this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, may 28th 2015. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. more rain is a possibility for parts of texas this morning. it it is last thing folks there need as they try to recover from a barrage of deadly flood-producing storms. more evacuations have been ordered along three rinks that continue to rise. at least 21 deaths are attributed to the storm system in texas and oklahoma. 11 others are still missing. >> emergency officials in horseshoe bend were going door to door yesterday trying to get residents to leave. some headed for higher ground but others refused. >> what's going to happen tonight, that's what i'm worried about. and who stayed in here and didn't get out and what are we going to find tomorrow. >> flash flood warnings and watches are posted there this morning. and in houston high floodwaters -- or rather high water flood add sewage treatment plant. more than 100,000 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled into the water around the plant. and one of the flood victims isis73-year-old alice tovar. she was discovered missing tuesday. floodwaters flooded her car. >> she was right there all along. >> the body of another victim 29-year-old jose antiaga patarga was found out near a ranch in wimberley, texas. omar villafranca has more. >> reporter: emergency crews continue to look for people missing. some were in a home swept off its foundation. part of the task, figuring how farthing things drifted down the stream. >> that's really hard. >> reporter: kelly burns has lived here for 53 years and says she has never seen anything like it. >> it's always been an incredible community town and now i don't recognize it. >> reporter: search crews are carefully sifting through giant debris piles. there are piles like this that line the blanco river. >> we are safe. >> reporter: this family were saved by fleeing to their attic. there are more than 4,000 homes damage odd destroyered in the city. the city can't catch a break. the risk for severe weather is expected to stick around through friday and into the weekend. omar villafranca, cbs news wimberley, texas. the atlantic hurricane season officially begins june 1st. the federal government predicts this year's season will be less active than usual due to cooler seas and the el nino effect on the pacific ocean. the national osha nick and atmospheric administration forecasts six to 11 named storm, three to six reaching hurricane strength and more that will reach winds of up to 100 miles an hour. the pentagon is trying to figure out how they mistakenly send live anthrax. for now there's no rif tock the general public but some lab workers are being treated. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie good morning. this is bringing memories of 2001 when anthrax was purposely mailed to members of congress media organizations, news organizations, and five people were killed. these labs were supposed to get dead anthrax for research purposes and research is under way what could have happened, and it's not the first time. close to 2 dozen people at a u.s. air force base in south korea are under medical care getting vaccinations and getting antibiotics after a possible exposure. they were notified by the pentagon that live anthrax samples were inadvertently shipped. the samples were supposed to be inactive. >> >> no known rif tock the general public and no suspected cases of the anthrax infection. >> it was part of the defense program to develop new ways to identify biological threats. samples have include delaware new jersey tennessee, california new york and virginia. the pentagon first learned of the mistake when a lab in maryland informed them it had received a live sample last week. the cdc has started to confiscate the samples for testing. now, this is the second time in a year that live anthrax was accidentally sent out. last june 80 people were potentially exposed when the cdc sent out live spores by accident but no one was hurt. anne-marie? >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. soccer's international gorging body says tomorrow's vote for the new president will go ahead as planned despite the indictment of more than a dozen high-ranking members. seven were arrested in a hotel in switzerland yesterday morning. in all 14 were indicted by u.s. prosecutor and charged with taking $150 million in bribes. the indictment alleges a pattern of fraud bribery, and kickbacks as the executives decideward key events would be held. >> they were expected to uphold the rules that keek soccer honest and protect tin ted grit of the game. instead they corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to enrich themselves. >> the bribes were made through u.s. banks. swiss officials are conducting their own investigation. the trial of accused colorado theater gunman holmes resumes today. holmes says he was insane at the time of the attack but prosecutors say a notebook in which holmes meticulously outlined his plan ublds mines the claim. elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: james holmes planned his chilling attack in chilling details laid out in a notebook. in a section he called "case the place," he drew a map showing the general layout of the theater including the locations of the exits in nearly all of the 16 screening rooms. in that it 1er 2 he said, only two exits, visibility marginal theater 14 four exists visible, avoid. he ended up going into theater 9 where he carefully laid out his plans. in court the jury heard from people in theater nine. young was there with her boyfriend blanc. >> did you see him laying toward you? >> he was facing me. >> did you ever see him take another breath? >> i did not. >> it was over in less than 12 minutes. 12 people were kill and 70 others injured. in his notebook holmes also wrote about the emergency response. one of the last pages shows this that it never relation to the nearby police department and estimates it would take police three minutes to arrive. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of in sanity. thursday we'll see video of him after his arrest. he was interviewed for 22 hours. elaine quijano, cbs news new york. more republicans are jumping into the 2016 presidential race. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum announced wednesday he is again seeking the nomination and also george pataki has also announced he's entering the field. on sunday former governor jeb bush will be on "face the nation" and that will be host bob schieffer's final show before his retirement right here on cbs. coming up on the "morning news," super slow chase, we'll show you a suspect who's not in any rush to get anywhere as the police follow close behind. and later the text message you don't want to get on your i phone. this is the "cbs morning news." listen up... i'm reworking the menu. veggies you're cool... mayo, corn dogs... you are so out of here! ahh... the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein... and 26 vitamins and minerals. and now with... ...twice as much vitamin d ...which up to 90% of people don't get enough of. ohhhhhhh. the sunshine vitamin! ensure now has 2x more vitamin d to support strong bones. ensure. take life in. on autopilot when it comes to sensitive teeth? 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"that my arms can never relax or my eyes can never look away?" ♪ in texas a suspect is in custody this morning following a very slow speed car chase. the pursuit which apparently began with a drug bust that went bad ended up after more than two hours after police finally forced him to stop. >> reporter: jacob jones witnessed the chase. he saw the suspect 42-year-old joe gonzalez drop a female passenger off before leading police on a bizarre chase. >> the cops immediately like got out of their cars and were like put your hands up. >> gonzalez took to i-30 with police in hot pursuit. first he went westbound and back east. at one point he gets off arlington and races through school zones. our cameras were so close they were pleading for him to be oklahoma. >> owe'll be okay joe. i promise you youwill not get hurt. the police decided they had numb. a swat armored used a pit maneuver. >> very scary. you see it on tv but you don't expect tot be caught on it. very scary. >> that was kvtv's ken reporting. he faces charges of evading arrest and possession of a controlled substance. and a man suspected of starting a massive fire in los angeles is expected to be charged today. he allegedly set fire to an unfinished seven-story downtown apartment building in december. the 56-year-old is being held on more than $1 million bail. the fire spread to two other buildings and caused more than $80 million in damage. members of the group u2 are mourning the death of their long time band member. he was 68 years old and was with the irish band for more than 30 years. lead singer bono said we've lost a family member. straight ahead, i phone reboot. reboot. we'll tell you about a text message that's shutting down iphones. details in "moneywatch." iphone iphones. details in "moneywatch." and, i'm sorry... i don't mean to drone on. honey, stop messing with jan. during toyota time, get 0% apr financing for 60 months on a 2015 prius. offer ends june 1st. for great deals on other toyotas, visit toyota.com enjoy your prius. thanks, jan. look out people, coming in hot. toyota. let's go places. i want a great shape. who doesn't? so i work out. i'm good. i juice. and then there's that other thing. this... i can do easily. new benefiber healthy shape. just a couple of spoonfuls every day means fewer cravings. plus, it's all natural, clear, taste-free and dissolves completely. it's clinically proven to keep me fuller longer and helps keep me healthy inside and out. new benefiber healthy shape. this, i can do. here's look at the forecast in some cities around the country. on the "cbs moneywatch," tracking irs cyber thieves, and beware of a text message that will crash your iphone. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange that will crash with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning, anne-marie. two unidentified officials told the "associated press" that the hackers are part of a criminal based operation in russia. criminal-based operation in russia. tax information was stolen as part of a scheme to claim false tax refunds. on wall street stocks pushed to a new record high and finished higher following tuesday's big selloff. the dow rose 121 points, the s&p gained 19 points, the nasdaq finished 73 points higher. apple is working to fix a software glitch that can cause iphones to shut down when they receive a certain text message. when the iphone isn't being uset id shows a shortened version of the message on the locked screen. it can show some arabic characters. it will shut down but restart automatically. comedian tracy morgan settled a case with walmart. a walmart truck slammed into a limo van carrying morgan and others back from a show from delaware last june. morgan was injured in the crash and one of his friends was killed. morgan said walmart, quote, did right by him and his family. lamborghini is going into the luxury suv business. the euris suv is expected to go on the road. the company isn't saying how much the euris would cost. anne-marie? >> i guess if you have to ask, you cannot afford it, right? jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. still to come, nba star stephen curry leads his team to the finals for the first time in 40 years, but there's a different mvp at his postgame interview. and a home run ball that sweeps with the fishes. person at his interview. and one that sweeps the ball with the fishes. than olive oil. and a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. take care of those you love. mazola makes it better. introducing the first ever gummy multivitamin from centrum. a complete, and tasty new way to support... your energy... immunity... and metabolism like never before. centrum multigummies. see gummies in a whole new light. ♪ ♪ it may seem strange, but people really can love their laxative. especially when it's miralax. it hydrates, eases and softens to unblock your system naturally so you have peace of mind from start to finish. love your laxative. miralax. here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. the golden state warriors are going back to the nba finals for the first time since 1975. the warriors, finishing off the rockets in game five last night, league mvp stephen curry scores 26 points and golden state wins 104-90. curry once again had a date for his postgame interview. >> this is a proud moment for everybody in the bay area to be four wins away from our goal, and that's a special feeling. we've got to to take a week -- >> da-da, help me. da-da, help me. >> okay. take a week off to get ready and get our minds right on our game plan right for how we're going to beat cleveland and we're excited about it. >> multi-tasking dad. that's his daughter riley. they split their two games this weekend. the chicago blackhawks force game seven in the nhl western conference finals. patrick kane dazzles the ducks with his second period goal to give chicago a 3-0 lead. the blackhawks go on to beat anaheim, 5-2. and a scoreless tie between the rays and mariners goes into the ninth inning until the home run leading hitter seattle's nelson cruz comes to the plate. >> the 1-0. cruz, the hitter. this sends cuddyer racing back. >> cruz's three-run homer is the the sea rays will have to take cover. >> cruz's three-run homer is the first to plunk in the seattle fish tank. it gives seattle a 3-0 win over the rays. there will be more drama in the suburbs of washington, d.c. >> carronade, c-a-r-r-o-n-a-d-e, carronade. >> correct. >> 49 are left in the scrips national spelling bee after wednesday's preliminary round, and tonight a champion will be crowned. the winner receives $35,000, saving bonds, and other prizes. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," best-selling author jodi picoult. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." this is the "cbs morning news." complete with key nutrients we may need... ...plus it supports bone health with calcium and vitamin d. one a day vitacraves gummies. my cut hurt. mine hurt more. mine stopped hurting faster! neosporin plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. when you pick any 3 participating products get a free all better bag. available at walmart. soil is the foundation for healthy plants just like gums are the foundation for healthy teeth. new colgate total mouthwash for gum health. it kills germs and forms a protective shield for 45% stronger gums. for stronger, healthier gums colgate total mouthwash. in memphis, family, frends and fans honor the late b.b. king. a huge crowd turned out for a procession featuring the guitar of the king of the blues. he died may 14th at age 89. his funeral will be saturday in mississippi. and a hiker missing for three days in southern california's cleveland national forest was found alive. crystal cruz of our los angeles station kcbs reports. >> reporter: hidden beneath this thick brush rescue crews spotted a missing hiker in the cleveland national forest wednesday. the 24-year-old man hadn't been seen since sunday. esther troy manages the grace retreat center tucked in the hills of corona. the hiker and his grandma rented these two cabins here for a prayer retreat. >> his mother bring him, you know, to pray for him. >> reporter: the manager says people come from as far as mexico to hike up this mountain, hike to the top of it and say prayers. she says this young man and his grandmother were up here to say prayers about his health. >> he has a medical problem. >> reporter: deputies say he has a medical condition that requires him to take medication. the helicopter crew spotted his leg poking out of the brush. the hiker was severely dehydrated hurt from a fall into the ravine but alive. >> they were able to airlift him out of there. he's at a hospital currently and listed in stable conditions. >> reporter: strangers at the retreat are opening their hearts and hands on wednesday ott the mountain hoping their prayers for the hiker were heard. >> that was kcbs's crystal cruz reporting. >> a victim was rescued by a teenager with a canoe. the 78-year-old woke up to almost a foot of water on tuesday morning. >> the water was strong. when you walked in that water, it was pushing you. >> reporter: rabbi radinsky was suffered from dehydration and this teenager knew he was in trouble and launched his own rescue mission. he borrowed his cousin's canoe and paddled right into the rabbi's house. >> they took him up to higher ground and then went back out in the floodwaters to rescue about 12 others most of them elderly and homebound. >> one family actually climbed out through a window screen which we had to cut open. >> reporter: rabbi radinsky says the teenager performed what he calls a mitzvah. marlie hall, cbs news, texas. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on the aftermath of flooding in texas. we'll be live from the scene and get the forecast. and the high cost of building american embassies. nancy cordes looks at why they're overbudget. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com an inside look at oracle arena. can you hear the crowd still? >> no. >> it's the fans trying to clean up after last night. what an exciting night. >> it was a big night. so much fun. they have just beat up on the rockets. good morning. it's 4:30. we have traffic and weather. brian, you and i are not in the same room very often. >> no, we are not. >> good to have you on board. >> good to see you guys. >> yeah. >> it is nice to have another guy on the set. >> i can't imagine why. there's not nearly enough estrogen here this morning. [ laughter ] >> we are starting out with mostly cloudy skies near the shoreline and temperatures highs will be nice. we'll be in the mid-70s inland warming up a bit there even as we continue fairly bleak along the shoreline. we'll have the first full forecast in a few minu
