patricia has just accomplished what no other latina in the history of the san jose fire department has been able to do. she is now a battalion chief. >> it hasn't fully set in yet i don't think. but, yeah, someone said good morning chief and i turned around to see who was behind me and they said you. i said i got to get use today that. >> reporter: as battalion chief she is responsible for commanding captains, engineers and other firefighters. in other words, she's in charge. but getting here wasn't easy. just ask her father, a retired 34-year veteran of the san jose fire department. crews spoke to the women in her graduating class a quarter century ago. >> i remember telling them at the day of the orientation you have to be not as good but twice as good as the men to be considered equal. >> i think it was even harder than that. it was a woman, latina, short, everything was stacked against you. we did. we had to work harder. >> reporter: and she did just that breaking down ethnic, gender and other barriers. and when she puts on the gold badge, she says it won't be because of those asse

. >> patricia voy. i hope two things, one, we have san francisco bay marina. it's been in existence for almost 30 years and i will not bring my children to a public place to have them speak on behalf of something and drag them out. i feel it's like slaves. i'm sorry, i treat my kids with a lot of respect. number two, there were alternative sites. one of them was baileding with over 25 units with kitchens in each unit for half the price of this. we are going to be pretending this is conditional use hearing. there's another one for sale for $1 that could have been fixed up for $4 million and been a much better facility it made with a lot of special interest for these kids. so our association, three of us, one of us places foster kids. another one works an edge to it and myself on the board are well aware of the problems of youth. my question on this case is the fact that the process, again not come to see us, the size of the rooms disappoint me to no end when it could have been a better project and better program. i'm seeing in the city right now programs that d

burnett, jr. [ bell tolls ] william joseph cashman. [ bell tolls ] georgine rose corrigan. [ bell tolls ] patricia cushing. [ bell tolls ] jason m. doll. [ bell tolls ] joseph deluka. [ bell tolls ] patrick joseph driscoll. [ bell tolls ] edward porter felt. [ bell tolls ] james c.folger. [ bell tolls ] colleen l. frazier. [ bell tolls ] andrew sonny garcia. [ bell tolls ] jeremy logan glick. [ bell tolls ] kristen white gould. [ bell tolls ] [ lauren katuzi grantolis. [ bell tolls ] and unborn child. wanda anita green. [ bell tolls ] donald freeman green. [ bell tolls ] linda grund. [ bell tolls ] richard j. gudagano. [ bell tolls ] leroy homer. [ bell tolls ] toshia kugay. [ bell tolls ] c.c. ross liles. [ bell tolls ] hilda marsene. [ bell tolls ] waleska martinez. [ bell tolls ] nicole carol miller. [ bell tolls ] lewis j. macky, ii. [ bell tolls ] donald arthur peterson. [ bell tolls ] gene hodeley peterson. [ bell tolls ] mark david rothenberg. [ bell tolls ] christine ann snider. [ bell tolls ] john talagmani. [ bell it wills ] honor elizabeth wanio. [ bell tolls ] deborah jacobs welsch. [

so far, 400,000 visitor -- visitor passes have been re-- reserved online at the website. >> patricia we're just wondering if we can tell -- if you can tell us what that statue is behind you. >> i will let you take a look here. it's actually a tribute to the 9/11 survivors. it's by jif coombs. you see the fountains? this whole plaza a tribute to 9/11 surviveers. >> all right. >> thank you. >>> back here at home, sal's watching your commute. how are we looking? >> doing pretty well in some areas and not so well in others. it's kind of a mixed bag. so dave and tori, we have very slow traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza but not so much anymore there is a hefty delay approaching the richmond bridge at the toll plaza. from about richmond to el cerrito and berkeley is very slow. a lot of low clouds, high and mid-level clouds. once the fog burns off, then some sun may -- not too bad. but our focus will be on -- will be on thunderstorms. partly cloudy skies, 50 the and 60s on the temperatures. a lot milder lows than we've seen for a while. that's for sure. you can see a lot of that cloud cov

