Now an amazing tale of survivor. A boater who never came back from a short thanksgiving sail. The coast guard had given up. He never did. Two weeks later hes back an dry land. Abcs ted rowlands has the story. Reporter 67yearold ron ingram went for a thanksgiving day sail off the coast of hawaii when his boat started ta eed ta water. Mayday, mayday. Im in the middle of alenuihai channel. Reporter the coast guard heard his call and launched a massive 12,000squaremile search for the experienced fisherman. After four days and 59 search and rescue flights there was no sign of ron or his boat. Gans the wishes of rons son, a decision was made to call off the search. I said, man, i dont think you should call off the search because i dont think hes gone. Then Tuesday Morning after 12 days of radio silence. Mayday, this is the malia. Anybody picking this up. Reporter the dramatic rescue. Ron found floating 65 miles off the coast of oahu. Hes doing okay. A little tired and weak. They got him some food and water. Hes doing all right. Thought i was going to die. I hung in there. Took mental discipline. These guys are real heroes and save peoples lives. Reporter weather pushed him almost 200 miles offshore. Thats why he couldnt communicate. He also says he was able to survive on fish. Ted rowlands, abc news, los angeles. Do you know because he was a fisherman, he was able to keep fish. I would never have been how do you catch fish . I cant imagine being out there. You would find a way. Id drink the salt water which you cant drink. You wouldnt have lasted two weeks. I bet you would. Youre resourceful. It kicks in and youd be thinking about your family. Youd be just fine. He has more faith in me than i have in myself. We probably would have called off the search earlier. Theres no way reena is going to make it past day three. Youd have been fine. Some truth to that. Coming up, something every shopper needs to know. Not how to survive the crowds. Its how to survive in the parking lot. Chances are youve been doing this all wrong. Announcer world news now cont i cant believe it. 13 more shopping days until christmas. Thats it . Good lord. And the nations malls are going full tilt jammed with holiday shoppers. Jamming in parking lot, too. This is the worst time of the year to find a parking spot. A mathematician claims hes tracked a code. A mathematician is going to help you find the perfect spot. Abcs Neal Karlinsky with the story. Reporter if theres one place in need of Holiday Cheer this time of year im there first. Its parking lots. Reporter shoppers fighting for spots. Out of their cars arguing and sometimes worse. When it comes to having a parking strategy, it turns out that most of us are doing it wrong. You just butt your way in. You butt your way in . Thats not very polite. First off, the circler. Always looking for the perfect spot. I have to admit, im a circler. It drives my wife crazy. Reporter the experts say its a nono. A major waste of thyme. You have a strategy . Are your a circler, a stalker . Im a stalker. Reporter second, the stalker. Can i have your spot . Is it on the other aisle . Come on. The experts say stalking isnt a good plan because it either creeps people out or wastes time because they cross into another aisle. What were really suggesting that people do is take the closest space thats open to them. The very first one they see. The key tips to park and walk from a distance and to target areas near less popular stores. But the most potentially gamechanging advice came from a mathematician. He crunched the numbers, including how long the average person shops and says you should find an aisle with at least ten cars an each side, park and wait and statistically, someone will come out within nine minutes. Assuming that these are all shoppers cars and the basic assumptions, this model works like sure fire. Reporter we tried it and just as we approached that magic nineminute mark. Look at that. 8 45. Oh, two of them. It may seem like a long time to wait but when you factor in time, gas and potentially dangerous aggravation, people see found seem ee eed willing t patient. Thanks for the tip. It totally worked. I dont know what parking lots. You cant just wait and park in the middle. People start honking at you. Remember that time you tried to take me home. Really . What route did we take . Im thinking friday the 13th. We dont look like were about to become just before you got into that what a look on your face there. It was you driving. Thats what happened. You look terrified in that picture. Youre driving. Can i see that picture again . Im sorry. I am not having a good time. I was very upset you didnt buy me whatever that was at the mall. Maybe it was my music choice. She loves to shop online with her debit card. 