. >> it is all over california and other states now. we really were the forerunners. it is a wonderful thing to bring the community into this now. people have seen art being put into the community. this has not been touched by any graffiti. it just faded over time. it is so open here. there is nobody watching this. i think that is a plus to the community. i hope the graffiti people do not go out there now that i am opening of my mouth. >> i want to thank you for the 50 years you have already given to the city as an arts leader. >> i started in to briberon, i's only been 45. >> you have championed his work over these years. >> it has been exciting working with him. it is one of the highlights of my life. >> thank you for being part of "culture wire" today. >> to learn more about the program and the list of public arts in need of maintenance, visit the website. thank you for >> welcome. we are here doing our building san francisco tour. we're going to have a very interesting tour of elevators in sanford cisco. we have all gotten into an elevator, the doors have closed,

what happened was, elevator technology outpaced california building code. building code has a number a provision that makes traditional elevators usable by people with disabilities, but destination elevators presented challenges, particularly with cited. how do you know to get from this keypad to your our corporate car? >> we had a terrific program where we develop and administer the bulletin, which your help, elevator companies, involvement from the public, and you can tell us the outcome of that. >> what is amazing about the process is we had both government and private industry, as well as people with disabilities at the table for three years creating these accessibility standards. what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is how good our standards are. would you like to see? i am going to push the access key which will activate the voice. i want to go to floor 24. ok, to the left. >> elevator j has arrived. >> that was smooth. >> i am getting a text message. it is amazing, thes

in california, and build no new prisons between the 1960's and 1970's, the height of political action. between the 1970's and 1980's, they build more prisons in california alone and in the past 100 years. one thing that has happened is the warehousing of black folks in these facilities. if you think about what slavery is, the parallels, it is not just a metaphor when you talk about modern-day slavery. slavery denied black folks the ability to be mobile. you were trapped on one location, in a plantation. it broke up our families. it subjected us to daly wants and violence. anything can happen to you -- an example to you for somebody else. it exploded us for our free labor. all of those things happen in prison today. the u.s. has 5% of the world's population and over 25% of the world's prison population. that is a big part of the equation. i am not waiting for superman, but somebody might be. if you look at the conditions of our schools, our schools have not been restructured, have been left alone to become the perfect feeder to prison prefatory. public schools are designed -- if you ha

deserves it. >> reporter: california used to allow same-sex marriage but not anymore. some supporters of the idea say that makes new york's new law some what bittersweet. >> this is supposed to be a liberal state and some place like new york, you know can fasten everything. it makes me really angry. >> reporter: seven years ago couples in san francisco lined up to get the first same-sex marriage licenses in city hall. in 2008, the court affirmed same-sex marriages were legal. but a month after that, congress proposed proposition eight. >> reporter: prop eight is still the law of the land but it's legality is being challenged in court. supporters hope that new york's new law will help build momentum. >> hopefully the same-sex marriage law starts being approved at every state. >> reporter: in san francisco, allie rasmus, ktvu news. >>> there is word tonight that the man who is the face of san francisco airport for more than two decades has died. ron wilson died this saturday from cancer. wilson worked at the airport for 43 years starting out at a part time construction i

and getting ready for california is so obvious, it is time for it to happen. >> i don't think california is as open as some of the other states. but i think it is due. so, i'm hoping within the next year that it will be something that you know, is acceptable. >> many people say it is frustrating being in limbo for the courts to hammer out the legal issues. they continue to wait hoping to see same-sex marriage legal in california and in all 50 states. it is likely maryland and rhode island will be the next battleground. but for today people say they are focused on new york. live in san francisco. nbc. >> thank you kimberly. also in san francisco said. the contemporary jewish museum hosted a hand-holding event combined with an art exhibit to honor gertrudestein. the hand holding part of the event comes after a security guard told a lesbian couple last week that they were not allowed to hold hands in the museum. >> we couldn't be happier with the outcome. people coming and singing, "i want to hold your hand". and recognizing that the museum is for everybody. >> the museum saying that the gu

