ted won, but the joy of ted kennedy's triumph was sadly muted. nior suffered a debilitating stroke. but his fourth son was now on his way. and unlike his brothers, ted found a home in the senate. >> i think teddy kennedy was very happy being a senator. he just seemed more comfortable there within two days than either of the brothers may have felt being there for several years. >> then, on the night of july 18, 1969, with kennedy poised to perhaps challenge nixon in 1972, he drove off a bridge on an island near martha's vineyard. the passenger with him, robert kennedy staffer mary jo kopechne was killed. kennedy said he was driving her to catch a ferry to the vineyard when the accident occurred. >> there is no truth, no truth whatever, to the widely-circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and hers regarding that evening. >> there were many reasons to believe they weren't heading to the ferry. first of all, she, mary jo left her purse and her keys, her motel key back at the cottage. they also didn't head to the

ted kennedy was his closest ally. if it wasn't for ted kennedy, it's not clear barack obama would have won in 2008 when he backed obama over hillary clinton. now you get the specter of the two titans of the democratic party, bill clinton and barack obama after being at an awards ceremony for the presidential medal now going there to together to pay respects. it's going to be a poignant moment and important moment. i think it's important i think to remember arlington and remember the flame, not just dallas and conspiracy theories on this 50th anniversary. >> and let me bring ennor clift into this part of the conversation. eleanor, as you take a look at this somber ceremony we're about to see, the laying of the wreath, playing of taps, no one's going to talk. they're just going to remember and reflect. what goes through your mind as you think about the 50 years later, if you will? >> this is a powerful democratic small d and big "d" tradition. you have jack kennedy which i think woke the country up and showed us all wha

remember when caroline kennedy and ted kennedy endorsed in 2008, caroline kennedy said the excitement then president obama reminded her about her dad in 1960 when he ran for president. can he get a little personal juice and adrenaline ouf out of this sure. is one day away from obama care from a 37% approval rating going to solve those problems? no but it can't hurt. >> the latest numbers are in. as you know they've been grim from polling institution after polling institution. but the latest, cbs news reporting the president's approval rating is now 37%. that may sound on an absolute basis horrible, and it is. but a month ago it was 46%. so it gives you a sense of how dramatically it's dropping. just for comparison since we're talking about jfk tonight, and again that's going to be the center of what he's talking about, president kennedy had a 56% approval rating when he was assassinated. that was the low for his presidency. >> he served 2 1/2 years in the presidency. so all of the hope and the optimism if you read the history books that accompanied the beginning of the new frontier, t

and ted kennedy in the post-9/11 days. and there's a young kennedy in the united states congress. and caroline kennedy as ambassador. and they're with us -- it's still the american family in politics. >> i want to talk about that when we come back. we're going to be joined by douglas brinkley to talk about the kennedy legacy, including the controversial argument that jfk should not be seen as a fallen liberal icon. as i mentioned, friday will mark the day that 50 years ago, president kennedy was assassinated. changed perspective, controversies and countless theories on what happened on that day. those do not blunt the impact the nation felt when it learned its leader had been shot. the feelings were raw. and they resonate today. >> if it's a conspiracy, not only the president was hit, the governor was hit, who knows if the next shot would have been for lyndon johnson. johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at parkland hospital. four agents reach him. and they grab johnson and pull him out and start to run him down one corridor around, looking for a safe place. >> mr. johnson,

remember when caroline kennedy and ted kennedy, caroline said the excitement around then

site, this historic site where you have the former president, you also have bobby kennedy, senator ted kennedy, the three brothers and jackie kennedy, the former first lady buried -- >> they are there with ethyl kennedy. >> you see ethal there as they go up the stairs. bill clinton has the iconic photo as a boy's nation event when bill clinton was a young pan and bill clinton always loved that photo and used it and made the personal connection. president obama of course was a young man when this happened. his wife was born after president kennedy was assassinated but the kennedys were critical. that was when the clinton obama race was atogger head and a big question mark. both of these presidents, clinton and obama have a connection to the kennedy family that is important to them politically and they thought it was important to do this today. >> i heard you say the political history of the u.s. is in many ways the history of kennedy family. >> if you look back, if you think about it, we talk about expectations of the moment. well, when jack kennedy ran for the presidency, it wasn't supposed to

