only one of every two baby leopards survives to adulthood. out chasing food, the cubs make easy prey for larger animals or even for male leopards who often kill their rival's offspring. and there are other dangers as well. when she and two of her cubs develop a deadly form of mange, vardy does something controversial to people in his provision. he intervenes. knowing there's a simple life-saving treatment, he darts mannana and the babies. it gives mannana 14 more years of life. and it's not an easy life. there are hyenas to outwit. stronger, more powerful lions, gangs to her solitary prowl. and the difficulty to give birth to cubs who die more often than not. from eight litters, vardy says only four of mannana's offspring survive to adulthood. mannanna loses two litters to competing male leopards. then, to ensure the survival of her next litter, she endures two separate mating cycles. it is both painful and tedious. leopards mate every 15 minutes for five days. mannanna does this with one, then crosses to the other side of her territory to ma

. >>> privacy can result in a much heated debate as children transition into young adulthood, parents may be reluctant to give independence. >> privacy is important to all, especially college students who are trying to grow into their individuality. parents need to realize their children are not children any more. by the time they started college, they should be a well rounded adult. >> they have probably given them the parenting they needed already. in other words, their job is done. >> rosa moved out from her parents in 2002 to gain independence, but had to move into her older sister's house in 2009. she only gets privacy when her sister is not home and says her sister does not trust her. >> she is always going to be expecting me to be the little sister. come home and that's it. >> living in the dorms is different, because it is all about respect. dorm life involves strangers coming together. >> you need to be respectful and to listen and be flexible. and be able to talk things out. >> junior veronica taylor has a lot of privacy with her dorm mates. the residence advisors have a pro

i think if adulthood could break out that's a good thing. >> adulthood broke out in the west wing on friday. you had the former white-haired president of the united states joining this younger president in an unprecedented moment in the white house press briefing room. i understand you guys now have working there what you call west wing moments meaning things occur that their that you think only could have occurred in the fictional version aaron sorkin created with martine sheen as president. was this one of those moments and how did it happen? >> the meeting with the two presidents in the oval office broke up about 4:15. behind me in the briefing room there's a door that leads into a series of office, which is normally completely unlocked so reporters can come up and see people that work for me back here and certainly come right up to my office. that door was locked because most of the staff was in a christmas party and we didn't have anybody down here. so i'm in my office and katie hogan, one of our press assistants was sitting at her desk near my office. i hear some shuffling, and

. -- housed with adulthoods. and we're very excited that she's here. she is actually here with us today. and she also was the first one to come up with the idea of the public defender. she is the founder of the public defender. this is 80 years before the united states supreme court decided to the gideon case where it that he would the states had to provide counsel and her name is clara shortridge fultz. and clara, are you in the house? let's give it up. [applause] >> my name is clara shortridge fultz. and they call me the lady lawyer. as a child i wanted to be a lawyer. i went to my father and told him i want to be a lawyer and he said you would make a great lawyer. if you were a boy. so i buried that dream. but i never forgot. at 15, i met a handsome union soldier named jeremiah fultz and we eloped. we moved west to greener pasttures. first to oregon. then san jose, california. it was around 1876 and i had just had my fifth child. i was working at home as a dress maker and the sheriff came to the door and took my sewing machine for a debt that my hus

his daughter patti jefferson randolph had 12 children 11 lift it to adulthood. she was pregnant 23 years. you think jefferson's life do sally handing us was complicated you should care about patty and her husband. love hurts. love this generous and possessive kindly and brutal and you see all of the manifestation of you take love seriously and a life of the mahan in so very many letters he wrote about love part but i love you more than life itself. no one can make me so miserable or happy as you. my love for you is the reason i do everything i do. he says it to his daughter the same pregnancy that finished her off for our wish i could be there with you but i can because i am here to ensure all of us can have the kind of life that i believe in and doing this out of love for you. i believe it is time to take thomas jefferson and his word of the says i am doing that for love that means he really means it. the problem we have had of some years of denial is that people who want to say to this very day i started getting emails from them before the book was published i

