for insight, we welcome back attorney kate kendall, the executive director of nclr, the national center for lesbian rights headquartered here in san francisco. welcome back, good to see you. >> great to be back. >> let's be clear. sometimes people get a title and it washes them over quickly. national, you mean with problems, legal problems and issues for the entire country here from-from-san francisco. >> that's right. we're based here. this is where we were founded in 1977, and we do work now all over the country representing the entire specto rum of the lesbian, gay, transsexual and gender community. >> let's start with the marriage issue. >> sure. >> it feels like a straight wound watching this back and forth and back and forth and it's different in this state. what is the status right now? >> it's really thinking. -- interesting. i think you're right. it's been back and forth and a bit of a seasaw. the truth is, we're only trending in one direction, and that is greater support for full inclusion and equality for same-sex couples in marriage and every other facet of civil life. >> uh

center. the national hurricane center has released its latest advisory on hurricane sandy and says the storms, quote, expected to bring life-threatening storm surges. this is very serious, folks. let's take a live look at the radar and the secretary of defense, leon panetta, has dreked any and all government support, from fema, including rescue helicopters, if needed. we will have regular updates throughout the rest of the hour. >> jamie: when you sit down for dinner and the phone starts ringing and it may be a debt collector. sometimes they even call you at work. if you are having financial trouble, you should 99 know, there is a way to get rid of offensive and sometimes illegal ways to try to get the money that you owe. starting next year in january, the government will be able to oversee business practices as -- of the major collection agencies. i want you to know your rights, so you can take charge. patrick morris is the ceo of the american collectors association, it's great to see you. collectors are not always a bad term or bad people, they are doing their job. what can they do? whenur

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it seemed like too much hair. >> narrator: the picture was on the web site of the national center foryears. nejdra called the center's hotline and spoke to jordan wood. >> she had strong suspicions. >> i'm explaining to her my whole story. >> there were problems with her birth certificate and her other documents. so that was her main concern and her main reason for feeling that she was possibly abducted as an infant. she just said, "i feel that my parents are still out there looking for me, not knowing that i'm going by another name and another social security number." >> narrator: nejdra did not tell jordan that she had seen the picture of carlina white. >> i don't know exactly if that was me in that picture. i just called to see if someone could match it up and just let me know. >> i could definitely hear a lot of frustration in her voice. she had gone to other agencies before she came to us, and she hadn't gotten anywhere. so, you know, out of frustration she said, "i don't know who i am." >> narrator: jordan took nejdra's information and a complete physical description, and passed

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this is the official national center track. do not look at the center line. this is the range of possibilities. right now, the southern part to me at least looks more likely. we will see. at the center of the storm, the barometer is at 27 plus some. we could well go below and set a the lowest barometric pressure reading. this is moving in. so are the heavy rains, which would change to heavy snow in the mountains. showers continue into our region. moderate them a heavy rain, gradually tapering off to more scattered showers tomorrow. this time, coming out of the south tomorrow afternoon. the tides in the bay are going to be slowed to recede. they will be higher than normal tomorrow because of that wind. this is going into hallion and even into thursday. but for the trick-or-treaters, hang in there. like the reign will end early in the morning and then it will be cloudy, breezy, and chilly. tonight then, temperatures in the 40's, some periods of rain, and then tomorrow, temperatures steady or even falling. it will slowly diminish into the afternoon, gusting at o

we'll spooem speak to him from the national hurricane center.cific you want to know? >> yes, this storm picked up pace. it went from northwest at 15 to now north or west-northwest at 28. how did that change the 5:00 forecast? >> good question. stand by, both of you. james franklin will be joining us momentarily. ashleigh banfield is joining us right now from lower manhattan. ashleigh, tell our viewers in the united states and around the world where you are right now and what it's like. >> reporter: i'm in the southern tip of manhattan and another gust is just coming up, wolf. i'm going to spin the camera around a bit. behind me, you can see new jersey. you can see the high-rises of manhattan here. this is one of the most famous sea level cities in the world. look where sea level is. it's here. if mayor bloomberg is accurate in his prediction that the worst of the surge could be 12 feet, you'd probably be looking at about here by 8:00 tonight, which is only about three hours. i want to tell you, this is also a very high city. it's full of high-ri

