we are a family deeply in love. we do all the things that families do. last year after coming home from my other mother's funeral, his father here became increasingly frail and so he was eventually unable to get out and enjoy all those delicious custards that we are able to enjoy here in san francisco so i learned how to make those things for him. when his dad passed, i planned the funeral myself. we are a lucky couple, but many couples are not so lucky in san francisco and california and throughout the world. they live in fear that the enormous hand of government will step into their families and separate them at crucial moments like /phaoeupbl and it's like a double closet and we know the cost to the city and to the citizens. they must hide from immigration authorities and some points not. sometimes the american wants to go overseas because it's more welcoming there. in this case we're sendingal [inaudible] one small as peck to full equality and so i urge you to take this small step and urge senator to take this step to help us get equal. thank you. >>

which family i belonged to. we have a background. we are a large family. a lot of members.here are almost of 20 us here. where we live, we have a very high status. and everyone respects us. >> i feel like i was in a film, in a scene like from "goodfellas," all of them spending time, cheerful, the family. they're cooking, they're proud. they carry themselves with a lot of pride for what they did. >> translator: we try not to put two clashing families together. we separate them to eliminate problems. >> they can't put two or three different families in the same cellblock because everyone feels he is the top dog. that can escalate into a fight with very bad results. so it is preferable for them to put one family in each cellblock. they manage their own affairs and their people as needed. >> the rimonim staff also sees a strategic advantage to keeping crime families together. >> translator: the moment i have dominant prisoners in the cellblock, i know when needed how to send them a message that they have to be straight and keep their people in line. and when there is a crisis,

to these families from day one c. and our psychologist continue to assist them until the child comes off h. we give them all the help they need. i want our kids to be happy i want everything to work out for them. just as numb so i'm now aware going to take a piece of class and you will paint a picture together ugh that warm up mom paint on this site and basically set. well pain on the other side you need to keep silent while painting don't talk to each other ok we can begin now right. now let's discuss what we have created. then to apple some to treat. your mother painted a tree and you decided to make some changes to her picture you don't like it. i just want to temples so i went to bed it's quite misleading how did you react to your tree being changed because of i knew of this i was also going to bag why did you change my picture i wanted to being a virgin i end up with an awful turn i always dorothy's leg that. yeah she's like that she likes to get her way have her way is it difficult at times to agree with this he

we have three families from sandy hook itself, families who lost children, in the tragedy. and then, we also have three local families. and all of you are national heroes. and instead of being bitter, after you lost your children, you are taking action to make the world a better place. you are national heroes. i am new to this issue. i became friends with gabby giffords last year, good friend, larine jobs introduced me to gabby and mark and we instantly became friends. my wife ani started doing work on gabby and mark's effort which was then the institute for civil discourse but has now converted to being more active on the violence issues in america. because we are friends, i invited mark and gabby to our home for our holiday party, which coincidentally was on december 14th. when gabby arrived at my home and in my home that night, were literally the leaders of all of the great tech companies in the bay area. and we had our two great mayors, willie brown and ed lee. and the minute that they saw gabby they said n, ge everyone's attention here. we can people be quiet. we have

so he said that his family grew up with gina's family. uncle talked about donating money to fundraisers to find her. so he probably wrote that and submitted it on his own. he wasn't a reporter or anything like that. but it's very possible that he did know their family. gina's uncle owned a pretty popular club. >> that's an extraordinary connection if it turns out to be true. you're talking to the uncle of areel castro. we're going to take a break and i want to find out how often it is that a suspect actually knows the family of somebody who he's been accused of having a part in their disappearance. we'll be right back. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve military members, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. all stations come over to mithis is for r

