here's how birth tourism works. brokers advertise offering package deals to women who want to have their newborn become u.s. citizens. these women are often accompanied by their husbands, who are an integral part of the planning process. canan tasci reports for the "inland valley daily" bulletin and has been covering the ballooning trend as more and more women arrive to give birth in southern california. >> this is kind of a birthing package where everything is pre-set up for you and then everything from where you are going to stay to where you are going while you are here if you are doing any vacationing while you are here, visiting your dr.'s office whether you are having a natural birth, whether you are having a c-section and then all your meals are included. that price tag has been reported to be about $100,000. >> the women stay in what are called birthing centers or maternity hotels. they are advertised as luxury hotels or high end housing. >> this is another area in the west side to tell you what the faciliti

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first washe birth -- in 1978, many have been conceived in vitro. the pregnancy rate for each implantation remains stubbornly low, a round 32%. improving that statistic would literally be life changing. >> the top stories, more than 70 people killed and 150 wounded in a series of bombings across iraq. the third straight day of sectarian violence. protesters in washington d.c. demand that president barack obama closed down the military prison camp. the hunger strike by scores of inmates has now passed 100 days. on aecretary general is three-day visit to russia. .e met with the u.s. military the 87-year-old was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity during his r at the height of the country's dirty work. >> he was probably the most jaded of argentina's leaders. he led the military to the began what is known as the dirty war in which estimated 30,000 people were disappeared and killed, many more tortured. when argentina return to democracy, he was tried and sentenced for crimes against humanity. he was sentenced to an additional 50 years i

so secondarily we were pleased to hear mention of a ferry birth because this is just in the last few months, the maritime commerce committee has said what can we do to support maritime in this design. we have acceptability a letter to the port and we've handed copies of it here to you today talking about we'd like the team to consider a study working with the water emergency transit authority to consider the ferry birth. and i saw it there, then we're even further pleased. we think the design is coming a great way for a win win /weupbl for the community and the port and the continued support and public trust on this pier. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'm dennis. i each in the san francisco public high schools. as you can't to refine and re/spopbld to the orders updated arena project, i have been over the last year sharing my proposal with the warriors and san francisco officials to include within the original design and construction within this arena, a high school college career pathway classroom. i have provided everyone involved with this project with /tphaoupl /rouls id

. >>> and the teen birth rate in 2011 is at a record low. federal data, new federal data, saying 31 out of every 1,000 babies born that year were to women age 15 to 19. that's about half the rate reported from ten years earlier. >>> time now for business headlines and cnbc's seema mody. seema, good morning. >> richard, futures are lower right now after stocks fell on wednesday on comments from fed chairman ben bernanke, suggesting that the fed could start tapering its economic stimulus programs possibly this year. global markets are also reacting to weak manufacturing data out of china. >>> in other news, fidelity says the average of 401(k) balance topped $81,000 and is up 75% since the depths of the financial crisis in 2009. most of the recovery is due to the stock market rally since that time. >>> and twitter is beefing up its security measures, adding a verification feature for users when they log in. the move comes in the wake of hacking attacks on accounts of several major companies and news organizations. richard, back to you. >> all r

a letter her teenage birth mom sent to the owner of the car she was found in, giving her more reasonrch. >> i cut a picture out of the paper and carried it in my wallet. i cry when i think of her. oh, i love her so much. and i love her, too. >> reporter: but even if she doesn't find her mom, she's found enough to fill in the missing pieces. in concord, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> 62 years later, those two still have the -- they share that strong bond. >> they do. >>> an update on the breaking news, in southern california. the massive flames and smoke moving very close to some homes. this is in angeles national forest. there are communities right in this area. this is off highway 5, north of los angeles. north of santa clarita in the area. so far, about 150 acres have burned. we're bringing in jeff ranieri now. we talk about the high heat and high winds. >> it's not good right now. humidities in the single digits, 5%, winds gusting in the low 30s. temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s. two more days of conditions exactly like this. this could get a lot larger as we head

