she has moved forward publically wither life. she is called to serve in ministries reaching out to women cing persecution. amani and her co hosts talk about their experiences with islam. >> there are so many women living under muslim husbands or muslim fathers or muslim families that are living the same things i am living, that i lived back then. there are so many women that need to know and hear about the freedom of christ that i experience today. those tears are not tears of pain, but they are tears of appreciaon. because now i know that i am saved through the grace of christ. >> amani feels privileged to share her joy on televisi and proud of her children. son joshua has become an ordained pastor and oldest daughter in ministry. she enjoys a loving marriage with her american christian husband and daughter, mary. >> i am convinced every experience iwas to be used for s glory. you see we have a choice, either we sit and mope and weep over our spilled milk or we can just use the hardship and the bad experiences for his glory and

he damaged the flowers and colors, the flowers withered, their leaves all burned and soon they were throwingtheir seeds every which way and when the whole orchard changed into a dry, gray waste, humbaba, his mind like stone, shouted his horrible cry of fire and burned all that gray and yellow, birds of all kinds were flying away with ashes in their beaks which humbaba couldn't oversee any more or ever set on fire. then, grandfather ended his day and continued closing his big thick yellow book, turning to his grandsons and daughters and anding them a big red bud, then bidding them good night and laying his head on his yawning book, he glances solemnly at the full moon in the core of the sky, his eyelids blinking once, searching for that big, silvery rose. the next reader is dima shahabi >> i'd like to move on with an iraqi poet, one of the most prominent and brilliant poets of her time recently passed away in cairo, in june, actually. she was not only a poet, she was luminous and free-thinking pioneer in establishing the theory of what has come to be known as free verse in arabic poetry. in a

the little girl is back wither when mom tonight. the mental state of the convicted rapist accused of kidnapping -- they appeared in court briefly today. we learned that the attorney for phillip may try to have him declared mentally unfit for trial. his attorney didn't discuss it in own court, but nancy's attorney did outside of the courthouse. >> do you think he's nuts. >> everybody is nuts. >> do you think he's more nuts than the rest of us? probably. >> they are accused of kidnapping her and holding her cap active for 18 years. prosecutors say that phillip rained her when she was a teenager and fathered two of her children. the next scheduled appearance in court -- >>> someone apparently snapped those photographs last weekend and has now put them up for sale. the spokeswoman says i'm saddened by these photos being offered to the media. she is not a celebrity neither are her would minor age girls. they are survivors are violent crimes. it's not clear weather those photos have been sold. >>> the nationwide egg recall do to salmonell

. >> announcer: from the global we sources of abc news, wither the roy moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," august 17th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin with further evidence of a soft economy. home loan raments set new lows this month. the average 30-year mortgage rate fell to 4.44%. the lowest since freddie mac records began in 1971. no time like the present to refinance your home? right? not so fast. even people with great credit are having a hard time securing a loan. are having a hard time securing a loan. vicki mabrey looks at what you need to know to score a loan in tonight's "realty check." >> reporter: when brian and suzanne were shopping for their first home, they thought they'd be a lock for a mortgage. they were shocked when they were denied. >> you know, we've been working for four years of our marriage towards getting our first new home and when we finally were ready to do that, and we went for the mortgage and we were totally denied it was just heartbreaking. >> i thought it was going to be easy. lease cars, purchased cars, i have a

over the course of a year i have slowly watched support for his foster parents wither away. one year since five-year-old hasanni campbell went missing and there have been a change of heart against people who stood by the boy's foster parents including his opt. >> i believe my nephew was murdered. >> by who? >> by luis. >> reporter: luis ross, hasanni's foster father claims he left the boy behind this backdoor of the shoe store where hasanni's aunt worked. when he opened the door to let the boy into a back room, hasanni was gone. police arrested the couple who were cooperating and then released them citing a lack of evidence. >> i trusted their word. but they showed through their acts their word cannot be trusted. they have shown they have an agenda. i am not going to play that game with them. >> we had nothing to do with it. he is our little boit -- boy. we want him and we want him home. >> reporter: a volunteer searcher says she understands why they stopped talking to police, but can't understand their actions afterward. >> we were there to support them and help them in any

