i think about diane differently. i think about diane the way that kids i taught in brooklyn used to hold me to the standards they used to hold me to. and what they would say to me often ask for they trusted me was, you have to walk your walk, not just talk the talk. and diane walks the walk every single day. and she is a fierce advocate for our democracy, for our just society, for our children, for those who work with children, and for our public schools, and the roles that those schools had in our society. you all know she is a highly respected educator and historian, but she has become a beloved, when i see beloved i mean a beloved activist and leader. and here's why. diane is a brilliant as she is compassionate. those who know her would say she is as compassionate as she is brilliant. and about a decade ago, we both watched mayor bloomberg in new york city take this concept of accountability and distort it in such an anti-democratic and anti-children way, that she started her own journey of thinking about what was

but right now, we are still in that state of absolute deadlock, diane. believe it or not. >> all right, as you say, after all this. jonathan karl at the white house tonight. >>> and now, we head out west, to a mystery inside one of the nation's busiest airports, l.a.x., los angeles international. who is planting small bombs made of dry ice? four bombs in 48 hours. abc's david wright on the new clues around the airport tonight. >> reporter: at the nation's third-busiest airport, a mystery and a manhunt, for the person who has been busy this week, planting homemade bombs. in employee bathrooms at l.a.x. and even on the tarmac, near jumbo jets. all four of these devices were found in restricted areas. parts of the airport where passengers aren't allowed to go. three of them found here last night at the tom bradley international terminal. the other one found sunday. it exploded in terminal 2, all the way across the parking lot. authorities have been quick to reassure the traveling public. >> no links to terrorism at this point. >> reporter: they say the devi

give me diane. let's go.amily feud" theme playing] ladies, we've got the top 6 answers on the board. here we go. name something a groom would be shocked to find when he reaches for his bride's garter. derrica? >> alcohol. steve: alcohol, bottle of liquor strapped to her thigh. diane? >> that her stockings are falling down. steve: that her stockings are falling down. audience: ohh! >> i'm gonna say a penis, steve. [laughter] good answer, right? good answer! steve: you just gonna fire that off right as soon as this show gets started? i've been begging y'all, please don't give me-- put off this show. [laughter] it's that thing! [cheering] uh, don? >> i would say hairy leg. steve: a hairy leg. >> yes! >> let's play, let's play. steve: i don't know he deal with that. i'm shell-shocked. i couldn't--they gonna-- wow. all right, heather, let's go. here we go. name something a groom would be shocked to find when he reaches for his bride's garter. >> a chastity belt. steve: a chastity belt. >> oh! steve: chad, name som

here now, diane sawyer. >> good evening, i am diane sawyer. tonight we hope you gathered family and friends, you're about to meet a young woman, who is changing the world. she's teaching everyone about courage. and the unstoppable power of children, who just want to learn and walk the path to their future. she's 16 years old. and she was shot in the head, because of what she believes. and we want you to know some of what you'll see tonight is a harsh reality, but her book, i am malala, reminds us all that radiant strength can sometimes come from surprising places. like a distant valley in pakistan, where there is a battle between dark and light. >> reporter: in ancient times the a pashtu people had a proverb, "a woman's place is in the home or in the grave." >> i come from a country which was created at midnight. >> reporter: tonight, a tiny pashtu girl may be the bravest person in the world. >> when i almost died it was just after midday. >> reporter: one year ago malala yousafzai shot in the head at point blank range. >> reporter: and tonigh

diane, every year two billion children are killed by tether balls. a stat i have no proof actually exists. how do you feel about this? >> you have as much information as the school provided on why they would need this banned. you can't play soccer, football, lacrosse, baseball or do cart wheels. and now the study on why kids are getting fat. >> what is replacing these things? they will use technology as their replacement for everything. they will sit and go like this all the time. joel, you are against the ball ban. i guess that means you are for children dying. >> i think the teachers will be the biggest opponents. if they are not beating each other up they will do it in class. half of the purpose was to get them out of the classroom so they can kill each other. >> that is true. i know as one of those chirp. andy, as a child you killed a classmate during a game of tag and it haunts you today. is that why you had trouble sleeping tonight? >> that's the only thing that doesn't keep me up at night, greg. you shouldn't have tried to tag me. this is what

