mccabe's professional career. back in 1976, when i was a fellow at the university of colorado and was asked by dr. marianne guggenheim, a pediatric neurologist, if we would see these two brothers who were on the clinical research center in the pediatric unit, she said, "must be genetic. they look the same. they've got the same neurological problems." chris had gotten real ill, and they didn't know why. they thought maybe he'd been, you know, abused and stuff. so we brought him to-- to the hospital and she took a look at the little one-- wasn't walking. she said there's something wrong. only 2 and 3 years old, scotty and chris were short, physically weak, and severely retarded with iq's in the 30's. they had triangular, elfin faces, crossed eyes, and sweet dispositions. those were the first two brothers with this contiguous gene syndrome that i've spent my whole career studying, as mccabe and his associates were to learn, christopher and scotty had a rare combination of three genetic disorders. but at first their c

if mccabe loses his footing now, it could be fatal. >> he would have been swept down river.e survived or not, i don't know. >> but nelson's timing is perfect. >> i was able to get this drop around him and gave the signal. that's when we came up through the tree, and we were about 25 feet up above the river, just enough to clear those trees. >> mccabe is so happy to be out of the tree, he almost loses his fear of heights. >> i remember dangling there and saying kind of fun being up here, kind of. >> once mccabe is on the bank, the rescuers turn their attention to ed. they position the chopper and this time, deputy don mcadoo makes the drop. by now, he has an additional challenge to deal with. >> my pilot was a little bit fatigued. my systems operator, kevin, who is standing on the skid running the hoist and basically putting us into position, he's been at it for about an hour. the winds have really kicked up. >> the chopper's whirling blades add to the turbulence. >> wow. it is pretty scary in itself, that wind that's also being created. >> i'm like a yo-yo. i'm at the mercy

are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture rumble neil mckay mccabe excuse me columnist with human events richard a follower democratic strategist and advocacy director for the young democrats of america and tony katz host of the tony katz radio show on the all patriots radio network i hate radio guys i got about a lot of ok headship gentlemen see pac is in town and beyond all the over the top rhetoric about president obama the republicans. don't seem to have much to be excited about santorum has taken three states romney still looks like the inevitable nominee gingrich is in the tank he's van't well the guy was funding him as seems to stop giving him his money in fact shelly adelson has said now he'll give some money to romney if you know if he gets it and on top of that the economy is improving there's a new poll showing twenty percent of republicans today would likely vote for obama and you know this is pretty scary so how much of a bummer is c. pac this year. first of all i have to completely disagree with everything i reject the premise that the people at c pac are

stephanie mccabe tries her best to limit the amount of sugar her children eat, but knows the occasional treat is part of childhood. >> my kids eat well for dinner and lunch and get a good breakfast and they play. >> reporter: our sugar consumption crept up on all of us. the last 30 years, the amount of sugar we eat tripled. today the average american consumes 22 teaspoons a day, three times what we need. that's equal to 75 pounds of sugar a year for every man, woman and child in the united states. now an article sparked a national debate. is sugar toxic and should it be taxed and regulated like alcohol and tobacco. >> sugar promotes the same phenomena in the brain addictive substances do. >> reporter: this doctor is a child obesity expert who believes sugar is to blame for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, dementia and even cancer, but not everyone agrees. the sugar association takes issue calling the article irresponsible, saying we are confident the american people are perfectly capable of choosing what foods to eat. >> we need more personal responsibility and giving peopl

. >> reporter: john mccabe with oakland public works knows the problems and frustrations that the residents are dealing with, so the city started a new mobile app for people to report nonemergency problems. it's called see, click, fix. it's available free at the app store. >> could be a streetlight that's out, pothole, any of those things we love the people to use a mobile app or the website, we acknowledge it and we take care of the issue, we report back. >> reporter: so we went to a city street, found some graffiti and potholes. 10 minutes later the graffiti patrol was on it. the usual response time is not normally this quick. with citywide budget issues, there are no extra field crews. >> we're going to still have, you know, resource issues. it's not going to get taken care of any faster. >> reporter: ray still plans on painting over the graffiti around his business. >> that would be great if they really could respond to it. usually stays on the poles for quite a while. i don't know what an app is. >> reporter: oakland public works gets 60,000 calls a year. hopefully this app will make i

are you ready to rumble joining us for the nice big picture rumble neil mccain mccabe excuse me columnist with human events richard a follower democratic strategist and advocacy director for the young democrats of america and tony katz host of the tony katz radio show on the all patriots but he didn't ever hate radio guys i got a house and we were ok chip gentlemen see pac is in town and beyond all the over the top rhetoric about president obama the republicans.