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Getting more than a million and a half hits on youtube. United Parcel Service making a special delivery. Abcs david muir has the details. Reporter he may look bored but this is one of the happiest u. P. S. Drivers youll ever meet. Look, no hands. At 4 years old, practicing his moves. One speedy delivery. Thank you. Reporter his inn spiration . The guy driving this truck. Mr. Ernie who had been making deliveries to carson two to three times a week since he was a baby. When carson was born, he couldnt drink milk. Delivering my special milk. Reporter mr. Ernie would deliver quite a few times to our house. Reporter u. P. S. Documenting their friendship. And the moment they became friends forever. Carson could not believe his eyes. His own u. P. S. Delivery truck carson size. Turns out he could use a little heat. My hands are freezing. Reporter he was off. Side by side with mr. Ernie. But a few months back, a change. Mr. Ernie was moved off of our route in our neighborhood. New pictures of carson and his return visit to the local u. P. S. Headquarters. Good job, bud. Who did carson find . The man who once drove his route. How are you . Good. Mr. Ernie moved. Brightened my day all the time. Reporter ernie has been moved to a different route for lighter lift bug still has his friend. A thumbs up from the other drivers. David muir, abc news, new york. Mr. Mueernie delivered his n to this wishes Delivery Program and got 1 donate forward every wish submitted. Sometimes they make the dreams come true. The truck. But the parents got him the uniform. Thats very cool. So sweet. This is great pr for u. P. S. Distracts you from all those lost packages. I thought it was a sweet moment. It is a very sweet moment. This morning on world news now double trouble. Courtesy of mother power outag the east coast. I couldnt stop the car, it was so icy. The misery for millions in todays storm track from accuweather. Military mystery. The underwater intruder off scotland. Could russia and their submarines be spying on american allies. And football crackdown. The personal scandal embarrassing to the nfl and the leaders of the league say enough is enough. The policy is comprehensive. It is strong. It is tough. But do the new rules of conduct do enough to satisfy fans . Its thursday, december 11th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Im reena ninan. Hello to you all. Im t. J. Holmes. We start with this extreme weather thats in all likelihood somebody were talking to it being affected. Millions of americans on both coasts deal with drenching rain in the west and heavy snow in the east. Always upsets me when anchors wear sleeveless when its horrible weather across america. It upsets you . I couldnt find anything with sleeves. People dont make clothes with sleeves. Yeah, i notice that every time i go shopping. There are no sleeves on any of these. And thats why you always wear the suit with the tie because they are always sleeveless. Where are you shopping . Maybe thats the problem. A noreaster buried parts of new england. Crews in vermont scrambling to restore power. High wind and high surf leave these homes dang ling in the pacific northwest. The city braces for the worst storm in five years. Our coverage begins with abcs linzie janis. Reporter as 46 Million People in the west make final preparations for the biggest storm of the year, a powerful slowmoving noreaster churns up more snow, ice and rain in the northeast. Up to 20 inches of snow near syracuse, new york. Almost 15 miles of major interstate 81 shut down for over seven hours. Car after car stuck on the side of the road. Visibility down to only a few feet. The messy roads making for a dangerous commute. In worcester, massachusetts, slipping and sliding on sidewalks covered in black ice. Meanwhile, out west, an urgent warning to stay home. In San Francisco, schools already out. This may be one of those situations where its best to avoid the roads. Reporter sandbags in short supply in some places. Flooding already starting in washington state. These homes already on shaky ground. Fears they may fall into the ocean. Reporter in upstate new york this heavy, wet snow has been coming down for nearly 24 hours and its expected to continue. Linzie janis, abc news, cooperston, new york. Look eed like linzie could barely speak its so cold there. The storm in the west so powerful. Talking about hurricaneforce winds. Accuweathers jim dickey tracking both storms for us. Good morning, reena and t. J. Impacts from the noreaster in the east winding down through the morning hours. Still snow from burlington, vermont, back into portions of central p. A. This will be breaking apart through the day. By the time the snow does end, 6 to 12 inches across many locations across upstate and western new york. Storm system just getting going here. Just starting along the west coast. Powerful area of low pressure. It will produce significant rainfall, flooding and mud slides likely in many locations. Reena and t. J. , back to you. Jim, thank you so much. Former Vice President dick cheney is not holding back talking about the Controversial Senate report on torture. He told fox news the report is full of crap. He said the cias approach to interrogating suspects was necessary after the 9 11 attacks and he has no regretss. I think that what needed to be done was done. I think we were perfectly justified in doing it, and id do it again in a minute. As for the u. N. Efforts to try the cia interrogators for human rights