it's for efficiency and also that our families move around the bay area we want all the families to when they move they'll believable to assess the child development programs. we're also collecting a lot of data altogether and sharing assessors and the evaluation data and that's pretty exciting. harvey dunkin' is coming next week because we're the race to the top site is exciting. we're trying to promote school readiness this money is given us to so we can do qualify improvement services. they wanted us to build this high quality setting in the neighborhood where we have the lowest schools. but all our schools about benefit from the funding there. so here now john walked out - but here's our sustainability. we do have a sustainability plan. our beginning balance this year was $16.6 million. the reason we have this plan is because we've used prop $10 because we spent it we did accumulate a fund balance. we're spending out that fund balance so we'll zero identity in june neo 15. and i'll tell you how we're using that reserve. are the 3 and 4 years old if live in 70 we're filling the back c

but one family, one family made national news because of the way they survived. there wasn't much left. the harrisons, kevin and sarah beth navigated through the debris that was once their home. >> oh, it was her -- her bath stall that she use ed take a ba. it's a little dirty now. >> the tornado had done what big tornadoes do, wrecking just about everything in its path as it careened through athens, alabama, two years ago. one of a series of storms that killed about 250 people. a memory here or there is all that kevin and sarah beth hope to find. >> found another family picture. this is this year's christmas picture, which was one of our ornaments. i found one. >> it only lasts about 30 seconds. i thought there was a hot chance, being read about in the papers. >> this is what kept the harrisons alive, a safe room. kevin and his dad built it inside the family's detached garage. after the storm, the garage was gone. all that stood was the homemade concrete and cinder block safe room. >> it was a humbling experience altogether. how little we are, you know, and how

lisa was a perfect fit for this family. and both her mother fell in love with lisa. they were very happy that this lovely girl and turned their home which. lived with them for year and she was completely healthy then she fell ill when she was seven. the diagnosis from the doctor one day. insulin dependent. it was very very hard to accept that. it was a complete shock to me. that this is new this disease is new they couldn't talk for a week. it's hard. on mclaughlin and she couldn't understand what was happening to her and stone you to she didn't complain about anything but i noticed something strange night mirrors she woke up that night but was afraid of the dark went to sleep only what the lights on. but the wall then she began to drink a lot and west to the bathroom very often. i could understand what was happening so i went to the doctor to find out what her blood sugar level was incredibly high at the thirty eight but i'd never even heard that that was possible. that everybody thinking even though she has these serious health issues and the situation is serious e

we've been talking about connections between the castro family and dejesus family.know the last person to see gina dejesus back in 2002 was her best friend, arlene castro, a daughter of ariel castro. she was just 14 when he allegedly lured her into his car. arlene, describe what happened next. >> i decided to call my mom, ask her. and so she gave me 50 cents to call my mom. my mom said no, that i can't go over to her house. and, so, i told her i couldn't. and she said, well, okay. i'll talk to you later. and she -- >> and that's the last time she saw gina. now, over the last nine years, arlene went to vigils and never forgot her best friend. now she's faced with her worst fear, that the kidnapper is her very own father. >> i'm really disappointed. embarrassed. mainly devastated about this whole situation. >> when was the last time you spoke to your father? >> um, it was late last month. i had no idea -- we -- me and my father were never really that close. every time we would talk, it would just be short conversations and just a hello, how are you doing and let me kn

we recognize that there are many times of families and our immigration laws shall respect all family members, regardless of race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, contact with the criminal justice system or current immigration status. we call for immigration reform that /r-plts the value of unity of the family. for these reasons the california immigrant policy acceptabilitier urges you to adopt this resolution. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi, thanks for having us. i'm ashley and this is my partner ki and this issue affects us greatly. we met nine years ago and fell in love immediately and that was a trial in and of itself because i cam came from a very conservative community and i was rejected by my family and communality, but that issue /tk-fpblt compare to this immigration nightmare that we /tpaeuls. and though we've been lucky and managed to stay together legally here, it's really put us through the ringer. we've had to uproot and move /twaoeuls, she had to get a second-degree to stay on a student visa, which was a financial burden because that was expensive an

