NBC Nightly News - 2000-01-12
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[0:03] [music]
[0:12] [music]
[0:14] The family in the US Supreme Court when
[0:17] grandparents want to visit
[0:18] grandchildren, but the parents say no.
[0:21] Who decides?
[0:23] and the six-year-old Cuban boy, now his
[0:25] grandmother speaking out about freedom
[0:28] and his mother's fatal decision to take
[0:30] him to the US.
[0:32] In depth, our special report, fighting
[0:34] the flu, why this epidemic can't be
[0:37] prevented. Two towns try something new,
[0:40] giving everyone flu medicine.
[0:43] Plus, women to watch in the new century.
[0:45] Tonight, a rocket scientist leading us
[0:47] to new frontiers with a sense of humor.
[0:51] >> [music]
[0:53] >> From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:56] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[1:00] Bro.
[1:01] Good evening. It is a sign of our times
[1:04] and our changing family structures that
[1:06] grandparents now have gone all the way
[1:08] to the US Supreme Court to get a ruling
[1:10] on what has always been an indisputable
[1:12] part of their lives, their visits with
[1:15] grandkids. Now they are increasingly a
[1:18] contentious part of a custody battle of
[1:21] some kind. Here's NBC's Pete Williams.
[1:26] >> Like most of the nation's 75 million
[1:28] grandparents, Gary and Jennifer Troxell
[1:30] visited their two granddaughters
[1:31] regularly. Then when their son died, the
[1:34] girl's mother remarried and cut back on
[1:36] the contacts. So the grandparents went
[1:38] to court, persuading a judge to order
[1:40] more frequent visits. I want to be a
[1:42] part of their lives and know that
[1:44] they're they have extended family and
[1:45] that their extended family loves them.
[1:48] >> But the mother appealed, insisting that
[1:50] judges have no power to order visiting
[1:52] rights if