. >>> a washington state woman is in the bay area this week and she's searching for her birth mother.n was a baby when she was found abandoned moore than 60 years ago. >> as jay hernandez reports, she was reunited woman who found her >> reporter: jan, you've got a cat in your door. >> opened the door, expecting a cat to jump out. >> a baby left without a note. >> it was an emotional moment. >> it really was because i was thinking about my nine-month-old in the bed asleep. >> that baby, now in her 60s, tracked down hungerfod and called her. >> in 62 years they met again this week. >> we're bonded. >> we're like family. >> the biggest piece of the puzzle fell into place when the birth mother wrote the newspaper saying the baby left behind was not a jane doe, she was named eshgs lda jean -- elda jean. >> because there was this handwritten letter from the birth mother, supposedly, they went to writing samples. >> i'm proof somebody can not have those pieces and still be happy, but on on the other hand, there are always questions. > are creepingez, ktvu 2s. into the weekend. >> let's take

where is the safest place to give birth? and norway, the top of the list prayed the highest rates of newborn deaths is in africa. the highest number of newborn babies die in india. continuing our series looking .nto infant mortality, a report >> preparing for her weekly meeting. in lives in a remote village northern india. life is tough here. much of the community is illiterate. while the men go to work in the fields or towns, the place for a woman here is at home. andnt mortality is high the government has been trying to get the message across that having a baby in a hospital is better for mother and child. woman'sto a pregnant house and have the advantage of being in the hospital. women are frightened by a company them. i don't want them to catch infection. it is for the safety of the child and the mother. now -- every woman says when i go into labor, i want her with me. they gather once a week for basic training that involves first aid. they are advised of how to convince pregnant women that a hospital birth is safer when

why the recent birth of a giraffe is important to the san francisco zoo. ,,,,,,,, an abandoned newborn seco chance at life. it was >>> 62 years ago, a bay area woman answered a cry for help. gave an abandoned newborn a second chance at life. it was the only time the two ever met until today. kpix 5's john ramos was there for a reunion six decades in the making. >> reporter: 62 years ago, a mystery began in concord in a car parked at 1443 coventry road and these two women were both there. >> slowly opened the car door expecting a cat to jump out. and instead there was this little blue bundle on the front seat of the car. >> reporter: that bundle was kyra, when she was only 1-day- old. the newspapers reported the story of the abandoned baby. >> when i was found, i was taken to the hospital. i was slightly premature. i was there for a week. then i went immediately to the foster family. >> reporter: kyra grew up in foster care and later with an adoptive family. she wondered about the parents who abandoned her. then 58 years later kyra learned a letter had been left at the scene by her birt

are they going to put her on birth control?ause he's very concerned with the contraceptives and pharmaceuticals that are going in the mouths of every other 15-year-old daughter. >> this is another fox news contributor. not only are you dealing with the fact that they feel they are uppity as blacks but when do you have people standing or sitting in the public airwaves asking if 15-year-old daughter is going on birth control? >> as a mother of three, this makes me sick. sick to my stomach, that someone would have the gall or tamerity to bring up the president's children and whether or not they use birth control. where is this woman coming from? and anyone who attacks or brings up the president's children or, for that matter, anyone else's children about such a private and personal matter should be, i don't know, there are a lot of different things that i should say that they may be, wrapped on the knuckles. i will say that. >> let me say this, joe, the bottom line is, they are so full of venom and hate for this president that his

a think this is part along bertrand toward declining birth rates.ason is that teenagers just turned having sex and haskell the way that they used to. promiscuity has fallen in as cool. to me as an economist my perspective is affecting that the students recognize that in the current economy is so important to stay in school, so important to go on to college and having a little more education after high school. i think message respond to that by being in the more cautious, the seven lots of evidence. the once again -- afford to go to college and how many sexual partners they have a high-school . it. lou: in that, you are ascribing somewhat more maturity and the partisan judgment of the part o teenagers and some alarm having affairs as adults, married adults, and supposedly monogamous relationships. >> the problem, it is not just maturity. they're making rational decisions. i think average. they need to be more cautious. they worry about job prospects and do respond. they have seen what is going on. lou: some of these sub tells th you put to the book.

