miss rhea, it is your claim that you made a loan to mr. hathaway to put a heating system in the house, and you claim it is a loan solely to mr. hathaway. you want him to pay you back that money since he has the house and he has the heating system. >> yes, ma'am. >> judge judy: mr. hathaway says that this was something that was done while they were a married couple, and at best, it became a debt of the marriage since they were both living there. so i have a few questions for your daughter. who found the heating system broken? >> i did. >> judge judy: when? >> it was in -- i don't know the exact date. it was in february of 2010. the furnace acted like it wanted to kick on and never would. he was on the road. he was a long-haul truck driver at the time. i called him to ask him what he wanted me to do because it's february, we were in, like, minus digits, and he said call and have a service guy come out. so i called home heating and air, had them come out. they told me that there was a couple of things that were broke on the -- oh, i'm sorry.

and rhea mitchell. >> and another former candidate is set to weigh in on the campaign season and much more. sarah palin appears exclusively tomorrow morning on "today" on this nbc station. >>> over seas, a big win for dpmentacy in mien mar. au aung san suu kyi, once emprisons for the regime, taking her victory lap from throngs of supporters, after what is said to be a landslip for her party, winning all of the seats up for grabs in the parliamentary elections. >> back in the country, what has been a dangerous and destructive tornado season has spawned this. the national worth service has been studying last year's extreme tornadoes and is now testing a new warning system in the midwest's tornado alley. our report from nbc's john yang. >> sometimes there's little warning, but in the annual struggle with nature that is tornado season, the national weather service hopes blunt words of warning will get people to take cover before something like this is right on top of them. starting today, they're testing the new system in parts of kansas, missouri, and illinois. >> we want to make sure th

today, he used the one weekly phone call to make a desperate plea to our own anld rhea mitchell who is with us tonight from washington to share the details on this tonight. andrea, good evening. >> brian, i was certainly surprised. i did not solicit this at all. i asked gross good he had any message to send, and his message, get me the hell out of here. senator pat leahy visited him who was sentenced to 15 years for bringing communications equipment into cuba. cuba said in violation of their strict laws. today, he told me, quote, i did nothing legally or morally wrong. i have no guilty conscious. he's been pleaing for parole to visit his ailing 90-year-old mother. gross told me, quote, it's no longer about cuban/u.s. relations. it's about my family and me. he does get that one call a week, usually to his wife judy who sends him packages with the sunday "new york times," the economist, and his favorite snack, peanut m & ms. she didn't mind his call ime because she wants to get the word out about his plight. >> andrea mitchell who has asked cuban officials about this case after the surpr

rhea is live in the fox news weather center. this is looking really bad today. >> really bad. a high-risk issued. basically there's only a few times a year that that advisory is issued out. it's very important that everyone living in those areas, like oklahoma, nebraska, parts of kansas, stay weather alert. know what to do when a tornado warning is issued for your area. while there's a risk of tornadoes in the afternoon areas, we'll see tornadoes possibly during the overnight hours, when people are sleeping, when it's dark out. know what to do. have a tv on or a noaa radio so you get those alerts when tornado warnings get issued for your area where there could be potentially on the ground, so you have a plan even during the nighttime hours when you can't see a tornado. we did have a brand-new particularly dangerous situation, tornado watch, issued out for parts of eastern nebraska just now in effect until 7:00 p.m. central time. in these areas, conditions are favorable for thunderstorms to develop that could produce, not just tornadoes, but long-track and also very violent tor