barry bench's daughter kathryn offered to help out. >> his daughter was a very courageous young womanaid i want the truth. she actually contacted us after our papers were filed in court and said if you ever need me, i'll give you a dna sample. >> the dna analysis confirmed what roy brown already knew, that the saliva stains had come from barry bench. >> the paternity testing showed that the john doe dna on the shirt came from the father of this young woman, kathryn, who is barry bench's daughter. >> unbelievably, when this evidence was presented to the court, the judge refused to grant a new trial. he said he had no proof that barry bench was kathryn's biological father. >> you would think you'd be home the next day. you wouldn't think people would drag this out. >> this is the kind of people i'm dealing with. >> with pressure mounting, the state of new york eventually exhumed barry bench's body and took a dna sample. it conclusively matched the saliva on sabena's tee shirt. and roy brown was finally row leased from prison 15 years to the day he was convicted. but the question remains

. >> your legal name is mary kathryn. how did you get heidi? >> i grew up in a very small catholic community. when i was growing up, the two was firsthether it and second, third or fourth, all in the same classroom. at that time, there was a small group of girls, and a lot of mary's. mary beth and she was betsy. mary ann, mary jo, and then there was a mary kathryn. my parents never call me mary. my name was kathy. but my best friend's name was kathy. she decided in the third grade that she would rename me. she was a voracious reader and had already read hundreds of and of her favorite books and she gave me the name and it stuck. how did your parents change it from kathy to heidi? >> well, they resisted. i do not know that they adapted all that well even when i went to college. it was a matter of what -- of whether it would be kathryn or something easier to work with and it just stuck. i live in a small community where nicknames are really common. i could talk about the kids i went eyes go with and tell you that most of them, to this day, they w

. >> your legal name is mary kathryn. how did you get heidi? >> i grew up in a very small catholic community. when i was growing up, the two classes, whether it was first and second, third or fourth, all in the same classroom. at that time, there was a small group of girls, and a lot of mary's. mary beth and she was betsy. mary ann, mary jo, and then there was a mary kathryn. my parents never call me mary. my name was kathy. but my best friend's name was kathy. she decided in the third grade that she would rename me. she was a voracious reader and had already read hundreds of books and "heidi" was one of her favorite books and she gave me the name and it stuck. >> how did your parents change it from kathy to heidi? >> well, they resisted. i do not know that they adapted all that well even when i went to college. it was a matter of whether it would be kathryn or something easier to work with and it just stuck. i live in a small community where nicknames are really common. i could talk about the kids i went eyes go with and tell you that most of

. >> reporter: kathryn. >> i was one of four people scammed that weekend. >> reporter: you had your first problem how long ago? >> approximately two years ago. >> reporter: and it happened again this week? >> yes. >> reporter: a victim of fishing. >> what made you not want to show your face today? >> i would prefer people not know it's vacant much of the time. >> reporter: helen used to be one of the 2100 bay area residents currently listing a property on home away and vrbo. she removed her pebble beach listing after a scammer intercepted with perspective renters. >> i got a telephone call, how did you sayist not available when you just said it is not available. >> reporter: he reserved the problemty by e-mail with someone else pretending to be helen. >> the system is right for people with opportunities to pose as either tenants or as owners. >> reporter: kathryn skyped with us from her home in florida. she wired several thousand dollars to reserve a rental home to find out she was one of several people taken over one property during one weekend. >> we were all given just that 48-hour tim

you can also grab some on golden kathryn streets. in san jose there are three locations. and at the santa clara valley water district and in morgan hill sandbags are available on old monterey road. those sites are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and you are asked to just limit yourself to just 20 bags per vehicle. you know. some of them are quite heavy. i was at another location they told me that these weigh 70 pounds. these ones are little light perp they say you may -- lighter, they say you may want to bring help with you. janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. don't forget you can get the latest storm watch coverage on the go. thanks to our ktvu mobile app. you can down load it on your ipad or smart phone. we live stream all of our newscasts plus there is live storm tracker radar and the latest storm tracker watch. >>> a large tree branch came crashing down on to their house in the middle of the night. we are out there live this morning. take a look at the scene. the huge tree branch broke off of tree earlier this morning. and again we are out ther