. >> patricia cushing. [bell ringing]. >> jason mdahl. [bell ringing]. >> joseph deluca. [bell ringing]. >> patrick joseph driscoll. [bell ringing]. >> edward porter felt. >> [bell ringing]. >> jane c folger. >> [bell ringing] >> colleen l fraser. [bell ringing] >> andrew sonny garcia. [bell ringing] >> jeremy logan glick. [bell ringing] >> kristin white gould. [bell ringing] >> lauren grandcolas. [bell ringing] >> and unborn child. wanda anita green. [bell ringing] >> donald freeman greene. [bell ringing] >> linda gronlund. [bell ringing] >> richard j guabagno. [bell ringing] >> leroy homer. [bell ringing] >> toshiya kuge. [bell ringing] >> ceecee ross lyles. [bell ringing] >> hilda marcin. [bell ringing] >> waleska martinez. [bell ringing] > >> nicole carol miller. [bell ringing] >> louis jnacke, ii. [bell ringing] >> donned arthur peterson. [bell ringing] >> jean hoadley peterson. [bell ringing] >> mark david rothenberg. [bell ringing] >> christine ann snyder. [bell ringing] >> john talignani. [bell ringing] >> honor elizabeth wainio. [bell ringing] >> debra jacobs wel

it will be patricia. i am going to draw out what other name before patricia begins. ann. come on down. >> thank you for having this town hall meeting. i am very happy to be here. politicians talk about shared sacrifice. the people in our community have done the sacrifice already. what do you plan to do on the deficit committee on making sure the taxation it really goes to the wealthy and not the working poor? in addition to that, i want to know your stance on the free- trade of columbia panama, we run the risk of losing jobs in california. interdistrict a loan, it is 5247. i left at intermission with your staff. >> i love when you, with data. --i love when you come with data. i want to make it clear. i will not stand here and guaranteed that i will not let them touch -- you fill in the blank. let me give you a quick example. i and the ranking democrat in the house of representatives when it comes to social security. i and the highest-ranking democrat. i do not believe social security should be on the table for cuts. why? because of social security -- please. tbd favor. wh

. >> september 11th, patricia smith lost her mother, a police officer. >> i just wish she was back with the family. i feel like it was -- put everything, make everything normal again. >> so what are americans to do with an unconfirmed terror threat? they tell us to go about our business, officials say, and stay alert. >> tj what else have you noticed in terms of police presence there in new york city? >> well, i have to tell you we hear that there is enhanced security. but you don't notice it. you notice it today and there are different check points around manhattan and also, armed police officers are in bridges and tunnels and using radiation detectors. i've seen armed officers at subway stops down in the subway stops themselves and also, especially mass transit hubs. >> and we're hearing people now need to register first? >> that is right. we can suspect that for probably a few years until buildings are complete. you can see this is an active construction zone, they're asking people going through this memorial to register online. they cannot open this up to the public because of safet

. >> reporter: the report was prepared under the coordination of patricia dalton, chief operating officer of the gao. >> duplication would be you are doing the identical think, very high bar. overlap means, that you may not be doing 100% of the same thing, but you might be doing 75% or 50%. do you need 20 programs doing something very similar? when we talk about employment in training programs, there's many programs that are providing job search assistance. how many of those programs do we need? are they serving the same people? are they trying to achieve the same thing? is it the best way to provide those services? >> reporter: for the record, we extended every invitation to the secretary of education, arn, denying can or any member of his staff to explain what actions they are taking to address this report or any independent initiatives they may have to save taxpayer dollars and cut waste or duplication. they made no one available. instead they issued a statement by the office of inspector general within the department of education in which they didn't address our specific questions abo

