. >> reporter: brittany bates brings more than food and watered.ngside pastor scott of chan delivers ministry. >> i call her the next mother teresa, a cute mother teresa with a heart of gold. >> reporter: we saw her generosity firsthand. >> oh, thank you. [ crying ] . >> this young lady here is awesome, y'all. >> reporter: brittany gave tina a homeless woman the last $200 she said she needed to rent her own place. >> i thought that maybe i can give her some money like my birthday money and not have a party. >> she's a good girl. thank you so much. [ crying ] >> reporter: that's money for your sweet 16th birthday party. how hard was that to give up? >> it wasn't that hard. this woman doesn't have a whole lot of stuff. >> reporter: brittany began volunteering with her family at age 6 serving the homeless holiday meals. since then the carondalet high school honors student has kept on giving and giving. >> peanut butter and jelly. >> reporter: and giving and giving. >> just makes me feel good. >> reporter: each week the san ramon teenager helps kids ag

on top of her own 20 hours of practice a week, her coach mike lynch calls brittany a role model whoseeak louder than words. >> her voice is soft and easy- going but she has a strong will and a lot of determination. >> reporter: but how does she do it all? >> when i'm happy i have energy. when i have energy, i'm just everywhere. >> reporter: so for her wide ranging volunteer service, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to brittany bates. when brittany was 8, she didn't want the homeless to stand outside and wait in the cold for their holiday meals so she had them come inside and color place mats with her. she comes up with many of her own ways to give. >> she has an unbelievable heart. i mean, just what a wonderful -- what a wonderful role model for so many of her friends. i'm sure, anybody out there. she is involved in so many charities. can she do them all? i mean, how -- is she going to narrow them down when she goes to college. >> reporter: she says no. in fact she is trying to create partnerships among all these programs, for instance, maybe getting a meal packet from

>>reporter: brittany bates brings more than food and water. alongside pastor scott wages of chan dlibberrance ministry. >> i call her a cute mother teresa with a heart of gold. >>reporter: we saw her generosity firsthand. >> oh, thank you. [ sobbing ] this lady here is awesome, ya'll. >>reporter: brittany gave tina, a homeless woman the last $200 she said she needed to rent her own place. >> i thought maybe i can give her some money, like my birthday money and not have a party. >> she's a good girl. thank you. >>reporter: that's money for your sweet 16th birthday party, how hard was that for you to give up? >> it really wasn't that hard because this woman doesn't even have a whole lot of stuff. >>reporter: brittany began volunteering with her family at age 6 serving the homeless holiday meals. since then the koran lander honor high school student has kept giving and giving and giving. >> to make people happy and to serve, it just makes me feel good. >>reporter: each week the san bruno teenager helps kids against hunger pack meals for children

yes. >> thank you. >> brittany, i've been looking forward to seeing you.m in remission for the last two years. i'm totally healthy and i'm doing really good. thank you. >> it was stage 4 non-hodgkin's lymphoma. >> yes. stage 4 and i have survived it and i'm so blessed beyond bef e belief. it's amazing. >> you have decided no you to step forward. how did you first realize that something wasn't quite right with you? >> you know, i think that's a huge thing to learn is that you got to listen to your body. i just knew something wasn't right. i was having pain in my low back but everybody has low back pain. but i just -- i sensed something was wrong but it kept persisting. i also started getting flu-like symptoms. i had swollen lymph nodes and so i got a series of testing, scans, mris, things like that and the doctors ended up finding that i had stage 4 lymphoma. >> and no history of it in your family. >> it's not a genetic thing so, yeah, it was a surprise. finding out in your mid-0s that you have cancer. but my family just rallied behind me and totally suppor

