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. >> also, sonya sote omyer went back to the grade school that made her what she is today that now iseing closed down. we'll talk to her about that, but we begin tonight with breaking news. >> some solace, however small, for the family of dianna hanson. a short time ago, a coroner said the 24-year-old woman died quickly after she was attacked by a 350-pound lion and she didn't suffer. she died of a broken neck and other neck injuries the preliminary autopsy shows. she was an intern at the wildcat sanctuary where she died. she was working toward a certification that would have classified her for her dream job working at a zoo one day. her family said she loved animals, especially big cats. you're going to hear from them in a moment. this is the animal that attacked her. it was an african male lion named cous cous. he was shot, killed yesterday. he lived at the sanctuary his entire life since he was a cub. when he was 3 months old, he was on the "ellen degeneres show." her father said he was one of dianna's favorite cats at the sanctuary. an investigation is now under way. ted rowlands

speaking with the city attorney, and sonya, and i did call president clinch yesterday to ask his permission if he agreed with the department staff. he, according to the city attorney, president clinch and myself, we decide it had was best if we gave mr. thomas an additional 30 days due to the codes. >> i understand that last month the appellant asked for a continuance and submitted a letter saying that he was not available or his engineer was on vacation or something like that. so, did he submit a letter this time? >> yes, we have an additional letter from mr. thomas requesting it. >> it was in the packet -- >> was it in our package? i thought that was the one for last month. >> no, there's two letters in there. there is one in the beginning. >> i have a question. i would like to know what the building code allows around continuances. >> the building code allows one continuance for 60 days. i gave him one continuance for 30 days. but there's other things other than the building code, there's past practices. >> yes, did you want to answer the -- >> i just have a question on procedure. i'm a

justice, sonya coat sotomoyer had this. >> we let racial segregation for 50 years. from 1988 to 1954. >> justice samuel said the issue of same-sex marriage is newer than cell phones and the internet. >> i think it was first adopted in the netherlands in 2000. so there isn't a lot of data about its effect. >> one of the issues was the children of same-sex couples and how ruling would effect them. conservative issues. >> if you redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, you must permit adoptions by same- sex couples and there is disagreement among sociologists as to what the consequences of raising a child in a single sex family. whether that is harmful to the child or not. >> but potential swing vote, anthony kennedy, said the almost 40,000 children of same- sex parents in california had their voices heard. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the supreme court. >> california's roller coaster league battle over same-sex marriage began nine years ago. valentine's weekend, 2004. that's when then, san francisco mayor, gavin newsome announced that city hall was open for co

and that's his wife sonya. she at one point was going to try to be a disney kid.e's married to steph. and herman delivered 17 in the first half. david lee, 21.10 rebounds. eight assists. new york was lousy and the warriors were pretty good. 26 in all for curry. the curry family happy. 9263,92, 63 warriors. they're a game and a half up on houston for six. three up on the lakers in ninth. golden state is going to go to the wire. they have home games in their favor. saint mary's, john stockton, the hall of famer, his son plays for the number one ranked team in america gonzaga. mathew when he goes one for eight scores only two points. going to be very tough for saint mary's it's the finals of the wcc tournament. kelly, randy bennett's team. they're 27 and six. you figure she'd get them in the tournament three losses to ganzaga. allen crab is the pac-12 man of the year. allen crab and the bears number two. crab of course earned a lot of national publicity. he's the guy that took the shove from mike montgomery but he came back and finished the season very strong. we kno

chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. and they are joining with me and with the supervisors and with the department heads to do what mrs. obama asked us to do. whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or throughout the nation, we do the right thing, we keep the doors of opportunity open and enriched for everybody else. and we're already seeing it happen. yesterday i was at the luncheon for the boys and girls club, wonderful, wonderful entity that's reaching out to all of our young high school kids and make sure they're motivated to go to college. you should have heard them talk about their futures. you should also hear them ask for our help, because i know as much as anybody else that our kids will inherit the good things that we do. they will also inherit the things that we fail to do. and i'm about making sure that w

. >> let's listen so sonya sotomayor. >> if you say-- what state restrictions to the number of peoplewith respect to -- that could get married, the incest laws that mother and child, assuming that they're the age. i can accept that the state has probably an overbearing interest on protecting a child until they're of age to marriage, but what's left? >> she's suggesting that it would be difficult for governments to put any limits on marriage. >> right. >> paul: if gay marriage is suddenly a constitutional-- >> once you kick out the strut, what else is going to fall? we saw that marriage is a permanent union. what about if people want to have time limited marriages, term limits, get a lease that renews every year? once you change one definition, you kind of take the power away from the states to define the institution. >> paul: james, how did you see the debate? >> well, i wouldn't read too much into that question from justice sotomayor, i think she asked a pertinent question, but doesn't necessarily tell us how it's going to vote. and the one that's going to be the key here, is justice