2015. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. more rain is a possibility for parts of texas this morning. it it is last thing folks there need as they try to recover from a barrage of deadly flood-producing storms. more evacuations have been ordered along three rinks that continue to rise. at least 21 deaths are attributed to the storm system in texas and oklahoma. 11 others are still missing. >> emergency officials in horseshoe bend were going door to door yesterday trying to get residents to leave. some headed for higher ground but others refused. >> what's going to happen tonight, that's what i'm worried about. and who stayed in here and didn't get out and what are we going to find tomorrow. >> flash flood warnings and watches are posted there this morning. and in houston high floodwaters -- or rather high water flood add sewage treatment plant. more than 100,000 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled into the water around the plant. and one of the flood victims is 73-year-old alice tovar. she was discovered missing tuesday. floodwaters flooded her car. >> she was right there all along. >> the body of another victim 29-year-old jose antiaga patarga was found out near a ranch in wimberley, texas. omar villafranca has more. >> reporter: emergency crews continue to look for people missing. some were in a home swept off its foundation. part of the task, figuring how farthing things drifted down the stream. >> that's really hard. >> reporter: kelly burns has lived here for 53 years and says she has never seen anything like it. >> it's always been an incredible community town and now i don't recognize it. >> reporter: search crews are carefully sifting through giant debris piles. there are piles like this that line the blanco river. >> we are safe. >> reporter: this family were saved by fleeing to their attic. there are more than 4,000 homes damage odd destroyered in the city. the city can't catch a break. the risk for severe weather is expected to stick around through friday and into the weekend. omar villafranca, cbs news wimberley, texas. the atlantic hurricane season officially begins june 1st. the federal government predicts this year's season will be less active than usual due to cooler seas and the el nino effect on the pacific ocean. the national osha nick and atmospheric administration forecasts six to 11 named storm, three to six reaching hurricane strength and more that will reach winds of up to 100 miles an hour. the pentagon is trying to figure out how they mistakenly send live anthrax. for now there's no rif tock the general public but some lab workers are being treated. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie good morning. this is bringing memories of 2001 when anthrax was purposely mailed to members of congress media organizations, news organizations, and five people were killed. these labs were supposed to get dead anthrax for research purposes and research is under way what could have happened, and it's not the first time. close to 2 dozen people at a u.s. air force base in south korea are under medical care getting vaccinations and getting antibiotics after a possible exposure. they were notified by the pentagon that live anthrax samples were inadvertently shipped. the samples were supposed to be inactive. >> >> no known rif tock the general public and no suspected cases of the anthrax infection. >> it was part of the defense program to develop new ways to identify biological threats. samples have include delaware new jersey tennessee, california new york and virginia. the pentagon first learned of the mistake when a lab in maryland informed them it had received a live sample last week. the cdc has started to confiscate the samples for testing. now, this is the second time in a year that live anthrax was accidentally sent out. last june 80 people were potentially exposed when the cdc sent out live spores by accident but no one was hurt. anne-marie? >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. soccer's international gorging body says tomorrow's vote for the new president will go ahead as planned despite the indictment of more than a dozen high-ranking members. seven were arrested in a hotel in switzerland yesterday morning. in all 14 were indicted by u.s. prosecutor and charged with taking $150 million in bribes. the indictment alleges a pattern of fraud bribery, and kickbacks as the executives decideward key events would be held. >> they were expected to uphold the rules that keek soccer honest and protect tin ted grit of the game. instead they corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to enrich themselves. >> the bribes were made through u.s. banks. swiss officials are conducting their own investigation. the trial of accused colorado theater gunman holmes resumes today. holmes says he was insane at the time of the attack but prosecutors say a notebook in which holmes meticulously outlined his plan ublds mines the claim. elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: james holmes planned his chilling attack in chilling details laid out in a notebook. in a section he called "case the place," he drew a map showing the general layout of the theater including the locations of the exits in nearly all of the 16 screening rooms. in that it 1er 2 he said, only two exits, visibility marginal theater 14 four exists visible, avoid. he ended up going into theater 9 where he carefully laid out his plans. in court the jury heard from people in theater nine. young was there with her boyfriend blanc. >> did you see him laying toward you? >> he was facing me. >> did you ever see him take another breath? >> i did not. >> it was over in less than 12 minutes. 12 people were kill and 70 others injured. in his notebook holmes also wrote about the emergency response. one of the last pages shows this that it never relation to the nearby police department and estimates it would take police three minutes to arrive. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of in sanity. thursday we'll see video of him after his arrest. he was interviewed for 22 hours. elaine quijano, cbs news new york. more republicans are jumping into the 2016 presidential race. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum announced wednesday he is again seeking the nomination and also george pataki has also announced he's entering the field. on sunday former governor jeb bush will be on "face the nation" and that will be host bob schieffer's final show before his retirement right here on cbs. coming up on the "morning news," super slow chase, we'll show you a suspect who's not in any rush to get anywhere as the police follow close behind. and later the text message you don't want to get on your i phone. this is the "cbs morning news." listen up... i'm reworking the menu. veggies you're cool... mayo, corn dogs... you are so out of here! ahh... the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein... and 26 vitamins and minerals. and now with... ...twice as much vitamin d ...which up to 90% of people don't get enough of. ohhhhhhh. the sunshine vitamin! ensure now has 2x more vitamin d to support strong bones. ensure. take life in. on autopilot when it comes to sensitive teeth? stop numbing. now you can repair. new colgate sensitive toothbrush with built in sensitivity relief pen shields exposed nerves. releiving pain by repairing sensitive teeth. stop numbing. start repairing. quilted northern works so well people can forget their bathroom experience. but sir froggy can never forget. "what's worse", he thinks... "that my arms can never relax or my eyes can never look away?" ♪ in texas a suspect is in custody this morning following a very slow speed car chase. the pursuit which apparently began with a drug bust that went bad ended up after more than two hours after police finally forced him to stop. >> reporter: jacob jones witnessed the chase. he saw the suspect 42-year-old joe gonzalez drop a female passenger off before leading police on a bizarre chase. >> the cops immediately like got out of their cars and were like put your hands up. >> gonzalez took to i-30 with police in hot pursuit. first he went westbound and back east. at one point he gets off arlington and races through school zones. our cameras were so close they were pleading for him to be oklahoma. >> owe'll be okay joe. i promise you youwill not get hurt. the police decided they had numb. a swat armored used a pit maneuver. >> very scary. you see it on tv but you don't expect tot be caught on it. very scary. >> that was kvtv's ken reporting. he faces charges of evading arrest and possession of a controlled substance. and a man suspected of starting a massive fire in los angeles is expected to be charged today. he allegedly set fire to an unfinished seven-story downtown apartment building in december. the 56-year-old is being held on more than $1 million bail. the fire spread to two other buildings and caused more than $80 million in damage. members of the group u2 are mourning the death of their long time band member. he was 68 years old and was with the irish band for more than 30 years. lead singer bono said we've lost a family member. straight ahead, i phone reboot. we'll tell you about a text message that's shutting down i iphone iphones. details in "moneywatch." and, i'm sorry... i don't mean to drone on. honey, stop messing with jan. during toyota time, get 0% apr financing for 60 months on a 2015 prius. offer ends june 1st. for great deals on other toyotas, visit toyota.com enjoy your prius. thanks, jan. look out people, coming in hot. toyota. let's go places. i want a great shape. who doesn't? so i work out. i'm good. i juice. and then there's that other thing. this... i can do easily. new benefiber healthy shape. just a couple of spoonfuls every day means fewer cravings. plus, it's all natural, clear, taste-free and dissolves completely. it's clinically proven to keep me fuller longer and helps keep me healthy inside and out. new benefiber healthy shape. this, i can do. here's look at the forecast in some cities around the country.etsz. here's look at the forecast in some cities around the country. on the "cbs moneywatch," tracking irs cyber thieves, and beware of a text message that will crash your iphone. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange that will crash your iphone. good morning, jill. >> good morning, anne-marie. two unidentified officials told the "associated press" that the hackers are part of a criminal based operation in russia. criminal-based tax informing was stolen as past of a scheme to claim false tax refunds. on wall street stocks burned to a new record high and finished higher following tuesday's big selloff. the dow rose 121 points the s&p gained 19 points the nasdaq finished 73 points higher. apple is felixing a software glitch that can cause iphones to shut down when they receive a certain text message. when the iphone isn't being used, it can shut the screen down. it can show some arabic characters. it will shut down but restart automatically. a walmart truck slammed into a limo van carrying morgan and others back from a show from delaware last june. morgan was injured in the crash and one of his friends was killed. morgan said quote, walmart did right by he and his family. lamborghini is going into the luxury suv business. the euro is expected to launch. the company isn't saying how much the euris would cost. >> i guess if you have to ask, you cannot afford it right? jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. still to come nba star stephen curry leads his team to the finals in 14 years but there's a different person at his interview. and one that sweeps the ball with the fishes. than olive oil. and a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. take care of those you love. mazola makes it better. introducing the first ever gummy multivitamin from centrum. a complete, and tasty new way to support... your energy... immunity... and metabolism like never before. centrum multigummies. see gummies in a whole new light. ♪ ♪ it may seem strange, but people really can love their laxative. especially when it's miralax. it hydrates, eases and softens to unblock your system naturally so you have peace of mind from start to finish. love your laxative. miralax. here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. the golden state warriors are going back to the nba finals for the first time since 1975. the warriors finishing off the rockets in game five last night league mvp stephen curry scores 26 points and golden state wins 106-90. curry once again had a date for his postgame interview. >> this is a proud moment for everybody in the bay area to be four wins away from our goal and that's a special feeling. >> da-da, help me. da-da, help me. >> take a week off to get ready and get our minds right and our game plan right for how we're going to beat cleveland and we're excited about it. >> multi-h-state dad. that ease his daughter riley. they split their two game this weekend. the chicago blackhawks force game seven in the nhl western conference finals. patrick kane dazzles the ducks with his second period goal to give chaulg a 3-0 lead. the blackhawks go on to beat anaheim, 5-2. and a scoreless tie between the rays and mariners goes into the ninth inning until the home run leading hitter seattle's nelson cruz comes to the plate. >> the 1-0. cruze the hitter. this sends cuddyer racing back. >> cruz's three-run homer is the first to plunk in the seattle fish tank. it giving them a 3-1 win over the rays. there will be more drama in the suburbs of washington, d.c. >> carronade, c-a-r-r-o-n-a-d-e, carronade. >> correct. >> four are leapt in the scripps spelling bee. the winners receive $35,000 saving bonds and other prizes. coming up on the "cbs this morning," jodi picoult. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." complete with key nutrients we may need... ...plus it supports bone health with calcium and vitamin d. one a day vitacraves gummies. my cut hurt. mine hurt more. mine stopped hurting faster! neosporin plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. when you pick any 3 participating products get a free all better bag. available at walmart. soil is the foundation for healthy plants just like gums are the foundation for healthy teeth. new colgate total mouthwash for gum health. it kills germs and forms a protective shield for 45% stronger gums. for stronger, healthier gums colgate total mouthwash. in memphis, family friends and fans honor the late b.b. king. a huge crowd turned out for a procession featuring the guitar of the king of the blues. he died may 14th at age 89. his funeral will be saturday in mississippi. and a higher missing for three days in southern california's cleveland national forest was found alierchlt crystal cruz of our los angeles station kcbs reports. >> reporter: hidden beneath this thick brush rescue crews spotted a missing hiker. the 24-year-old man had. been seen since sunday. ester troy manages the grace retreat center tucked in the hills of corona. the hiker and his grandma rented these two cabins here for a prayer retreat. >> reporter: the manager says people come from as far as mexico to hike up this mountain, hike to the top of it and say prayers. she said this young man and his grandmother were up here to take prayers about his health. deputies say he has a medical condition that requires him to take medication. the helicopter crew spotted his leg poking out of the brush. the hiker was severely dehydrated hurt from a fall into the ravine but alive. >> they were able to airlift him out of there. he's at a hospital currently listed in stable conditions. >> reporter: people were opening their hearts and hands on wednesday hoping their prayers for the hiker were heard. >> that was kcbs's crystal cruz reporting. >> a victim was rescued by a teenager with a canoe. the 78-year-old woke up to almost a foot of water on tuesday morning. >> the water was strong. when you walked in that water, it was pushing you. >> reporter: rabbi rabin ski was suffered from dehydration and this teenager knew he was in trouble and launched his own rescue mission. he borrowed his cousin's canoe and paddled right into his house. that i took him to higher ground and then went back out in the floodwaters to rescue about 12 others, most of them elderly and homebound. >> one family actually climbed out through a window screen which we had to cut open. >> reporter: rabbi radinsks says the teenager performed what he caused a midsfa. marlie hall, cbs news, squlooun coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on the aftermoth of flooding in texas. we'll be live from the scene and get the forecast. and the high cost of building american embassies. nancy cordes looks at why they're overbucket. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. good morning more thunderstorms on the the way this afternoon katie has more on what we can expect this to hit and how severe they will be. new surveillance video of the suspect from monday's sexual a all the in south philadelphia and police believe this man could be linked to another crime. hello, i'm ukee washington. i'm quarter von tiehl. do you remember those controversial anti muslim ads we have been telling but on some septa buses, we will tell you about a big vote that could ban those ads. and first though lets get a quick check of the forecast that sparked those big storms yesterday, katie what are we expect to go day. >> we will see another fresh round of showers and then are storms but they should not have any severity l
overruns because it was pg&e business practice that's led to this situation. >> john, thank you. >> clear and crisp this morning, wet, windy tonight. weather is changing right now, freezing temperatures this morning left ice on puddles in the wetlands overnight, frost developing on lawns around the bay. but now, a new wave of rain is just an hour or two away. >> this is already here, check out live doppler 7 hd. we have our own radar that is tracking the storms as their first coming in from the northwest. this is another cold storm, you'll notice from santa rosa towards clear lake, down to street level, out towards this area there is some light to moderate rain. here is a look at the timing of the storm. it's a slow moving storm. rain is still north bay, parts of the east bay. and half moon bay. 7:00 a.m. many of you possibly getting away for holidays still going to be wet,u]ñ, windy and it doesn't end there. i'll be back with a detailed look of the holiday forecast coming up. carolyn? >> thank you. we'll see you then. >> tonight investigators are still looking into the death of a dirt bike rider hit by a train. a bakersfield bound train struck that biker this morning. police say the rider was somehow ended up underneath the last car of the train where he was you crushed. his identify ti has in the yet been released. >> and in oakland two, pedestrians were sent to the hospital. two cars careened onto the sidewalk. this afternoon, two people standing on that street corner were hit both of the people are expected to be okay.dbrx >> san francisco mayor supporting gun control measures now following killings in newtown, connecticut. ed lee presented a plan that will be taken up by the board of supervisors. >> the mayor says he feels strongly about laws after what happened in newtown, connecticut and points out that here in san francisco, the number of homicides has gone up. 67, so far this year. >> prayers for a fallen teen recited near the place in the bay view neighborhood where he was murdered on saturday. the san francisco archdiocese holds these services at sites were homicides occur. >> young people are dying. they're the kmu tour of the communities. >> the mayor says now is the time to take action to try to stop shootings. the mayor says he's supporting local legislation on gun controls. supervisor cohen will produce laws on january 15th. the first banning certain ammo like hollow point bullet autos so on impact, it has abilities to explode in a larger radius. and when it hits, the body, then, it becomes this kind ofk'e body in a larger way. >> the mayor says this type was designed for law enforcement, not for people on the streets of san francisco. dr. campbell is a surgeon at sf general. >> larger weapons create devastations in victims. when they strike a victim, it's like a bomb going off. >> second proposal would require police to be notified when someone buys 500 or more rounds of ammunition. used for assault weapons. >> so we cannot only track those people that are buying ammunition, but frequency of purchase, as you can stockpile that ammunition. >> the mayor says he will reach out to other mayors to convince them to adopt similar legislation. >> and california senator announced she will support or introduce a ban, bill, also in january. and the mayor of san francisco says he will support that, too. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> let's talk about gun violence on the bay now. an innocent victim has become the 124th homicide victim. the 47-year-old shot and killed last night, walking home from a store near her home on international boulevard. police tell us that she was caught up in the cross fire of two shooters and not their intended target. she was the mother of two, and grandmother of four. >> i never hurt nobody or did nothing to nobody. or anything like this to happen to her. she was a good person. >> this affected a lot of people. you know? not just her children, but children in the community. >> and investigators hoping witnesses and kramz can lead them to the killers. >> the president said going after marijuana yuners will wo not be a top priority. right now, justice department is trying to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries operating in oakland and san jose. it's a case heard before a magistrate today. abc 7 news is in the newsroom for us. >> in july, prosecutors zeroed in on the health center by targeting building owners. harborside attorney says whatever the judge decides will affect other cannibis dispensaries in cal and across the country. the federal government calls harborside a super store. it's largest medicalsbkç marijua dispensary in the nation with more than 100,000 patients visiting two locations. one in san jose, and this main facility in oakland. >> this year, we will contribute close to $4 million in combined revenue. we have been a benefit, not just to patients but the community. >> the city of oakland has taken the unprecedented step of suing the federal government to prevent harborside from being shut down. what that s.at stake is mer than just money, it's also about public safety. >> they wouldg-8ñ be sell investigated to the back)éx9> alleyways. then we have to divert police resources to address the criminal activity. >> but activity on the fed radar is what's happening at harborside. the justice department tactic is to go egg avenue land lords, threatening to seize their properties unless pot sales stop. today, assistant u.s. attorney said they can sell popcorn there, and candy but cannot use for illegal purposes. the landlords are trying to comply and ask the judge today for preliminary injunctions to force harbor side to obey. >> given the government's for fit -- fort fit you're action shea she has no choice but to act in what the government wants. the government wants harborside shut down. >> the city believes five year statute of limitations passed, for the feds to make a move, since harborside has been praigt six years. the city suit argues the federal government is exceeding it's authority, after promising a hands off approach to legitimate cannibis dispensary autos i feel like they have better things to do. they should be focused on other issues. not weed. >> the u.s. attorney's office says because this is pending litigation, they have no comment. there is no timetable for the judge to rule in z.doors to harborside remain open n the newsroom, abc 7 news. >> all right, thank you. is still head here tonight, stockholder backlash against a silicon valley giant. did hewlett-packard spend $11 billion on a product that didn't exist? >> the city announced a small fortune in overpaid parking tickets. how did that happen? will you ever get your money back? >> nasa tonight with some new revelations about the meteor that fell to earth last spring. where it came from, how fast fraud, cover up both allegations of hp share holder is leveling against palo alto company board of directors. abc 7 news's david louie says that is a new twist surrounding the troubled purchase of the software company. the web site has plenty of did he tails about idle 10 based on technology. a british software company hp bought last year, however this, sharer2b?m holder lawsuit claims the board is engaging in fraud because idle 10 doesn't exist. >> executives of the company including the directives knew this product didn't exist. yet, november 29th, a year ago, they told the world they had this new, next generation platform. it did not exist. >> other companies turned down offers to buy auto nominee as too costly. shareholder attorneys claim hp is trying to whitewash a deal gone sour. >> if you buy a product, it doesn't work, you don't tell the public it work autos the board is on a hot seat, including silicon valley pioneers meg whitman and mark andresan. should they have known better? >> mark is not necessarily a super star evaluation expert or accountant. so i would say no. and in that case, i don't think the premise applies since it was a technology company, not a silicon valley base. it didn't have roots here, there would have been no, sort of ear to the ground inside information that the silicon valley giants would have. >> lawsuit was filed near san jose. it's expect that had insiders may step forward to help support claims of fraud. in san jose, abc 7 news. >> if you get a parking ticket you may have money coming back to you. an analysis shows that drivers overpaid parking tickets by an astounding $316,000 that. is just in one 12 month period.í8!÷ú drivers mistakenly paid or somehow paid it twice. and the city should have refund that had overpayment but never did. the auditor calls it disturbing. >> no evidence. that they have pro actively refunded for this whether $50 or $200, we need to return that money to our system. >> it's not a place yet, but the city agreed to set up a process for the overpaid fines as require bid state law. it found the city lost out on half a million dollars because of missed collection targets by parking control attendants. >> the obama administration today proposed expansion of two northern california marine sanctuaries. the decision permanently bans oil drilling along 50 miles of the coastline from son noma county to mendocino this, marks the largest planned expansion in 20 years. along with a ban on oil drilling other rules will go into affect including when cruise ships can release sewage into the ocean. >> scientists say they struck gold with a meetoite their found that was spotted by weather radar crashing down near the town.g1dc] scientists able to rush to the site and recover most of, one of the most pure samples of a primitive meteor they've seen and determine it fell at twice the speed of a typical meteorite. it was clocked at 64,000 miles per hour. causing the biggest impact on land since a meteorite fell in the sudan four years ago. >> some changes coming to our weather. a bit of a warm up. with that, comes rain. >> that is right. >> let's check out live doppler 7 hd. the rain moved in and we have our own radar. this is in combination with national weather service radar. keeping you ahead of the storm. and it's here. it's already getting breezy out there. rain down towards winsor, jant rosa as mentioned. i'm going to taek you in closer here showing you highway 101 there is some light to moderate rain. steel clain, out towards fourth street, montgomery drive. watch out. it's getting wet and going to be rough as winds are picking up, temperatures now into 50s, 48 degrees in fairfield. here are the highlights. wet, windy for morning commute. winter arrives at 3:12. more rain is coming up for the weekend. here is a look at satellite and radar. it's a cold storm coming out of the gulf of alaska but it's slow moving. so, this slow moving front will get to you and then, we have a couple more waves of rain coming in this weekend, so don't put umbrellas away just yet. if you have plans, or you still have lots of shopping to do, here is a look at timing of the system. 7:00 p.m. half moon bay getting wet. as we head into morning commute, many of you heading out of the door if you're traveling you'll notice rain line does not shift much. light to moderate, winds will be gusting at times, 7:00 a.m. we still have rain. finally starting to shift towards the livermore valleys. and there are periods of rain, get away does not look good. more rain coming in saturday morning even possibilities of thund yes, 5:00 a.m. looking heavy with that system coming through here, then, scattered showers and some snow into lake county area mixing in with the rain there. rainfall totals up to six inches in north bay counties -- mountains until 7:00 p.m. saturday. up to four inches in santa cruise mountains right now, worse case scenario, urban and small stream flood sag possibility. rivers look line. -- fine. we've not had much rain but we do have a wind advisory until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, until 10:00 a.m. for sansoky francisco pin anyoe slarks coast, southerly winds, gusts to 50. watch out for trees and power lines getting knocked down. this is what i'm concerned about. if you have trag;je plans there are winter storm warnings, sierra nevada check out this low snow level, 2000, 1500 interstate five and 80. 50, likely will get impacted. sierra will be under that winter storm warning. tomorrow orning -- morning until sunday, sock p.m. quarter mile. chain controls will be likely#v. it will be wet, windy. make sure you have rain gear, low 40s to low 50s p highs for tomorrow on the cool side, upper 40s around clear lake, u$xn the 50s. here is the accu-weather forecast. looking at chance of thunder, saturday periods of rain throughout the weekend. christmas eve dry for santa. kplas day, looking dry. just a chance of rain. that is it. i like that. >> yes. and more rain wednesday. >> so that new scooter i'm hoping for? >> i'm hoping. >> at least in morning hours. >> rip it off. >> thank you. >> very much. >> we're not the only ones under the spell of a big storm tonight. >> no. we're going to show you snow conditions plaguing the mid west. serious weather in that part of the c [ female announcer ] martinelli's gold medal sparkling cider is the perfect choice for holiday gatherings. martinelli's is non-alcoholic, festive like champagne, and tastes great! martinelli's: since 1868. late word from washington on republican plan b to avoid the so called fiscal cliff that is coming. house speaker john boehner said he would bring to it a vote today. ñ ago, postponed it. it would raise tax rates only on people that make $1 million or more. the white house wants the cutoff point to be $400,000. democrat nancy pelosi said it would add half a billion dollars to the deficit. she called on republicans to stop introducing quote, bills to know where. -- nowhere. >> and who served in the senate 50 years died monday at age 88 of respiratory come politics his body now lies in state in the capitol row tunda. a tribute paid to only 30 other people. last being president ford, six years ago, but now, senator from hawaii honor that had way as well. >> despite apparent stalemate over the fiscal cliff,5zl stock prices went up today, dow jones gained almost 60 points, nasdaq and s and p both inched up as well. sales of previously owned homes have risen to highest levels in three years, up 5.9% last month, the industry now on track to8'm sell more than five million homes this year, ora cell of redwood city continues to move away from selling software to softwares a service. ora cell today agreed to pay nearly $900 million to buy a company making cloud-based marketing application autos and still to come tonight here on abc 7 news at 6:00 a gun violence task force meets for the first time on a cut kit school tragedy. we're going to be live tonight. >> plus ls tonight i team shows just how far a conartist will go. a rippoff with puppy appeal. >> and michael fibby trns to a hockey team to find out texting in cold weather. well, nasa's -- napa's snow storm is blasting the mid west, in iowa, heavy winds and a foot of snow over 24 hours led to a 25 car pile thaup killed two people on highway 35 north of des moines, state police say seven others were injured in the crash. air travelers hunkering down across the region, thousands of flights have been cancelled. that is affecting travelers from coast to coast. southwest is one carrier canceling out all flights into, and out of chicago midway airport sm. carriers are waving fees for traveler that's want to change plans from kansas to wisconsin long stretches of highways of closed including interstate 80 and nebraska i 29 running from kansas city, st. louis, and wisconsin have called out national guard to help rescue drivers stranded in this storm. >> just underway now in san jose, a vigil for victims of the school tragedy in connecticut. a city supervise jor bringing church and community groups together, they're getting ready to write messages on ornament that's will be placed on a tree, displayed throughout the holidays. another endless stream of funerals, heart breaking everyone, five more victims of the school shootings laid to rest today, u.s. attorney eric holder met with some of the first responders to the scene. in washington vice president biden met with members of the cabinet with law enforcement officials from around the country, he said the administration is absolutely committed to curving gun violence in the united states. now, tomorrow, morning at 6:28 our time, church bells will ring across the country and abc news will have a special report stho it live. we'll stream it live on abc 7 news.com. a special edition of night line tonight. a day in the life of the american gun, stories told from point of view of police, hospitals schools and gun lovers after abc 7 news at 11:00 tonight. >> abc 7 news i team identified a new internet scam. you're now a target even if you're just trying to akopt dopt a puppy. >> yes. it's a story we broke at 11:00. >> these guys don't care what time of the year it is, who you are, they just want your money. >> it's been a tough year for debbie. after 30 years with the postal sfrks she slipped coming off a truck, broker ankle and heel. she broke them again, then, fell down stairs and broke her other ankle. recovering from surgeries has been difficult. debbie rarely leaves an apartment. >> within seconds your life can be turned upside down. >> with the holidays approaching, she thought a puppy might lift her spir yismts something small, a tea cup yorky. >> yes. it's going to motivate me to do more than what i can do at this point. >> debbie went online found a woman who supposedly lives in pennsylvania with two yorkies she wanted to give away to a good home. she even sent pictures of the puppies. >> this one was two and a half pounds. and adorable. i thought eli and i would be a pair for years down the road. >> what was the deal? >> the deal was that all i had to do was pay air fare, 200s oodz she ignored early warning signs. she couldn't take a phone call because she was busy and wanted $200 wired through a friend in east palo alto she went to walmart to send a money gram. she walked past a sign showing where the money was headed. >> iá$p" thought i was sharper something such as i did, but emotions ran with me. >> it seemed legit. after paying she got the puppy flight from airborne pet movers world wide, then, problems began. storms in the mid west meant the puppy needed a special crate, $250. a correcting flight in nashville got delayed and the puppy ran out of food. >> they requested $130 for dog food its a lot of food for a little dog. >> yes that. is my question too,. you know? quite a the bit the of money to ask for dog food. >> her tab now more than $600 including money transfers. finally she received this e mail. the puppy had been poisoned and may not make it. eli needed $1500 worth of vaccines before she can fly. >> the red flag went up then. i knew that that was it. i was being scammed and there was going to be no dog. >> debbie reached scammers on the phone. >> what is your name? >> i am alexander bell. >> the same man had a different name. >> joe jackson. you over from africa somewhere? how are you going to have a name like that? >> she was on to something. in a request for $1500, the scammers asked her to wire the money to the city of duala in camaroon, west africa. >> i think any time you're being asked to wire in, you should realize that that is an opportunity for fraud to occur. >> i spoke with an fbi agent in washington, d.c. who work was ic 3, internet crime complaint center. she says many nations around the world do not have law that's protect consumers against internet fraud. and prosecuting scammers challenging. >> working a cyber fraud case is p complicated in part. it's concept of attribution. it will make sense to you who. said what? whose hands are on the keyboard? the neighborhood? in the state? in the country? is it outside of the united states? where are they? >> and look at this, i ran one photo through a search. same empicture appears in 100 ads around country, andor seas. same picture, but different supposed sellers. >> for debbie, it's not just about the money. she was so excited to get that puppy to help her through a difficult time. >> what do you think? >> i think it's a horrible thing. just like someone just sucker punch immediate in the stomach. and i'm reaching out now. >> the scammers in the case apparently had an accomplice. those transfers were picked up in palo alto. but you don't have to show id if it's under $899. the person and cash are long gone. i'm adding links to ic 3 and other resources on the i team page on abc 7 news.com. >> we understand that is so cool. >> she just wanted a cheer for holiday autos thanks very much. >> and still coming up, testing in cold weather. trying out a new pair of gloves promising to make it possible. >> you'll have that story and a local experiment in same day delivery. now, what you order online could be under the tree that afternoon. stay with us. in had this age of instant gratification, you know overnight shipping isn't fast enough anymore. >> that is why a handful of companies are getting into the businessu]kpv same day delivery insy cities like san francisco. >> here is the story. >> as he runs in to grab something from the best buy store, jacob jones almost blends in with holiday shoppers. but the difference? this is his job. he is a shopping valet for ebay now. >> we're dropping off these lightnings to usb cables for iphone 5. >> customers can summit a valet to deliver about an hour. >> i have an order waiting. >> the valets are employees of ebay, only dealing with one customer at a time. once collecting the money... that alert sound tells them where the next job is. >> you never know where you're going to go. you never know where you're going to start or end the day. >> it's in san francisco, and new york now, already, facing competition by services from amazon, post office, and now, walmart w christmas approaching jacob has seen no shortage of customers. >> i'm looking for this gift set. >> there is something magical for the customers. >> i can go back to the office. >> you're all done with me. >> it's a new delivery for a brave new world. >> they don't have time to go hop shopping on their own so. these apps and they get to spend more time to do things they want to. >> show this? delivery is normally $5. ebay now making it $3 so the idea of braving the parking lot sounds terrible to you, will cost you nothing to have someone else do it for you. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> coming up, a musical hits the big screen. >> whether les all right. it's one of the little annoyances in live. texting in cold weather it can be challenging when fingers are numb. gloves just get in the way. tonight a product that claims to offer a solution. >> die hard skiers conquer elements on a cold and winter day. the bay area seals brave the chill. but the most athletic among us can't text with gloved hands in the cold. >> you can't feel fingera?y.w ts on the iphone. >> my hands have been cold. i can't text. >> that is where this digit comes in. it's a simple product zoined to make texting on the cold winter days manageable. >> this goes inside of the glove. >> this connects to that. >> we asked the seals to help us put them to the test. we shed hockey gloves and found normal mittens to test the products. first we tried without digits. letters refused to appear on the screen. frankie couldn't get started. >> i couldn't get my phone to unlock or open. >> both agree it would be useful. >> this[ú can make it easier. you know? we can get stuff done, quicker. >> two put on digits letting fingers do the rest. tips made have a conductive silicon. ryan and frankie see a difference. >> it's amazing. i can send a text now. it's clear. it's accurate. >> i think this is work on the mountains skiing. >> this retails for $11.99. other products are also available. i'm mike yim finney, 7 on your side. >> here comes the rain. >> yes. sandhya patel is here. >> yes. right now, tracking that rain is up in the north bay. clover dale, santa rosa getting wet now. i want to take you down to street level here parks civic avenue, seal lane heading towards montgomery drive. we're getting moderate rainfall now. ron yark park starting to pick up light rain taking you down to street level. if you have plans winter storm warnings this is where you may encounter travel delays. 46 in chico. 39 in tahoe down towards southern california, better travel conditions, 67 degrees for tomorrow in los angeles. tomorrow afternoon, highs with scattered showers looking at upper 40s to upper 50s. you'll need rain gear several days if you have shopping to do or you're traveling. chance of thunder saturday. dry christmas eve. christmas day looks fine. you can ride a scooter in the morning. but by christmas day, afternoon, evening, chance of rain in the north bay. >> could be roller skating. >> yes. >> les miserables the musical comes to the big screen for christmas. it has biggest advance sales for any film this year. abc 7 news has an advance review on the aisle. >> they're singing and captured on film, not being recorded so it's like a live theater experience. this is big. spectacular. hugh jackman has to be award winning as the man when served 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. he's looking for redemption. that is russell crow. zp there is ann hathaway. if she doesn't get supporting actress award, we can start a revolution. >> this is so exorderry. everyone in the audition has been a great leveler for everyone. we're doing something new, driven by an ounce of fear. >> this is a film on a grand scale of a musical loved by many. >> i do hear the people sing f you're a fan you will not be disappointed. the look is impressive. it's what a big movie musical should be. it's holidays so i have to give it a full bucket. i'm don sanchez and we'll see you on the aisle. >> it's great. >> yes. >> this is don's final on the aisle review, retiring after more than 40 years here. >> we'll have a special look back at his career tomorrow evening on abc 7 news at 6:00. -ññ a remarkable career. >> one of the nicest, most talented guys we've worked with. >> speaking of nice and talented larry beil. >>. i wasn't expecting that. yes. >> that is personal. >> thank you. >> the 49ers get set for sea hawks and goldson is lighter in the wallet because of this, used to be a legal it hit in the nfl. not anymore. now, it good evening, looks like justin smith will see a string of 185 starts come to an enld on sunday night with niners visiting seahawks. smith's injured elbow kept him out of practice this week. he just may not be able to play. today, niners safety fine forward an illegal hit on sunday. the league perceives goldson as a multiple offender. he's are two extremely physical teams. the game pits coaching rival jim harbaugh. >> i don't remember getting cards from him. this team put a lot of energy. >> you know, i'm looking at opportunity like we say. you know it? will feel like that on game day and all that have. and it does give us an opportunity to be a championship team. >> the rose bowl is just a week and a half away. stanford will be playing the third straight bcs game this, is power versus power. two of the best running backs in the country. stephan tailor became the all time rushing leader rushing for 1442 yards this season, 12 touchdowns. here is tailor on facing badgers. >> all eyes are going to be on you. you've got to make big plays and big games. it is going to be up. but like i said you don't want to do stuff you've never done before. >> january 1 in passa deana. mark jackson said it as a broadcaster and said it again last night as a approach. mama said there are going to be days like this. there is a defense optional game. kings had seven players in figures they can't beat anyone else. >> we didn't play well. you know? we put together rhythm and scored but didn't play our upper end of bachbl they got it going early. and the we own it and look forward to learn from it. and try to put together this. >> the san francisco firefighters holiday toy drive is one of the largest programs in the country more than 200,000 toys donited to 40,000 needy children. >> this is what it's all about. it's about impact and making a difference. you know, gives us these firefighters a lot of credit for what they've done. >> about 100, 200 toys will be delivered and we're thankful san francisco is coming out to help us this, is the time of the year we need all of the help we can get for san francisco kids. >> it's a great program. this sports report brought to you by mercedes-benz. >> they do a great job. >> they do. >> thank you. channel 13. the ledge yebd of the fist, at 9:00 did fighting help shape evolution of our hands? >> then, giving back. san francisco police officers raise more than $1600 to help give students a sense of pride how this will help keep them safe on the streets. that is coming up on abc 7 news at 9:00 and 11:00. >> that is this edition of abc 7 news at 6:00. i'm dan ashley. >> from the entire abc 7 news team, thanks for joining us. >> hope to see you again at 9:00 and 11:00. [ female announcer ] martinelli's gold medal sparkling cider is the perfect choice for holiday gatherings. martinelli's is non-alcoholic, festive like champagne, and tastes great! martinelli's: since 1868. this is "jeopardy!" introducing today's contestants -- a real-estate agent from sunnyside, new york... ...a director of operations from aurora, colorado... ...and our returning champion, an operations coordinator from bristol, pennsylvania... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladie gentlemen, and welcome to our show. one of the things we have discovered about our champion, susan, is that she appears to be well-traveled,s andr because we've had a number of geography-type categories on the program recently. jen and mike, good luck to you. nice to have you with us. here we go -- the jeopardy! round... and these categories. each correct response will begin with the letter "r." we have webcams to deal with. alex: susan, you start.
turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. safeway. ingredients for life. >> you are looking live at the city. here we go again. storm gate about to open. possibly all the way until sunday. it is going to be wet. get ready for more rain. sandhya is here now with a look at what is happening on live doppler 7 hd. >> yes. that slow moving storm moving in on live doppler 7 hd and raining in the north bay. winds picking up in the hills right now gusting to 35 almost 40 miles an hour at this point. let's check out the area where it is raining in the north bay first from ukiah to healdsburg heading to santa rose and i take you down to street level here show where you we are getting some moderate rainfall right now. gurpville road. santa rosa area, river road. old red wad highway out to fountain grove parkway. calistoga road and head down towards or up towards the eper road spring hill road area. marin county now starting to pick up some rain from sonoma county you notice here around here. moderate rain at 11:00 p.m. north bay this storm not in a hurry to leave. tomorrow morning commute is wet. it's going to be windy. if you have travel plans 7:00 a.m. that storm is still right over us. it's stalling out right over us at 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon. so the travel plans look to be messy not just the morning commute and if you have travel plans around the state, winter storm warnings covering a good portion of california. i'll be back with a look at that in just a few minutes. >> thank you gentleman big set back for house speaker boehner. revolt in the republican rank means no vote this evening on his plan b to avoid the year-end fiscal cliff. in a statement boehner says the house did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. boehner yanking his own legislation leaves the fiscal cliff negotiations in limbo would. 11 days before most every american see as tax increase. impact causing stock to slide in asia in friday trading. congressional chaos tops brutal day of political sniping even though democrat and republican may actually not be that far apart in negotiations chtd. more open had a part of the story from jonathan karl. >>reporter: bickering you would think they are miles apart. >> my proposal is right down the middle. >> his plan is not balanced. >> what we have from the speaker is a disaster plan. >> president has not come forward with that balance approach. >>reporter: but in reality the difference is just aren't that great. john boehner has now agreed to do something republicans had said was unthinkable. raise tax rates on the wealthy. difference? democrat would raise rates on those making over 400,000 dollars a year. republicans on those making over 1 million dollars. president obama has now agreed to something that had been unthinkable for democrats. cutting spending on social security and medicare. programs they have considered untouchable. even when it comes to how much to tax and how much to cut, the difference isn't all that much. speaker boehner wants a 50/50 split between tax hike and spending cuts. president obama leans a little heavier on tax hike. so the difference in their grand plan is just this. when ask you them why they can't just meet in the middle you get thi this. why can't you just split the difference and get a teal done. >> i don't think the white house has gotten serious. >> we don't have a definite offer from the speaker. >>reporter: jonathan karl reporting from washington. senators told to plan to be back in washington two days after christmas in an effort to the avoid going off that fiscal cliff. >> all right now to your utility bill it is about to go up. tell you in a decision that came down today rate payers will cover the majority of the price to try to prevent another san bruno disaster. story tonight from john alsto alston. >> pg&e customers will pay for most of the repairs upgrades as a result of the explosion that leveled the san bruno neighborhood and killed 8 people including renee morales daughter. >> i can't even bear to understand why they are continuing to allow to make deals behind closed doors. allowed rate increases. allowed to continue to go as business as usual. >>reporter: cpuc approved a rate indlees will headache the average bill by 1 dollar to 2 dollars per month. pg&e has to test nearly 800 miles of pipeline, replacing some portions and installing automatic shut off valves. it's a 2.2 billion dollar upgrade. today the commission ruled that customers will pay more than half of that. about 1.2 billion for things like new pipe lines and valves. shareholders will pick up are the remaining billion for safety testing and better record keeping. but san bruno mayor was out remaininged by last minute change to the deal that he says will give pg&e more than 100 million dollars. >> now here they are giving 11 percent profit margin or on the lives of 8 people disgusting. >>reporter: today the commission allowed the utility to make money prosecute its capitol improvement. >> pg&e owns the state of california and p uc. perfect example of that. it's shameful they would allow pg&e to profit from the behavior. >> we know we made a lot of mistakes. we know we have a lot of work to do both on our system and to regain the trust of our customers. this proposed plan was put forward to address new safety expectation that is were set by the cpuc. >>reporter: rate increase will go that effect next year. they are about 1.5 percent. the commission said that shareholders not customers shareholders will have to handle any cost overrun because it was pg&e business practices thaled to the situation. in san bruno. abc 7 news. now to an innocent grandmother and latest victim of gun violence in oak land. police say foreman hit by stray bullet intended for someone elseth walking on international boulevard with her sister when the shooting started. the nick smith tonight with the latest on the investigation and a renewed call to stop the violence. >> everybody in the neighborhood knows her. everybody loves her. it's a shock. >>reporter: ramona foreman mona to family and friends is oakland latest victim of gun violence. mother of 2 and grandmother of 4 was shot and killed only block from his where she lived. >> 2 people shooting we continue know who they were but we definitely know it wasn't meant for my mama. >>reporter: oakland police agree. she was caught if the cross fire of 2 unidentified shooters and was not their intended target. they say she was leaving this dollar store with her sister headed home when bullet started flying. mona hit and died at the corne corner. words quickly spread through the neighborhood and eventually to her family. >> everybody everybody told us it was mama. i ran straight through the yellow tape. >>reporter: today investigators are turning to to witnesses and surveillance camera to help them identify those responsible. >> you know, it's a grandmother and it's an older black woman. >>reporter: another innocent victim of oakland violence. this organization restorative justice for oakland youth working to change that. >> this is a big loss. affect add lot of people. it's not just her children but all the children in the community that have come to know her. >>reporter: billboard mounted above beg for end to gun violence. today one more east oakland family has been forced to add their voice to a growing chorus. >> she never hurt nobody. nothing like this to happen to her she was a good persons. >>reporter: investigators tight lipped about their progress but stress this is an active investigation. oakland police asking that anyone with information contact the police department. at police headquarters. abc 7 news. mayor he hadley through the through the support behind 2 measures to tighten san francisco gun law. first piece of legislation would ban certain types of ammunition like hollow point bull threat do a lot of daniel on impact. second would require stores to report to police any ammunition sale of 500 rounds or more. the mayor says this legislation was not only inspired by the massacre in connecticut but deadly gun veils in san francisco. >> assault weapons and types of things we have seen in the hands of people who are doing evil or can do evil really have no place. in the home or the schools or in our streets. >>reporter: legislation is expected to be brought before the board of supervisors next month. well still ahead tonight on 7 news at 9:00. city of oakland has small fortune in over paid parking tickets. how does that happen and will you ever get your money back? >> also asteroid that exploded over the sierra foot hills. tonight nasa where it came from and how fast it fell. new information. >> news in time for the holiday. bay area major testing ground for same day deliver richlt you see how that works. >> and out with the old and giants pitcher tim cuts his hair. you get a look at the hair. you get a look at the new do. stay with >> president obama recently said that going after marijuana users would not be a top priority for his administratio administration. but the justice department is trying to shut down medical marijuana dispensary operating in oakland and san jose. case heard before federal magistrate today and carolyn tyler has the story. >>reporter: harbor side health center largest medical marijuana dispensary in the nation. it has 2 facilities one in san jose and this main operation if oakland. together serving more than 100,000 patients. >> we are 100 percent client with california law. the city supports us community supports us only the federal government who thinks there's something wrong with what we are doing. >>reporter: federal government is trying to shut down the dispensary by going after harbor side landlord. threatening to seize their property if they continue to allow marijuana sales. in violation of federal law. in court today the assistant u.s. attorney said they cancel popcorn there. sell candy there but can not use the property for any illegal purpose. as a result the landlord are asking the judge to force the dispensary to stop medley. attorney for the oakland landlord says his client feels she has no choice. >> it's a serious issue. it's a forfeiture action. she could lose the building. >>reporter: harbor side rented the oakland property for 6 years. city officials feel the federal crack down comes too late in the game. oakland is taking the unprecedented step of suing saying the feds have promised to leave dispensary alone. if they are obeying state and local laws. >> what they are trying to do is we are going to suit down dispensary and all you patients too bad. tough luck. do you believe this too bad. >> it's in the right. just not right. like taking away walgreens. i compare to it that. >>reporter: the u.s. attorney office says because this is pending litigation they have no comment. there's no time table for the june to rule and the doors to harbor side remain open. in the newsroom, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. if you have a parking ticket in oakland you may have some money coming back to you. analysis by the oakland city auditor shows that drivers over paid their parking tickets by astounding 3 16,000 dollars. that's just in one, 12 month period. drivers either mistakenly paid the wrong fine or somehow paid it twice. city should have refunded that over payment but never did