this is the dirtiest beach in southern california. doheny beach. i've surfed this twice -- i've gotten sick both times. narrator: san juan creek, a concrete flood control channel, flows directly to doheny beach. moriarty: the concrete you can almost think of as a big water slide for pollutants to go to sea level. man: if it rains more than 2/10 of an inch, the county puts out a health advisory for all beaches in the county. that totaled 75 days in 2006. so it's sort of a frightening thing that it's so polluted that every time it rains, we have to stay out of the ocean for three days. moriarty: to be sick after surfing isn't like, "oh, i have a runny nose," and tomorrow it's gone. can be a lot of different things. nelsen: they include gastroenteritis, which is an upset stomach, and sinus infections, ear infections, eye infections, and there's also virulent versions of streptococcus that can actually cause severe illness and even death. moriarty: our goal with surfrider foundation is essentially to have the city understand that the water is, in fact,

also we have another exhibition called relocation and resiliency, the japanese american internment in california. and both of those are up on the 6th floor and this is the last week, so if you haven't a chance to see these exhibits yet, we really encourage you to go on up and see them because they will be closing on sunday. we really want to thank community works for bringing the exhibit if they came for me today to the san francisco public library. and here to tell you a little bit more about community works is ruth morgan, so help me welcome ruth

of collapse network in sebastopol california. and then michael i want to reiterate really quick for the viewers some of the numbers here since one thousand nine hundred eight there have been thirteen executions in the state of california each of those prisoners have cost the state three hundred million dollars since two thousand and six there have been virago executions and a death penalty prosecutions cost up to twenty times as much as life without parole case so i guess i'm wondering why this goes on still. well we have this illusion that we have a facade to maintain here we have to convince people that society is still running the way we all thought it was supposed to run we have to kind of believe that that the law is working although it's clearly not all around the country but that's a very expensive proposition but the bottom was this what's happening in california is the same is happening in greece and everywhere these cuts now are just the beginning of more draconian cuts and they're based on wildly optimistic projections

also a good deal of sunshine out there in central california today. in bellingham, the only area i found to have rain, and that continues at this hour. and today we have a slight chance of showers for seattle and portland as it stays cloudy and cool. that's a lookrosa, right around. tucson, a slight chance for a late-day storm. the good news is the pacific northwest will be sunny so they won't be the warmest this weekend. >> all right. >> it is sunny, though. >> they'll take that. they'll take that. bill, thanks so much. >>> well, wall street worries, an airline goes on a shopping spree, and the end of a long successful partnership. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, speaking of business, jennifer lopez takes care of hers as a wedding singer. >>> coming up, a pair of black eyes for the white sox, the mets stand their ground and quite possibly the worst first pitch ever. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. f

into southern california. could make it up into our area. it's a long shot at this point. it will be the remnants of tropical storm door a moving into the picture late in the weekend. again, it's more than likely gonna stay to our south. again, temperature-wise we'll look for mid-80s, mid-70s in the east bay and mid-60s on the peninsula, temperatures expected coast side as the cool- down continues mid-week as we start to warm undertake up into the weekend. as promised, warmer temperatures here back to mere normal which will put it us into the mid-to low 90s for a change. i didn't even put in that chance of showers as mentioned but it's a long shot and we'll see how things develop. >> you can change your mind on that. it will be okay. >> thank you very much. i'll take that opportunity if i need to. >> all right. >>> all about baseball today, huh? >> we had, speaking of the weather, boy a great time in mccovey today. really two great dreams for the local teams. a rally against mariano rivera and we'll tell you if they beat the throw home. should it count as two runs? next. ,

couples will not be recognized and in california if they get married in new york. tomorrow, 7:00 p.m., lgbt meeting. at 7:00 p.m.. richmond has been a very bloody violent month. >> family and friends mourn the death of 19 year-old you take a child with this second child what happens >> family, friends, the death of 19 year-old at this northridge home. in light we suffer for a long time. right now people feel destroyed. he was what we want to people should know that this young father was a good man and not involved with gang activity. >> right now we just feel his loss. he would do anything for you. >> he and his other brother came to this restaurant saturday night to have dinner. and shoot pool. they said it was while they were playing pool that the older brother ran into a man they knew and they got into an argument about something that happened a few years ago. they said that alejandro did not know the man and was not involved in >> --did not know the man. as soon as they went outside it happened pretty fast and they started shooting. >> those two men pulled out

