Blur. Reporter sasha attends Maybeck High School in berkeley. Students and teachers wore skirts today to pay tribute to their classmate. Now, yesterday the 16yearold accused of setting the skirt on fire was arraigned in an oakland courtroom. He is charged, he is being charged, rather, with a hate crime. There are reports that investigators, that he told investigators that he was homophobic. Back here live, as you can see, this is line 57 where the bus route is going. The 16yearold apparently told his mom that he is remorseful. And that he was just playing around and that he wants to apologize to sasha. Well have more on this story coming up at 11 00. Reporting live in oakland, im cheryl, hurd, nbc bay area news. Thank you. As just mentioned, it was a powerful show or support from his classmates. Several students, teachers and even the principal at maybeck high in berkeley wore skirts to school. Heres video of this. They wanted to send a message to sasha that theyre, indeed, united. One
Let me finish tonight with this. At the risk of challenging the conventional wisdom, a risk ive spent much of my life taking, i see no reason to accept some grand deal among the president , the house democrats, and House Republicans. Why on god earth would a republican member of Congress Interest in protecting himself or herself politically vote to raise taxes on those he represents . Why . Because they get to make more voters angry with them by cutting medicare, because they get their means tested . Give me a break. So this odd republican out there is going to both raise taxes and make his somewhat better off voters pay more for health care . No way. We really dont need to get to the liberals, progressives, but just for the sake of candor, why on this gods earth would a good democrat need to cut or i dont get why people are talking about a deal, that no politician out there worried about his or her reelection or renomination would ever want to i can mmake. The truth of what im saying
[ theme music ] stephanie hello, current tv land, good morning. Good morning jacki schechner. Good morning, love what is going on . Stephanie well knowing more fun than a sequestration. Apparently it is both disastrous and it is the president s fault and its no big deal, but it is a disaster. Hashtag stephanie right. Hashtag lame ass rightwing moron. Yes. Good morning everybody, lets talk sequester. President obama is travelling to new port news virginia today where he will talk about sequestration. Many suppliers rely solely on the shipping company for its business the president will explain how the job cuts will impact our safety. The navy has already said that the cuts will have an impact on deployment of a secondary craft carrier to the persian gulf. Military officials have expressed concern. Here at home the white house is rolling out cabinet members to speak with the press about how the budget cuts are going to effect each of their individual domains. Yesterday it was Homeland Se
North korea says it has an ability to miniaturize Nuclear Weapons able to fit onto missiles. But washington is skeptical. Well get the latest from marie harf. Kim jongun parades once starving citizens who tried to flee showing them off exclusively before cnns cameras in an effort to soften the image of his ruthless regime. Is this the latest propaganda tied to kim flexing his countrys nuclear muscle . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news the tense confrontation between chineses military and an american spy plane monitoring disturbing developments in disputed waters hundreds of miles off the chinese coast. Thats where beijing is building manmade islands that could serve as launching points for sea battles against the United States and its allies. Were also following the latest isis onslaught with more cities falling to terrorist forces in a bloody offensive that has tens of thousands of people fleeing for their lives right now. And were also lea
Neil. He was one of our most esteemed members, passed away unexpectedly this summer. You were at the memorial service. I was at the Funeral Service in cincinnati. I missed the memorial service. Tell us what that was like at that service and what was Neil Armstrong like as a man and as an astronaut . The Funeral Service was in cincinnati, outside under a covered tent. Mostly family and astronauts and close family were there. We got to see a lot of the apollo era astronauts. Bob jacobs, the pr that represented nasa. It was more of a member is of neil from his sons and a couple close friends. The eulogies were mostly about his humility. That is what i remember most about neil. One of the most humble guys i ever met, most selfeffacing, never bragged. Never thought about looked at me, i am first on the moon. And it probably the most talented guy i knew as far as pilot skills go. You were if prior you were a Fighter Pilot. Right, and so was he, in korea. Then he got out of the navy. So he wa