but -- >> reporter: charm and brittany are thrilled with their bodies by dad.ple, having cosmetic surgery done by a parent is a little too close to home. "bad parenting," "bad message about self-image and self-esteem," but this dad and doctor stands firm. >> judge me the way you want. i think we made the right decision again building up their esteem, telling them how beautiful they were since day one. that's always been in our vocabulary. when they come to a father with a concern, my ears were open. >> it really bothered me just because people don't understand. they're saying mean things being ignorant, simple-minded, and mean. >> yeah, ignorant is a very good word. >> i have the best dad in the world. >> thanks. i appreciate that. >>> next -- d is for dad or maybe just dumb. because he's now starring in the videos that are going viral. >> here is another dumb dad. look at that. >> next on "with parents like look at that. >> next on "with parents like these." firse it seemed used by it at very counter-intuitive if you're eating healthy. i had no clue how that w

joining me now is brittany cooper, assistant professor at rutgers university and contributing writer to "salon." and are author of this week's cover story "the color of his presidency" has sparked a lot of debate online. jonathan has been involved in a spirited debate with my friend about race in the obama era. and, jonathan, i guess i want to start with you. >> okay. >> so you have this thesis that basically one of the things that's happened in the obama era is liberals, this network, for instance, over read race into everything, that we see opposition to barack obama, and we see in that opposition this implacable determined opposition from the right, things that look to us unprecedented. we see in that in every image of those house votes. we see bull connor, we see george wallace standing in the door when he doesn't belong there. that we are reading into what is not a racial story, a racial story at every turn. that is sort of part of the thesis, right? >> no, i don't say it's not a racial story. that's important. what i say is it is a racial story. that the liberal analysis in the

we talked about the time brittany spears and n sync. crystal is one of his few survivors. she was sleeping over at katie's house that night. more than a decade later, it's all still sfresh in her memory. >> i woke upstartled a little bit out of nowhere and i was kind of confused to a lot of noise. >> i woke this girl up. >> her friend katie was asleep on the bottom bunt bunk. >> i cut her bra. >> i could see there was a scary older man that i have never seen before. >> i stabbed her here and she jumped back and i cut her like this right here. >> he had a hand on her mouth and on her neck. she was looking at me, he cut her throat and fell to the ground. >> 13-year-old katie harris lay dying on the floor. >> he was about to shut off the light, he noticed one more time that i was there, he just shut the door and came back towards me with the knife. >> the only thing he said was move your hands. he reached over the top of me and cut my neck. >> she severed her windpipe. >> i am very sure he thought he killed me. >> crystal identified tommy lynn sells as the assailant. >> to be

you would hear later on the news that a trick killed her. >> experts say that brittany is just one ofunderage girls and boys exploited every year. they say the only way to impact the growing commodification of child rape is to crack down on the buyers, the men who buy kids for sex. >> we have to stop blaming the wrong people, and that's the children, and start blaming the right people. and that's really the people that are putting the money out, because, pimps, they don't bring the girls to a place where nobody's spending money. >> norma runs sage, a nonprofit organization that operates a school for men who have been arrested for soliciting prostitution in san francisco. her goal -- re-educate men to understand that buying sex from exploited women is an unspeakable crime. >> who decides who's a good girl or who the bad girl is? who decides that? these are children. these are children. and they deserve protection. we are letting them be brutalized. >>> nazi glorifying memorabilia are not auctioned off on sites like ebay anymore. why, then, should we have human beings auctioned off as e

>> brittany phipps: i can't afford it. >> sissy cantrell: i can't, either. >> pelley: sissy cantrell laid off from a head start center. she's been suffering from migraines and seizures. >> cantrell: i cry for no reason at all, okay. >> have you been seeing a counselor? >> cantrell: no. >> okay. >> pelley: she came away from the health wagon with medication. brittany phipps works more than 50 hours a week, but that's two part-time jobs, so there's no insurance for her diabetes. so you're getting your insulin through the health wagon? >> phipps: i am now, yeah. >> pelley: and if that wasn't available, where would you get the insulin? >> phipps: i don't know. >> pelley: walter laney's diabetes blinded him in one eye and threatens the other. the health wagon stabilized him and set him up with a specialist. >> hey, walter, this is dr. isaacs. how's it going? >> walter laney: pretty good. >> how have you're sugars been? >> laney: okay. they got my blood sugars back under control. before this year, i was in the hospital three, four times, and this year, i ain't been in none since i've been

