intelligence agents haven't substantiated this said a spy must have known about the safe house in the u.s. consulate in benghazi. militants found it without a problem. >> hoond sight is 20/20. 30 american staffers and libyans were taken to the safe house. the government will not shut down at the end of the month thanks to a spending bill passed last night by the house. a stopgap budget band-aid to pay the bills, postpones negotiations over spending until after the election. paul ryan approved it. but this plan calls for $19 billion more in spending than his plan. the senate expects to pass the bill next week. >> did we see bipartisan action there? >> think we did. >> my goodness. apple reaching out to kus messieurs who cannot wait to get the iphone 5. making the smart phone available now for online preorders. otherwise, face long lines when retale stores open up later this morning. prices for the thinner, lighter, model start at $199. they will arrive in stores in one week. going to have to pony up money for the new adapter and man adapter to the adapter. i like the new panoramic option though. >> looks pretty cool. must say. >> uh-huh. your friday forecast. a wet day for the state of texas. heavy rain from oklahoma city to little rock and memphis. showers around cleveland. pittsburgh, buffalo. wet weather, boston. philadelphia, new york this evening. thunderstorms from charleston all the way down to miami. >> miami. >> miami. >> new or lnz to new york. 70s in the midsection. 80s in the northern rockies. bad news here for you paula. >> shut up. >> da-bears took a beating from their rivals, packers. >> pans me to report packers broke the game open in the second quarter. fake field goal. >> what a play. first time i have seen this. >> for 6. sealed it in the fourth. aaron rodgers hit dancing with the stars champ. for a 26-yard touchdown. >> da bears scored a late touchdown. way into little. way too late. packers when it. >> tu add insult to injury, bringing back matt forte. dreadful with four interceptions. packers have beaten bears seven of eight. >> bring back ditka. >> go on the face book page. >> he is too busy drinking in his restaurant. >> wnnfans.com. vote your picks. week two of the nfl picks competition. don't add your picks in a comment on the facebook page. click on the link and vote. :00 and vote. >> link, click, vote. got it. >> talking football. do you have a happy -- just messed up this intro. talking about football. they're happy to have peyton manning in denver. here is how one happy colorado farmer cut a maze in his cornfield in the likeness of bronco's 18. >> the work of fritzler farms, famous for corn mazes. they featured elvis and ray charles. >> manning has the broncos off to a 1-0 start. do you think i can read today? faced falcons in atlanta monday night. >> yeah, experts in the desert. broncos, three point underdog. >> how do they do that? cutting through -- what is it, corn? >> lasers and aliens. >> lasers and aliens. >> got to do that. >> thank you for figuring it all out. >> our sister network, espn, major milestone in sports overnight. >> wait there is more. the weird gadgets you see on the overnight commercials, who comes up with the idea? who makes sure they make it to the market? do they work. why didn't you think of it? 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>> espn. >> and evolved quite a bit. espn "sportscenter" a milestone, big one. just aired show number 50,000. >> that show has become a legend. perhaps in your house all the way to the white house it has the. abc's and sportscenter's josh elliott shares the memories. ♪ espn >> big part of our future, the sportscenter with george. >> welcome everyone to espn "spor "sportscenter." >> thus began a humble wrap-up program that would do nothing less than change the meaning of american sports. back in 1979, sports fans only really could follow their local teams. briefly glimpsed at end of local newscasts. sportscenter rernd that obsolete. and helped catapult sports into the center of the american cultural dialogue. now it is the beating heart of abc's sister network, espn, 18 million people tune in each day. compared to the 30,000 who watched that first broadcast. >> welcome to sportscenter. >> a show that wouldn't recognize itself now. owing much to iconic@lets who cam of age with it. and all those anchors. including my dear gma colleague, rob been roberts. people think all we care about is sports. that's not true. >> blazing a trail for me to follow. >> josh elliott and hannah storm. >> one of the greatest ad campaigns in television history. >> what's the story? >> sorry, thought everybody left for the night. >> hey, wally. it's not what you think. >> its legion of fans, the president of the united states. >> guiltiest pleasure? >> i suppose sportscenter. ha-ha. and my wife thinks it is a sickness. >> reporter: disease