sarah lambert from the national autistic society. using muscle power alone. known as the ice maidens, the team began their 1,000—mile expedition across the ice on the 20th of november, pulling 80—kilogram sledges in temperatures as low as minus a0 degrees celsius and through winds of up to 60 miles an hour. they crossed the finish line just before 10am yesterday. it took then 62 days — but they finished 13 days ahead of schedule. major nics wetherill, who first came up with the idea for the expedition, spoke to us from the union glacier in antarctica. she described how the team eventually reached the finish line. the finish line, you cannot see it, there is nothing there, it's a marker on the gps, so that was difficult to find but we crossed it but then the aeroplane that was coming to pick us up could not land so we were stuck with the rations we had and had to go on other further five kilometres to where the plane landed and they provided us with a salmon and avocado sandwich. some ca ke salmon and avocado sandwich. some cake and b

. >> friends and family say scott is autistic. the authorities say that his brother, steven jr., is grandfather, then another family friend escaped the hem unharmed the family members were shot multiple times with assault rifle shortly before midnight authorities said. 1:00 the semi-automatic weapon was registered to someone who was in the home. there is no word on a motive yet. reporting for "chasing news." i am allison gorm my. bill: thank you, allison. ok. let's bring back the a plus panel. we'll start with you. you and pri talking off air. you worked with autistic kids. a lot of things jump out at this. at what point, you know, everybody say, kids are fine. kids are ok. friendly and nice. then who knows what happened? >> yeah. i used to work with them. i know parents make so much sacrifice to spend time and develop their kids and reading the kiss. what i want to focus on is if there was no gun present. the family would be alive. i am not saying that. >> no. no. it is not a gun control issue. it is what do we do in cases where

with ones who are psychopathic because we, you know, sometimes refer to children who are autistic as low in empathy but, in fact, autism associated with a very different kind of empathy deficit in what is called theory of mind difficulty understanding other o people intention and beliefs and thoughts sort of cold cognitive thoughts but people who are autistic with difficulty with that kind of process doapght have difficulty with caring about other people. once they register what it is they're feeling. and so -- a person can have psychopath and autistic traits. >> but isn't it actually the flip in the sense that the psychopathic person might have a clear sense of what the other person is thinking and feeling and that's why they're so god at manipulating but they dpoangt care. >> might be a key feature to a successful psychopath that they have really good ability to understand what other people want and drier, and that's why they're so good at manipulating them and deceiving them. >> so i came in a little late i don't know if you touched on this but i was wondering how can you be certa

and maybe get person can both autistic and psychopathic. >> isn't it the sense that the psychopathic could have a clear sense of what the other person is thinking and feeling that is why they're so manipulating?. >> yes. they do have related ability to understand what other people want their good at manipulating them. >> i came in a little late but with psychology how can you be certain altruistic people don't do what they do for the sake of the gratification verses wanting to help others?. >> this is a deep and incredibly hard question. why does somebody give to a stranger? that gratification afterwards? it is a hard question because those who are altruistic to feel gratification after they donate to somebody else or save their life and the issue is one that is motivated by the desire to experience or fetishes to downstream consequence but it seems to be that is a foreseeable downstream consequence if you do something and accomplished you are gratified by the fact you accomplished what he wanted to do that doesn't mean that motivated you but psychographics you desire of me that type

joining us now, alistair rolfe, who's son nick is autistic. people against cuts.will come to you a bit later. what does he struggle with? normal child. him earning a living wage at the moment are very slim. supported, statement did, had learning assistants? with full—blown autism. to have the full amount of support with a learning support assistant. the same level of support. but enough to help with certain things. reassessed from scratch. that he deserved absolutely no money whatsoever. what was he asked in the interview? behind his autism. he was asked questions like, can you dress yourself? can you cook a meal? can you go on a bus journey? be noise on the bus. to say the right answer? a meal, it was to tick box. a meal but leave the cooker on and start a fire. we have to be very careful. the assessment itself was flawed? this was prejudicial against people with mental health disabilities. nobody should be without support that they clearly need. court or supreme court but excepting it. it and it was the wrong decision? courtjudge made a ruling in december. what