our guest diane ravitch here to talk bed case and he education reform. ladies and gentlemen, there are many consequence to its growing cascade of revelations about our nation's spying activities. most recently the bugging of german chancellor angela merkel's cell phone and lederhossen drawers. (laughter) and the fact that the united states pretended to be her onlean boy friend for two years. two years-- ! but perhaps i never realized how acute and dire the fallout of this may be until i saw this shocking story. >> russian leaders are denying reports of spying on overseas leaders. they are accused of passing out bugged gift bags at last month's g-20 summit. >> jon: bugged gift bags! before all these revelations we could have jumped all over this story with good old-fashioned american con desession and smug superiority, thrown out a little boris and natasha reference. done a little yaukoff smirnoff, in russia gift bag rummage through you, but now-- (laughter) i can only smear at how ham handed their spying is. >> delegates were given usb pem ree sticks and

diane? >> your great mother. but what you've ever done it? what are you going to do?reporter: i love this advice from parents experts who say, don't be afraid to apologize to your kids. you don't lose authority. you actually gain credibility. parents are people, too. if you apologize, they'll know that apologizing is something we do in our family. >> so, admits i, apologize. >> reporter: fess up. >> thank you so much, cynthia. >>> next, we are going to show you a human travel ing at 833 miles an hour. here's what it looks and sounds like. daredevil felix baumgartner, judging from the edge of space. new video tonight in our judging from the edge of space. new video tonight in our "instant index."stion: you've known? how old in we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed much is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years.

trying to succeed in male-dominated industries including diane, who i met a while back in cleveland. woman in what has traditionally been a man's world. it was her touch that turned this gun store business around. >> your pump am action shot guns made a very distinct noise. your burglars or your criminals, they all know that noise. the chances of them walking away from that is another story. >> there's no question about who is in charge here, but for some customers of this cuyahoga county, ohio, gun shop, diane done net can be a bit of a surprise. >> i shock people from time to time because i am a woman that knows about guns. >> diane not only knows about guns, she buys them, sells them and teaches people to use them. >> i want you to put your finger on the trigger. >> properly. >> that's good trigger control. >> she's one of a small number of female gun store operators in the country. >> believe it or not, there's more than you think. they're all behind the scenes. where i'm "out front" here, the most of the gun shops, they're family businesses. the men are the out front but the wom

diane sawyer, great to have you here. >> great to be here.ions on your first week . >> thank you very much. what a way for you to make a point with malala. the interview is powerful. i have seen large portions of it. i want to pick up on the piece mentioned about the series of astonishing miracles. tell us more about it. >> impossibilities. the trajectory of the bullet alone. you hear the doctor say, we don't know what to make of it. we have never seen anything like it. the way it deflected from her brain at at the last minute and the fact that there were doctors in country, never been there before. happened to be in country who rushed in and saved her breath by breath, organ by organ. >> when you talk to her because i see from the interview her strength and her presence. was that what you took away? >> she's tiny. she comes up to my waist. she does little magic tricks for me. one minute she 's child like. then she's elect identielectrif. she talks about school and what a diamond it is. she had fear but she said sometimes you have to turn fea

the bad news is how much this is happening, diane.ut the good news is that the services are taking action. >> martha raddatz reporting in tonight. thank you, martha. >>> and now the other big story out of washington, what is happening on that stale mate, the shutdown. the new signs politicians are scrambling to hammer out a deal. we have two reports starting with abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl, giving us the latest right now. what are you hearing? >> reporter: there is no deal yet. but essentially republicans are negotiating the terms of their own surrender. if a deal is struck it will certainly both reopen the government and put off the threat of default. but all of the big republican demands, virtually all of them are now off the table, especially obama care. that was what started all of this and major changes to obama care are not even on the table at this point. now, there have been intense talks all day long, all of the republican senators came to the white house today. and those talks will continue over the