she's been spotted spending time with a rather unlikely individual, her birth mom.ris as a teenager is going through some teenage issues and really wanted a mother figure around. >> reporter: michael jackson's daughter is now 15. paris and her brother prince along with blanket from a different mother have been watched over by their grandmother and guardian katherine jackson since their father's death in 2009. >> katherine jackson is a lovely lady but she's 83 years old. and this close to 70 years age difference. >> reporter: paris has been growing up fast and had a daily mail article and spread in "event" magazine. the past two were seen looking at horses at a california ranch then having sushi, even spent paris' birthday together. but why now? >> i think it's not only not surprising that a 15-year-old girl wants her mother. i think it's really healthy she wants that influence in her life. >> reporter: rowe married and had two children, prince and paris. later when they divorced rowe gave up all her parental rights reportedly. >> she allegedly got paid $8 million to

because it is a gift i want to give my birth mom.i'm okay. okay. >> just the same thing i told you. just the same thing i told you. >> in contra costa county, jodi hernandez, bay area news. >> holding hands the whole time. >> what an amazing bond the women share, that is lovely. >> let's bring in jeff fournier. >> numbers continue to go up, you guys as we have been mentioning. and also increased fire danger, high pressure builds offshore, edging just a little bit closer today. and that was good enough for increased warming. not only that, winds are amping up, here in the south bay you can see it is turning more to the north out of the east in san jose, drier winds that we can get in the south bay, about ten to 22 miles an hour there in sunnyvale, as well. winds out of the north, the warmest temperatures, san jose, 83, gilroy, 86. tomorrow, the temperatures will be hotter as we have been talking about. not only that, but we'll start off fog-free at the coastline by the bay. and seeing interior valleys. look at this, by 11:00 tomorrow,

it may be because of the birth of a child, usually a sign. the gang world has not caught up with post-feminist theory. with the story that a gang member named maniac told me, he decided to leave the rolling 60's after 20 years, after achieving status. he was in the back seat of a car, being driven by one of his underlings in the front seat. one of his fellow gang associates got in the back seat with him. the associate said to move over. maniac did not want to move over. maniac did not want to move over. the associate shoved him over and 10 seconds later, a gun was shot and the bullet came into the car, pierced the associate to the neck and killed him instantly. maniac said, if he had not shoved me aside i would be dead. i am done. that was his turning point. call it a turning point, called the teachable moment. use whatever terminology that you want. that is where we need to be present. when i say we, i mean, we. at that turning point, at that moment of truth, that teachable moment, it is imperative that resources be brought to bear. now, wha

. >> new report is showing a big drop in teen mother birth rates, at 25 percent drop if most states. california saw a bigger drop at 29 percent, mountain states did we better with birth rates down by 30 percent or more and arizona, colorado, idaho, nevada and utah. the centers for disease control based the report on birth rates between 2007 through 2011 focusing on teens age 15 to 19 and experts believe the weak economy contributed to the decline. >> "consumer reports" is out with the topics for sunscreen. top rated is a spray from target if you prefer a lotion, "consumer reports" named one from wal-mart which is "equate," and copper tone water babies got a good rate. >> if you exercise this morning you are part of an exclusive club and if you lift weights more exclusive much the lack of strength training is the most common problem for our health. the centers for disease control says nearly three out of four americans do not lit a dumbbell or do a pushup or participate in pilates. 34 percent of people do no aerobic exercises. 51 percent in the west get aerobic exercises and people in

