eileen johnson bought the sculpture in 2006 and dressed it up for different holidays. it even has a name, emily biron towsaurus. eileen is hopeful she will be returned. >> i know there are a lot of world disasters and i know this is not the worst thing in the whole world but the dinosaur kind of protected our house and he was a happy part of our lives and of the neighborhood. >> the sculpture stands 5 feet tall and is 10 feet wide. eileen has posted missing dinosaur flyers around the neighborhood but, so far, there have been no leads. anyone with information is asked to call danville police. >>> a south bay landmark is making a comeback. this time for real. the cat is set to reopen this spring. the old restaurant is on highway 17 south of los gatos. plans to reopen the restaurant in 2009 were snarled by delayed permits but, now that the planning department has finally approved the re-opening, the interior is being renovated and customers will be welcomed back in. >>> well millions are cursing the winter storms, but we found others saying "bring it on," we'll show you w

eileen has posted missing dinosaur flyers around the neighborhood. so far, no leads. so if you have any information, call the danville police if you have seen emily brontosauraus. >> mike sugerman did a story recently about a missing hippo sculpture as well in the east bay. so it's going around. >>> well, with new year's eve upon us, many of us will be having a drink maybe two. but which cities rank as the drunkest? the daily beast came out with this list naming who chugged the most in 2009. well, milwaukee tops the list. san francisco actually took the number 3 slot. >> wow. >> wow. the list was based on the average number of alcoholic drinks consumed per person per month. >> milwaukee makes the top of the list. it's really cold there. >> hope no one from milwaukee is watching. >>> get out the windshield scraper. it is so cold this morning. >> i know, cold? the studio, too, tracy. where is it the coldest? >> that's not in your toss to me, is it? [ laughter ] >> elizabeth? >> yeah, my mic is not on. yeah, it was. it was in the script. i'm just reading it. >> i don't k

for the code advisory committee, recommendations are jerry cunningham, mark cunningham, eileen dick, ira doerter, edgar fennie, fredric freund, rene vignos, stephen harris, shane o'reilly, arnie lerner, zachary nathan, lee yvonne phillips, jim reed, tony sanchez-corea iii, kevin wallace, tony lau, and robert wong. seats to expire august 18, 2013. before we nominate or whatever, there are a few new people. most of the people on here are people who reapplied or were reappointed. we got very few applications -- i believe we got a total of five -- and if you would like, maybe we could introduce those new people, or if you want to go one by one. >> why don't i say a little bit about what happened at the nomination committee? the nomination committee met just a week ago, a little over a week ago, and we were surprised that there was not very many public members -- in fact, there were no public members at the meeting, and we usually get a handful to a dozen people talking to us about the applicants and who applied and the merits of everybody. so what the commissioner -- what commissioner he

eileen moore. >> and that would be for phoebs. >> that would be for phoebe. thank you so much, eileen moore, for being with us to talk about this very important topic of teen suicide and teen bullying. many, many families grappling with it and we appreciate your comments this morning. happy holidays to you. >> thank you, elizabeth. >> and you can find more about suicide prevention on our website, abcnews.com/gma. >>> for other stories developing right now, let's check in with juju chang at the newsdesk. good morning to you, juju. >> good morning, elizabeth and george. good morning, everyone. >>> we begin with escalating drama on the korean peninsula. this morning, north korea says it's ready to launch a war in response to tension of its military drills. south korean jets fired artillery in its largest military exercises of the year. >>> back in this country, five firefighters remained hospitalized overnight after wednesday's building collapse that killed two of their own. the men were searching for possible squatters in the abandoned building when the roof ca

eileen has posted missing dinosaur fliers all around the neighborhood, but so far there have been no leads. anyone with information is asked to call danville police. >>> a landmark is making a comeback and it is for real this time. the -- the old restaurant is on highway 17. plans to reopen the restaurant in 2009 were snarled by delayed permits. but now thatted planning department -- that the planning department finally approved the reopening, customers will soon be welcomed. >>> well, you know people trying to fly to and from the east coast as well as through it. they are stuck. but there are other people trapped as well and they are outside the airport. why some are stuck on their own street. >>> millions are cursing winter storms, and some are saying bring it on. where the weather is and the better the business. >>> what if you could customize every single gift? >>> well, first it was the rain, then the wind and now the cold. it's getting chilly outside. how cold it will get in your neighborhood coming up. ,,,,,, problems may b sible for an american airlines jet running off the ru

