amy. before i could say, how are you. amy said, a wonder thing happen indeed a conference in japan last month much i was walking with a japanese woman talking about literature when she stopped, turned to me and said, are we still college eyes to you for what we did to your mother in chien and i apologize to you. amy laughed when she said anger disappeared from my life from my very body when my new friend spoke to me. when she acknowledged my childhood grieve and offered hope in the form of an apology. thank you. [applause] >> our next reader is grace angel. she is painter, poet and photographer. married and has 2 girls she is an event planner and art's fundraiser. her works have been exhibited in the bay area and international. she's working on poems entitled, from a fanatic heart. grace. written at a time when i'd say was my hungry period. the first is bones. my bones are bleached white under your stare while you warm your hands under my open wounds i swallow the air you exheal and pluck the bones from your rib cage and i

amy howes and the kitchen manager said the man was angry werese his chicken tenders undercooked. >> i have power, you do not know who i am. >> restaurant staffers would customer isater the maryland state trooper. feel like my daughter victim of this anger. >> the restaurant offered a refund, free food. she filed an assault charge letter because of what happened next. back to meet in the back the arm. was a -- he slapped me in the back of the arm. was a malicious act. >> after leaving, the trooper cared on the lights of his yelled atking lot and customer driving in. >> do not go in there, they will poison you. be a part ofnot the police department. we are not identify and the not beenecause he has formally charged. told there will be a county-state criminal investigation. affairs an internal review under way. no idea how long the process will take. recovery is now underway. dick cheney is resting at a fairfax hospital after he underwent a heart transplant. he is 71 and has had five heart attacks. order of the transplant has debate.some doctors say age is not the only factor did look at

amy howe is a partner at goldstein and russell and an ed store at scotus blog. she's argued before the supreme court, has been listening to the first hour of arguments this morning. amy, are the justices right now remaining poker faced as they have these proceedings, or are we seeing one or two leading the discussion a certain way? >> well, we've seen a lot of questions from the four of the court's more conservative justices. we've seen very few questions from the so-called liberal justices. and the ones that they have asked have been largely friendly questions. so it's a good news/bad news scenario, i would say, for the people who support the legislation because it's clear that they have four votes to uphold the individual mandate, but it's not clear yet whether or not they're going to be able to get that much needed fifth vote. >> amy, what have been the key arguments given in court so far this morning? >> so the solicitor general who is the government's top lawyer before the supreme court has been the only one to go during the first half of the argument. there

. >> amy, how much of a problem does santorum have with women voters out there?in 2008 between president, then senator obama and hillary clinton, there was a lot made of the constituencies they were winning state to state. especially white working class, et cetera. in this republican contest, it's important that the republican candidate solidly win in particular married women will children. that's where republicans have always done well. and if there is any on that number, it spells a lot of trouble for the republican nominee in the general election. i think that mitt romney has a strength there when he can point to the states that he's won where he has won the female vote. he's also won the catholic vote. that is also a swing vote that's very important for a general election candidate to win. >> and not to mention he's got a great family. put more ann out there. this guy is a family man. he should be touting with the women. look, i am all about the family. this is a strength for him. they're taking these strengths and making them weaknesses. he has to turn them

talk about services and programs for the children who need it most, are you talking about ami income ranges? how are you defining? >> we are mandated to have universal services. our programs are for everyone in the city. we do not ask for income. as long as you live in san francisco, the services are available to you. we also partnered with the school district to effectively use school district facilities in space. for example, out in the bayview, we utilize a high school to have evening programs and services for teenagers. on the weekends, we open it up for parents to come in, to participate in english language classes or computer training classes. different things so that parents feel a connection to the schools. we have had conversations with the school district to ally in summer school where we bring in the incentive programs, such as youth employment opportunities or other youth-related opportunities to link with summer school. frankly, if the kid was not going to school during the school year, the application to go to summer school would make it more difficult. we want to bring in incentiv

how corporate pr is killing health care and deceiving americans." this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. how safe are these scanners that millions of people are put through at the airport? ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh.. >> how safe are the security scanners being used at airports? on monday, the house committee on oversight and government reform held a hearing to allow the tsa to try to explain why americans are subjected to such controversial procedures. the title of the hearing was, "effective security or security theater?" one guest's invitation was unceremoniously rescinded. >> bruce schneier, an outspoken critic of security measures used by the tsa, says he was formally un invited after the agency complained about his book opposition to body scanners. he wrote on his blog -- bruce schneier opposes full body scanners and their ineffective, misleading, and sometimes compromise passengers' dignity and health. is also critical of the tsa's approach to security threats. >> they'