kind of treatment. >> prosecutors offer to drop false imprisonment charges against april cooper and brittanylty on misdemeanor battery charges. all accept and are sentenced to a year of probation. prosecutors say mercedes nichols partially arranged for the fight to take place and pleads guilty to battery and tampering with a witness and given three years of probation and 100 hours of community service. as for tori lindsay she is recovering from the injury. >> coming up -- >> if you so much as sneeze, i'll split your [ bleep ] throat. >> a video shows a teenage girl tied up, bound and apparently in fear for her life. >> if you scream and fight, we're going to kill you now. >> those filming call it an innocent prank. prosecutors call it a crime when "caught on camera: teens gone wild" continues. disney started in a garage. amazon started in a garage. ♪ ♪ the ramones started in a garage. my point? some of the most innovative things in the world come out of american garages. introducing the lighter, faster cadillac cts. 2014 motor trend car of the year. ain't garages great? [ male announcer ] at

distribution ns paid fy donna bryan and her friend rory lender are suing rory's ex-girlfriend, 19-year-old brittanymes, for vandalizing a car. >> byrd: order! all rise! your honor, this is case number 321 on the calendar in the matter of bryan/lender vs. shames. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. folks, have a seat. >> judge judy: whose car is this? >> my car. >> judge judy: and your name is? >> donna bryan. >> judge judy: who are you? >> i'm rory lender, and i'm also on the title. >> judge judy: you're on the title? >> mm-hmm. >> judge judy: well, you claim that she vandalized your car. she keyed it with a key. >> yes. >> judge judy: and ms. shames says she didn't do it, but she knows who did. >> mm-hmm. >> judge judy: [ claps hands ] so, why don't you tell me how you know each other and why in the world ms. shames would do such a thing? >> well, rory anpr

locations will still continue to seek summer like temperatures on some of it to end the only strange brittany and i had some late season winter sun to talk about serious well known that the conditions have any impact in the dakota at the hands of bismarck and record breaking snowfall accumulation in north dakota that's probably tours ontario now with twenty centimeters of this post on snow fall. likely with the guys really reaching above ten hundred kilometers per hour which is going to bring the blowing snow and blizzard like conditions hazardous driving conditions pour you out there. on another area where a scene with precipitation is across the west is likely to be wintry precipitation across the northern plains as well as the rockies. about twenty centimeters of snow fall of you might be across the rockies are likely to see some thunderstorms accompanied with this this unified approach and one that defending downpours the stock likely to see some large scale attacks on the strong level the swim season three magic events. another area where we're watching here is a myth that fit them. that

i have francis and brittany with me today. francis, ellen, she doesn't stop.ake on a president. >> absolutely she will. >> george w. bush revealed all the portraits. no one seems to be a bigger fan. >> the "today" show got a sneak peek of his paintings. basically he paints world leaders. it seemed like he really focused on one world leader in particular. >> congratulations, dad. this is pretty exciting. >> yeah, who would have thought it. i like it. i like it because it conveys a compassionate person. >> classic ellen, right? >> i guess in a way she kind of is. >> so this is really kind of disgusting, but everyone should know about it because we're not doing the right thing if you're not sneezing into your elbow "the boston globe" reporting sneezes spread cold viruses. what's interesting, if you take a look at this video, it shows sneezes go 200 times further than we originally thought. >> we're contaminating everybody. >> now you can be really irritated when somebody doesn't cover their mouth. >> when people sneeze around me, i not only hold my breath, but i

brittany cooper, assistant professor of women and gender's studies y ies at rutger univers and tanner kolbe. mr. coates, are you just depressed? >> it goes back to that water is wet thing. i feel like i talk to academics about this, and they're like, yeah, this is the world. but there's this american need to believe everything is going to get better. that we're going to triumph in the end. which is bizarre and i don't think is necessarily healthy. we might triumph in the end, but we won't triumph in the end by assuring ourselves that we will triumph in the end. we need to be really, really aware of the dangers we face. >> i want to give chait his language here about this notion of progress. let's look at what chait had to say and i want to ask you a bit about it, tanner. he writes, it's hard to describe how the united states has progressed from chattel slavery to emancipation to the end of lynching to the end of legal segregation to the election of an african-american president if america has often been an ally of african-americans and often its nemesis. it is one thing to notice the