everybody dreams of he retirement some day, including patricia powell. >> that's true. >> jamie: founder and ceo of powell financial group. i don't see you retiring soon. you're helping too many people plan for theirs, what do we need to do? >> first of all, the 75% rule was never right. it's been around for years and in my experience i've never seen anybody retire for 75% of their income and be happy in retirement. so, it was always wrong. some of the other estimates are getting a little, maybe, a little bit of hyperbole in there, but we're woefully ill-prepared. the typical person is woefully ill-prepared to face retirement. >> one of the studies said you need 135% of what you're earning now and it isn't defined what now is in your career. >> right. >> jamie: if we need more than we're earning now and so many of us are out of work. what do we have to look forward to? how can we plan for retirement? >> i think, first of all, you have to ask yourself. you know, where do you stand right now? and you start looking at your current expenses where everybody, everybody starts and my experience

. >> patricia's father, himself a veteran of the san jose fire department. >> we're extremely proud of her. >> cruz has a firefighter's son also. >> we've given the citizens of san jose more than their money's worth. they've been good to us. >> every day you feel good about what you do. you're making a difference in people's lives. >> she'll command the battalion at 2c knowing she made it there on her talents and not because or in spite of her race and gender. >> it's going to enable me to influence a larger group of people and stp up the level of service we provide to the citizens every day. that's what people expect of me and i expect of them. >> nbc bay area news. >>> in other news this evening, president obama sent spent his aibd in a city with -- previewing his jobs plan. detroit got a preview of the plan today which the nation will hear on thursday. the president's public approval on his handling of the economy is at an all-time low of 26%. the president's job creation plan is to get the economy moving by getting people back to work, by rebuilding some of the infrastructure in th

told me this was a bad man and the newspapers told me he was a bad man, and i remember eleanor and patricia walking up the steps and saying we're taking a stand against this guy for sexual harassment, so i watched these hearings like a spectator who wanted to see somebody mulled, you know, like lions mulling romans, and i watched day one. i watched day two. i watched the entire thing. i went from wanting him to be taking down to wondering where's the beech? what's going on here? i don't understand what i'm watching here. i don't understand the comments on the screen. this is outrageous. i didn't understand the bumper stickers saying i believe anita. i said i believe i knee that what. what's going on here? everything that i knew, everything that i picked up at college in my american studies, culture marxist, oppressor oppressed, black people are always right, white people are always wrong -- i didn't understand how ted kennedy, these ted kennedy, how howard, joe biden, and a series of white privileged men sat in judgment of this man, the son of grandparents who were sharecroppers who raised

inside the capitol building that i found myself separated from my mother and sisters and her cousin patricia. we were on our way to sit in the senate gallery as the senators were deliberating a bill that would provide free -- free health care for all the old people in america. but i got distracted by the statues of the senators especially one zachariah chandler from the 1800's. is consumed with history and the story of the republican party and how it formed at michigan and what a great party it was, a party of lincoln, the party to end slavery, the party of conservatives, conservatives believe in conserving their money and believed in not spending money that they didn't have. conserving our air, our water and god's gifts, our natural resources on this earth, conservation. that is what conservative meant. eventually it dawned on me that i was all alone and on my own. my mother and sisters were nowhere in sight. i began to panic. where did they go? why did they leave me here? i may have thought i was a smart kid that i had no idea where i was, where they were or how i would find them. at age 1

inside the capitol building, that i found myself separated from my mother and sisters and our cousin, patricia. we were on our way to sit in the senate gallery as the senators were deliberating a bill that would provide free health care for all the old people in america. but i got distracted by the statues of the senators, especially one zachariah chandler, the senator from michigan in the 1800s. i was consumed with history and the story of the republican party and how it formed in michigan and what a great party it was, the party of lincoln, the party to end slavery, a party of conservatives, conservatives believed in conserving their money, believed in not spending money that they didn't have, conserving our air, our water, god's gifts, our natural resources on this earth. conservation. that's what conservative meant. eventually, it dawned on me that i was all alone and on my own. my mother and sisters were nowhere in sight. i began to panic. where did they go? why did they leave me here? this i may have thought i was a smart kid, but i had no idea where i wurksz where they were or how i wou