but they don't. >> and state treasurer took out a $5 billion loan for california out this week. and anticipation of the problems in washington, d.c.. and edd says it doesn't think kit tap into that because the state has bills to pay. live in sacramento abc 7 news. >> thank you very much. and lieutenant governor unveiled a plan to revamp california's economy today, calling it a shift from a consummation to a production economy focused on global trait. the first part will be reopening the foreign trade offices starting with a privately funded office in china. >> the bill pending in the legislature. we hope to have it as early as september. and so if the next number of weeks, that will establish this new economic development agency. >> the plan calls for the creation of strike teams to help businesses navigate permit processes, stream lining cluttered agencies and accelerating innovation. and people are starting to hit the streets collecting signatures for their 2012 ballot measure buzz another group is issuing an unsubstantiated warning signing those can be dangerous. californians

there was the thing of coming back to california and so forth, i also believe very sincerely, you went where you thought god wanted you to be. so i was telling my wife that i thought god wanted me to be at this church. she looked at me with a stern eye and said, jim, if you were to simply tell me you would really love to be in california, i think i could handle that that are then wrestling with god. there was truth in what she was saying. that also teaches me that we have to be careful about what we attribute to god and become clean as to where we are. but the important thing from my standpoint is my wife had gone on and got her doctorate as a psychotherapist, and we were able to come here. she was able to set up work in blue state professional therapist here in the area, very well known, loved, and appreciated. we had our two careers together here, and that in many ways is a new life for us when we came here. we were a team. i respect her work and she respected my. from then on, whatever we did, we did together. i was part of her and she was part of me. i didn't retire to retire. i re

coming under fire tonight from workers themselves. >> next week, california lawmakers will dr. c.a bill guaranteeing overtime pay and paid vacation for inhome care givers but some woorry the bill could cost them their jobs. >> and i live here five day autos she works caring for an elderly man in his berkeley home. his care is paid for by his family. she does not get paid overtime, per se, but skme whorjz work similar shifts make more than $200 per day. with overtime, that salary would more than double, she says it would force her client into a nursing home. >> i'm going to lose my job. nobody can afford that much money. >> what it will do to clients is that it will raise cost of their care so high, it's not going to be affordable. lower income will have ihss there. very wealthy will have their own employees. they don't need anybody like us. we take care of the middle class. >> san francisco democratic assemblyman is one of the co-sponsors of the bill. supporters include california domestic workers coalition and a group called hand in hand. >> we believe that this bill actually

this week the massive prison hunger strike that was taking place in california came to an end and it came to an end in its fourth week when the help of nearly fifty inmates was already failing and some couldn't even hold water down a new war and ended with a very meager and put that big concession that was made by the department of corrections and rehabilitation see what the prisoners one from the department if you can call about are cold weather caps while calendars and a few educational opportunities what they lost amongst many other things was bringing an end to solitary confinement that's something that's rampant in our prisons that's something that by international standards is tantamount to torture which specialists say can cause severe psychological and physical damage along the prison strike there is and it and thousands of prisoners across the state of california remain in solitary is now learning this week that another prisoner and sylvania has been placed into solitary confinement and that prisoner is leonard peltier that's a man that we've spoken about many times on this

birth there's another secret society right in our own backyard so what exactly happens behind those california redwoods and why should you be concerned about bohemian grove. plus if it bleeds it leads so will obama kill murdoch and settle the political score with news corps once and for all. good evening it's friday july fifteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our team well let's see we have a country weeks away from defaulting on its debt scared and poor reports it may cut the u.s. as aaa credit rating even if a debt deal is reached by lawmakers one of the biggest media giants in the country and the world is being investigated by the f.b.i. for journalistic wrongdoing a former government employee faces sentencing or actually was sentenced and one of the series of criminal cases that's helping obama out to every previous president for going after whistleblowers well so the pentagon says it suffered one of its largest ever losses of sensitive data from a cyber attack from a foreign government at the same time it unveils a new cyber warfare strategy and a