that baby had been placed there by the birth mother.ow this woman was adopted moved to washington. she described touching base again with jan. >> called her. i said did you used to live in concord of coventry road. >> yes were you there when i was when abandoned baby was found. yes. >>reporter: she had searched for jan for years. she says the final chapter in her journey would be to fine her mother who abandoned her more than 6 decades ago. >> great first step. >> microsoft bringing back the startÑi button if one of the changes coming to windows 8.1. last october microsoft took off the start button when it made window 8 and people weren't comfortable with this and wanted more familiar format. microsoft will present a more extensive lack at window 8.1 at programmer conference in san francisco next month. >> 10-year-old boy struck it rich in kansas city hotel room. tyler shaeffer likes to look for spare change so going through all the drawers in hotel room when he hit the mother load. 10,000 dollars in cash meetly stacked in one of the dr

that baby had been placed there by the birth mother.ow this woman was adopted moved to washington. she described touching base again with jan. >> called her. i said did you used to live in concord of coventry road. >> yes were you there when i was when abandoned baby was found. yes. >>reporter: she had searched for jan for years. she says the final chapter in her journey would be to fine her mother who abandoned her more than 6 decades ago. >> great first step. >> microsoft bringing back the startÑi button if one of the changes coming to windows 8.1. last october microsoft took off the start button when it made window 8 and people weren't comfortable with this and wanted more familiar format. microsoft will present a more extensive lack at window 8.1 at programmer conference in san francisco next month. >> 10-year-old boy struck it rich in kansas city hotel room. tyler shaeffer likes to look for spare change so going through all the drawers in hotel room when he hit the mother load. 10,000 dollars in cash meetly stacked in one of the dr

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jamie wyeth has painted lots of birth houses which to him resemble doll houses. >> it's an extension that grown-ups can have a doll house. but it's for the birds, of course. the birds have an abode and aaddress. >> reporter: yes, of course. whrook way up there.

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i was surprised by how big the drop was. >> reporter: teen births among latinas dropped 40% during the same period of time. >> we didn't expect such a large number. >> reporter: 45% of the patients here are latina. >> i think again this speaks to the fact that we're getting to places where this education hasn't been traditionally maybe lower income communities. >> reporter: this drop following a decade or so of decreasing teenage pregnancy and more birth control. but there's still 16,000 teenagers giving birth to babies each year in california. >>> the latest census shows the south bay population is surging. san jose is among the nation's top 15 cities for growth. giving california three cities on the list. but texas has the most with five. also of note here the city of gilroy has topped the 50,000 population mark for the first time. >>> new details tonight on those surprise inspections of limos and shuttles at san francisco and international airports. a number of enforcement agencies teamed up to inspect limos, taxis and shuttles. they wanted to make sure the owners were compliant. we

instead undocumented immigrants could show other forms of id like a birth certificate, a consular id card, a utility bill or lease agreement. if passed, millions of unlicensed drivers could come out of the shadows to get trained, tested and insured. >> incentive is they don't want to drive in fear that when they take their kids to school or drive to work that they might get their cars taken away and impounded, that they might get arrest and had taken to county jail because they have no identification. >> still not everyone is convinced it's a good idea. >> it's going to put a lot of people on the street that aren't financially ready to have a license. i'm saying they're not going to have insurance. >> so this had a lot of bipartisan support. moves off to the senate with a lot of momentum, however, governor brown has expressed some concerns, but the bill's sponsor says he's confident he can compromise and push this thing through. if it becomes law, it'll go into affect january 2015. ken. >> all right. thank you, kiet. >>> by the way, right now, illegal immigrant ks get licenses in fou

the number of births to teens ages 15 to 19 dropped 25% between '07 and 2011. >> now among individual ethnic groups the biggest drop was seen in hispanic teenagers. teen birthrates dropped 34%. more and more kids are actually getting the right message doctors say. >> abstinence plus family planning counseling. you can't just go abstinence only. you have to do that and plus here's how you keep yourself safer. >> researchers linked the declines in teen birthrates to a number of factors including strong teen pregnancy prevention messages and nearly all states saw hefty drop in teen birth. >>> you a big recall this morning and this car could be in your garage. >> if you drive a 2013 cadillac crossover, what you need to do if you need to take it back to the dealer. >> also if you are going to disney world get ready to pay more for the happiest place on earth. the latest step on the price hike and how you can save money if you go see the big mouse. [ both ] we're foodies. [ both laughing ] but our plants were starving. [ man ] we love to eat. we just didn't know that our plants did, too. th