i remember patricia schroeder walking up the steps. saying, this guy, we are going to take a stand against this guy for sexual harassment. i watched these hearings like a spectator who wanted to see somebody mauled, you know, white lions mauling romans. i watched a one, 82, the entire thing. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering where is the beef. what is going on. i don't understand what i am watching. i don't understand the color commentary on screen where they are saying, oh, this is outrageous. i did not understand the bumper stickers calling by me on the street. what is going on? i don't understand. everything that i knew, everything had picked up in college in my american studies, cultural marxist, the oppressor, pressed, but people are always right. back -- white people are always wrong. and did not understand how ted kennedy, the ted kennedy of chappaquiddick same , joe biden and a series of white privilege man could sit in judgment of this man who was the son of grandparents who were sharecroppers who raised hi

. >> ana patricia nuestra reportera preferida. ya estÁs lista para la rumba de mira quiÉn baila. >> estoy mÁs que lista! y por supuesto les traigo las mejores historias y esta vez no es la excepciÓn. traigo un reportaje historias y esta vez no es la excepciÓn. traigo un reportaje de uno de los univh@despierta a@ >> ya tiene valeria horario de noche. >> Él dice no durmiÓ daniel. y ella dice, no durmiÓ carlota y yo que no durmiÓ mi marido! >> karla se la estÁ pasando mejor! [risas] >> mejor me la paso yo que no tengo preocupaciÓn ninguna. >> ayer me despierto en esos madrugonazos y veo a tres bomberos en la sala de mi casa! [risas] >> quÉ? >> haciendo el calendario? >> serÁ que estoy soÑando, resulta que se estaba quemando una palmera en el jardÍn. >> en el tuyo? >> en mi jardÍn y mi hija malmÓ llamÓ a los bomberos. vinieron los bomberos y yo me enterÉ cuando estaba todo el ruido y veo a los bomberos en el cuarto de mi casa. >> llegaron los bomberos y dijeron los bomberos: no alcanza el agua! [risas] >> tÚ te acu

and actress patricia heaton. we will see i tomorrow afternoon at 3:00. have a good day. have a good day. [ applause ] here's abc's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: it sounds like some kind of bizarre weather forecast. nasa is calling for a sprinkling of metal debris to fall from the sky friday morning. they just don't know where. >>> even as we get to the final orbits, we don't know where along that path it's going to come in. that covers a tremendous amount of land. >> reporter: the upper atmosphere research satellite, known as uars, is the size of a school bus and is hurtling back towards earth at 1,800 miles an hour. its current track has it at about 130 miles up and dropping. where it will land, well, that's the problem. it orbits the earth every 89 minutes. but because it started tumbling now, it follows a new path every time around, passing over not just a whole lot of ocean but cities from seattle to shanghai. >> once it hits a critical point, it will drop out of the sky and we really won't know that until a few hours before it hits. >> reporter: most of the 6.5-ton s

she has since been identified as patricia hill. >> it took me four, five punches and i was able to bust through the front wind shield of the car. and we were able to get it pulled out and drag her out. >> reporter: within about 30 seconds, ledger says the car was engulfed in flames. he suffered what he calls minor cuts and scratches on his hands, arms and feet. >> you don't really think about it. you just get out there and you do it. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies arrested hill for driving under the influence. >> my poor little car. >>>>eporter: surprisingly, the damage amounted to only a few cars, a fire hydrant, and some singed grass. >> nobody got seriously hurt so that's the good thing. >> reporter: believe it or not, this was not keith ledger's first time pulling someone from a burning car. he says a truck rolled over years ago and he helped pull someone to safety during that accident. this time he says it was different, there was no time to think, only act. reporting in winter haven, abc news. >> amazinamazing. his second rescue. >> double hero, are you kidding me? he said the ca

