. >> pelley: supreme court justice sonia sotomayor's parents came from puerto rico. she and her little brother were raised in public housing in the bronx, new york, where she was laying down the law even then. your brother told us that more than once in this neighborhood he got beaten up. >> and more than once, i beat up the person who beat him up. ( laughing ) >> pelley: so how did she move from this neighborhood to this one? that's our story tonight. >> logan: when pope benedict xvi came to the sagrada famiÍlia two years ago, he consecrated the church as a basilica. not since 1883, when it was first envisioned by antoni gaudiÍ, had it been seen in all its glory. >> he wanted to write the history of the whole of the catholic faith in one building. i mean, how crazy and how extraordinary and how ambitious that idea is. ( bells tolls ) >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm leslie stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." i am an american success story. i'm a teacher. i'm a firefighter. i'm a carpe

. >>> desde que su marido la dejÓ para migrar a estados unidos, sonia trabaja en calles de la capitalienen el 30% de hogares en el salvador. expertos dicen que la irresponsabilidad paterna es epidemica, y hombres que migran para obtener un mejor fu turo para sus hijos, se olvidan de ellos, como le sucediÓ a este pequeÑa. >>> estÁ mal, cree que su papa no la quiere, y le hago ver que si la quiere, dÓnde, las llamadas de Él no estÁn. >>> se gestiona 40 mil demandas de manutenciÓn contra responsables, si prosperan obtendrÁn la ayuda econÓmica, pero los niÑos necesitan mÁs que dinero, como dice esta abogada. >>> que se comuniquen con sus hijos e hijas que se relacionen, traten con ellos, y modelen en la vida de sus hijos e hijas, aÚn en la distancia. >>> los daÑos emocionales son irreversibles. >>> y la falta de vivienda, alimentos, salud, de educaciÓn, y esparcimiento. >>> carencias que llevaron a mÓnica a dÉjar de lado la vergÜenza, e ir a la procuraduria a demandar al padre de su hija por irresponsable. >>> no es justo. >>> sonia prefiere salir a las calles a luchar por sus hijos. >>>

but as soon as she left, the other side of sonia emerged. >> make sure you don't come in here anymorem. >> i don't want to see you in here anymore. >> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> all right, bye. >> bye. >> as we were placing her back in her pod, i don't know if she was just doing it for show for the other inmates but her comment as i close the door and secured it, she said i'm going home and i'm going to smoke a blunt. it makes me very upset. and she knows that i heard her. and she knows that i will probably say something to her a little bit later. was that just a show, or are you just -- are you serious? we'll have to see. you just never know what's going to happen and judging by her history, the odds are stacked against her. >> please raise your right hand. swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> yes. >> you can put your hand down. >> and sergeant herman's assessment proved accurate. after hearing of her third parole violation, the judge in her case had had enough. and sent kuerez to state prison in order to complete her six-year sentence. and while chang

en los aÑos despuÉs del caso the coster, sonia parras se convirtiÓ en una de las principales defensorasy efectivamente comenzamos a estar al tanto de las noticias y la redada estaba sucediendo en ese momento. >> la redada planteaba la pregunta, ¿debÍan las autoridades federales tratar a los trabajadoras y documentadas abusadas como vÍctimas o como delincuentes? alrededor de 300 trabajadores del matadero local fueron acorralados, detenidos y deportados. fue la redada de migraciÓn mÁs grande llevada a cabo en un solo lugar en la historia de los estados unidos. >> cuando llegamos, vimos que no solamente tenÍan hombres adultos, pero que tambiÉn tenÍan a mujeres y a niÑos. >> habÍan muchas niÑas menores de edad tambiÉn trabajando ahÍ, y tambiÉn pasaron muchas cosas. de 15 aÑos, de 16, sufriendo ahÍ en esa planta, mucho maltrato, mucho trabajo, vergÜenza, asÍ de todo. >> imagÍnese a una de esas jÓvenes trabajando en el piso del matadero, algunas de ellas ya estaban utilizando cuchillos y rodeadas de otros trabajadores con cuchillos. >> descubrimos mÁs tarde que la mayorÍa de los niÑos trabaja

