in 2005, the son of state representative rhonda fields had a tragic encounter and was gunned down inny, that kind of reshaped their thoughts about the safety of aurora. representative fields and her daughter join me now from aurora. good to see both of you. representative, i know you and i spoke yesterday. we wanted to have you back because this is such a significant day and you are joined by your daughter maisha, as well. representative, tell me what this will mean, that the president will be arriving with a message of his own to the people there of aurora. >> i am so pleased that the president is going to be here to talk to the victims and to be here in our state because this is a tragedy, this is an attack on our fabric of humanity and we need to hear from him, we need to know that he's here, that he's in touch with the pain that we're all experiencing right now. this is really a very tragic thing in our city. >> it's a very difficult thing that many folks will have to try to grapple with. how do you move on when you have lost a loved one. you know this firsthand. very unrelated t

among those attending, state representative for aurora rhonda seals.re hearing president obama may also be in attendance or at least considering being in attendance in some capacity in aurora, colorado. representative, good to see you. you know, first, i understand this shooting at the movie theater took place just about three miles away from your home in the district in which you represent. how have people come together and how are people coping overall in your community? >> you know, i think that overall the community is very, very shaken. i think we're in shock. i think we're still trying to get our arms around how such a tragedy happened to us. >> tomorrow there will be a vigil. there have been some other gatherings that have taken place since that shooting early morning yesterday. what will be significant about the kind of vigil that's being planned for sunday? >> right. i think it was similar to the kind of vigil that we had yesterday. basically it's just an opportunity for people to kind of come together as a community to kind of deal with the t

we will no longer sit down with rhonda, glen and ms. fran lose their homes to the banks we will no longer sit by as the united states of america continues to have politicians in the u.s. house of representatives that's proposing cutting 300,000 children from free school lunch programs. we will no longer sit by and watch as family members are deported. we are the new and unsettling force that doctor martin luther king spoke of. and the daughter and the woman and the doctor that will help lead this new and unsettling force to create another country and another world that values the human rights of all human beings. it is my distinct honor to introduce my running mate and green party nominee for president of the united states of america, dr. jill stein. [cheers and applause] [crowd chants "jill"] >> love you back, all of you! it has been such an honor and an inspiration to get to know all of you or at least nearly all of you over this past year. and together we are unstoppable. [applause] i am so very honored to be your nominee and to be r

. >> rhonda plans to have a website up and running tomorrow to help coach pete and her dad out. >> great time with the teams of the 80s and '90s. >> they are fake. many are falling for this trick, a trick that has police and companies trying to put an end to this robbery. how many of you slid open a watermelon today? >> we have a darkening sky overhead right now. take a look at the camera. around us a lot of thunderstorms. we'll track each and every cell on abc2news at 6:30. >>> you know we all look for great deals and many teams that means using coupons. a giant counterfeit coupon ring has been busted in arizona. three women are facing charges, a first of its kind, a multimillion dollars scam, the largest case ever. >>> when police in arizona raised this house, they hit the jackpot. they found a camaro and cadillac, a huge speed boat, they found more. the alleged source of these riches, this paper. counterfeit shopping coupons worth 25 to $30 million. >> this is the largest counterfeit coupon arrest that has occurred in the industry. >> police say this ring of counterfeit earnings in ar

rhonda lancaster has had her home taken from her by fannie mae.re able to stop the foreclosure. >> what other issues are you would take on as the vice- presidential candidate travelling across this country? >> i think the issues i will focus on are the section of the population that is been forgotten about. neither obama or mitt romney have raised any of these issues. when you talk about poverty, they have not talked about the mortgage foreclosure crisis or the school to prison pipeline or the disabled. in philadelphia, there was 125 disabled individuals that lost their jobs. this is at a time when people are losing their jobs all across the entire country. there is a high chance they will never see employment ever again. that is, until jail and nine are elected, and we take the unemployment centers and turn them into employment centers. >> the co-host of "the young turks" talk show interviewed roseanne barr and asked her why she's making a bid to the presidential nominee. >> the green tea party because i spoke about a consensus between capital an

with me now, one of the organizers, colorado state representative rhonda fields. thank you. >> before we get to the vigil, i think your back story is important. that your son and his fiancee. >> correct. >> shot and killed. on the way to court. they were going to testify in a gang trial. and so you understand what a lot of these people are going through. i have to ask you, when you heard about the shooting what went through your mind? >> and this is all too -- it's so urgently, so rapidly to have somebody be snatched from you. >> i know it's so important to you that you are able to help with the healing process. tell us about what's going to happen later here? >> yeah, today, what we want to do is bring the community together as a way to heal. and so there is going to be prayer, some songs, there is going to be some speeches. my understanding governor hicken loop will speak, and the mayor, and some rabbis. and i have been asked to pray for the city as well. >> as someone who knows what it's to go through such a sudden and horrible tragedy, what can something like

