it is abram's bbq.com. i love the tip of the wing, i love that. and today we are doing barbecue beans but guess what? with a twist. peach bar cue beans -- barbecue beans. >> we saute vegetables initially, and add a 15-ounce can of regular beans. we chose a vegetarian beans today but you can doctor it up with pork or any type of meat. we drain them, and we drain the juice off the peaches and are going to add those in there as well. >> two cans. you gave me the recipe. >> yes, ma'am. >> and the abram's barbecue sauce, our spicy version today. >> you do catering if someone wants you to come out and cater for them and you also do competition cooking? >> yes, ma'am. we enter barbecue competitions around the area, we recently placed first place down in charles county and in frederick replaced up there as well. >> really? my goodness. how did you get to be a chef? >> i had to feed myself once we got out of college. once we mix everything together j.c., you simply pour it in a bowl. >> peppers, green and yellow peppers that looks good. >> pop it in the ov

general, donald abrams was treating aids patients at the dedicated aids ward at san francisco general. and a lot of them were using marijuana. there was a volunteer brownie mary who provided marijuana brownies to aids patients, and she was arrested taking marijuana brownies. donald saw her arrest on tv. it went national on cnn, actually international. he sought in amsterdam at an international aids conference. others saw, and approach donald about doing a study. he began trying to do the study but was flummoxed and prevented from this by the bureaucracy, the dea, nida, it was just really insein prison because the national institute on drug abuse is is the only source for research grade marijuana. and their charter states that they can only provide money and resources for research intended to assess harm. so it is illegal in the united states, forbidden essentially, to conduct research on marijuana for beneficial purposes. and that's what he was trying to do and they wouldn't let him. so he went through and was trying, and as to when i was approaching -- went to 15 was approaching elec

donald abrams was treating aids patients and a lot of them are using marijuana. they provided a marijuana brownies and she was arrested making them. her arrest on tv international. we saw at the international aids conference. rick doblin of the multi- disciplinary studies for the mind, i talked about him doing a study study about this. he was prevented from the bureaucracy, the eea, nida, it was just a really insane pursuit. because the national institute on drug abuse is the only search for great marijuana. their charter states that they could only provide money and resources for research intended to accept. it is illegal in the united states, to conduct research on marijuana other than official purposes. that was what he was trying to do, and they would let him. they went through and was trying, and as to 15 is approachingpm, they are saying that they are not letting anybody do the research that would prove that it is. prop 215 past. and that is when everything started to change. it opened up a whole realm of freedom for which people could experiment and employ

. >> we want a first check of the weather from stephanie abrams. are you too speechless. >> i'm speechless. >> al's birthday. >> yes, it is al's birthday today. so al, happy birthday from the entire family here at the "today" show. let's show you the maps right now. we are seeing showers and storms into the southeast and carolinas, down into florida. this is a big front. it's going to continue to move eastbound here. for the rest of you today, we are going to see that sunshine through the midwest andth >> good morning. we're starting out with some cloud cover and some sprinkles. about a 30% chance for a rain shower. >> savannah, over to you. >> stephanie, thanks. just ahead. diana nyad fighting through storms owned her fourth attempt of a swim from florida to cuba. a live interview of the man watching over the 62-year-old's shot in history. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> still ahead today, more of rihanna's emotional interview with oprah. >>> the 6-year-old reality star called honey boo boo after your local news. no! who's gonna help cover the h

. >> reporter: in 2006, abram created the break dance project in uganda.reate a workshop teaching kids about beat box culture. since the three years of creating the break dance program, he works with any young person with a heart and desire to learn. >> break dance uganda is an organization that uses the hip-hop culture to empower youth and uplift the communities country-wide. people donate money, and we donate the skills. it has changed a lot of people's lives. a lot of people have become confident because they have something that they possess, something that belongs to them. a lot of us grew up being called disadvantaged kids, and this is where the pride is, because this is what they own as people, and something that nobody else can take away from them. >> reporter: you again uganda h called one of the worst places on earth. disease and violence have plagued the country for decades. >> one of the men inspiring that young man richard "crazy legs" colon inspired that young man and he has toured the country with that group, and what should i call you? crazy

