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LARA SPENCER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) A single mom comes up with an idea for a new-fangled mop, sells it on TV and ends up selling millions and making billions. The new movie, "Joy," starring Jennifer Lawrence tells the real-life story of that mom, Joy Mangano, who recently stopped by our set. Congratulations on your success, my fellow Long Islander. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LARA SPENCER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Yeah - I have strong feelings about this story. So many of us have grown up with the game Operation, and that's why this story about its creator, seems to have touched a nerve, if you will. Many of his fans coming to the rescue helping him raise money to pay for a real-life operation he so badly needs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOSH ELLIOTT (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Thank you, Cecilia. Boy, I have so much to say about that piece but we are running out of time, so we're gonna move on now to a very young entrepreneur about to swim with the sharks. A little girl with a great idea for a paint-on bandage. She had it when she was four years old, and tonight she'll become the youngest person ever to pitch a idea on ABC's "Shark Tank." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) There are a few tinkeres in history who really understood that a good tool is handy, but a beautiful tool is loved. Steve Jobs was one guy who understood that marriage of function and design, and James Dyson is another. He decided that most vacuum cleaners suck, and not in a good way. So he built a more elegant way to clean our floors and dry our hands and cool our homes, and this tinkerer became a billionaire knight. Here's ABC's Rebecca Jarvis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And, an all-American inventor has died. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. Well, the man you're about to meet could be described as its father, because he's launched so many products for some of the nation's biggest companies that he's been given a job by the government. His task? Find the next big thing that will help spark this sluggish economy. And as Barbara Pinto now reports, while there may be no shortage of ideas not everyone is a winner. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]