the good news on these tapes is justice sonya sotomayor who took direct evidence as she's trying to end section 5. >> the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote. >> i asked you a different question. do you think that racial discrimination in voting has ended? that there is none anywhere? >> i think that the world is not perfect. >> justice sotomayor repeatedly stood up for hours for american voters. it's great to have that vision on the kourlt. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. . >>> since the massacre at sandyhook elementary school, the issue of gun violence has become an issue that the country is talking about. gun violence is an epidemic. the shooting of 15-

not much time, quickly, sonya, starting with you and move on down the line. [inaudible] >> understand the culture and climate of the school is critical. [inaudible] there's teachers and educating parents, and the resonance to that is responsive. i have not -- when you say -- [inaudible] i have not found difficulty in moving forward in any of the -- [inaudible] people understand the character matters, and when you create a positive climate, students do better. >> for me, we continue to remind ourselves we can't allow another child to -- [inaudible] we had a catalytic moment, but then anyone in cleveland knows -- [inaudible] furniturely, there's a lot of evidence [audience boos] -- if nay have skills, they read better and point back to the evidence of why they read, one of the primary goals, and them with the common core, we have a great new opportunity because you will not succeed at a richer, deeper curriculum without these skills, without persistence and problem solving with the aid and abet to work with others and embedded into the common core that opens an

when you have justiceson somewhere showtime -- sonya sotomayor ruling on this.t seemed like a trial balloon from a liberal side of the court. nobody seemed to have five courts. now that they move into a different phase of trying to work out some kind of agreement that is when things could change. and all we can do is wait to see what the court does. >> can you pull the curtain back and tell us what happens between now and june? >> reporter: i think their next conference i believe it's tomorrow. their next conference they will take votes sort of tentative votes to decide where the cases go. now it could well be that nobody's got the votes to do anything and they basically behind the scenes try to offer up different ideas as to how to construct an opinion. how to get five votes. one thing we could have is have four votes for something. one justice who doesn't agree with those four but sort of agrees with the thrust of it and you wouldn't have a controlling opinion. a lot of different possibilities here and all we can do is sit outside the court and wait to see wha

when you have justiceson somewhere showtime -- sonya sotomayor ruling on this.seemed like a trial balloon from a liberal side of the court. nobody seemed to have five courts. now that they move into a different phase of trying to work out some kind of agreement that is when things could change. and all we can do is wait to see what the court does. >> can you pull the curtain back and tell us what happens between now and june? >> reporter: i think their next conference i believe it's tomorrow. their next conference they will take votes sort of tentative votes to decide where the cases go. now it could well be that nobody's got the votes to do anything and they basically behind the scenes try to offer up different ideas as to how to construct an opinion. how to get five votes. one thing we could have is have four votes for something. one justice who doesn't agree with those four but sort of agrees with the thrust of it and you wouldn't have a controlling opinion. a lot of different possibilities here and all we can do is sit outside the court and wait to see what

. >> can you talk about when sonya sotomayor over and over again was asking about the harm done by allowing same-sex couples to marry. it didn't seem to be -- [inaudible] briefly i'm going to make a small exception talking about the merit. i think both sides have agreed in this case it's impossible to know any certainty. the changes that would be on society by redefining a fundamental institution like marriage. i think it's something that both sides agree on. so thank you very much for your questioning. [inaudible conversations] the supreme court will hear arguments today in case concerning the constitutionality of the federal defense of marriage act. c-span tv and radio coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern time and c-span.org. as soon as the audio is released. the argument will reair on c-span at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >> mr. chairman, as i listen to those comments, it struck me what a wonderful thing free speech is. >> that was the hearing where donald rumsfeld was making the justifications for attacking iraq and what you didn't hear or questions and we got a chance to ask him which is h

sonya baton and dr. william buzbee, regional manager for the northeast region.and from the department of defense, we have colonel rebecca porter, chief of the behavioral health division for the army's office of the surgeon general. thanks very much for being with us. dr. pets el, why don't we begin with you? >> good morning, chairman sanders and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to discuss va's meant -- mental health services. since early 2009 va's been transforming and expanding its mental health care delivery system. we have improved our services for veterans, but we do know there's much more work that has to be done. my written testimony has more detailed information, and i would submit that for the record. this morning i will summarize those remarks and update you on some of our major accomplishments. we're progressively increasing veterans' acts by working closely with our federal partners to implement the president's executive order to improve service members and military families as well as the 2013 national defense authorization act.