." >> bergman: the lawyer was sonia parras.her law firm specializes in immigration issues and cases of violence against women. >> i remember one of them saying, "i'm just tired of having sex at work." so i said, "well, what do you mean?" and she said, "i want to keep my job, but i don't want to have sex at work anymore." and that was when i realized the magnitude of the situation. the women are being raped and are being sexually assaulted. and they know that immigration is outside. they're also seeing law enforcement working with them. so if you're seeing law enforcement coming into your plant and taking your coworkers, you're not going to go to them the next day to say, "by the way, can you help me?" >> in a lot of cases, they'd take off running from the buildings. >> bergman: so you were involved in this perimeter security in these raids, and when people would run away, you'd help capture them. >> we would help capture them. >> bergman: so it really isn't any surprise that it would be unusual for someone to come in who was un

next, a conversation with chief justice sonia sotomayor. after that, a panel on the relationship between religious belief in human rights legislation. later, "q&a." >> we are debating what the first broadband era land should look like. that is a hard question. there is an tricky but important issues to address. >> it is not like the new chairman will walk in on a friday, there are a series of complicated orders that need to go out area as i have said will be the auction most complex in world history. the chairman is absolutely right. and the of the world wireless space are looking at the u.s. to see how we handle this. former sec commissioners on the upcoming spectrum auction and other major community should an issues. monday night on the communicator at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. >> during ceremonies to open a new judicial center, supreme court justice sonia sotomayor to questions from eighth, ninth, and since graders in denver. exec about racial profiling and stereotypes. her childhood and her career. this is just under one hour. [applau

so, i met sonia sotomayor very early on and she was incredible.rt judge. she mentored everybody. she is a very warm woman, very nurturing woman and also shared her substantive legal intellect with us very, very early on. so, we became fans not just of the person who is sonia sotomayor but the judge and intellectual. when she was to be nominated for the second circuit court of appeals i was now on the board of the puerto rican board association and other associations, as well. i was in a position, not as a mentor, but almost a sponsor of the judge. and we were in a position, as a former organization, to endorse her candidacy and to go to congress and write letters and make sure that people knew this was an impeccable jurist and i knew this from my mentor relationship, but more importantly, from seeing her on the bench and knowing what a wonderful judge she was. so, what happens full circle when i'm here as deputy mayor for legal affairs and president obama nominates sonia sotomayor to be his first nominee for the united states supreme court? at tha

. >>> 7 de los 9 jueces de la corte suprema, incluyendo sonia sotomayor, in validaron, probar que erana poder inscribirse y votar abogados, llevaron la demanda al mÁximo tribunal, argumentando que la medida disminuya la participaciÓn de las urnas, especialmente de minorÍas. >>> poner requisitos caros y difÍcil de componer salirse del trabajo y llenar la aplicaciÓn. luego de promulgar la proposiciÓn 200 en arizona en el 2004, mÁs de 40.000 no pudieron vot votar al no te fener los docume que les pedÍan. >>> fue parte del movimiento anti inmigrantes y establecer un medio ambiente hostil hacia el inmigrante en arizona. hey! al aplaudir la decisiÓn. en vez de poner barreras, hay que construir mÁs puentes para dar mÁs acceso y facilitar el voto. el recuerdan como intentos fallidos de purgas electorales como la florida, llevaron errores como el caso que doc men estamos el al paÑo pasado, que 2000 lectores que en un principio, fueron excluidos porque su documentaciÓn migratoria no fue actualizada. >>> como yo siendo ciudadana, me iban a prohibir que yo votara en las prÓximas elecciones. >>> lo