ted kennedy goes through a tragedy with a young woman killed. the son, john kennedy junior, killed in a senseless plane crashed off of cape cod. it is a combination, i think, of continuesthings that to recommend kennedy to us as this very, very appealing figure. >> i wonder whether or not whether -- what ever john kennedy did or did not accomplish, there are those to this day who are concerned about the hype of the kennedy years, and they see him as a mediocre president, at best, not a failed president, but mediocre. my question is whether what he did or did not accomplish in life will always be overshadowed by how he died. >> yes. you know, he did have some accomplishments. there was, of course, the most striking feature, the way in which he led the country through that cuban missile crisis. we know in retrospect that he avoided a nuclear conflict with the soviet union. successseized upon that to make his famous american university speech in which he spoke about thinking anew, a fresh about our relationship with the soviet union. if he lived, i

. >> look at ted kennedy. how did he come out so liberal?ht of saying we got to cut taxes. >> ted kennedy? >> yes. >> think about the -- o to me it doesn't matter what party they're from. if they have good policy. ted kennedy, in the bush administration becomes a champion of education reform and works with the president to get that done. i think that good policy trumps politics. >> what about personal responsibility? >> asking that question is like asking what would howard taft have been like? what would he have been like 50 years later? it's apples and oranges. >> speculating. >> we don't want him to get upset. >> he would be a conservative. >> just it's very -- >> he wouldn't be a republican. who knows? 50 years from now, barack obama may not seem like a socialist what whatsoever. >> gosh, i hope not. >> can anyone get elected by saying don't ask what you can do for your country. don't ask what you can do -- you know what i'm saying. >> not just what kennedy said. it's how he made people feel. >> right. >> you can get elected by providing

. >> michael, we talked about this for a good long while on the radio the day senator ted kennedy wasurch service. >> yeah, the funeral. that's right. >> you have jack kennedy who may not have been perfect but was basically a conservative. all the other kennedys -- not necessarily bobby kennedy. but all the other kennedys down through the subsequent generations go left, more left and even more left. what the hell happened, michael? why did they disown the president's real legacy in. >> well, as practicing politicians, they have to evolve with their party or leave it. they weren't willing to leave it. they've got to evolve to address its constituencies. if kennedy himself had lived, he would have faced the changing composition of the democratic party, the changing nature of his constituents' ideas, too. >> brian, it was odd to me, it's hard to figure this stuff. but the democratic party has never been the same. after kennedy, the democratic party moves left, left, left and more left. ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. brian, that is completel

ted kennedy talking about barack obama.ack obama going through what might be the toughett part of his presidency. jfk didn't have to do that. he didn't have to get through one term. maybe part of this is the luck of timing. can president obama get back that jfk comparison and all the good things it brought to him in. >> well, it is a good question. it is difficult. i think mario cuomo once said you campaign in poetry, you campaign in prose. it is about hope, it is about inspiration, governing is very hard work as john knows covering it every day. it is about the minutiae of politics, about choices. it is not about inspiration, unfortunely. and i think you ma i can a good.. it would be nice if the president got back to thinking, about our long term future. feeling like it is a campaign and talking about bigger issues, i don't know if you can put the genie back in the bottle but she try will. >> to contrast, this is the sort of tone you might have expected. it might have been more similar to the kind of excite mament. and how

on his presidency people miss remember kennedy with bobby in his later years and of course ted kennedy the liberal line of the senate. jack kennedy was the most conservative of his brothers and administration was fairly conservative. that's the presidency part. on the assassination part we wanted to make a contribution and we wanted it to be based on the scientific method. again, not only does everybody has an opinion everybody has a theory. there are a million theories. when you read a theory and someone's opinion about the assassination. in the vast majority of cases it is no. >> host: that's interesting you say what a holdup in the court of law. there has only been the one trial that is jim morris and the publicity stunt. so, historians have to deal with other ways to enforce intellectual law that no one is going to be tried or convicted. but do historians have an obligation to police or the ther historians are about history? >> guest: to a certain degree. you police the bad history with good history because in the end i think the marketplace responds to the fact-based analysis. and