i was surprised by how big the drop was. >> reporter: teen births among latinas dropped 40% during the same period of time. >> we didn't expect such a large number. >> reporter: 45% of the patients here are latina. >> i think again this speaks to the fact that we're getting to places where this education hasn't been traditionally maybe lower income communities. >> reporter: this drop following a decade or so of decreasing teenage pregnancy and more birth control. but there's still 16,000 teenagers giving birth to babies each year in california. >>> the latest census shows the south bay population is surging. san jose is among the nation's top 15 cities for growth. giving california three cities on the list. but texas has the most with five. also of note here the city of gilroy has topped the 50,000 population mark for the first time. >>> new details tonight on those surprise inspections of limos and shuttles at san francisco and international airports. a number of enforcement agencies teamed up to inspect limos, taxis and shuttles. they wanted to make sure the owners were compliant. we

. >> can men ever feel what women experience during child birth? "early today" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "early today" for wednesday, may 15th. >>> good morning. the irs scandal is getting more serious after a harsh report from the inspector general. it finds one irs office used what it called an inappropriate criteria to single out nonprofit conservative groups for extra scrutiny. nbc tracie potts is live in washington with the latest. busy tiles and now they're looking for those responsible. >>> exactly, and we knew this would happen too, we saw it with the acting irs chief here. it got pretty tough here, and that's just one of three committees that now wants to investigate. we now have the full report on the irs scandal. low level employees made up rules that were not fair. >> we want to know exactly who knew what and when. how high up did it go. did the white house know about it? >> the extra scrutiny left some groups in limbo. the bottom line is, it was wrong president obama said in a statement last night. he is ordering the trea

they gave birth here.hey live here with the babies. >> at neve tirza, babies can stay with their mothers until they turn 2 years old. pregnant inmates are released to civilian hospitals to give birth but then must return as soon as they are able. maria is here with her 2-month-old son. >> translator: we don't feel that we are in prison here in this room. it is very different from the rest of the rooms. play pens. cribs for babies. strollers. they painted for us and drew for us and they really put in a lot of effort. we're comfortable. it's pleasant for us. >> still, she says being a mother in prison is difficult. >> translator: the truth is, it really is heart breaking. you look outside the window, you see even a tree, a car, noises that you are used to. they're not here. you are isolated. it's really, really painful. really. >> she was one month pregnant when she committed the crime that led to her four-year sentence for assault with a deadly weapon. she stabbed a young woman, her former roommate, in the

she told us about her search for her birth mother.hernandez shows us the reunion with the woman who found her. >> the newspaper in 1951,-day- old baby girl left in auto. this baby's mother placed her outside of her home. >> you got a cat in your car. i said what? opened the door slowly. expecting a cat to jump out, instead i saw a bundle. >> a baby left without a note. >> it was an emotional moment. it really was. i was thinking about my baby asleep in the bedroom and just -- it was mind-boggling. >> reporter: that baby is now in her 60s, tracked her down and called her in 2009. >> i am that baby you found and i turned out okay. >>> for the second time in 62 years they met again this week. >> we are bonded. we are like family. >> the biggest piece of the family fell in place when the birth mother wrote the newspaper saying she was named elda jean and she was loved. she was forced to give up her baby, vowing to find her some day. >> at that time there was a rash of abandoned babies. because there was a letter from the birth mother egth

