i am the brother of betty ann ong. my family and i would like to take this opportunity to thank the park and recreation center. supporters who are here and in attendance, those who are unable to attend, petition signers, and all citizens of this great nation at large. we urge you to support the renaming of the recreation center. the ong family would be extremely honored to have the chinese recreation center renamed the betty ann ong recreation center. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> gloria or cathy, would you like to speak? >> good morning. i am the older sister of betty ann ong. i live in bakersfield, california. it's a real honor to be here today. i want to thank you all for your consideration in renaming the chinese recreation center to the betty ann ong recreation center. i would also like to thank all of the supporters that we have had and to everybody for being here. i can still remember growing up in san francisco chinatown and playing at the chinese recreation center very clearly. the playground was a

betty ann ong completed her mission. you look at the record of the other the three airlines, they called somebody, but they did not call ground control. betty ann ong it her mission and she completed ait. thank you. >> is there anyone else would like to comment? ok, seeing none, public comment is closed. >> let me start off by saying, i'm completely ok with the process. we are good. i have a hard time articulating this without being emotional except to say that i cannot imagine how this has been for the family. you have a sister, who was a hero, who is a hero, and you lost her in the most tragic and historic of ways. yet, she is a hero to the country. it is bittersweet. to the someone is unimaginable, but to have her as our hero is a great gift to all of us. thank you for all of that. i want to echo the mayor's contention -- mayor's intentions. we celebrate her heroic actions. we celebrate the sheet is a child of chinatown. she's a product of our schools, of our rec center. that's what i want to think about when we repre

>> reporter: good morning, ann. it is a lot quieter other here in large part because many of the campers at snow park have pack the up their belongings and headed over to where you are. in the main plaza. we saw many of them packing up this morning, taking their tents down, putting all of their belongings in their backpacks, and at this point there are only about two or three people standing in the park. we've seen several tents taken down. only a dozen tents remaining. that's because they received word earlier this morning, as early as yesterday even, that police would be assembling, coming over for that raid. they had gotten word of about 500 of the officers assembling at the coliseum this morning. and this of course after they had received that final notice that they can't stay here at the park. snow park one of those parks named in the warning, saying you need to move out. you're staying here illegally. if you don't leave, you will be arrested and taken into custody. let's go ahead and go back over to chopper, a

ann coulter. her latest book is called "demonic" a book so dangerous liberals want a five-day waiting period to purchase it. and he gets his treats by turning tricks. he puts the wean in halloween, it is my sidekick, bill schulz. and with us, the author of the supply side of economics and the affects on the growing economy, always a treat. and he is the liberal ghoul who is read by fools, our "new york times" correspondent. good to see you, pinch. >> cnn is expected to announce a vee vamp. -- a revamp of the morning schedule. sadly there was their rea section about my waking up with pinch pitch, you stupid executives. look what i have done for this dog and pony show. i will see you in hell, by gum, i will see you in hell. oh, by gum, that could be a profitable ad campaign for me. buy gum. >> okay. is the cain train in a world of -- hurt? see, i didn't use pain. they are denying allegationsthat in the 1990s, an actual decade he sexually harassed two women while he was the head of the national resta

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yes, ann. it's no accident that the people who go to these big stadiums are called the faithful and that guys like joe paterno are treated like gods. we found out differently. he wanted one more saturday because he thought he was all that. he didn't even deserve that. >> this is to be continued and i hope you come back and explain more as more details come. thank you so much. >> thanks, ann. >>> now to the presidential race and a disastrous moment for texas governor rick perry during last night's gop debate. we'll talk to him in just a moment, but first let's take a look at what happened. >> i will tell you, it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone -- commerce, education, and the -- what's the third one there? let's see. oh, five. okay. so commerce, education, and the -- the -- >> epa? >> -- epa. there you go. >> seriously? is the epa the one you were talking about? >> no, sir, no, sir. we're talking about the agencies of government -- epa needs to be rebuilt, no doubt a

ann? >>> coming up, where is michelle parker? police step up the search for a florida mother of three who vanished mysteriously following an appearance on "the people's court." we'll talk with her mother and brother, but first this is "today" on nbc. >>> still ahead, martha stewart has us over to her house to prepare a thanksgiving feast. >> she made us work. she got you in the chicken coop, got me on a horse, that wasn't pretty and natalie, al as well. >> over the top, after your local news. >> this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. a new leg of the intercounty connector is now open. the 10-mile stretch it connecting prince george's and montgomery county is open to the public at 6:00 this morning. it will be free through december 4, but after that commuters will have to pay tolls. we posted the fees on our website, wbaltv.com. >> busy ride out there. dealing with closures on southbound 95 out of the tydings memorial bridge. we have a left lane now