in a way that confused him with bobby in his later years and of course ted kennedy the lib or line of the. jack kennedy was by far the most conservative of the brothers and his administration was fairly conservative. that is the presidency part. on the assassination part we wanted to make a contribution and we wanted it to be based on the scientific effort. not only does everyone have an opinion, in this field everybody is a theory. there are a million theories about kennedy's assassination. there are surprisingly few hard facts. the question i always ask people is when you have read a theory, when you read someone's opinion about the kennedy assassination, is there enough proof and evidence so that it will hold up in a court of law? the answer in the vast majority of cases is no. >> host: that's interesting you say hold up in a court of law. of course we remember there was one trial which was the gym moore some publicity's guns basically is what it was. so historians have to deal with other ways to enforce at least intellectual love that wall -- that no one will be tried or convicted

. >> you knew ted kennedy, and i did a little bit too. and he sounds almost the way ted kennedy did in private. it wasn't like where the diction was more crisp. it's like a regular guy, injure' just talking to him. >> we're looking at the face here, the liveliness of this guy's personality, the eyes flashing around, checking out the room, and obviously great looking. great voice. i think kennedy had, he didn't have to learn to project the voice, which it took him about 15 years to learn to do it. his in-person voice was solid. i'm impressed. >> although different. because this is four days after that debate in chicago. and in chicago every facial expression he gives is perfect and the sentences are so crisp. look how tired he is. the bags under the eyes that the makeup artist is working very hard to conceal. >> it's not just the bad looks because nixon had been in the hospital with an infected leg. the kennedy people were so conniving that they made sure that the lectern that he used was very thin lectern so that you could see nixon's leg

john kerry recalled first time he met h, morehan 50 years ago, when he was working for her uncle ted kennedy's campaign. >> she was abo to go riding on macaroni. i rememb the pony. all of us . i managed to back into her and step oher foot sufficiently that she broke into wild tears, and i thought i uld never be welcome again near her. >> secretary kerry, what are y doing? >>> the amican heart association and american college of cdiology are calling for one-third of all adus to consider taking cholesterol-loweringrugs known as stins. >>> freedom ter nearly a decade in prison for ryan ferguson. he was concted of beating and strangling a sports newspaper editor. a missouri court ruled last week thatrosecutors held key evence from the defense. >> to get arrested and to ge chard for a crime you didn't commit is incredly easy. and you can lose your li very fast. but to get out of prison, it takes an army. >>> worth your weight in gold. a weht loss chlenge in dubai offered citizens one gram of gold for every kilogram of weight they lost. ld worth over $76300 was given to more than 600 weight loss win

that interview, senator paul wellstone was killed in a plane crash and the mantle was passed to ted kennedyfor him to champion the law. his son, congressman patrick kennedy, had fought depression and substance abuse for years. well, today, the obama administration announced it was building off of their historic but passed in a really weird way, landmark mental health law. kathleen sebelius announced the new rules today which implement the protections of that law. insurance companies can't say they're going to make you pay one copay for something physical, then something hire for mental health. it also makes it so your insurance company can't tell you, if you have say cancer, you can go see your doctor as many times as you need, but if you're depressed, you can only see your doctor a certain number of times per year. what the administration did today, they closed the loopholes insurance companies were using to get around ilt. to unveil, she was introduced by rosalynn carter, who championed this herself for years. paul wellstone's son, david, was not audience as she said two of her own family

