patrick and shriver did not have that. but the law also says the man who essentially acts like a parent towards his child can be recognized as a parent. and that's how patrick sees himself. >> i will fight with everything i have to get my son back. >> reporter: after court today shriver would not talk to us. but she did send a written statement saying "i chose to use a known donor over a stranger based on jason's expressed commitment he would not seek parental rights to my child. and the reason she no longer wants patrick in gus' life. i discontinued jason's can tact with my son when his behavior became increasingly threatening, menacing and harassing to us. the battle turned this member of hollywood royalty, the grandson of jackie gleason to a champion in the fight against parental alienation. >> as a father i wanted to leave a path for gus to see the truth. i also want to teach him how to fight a noble fight. how to stand up for things that matter. >> he testified before california lawmakers, done the talk show circuit,

. >> shriver was asked on the program in part because of her work with the shriver report. the report aims to raise awareness and inspire impact on issues facing women. according to the numbers, poverty would be cut in half in america if women were paid the same as men in the workforce. >>> this coming tuesday is an important primary day and will shape the fight for control of congress. from the sunday talk shows, the big buzz was about an election two years from now. and hillary clinton. nbc's brian mooar has the story from washington. >> reporter: if there's a democratic presidential front-runner for 2016, just about everyone believes hillary clinton is it. >> well, i couldn't call it a coronation, but she's the favorite. >> she's an enormously capable candidate and leader. >> reporter: inevitable is what many democrats said about clinton the last time before she lost to barack obama. republicans want her out of this race long before it starts. develop strategist karl rove has been pushing a new line attack, hillary's health. >> a concussion is by definition a traumatic b

schoumacher: sargent shriver, john kennedy's businessman brother-in-law had been the first head of the peace corps. and when kennedy's successor lyndon johnson declared war on poverty, sargent shriver was placed in command. johnson was interested in it because johnson had experienced poverty himself. so he was always talking about the fact that people like himself would not have been successful without the help of the government and he wanted to do similar things for young people while he was president of the united states. schoumacher: at the root of poverty many felt, was unemployment. training, early training would mean employment and income, and an end to poverty. how could the new frontier's confidence and the great society's dedication uproot poverty? well, i always said to myself, the only way you can do it is to set up a residential place where you have total control over these youngsters for a period of time. just the way you send youngsters to west point or annapolis and pay for it we should send these young people to a different type of institution, and pay for it. and i tri

and new york shriver, carolyn ryan, and carly fiorina, former ceo of hewlett-packard are here to share their views. >>> and the growing scandal of the va. is the government failing to give american veterans the care they were promised? va secretary eric shinseki says he's mad as hell about what's been uncovered, but that isn't stopping calls for him to resign. what reforms are needed to ensure this never happens again? >>> from nbc news in washington, the world's longest running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. >> and good sunday morning. we'll begin with the story that's been dominating much of the political conversation all week long and that's karl rove's attack on hillary clinton. is this just the start of a republican strategy to persuade her not to run? our own andrea mitchell is here with more on this. good morning. >> good morning to you, david. this week there is no longer any doubt that some powerful republicans are playing hardball against hillary clinton raising questions about her age and her health, even before she decides whether she's a c

stephen shriver, cofounder and of two rivers. why two rivers? >> two rivers to get from brooklyn to our plant in jersey. >> well done. thank you very much. now that we have finished with coffee, i will speak to the founder of a cupcake on pinnie. do you know they sell over 20,000 cupcakes per day? details ahead. ♪ >> this is "taking stock." i am pimm fox. are you tired of working for someone else? catherine and her sister sophie did just that. they quit their jobs and venture capital and passion to pursue their passion for baking. they opened up georgetown cupcake in 2008 and now sell over 8 million cupcakes per year. they start in their own tv show on the tlc network. joining us now. thank you for joining us. if people the details of how you decided cupcakes were for you? >> we have been baking cupcakes for years. so one day we just quit our jobs. our six location opening in atlanta this fall. having a great time doing it. but we have customers coming in from all over. the flagship in georgetown. interesting in the cupcake bakery. >> i went u

