(laughs) >> reporter: tom says rita continued to be cranky, even when he wasn't late.rivers would have probably barked right back, but not tom. tom just wondered about her. >> i would like to understand why. for everything that goes on, i wonder why. >> reporter: he wondered if her attitude had anything to do with where he was taking her all the time, a medical office with a door that red kidney dialysis. >> so i went to the library and started learning more, then i started understanding why she was that way. >> i'm always crab biwhen i have to go to dialysis. >> well, i can understand why. >> reporter: through his research and from talking to rita, tom learned how physically and emotionally draining dialysis can be. he learned what rita really needs is a kidney transplant, but none of her friends or family are suitable donors. and finally, he learned something about himself. something incredible, really. >> i try to be as good to people as i can and, in fact, i've always said i'd give somebody the shirt off my back if they asked me for it. i never thought about giving

i'm rita kierson. ah, rita. hey, mr. shermack, how are you? good to see you. hi, sweetie.eah, yeah, that butler idea, that's beautiful! is that a killer? i thought i was getting the butler. we'll find something for you. so letterman didn't spark to your idea? said there was nothing he could do and i should break the prozacs in half. hold it down. i'm watching jeopardy!. would you give him back the tv? george, susan called a minute ago. they're probably doing somersaults about us. think they get butler stories like that every day? who was joseph cotton? giddyup! hello? hi, it's me, georgie boy. what's going on? what's going on? what's going on? i'll tell you what's going on. i'm fired! fired? why? because you kissed me! you kissed me, you stupid idiot! rita called russell, and he fired me over the phone. what is pi? ooh, giddyup again. i'm killing 'em. but i didn't-- i had no idea-- i didn't realize... you didn't realize? how could you not realize? you're stupid! you are a stupid, stupid man! i just feel terrible. it's terrible. what is the cha-cha? yes, indeed. i'll speak

. >> osgood: rita braver takes us aboard the famous 9/11 fire boat.o rocca confesss to a terrible weakness. we'll drop in on a exercise of poetry outloud. first the headlines for this sunday morning the 13th of september, 2009. the streets of washington were filled with thousands of demonstrators yesterday protesting record government spending and the obama administration's proposals for health care reform. as for the president, he was in minneapolis repeating his refusal to accept what he calls the status quo as the nation's health care policy. nobody is supporting the status quo. by the way, after weeks of diminishing support, a new cbs news poll shows that the number of americans supporting the president's stance on health care has grown since his speech to congress on wednesday night. still in an interview airing tonight on "60 minutes," the president tells steve kroft he understands that his push for health care reform is far from risk-free. >> once this bill passes, i own it. if people look and say, you know what? this hasn't reduced my costs. m

on rita's life but in the lives of her daughter and granddaughter.orning. >> good morning. >> thank you for being with us. we were just talking about how difficult this had to be to write. such an emotional book and yet so important for people to hear what happened to you. you actually start out the book describing something most of us couldn't even imagine, something that happened to your mother. >> yes. it was 1942. my mother was 5 years old. and her family was told that they had to report to the train station because, you know, presumably to go to concentration camps, although they weren't told that. her family decided instead to flee their home and go into hiding. so they first hid in fields for a few months. and then made their way to a polish farmer who was a friend of theirs who agreed to take them into his home and hide them in his attic presumably for two weeks. >> two weeks turned into two years, correct? >> yes. >> rita, you were 5. what memories do you have of that time? did you realize what was happening? >> i did, but i had to suppress

rita has not been forgotten about. i was the operations manager for salt was louisiana for rita.i was very involved, and that is my home area. we have dollars we can get you. i need you to call our local number and ask for irma. she can get you in touch with one of our lawyers. in a very complicated secession title issues and of the transfer property, there were many elderly people who were not able to survive the evacuation of the storm after the storm. there are very sensitive -- a very sad situations. we have attorneys to work through these things, and we will sit down with you. host: next, the bronx, democrats ran. we're with pa rainwater, hello. caller: i have a comment, more or less. i do not think that a natural disaster, as you call it, is really in the back of everybody's mind. it should be in the back of everybody's mind is to send action towards the people after the disaster. the lack of interest in trying to do the right thing for the people. the the people do not come back, that is one of the basic reasons why people are more or less -- and no, they have that fear. w