i also feel that working families and the lowest income populations should have a safety net. we should have human rights and equality and civil rights for people as well. i am very proud of being a progressive. >> what do you think are some of the biggest issues facing san francisco? >> right now, there are so many people out of work the local hiring and jobs and creation of new jobs, whether it is in a high-tech economy with twitter and other types of work force issues moving forward and businesses moving forward to creation of construction that local residents have a good shot at jobs. the john avalos local hiring measure was important in making sure we get residents, but even in my district, there are pockets of poverty and many people out of work. supporting those unemployed and underemployed people, supporting struggling small businesses in a difficult economy, and i support the small businesses versus more chain stores that seem to be coming into the store fronts, but i try to be sympathetic to local businesses because they make up the diversity of our local neighborhoo

family medical services at san francisco general. we are proud to be part of a group of amazing social workers who work everyday often unrecognized under appreciated and under paid to care for the most vulnerable woman of france and we are work in different clinickics and divisions but each of us embrace the social work profession to help meet the basic needs of all people with particulars attention to the needs of people who are vulnerable and in poverty and despite the challenges of healthcare today we stand firm in our commitment to this mission and bee this city would a lot worse off if social workers weren't around. (applause) carol and i are heros today so are all the social workers of san francisco general and we continue to be inspired by the work they do today. nobody want to have cancer it's not part of the plan that we all have for our lives it's most likely that each person here today has been itemed by can retro a friend or family member and now imagine going through surgery and if you are knew to this country and don't

i've known the family since i was a child, and basically, my father knew the family since before i was born. >> you have also known ariel castro for a long time. you've played in a band with him for a long time. you must be shocked by this. was there anything -- tell me first of all about how you feel about the fact that he's been arrested. >> it was a shock to me. when i found out last night, i was actually watching live streaming on the internet and it kept saying seymour avenue and it was a latino and when they finally said it was a school bus driver, and i knew who lived there and they panned the camera to his house, it was like i turned white. my wife told me what's wrong, are you okay? i was like -- i was dumbfounded. i was in shock, i couldn't talk. my heart started beating really, really fast. i just don't believe it. >> did he never give any clue at all that things weren't quite right? that he may have been leading some strange other life you weren't privy to? >> no. never. he seemed like a normal guy to me. i've known him for like 20 years and we shared the stage many, many t

families. we fight to afford the benefits and programs that strength and military families and make sure that they understand what these programs are by offering them different communications efforts. host: we're talking about how families are affected during times of deployment rid i want to talk about your time as a military mom. talk about your family situation. how are you as a family prepared for deployment? guest: my husband served in the military and was never deployed, but it is very different when your children are deployed. by daughter, an army nurse, was deployed in 2003 and again i think in 2005. the last few years all run together. it was very different because i was a peripheral member of the support group, not right there at the installation, but trying to tie into what supports there were. it certainly has evolved in the past 11 years of war because people to stay more connected with the internet, with the online resources that were not necessarily a there at the beginning of th

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family. there are no words. we just wanted the moment to breathe. look at this. poppy harlow, i know is somewhere in this scene there. here with me in cleveland. poppy, what a moment. >> what a moment. what a day, brooke. it was raining an hour ago. the sun is now out. it came out. the return of gina dejesus to her home, i hope i'm on air with you that you can see us live here. behind me is the van that gina dejesus showed up to her home in. she was in the home -- in the van with some fbi agents. the same agents that were with amanda berry earlier today when she was returned to her home. those same agents came out. also, brooke, we believe her father felix was one of the men in the van, he got out and he put his arms in the air and was cheering with the crowd. chanting gina, gina, gina, applauding her. he saw her sister myra who we have been talking to throughout this, her brother ricardo also here with her to welcome her home. she came out. we did not see her face. she was wearing black pant