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in alzheimer's disease, the nerve cremes wither and die. abnormal proteins aqume nate and form plaques and tangles. when they look to see how accurate the proteins were at predicting illness, they found 90% of those with the disease had the disease pattern in spinal fluid. one day, a cure for the 5 million americans suffering from alzheimer's. >> we now have a tool that allows us to identify the disease, years before dementia starts. and that's the stage of disease at which intervention should be effective. it's treating the alzheimer's disease process before there's irreversible damage to the brain. i think that's the key to bringing this epidemic of alzheimer's under control. >> reporter: it will still be a few years before the spinal fluid test is available in your doctor's office. for now, it's driving new research. i asked if we would see a cure or effective treatment in our lifetime. the answer i got, george -- absolutely. >> okay, well, that is hopeful news. rich, thank you. to find ten warning signs for alzheimer's, go to abcnews.co

thank you very much for being out withere so early. more information on the project coming up. also a look at the impact on the neighborhood nearby. back to you. >> here's some interesting transbay tidbits for you. the terminal was built way back in 1939, linking san francisco to the east bay for the first time. it was paid for by bay bridge tolls which at the time were 50 cents a car that would be more than 7 bucks today. at the end of world war ii, 26 million passengers rode through every year. >>> how much is muni worth? that's what the mta accountants wanted to find out in their capital access inventory report. the chronicle says if muni were to build the entire system now it would cost about $11 billion. most of the system is in good working order and the agency has $1 billion in deferred investment. that means muni would still need to invest about $455 million each year to keep the system in good shape. most of that money would go to rail repairs. >>> the tragic story of the death of chauncey bailey plays out on television tonight. nbc bay area's christie smith is live in

consumers are still heavily in debt compared to their historical norm and have seen their 401(k)s witherd are becoming frugal which is normally a virtue but now an inconvenience. >> the federal reserve chairman made a statement on friday. i mean, he basically said that they're standing by ready to do what they have to do if it gets to dire. is it not dire? >> no. >> go ahead. >> i mean the situation is difficult right now but he's saying that we'll pop up if the situation gets really worse. the real question is does he have the tools to do what it takes and this week alan blinder who used to work at the fed had a piece on "the wall street journal" where he was saying the fed is running low on ammunition and the ammunition that it does have is the weak stuff. i mean he's saying at the height of the financial crisis the fed was using things like machine guns and hand grenades and now they're fighting with swords and throwing rocks and, you know, even the fed is -- bernanke is saying that there are options, but, you know, don't count on us the fed alone, the central bankers to solve the wor

and he locked eyes wither. and there was a slight sense and here of survival. we pulled it off. she's happy. she's found her way. and that feeling of they made it, too. >> we're not talking about the honeymoon. >> i can reveal they spent last night in the hotel pierre. >> you heard it here first from tina brown. thank you all very much. it was a glorious weekend. to see more photos of chelsea on big day, plus chelsea through the years, go to abcnews.com. >>> next, are you exhausted? dr. mehmet oz talks about how to tell if it's something serious. about how to tell if it's hing serious. ] 10...9.. a new school year has so much potential! any resolutions? my resolution is the same as always; keep her full and focused with my fiber. [ all ] 3...2...1... happy school year! [ female announcer ] this school year, make a resolution to give your kid kellogg's frosted mini-wheats cereal. an excellent source of fiber from 100% whole grain. that helps keep them full so they can focus on the day ahead. keeps 'em full... ke

you say, day in and day out, the criticism of george from all sides was withering.se george did. but what he endured was a meanness of spirit a viciousness, and cruelty that i hope no political family will ever be subjected to again. do you feel that the obama family is now experiencing some of what you and your husband did? >> well, sadly, i think it's just a part of life for the president and the president's family. and it's too bad, really. it comes from every direction. from your friends and your foes. and i think that's too bad. but i am really proud of the way george handled it. i think he handled it in a very presidential way really. knowing that that's part of it. and we did know that that was part of it because, of course we'd been the children of a president ourselves. and we'd seen president bush, george's dad criticized in a way that we knew was unfair. so, i wish i hope that americans would just take a step back and a deep breath and realize that people who are serving in public office are truly that servants. >> as always eloquent and well-put. thank y