which is why our rita braver found herself in london. >> a spot of tea? tea. >> thank you, dear. >> it's kind of a dream finding barbara streisand. >> i see i made yentil here in london. >> reporter: i don't know that. >> everyone treated me as a first-time woman director because they had the queen in the powerful position and they had margaret thatcher as a prime minister. what was a little woman actress director, nothing. >> reporter: well, no one would ever call barbra streisand nothing. ♪ >> reporter: she's in one of the big... she's been one of the biggest stars in the world for more than 40 years ♪ don't tell me not to live > singing. acting. >> a jewish girl from new york city. comes to malibu, california. >> reporter: clowning. directing. >> i like to not cut the camera in between takes. >> reporter: and when we caught up with her in london for a rare interview, we have to admit it was a big deal. >> i'm coming from vacation, from italy and spain. >> reporter: people still really are interested in you. after all this time. they're fascinated by yo

. >> reporter: he was married to rita coolidge at the time. they were the brangelina of the '70s.a movie that still stands as hollywood big budget movie. >> i figured we were working on a masterpiece. glad that wasn't the only way i could make a dollar. >> reporter: kris has been in more than 60 movies over to years. but the other way to make a dollar is still his first love. >> here we are. >> it's hallowed ground. >> yes. i always felt like i was going to church in here. >> reporter: 37 years after he first visited the grand ole opry as a fan, he can walk back in as a legend. all of those miles evident on his boots and in his lyrics. ♪ i love you, from here to forever ♪ >> if you could get the guy who rolled into this town, all of those years ago, what would you tell him? >> follow your heart. i would say, you know, you were right. >> his new album is called "closer to the bone." and it remind you of johnny cash's final albums. it's so soulful. so much life in that voice there. we didn't get into his political activism. he describes himself as left of liberal. that's on abcnews.

katrina, rita, ike, monster storms that made dealing with hurricanes a regular occurrence for residents on the gulf coast. this year is quiet. our weather patterns are changing and it could mean good news. el nino, the warming of waters in the pacific. when it happens, it changes the regular flow of the jet stream, bringing the strong winds through the southern u.s. and atlantic. jet stream winds can blow off the top of tropical systems and prevent them from developing or getting stronger. here is what el nino did to tropical storms in the past. 1982 to 83 brought the quietest hurricane season in 50 years. one of the storms was alicia, a brutal hurricane that killed 21 in texas. 1997 to 98, seven named storms. well below the average of 11. it's not all good news. that season, the deadliest tornado outbreak in florida's history. one ripped roofs off hundreds of homes and killed 25 people. the jet stream brought storm after storm into california, torrential rains, mud slides, washed out roads and destructive waves pounded the state. it was the costliest winters on record for california es

however, it was just this afternoon that she was released from the santa rita jail in dublin on lackevidence. >> out to john burris, famed defense attorney out of oakland, california. practices throughout the california area and across the country. he's been an adviser to louis ross and jennifer campbell, the foster mother and father, and he has now decided to come off the case. he will no longer be representing them. john, i do not -- welcome. i do not believe the police have any physical evidence right now. but don't you find it coincidental that they take these two into custody and by the time they finish talking to them, they have decided this is a homicide case? >> well, it is surprising that that's the route they took. i believe that they believed there was a homicide case for a long time, but i don't think they have any evidence whatsoever to support that. i think they just adopted that position because they were not able to corroborate any of the statements in their own mind that mr. ross has said. i was pretty much shocked that they in fact arrested either one of them, parti

. >> rita from the snack car? >> ugh! [ laughter ] >> debbie the conductor's wife?he engine room? >> you slept with doug in the lounge car bathroom last night? >> yeah, yeah, i think so. >> well, i'm pregnant. >> that makes two of us, sister. ♪ >>space train!" [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: it still holds up, i think. >> yeah. i -- i don't think that was me. [ laughter ] i think that was amy poehler. >> jimmy: oh, it was amy poehler. oh, i love her. [ laughter ] all right, well, "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" opens everywhere this friday. anna faris, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] you got to come back, all right? alan cumming next, there he is in the bud light lime greenroom. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: my next guest is an award-winning star of stage and screen, whether he's on broadway in "cabaret" or in head to toe blue makeup in "x-men 2." he does it all. his new record "i bought a blue car today" is out next tuesday. say hello to alan cumming, everybody. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: good man. thanks for coming

