that's the latest from downtown as well. >> melanie alnwick reporting, thank you melanie.lanie. >>> in this morning's top stories, today is theay is the anniversary of the deadliestliet shooting rampage in modern u.s. history. on april 16th, 2007, a, a gunman killed 32 people and injured 17 on the virginia techh campus in blacksburg. blac remembrances are being held on campus all day today and starting at midnight with the e lighting of a ceremonial candlea >> the frightening moments aftet the explosions in boston werebor made more challenging whenng whn families tried to reach loved ld ones on their cells phones. phon more on that coming up next.ne >>> we are looking at how the ho attack is impacting movement hee on one big issue at capitol hill. the time is 5:05. we will be back after this. the grief was staggering. one hundred days after us senate starts to act are coming together background checks the second amendment hands of dangerous criminals. ninety percent of america background checks. urge them to join comprehensive background checks. demand action. now. i'm here with chris.

after david's death, melanie received thousands of letters by those touched by his story.ay she is an advocate for dvt awareness. >> it could be a lasting tribute to david that i know he would be proud of. that his death, if nothing else, has helped save other lives. >> how are the kids these days? >> the kids are great. >> melanie bloom has remarried and now has a blended family of five children. as she spreads the word about dvt and david's legacy, she takes comfort in the almost present words of his final e-mail. >> when the time comes and you're talking about my last days and determined they will say he was devoted to his wife of children and gave every ounce of his being not for himself but those who he cared about most, god and his family. >> i remember the last time i saw david, we were in kuwait together before the war. he was so excited about this bloom mobile and what he was about to do. big shoes to fill on this show. >> such a beautiful tribute this morning. >> thank you. >> and wonderful, too, to see his family doing so well and that melanie has become such a

melanie. >> reporter: good morning, wisdom and shortly after cameo was reported missing.rfax county police made a maa public appeal for help for finding him and they would onlyy say the detectives had reason to believe he was in danger and now they listed him as an endangered missing child.g he was last seen by his father april 6th when his father came to pick him up and neither of them have been heard from since.since. rebecca sarah fan' sarafin's cau in the parking lot of lion's shopping center.. cameron's father who is divorced from rebecca sarafin said she se had a heroin abuse problem and the court recorded that she had prescription drug use, and arrest or a drug use. >> it was a simple issue. the concern would not be at thee level where it is for this th particular case. case. >> every day that goes by, it it gets more and more devastating t not knowing where your son is, , what state he is now, and what condition he is in. >> reporter: joe sarafin does s say that his wife took cameronn to california once before, thatt was back in july of 2011. he does not know if s

melanie is live along the routeg with the details this morning. melanie? >> good morning, wisdom.can definitely see a noticeable police presence herer in downtown d.c. behind me is freedom plaza wherh the parade is supposed to wrap up today. pennsylvania avenue closed to most of road traffic but footoot traffic as well as vendors certainly also here setting up. notice the security as we said. not only here in the metro area but extending to national airport and even to the white house. the u.s. secret service has expanded its security perimeter there but apparently not becausb of specific intelligence.ntel pennsylvania avenue has beeneen sealedled off in front of white house where tourists gather to take their pictures of the white house. extra personnel could be seen both on the ground and also on the white house roof. a secret service spokesperson saying the action was taken outk of an abundance of caution and it's not unusual for the agency to be seen moving its security boundaries from time to time. meanwhile, homeland security officers have swept the freedom plaza area with c

you can get a closer look at at their photos at our website. >> melanie alnwick reporting. thank you, melanie. >>> an alert out of the district where police are investigating two sexual assault cases of the weekend. the first happened in the area of h street just before saturdau morning. the victim says she was attacked by three men.by t the second attack also happenedp in northeast on sunday morning n in the 1900 block of lincoln lil road. the victim says the man knocked on her door, asked to use the phone, once inside, he attacked her. >>> another candidate from the 2010d.c. mayoral campaign says he was pressured to quit. vincent gray urged him to drop out. gray told him to talk to gene harris, a gray supporter who has admitted that she was a part off an illegal shadow campaign. alex aalexander had a meeting wh harris and gray. gray. alexander says he did not asknok him for nor was he ever offerede any money to leave the race.rac. >>> two big stories playing outt on capitol hill.ill. gun control and immigration reform bills are expected to be introduced. three republicans