violations, the Justice Department said it would fight the charges. Full of crap. Interesting he chooses the word crap. Seems like the folks interrogating knew about crap. A horrible situation. They used a process called rectal rehydration and also ground up peoples food and shoved it up their rear ends. What cheney acknowledged were not authorized but yet is getting a great deal of publicity around the world. Also what do you want to do . Be nice to these people that killed 3,000 people on 9 11 . The debate will rage on. Just Getting Started this week. A lawmaker from South Carolina is defending his efforts to schedule more hearings an the deadly attack an the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. He is keenly aware that many people in both parties believe theres nothing left to learn. A series of investigations found no wrongdoing. Four americans including a u. S. Ambassador died in the attack. The u. S. Navy deployed a Laser Weapons system. They released this video showing an exercise aboard a ship in the persian gulf. The system is a prototype but the navy says using Something Like this is both safer and less expensive than traditional weapons. The u. S. Military has been active trying to get to the bottom of a submarine mystery off the coast of scotland. Abcs terry moran reports. Reporter in the cold seas off scotland, a search for an intruder. The British Government acknowledging a submarine parascope cited in waters near a main uk base tops off a massive nato hunt like the old cold war hunt for red october. Do we have any surface contacts . No contacts, sir. Scope is clear. Reporter two p30 planes and two british warships scoured the water for days when that parascope was sighted late last month. The suspicion . A russian sub has probed deep into the uks territorial waters. Thats also what the swedes thought back in october when this mysterious photo and advanced sonar data seemed to show a foreign sub right off stockholm. The swedes hunted for that sub for a month. No trace was found. The search was called off. In those cold waters off the coast of scotland far to the north of here, whatever was here seems to have slipped away, too. Terry moran, abc news, london. The Nobel Peace Prize under her belt, Malala Yousafzai has her eyes on becoming pakistans prime minister. Two years ago she was shot in the head by the taliban demanding the same rights. The 17yearold is the youngest ever peace prize winner. Legal trouble for bill cosby. Now facing a defamation suit from one of his accusers. Tamara green says cosby publicly branded her a liar through statements made by his attorney and publicist. Cosby drugged her and sexually assaulted her in the early 70s when she was an aspiring model and singer. Shes among more than a dozen women prepared to testify before him. He celted a lawsuit with another accuser in 2005. She claims as a result of being called a liar she suffered her good name and reputation has been damaged. And as a result, she has filed a lawsuit attempting to restore her good name and reputation. The most important thing is that the lawsuit would require cosby to appear in court and speak about the allegations. Some people in florida are shaking their heads after an excon who say registered sex predator won a 3 million jackpot. The Florida Lottery put up this picture of the man pose with his check. The lottery has since taken the photo don. Theres no law that prohibits registered sex offenders from playing or winning the lottery. A strange story from denver. A man was secretly living in the rafters of a strant. He fell through the ceiling. Cops thought they lost him until they destructed part of the restaurant. There was moaning coming from one of the walls next to the front doors of the restaurant. Pulled off one of the booth chairs and saw his feet from behind a wall. Pulled the guy out. He was only wear jeans. He was taken to a hospital with unspecified injuries. Santa is a busy guy these days getting ready for a big trip two weeks from today. That doesnt mean hes not taking on some side jobs. One was an appear at the a mall in maryland. And that visit produced this picture. Oh. Santa needs a little rest. And newborns need their rest as well. Why not rest an santa. Santa improvised this shot because the little one was already asleep when they came and it was their turn. Mom called it a picture that they will cherish forever. That is definitely Christmas Card worthy. Coming up, the best players in college football, according to toddlers in the know. Putting a little buzz in your holiday cookies. Bake with booze. Thats in our insomniac kitchen. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by delsym. Ar. coughs coughing can really be disruptive. With a record breaking fifty million votes, your superstar is. Thats why theres delsym. Delsym helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours with an advanced time release formula for all day or all night relief. Up to twice as long as other cough liquids. So the only sounds youll hear are the ones you want to hear. Bianca cheering delsym. Silence is relief. 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