the best play went to "vanya and sonia and masha and spike."erce and sigourney weaver. and "kinky boots." one of the stars of "kinky boots" billy porter won leading actor. a notable win, best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play. that went to cicely tyson. in "the trip to bountiful." >> "kinky boots" was a huge winner. >> the musical won best original score, with music and lyrics by the great cyndi lauper. take a listen. ♪ everybody say yeah, yeah yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah yeah, yeah >> and one of last night's most touching moments was cicely tyson's acceptance speech. >> the 88-year-old actress returned to broadway for the first time in 30 years. she plays a widow in a 1953 era, whose only desire is to revisit her home in bountiful. >> she offered an emotional thank you, but as it happened, she was wrapped toward the end. >> please wrap it up. well, that's exactly what you did with me. you wrapped me up in your arms after 30 years. and now, i can go home with a tony. god bless you all. and thank you. thank you. thank you. than

sonia, lo siento mucho pero seÁa en otra ocasiÓn.

a while, so i'm delighted that he is back on broadway with a very fine new play called "vanya and soniand spike." now, the title may tell you that it's kind of chris's comic take on the world of chekhov. and two of the actors from the play are with us today. they are the very, very talented kristine nielsen. welcome to "theater talk." >> thank you. >> and our old friend david hyde pierce, who's back -- you haven't been down here since "curtains," right, david? >> i think that's right. yeah, we were trying to remember the last time. i think it was "curtains." >> yeah, well, it's good to see you both. and i do look the chekhovian beard. >> thank you. >> haskins: oh, it's wonderful. >> so chekhov, they often say, they say his plays are comedies. many people consider chekhov's plays comedies. is chris's play, should it be considered a drama and not a comedy? how do you play it? how do you play a comedy talking about a comedy -- to get too meta here? is that possible? >> well, i think we're lucky that he's written a play about a family, you know, characters. so you start there, of course, an

ruth bader ginsberg, stephen breyer, sonia sotomayor and elena kagan support the ruling. justice john roberts wrote the dissenting opinion, sbird antony scalia, clarence thomas and samuel alito. >>> still to come, meteorologist christina loren has details on a big time heat wave all coming our way and we will have more on that right after this break. >>> welcome back, everybody, take you live to san francisco, the castro district, plenty of people were celebrating early today, the prop 8 ruling, gathering tonight at 6:30. there, you are gather at the rain bow community sent teity ce castro district. blue skies. >> whatever you want to do after a couple of rainy days, a lot of moisture creating humidity, you can feel it immediately when you walk out, christina. >> quote the famous snoop lion, formerly known as snoop dogg it is sticky icky icky out there. good morning to you. a live look here. one of the reasons why the castro might be so quiet, we have had these flight delays all morning long. hard to tell from the picture of san francisco, hard to happen, very glassy on t

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. >> keith and sonia arranged to meet sarah dylan for the west coast tour spring, 1992 but she never showed up. >> i knew right then she was either dead, being held captive somewhere that. is the only thick that could keep her from being there. >> the couple never saw jair dylan. six years later a logger found a skull bleach frtd sun and missing a lower jaw. investigators concluded the victim had been dumped from this turnout down a deep ravine. the skull remained unidentified until a big break. a probation sae. long with four handguns and hand cuffs, law enforcement uniforms and mannequines prosecutors say police found a killer's trophy. newspaper article btz victim deaths and photographs he took of some of them. he earned a living as a photographer and had 150,000 cash in a safe deposit box. along with sarah dylan's driver's license, passport and what the prosecution believes are photos of sarah's dead body from the waist down. investigators tracked down jair's friends. >> they didn't dell me anything about the guy. just that they found some of sarah's things in possession of someo

the best play award went to "vanya and sonia and masha and spike".ter won best performance by an ashctor in a leading role and best performance by an actress in a play went to cicely tyson in "the trip to the bountiful." >> yeah, and the night was packed with high energy performances especially by host neil patrick harris and his surprising dance partner. take a look. ♪ forget me if it's random but mike tyson had a one man show ♪ ♪ let's give the man a hand and make things bigger ♪ >> yep, that's mike tyson. and a sweet moment from cicely tyson as she accepted her award. the producers tried to wrap her. they cued the music, but tyson turned the moment around telling the crowd they wrapped her in their arms after 30 years and 30 years ago, by the way, was the last time cicely tyson appeared on broadway. the "roots" actress is thought to be 8 years old. >>> google doodles can be pretty cool but today it's wild. >> this is google's animation marking what would have been maurice sendak's 88th birthday. sendak is the author and illustrator of the famous c