. >> reporter: brittany was also a classmate. >> he didn't seem like anything to be worried about. >>jonathan law high school in milford, connecticut, where a memorial for 16-year-old stabbing victim maren sanchez has been growing. evelyn castro was a close friend. >> she was just this really, like, just really fun-loving, really nice person. and she was always happy and it took a lot to get her down. >> reporter: the stabbing happened in a school hallway friday's morning. police say sanchez suffered several wound to the neck, chest, and face. she died at a local hospital a half hour later. police are looking into whether the stabbing happened after sanchez turned down the suspect's offer to the junior prom. it was scheduled for friday's night but has since been postponed. sanchez's classmates gathered at a nearby beach wearing their prom dresses and tuxedos, holding the dress she was supposed to wear that night. jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: up next, life in the fast lane for drivers willing to pay the price. with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't

run away ♪ do we separate >> it is no question that the winner of that battle round is definitely brittany couldn't hear it but i agree with you. >> who did they pick? >> jake. >> what? he was great, too. >> their voices were beautiful together. i think. i couldn't really hear it. here is team usher. madeleine is in the dress. take a look. ♪ stand by you ♪ won't let anybody hurt you ♪ i'll stand by you ♪ take me into your darkest hour ♪ ♪ and i'll never dessert you ♪ i'll stand by you ♪ and when the night is on you ♪ feeling all alone ♪ you won't be on your own ♪ i'll stand by you >> i say the pants. >> i'm going to go with madeleine. >> pants or dress, who did you like? >> they kind of sound alike. >> pants? dress? >> i go with pants. >> two for the pants and one for the dress. let's see how we did. >> so for the winner this battle round i select brea. >> let me remind you madeleine is available to steal. >> i like her a lot. >> thank god. thank god. [ cheers and applause ] >> we are going to keep her a little bit longer. >> i'm so grateful. >> that's sweet. >> she said they are both grea

. >> we love you brittany. >> thank you so much. >> she said she wanted to stop writing at times, buted to quit. she said giving up on herself meant giving up on others. >> too many kidsave gone through what i went through. >> reporter: now greiner is in a league of her own, and now standing out, being different is no longer a problem. sarah hoye, al jazeera, phoenix. >>> and sarah hoye says that the phoenix mercury training team starts this week. she launched an app to help combat bullying. she homes it will be a forum for young people to talk about their experiences and find support. >>> after the break, jailing troubled minds. >> they are trained to punish. and that's what they do. >> the punishment of prisoners with serious psychiatric >> the debate that divides america, unites the critics, a reason to watch al jazeera america the standout television event borderland, is gritty honesty. >> a lot of people don't have a clue what goes on down here, the only way to find out, is to see it yourselves. >> taking viewers beyond the debate. >> don't miss al jazeera america's critically ac

. >> we love you brittany. >> thank you so much. >> she said she wanted to stop writing at times, but to quit. she said giving up on herself meant giving up on others. >> too many kids have gone through what i went through. >> reporter: now greiner is in a league of her own, and now standing out, being different is no longer a problem. sarah hoye, al jazeera, phoenix. >>> and sarah hoye says that the phoenix mercury training team starts this week. she launched an app to help combat bullying. she homes it will be a forum for young people to talk about their experiences and find support. >>> after the break, jailing troubled minds. >> they are trained to punish. and that's what they do. >> the punishment of prisoners with serious psychiatric illness, and why it may exceed what fits the crime. has gone very far awry... >> there's huge pressure on the police to arrest and find somebody guilty >> i think the system is going to fail a lot of other people. >> you convicted the wrong person >> i find that extraordinarily disappointing... >> to keep me from going to jail, i needed to cooperate

