. >> and amanda is watching when her mother appears on the montel williams show with psychic sylvia brown. >> i watched her and i said i wished my mom would go on there and tell her i am alive and that i'm okay. >> sylvia brown breaks her open? >> i hate this, she's not alive, honey. >> i broke down crying. i can't believe she said that. my mom broke down crying, so it

. >> and amanda is watching when her mother appears on the montel williams show with psychic sylvia browntched her and i said i wished my mom would go on there and tell her i am alive and that i'm okay. >> sylvia brown breaks her open? >> i hate this, she's not alive, honey. >> i broke down crying. i can't believe she said that. my mom broke down crying, so it hurts. >> two years later amanda learns on a news report that her mother had passed. >> i think that was the hardest part being this there. she was always fighting and she was never going to give up on me and for her to get sick and i couldn't be there with her. i couldn't help her when she was sick. >> isolated by loss, sometimes amanda has only castro. >> so, he came in the room, and i was just really sad, and i started talking to him. he said everything is going to be okay. everything's going to turn out all right. so i asked him for a hug. and we hugged. >> there had to be a part of you that was saying, what in the world. >> there was. but then there was another part of me like, i needed that. i needed like a human caring touch.

brown ordered statewide water cutbacks. that forced residents to cut their water usage by 25% if for californians like sylvia morales, it hasm washing clothes and dishes to even using the bathroom. >>> i'm doing larger loads of laundry. we're not washing the cars at home. we've cut back on the timers on the lawn. we have taken shorter showers. even washing dishes we've cut back on that -- the water that we use. now, morales lives in the l.a. suburb of covina and says she's hoping to rip out her front lawn as soon as possible and replace it with drought-resistant landscaping. she also notices many people on her street are simply letting their lawns die. drive around southern california suburbs and you'll see a lot of brown lawns as the city threatens fines for water wasters. speaking of that, here's something that is just so very california. some residents are trying to do the right thing and rip out their lawns in favor of natural landscaping or artificial turf but get this? now some homeowners are reporting they are being fined by their homeowner's associations which sometimes require a natural lawn or ban the use of artif

sylvia burwell on her department's budget and hydraulic fracturing deep underground to release natural gas. and later, a discussion on iran nuclear negotiations with former iranian and u.s. administration officials. tuesday on "washington journal," brian brown on the national organization for marriage and evan wolfson discuss the oral arguments on whether states can ban same-sex marriage. after that more about those cases with david savage of the l.a. times and chicago tribune. he'll examine what a ruling either way would mean and the status of