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kennedy in recognition of the 50th anniversary of his assassination. we profile robert mcnational marry ha and aides arthurs schlessinger, jr. and ted sorenson. this is about an hour. >> i'm so delighted you're here and looking forward to this conversation. the first question is, 50 years after his death, president kennedy has an 80% approval rating among the american public. which is nothing to sneeze at in this contested age. is the public wrong? >> well, you know, first of all, it's 85%. >> it's gone up. >> and the result of the recent government shutdown, i suspect if you did it today, it might be 90%. i don't think it's wrong in the sense that people in this country want to feel better about government. they want to feel better about the country's future. and i think that's what kennedy still gives people. you know, they compare him to other subsequent presidents. johnson, with vietnam. nixon, with watergate. jimmy carter, one term, the first bush, one term, the second bush, leaves under a cloud. and so they looked to two presidents to give them better hope and feeling about the government. first of all, kennedy -- reagan in this poll, wh

the walsh was an aide to ted kennedy previously for years, and even he says he knows at least eight other marty walshs in boston. >>> when we come back here tonight, our colleague, dr. nancy sneiderman, her daughter, ant woman who made them a family. >>> finally here tonight, a personal family story from one of our own family members, 27 years ago, dr. nancy sneiderman adoptd a baby girl who is now a graduate student. and as you're about to hear, she recently took nancy along for what turned out to be an extraordinary reunion with the woman whose decision changed both of their lives. >> hi. >> oh, god, i can't brief it. >> reporter: it was a moment she waited for her whole life. my daughter kate hugged her birth mother cheryl for the first time. >> you're a lot different than you were 2 years ago. >> reporter: 27 years ago i was a young surgeon in little rock, arkansas. >> i had a career in front of me. and one night i got a phone call from a doctor saying would you adopt this baby? and my answer was yes. >> reporter: that phone call changed my life. suddenly, i was a mother to a 7 pound

ted kennedy, the horror at chappaquiddick where the young woman died in the accident. so they identify also with the suffering that the family has gone through, because everybody worked through some kind of difficult any their lives. so it's the combination on the one hand of their fame and fortune and on the other hand their suffering, their tragedy. but they are really the dynastic family. >> explain the public's fascination. you tell us the truth and we have had a range of kennedy biographies, and then there was the tearing him down and the exposure of his womanizing and the concealment of his health problems. but i left this book feeling this was pretty positive portrait and my tickaway is you paint the picture of a president would came in with a lot of faith in his advisers and was willing to devery -- did he ever to them and that led to the bay of pigs, but by the time of the cuban missile crisis he was responsible for his own decisions and resisted irrational action and saved the world from nuclear annihilation. >> he brought in what the david hallber symptom ca

problem is, it was this marty walsh, a former aide to ted kennedy.with that name are a dime a dozen in boston. florida congressman debbie wasserman schultz and rybak also did the same thing. >>> the meeting was reportedly very cordial and productive between bloomberg and mayor-elect de blasio. but this picture was captured. maybe because there was a soda can. >>> chris christie says he's so flattered by 2016 presidential speculation and has no problems with it. >> someone asks you if you're going to be a candidate for president of the united states and you're in politics, oh, stop annoying me and asking me if i'm going to be leader of the free world. come on. anybody who says that's lying. >> christie says he's happy with being governor of new jersey. that's the job he's going to do. at least for now. >>> a little spousal rivalry never hurt anyone. in maine it helped democrat jennifer johnson defeat her republican husband david in race for waterville warden. she won a whopping 63% of the vote. i'm sure she's been bragging about it at home since. >>>

bob shrum served as senator ted kennedy's press secretary and speech writer, writing teddy's famous the never die speech which redelivered at the national convention in new york. peter edelman joined the kennedy justice department just three months before the president was killed in dallas. he went on to be a top aide to senator robert kennedy among other fabulous things that i know you've done. thank you both for joining me. i'd like to start, bob, just with your reflections on -- on that time and on that day. >> well, first i should say, by the way, i contributed to that 1980 speech when senator kennedy was generous enough to give me some credit. peter will understand what i'm saying. >> no plagiarizing. i got it. >> no plagiarizing. peter will understand what i'm saying. look, i had met president kennedy when he was senator kennedy by accident at the '60 democratic convention. the world was much more pourous in those days. i volunteered. i ended up working in peter sallen jer's office. one of my jobs was to take people up to senator kennedy's suite. when you knocked on the door he an

