Courtesy Sui Lan Gomez

Sui Lan Gomez, a teacher in Kamuela, Hawaii, handmade these sweet graduation notes for each of her six students.

“I wanted to do something that was fun and creative, and those candy bars have such cool logos,” Gomez told GoodMorningAmerica.com.

Gomez has been a teacher for 22 years. Four years ago, she left her job as a tenured public school teacher to work in the private sector.

“This is the fourth year I’ve done it,” said Gomez, 48. “I always try to do something for the different holidays. I try to make it special for them the next day. These guys are going on to middle school so I wanted to make it special.”

The full note uses different candy to create the message: “Look! I have some good news for you! Even though this year may have been a rocky road with your schoolwork, you got a big hunk of work done! I hope you learned to work now & later play, then maybe you’ll grow up to be successful nerds and make 100 grand. Love, Ms. Gomez.”

Her students, ranging from 4^th to 7^th grade, enjoyed their special graduation gifts.

“They smiled, they laughed. They thought it was great. Their moms did, too,” Gomez explained. “That was my whole idea. To brighten up their day. I know it hasn’t been easy with the different challenges you’ve had throughout the year, but you know what, celebrate your accomplishments.”

Gomez wants the notes to serve as an inspirational message.

“They can catch a vision,” she said. “They laughed when they thought I was calling them nerds. I don’t want you to be a nerd. But there were no candy bars called ‘Cool Dude.’”

David Gonzalez was intrigued by the rare copy of Action Comics No. 1, which introduced the iconic Man of Steel to the world. Gonzalez did some research and found out his find could be worth a pretty penny.

The website of Comic Connect, the Manhattan-based Internet vintage comic auction house that’s selling Gonzalez’s hidden treasure, described it as “holy grail of Superman comic books.”

The auction opened on Monday. As of Thursday night, there were 34 bids on the comic, with the highest bid being $127,000.

The comic could have been valued at far more, but it was damaged when an excited relative handled it too roughly. Gonzalez, 35, told ABC News that his wife’s aunt kept touching the book and handling it, resulting in tears to the back cover.

Vincent Zurzolo, the chief operations officer for Comic Connect, told ABC News that the comic was valued at about $150,000. On an industry scale that ranks a comic’s condition from 1 to 10, Gonzalez’s comic was a 1.5. Had it not been torn, it could have been worth an estimated $75,000 more.

“It’s quite an expensive tear,” Zurzolo said.

Comic Connect sold a near-perfect copy of an Action Comics No. 1 for $2.16 million.

Gonzalez, a married father of four from Hoffman, Minn., paid $10,100 for the house where he found the comic.

A nearby restaurant had wanted to buy the vacant home for $10,000 in order to knock it down and build a parking lot. Gonzalez saw a renovation opportunity and offered the property owner $100 more than the restaurant had.

Gonzalez said when he renovates homes, he always puts money inside the walls as a treat for any future renovators.

“The irony here, obviously, is all these years he’s been putting money behind these walls and now he finds this treasure trove behind a wall,” Zurzolo said. “It’s an exciting story. It’s really wonderful for my company to be a part of this.”

The auction closes on June 11.  Zurzolo will get to keep 90 percent of the final sale price, and Comic Connect will get a 10 percent commission.

Gonzalez said the money won’t change him. He doesn’t even plan to go on a big spending spree.

“I’ll fix my house … upgrade my tools,” he said.

He also plans to finance his children’s education, and he wants to buy a Chevrolet Camaro – a used one.

Deanna Gonzalez, David Gonzalez’s wife, still can’t believe the excitement of the past few days.

“It’s crazy,” she said. “I never expected anything like this to happen to us.”

"Star Trek" Spoof at Nuclear Power Plant (Image credit: 10NEWS)

Reported by ABC News’ Nichole Smith:

There’s no telling what some senior executives will do to support the corporate culture – but a recently surfaced three-year-old  video from a nuclear power plant shows executives going where perhaps no executives have gone before.

In full Federation uniforms, several executives and line employees at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station,  or SONGS,  in Pendleton, Calif., made a spoof “Star Trek” video called “SONGS TREK” right inside the nuclear station’s training facility, reported ABC’s San Diego affiliate KGTV.

The video spoof was supported by those at the very top.

San Onofre’s then-chief nuclear officer Ross Ridenoure took the starring role as Capt. James T. Kirk, with San Onofre’s current vice president and station manager Doug Bauder playing one of the crew members.