according to investigators eileen loscot driving home someone rear ended her car. she called her husband. >> she made contact with her husband about the motor vehicle accident it became very clear very rapidly. you could hear the males shouting instructs to her as they were approaching her vehicle. and it became quite clear to law enforcement and the victim's husband that she was in trouble and had been taken against her will. >> shepard: cops say they are convinced the men crashed into her car on purpose then forced her to drive to that atm and get the money out. before finally letting her go more than 500 miles away in new mexico. trace gallagher is following this from our west coast news hub this afternoon. that atm stop proved to be a key mistake for those guys, didn't it. >> it did, shep, because when they forced eileen to the atm two of the suspects riding with her in the red toyota. the third suspect a convicted sex offender was in a separate car. he got pulled over for a traffic violation. he said the people in the red toyota were his cousins driving home h

well, eileen johnson bought the skulture in 2006 and dressed it up for different holidays. it even has a name, yes, it does, emily blantsourus and they're hoping the dineo will be returned. >> i know there are a lot of world disasters and i know this is not the worst thing in the whole world, but the dinosaur kind of protected our house and he was a happy part of our lives and of the neighborhood. >> i think she's wearing dinosaur earrings too, did you see that? the sculpture stands five feet tall and is 10 feet wide. missing dinosaur flyers are posted all around the neighborhood, but so far there have been no leads. so, of course, as we always say, anyone with information is asked to call danville police. >> i didn't see the earrings, but now i'm going to have to look a lot closer. >> i know. watch out for the flyers. seems like he would be hard to miss. >> kind of big, right? >>> 4:57 now. commuters in the south bay, the major makeover for the almadon expressway. >>> three people, including a young child badly hurt in a two-alarm oakland fire this morning. that story comi

as eileen evans tells the story of small-town values, and a check. >> we didn't know what to do. >> reporter: the envelope arrived from the estate of 94-year-old lauren krueger. a retired farmer, who had seen his share of sadness. having lost his first wife. then his second. having lost his only child, a teenage son, to cancer. but long before he passed away last year, lauren gained a reputation. >> very frugal. very frugal! he was very careful with his money. >> reporter: apparently so. for as he humbly lived out his days in this white frame house on main street, lauren quietly amassed -- >> he held on to it. >> reporter: a fortune. >> i say let me see it. i've never seen a check like that before. >> reporter: that first $20,000 check was followed by two more. $100,000 each. >> i said, my gosh, look at this, look at this! >> reporter: up to then, the seniors had been getting by on what the county gave their center, $600 a year. >> well, we got $220,000 total. >> reporter: and lauren wasn't done. >> he loved his church. >> reporter: he willed roughly $1 million to st. patrick's catholic chur

. >> reporter: eileen bonner was a nurse supervisor at the hospital where he was taken. >> he was an absolutely charming child. >> reporter: he was talking? >> yes, he was. >> that was the miracle of this morning. >> reporter: and everyone thought it was a miracle, especially his father. >> we're grateful to the almighty for this miraculous thing that has happened. >> reporter: we now know, through the horror of hindsight, that gratitude was premature. stephen baltz, who was found here, died the next day. his lungs had been ruined by smoke and fire. there's a plaque in the hospital where he died with some coins, still scorched, that stephen had in his pocket, one of the few remaining memories of a christmas season a half century ago when death and fire poured from the sky. richard schlessinger, cbs news, brooklyn, new york. >> couric: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm katie couric. thank you for watching. i'll see you tomorrow. in the meantime, the news continues 24/7 at cbsnews.com. [ female announcer ] safeway talks gift ideas. music makes a great gift. i like rock,