. >> reporter: after david's death, melanie received hundreds of letters from those who had sufferedoved ones to dvt. today she is an advocate for dvt awareness. >> it can feel like a cramp, it can feel like a pulled muscle. if you've been on a long flight. if you're a woman and on the birth control pill or hormone replacement therapy, that can cause it. >> we've moved the percentage up to 25%. >> because of what happened to her husband, people are willing to listen. >> reporter: for melanie bloom, she remains focused on paying a tribute to david the best way she knows how. >> it's been a mission to transform david's life into reality and hopefully save some lives. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" and right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> right now at 6:00, a homicide investigation under way in the south bay after a man is shot multiple times. the underground spot where police say the gunman opened fire. >>> plus tweaking time sheets. we investigate how some of santa clara co

we will ask melanie sloan, the head of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. are a group of professional athletes ready to come out of the closet? >> the rumor. we will find out more about it from cindy boren from the washington post. and is texas ready to turn blue? boy, if it does, that will shake up american politics. we will ask the chair of the harris county, texas democratic party. all of that right here on the "full-court press" on current tv. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. (vo) current tv is the place for compelling true stories. (kaj) jack, how old are you? >> nine. (adam) this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you

melanie campbell, you has been in the trenches. our legend.rd from we want to hear from you. >> [inaudible] i thought you were my friend. until just now. how do you come behind that? how do come behind that? reverend, thank you. forgiving as a teaching moment. for giving us a history lesson in real time. , our elders, who have not left the battlefield. that we challenged us need more prophetic voices, the faith stand with leaders, to stand with the civil rights leaders. i want the sisters to stand up for a moment. [applause] to askst thing i want you, are you ready for the fight? brothers, stand up. are you ready to stand with the sisters in leadership? are you ready for the fight? .isters and brothers, stand up we know what we need to do. us, theyael, all of told us what we need to do. have lifted are present -- we selected our president for a second term. crazy, so there. sisters to do not mind speaking up and challenging. down, i am so sorry. i used to be married to a baptist preacher. we left a couple of weeks ago, women of pow

. >> so we have melanie and melissa, wearing scarves that are the wrong colors.ou see the big difference. when melissa puts on the warm orange and melanie puts the cool color on that's pink and it makes a big difference. it kind of warms your skin tone up. another big test, another big test is that white and ivory, not all white is equal. franzen looks amazing with the red hair, the white is kind of contrasting with. when she swaps with marino, she was washed out in the ivory and when she puts the white on, it pops and the red hair really works and warms up with the soft ivory. the small differences make a big difference. because this book is about the power of attraction and getting people to notice you. and pat is my last example. who is wearing a gorgeous color that i love. but you can break the rules, you can wear any color, it's about the shade of the color. this is a little bold, so it's kind of competing with her hair. like most women, we spray tan or dye our hair. but a softer salmon really kind of softens her up. and so that's the kind of stuff i wanted

melanie. >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone. it is an honor to be here on behalf of the department with all of to you celebrate arbor day. this is a department of the environment, one of our favorite days. what we support is the climate program. we look at what is our carbon inventory and where is our carbon emission come from. we know it comes from the environment and we are working very diligently to mitigate the carbon sectors. we know that many trees is the answer to reduce the carbon emissions further. in addition it's critical to our adaptation strategy thinking about if we can't ward off, trees will continue to help us with storm waters and they boost property value where they have a robust urban forest. i wanted to mention when i first moved to san francisco, i lived on russian hill, i would sometimes take the cable car and i would often see you and your sister see both of them smiling and the warmth they shared as twins, it brought a smile to my face everyday. as you said before you started your sister is smiling down t

melanie? >> sarah it's been 15 days since cameron's father has seen him and now police say he was spotted along with his mother at the birmingham, alabama, airpora on friday.day. they believe that she flew there from bwi.. now the f.b.i. has stepped in charging the mother with felony parental abduction. cameron's picture is posted ont the national center for missings and explitted children's web site. he was last seen on april 1. he has been absent from school h ever since. rebecca's car was found last wee can in the parking lot of the t lion village shopping center.. her exhusband believes she may s be traveling to the west coast. her exhusband said she had a heroin problem and arrests for illegal drug use.. >> i mean physical -- has she fallen back to any of those ways and that's what we just can't know and that's why i believe my son is in danger. >> rebecca may have changed her appearance and may have been changed her son's appearance.nc. the pair hey be using his mother's maid yen name of