colorado's state representative rhonda fields.nk you so much for coming back. >> thank you for having me. >> i think it is important to put in context you lost a son and his if i yeah santo gun violence and i can only imagine what happened when you found out what happened here in the theater. >> my heart just broke all over again, especially for the mothers. it is a terrible thing to have to bury your child. look at today. we have the folks from around the community to support those who have been lost or those still in the hospital. >> you are someone who's been through this, and it has to be emotional in many ways for you to help organize this. what do you hope to accomplish? >> i hope this starts with the healing process because that's what's going to have to happen at some point. we have to heal and we have to restore the community, we have to rebuild our community. we're going to have to help each other. and i don't think we really truly understand how great our loss is yet. >> if a mother would come up to you who had lost a c

rhonda simmons, our director of work-force development, is also here with us. i did see a trend more -- see trent moore, phil ginsperbg, the direct picture of reparations and parks -- the director of rec and park. i do not see tony whitaker. jason eliot is in the back, from the mayor's office. the education and family services member is here. naomi kelly, our city administrator, is also with us. who did i miss? i know i missed somebody. >> donald leavitt. >> thank you so much. we also have someone from the department of youth and families. we have the director of neighborhood services in the back. [laughter] [applause] what we would like to do -- the mayor is going to make opening comments. we are literally going to have a conversation about what is happening nationally and locally. we want to hear from our interns. we're going to prioritize that, if you do not mind. >> i want to first of all think eric mcdonald. he is a mover, a shaker, but obviously the great partner locally, on behalf of the united way. a pro-youth enthusiast for san francisco. thank you for

i am going to ask from the to top a moment about 0 -- ask rhonda to talk a moment about tech sf. >> we have a dollars million in grants from the workforce innovation fund. our initiative is a continuation of what we started with our sector, and technology was and national -- a natural extension of what we of been doing. this is just the natural extension to continue to train folks. we have a lot of students we hope will go through and get a job once they are done, to receive an internship or some other type of employment opportunity. that is why we want to thank you and all the companies that will partner with us. the mayor has been engaged in just about every company, as part of what we are calling tech sf advisory committee. we have a number of community- based organizations that also a partner with us. >> i am pleased that you underscored the things the department of labour does. most folks do not fully understand that we have made, through the leadership of the administration and the president, some investments in reforming our program. this is unlike anything we have seen in the p

number eight, the grapes of rhonda >> there you go, moving right along, wells fargo has reached an expensiveent over allegations it discriminated against qualified black and hispanic borrowers. the justice department says the san francisco-based bank has agreed to pay $175 million, most of the money will go to the borrowers who were steered to subprimal loans. the rest of the money will go towards home buyers assisted program of. >> yahoo! says contributor network service. yahoo! says only 5 percent of the accounts still had a valid passwords. we have a link to figure out if your account was hacked into. an embarrassing thing for a social media start up, did was bought for $500,000. and while back google reportedly considered offering $200 million for the firm. they get and the founder is credited with helping on-line news and content though viral while twittered gains more followers >> triple digits two or three days in a row and finally a little bit of a break. >> i don't know if i'm happy about that, i like the heat. >> temperatures will be coming down just a bit. the monsoon is kicking i

. >> reporter: it's hard for rhonda davis to believe an afternoon walk with her 5-year-old daughter to get ice cream on a hot summer day ended like this. crime scene tape and shell casings on the road. it was a drive-by shooting at 2:40 this afternoon at the corner of 50m and bancroft in east oakland. people in the neighborhood say they heard rapid gunfire and a car speeding away. police believe that the intended target was walking just ahead of the little girl who was shot in the neck. the shooting happened right in front of fire station 18. in an instance firefighters went from witnesses to rescuers. >> almost hard to put words to it. it's horrible. beautiful little girl who was out enjoying the nice weather on a walk and innocently was hit and it's very sad to see. that is why we rush and work as hard as we can get get her to the hospital and get her fixed. >> reporter: she is listed in serious, but guarded condition tonight. >> you are hurting innocent babies. you guys are hurting babies. come on now, where is all the love at for our babys? this is our future. >> reporter: now poli