the national hurricane center deputy director joins us right now.ny is that we are going to be seeing a storm, that when it does make formal landfall, it won't be this information anymore? >> the official designation won't matter because of all the conditions and impact. we can see that on our satellite pictures, the big area means that we will have landfall, but high winds and the storm surge are expected, and it is getting very deep in some places. 12 feet in the new york area. high tide is not for a few more hours. it may rise five more feet there because of the high tide. it creates this odd once in a century type of development. what do guys like you worry about? what is the fallout in the way this thing progresses? >> what is unusual is not that these two weather systems came together. what is unusual is where it is occurring and how strong storm is once it is occurring. we don't see that occurring in this area. part of the mid-atlantic to the northeast. it is really unprecedented. often, we see it offshore. 80 miles per hour, 85 miles per hou

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this is the forecast from the national hurricane center. paralleling the coast over the next two days and then taking it sunday into monday towards the northern mid-atlantic and the northeast. let me get in a little closer on the cone of uncertainty. the cone goes from providence, new york city, delaware, maryland, virginia and all through the chesapeake area. again, don't focus on the center line, not yet. wait until we get over the weekend, a little closer to see where the direct landfall is going to be. computer models connecticut landfall and as far south as maryland, delaware and maybe even virginia landfall. the cluster in the middle would be somewhere here into the new jersey area. here's how one of our computer sees it. the center line where we're watching the center of the storm and begins to track towards the coast, a landfall in jersey. the bottom line with this storm, if you're north of the storm, damaging wave and storm surge in wind and the west side, lynn, that's where we see the heaviest wind and rainfall. >> unbelievable. a

that goes for all the meteorologists, including the national hurricane center.ds gusting upwards of 50 to 55 miles an hour. now we have a peak gust, we are seeing the worst of it now. it just starting. now gusting to 58 miles per hour out at the airport. and we're starting to see the higher gusts. current temperature is right now at 50 degrees. it's on the cold side. here's the storm making its way onshore. if it's not onshore right now, it is very, very close. you can see the banding continuing to come through. i want to show you this band right here. watch the last frame. right here. look at all this heavy rain. that's also where we're going to see some of the strongest winds. it's coming in through annapolis, prince george's county, dunkirk, waldorf, cam spring. get ready. this is where you'll see the winds increase by another 10 to 15 miles per hour. you'll see the rain come down very, very heavily. some of these areas along 95, you see this area of orange, those are the even stronger winds that the punch through that very heavy rain. current wind gusts, the

in the red line you see what the national hurricane center is forecasting as their track.se lines are tightly clustered until we get later into the period. this just updated a little bit ago. in fact, these are new. i can tell you what i'm seeing on-the-fly is a lot of these models have started to track sandy farther to the north. the red line, this may also update in a few minutes. it has it very close to the mouth of the delaware bay, but many of these other models have jumped it here with our late guidance and are taking it farther north. it still get into pennsylvania. it still does some wild bloops on some of these models, but this cone -- loops on some of these models, but this cone could still move. there could be a 150 to 200- mile jump in the track. even if that track does change, we will still have impacts here because it's a huge wind field. you'll see strong winds even as the storm does continue to make that very hard westward turn blocked by high pressure to the north. we will get drops force winds around here -- tropical storm force winds around here. wanted

center might not cross the coast till 1:00, 2:00 a.m. around here, though, look, tropical storm force winds. these are sustained winds as forecast from the national hurricane center getting out into western maryland and the mountains, most of virginia with the more damaging 58 mile an hour-plus winds getting in toward our eastern suburbs, northeastern, southeastern suburbs, northern neck, southern maryland, the eastern shore. they're probably going to see the worst of the winds as we go overnight. overnight tonight about 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, i think that will be the worst of the winds around here. still quite windy right through tuesday evening where the winds could still be gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour. then winding down some tuesday night into wednesday. it's chilly, especially in the mountains. garrett county 36 now. you guys have a blizzard warning. we're in the upper 40s. 54 in town with 55 annapolis. outside on our michael & son camera, just some light rain. still good visibility. winds north at 17 at the moment. but they are going to pick up of the rainfall is going to pick up, too. this is one computer's forecast projection