with carter facing a challenge with ted kennedy, there wasn't room for anybody else. his political career kind of crumbled. he lost popularity in california. he worked with mother teresa. he studied zen buddism. he came back years later a changed man, a man forgotten by the political world, an outsider, something of a radical. he ran for president this time in 1982. this jerry brown had no patience at all for the political system, no patience for politicians like bill clinton. the whole system was corrupt, jerry brown. that was his message. he had no problem saying it to people like bill clinton to their face. >> you ought to be a shamed of yourself for jumping on my wife. you are not worth being on the same platform as my wife. >> i tell you go is, mr. clinton, ralph nader called me and made me the article i was shocked by it. i was shocked by it because i don't think someone in government should be -- >> it is just a small taste of what that campaign was like. when that '92 campaign was over, jerry brown really was a political pariah. the media thought he was an unh

president -- ted kennedy was chair of the committee that brought it to the floor in 1996. was just, again, one vote shy of passage. in the meantime, in those 17 years, the attitudes in this country have changed dramatically. dramatically. about the rights of gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgendered americans. i think in a nutshell, the vast majority -- vast majority -- of americans believe that individuals ought to have the right to earn a living free from discrimination, to be judged on their performance in the workplace based on their talent, their ability and their qualifications. interestingly enough, since 1996, 17 states, including my state of iowa, have passed legislation that includes basic employment protections for all lgbt americans. i will use that -- that acronym or that -- those letters to explain lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered americans. 88% of fortune 500 businesses have included protections in their nondiscrimination policies. as have the majority of small businesses. over a hundred major businesses, including pharmaceutical companies, technol

former aide to ted kennedy. received a few unexpected calls of congratulations yesterday. one was from vice president joe biden who reportedly roared, you son of a gun, matter y yrty, di. dnc share debbie wasserman schultz reportedly made the error, so did the mayor of minneapolis. the wrong marty walsh told ""the boston globe"" we're a dime a dozen. i probably not eight marty walshes. >>> we get a look at new economic data. yesterday stocks were mixed but the dow jones industrial average closed at an all-time high. it seems virtually ignored because twitter's gone public. steve sedgwick live for us in london. do people think this is going to pop huge at the open or what? >> reporter: well, it's popped huge before the open as well. they raised the price twice, brian. what's interesting is what led the dow higher yesterday, really old tech, microsoft trading at highest level in 12 years. now it's all about twitter, which upped its price target twice. $26 per share is the ipo price. they could have sold this twice over. it's valuing the company pretty highly. $18 billion is

senator ted kennedy, who carried this battle until days before his death, in fact the quote i'm about to share is from august 5, 2009. he died just 20 days later. this may well have been one of his last public comments, in introducing the 2009 bill may well have been one of his last legislative acts. and he said, the promise of america will never be fulfilled as long as justice is denied to even one among us. i urge my colleagues, take a stand for equality. take a stand for fundamental fairness. take a stand for the vision of the pursuit of happiness embedded in our constitution. take a stand for justice for all. support this bill. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coats: mr. president, among the many promises the president made when he and congressional democrats enacted their unpopular health care law nearly four years ago -- and by the way, that was enacted without any bipartisan input or support -- there was on

he was once an aid to the late senator ted kennedy. >> that's funny. mistaken identity. >>> let's focus on the weather forecast. getting close to the weekend. >> the weather will be changing as we head into the weekend, carolyn and dan. we are looking at cooler weather and the possibility of rain next week. live doppler 7hd, just watching all of the cloud cover out there. we are not expecting any rain just yet. compared to 24 hours ago, look at these numbers. they are running higher thanks to all of the cloud cover. 7 dries warmer in half moon bay and up 5 from san jose to novato and fairfield, concord, 4 degrees warmer. from our emeryville camera, good view of sutro tower there and 62 in san francisco. this almost looks like a high in the winter time. 58 in oakland and 59 in san jose. sutro tower camera showing you san francisco and fog is not a problem. low 50s santa rosa, napa, novato, concord, 55 in live more, exploratorium camera looking at the trans america building. here is a look at your forecast, partly cloudy in the morning and cooler this we

