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Jane: james, thank you very much. jon: u.s. lawmakers are urging russia not to suspend adoptions by americans. in a letter to president medvedev, a bipartisan group of senators called on him to cancel that provocative move. the firestorm sparked by the story of this 8-year-old russian boy who was adopted by a tennessee woman who put him on a one-way flight back to moscow all alone with a note saying the boy was violent and hard to control. she accused the russian orphanage of misleading her abou...

Negotiating that deal could take two months. the firestorm over adoptions sparked by the story of this seven-year-old russian boy who was adopted by an american mother who later rejected him, months into the adoption, sending the boy home on a 1--- one-way flight back to moscow by himself, with a note that said the boy was violent and hard to control. that note also accusing the russian orphanage of misleading her about the boys condition. thousands of americans are in the process right now of a...

You cover whatever issue it is. hazing in college. the only difference today is you would be able to videotape it and find 5,000 people that would be able to spread it. i dont believe any of these issues are any different. >> boy, you know what? i wish i saw -- you guys are lucky. you sleep well at night. im a little more with president clinton that weve got to really look harder at what we are now as a character, as a society and how we look at things. its nice to hear from you guys. ill call i...

Soccer game. one of the players saw it happened and rushed to give the man cpr and paramedics said that saved his life. adoptions to the u.s. could remain suspended from russia for up to two months after an american family sent an 8-year-old boy back to moscow. before talks can begin, a u.s. negotiator has to wait until flights can back on track from the volcano delays. the flight cancellations are also wilting the flower export business. flights between israel and the u.s. must pass through...

All the information from the government or from the orphanage itself. its really important to keep in mind this is a highly variable process, different orphanages function differently, different agencies function differently, different states function differently. i dont know what resources were available to this woman. again, i think the wakeup call is we need to make sure that they are. >> but if this child had violent tendencies, adam, would she have been told? >> she should have been told, t...

Dont shut us down. we know youre a great country. dont let that one woman shut us down. because we are americans and russians. take it from a kids eye view. >> i am very hopeful that russia and the united states can work out an agreement. i have faith that its going to work out somehow. and im excited. i mean, im really looking forward to being a mom and adopting a child. ♪ >> a moscow-bound delegation from washington has been delayed by the volcano trouble, but those diplomats hope to draft a...

Hello, everybody. welcome back to "cnn sunday morning." im t.j. holmes. >> im kate bolduan. >> tell you what were keeping an eye on this morning. pictures well be seeing all morning out of poland as the country says good-bye to their leader. the mass for the president who died in the plane crash a week ago yesterday is going to be held here in the next hour and a half. 96 people were on the plane. all killed. we saw a public memorial yesterday. both u.s. and russian officials say they probably...

>> a moscow bound delegation from washington has been delayed by the volcano trouble. those diplomats hope to draft a treaty with russia to allow more adoptions to go forward. if your only experience with robots is the rock em, sock em variety or a vacuum cleaner, be prepared to be amazing by the winners of this years first robotics championship. look at our robot checking them out. om. when we built our first hybrid, more people had landlines than cell phones, and gas was $1.75 a gallon. and no...

At least five of them were arrested. 50 members of the detroit-based national socialist movement, what they call themselves. a neonazi groups. waving american flags and had swastikas. they were shouting racial and n slurs. adoption talks between the u.s. and russia will be delayed because of the ash from the volcano. russian adoptions were held up since a tennessee woman returned her 7-year-old adoptive son to russia. and to the south pacific, another earthquake to tell you about. seems like...

Stopped all adoptions because of the tennessee mother that sent the 12-year-old back. there is laura and her russian baby. what do you think about this story? >> there is some confusion whether the adoptions have been suspended. one official says yes. ministry of education says we havent heard that yet. state department says we havent got final word. there is an enormous amount of pressure to get more accountability in the united states. they have tracked a couple of cases where russian kids hav...