. >> reporter: the executive director for the national center of lesbian rights says she's not surprised. she says by law the boy scouts of america has the right to deny him due to his sexual orientation because it's a private institution. but -- >> it is wrong to say that someone who is honorable, who did everything that was required to be an eagle scout, that is withheld in him simply because of his sexual orientation. they're on the wrong side of history. >> reporter: and drason will turn 18 next week. his parents will appeal the decision. i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >>> new tonight at 11:00, a contra costa man has died of rabies, the result of a bat bite. it's the first rabies death in the county in 20 years. the 34-year-old man was bitten back in march but wasn't admitted to a hospital until july in dubai where he was working abroad. he died on july 31 while hospitalized in switzerland. officials are notifying dozens of people who may have had contact with him between march and july while he was in the infectious stage. rabies can be spread from person to person, and once th

i just want to show you, we were thinking that this had made landfall, and now the national hurricane center, national weather service is saying we're still waiting for landfall because it has made that transition. so, the center is not as evident as it typically would be. with a tropical storm -- landfalling tropical storm system. there is ocean city, again, can you kind of see that centered. that's why we thought the center had come on shore. because it made that transition within the last couple of hours, as a nontropical system that's why we are still waiting for the latest advisory telling us the exact landfall location and, shep, i just want to give you a location of some of the latest wind gusts that we are seeing. the latest at kings port, new york, west end of high tide in two hours. back to you. >> shepard: janice dean, thanks very much. live in the weather center. back to her with breaking news. this is from point pleasant, new jersey, which all day long has been taking a pounding and now the storm is so severe there that even our satellite truck can't get out. rick leventhal is l

these are live pictures from maryland as the national hurricane center warned of a life-threatening storm surges and hurricane winds. a magazine editors charged with breach of privacy in greece. and election results in the ukraine suggest they might not have an overall majority. welcome to bbc world news. china appears for a change of leadership. how will it affect ordinary people? we will hear from villagers living in the shadows of the great wall. and there's a new environment. the east coast of the united states is waking up to what could soon be a super storm. 140 kilometers per hour winds battering large areas as the hurricane grows in strength. sandy is expected to bring with it a life-threatening storm surge. these are live pictures from new york. the city waking up in darkness at the moment. in maryland, residents are bracing for the category one hurricane. this is live from maryland. 50 million people are affected on the east coast. schools and transport has been closed down. mandatory evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people caught in low-lying areas of new york city. the s

. >> we're expecting new numbers from the national hurricane center to come out later this morning at 8:00. but until then, we've been reaching out to aid agencies. everybody's poised and prepared for this expected landfall. it's already been a fatal storm. it just got worse. we heard from the puerto rico this morning, one more death added to the death toll, so 22 dead now as a result of tropical storm sandy. our cnn weather team estimated $3.2 billion, and that's not from flooding, that's just from wind damage. so who knows how much this will cost in the end. fatal storm. 61,000 personnel up and down the eastern seaboard ready for this landfall, victor and christi. >> everyone is watching the forecast and preparing, hopefully everybody's preparing. >> we'll bring the new numbers when we have them from the national hurricane center. >> thank you. >>> donald trump makes a big announcement. but it backfires. >> what was he thinking? >> yeah. >> jeanne moos has the fallout. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, t

the brand new track just in from the national hurricane center. winds, 75 miles an hour moving to the northeast, 13 miles an hour, deepening. as we move through the next day or two it's moving out and as we've been talking about and forecasting this over a week now, move back into the mid-atlantic states, and you notice we are tuesday at 3:00 right on top of us. the worst of this will most likely be monday night into early tuesday morning and we're going to be watching this one very closely and this is why. yes, a rain event, yes, coastal flooding problems but it's the wind. sunday into monday dealing with 25 to 40 mile-an-hour winds and look at the 60 mile-an-hour wind gusts coming onshore as the system comes onshore overnight monday night into early on tuesday morning. we could be in for a very long duration storm and a long period with winds over 40 miles per hour and gusts up to 60. more warning and watches have just been issued. i'll show them to you live in a couple of minutes. >> see you then. >>> and we are following breaking news right no