. >> rhonda davis says she was walking with her daughter and friend's little girl right in front of firetation 18. her daughter was playing at the doorbell when they heard a shooting. >> we heard pow, pow, pow. we would look back and we saw blood. >> the firefighters heard the gunshots and quickly went outside to see what was happening. >> we brought her in. >> firefighters quickly worked on the five-year-old girl, stabilized her and rushed her to children's hospital where her mother says she maintains in intensive care unit. >> the bullet went inside her neck and it's lodged between the skin and the bone. they are trying to see, do the bullet need to be removed or leave the bullet there. >> right now, they don't have a lot of information to work with. it's described only as a late model lexus with no hubcaps. she is angry. she anybody saw what happened to call the police. >> if you are real person, somebody seen that car. you know what you did. step up to the plate. turn yourself in. my daughter is not sleeping tonight. >> that was sergio quintana. >> in san francisco police are searchi

. >> rhonda davis says she was walking with her daughter and friend's little girl right in front of firetion 18. her daughter was playing at the doorbell when they heard a shooting. >> we heard pow, p, pow. we would look back and we saw blood. >> the firefighters heard the gunshots and quickly went outside to see what was happening. >> we brought her in. >> firefighters quickly worked on the five-year-old girl, stabilized her and rushed her to children's hospital where her mother says she maintains in intensive care unit. >> the bullet went inside her neck and it's lodged between the skin and the bone. they are trying to see, do the bullet need to be removed or leave the bullet there. >> right now, they don't have a lot of workrmation to work with. it's described only as a late model lexus with no hubcaps. she is angry. she anybody saw what happened to call the police. >> if you are real person, somebody seen that car. you know what you did. step up to the plate. turn yourself in. my daughter is not sleeping tonight. >> that was sergio quintana. >> in san francisco police are searching f

. >> representative rhonda fields. >> good evening, aurora. first giving honor to god who is the source of my life, the governor of this great state to the mayor of this great city and to all of the elected officials behind me that i serve with that the victims and the survivors and all who are here today i want you to know that we are aurora and we are strong. thank you for being here this evening. i have been asked to pray for our city, so please, bow your heads in prayer. observation migh -- oh mighty god you are the creator of the heaven and earth. oh god we thank you for your loving kindness, your grace and your mercy. we thank you, lord, for being here with us today. for stopping the rain and sending up your spirit as a source of hope and inspiration that we will make it past today. god, we are calling out to you today with tears in our eyes and sorrow in our hearts. we come before you with grief, pain and sorrow. god, please stretch out your hands toward us, fill us with your spirit of love and please knit our hearts together. we are th

. >> exciting and nerve-racking for his mom rhonda. >> when he touched the wall first, i came unglueded. i mean i was in tears, i was crying. the lady behind me went and got me a margarita to calm me down. >> reporter: but this moment almost didn't happen. >> he didn't know what he wanted to do, so he was just treading water so to speak. he was selling cars. >> but scott wasn't meant to sell cars, he was meant to swim. >> he said it's what i know best. >> at uc davis, scott was breaking records and winning medal after medal. the school is not known for its swimming program. >> he had a good coach and that's probably the best thing that going to uc davis did for him. >> reporter: he also had a good coach at bellerman with larry rogers who remembers scott as dedicated and disciplined. but not like another bellerman alum. pablo morales. >> you knew he was going to be good, and he was going to get everything out of his body he could get, but betting on an olympian, no. >> after the olympic trials, there's no telling what scott can do at the olympic games. >> scott's story is still unwritten

. >> prayer for the city of aurora, representative rhonda fields. >> good evening, aurora! first giving honor to god who is the source of my life, to the governor of this great state, to the mayor of this great city, and to all of the elected officials behind me that i serve with, to the victims and the survivors and all who are here today, i want you to know that we are aurora and we are strong! thank you for being here this evening. and i've been asked to pray for our city so please bow your head in prayer. almighty god, you are the creator of the heavens and the earth. oh, god, we thank you for your loving kindness, your grace and your mercy. we thank you, lord, for being here with us today, for stopping the rain and sending rain and s spirit as a source of hope and inspiration that we will make it past today. god, we are calling out to you today with tears in our eyes and sorrow in our hearts. we come for you -- before you with grief, pain, and sorrow. god, please stretch out your hands towards us, fill us with your spirit of love. and please knit our hearts together. w

