the son didn t grow up on a share cropper s rotation. the son lived in washington, d.c. the son saw the open door to possibility in his life. the father still is carrying the pain and the burdens of the past and feels like you know the son didn t have to get off the street. so he s thinking, what are you doing that for. in a way, the son as a response is doing what he s doing ultimately for what he sees as an injustice or for his father. i would like to hear about some of the other cameos. it s incredible. even short like interludes in the movie, you have incredible names. robin williams as ike. i never saw that one coming. mariah. vanessa redgrave. those powerful words to begin our film with. jane fonda. he had jane fonda. listen, as nancy reagan.
family membership saying they weren t really family at all. abc s larry jacobs reports those were fighting words. reporter: the roanoke athletic club is an inviting place for a dip on a summer s day. but one couple were disinvited when the club said they and their 2-year-old son didn t qualify as a family. it was like somebody punched us in the stomach. from a place that we couldn t imagine there would be this discrimination and attack. they sued when word spread, an online petition won 40,000 signatures in their support. now the parent company, carilion clinic, has done an aboutface. the club said they will change their policy and offer memberships to cohabiting couples and their children that live with them. their lawyer is pleased, but we have come a long way and have a long way to go. reporter: abc news, new york. that brings us to the
deep enough to get a sense of what s happening here. this was really the hardest hit county so far in the state. county saw 25 inches of rain in the last several days. keep in mind also there was a wind event. this storm packed a punch. winds gusting at 45 miles per hour. strong enough to knock over several things, knock down some trees and cause a lot of problems with debris in the roads. here along this coastal road, we are finding that police are in place to make sure that drivers are not surprised when they ran past those low lying areas when they find again, water at least a foot high, so precautions are being taken. i also want to show you what s happening right now. just east of us in the state, flooding is happening right now in cities like live oak and lake city, that s where they are dealing with the storm system as it goes very slowly over the state of florida causing a lot of flooding, soledad. george howell, updating us on what looks like a big giant mess in fl
that it s krun f time? and we re digging deeper into ron paul s writings and finding sexual harassment victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re here in the new cnn election center counting down to the final few days and hours before the first contest of 2012. the new iowa poll out today reenforcing mitt romney s place at the top of the pack, running neck and neck with ron paul. it drives home the bombshell findings of our poll this week, sh showing rick santorum has surged to third place in iowa, while newt gingrich has faded. it s put iting more and more pressure on romney to go for broke in iowa, to try to pull off a win tuesday night. jim acosta is joining us from des moines with more. t mitt romney has the big mo and the question heading into this weekend is whether he will win the iowa caucuses without breaking a sweat. no wonder mitt romney appears to be going all in in iowa. he just might be holding a winning hand. a sign just days before
and that s just two guys. now, that s elite. i don t begrudge them for making their money. what bothers me is when they purchase their politicians to do it. like when we bailed out the bankers. when our politicians give tax brakes to the coke brothers and put more pollutants in the air? they get to do that because they re the real elites, the ones with enough money to buy their government. then they send their minions like governor walker to cut the pay of, to fire, to take away the rights of the average worker. and governor daniels to add insult to injury by saying the regular guys are the real elite. come on, man, you ve got some sof decency. it s bad enough you get all the privileges the rest of us don t have, but you blame us for the problems you created and blame the middle class for secretly controlling politics? sandy fonzo s son didn t have a