i'm kathryn tappan. >>> the weather isn't so great here in l.a. i burned my hand on a seat belt buckle this morning. i will say it must be weird to live in a place where people actually need to wear uggs. this is funny. someone shot this video of a guy shoveling snow in a parking lot outside of walmart. for some reason, he is shoveling the snow into a wire-bottomed shopping cart. he shovels the snow, empties it into the cart and it just goes right back on to the ground. i don't know why. i could watch this all day long. it's far more interesting than any winter olympic sport >>> like snow through an hour glass, those are the days of our lives. why does the nor'easter have al roker and bill de blasio blasting each other. chris christie meets the parking wagger on the jersey shore when it comes to iowa and eats some humble buy. >>> speaking of humility, ben affleck and matt damon slice and dice each other. who cares? they both look good. this is "way too early". >>>. >> so what. who cares. good morning. i'm thomas roberts, friday, february 14th, cup

. >> your legal name is mary kathryn. how did you get heidi? >> i grew up in a very small catholic community. when i was growing up, the two classes, whether it was first and second, third or fourth, all in the same classroom. at that time, there was a small group of girls, and a lot of mary's. mary beth and she was betsy. mary ann, mary jo, and then there was a mary kathryn. my parents never call me mary. my name was kathy. but my best friend's name was kathy. she decided in the third grade that she would rename me. she was a voracious reader and had already read hundreds of and "heidi" was one of her favorite books and she gave me the name and it stuck. >> how did your parents change it from kathy to heidi? >> well, they resisted. i do not know that they adapted all that well even when i went to college. it was a matter of whether it would be kathryn or something easier to work with and it just stuck. i live in a small community where nicknames are really common. i could talk about the kids i went to high school with and tell you that most of

for jeremy roenick, i'm kathryn tappen. we'll see you tomorrow. >>> good wednesday. this is the news nation, i'm craig in for tamron hall. president obama is in the white house. he has been speaking for about five minutes, signing the executive order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 for contract workers. >> making $7.76 an hour. 7.76 an hour. there's a fast food worker right down the street making $9.81 an hour. there's a laundry worker at camp dodge making $9.03. and starting next year, as their contracts come up, each of them and their fellow coworkers are going to get a raise. by the way, that includes folks who get paid in tips. they'll get a raise too. so -- [ applause ] the tip wage has gone up even slower than the regular minimum wage. so just as it's good for companies across the country, this will be good for america's bottom line, for contractors and for taxpayers. the opponents of the minimum wage have been using the same arguments for years, and time and again they have been proven wrong. raising the minimum wage is good for business and good for worker

for the entire crew behind the scenes, i'm kathryn tappen. so long from sochi. >>> hi, i'm richard lui in for tamron hall. the news nation is following developing news for you this hour. first off a deadly winter storm has brought much of the south and northeast to a standstill leaving nearly 500,000 customers without power. the storm has dumped up to two feet of snow in some places, making streets virtually impassable. over 6,000 flights have been cancelled nationwide. the snow has turned to cold rain in many places in washington, d.c., where federal offices are closed today. some d.c. suburbs are reporting as much as 15 inches on the ground with more to come later tonight. in new york city, 1900 plows working throughout the morning just trying to keep up with the heavy snow. big flakes there. this winter storm has left much of augusta, georgia, in the dark as well, from louisiana to new jersey nearly half a million homes and businesses do not have power. most are in georgia and south carolina. 17 deaths have been blamed on the storm so far.