. >> but here to say don't wait to look great is wardrobe stylist amy acton. >> how are you?r having me. >> nothing more depressing than shopping when you feel like blah, like you put on ten pounds and you go shop, not a great time to look for stuff, is it. >> it's not. it doesn't matter what size you are, 2, 22, all of us have that problem in the dressing room. that's the bottom line. i'm going to give you my tricks. >> start with jennifer. our first model. she blogs from home. she recently lost 100 pounds. >> good for her. >> she's dressing as if she was heavier. what's the solution? >> you work at home, you want to be comfortable. >> sure. >> she's always in oversized sweat pants and ts. we put her in these great jeggings, as comfortable as sweat pants and leggings and even better because no dimpling shows through and it holds you nice and tight. we put her in this kimono-style jacket which is flattering on every single body type. the way it drapes in the front is slimming. >> love it. >> the t-shirt from kohl's. i like the way the color works. your problem areas, you go d

. >> i'm amy hollyfield. how does $290 million sound? what would you do with that money? that will be the question of the day as people pick their numbers for tonight's mega millions jackpot. >> eric: $290 million, child's play. >> thanks for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> kristen: i'm kristen sze. it's been exactly one week since a morgan hill teenager vanished on her way to school. f.b.i. has joined the search and police reveal they have found a piece of her property not far from her home. that is where terry mcsweeney joins us live from morgue hill with the latest. >> reporter: this is the epicenter with everything going on with regards to sierra lamar. this is the family home and last place we know for a fact she was. she left for a school bus pickup a little after 7:00. she did send a text message and that is it. that led to yesterday's search for her. take a look the pictures. it inspired by the discovery of her black and pink juicy brand purse. we found out about the discovery yesterday even though it was found we are told sunday afternoon. search and rescue teams

. >> how many of you think jimmy carter is doing a good job on the energy situation? amy and rosslyn? ok. [laughter] how many think he's doing a bad job? [applause] how many of you think he should be pumping gas? chris: carter tried fireside chats in cardigan sweaters hoping that conservation would make him look better. "saturday night live" wasn't making -- taking it seriously. i'm personally at this moment generating all the electricity necessary to transmit this television broadcast to you. there is enough energy left over to run this electric hot comb. >> jimmy? it's my turn to power the broadcast now. >> ok. ready to switch? >> i'm ready. oh, lord have mercy! thank you, sugar. >> almost lost you there. >> and remember when it's your turn. >> everybody tries to pitch in as best they can. >> are you ready? >> yes, i'm ready. [laughter] >> ok, mama. >> i'd do anything for my jimmy. >> if you take up the examples we've set, it will all work out for the better. i love you all and thank you very much. chris: when we come back, how mitt romney just might lose to rick santor

will explain how innovation has altered traditional assumptions, and will demonstrate how to harness this change. amy happens a diverse private and public sector background. she's led a mexican art export company. amy worked for mackenzie and company as a strategic consultant the. she has public sector experience serving as a white house fellow. amy will discuss key characteristics of high impact entrepreneurs and offer some practical policy solutions to help foster an entrepreneurial culture in our state. jeff weed man is president of the procter & gamble company. he leads p&g's technology to identify partnerships that drive innovation and create value across p&g and around the world. jeff's teamme manaers, ac outsourcing technology and trademark licensing, and p&g's connect and open innovation efforts. jeff has also led development of the first ever comprehensive agreements, between p&g and the public university systems of ohio and michigan, to streamline how academia and business work together to drive breakthrough innovations and local business creation. his team formed several agreements with go

