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DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And returning back here to Arizona, as the world knows, there's no issue that is a greater lightning rod than immigration. And we're going to show you what is really going on with a big project that made nationwide headlines. For years, top officials touted the idea of a virtual fence along the border. $850 million, already spent, but as John Quinones found, the plan has gone bust and we wanted to know who is accountable for all that taxpayer money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Split it with you Jeff, yes, split it with you that 100 bucks. Thanks, guys. What would you do and what would it take for you to interfere between a parent and a child? What would you do if you thought the child's life was in danger? Well the "What Would You Do?" team decided to find out. John Quinones is here to show us what happens when people don't know those doggone cameras are rolling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JONATHAN KARL (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Hey. The, the, I'll tell you, going into this, George, this race is unbelievably close. I have been talking to strategists in both camps, and they both, of course, have their own internal polls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Wow. Now to the latest in the Natalee Holloway saga. Her mother has never learned where Natalee is buried. Now her mother is speaking out about an attempt by Joran van der Sloot, the top suspect in Natalee's disappearance, to get her to pay him for - to get him to pay her for information about Natalee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And as we said, our team is out in full force to bring us the news from this election night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And, now, with the pulse from other regions, let's begin with John Quinones, he is in Florida to watch the race there. John? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It is the ultimate ethical question. When you think no one is watching, what would you do? It's also the question posed in 'Primetime, What Would You Do"? The show's been called a candid camera of ethics. And it asks again and again, if you're willing to put yourself out there when you see and hear something that's just not right. And John Quinones is here to tell us about the latest episode. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And we move on now to a war on America's border, after Iraq and Afghanistan, known as the third war. Tens of thousands of people are being killed in the Mexican drug wars, and now, one young woman has dared to take on a job others feared to do. ABC's John Quinones has been reporting in the dangerous cities near the border. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We're gonna switch topics now. Just one of the 33 miners rescued in Chile remains hospitalized this morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) The President of Chile, who has been praised for the mine rescue, is far from home today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TERRY MORAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Now to the marvelous story of the Chilean miners. In those painstaking final weeks and days of the mine rescue, rescue workers worried about the physical and mental toll that ten weeks underground would take on those 33 trapped men. So it was good to see the second man they pulled from that mine, Mario Sepulveda is his name, stage a celebration on par with a World Cup win. And tonight, John Quinones has the first interview with Super Mario since his ordeal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) And there he is, Mario Gomez, the ninth miner, the oldest miner trapped, 63 years old. He's been a miner his whole life since the age of 12. And this morning, he is free again. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And we turn now to the Chilean miners spending their first full day above ground. The 33, (foreign language) as they are known, spent the day in the hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But of course, as they bring to the surface with them, the lessons about what it is to stifle fear, panic, hunger and hold on. We want to learn them. And John Quinones went to Chile to bring some of them back. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) This mine rescue has been so meticulously planned all along and we've watched it, the proof of that, live every day, including the sequestration of each of these miners, keeping them out of the public eye. Each of them had been coached by media coaches to deal with the onslaught of interest. There have been no exclusive interviews, though, until now. ABC News managed to catch up with Ricardo Villarroel. He is the 28th man rescued today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But as we watch tonight, we keep thinking about when we first saw them alive. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And tonight, as the miners emerge, the families will be waiting above ground and among them, two 8-year-old girls, each keeping vigil for a father swallowed by the earth. John Quinones is back with their stories. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And we are back at the Chilean mine rescue where the second of the 33, (foreign language) as they're known here in Chile is in the basket. He's in that escape pod on his way to the surface as spontaneous courtship dances which are representative of so much joy here on the scene at Camp Hope are just breaking out there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) I think I'll take it, Sam, thanks. Can't wait for the concert, got a beautiful day here in the park. But we're gonna turn now to the story of that Arizona family, mistakenly told that they'd lost their daughter in a horrific accident. It was, in fact, two days, two days before the funeral they were actually told that their daughter was alive. She was actually in the hospital, in one of the beds. And so now we get an update on the 19-year-old, after that horrible mix-up, and an extraordinary recovery. John Quinones is in Arizona this morning, John, great to see you. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) He was never charged in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, but he now sits in a Peruvian jail accused of another murder. In an interview conducted by a Dutch television company and licensed exclusively by ABC News, his mother, Anita van der Sloot, opens up about her notorious son, the kind of child he was and what may have gone wrong, as John Quinones now reports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And we turn, now, to the case against Joran Van Der Sloot. We're now hearing from the accused murderer's mother for the first time since he was arrested in Peru. And it is an ABC News exclusive. John Quinones in Lima, with all the details. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But we're gonna begin with Joran van der Sloot. He is at the center now of two international criminal investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But we do begin this morning with a top story, Joran Van Der Sloot now in custody in Peru, being transported to the capital of Lima. The 22-year-old Dutchman long suspected in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, now accused of murdering a young Peruvian woman. And in another bizarre twist, he's also been charged with extortion in Alabama. John Quinones is in Lima with the very latest on this. John, good morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But first in this half-hour, to the new twist in the Natalee Holloway case. As we reported earlier, the prime suspect in her disappearance, Joran van der Sloot, is wanted again for murder, this time in Peru. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BIANNA GOLODRYGA (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good morning, George and Juju, and good morning, everybody. We begin with a new plan to stop the constant flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But now, to the TV producer turned prime suspect in his wife's murder. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) On this night that President Calderon of Mexico is in Washington, somewhere, a kid from Texas is watching the world from the shadows. How does a Texas high school star become one of the most wanted men in the hemisphere, accused of being behind some of the horrible epidemic murders across the Mexican border? John Quinones has a cautionary tale of the man they call the Barbie. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Wonderful. Good to see that, Sam. Thank you. Now, to our behavior lab that asks "What Would You Do?" This morning we look at a scenario that a lot of parents, I think every parent really has experienced. John Quinones is here with more on this. Good morning, John. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHRIS CUOMO (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) He wanted to find fame as a B movie Tarzan. Instead, Steve Sipek found fame, or notoriety, as something quite different, an all too human king of the jungle who had his own little boy share a bed with lions and tigers. And in this live and let live atmosphere, despite supposedly taking every precaution, somebody was bound to get hurt. Here's John Quiñones. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) You may have read them. Two high-profile stories in the news have raised questions we know so many American families face. In crisis about addiction and love and trying to do what helps. Tonight, the anguish of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan and her family led John Quinones to ask, what is the latest wisdom about parents of any age giving money to their troubled child? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Millions of folks use online dating services to find that special someone. But you do not have to go on too many dates to know that sometimes, well, the picture people paint of themselves online, a far cry from who they are actually in person. Which makes online dating a perfect topic for John Quinones and the ABC "What Would You Do?" team. And "What Would You Do?" John? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) I do. I do. And all I can say is, it's the thing I hate the most I'm going to, which is being cold. Oh, my gosh. But you're, you're, you're at the opposite end of the spectrum there, Sam. So, I'll be waving at you from where I am. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHRIS CUOMO (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But first this morning, listen to this. Shoplifters make off with $13 billion worth of merchandise a year. And one quarter of all shoplifters, innocent looking children. So, natural question for 'What Would You Do?" We wondered, what would you do if you saw someone shoplifting with their children? 'Primetime's" John Quinones, as always, will put shoppers to the test. Good morning, John. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) That's a great look, Sam. He could pull that look off. We have a "GMA," the Staten Island Chuck. You've been hanging around Staten Island Chuck just a little too much there, Sam. You better be glad Chris isn't here. That's all I got to say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Oh yeah, that will jump-start their morning. No doubt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN STOSSEL (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Sunday is Father's Day. But how does a father get through that day if his child is missing? Even worse, if no one in law enforcement will help him find her? That happened to the two men you'll meet now. They were shrugged off by the police and the FBI. If they wanted to see their daughters again, they would have to do the detective work. Would they find them? Would their daughters be alive? Here's John Quinones. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN STOSSEL (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) She was a child. 14 years old. Innocent about everything, including sex. And then, she was told, 'You must get married." Tonight, she takes you inside the secretive world where girls were forced to become wives. And until recently, the men got away with it. John Quinones, with a girl interrupted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Okay Sam, thanks. And now we do bring you the story of the young woman who was instrumental in bringing down one of the FBI's most wanted criminals, polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Well now, we're going to turn to the ABC news series, "What Would You Do?" You know, experiments are set up to see if all of us would react as we think we would or even say we would, when faced with the ethical dilemmas that are part of our daily lives. The one you're about to see, we think is a stunner, sure to create a lot of discussion. And bringing it to us is 'The Q" himself, as we call him here, ABC's John Quinones, great to see you. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOHN STOSSEL (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening and welcome to '20/20." Elizabeth Vargas is off tonight. If you've ever been caught in extreme weather, you know how frightening and sometimes dangerous that can be. So we're devoting most of this hour to weather and myths about it. It turns out that what we've been told to do in a storm could put us at more risk. But first, that Texas polygamy case is getting more troubling. Now there are allegations that both girls and boys were sexually abused. And we have the inside story on the new front man for the sect, a man who's been described as a thug and a bully. John Quinones reports from Texas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHRIS CUOMO (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But we have some more news this morning about what happened in this polygamous compound. Now, first we have this raid on the compound in Texas that's brought wide allegations of the rampant abuse of girls and young women in the Fundamentalist Mormon Church. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) All right Sam and gang, thanks so much. Tonight, ABC's popular series "What Would You Do" takes on what many feel is one of the most important and emotionally delicate days in a woman's life, her wedding day. But, when it comes to making the bride happy, how far will her friends and family go? Okay, the balance between little itsy bitsy half-truths and brutal honesty is a tricky one, perfect for an undercover behavior lab from John Quinones and his crew. This is going to be good. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHRIS CUOMO (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) All right thank you Sam. It's very interesting, we just saw in Deborah's newscast, a woman is being forced into a car, surveillance cameras catch it. And another woman comes to her aid. Now, this is exactly the type of ethical dilemma that we're going to look at again in 'Primetime's" "What Would You Do?" You see a couple arguing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Oh, Carson is, is in the house, watch out. Now to this morning's 'Life After the Lights." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We're gonna turn now from our coverage of former President Gerald Ford's death to a subject that always casts a shadow over the holiday season. December is the deadliest month for alcohol-related car crashes. Last year, drunk drivers took almost 900 lives over the Christmas and New Year's weekends. And this morning we're asking, if you had the chance to make a difference to take away the car keys, maybe even save a life, what would you do? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) All right. No doubt, this has happened to you. You're, you're sitting in a restaurant trying to enjoy your meal and the, and the person next to you starts yapping on their cell phone. You know how annoying that is. But is it annoying enough to get you to say something? A 'Primetime" series called 'Basic Instincts" asked that question, and 'Primetime's" John Quinones ran an experiment to find out. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Well now you're gonna get to see something real, real people reacting to a kid gone wild when they're trying to have dinner. It's a kind of ethical candid camera, part of a special 'Primetime" series called 'Basic Instincts" and my pal 'Primetime" co-anchor John Quinones is here this morning with a look. I love this. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ELIZABETH VARGAS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) On this day after Thanksgiving, a holiday that showcases the bounty of America's farms, we have a story about why so much of that bounty is going to waste this year. Right now, tons of fruits and vegetables are rotting in fields. Farmers say a border crackdown has cut off the flow of seasonal farm workers from Mexico. And say they can't find anyone else to do the work. ABC's John Quinones reports from northern California. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Let's turn to our series, which is called 'Healers, Faith or Fiction." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) But right now at 7:31, we start with Warren Jeffs, the polygamist prophet and one of the FBI's 10 most wanted. Now that he is behind bars, the question is what happens to his 10,000 followers, 10,000 followers who are still fiercely loyal to Jeffs as 'Primetime" co-anchor John Quinones found out. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]