low-income americans often end up paying exorbitant tax prep fees including a college student named brittany dixon, who charged nearly $400 in fees for half hour of tax prep work. just one example of how tax refunds are supposed to go to the working poor have become a huge source of income for the tax prep industry. joining me now, mara jones, economic justice contributor for colorlines.com. so, poor folks need their taxes done, need tax prep, like a lot of other people, particularly earned income tax credit, what's the problem with this business? >> the problem is that it's based upon predatory behavior. like a lot of other industries, the tax preparation industry now profits greatly from the poor. and one of the things is that we often think thart poor are marginal to our economy, but now that we have an upside down economy, where the 1% are drive everything else, we have increasingly more people who are qualifying as poor, and the economy is finding ways to make lots of money off of them. >> how do you make money, if you're a tax preparer, how do you make money off a poor person? >> you c

investigators say brittany hayward told them she dozed off shortly before the train jumped the tracksre than 30 people were hurt. she admitted to also falling asleep back in february and overrunning a station then. >>> another earthquake out west. details on that just ahead plus a report on how some of the plains states might fair as we head into the height of tornado season. >> i am ross at the final 4 in arlington texas where the kentucky wiemd cuts are lookild to go where no other team has gone. we will explain in just a bit. welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the top stories this half hour. united states is praising today's election in afghanistan after a successful day of voting. secretary of state john kerry called the afghan people courageous and committed. turnout was almost 60%, about 7 million people and double the last presidential election in 2009. there may be a new clue in the disappearance disappearance of flight 370. australia said electronic signals heard by a chinese ship are consistence sees with a plane's black box. it was detected near the search area in

this is brittany, one of the survivors with her sister alyssa, they wanted to send the world this messagerror. and this is lee ann, and she writes in memoriam of martin richards, june 9th, 2004 to april 15th 2013. and you also have this one, which is sydney, and she writes -- >> hello sydney. >> that's right. she's 18 years old, she says i live in massachusetts, my message was, you can scar me, but you can't stop me. and earlier she tweeted out this, she said last year i was fading a way in to oblivion on a boston sidewalk, today i am alive. >> i gotta tell you, i don't know how much you were able to see today but boston really did itself proud today. they did a really nice job with that memorial service with the remembrance celebration. and the moment of silence. and everything around that. it was really well done. they have got one more big hurdle to get -- to clear, that's next monday, when they run the 2014 version of the boston marathon. and everyone is -- fingers crossed for that. maria, thank you, appreciate it. that's all the time at that for this news hour i am tony harris in new

brittany porter of the uk. the uk jesus.ks, george. ♪ ♪ every time i look at you i don't understand ♪ ♪ why you let the things you did get so out of hand ♪ ♪ you'd have managed better if you had a plan ♪ ♪ why do you choose such a barkward time in such a strange land ♪ ♪ if you'd come today you would have reached a whole nation ♪ ♪ israel in 4 bc had no mass communication don't you get me wrong ♪ ♪ i only wanna know ♪ only wanna snow ♪ whoa only wanna snow ♪ jesus christ jesus christ who are you what have you sacrificed ♪ ♪ jesus christ jesus christ who are you what have you sacrificed ♪ ♪ jesus christ superstar do you think you're what they say you are ♪ ♪ jesus christ superstar do you think you're what they say you are ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ tell me what you think about your friends at the top who'd you think besides yourself's the pick of the crop ♪ ♪ buddha was he where it's all is he where you are ♪ ♪ could muhammad move a mountain or was it just pr ♪ ♪ did you mean to die like that was that a mistake ♪ ♪ or did you know your messy at

