The ice bucket challenge bringing in 94 million for the als foundation. Tonight, a closer look at the fundraising and how that money will be spent. Tonight, at least three americans are still held captive in syria and iraq by the Islamic State group. One of them is a journalist named steven satla. His mother made a desperate plea to get him back. Roxanna suberry reports. In this emotional please, she address did the leader of the Islamic State group asking him to let her son come home. The kalif can grant amnesty. I ask you to please release my child. In this video released to news organizations, she calls her son an honorable man who always tried to help the weak. Steven is a journalist who travels to the miss easts to cover the suffering of muslims at the hands of turkrants. They kept his capty secret even from close friends. A source close to the family told al jazeera they thought if they publicized his case, those in the Islamic State group would kill him. They showed the executio
A familiar face to cspan and viewers the former solicitor general and the coauthor of this book revealing the dream the case for Marriage Equality along with david. Did you surprise a lot of people with your position on marriage . Apparently i did. I didnt surprise me and i didnt surprise people that knew me because i felt i grew up in california and ive always thought its wrong to discriminate against people who are or and when i was first asked to take the case i thought it was something i could do and wanted to do so i was a little surprised that people were surprised because im a conservative a lot of people were and i felt it was my mission to try to convince as many of them as i could but this was the right place to be. About conservative case to me is easy. These are two loving people who want to come together in an enduring relationship and form a part of a community and have a family and be part of our society and live together. What could be more conservative than that . We s
In october. This is almost 50 minutes. Thank you for coming out so early. We have a big program today. And we are very honored to have with us well, to start, and i think this is great chronologically, apollo seven astronaut walt cunningham. We will get into some questions, but will was on the apollo seven flight, which was really make or break for the apollo like program. They sent some unmanned ones up and they had the terrible fire on apollo 1. These guys made it happen. We had many legends on, but this is one of the greatest. Lets hear it for walt cunningham. [applause] that is a pretty good welcome. I keep hearing im going to call him glenn cunningham, the old quarterback. Im terrible with names. This is a great story. I want you to explain it. Evidently, number 13 and 14 had a lot to do with your career. Talk about it. Well, actually, like a lot of people, you learn things later that you did not know whether it was critical. But it must have been about 10 years ago, i get an emai
Fear from time to time and back in those days i think i was too stupid to be afraid. There is an attitudinal thing. I am not a psychologist, i read about a lot of that stuff. I think there is a difference in mentality about how people feel about these things. Recognizing it, being aware of it intellectually, is an important step. I think a lot of people are afraid of things because they do not have the faintest idea what is going to go on. So they are afraid of it. And those that learn about things, they may be afraid of it because of what they know. And then there is some kind of a mental quirk that a lot of my friends and people out there today are aware of. Brian, i know that he was aware of the things that could go wrong. And you have to have the kind of selfconfidence that enables you to handle that. That selfconfidence comes from the way you have lived. You faced a lot of lesser things along the way. And you have been able to overcome them. I am afraid we have a society that has
Died, i get an email from paul. He says just one sentence. I read the book. It is really good. I sent an email back. Paul, i gave you that book in 1977. And you are just reading it . He said, i went to the index and checked what you said about me. [laughter] very typical. He had one more sentence. He said, you know you are number 14, dont you . You are like, what does that mean . That is right. In our group, we were the third group of astronauts. They had 7, 9, and 14. Im only one of the group of 30 that knew where he stood on the selection process. No one ever made it public or anything at all like that. So i got on the phone and called and asked them. He told me. The day that they were announcing this they had a press conference. A week before that, deke slayton, who was in charge of the astronauts, arranged a meeting with the head of the space center. So paul haney was going to be there. Paul was on the phone when he started this meeting. So he did not get there when they started. W