melanie, thanks for joining us. good to have you with us.ou now exactly downtown boston? >> close to downtown. i'm in a neighborhood called back bay which is about a quarter of a mile from the finish line. off huntington street which is a major road. >> bill: what's the mood in boston this morning? are people on edge? is traffic moving? are there signs of extra security in tell us about it? >> lots of signs of extra security. i've seen atf agents, men in military uniforms, lots of police. they clearly have their eye on you as you're walking down the street. you feel eyes on you. they're making sure you don't turn down the wrong street. there are still lots of streets barricaded. there is street traffic but it is not what normally would be. this happens to be the same neighborhood i stayed in when the blizzard took place. and i've seen what the area looks like on a normal weekday so it is definitely subdued. you see a lot of runners in their blue and yellow jackets just walking around, looking to see what's what or some folks are clearly tryi

melanie barnes. and willie geist. mike barnicle.nd the host of politics nation and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. good morning to you all. >> good morning. >> it really is a big day and you can't overstate the compromise and the power of the compromise that joe manchin and pat toomey have put together. here are two conservatives. manchin without a doubt the most conservative in the senate. pat toomey for my money' i've said it all along, one of the true conservatives in the u.s. senate from pennsylvania. it bears repeating. while the rest of the party jumped off the cliff when bush was president, toomey remained conservative and voted against a medicare drug benefit plain and he got elected in pennsylvania, a blue state and this compromise is incredible. guys like us paul ryan we respect pat toomey so much and why it's not a surprise paul ryan yesterday said i'll take my leave from pat toomey. >> we have a lot on this to cover. we start with the proposal on expanded background checks for commercial g

back to you, guys. >>> melanie alnwick reporting.nks, mel.thks, me >>> meanwhile heavily armed police officers are patrolling some of the boston's hospitals where many of the victims areims being treated after yesterday's explosions.. >>> officials have taken many precautions including placing officers outside the brigham and women's hospital.wo many omef the patients are being treated for injuries to their tr lower bodies.es. >> the first patient who came in was probably the most severe. ve we had three of the most critically ill patients come ini and the first 15 minutes. minute at that point we didn't know ifi that was -- that did turn out to be the tip of the iceberg.ic if that was going to be the tip of the huge iceberg or not. not. >> three people died in the attacks, including an 8-year-old boy. more than 140 people werere injured at least 17 of them critically.crit >> on iccapitol hill today we we expecting to get the details on the senate's comprehensive immigration bill but it's being delayed because of the terror attacks o

. >> reporter: melanie is fighting cancer with technology and optimism. >> social media is just awesomed that's a 50-year-old saying that! [ laughter ] >> reporter: in november, the stanford professor was diagnosed with leukemia. chemo has sent it into remission. but to beat it for sure, she needs a bone marrow transport. the problem, there aren't a lot of indians and south asians signed up in the donor registry. the chance is 1 in 20,000. so began the social media blitz! the facebook page is closing in on 1,000 likes. the address itself, the logo, the photos. >> reporter: and the videos are all meant to humanize the disease. 80 drives have pond up across the -- popped up across the planet. >> you seem confident you're going to find somebody. >> yeah, we have to be, right? >> reporter: they're modeling their strategy after amid gupta from san francisco. he found a donor match in a number of months. >> i can't imagine this happening without twitter and facebook and tumblr. i didn't believe it until the first group of friends started to drive the word. >> it's just sort of humbling and if

joining me now is melanie shown, executive director of the watchdog group crew. they filed the ethics complaint. let me thank you for being here tonight. >> well, it's a pleasure to be with you. >> let me ask straight out, why did your group call for the investigation into the mcconnell campaign? >> well, look, if senator mcconnell was misusing his office staff who are paid for by our tax dollars to engage in campaign work, that's a violation of both federal criminal law and senate ethics rule and he should be held accountable for that. he's got one, the fbi has started looking at it and it seems like an appropriate thing for the fbi to investigate all the way around. it would also look at whether senator mcconnell broke the law. >> now, when you say that the breaking of the law is a possible in terms of what the senator did, are you referring to what i played in the tape, l.a., legislative assistants, would mean that they were on his senate staff, not his campaign staff? >> that and the tape refers to two people by name, phil maxsin and a person named josh. josh