we gave $1,000 a family, 10,000 families. we committed $2 million.e're going to get all those volunteers we're going to fly out to oklahoma and help families. >> the families will know better how to spend that money. they want to buy one of their kids a toy to make them feel better, that's fine. >> exactly. because i learned this on september 11th, so we were having our anniversary, right? and so i called -- this was the first memorial we were having, i called this young lady and asked her would she speak at a memorial. she said, howard, i can't, i'm going to disney. i was floored. i said, how could you go to disney? she said, howard i've been crying for three weeks straight. my kids have to have a happy life, i'm going to suck it up and go to disney. you give them the tools to do what they think is best. >> you lost a loved one, and many loved colleagues and associates on that terrible day, 9/11. the people who have lost loved ones in oklahoma, particularly ones who have lost their kids, what is the best advice you've learned that you could offer. >

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to work for another family.what their needs are going to be. and the treatment professional needs to understand that when they do work with these families, this is going to be likely a long-term type of need for the families and they need to be committed to the fact that they may need to spend time with these families for many, many years. >> marcia, executive director of family advocacy for the center of missing and exploited children. thank you for be was ith us thi morning. >> thank you for having me. >>> coming up next, what the suspects' cousin is now saying about the accusations against ariel castro. [ shapiro ] at legalzoom, you can take care of virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. protect your family... and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. it's the most powerful thing on the planet. love holds us in the beginning. comforts us as we grow old. love is the reason you care. for all the things in your life... that make life worth living. ♪ ♪ sweet love o

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i have been working for nine years with this family. my colleague has been working with amanda berry. they are so inspiring amazing people good christian people. really a model for other people who lost their kids. i think what's really important that nancy keeps stressing this, she never gave up hope. she tells people all of the time you shouldn't. i think we need to be like nancy and not give up hope. if you think it's true. go for it ignore everybody. do what united you have to do. >> they are all there. >> yes. i said your mom and dad have been looking for you since the day you left. she miled and nodded her head. >> it is easy to understand why that family has fallen so in love with that reporter. she is a special individual.

between the castro family and gina dejesus' family, it's really fascinating. gina's mother would sometimes see ariel castro. >> you would see him and he would say how are you doing? >> nothing was wrong. >> yes. >> that's chilling. >> it is. >> all the while he had your daughter. >> yes. you don't know how many times i've been through this street. i passed by that street. i was just two blocks and a half away from there. lily rodriguez spoke to reporters through the window of her car. she was clearly distraught. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> there are other pieces of the puzzle just now coming to light. writings found inside the house, pictures of the backyard and the word that castro had confessed to at least some actions. joining me, cnn's martin savidge, pamela brown as well as woio investigative reporter scott taylor. pamela, some word of some sort of confession. what have you heard from sources? >> we've known ariel castro has been talking with federal authorities, local police, prosecutors since his arrest on monday and he's been cooperating with

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we find one family dwelling, two family dwellings, three family dwellings, there is no certainty here. what we have is the 3 r report from 2012 issued while this lawsuit was going on. frankly saying this is a three unit building. i have the job card that was issued just two months ago march 28, 2013 by this department of building inspection, once again showing that this is a three unit building . can i show this on the screen? thank you. you can't see anything here. on the lasts page >> council you just referred to a lawsuit. was there a lawsuit. i don't know who the initials p g are but for this property it's -- so my point is if you want to provide the citizens of san francisco with certainty and the ability to make quantitative decision about how much to pay for a property. my clients paid $535,000 based on their representation and available from good sources that this was a three unit building and now 16 years later, people have made huge economic choices based upon the quantitative analysis provided by the building inspection department not to punish them but to say let's uphold