And no “Star Trek” detail was spared as a  rather imperious Dr. Spock appeared, sporting full make-up and an arched set of Vulcan eyebrows.

But not everyone was a fan of the folly.

Taping the adventures of Starship Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,  as the San Onofre crew redubbed  the  Starship Enterprise,  in the midst of  a nuclear power plant apparently rubbed some its employees the wrong way.

An “ inside”  San Onofre source requesting anonymity told KGTV that workers had found the video spoof “inappropriate.”

The video “was a lighthearted thing,”  Maureen Brown, spokeswomen for Southern California Edison,  San Onofre’s parent company, told ABC News, explaining that the video was intended for an employee recognition event, and its focus was safety.

Even in this  tongue-and-cheek effort, that message still managed to come through as Ridenoure, in typical Kirk fashion, rallied the crew when the Starship hit an unusual “space fabric.”

“So many safety hazards, lieutenants.  Are you prepared  to get us out of our current situation?” he asked.

The  U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which never knew about this 2010 video until KGTV contacted the agency for comment, recently reviewed it and found no cause for alarm.

Quite the contrary: The spoofed back-and-forth dialogue  actually reinforced the three-way communication that nuclear power plant employees should use to ensure instructions are properly understood, an agency spokesman told ABC News. “It was a teaching opportunity,” he said.

But ultimately the spoof splattered.

Despite the effort and the $800 cost, the video was never finished and was never shown at any employee recognition event.

And Capt. Kirk no longer helms the bridge.

Ridenoure has since left San Onofre, but Brown took care to explain that his departure had nothing to do with the galactic team-building exercise.

San Onofre was shut down in January 2012 because of radiation leaks, reported KGTV. Southern California Edison has submitted a request to reopen the station at 70 percent power, but the NRC told ABC News it had set no date for acting on that request.

So forget the sequel. There’s not much chance that Kirk and crew will rise again – at least at San Onofre.

Between now and the end of the Atlantic hurricane season (Nov. 30) the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration predicts 13 to 20 named storms, of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes. Three to six of those hurricanes could be major, with winds 111 mph or greater.

As alarming as these numbers might be, NOAA officials stress they cannot predict the number of hurricanes that will actually strike U.S. soil. The last major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S., Wilma, struck in 2005.  Since then, a total of five Category 1 or 2 storms (with winds up to 100 mph) have hit the U.S.

Three climate factors are coming together to produce an “active” or “extremely active” hurricane season, NOAA forecasters said today. Ongoing climate patterns off the coast of Africa have spawned a period of high hurricane activity since 1995. Water temperatures are warmer than average in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean are absent this season; those tend to keep hurricanes from forming.

The 2013 prediction follows an especially active 2012 Atlantic season, which produced 19 named storms. (The average is 12, according to NOAA.) Of those storms, 10 became hurricanes and two became “major” hurricanes packing wind speeds 111 miles an hour or greater. Two tropical storms fired up in May, even before the official start of the 2012 season: Alberto and Beryl. The deadliest 2012 storm by far was Sandy, which killed at least 147 people as it raked its way across the Caribbean to the Eastern Seaboard.

In the U.S., Sandy caused approximately $50 billion in damage.

On Monday, NOAA predicted a below-normal hurricane season for the Central Pacific Basin.

“Now is the time to start thinking about the hurricane season that is coming,” said NOAA acting director Kathryn Sullivan. “Make your plans.”

National Hurricane Preparedness Week is May 26 through June 1.

A Los Angeles teenager who was turned down by one of the world’s hottest models after his YouTube “prom-posal” went viral, has managed to land a first-class backup date when the model that  Sports Illustrated named Rookie of the Year agreed to attend his prom with him.

Jake Davidson’s March 16 video in which he asks white-hot model Kate Upton to attend his prom with him, reached more than 2.5 million viewers.  In the clip, Davidson  is seen lounging on a reclining patio chair, lathering up before a shave, practicing  pushups and shampooing in the shower.

“You’re on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I read Sports Illustrated. …  Kate, great moments are born from great opportunity. And that’s what you have here today. A chance to make a nice guy’s senior year the best ever.”

The high school senior’s plea, showing  no small amount of chutzpah when he coyly asked   if he could call Upton Katie, made it to the 20-year-old  cover model, who  soon tweeted back to Davidson.

“You can call me Katie if you want! How could I turn down that video!  I’ll check my schedule (wink),” she wrote.