single mother of an autistic handicapped child. i am already worried about medicaid. person has quite haskly pretty much depressed the entire nation. it's nauseating. that's susan in florida this morning. we are spending our last hour on washington journal talking about trade and the economy and the president's message on those topics from the state of the union. here's the president last night talking about unfair trade practices. finallyca has also turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrifice their prosperity and shipped away our companies, our jobs and our wealth. our nation has lost its wealth but we are getting it back so fast. surrender isonomic totally over. from now on we expect trading relationships to be fair and very importantly reciprocal. [applause] we will work to fix bad trade deals and negotiate new ones and they will be good ones but they will be fair. we will work to fix bad trade and we will protect american workers and american intellectual property through strong enforcement of our trade rules. getting your thoughts this morning

the sullivan family with an autistic son and so many more. now three mega companies and their influential ceos say they're forming a partnership to drive down health care costs for their combined 1 million employees. billionaire warren buffett saying the ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tape worm on the american economy. >> health care in america is a a big mess and it comes with a big cost. >> health care makes up a staggering part of the american economy. it cost each american roughly $10,000 a year, more than any country in the year. the new partnership says it will be free from profit-making incentives and use technology solutions to provide high-quality health care at a reasonable cost. how? by using their combined buying power or by cutting out middle men like pharmacy benefit managers. amazon is already preparing to sell prescription drugs. today's announcement so big it drove down stock prices for big health care providers. >> we spend way too much and we're getting far too little. they're going to try to make the syste

friends and family have autistic. is charged with four counts of murder, and the death of his, 4s mother, 42-year-old linda, his sister, 18-year-old brittany, a firsckton university. a family friend. 70-year-old. prosecutors say, they planned pursue as an adult. >> this is a heartbreaking situation that we don't find ourselves oftenndfather a family friend in her 20's and one of the brothers were at home at the time. police responded a call around 11:43 new year eve and they seized a semi-automatic rifle which investigators said laughly belonged to a resident of the home but not saying who. a and the cause was multiple gunshots to each individual. reporter: the brother made it out and posted a heart benching tribute on the instagram account which is private but shares by another friend. he said he had the growths parents anyone could ask for. he went ton say, my sister was so beautiful and smart. unclosing, he wished everyone good luck in the new year, and said, and please, please, please, please remember to give the

>> reporter: -- were welcoming autistic fans and their families to a game at its shared home with theen loans arena, also known as the "q," but when the belles arrived, they felt anything but well come. 12-year-old carson can't speak and use an electronic device, which he wears around his neck to communicate. >> and we had trouble in going through security. the security guard not understanding what carson's device was or what it was used for. >> what happened? >> we were trawly told that he couldn't come through security with that. carson got a little anxious and so the scatchard guard said you have to get control of the child. >> how did you feel? >> defeated. >> reporter: amy couldn't let it go. she took to social media, launched this tweet, treated very poorly by the "q" security last night for autism aware ps night, a message there reverberated throughout the arena. amy's complaint got the attention of anthony bonavita, senior vice president for facility operations at the "q." the belles' experience hit home for him. his son dominick is also in the autism spectrum. what did they s

the sub family with an autistic son. and so many more.fluential ceos say they're forming a partnership to drive down health care costs for their combined 1 million employees. billionaire warren buffett saying the ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tapework on the american economy. >> health care in america is a big mess. and it comes down to cost. >> reporter: health care makes up a staggering 18% of the u.s. economy, costing each american roughly $10 dh10,000 a year mor any country in the world. the new partnership says it will be free from profitmaking incentives and use technology solutions to provide high-quality health care at a reasonable cost. how? potentially by using their combined buying power to drive prices lower or by cutting out middle men like pharmacy benefit managers. amazon is already reportedly preparing to sell prescription drugs. the announcement so big it drove down the stock prices for big health care players. >> we spend way too much and we're getting far too little. so they're going to try to make the

. >> reporter: sheila brought her autistic son who loves ronald darby but hates crowds. >> kind of had to hide behind the register for a bit. what people think of nothing it's a big deal. >> reporter: several hours into the event, corner back patrick robinson still hadn't shown up as scheduled. dynasty employees handed out pizza for the loyal fans who waited. around 9:00 p.m. it was announced due to a packed schedule, he wouldn't show. >> we want to be supportive. everybody was pretty friendly, you could tell the attitude changed a little and everybody talked to everybody. >> reporter: despite a long day of waiting, fans say this was their way to send off their team. >> eagles! >> this is something we've waited for for a long, long time. it finally happened. they're going to bring it home. >> reporter: dynasty sports offered fans refunds for their tickets to see robinson or offer them a chance to see them once they reschedule his appearance which they say will be sometime after the super bowl. trish hartman, channel 6 action news. >> and patrick robinson sent out this tweet. he says i