to your knowledge, did he write an article -- or did he know the family -- did your family know the familyregina dejesus? >> of course. >> how did you know them? both of the parents grew up in the area with me and my family. >> and i understand you helped contribute to a fund to try to help find her? >> yes. >> to your knowledge, did your nephew also contribute to that fund? or was your nephew also in touch with georgina's family over the years? >> no. >> do you know if your nephew in 2006 wrote an article about gina's disappearance? because there's an article in a local paper by someone named ariel castro which is your nephew's name, and about the disappearance and how it changed the neighborhood in this article, he actually interviews georgina's mother. do you know about this article? >> no, no, i have no knowledge of him being able to write articles. >> okay. again, we haven't been able to confirm whether it's him or somebody that happens to have the same name. >> right. >> what do you -- what is the next step? do you plan to see your nephew? are his parents alive? >> i know his mother

it just turned out that my family is just one family of countless families who have been impacted bys total abandonment of the mental-health system. host: what was it like for your family to try to access mental health for those in your family? guest: well, it was a lot easier a long time ago. in the 1970s, when my aunt had her first psychotic break, my mom called her family doctor, and her family doctor said take her to this special hospital down the way. she took her to a psych hospital and that was that. there were a bunch of the psych hospitals in cleveland at that time. i was in the 1970s. and that was what you did then. -- that was in the 1970s. and that was what you did then. if somebody was having a nervous break down or needed some kind of mental help, you took them to a psych hospital and you knew that was there and that was her option. in terms of my cousin, and this was just about a year and a half saw a lot ofly warning signs. they knew that there was something wrong with him. he was acting totally different. now in retrospect he has been diagnosed as having a classic ca

as daughter and often keeps their family relics safe after one hundred fifty years the family has returned to where they were made cook asian craftsman produced all of these items by hand. everything we have is there all of our houses are there we didn't sell anything we brought nothing except. the biggest treasure they had to leave behind in syria was several members of their large extended family two year old girl's mother and father still in damascus. my sister came with her daughter three months ago but she had to go back to syria because she has a job and her husband's family is there she wants to help them come here her daughter is still with me she's scared every time she hears loud noises she probably thinks it's war and she's afraid the noises scare her. mother works in the syrian section of the united nations' visas are not as easy to come by these days nobody knows how long they may have to wait the couple only see their daughter by skype the line is usually dead by day and by night for a little girl is fast asleep now the toddler often cools on enough in a toast and mommy and d

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but this family is in the community's thoughts. at compass star cafe and wine bar, the owners donated an entire week's worth of sales to aaron's recovery fund. >> martinez is a small town with a big heart. we all bond together to try to help out everybody that we can. we are proud to be a part of this community and we are proud that the family is back home. >> the hern family has agreed to talk with the media and answer questions on thursday. live in martinez tonight, lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> we are hearing from the alert bar sigh ta who foiled a south bay company mist's plot to poison star -- a south bay chemist's plot to poison starbucks customers. they got a tip yesterday and she faces attempted murder charges for spiking juice bottles with rubbing alcohol. tonight we learned the suspect is is a corporate chemist and pharmacist that worked at pfizer and other corporations. the barista didn't want to show her face when she spoke to abc news. she saw the woman rearranging items in a display case. >> i went

i have a family that is in mourning of their loss and i have a family who has a juvenile. to balance it whether we want to move from juvenile to an adult system. >> the teen being held on suspicion of aggravated assault. >> two years after a florida jury found casey anthony not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter the judge is breaking his center lines. he was so shocked with the verdict. they have to read it twice. >> a little bit of disbelief. shock. the judge will be the judge she knows what happened. >> he says that he and casey are concerned and disgusted and they aren't sure why the judge would do this. >> a bar trick goes horribly wrong in russia. it is all caught on camera. >> what happened there was there was a fire and that man is suing the bartender for setting him on fire. he is being treated for severe burns. the bartender claims it's the victim's fault because he asked for a different liquor than the one he usually uses for that trick. >> hollywood's biggest stars hit the red carpet last night at the metropolitan museum of arts gala. they didn't shy