ann? >> all right, al, thank you. >>> federal investigators want to know what went wrong at hartford's bradley international airport during saturday's snowstorm. the airport was inundated with diverted flights, many from new york and passengers on a handful of jetblue planes waited hour after hour with overflowing toilets no, food and no water. tom costello covers aviation and joins us. tom, good morning. >> reporter: ann, good morning. the d.o.t. requires airlines to get passengers off planes if they've been stranded for three hours, four hours if it's an international flight. you mix together a lot of snow, a small airport, two dozen diverted flights, not enough people, it's a recipe for a nightmare in hartford saturday. >> hold on to the railing. >> reporter: this wasn't supposed to happen again, a frustrated jetblue pilot pleading with ground cruise in hartford for help saturday night. >> is there any way you can get a tug and a towbar out here to us and get us towed somewhere to a gat

i'm ann notarangelo. >>> he wasn't just another cop on the beat. many lives in of -- pane lives in vallejo were touched by officer jim capoot. a large crowd is gathering for a vigil. don. >> reporter: anne, a remarkably large crowd turning out for this vigil at city hall, spilling out into the street. clearly a man very well thought of. this vigil started about 6:00. we have a samly pal four. here's what it was. [ music ] >> we're all shocked. we're shocked at the senselessness of the loss of this life, and officer could -- officer capoot was a wonderful officer. so many people were touched by him. vallejo is an extremely diverse community. as someone describes on the night that he was killed it felt like there was a blanket fell over the city, that it just got quiet. >> a former marine, a former chp officer, a 19-year member of the vallejo police department and father, husband, father of three girs, apparently a very well liked basketball coach as well. very well thought of, very well liked. a very highly honored police officer with a very diverse

anne. >> reporter: that's right. and protestors did not immediately disperse once police started firing the tear gas. take a look at their reaction to that move by police that was lighting fires that this was their barricade around this vacant building that they have taken over on 16 and telegraph. once police fired tear gas, they set that barricade on fire. police responded with flash- bang grenades. and protestors were throwing rocks at police. it was a very chaotic scene by all accounts. in fact, some of the other more peaceful protestors were trying to stop the people that seemed ton bent on some sort of confrontation with police. so there was some infighting within the protestors, as well. all told, about 50 people were arrested. the marks are left all over downtown oakland of how things got out of control this. wall is the rite aid building and this scene with the graffiti, the scribbling all over the walls and the windows, this is repeated block after block in downtown oakland. so they are trying to start clea

. >>> someone is trying to scam people in anne arundel county. we'll tell you who they are posing as and what you need to look for to make sure you don't get taken. >>> if you are planning a trip this holiday season, you may not need to take much besides clothes and a cell phone. >>> and he's the man behind the red costume. we'll show you how one of saucemy street's most famous characters got -- "sesame street's" most famous characters got his start. >>> he's the man behind the little red monster. tonight, kevin will be in "being elmo," the documentary that tracks his life. before the big local premiere, we brought clash back to the spot where he got his start right here on abc 2. >> it's a lot of fun to come back to baltimore. >> reporter: kevin clash, the man whose character has taken him all over the global has returned to the town where it all began. the puppeteer behind one of sesame street's most famous places was raised in baltimore county and now he's back to show case a movie about his life as elmo. >> most times people meet me and they

surprising comments from ann coulter. she doesn't want republicans to nominate the most conservative candidate in 2012. >> i think the big division among republicans right now are those who think absolutely. this is going to be 1980. we are running against jimmy carter, wrecks the economy like jimmy carter had. we just need to get the most right wing candidate in there. and then there are those of us like me and apparently governor christie who think this guy is going to be tough to beat. the idea we're going to pick the most right ping candidate without any concern about who is going to win is suicidal for the republican party. >> eric: ann, i love you. you are a good friend of mine. a brilliant, conservative commentator. but romney? how about a true conservative, one that believes in smaller government, limited taxation and this big one, ann, repealing obamacare? >> bob: let me just -- in honor of -- >> eric: hard to repeal obamacare. [ overtalk ] >> bob: it's not that, this is in honor of our missing partner greg. this

