heart aches and the fears ♪ ♪ she did her part and right from the start she loved him ♪ ♪ with a mother'son nbc. >> i'm a wreck. ♪ >>> and we're back with "everyone has a story" and of course a very special woman. >> cara lee just performed "a mother's heart johni and honored by her daughter betsy. and our accompanyist david wild who is wild. >> he is. >> so what did you think? >> it was beautiful. amazing. perfect. sounded just like my mom, the whole song. thank you for writing it. >> you sing that well? [ laughter ] >> cara lee, you were a home run. she just really owe every time, right? >> every, every time. >> now, we have some parting gifts for our friends, don't we? >> we like to give a couple surprises out. we wanted someone to take care of you two for a change so blackberry farin tennessee donated a weekend for two, you get meals, facials, massages. that way you don't have to get on a plane, you can giddyup and go. and it's going to be a fun little -- a thing for the two of you. >> that's what we wanted, a spa treatment for your mom. >> she deserves that. are you going to enjoy th

i hope you have a great mother's day. don't have to have great weather to do a great breakfast in bed. >> unless it's 3:00 a.m. >> thank you, skipper. >>> coming up here on "good morning america," hundreds of moms applied, but we can only pick three of you to try out some of those ads seen on tv. products like this hands-free handset for busy moms. does it work? our mother's day's edition of "mom testers" after this quick break. >> love all the mom testers. >>> plus the video you and your moms don't want to miss. the 2-year-old who went toe to toe with a dinosaur. wait till you see what happens next. that's right. and that's ahead in this morning's "fixation." dude you don't understand, this is my dad's car. look at the car! my dad's gonna kill me dude... [ male announcer ] the security of a 2012 iihs top safety pick. the volkswagen passat. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease the 2012 passat for $209 a month. start out softer and more vulnerable? new aquafresh kids fresh and fruity toothpaste gently cle

now, what you don't have is just a mother like i'm a mother of two grown children. have made mistakes. some of them big, some of them not so big. and at my age at 57 with my kids the age they are, what i grapple with right now is how profound were the big mistakes, how will they resonate with my children as they move into their own adulthood. and so there's no way i could not have played this part and not played it with the commitment to my own personal connection, and it's a frightening role because she's not a very sympathetic character for a lot of the time. she makes a lot of mistakes. and it was very difficult because sometimes i'd think it's too much, it's too much. and you don't want to repel audiences, obviously. and i would look to my brilliant mentor and co-star ellen bersten and say, is it too much? and she would say go ahead, try to play the scene another way. don't lose the honesty of your character, ellen. remember your work. remember how you work and go try. and i couldn't. and it was gut wrenching work. i mean, it was grueling. it was like every day

the cover image of "time" magazine shows a mother breast feeding her son. some say the cover goes too far. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think a photo depicting a mother breast-feeding a 3-year- old child is an appropriate image for the cover of "time" magazine? you can share your response on wbaltv.com, on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> when it comes to saving for retirement, many americans are not doing it. 49% of americans are contributing to a 401(k) or an ira plan. the largest age group not saving is between 18 and 34. it is critical that young people start saving. the largest trading bank has lost $2 billion. is is an embarrassment. company stock plummeted 7%. other bank stocks suffered heavy losses as well. would you give a set of tires for mother's day? some mothers are ok with that. jane king has the bloomberg business report. >> good morning. california's bill to forbid perspective employers about facebook pass rates would follow a maryland law. the bill now heads to the senate

so how cool is it to be a mom tester on mother's day? lied to try out the products that we've all seen on tv like a skillet made from crushed diamonds. will this make mother's day even more egg-citing? >> boy, that's the worst pun i've ever heard. >> ever in the history of the world. >> save me. becky worley, abc's tech contributor, has the answer. check it out. ♪ >> reporter: this mother's day give mom a gift you know she'll love. >> approved. >> reporter: that's right, another edition of "gma" mom testers. >> let's give it a try. >> reporter: three "gma" viewers and three new as seen on tv products. will they get a mom approved or a mom disappointed? let's meet our moms. from mahopac, new york, adrienne eppolito, mom of three. from chicago, illinois, yvette taylor, mom of one boy and one on the way. and from fair oaks, california, kerri olson with two boys and one girl. first up, since it is mother's day, we figured we'd start our moms off with a little relaxation. >> hot booties are the greatest solution to cold and achy feet. >> repor