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for jeremy roenicke, kenny albert and brian engblom, i'm kathryn tappen. so long from sochi. >>> i'm milissa rehberger in for tamron hall. "the news nation" is following the effort today to rally house democrats and gear them up for a fight in hopes of winning back the house in november. the president addressed house democrats at their retreat on the maryland shore. vice president biden also offered a pep talk today. and nbc's luke russert joins us live now from the site of the house democrats' retreat in cambridge, maryland and mark murray joins us live from our washington bureau. luke, let's start with you. president obama addressed house democrats before the television cameras, a closed question and answer session. do you have any insight on what happened there? >> yeah, sure. there was a few things. primarily some house democrats in the audience asked the president what was going to be the messaging pertaining to the health care law. the president did admit that democrats were as of right now in the, quote, penalty box in regards to the botched ruleout

. >> kathryn ashton is back in ukraine, trying to bring an entered to the political crisis, she says she plans to speak to the government and opposition during her second visit. relations between those two sides were as fiery as ever. as parliament debated whether to cut the president's powers,'ve barker was there. >> . >> ukrainian mp stand for the national anthem. a brief show of unity, and a divided nation. want minutes the session had descended into characteristic chaos. killers, chant opposition politicians. forcing the entire interim cabinet to leave the chamber. >> the three main parties want to change. >> we need to reform the constitution. if it is legally changed but we still have a chance to turn it back, this is the only way to drag our country out of the political crisis. >> to save our country and independence we need more than just cosmetic changes we need to return to the constitution. the leadership say they are ready for more dialog. they are not prepared to say when. >> we are just outside the far limit, supporters are out here in force, although the opposition say

kathryn harris is in washington. what to make of it? >> reporter: thank you, bill. the report from the republicans cap a 16 month investigation and concludes that mrs. clinton and high- ranking officials most likely knew about the environment that was there in the al-qaeda training camp. these reports were understood by the most senior officials in washington. she was aware that extremist claiming to be affiliated with al-qaeda were active in the area. and accountability review board or a rb whose members were selected by mrs. clinton under secretary patrick kennedy who is blamed to blocking additional requests. they were not interviewed. while legally permissible. this compromised the report's independence and impartiality. a new document documenting her time secretary of state. there was an endorsement from general petrasus. and law makers taking up this issue on the sunday talk shoes. >> it was on her watch, she should have known security was not taken care of. she calls it her greatest regret as secretary of state. >> the only thing, the republicans are obsessed

. >> thank you, kathryn. >> it is astonishing behavior and doesn't lend credit for the majority leadersenate who is the most significant democrat in the majority to use this kind of language. and further underscores they are desperate. everyone single one of them provided the vote that passed obama care and it is it a disaster for the country and they are going to pay the price for it this september. >> that was senator mcconnell reacted to harry reid. >> here's what was said yesterday. >> there are plenty of horror stories untold. all of them auntrue and they are told all over america. lies. distorted by republicans to grab headlin headlines. >> and senator reid said he was referring to the vast majority of stories and ads. >> chris co phoenix and democratic senator joe manchin. brad, let me start wu. what do you make of what harry reid was saying about people with bad experiences with obama care? >> look if you take harry reid's own words there is no problem with obama care or website or sign ups and delivery of services and people are satisfied with the coined of law that was passed

just a few miles inland from the pacific is the 1800 acre ranch steyer and his wife, kathryn taylor, 2002. only an hour outside of san francisco, it is a world away. >> running this huge ranch, how is it different than running a hedge fund, a $20 billion hedge fund? >> it is incredibly different. it is the same in the sense that you think it looks like an asset , but it is actually dramatically changed by the people who run it. and that is exactly like every organization i have been in, having great people at the top, it is unbelievably significant and powerful, and that is where the comparison ends. at branch has a team of 15, including scientists who study it logically permit ways to raise -- study ecologically fit ways to raise cattle. >> that is how the animal moves across the plains of the earth. what you would think of is real success, if it turns out scientifically that we are right, if the way we are gracing the different animal causes the land to soak up twice as much carbon as normal. >> steyer has always bucked against conventional wisdom. he and his wife decided to settle