. >> the five-year-old's father said heive- last saw his son on april 1.l melanie is live at fair faxlice department with wi more on why his father is so concerned. good morning, melanie. >> good morning, wisdom. 15 days ago rebecca serafin picked up her son for the week with him. he was supposed to return on april 7 but he was never placed in school the week that his mother was supposed to have him. police believe she has taken her son across lines and that is whw the f.b.i. is involved. fair fax county police getting a lot of help in their search for five-year-old cameron serafin. his picture is on the web site. he may be going by the nick name cam and using his mother's name love. family members say she packed ae bunch of bags before picking up her son that morning. her car was found last week in the parking lot of the lion village shopping center on lee highway.ghwa her exhusband may be trying tryo travel to the west coast and he is grateful for the media attention. >> tom: get everybody involved from the f.b.i..b.i detectives have done a great job. the social media, the media. i

melanie warner, thanks. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. president obama raised concerns about chemical weapons in syria, in a phone call with russian president putin. they spoke hours after a bomb narrowly missed killing the syrian prime minister in damascus. bombings across iraq killed at least 36 people. it was the latest in a week's worth of violence. and pro basketball player jason collins announced he's gay, becoming the first male athlete in a major u.s. sports league to come out. >> ifill: online, a reminder from our science unit: the deadline to submit your science- inspired rap video is friday. find more information on how to enter and win a shout-out from the wu-tang clan's gza on our home page. and runners pay tribute to victims of the boston bombings by lacing up and organizing races across the country. ely. the ask who answers the doctors questions. all that on the web site. newshour.pbs.org. and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll examine escalating sectarian violence in iraq, and the challenges it poses for st

melanie brown, now a judge on america's got talent, said she was heart broken. >> devastating. who moved mountains. >> reporter: and ginger spice today tweeted that thatcher is the orange example of girl power. then later today, she deleted the tweet, reportedly facing a back lash. so much for girl power. people either loved thatcher or loathed her. when it comes to the iron lady, there is no wobbly middle ground. david wright, "nightline" in hollywood. >> margaret thatcher was 87 years old. our thanks to david. >>> it's time for tonight's closing arguments. after beyonce and jesay-z spent their anniversary last week, they want to know if they broke the lawful while it is unlikely they'll receive the maximum ten-year sentence for such a crime, should they be penalized at all for supporting the castro regime by celebrating in old havana? you can weigh in on the "nightline" page or tweet us @"nightline." we'll see you back here tomorrow night.

. >> reporter: melanie sitler, a math tutor, is battling thyroid cancer and says sylvia was by her side last month when she chose to have her eggs frozen. >> i want to be able to have the same things everybody else is able to have. part of life is being able to start a family. >> reporter: according to the most recent data, doctors now perform about 150,000 in-vitro procedures a year nationwide. around 40% result in birth. odds sylvia hopes will grow. a gift that will keep on giving. >> this is my love. this is my life. >> we're taking care of you. >> reporter: michelle franzen, nbc news, pittsburgh. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, goodnight. . >>> good evening, i'm terry mcsweeney. a perk getting employees free vacation time. janet susco joins us with details on the district attorney's time-off policy. >> when the budget crunch forced departments to cut back, select attorneys lost their 5% bonus. our investigation exposes rosen directed time sheets be altered gi

. >> melanie covered asia for the wall street journal and author of the book called "escape from north korea ka." >> he went to church as a young man. >> there were many christians and of the 1930s and 40s was known as the jerusalem of the east. >> by 1948 he appointed a partner. >> over the next decade the cult of personality established around kim il sung rivalled many of the 20th century. >> none compared to him. >> the north korean government started the bizarre ideology in 1925. >> what it says is the north korean people are almost a superior race and they need to determine the future of their country and advance their socialist revolution on their own. we have the tower the huge white monument of one brick in the monument a symbol every day of the life of kim il sung. the think tank. everything resolvolved around embedding the ideology. >> in 1994 after decades spent enslaving the north korean people kim il sung died. >> there was genuine grieving when kim il sung died the legend they looked at almost as a super natural being. >> the successor was trying to become god like. >> ki

. >> melanie warner is next. she reports on how food science has created inexpensive products that, according to the author, are devoid of nutritional value, addictive and of potential harm to one's health. mrs. warner examines the proclivity of processed foods and the commonly-used ingreed crepts which makes up approximately 70% of calories consumed in the united states. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much and thank you, everyone, for being here to talk about the subject of processed food. i do hope that everyone has had their dinners already. [laughter] i always find that it's a little bit easier to talk about this once people have already eaten. i don't want to be responsible for spoiling anyone's meal. um, so this book, i think the origins of this book go way back for me to when i was a kid growing up with my mom long before it was fashionable my mom was someone who paid close attention to ingredient labels. she would go to the grocery store, and my brother and i often came with her, and sh