Alas, when Upton finally did check her schedule, the “maybe” turned into a definitive “no.” The news even made it into a segment on “Inside Edition.”

Although Davidson didn’t get his dream date, his  prom night won’t be a total loss. He’ll be bringing Danish model Nina Agdal — the  Rookie of the Year  from this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

“Inside Edition” went dress shopping with the beauty, who even has her own sexy Carl’s Junior ad, just like Upton.

Tonight Davidson and his date will be turning heads — which is certainly much better than going stag.

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A Georgia woman said she is thankful to be alive after a 20-foot section of a 747 cargo plane’s wing fell off before part of it came crashing into her home.

Pamela Ware was in her Clayton County, Ga., home Sunday afternoon when she heard a boom from above.

“I was like, ‘Huh?’” Ware told local ABC affiliate WSB.  “Actually, I hit the floor.”

The boom Ware heard was a part of the wing of a China Airlines-operated Boeing 747 cargo plane flying to Atlanta from Anchorage, Alaska.  As the plane approached Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a piece of its right wing tore off, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing, according to WSB.

Part of the ripped debris landed on top of Ware’s house, while another chunk of the plane’s wing landed a few miles away, in the parking lot of a Walmart.

The plane’s debris punctured two holes in Ware’s roof before landing in her yard.

“If it had landed in here, because that is just Sheetrock, it would have … oh, boy, I wouldn’t be no good,” Ware, who could not be reached today by ABCNews.com, told WSB.  “I just keep thinking of what could have happened.”

Federal officials are investigating what caused the plane’s wing to break.

When Clay Metro was 3, he nearly died after falling into a pool.

“My husband I had gone for a run. We were at the beach at my dad’s house by his community pool,” Clay’s mother, Laura Metro of Potomac, Md., told ABC News today. “Some friends were watching Clay. … We believe that Clay tripped on a towel and fell into the deep end. There were about eight or so other people at the pool and no one saw.”

Metro said that as she and her husband returned, her daughter ran out of the pool area, saying, “I think Clay died.”

Clay had been under the water for just a few minutes.

“He was blue. He had no life,” Metro said. “As bad as you think it was, it was worse.”

Today, the Consumer Product Safety Commission pleaded with parents as the Memorial Day weekend and the start of the summer season approached, to teach children how to swim and to put fences around pools.

According to the commission, an average of 290 kids under 5 drown each year. And more than half drown in their family pool. The largest group of victims are just 2 years old.

As Metro and her family waited for the paramedics to arrive, a friend performed CPR on Clay. He was flown by Medivac to a children’s hospital in Wilmington, Del., where he remained in a coma for two days.

Two years later, at the age of 5, Clay is mostly recovered with a few lingering effects — and Metro is now an advocate for pool safety and the founder of the CLAY Foundation.

Inez Tenenbaum, the commission’s chair, said that simple steps — never leave a child unsupervised near a pool, make sure children learn how to swim, put fences around pools and learn CPR — could save lives.

The recommendations and warnings are not new but unfortunately the numbers have remained steady.

“Children are drowning,” Tenenbaum said. “It is silent. It’s quick. Someone is at the bottom of the pool and they have been there for a few minutes and you can’t resuscitate them unless you know CPR on the spot.”

Metro said that even though Clay had taken two semesters of swim classes before the incident, he had not learned how to float on his back. She said parents should make sure children learn how to float during swim lessons.

“The bottom line is, he fell in and he sank,” she said. “I wasn’t aware of the dangers. I didn’t know what drowning looked like. I didn’t know it was as fast as it is.”

Olympic swimmer Cullen Jones was underwater for about 30 seconds and nearly became a statistic at the age of 5.

“They had to pull me out and resuscitate me, and my mom got me into swimming lessons really quickly after,” he said.

Now the 2008 and 2012 gold medal winner says he is trying to inspire and teach children about the importance of knowing how to swim through the USA Swimming Foundation’s Make a Splash.

“There’s a simple cure: Getting swim lessons is the answer to drownings. It’s just like riding a bike,” he said. “You never forget how to do it. … Swimming is fun.”

ABC News’ David Kerley and Daniel Steinberger contributed to this story.

Authorities in Stuart, Iowa, are on the hunt for a bank robber who strolled into a branch of the First State Bank in a glamorous bright green dress and took off in a getaway car.