aspen, who won the stock division, brittany, who won the superstock division, and jay, who won the masters division and went on to become the third st. mary's county, the most southern county in our state, to become -- to win the all-american soapbox derby in six years. we are very proud of them all. i want to thank those members who've co-sponsored this resolution. representative gerry connolly, donna edwards, jim moran, chris van hollen and my dear friend, frank wolf. and i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and to come to the soapbox derby in action. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. barletta: the gentleman from maryland may be interested to know that on markup of this resolution, two of our committee members mentioned that they were proud soapbox derby champions. mr. nolan of minnesota and mr. williams of texas, and they also joked that today they now stand on a soapbox here in congress. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserve

but first here's brittany with a clek of the forecast. >> these are the spring days we've been waitingor. if you take a look at philadelphia, 68 degrees. d.c., 71 with just a few clouds. for new york we'll stay in the low 60s for today. but a cold front is going to move closer to us. so that's going to bring us a few clouds into tonight. even the chance of showers as we head into tomorrow. but across the nation you can see it's very quiet. we are checking out a few scattered showers moving through parts of minneapolis. also going to affect chicago as we head into later on this afternoon. temperatures in chicago, a bit above average for us. and if you take a look at phoenix, 98 degrees. pushing close to the triple digit mark. we'll see temperatures staying at 58 in seattle. tomorrow just as nice but we see the showers moving into the northeast. stick with us. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. before using her new bank of america credit card, which rewards her for responsibly managing her card balance. before receiving $25 toward her balance each quarter for making more

brittany haywood admitted to falling asleep at the controls before the crash last month.or injuring 32 people. transit officials say it was haywood's second serious safety violation in less than 90 days. >>> chuck hagel says the u.s. will send two ballistic missile defense destroyers to japan by 2017. it's part of an effort to counter missile threats from north korea. the two destroyers would be in addition to the five other u.s. missile defense warships also stationed in japan. >> in response to pinyang's pattern of provocative and destabilizing actions including recent missile launches in violation of un security council resolutions, i can announced to that the united states is planning to forward deploy two additional ballistic missile defense ships to japan by 2017. >> hagel is on a ten-day trip in the asia pacific region and just spent three days in hawaii meeting with south asian defense ministers. >>> the navy is launching a $100 million program to use drones to supply troops and rescue wounded soldiers. the wall street journal reports unmanned aircraft could one d

. >>> but, first, brittany schiff with a check on the forecast. >> okay.n this morning in the northeast especially in washington where we are seeing temperatures at 61 degrees. 57 in new york. we do have a few changes as we head into this evening. we'll see showers moving in. right now just a few isolated thunderstorms. just outside of cincinnati with that moisture is going to held towards the northeast. mid-60s for chicago, improving conditions, but take a look what happens as we head into saturday. temperatures plunge for billings down to 49 degrees for the day time high. temperatures in denver at 72. but after saturday, they are dropping down into the 30s with snow expected and we'll keep a close eye on kansas city and chicago where we do expect to see thunderstorms by saturday. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ♪ call me dr. love they call me dr. love ♪ ♪ i know a thing about an ira ♪ and i got the tools ♪ to do it my way ♪ i got a lock on equities ♪ that's why i'm type e ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ i can do it all from my

in nearby aston, 16-year-old brittany creach was holed up in a safe room for hours. she tweeted, got to go to the basement because there's a tornado, but first, let me take a selfie. she talked to nbc news while waiting for the all clear. >> it's definitely nerve-wracking. >> 30 miles away ross buch rode out the threat alone in his bathroom. >> a big storm like this moves through. >> reporter: missouri governor jay nixon's twitter page, an impressive picture snapped in osage county. an ominous warning of the looming threat. amazes amazingly, that picture was taken with the car turned around, but safely the car turned around and made it out. savannah? >> kerry sanders, thank you. let's check in dylan dreyer. she's in for al this morning. so how long are we in for this rough weather? >> we are going to see another round of severe storms later on today. but it's not going to be as severe as it was yesterday. these storms are sliding east, but take a look at the radar. yesterday, here we start at 1:00 p.m. and watch how these storms -- sorry about that. watch at how thes