the news continues here on cnn with kyra phillips. so nice to have you here. good morning. we all know why. you had a chance to catch up with some old buddies you haven t seen in, what? three decades. been a long time. not three decades. what was so special for me, not only to see how excited you were to team up with them but how excited rush was to see you and coming up on stage and jam, we had to top off the show with this. i guess you could qualify that as geezer rock. you said that was, like, the highlight a highlight of your life. my musical life. there are lots of other highlights in my life, of course. i hope so. but in terms of a frustrated guitarist and had a dream, i know you wanted to be a country singer, you know, to be able to exercise that jones even for four minutes playing limelight with them on stage it is great. an awful lot of fun. we ll talk more about that. i loved looking at getty and said, how did he do? he said, he did g
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. it s as if a monster storm hopped on i-95 and drove it right up the east coast. last night at this time it was in miami. it has rocketed north, skirting the atlantic. a relentless water pump. we re coming to you from washington tonight where the potomac river, not far from here, is dangerously high, within sight of the national monument. streets are flooded all over the region. the winds are high enough to have already caused damage and it s still motoring north and there s more on the way. nbc s tom costello starts us off in chevy chase, maryland tonight. tom, good evening. good evening to you. in fact, the east coast has been struggling through drought conditions, but today it got hammered. it started out with heavy rain, then flash flood and tornado watches from the outer banks of north carolina all the way north to new jersey. it was the dead of night when howling winds and the heaviest rains in months swept
perceived sexual orientation. 13-year-old seth walsh died last night. the california boy succumbed to injuries he suffered after trying to hang himself on september 19th. 15-year-old billy lucas hanged himself in his family s barn in greensburg, indiana. and 13-year-old asher brown shot himself in the head. he lived outside of houston. charles robins is executive director and ceo of the trevor project, an organization devoted to helping gay and lesbian teenagers who are considering suicide. charles, thank you so much for joining us. the school year is a couple of weeks in here. we know that so often in schools people pick their friends. you see the cliques and you start to already see maybe the bullies zero in on children. we don t know the exact circumstances. all of these are being investigated. what is your concern at this point? well, you know, youth have a difficult time anyway in high school. and to be perceived as lesbian,
this is a problem. i understand in the case of 13-year-old seth walsh who died last night, his school, jacobson middle school, has an anti-bullying program, but walsh was never offered any help. all of these are under investigation. but what do you think, charles, needs to be the immediate first step? a lot of people will hear this story today. what needs to be the next step so that we don t see an increase in number of children who are hurting themselves because of the hurt they re experiencing from others? well, you know, i always recommend that people learn the warning signs of suicide. the best thing you can do is be there for somebody. youth need to know that they re not alone, especially lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youth. that s why our organization, the trevor project, exists. there s information on our website. thetrevorproject.org. we have a 24-hour staffed lifeline. it s staffed by volunteer whose have been trained. we re accredited by the american association of
big part of this story. i ve got a little personal weather station here. the water is off to my left. when i look at it, we re talking 5 to 15 miles an hour. that s certainly not an epic storm. this isn t going to go down in the history books. in terms of the wind, really not a big deal. it became a tropical storm by reaching wind speeds of 40 miles an hour. as it moves northward, we could see gusts. the 4 to 8 inches of rainfall in south florida, that can pose a problem, especially for the more urban areas. the water stacks up. we have a lot of paved roads. especially as we get into this evening commute, we could we always tell people turn around, don t drown. most of the flooding-related fatalities occur when people try to cross the flooded waters. it s mainly life as usual here in south florida, except for the lack of sunshine. we ve been talking about city officials going to work. schools remaining open. however, a lot of the after-school programs and activities have be