. >> to rhonda, serving four years for burglary is just one month away from giving birth. >> torhondacy? torhonda mincy? are you doing okay today? >> yes, ma'am. >> pregnant inmates receive ultrasounds and other prenatal services from the staff obstetrician at the prison infirmary. >> i go to the doctor every friday. he does the test. i get to hear the baby's heartbeat. i've already had one ultrasound since i've been here and i've already been here for six weeks. >> i'll see you in about a week. everything's going fine. >> mincy will soon face a tough decision, deciding who will raise her baby. she says the baby's father is currently a fugitive. so like many other pregnant inmates, she must choose between adoption or finding another state-approved relative or friend to raise the baby. a prison chapel program also finds families to raise some of the babies until their mothers leave prison. >> have you thought about what you're going to do? have you talked to the chaplain? >> yeah, i'm thinking about letting maybe the church keep the baby. that way, i can see him and bond with him, beca

. >> rhonda said she was walking with her daughter and her friend's little girl in front of fire station8. her daughter was playing with the station's doorbell when the gunman started shooting. >> that's all we heard was pow, pow, and she started walking slow and looked back and gush out with blood. >> the firefighters heard the gunshots and quickly went outside to see what was happening. >> we grabbed them and open the doors and brought her in. innocent bystander shooting. >> firefighters quickly worked on the five-year-old girl, stabilized her and rushed her here to children's hospital where her mother tells me she remains in the intensive care unit >> the the bullet went inside hr net and in the back of her bone. it's lodged inside the is skin and the bone. they are trying to see does the bullet need to be removed or should they leave the bullet there. >> police don't have much information to work with about the shooter and the suspect car. it's described only as a late model lexus with no hub caps. davis is angry. she wants anyone who saw what happened to call the police. >> somebody

. >>> joining me from aurora is colorado state representative rhonda fields who lives minutes from the theater, the scene of theed shooing. representative, nice to talk to you this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> obviously, this is a terrible tragedy, a terrible blow to the community. how are people doing this morning? >> you know, i think people are just still in shock and awe. this is just something that no community could ever imagine. >> representative fields, i have to tell you as i've been watching and covering this, i have been incredibly impressed by police chief oates and his handling of the crisis. is he someone who was already a figure in the community? >> absolutely. the chief of police is always essential figure in every community. >> you have planned a vigil. tell me about that. >> you know, the city has planned a citywide prayer vigil on sunday. that's going to be at 6:30 in the municipal building. it is just an opportunity for the community to come together and to pray and to console each other and just to kind of heal. >> one of the things i've been surprised a

. >> rhonda said she was walking with her daughter and her friend's little girl in front of fire stationaughter was playing with the station's doorbell when the gunman started shooting. >> that's all we heard was pow, pow, pow, pow, and she started walking slow and looked back and gush out with blood. >> the firefighters heard the gunshots and quickly went outside to see what was happening. >> we grabbed them and open the doors and brought her in. innocent bystander shooting. >> firefighters quickly worked on the five-year-old girl, stabilized her and rushed her here to children's hospital where her mother tells me she remains in the intensive care unit >> the bullet went inside her neck and in the back of her bone. it's lodged inside the is skin and the bone. they are trying to see does the bullet need to be removed or should they leave the bullet there. >> police don't have much information to work with about the shooter and the suspect car. it's described only as a late model lexus with no hub caps. davis is angry. she wants anyone who saw what happened to call the police. >> somebody

. >> inmate rhonda nar duch i was hoping that the bakery would help turn her life around. >> when i firstame in here, i wanted to hurt myself. i was really depressed. i was going crazy. i said oh, my god, my records are messed up now. i don't know what to do. so i got myself into the bakery, keep myself busy. and i love the bakery. >> there wasn't a bakery before? >> no, i never worked outside. i've always been in the street hustling. i never had a regular job in my life. that's what i'm trying to tell you, i never had a regular job. >> she was serving eight months on a drug possession charge. >> i was working in the street and down west farms and some guy coached me. i thought it was a date because i work in the street. he gives me the money and asked me where can i get drugs and i send him to the drug dealer. he gave me the money and went to the drug dealer and gave him the stuff. one crack and before you know it, they got me and him. my first felony. >> she told our producer, she worked as a prostitute the past 14 years. >> i didn't like myself doing it. i wasn't too happy about it. i