he has dinner with his old buddy, abrams, who apparently is saying the same thing that my dad ends uping a few days later, this is all fouled up and there's no good way out, and are other people saying it. but because there was a little other internet noise, he was left with responsibility to, my dad, to say out loud that this war didn't seem justified anymore. which was sent radical so much as commonsensical. >> and at an enormous moment. could not be replicated today. >> that's exactly correct. i think many of you know the great star that lbj watched mr. cronkite deliver the commentary that night, turned the television off, turn to satan said well, if i've lost cronkite i've lost america. just very quickly, chip mentioned homer bigart was in korea, and he won another pulitzer in korea in partnership with a great higgins. marguerite was every, every bit as tough in order as homer and homer was no misogynist, but marguerite was give homer greece and homer would return it. just as good as he got it. and when word came down, forgive me if this offends anyone -- you know what's coming. w

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. >>> stephanie abrams is here with a check of the weather. nice on the east coast? >> yes, i want to talk more about the fires though first because we have advisories posted in >> showers and storms from texas on into louisiana and into the gulf coast as well. a closer look at the storms. where you see the deeper red that's where we have the heaviest of rain. here's a look at what's happening outside your door. >> good sunday morning. i'm meteorologist chuck bell. the rain drops are running ahead of schedule, everybody. so rain will be a part of your sunday forecast now. current temperatures are mostly in the 60s to around 70 degrees. storm 4 doppler already shows the first drops now near charlottesville and harrison burg. so culpepper, you'll be wet shortly. washington >>> jenna, over to you. >> stephanie, thank you. >>> a sad update to a story we told you about on saturday, the search for a diver missing off the coast of california. her body has now been found and identified, but the mystery still remains, what happened? more now from nbc's stephanie stanton. >> w

but also a former sub-mariner abram office spent the last thirty years making sales. but this utility room here is our workshop we have one hundred sales in store all of different shapes and sizes twenty six of them are meant for masts and races while the others are kept as replacements. nicholai is the only person on board the can repair or patch up a damaged sail. sails are torn fairly often specially by strong winds you might even say they are wounded in the battle against the elements i have especially vivid memories of one rather dramatic sail replacement that was last year when we were competing against the polish boat dharma george and we were on our way across the baltic sea from finland to poland that's when the top most sail collapsed but it took the cadets some four hours to get a new one back up all that happened amid strong winds and torrential rain. don't touch that. again is the bosun's favorite student like all the other cadets he joined me as crew three months ago that remembers only too well the terror he felt when confronted with the prospect of cli

. >>> stephanie abrams is here with a check of the weather. nice on the east coast? >> yes, i want to talk more about the fires though first because we have advisories posted in the west. it is pretty serious here, you can see through portions of montana, down to idaho, also down into utah as well. it stays hot. we have a big ridge in the west. and then, of course, in the east, it is a little bit different. we have a trough that means we have showers and storms from texas on into louisiana. and into the gulf coast as well. a closer look at the storms, where you see that deeper red, >> good morning, we are wage up to cooler temperatures and clouds. towards theing in afternoon. high temperatures in the you were 70's to mid 80's. chance for showers late in the day. the rain chance even into >>> jenna, over to you. >> stephanie, thank you. >>> a sad update to a story we told you about on saturday, the search for a diver missing off the coast of california. her body has now been found and identified, but the mystery still remains, what happened? more now from nbc's stepha

. >>> stephanie abrams is here with a check of the weather. nice on the east coast? >> yes, i want to talk more about the fires though first because we have advisories posted in the west. it is pretty serious here, you can see through portions of montana, down to idaho, also down into utah as well. it stays hot. we have a big ridge in the west. and then, of course, in the east, it is a little bit different. we have a trough that means we have showers and storms from texas on into louisiana. and into the gulf coast as well. a closer look at the storms, where you see that deeper red, that's where >>> here's a look at our temperatures. mostly 50s outside. a lot of low clouds and mist. it feels fairly cool, around the north bay and peninsula. it's going to be a mild afternoon. temperatures inland, only 80s. 60s to low 70s around the inner bay. a cooler finish to the weekend. temperatures will rise a little tomorrow and cool down approaching the middle part of the week. >>> jenna, over to you. >> stephanie, thank you. >>> a sad update to a story we told you about on satur