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you were down in ann arundel county cherie. >> at the ann arundel county public library in annapolis and so interesting, i am learning ought about e readers and this morning i'm joined by the library administrators. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, grease to be here. >> and tell us what is going on. >> well, today we provide 200e-readers to the public of of -- ann arundel county. we will be launching at 11:00 a.m., with a big event. and every one of our 15 read libraries, at 9:00 a.m., with we have them available for checkout. i have one right here. this is a color nook. and with this one, hold on a second, this is just doing to give a little bit of a look at the nook, we have probably 20 or so books preloaded on here. so we are buying the books for people to check out, just like we have always checked out books to people and it is just in a new format. this is the largest launch of e-readers in the state of maryland and may be the largest in the country. i don't know that. but it is definitely in maryland. and our plan is to have up to 1,000 of these. we want to try to meet public

snan. >> ann? >> ikele isikoff, thank you. >> ben andreozzi reptsz one of the victims and jeff deon, one of the representatives for the national center for victims. >> good morning, ann. >> what can you tell us about him in terms of how old your client is and what his story is? >> ann, i can't release personal information that would actually give the public an opportunity to identify who he is, but i can tell you the emotions and give you an idea of what he's going through right now. and i think it's important to understand that him, and i assume as well as many of the other victims, they've got a real complex emotional response to what's going on right now. it's important to understand that these folks were involved in the penn state football community. they were on the sidelines of football games. they were spending significant amounts of time traveling with the team and/or in the locker room with the team and getting to know members of that football team, so to say that he's torn apart, i think

ann? >>> prince william is being hailed a hero, after a cargo ship sank in the irish sea. nbc's michelle kosinski is in london with more. >> reporter: generally we think prince william, future king and some glamorous occasion but over the weekend he was all flight lieutenant william wales doing what he loves to do, flying a chopper in the middle of the night in the worst conditions to save someone's life. everything about this mission was treacherous, middle of the night, pitch black, gale force winds howling across the irish sea, waves some 20 feet high. above it the helicopter co-piloted by prince wilial. below it, two sailors desperately clinging to a lifeboat. both russian crewmen were pulled to safety. their huge 260-foot-plus british freighter had been hit by an enormous wave, rolled, split in two and then sank. one sailor's body was found, others were missing. this is prince william's day job. >> straight ahead. >> roger. >> reporter: and he talked about it just before his wedding.

>> thank you, anne, for the kind introductions. it was amazing 22 years ago this city in the bay area region experienced the loma prieta earthquake. i was not yet in the fire department. it was about five months before i joined and like anne alluded to, if anyone lived here, they remember where they were. >> i was at a high school when it happened and all of us remember the frightening moments and the aftermath of loma prieta. and it's always fitting when we celebrate an anniversary to take a minute not only to commemorate that but to next on the importance of how the community needs to step up and assist the paid professionals, if you will. the san francisco fire departments, our respective departments are adequately resourced for any given day for emergencies here in san francisco. as you know, though, that all goes out the window for a large-scale disaster be it man made or not. that's why we always talk about preparedness. the more prepared we are, the quicker we'll be able to respond and the more efficient the recovery is. tha

ann? >> announcer: where in the world is matt lauer is brought to you by the capital one venture card. >> i couldn't find him. >> why don't you use this? >> oh, yeah. >> all right, al, thank you. for the second time this week, it's time for us to ask, where in the world is matt lauer? ♪ where in the world, where in the world is matt lauer ♪ ♪ show me a sign, give me a clue ♪ ♪ drop me a hint and tell me something new ♪ ♪ it's a global mystery ♪ mystery ♪ you've got to watch and see ♪ where in the world, where in the world is matt lauer ♪ >> good morning, everyone, ladies and gentlemen. it's nice to see you and i'm sure you've been spending a large portion of your free time over the last 24 hours pondering the clue i gave you before leaving namibia. i want to tell you the truth here because we flip flopped our entire itinerary due to weather. i wasn't planning on being where i am this morning until later in the week. i hadn't completed the clue so i relied on our execu