. >> unless you were selling drugs in miami or dating melanie griffith, there was no way you were getting near one of these. >> the cell phone went through an awkward phase in the early '90s when dads realized they could clip phones to a belt loop outside their pants. >> no one had ever done it before. when fathers started clipping their phones to their belts and tucking their polo shirts in, it changed the game. >> and the game continued to change with the advent of the flip phone, which made everyone feel super cool like they were in the majors. with this revolutionary thin design, it became easier than ever to take selfies in the bathroom mirror and easier than ever to drop in the toilet. >> the one draw back to cell phones was that you still had to use them to talk to people. the smart phone fixed all that. >> yes, with the smart phone, man was finally able to shut himself off from the outside world. even pretending to be busy on the phone at parties so no one would think he was a loser. it didn't always work. but the cell phone has connected us like never before. it has changed the w

>> melanie reporting live for us. thank you. >> returning now to the boston bombings the extent of the carnage it's difficult to imagine. stories of little children killed and hurt. >> also a tale of two brotherstr in their 30s there to cheer on friends running in the race. both losing their legs in the explosion. all this against the back drop of a investigation. jennifer davis joins us live with the latest k. we start with the investigation, what is the latest we know with this person interest of? >> well, officials say they are pursuing a number of leads but people seem to be focusing the most attention on the person of interest identified as a saudi national. 20 or 21 years old at one of o local hospitals. someone said they saw himsaid running away from the blast scene. he was tackled by a civilian and police then took him into custody and have -- sorry they took him to the hospital and they have been talking to him. he is not officially in custodyc nor is he a suspect. we know that officials have also executed a

>> jimmy: melanie griffith. >> she had the -- >> jimmy: joan cusack. >> -- mind for business and a bodg. >> jimmy: was that the slogan? pal, welcome back here. i love having you on the show. we don't get to see you enough because you don't live in new york. you live in l.a. >> that's right. >> jimmy: well, welcome to the city. welcome to our show. thank you for coming back. do you like walking around in new york city? do you enjoy? - >> my favorite -- probably my number one favorite thing to do is walking in -- >> jimmy: yeah. people watching? >> i love people watching, but i love like power walking. i don't know how to do it in place. but like i get such a stride going, and i go so fast. and i was walking down, like, 5th avenue. you know, one of those big wide streets? and i had such a pace going, and there was a guy walking like the exact same pace as me. and i'm thinking, "get a hair cut, hippie." >> jimmy: okay, all right. yeah, yeah. >> i didn't say it, but i thought it. but even i thought it, ironically. i mean, come on, we have friends with long hair. but i also feel like his ha

as mother, melanie, latches onto the side of the moving vehicle, aaron jumps inside. >> i was kickingtelling him that my baby's in the car and he's stealing my car, get out of my car. >> reporter: the carjacker runs off. baby and parents are fine. and check out this incredible video from tampa, florida. that git in the passenger side is not the suspect. he is the intended victim. >> i kicked him in the head. >> reporter: he happens to be a martial arts expert and puts a hurt on the attacker. >> you have to be reasonable about that. you could get yourself killed by trying something. >> reporter: unlike most carjacking victims, danny, the young man in the mercedes suv, is not just saving himself or his loved ones. his actions had much wider consequences. police now say they believe the brothers were planning to held to new york city to set off more bombi ins in times square. this guy is a bit of an unsung here rope at this point. >> yes, i think he hasn't really come forward. he hasn't gotten the recognition, but he's certainly played a big role. >>> next -- how do you move forward when

expwhrncht nxt -- >>> next week melanie philips will take your call, e-mail, facebook comments, and tweet. in-depth tree hours live next sunday at noon eastern. here on booktv. >>> at the annual conservative political action conference in washington, d.c. we are with david. hi. >> how are you? >> he's the editor for human events for the denver post. the poor horse you talk about four issues going to the second term. can you describe it for us? >> there's dependency not just about welfare and food stamps and things like that. but a general fundamental change in the way that people react to each other in government. we have debt which is self-explanatory. i think the problem is worse than people imagine. there is surrender which is porn follows chapter. it's more of reflection how people view our place in the world. and about abortion. it's being published in march. how long did you have to put the book together. are you thinking of the second term or what was the time line for the tight? >> well, i didn't think mitt romney would win. i wrote that. and but i hold it together rather quickly.