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are of most importance to all of those awful years especially here in california for example we've got the use of lead paint co in no lead at that for public health but we know the trust that is that a lot alike than that of the. doctor first or told us earlier that modern medicine has failed in preventing the diseases that are affecting us most he says it's because our focus has been on treatments and the treatments are far too expensive. so what we should do it now is to focus our attention we should search why we fail. is greed is created that's what. you talk about dream it dream it. and getting paid are directly correlated. i believe the reason that people not associated food with the disease is because a part of it is they don't understand that what you eat becomes you transfer that in some ways really like ionizing radiation we know that it's very dangerous a million doses of high doses and it's really impossible to say that there's any safe level so i think the sensible thing is really to have no transfer from partially hydrogenated oils in our diets people forget the major imp

. >> we are one family from california trying to make a difference. >> reporter: to protect medicaid coverage for children and to preserve federal funding for the programs that train nearly half the nation's pediatricians. he met with lawmakers from both parties. >> i really want to help my hospital. it's a really neat hospital. >> so it's hard for something like a worthy institution like this. >> you'll be around here a lot longer than i am. we want to make sure -- >> i think you've been around here a lot longer than i have. >> reporter: and max joins me now from washington along with mom, jennifer, dad, buck. we lost the little brother. he's taking a nap, is he. >> he's in the control room directing the show. >> why does that not surprise me at all, knowing the paige boys. max, how has the week been for you, sort of what you expected? >> it's been on the darth planet. it's been on the darth planet all right. >> tell him about the special place you got to eat. >> i got to eat in the senate dining room. >> that's pretty impressive. jennifer and buck, when you're describing why you gu

. >>> la guadia costera de california ayuda en la busqueda. >>> el tiempo es crítico y a medida que pasan horas será más difícil recuperar con vida dice. >>> todo y eso no pierde la esperanza de encontrar con vida a su hermano. >>> y la marina supo para que algunos llego un par nado wlaars flotaron pidiendo ayuda por más de 16 horas. >>> un avión hércules con más capacidad de personal participó en la búsqueda y la compañía canceló viajes por los q que pa. >>> y una confusión porque están en estados dos personass de apellido lee, pero uno de ellos no ha abordó en el último momento y otro decidió acudir también de último momento alivia eje porque alguien más había cancelado para evitar confusoes, el gobernador de baja california prefiere decir que al momento hay entre cinco y # desaparecidos este miércoles se renuraed la búsqueda. >>> terrible. >>> gracias martín. >>> por la información. >>> y al regresar de la pausa autoridades de georgia dicen que retiran la decisión de un juez de veto raro parte de ley an antimínimo grant en el estado y dan a conocer un estudio

this week the massive prison hunger strike that was taking place in california came to an end and it came to an end in its fourth week when the help of nearly fifty inmates was already failing and some couldn't even hold water down you want and it ended with a very meager and pathetic concession that was made by the department of corrections and rehabilitation see what the prisoners one from the department and you could call about or cold weather cops while calendars and a few educational opportunities what they lost amongst many other things was bringing an end to solitary confinement that's something that's rampant in our prisons that's something that by international standards is ted about to torture which specialists say can cause severe psychological and physical damage while the prison strike there is ended and thousands of prisoners across the state of california remain in solitary is now learning this week that another prisoner and pennsylvania has been placed into solitary confinement and that prisoner is leonard peltier that's a man that we've spoken about many times on thi

in california the average is 3.78. lowest statewide price is 3.69 in fresno and bay area as usual has the highest 3.83 a gallon. >> cost of prescription drugs is about to plummet. within a matter of months, seven of the world's best selling drugs will be available in generic versions because patents are about to expire. they include pilitor and plavix. generic drugs cost 20-80% less. many more on their way. 120 other drugs are due to lose market exclusivity. >>> next, amazing technology that is bringing historic recordings back to life. >> for the fourth time in less than two weeks, detectives are investigating a murder after a late night double shooting in east palo alto. >> and the survival training trip that left a richmond man fighting for survival in a grizzly bear attack.