this has a specials mother's day edition to turn photos into a digital scrapbook. those who plan to take mom out, scope out the local restaurants on a gooddining.com. people can donate up to six % of their meal tab to the cause of their choice. >> those are all great ideas. some ideas for you. but you have to have a smart phone. >> i have to go back to the pen and queill. will you pay for youtube? jane king has the bloomberg business report. happy friday. >> happy friday. the postal service may have gone a lifeline earlier this week. it is not out of the water. ups says they will run out of crash temporarily by october. there would like to pay for future retirees' health benefits in advance. jpmorgan had a $2 billion trading loss. this is designed to hedge against risk. their overall earnings for the second quarter will likely take a hit. kind of a shocker for markets. futures under some pressure this boy. the s&p did recovered some losses. losses for cisco. in an genome sciences back in the news. class go smithkline looking to buy the company -- glass co smithklin

as a result of that, was she the mother because she gave birth? will punt on this case and say, listen, based upon the fact that she is the birth mother and there's not a valid surrogate agreement, therefore, i'm deciding the issue of who the child stays with on a regular basis. >> no gay marriage in texas means it is not valid. so you cannot be a surrogate. >> right. it's not for a judge to pass judgments and engage in whether same-sex marriage is legal. if the law says there is no valid surrogate with an unmarried parent, the legislature would have to enact a law that makes it lawful. >> they were not her eggs. she carried those babies. what does that tell us about all the adoptive parents out there who are legally parents and don't have the biological connection to their bay bbiebab? >> she carried that baby to term. as a result, she's the mother. biological mother, not excluded, she's the mother. >> we'll get resolution soon. >> i hope so. >> the judge is making a delay on ruling in the case until next month. until then, miss close is allowed

>> a mother and daughter shot to death inside their pleasanton home. the relative who's now a person of interest. >> how suspected robber in oakland escape from the back of a patrol car >> it will be hot in spots but we're cooling down towards the coast. >> no major incidents so far all across the bay area. will look at your morning commute coming up >> good morning everyone >> it is 5:00 now, we begin with a quiet east bay neighborhood surprised by the killings of a mother and daughter. >> lisa washington is in pleasanton where police are looking for a suspect >> as you might imagine police say the circumstances surrounding the shooting are still under investigation. they say it was the husband and father who found his wife and daughter when he returned home around 6:00 monday evening. police say that both a mother and daughter had been shot. they have not said if they had found the murder weapon but investigators did work throughout the night looking for evidence inside the home after they were able to get a search warrant. they say the husband and fa

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. >> she was a great mother. >> she was a great mother. but through just the most extraordinary circumstances. >> that monthly piece that ann marie slaughter wrote is how difficult it is to do that, to balance those types of things. >> the cost. >> it was not an attack on millmill hillary or the state department. this is a conversation we ought to be having instead of slagging on women like frankly hillary clinton about the slaughter there. >> oh, i don't know. >> i don't even need a binder. >> i think there's no one more qualified than hillary clinton to wade into this debate. and it's great to hear from you. there is, though, a cost on both sides, and that's the point. her point is you have to live with the costs that you're going to pay for the decisions that you make. >> one of the tough consequences of the feminist revolution is there are more choices, and it makes it harder.

. >> my wife made a phone call to >> her mother terrified. >> it's your worse nightmare imagining what's happening to your child. >> a note with big demands left by mist ear kidnappers who seemed to know all, see all. >> they're watching the house. >> they're watching the house. >> and then the victim herself called. >> her mom, jumping into work with police would hand over the ransom herself. >> if i didn't drop the money properly that would be the end for quinn. >> she dropped the cash all right, but who picked it up? >> that's where everything went wrong. >> everything went wrong. >> a kidnapping case about to go way off script. >> her story did not make sense. >> what was really going on? >> i'm a cop of 11 years. i blushed when i listened to the tape. >> a story with more twists and turns than the florida roads they raced along trying to find this missing mom. >> this case was not going turn out like a lot of people assumed. >> josh mankiewicz with "ransom." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thanks for joining us. i'm lester holt. whenever someone is kidnapped it triggers a race against time as police often