ever since his widow has dedicated herself to -- melanie bloom is a spokesperson for the coalition tont deep vein thrombosis, which is funded by sanofi. thank you for everything you are doing. tell us about the progress and also about the threat. what is dvt, how prevalent is it? >> it's great to be back, andrea. i can't believe it's been ten years. what i've been raising awareness about is what, david was only 39 years old, covering a war. a blood clot formed in his leg, traveled to his lungs. the statistics you mentioned, one of 300,000 americans that year who died from the condition that i had never heard of. so it's deep vein thrombosis or a blood clot, and p.e. is pulmonary embolism when that same clot hits the lungs. >> this can happen to anybody, you can be on a long airline flight, sitting at a desk not getting up enough. a predisposition, what are some of the things that people should know, men and women. >> yes, you're absolutely right. it doesn't have to be a war zone. in fact 300,000 deaths happen each year. it can be brought about by lifestyle, being over 40, overweight,

. >> next weekend, author, columnist and winner of the prize for journalism, melanie phillips will take your calls, e-mails, facebook comments in tweets. three hours live next sunday at noon eastern here on booktv. >> booktv continues with ann kirschner. she recounts the life of josephine marcus earp, the common law wife and partner of over 50 years the law man wyatt earp. this is about one hour.

. >> next weekend, author, columnist and winner of the prize for journalism, melanie phillips will take your calls, e-mails, facebook comments in tweets. three hours live next sunday at noon eastern here on booktv. >> booktv continues with ann kirschner. she recounts the life of josephine marcus earp, the common law wife and partner of over 50 years the law man wyatt earp. this is about one hour. >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be here. this is a story that has deep roots all across the united states, but has a special meeting for cle. so it's fun for me to be here, in fact that both of my books have seattle, seattle exhibits this week is particularly fun. so what i would like to do is just introduced the book by reading the first couple of pages from the prologue in which i landed on planet earth. did you know that wyatt earp was buried in a jewish cemetery? just hearing his name through back to my childhood in the city sprawled on the floor in front of a black and white television watching westerns with my big brother, joey, dressed up in his special shirt with braided trim and snazz

caught by a nearby surveillance camera, 20-year-old melanie andrews, seen here in the red car, is waiting parking space in a very crowded shopping area. on the opposite side of the street, julie brown also waits patiently in her white toyota. as the blue volkswagen pulls away, both women make their move. brown prevails, but andrews is not leaving without a fight. she can be seen pulling her car up to brown's white toyota and revving her engine in an attempt to push brown's car out of the parking space. from inside their vehicle, brown and her son watch in amazement as smoke billows from the spinning tires. when the toyota doesn't budge, andrews throws it in reverse. >> as she was repositioning, i thought that she was going, so we got out of the car to get a ticket. that's when she managed to actually move the car completely out of the space. >> brown's 12-year-old son tries to push his mother's white toyota back into the parking space, but in a match between man and machine, he quickly throws in the towel. an eyewitness describes the scene. >> you could smell burned rubber for ages afterw

. >> next weekend, author, columnist and winner of the prize for journalism, melanie phillips will take your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets a in depth, three hours live next sunday at noon eastern here on booktv. >> you've been watching booktv, 48 hours about programming beginning saturday morning at eight eastern through monday morning at eight eastern. .. >> host: the name of the book, "secrets of silicon valley," the author, deborah perry piscione. you write that silicon valley is its own unique ecosystem. what do you mean by thatsome. >> guest: well, you know, it's a very distinctive culture that is based on collaboration, cooperation and

house correspondent, sam stein, former director of the domestic policy council under president obama, melanie barnes and "washington post" columnist and msnbc political analyst, ezra klein and ayman mohyeldin, msnbc correspondent. i want to go to you, ayman, the president, they keep doubling down on the terms, credible and corroborative. needing more evidence as to whether assad is using chemical weapons. how much do you think the international community and specifically syrians are taking stock in this notion that the white house is moving perhaps towards action of some kind in syria? >> well you know, i've been speaking to people overseas. and trying to gauge their reaction from the syrian opposition leaders, the syrian coalition, they put out a statement yesterday, in which they said that time has come for u.s. action. that the evidence is so overwhelming, not only from an anecdotal level, but also from the u.s. intelligence assessments and some of its closest allies, that there is no more excuse for inaction and the blood of the syrian people is now really weighing in on the countries tha