my name is rita and iran for asian pacific audiences. -- i write for asian-pacific audiences. there has been an assertion that illegal, undocumented people in the united states contributes in large measure to the health costs. other than eight being perpetrated in at talk radio but -- been perpetrated in the talk radio, but it has also been asserted by advocacy groups with data. would you be able to address the serious side of this question on how the health cost is being gobbled up by illegal people who are not supposed to be here? >> that is a very hard question. about 30 years ago my activity in washington was focused on helping to put together the first of the large expenditure surveys called the national medical expenditures survey. it is now an ongoing survey that the department of health and human services collects. i have been curious about some of the numbers i had been seeing reported as to how many of the people either currently who are uninsured are people who are illegal immigrants and how many people who would remain uninsured are likely to be illegal immigrants.

. >> rita from the snack car? >> ugh! [ laughter ] >> debbie the conductor's wife? you slept with doug in the lounge car bathroom last night? >> yeah, yeah, i think so. >> well, i'm pregnant. >> that makes two of us, sister. ♪ >> "space train!" [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: it still holds up, i think. >> yeah. i -- i don't think that was me. [ laughter ] i think that was amy poehler. >> jimmy: oh, it was amy poehler. oh, i love her. [ laughter ] all right, well, "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" opens everywhere this friday. anna faris, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] you got to come back, all right? alan cumming next, there he is in the bud light lime greenroom. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hi, my name is kylie, and i found these happy words all over my dad's computer. 7.....7.....7....7.... happy words... need happy pictures. i'm going to make a slide show. snappy... (mispronouncing "responsive") and reponcinslive. i'm a pc and more happy is coming. new carefree ultra protection liners, with wings! absorb ten times more, like a pad but feel thin and comfy, l

. >> reporter: and rita has the dubious distinction of being among the first people in the country to get swine flu last swing at new york city's epicenter, st. francis prep school. >> as soon as i say prep, people say the swine school? >> reporter: the school says it's as ready as possible. the buildings was scrubbed down last spring. hand sanitizers are in the cafeteria and every bathroom. the principal is teaching other schools how to handle an outbreak. are you worried? >> well, i am worried. some of the experts are saying since so many kids had the flu here, that they've probably built up an immunity to it. >> reporter: but this school isn't taking any chances. school assemblies will remind kids how to protect themselves. in the event of an outbreak, sick kids will be temporarily isolated in the auditorium. >> there were kids around the bend waiting to get in. >> reporter: the school nurse knows firsthand about a quick response. when the swine flu hit, the school's phone lines were jammed. security guards had to help take temperatures. to save time should a lot of students show u

katrina, rita, ike, monster storms that have made dealing with major hurricanes a regular occurrenceesidents on the gulf coast. but this year seems oddly quiet. our weather patterns are changing and it could mean good news for the storm-weary. el nino. it's the warming of waters in the equatorial pacific. when this happens, it changes the regular flow of the jet stream, bringing those strong winds through the southern u.s. and atlantic. jet stream winds can blow off the top of tropical systems and prevent them from developing, or from getting stronger. here's what el nino has done to tropical seasons in the past. 1982 to '83, a strong el nino episode brought the quietest hurricane season in 50 years, but one of those storms was alicia, a brutal hurricane that killed 21 in texas. 1997 to '98, only seven-named storms for the entire season, well below the average of 11, but it's note all good news. that season the jet stream helped support the deadliest tornado outbreak in florida's history, one of them ripping roofs off of hundreds of homes, and killing 25 people in osceola county. tha