she goes by congressman diane black. this is her official website. congressman diane black. a typo. also at the bottom of the page, contact congressman black. on the about me page, congressman diane black brings a unique perspective to her work in washington. so the republicans have added a woman to their roster of men negotiating for the party and with the addition of diane black you are free to describe the group now negotiating for the republican party as a group of congressmen, even though they now include a woman. it's hard keep track of. we also learned today republicans in the house are also working on their own version of health reform now. what are the odds that what they produce will not seem like it came from a group in the house that is 98% white and 92% male. what are the odds they can stop themselves in their new health reform bill from cracking down on contraception? what are the odds? watch this space. ♪ from the classic lines to the elegant trim in each and every piece, kohler will make your reality a dream. always go the extra mile. to treat my low testoste

give me diane. let's go.ily feud" theme playing] ladies, we've got the top 5 answers on the board. here we go. we asked 100 married women, name something about which you've never been 100% honest with your husband. camilla? >> past boyfriends. [cheering and applause] steve: past boyfriends. >> whoa! >> i didn't say that. steve: no, you--heh! >> that was not me. steve: she said, "look, i was-- i'm the first part. i'm before the slash. i got a couple exes, never mentioned it, but the other thing, i'm-- >> exactly. steve: diane? >> oh, 3 seconds. um... steve: pass or play? >> play. steve: they're gonna play. ryan, how you doing? >> good. how you doing? steve: all right, ryan. let's go. we talked to 100 married women. name something about which you've never been 100% honest with your husband. >> on the money situation. how much money she has. steve: how much money. >> yes! steve: all right, shelley. you and little millie there. child number 4. good luck to you, ok? hey, we talked to 100 married women. name someth

diane sawyer has an interview with the victim. that's coming up in "good morning america." >>> the government shutdown enters the second week. there are signs that the united states is moving closer to the possible of the first-ever default in the nation's history. john boehner and jack lew traded blame on sunday, but provided new hint of a compromise. the house votes without concessions from president barack obama. and jack lew is saying republicans are playing with fire. and warns of the impact. saying that baltimore -- president barack obama is not backing down. >>> here in maryland, 3,000 lockheed-martin employees may be staying home today. the defense contractor will have to furlough their workers because of the government shutdown. we have live this morning. >> reporter: there are more than 500 workers in middle river that work are lockheed- martin, however, 3,000 nationwide. they work inside of a federal facility that is closed. and others like in middle river their work is tied to a government agency that is down. they are

>> reporter: diane, the top republican leaders just left the white house about 30 minutes ago. they had met with the president for over an hour and an extraordinary development, they left without saying anything. now, what we're just hearing in the last few minutes is that the talks will continue through night. and the rue morse of progress before the meeting had given wall street its biggest day all year long. returning to capitol hill the house majority leader sounded optimistic. >> we had a very useful meeting. it was clarifying, i think, for both sides as to where we are. and the take away from the meeting was our teams are going to be talking further tonight. >> reporter: earlier in the day, speaker boehner made an offer that would at least postpone the worse-case scenario. a u.s. government default. >> temporary increase in the debt ceiling for his willingness to sit down and discuss with us a way to reopen the government. >> reporter: the temporary increase would delay the d. day of default for six weeks. the white house wants an extension of at least a year. but -- >> l

diane. >> thank you, matt. and now, tonight in san francisco, postcard from a commuter nightmare. see it and weep. bart is not in service, the bay area rapid transit system, 400,000 commuters rely on it. but there's a strike by transit workers, the second in three months. so commuters scrambled for alternatives, long lines to get on buses, ferries, gridlock on highways, and on the bay bridge. you can see it there. cars stretching into the horizon. and overseas now, pictures out of australia, nearly 100 wild fires are raging, turning the skies over sydney into this. hazy orange. the city's famous opera house engulfed in smoke. and at least one person has died, thousands of families have been evacuated. >>> and next to london and malala yousafzai, the girl shot by the taliban for speaking out on behalf of the millions of girls who wanted education. her story has inspired people of all ages from around the globe. including the queen. and today the queen invited the young standard bearer to buckingham palace. here's linsey davis. >> reporter: for the teenage girl known internationally