find a way to snowboard again. >> reporter: unbelievably, just seven months later, amy purdy was on a board again. howo you literally get back on the board after that experience? where did that come from? >> gosh, i think just passion. i want to go that way. i'm going to go that way. >> reporter: when she started out in 2000, there was no prosthetic that worked for snowboarding. so, she and her doctors set about fashioning a foot from scratch that would work on a snowboard. >> it's a random, kind of frankenstein foot. it was a foot that's all right built, that's made of wood, actually. and it was an already existing ankle joint and some of these existing pieces that we put together differently so i could ride. >> reporter: today, at 32, she is a world champion, having won three world cup gold medals in adaptive snowboarding. she's also founded a nonprofit company. adaptive action sports, to offer other physically challenged people a chance to experience for themselves what snowboarding has meant for her. >> so, you really don't want to change it too much. >> reporter: people like 24-year-old collin ra

amy. next, how do you avoid scammers?t you might actually see pop up on your computer and tips on what you shouldn't click. when you're on a website and you're about to enter personal information, what should you look for? is there any way to tell whether that is safe or not? >> there's a couple of things. when you say personal information, that could easily be your log-in information. it doesn't have to be banking or credit card stuff. just logging in you want to make sure you see the https. the "s" stands for secure. look for the pad lock that lets you know you're on an official site. >> one of the ways we can be steered to another website is through one of our favorite sites when we click on a link. how do we know the links are safe. sometimes they're called bit leads. >> that's right. what happens is a fraudulent website -- we're not saying this one is -- for example, they'll take a long web address and that's normally what happens when you have a fraudulent site. what they'll do is string that and abbreviate it and a

a bay area congressman is seeing for himself how important the funding is. amy hollyfield joins us with more. >> reporter: bart officials say they are not sure that elected officials and bart riders get it. they say the future of bart is in jeopardy. so they invited congressman john garamendi and other local officials out in the maintenance yard to see for themselves. >> bart's trains are 40 years old. mechanics say they can't find brand-new parts because nobody makes them anymore. >> we go on ebay and buy them up so we can repair the trains. we're putting them together and they are safe but we are running out of finding new parts. >> reporter: with federal transportation money in question bart officials are in a panic. fund will go stop at the end of this month if they can't get a bill passed. >> we don't get the money from congress if we don't get people to understand the trains won't be running anymore. we have every train we can out there every day. we are running them into the ground. >> bart officials invited congressman john garamendi and other local and

a bay area congressman is seeing for himself how important the funding is. amy hollyfield joins us with more. >> reporter: bart officials say they are not sure that elected officials and bart riders get it. they say the future of bart is in jeopardy. so they invited congressman john garamendi and other local officials out in the maintenance yard to see for themselves. >> bart's trains are 40 years old. mechanics say they can't find brand-new parts because nobody makes them anymore. >> we go on ebay and buy them up so we can repair the trains. we're putting them together and they are safe but we are running out of finding new parts. >> reporter: with federal transportation money in question bart officials are in a panic. fund will go stop at the end of this month if they can't get a bill passed. >> we don't get the money from congress if we don't get people to understand the trains won't be running anymore. we have every train we can out there every day. we are running them into the ground. >> bart officials invited congressman john garamendi and other local and

will explain how innovation has altered traditional assumptions and will demonstrate how to harness this change. amy has a diverse private and public sector background. she is an entrepreneur having started and led a mexican art export company, an investment bank we are an mba from stanford university, amy worked for mckenzie and company as a strategic consultant. amy also has public sector experience serving as a white house fellow and special assistant to the u.s. trade representative. amy will discuss key carc try trystitrys trysting trystics of high-impact entrepreneurs and offer practical policy solution. jeff wiedman is vice president of global business development for the procter & gamble company. he leads p&g's team of technology entrepreneurs to identify and deliver partnerships that drive innovation and create value across p&g and around the world. jeff's team manages mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, outsourcing, technology and trademark lice e licensing and p&g's connect and develop open innovation efforts. jeff has also led development of the first