here now, patricia powell, founder and ceo of the powell financial group. thank you for joining us. this is a very important topic. no one has seen these kinds of numbers. zero for the month of august. that hasn't occurred since 1945. >> we're two years into the recovery. these are really bad numbers for this point in the recovery and there is no reasonable expectation that they're going to improve any time soon. this is serious and it's serious for mostly for the people who are unemployed and mostly for americans out there who are struggling with this economy, but it's also serious for the president because he said unemployment was going to be at 8% if we just gave him his stimulus bill and we did. >> kelly: he went big on the stimulus bill, some people are saying he didn't go big enough and there is expectation he may ask for more in terms of infrastructure dollars, make investments there to create jobs. is that sufficient? what else has to be done? >> well, it's really a philosophical argument going on between the keynesians and out of milton freedman school of what works in an e

three, patricia woertz, ceo of a company that processes after the break. >>> who are the most powerful women in business? the second most powerful, indra nooyi and the most powerful businesswoman, irnen rosenfelt. the agony of defeat. nothing the worse for a sports fan, especially an outspoken one like jay carney, who's team, the boston red sox, out. and did not at all make the playoffs. he had to face perez today. joe johns is out, but brianna keilar is in for political pop and was in the room. but before we talk carney and what he did, just take me through what happened last night. >> let me preface this by telling you the last time i reported on baseball was in high school. so, here goes. here's what happened last night. late last night, bottom of the ninth, two outs, two strikes, boston was up 3-2. and then -- what happens, boston blows it. the red sox blow it. the orioles win the game. this was the end of the season for the red sox and this was really kind of an epic collapse. they had a nine-game lead in the playoff race at the beginning of the month then managed to lose 20 games

. >> reporter: the driver was 44-year-old woman patricia hill. she is facing a dui charge. she says she did have a couple of beers but was not drunk and the brakes on her van went out while she was trying to turn into her driveway. she eventually got a chance to meet her rescuer. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you really. >> you're welcome feeling better? >> i'm hurt, i'm sore but i'm sure you do to. >> reporter: they suffered burns on their hands and feet. they will be okay, jon. jon: that is absolutely amazing, good for them. jenna: they help find victims in the days after the 9/11 attacks. we are going to meet one of the four-legged heros whose first mission was in the rubble of the pentagon. a little dog named red, and her handler by the way is going to join us live just ahead. hey, i'm really glad we took this last minute trip! me too. you booked our room right? not yet, thanks for reminding me. wait, what? fret not ma'lady. i have the hotels.com app so we can get a great deal even at the last minute. ah, well played sir. download the free hotels.com app and

patricia -- recinos, where are you? get behind stephanie. it will move faster once we get these names done. eric ares. come to the center. and then -- wouldn't you give us your question or comment? thank you for coming. >> thank you for the opportunity. i am representing thousands of members of the green alley coalition including the sierra club. we're here to speak to you about the land water conservation fund and we're asking you to fight for. we really need someone to make sure the land water fund does not get decimated or devastated. it is a small percentage of the federal budget. it is a bipartisan issue. it need not be used to correct the budget deficit. thank you. >> thank you. i am a strong supporter of the program. what i will tell you is this. i have been tasked with finding out 1.2 to $1.5 billion in savings. the 12 of us who have been given this assignment, i do not believe we have a right to walk into this negotiation with preconditions or protecting any special interests are making special interest pledges i will protect whenev

patricia has dropped. -- attrition has dropped. last month, some significant drops occurred, the last several months. we are at about two 0.2% per month. -- we are at about tw2.2% per month. on a national -- figure it over a year, that is a lot. 24%, 26%, that is a big turnover. on the other hand, there are a couple of factors in that. the biggest factor is that there is no law that requires you to say. so it is not like, a few list in -- if you enlist in the united states army, you sign a contract and you cannot just leave whenever you want to leave. in afghanistan, you can just pick up and go home. often, what happens, to be quite honest with you, is to have mostly would -- mostly young men who it is the first time they are away from home and they do not like it. i remember the first time i was an enlisted soldier, i might have gone home, too, if i had not been contacted. -- if i had not signed a contract. but the real factors that drove attrition was really bad leadership, or pay, that living -- poor pay, and living conditions a