the executive director of the national center for lesbian rights says the boy scouts are not breaking the law, but -- >> it is wrong to say that someone who is honorable, who did everything that was required to be an eagle scout, that is withheld from him simply because of his sexual orientation. they're on the wrong side of history. >> anderson's mother started a petition on change.org hoping to get the organization to change its mind. there are more than 123,000 supporters who have already pledged support. >>> 4:40 right now. let's check back in with christina loren. getting us ready for a busy weekend with temperatures dropping. >> they are going to be dropping to very comfortable levels in many cities that had to beat the heat later on in the week. the heat has definitely taken a hike. it's actually moving to the east side of the nation so you'll hear everybody in new york talking about it on the "today" show later on this morning, but for us 50 degrees in santa rosa, 56 in stinson beach. take you down to the south bay where temperatures are very comfortable. 60 at sunnyvale, 57 r

let's bring in rick nab, head of the national hurricane center.ood to have you with us. >> good morning. martha: as you've been reporting it is gaining strength at this point. it is it doing anything you did not predict this time yesterday? >> generally speaking, no. we've been forecasting a category 1 hurricane to remain offshore and make this left-hand turn which it has been doing overnight and this morning. it is now getting to an area where waters will be colder, but gets the shot of energy to keep its intensity up. defight -- despite the fact it is making into a poestd tropical system it is not changing impacts and a large system. we'll have several life-threatening hazards and storm surge and heavy rains and flooding and high winds going inland. one of the problems in landfall that will exacerbate the whole issue is the slowdown in the forward speed we see after landfall. it will linger in this area for another day after landfall before it finally moves away. a several day event is about to unfold. martha: we saw so many trees come down in h

highly concerning as of the 11:00 updated track from the national hurricane center, just a slight shift to the north that would bring it into the delaware bear, southern part of the new jersey. it could spare maryland from the worst affects of the storm. >> we're going to keep a sharp eye on sandy and we'll have much more to break down the storm with two meteorologists in just minutes. >> thanks. >> sandy, oh sandy. you're celebrating the movie grease but we fear your name will leave a bad mark on baltimore. people are dealing with the storm that could last in our area for several days. cheryl connor joins us. those preps are under way and you have a big pile of sand. >> reporter: we do. people have been digging at this pile of sand all day. the city is giving it out for free and they want to help prepare for sandy. tonight we caught up with a family that is all-too familiar with losing power. you might get a w ideas on what to do before sandy comes in on sunday. >> yes. the boone family showed us around their home. this time they will not be caught off guard. >> we're fully expecting t

new update from the national hurricane center. there was zero good news spread by them. the storm has increased in intensity a little bit. now we're looking at possibly 80 to 90 mile per hour landfall. maybe the storm surge could be a little bit worse. this is not what anyone wanted to hear. the winds are now the up to 85 miles per hour. that's a healthy hurricane. for this time of year it's ridiculous. you don't get these this far north this time of year. it's moving to the north at 15. now only about 350 to 400 miles away from new york city. here's the new forecast path. they shifted it just a little bit south. it was up here in central jersey and now they lowered it a little bit towards wildwood. that's a better forecast for a few spots including philadelphia. it's one of those rare events where the winds will be very weak. you don't mind if this goes over the top of you in philadelphia. if you're to the north of this, atlantic city, long beach island, into the new york city area, all of long island, coastal connecticut and all of coastal rhode island, this angle of a