and the auditor calls the whole thing disturbing. >> we have no evidence that they have proactively refunded citizens prior to this. whether 50 dollars. whether 20 dollars. whether 200 dollars. we need to return that money to our citizens. >>reporter: it's not in place yet but the city has agreed to set up a refund process for the over paid fines as required by state law. the audit also found the city lost out on half million dollars because of missed collection targets by parking control attendant. didn't write enough tickets in other words, obama administration today proposed the expansion of 2 northern california marine sanction wares. decision permanently bans oil drilling along 50 miles of the calf coast line from sonoma county to mendocino you see that area on the map. today announcement marks the largest planned expansion of any national marine sanctuary in 20 years. along with ban on oil drilling. other new rules will go into effect including when cruise ship can rae lease sewage into the ocean. >> meteorite ex mroid employeded this spring over el dorado county was one of the fastest rarest meteorite to ever hit earth that's according to global team of scientist. including 9 from uc davis here picture of the sutter mill meteorite. it was the rarest type known to hit earth composed of cosmic dust and materials that helped literally form the planet 4 and half billion years ago. 50,000 years ago it broke off and began winding its way from near jupiter passing mercury and venus before heading toert and landing near suit are mill and it dropped 64,000 miles an hou hour. piece were his found in park, parking lots and drivewa driveways. about 2 pound recovered by scientist and private collectors. so it is a really fascinating and unique find and we'll give them new insight that the formation of the universe. >> experience is off. sandhya is here. it's not meteorite but rain falling from the sky now. >> that's right dan. it's falling in the north bay right now. get ready for a couple of days of wet weather and wind right now as you can see. from our high definition east bay hills camera. it's shaking. winds currently gusting 35 to 40 miles an hour over the hills this one located in the east bay hills. rain is coming in and it is steady in the north bay as you look at the live doppler 7 hd. it's tracking the storm. keeping you ahead of it as you will notice here. it is not just keeping you ahead of it but the national weather service aradar around the monterey bay help to track the moisture here.so as you look here wide spread rain across the north bay from ukiah to petaluma an even other areas right now it is coming down with some light rainfall even moderate at times. dry creek road healed burg area. highway 101. we are seeing some yellow showing up. heading out to glen ellen where rape is falling right now. boyce hot spring. lighter rainfall that the hours. point raze moderate rape at this point. rain here petaluma a marshall road this is where the rain is falling, winds picking up and will continue to remain strong as we head in the night. temperatures right now mainly in the 50's. but wave few 40's showing up in the inland valley. not as cold tonight. this morning mid upper 20's. frosty cold. tonight we have the cloud cover to insulate us. right now the wind gust at the lower elevation 28 in half man bay. gusting 31 miles an hour at sfo. wet windy morning commute. winter arrives at 3:12 in the morning. switch up in the pattern arpd and more rain in store for the upcoming weekend.so if you have plans to still do some last minute holiday shopping or traveling watch out that is slow moving front and as you look at the computer animation a moment here you see what i'm talking about. waves of rain coming behind this cold storm for the upcoming weekend. 11:00 p.m. we see flight moderate rain in the north bay. slowly starting to the sag south ward so the morning commute does look messy with the wind come in. rain falling across the bay area. likely could see airport delay especially around sfo. front still well to the north and the rain is falling. you look at 9:00 a.m. the front has barely moved. we have some moderate rain in the santa cruz mountains. as we head into the afternoon this front actually stalls out. it becomes what we call stationary and the rain will be pretty wide spread at this point. behind the front we have another front approaching saturday morning. could see some thunderstorms. isolated at best. often of course scattered showers follow behind the front. continuing as we head into your sunday more rain coming in. rainfall total through sunday afternoon. up to 8 inches in the north bay mountains. updated to half foot in the santa cruz mountains. 3 to significance inches north bay. 2 to 4 peninsula. east south bay less than. that urban small stream flooding certainly possible and may see the tree and power lines getting knocked down. wind advisory for the north bay coast and mountains until 4 a.m. friday. it is running for the san francisco peninsula and coast until 10:00 a.m. gust to 50 miles an hour. we do have winter storm warnings covering not just sierra nevada but the northern california mountains. very low snow levels interstate 5 interstate 80 will lakely be impacted friday 4 a.m. to sunday 10:00 p.m. for the sierra nevada. 2 to 5 feet of snow above 4000 feet. we are talking about chain control and travel difficulty. mild temperature tomorrow low 40's and 50's. tomorrow afternoon temperatures will be in the mid upper 50's. accu-weather 7 day forecast will keepr with chance of thunder on saturday. more rain for sunday. christmas eve is dry. christmas day dry until the late afternoon. chance of rape in the north bay by then. more wet weather wednesday into thursday. dan dan santa has no problems on christmas eve. >> that's important. >> experiment in same day delivery. special feel you are playing santa. up next. what you can order on line now can be yours that afternoon. even 5 days before christmas. we'll [ laughter ] [ girl ] wow, you guys have it easy. i wish i had u-verse when i was your age. in my day, we didn't have these fancy wireless receivers. blah blah blah. if i had a sleepover, i couldn't just move the tv into the playroom. no. we had to watch movies in the den because that's where the tv outlet was. and if dad was snoring on the couch, we muscled through it. is she for real? your generation has it made. [ male announcer ] the wireless receiver only from at&t u-verse. get u-verse tv for $29 a month for six months. rethink possible. are. >> good evening once again. in this age of instant gratification overnight shipping sometimes just isn't fast enough any more is it. that's why a handful of company including the bay area own ebay are getting into the business of same day delivery in big city lake san francisco. here's jonathan bloom to explain how it works. >> as he runs into grab something from the best buy store jacob jones almost blends in with all the holiday shoppers. but the difference? this is his job. jacob is a shopping valet for ebay now. >> we are cables. >>reporter: customers summon a valet through a smart p p phonep to pick up stuff from and ahandful of popular store and deliver it in about an hour. >> i have the order waiting if in your lobby. >>reporter: they are employee of ebay and only deal with one customer at a time. once they collect the money, that hideous alert sound tells them where the next job is. >> never really know where you are going to good. never know where going to start or end your day. >>reporter: ebay only in san francisco and new york right now and already facing competition by same day service from his amazon, the post office and now even wal-mart. but with christmas approaching, jacob seen no shortage of customers. >> i'm looking for pl glass gift set. >>reporter: shopping experience for jacob is pretty ordinary, there's something a little magical for the customers. >> right back to the office. all done with me. >>reporter: new kind of delivery for brave new busier world. >> don't have time necessarily to go shopping on their own so these app and they get some more time in the day to do the things they want. >>reporter: now this for early christmas present. delivery 5 dollars ebay makes it 3 for the next few days. braving the packed parking lot sounds terrible cost you exactly nothing to have someone else do it for you. in san francisco, jonathan bloom abc 7 news. >> still to come tonight here at 9:00. stock holier backlash against sol con valley junt. did hp really spend 11 billion dollars on a product that didn't exist? >> buried alive. skiers caught in after lavrm. trick that helped her survive. >> el ♪ does the les mis hit the right♪ special other than the aisle review from don sanchez. >> legend of the fit. did fighting help shape the fighting help shape the evolution of our hand he. >> fraud and coverup. those are allegations hp shareholder level against the palo alto board of directors tonight. david tells us that it's a new twist surrounding hp troubled purchase of a british software company. amazing story. >>reporter: hp web site has plenty of details about it's 10. new product wasted on technology it acquired from autonomy that's a british software company hp bought last year for 11.7 billion dollars. however this shareholder lawsuit claims the board is engageing in fraud because idle 10 doesn't exist. >> executives of the company including the directors alleged knew that this product didn't exist. yet on november 29th, 2011, year ago, they told the world they had this new they called it the next generation information platform titles game. it didn't exist. >>reporter: other tech company turned down offer to buy autonomy as too costly. hp take an 8 billion dollar write down blaming accounting irregularity at autonomy. >> if i find it doesn't work you don't tell the public that it works. that's part of the complaint. >>reporter: hp board on the hot seat concluding pioneer whitman, lane and mark who created the first widely used web browser. should they have known better. >> this is not necessarily a super star evaluation expert or superstar accountant i would say no in this case i don't even think the premise really applies here although autonomy was and didn't have roots here and would have been no ear to the ground inside information that the silicon valley giants would have. >>reporter: lawsuit filed here in san jose. expected that insider may step forward to help support the claim of frau fraud. in san jose, abc 7 new news. >> quick items to rundown for you tonight. facebook testing a new system that would charge users 1 dollars to send message to people outside the immediate friend group. company says it will discourage unwanted messages. brother of imprison financier bernie mad of sentenced to continue years in prison. peter admitted guilty to falsifying record. >> former marine volunteered to guard an elementary school left early today after questions arose his background. contrary to what sergeant craig said yes, it is the marine corps says he never served over seas and was discharged in 2008 as private after serving less than a year in the service. now to an incredible survival story. 20-year-old woman buried by avalanche while skiing in washington state but one free hand quick acting rescuers and very talented dog saved her life. neal has the story. >>reporter: 20-year-old emily anderson had just finished what she calls one of the best runs of her life near at crystal mountain south of seattle. >> it was amazing. >>reporter: when she says she looked down and saw the snow moving strangely beneath her. >> i saw like a crack. you hear a little pop when it starts to go. i realize it was an avalanche and pushed me in a tree and all of a sudden i was encased i couldn't move. >>reporter: she was buried. her first thought above everything else how to breathe. her left hand could move just enough to get the snow away from her mouth. >> my head was down facing down a little bit and so i like had to kind of scoop the snow away. i breathed in snow a little bit. that was scary. >> that saved your life. having that left hand 43 to get a little bit away. >> yes. i was like-kind of in a sitting position and my right arm was stuck out to my side. couldn't move it. >>reporter: then the second wave hit her. wave of fear. that she might not be found. i felt very alone and i felt like this could be it. >>reporter: helpless horrifying feeling like when this snowmobileer caused avalanche then was buried alive earlier this year in washington state. >> shovel. shovel. shovel. >>reporter: his friend frantically dug him out. >> hell me. >>reporter: he wasn't injured. >> he's all right. >>reporter: but emily wasn't sure she would make it. she was screaming but buried under the snow no one could hear. friend saw it happened and called for help. ski patrol there within minutes and began poking through the snow with long poles trying to find her. newman a 4-year-old avalanche rescue dog was there, too. >> avalanche dog are the best way to find somebody like emily this woman is lucky. statistics say once you are buried without a trace of the surface the chance of surviving that statistically is 1 out of 3. >>reporter: 15 minutes later she felt the pole poking through. they found her. and dug her out. you are lucky. >> very lucky. everything about it went my way that's for sure. >>reporter: this morning her neck is a little sore and her ski pole are lost. but she's otherwise just fine. smiling. interested in getting a job with the ski patrol. abc news, enumclaw, washington. amazing survival story. study suggest that fighting may have shaped the evolution of the human hand. scientist at the university of utah looked into the and as you might expect people deliver more force with closed fist and do more efficiently and safely as opposed to open hand. people who could hit with clinched fist could hit harder without injury and more likely to reproduce. scientist say the role aggression play ins evolution is not adequately appreciated either. >> all right well coming up. helping hand. up next, christmas is looking a whole lot brighter for hundreds of south bay children. stay with < [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. get breyer's ice cream for $2.88 and dessert will surely shine. make it a grand finale with starbucks just $6.99. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. safeway. ingredients for life. is. >> christmas toy give away bring ago lot of joy and heart felt thanks to the south bay tonight. it means that thousands of family will have presents under the tree this year. the story tonight from abc 7 news reporter corina rus rusk. >> in this room full of toy wishes come true before the presents even wrapped. moms like christine rachel and teresa can forget the financial troubles for just a moment and relish in the joy of being able to put gifts under the tree. teresa has 5 children. >> very important to see those smiles in the morning and the presents that i'm not able to provide. without a joyshtion the sacred heart toy box program makes it possible for nearly 5700 children to smile bright they are holiday season. hundreds of volunteers help parents pick out 2 toys and one book for every child on the shopping list. santa helpers range from san jose mayor reed to ann clerk a former sacred heart client herself. >> we would line up an get food put in the back of the car and everyone was nice enough to do it and give back and see everyone face and get emotiona emotional. >>reporter: added emotion when every shopping group takes part in raffle for new bike. 5 39 will be given away over two days. >> if rachel is a single mom with 3 boys and a lucky raffle wish. her 16-year-old son is getting a big surprise. >> he did have his bike stolen earlier in the year so it's going to be an exciting thing for him. i'm excited for him. >>reporter: there is excitement and appreciation with every selection. but christine was nearly brought to tears at the thought of being able to give her 12-year-old daughter jasmine something she has never had. a new bike. >> for the last 4 or 5 years she's had hand-me-down. not that she hasn't been grateful but she'll be thrilled. i'm really excited for her and really happy this organization is here for us. so thank you. >>reporter: you can be the reason for that heart felt thank you donations are still needed. especially for teenagers. books and gift cards. very high on the list and we have made it easy for you to help donate. just go to our web site 7 news.com and click see it on tv for on line donations. in san jose, corrina abc 7 news. making a real effort to get gifts for teenagers too often overlooked and. >> as we talk about the holiday. how does santa prepare for big night on christmas eve? how about by going for a swim in san francisco. santa put on skoob a gear and jumped into the rink of academy of science. kid were delighted to see him and they whispered the wish list. scuba santa doing more dives at the academy coral reef exhibit right through christmas eve. now all we need is rudolph the red nose dolphins. >> coming. some of the most famous lock in baseball are no famous lock in baseball are no more. nef @k for pitcher ti >> les mis the musical seen by millions around the world for more than 25 years comes to the big screen for christmas as you probably seen. movie has the biggest advance sales for any christmas film this year. 7 news arts entertainment reporter don sanchez has advance review on the aisle. yes they are really singing. captured on film. not pre-recorded. so it's almost like a live theater experience. this is big. spectacular. hugh jackman has to be award winning man who served 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread looking for redemption pursued by russell crowe and then there is anne hathaway. if she doesn't get the supporting actress award then we can start our own revolutio revolution. banks who did the show on the london stage and ed the ideal who were in san francisco. >> the cost was so extraordinary everyone had been put through that pace in the audition and great level for everyone that we were all doing something new. we were all driven by an ounce of fear. >>reporter: this is a film on grade scale of musical loved by many. directed by tom who did the king speech. >> i do hear the people sing. if you are a fan of the stage musical you will not be disappointed. performance bold and the look is impressive. it's what a big movie musical shuchbility it is the holiday so i have to give les mis a full bucket. i'm don sanchez 7 news and we'll see you on the aisle. pretty amazing experience. by the way, that is don's final on the aisle review sorry to tell you. he's retiring tomorrow after more than 40 years here on abc 7. special look back at his remarkable career tomorrow night. i hope you will join us as we wish don bonnie invoice acknowledge. >> one last check of the weather. let's go back to sandhya. >> full bucket. you might not be giving this a full bucket. wet windy conditions moving in. live doppler 7 hd tracking the are inin the north bay. it gets moderate. in spots even heavy as you can see here around bodega bay. out to walker road. as you look at the santa rosa rohnert park area, petaluma hill road out to bennett valley road to moderate heavy rain as well. if you have travel plans from the sierra nevada up towards the northern california mountains winter storm warnings are up. these are the area you will likely encounter travel delay carry the chains. 