they don't want to take their autistic son or daughter out to the shops, out to schools and servicesh closer to their destination then they can easily take someone away if there is an issue and if there are difficulties when they are out and about. the department for transport says only some councils recognise hidden disabilities under the current scheme, because they interpret the existing rules differently. the proposals would be the biggest change to the scheme since it was first introduced. the plans will now go through an eight—week public consultation. helena lee, bbc news. germany has moved a step closer to forming a new government, after members of the centre left social democrats gave their backing to new coalition talks with angela merkel‘s conservatives. at a party meeting in bonn, the spd‘s martin schulz urged delegates to press ahead, describing a new coalition as the best way to combat hard—right politics in europe. the general election four months ago left no party with an overall majority. jenny hill in berlin says talks to form a government could begin as soon as tom

>> reporter: recently, a similar incident involving an autistic 10-year-old was caught on camera. in a statement, local police say the action on a student rarely happens but "was warranted to prevent his erratic and violent behavior from bringing further harm to others or himself." >> i know that my kid made a mistake. >> reporter: but his parents say police were out of line. despite one previous outburst, describing their son as an excellent student who's won awards at school. some reports say bullying may have been behind the child's outburst. he has been given a standard ten-day suspension and the parents have not ruled out a lawsuit. tom? >> zachary, thank you. >>> overseas tonight, we turn to russia, and outrage over the arrest of putin's biggest political rival. taken into custody during a protest. barred from running for president, calling for a boycott of the election. our cameras showing how putin's forces crack down on protesters. here's dan harris. >> reporter: in dramatic video tonight, you can see opposition leader alexei navalny arrested on the streets of moscow whil

for many parents sometimes they say they don't want to go out, don't want to take their autistic sonschools and services and other places because they're worried about what might happen. if they can park much closer to their destination, they can easily take someone away if there is an issue or difficulties when they are out and about. the department for transport says only some councils recognise hidden disabilities under the current scheme, because they interpret the existing rules differently. the proposals would be the biggest change to the scheme since it was first introduced. the plans will now go through an eight—week public consultation. helena lee, bbc news. germany could move closer to having a stable government later today, four months after inconclusive general elections. the centre—left social democrats are due to vote on whether to begin formal coalition talks on renewing the four—year alliance with the conservatives of the chancellor, angela merkel. our correspondentjenny hill is following developments from berlin.... what is the reluctance in continuing that coalition

for many parents sometimes they tell us they don't want to go out, don't want to take their autistic're worried about what might happen. but if they can park much closer to their destination, they can easily take someone away if there is an issue or difficulties when they are out and about. the department for transport says only some councils recognise hidden disabilities under the current scheme, because they interpret the existing rules differently. the proposals would be the biggest change to the scheme since it was first introduced. the plans will now go through an eight—week public consultation. helena lee, bbc news. a former premier league footballer is about to become president of the west african nation of liberia. george weah — who played for chelsea and manchester city — told the bbc he was ready to meet the expectations of his people. he will be sworn in tomorrow. his victory is the latest extraordinary chapter in liberia's emergence from the horrors of civil war. from the capital monrovia here's our africa editor, fergal keane. a fanfare for the people's man. who rose fro

sure, for lots of autistic people when they go out and about and are in public, they can get very overwhelmedhey can become so overwhelmed they might have a meltdown. that anxiety can also be around, you know, having the knowledge of where you might park and what might happen. parents often tell us that if they know they can quickly take their child's weight if there is a problem and take them home, that gives them the confidence to ta ke home, that gives them the confidence to take the child out. —— take their child away. and for some adults, they might have two to one support to make sure they are safe when they are out and about in the community and to be able to park more closely will give them reassurance about knowing where they can go, and if there is a problem, they know they can easily escape the issue. will this be everybody with autism or would it be severe cases? who will decide who gets a blue badge? how does it work? as i said, it's a government consultation at the moment to look at the rules. the mechanisms. yes, and how exactly you might describe that because not all people on