he was once an aid to the late senator ted kennedy. >> that's funny.istaken identity. >>> let's focus on the weather forecast. getting close to the weekend. >> the weather will be changing as we head into the weekend, carolyn and dan. we are looking at cooler weather and the possibility of rain next week. live doppler 7hd, just watching all of the cloud cover out there. we are not expecting any rain just yet. compared to 24 hours ago, look at these numbers. they are running higher thanks to all of the cloud cover. 7 dries warmer in half moon bay and up 5 from san jose to novato and fairfield, concord, 4 degrees warmer. from our emeryville camera, good view of sutro tower there and 62 in san francisco. this almost looks like a high in the winter time. 58 in oakland and 59 in san jose. sutro tower camera showing you san francisco and fog is not a problem. low 50s santa rosa, napa, novato, concord, 55 in live more, exploratorium camera looking at the trans america building. here is a look at your forecast, partly cloudy in the morning and cooler this week

very graciously the president and first lady went over to ted kennedy's house and spoke about the nature and personality and character of this man, ronald rage began had politically opposed on a personal level was appreciating very deeply. it was very touching. it was nice. like the old days where you can be nice to the other side. >> schieffer: there is one kind of bipartisan thing in recent history, isn't there, david, that is that every president wants to be like jack kennedy in a way. >> absolutely. after lincoln died historians wrote that everybody want to get write with lincoln, walk in his footsteps that happened after john f. kennedy, in a book is very much about every president drool upon kennedy. especially bill clinton. remember the scene when kennedy was young, came to the white house he sort of reached out touched the hand of god. he was always influenced by it and drew heavily upon it in his rhetoric and his actions. >> schieffer: just same question to both of you, what do you think this anniversary means for the country. i think it's very important for people who were not

kerry recalled the first time he met her more than 50 years ago when he was working for her uncle ted kennedy and his campaign. >> she was about to go riding on macaroni. i remember the pony, and all of us do. i managed to back into her and step on her foot sufficiently that she broke into wild tears. and i thought i would never be welcome again near her. >> freedom, after nearly a decade in prison for ryan ferguson. ten years ago ferguson was convicted of beating and strangling a sports newspaper editor. a missouri court ruled last week the prosecutors held key evidence from the defense. >> to get charged for a crime you didn't commit, it's incredibly easy. you can lose your life very fast. but to get out of prison, it takes an army. >>> the american heart association and american college of cardiology are calling for one-third of all adults to consider taking cholesterol lowering drugs known as statins. >>> remember occupy wall street? a group of those protesters are called rolling jubilee purchased almost $15 million in personal and medical debt for about $400,000, then they simply forgave

kennedy's daughter, was sworn in as the new u.s. ambassador to japan. caroline wanted her uncle ted'swinter of 2008 and was taken that the ultimate sign of the party establishment embracing the young first term senator. that's not always what the kennedy name represented. they were the outsiders in the democratic party, right up until the moment jfk won the white house. his triumph wasn't the story of the democratic party electing its candidate, it was the story of a family that created its own party within a party, a party built around jfk, a party that eclipsed the rest of the party, a party that became the party. it begins with joseph p. kennedy, born in east boston, 1888, son of a respected businessman. went to harvard, but the banking elite didn't want to let an irish catholic in. so made his own way in and found himself president of the bank at the age of 25. married the mayor's daughter, made a large family, went to new enterprises, the movies, hollywood, played the stock market so well that the crash of 1929 barely touched him. and then went into politics. backing franklin roo

i was proud to work for a great icon of the senate, ted kennedy who was own?or his bipartisan deal making. there are lots of icons on both sides of the aisle. tell me what you think they would be thinking today if they were here in the senate dealing with the nuclear option. have those days ended? is this curable? >> i think robert byrd who was in the senate for one of the longest serving senators in the history of the senate, i think he is turning over in his grave. he was somebody who understood to break the rules means you have no rules. another democrat high didn't get to work with who i have immense respect for, mike mansfield. i've heard story after story about how when senators came in, republican or democrat, he made sure they had their, they had their ability to offer them an amendment. brought them into the mix and created a bipartisan atmosphere. >> we were told the last month, no matter how bad the website got, the president couldn't fire secretary sebelius because he would never get a nominee through senate. doesn't today clear the way for the pre