. >> oh, i like my stashes, how about you ♪ >> reporter: the american mustache institute, ami, is lobbying a tax break. it would give those with hair on their lip, $250 a year to cover grooming spenszs expenses. >> expenses. >> how can you respond to that? >> reporter: ami said the congressman initially supported the act but then backed out. >> i think what you have is people who are trying to cover their back side. >> reporter: after bartlett's primary opponents blasted him for it. >> reporter: bartlett's aides say the congressman is definitely pro-stash. but he never, ever, ever supported the stash act. she sent it to the ways and means committee because she thought it was funny. so do others. >> the government does not do enough for those with mustaches. >> they say it is good for the environment because it keeps hair out of landfills. they also say it makes everyone better-looking. >> how do the ladies like your stash? >> oh, they love it. that's why i keep it. >> reporter: of course the stash is nothing new. the handsome, the distinguished, the vocal, the fictional have all worn one.

nbc's amy robach shows us how her furry little friend is giving her the chance to truly be a kid. >>counts mr. gibbs looks like any other golden dude puppy. but mr. gibbs is here to work. >> good job. make sure we got it turned on. we going to go play? let's go play. >> reporter: his boss? 3-year-old aleada. >> what do we do with mr. gibbs? >> down, down. >> good boy. >> this special little girl suffers from neuro cell plasia in infancy or nehi, an extremely rare lung disease requiring her to breathe with the aid of an oxygen tank. only 500 children in the united states have ever been diagnosed with it. she was born premature and had breathing issues from the start but as months went by her parents debby and aaron had an instinct something was very wrong. >> debby was able to look up all the tests they were doing. the first one, like she would have made it to four months. and so you just go through two weeks of not being able to help. >> once the diagnosis was made doctors told them they needed to leave utah and live at a lower elevation and aleda would need an oxygen tank at all tim

cents to school for education and not to be murdered >> wormely family cannot understand how chris wormely jr @ ami kids infinity chicago wound up dead and another student reportedly attacked ambulance at the school 103rd south side 7:30 a.m. this morning detectives searched for a weapon on top of the building roof school officials suggest tensions brewing between chris wormely attacker the third found himself caught in the middle wormely family refuses to believe the trouble brewing describe the 17 year old with adhd as a home body not a trouble maker >> chris wormely did not bother anybody plays basketball and video games >> chris wormely simply found out going to be a father and wanted to become a veterinarian dream shattered today waiting the security line at school security family upset screening with a wand for each of the 25 kids who attend alternative schools with emotional or behavioral issues. >> at school should have done more than they did >> security for the kids >> anytime anything happens taking a look at everything that we do everything on the table at this point >> chicago police c

how do you feel about it, amy? >> first and foremost my children's safety is always a priority.h really wanted to do this. as parents we had to make sure when this did finally happen that the good of the publicity didn't muddy the waters of, you did something wrong. so now we're not going to make it right by all the publicity and coming on tv. >> let's get to a question. candice writes, i want to know how tommy was raised. is there a story of his parents doing something similar or creative on his punishment? >> i will put those on the blog. i should probably ask my mother first. i still might get in trouble. there are a lot of stories from my life growing up. >> a similar idea? eye for an eye? >> yeah. very much so. >> our next question, you'll love this one hannah marie. jim from florida asks, do you worry no guy will want to come near hannah with your reputation? is this the point? you can scare off potential suitors? >> it saves me a lot of trouble cleaning guns at home. >> what do you think? >> i don't know. it's kind of weird. i don't think it will scare anybody off. >> wha

on a score of less than . 1, which is the lowest number, up to four or greater how many eggs you might have left. >> amy's her that test and the results were shocking. >> the number came back incredibly low, which reflected i had a really low egg count. >> sage and her partner were on the third round of artificial insemination when she had an amh test. >> she said you have .53. i did look it up online. where it was, it was that comparable of a typical of a 40-year-old. >> reporter: you may not know that a woman's eggs may not necessarily age in tandem with a woman's body. that means it's possible for a woman in her mid-30s to have the eggs and thus the fertility chances of a woman much older. >> we're finding that many of these ladies actually have lower ovarian reserve with the number of eggs left than we ever anticipated. we're not sure why, but we're trying to get more of the young women to at least get that test done so they would know where they stand as far as being able to have children in the future. >> hi. >> reporter: despite their low test results, neither gave up their dream of becoming pregna