the red line being the national hurricane center track, but they still all take that turn. they still all have it meandering and kind of doing a loop de loop somewhere over pennsylvania. that is an interesting shift, cult, but a lot of those models -- subtle, but a lot of those models are a bit farther north than they were. quick look at the headlines, going downhill mainly sunday evening with the rain and wind picking up, peak effect monday and tuesday. we expect torrential rain on the order of several inches, damaging wind gusts strong enough that we should be preparing for the possibility of power outages that could last a number of days. we'll have much more in a few minutes. >>> currently maryland, virginia and the district all under a state of emergency. that means local and state governments can activate the national guard and provide extra assistance if needed. d.c. mayor vincent gray joined us on fox 5 news at 10:00 to tell us how the district is getting ready. >> we're also really working hard to get as many leaves off the ground as we possibly can because if thos

and with the help of the national center for exploited children. the department of justice and other law-enforcement agencies will be able to get the word out. >> the lt. saying that the men do not have a criminal history. they are encouraging anybody to call authorities. >> she was a field worker. and right now we are focusing our efforts on the southern ses/central valley along highway 99 and highway no. 5. there are some transient field workers mayor. petaluma, kron 4. >> the 15 year-old is heartbroken. the family saying that they cannot believe that she is missing. >> we are asking the public's help. ruby is a good daughter. and a student she is responsible and to want her to overcome our difficulties. we are acting to help bring her home safely. >> the mother and relatives stood in front of the police department where they spoke to the media. she is a freshman at the high school and telling that before she disappeared she had been communicating with text messages, facebook, twitter. they are not related >> we have some wet weather for the bay

now the national hurricane center did forecast this to become another tropical storm again. but now the latest model, the latest information is picking up this will be a category 1 working its away long the east coast. again keep our eyes peeled for this situation but no matter whether it's a tropical storm,

right, so our organization is the contractor to samhsa and cofunded by the children's bureau, the national center on substance abuse and child welfare. in that role, we have seen many things happen that the systems are working together in different ways to identify earlier so that families that may get a first report of neglect. most kids and most families that come to the attention of the child welfare system are there for reasons of neglect rather than abuse or sexual abuse. in fact, we've made great strides in the country in the last decade at reducing the numbers of kids with physical and sexual abuse, and yet we haven't really changed that number on how many kids are in the neglect category of those reports. typically, we see that there are several reports before child welfare steps in active services. there may be some investigations that go on. they are very adept now at being able to look at risk and safety factors for the child, to understand when that child is in imminent risk. what is "imminent risk"? so that our audience understands what we're talking about. child welfare, cps workers

the integration of that with walter reed army medical center to what's now known as the walter reed national medical center at bethesda. pretty challenging the cultures that exist there, you have cultures that exist here, you are speaking about cultural differences between the military and its hierarchy of command and control and the civilian command and control and figuring out the two greatest things you need in the chaos of disaster. no. 1, communications. no. 2, who's in charge. i dealt with a lot of cultural issues when i was combining the army and the navy medical forces between walter reed and bethesda. america's army is an amazingly heroic army. they have occupied valley forge , tokyo, berlin, danang and now it occupies bethesda, maryland, but we're working through that. how do we break those cultural barriers, how do we figure out supporting supporters, how do we do that before the next capacity goes on? so what have we done, what capabilities do we bring, where do we use them and how will they be playing a role here in the event of the most likely nightmare scenarios for this area?

this is the latest from the national hurricane center. this is a potential paths. it is 565 mi. of the southern tip of baja, california and is moving north by seven m.p.h. with sustained winds at 75 mph with puts it into a category one. however, some strengthening is expected but the national hurricane center is saying that it should weekend by tomorrow. by the tea it makes landfall it could be done credit to just a tropical storm or tropical depression by 11:00 p.m. that is the latest on hurricane paul. >> let us get our local weather with erica. >> it is a foggy start. nobody is an exception that the north bay, the peninsula. pretty much everybody is dealing with some fog this morning. it is a mild start with 50s and 60s. 59 degrees is the correct number in hayward with the 60s in mountain view. as we take a look at the visibility check it out in novado. just one half mile. with the visibility just mirrored napa, santa rosa. and certainly, near- map o napa showing that cloud ad high pressure is going to move in as we progress for this afternoon. wet weather will be stationary.