. >> keith and sonia arranged to meet sarah dylan for the west coast tour spring, 1992 but she never showed up. >> i knew right then she was either dead, being held captive somewhere that. is the only thick that could keep her from being there. >> the couple never saw jair dylan. six years later a logger found a skull bleach frtd sun and missing a lower jaw. investigators concluded the victim had been dumped from this turnout down a deep ravine. the skull remained unidentified until a big break. a probation sae. long with four handguns and hand cuffs, law enforcement uniforms and mannequines prosecutors say police found a killer's trophy. newspaper article btz victim deaths and photographs he took of some of them. he earned a living as a photographer and had 150,000 cash in a safe deposit box. along with sarah dylan's driver's license, passport and what the prosecution believes are photos of sarah's dead body from the waist down. investigators tracked down jair's friends. >> they didn't dell me anything about the guy. just that they found some of sarah's things in possession of someo

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back to you. >> sonia, thanks for that, very much. the 60 level, indeed. on the program, british banks are halfway to billions of pounds of capital short falls. we'll hear what the german chancellor has to say on the matter when we come back. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ♪ [ agent smith ] ge software connects patients to nurses to the right machines while dramatically reducing waiting time. [ telephone ringing ] now a waiting room is just a room. [ static warbles ] >> of course we have each. it's competitive. it's not only about cost, competitive measures, costs, but it's also innovation. and that's it. it's to make it a long-term system by having the debt and reducing the debt. >> sure. sure. but when i look at 2012, the company lost 1.4 billion euros over the last year. how is 2013 going to look. >> without any guidance and don't expect for me today to get any guidance. what is for sure is that the company has less money in the past six years. this is not sustainable so my goal, my target is t

sonia sotomayor. >> no! >> bill: this is her 59th birthday. good friend, great justice, i think. she will grow more into the job. she's already really doing some great things. >> chief justice roberts introduced her and he was nervous about mispronouncing her name. and introduced her brother as doctor sotomayor. it is like a mel brooks movie. >> bill: we have some famous people meeting in the wings -- waiting in the wings. ♪ this is your birthday song ♪ ♪ it doesn't last too long ♪ ♪ hey ♪ >> let's do both verses. [ applause ] >> my colleagues, the second verse is exactly like the first verse. ♪ this is your birthday song ♪ ♪ it doesn't last too long ♪ ♪ hey ♪ >> fabulous. >> bill: for sonya sonia sotomayor happy birthday. that's why you're in town. >> a secret birthday party for sonia sotomayor. >> bill: avery friedman here with us this half hour. we're excited about that. the president of the center for american progress joining us a little bit later. and then seung min kim from politico covering the immigration hearings on the hill will be

. >> during the hearing, sonia sotomayor questioned the lawyer, questioning patenting a gene, comparingt to patenting building a top chip cookie. >> i can make a truck to chip cookie using natural ingredients, salt, eggs, flour. and i create my chocolate chip cookie. and if i combust those in some new way, i can get a patent on that. but i cannot imagine getting a patent simply based on the basic items of salt, flour, and x, simply because i have created a new use or new product from those ingredients. explain to me why gene sequences, whether the actual numbers, why sequences are not the basic products that you cannot patent. >> i will start by showing you how this is a different structure. it has a different chemical -- only with regard to the isolated molecule as well. if you were to write it out in those chemical equations -- >> so i'd put in salt and flour, and that is different? >> that is a combination of two different things. noto if i take them apart, even get a pat on the salt and a patent on the flour? >> they were both old pier that is the problem with using the simplistic a