it is not surprising people like peter king are finding common cause with people like diane feinsteinr even nancy pelosi, leaders from both political parties to defend these systems because they do invest those in power with extreme amounts of authority to do all sorts of things that people in power always wanted to. >> diane feinstein in fact is introducing legislation that would codify the nsa spying that would grant the nsa explicit authority to gather records, listing the numbers, duration, and time of all u.s. telephone calls. >> right. is there anything more indicative of just how broken washington is that the person who leads the senate intelligence committee, which is a committee created in the wake of the findings of the church committee in the mid-1870s that was intended to serve as a restraint and check what the intelligence committee does, is the greatest loyalist and the most servile devotee of protecting and shielding the authority of that community named diane feinstein? it just shows what a complete joke and travesty the idea of congressional oversight has actually bec

the bad news is how much this is happening, diane. but the good news is that the services are taking action. >> martha raddatz reporting in tonight. thank you, martha. >>> and now the other big story out of washington, what is happening on that stale mate, the shutdown. the new signs politicians are scrambling to hammer out a deal. we have two reports starting with abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl, giving us the latest right now. what are you hearing? >> reporter: we are seeing something remarkable. there is no deal yet. but essentially republicans are negotiating the terms of their own surrender. if a deal is struck it will certainly both reopen the government and put off the threat of default. but all of the big republican demands, virtually all of them are now off the table, especially obama care. that was what started all of this and major changes to obama care are not even on the table at this point. now, there have been intense talks all day long, all of the republican senators came to the white house today. a

members of congress, diane, just like the president and the vice president will continue to get paid even during a shutdown. >> so they consider themselves essential. thank you so much, jon. >>> the threat of a government shutdown has forced americans to pay a price. the markets were down today. the dow fell 128 points. abc's chief business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis is here to bring us right into the american home. tell us how much it's going to cost the average american family budget. >> reporter: it could cost the average american family thousands of dollars, diane. all of this d.c. dysfunction we know comes at a cost for real people, the american people. it creates uncertainty, and economists think it could cost our economy $8 billion a week. look at the last shutdown. that was 17 years ago. stocks back then fell 3.7 percent. if that were to happen today, retirement savings accounts could lose as much as $9,000 in a span of just a couple of weeks, diane. >> the previous experience was rather limited, rather short. we're talking about an even bigger threat looming

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one of the staunchest backers, diane feinstein now calling for a full review of the mass data collection at home and abroad. the california democrat who chairs the senate intelligence committee says she's totally opposed to spying on u.s. allies according to her congress has not been adequately kept in the loop. feinstein also said the administration assured her surveillance would not continue,

does there come a point though, diane swonk, when consumers get used to it?is it possible they could get so accustomed to washington hitting one of these moments when we know it's going to take days or weeks to figure it out? >> well, you know, we've seen washington turn a deaf ear to capitol hill and they didn't really -- sorry, wall street already turned a deaf ear to capitol hill where they didn't react initial they much to the government shutdown. but i think mark's very correct. it's unimaginable what would happen because the recession would be immediate and you would feel it very quickly. and i don't think consumers can ignore it forever. i think there's an inconvenience and if you're in one of these places you feel it right away and those consumers are workers who feel it right away, as the cab driver mark mentioned at the beginning of the show. so i don't think it's something you can completely turn a deaf ear to. that said, we are getting wary of this and i think everyone sort of feels that washington's cried wolf too many times. >> look, you know, i

senator diane feinstein says she was flabbergasted such spying could take place. she is calling for a total review of all such activity. >>> there are more problems for the contractor that operates speed cameras in baltimore county. the county claims xerox failed to recalibrate a dozen cameras in february. according to the "baltimore sun" xerox was forced to void 1400 tickets. the cameras were out of service for a month and the public was never alerted. xerox paid the county more than $57,000 as compensation. >>> we are looking at another beautiful and brisk day outside. taking a live look this noon. are we in for any changes this week? wjz is live with first warning coverage. march at the is in the outback. chelsea ingram is in the first warning center. >> hello. temperatures are on the cool side. take a look at the currents across the region. we have a lot of 50s. 57 at bwi marshall.