and i wanted my family to be safe, but i also wanted everybody else's family to be safe too. >> what was the hardest moment for you, jordan? >> just when i was like, i tried to get up and i tried to move the bricks off of my leg, and it hurt so much, and i was like -- and it was during -- the tornado had not left yet. i was just screaming, help, my leg, my leg, and no one could hear me. >>set >> yeah. >> what is the most important thing about family to you? >> that we're always there for each other. that we love each other, and we take care of each other. and that we believe in each other, no matter what. >> jordan and her wonderful family. and there are so many other families poring over the fragments of their lives tonight. abc's cecilia vega spent the day with them. and she has their stories. >> reporter: good evening. they have been out here all day trying to piece together their lives. i want to show you what they're finding. take a look at this. somebody's keys they left behind. a little girl's pink tiara. a little girl's pants right here. this used to be somebody's house. now

tell me about ariel astro's family. >> yes, he had a beautiful family.es with his wife some years ago. they separated. she went to live in another state. i understand she passed. but the family was always beautiful. >> when was the last time that you saw ariel, that you spoke with him? >> i would say about five or six years. he use d to come to my place of business on the corner. he was a very happy go-lucky guy. >> julio castro, thank you for joining us. trying to shed some light on what's happening here. want to bring in john walsh again. you heard from the uncle of the men in custody. came from a nice family, haven't spoken to him in a few years. he was a decent guy. he has children. >> but i do want to add there was the neighbor who we spoke to earlier. he said to him don't leave the children alone. there was a gut feeling she had. so kind of these two sides we're looking at here. what's your take on that, john? >> you know, about a year ago you were covering jerry sandusky who molested multiple boys. picked kids from dysfunctional families. no one w

he was a family friend.se three girls may have known their captors in some way? there is some connection with the dejesus little girl. >> i read there is some connection between gina, and i don't know if there would be, maybe he was a bus driver to the other two. or something along those lines. it's really difficult to say. >> so what advice would you have for these women in the months and years to come and also for their families? >> my advice would be to seek counseling as soon as the women are ready to. both individual counseling and family counseling. it will take a lot for all of the families, everybody involved, to recover from this trauma. also in my personal experience, my foster parents did the best thing for me, and kept me out of the public eye. didn't let me read the news reports written about me. i never watched the news when i was on it. when my case was on it. so that was one of the best things for me. was not knowing what was going on in the world around me and my case. >> reporter: that's pr

for amanda's family, for gina's family, for michelle's family prayers have finally been answered. the nightmare is over. these three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate deaf next of survival and perseverance. the healing can now begin. every evening year after year, as you well know family members and law enforcement kept the faith that one day they might see their daughters, their sisters, their nieces again. monday evening that happened. the fbi violent crime task force as the chief and the mayor mentioned, in particular the men and women of the cleveland police department, pursued every tip and have stood with the families each step of the way and the families of these three young ladies never gave up hope and neither did law enforcement. as you can imagine words can't describe the emotions being felt by all. yes, law enforcement professionals do cry. we rejoice with those families in the homecoming of amanda, gina and michelle where i'm sure they will be showered with much love and many, many hugs. but it has been said while we celebrate today, we and our law enfor

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but this family is in the community's thoughts. at compass star cafe and wine bar, the owners donated an entire week's worth of sales to aaron's recovery fund. >> martinez is a small town with a big heart. we all bond together to try to help out everybody that we can. we are proud to be a part of this community and we are proud that the family is back home. >> the hern family has agreed to talk with the media and answer questions on thursday. live in martinez tonight, lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> we are hearing from the alert bar sigh ta who foiled a south bay company mist's plot to poison star -- a southay bay chemist's plot to poison starbucks customers. they got a tip yesterday and she faces attempted murder charges for spiking juice bottles with rubbing alcohol. tonight we learned the suspect is is a corporate chemist and pharmacist that worked at pfizer and other corporations. the barista didn't want to show her face when she spoke to abc news. she saw the woman rearranging items in a display case. >> i wen