go to, they tell me i qualify for almost everything, and then i ask them, how many spinouts have happened from your faculty? amy, you're right, it's public or p -- publish or perish. finding a reward system within the universities allows professors to benefit and maybe even get tenure, i don't know, taking on the university culture is a major challenge. and another question i is which almost always fails, is how much of these was started from other passengers at the university. guess what? if they start a business there, they're more likely to have a good education. and you want to keep your university kids at home, i suspect. >> do you think we have the wrong incentives in place for our state universities in this country to create better economic development, better job creating machines. are there the wrong incentives in place, presently? >> well, i don't believe the incentives are in place to do that. inside of a university, i don't see people talking about, let's create jobs. with an exception of m.i.t. in boston. m.i.t. is a powerhouse, and there is research they're putting out on mit and the extended netw

. >> amy hollyfield is live at the scene. how much of traffic is blocked?utdown. you are not getting through here at park in oakland. you have to come up with an alternate. wait until you hear what happened. a terrible story. i just got briefed by chp officer on the scene. a got a little different version than i had at , still tragic. -- at 6:00, still tragic. four young people drivinging in a camry southbound and a tree had -- fallen blocking all lanes they didn't see they went up and over it they hit it so hard all four were okay, got out of car, talking assessing the damage then they see a truck coming it looks like the truck is not slowing all four run they takeoff in different directions and one of them a 21-year-old man was killed. >> when the truck ran into the tree it broke the tree in half, the lower half of the tree broke off and was forced up the embankment running over the young lady who ran up the embankment, trapping her. either the pick-up truck or the cam -- or the camry ran over the young man standing in the lane still. ejected him. he was

amy now has a little girl, an adore nl little girl. talk to me about -- for many people the question is going to be, how does it work? arrangement like for you and amy? what was the conversation about how involved you would be, what role you would play? how did that work? >> yeah. i mean, you know, it worked surprisingly organically. and it was to feel out what the expectations were going to be and what they would sort of want, their desires in terms of their relationship, what she wanted from me was to be present but not be a parent and that is sort of what i wanted. i wanted to be able to be present in her life to see her grow up and have a relationship with her that was sort of, you know, on the terms of both me and her. but, you know, that i wouldn't necessarily have to be a parent to her in the sense i wouldn't have to make decisions, i wouldn't be expected to be there. i wouldn't have a financial role in her life. and so after talking about that a lot, we decided we would want to go ahead and we continued talking about this, you know, oon regular basis, that sort of makes sure that we're still on the right trac

. >> now we do have amy once again. how has it been, amy?ou because we've just had a festival within a festival within a festival. you just heard a big boom go off. one of the highlights is something called the mas cleta. it's a really unusual thing. people are sending pictures home. i've never heard such noise in my life. of course, i've been to fireworks displays. this is con concentrated in six minutes, thousands of explosions, absolutely deafening. you can only understand once you have lived through it. we spoke to a guy who is a fourth generation pyro technico. he said it's something very specific for valencia and he hopes his family will go forever and ever. >> have fun. tough assignment. >>> coming up, the "new york times" ran an anti-catholic add but refused to run one that was anti-islam a week later. is this a show of hypocrisy. >>> at 14 years old, he might have found a way to save lives. we'll meet a boy whose science project could cure cancer. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nu

amy, we'll be buying you breakfast. >> let's buy it in dubai. >> kristen: how about buying umbrellas. >> what about you? nobody asked us if we wanted to play. there is a group of you, don't stare at me. she is staring at me. good morning everybody. all is quiet right now. about 15 hours from now we are heading through the day it will be active. it's pretty quiet. calm conditions at napa and santa rosa. about 6 to 7 miles an hour until fairfield at 13. the cold wind is not waiting for you this morning. visibility wise, pretty nice everywhere. so 8:24 morning, lot of sunshine and few clouds, mostly sunny and temperatures mid to upper 30s in north bay valleys. low to mid 40s for the rest of us. low to mid-50s with increasing clouds and definitely see the high clouds increase rapidly during the afternoon hours. that will hold our temperatures mid-50s, mid-50s along the coast san francisco into the bay and that into the north bay. accu-weather seven-day forecast, waves of heavy rain, complete washout for saturday. sunday afternoon, scattered showers. more showers monday, monday through thursday all has a cha