. >> reporter: so kathryn with the center for investigative reporting teamed up with nbc bay area. we discovered that inspection records simply don't exist online and we uncovered an antiquated system. >> we found that california does not make it easy for parents to find out what the state knows about the day caring where they're sending their children. >> reporter: other states such as florida and texas have had these records online and searchable for years. in some cases more than a decade. that's why child care aware of america ranked california third from dead last, 50th out of 52, in a quality and oversight ranking of all states, plus the district of columbia and the u.s. department of defense. >> it's just not acceptable. >> reporter: kim johnson serves as policy director. >> these are our children. we're talking about babies. we're talking about toddlers, preschoolers. >> reporter: the state auditor recognized this problem back in 2006, but in these recent updates of recommendations not fully implemented, the auditor found california's department of social services still has

van cut off the suspect's car and another van pulls in front and our guys jump out and grab him, kathrynis live in washington. and it is not the only kidnapping we are hearing about. tell us more. >> good afternoon, when the ops go down with special forces it goes down in a matter of seconds. you are not seeing the weeks and months that went in planning for the seizure of a bu- a liowa bi. and his return to the united states. kidnapping is widespread in africa and an al-qaeda linked group claimed responsibility of a kidnapping of a red cross team in northern mali. they are calling it a movement for oneness and jihad in africa and called al-qaeda and islamic mcgrab. they have a history of kidnapping western nationals for ransom as a way to finance operations. and these kidnappings are generating in excess of 55 million to the al-qaeda affiliate and not uncommon for the ransom to be 5 million for a western national. accounting for the 80 percent of the revenue and making it richer than the al-qaeda leadership in pakistan. this is behind the attack on the national gas facility in algeria an

kathryn was outside of the court when the suspects arrived. >> i don't know whether you are see it, i will step out of the shot and you can see this truck that is bringing them in. this is a large group, about a hundred of them were arrested yesterday and they are going to be arraigned today here at the court. they were all arrested at the mosque and what happened is that the police went to the mosque because they were told there was a jihad convention going on and they had intell yens a recruitment drive for the group that is fighting in somalia and they went to the mosque to sort of break up that meeting and they were told there were flags jihad black flags with jihad messages and they had to break that up, especially now, there is a terror alert now in kenya and this is the highest there is. the intelligence reports that they are planning major attacks on the government installations and public places as well. these are things they don't want to happen and such conventions and movements like this, the convention going on can't be allowed to continue especially at this time. >> farm

. >> as you know, kathryn ashton is a highly regarded, highly respected diplomate. yes. >> this is not good to say the least. >> no. >> long term unemployment will not be restored to 1.7 million americans built to celebrated tend the benefits stalled in the senate today because there weren't enough votes. john is on capitol him r the us, and john, a majority leader harry reed simply said they didn't have the votes to prevent a republican filibuster. >> no, after the do nothing last year, and didn't reup what is known as the unemployment extension fills. have this gone forward, it would have paid retroactively going back to the end of december. and the democrat who is promoting it records it is all completely paid for, because the republicans would have nothing to do with anything but adding to the deficit. and that's how it would have been paid for. however, the votes simply weren't there, after the vote came in, harry reid, the majority leader came out and said just how very close they are, to reinstating this, take a look. >> he also put this on this side of the a

joining me more with the power outages, she is a spokesperson for georgia power, kathryn i appreciate your taking the time. let me check these numbers with you. you have about 165,000 customers still without power subpoena is that accurate? we have our lines out there working to ensure power as quickly as possible, and it is going down practically by the minute. it is about 81 now now. >> 158,000 plus. and where are most of the outages right now? in the state. >> so the really heavy damage. in the southern part of atlanta, so that continues to be ask area we are, workerring on. >> you have had a nice day today, i am wondering were you able to take advantage of the improving weather conditions and get your crews out there? you certainly had a window of opportunity? >> je, we did. they are out there working 24 hours a day. they are doing everything they can to get their customers back online. >> what is the best advice you have for people now still without power? >> please visit our website. that will give you the most up to date information. and refresh it every tenn't manies. it gives