to ann average of 3-38 a gallon. &pthat's about 5-ccnts less tha we've been paying for the past couple eeks.analysts say the bad economy has reduued demand. the group known for helping so many other families hhs had a tragic year offitt own in 2011. but two funerals nd heavy eartt re not ending the dream for the polls at the bea gaddy family center. joel d. smith is live there now as they prepare o feed more than 40 thousand people thissweek. good morning joel d. 3 connii bass, daughter bea gaddy grandson murdered. 3 3 3 3 coming up on the early editiin... the lock is ticking away... away... obviouuly nobody wants to quit until the stroke of mid. pidnight.today is the deadline for the super committee to have a plan... slashing a trillion dollars rom the country's budget...will they have it in place? placee 3 ((bbeak 1)) ((bump in)) ge! [buzzing] aah! oof! eee! captioning made possible by castle rock entertainment, the national broadcasting company, meteorologist)) 33 ((traffic reporter ad libs)) map fiberrmap 175 map

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>> happy birthday, ann. i toast you with walmart wine. >> so nice. >> you think that smells good, why don't you smell that cake? >> hey, al, this isn't my first rodeo. >> honestly, i was surprised by this. thank you so much. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. here's a look at one of our top stories. prosecutors expected to retry the twin brothers accused of setting up a ball of fire. a mistrial was declared in february in the trial of the tremaine and travers johnson. one juror held out because she believed the surveillance video believed the surveillance video was too bge's instant discounts got our homeowner to switch to energy star® cfl bulbs. 3-way cfls really click with my style. learn to speak the language of energy efficiency at bgesmartenergy.com. >> nice start for the day. plenty of sunshine. temperatures down around freezing. we will be mostly in the 40's for high-speed plenty of sunshine. a few clouds in the mountains. i w

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. >> reporter: starting today in anne arundel county instead of checking out just a book, you can check out ereader. >> they are much easier to use. they're light weight. you can take them with you wherever you are. >> reporter: library fans aagree. the annapolis -- agree. the annapolis library had ereaders. each the 15 libraries have 25 ereaders making anne arundel county the county with the most ereaders in the state. >> my daughter asked for ereader for christmas. anything that can encourage her to read, would be great. >> reporter: each ereader can be reloaded for 15-30 books. >> it's a chance for people that haven't tried one get to try one. people that can't afford one, would like to see what it's like, it's free. what more would they love? >> reporter: next time you're in anne arundel and want to do some reading, you can check this out and read one book and check out ereader and read 20. in anne arundel, abc 2 news. >>> the library apparently got different books on to the ereaders as time goes by. >>> a meeting to help decide the fate of baltimore city's recreation centers is und

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good morning, anne. >> reporter: good morning. they did overtake it for a little while. they were able to set some fires in the street. i'm on 14th and broadway in downtown oakland. the real drama was 16th and telegraph where you can see the flashlights. we want to get to the video that our photographer shot overnight. a harrowing experience, a lot of violence, almost 50 people arrested after a standoff started at this vacant building that the protestors were trying to take over. this happened around 11:00 last night. i'm here with our chief photographer rick villaroman who was there after this broke out a little bit after 11:00. rick, thanks for being here so early this morning. tell us about what you saw and the fires that started. >> well, it was complete pandemonium. the cops moved in with tear gas first. then there was a flash-bangs. bonfire got set. and it was complete chaos from that point. >> reporter: tell us about this bonfire. it was in the middle of the street. we're talking about garbage, wood pallets. >> at 16th and telegraph, the protestors took over a bui

ann? >> kristen welker reporting this morning, thanks a lot. happy thanksgiving to you. >>> let's go over to the news desk. natalie has a check of the top stories of the morning. good morning to you. >> good morning matt and ann and good morning, everyone. massive protests continue in cairo's tahrir square. they have the country's military seeking an exit strategy this morning. this as three american students are detained by officials there for allegedly joining those protesters. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in tahrir square with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. u.s. embassy officials in cairo are meeting with them today and were present yesterday as they were questioned by egyptian authorities for allegedly throwing molotov cocktails at security forces. on the ground, clashes are continuing today, as the egyptian military is seeking to deescalate this crisis, offering to hold early presidential elections. many political parties in this country are accepting that compromise, but here in the square, t