researchers exposed mice to both clean and polluted air stimulating human exposure from early childhood to adulthood. the mice exposed to fine par tick late air pollution had larger -- particulate air pollution had more abdominal fat than the mice breathing clean air. scientists believe air pollution may increase inflammation were in the body raising the risk of type ii diabetes. >>> a mild dry day around the bay area but might not last for too much longer. let's check in now with bill martin in the weather center. >> big change from yesterday when the rain was coming down in the bay area. heavy at times, up to an inch in some places, most of us 1/4 to 1/2 and that's an active pacific out there. it's not going to impact us tonight or tomorrow but as we head into wednesday, that next system rolls in here, we will get showers wednesday, probably into thursday as well, dry pattern as we mentioned and that's good, that will get you through tomorrow, mostly sunny, partly sunny, maybe a little valley fog when you wake up and then back into the wet on wednesday and thursday. it will be interesting to see i

they're longevity, hard to fathom when you consider just 1% of their offspring make it to adulthood.infrared camera shows the underground nest this female is digging for the 80 or so eggs she'll lay. >> they're protective of babies. it's not just the mother. when a baby gives a distress cry, any adult crocodile will come to investigate. they're really good parents. they take better kids of their kids than a lot of humans i know. >> reporter: protecting the babies is not easy. they're no bigger than a candy bar at birth. the perfect meal for storks or dingos. survival is a constant fight in the fall, when the weltlands dry up, the croc travels into shallow, muddy ponds. >> the big danger for them is overheating. >> reporter: when they're out of water -- >> they're done. if they don't have access to cooler temperatures, either shade or burrows and there is no water -- and when there is water, water level gets very low, they can succumb to high temperatures there, as well. >> reporter: in fact, maintaining a cool internal temperature of around 89 degrees may be the explanation for this

locusts grow to adulthood in no time at all, then wreak havoc on crops.the nymphs have to be killed before they develop into adults. but hazardous' farm is so large he doesn't know where to start looking for nymphs. he can't decide where to spray pesticides. luckily, the state government has set up the task force to help farmers like hards. it made a map of the infested area and wastes no time giving a map to farmers. if the farmers don't protect their field against the locusts, the estimated damage to farmland will be about $2 billion, enough to ruin many. every day state-owned police survey the area for locusts that have yet to mature into adults. >> determining where the edge of the band, the concentrations of locust nymphs are referred to as bands. >> they get the samples and check their rate of growth. once the locusts are fully grown, they're much harder to kill off. >> there you go. >> reporter: after collecting data from several areas, they'll tell the farmers where they think the locusts will appear next. the farmers must start exterminating them

. >> reporter: now a world renowned expert, she's successfully raised 130 elephants into adulthood.'s not been without heartbreak. she says one of the first orphans she raised from infancy died from grief when daphne took a brief trip. >> you learn the hard way. >> reporter: ever since, the keepers rotate each night so no baby grows too attached. it's always been a family affair with the help of daughters jill and angela. >> i think for daphne, you know, when you see the elephants grown, a huge herd there, and she can stand back and say, but for i, it's a good feeling. >> you have to love them, because an elephant can read your heart. >> reporter: turns out the biggest lesson learned is that elephants are as human as the rest of us. maria menounos, nbc news, kenya. >> great story to end on for a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. as we say good night, we want to bid farewell to a veteran of the airwaves, larry king tonight leaves cnn after a 25-year run. larry, congratulations, and well done. i'll see you later tonight. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right bac

only one of two baby leopards survives to adulthood. mother's out chasing food the cubs make easy prey for larger animals. or even for male leopards who often kill their rivals' offspring. and there are other dangers as well. when manana and two of her cubs develop a deadly form of mange, varty does something controversial to people in his profession, he intervenes. knowing there's a simple life-saving treatment, he darts manana and the babies. it gives manana 14 more years of life. and it's not an easy life. there are hyenas to outwit. stronger, more powerful lions. and the difficulty to give birth to cubs who die more often than not. from eight litters, varty says only four of manana's offspring survive to adulthood. she loses two litters to competing male leopards. then, to ensure the survival of her next litter, she endures two separate mating cycles. it is both painful and tedious. leopards mate every 15 minutes for five days. manana does this with one, then crosses to the other side of her territory to mate with his rival. each ma