a beautiful day for mother's day... the temperature rose to 72 degrees... night tonight. it will be nice again tomorrow. it could be 80 degrees on tuesday. a lot of blue sky. the morning started with a little clouds. the sunshine came out and stayed. plenty of warm air down to the south of us. at the moment. 62 degrees. not much humidity so temperatures will drop tonight into the 30's and 40's. dew point temps... low numbers. take all loo look as we move through the week... cooler air 10 days from now. new mexico had strong storms. look at this... tamara and nothing but sunshineomorrow nothing but sunshine. brief shower on tuesday possible. clear skies tonight. another bright sunny day tomorrow. 74-78 degrees... clouds on tuesday but still warm. wednesday will be a little cooler. but then the temperatures pick up again. the weekend will be warm. >> a mother's day tradition in it for mom's to be >> still to come the happy ceremony at holy name living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... could mean living with joint damage. help stop the

i learn how to be a mother the way a mother should be.the heros and sheros youth prevention program was developed to serve the 5- through 18-year-old youth of the parents that are receiving substance abuse services through shields for families. that program is a culturally enriched environment in which the children come to an afterschool program when they leave their elementary school and are provided tutoring, mentoring, one-on-one homework assistance. it's just a wonderful supportive leg for the families to have. we want to encourage these youth to go to school and further their education and let them know that anything that they want is obtainable. we also want to bring back the families. you know, we want to make sure that they are cohesive and they work well with each other and in addition we also want to build the community as a whole. we respect our clients, we value our clients' opinions about the services that are provided, and we listen real well to what our clients have in reference to input. and we recognize that our families

mother." the whole culture is mommy obsessed. saw a lactation anxiety, should you let your baby breastfeed until they're president or something. so given our angst about mothers helping you become what you are going to be, you can see in the governing and ethical policy choices of their sons? >> president obama makes it clear that his choice to go into public service came from his mother, who was an anthropologist, who worked in international development, micro finance, lived half her adult life in indonesia. the country with the largest muslim population in the world. a very unconventional person, but in can you patrioted valueso in life is contribute to helping other people with opportunities that weren't born to them. you see it is clear in the way he chose to live with his marriage and family, completely different from her. she had two husbands, spent a lot of her adult life -- >> not at the same time, correct? >> correct. and he made a very clear choice to root himself in within place, marry a woman from chicago. in reaction to th

. >> she was a young single mother working hard for her family. but one night a lone gunshot ended it all. a devoted mother of three murdered. >> people in the house, the landlord, people next door, no one heard anything. >> her daughter tried to protect her brothers. >> i told them to stay in the room. i didn't want them to see. >> police were puzzled. neighbors baffled. her son, haunted. >> i still hurt. i still long for my mother's touch. >> who was the killer? >> it blew me back. and it was such a shock. >> an unlikely suspect. >> i wanted it to be somebody else. i wanted to be mad at somebody else. >> an unbearable secret. >> it was so overwhelming, i mean, i became numb. >> now the only one who really knows what happened that night speaks out. >> people would ask me where's my mom, i'd just say she died. i wouldn't get into details. >> in this hour, "a deadly secret." 1967, newark, new jersey. riots rip apart the fabric of the city. it would be a long, hot summer. just four years later racial tension and unrest still linger. in this apartment

a mother and her calf were first seen there over the weekend. the sight has driven a lot of people to the shore. the oceanic society says it will begin a study next month to see why whales seem to be drawn into the bay. >>> bill martin join us now from the weather center with what to expect. >> our first weekend of spring, the temperatures are warm today. outside, we've got some light sprinkles headed your way. that's about it. the main thing it does is sort of creeks open the storm door more for the saturday storm we're talking about. here are the highs for today, significant. it was really warm in livermore, 76 in morgan hill. as we go into tomorrow, there will be a few more clouds as part of an onshore flow. 46 in san jose, 48 in morgan hill, and a bit of fog out there. not a lot. thursday, not a bad day. the clouds will be out there, but temperatures will be dropping off a few degrees. the weekend is what we're staring at right now. the saturday storm has legs. it has some wind with it. and we'll probably also see some snow in the mountains.