At 3:45 p.m. on Monday, police responded to the report of a robbery at First State Bank in Stuart. The suspect, who may have been wearing a wig, according to police, handed a teller a note demanding money, and the teller complied.

A witness reported to police that the suspect then climbed into a trunk of a newer model dark navy sedan, which was parked nearby in an alley.

The suspect was approximately 5’4″ with dark red or brown hair, police said. Police Chief David Reha told ABCNews.com today that there have been no updates yet in the case.

The Stuart Police Department is being assisted by the FBI and DCI in its criminal investigation.

The King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania kicked out three sisters last Sunday for wearing matching hats with a message:  Fu*k Cancer. Over one of the letters was a strategically placed pink breast cancer ribbon.

The ladies, who spoke to the ABC News affiliate WPVI, said they were honoring their mother, who died last Tuesday of breast cancer and had battled the disease for four years.

“The logo, the saying, is the only expression that I feel is strong enough to defeat the word, defeat the disease,” Zakia Clark told WPVI.

The sisters were shopping for funeral dresses when a security guard approached them and asked them to leave.

“I said, ‘I’m not leaving. I spend money here and I’m not going to leave,’” Zakia told WPVI.

“He said, ‘You know what? Shut your mouth. That was your cue to stop shopping.’ So I removed my hat,” she said.

The incident was caught on camera and the women were kicked out.

The King of Prussia Mall told ABC News in a statement they were sorry for the misunderstanding.

“King of Prussia Mall extends [its] sincere condolences to Zakia Clark, her sisters and other family members. Sunday’s situation was a very unfortunate misunderstanding between our mall security personnel who are responsible for upholding the safety and integrity of the mall’s public spaces and this family at their time of loss. We have spoken with Zakia and believe we have resolved this misunderstanding as she graciously accepted our expression of sorrow for their loss and regret for the situation.”

When questioned on why the women were singled out for their attire, when stores inside the mall such as Urban Outfitters sell shirts that have the same expletives and are not censored, a mall spokesperson told ABC News that they “work with our retailers to avoid having any controversial material from being displayed directly in store front windows to help provide a pleasant and family-friendly shopping environment for our customers.”

“To say they don’t want that in their mall, but they sell it… it just wasn’t right,” Makia Underwood said. “It wasn’t right to kick us out, and you sell things with curse words on them.”

The sisters told WPVI that their mother’s funeral was set for today.

One of the most gripping images to emerge from the deadly tornado that devastated the town of Moore, Okla., Monday was of a man in a red shirt grasping a young student in an emotional hug, both of them covered in debris and surrounded by devastation.

The story behind the photo is even more emotional, the story of a first responder who was the first familiar face the young boy saw when he realized he’d survived the EF-5 twister that killed 24 people Monday and injured hundreds more.

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“I was so happy that I saw him,” the boy, Hezekiah Darbon, 6, said today on “Good Morning America.”  “I didn’t know that he was coming.  I thought my mom and dad were going to be the first ones.”

The “he” in the photo is Jim Routon, 47, a first responder from Moore who rushed to one of the most devastated spots in the city, Briarwood Elementary school, where Hezekiah is a first-grade student, after surviving the storm himself in a tornado shelter.

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“When we got to the school it was pretty much chaos and destruction,” Routon, whose three adult children attended Briarwood, said on “GMA.”

“People were just running in all directions, trying to find their children,” he said.  “First responders were racing to the scene of where the collapsed walls were in the school and the children were emerging from the wreckage.”

When Hezekiah emerged from the wreckage, he saw Routon, his next-door neighbor, who considers Hezekiah his “part-time kid.”

“I think I needed that hug as much as he did,” Routon said of their surprise reunion.  “The embrace that we had, it was a very emotional connection.”

Hezekiah became a “part-time kid” to Routon after his family moved next door four years ago.  The pair’s relationship is so special that Hezekiah created nicknames for them, “Little Dog” for himself and “Big Dog” for Routon.

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When Routon got to Briarwood Elementary School, which authorities say received a “direct hit” from the twister, he saw his “Little Dog” was safe, with no injuries.

“It was very special, just to, when we came on the scene and to see everything, all the devastation, just to come on and to not expect anything good to come from what I saw and then to see my ‘Little Dog’ here run up,” Routon said.

“It was pretty satisfying to see something familiar and he wasn’t hurt, wasn’t scratched, bruises or anything like that,” he said.  “We’re very blessed.  We feel very, very blessed.”