. >>> living an active lifestyle from young adulthood into middle age can help ward off those extra poundses that start to appear as we grow older. study the american journal medical association followed 3600 adults over 20 years. most active men put on about six fewer pounds and saw their waist lines expand an inch less than men who exercised at low level -67z women who were most active gained about 13 fewer pounds and one and a half fewer inches around middle. >>> good for women to keep working out. >>> teens are drinking less but smoking more marijuana. that's according to a flue study. more high school seniors reported using marijuana this year compared to last year. however, experts are pleased that binge drigging is on the decline. 31% of teenagers said they drank to excess compared to 23% now. >>> a tax cut package is just cleared in the u.s. senate. the vote went to 81-19. package will extend current tax rates for all income brackets for two years. it will also renew jobless benefits for long term unemployed and cut the social security tax for one year. the cost of this legislation

>> well the children, and again i'm a pediatrician, although many of these things carry over to adulthood. the children with adhd. some have hyper active impulsive form of adhd. that's more the boys. they're the kids who can't sit still. i don't mean the way most kids. they are the kids who truly can't calm down, sit down, focus on anything long enough to get something done. they're impulsive. they're always in trouble, always getting hurt, always in the emergency room getting stitched up. there's also an attempt to form which is more common in girls in which people may not look like they're moving around all the time, but they're still having terrible trouble focusing, completing tasks, thinking things through. >> let's talk about diagnosis. when should kids be diagnosed? >> the reason to think about a diagnosis is because somebody is having problems. because somebody is suffering. and we're taking for granted here that you've looked at the school and you've tried to see if the teacher, you know, and everything that's going on for the child makes sense in school for this child, and you'v

one out of six boys today will become sexually victimized in some way before they reach the age of adulthood. what it shows is a lot of these schools are not taking this issue seriously even when there's a potential employee letting them know that they have a history of sexual misconduct. it's a question of are these people actually reading their resumes? are they going through the necessary steps and unfortunately it seems like some schools are not. some schools have who have employees who have had issues, rather than going through the legal procedures, rather than going through the disciplinary actions needed and required in many states, they're actually just asking those people to step down quietly and -- >> reporter: so they don't have to make a big fuss? >> yeah. it's a disservice to our children and it's like what's more important, the reputation of our school or protection of a child's innocence? in our organization's opinion, of course, it's the child who really should be the priority. >>> another victory for bernie madoff's victims. the family of the man who earned the most money of

. >> reporter: a world renowned expert she has raised 130 elephants into adulthood and released themit's not been without heartbreak. she says one of the first orphans she raised from infancy, died from grief when daphne took a brief trip. >> i made that mistake. so, that was -- you learn the hard way. >> reporter: ever since the keepers rotate each night so no baby grows too attached. the work has always been a part of the family with the help of daughters jill and angela. >> for daphne, when you see the elephants grown, huge herd there, and she can stand back and say, but for i, it's a good feeling. >> you have to love them because an elephant can read your heart. >> reporter: turns out the biggest lesson learned elephants are as human as the rest of us. and that was maria reporting. what lauky girl. let's get a look at our forecast with nick o'kelly. >> good sunlds morning to you. i'm meteorologist nick o'kelly. a very active weather pattern, not just for us in the bay area, but all across the west coast. you can see couple culprits, pinwheeling area of low pressure diving south o

but as she officially enters adulthood, miley cyrus also faces the sobering news that her parents, tischsaying, sorry, guys, i had no idea. just saw this stuff for the first time myself. i'm so sad. there is much beyond my control right now. miley cyrus, and her representative, have not released a statement in response to the videotape. joining us now with more insight is bowlly solar, editor in chief of hollywood life.com and psychiatrist dr. janet taylor. good morning to both of you. bonnie, i'll begin with you. what does that videotape do to miley cyrus' image? does it impact her? >> oh, absolutely. i hate to say her image goes up in smoke but it's been seriously damaged. i mean parents support their children watching hannah montana and buying her albums. they are not going to want their children going out to research how to get salvia and how to smoke it with a bong. >> dr. taylor? >> hopefully most kids won't do that. but i think the bottom line, she's an adolescent and growing up in the spotlight is difficult. there are a lot of pressures and this points to the fact that she needs