s sonia shenoy is there with that. >> reporter: that's the big story.nment after a period of three years has gone ahead and doubled natural gas prices from 4.2 dollars earlier now to 8.4 dollars for mmbtu. it opens up a lot of opportunities for investment into various sectors like fertilizer, power, et cetera, remember the gas prices in india kept very low for strategic industries like fertilizer and power and that really deterred investments into this particular -- these particular sectors so it will help in terms of improving the investment situation, not just that because oil imports will go down now. remember, the production will go up significantly for gas prices rising so we won't have to import that much oil and that will help reduce our current prices as well. it has ea positive impact and will boost revenues for ongc oil. ongs believes there could be an addition of 8,000 crude oil -- because of the hike of $4 a barrel. a sentiment positive for the oil and gas space all in all particularly for names like ongc. back to you. >> sonia, thanks, have

sonia in florida, please. >> caller: bbb-boo-yah from the sunshine state, home of the florida gators.s, the canes, international. go ahead. what's up. fiu. we like you. >> caller: my question is in regard to amgen. i know you talked about farm farm pharmaceuticals, thank you so much. amgen has dropped since i bought it. >> this is a tough one, it has not been one of our favorite, we like regeneron, celgene, gilead, biogen. we talked about that this week a. conference i am in on friday and saturday, but this group is good to buy into weakness but amgen has not been one of our fates on "mad money." jeff in connecticut. >>. >> caller: boo-yah from kechl, jim. >> we had a guy here kyle from connecticut. he roots for the endian, i don't get that, what's up? >> caller: i was looking at ford motor company, what are you saying, buy, sell? >> i say this is a good one, my charitable trust, people will say, wait a sec, bad head and shoulders information coming. i think ford is inexpensive, i'm buy out the way down. let's go to mark in new jersey. >> caller: booia jim, how are you doing? >> real

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elena key began, sonia sotomayor and ruth bader ginsburg.ke about it because of today's decision, your dna can be taken and entered into a national day it base if you are ever arrested rightly or wrongly and for whatever reason. he is saying that privacy should be protected. and he is saying that it is wrong. i don't often agree with justice scalia, but on this one, me and scalia are on the same page. that's pigs flying around the studio. or me! oh no! my mom just cleaned this place! calm down, squishy, this'll be easy to clean. [ female announcer ] swiffer wetjet pads have the scrubbing power of mr. clean magic eraser. they trap and lock away even monstrous messes to make tough cleaning a breeze. now that's clean. wow. scottie! we won! uh-huh, uh-huh. mom?!! [ female announcer ] swiffer gives cleaning a monstrous new meaning. monsters university, in theaters, in 3d. [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ male announcer ] universal studios summer of survival. ♪ ♪ boy the way glenn miller played, songs that made the hit parade ♪ ♪

. >> this is the birthday of the late orwell, sonia sotomayor and george michael turns 50 years old today which means he's old enough to be hit on in the bushes of george michael. the first live international tv broadcast was aired called our world and it featured artists from 19 different countries including maria kalas and picasso viewed by a record 400 million people and the deals along with friends jagger, performed a brand new tune written especially by john lennon for the broadcast called "all you need is love" 46 years ago tonight. this is "viewpoint." >> john: i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." the voting rights act of 1965 is one of the towering achievements of the civil rights era. today's supreme court ruling left that towering achievement still standing but merely as a hollow shell. by 5-4 vote, the courts struck down the act's section four which set a formula for determining whether nine state the and municipalities mostly in the south had discriminated against minority voters. states that met the formula had to submit to federal oversight in order to pass any new elect

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. >> bill: i was -- last night had a chance to interview justice sonia sotomayor.ton awards for legal achievement here at the library of congress. but current issues in front of the supreme court were sort of off -- >> can't talk about those now. >> bill: let's start with the supreme court on a 5-4 decision yesterday. i find it a little troubling decision about when police can get dna samples right? >> it is troubling because the decision now says that a police officer can swab someone's cheek and get their dna sample before that suspect was convicted of anything. so you're arrested and the police can acquire your sample, put it in their database and use it for whatever. and since a lot of people aren't convicted, you're going to have a lot of innocent people with their dna samples in the system and the irony is there was an earlier case where a person was convicted of a crime was trying to access his own dna samples to run tests to prove his innocence and the supreme court said no. he can't do that. because that would make a mockery out of the justice system. the