they don't want to take their autistic son or daughter out to the shops, out to schools and servicese they are worried about what might happen. but if they can park much closer to their destination then they can easily take someone away if there is an issue and if there are difficulties when they are out and about. the department for transport says only some councils recognise hidden disabilities under the current scheme, because they interpret the existing rules differently. the proposals would be the biggest change to the scheme since it was first introduced. the plans will now go through an eight—week public consultation. helena lee, bbc news. tennis and kyle edmund has reached his first grand slam quarterfinal. the british no 2 beat the italian, andreas seppi, in four sets at the australian open in melbourne. nick parrott reports. kyle edmund could barely stand after his last match in melbourne. now he has reached greater heights than ever before. the mercury was at a merciful 26 degrees but early on it looked like andreas seppi could prove too hot to handle. 27 places separate t

they don't want to go out, don't wa nt to ta ke they don't want to go out, don't want to take their autisticbecause they were worried about what might happen. if they can bark much closer to their destination, they can easily take someone destination, they can easily take someone awake if there is an issue or difficulties when they are out and about. the department for transport says only some councils recognise hidden disabilities under the current scheme, because they interpret the existing rules differently. the proposals would be the biggest change to the scheme since it was first introduced. the plans will now go through an eight—week public consultation. helena lee, bbc news. france's president, emmanuel macron, has told the bbc he shares the outrage of african countries about reports donald trump used a vulgar and offensive word to describe them. mr trump was forced to deny being a racist when he was accused of making the comments during an oval office meeting on immigration. speaking to andrew marr, president macron said it was important to understand the history behind the countries

he built a squeeze machine for his daughter's son who is autistic and provides pressure on the body like a hug and calmed down ryan when he becomes anxious. eileen found out about that one but that cost 3$360,000 to buy and her own dad built hers. >> he saw the thing and he saw the movie and we were fascinated by this contraption they built. and i printed up the plans, and said do you think you could make this? and knowing my dad and people know my dad he said absolutely. >> it provides a 15 minute squeeze. small business, internet providers promise you a lot. let's see who delivers more. comcast business offers fast gig-speeds across our network. let's verizon doesn't. more. we o reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g wireless network backup. verizon, no way. we offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. verizon, not so much. get internet on our gig-speed network and add voice and tv for $34.90 more per month. call 1-800-501-6000. >>> welcome back to "action news" on this somewhat balmy day. what degrees is the high. 5 degrees above normal. the warmest day since d

since her companion dog to her 27-year-old autistic son went missing. >> the first night he said mom, my sleeping buddy is gone. >> an extreme temperatures like this rescue says the entire community comes together to help. >> looking out and helping to monitor the trapping stations. >> for now why the team searches high and lawn to see fawn who isn't microchipped is out of the cold. >> i don't think she would have made it in the weather. >> amy aubert, abc7 news. >> all right. thank you. good evening. get to the numbers. out the door we are 18 degrees. weeing weeing -- reagan national. winds are blowing to make the feels like at 4. widespread. talk about cold. it's 31 below zero. we get to charlotte. 29. no place on this map when it comes to feels like temperature above freezing. everybody is cold. a few lake effect snow otherwise the low pressure out of here. high pressure in place. gorgeous day today if you are outside or even inside. you saw the sunshine. nice from the inside looking out. it's zero in d.c. minus 3. feels like at andrews is around 4. looking ahead to tomorrow mornin

. >> amy and jeff bellis know going to sporting events with their autistic son carson could be more anxietyd noises can be overwhelming to him. still in february 2016 they decided to give a hockey game with carson a shot. >> it was autism awareness night and we thought what a great opportunity -- >> the cleveland monsters of the american hockey league -- were welcoming austistic fans and families to a game with the cleveland cavaliers at the quicken lopes arena known as the q. but when they arrived they felt anything by welcome. >> hello, my name is carson. >> reporter: carson can't speak and uses an electronic device which he wears around his neck to community. >> he had trouble going through security and not -- the security guard not understanding what his device was or what it was used for. >> what happened? >> we were told that he couldn't come through security with that. and he got anxious and so then the security guard -- >> he looked at me and said -- >> that we need to get control. >> he said get control of that child. >> how did that make you feel? >> defeated. >> amy couldn't let