want to let you see what's going on with al roker and stephanie abrams. are live on the air at the weather channel doing their show "wake up with al." they are just going through the worst of it. you can see obviously the heavy rain just pouring down. the gusty winds. they're in kind of a protected area. i think this is canal street in downtown. this isn't even an opened area. so if it's like this here, you can imagine what it looks like in other areas. again, this isn't a category 2, it's not a 3, it's not a katrina or an andrew or storm like that, but for a category 1, it's packing quite the punch. especially in areas right around new orleans. and the storm itself, you can see near new orleans. the worst of it up here, new orleans to the east. and we're seeing this next high tide cycle with flooding. for everyone else out there, we also want to prepare you for your morning and get you out the door this morning. going to be a warm, sunny, beautiful day in many areas of the northeast and mid-atlantic. no problems. yesterday we had that horrendous flooding

stephanie abrams is in for al.ey, steph. >> today's weather is brought to you by chico's. >> i want to introduce you to cadet mcarthur who has a falcon with him representing the air force. will you tell us about the falcon? >> her name is aurora and she is a white jeer falcon. she is 16 years old and the air force academy's official mascot. >> i love the name aurora. it's a weather term. we will take you to the tropics and show you this mess. this could become tropical storm isaac in the next few days affecting florida. for the rest of the nation, what do you have to watch out for? still that heat through portions of the west. here's eye look at outside your door. >> cloudy and cool around the metro area. we have a little bit of sprinkle activity on storm 4 radar. we have it moving off southwest to northeast. prince georges county and anne arundel and fredericksburg over the next hour or so. sun breaking out and high 80s and might get a late afternoon or early thundershower. tuesday all the way into the weekend >>

a check of the weather from stephanie abrams in for al.eather is brought to you by chicos, makers of the so slimming pants collection. >> i want to introduce you to cadet mcarthur who has a falcon with him. representing the air force and tell us about this falcon. >> this falcon her name is aurora, a white -- sorry a white falcon. she's 16 years old. the air force academy official mascot. >> one of 13. i love has the name aurora. it's a weather term there. talk about the weather. we're going to take you to the tropics and show you this mess. this could become tropical storm isaac in the next few days, potential potentially affecting florida, what some of the models are saying. for the rest of the nation what do you have to watch out for? of course still that heat >> good morning to you. 7:38 now. starting with a live cloudy look over san jose, but the sun will break through the clouds over the next hour, hour and a half. we're going to get a nice day in san jose. the inland cities where we had extreme heat last week on monday, temperatures

"gma" legal analyst, dan abrams. i guess the mistrial kind of a surprise.idn't have a choice once he heard the evidence. >> the judge has discretion, remember, the jurors are told probably every time they leave the courtroom, you are not allowed to talk about the case. don't begin deliberations until the evidence is in. nevertheless, this is a pretty severe punishment, in effect which is to declare a mistrial to say we'll force this case to start all over again. so, if these jurors were talking about, let's say a witness' red sweater. if they said did you see the witness is wearing a red sweater. but the problem should not declare a mistrial but in this case, the jurors were talking about evidence, testimony, et cetera. >> i guess the person said the jury was saying they were a friend of the defendant. >> well, this is how i interpret it. number one, i disagree with what dan said. because once you get up on appeal and say there is a criminal conviction, that's a perfect grounds for an appellate court to reverse the case then you have to try it all over agai

. >>> we bring in our legal analyst, dan abrams. the brass tax, missing for almost a week. >> you have to question the husband. he's the one who says he found her belongings on the beach. and after all, he is the husband. so, these are all things that lead you to number one, want to get as much information from him as you can. and number two, rule him out as a possible suspect. >> and whether it's snorkeling or free diving, generally, this is something you don't do alone, which is what the husband is claiming. >> let's talk about this. there's a lot of talk she may have been free diving, which means you literally go under the water and hold your breath. it's considered dangerous. it's considered the sort of thing you shouldn't do alone. and it's the sort of thing where many people wear weights on their arms or legs, to weigh them down in the water so they can hold their breath, let go of the weights, et cetera. if that were to be the case and she were found, let's say, somewhere in the water, there would be a real question as how do