. >> reporter: rhonda saunders has prosecuted stalkers. >> the internet makes it easier with youtube,tter. the stalkers believe that the celebrities are talking directly to them. they think that they have a relationship. and there's a lot more information out there about the victim. >> it's a catch 22. you have to put yourself out there, but this is not something i asked for. >> reporter: for "good morning america," nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> nick will have more on the story tonight on "nightline." >>> now let's go to sam. >> we had the tie hemp chur, the long line of storms that moved through, then a powerful line of storms over the week end. take a look at the damage. a live shot of fredericksburg, virginia. that could have been a tornado that lifted a metal roof off and tossed it. here's where the northern half of the country gets a break. the southern half doesn't. good news, bad news in this. a lot of drought in the southern half of the country. but that combined with the heat. it will be brutally ugly for awhile. it will feel like 92 and above in jackson. the entire de

the latest comes from the latest rhonda storms. floor of the senate. >> i really don't think that it's fair that if you're poor, your kid can't have a birthday cake, he can't have a cupcake with a candle on it, he can't have a candy cane for christmas. >> you can buy flour, eggs, sugar, milk, voila, you mix it all together, and, boom, you have, guess what, a cake. >> they would actually use the guidelines that are already in place for the wyc program. what do you think about the government restricting what you can or cannot purchase? >> i think it's a good idea. it should be good nutritious food. the problem is a lot of people don't know how to make these meals or they don't have the capabilities some of them even because they don't have the electric on, you know, to use a stove. so -- but i do believe that it would benefit people to be restricted on what they could buy and should buy. >> you don't think -- that's interesting. you say you don't feel like that that's big brother or that's restricting your freedom and your choice. >>

[applause] >> hi, i'm rhonda medicine crow. >> hi. >> i live in nevada and california on the californianrolled in nevada, and my children are enrolled with the three affiliated tribes in north dakota. >> right. >> so i think one of the things that the young lady talked about in the back is a lot of what the kids don't understand or you don't know about it or because our history's not taught in the traditional public school, and what i'm talking about is the historical trauma, the intergenerational trauma that your grandmothers and possibly your parents went through in the boarding school era, termination, assimilation, relocation, and whatnot, that's happened to the native american people, and what i see a lot on the communities on our reservations is that confusion and lack of understanding of what happened, why their parents maybe don't hug you or why, you know, as a child your parent was sitting outside the bar taking care of their younger siblings while their parents were in the bar drinking, and a lot of people don't understand what -- why those things are the way they are and why

she has little designs by sho-sho cool, designer rhonda allen.go there. excellent job. >> she has on a beautiful zebra print and leopard print dress from couture queen. >> can you do a twirl for us? >> there. ok. excellent. you have everything from regular everyday designs up to couture. >> yes, we do. we have samantha. she has on a lovely black and white dress from couture queen as well. >> very nice. >> and for our show, we have a featured designer and her name is crystal frasier. she was on project runway. actually the dress that i'm wearing is from crystal frasier as well. next up is cory, she's wearing a dress, beautiful black and blue dress from crystal frasier. >> very lovely. >> and next up is hikisha and she's also my partner because on fashion weekend, she has a beautiful new dress from crystal frasier. >> we'll have all the models line up once again. when we're done talking, we'll have you come up back on stage. you'll also have a guest speaker at this event as well. >> yes, right. on friday, we have our -- >> ok. so friday, we have ou

we cannot afford to have even one more rhonda thrown out of her home. going to put an end to that. that is why the green new deal guarantees health care for everyone as a human rights through medicare for all. this not only provides quality comprehensive care for everyone, it will restore your choice of provider of piggybacking control of your own health care decisions and said it you having them made for you by a profit sharing ceo. it will save trillions. it does not cost us trillions. it saves us trillions by streamlining the and wasteful health insurance bureaucracy and putting an end to run away medical inflation. as part of the green new deal we will forgive the crashing student debt burdens. we will liberate an entire generation of young people who have been turned into indentured servants. we will provide tuition free public education from pre- kindergarten through college. this is an investment and our future. it pays off enormously. we know that from the g i bill that provided $7 in increased economic benefits for every dollar that we invested

we are going to put an end to that -- we cannot afford to let one more rhonda thrown out of her home.is why the green new deal also guarantees health care for everyone and the human right through medicare for all. this not only provides quality, comprehensive care for everyone, but it will restore your choice of provider and put you back in control of your own health care decisions instead of having them made for you by a profiteering insurance co. ceo. and it will save trillions. it doesn't cost us trillion's but it saves us trillions over the next decade by streamlining the massive wasteful health insurance bureaucracy and putting an end to runaway medical inflation. as part of the green new deal we will forgive the crushing student debt burden. and we will liberate an entire generation of young people who have been turned into a indentured servants. and we will provide tuition- free public education from pre- kindergarten through college. this is an investment in our future and it pays off enormously. we know that from the g.i. bill after world war ii that provided $7 in increased