. >> reporter: and rita has the dubious distinction of being among the first people in the country tone flu last spring at new york city's epicenter, st. francis prep school. >> as soon as i say prep people say "oh, the swine school?" >> reporter: the school is ready as possible for opening day. the school was scrubbed last spring. hand sanitizers are in the cafeteria and every bathroom. the high school's principal is teaching other schools how to handle an outbreak. are you worried? >> well, i am worried. some of the experts are saying that since so many kids have the flu here that they probably have built up an immunity to it. >> reporter: but this school isn't taking any chances. school assembly also remind kids how to protect themselves. in the event of an outbreak, sick kids will be temporarily isolated in the auditorium. >> there were kids around the bend waiting to get in. >> reporter: school nurse mary paas knows firsthand about a quick response. when the swine flu hit the school's phone lines were jammed. security guards had to help take temperatures. to save time, should a l

rita is with us in north carolina. your thoughts here? >> caller: hey. i heard a report earlier that a woman named lisa sampson was a person of interest in the case or a suspect? she was found in new york without the child. have you heard anything like that? >> let's go to kate howard, reporter for "the tennesseean" who has been following this. >> she was involved as a person of interest as a citizen tip. somebody called police and said check this person out. they did find her in new york state and interviewed her there. she said she had been in new york at the time of the abduction. they haven't found any other reason to believe that's not true and they have ruled her out as a suspect at this point. >> let's get another call. sharon is with us in florida. your comment or question? >> caller: mike, you're great. i watch you all the time. >> thanks, sharon. >> caller: what i'm thinking if this lady is blonde or white, she is going to have to have a hispanic husband or boyfriend she is doing it for or taking orders where this woman needs a hispanic baby bo

this is a time of reflection and rita will for hundreds of millions of our fellow citizens around the world. a time when we can take stock and reassess and hopeful we commit ourselves to the values and ideals that move us forward. and it is in that spirit i am approaching not only next week's general assembly but the weeks, months and years ahead, and i very much appreciate the excellent work and contribution of many of you in this audience and capacities in which you, too, serve and wrestled these difficult problems that confront us, and i hope that we will not only continue to have a partnership enables us to speak of our hopes and aspirations put together produce solutions to the problems we confront. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] she can handle that herself but i'm not allowed to. [laughter] thank you so much, madame secretary. we have got a little over 15 minutes or so, and why don't we go immediately to martin indyk who will ask the first question. >> there he is. >> thank you very much, strobe and madame secretary as leader of state. you seem to in y

my name is rita and iran for asian pacific audiences. -- i write for asian-pacific audiences. there has been an assertion that illegal, undocumented people in the united states contributes in large measure to the health costs. other than eight being perpetrated in at talk radio but -- been perpetrated in the talk radio, but it has also been asserted by advocacy groups with data. would you be able to address the serious side of this question on how the health cost is being gobbled up by illegal people who are not supposed to be here? >> that is a very hard question. about 30 years ago my activity in washington was focused on helping to put together the first of the large expenditure surveys called the national medical expenditures survey. it is now an ongoing survey that the department of health and human services collects. i have been curious about some of the numbers i had been seeing reported as to how many of the people either currently who are uninsured are people who are illegal immigrants and how many people who would remain uninsured are likely to be illegal immigrants.

>> i'm rita carl, director of education for space science education, and we fly to the moon all of the time. we have a student from our challenger learning center in richmond, virginia. >> hi, i'm nadia higgins and my question is what are some things that we have learned from space exploration that we can use to help our own planet? >> laura? >> oh, great question. most people don't know this, but right now nasa has 15 spacecraft orbiting the earth watching the pulse of our planet as it's changing and studying the basic physics that drive our planet and our weather to help us predict better how it will be changing in the future and also we send to other planets, venus and mars to help us understand how planets like ours can change and evolve. from a science perspective, we've learned a whole bunch about the history of our planet and how it can change in the future and the technology change from nasa, and i don't know if either either of you want to talk about the spin-offs like from the hubble imaging, for example. the hubble space telescope helped pioneer the ccbs and cameras. how ma

. >> rita from charleston, west virginia. what are your thoughts? >> yes. if that were my child.takes root and grows. i believe the biggest problem we have in the world today is when they took prayer out of school and started to practice abandonment of spiritual guidanc guidance. >> so a lot of great opinions. we're also getting e-mails. first e-mail from manning in south carolina. another e-mail from pete in kentucky writing in. another e-mail from missouri. these kids have constitutional rights. >>> we have been telling you for more than a week now about the eight people killed in a georgia mobile home. we will delve sndeeper into theu story and see what police are saying about the suspects next.o . an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan... insured by united healthcare insurance company. it can help cover some of what medicare doesn't... so you could save up to thousands of dollars... in out-of-pocket expenses. call now for this free information kit... and medicare guide. if you're turning 65 or you're already on medicare, you should know about this card; it's the only one