maria shriver's latest report is devastating. millions of women supporting their families and living on the edge because of stereotyped thinking such as women don't need or deserve equal pay. i think that the jill abramson situation is going to elevate a national conversation about pay scales for women up and down the line. tack only be good. >> what do you want to hear from her tomorrow at wake forest? >> tomorrow is about the kids graduating. the young men and women. right now i really admire jill abramson. whatever she has to say, i eep in her corner. >> terry o'neal from the national organization for women. thank you. >> thank you. >>> he is not a conservative. that type of cowardice and inability to represent constituents is why he's vulnerable. >> the tea party challenger to the senate minority leader. how vulnerable the mitch mcdonnell? really? plus, benghazi, boko haram and a bang on the head. are gop leaders revealing how they would go after hillary clinton should she run. the brain trust after this. then we gave each pe

arnold schwarzenegger expected to part with more than $250 million in his divorce from maria shriver. while tom cruise and katie holmes didn't set a record for the amount of their settlement they may have taken the cake when it comes to speed. all over, just 11 days after the couple filed for separation in 2012. >>> moral of the story, marry carefully. thank you for watching abc news. world news now is coming up soon with overnight breaking news. as always tune in to "good morning america" first thing in the morning. we are online at abc news.com. 24/7. good night. 0 to 60?performance? or 60 to 0? how a car performs in a quarter-mile? or a quarter-century?

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. >>> this morning on "today," maria shriver has the story of a man and woman who are in love and engaged to be married. that are a typical couple, except both have down syndrome. their inspirational story ahead on "today." >>> in sports, the nba conference finals picture gets a bit clearer with this doozy of a finish in miami. take a look. >> lebron for three. gets it! >> oh, yeah. lebron james kicking off a huge miami comeback. brooklyn's offense goes cold hitting only one of their final ten shots. their defense, well, they fall and they can't get up either. >> ray alan will take the three for the lead! >> miami taking the series in five games winning 96-94. next up, the eastern conference finals. next to san antonio, they had no problem getting past portland. getting an 8-0 run in the second half. leonard with a punctuation point and this beauty of a dunk all alone. the spurs win takes the series in five games. next stop, the western conference finals. >>> we shift to the nhl playoffs. do or die game seven montreal dominated boston with two early goals and the 3-1 victory. the canadien

oprah in the middle, diane sawyer, robin roberts, katie couric, joan lunden, nbc's maria shriver, kathie lee gifford and savannah guthrie. along with jane pauley, connie chung. so many famous faces. >> and today, barbara will be on "good morning america." and of course, on her final episode of "the view." and then, tonight, a two-hour special. "barbara walters, her story." featuring one of the biggest collection of celebrities ever crammed into one show. that starts at 9:00 p.m. >>> and coming up, deja vu for general motors as the company announces yet another multimillion vehicle recall. >>> and more trouble for former nfl player, aaron hernandez. why he is facing new murder charges. >>> plus, an important health alert for people taking a popular sleeping aid. this morning, the fda is sounding the alarm and making a big change to the recommended dose. at 15, i was addicted. by 40, i'll have lung disease. at 50, i'll die of a heart attack. dr. regina benjamin: cigarette smoke causes immediate damage that leads to health problems, even death. those who quit or die are being replaced by a

shriver accepted $70,000 from chinese operatives and agreed to apply for u.s. government jobs in order to gain access to classified information. by then the fbi was on to him. he was arrested in 2010 and pleaded gl to one count of attempting to spy. he is now serving a four-year prison sentence. >> recruitment's going on, you know. don't fool yourself? >> in an a message from prison he warns. >> if somebody's offering you money and it feels like you don't have to do anything for the money, there's probably a hook you're not seeing. >> the fbi won't say how many students have been turned into spies but said they're increasingly being targeted. it's a shift from traditional insider recruits like convicted spice, robert hanssen, a 25-year veteran of the fbi. fill philip mudd says it's easy. university students may also have access to academic research in science and technology that can prove just as valuable as any state secrets. >> now they've just shifted to places. it reflect as revolution in the spy business. >> the bi says china's not the only and cubans are

and new york shriver, carolyn ryan, and carly fiorina, former ceo of hewlett-packard are here to share their views. >>> and the growing scandal of the va. is the government failing to give american veterans the care they were

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katie couric, joan lunden, maria shriver, savannah guthrie, gayle king, just a few of the legends joined there, diane, robin, the co-hosts of the view. that's a power summit right there. >> another special moment for barbara. this image with all ten view co-hosts. meredith, whoopi, rosie debbie, sheri. wow. >> pretty cool stuff, huh. >> celebrations going on strong here at abc today. barbara will be on good morning america an on her final episode of "the view" and tonight barbara walters her story, one of the biggest collections of celebrities ever crammed in to a show. it will start at 9:00 p.m. >>> we move on now. we can breathe a sigh of relief that jay z solange family fuda peers to be over. >> they have broken their silence for the first time since we saw the video. solange going after her brother in law in the elevator. in a statement, jay z, beyonce and solange saying this, they say they worked through their differences and moved on but did not mention what led to that display of let's call it emotion. >> it is a display of emotion. >> little bit. >> little bit. >> just a touch. >