republicans on acceptable clearly people want something better and i refuse to believe that people like diane feinstein on the left as senator who's recent op ed in the wall street journal read like something the chancellor for v. for vendetta would say you know some kind of authoritarian fascist like that and not the right senator lindsey graham who sounds almost identical to her and his narratives and rhetoric i refuse to believe that those are the best people out there able to represent us and able to run our country i couldn't agree more and i think a lot of americans agree with you david everyone check it out david seaman host of the david seaman our great podcast thanks so much for coming on man thank you. after the break i had the opportunity to speak with the public enemies professor griff i want to message.

christoph's mom, diane. >> every child going to that school have a photo i.d.school, you have to scan the i.d. >> according to christoph, the school security dean and teacher stefan hudson asks him to step to the side when his i.d. doesn't work. christoph says when he tries to go through again, the dean becomes enraged believing he is acting disrespectfully. >> immediately i could see it was in violation of the rules of the department of education and probably it looked like something that was illegal possibly criminal to me. we went to diane's house to show her the video of her son involved in this altercation with the dean. >> when i first saw the video, i got nervous. like my belly start hurting. my stomach left where it was and went somewhere else. i see the dean grab on to him and throw him down. picks him up, throw him into a table violently. picks him up again and throw him to the ground. >> at 5'5," 120 pounds, the 15-year-old boy is no match for the dean who is more than twice his size. >> they throw him around like a rag doll. so he was trying to get

i sent an e-mail to diane, diane, i like these three converse. could you see if you could get them?ht give them us for free. i get an e-mail back, yeah, i'll look into it. next e-mail, we're all set they should be delivered in a month. okay. great. i get to work and the wardrobe person says what shoes do you want to wear today and i said how about the converse that we got and she goes i don't know what you're talking about. i say the converse that i e-mailed you about and you got for me. and she goes that didn't happen. i said i have the e-mail. i will show it to you. diane, nbc universal. she says, that's not my e-mail. i sent a random employee at nbc universal, hey, i like these shoes, get them for me. here's a link. p.s., they will probably give them to you for free. like they're going to do us a favor. this person works in human resources or something. i somehow was on a chain e-mail that this poor lady was on at some point and it came up when i typed in diane and i say that makes perfect sense. i immediately e-mailed her and said hey, i thought you were the costumer. she's like

men were taken, still no known contact from the pirates about what they want to set the men free, diane. >> brian, thank you so much. >>> and also tonight, in the middle of the maelstrom, the white house promising to fix the obama care web site. one month from now, a date certain to unleash a new wave of outrage, about whether it's too little too late and abc's white house correspondent jim avila on the fiasco and the fix. >> reporter: the white house bruised and battered by political opponents and probably worse late night comedians. >> the [ bleep ] calculator doesn't work? the one thing included in computers since 1972? >> reporter: today put the obama administration's already sullied tech reputation on the line again, making a bold promise to fix the errant health care.gov web site by november 30th. will obama care be the butt of more jokes come december 1st? right now web site performance improving but still not signing up enough customers. today 90% of applicants can now create an account on the web site, but the next important step of successfully applying for insurance remains t