or delight. >> 50,000 editions later it would seem they're both right. for this is "sportscenter." josh elliott, abc news, new york. >> not the only ones doing crazy things. >> they're fantastic. aren't they amazing. best in the biz. >> an ad agency out of portland. don't know if they still have them. brilliant. >> put it on the map. sportscenter first aired, measly 1.4 million. the figure, 93.8 million. >> starting on cable. taking a risk. people don't then itting they would make it. well they made it. they're thinking in the future you will be able to actually program your own sportscenter and what high legts ylighthighl. espn.com, they have dallas, l.a., new york, boston, chicago. already working toward that. and their anchors will customize highlights for local affiliates in big markets as well. on their way. >> cool. congratulations to espn. >> don't get to watch it much. watching dora the explorer. and little einsteins. >> that's what happens. >> coming up, gadgets advertised on infomercials. >> the weird role of inventions, marketing and products sold for $19.5. if you call now. you're watching ♪ weird science >> weird science. some weird science behind the world of infomercials and products sold on tv. >> the gadgets are carefully analyzed before they're sold at an unusual nerve center so to speak in north carolina. abc's yunji de nies takes us there. >> you wouldn't dry your clothes with an iron. you wouldn't iron your clothes with a dryer. >> reporter: if you are up late at night you have undoubtedly seen one of these. >> i super snap contraction. >> infused with catnip. >> crack and pour. >> add water. >> place and slice. >> hard-boiled means hard work. >> who knew peeling boiled eggs was such a pain. before you roll your eyes check out the numbers. >> 5.5 million boxes. >> 5.5 million sold at $9.99. >> she hated peeling the shell off an egg. >> how hard is that? >> may not seem like a problem. if there is a $9.95 solution. >> she had a eureka moment and took it to edison nation, a company that turns raw idea into shelf-ready products. >> everyone has a great idea. >> everyone thinks they have a great idea. >> everyone things they have a great idea. how do you turn a great idea into a great product. really end of the day it is execution. >> that's what charlie lumston didn't know how to do. contractor from hawaii had a moment when he was paddle boarding. he realized while gyms are crowded with exercise equipment, the lower, there is nothing on the market that mimics working out on the water. >> i had no idea how to make that happen. i had no means to prototype it. i had no means to patent it. >> he went home and drew this, a rough model of a stand up badle board machine and sent it in. edison green lighted his idea promising to bring it to market. ten months later, charlie arrived in north carolina for the big reveal. this is the hydroliptic, invested hundred of thousand in research and development taking the sketch turning it into a machine that gives you a real workout. trust me. i tried it. >> it is pretty smooth. >> do you think you ever could have made something look this on your own? >> not in my wildest dreams. i really don't. >> edison is shopping the machine to exercise equipment manufacturers. they and charlie will split the licensing profits, 50/50. expect it in a gym near you in the next year. there is real money to be made. over a trillion dollars of new products are sold each year. just ask charlie lumston who right now is waiting for the checks to roll in. i'm yunji de nies in charlotte, north carolina. >> pretty cool, that facebook question, our facebook question of the day. >> what have you purchased from an infomercial does it really, really work? let us know at wnnfans.com. >> i purchased one thing. >> i love the thing. >> chase henderson. >> rocks this thing during every commercial. soon as we are off the air. >> thank you, sir. very much. >> the snuggie. >> yep. custom ordered with the penguins. >> one of the senior producers gave it to me. so cold in here. feels like the arctic literally. >> check that out. >> big fan. >> the slap chop. seen the commercial. forget what he does. >> what does he do. >> slaps the things, chops up the nuts. and he says don't you love my nuts. he does. he really says it. you got a -- i don't know where your mind is. >> we'll be right back. ♪ i'd do anything for you, dear ♪ ♪ anything, yes, i'd do anything ♪ ♪ anything for you ♪ more than 50 times a day? 