center clearly defined here. we're going to be watching this one very closely over the next couple of days. this is the latest track from the national hurricane center, the latest winds 90 miles an hour. that is down a little bit, moving north-northwest at 15 miles an hour. still a strong cat thegoer 1 storm and that's pretty much where this is going to be, probably a cat 1, maybe a cat 2 over the next few days. this may state a cat 1. doesn't matter the strength of the hurricane because once it moves our way it has the potential to become a superstorm. the latest track has now shifted farther to the south, more in line to our area, and i think we are going to see major impacts from this from the delmarva coast or toward delaware and maryland beaches right on in through the d.c. metro area. very high impacts and maybe even more than that. we're going to be talking much more about this coming up in my full forecast. right now, though, we go to jim cantore who's been in florida all day. >> reporter: good evening, from singer island florida where the storm center is about 200 miles away, but you can see the wind is blowing behind me. t

center, so, bonnie, good morning. with regard to sandy, where is it now? when will it really make landfall? >> this is just in. it's the 8:00 advisory from the national hurricane center. we have a brand new position statement on sandy. right now the storm center is about 395 miles east of morning city and southeast of cape hatteras by 260 miles. the storm is getting closer, and we are expecting according to the national hurricane center, life-threatening storm surge from the mid-atlantic coast, including the long island sound and new york harbor. it's fwegt more serious and ominous as the storm approaches. right now a category one hurricane. we're not expecting it to intensify to a category two. we are expecting hurricane force winds at the time of landfall. let's take a look at the track. it's slowed down a bit. landfall possibly early tuesday, but in advance of the storm because it's so wide certainly we'll be feeling those effects of wind and rain already right now as you saw from the report in north carolina, but in areas further north, you'll feel it later tonight and certainly for tomorrow. the storm track going inland. that's why it's supper a

yeah, you asked earlier about some of the things that the national center is doing and we're happy that there is this kind of approach, that is relatively new, just starting in 1996, but it really takes the child protective service system and the family court and the substance abuse treatment providers and addresses the whole family. so, just as fran was saying, the importance of collaboration. what does that actually mean when you're working with a particular family and importantly what does that mean for all of the families. so it uses some key concepts about making sure that we can identify families with substance abuse and mental health problems as they're entering the child protective service system quicker, getting them access to services quicker. making sure that each of the family members has a support system, has a treatment plan when needed. uses the court, the family court to more carefully monitor what is going on in the treatment plan, particularly around the parent and their substance use disorder and the child and how the child's permanency and the relationships that they

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the national hurricane center at that point will stop issuing advisories. the national weather service will take over issuing some of that. we will be here throughout the morning to keep you updated on the storm. even though it is expected to no longer be tropical or a hurricane technically the effect will be widespread. here is the cone of uncertainty. you can see how wide that cone is. and bit. it is not a worst-case scenario for us, but it may be four places like new york city. >> thanks so much. >> we talk about all the closings out there. schools and government offices across the d.c. region are closed today. >> if you have to take mass transit, you have to find another way to get in. amtrak canceled its northeast corridor service. other local mass transit systems are planning to shut down today. >> all three d.c. area airports will stay open. they have already cancelled hundreds of flights out of dull es bwi and national airport. be sure to call ahead if you have a flight. she continues our team coverage. we are talking about traces of rain already. >>

the national hurricane center says sandy is a post tropical cyclone. it's losing strength and continues to batter the eastern seaboard with winds exceeding 85 miles per hour and unprecedented surges. forecasters tell us sandy is merging with arctic cold and a winter storm from the west making it a vast, dangerous high bridge storm, you're looking at pictures of the devastation across a huge section of the east coast including flooding in downtown manhattan, and the gambling mecca of atlantic city n west virginia severe blizzard conditions. five million people without power. >> this monster storm bringing virtually all transportation did do a stand still no. one going anywhere. the transit situation at the local areas where we find molly in washington what is going on there? >> over the course of yesterday, today, tomorrow, nearly 14,000 flights will have been cancelled because of sandy. this is we're talking flights in and out of the northeast corridor of the u.s. usually one of the busiest sections of the country whit comes to daily air travel. that i