. >> reporter: she brought her autistic son who loves ronald darby but hates crowds. >> we had to hide behind the register for a bit. people think of nothing is such a big deal. >> reporter: several hours into the event corner back patrick robinson still hadn't shown up as scheduled. dynasty employees handed out pizza for the loyal fans who waited. around 9:00 p.m. it was announced due to a packed schedule he wouldn't show. >> a little disappointed and everybody was friendly and you could tell the attitude changed a little bit. >> reporter: despite a long day of waiting, fans say this was their way to send off the team. >> this has been something we've been waiting for for a long, long time. >> reporter: dynasty sports offered fans refunds for their tickets to see robinson or offered them a chance to see him once he rescheduled his appearance which they say will be sometime after the super bowl. trish hartman, channel 6 action news. >> patrick robinson sent out a tweet and said i apologize to all the eagles fans due to circumstances outside of my control i missed my signing at dynasty

name to that of the village where he spent his childhood already as a teenager he demonstrated his autistic skills in drawings as well as the german harshness. understood up to fair trade and i think it's true of all artists that to a certain extend like all of us they bear the stamp of their environment their history so they are bound into this cultural situation but to call him the most german of all german painters i really don't know what that supposed to mean but on . the korean artists say oh stop it at the burnin aunt academy she was in professor bothell it says cos in two thousand and three she became his monster pupil. i am tired i had to show and i had painted some really cheerfully colored pictures and one day he came into the studio and took all the brushes and pains off the trolley and put them to one side he only left me some very narrow asia brushes and black and white paint begin with these he said it's just don't try to imitate european pig. and don't forget where you come from which i don't think you're clueless ok dennis ferguson for do here comes positive had a few years

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. >>> an autistic celebration commemorating martin luther king jr. sculptures of the late civil rights leader were unveiled today. young artists created these works of art using quotes from dr. king as creative inspiration. they will be on display at prominent locations throughout the city through the end of february. >>> to the eagles now. nbc 10 is your official station of the eagles. the birds playoff matchup with the falcons is quickly approaching now. today head coach doug pederson had a message for the rowdy fans in the stands on saturday. let's hear more about that. >> danny is joining us live with more on it. >> it's been a long four years since fans last filled the link for a playoff game. what turned out to be a heartbreaking wild card loss to the saints on a field goal. now saturday is going to be brimming to capacity with almost 70,000 of their feathered friends, if you will. the head coach had a message for eagles fans. >> we want teams to come to our stadium and to feel our fans and to feel the excitement and to feel the noise and to fe

back to our brotherly love special, about six years ago a south jersey teenager wanted to help her autistic twin brothers make friends. >> now hundreds of young people with special need have a club all of their own and we caught up with one in lawyers forward. these kid know how to have fun empty tissue boxes filled with ping-pong balls. >> tie it around your waist abe you have to shake it all out. >> you got it, you got it. >> some of these young people have special need, solve only limited speaking skills but in this group called fantastic friends they are all pared up with other young people for social activity gabriel duran runs the suburban philadelphia chapter. >> there is a stereotype with people with special need but i love, that i get to change that stereotype. >> marisa hacker is 21 and started first fantastic friend s chapter when she was only 15 inspired by her twin brother matt. >> it was very challenging because people didn't really understand him or like didn't really reach out to him. >> they need like a community where they can come together and feel like they have kind of

best invented people are afraid somehow it's stealing something from their children and making them autistich is ridiculous. think about the parents who have their kids talking to these speakers now in a few years for some reason they don't like something about their kids they are going to look back at amazon and say, what did you say to my kid i think there's a tremendous peril in this way of designing interfaces, you know so i think -- >> right. >> so it's both good and bad. >> so do you think there needs to be some kinds of guide linings? we got an echo for my mother and father-in-law. she asked me, should i say thank you when alexa answered a question i want to say yes. do we really want to get out of the habit of saying thank you. >> he's laughing >> personally i don't think kids should use these i wouldn't have kids doing it. i wouldn't even have tweens doing it that's my own take on it by the way, people in silicon valley don't let their kids use a lot of technology. we're kind of aware of where the limits should be maybe other people should act more like us as far as you know -- as l

rich owe shawn sit built a machine that gives hugs for his daughter's 22-year old son who is autisticovides pressure on the body like a hug to help calm ryan when he becomes anxious. his daughter, eileen, saw the hug machine about a film bay university professor who made one himself but it will cost between seven and $20,000 to buy one that is manufactured. she found plans on line and her father built it. >> i turned to my dad when he was here one day and said, you know, here's this thing, he has seen the movie, we were fascinate by this contraption, that he had built, and i printed out plans and said, do you think you can make it? and, you know, knowing my dad and he said absolutely. >> during the 15 minute squeeze ryan listens to music or chats with his mother. >> that is what grand dad are for. >> that is right. >>> much more to come, you need to calm down, researchers say good way to do that is smelling your partner's shirt, we will explain in the health segment. >>> everybody loves pizza, right? so many options in the frozen aisle, handful of taste testers had difficult task of p