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mark shriver is evsenior vice president and joins us here. >> nice to see you. >> the primary theme is protecting women and girls, moms and girls in places of danger. what is the biggest risk right now to women and moms? >> it's been on your show for the last couple of minutes as well, the theme of the report is about the at risk nature for both women and babies, girls in humanitarian crisis, whether it's sandy or what's going on in the middle east or haiti. it's amazing that a natural disaster, women and children are 14 times more likely to die than a man. >> some of these things are particularly striking after 14 times more likely to die than a man. there are advanced and positives are places like afghanistan and rwanda have seen progress. but africa, in the headlines right now given what's happening in nigeria makes up the bottom ten in this mother's index rating. there are so many girls as we had earlier, 70 million elementary age young girls and boys who aren't even in sky right now. these are the folks most at risk. >> yes, i mean, nick christoph's article about the most -- the b

anchor maria shriver has their story. >> thank you, matt, nice to see you. austin underwood and his fiance jessica smith have been best friends since childhood. now they're engaged to be married. your typical blushing bride and groom except for one thing. austin and jessica both have down's syndrome. their family say their wedding is a celebration of what is possible when you empower your kids to dream big, no matter what. austin underwood says he has known his fiance jessica was the one since they were four years old. >> why did you want to marry her so long? >> i want to marry her because i love her. she's my very best friend. >> their families met 30 years ago and a down's syndrome support group in dallas. ever since, they have been each other's playmates, prom dates, soul mates. next month they'll be man and wife. what do you love about austin? >> he is a big sun, like god. >> you see god. that's beautiful. you see a sun. >> a sun. and a moon. >> theirs is a story about the power of love and two mothers who fought to give their children a normal life. >>

similarly, the shriver report found that 42 million women across the entire country are living on the brink of poverty. this message about increasing the minimum wage is very potent for women. >> absolutely. there's countless polls that show this. that 58% was the most striking thing to me in the survey. because these are people who are living their lives day to day. 58% is a sizable majority that are worried about this issue. throughout the survey you just see they're concerned about nuts and bolts, pragmatic issues. you turn to washington ande're w talking about benghazi. it is so depressing in some ways. kate and i are in it like every day so it is easy to lose sight of these larger things. you pull back and there are people in the country who just want to have a job, just pay, go to walmart and buy food for their kids and we're talking about benghazi. >> we had somebody in our focus group say i would workfy could afford it. if that was the calculation, if i could afford it, i would work. >> too often that's not the way the conversation happens in washington. it is either you're a

nbc special anchor maria shriver sat down with the legendary director exclusively. maria, good morning to you. >> good morning, matt. well, from "e.t." to "jaws" to "schindler's list," steven spielberg has forever changed our culture with his films. now he wants to change the way we see the world by telling true stories of genocide survivors. he's created a stunning visual archive to educate students so that what happened in the holocaust never happens again. >> this is something that i was put on this earth to do. not just make movies, but to tell this truth to people, especially to young people. >> it was while making his epic holocaust film "schindler's list" that steven spielberg says he found his true calling, sharing the stories of real life genocide survivors and teaching the world about the dangers of hate. >> these survivors have become teachers. and they have a contribution to make to the world. >> with proceeds from the film, spielberg created the shoah foundation and launched an unprecedented project, 20 years in the making, videotaping interviews with 5

after the relationship shriver told the court that patric never signed a birth certificate. a judge agreed and ruled patric was only a donor under california law, barring patric from seeing his son. patric testified in front of the california legislature, saying home videos like this one move that he's been a father to gus since day one. >> i have to be gus' voice. >> reporter: in response to wednesday's groundbreaking decision, schreiber's league team told abc news, we are exploring our options and should make a decision shortly. jason patric joins us now, along with his attorney, fred silverburg. take us back to that moment when you found out. >> it was just surreal. it really was. it's been 64 weeks since i've seen gus. and i always believed we were going to win this appeal because it was just wrong, the decision. and i had faith in the process. >> 64 weeks since you've seen gus? >> last time i saw him, yeah. >> the last time you saw him, he said, i'm missing you, dad. and you said, i'll see you tomorrow. >> in his mind, i disappeared. and i didn't tell him the truth. >>