dan abrams, thanks very much.ot more expected today. >>> george, turning, now, to a graphic demonstration of what can happen when you take ambien and go driving hours later. it's the most popular sleeping pill in the u.s. it's been in the news because of the kerry kennedy case. lisa stark got behind the wheel to test out the dangers of driving on ambien or other sleeping pills. >> reporter: it's been in the headlines before. and now again. this time, kerry kennedy, the daughter of robert kennedy. last month after a hit and run, kennedy told police she may have accidentally taken the generic version of ambien. >> i remember getting on the highway. and then, i have no memory. >> reporter: this new jersey woman also had no memory of driving, after taking ambien with some wine. in texas, a woman on ambien and alcohol plowed into a family in their yard, seriously injuring a toddler. she got probation. with 60 million annual prescriptions for sleeping pills in the u.s., there's increasing concern. we wanted to see first

she must have been made of steel, dan abrams. this is an extremely painful poisoning.eated by multiple doctors and even undergone surgery to help figure out why was she in so much pain. and if it does come down with charges, you're looking at attempted murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, that being barium. and even accessories to children because they were in the home. >> you do see some cases where someone tries to poison someone over a period of time. barium, if you take enough of it, it can kill immediately. it can lead immediately to paralysis, et cetera. those are the sorts of issues they need to look at here before charging him. there's no rush. there's also no rush here, which is that they've got their eye on him. the order of protection is now in place. >> no rush? >> yeah. there is no rush. the authorities want to make sure -- >> dan, if i tried to poison you in that cup of coffee you have in front of you, i'm only guessing, i guarantee you would not want me stalking around the studio. >> here's the difference -- >> it's easy for you to say there'

. >> start with the weather channel stephanie abrams in for alda. >> have you guys enjoyed this nice,astic? >> amazing. how much longer will it last? >> we'll continue to stay cool throughout a big chunk of the northeast and also into the midwest. we have our jet stream for all my weather geeks out there, dipping a little south. that's why we have the cooler air in place. still warm in the west as there is a ridge there. that is not good news for the fires. as we head into tomorrow, you >> good morning. we're starting out with a little bit of cloud cover. we will keep a chance going into the afternoon. >> coming up next, how to handle awkward situations, social cues expert philip galanos puts us to the test right after this. with a .386 average. you sure? i'm 99.9% positive. so you don't know. made with 100% angus beef, to make guys 100% happy. ball park angus beef franks. i'm 99.99999% sure. if you don't know, you don't know...it's fine. the moisturizer in other body washes sits on top of skin. only dove has nutriummoisture, which can nourish deep down. dove body wash with nutriummoi

abrams to the u.n. rick, great to see you. let's start off with what we know about iran, the greatest state sponsor of terror, working 24/7 to obtain a nuclear weapon. we now know that the iaea which is the atomic watchdog of the united nations, will release a report next week showing that iran is pretty close, if not already there to 20% uranium enrichment. we are hearing that they have installed hundreds of new century fiewdges and may in fact have another secret facility underground in a bunker. here is where we are. now we have got the secretary general of the u.n. moon violating u.s. policy trying to isolate iran heading over there to have a shindig with the iran i can't goes, what do - iranians. >> secretary moon is violating his own policy. iran is under six security council resolutions, condemning their actions. condemning their pursuit of trying to enrich uranium. and it's puzzling that the secretary general imhimself would accept this invitation from the nonalign movement and go to this conference. you know, if he wa

working on behalf of jack abram mouf, they got american christians to write letters in supporting madee usa label of clothes being made in a u.s. commonwealth that jack abe bram mouf lobbied for. how did they get christians to support that? they mailed these materials saying that the workers were being exposed to the teachings of geez just while they were working there. they didn't mention that they were working in near slave condition cans, conditions that included things like forced abortions and forced prostitution. nice. so that's tim phillips from century strategies. he now runs the koch funded american for prosperity. also this weekend, not in washington but in arlington, texas, tim phillips' old business partner, ralph reed was doing his big beat obama cofou nchl d. given what he got caught for in that scandal, it's almost impossible that ralph reed got to win society as a super pia sky. ralph reed's whole role in the scandal was a guy willing to use his connections with christian voters and his perceived personal piaty to start humping incorporate accounts. the senate investiga

