubs don't have names, just yet. so the zookeeper plans to organize a contest, right? get everybody involved and although they're tiny, their keepers are being careful because they say, jaguar cubs can show predatory instincts from the very early age. i have a sister who showed that towards me, i'm not a jaguar. but the sad thing is we're talking about jaguar cubs will maybe have to split up. >> i know. i have two brothers. i barely survived like first grade. >> there you go. >> yeah, we'll be right back, everyone. one four-star hotel. two identical rooms. so why does this one cost so much less on hotwire.com? when hotels have unsold rooms they use hotwire hot rates to fill them, so you get ridiculously low prices, backed by our low price guarantee. orbitz price $174. hotwire hot rate just $95. the same great room, just less than other travel sites. hotwire.com. four-star hotels. two-star prices. ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com save big on car rentals too. from $13.95 a day. 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noticed that more parents may be helping with their job searches for this year. overall searches for job summers by teens are down 31% compared to last year and queries for teen summer jobs by people over the age of 45 are up 6%. and finally, a ton of hollywood news kept people buzzing online all week. catherine zeta-jones and word that she's treated for bipolar ii generated tons of questions about the actress and her condition. and j.lo's new title as most beautiful. scarlet johansson and sean penn's relationship and larry king's new bagel shop were among the top searches of the week. back to you, guys. >> lots of good stuff. coming up should kobe bryant play on the same court as gay and lesbian basketball team, this after his comment of course. >> absolutely. and the change at the top in "the office." we'll detail it in "the skinny" coming up. ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny oh, yeah. >> here we go. >> t-shirt time. skinny time. >> i don't know if i should ask you to elaborate on that or not. >> "jersey shore." >> all right we're talking about "american idol." >> yes. >> if anybody is really into it this season. you might have been a little bit shocked. i'm not so sure. he was sort of like the odd bird out there. talking about paul mcdonald. he was booted off of "american idol" and a lot of people said you know what, this guy could really sing. he was really, really good. he sort of had a funky thing going from huntsville, alabama. >> he could sing. he moved sort of awkwardly but he's got talent, and i think he's going to go on and probably do a record and everything else. at this point i think all these people are going to be successful. >> they're going to be fine. >> yeah. >> he's sort of that raspy thing going. rod stewart sort of esque kind of guy. >> doesn't have to spend money on shaving, razors. >> he kind of looks like bradley cooper. >> really. >> and he's really good. we're getting to the talented guys. saying it would be nice to have a woman win "american idol." >> j.lo called for it actually. she wants the women to stay the few that are left. if anybody's offended of "the office" a change. you like "the office"? >> i do. >> steve carell is leaving so the big question is, who will be the new boss in town, so to speak. we found out will farrell, at least is going to be on there for a little bit. >> ron burgundy. >> i know, right? so he was on -- it looks hilarious, and apparently we found out that he's only going to be on for a couple, maybe three episodes. we still don't know who is going to be the permanent boss replacement which is -- >> permanent boss man. >> permanent boss man. >> in the meantime, group hug, stay classy, san diego. >> i know, right? that's all that you can think about. >> now that's uncomfortable. you never know what to do in that situation, do you? it gets weird. okay tax time coming up on monday, if you've not paid your taxes yet, it's the 15th, but of course this year there's this little extension, pay it on monday. but take a look you're in good company. a lot of good celeb company who have not paid their taxes yet. >> why not. >> we've got dion, she's not paid her taxes and also have nicolas cage, oh, boy, he owes $13.3 million, come on now, nic. pam, pam has not paid her taxes. >> i mean come on. >> yeah shocking. sinbad he owes $8.5 million. i don't know what he's spending his money on. clearly it's not his wardrobe and also dion but let's play a little bit more "pray for you" because we love that song. ♪ >> and now the royalty fees that we just paid can go to helping her pay the taxes. >> good. she needs the cash. >> yeah you never know. maybe a business manager thing you don't know. >> who knows. >> need some management for kobe bryant's mouth. >> my goodness. >> he dropped a gay slur on national television. he was angry at a play in a game. you heard about this. the famous laker and afterwards he was fined $100,000 by the nba but he also said that he was going to speak to gay and lesbian rights groups and in order to try to take the incident and turn a positive spin on it and talking about promoting tolerance. a league, a basketball league. gay and lesbian players wants kobe bryant to come play with him and to prove that he's sincere. >> which i think is a good idea and he says he came out with the statement saying how mortified he was and he really regrets it but still, not only did you hear the comment on television, you could sort of lip-read and it was really offensive. >> not a good message. >> yeah. coming up a louisiana mom, she got an ipad it's helping out her family. for a better shot at getting surfaces clean, you'll want bounty extra soft. in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface 3x cleaner than a dishcloth. even with just one sheet. super clean. super soft. bounty extra soft. in the pink pack. and try bounty napkins. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement nsurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things 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supreme court to step in before his state's legal system takes more action. the president's political fund-raising trip wraps up later this morning. he's returning to the white house after an overnight stop in chicago. and sarah palin's getting ready for her weekend trip to wisconsin, to join that state's tea party supported governor for a rally at the state capital. making her reappearance as the political season starts to get into high gear. well, finally this half hour the amazing ipad since it came out, we've been talking about all of the apps, the cool things that come along with an ipad, if you can get one. >> that's right it's hard to get your hands on one, but once you do, it seems like it's a pretty cool device and in this next story proves that the ipad is so much more than that. wait until you hear what it did for a young boy. casey frond. of ktbs-tv in shreveport fills us in. >> reporter: amy hammonds is very involved in her son aden's education. that's because aden has autism. >> he was 3 years old when we got the diagnoses and very painful, of course. but you know, we kind of decided to throw ourselves into trying to find things that help. >> reporter: in august she bought him an ipad hoping it would help him communicate and develop other skills. >> they often have difficulty with fine motor skills as well but once he acquired those skills, it took off like lightning. and he loved it and started being able to do all kinds of apps by himself. >> reporter: hammonds knew he had a breakthrough when one day aden was able to tell her what he wanted for dinner. >> when we put pictures into the ipad, like "where do you want to go and eat" and he would see the picture in front of the olive garden and he would point to that. and tell us for the first time, i want to go to olive garden. >> soon she told aden's teachers about his huge improvement and they started using the ipads with all of the special needs autistic students. >> there are apcations where you fill in the missing sound, their handwriting applications and a lot of students have bad fine motor skills and they hate to write so being able to trace on the ipad or make the letters with their finger or with another utensil, it's a really good thing. >> reporter: there are dozens of apps that help autistic children communicate, understand emotions, develop social skills, and learn the same concepts as their regular ed peers. >> every thyme we find something new to the piece of this puzzle it all helps, every bit helps. >> and the ipad is one piece that's giving autism a voice. >> that's incredible and for a lot of parents who struggle with that with their kids of course anything to help their kids communicate is just so precious to them. >> yeah and it's cool to be able to merry the technology and he has fun doing it. >> exactly very cool. that's the news for this half hour. don't miss our updates on hour. don't miss our updates on facebook. - this is jenny. jenny's about to run her 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