. >> next weekend, author, columnist, and winner of the orwell prize for journalism, melanie phillips, will take your calls, e-mails, facebook comments, and tweets. three hours live next sunday at noon eastern here on c-span. >> kristan hawkins, executive director of the group students for life of america presents a collection of essays that focus on students' efforts to stop abortion. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. i am michele easton, president of the clare boothe luce policy institute, an organization aimed at the very pro-life. welcome to those of you here in washington d.c. and those in the c-span audience all over america and the world. welcome to the march conservative women's network luncheon. thank you for being with us today and a special thanks to our partner, the heritage foundation and bridget wagner here for coasting the conservative woman's network with us every month. now, i am so pleased to introduce today speaker, kristan hawkins, t

." >> dear melanie, you were too young to die in that car accident.much ahead of you. >> reporter: the letters came from all over the world. >> i'm so sorry that i cried when you told me you were pregnant. i'm so sorry i said that you ruined your wedding. >> reporter: they're from mothers who regret fighting with their daughters. >> i felt so bad that i too had laughed and made fun of our acts along with a lot of other kids. >> reporter: or from bullies who now regret their bullying. >> i know i'm a better person today from lesson i learned but still wish i had done better when i was 17 years old. >> reporter: there are even a few from children. one bidding farewell to a pet fish. >> dear goldy, i miss you so much that my mom had to buy me a bird and a dog. >> reporter: all intimate, all important, but for one reason or another were things never said outloud. so do you think the process of having people put these regrets down on paper is sort of a form of closure in a way? >> i do. there is this feeling of having that final conversation. people even s

. >> so we have melanie and melissa, wring scarfs that are e wrong colors but when they swap you see. when she swaps with marino, she was washed out in the ivory and when she puts the white on,t pops and the red hair really works and warms up with the soft ivory. the small diffences make a big difference. because this book is aut the power of attraction and getting people to you. and pat i m last example. who is wearing a gorgeous color that i ve. but you c break the rules, you can wear any color, it's about the shade of the color. this is a little bold, so it's kind of competing wither hair. like most women we spray tan or dye our hair. but a softer salmon really kind of softens her up and so that's the kind of stuff i wanted to put in the second part of the book >> the other thing i like about the book is it tells you your body type and what you should . ifou're short-waisted, do wear a long thi or short thing. it kd of gives you abcs. >> i wanted toape what w in my head wn i would walk into a dressing room and i would see an x on people. i help you figure o what yr x facto is a th

. >> reporter: melanie griffith pops up in a punchy little cameo. >> i think it will make you feel better throw it against the wall and see if it stings and they say yes or no. >> reporter: among those who said yes jennifer hudson, sara highland and chelly handler, star of "twilight" directs the first part. for you, this is fairly personal given what you went through after the birth of your child. >> people don't really know how to respond. i mean, i experienced this myself. >> reporter: she's now recovered from postpartum depression and got two kids and a successful hollywood marriage. remember aniston recently got engaged and the wedding rumored to be just around the corner. and any marriage advice for jen? >> oh, my goodness. i don't think i'm in any position to give any advice to anybody about anything. >> reporter: safe answer, i say. wouldn't you? >> i got it. i'd say the exact same thing. >> reporter: brittany snow is the star of the show. powerful performances, a law student with schizophrenia. the hardest line for you to deliver when you were talking to your on-screen sister and

thank you, melanie pearson, for selling the curtain which now hangs in the breast wing. -- sewing theain which now hangs in the breast wing. [laughter] i wanted to know we made history in another way. bill o'reilly, take note. this is the first time ever that someone at fox has helped to implement obamacare. that brings me to the third and final point. we stand up for the next generation of journalists. headlinedime conan this dinner, he gave out scholarships for needy journalism students. in recent years, my predecessors have done an amazing job. i have given out more than a dozen scholarships. i cannot thank you enough, mrs. obama, for being here every year to help us give out those scholarships. she will do that again in a minute. i thought it would be better for me to talk before she does that so you knew what she was doing and how helpful it is to us. [applause] since lester's dinner, we set out to do even more more, and in part to the time of michael scheier who has run our scholarship committee. [applause] we held an event with discovery channel about watergate and how it chang