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One Family’s Desperate Attempt to Survive Nine Brutal Winter Days Lost in the Oregon Wilderness, with Little Food and Surrounded by Black Bears
Kati Kim’s First-Ever Televised Detailed Account Airs Exclusively on a Two-hour Special Edition of “20/20,” Friday, February 11, 9-11 pm ET on ABC

It was Thanksgiving 2006 when the Kim family from San Francisco vanished without a trace.  James Kim was travelling with his wife Kati and their two young children, four years old and seven months old, when they took a wrong turn in a blizzard and became desperately lost deep in the Oregon wilderness.  For nine days the questions mounted… Where were the Kims?  What happened to them?  Were they alive?   “Families don’t simply disappear,” one rescuer said.  But the Kims did and their story riveted and shocked the nation. “Wrong Turn” is the definitive account of this harrowing story of love, hope, despair, sacrifice, death and ultimately, survival.  It is, after years of silence, Kati Kim’s first televised detailed account of how an innocent family holiday trip turned into a deadly nightmare.  Kim’s heartfelt, never-before-seen interview is an ABC News exclusive that will take viewers through every dramatic twist and turn.  The documentary, narrated by “20/20” Correspondent Jay Schadler, also includes interviews with the rescuers who risked their own lives to save the Kims.  “Wrong Turn” airs on a Special Edition of “20/20” on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.

Like a scene from a chilling horror movie, the young family is trapped in isolated woods miles away from any help and surrounded by black bears.  As each day passes and their hopes of rescue dim, Kati Kim will resort to breast feeding her two daughters to keep them from dying.  They will battle starvation, sub-zero temperatures, frostbite and hypothermia and at one point, desperately set their tires afire in an attempt to signal help.  And in their darkest moment they will even contemplate ending their own ordeal by slitting their wrists and laying their bodies in the snow.

How did the Kims survive such an extreme environment? What clues did the family leave the heroic search teams? And what happened when James Kim, in his final attempt to save his family, decided to leave the car and look for help?

            “Wrong Turn” was acquired from Firecracker Films. “20/20” is anchored by Elizabeth Vargas and Chris Cuomo. David Sloan is executive producer

Black Business on the rise! Posted by Meosha Eaton

ABC News’ Arlette Saenz reports:

The number of black-owned businesses in the U.S. increased by 60.5% to 1.9 million between 2002 and 2007, more than triple the national rate according to U.S. Census data released Tuesday. The number of businesses across the country increased by 18% in the same amount of time. Black-owned businesses, which are defined by the government as firms with African-American owners holding a 51% or larger stake in the business, raked in $137 billion in sales and receipts and made up 7.1% of businesses nationwide in 2007, compared to 5.2% in 2002.

But while the number of black-owned businesses surged, many of these businesses remain small. “Many black owned firms still remain very small businesses,” Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said. “87% of all black-owned firms according to the survey earn less than $50,000 dollars a year in receipts.”

The data came from the Survey of Business Owners: Black-Owned Businesses: 2007, which provides detailed information every five years for black-owned businesses, including the number of firms, sales and receipts, number of paid employees and annual payroll. The states with the most black-owned businesses in 2007 were New York (204,032), Georgia (183,874) and Florida (181,437) making up 10.6, 9.6, and 9.4 percent respectively of black-owned businesses nationwide. New York City was the largest city with black-owned businesses in 2007- 154,929 - followed by Chicago (58,631), Houston (33,062) and Detroit (32,490). The Motor City had the highest percentage of businesses in its city that were black-owned at 64%.

Other cities with heavy proportions of black-owned businesses were Memphis (38%), Baltimore (35%), Atlanta (31%) and Washington, D.C. (28%) On the state level, 28% of the District of Columbia’s businesses were black-owned. Following D.C. were Georgia (20%), Maryland (19%), Mississippi (18%) and Louisiana (16%). Blacked-owned businesses were prominent in health care and social assistance (19% of black-owned businesses), repair and maintenance and personal and laundry services (19% of black-owned businesses), and administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (11% of black-owned businesses) industries.

Morial touted the study’s findings and the impact it could have on fostering innovation and job creation by black-owned businesses across the country. “It’s very important for every community in the nation that can glean from the report a profile of the black-owned firms in that city in terms of size, in terms of numbers.

I think it helps those communities develop coherent economic growth and economic development plans because while black-owned businesses remain relatively small, the fact that there’s an increase in business ownership, an increase in interest in entrepreneurship means that by focusing attention on helping black-owned businesses grow, you can create jobs and economic growth in the community.

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