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BILL WEIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) 2012, just a couple dozen hours away. So, what will the future hold? Hmm. Well, if you said humanoids with computer brains sheathed in synthetic flesh capable of conducting interviews on network television, oh that's so 2011. Here's ABC's Jim Sciutto. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOSH ELLIOTT (ABC NEWS) Yeah. And for the first time, we're hearing from him. Good morning to both of you and to all of you. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, Virginia Tech. Last night, we showed you images of the campus in lockdown, students surrounded by armed guards as gunshots killed two people, one of them a police officer. And we can now tell you about the young man named as the gunman, a regular student now called the shooter. Here's ABC's Jim Sciutto. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, a long-dreaded headline about Iran and nuclear weapons. After a decade of debating whether Iran would build one, a UN report says tonight they will, and it has begun. They detail a mountain of evidence and ABC News has obtained a copy of the top secret report. ABC's Jim Sciutto has been pouring over it today. So, Jim, tell us what the headline was for you. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We're gonna turn now, though, to those two American hikers freed after spending more than two years in an Iranian prison. They have just landed in the US. And finally, without any handlers watching their every word, they are now able to speak out for the first time, candidly, about life in prison in Iran. ABC's Jim Sciutto following their saga from the start. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) The two American hikers who were held in Iran for more than two years are back in the US, talking for the first time about their ordeal. ABC's Jim Sciutto was there when they returned here to the US of A. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RON CLAIBORNE (ABC NEWS) Good morning to you, Dan and Bianna. Good morning, everyone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We'll go now to the homecoming that is finally happening. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But let's get right to that breaking news. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, home sweet home is where two American hikers are finally headed, after being held in Iran for more than two years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We turn overseas this evening and to those two American hikers jailed for more than two years in Iran on spy charges. Just last week, Iran's president said the hikers could be freed within days, but since then, hurdle after hurdle. One judge whose signature they need, not in the office. ABC's Jim Sciutto is in the region tonight. Jim? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And good morning, everyone. Let's get right to the fast-breaking overnight developments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ELIZABETH VARGAS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Now to a new study raising the alarm about whether pilots flying your airplane are ready to handle an emergency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) There are new questions tonight about air travel safety. You may have heard this part before, that pilots are only at the controls during takeoff and landing. What you may not know is that adds up to just three minutes of flying times on an average flight. And the FAA reported today that it could be making pilots too rusty to react well in an emergency. ABC's Jim Sciutto has the story. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We wanna move up the coast of Maryland where the center of the storm is still many hours away, but they are already seeing powerful winds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BIANNA GOLODRYGA (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Well hurricane Irene is gonna be headed straight for the mid-Atlantic States today, and ABC's Jim Sciutto is in Ocean City, Maryland, which has been under a state of emergency since Thursday. Jim, how are things looking right now? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) So you're talking about the wind, and we wanna know what it's really like inside a hurricane when winds are 130 miles an hour or more. Jim Sciutto is at the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he is going above and beyond the call of duty for us this morning. You're gonna demonstrate for us, Jim, what it feels like? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But right now, let's go to Jim Sciutto, because we had a question. What is it like if you're one-on-one with the storm? What is it like if you have to stand outside in the middle of this wind? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And not far from you is ABC's Jim Sciutto in Culpepper, Virginia, right near the epicenter of the quake. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) As we said, one of the biggest concerns, all the nuclear power plants, near so many millions of people on this coast. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) There is a new book out this week that is sure to cause some controversy. It claims that Americans are becoming less religious. The Duke University professor who authored the study says religion is still a powerful force but that Americans have less trust in religious leaders now. And tonight here, we look at spirituality and the military, and we hear from those convinced that it can protect a soldier's health long after war. Here's ABC's Jim Sciutto. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And from Iran this evening, an unclear future for those two American hikers who've been held there for two years now. Today, they were reportedly sentenced to eight years in prison. But there are many questions about whether they could still come home sooner. ABC's Jim Sciutto on this story from the start. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And it has been 25 years since President Reagan called Gadhafi the "mad dog" of the Middle East because of those careening moods Richard Haass just described. ABC's Jim Sciutto looks back at the long rule and twisted road of Moammar Gadhafi. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JOSH ELLIOTT (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We're gonna turn now to that basketball showdown that turned into an international incident. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And now, an attempt at a little friendly US-China diplomacy has ended in a debacle. Fists, chairs, water bottles flying, a brawl during an exhibition basketball game. The Georgetown Hoyas playing China. So, what happened? Here's ABC's Jim Sciutto. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ELIZABETH VARGAS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) All right. Four days now of mob violence in London has that city on edge this morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And back in Washington tonight, while everybody's been focused on that huge debt debate, conservatives in the House of Representatives have quietly mounted an unprecedented assault on environmental regulations, including limits on a form of mining that literally shears the top off of mountains in order to get coal. This kind of mining is incredibly controversial, even pitting families in coal country against one another. ABC's Jim Sciutto reports tonight from West Virginia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BIANNA GOLODRYGA (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) But as we can see, compromise is proving very hard to come by. We have a team of reporters and analysts covering all angles of the story this morning. But we begin with ABC's Jim Sciutto on Capitol Hill. Good morning, Jim. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It's the morning of dramatic rescues here, it seems, and this one is at one of the most famous falls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) For millions of Americans, this year's Fourth of July will be bittersweet. In a gloomy economy, the great dreams of home ownership and financial solvency are slipping further and further out of reach. And cities like Pontiac, Michigan are seeing a steady erosion of the middle class. Now Pontiac is trying to fight back against increasingly difficult odds. Here's ABC's Jim Sciutto. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Good evening. It is the engine that could rev up our economy, manufacturing, making things right here in America. And today, a name we all grew up with, Mars Candy, announced plans to hire hundreds of workers and build a new quarter billion dollar factory. It's first on American soil in decades. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]