if you go all the way back to alexander hamilton, henry cl, abram lincoln who were very important characters in my book, they used government in important ways to build up the country. not to the detriment of individual rights but in order to create the systems we needed to become a prosperous and well educated country >> woodruff: you argue among other things that today's modern conservatives have in particular gotten away from this idea of community. what caused us or them or it to happen? what brought this about? >> well, i think there are short-term political reasons. there's been a long-term fight among conservatives. write, i like to think and some of my conservative things think i write respectfully about conservatism. ality its outset conservatism was very community oriented. indeed it mistrusted what early conservative thinkers saw as liberal individualism, people like edmund burke were very skeptical of that. i think alongside this more commune tearian coervatism has been a so of libertarian conservative that mistrususd the community and the traditionalists. i think after the 2008

. >> for more, let's bring in dan abrams.now if raymond roth will be charged. what could he be facing? >> let's talk what about is not a crime. you're allowed to leave, lie to your wife, lie to your son. >> allowed to fake your own death. >> except when you cross legal line. if you are defrauding people, trying to engage in insurance fraud, you're falsely calling 911. all of these are areas that have to be look at. was he involved in a conspiracy with his son? these questions have to be asked in determining whether to charge him. we have seen cases like this before where people have left, people around them didn't know what happened. it was tough to figure out what kind of crime to charge. >> he drained the marital accounts of all but $7. technically, it's his money, so that was not a crime. >> did he take her money? that could be a crime. the interesting question is, what did the son know? >> there's a charge by his wife that he was involved. he claims he was involved. she has the e-mails. whether or not he knew it was false

. >> we're going to talk with dan abrams. the judge is saying no many pageants for now. the psychologists court-ordered report is more dangerous for the mom. the psychologist is saying the dad should become the primary cu custodian. if the only reason for that is the pageants, that's a dangerous precedent. i think the pageants are terrible. but are we going to take custody away from the mother because of it? that seems severe. >> the judge says in and of its, this proves the mom is unfit. >> the mom's position is wait a second, what about dad? he's not be involved in the child's life for years. she makes allegations of arrests et cetera. that's important. you look at what is in the best interests of the child. you have to look at the totality of the circumstances. you can't look at one incident and say, because of this, and something like this, where there's no demonstration of clear physical harm. this is a tough line to draw. >> we have to go. you're going to be watching this closely. you're thinking this could have big imp

. >>> let's get to dan abrams. the police not charging attempted murder.ult. >> that tells you what they're thinking about her motivation. they're not claiming she was trying to kill him. they're saying, in essence, she was trying to harm him. that's why you have the charges here of assault, not attempted murder. she is claiming she was doing thiso get his attention. i think that makes this particularly sad, probably a level of sympathy towards her on the part of the authorities here, as well. >> still, not much of a defense, right? >> not a legal -- it's not a legal defense. my guess is, this is the kind of case that never goes to trial. >> why? >> these are the types of cases that tend to plead out. if she really did confess, as the authorities claim. the authorities say she confessed to doing it. here's why i did it. those are the kind of cases that tend to never make it to trial. they tend to work out an agreement. they tend to give someone a very low sentence. >> a lot will depend on the boyfriend. >> that's right. the question is, is he ready to move

. >>> let's bring in "gma" legal analyst, dan abrams.this that didn't end up in criminal charges. usher's stepson. what makes this a crime? >> the authorities believe there is negligence involved here. and in the use of a vehicle, someone died. those are the three key things. someone died, vehicle, negligence. it's also just simple negligence. i use the word just, that this is a misdemeanor where he faces up to a year in jail. that's it. >> the judge is being very strict on bail, given how small or low the charge actually is. he wouldn't reduce it from $100,000. >> as a result, this guy can't get out right now. and some may say, $100,000 is nothing. he killed this girl. if you look at it through a legal prism, he's charged with a misdemeanor. a third-degree crime. this is not a very serious crime as far as the law's concerned. and as a result, $100,000 is really high bail. >> and the family is filing several civil suits. one against dagley. but also the jet ski company. we reached out to the aloha jet ski company. how strong are those ch