the rumble on the panel tonight neil mccabe richard a follower and tony katz let's get back to it guys a good day for equal rights in america federal appeals court circuit court struck down california's prop eight which bans same sex marriage just a judge stephen reinhardt wrote in the majority opinion proposition eight serves no purpose and has no effect other than a lessen the status and dignity of gays and lesbians in california and to officially reclassify their relationships and families is inferior to those of opposite sex couples end quote and the washington state legislature last week has same sex marriage laws i think probably by now governor has signed it or is about to but not everybody's happy mitt romney and newt gingrich went off on this thing newt mitt mitt today said today unelected judges cast aside the will of the people of california who voted to protect traditional marriage yesterday and gingrich said court of appeals overturning california's prop eight is another example of an out of control judiciary so looking back ten or twenty years from now are we going to be

. >> senator mccabe is headed to the middle east and says as president assad unleashes a violent crackdownss justifiable for the u.s. and other western nations to stand on the sidelines uttering words of condemnation. >> when some people say the united states should not be involved directly, tell that to the iranians and russians who are clearly assisting bashar al-assad continue this massacre and i believe the united states can play a far more active and productive role and it's almost shameful we have not. >> senator mccain said he would back getting more weapons to the opposition, although he did not specifically say the united states should do that directly. he did not spell out exactly how he believes the weapons got into the hands of rebels. what is happening here? >> essentially what you have is russia and china are backing syria and iran because they want to be devil the united states. they want to consolidate their political position in the middle east. that's going to be very important for assad. >> and do they not risk alienation from the western world? this is a sir internation

it shows you in in kwas he's the mccabe figure. they may not like the comparison but he is the mccain figure. the centrist, campaign candidate, and he's doing enough among conservatives. i would point out he won self-identified republicans. he's doing enough, i think, to really restart hishe conservative vote as the numbers fopeople who identify themselves as being very conservative, he still has a problem there. he hasn't made the deal. >> and if that number stood out to me as well as strongly supportive of the tea party. he lost them to newt gingrich as well. the question is how big is it. there's a clear segment on the ideological right of who is still not comfortable with mitt romney. but i would point out those people were not comfortable with john mccain either in 2008. at some point it becomes conclusive that even though there is some holdouts, that they will eventually get behind mitt romney because they don't like barack obama and they believe that mitt romney will eventually be the guy who can beat him, electability, the

we felt john mccabe was the best candidate -- we felt john mccain was the best candidate to lead us inroubled world. we saw him in august-september and the race pivoted toward the economy and john mccain said the economy is not his strength and that's why we wish we had mitt romney as a candidate. i don't know what will happen this time. this race could easily pivot away from the economy to national security. we're fairly confident that mitt romney can run a campaign and stand alone in a national election. we think he has the judgment, maturity, and wisdom to lead the country and stand as a candidate if issues turn away from the economy and toward national security. host: this is from "the washington post" -- this indicates that mitt romney and rick santorum are trying to undermine each other. this is a head of the crucial primary tuesday. their fortunes are shifting until the three days in the primary. if mitt romney wins narrowly in michigan, what does that mean for his candidacy? guest: that gives him a boost for its super tuesday. he has to win michigan. otherwise it would take a h

senator mccabe pin put away the election in 2008. up early. >> do you think the race is making mitt romney a better kanlt dt? >> no. he keeps making these marie antoinette gaffes, and more importantly, it's dragging him -- >> that's what you want him to become known as. >> i suppose. there's another thing, he can't control it, he's allowing the process and the conservative thunder on the right to draw him to the right. he's moved on immigration so far that he's almost an athma to latinos. he's moved to contraception. he wants no federal funding for contraception. that used to be a republican plan. they created that plan. the process has put him way to the right, and that's really damaging for him in the general election. >> and republicans love to compare this with the primary of '08 between hillary and barack obama, and it really is so different because first of all, yes, that one was very contested. it went all the way to the very end, but it was not as nasty as this one. they never called each other unelectable. they never called