kathryn bigelow winning earlier and saying it didn't win, it is hard to say because of the smear campaign it is hard to see someone like her, it is very rare for people to win things that close together. she's very well respected in hollywood. >> then to the flip side of it, positive campaigning is a big part of it. robert redford not getting the nod and didn't campaign for it. >> yeah, it is true, basically life isn't fair and working for some people and not for other people. some people that dismiss or snubbed the oscars are treated rudely. others that never participated in the nonsense are still and were still a favorite. so there are rules that apply to certain people and rules that apply to others. it was unusual that redford didn't get nominated. >> we have to leave it there. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> the conversation is continuing at al jazeera.com consider. have a great weekend. >> this is al jazeera. >> from al jazeera headquarters in doha and in london. this is the news hour. ukraine in crisis, protesters are now in charge of government buildings in the capitol. th

>> reporter: kathryn donahue welcomed charlie who loves all kinds of games. >> what are some of your favorite games? >> mainly like strategy and magic and stuff like that. >> reporter: she assured him he'd find what he likes among the 4,000 games that line the walls here. charlie caught on quickly to this game. >> reporter: do you have friends you can play with? >> a bunch where i am at right now. >> reporter: he's in a group foster home and likes playing games when he's not in school. >> he's getting along well with his classmates and his teachers love him. >> reporter: what do you really want? >> to be adopted and be with a family that cares about me and helps me and shows me stuff i didn't know and how to do. >> charlie is an easy going young man. he is very interesting, loves information. >> reporter: she says he just needs a home and family where people love him. >> i was adopted and i really really hope you get to find a forever family really really fast. i'm so thankful for my parents. >> reporter: i didn't realize that. >> yeah, i was adopted. >> reporter: he's hoping that's

. >> illustrate the point, spanish translator kathryn german takes us to the washington state governors website, which use it is free tool, and translates a spanish text into english. >> the translation software changed leading practices to skinny cowhandling. >> very funny. to japanese native speakers. >> she said she found all sorts of english words that it could not congress vert into japanese. >> i would have to ask the person who created this japanese sentence, what do you mean. >> washington state does provide personal translation for some written materials it is one of a number of states that include a button for tranlation software on many of its websites. >> this is about more than convenience, it is also the law. back in 2000, mandated that it must provide meaningful translations. but the word meaningful is up to interpretation. >> it would be very challenging for the state of washington, at least for the department to make sure that every piece of our electronic informing is available and updated every time that we change a web page. >> the office managed the washington state

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kathryn jean lopez, a wonderful editor of mine and a good dear friend sent me a q&a. this is the root of much reserve. for those of you who follow on twitter im@hugh hewitt and i to it a lot. i message him of hundred treats. the kalo -- that's her nickname, a series of question. she asked what i do at q&a. i was getting ready to do a lecture about the happiest life. here's the question, think about your recent book on happiness, what do you think about governor christie's comment about human nature and what do they have to do with leadership, trust impossibility of happiness? i wrote that betrayal is a terrible thing. it's a huge impediment to happiness. dealing with it in such a candid and resolute way is perhaps the best advice i could give to anyone. so i thought about that the rest of the day through today's radio shade. he was featured. it's not as political consequences. someone he loved it trusted absolutely undid everything he'd been working to do. everything there is unhappiness whether this note cup of coffee in your lap and how many of us have done that? wh