but with sonya comments on our facebook page, you just mentioned that we as a people do not have accessutlets, however, we can have access to the largest media outlet, the internet. how can we encourage the harnessing of the potential power? >> guest: oh, i think, i think popular media is a major force. and i think young people understand the potential and the might of that force, and we have to use it. when i was talking a while ago, i was talking about big corporate broadcast media that decides every night what to tell people about themselves. but more importantly, decides what not to tell people about what's going on in the world. that's a lot of power concentrated in a very few hands, and it is managed largely by small groups of whites in corporate rooms around the country. there are fewer and fewer blacks even in publishing. editors have disappeared from the ranks of editors in the great publishing houses. it is more difficult to get serious books published by black authors than it had been. and so these are very difficult times for black people who want to say something, things th

it was interesting even the gun owners they interviewed sonya wolfe said i never wanted a gun.e a gun. the competitive sharpshooter agreed. i thought the second amendment was secondary to everyone feeling safe and secure in their lives. fewer guns would lead to fewer deaths. he's a gun enthusiast. another couple, first time gun owners, they were shocked by how easily they bought their guns. the husband said it freaked me out how easy it was. i think it is harder to buy an iphone than a gun. i'm a gun owner who believes there needs to be more regulation. >> it is an ever refining group of people. they overlap with the other groups that we consistently see this off the charts legal stuff from. there aren't any -- right now republicans who -- you know, the pro-choice who don't overlap with the gun lobby. anti-choice ones who don't overlap with the gun lobby that don't overlap saying minority won't run roughshod over it. >> stephanie: we continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: join the party. 1-800-steph-12. honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden

director of suicide prevention and community engagement for va's national mental health program, and with sonya baton, and dr. william buzzbee, acting director of the adjusting conferences of the va, and from the department of defense, we have colonel rebecca porter, chief of the behavioral health division of the army's office of the surgeon general. thank you very much for being with us. dr. petzel, let's begin with you. >> good morning, chairman, ranking member burr, and members of the community, i appreciate the opportunity to discuss the mental health care and services for our nation's veterans, i'm accompanied, as the chairman mentioned, by dr. baton, kemp, and since early 2009,va's been transforming the health care delivery system improving services for veterans, but we know there's much more work, much more work that has to be done. my written testimony has more detailed information, and i submit that for the record. this morning, i will summarize remarks and update you on major accomplishments progressively increasing veterans access by working closely with the federal partners to imple

adult sonya. wasn't so easy to do to put myself back in time and to tie you what i was feeling. but i did it for a purpose and that purpose was to tell you what i learned from those experiences. and in the process, to have the hope that every single person in this room who has experienced even one of the difficulties i faced in life and the difficulties are as diverse as growing up in poverty, having a chronic disease and its surprising how many people suffer from chronic disease and live their lives never talking about it to be in a child raised by a single parent, to facing discrimination and whether it's about ethnicity or her or my background, we each feel the sting of it in some way. to simply being afraid, which most people experience some real creative bravado that yet we are okay, we can do this. it's easy to say, hard to do. so i talk about those things and as ordinary a way i can in order i hope to give people courage to talk about and rethink their own experiences. there is a second pur

when sonya came to the inspection service in florida, it was too late. her mom had already sent out over $92,000 we were not able to get that back. but just yesterday we could somebody from becoming a victim. and i look at it as a one person at that time. if we can help one victim at a time, that could be my mother, my grandmother calling your mother, you're father. that's a lot to me. so what we are doing in the postal inspection service is because these pamphlets and over 40,000 retail postal service retail outlets. we sent over 25 million mailings and we have what we call the consumer alert news network in which we have over 86 media markets that we are doing consumer awareness media alert to the consumers, and then we are working with aarp. as education is the key and partnering with the individuals that were at the table to work in conjunction to reach out and also the elderly that come out over 70 years of age i think is an important effort. >> chuck, from your perspective, and that is all fantastic advice, what else or what should an elderly perso

[applause] >> thank you, sonya.e final panel is barbara arnwine, we've already met and i don't need to introduce her again. we will start in the order they were introduced. kim keenan. [applause] >> all right. fortunately i have my ipad, so why should know what three minutes looks like or something close to it. i do want to start by adding my congratulations to barbara. she is a warrior, and the way you know that is because they have action pictures of barbara treen you normally get a picture of just people with a head shot. but with barbara you always have her in action because that's what she is. she is civil rights in action, she is advocacy in action and i want to know that every time line with her i feel like i am in master class. i can't feel like a friend and colleague because i feel like i am in master class because you should be taking notes because she is just that bad. you just want to be like that when you grow up. so proud of her. and you know what, she sets that are highly because whether i'm sitting w

the adult sonya. not easy to do to put myself back in time to tell you what i was feeling but i did it for a purpose from one i have learned and in the process that every single person in this room who has experienced even one of the difficulties i have faced and they are as diverse as growing up in poverty, a chronic diseases coming it is surprising how many suffer and never talk about it to a child raised by a single parent with my ethnicity or gender or my background we feel the sting in some way to simply being afraid which most people experience and we create a bravado we can keep it. easy to say about hard to do. i talk about those things in the ordinary way that i can in order to give people courage to rethink their own experience. there was the second purpose. the books of love for the books i read and make me think on a different level because there is a duty to read the books to discover new things and you learn how i use books after my father's death to escape and happiness in my home it wa