., william joseph cashman georgine rose corrigan patricia cushing jason dahl joseph deluca patrick joseph driscoll edward p. felt jane c. folger colleen laura fraser andrew garcia, jeremy logan glick kristin gould lauren grandcolas and unborn child wanda anita green, donald f. greene linda gronlund richard guadagno leroy homer toshiya kuge ceecee lyles hilda marcin waleska martinez nicole miller louis j. nacke donald arthur peterson jean hoadley peterson mark rothenberg christine snyder john talignani honor elizabeth wainio deborah jacobs welsh. [bagpipes] [applause] >> vice-president biden president bush, president clinton, secretary salazar speaker boehner -- friends families, and all those that chose to take time today to share in the bittersweet celebration of this memorial dedication. thank you for honoring the memory of the passengers and crew of united flight 93 with your presence. 10 years ago we first came to this hallowed grounds. we were devastated. nearly broken. our lives had changed in an instant and at a time when we least expected the potential of such evil in the world. t

., william joseph cashman, georgine rose corrigan, patricia cushing, jason dahl, joseph deluca, patrick joseph driscoll, edward p. felt, jane c. folger, colleen laura fraser, andrew garcia, jeremy logan glick, kristin gould, lauren grandcolas, and unborn child, wanda anita green, donald f. greene, linda gronlund, richard guadagno, leroy homer, toshiya kuge, ceecee lyles, hilda marcin, waleska martinez, nicole miller, louis j. nacke, donald arthur peterson, jean hoadley peterson, mark rothenberg, christine snyder, john talignani, honor elizabeth wainio, deborah jacobs welsh. [bagpipes] ♪ ♪ ♪ i w [applause] >> vice-president biden, president bush, president clinton, secretary salazar, speaker boehner -- friends, families, and all those that chose to take time today to share in the bittersweet celebration of this memorial dedication. thank you for honoring the memory of the passengers and crew of united flight 93 with your presence. 10 years ago we first came to this hallowed grounds. we were devastated. nearly broken. our lives had changed in an instant and at a time when we least e

. -- patricia stacks. >> and my late husband. we were blessed had you in our lives. we miss you and we will never forget you. they keep for might two the beautiful children. i honor your memory by keeping them close to heart. thank you. >> in honor of my brother, may god bless you. god bless america. ♪ ["i will remember you" being sung] ♪ i will remember you will you remember me? let your light pass you by weep not for the memories remember the good times that we had? i let them slip away from us when things got bad once there was a darkness, deep and endless night you gave me everything you had, though, you gave me light i will remember you will you remember me? fe has to your li apass you by weep not for the memories pass you your life by weep not for the memories ♪ i will remember you ♪ [applause] >> generation still not ceased to be born. and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses that they have. the sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. the moment we ceased to hold each other, the moment w

., william joseph cashman, georgine rose corrigan, patricia cushing , jason dahl, joseph deluca, patrick joseph driscoll, edward p. felt, jane c. folger, colleen laura fraser, andrew garcia, jeremy logan glick, kristin gould, lauren grandcolas, and unborn child, wanda anita green, donald f. greene, linda gronlund, richard guadagno, leroy homer, toshiya kuge, ceecee lyles, hilda marcin, waleska martinez, nicole miller, louis j. nacke, donald arthur peterson, jean hoadley peterson, mark rothenberg, christine snyder, john talignani, honor elizabeth wainio, deborah jacobs welsh. [bagpipes] [applause] >> vice-president biden, president bush, president clinton, secretary salazar, speaker boehner -- friends, families, and all those that chose to take time today to share in the bittersweet celebration of this memorial dedication. thank you for honoring the memory of the passengers and crew of united flight 93 with your presence. 10 years ago we first came to this hallowed grounds. we were devastated. nearly broken. our lives had changed in an instant and at a time when we least expected the pote