. >>> new figures released overnight show a dramatic drop in births to teen mothers. cdc says teen births were down in every state except west virginia and north dakota in the last five years. many western states saw rates fall by 30% or more and in nearly half of the country teen birth rates among hispanics dropped by at least 40%. >>> and now time for some of last night's playoff highlights. here's espn. >>> good morning, cassidy hubbarth here with your "sportscenter" update. game one between the pacers and heat in the eastern conference finals was an absolute thriller. with ten seconds to go in the game, pacers down 3, and paul george, he's up a long trey and hits it. off balance from way beyond the arc. he had 27 points, 25 in the second half. we would head to overtime. final seconds of o.t., lebron james, straight to the hoop for the game winner. lebron, a triple-double, 30 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and the win. >>> to hockey now, game four between the penguins and senators. third period, pens up, 5-2, and check out sydney crosby. nice backhand shot, excell

that baby had been placed there by the birth mother.ow this woman was adopted moved to washington. she described touching base again with jan. >> called her. i said did you used to live in concord of coventry road. >> yes were you there when i was when abandoned baby was found. yes. reporter: she had searched for jan for years. she says the final chapter in her journey would be to fine her mother who abandoned her more than 6 decades ago. >> great first step. >> microsoft bringing back the startÑi button if one of the changes coming to windows 8.1. last october microsoft took off the start button when it made window 8 and people weren't comfortable with this and wanted more familiar format. microsoft will present a more extensive lack at window 8.1 at programmer conference in san francisco next month. >> 10-year-old boy struck it rich in kansas city hotel room. tyler shaeffer likes to look for spare change so going through all the drawers in hotel room when he hit the mother load. 10,000 dollars in cash meetly stacked in one of the draw

a live birth using a single embryo and this is the technology. >> of the first attempt. dodge the chances of having a child with any chromosomal abnormalities was much less. >> the fertility experts excited by the new technique says the trial was simply too small to draw firm conclusions about the benefit to patients. >> the danger is that people will hear about this and think that time lapse photography will give them a better chance of pregnancy and it is too early for us to say that. dodge the 3,000 pounds. >> new hope for millions trying to have a baby. boots andwear cowboy cattle ranches are considered enemies of the state. back to win the first settlers came 150 years ago. many german immigrants even developed their own dialect. under threat,ge but before it disappears, we will have a lesson. texas and i have a for market which is generations. about all i spoke with a german. our families spoke german at is allowed of the german king. dodge the immigrants came to texas from various places in germany and became largely for economic reasons. they are spoken by the de

there was a birth, apparently, a live birth, at least one. notwithstanding the children that may have been lost in that house. >> so he was the midwife? what are we talking about here? he was the midwife? by the way you said there were other births. where are those children now? how many years old they are, where are they? >> we've got the one live birth. well, no. we've got the 6-year-old we know of that, of course, the one woman carried out, the first woman to escape. then there are allegations that there were at least five other pregnancies. now, we don't know if these were full term pregnancies. >> we've heard of -- >> or just being impregnated and lost. >> we've heard of miscarriages. all that happening without medical assistance. all that, another aspect of the custodial relationship here. the whole thing. they were being treated like mushrooms down in the basement there. no air. no decent amount of sunlight for ten years. no sunlight on a person? living out of the air out of the -- basically out of the atmosphere down there. you just w

she later gave birth to two children. >> tried to find out what is going on. releasing a statement, quote, these activities need the opportunity to heal this, isn't who they are. it is only what happened to hem. the human spirit is resilient this, reaffirms we should never give up hope. some neighbors are still upset they didn't discover dugard sooner. >> no they shouldn't blame themselves. no. you just never know. you can't read people. >> dugard wrote a memoir called a stolen life and is in washington, d.c. attending an event live in antioch abc 7 news. >> just minutes ago we caught up with one of the two uc berkeley police officers helped save jaycee dugard remember their move? ally consays she heard about the shocker happening florida i was trying to inspire hope in them that maybe someone will do something, see something like i d i heard about this act by a neighbor and actually didn't ignore it. and broke down the door. i felt amazing. >> well, she says her intertuition told her something was wrong. >> every time we report on a on duxs parents get anxiou