proposition 8 which puts same-sex weddings on hold in california, is still working its way through the court system. >>> it is a big weekend as we head into the weekend coast to coast. and in the south bay, here in the bay area, we say good-bye to a south bay institution. it's one of the last venues for family fun. we take a final lap around that roller rink that's been around for generations. >>> first divorce, now this. a serious accident for one of the schwarzenegger kids. >>> and good afternoon, i'm i.isthmeni inolfo ranieri. the fog coming backniight into oakland right now. and that cooling wind dropping numbers, 77 in hayward and 61 in san hacifrano.scfrancisco. we'll talk about the fog and how low the numbers will if for the weekend coming up. >>> it's gone from bad to worse. in the last two hours, the gears of government have come to grinding halt. the speaker of the house walked away from a negotiating session with president obama. both men held impromptu friday evening press conferences. >> we will get an extension of the debt limit, and we will not default. i am confident of

>> and california? >> yes. >> we are supportive, there isn't a lot of cooperation on many issues between us and amazon, but i think this is a good referendum and released good that they are giving the people the right to choose, the people are getting the right to choose with their business model is and it's not being opposed in sacramento so in that sense i like the fact they're doing the referendum but you will not see us involved. >> if you would give a snapshot of your company and why you changed the name from overstock.com to o.co. >> overstock is an online discount shopping that's what we started off as an outlet store you would drive to an outlet mall. 200 a thousand products plus books and games and we brought the lowest price on the internet and they really are the lowest prices and we liquidate inventory for people so we don't claim that everything it reveals house but what we have is 80, 80 % cheaper and we changed the name from said overstock to o.co because we are going global with it will

this week the massive prison hunger strike that was taking place in california came to an end and it came to an end in its fourth week when the help of nearly fifty inmates was already failing when some couldn't even hold water down anymore and it ended with a very meager and pathetic concession that was made by the department of corrections and rehabilitation see what the prisoners one from the department if you can even call it that or cold weather caps while calendars and a few educational opportunities what they lost amongst many other things was bringing an end to solitary confinement that's something that's rampant in our prisons that's something that by international standards is tad about to torture which specialists say can cause severe psychological and physical damage while the prison strike there is and it and thousands of prisoners across the state of california remain in solitary now learned this week that another prisoner in pennsylvania has been placed into solitary confinement and that prisoner is leonard peltier that's a man that we've spoken about many times on thi

keep a close eye on this senior, in california, about to receive her degree. she had been told her brother couldn't make it back from afghanistan in time. >> jessica's father called me. jessica has a brother in afghanistan that she wishes could be here today. and jessica, would you see your brother? thank you for your service. >> reporter: brother and sister honored this fourth. >> audrey, logan. >> oh, my lord. >> reporter: and there was this. the giant box wrapped in neon green. a gift, bigger than you think. >> it's a grill! >> what? open it up. what's in there? >> repepter: out of the box, staff sergeant jeremy halton. better yet -- dad. fighting through her tiny tears, audrey with a simple message. "i'm happy you're back," she says. >> we've been separated for three fourth of julys since we've been married. you don't realize how important those kind of holidays are until you're not with your loved one to b bable to celebrate them. >> reporter: and so we choose all of the troops on this fourth. for diane and all of us here, have a good evening, a safee an

we should think it out can ensure the health and well being of california. of most importance to all the business owners especially here in california for example we ban the use of lead paint code no lead at that. but we know the trans fats that are about to collide can we do that as well. dr told us earlier that modern medicine has failed in preventing the diseases that are affecting us most he says it's because our focus has been on treatments and the treatments are far too expensive. so what we should do now we have to focus our attention we should search why we fail. is green is created as what he. believes about dreaming dreaming. and getting paid directly correlated. i really want to reason that people are not associated food with the diseases because a part of it is they don't understand that what you eat becomes you transfer that in some ways really like ionizing radiation we know that it's very dangerous a million doses of high doses and it's really impossible to say that there's any safe level so i think the sensible thing is really to have your tr

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