anne makovec is in becker with reaction from some students. >> reporter: good morning. i think the best picture of the morning as to what went down here is the regentsaurus rex, the piece of art they built. they say they are going to build it up bigger and stronger next time. they are vowing not to end the movement even though police raided the camp at 3:30 this morning. the clean-up is going on right now at sproul plaza. you can see a big pile of debris there which was once a campsite a lot of the tents moved out. the students are gathering right now on the other side of the plaza. this may be about three dozen of them right now in a circle trying to plan out what their next move is going to be when they are going to rally here at sproul plaza next. police tore down about 20 tents last night including the artwork on the plaza. protestors say first they came on a loudspeaker and said if you're not a student you will be arrested and students were supposed to show their student ids, they gave them a five- minute warning. even though it was a peaceful raid, students weren'

ann? >> such a tragedy. ron allen, thank you so much for your reporting on this story, which is still developing. >>> we want to make a turn to politics and embattled gop presidential candidate herman cain. he delivered an animated news conference tuesday to address new allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and he vowed to stay in the race. nbc's senior investigative correspondent lisa myers has the story. >> herman cain's strategy of defiance and denial is not putting out the fire. in fact his problems appear to be growing. an accuser who previously declined to speak out about specific incidents now says she's ready to talk and is hoping cain's other accusers will join her. >> we will get through this. >> reporter: a defiant herman cain says he doesn't even remember the face or the name of his latest accuser. sharon bialek, who came forward this week to say cain groped her when she came to him for help with a job in the late 1990s. >> the charges and the accusations i absolutely re

." >> our anne makovec just got there a few minutes ago. anne, on the telephone what can you tell us? what's going on? >> reporter: good morning. a lot of police officers standing around right now maybe 50 to 100 officers here surrounding sproul plaza. this is where they raided several campsites earlier this evening at about 3:30 this morning. there's now a pile of debris of what was once several makeshift campsites here on the plaza steps. so we have the officers standing around. they say they are treating the plazas a crime scene. some of the people that were camping and their supporters are standing on the other side of the police line right now. they are gathered, standing around trying to figure out what their next move is going to be. i have not heard any reports of any violence with this raid, which is a bit of a surprise when you look at the comparison last time when police came in last week and broke up a campsite here and there were several complaints of brutality and police using their batons on some protestors. so far, calm. we

ann? >> don, clearly the neighbors don't want the occupy protestors there but have the protestors said whether or not they will try tousles be considerate? >> they had that amplifier very loud for many, many hours tonight and i think it falls in that category where they say this is more important. so if that's how they think about it i don't think they will be considerate, no. >> don knapp in oakland, thank you. >>> the rain did nothing to deter occupy san francisco protestors tonight. san francisco police provided an escort. >> earlier today crews in san francisco arrived to clean up two encampments. one in front of the federal reserve building and market. other a grassy strip. the city declared the area a public house nuisance. workers dressed in protective suits and with garbage that left the main camp in tact. >> the intention was to bring things into compliance. however, when we showed that we weren't going to let anything be removed then they stopped trying to remove anything. >> som

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anne makovec, live, frank ogawa plaza, nice job, ann. thank you very much. >> and we are expecting to hear from city officials including the maror as well as police around 8:15 with an update of what is happening. >> let's go to traffic and a mess down there for a while, right? >> that six-block stretch or so of broadway, shut down and bart is impacted for much of the morning. the 12th street station is still shut down. so trains are just running straight through. you can use 19th. the transit is being detoured still. and expect street closures and delays. 880 free traffic has never been impacted. we have good news and bad news. this accident we've been following in south san francisco. southbound 101 at grand avenue. and everything is pretty much back to normal there. but now we're just getting word of a new accident in the backup. it sounds like it is right before the south san francisco exit. and this is involving a couple of cars. sounds like they have a couple of lanes blocked off. it is still slow heading out of san francisco on so

that's why we're here today. >> that was anne makovec reporting. this is live shots from chopper 5 as they continue the march through the streets of oakland. the next stop, apparently the port of oakland around 4:00. the port is open though. of course we'll have the very latest tonight coming up at 5:00 and 6:00. >> this crowd just outside of chase bank. they have been targeting banks throughout the morning earlier. they were outside wells fargo. we'll continue to watch this at cbssf.com. >> take care. enjoy your wednesday. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com [ dennis ] allstate wants everyone to be protected on the road. whether you're an allstate customer or not. all you have to do is call. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll get a free lifetime membership in good hands roadside assistance. [ dennis ] shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. [ female announcer ] and if you call now, your first tow in good hands roadside assistance is free! simply get a quote on any allstate insurance policy. that's