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pointedrine -- kathryn out, we are ready to roll the framework out and get the broadest-based adoption. right now, i am optimistic. we will check in and see where we stand in a year or two. right now, we are optimistic things will proceed down the right path. we can encompass a lot of things without going down a break with tori path. >> your sector has -- without going down a regulatory path. >> i would observe that the framework has not slowed them down at all. [laughter] in any way, shape, or form. we have seen a lot of interest managementrty risk and outsourcing risk management. cyberas not driven by the security framework. that was driven by regulatory concerns in that particular area. a reminder that all the partners the to adhere to safeguarding requirements. we already have by regulation a andage between regulations third-party services within the supply chain. with the framework does for us is gives us an opportunity to have a better vehicle to talk about how companies can implement that. that i amchris cautiously optimistic on this one. i think over time, we will see. whether

there is a wonderful biography of dolly madison called perfect union by kathryn. they put them together and how they interact with each other and how they focus on the politics of it. you in the blue shirt right there. >> as you caught on, also they have some sections that give you more so each one gives you a page about a woman in her life story and a page that sort of tells a little anecdote about her. but then they do have sections in the middle about the women writers and we have a timeline at the beginning. what i like is that you get information in a short period although the first person i read it too was my just turned 8-year-old granddaughter and she said it's getting long. [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> i'm totally done. i'm really sorry. that means you have to go back to school. [laughter] >>> talks about the use of executive power during times of crisis. coming back to president george washington. this is about an hour. welcome to the national constitution center. i am the president an presidentf this wonderful institution. the national constitution cent

i don't know where -- kathryn, yocatherine,you need to stick ae closer otherwise -- [laughter] i thought we had five microphones. >> good morning. i'm from washington state, and they work with a lot of new and beginning farms that have become farm owners and the two things are happening as far as i'm concerned, one there is the changing the palette of the american consumer is changing, and sometimes i don't think the market is changing with that college. so what is being done about that and how are you bringing in this new taste into our -- into the increasing growth of the changing american consumer? and number two, what do you think can be done to increase the interest in the fact there are so many farm workers becoming farm owners in the united states? and i have someone here with me right now that came as a farm worker and is now a farm owner. the problems are very important but how do we connect them to organizations like the ones you have if we didn't have the 2501, we wouldn't have these farm workers now becoming farm owners. so what is being done by the industry? >> i can start.

bret, on your show, kathryn has been doing some great reporting talking about how mike morell who's atn and hillary clinton look good. >> well, yeah. she has been reporting on then deputy director of the cia, mike morell, and his role in the formulation of those talking points. essentially he was the focus. he was the person who was making that decision and there are people on the ground who say they had nothing as far as a protest. they were putting up the chain. nothing that was -- that ended up being put in those talking points. to susan rice's defense, she was handed this piece of paper and she went out there and did it and she's saying that the intelligence community gave her the talking points. >> sure. >> so she is saying what she was given. >> but if you remember back at that time, bret, the day after she went on tv everybody goes, why did they send her out? where was hillary? well, the conventional wisdom and she said, no, i'm not going to do that. >> does she believe they gave her the entire bit of information. >> looking back, you had senator mccain on another show, "face th

. >> danny, i know you love kathryn but -- >> i love her but this is for you. >> you got to get behinde them. >> come on, good fun. >> thank you, danny. >> who is more romantic than you, baby? >> nobody. >> so, great after you eat the grapes. what you want to do this is a great glitter arrangement. the secret is to take a bag. spray adhesive on the inside. you dump the glitter inside. instead of trying to put it on, you shake, shake, share look what you got. >> that would be a sparkle as a garny around something. >> yeah. >> you punch out paper hearts. it's a simple little project. >> execute. >> it's one minute you can do it. >> okay. >> we're going to craft together. >> i'm getting nervous. >> you have puff paint and decoration. we're making -- this is what we're going to make. hearts filled with candies. >> okay. >> we're using a grocery store bag. puff paint. it gives it texture. write like "i heart danny." it's one grocery bag with a hole punch and decorate it. you see this? >> adorable. >> the idea is if you have a broken heart, you tear it open and -- ahh. >> lovely. >> how roma