sarah has also has to pay for four sons who are all autistic. broken by the delays. she meets with these professionals. she has actually refused now to fill those forms out anymore. she says, i'm not filling them out, because nobody reads them, and nobody actually cares. richmond council tell me they have been working with families to ensure each transfer results in strong, informed, individually tailored plans. even though it has taken 3.5 years to only do half the transfers, they reckon they can the rest done in the next seven weeks. impossible. it is not doable. it won't be quality, and it won't be considered. the quality of new plans is a concern, right across england. do you want the government to scrap this deadline? it would be helpful if they would extend this deadline. having such a ruthless deadline is putting at risk the quality of plans that are being delivered, in order to meet that timescale. not everyone would describe 3.5 years as a ruthless deadline. this letter was sent to local authorities recently, reminding them of the need

. >>> and dakota fanning plays an autistic woman who loves "star trek" in "please stand by."breaks out of her carefully scripted rup teen to enter a screenplay contest and hand deliver it to hollywood. "please stand by" is in theaters and available on demand. >> she's no longer that little girl. >> no, she's not. >> grown up. >> that happens. goes quickly. well, the week went pretty quick, we are finally on friday. >> we made it through the storms, the hail, the rainbows, the sunshine. we got a taste of it all, folks. in the mountains and sierra they got a good amount of snowfall. right now what we are looking out for is that 24-hour temperature change along with the fog. look at half-moon bay. 11 degrees colder this morning than we were yesterday. the temperatures across the board remain in the 40s. peninsula 43, tri-valley 37, 39 in the north bay, san francisco at 44 and in terms of that visibility, be careful, i did just tweet this out right now because we're starting to see some pretty dense fog, especially for the north bay, down to less than a half a mile in santa rosa,

the moment i arrived, we found out our son, our little guy, is autistic. he vanishes on us, that we-- we hae no way to talk to him, and it crushes us. when we first heard the word autism, we were stunned. i said, you mean like rain man? like dustin hoffman in that movie? and the doctor says, "well maybe, but you know he speaks and some of them never get their speech back." and that's the last thing i heard in that appointment. how could that be, that can't be my son. it was and our education was about to begin. there's no way to talk to him, he can't even make his needs known, we just watched him. then all of a sudden, it dawns in us, "what's he doing, he's doing what we all do, story." he's watching the disney animated movies. all the ones you know: "beauty and the beast," "aladdin," "the lion king," "dumbo," "peter pan." he can't really communicate but all of a sudden, in a moment, it dawns on us, he's making sense of the world using these movies. just like we all do. as a mirror, as a map, as a vessel, that's what we do with story. we started playing ou

. >> reporter: sheila reid brought her autistic son who loves ronald darby but hates crowds. >> he hadregister it but he made it and i'm so proud of him. >> people think is nothing it is such a big deal. >> reporter: several hours in the event quarterback patrick robinson still had in the shown up as scheduled. dynasty employees handed out pizza for loyal fans, who waited. around 9:00 p.m. it was announced due to a packed schedule he would not show. >> little disappointed but everybody was pretty friendly. you could tell attitude changed a little but everybody talk and it was a friendly atmosphere. >> reporter: despite long day of waiting fans say this was their way to send off their team. >> eagles. >> thinks something we have been waiting for a long, long time. if something happens they want to bring it home. >> reporter: dynasty sports offered fans refunds for their tickets to see robinson or offered them a chance to see him once they reschedule his appearance which they say will be sometime after the super bowl. reporting live from langhorne trish hartman channel six "action news".

language therapist but in the nhs, i worked with adults with learning difficulties and people with the autisticce others as if to say, well, this is a bit odd. and i suddenly realised she had misunderstood that it wasn't on top of or underneath her bra, but by rephrasing inside or outside your bra, she was then able to get clear evidence. had an intermediary not been there to clear up that misunderstanding, it may have sounded like a very different events had taken place. and it would appear that according to baroness new love, there are some people who would really benefit from your help, your services, but they are just not getting access because of this postcode lottery around the country. would you agree with that? absolutely. quite often when i work with somebody they say, well, i wish i had had you last week or the week before. and police officers suddenly realise there are lots of cases where they may have been able to get much better evidence had they had an intermediary helping them at the interview stage. 0ne intermediary helping them at the interview stage. one of my concerns is that