diane? >> thank you. one more note about the economy. the jobs report was released today, 18 days late because of that shutdown. here's the headline, 148,000 jobs created last month, fewer than predicted, but unemployment ticked down to 7.2 percent, the lowest level since november 2008. >>> we move next to the news tonight about a 12-year-old boy who opened fire in a middle school in reno, nevada and that teacher, the former marine, who tried to stop him. eye witnesses are coming forward to describe how a valiant sacrifice saved lives. here's abc's cecilia vega. >> 911 emergency? >> i'm calling from sparks middle school. we have a shooting at our school. >> reporter: the rampage lasted just three minutes. >> this is a student from sparks middle school. can you please send police out here. there is a kid with a gun. >> reporter: that kid, a 12-year-old boy in the 7th grade. police believe he got that gun from his own home. he opened fire near the basketball court just before the morning bell,

ainsley, heather back to you. >>> thank you very much diane macedo.er th the hour. your children's future in danger if they are in daycare. what every parent need to know before you head off to work. >> it is not in your wedding vows but a heavenly relationship can mean one thing. find out if you have it. let's check in with steve doocy to see what's up on fox and friends. >> i don't know what it is. i have a great big household of stuff. coming up we are going to talk about the fact that there's a crisis avert. today was supposed to be d-day. didn't happen. they voted to kick the can. what was the house sten nothing fer thinking when she went up to the microphone and started yelling. what we know about her and what she said. robert redford said the gridlock is there because the government is racist. >> house republicans called before congress. he talked to somebody at the white house before closing war memorials before he did it, he just doesn't remember their name. >> scott remccreary the one who won american idol at age 18 has a brand new album. we

diane?nathan karl reporting at the white house tonight. >>> and we want to turn next to some very late breaking news right now. a verdict in the michael jackson trial, a civil trial asking the question what is to blame for jackson's death, his private demons or pressure from the company behind his concert. david wright is standing by. >> reporter: this trial dragged out five months, more than 50 witnesses heard from and in the end it took the jury less than 14 hours to decide and they decided essentially in favor of aeg ruling that while aeg did hire michael jackson's doctor, jackson's death. this evening the jury rejected the jackson family's claim that aeg live was somehow responsible for the king of pop's death. >> we of course are not happy with the result as it stands now. >> reporter: the jury foreman said it wasn't an easy decision. it was a battle over what happened in thek rehearsals, the last of michael jackson's career. he was trying to dance his way out of debt, under serious pre

. >> diane. >> shawna. >> erina. >> jori. >> jori? okay, it's good to meet you, jori. >> how do we get all these names?! >> [ chuckles ] [ laughter ] all right, how do you think you did, montel? >> okay, i'm gonna start in the back. >> okay. >> let me go in the back and go back that way and see how many i can -- i know i don't have them all. kevin. courtney. beth. megan. megan's my assistant, so i got that straight. >> [ chuckles ] >> rupert. diane. erina. antonio. tara. kellan. andy. shierra. pierre. >> that's incredible. that's very good. [ applause ] that's very good. >> you know, it's, like -- [ exhales deeply ] >> no, that's very good. the average person's gonna get maybe six, so, you doubled the average person. i think that's incredible, actually. >> you got all these names? >> i believe i do, yes. it's pierre right here. it's gayle and carla and shierra and andy and laura and kellan and tara and gary and chris, and this is stephanie and antonio, and that's kevin back there, and courtney and beth and megan and rupert and diane.

and there's diane looking -- there's no question that would have happened.but now, i think diane sawyer is going for more women, and the women, this may have been a little too much. so that she didn't want to cover it because of a gender issue. that's my analysis there. i could be wrong. it's just a theory. go. >> well, you know, in a way i hope you are wrong. if you're right. think about the implications. that the networks are doing studies and finding out what precisely what kind of people are watching -- >> that's what they're doing. and they're tailoring the news -- well, whatever you think of cronkite and rather and brokaw and peter jennings, that never happened back they were. >> it's a different world with the internet robbing people taking people away from the standardized news. now they have to do what good morning america did. >> if you're right, this is not a good thing. cable has already staked out it's position. to the right -- >> on ideology. >> and if the networks do that, the game's over. >> i think it may be. i appreciate it as always. senat