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>> friday. >> i'm john muller in for rob nelson. he is on assignment, the federal reserve's chairman launched a plan, aggressive, open ended. details in the top story. anger continues to erupt in the arab world over an anti-muslim film this morning. new information about the man who made the movie as well as some anti-american protests around the globe. >> curbing the cola, the ban on super sized sodas, the big ones, moves forward. what city residents will and will not be able to order. another chapter in a series of hit movies hits the big screen this weekend. we look at the latest resident evil, in this morning's "insomniac theater," apparently the sixth installation of resident evil. and this will mean i will be 0-6. haven't seen any. >> i will be 0-6. see that twirly thing in the air. pretty cool. >> that was cool. you can do something look that? >> i can. spra sprained my leg. >> markets are doing tumbling. stock markets in asia rallying in weak of the fed's newest move to crank up the u.s. economy. chairman ben bernanke says the fed will pump $40 billion into the economy, each month until it emproves. >> the goal is to bring unemployment down to 7.6% next year. abc's correspondent has the details. >> reporter: what the federal reserve chairman did was unprecedented. anuncing the fed would buy back some $40 billion worth of mortgage backed securities each month. what makes the decision so remarkable it is open ended meaning the fed can print as much money a it wants for as long as it wants. they have tried this top of program twice before, limited versions with only lackluster results. but the fed says the economy need a longer boost. >> it isn't growing fast enough to make significant progress reducing unemployment rate. the weak job market should concern every american. >> we have seen similar types of programs from the fed before why does ben bernanke think this will be different? >> the key aspect of the program is it is unlimited. the fed is not going to let its foot off the gas pedal until it is confident it seems improvement in the labor market. >> think of your car, pumping more money into the tank, the stock market and 401(k) growth, you are worth more, interest rates will reman near zero for three years, so more americans may be inclined to buy homes, but there are warnings too. low interest rates means little to no growth in savings accounts. something millions of americans, especially the elderly depend on. still, the fed says the bigger picture is this. more spending means businesses can hire more workers. >> the idea is to quicken the recovery. to help the economy begin to grow quickly enough to generate new jobs and reduce unemployment rate. >> and violent anti-american protests are heating up across the arab world this morning as fury grows over an american made film that mocks the muslim prophet muhammad. a live look at how volatile the situation is at u.s. embassy in cairo. they're staging a million-man march. later in cairo. enraged demonstrators, throwing stones and molotov cocktails, police unleash tear gas on the crowd. follows an earlier clash in yemen where protestors stormed the american embassy. the state department says militants may have used the protests as a cover to launch that preplanned attack on the american consulate in libya. libyan officials have reportedly arrest aid ed a number of milit in connection with the deaths of ambassador christopher stevens, and two victims, glen dougherty and tyrone woods. two navy seals on detail. information surfacing about the film maker, i departmentifidepartmen -- identd as an ex-con, in hiding, afraid for his life. >> reporter: police and reporters surrounded the home of the twice convicted felon, who authorities tell abc news was the writer, director and financier of the controversial film. >> there was some need for our presence to be here to, to provide safety. >> reporter: police identified him as 55-year-old, nakoula basseley nakoula, who used the assumed name, sam bacile, member of the egyptian christian coptic church. record obtained, show that nakoula was convicted of manufacturing meth in the 90s, and sent to prison on bank fraud charges where he told authorities he wrote the film script. he was released from custody in june 2011 and production began just two months later at this sound stage in california. actors say they were duped, told they were in a film to be called "detz earth warrior" the role of muhammad was listed as george and anti-islamic message was not in the script. >> i want the world to know i did not know. >> reporter: actress cindy garcia, the scene in which she accuses master george of being a pedophile was overdubbed with muhammad replacing master george. >> i never said muhammad or heard it. >> reporter: nakoula falsely told reporters earlier this week he was an israeli jew and wealthy jewish donors put up the money for the film. in fact, authorities tell abc news he admitted it was his wife's christian relatives in e sdwrept who paid for the film no more than $60 t. not the $5 million, nakoula claimed. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> interesting details coming out. interesting the trailer on youtube quite a while now. since ne.