they opposed the partial birth abortion bill.y opposed these infants born alive. >> also condemned gosnelle. >> very well has made an excuse for gosnelle. don't comment on things that have a legal reaction. i think he's responsible in some ways. >> senator bayh, planned parenthood is controversial. there are two sides to this argument because supporters point out, and let's put it up on the screen, the hundreds of thousands of health screenings that they provide, fregosi tests, hiv tests, breast cancer tests, opponents point out as you can see the number on the bottom, it's also the nation's largest abortion provider. so i mean, there is two sides to the argument about planned parentho parenthood. >> these issues involving reproductive rights and unwanted pregnancies are controversial. planned parenthood and women who believe in reproductive rights, of course he's going to speak to that group. i would encourage you to focus on what he does, not just on what he says. with regard to plan b, he's getting fired up from both sides. th

we begin to learn language and other symbolic systems at birth. in time, they become a part of who we are and how we perceive the world. still, it's difficult for those of us in one culture to fully understand the symbolic systems of another. for archaeologists, the task is even more complex. the cultures they study can no longer be directly observed. archaeologist david webster. webster: suppose i came into this stadium a week, or even a century, after all the people left. how would i figure out what happened here ? what this arena was used for ? this is the dilemma facing archaeologists. symbols are of fundamental importance in understanding any human culture because they're so laden with meaning. but they're not very durable, and even if we find them, often we can't decode them. in this case, though, i'm in luck because of this -- writing. writing is a set of graphic symbols that is directly or indirectly related to language. keach: we use writing to convey very specific information, from introducing team members to explaining the referee's han

listen to this, a pregnant woman dies, gives birth and comes back to life. it happened to one mom. we'll explain how. and[technical difficulties] you're going to find out how they are taking care of a special family and facebook is so the new myspace. teens say the social media site is just not cool anymore. . >> all right we have an amazing story for you tonight. a motherto be collapsed, was technically dead, gave birth and then was brought back to life. >> apparently, i told her i feel very faint and i put my head down and i essentially just passed out. >> all right. here's whathappened. erica who is a teacher in texas was 36 weeks along when she collapsed and her heart stopped beating so her co-workers used a defibrillator on her. doctors delivered the baby once they got her to the hospital and then they had to get her heart beating again. mom and baby are both doing well with. doctors say she had a heart defect and have now installed a pacemaker. >> here's another something, andy morris never knew his restaurant took care of bob and michelle gay when they were dating and then h

arizona and utah saw the biggest drops in teen births. both maryland and virginia saw a decline between 20% and 29%. d.c. had less than a 20% decline. researchers say the reason for the drop can vary from state to state. >>> and coming up in the next- hour of "news4 midday," a warning for drivers later this afternoon. police are watching especially if you take the hov lanes. plus, storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is back with an update on storms that could move into our area this afternoon. and then later this evening as well. >>> you can help the recovery effort in oklahoma. we are teaming up today with the red cross right now to take your calls. if you would like to make a donation call us at 202-885-4949. [ male announcer ] you know what's so awesome about the internet? it gets more and more entertaining every day. and once you've got verizon fios, that's when you get it -- how 100% fiber optics takes your entertainment to ridiculous levels. i was streaming videos, movies, music. once i realized how fast it was, that's when i got

amy beth cavaretta gave birth to sienna grace.pictures. amy and littleaby sienna are with us from oakland park this morning, florida, along with the proud papa, joe, big sister sophia as well as the mid wife, lori ross-burke. good morning to all of you. good to see you. congratulations. >> thanks so much. good morning. >> how are you feeling, amy? and little baby sienna, she looks just perfect. >> i feel great. i feel great. everybody's doing really well. and she's really happy. >> take us through what happened last thursday night. you're on your way to the hospital. you just pull up. when did you realize you weren't actually going to make it inside? >> not until that picture that you see of me leaning against the wall of the hospital. it just didn't occur to me that we weren't going to get there. and that's pretty much the moment that i think i said to lori, "her head is out." and that was when we knew we weren't going any farther. >> and what was going through your mind at that point? were you panicked at all? i mean, you've bee