the real life glenn shriver is spending four years in federal prison for espionage now the f.b.i. claims foreign governments are not targeting college students from the information they know now but what they can learn later in their careers. well according to the national climate assessment miami florida is one of the city's most at risk for severe damage from rising sea levels the real culprit you guessed it climate change r.t.s. nicholas o'donovan reports on what this means for the city's residents. this is out and road in miami beach when the coasts of south florida get hit by high tides this area suffers from severe flooding it's usually a temporary problem last in a few hours or a couple of days at the most but flooding is happening more and more and scientists believe that the day will come when the waters will not receive the toll this will make out and road not only the center for temporary disrupting flight in miami beach ground zero for global warming just a few days ago the new scientific report on global warming cited miami as one of the city's most vulnerable to seve

oprah winfrey, robin roberts, diane sawyer, maria shriver, savannah guthrie, lara spencer, amy robach. where is amy? >> right here. >> i didn't mention you. you weren't there. >> we wouldn't have time for all the women that were there. and you have been hearing from so many people. but i know that you received a special message this week. >> i did. i did. can i read it? >> please. >> i just wanted to say i was thinking of you tonight. tomorrow is a special day. you have impacted this world as very few can. this is a transition towards a new journey. i love you and wanted you to know how proud i am of you. this is the only time i cry. this is from my daughter. >> oh. >> that's lovely. >> that's absolutely -- >> who never wants people to know she's my daughter because she wants to live anonymously. and she does. >> i know. but she, as we, are so incredibly proud of you. >> and thankful, and grateful. >> you have a long day. but you're going to be here all morning long with us. >> i do. but i have a special tonight. i have to do the special. >> we're also going to have a drinking game to

. >> jim cahn and jim shriver, does the selloff in tech make you want to buy more of that, or do you want to go with the stocks and showing relative strength there? >> for us it's always about value. the reason the tech stocks got ahead of themselves in terms of price, they don't have the support on the fundamentals so we're looking for decent value to put the money to work. >> and they don't represent that yet. >> they don't have the numbers, so i would probably not jump into the techs because they are not going down. >> for us it's less about the individual man and more about what has moment why you. we always like our portfolios to have a balance of value. >> what has momentum right now? nothing. >> buy whatever is going up or going down. that's what we see. you saw momentum have a terrible sort of first quarter. first quarter offset our loss momentum. >> so you may be buying some of these companies. >> okay. >> i want to show that a little further when we come back. we've got the closing count don and a lot of earnings after the bell. keurig, green mountain, tesla to name one of

>> because the lobbyists that were hired essentially by the shrivers, they worked against it, and they told them that they shouldn't be intervening in an active case and they made the pitch that we were trying to, by sponsoring this bill, affect the outcome of the case. and what we were trying to do was affect a social problem, something that should have been addressed. this case brought light to the situation. >> because, as you were saying, what you learned as you went through your own personal process and pain, there are a lot of jason patrics out there. that's why you started stand up for gus, and they need the law changed because other states have the law as well, yes? >> yeah, they need the law changed because there's a lot of people that are not getting married and having kids. by the way, same-sex couples. this has huge ramifications for that. and as i said, you can't turn a child away from a parent. you can't do it. and it's happening all over the place. and this is what happened to me. they just used an extreme mechanism to do it. >> now, you don't dispute that the relationsh

and some of the fun tweets that came out of this, maria shriver sent out such an amazing group of women. proud to be part of it. moving onto sa ran gnaw's tweet. ladies of "today" show. past and present. katie couric there as well. just a beautiful image. and this one. you want to explain this? what's going on here? >> well, that's gayle and robin of other networks that shall go nameless. and we were pretending to have a fight. i was trying to pull gayle's hair. she was trying to scissor me. it was so fun. >> and this was hoda. she says it's like where's waldo. that was a great one. and ellen said congratulations barbara walters an five decade of history making tv. it turns out the most fascinating person was you. here's my theory on the baby. let me get back here quickly. so savannah's here with the baby. 29 women. but perhaps is there 30? a little girl journalist there? >> interesting. >> i'm thinking ahead here. >> if that's the case, she couldn't be in better company. >> it was crazy. >> it was ladies only. >> no men allowed. >> michael douglas. >> that's right. >> congratulations t