diane. >> thank you, matt. and now, tonight in san francisco, postcard from a commuter nightmare.ee it and weep. bart is not in service, the bay area rapid transit system, 400,000 commuters rely on it. but there's a strike by transit workers, the second in three months. so commuters scrambled for alternatives, long lines to get on buses, ferries, gridlock on highways, and on the bay bridge. you can see it there. cars stretching into the horizon. and overseas now, pictures outs of australia, nearly 100 wild fires are raging, turning the skies over sydney into this. hazy orange. the city's famous opera house engulfed in smoke. and at least one person has died, thousands of families have been evacuated. >>> and next to london and malala yousafzai, the girl shot by the taliban for speaking out on behalf of the millions of girls who wanted education. her story has inspired pple of all ages from around the grown. including the queen. and today the queen invited the young standard bearer to buckingham palace. here's lindsay davis. >> reporter: for the teenage girl known internationally a

diane has the evening off. we're coming to you tonight from fusion headquarters, the newest cable network about to be in millions of homes across america. look behind me at this high tech news room, 150,000 square feet, the news room and several studios all around us here, and they are about to address america, report to america in a whole new way, abc's partnership with univision. we begin tonight with their first exclusive, the fusion one-on-one with president obama, under fire for america's spy games, new allegations tonight. is america listening in not only on world leaders but millions of private phone calls of citizens overseas. tonight, calls for a major review, president obama facing those questions and more in an exclusive interview with fusion's white house correspondent and of course a member of our team, jim avila, who asks the president to explain the reports that we we're listening in on german chancellor angela merkel's private phone calls. how the president answered right now. here's jim avila.

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i want to read this quote from diane's book. "povrp ti matters., their emotional lives and attention spans, their attention and their academic performance, their motivation and their ability to concentrate on anything other than day to day survival." how much is that what is wrong with your schools? >> that is america's achilles' heel. right now 50% of the children of public schools in the country qualify for free or reduced lunch. that means that our public schools are disproportionately serving our poorest children. poverty is not a learning disability, so let's be clear about that. under the right conditions poor children can be quite successful. however, when you ignore basic needs like health, nutrition whether or not they have eyeglasses or access to a counselor, you will see children drop out in droves, you will see children not thrive. that produces the kind of situation that the president is alluding to. my real concern and what i think disappoints me so much is as person who also admires the president is how little this administration ha

diane, you're caught in the middle there. it's unfortunate.e are a lot of people who have employer-sponsored programs that they will be able to keep what they have at the rates they have, but you're in a special situation where you're having to get a new plan because as they add more higher-risk individuals, your state would lose money if they didn't raise your premiums at the same time, so you had to go to a different plan to raise that premium. i'm curious, did you support obama care to begin with? were you in favor of this program? >> actually, no. well, initially, i thought it was going to be a good plan. and then it got to the point where it seemed like i was asking questions and no one really understood the plan. all the things we were told that we could keep what we have for now, and now that doesn't seem to be the case. and then when i had this letter arrive, it just blew me away. >> when did you start asking the questions, after they passed it? >> yes. >> i mean, people were -- it was such a high concept at that time, nobody understoo

wanted to live my life as i want. >> we'll hear more about the remarkable story on world news with diane sawyer tonight. >> now we have the accuweather forecast. the week is starting out so beautiful. >> it really is. we had a beautiful weekend, nice and warm. you'll notice it's a bit cooler out there. you need the light sweater walking to school, and make sure you look both directions. looking from the kgo cam, clear skies, sunshine, and the bay bridge in the background. it's going to be on the cooler side today as we head over to our live doppler 7hd radar satellite, we're not getting any returns in terms of moisture, just high clouds. looking towards the bay bridge and treasure island, you see a little haze out there, but all in all, drenched in sunshine. san francisco, your current temperature, 62. we're going to be topping out in the mid-sixes in to lower 70s for much of the bay area and very cool along the coast. in fact it's 15 degrees difference from yesterday but cooler. this is all why because of this trough of low pressure over the pacific northwest, and that's going to be bri