the bbc's eileen maple reports from the swat valley. >> reporter: these men are being freed. they were all taliban recruits. during the fighting last year, they were captured by pakistani soldiers. then, they've been in an army-run rehabilitation center. they include 21-year-old ramon on the right here. he and 45 others graduate. >> these boys started off militants who were -- they were picked up. they have been put through a process. and they are now going back to the site as useful and productive members of the society. >> reporter: we meet aziz a few days later. back with his family. he says there's one important thing that will stop men like him joining the taliban. since i've been released, i've been doing nothing, he tells us. jobs are even harder to find. if the government helps us get work, we'll all be busy. god willing, there will be peace here. so many places across swat remain in ruins since the fighting. this building was destroyed by the taliban. people here feel that the developments and the money and the rebuilding promises haven't come. many experts believe,

cities across america or is this what it will take to clean some of them up or to discuss it with me as eileen norcross senior research fellow at the center at george mason university and thanks so much for joining me thank you now with this situation in camden here i mean out of nine new jersey municipalities granted transitionally they saved the largest portion of that one hundred fifty nine million dollars in available funding. so how do they come to the point where now they're saying if they have to lay off half of their police force it's an excellent question and camden's financial problems predate the recession it lost a manufacturing base last century they have been receiving state aid for many decades and they have been able sorted out and as you know they continue to get state aid and yet they're still finding they have to make these kind of drastic cuts but who is that stated going to i mean who can we really say is to blame for this problem is it going to i mean obviously doesn't go into the homeless population because they just told us that they only have two hundred beds for those

eileen started her ordeal near dallas. police say three men faked a staged accident. then forced her way into a woman's car. security showed them forcing her to withdraw money from an atm. now, police have caught one of the three suspects. but they're looking for the other two. >>> the entire eastern half of the united states remains in the grip of an arctic blast. the snow caused chaos on the roads here yesterday. but we got off easy, compared to some other areas. whit johnson has a look at weather woees. >>> woes. >>> from maryland down through much of the southeast, snow, freezing rain and ice made travel treacherous. >>> you know, i'm trying to make it here the best i can and trying to take my time. >> reporter: slick roads caused hundreds of accidents. in north carolina, at least three people were killed. in virginia yesterday, state police responded to more than 1500 crashes. crews were out in full force. as many as 700 plows controlled the roads in northern virginia alone. in one georgia neighborhood, simply crossing the street was dangerous. >> you could walk

we predicted this eileen and i in our book 2010, take back america that it would be declared unconstitutional. the idea of the individual mandate -- is based on the interstate commerce clause. it is not interstate because you can't sell health insurance because you cancel health insurance interstate and it is not commerce. no way that was going to be upheld. i believe it will be thrown out. i think you will see one bay one, every one of the things obama did dismantled. republicans gonna roll back stimulus spending. defund obamacare. courts will throw it out. cap and trade will be banned because by epa being banned from doing that. card check will be banned. financial reform will be changed. one after another they will all be changed. and this guy isn't going to stand for anything. >> sean: stinging rebuke buy henry hudson the judge in this case. that in a few minutes. last question, 2012, is there any one, two or three people that you see emerging as the likely front-runners, in your mind? >> no, it is way too early. the important thing to bear in mind is there are a lot of people with negati

eileen is there with our story. >> family and friends helped salvage what they can from christy jones' garage in laguna beach. her place sits right next to a riverbed. heavy rain turned it into a raging river strong enough to carry a huge container. >> it could have taken the roof off. all the water. it was just a wave coming over. >> down the creek sits a porsche. further down a minivan. an eyewitness news viewer shot this video during the worst of the flooding. downtown laguna beach submerged in water. what a difference a day makes. but the damage is done. officials report nearly 50 businesses flooded. 20 homes with moderate damage. another casuality, the boardwalk at the main beach. >> you are looking at millions of dollars worth of damage. >> cleanup also needed in dove canyon where mud buried cars and severely damaged five homes. in san juan capistrano, repairing damage along the creek, the evacuation order now lifted for hundreds of residents and businesses nearby. a mile away margarita cleans up around her home. her brother shot video of the flooding. the water more than 2 feet

my wife, eileen, got wedged -- she was thrown off the bed and wedged between the sliding door leading on to the balcony and the bed. night tables were flying everywhere. the chairs were flying everywhere. it was 20 minutes of pure hell. it was awful. and today -- >> did you feel as the previous guest did that your life was in danger at some point? >> most definitely. the ship -- we're on the seventh deck and we were almost touching the water. that's how bad the ship tilted. you know, we said our good-byes to each other because we thought that it was it, we thought it was over. >> unbelievable. michael, it's good of you to take the time to talk to us and stay in touch, will you? we want to hear how you're doing if you can give us a call tomorrow. >> okay. >> michael solin, thank you so much. >>> time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. brian jones loved the holiday movie "a christmas story" after licensing right his started selling versions of the iconic leg lamp and used the profits to turn the cleveland house where the mop movie was filmed into a museum. for more, watch