>> reporter: recently a similar incident with a autistic 10-year-old was caught on camera.n a statement, local police say the action on a student rarely happens, but was warranted to prevent his erratic and violent behavior to prevent further harm to himself. >> i know my kids made a mistake -- >> reporter: describing their son as an excellent student who's won awards at school. some say bullying may have been behind the child's out burst. he had no known mental health issues. he's been given a standard 10-day suspension and his parents haven't ruled out a lawsuit. abc news, new york. >> quite the image of a 7-year-old in handcuffs. thanks to zachary. >>> overseas, angelina jolie is bringing her star power to syrian refugee camp in jordan. it put her and her daughter side by side with syrians in the the refugee camp. it was her sixth visit to jordan. the oscar winner is calling for a political solution to end the long-running civil war. a 70-year-old bomb from world war ii caused panic in hong kong. police were called in to diffuse it. roads had to be closed off and 1500 pe

for many parents sometimes they tell us they don't want to go out, don't want to take their autistice they're worried about what might happen. but if they can park much closer to their destination, they can easily take someone away if there is an issue or difficulties when they are out and about. the department for transport says only some councils recognise hidden disabilities under the current scheme, because they interpret the existing rules differently. the proposals would be the biggest change to the scheme since it was first introduced. the plans will now go through an eight—week public consultation. helena lee, bbc news. joining us via web come from mold in north wales is richard, whose father has alzheimer's disease and is in a ca re has alzheimer's disease and is in a care home. if this scheme had been introduced earlier, could it have helped his father? richard, what do you think this idea. it would have helped, i think it is a bit late for my father at the moment but i'd like to see it extended to dementia and alzheimer's sufferers, certainly. because it is a hindrance, wh

it found autistic behaviour in grandchildren and great grandchildren of mice.ssible to give families reassurance. there's more of that in tonight's inside out programme at seven seven thirty. let's have a look at the travel situation now. several bus routes on diversion. traffic is reasonably good in the area. a check on the weather now with kate kinsella. good morning. the temperature outside is feeling mild this morning. it is actually risen overnight so it's not feeling as cold as it did yesterday. we have a lot of cloud and rain to start with. that will quite quickly move away southwards, becoming drier, some brighter weather this afternoon. still fairly cloudy, breezy, and the temper to getting up to nine or 10 celsius circus on backup in double figures in the temperature is not going to drop too far overnight, we are hanging onto that mild air and also hanging on to the cloud, getting spots of rain and the cloud thicken up to produce spots dawn. the minimum temperature is not really dropping which is seven and nine celsius. a damp start tomorrow. further

single mother of an autistic handicapped child. i am already worried about medicaid.erson has quite haskly pretty much depressed the entire nation. it's nauseating. that's susan in florida this morning. we are spending our last hour on washington journal talking about trade and the economy and the president's message on those topics from the state of the union. here's the president last night talking about unfair trade practices. finallyca has also turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrifice their prosperity and shipped away our companies, our jobs and our wealth. our nation has lost its wealth but we are getting it back so fast. surrender isonomic totally over. from now on we expect trading relationships to be fair and very importantly reciprocal. [applause] we will work to fix bad trade deals and negotiate new ones and they will be good ones but they will be fair. we will work to fix bad trade and we will protect american workers and american intellectual property through strong enforcement of our trade rules. getting your thoughts this morning o

sarah has also has to pay to pay for four sons who are autistic.r is broken by the delays. she meets with these professionals. she meets with these professionals. she has ashley refused now to fill those forms out any more. she says i am not filling them out, because nobody read them, and nobody actually ca res. nobody read them, and nobody actually cares. richmond council tell me they have been working with families to ensure each transfer is also strong, informed, individually tailored plans. even though it has taken 3.5 years to only do half the transfers, they reckon they can the rest done in the next seven weeks. impossible. it is not doable. it won‘t be quality, and it won‘t be considered. the quality of new plans isa considered. the quality of new plans is a concern, right across england. do you want the government to scrap this deadline? it would be held if they would extend this deadline. having such a ruthless deadline is putting at risk the quality of plans that are being delivered, in order to meet that timescale. not everyone would des