. >> if john mccain had won in 2008, this decision would have gone the other way, because sonia sotomayorve been there, republican appointees would have been there, as you say, elections have consequences. >>>. rulings come on the last day of the court's term, anticipation gave way to jubilation, but not necessarily for everyone. cnn's brian todd is getting reaction. what are you seeing, brian? >> reporter: clearly the tension had been building here for months, since the justices heard both of these cases, attorneys, advocating, everyone with a vested interest in these cases were pointing to this day as the day that could change the social fab bring of the united states. that certainly played out on the steps behind me. on the steps of the supreme court, jubilation among same-sex marriage supporters, moments after the first ruling which bludgeoned the defense of marriage act and made it easier legally for same-sex couples to get federal benefits. they let the nervousness melt away. >> i don't even have words. i'm just so happy, overrun with emotion. i couldn't be more proud of my country

supreme court where he has successfully nominat nominat nominat nominat nominat nominat nominated sonia sotomayor and the court has more than double the amount of women than ever before. bravo. compare the appointments to federal judgeships through 2012 and you'll find his total of 173 lags behind everyone from jimmy carter on. that's not because there aren't judgeships to fill. there are 80. 16 in the u.s. court of appeals and 64 in u.s. district courts. the way republicans are talking, they like to see it be for 11th seat d.c. court that this judge would actually be the court's eighth judge and that would be it. there are still three more openings on that very important court but now republican senator chuck grassley is pushing the court efficiency act reducing the number of authorized judgeships from the u.s. d.c. court. it would mean four judges nominated by republican george w. bush, three nominated by president clinton and our most recent nominated by president obama. those extra three openings that he has a constitutional duty to fill, senator chuck says forget them. the iowa sen

. >> that was supreme court justice sonia sotomayer calling out rhine on the notion the south changedh we don't need these kinds of civil rights laws anymore. before the break we have nick saying very much racism, as we understand it, as a justification for these rules and protections is not at a level that requires government action. as we're going to break, jelani said, are you serious? go ahead. >> that's my question. the fact of the matter is, every single indicator we look at, whether employment, health, criminal justice system, we see the continuing existence of racism. we have eeoc, 10 or 11,000 complaints each year we get in eeoc complaints. there are also some indicators that racism is a vital and very much vibrant, dynamic part of american society right new. >> racism is always going to be a problem just like crime is always going to be a problem. the question is do we want to consolidate more power in the federal government when we have an opportunity to decentralize it now that we're past the worst of it. no one can deny conditions on the ground are nowhere near what was f

they were lucky to be surrounded by love. >> tell me saying sonia taitz.plause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we will be back in a few minutes with more live coverage of the printer's row with test in chicago. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> let us know what you are reading this summer. tweet us at booktv. posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. in lincoln unbound:how an ambitious young rail splitter save the american dream and how we can do it again rich lowery, editor of the "national review" details president lincoln's economic policies. carl heart, associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at columbia university presents his research on the relationship between egyptian and the brain in high price:a narrow scientist's journey of self discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society. in the great generation power institutions t

. >> and isn't said sonia sotomayer's birthday?it is. >> they are probably having cake and scalia is going i don't think there's any precedent to everybody getting a piece of cake, and clarence thomas is going whatever antonin is saying, i'm good with. i would like some cake but if he won't give me any i'm okay with that. >> all right. there is a special election in massachusetts today. >> vote mass vote. >> this important. it is to find out who replacing john kerry in the senate. they think the turnout is going to be really low, and they think people are going to take for granted that mar i can is up by so much. so it's important that people vote. we're back after the break. the young turks is that were honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. cenk off air>>> i don't want the middle c