have a slow smile on her face. and i know she appreciates everything that we ve been doing, her parents have been doing, and all of the public support out there for her. power to abbey and her fight, no doubt. a tough one for her at the moment. lisa myer, thank you so much, lead attorney for abbey dorn s parents. what does your gut tell you? did the judge make the right ruling allowing those children to spend time with their paralyzed mother? go to us in newsnation.msnbc.com. should a paralyzed mom get visitation rights? 95% saying yes, 5% saying no. let s take a look at some of your comments, as well. one comment coming in saying that, what about a moral right to see them? guess the words for better or worse ren t in he ex-husba s rrge vo. xlilene sidthis, h, my wo! ian biehomha enender cldnecse ofan aidt tt a doctor
would be traumatized by spending too much time with their own mother. a judge has just released his ruling on this. joins by lisa myer, lead attorney for abbie s parents, paul and susan cohen. what do we understand from the decision? what have you heard? what i have heard, very briefly, is that we have prevailed, and the court has agreed with us it is in abbey dorn s best interest to have a relationship with her children. we could not be mr pleased at this time. do you know what any of the specifics in terms of what the judge is going to be allowing the children and abbey to do? my understanding is the judge has awarded abbey visitation with her children one time per year for five days, and it s about three hours per day at abbey s home. more importantly, the judge has found that it is very important that the children have their mother in their memory and that
mike viqueira joins us live from the white house. we just learned president obama should be holding a conference call with members of congress. what are you hearing? reporter: that s right. jay carney appeared in the briefing room 12 minutes and informed us the president conducted a national security council meeting on the situation in libya this morning, and starting right about now, 2:00, it was scheduled to begin. the president will be calling congressional leaders, a conference call, where he will, quote, consult with them on the situation in libya. and of course, there are bipartisan members of congress, democrats and republicans who have been vehicle until criticism, demanding answers, what is the end game? what are the goals of this mission? and that s not only coming from john boehner, the republican speaker of the house, but also from top democrats, like sherrod brown, liberal democrat from the cleveland area, and george miller, a liberal and high-ranking member of
yesterday and round two about to hit us and you saw some of the video down in capitola. what s going on here, mr. lawrence? i think folks are ready to be done with that. we have also had mud slides this one in fairfax along sir francis drake boulevard. the mud is coming down the hills there. folks, we re just so saturated now with all the rainfall, of course, rainfall totals all above the average now. and we continue to see more rain this morning. now, it looks like we didn t have a well defined cold front so that s some good news but we re still seeing scattered showers and some of them are coming down very heavy. look at this line stretching in from san francisco into parts of the east bay. that s a heavy line of storms moving on through and driving through that a little bit early on this morning bringing with it heavy amounts of rainfall through walnut creek and concord and that s what you re going to see for today some heavy downpours but then some sunny breaks in betwe
eventually got ill. some shorter term, some very long term, developed significant problems. is that something you ve worried about? it is. that s why we engaged the institute of medicine and other government agencies, health and human services, nih, to look at long-term health. but there aren t any right now to look at, right? the long-term health studies, no, i don t believe from any of the i ll spills p the institute of medicine had a seminar here and there were not any long-term health studies that were out there. so you re working in a little bit of a black hole. you just don t have the precedent to base this on. for long-term health studies? no, we do not. we will, of course, continue to follow this story right here on sgmd. when we come back, why can t this woman see her shoulder? i was given access to abbey dorn. her story is coming up with us next, that s going to make you think. think. i promise.