. ♪ germany city celebrated the 200th anniversary of wagner's birth.ed andthe most most reviled composers. but to mark the grand occasion, his birth city unveiled a new statute. it shows him standing before silhouette representing the shadow his fame would cast in future. key jury address on thursday, barack obama defended the use of drone strikes, and calling them of legal means of fighting terrorism. but the president did acknowledge concerns about accountability and civilian casualties. obama launched a new attempt to close the military prison at guantanamo bay. >> today, i was again called on congress to let the restrictions on detainee transfers from gitmo. >> obama told the audience that guantanamo has become a symbol around the world for an america that flouts the rule of law. also on thursday, the social democrats celebrated their 150th anniversary. >> i want to express my gratitude and recognition to everyone who has battled for freedom, justice, and solidarity to improve the lives for millions of people. >> the current leader told the audienc

there's such a stigma to being an adoptive birth mom you're more willing to admit you had abortion thant you're delivering a healthy newborn to a loving family. what's wrong with our cull choor that's where we are today? there's a new campaign out by the national council for adoption. and i would say on the eve of mother's day next week, that we should all check that out and start celebrating these young women who choose life for their babies. >> well, it is a brave decision. >> to get back to plan b, theed a menstruation has to respond tomorrow to this judge's ruling. the judge again has said it should be available to people of all ages. not just 15, not 13, of all ages. any idea what they're going to do about that? >> if you remember comments the president made last year when this issue came up, he made a pretty impassioned statement where he spoke about this issue, not necessarily the president, but as the father of two young daughters and talked about how he wouldn't be comfortable with, for example, an 11-year-old girl being able to walk into a drugstore and be able to buy plan b o

or curable complications during childbirth. >> more than 200 mothers die for every thousand live births. new laws are looking to be passed if they survive court challenges, but they will not make it safer for the mother or baby. >> the government is not able to serviceshe necessary that will help families and people. able tobilities to be do things for themselves. the country was made to be like this. >> for mothers like this, surviving childbirth is the first hurdle. it costs more money than they can earn. she had hoped that education would afford them better lives, but her daughters have become young mothers, like her. >> there is no use regretting anything, this is what god has given me. i will suffer through it and accept it. >> like mothers everywhere, she says she only wants what is best for her children, but has to accept that that may not be possible and what is best may be just out of reach. >> hello, and welcome to "the health show." the worldt few days, reaches a milestone. the global population will be a staggering $7 billion people. so i think today is mothers, babies,

and what may have become of her birth mother.an by reuniting with the woman who found her in the car more than sixty years ago. bundle on the front seat of the car. curiosity i looked at what was in the blanket and these darling two little eyes are looking at me, a baby/ i always wondered what had happened to her. / i want my birth mother if she's listening to this or any one else familiar with the case, let her know that i'veerfu life andd like to have her directly in my life just like jan is haha." the contra costa sheriff's department is helping kira der-gawen in her search for her birth mother. charles ramsey. the man who helped three women escape from a cleveland home where they were being held hostage. has a new job. he's signed a deal to be a motivational speaker. carol costello has the story. charles ramsey, the former cleveland dishwasher who saved amanda berry and launched a thousand, i barbecue with this dude. we eat ribs and listen to salsa music. i knew something was wrong when little pretty white girl ran into a bla

at birth and you think, what if there is a manual for that?hy are things askew here in the world? god gave us instructions. we are not following the instructions on the box. the instructions on the box are all around us. look at nature, we think of nature because of the store we tell ourselves. everything is survival of the fittest, but it is not. it is a cooperative system that runs. it is all around us. the instructions are everywhere and we have not looked. we have not looked and seen the oak tree. the human body is a cooperative system. when it does not, when something is taking it more than a need, the body shuts down. the answer is right in front of us. this idea of god, all of this book -- a mystical tradition say god is and everything. god would be in that system all around us. that is what we talk about in the book. tavis: i did not mean to cast aspersions on anyone who happens to be a christian in this business, i do not know many folk to operate at the level who are so open about their beliefs. me ask this question without offending