. >> reporter: when police in texas discovered 54-year-old eileen lascot had been abducted early thursday morning, they feared the worst. >> we absolutely believe that she is the victim of foul play. >> she was working a late shift at this dallas printer. she left at 1:00 a.m. but just a few blocks from home her car was hit from behind. >> it was a staged accident to get her out of the moik, yes, sir. >> she immediately called home to tell her husband, gary, about the accident but got voice mail. he retrieved the message several hours later and called the police. >> all indications are was that the phone was turned on during the course of the conversation, probably unknown to her captors. >> reporter: after forcing her back into her car they headed south about 50 miles to the town of cedar hill. on this bank surveillance video, she is seen about an hour later, making three atm withdrawls taking out $900. her captors then forced her to drive into new mexico where they finally released her. she turned back toward texas then contacted authorities in vega, texas, 375 miles from home. >> she i

. >> reporter: as eileen evans tells the story of small-town values and a check. >> we didn't know what to do. $20,000. >> reporter: the envelope arrived from the estate of 94-year-old lawrence rupert. a retired farmer who had seen his share of sadness. having lost his first wife. then his second. having last his only child, a teenage son, to cancer. but long before he passed away last year, lawrence gained a reputation. >> very frugal. >> he was very careful with his money. >> reporter: apparently so. for as he humbly lived out his days in this white frame house, lawrence quietly amassed -- >> he held onto it for awhile. >> reporter: a fortune. >> i said let me see it. i've never seen a check like that before. >> reporter: that first $20,000 check was followed by two more. $100,000 each. >> i said my god, look at this. look at this. >> reporter: up to then, the seniors had been getting by on what the county gave their center. $600 a year. >> oh, well we got it there. it's $220,000 total. >> reporter: and lawrence wasn't done. >> he loved his church. >> reporter: lawrence willed roughly

three men in custody after police say they robbed and kidnapped 54-year-old eileen losscot but later let her go. she was found by police nearly 24 hours after she went missing. >> i approached her. she seemed very, very traumatized. >> reporter: she was working the late shift at this dallas printing company. she left at 1:00 a.m. thursday morning. but blocks from home, her car was hit from behind. >> she was approached by the three males in the car. they rushed her. they forced their way into her vehicle and they took her hostage. >> reporter: two of the abductors forced had tore drive to the dallas suburb of cedar hill, where she can be seen on this bank surveillance video making three atm withdrawals taking out a total of $900. after handing over the money, she was forced into the trunk of her car and driven 650 miles to albuquerque, new mexico, where she and the car were abandoned. instead of calling police, she drove back to texas and contacted authorities this the town of vega. >> she wanted to be in her husband's arms. that's all she wanted, a grateful thing. >> police arrested

. >> children, adam and eileen were diagnosed as teenagers with cystic fibrosis, a deadly disease. and just a few years later, another devastating blow. sarah had breast cancer. >> she dealt with everything with such courage and such great. >> reporter: somehow between hair loss, a double mastectomy and endless hospital visits, a are still found a way to laugh and that gave her strength. she wanted to pass the feeling on to other women who suffered from the disease. so she started writing this book, 101 uses for an empty bra, words that still make her husband harry smile. >> the happen parachute, the air brake for a model airplane, candle snuffer. they're just all so amazing. >> but publishers weren't ready for a book like this. her family believes they may have been afraid to laugh about cancer. >> for us, laughter and humor has always been there. why would you not want to laugh if you have a choice? >> reporter: sarah's book was never professionally published, but one of her dreams did come to pass. her son adam married the love of his life, amber. >> i was very lucky to know her