i spent part of my childhood and adulthood there. it's true but it isn't like juarez. >> what are the things you do really well is to paint portraits of the people that you meet there. and that's who we meet along the way. i would like you to read the prologue which is a really good set up to this trip that you take. >> i always like a prologue that's a good set up. pass/fail. okay. here's the deal, we're going to take us a ride. be quiet. times up. you got a ride. brought the duct tape. do you prefer gray or tan put no matter, get your ass and. we have a plastic bag, loaded guns, have you been waiting? everyone is waiting. but our list is so long. everybody pretends we will never come, but everyone is on somebody's list. well, for you the wait is over. let me tell you about the killings season. what? you don't like violence? i understand. but keep in the car. you say it's hard to see because of the dark tinted windows? you will learn darkness. of course, she takes the right. my god, it was a ride. yes, there is a matter of cocaine a

had to confront all those fears i had a a kid with a piece of work because i was entering my young adulthoodi needed to be able to move forward and confront those things that scared me as a kid. so i started working on it. it just felt like the film i was born to make but it just getting rejected or ignored and financing would fall through. crazy thing would happen. i think it's important to finish what you start so i just stubbornly stayed the course and tried to will it into action and i felt cursed for all those years. like the movie was cursed, i was cursed. but the first day we started shooting and i had ryan and michelle who i couldn't have dreamed of having two better more generous capable actors on set with me and we spent so much time working on it that when we were set it was meant to be. it felt like we were alive. on the first day of shooting we were shooting this and a bulldog road down a street on a skateboard. >> if that's not a good omen, i don't know what it is. >> rose: you first, am i correct signed on to this early on and stayed with it even though he was having a hard ti

now reaching adulthood, these young people are left with a dead end. they can't use their educations to contribute to their communities. they can't serve the country. they call home by volunteering for military service. in other words, they are dumbed down by their status. they are relegated to their -- to the shadows by their status. and along comes the "dream" act. that provides an opportunity for these young people to prove themselves. it provides the incentive to prove themselves. it would permit students to become permanent residents if they came here as children or long-term united states residents, have good moral character, attend college or enlist in the military for two years. so already they have to prove themselves. the legislation requires students to wait ten years -- ten years -- before becoming lawful permanent residents and undergo background and security checks and pay any back taxes. this is a multistep process. it is not a free pass. and additionally, according to c.b.o., the "dream" act would actually increase federal revenues by $

to confront those fears i had as a kid with a piece of work because i was like entering my young adulthoodthen and i thought i need too old move forward and confront those things that scared me as a kid. so it felt like the film i was born to make. and for all those 12 years it kept getting rejected or ignored and we'd get it set up, nansing would fall through. crazy things would happen and i think it's important to finish what you start you know? so i just stubbornly stayed the course and tried to will it into action. and i felt cursed for all those years. i felt like the movie was cursed i was cursed for all those years but the first day we started shooting and i had ryan and michelle who i couldn't have dreamed of having, two better more generous, cape able actors on set with me and we had spent so much time working on it that when we were on set it was just meant to be. >> i know there's something else. tell me. >> stop! no, stop! stop! >> you gonna tell me? >> stop. come down! >> are you gonna tell me? >> come down, i'm not kidding you. >> are you going to tell me what it is? >> pleas

she's a precious member of a community who needs to be valued and allowed to grow into adulthood. this congress and the american people spend billions of tax dollars on foreign assistance. the u.s. has a direct investment and an interest in an unit to ensure that girls in the developing world can grow up to be healthy, productive, contributing members of their communities and their countries. not only do girls deserve the right to choose their future husbands, they deserve the opportunity to get an education, to contribute their skills and their talents to their countries. this legislation supports and expands the successful models already in place for promoting girls education, protecting the human rights of girls and eliminating the practice of child marriage. this bill authorizes existing state department funds to be used to implement a strategy to protect girls from being forced into marriage. this bill does not spend one additional dollar that is not already appropriated by congress for health, education, democracy or other development activities. earlier this week i was hono