this was a republican government, democratic legislators, romney and ted kennedy, can you talk aboutt that process was like. some of these early glitches, the enrollment from massachusetts, it took a long time for people to get enrolled in this. it sounds like a hopeful model nationally. can you talk to people about it? >> it's great to be here in boston. we celebrate the red sox victory, i will tell you when we started down this path, we actually did it in a different way than what the federal government has proposed and enacted with regard to the affordable care act. our act was based on getting flexible from the federal government. we tried to put pieces together. great credit to governor romney and then united states senator ted kennedy for actually going to washington and saying we need the flexibility to be able to use medicaid in creative ways, for instance, to be able to insure our population t. goal at that point was to preserve the free market. preserve competitive forces, not to say there would be one health insurance plan offered by state government but state government w

he was once an aid to the late senator ted kennedy. >> that's funny.tity. >>> let's focus on the weather forecast. getting close to the weekend. >> the weather will be changing as we head into the weekend, carolyn and dan. we are looking at cooler weather and the possibility of rain next week. live doppler 7hd, just watching all of the cloud cover out there. we are not expecting any rain just yet. compared to 24 hours ago, look at these numbers. they are running higher thanks to all of the cloud cover. 7 dries warmer in half moon bay and up 5 from san jose to novato and fairfield, concord, 4 degrees warmer. from our camera, emeryville cam, good view of sutro tower there and 62 in san francisco. this almost looks like a high in the winter time. 58 in oakland and 59 in san jose. sutro tower camera showing you san francisco and fog is not a problem. low 50s santa napa napa, novato, concord, 55 in live more, exploratorium camera looking at the trans america building. here is a look at your forecast, partly cloudy in the morning and cooler this weekend. cha

. >> reporter: her first step into politics came in 2008 when she joined her uncle ted kennedy to endorse then candidate barack obama for president. she will now be a member of his foreign service. margaret brennan, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: well, chicago is crying foul tonight. new york city won the bragging rights to the nation's tallest skyscraper. an international panel of architects ruled the needle atop one world trade center is a spire, not just an antenna, and is thus a permanent part of the building. that brings its height to 1,776 feet, 325 feet taller than chicago's willis tower, which held the title for more than 40 years. starfish are disintegrating before our eyes and no one knows why. that story is next. the day my doctor told me i had diabetes, i remember thinking there's a lot i have to do... check my blood sugar, eat better. start insulin. today i learned there's something i don't have to do anymore. my doctor said with levemir® flexpen... i don't have to use a syringe and a vial. levemir® flexpen comes prefilled with long-acting insulin taken once daily for type

he later served as a top deputy for attorney general janet reno, he was special counsel to ted kennedy and served as the president's advisor on civil rights issues. he was also director for civil rights at the department of human health services. tom, you will find, is passion ate and committed to equality and justice for everyone. tom, more than anyone i know, makes every single day in his life matter, whether it's focused on anti-bullying work, voting rights, disability rights, housing rights, the eighth amendment, immigration, hate crimes or human trafficking. tom cares about all of those issues to his core and he works every day to make the world a better place. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome assistant attorney general tom perez. (applause). >> good morning, it's an honor to be back here. i got to spend some time last night with my brother who lives down the road apiece, his daughter is a sophomore in high school, she asked me if i wanted to go golfing at the presidio, i said i can't walk that much, i just had my knee replaced. melinda has been an incredible partner, it's a p

former rhode island congressman patrick kennedy remembers how his father, ted kennedy, became a father again. >> my father, frankly, was not just my father. he was the father for my cousins john and caroline. >> reporter: 50 years later, america's moved on. pushed forward in immeasurable ways by that moment. and much more so by that man. byron pitts, abc news, dallas. >> our thanks to byron tonight. >>> and all week, abc news will mark the 50th anniversary both on the air and online at abcnews.com. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news" this sunday night. outrage over an american tv host and her smiling face. thousands now asking, how can she call herself an animal lover after killing the king of the jungle? the country that wants her out. >>> and later tonight, the spectacular images of mt. etna, ro roaring back to life. you've got to see this, as we roaring back to life. you've got to see this, as we continue. you want to seing cool? snapshot, from progressive. my insurance company told me not to talk to people like you. you always do what they tell you? no... try it, and