police are investigating the violent death of a 13-year-old girl and her mother. easanton with what investigators are saying, tara? >> reporter: well police will not say if this is a double homicide or suicide but it is looking more like the latter and there is no reason to believe there was a killer at large. a key piece of evidence, a gun was found inside this house off of stacy court. police came home and made the gruesome discovery of his wife. amy had a single gunshot wound and her 13-year-old daughter had also been shot where she later died. the husband was the one to call 911. >> exactly what transpired, we are still not sure. >> we have not found any which is yet. >> reporter: police are trying to piece together what happened and there was no sign anybody broke into the home. her husband was there answering questions for police, he is not a suspect but he is considered a person of interest. police are not ruling anything out. the police recently -- police say they recently moved here from out of state. live from pleasanton tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 morni

mother? >> nobody! >> nobody. my mom's not with us today. she's got a lot going on at home so i want to send my mom some mother's day wishes out there. >> we love your mom. >> i love it when the two of them are together. >> we love joanie. >>> let's talk about what moms really want for mother's day. here are some things that you definitely should not do. >> this is a survey from totsie.com. >> what moms actually don't want. they don't want a picnic because they end up getting all the stuff, trying to get everyone out the door, trying to figure out how to organize -- >> and they get to clean up afterward, too. same reason they don't want a party at home. don't give her a party at home because you know you're not going to do the work. she's going to. >> do not give your mother a wake-up call from the kids. let her sleep. >> yeah. but it's also kind of sweet when they come in, happy mother's day, mom. their little cards and stuff. i don't know. at the beginning you might be mildly disturbed, then it is just so sweet. they are excited. they do not want expe

i learn how to be a mother the way a mother should be.the heros and sheros youth prevention program was developed to serve the 5- through 18-year-old youth of the parents that are receiving substance abuse services through shields for families. that program is a culturally enriched environment in which the children come to an afterschool program when they leave their elementary school and are provided tutoring, mentoring, one-on-one homework assistance. it's just a wonderful supportive leg for the families to have.

>> i want to recommend a book, are you my mother. other, understanding your mother, and also respecting what she gave you. allison beck dell. thank you all, and thank you for joining us. we will be back next weekend, saturday and sunday at 8:00 eastern time. it will include ezra klein. get more info on tomorrow's show on facebook and sign up for my web chat at noon eastern wednesday. go to twilight of the elites on facebook for appearances, discussing my book. >>> coming up next, melissa harris-perry. >> i can't hear that question about are you my mother without thinking you're not my mother, you're a scary snort! this mother's day we look at president obama's momma and mitt romney's mom and what they can tell us about their governing. also, a look at the sad and growing crisis of moms in prison and broken families they leave behind and what happens to the children of moms in prison. and we're going to continue to talk same sex marriage because mitt romney, even though he said he didn't want to talk about t he talked about it. >> that

. >> i'm a good mother. >> dr. phil: my crusade the house was a wreck. >> i'm going 500 miles per hour nonstop. >> dr. phil: people speculate that your energy was because you were on drugs. >> right now if we weren't talking, i'd be cleaning and cooking. >> dr. phil: have you ever taken drugs? >> dr. phil: let's do it. if we're going to do something here that matters, then we've got to deal with the truth. >> have a good show, everybody. here we go. >> dr. phil: if i can help get this family back on track, are you willing to do that? >> ready, three. take. >> dr. phil: this is going to be a changing day in your life. [cheers & applause] >> dr. phil: hey, guys. well, she has been dubbed one of the most controversial, one of the most hated, one of the worst parents in america. three years ago nadya suleman gave birth to octuplets making her the mother of 14. today she's back because there are even more reasons to ask her what were you thinking? now, that's also the question i have for my first guest. 28-year-old alici

a young mother home alone with her baby, two men tries to break in. she's armed with a shotgun and a telephone. >> i've got two guns in my hand. is it okay to shoot him? >>> plus, swamp brothers. neck deep and nose to nose with death. >> she's crushing my arm. >> they brave nature's gnarliest places to capture ain't chen predators. we wade in. >>> and, a daughter's story. she was a 9-year-old victim who captured the nation's broken heart. tonight, for the first time, her parents talk about their emotional meeting with the congresswoman who barely survived. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," january 4th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we gip tonight with an extraordinary case of a mother's protective instinct. 18-year-older sarah mckinley was home alone on new year's eve with her baby. her husband has died the week before of cancer. when two men tried to break in. she then made two fateful decisions. she picked up a shotgun and she pic