39 tahoe. 46 in chico. southern california looking fine. 61 in san diego and dry. at least for friday. bay area carry the rain gear upper 40's to the upper 50's. tomorrow it is going to be wet. and windy. morning commute looks dicey as you look at the accu-weather 7 day forecast. showers chance of thunder for saturday sunday more rain. i just updated this not happy to tell you this. but the computer models bringing in rain for the entire bay area now on christmas day. at least a chance. >> i'm getting a new skate board. i need it dry. >> maybe you can use it a couple weeks late near skate board umbrella maybe. >> san francisco giants pitcher tim sporting new look tonight. the long hair is apparently no more. look at this. the photo snapped just this week showing tim new do. his hair stylist in his hometown of seattle tweeted news about the trim earlier this week. might not even recognize him. >> he looks like he's one of the guys in our it department. pocket protector snlts the glasses give that you look. and short clean cut. >> had he short hair when he first came in. 2007. >> i don't remember. >> he grew it out. hopefully change the luck. >> that's true. >> counting down to the 49ers and seahawks. clash with smith go on sunday. to shawn doing counting too. the cash he sends the league after that hi hit. [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. get breyer's ice cream for $2.88 and dessert will surely shine. make it a grand finale with starbucks just $6.99. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. safeway. ingredients for life. >> coming up tonight at 11:00. another series of storms moves in. we are live tonight in the north bay. plus we have the very latest on what you can expect live doppler 7 hd. then san francisco police officers raise more than 1600 dollars to help give some students a sense of school pride. how it will also keep them safe on the streets. those stories and more for you coming up on 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7. hope you can join us for. that larry is here tonight. start with a little forty-niner preview. niner defensive tackle smith is likely going to see his string of 185 consecutive starts come to an end sunday night. 49ers play in seattle. nfc west show town. he injured his elbow against the patriots out of practice this entire we cannot on the field today so may not be able to go. today shawn fined 29,000 dollars by the nfl for what they felt was ill legal hit sunday night against the patriots on defenseless severe. catch it and let him run. if you hit him it's a fine. league perceives him as multiple offender. seahawks niners mirror image of both rugged teams and you have the rival harbaugh carroll don't exchange holiday gifts. >> the i don't remember getting any cards from him. if they are a enthusiastic team play with a lot of energy. well coached team. >> well, i'm looking at this game as championship opportunity lake we always say. it truly will feel like that. on game day at the stadium and all that. it does give us an opportunity to be a champio championship team in. college football the rose bowl just a week and a half away. stanford this is remarkable. they are playing in the third straight bcs game. power. versus power. 2 of the better running back in the nation the wisconsin ball and all time ncaa leader touch downs in 82 meanwhile taylor bail the cardinal all time rushing lead they are season. ran for 1442 yards on the year with 12 touch downs. here's taylor on facing the bamers. >> competitive nation will come out in all of us. big game. this is up but don't want to go in there without do stuff you have never done before. go out and to within. >> byu san diego state playing in it in san diego. aztec then the defense in the fourth. kyle recovering the fumble in the arizona. then the quarterback on the run. picks off adam. 17 yards for at the time touch down. byu wins the bowl 23-6. jackson said it as broadcaster again last night as coach. mama said there were going to be days like this warriors lost in sacramento 131-127. notice defense operational in this contest. kings had 7 players in double figure and strangely though they really don't beat anybody else regularly 2 and o against golden state this year. warriors after long road trip, tired. playing back to pwaichblingt we didn't play well. offensively we put together a rhythm and scored the basketball but we didn't play our brand of basketball. they got it going early and couldn't stop them. we own it weaned look forward to learn from it and try to put together a streak from here. >>reporter: great game tonigh tonight. thunder and timberwolves. hadn't lost since november and force from manipulate society 28 points 11 board. check this out. the drive. off the top of the backboard and good. it hit up there twice. 33 for the durrant. look at jj. from way out. 14 of 18 came in the fourth quarter. timberwolves and thunder 12 game win streak 99-93. parker one of the top high school basketball recruit in the country will be attending duke next year. stanford was in the top 5 but today he announced he's joining the blue devil. plays for academy in chicago gatorade boy basketball player of the year last season. finish up with a warrior note. coach jackson at pier 30 for the san francisco firefighters annual holiday toy drive this afternoon. it's one of the largest organized toy programs in the nation more than 200,000 toys donated to 40,000 needy kid. >> this is what it's all b.it's about impacting lives and making a difference. i'm humble to be part of the process. give these firefighters a lot of credit for what they have done
gratitude as we remember the hard work of people like the commander in his incredible team of intelligence experts. admiralchester nimitz, spruance, jack fletcher, and other naval leaders. we especially today, remember the countless unnamed sailors and marines and coast inrdsmen who stood fast the face of great danger. those who fears -- whose fearlessness in the seas, below them, and above made the difference in crucial -- between crucial victories and crushing defeat. we remember this day with solemn gratitude all who gave the last full measure of devotion admin play -- at midway. on this day, we honor their sacrifice and give thanks for their courage and skill. we pray this in your holy name. amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. please join me in welcoming admiral michel, joint deputy for operations. [applause] >> good morning. what a beautiful morning to have our ceremony. i extend greetings from the coast guard. i want to recognize the members of the greatest generation, the veterans of midway and world war ii. today provides us the opportunity to reflect upon and honor your service, and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. ofattending to the manners our profession, we show respect to you and honor those brave men and women who have gone before us in the glory of duty well performed. the coast guard laid a critical role in world war ii, including in the pacific. the coast guard's most important contribution was getting troops to the beaches, providing logistic support, maintaining backffensive, and bearing exhausted troops for rest and treatment. manneduardsmen fully more than 350 naval ships 21 cargo,76 lsp's, and attack cargo ships, 75 frigates, 31 transports, and other types of amphibious craft. they were valued for their boat handling skills, particularly in the surf, a skill they learned and perfected serving at life-saving stations. only the experienced could successfully maneuver the landing craft through strong currents and heavy surf. once the beachhead was secured, while soldiers and marines pushed inland, a steady stream of supplies was carried ashore by coast guard transports to keep the offensive alive trade by way of example, 19 of 23 naval transports were manned by coast guardsmen, including our medal of honor winner, signalman first class douglas monroe. signalman monroe steered his landing craft between the evacuating marines and the enemy providing covering fire and sacrificing his life to save 500 marines. nte coast guard's importa supporting role continued as the campaign moved north and west from while canal. the coast guard service in world war ii and in the pacific supporting sailors and marines heritage. our shared this continues today as the coast guard provides security in offarabian gulf, deploys the coast of africa to prevent piracy, and operates in the deep caribbean with our navy sailors countering drug smuggling. when the coast guard was returned to its peacetime role in 1946, the secretary of the war stated that during the the coast guard earned the highest respect and deepest appreciation of the navy and marine corps. its performance of duty has been without exception in keeping with the highest traditions of the naval service. i want to end my remarks by again saluting the but -- the veterans of the battle of midway. your heroism was the turning point in the campaign. you brought us back from that in 1941, theday date president roosevelt said would live in infamy, and allowed us to face victory and triumph again. you risk your lives, your friends and shipmates sacrificed their lives to secure this victory at midway. your service and sacrifice is in keeping with the highest tradition of the coast guard's core values of honor, respect, and devotion to duty. on behalf of the men and women of the united states coast guard, i salute you for a duty well performed. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, admiral. it is a pleasure to introduce the deputy commandant for planned policies and operations. [applause] >> it>> is an honor to be here this morning with you to celebrate this special event, the 72nd anniversary of the battle of midway. admiral ferguson, distinguished guests, our veterans of midway, and i would like to pay a special tribute to the youngest four-star selected in the marine corps, general anderson. thank you, sir, for your contribution to our corp and the battle of midway. today we have the opportunity to reflect, recognize, and remember these great veterans. i want to talk about the ability, bravery, and encourage of the marines and sailors of that battle. the marines did not have the best equipment. they had obsolete aircraft. but they carried on and accomplished their mission. the displayed courage. they displayed bravery unmatched. about to tell you a story their bravery. on the morning a little cooler than this about 72 years ago, 221,4, the pilots of better known as the fighting 241 understoodmb ahead.ror that lay they took off from the midway a till -- atoll. at the end of the day, 25 marine fighter pilots had faced off against over 100 incoming japanese aircraft. 15 of the aircraft were lost in aerial combat, including the one flown by the commanding officer, major ford parks -- floyd parks. of the marine bombers that set off to attack the japanese fleet, 10 were destroyed in combat, including the one flown by the commanding officer of 241, major henderson. they understood the odds, but they went into the breach knowing the importance of their mission and accepting danger at face value. at the end of the battle of midway, the marines had earned 53 navy crosses and one medal of honor. this was just a small reflection of the many heroic actions the on thatand sailors heroic and selfless event that occurred 72 years ago. that was to risk it all to defend our nation. inheritedge that we is one of great honor. to the veterans of midway, i promise you that your marines and sailors today share the same soiber of bravery that was evidently demonstrated so long ago. your marines and sailors today understand the challenges they face. too, as you did, still go willingly and put themselves in harms way. we take pride in the heritage and bravery that you demonstrated. we will carry that same fighting and pass it on to generation after generation of marine. on behalf of the commandant of the marine corps and the united states marine corps, thank you very much for the example. you exemplify the best in the american spirit and the united states marine corps. we will never forget you. semper fidelis. [applause] >> thank you, general. it is an honor to introduce admiral ferguson, vice chief of operations. [applause] morning. i would like to welcome our distinguished guests and member of the diplomatic core, flag and general officers, veterans, and all of you for joining us today. particularake mention of our midway veterans, smaller in number than last year, but with us. we are so honored you could join us. i would like to ask those younger sailors if you get a chance to come up and talk to our veterans after the ceremony. we have a naval aviator with over 100 hours in the air during the battle of midway. a submariner on the novelist with 14 combat patrols -- nautilus with 14 combat patrols. a young sailor from the hornet. [siren in the distance] raidind from the doolittle all the way through the battle of midway to the hornet's final sinking. they are living history. we are honored to have them with us today. as we share the stay in the company of our veterans, i would like you -- to take you back to that night before the battle of midway, june 3, 1942, as these men preferred -- prepared for the rendezvous with history. it was probably an evening at sea filled with preparation as they anticipated the battle to come. sailors alone in their thoughts, fears, prayers anticipated how they would face the uncertainty that lay before them. marines and airmen on midway invasion force was heading for them. sea that se -- at somewhat likely not see home again. while much has been written about the battle itself, it is just as important to think about the events that unfolded in the six months fire to the battle of midway following pearl harbor. was a tremendous weight these men carried with them on the night of june 3, 1942. they carried the burdens of loss over six months, of wars raging off our own shores in america, and of a nation seeking --facing sacrifices at home. in the six months following pearl harbor, the chief of naval operations faced the following setbacks. the loss of over 20 ships, several battleships and more than 180 aircraft at pearl harbor. the sinking of 20 merchant ships totaling 150,000 tons off the atlantic coast in just two weeks in january. theres day 72 years ago, were 30 u-boats operating off east coast of the united states that sank over 300 merchant ships from february through may 1942. the loss oferienced the destroyer jacob jones to a german do porter -- torpedoed just off delaware bay and another off the florida keys. two destroyers ran aground with many lives lost while hugging the coast of newfoundland. japanese forces were seemingly unstoppable. in a few short months after pearl harbor, they have taken malaysia, the dutch east indies, the philippines, and various island groups in the western and syntel pacific. in february, the captured singapore and over 80,000 british, australian, and indian troops as prisoners of war. that same month, the destroyer was sunk in the first attack on australian territory. more than 10ime, japanese submarines operated with impunity off the west coast of the united states ranging from alaska to baja. they sank over 10 vessels, some being torpedoed within sight of los angeles, santa barbara, san diego, and santa monica. in february, japanese submarines shelled california near santa barbara causing an invasion scare along the west coast. at home, the war came home to tin,amilies as oil, rubber, gasoline, tobacco, and foodstuffs were severely rationed. inthe battle of coral sea march, lexington was sunk at yorktown and several ships severely damaged. yorktown returned to sea patch together in a herculean effort at pearl harbor shipyard. in the midst of so many losses, it is no wonder president roosevelt became frustrated with the lack of any naval victories. in the month of february of 1942, he ordered the secretary of the navy to hold a special selection board to identify the 40 most competent of the navy's admirals that could bring the nation victory at sea. quite simply, he had enough of defeat. history records when the board finished its work, bowles calls a -- hallsey was selected. but he became ill and commanded a task force. on the night of june 3, the officers that held the fate of the pacific in their hands were two who did not make the cut on the board. chester nimitz and raymond spruance. on that evening, as the two fleets approached the waters off midway, can you imagine what was running through the minds of the leaders from washington to hawaii to the ships of the fleet? how about the silent thoughts of these young men? many just teenagers away from home and approaching their first combat at sea. admiral nimitz's command summary of the day, he wrote the whole course of the war in the pacific may hinge on the developments of the next two days. fortunately, as history has shown in our darkest hours, leaders emerge. the victory of midway teaches us many lessons. action,ion, decisive the power of intelligence, trusting commanders, and of course the necessity of good fortune. but it teaches us more about the spirit of the american sailor. and fearless in the face of adversity. today, we gather again to honor these veterans and remind ourselves of our own capacity for greatness. we honor those who took the risk to launch the attack, those who fought on despite the odds from their ships in the islands of midway. those who flew on when their gauges were low. those who attacked without regard for their own personal safety knowing they would not likely survive. those who risked their lives to save their shipmates. and those who never came home. on the night of june 3, 1942, they did not know what the next day would bring. the their strength and will -- but their strength and will was resolute. they chose as individuals and as a fleet that they would not yield. in their decisive moment, they gave themselves to a cause greater than themselves. we remind ourselves again that leadership matters. admiral nimitz made a cap related -- calculated gamble at midway. in the language of "texas hold 'em", the u.s. navy was all in. he did have the advantage of intelligence and the efforts of the intelligence community. but his greater advantage was his trust in commanders and staff. he never lost his belief in the strength of the u.s. navy when fighting at sea. winston churchill said after the battle at one stroke the dominant position of japan in the pacific was reversed. while this is indeed true, my thoughts always return to the young sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen. try to imagine how it was to face such adversity at such a young age. i believe the historian walter lord said it best when he wrote, even against the greatest odds, there is something in the human spirit, a magic blend of skill, that can liftor men from certain defeat to incredible victory. in today's navy and in our marine corps, coast guard, army, and air force, a new generation has accepted these veterans' gifts to us of american leadership at sea. we recognize security and stability are forged far away from home at sea and trust and skill must be built in waters far from american shores. we continue to remind ourselves that others have indeed faced far greater challenges than we ever have and have emerged with their honor and victory. and this day is a reminder to us that when we face our darkest hours, we must always hold before us the resolve of our servicemembers, sailors, marines, soldiers, and airmen, coast guardsmen. we must remember the power of decisive leadership and most of all the distinguished service of those who fought and brought honor to the navy and nation at midway. may god continue to bless each of you. thank you for coming today. may god bless all of our sailors on watch around the globe this day, our families who care for them and support them, our great navy and this great nation. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, admiral. to honor our midway veterans, the chief of naval operations had secreted -- decreed this day to be battle of midway commemoration day. battle of midway day 4, 2014,ion for june is the proclamation of the chief of navy operations. whereas the navy recognizes the great significance of the battle of midway as one of the greatest victories in its history and in that of our great nation. whereas the sailors of the united states navy take great pride in their service to our country and now take time to acknowledge their forebears who set the standards of service and sacrifice that form the hallmark of our rich naval history and heritage. whereas we set forth resolutely to preserve and celebrate the legacy of the battle of midway's many heroes and their invaluable contributions to the navy and our nation. whereas we use the model of determination and valor from our past to meet our challenges of the future. i, chief ofre, naval operations and by virtue of the authority vested in me, june 4, 2014,laim battle of midway commemoration day and call on all sailors to take part in the ceremony and remember those who led the way and sacrifice to make hours the world's greatest navy. , have set my hand this day admiral united states navy. united states navy band will now perform "victory at sea" while admiral ferguson presents copies of the declaration to each of our honored midway veterans. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> please rise for the>> playing mn and remain's hy standing for the benediction. >> ♪ ♪ >> let us pray. past,as we recall heroes named and unnamed, remind us of their courage under fire and honor in the heat of battle and indomitable spirit. so much was at stake in those terrible early days of the war. inspire us by their example. as we look to the future, grant us the grace never to forget that we might prove worthy of their sacrifices and remain faithful in defense of all it is good and just in this world. thisous god, as we recall momentous battle and what it has meant for our nation and navy, we ask you to bless those who on walkdaty sail, fly, or in harm's way. grant them your presence and hold their families in your strong hand. we pray this in your holy name. amen. ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our ceremony. please remain in your places until the departure of our party and honored midway veterans. >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. forow us on twitter information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. >> ♪ we feature director william wyler and the 42 minute documentary he made about a squadron of fighter planes stationed in italy. to provide context, we speak to author and film mr. -- historian , mark harris. >> a new book out, "five came back: a story of hollywood and the second world war," by mark harris. the feature director is william wyler. he became a u.s. citizen in 1928. he served as a major in the air force. he put together three documentaries including the 1947 film "thunderbolt." explain. wyler made a powerful documentary called the memphis story of the flying fortress, the first major wartime documentary to show what it was like to fly missions in a bomber over france and occupied germany. documentaries from the war, there was no restaging. wyler and his men trained to fly. they went to europe and flew five missions. they were shot at. to of that commitment led this documentary which was made with great attention to the military. he wanted to create a "you are there" experience. >> one of the most important instruments. >> there is four of them 1:00 high. >> they are coming round. watch it. >>
confronted by american forces who the japanese fleet from june 4 two june seventh. this critical battle ended in an american victory over the japanese. this is about 30 minutes. >> let us pray. god, we and eternal pause today in solemn prayer to ask your presence with us as we remember the momentous events that took place 72 years ago. followings and months the terrible attack on pearl harbor, the future looked grim. and yet brave men and women answer the call to defend our nation. in spite of incredible challenges. during exploits, such as the inlittle raid and battles places such as coral sea paved the way for what would come to be known as the most decisive naval victory of our time, the battle of midway. today, we look back with awe and gratitude as we remember the hard work of people like the commander and his incredible team of intelligence experts. admiral chester nimitz, admiral spruance, admiral jack fletcher, and other naval leaders. but especially today, we remember the countless unnamed sailors and marines and coast guardsmen who stood fast in the face of great danger. those whose fearlessness in the seas, below them, and above made the difference between crucial victories and crushing defeat. we remember this day with solemn gratitude all who gave the last full measure of devotion at midway. on this day, we honor their sacrifice and give thanks for their courage and skill. we pray this in your holy name. amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. please join me in welcoming admiral michel, joint deputy for operations. [applause] >> good morning. what a beautiful morning to have our ceremony. i extend greetings from the coast guard. i want to recognize the members of the greatest generation, the veterans of midway and world war ii. today provides us the opportunity to reflect upon and honor your service, and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. by attending to the manners of our profession, we show respect to you and honor those brave men and women who have gone before us in the glory of duty well performed. the coast guard played a critical role in world war ii, including in the pacific. the coast guard's most important contribution was getting troops to the beaches, providing logistic support, maintaining the offensive, and carrying back exhausted troops for rest and treatment. coast guardsmen fully manned more than 350 naval ships including 76 lsp's, 21 cargo and attack cargo ships, 75 frigates, 31 transports, and other types of amphibious craft. they were valued for their boat handling skills, particularly in the surf, a skill they learned and perfected serving at life-saving stations. only the experienced could successfully maneuver the landing craft through strong currents and heavy surf. once the beachhead was secured, while soldiers and marines pushed inland, a steady stream of supplies was carried ashore by coast guard transports to keep the offensive alive. by way of example, 19 of 23 naval transports were manned by coast guardsmen, including our medal of honor winner, signalman first class douglas monroe. signalman monroe steered his landing craft between the evacuating marines and the enemy providing covering fire and sacrificing his life to save 500 marines. the coast guard's important supporting role continued as the campaign moved north and west from guadalcanal. the coast guard service in world war ii and in the pacific supporting sailors and marines is part of our shared heritage. this heritage continues today as the coast guard provides security in the arabian gulf, deploys off the coast of africa to prevent piracy, and operates in the deep caribbean with our navy sailors countering drug smuggling. when the coast guard was returned to its peacetime role in 1946, the secretary of the navy stated that during the war the coast guard earned the highest respect and deepest appreciation of the navy and marine corps. its performance of duty has been without exception in keeping with the highest traditions of the naval service. i want to end my remarks by again saluting the veterans of the battle of midway. your heroism was the turning point in the campaign. you brought us back from that dark day in 1941, the date president roosevelt said would live in infamy, and allowed us to face victory and triumph again. you risk your lives, your friends and shipmates sacrificed their lives to secure this victory at midway. your service and sacrifice is in keeping with the highest tradition of the coast guard's core values of honor, respect, and devotion to duty. on behalf of the men and women of the united states coast guard, i salute you for a duty well performed. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, admiral. it is a pleasure to introduce the deputy commandant for planned policies and operations. [applause] >> it is an honor to be here this morning with you to celebrate this special event, the 72nd anniversary of the battle of midway. admiral ferguson, distinguished guests, our veterans of midway, and i would like to pay a special tribute to the youngest four-star selected in the marine corps, general anderson. thank you, sir, for your contribution to our corps and the battle of midway. today we have the opportunity to reflect, recognize, and remember these great veterans. i want to talk about the ability, bravery, and courage of the marines and sailors of that battle. the marines did not have the best equipment. they had obsolete aircraft. but they carried on and accomplished their mission. they displayed courage. they displayed bravery unmatched. i want to tell you a story about their bravery. on the morning a little cooler than this about 72 years ago, june 4, the pilots of 221, better known as the fighting falcons, and vmsb 241 understood the terror that lay ahead. they took off from the midway atoll. at the end of the day, 25 marine fighter pilots had faced off against over 100 incoming japanese aircraft. 15 of the aircraft were lost in aerial combat, including the one flown by the commanding officer, major floyd parks. of the 27 marine bombers that set off to attack the japanese fleet, 10 were destroyed in combat, including the one flown by the commanding officer of 241, major henderson. they understood the odds, but they went into the breach knowing the importance of their mission and accepting danger at face value. at the end of the battle of midway, the marines had earned 53 navy crosses and one medal of honor. this was just a small reflection of the many heroic actions the marines and sailors on that heroic and selfless event that occurred 72 years ago. that was to risk it all to defend our nation. the heritage that we inherited is one of great honor. to the veterans of midway, i promise you that your marines and sailors today share the same caliber of bravery that was so evidently demonstrated so long ago. your marines and sailors today understand the challenges they face. they do as you did, still go willingly and put themselves in harm's way. we take pride in the heritage and bravery that you demonstrated. we will carry that same fighting spirit forward and pass it on to generation after generation of marine. on behalf of the commandant of the marine corps and the united states marine corps, thank you very much for the example. you exemplify the best in the american spirit and the united states marine corps. we will never forget you. semper fidelis. [applause] >> thank you, general. it is an honor to introduce admiral ferguson, vice chief of operations. [applause] >> good morning. i would like to welcome our distinguished guests and member of the diplomatic corps, flag and general officers, veterans, and all of you for joining us today. i want to take particular mention of our midway veterans, smaller in number than last year, but with us. we are so honored you could join us. i would like to ask those younger sailors if you get a chance to come up and talk to our veterans after the ceremony. with us, we have a naval aviator with over 100 hours in the air during the battle of midway. a submariner on the nautilus with 14 combat patrols. a young sailor from the hornet -- [siren in the distance] -- from the doolittle raid all the way through the battle of midway to the hornet's final sinking. they are living history. we are honored to have them with us today. as we share this day in the company of our veterans, i would like to take you back to that night before the battle of midway, june 3, 1942, as these men prepared for their rendezvous with history. it was probably an evening at sea filled with preparation as they anticipated the battle to come. sailors, alone in their thoughts, fears, prayers, anticipated how they would face the uncertainty that lay before them. marines and airmen on midway knew the invasion force was heading for them. some would likely not see home again. while much has been written about the battle itself, it is just as important to think about the events that unfolded in the six months prior to the battle of midway following pearl harbor. it was a tremendous weight these men carried with them on the night of june 3, 1942. they carried the burdens of loss over six months, of wars raging off our own shores in america, and of a nation facing sacrifices at home. in the six months following pearl harbor, the chief of naval operations faced the following setbacks. the loss of over 20 ships, several battleships and more than 180 aircraft at pearl harbor. the sinking of 20 merchant ships totaling 150,000 tons off the atlantic coast in just two weeks in january. on this day 72 years ago, there were 30 u-boats operating off the east coast of the united states that sank over 300 merchant ships from february through may 1942. the navy experienced the loss of the destroyer jacob jones to a german torpedo just off delaware bay and another off the florida keys. two destroyers ran aground with many lives lost while hugging the coast of newfoundland. in the pacific, japanese forces were seemingly unstoppable. in a few short months after pearl harbor, they have taken malaysia, the dutch east indies, the philippines, and various island groups in the western and syntel pacific. -- central pacific. in february, they captured singapore and over 80,000 british, australian, and indian troops as prisoners of war. that same month, the destroyer was sunk in the first attack on australian territory. during this time, more than 10 japanese submarines operated with impunity off the west coast of the united states ranging from alaska to baja. they sank over 10 vessels, some being torpedoed within sight of los angeles, santa barbara, san diego, and santa monica. in february, japanese submarines shelled california near santa barbara, causing an invasion scare along the west coast. at home, the war came home to our families as oil, tin, rubber, gasoline, tobacco, and foodstuffs were severely rationed. at the battle of coral sea in march, the lexington was sunk at yorktown and several ships were severely damaged. yorktown returned to sea patch ed together in a herculean effort at pearl harbor shipyard. in the midst of so many losses, it is no wonder president roosevelt became frustrated with the lack of any naval victories. in the month of february of 1942, he ordered the secretary of the navy to hold a special selection board to identify the 40 most competent of the navy's admirals that could bring the nation victory at sea. quite simply, he had enough of defeat. history records when the board finished its work, bull halsy was selected. but he became ill and commanded a task force. on the night of june 3, the officers that held the fate of the pacific in their hands were two who did not make the cut of the board. chester nimitz and raymond spruance. on that evening, as the two fleets approached the waters off midway, can you imagine what was running through the minds of the leaders from washington to hawaii to the ships of the fleet? how about the silent thoughts of these young men? many just teenagers away from home and approaching their first combat at sea. in admiral nimitz's command summary of the day, he wrote the whole course of the war in the pacific may hinge on the developments of the next two days. fortunately, as history has shown in our darkest hours, leaders emerged. the victory of midway teaches us many lessons. preparation, decisive action, the power of intelligence, trust in commanders, and of course the necessity of good fortune. but it teaches us more about the spirit of the american sailor. bold, decisive, and fearless in the face of adversity. today, we gather again to honor these veterans and remind ourselves of our own capacity for greatness. we honor those who took the risk to launch the attack, those who fought on despite the odds from their ships in the islands of midway. those who flew on when their gauges were low. those who attacked without regard for their own personal safety knowing they would not likely survive. those who risked their lives to save their shipmates. and those who never came home. on the night of june 3, 1942, they did not know what the next day would bring. but their strength and will was resolute. they chose as individuals and as a fleet that they would not yield. in their decisive moment, they gave themselves to a cause greater than themselves. we remind ourselves again that leadership matters. admiral nimitz made a calculated gamble at midway. in the language of "texas hold 'em," the u.s. navy was "all in." he did have the advantage of intelligence and the efforts of the intelligence community. but his greater advantage was his trust in commanders and staff. he never lost his belief in the strength of the u.s. navy when fighting at sea. winston churchill said after the battle that one stroke the dominant position of japan in the pacific was reversed. while this is indeed true, my thoughts always return to the young sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen. try to imagine how it was to face such adversity at such a young age. i believe the historian walter lord said it best when he wrote, "even against the greatest odds, there is something in the human spirit, a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory." in today's navy and in our marine corps, coast guard, army, and air force, a new generation has accepted these veterans' gifts to us of american leadership at sea. we recognize security and stability are forged far away from home at sea and trust and skill must be built in waters far from american shores. we continue to remind ourselves that others have indeed faced far greater challenges than we ever have and have emerged with their honor and victory. these veterans and this day is a reminder to us that when we face our darkest hours, we must always hold before us the resolve of our service members, sailors, marines, soldiers, and airmen, coast guardsmen. we must remember the power of decisive leadership and most of all the distinguished service of those who fought and brought honor to the navy and nation at midway. may god continue to bless each of you. thank you for coming today. may god bless all of our sailors on watch around the globe this day, our families who care for them and support them, our great navy and this great nation. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, admiral. to honor our midway veterans, the chief of naval operations has decreed this day to be battle of midway commemoration day. battle of midway day proclamation for june 4, 2014, is the proclamation of the chief of navy operations. whereas the navy recognizes the great significance of the battle of midway as one of the greatest victories in its history and in that of our great nation. whereas the sailors of the united states navy take great pride in their service to our country and now take time to acknowledge their forebears who set the standards of service and sacrifice that form the hallmark of our rich naval history and heritage. whereas we set forth resolutely to preserve and celebrate the legacy of the battle of midway's many heroes and their invaluable contributions to the navy and our nation. whereas we use the model of determination and valor from our past to meet our challenges of the future. now, therefore, i, chief of naval operations and by virtue of the authority vested in me, do hereby proclaim june 4, 2014, battle of midway commemoration day and call on all sailors to take part in the ceremony and remember those who led the way and sacrificed to make ours the world's greatest navy. i have set my hand this day, june 4, 2014, admiral of the united states navy. the united states navy band will now perform "victory at sea" while admiral ferguson presents copies of the proclamation to each of our honored midway veterans. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> please rise for the playing of the marines' hymn and remain standing for the benediction. >> ♪ >> let us pray. today as we recall heroes past, named and unnamed, remind us of their courage under fire and honor in the heat of battle and indomitable spirit. so much was at stake in those terrible early days of the war. inspire us by their example. as we look to the future, grant us the grace never to forget that we might prove worthy of their sacrifices and remain faithful in defense of all that is good and just in this world. gracious god, as we recall this momentous battle and what it has meant for our nation and navy, we ask you to bless those who on this day sail, fly, or walk in harm's way. grant them your presence and hold their families in your strong hand. we pray this in your holy name. amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our ceremony. please remain in your places until the departure of honored midway veterans. 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a nuclear weapon in ukraine. the u. s. president has plotting their proteins threats mean the risk of nuclear catastrophe? is it a tire since $900.00? 60 indonesia rising sea levels of flooding homes and forcing people to flee? the w meets villages whose once thriving community is being destroyed by the effects of human may climate change. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. thailand is in morning today after a mass shooting at a childcare center in the north east left at least 36 people debt a former policeman storm the building on thursday. he like to kill his family and himself. thailand, king is to visit survivors as flags across the country, fly at half mast. ah, a stream of coffins arrive at the morgue after a day of unimaginable terror. it was here at a rural daycare center that an ex police man killed at least 36 people more than 20 of them children. one teacher describe what she saw about it. he used his feet to take the window and then he shot at the door. i thought you got inside, so i ran to the kitchen behind. i was in shock. i didn't know what to do. some family members remain at the scene as investigations into the massacre continue. local police said the shooter had appeared in court on drugs, charges on the verdict was jus though so far, no motive has been established. thailand's prime minister described it as a shocking attack. this definitely shouldn't happen. i feel deep sadness for the victims and relatives. despite relatively high gun ownership, my shootings are rare and thailand but that's little consolation for the families of those killed and it's worse rampage by a single attacker. will journalist a jacob goldberg updated me from the ty, capital bank hawk. police haven't identified a specific motive, but they have confirmed that this former police officer who carried out the shooting had a history of drug use. and it was under apparently, under a lot of stress around the time of the shooting because he had, he was being prosecuted for drug crimes. and his mother also said that he had a lot of data related to his drug use. but again, a specific modem hasn't been identified right now. the king and queen are due to visit hospitals. today. i'm talk of through that. that's right, the king and cleaners go to visit the area, members of the royal privy council, representatives of the monarchy. i've already visited some of the survivors in the hospital and conveyed their condolences. they offered to support the families of the survivors, end of the victims, and also pledge to sponsor real ceremonies appreciation ceremony for the victims of those. those pledges might be reiterated when the king and queen, right? right. and so the practical help that all parties are providing for survives and dependents. what does that look like? from what i've seen. in addition to what the king and queen have have pledged, there have been mental health workers assigned to assist the relatives of the victims. but the prime minister is also scheduled to meet with the provincial authorities today. so more details on practical health may emerge after that meeting. we heard in the report that gun ownership in thailand is quite high, but the but our firearms are strictly controlled. has this incident response to debate on gun ownership. there's been some debate about gun ownership, guns can be purchased legally for self defense and recreation after undergoing a screening process. and there are around $6000000.00 registered guns and time. but there are also another 4000000 registered guns. and this might contribute to some high rate of done homicide in the country, but done homicides are really in the form of mass shootings. and when they are, they've been perpetrated by members of the security forces, the military or the police. i've seen more questions asked about the recruitment process is of the army and the police necessarily about gun laws. thank you for that. jacob jones, jacob goldberg again in bangkok u . s. president joe biden says the risk of nuclear armageddon is at its highest since the cuban missile crisis of the 1900 fax sixty's. he warned that russian liter vladimir putin is not joking when he talks about using nuclear weapons funding losses on the battlefield in ukraine. in the latest incidents in russian missile strike destroyed an apartment building in the southern city of separation. it came as russian forces lost more ground to view cranes counter offensive in the south and east. gutted by russian rockets here in zap parisha rescue workers search the rubble from missing residence. local official say several people were killed while more had been hospitalized off the initial dawn attack, fire fight is headed to the scene. but a 2nd cell though, st. locals running for cover as well as rescue workers. president zalinski condemned the strikes. was a but easier beast parisha after the 1st rocket strike to day lou, when people came to pick apart the rubble, russia conducted a 2nd rocket strike, a deal of do an absolute vileness absolute evil. and there have been thousands of instances of this already. and there could be thousands more. unfortunately, he shan't, miserable. morton bulled locals were left reeling through them. why aren't you doing this to us? what are they trying to prove? killing old people. why, for what the attacks come as ukraine continues to force russian troops back in the south and east with these ukrainian troops and the don baths, telling french reporters that they were using shells captured from the russians with winter. fast approaching, keep seems determined to press its current advantage. as long as it can i can respond that nick connelly is in cave. i suggested that the attack on south arizona, i seemed to be part of a patent by russian forces, attacking civilian infrastructure, following defeats on the battlefield. let's definitely the way it looks and that's what the ukranian government has been talking about for a few weeks now. we've seen a tax on heating plants on electricity infrastructure was a water infrastructure. there's a sense here, especially leading to this winter situation for civilians could get a lot worse even for people living quite far away from the direct fighting that they could be stuck in high rise apartments without the ability to heat their homes or, or even electricity to go about their work, their businesses, and there is the sense that russia wants ukraine civilians to put pressure on the government to make compromises that, that is basically the last hope short of the kind of nuclear brinkman ship that we've been seeing in recent days. and that, that is now gonna increase. it's interesting, we try to report on the situation what your credit is doing to repair that infrastructure, but they weren't let us anywhere near it. they are very, very worried to anything. any information could provide clues to the russians about what else they could destroy, what else they could do to we can discover which countries infrastructure and this nuclear brickman ship is something that b u. s. president has said that we should take very seriously because this is not a threat. this is, this is, this is something that we should add. mr. putins threat is a fear is something that we should take seriously. the biggest threat since the cuban missile crisis, i want people there and keep, say less interesting things. so basically, up until the last couple of days, people just haven't been taking it seriously. they've been seeing it is kind of symptom of russian weakness of desperation and attempt to can escalate, given those kind of russian failures on the battlefield. and basically kind of sabre rattle. i think what really has made people think here have been those comments from the u. s or any from joe biden, but also in previous kind of days and weeks from retired top us generals who've been kind of talking about what nato, the u. s. would do, in case of a russian use of nuclear weapons. talking about near seeking the russian fleet, attacking all russian troops on ukrainian territory. i think that really has made people think that the u. s. are taking the seriously and we've seen how precise those u. s. intelligence predictions were running into the war when people here didn't want to believe that russia was gonna launch full scale invasion. and those american predictions turned out to be right. so there's lots of kind of nervous talk about buying id and tablets working out what to do if a nuclear attack would happen. and even lots of kind of dark humor about raves in the kind of things people would do on their last few days after nuclear attack, to this kind of attempt to try and kind of lighten the tone. but people now increasingly take thinking about this seriously and thinking about what to do and all of this because that ukraine's counter offensive has been that so especially effective in the last a few weeks. and what is the latest on that? so we've heard figure coming out of the ukrainian military establishment. they're talking about 500 square kilometers, retake in the capstone region in the south. just in the past week. the details are pretty sparse that keep a very tight grip on meter access. and so those details are kind of filtering through quite slowly, but definitely there's a lot of panic on russian social media among the kind of military blogs, people who support this war, who are really worried that those russian forces in song are going to be stuck on the western bank of the nipper river without any supplies coming in the bridges have been destroyed and the cranes are really coming home with their artillery to the sense that they're going to be more ukrainian victories next couple of days. while they try to take advantage of their kind of momentum before the wind sets in and the front lines kind of get more stuck and kind of less mobile in a couple of weeks. i thank you for that. nick connelly in keith. let's have a look at some more stories making news around the world. a forest fire has scored some of the ancient stone statues on rap a new e, also known as easter island. authorities say an unknown number of the sacred figures have been affected by the blaze. there are around a 1000 on the southern pacific island caused by the rep and people more than 500 years ago. flooding has killed at least 3 people in the indonesian capital jakarta, students died wireless school war collapse. later roads have been closed and several neighborhoods evacuated. what is in some areas of nita deep the un says human made global warming will displace nearly 150000000 people across asia in the coming decades. the communities on the northern coast of indonesia central java that's already a reality. rising sale of destroyed crops and roads and resulted in villages being frequently flooded. some people are being forced to abandon their homes and start new lives elsewhere. it's pointless. but cassini try said anyway, sweeping the water out of her house in timbers, ocho village in central java, by the tide keeps coming in the water, mouldy. and from time to time, the water rises to the level of her hips. if the tide is too high, the family is trapped inside for hours. cassim, his daughter has had enough. somebody new. so i sang, so i want to lived someplace that isn't like this. let me get dead out. then in again, the mother my with more land and that is dry, had a veneer to hopefully some of it safe from floods and you know, her grandfather, remember the times were cars and motorcycles were driving at the main street room. the village was good. there was nothing like biz, yes, it was just dry land. it was lush, lots of vegetation. it became like this 10 years ago than been before a bell. none. the villagers cut down mangrove forest said they're protecting the coastline. but this is not the only reason for the catastrophe. global warming and rising c levers are threatening the whole area. as you used to live him under liquor, a village near by. today she needs a boat to access our village. makes if structures lead to a formal home a c, i just came to pick up some of her personal belongings. yeah. bonnie o'brien, of course i miss home. mm hm. but what can i do with that, but that it's not habitable anymore either on thee and was that at the beginning of all she had no other choice and to move to the next city. swapping her house for one bedroom, concrete apartment, but at least she has dry feet. here. as remind of our top story atlas, our thailand isn't morning after my shooting. i saw a child care center left at least 36 people, dad, the most of them children. countries king aisd to visit survivors later today. coming up in 45 minutes here on d, w will bring you live coverage. as the norwegian nobel committee announces that the winner of this is a piece price that's here on the w news. top the out that i'll be back. i'm good with m, how did she become adult hitler's favorite director. and how did he become a forgotten film pioneer linearly finished and arnold funk a documentary about love, seduction and power ice cold passion starts october 8th on d. w. ah, we eat, we bring whatever one into our body. it comes out and we cannot speak about in makes no sense. i don't say, i don't say toilet or excrement, because it doesn't help with jose. whoop . i want to talk to you today about toilet. we're not allowed to say, and that's part of the problem in we refused the words because we were is the reality on average. a human produce is more than 70 killers of excrement per year. globally, that represents 550000000 tons of ways to which must be evacuated and treated excellent management world wide poses a sanitation, an ecological challenge, which we almost never talk about. and yet, you probably don't know that we are experiencing a huge toilet revolution. 10 years ago mil gay to explore the world for his foundation is government. poop kills. according to the world health organization, half the world's population doesn't have safe toilets. nearly 700000000 human beings deviate outside. the problem is that poor sanitation causes diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis a and typhoid, it kills nearly $400000.00 children each year. bill gates thought he could fix that by inventing a new kind of toilet for these countries. they well, terrible. no, that's not the kind of toilet is financing. in 2011 bill gates launched a major international competition called reinvent the toilet. the toilet of the future must be able to remove all the harmful pathogens from human waste and recover resources like energy, clean water, and nutrients. they must also work without a network without running water and almost without electricity. to see these toilets financed by gates, we went to switzerland to a kind of harvard for p. a university which specializes in separating fecal matter and you are in toilets in order to better recover all the good thing was contained in the liquid. we produce more to come up with this new sanitation system. he actually consulted some friends and then make sure they came up with a, if a system how we could look like, you know, and, you know, are you how to use chemical physical processes, new process, how to treat the excreta? and he actually sent this sketch. you know, this idea out if this invitation to participate in the reinvent the tory, the challenge and it was extremely technological, you know, so i think sounds like super critical water oxidation or electrolysis. you know, this process really fit nicely in this picture. and this plan the ear wag institute is participating in bill gates is competition because for decades they have been a global reference in research on water and sanitation. they invent a lot of machines and systems to turn your in into fertilizer and this is your in separating toilet se produced by law. this is the collection tank where we collect a urine from this building. this is the biological reactor where we stabilize the urine. in this column, pharmaceuticals are removed if activated, carbon after pharmaceutical removal. the urine is stored here and later brought to the distiller or concentration. this is the final fertilizer product over at the outset, e o. ag was going to call its fertilizer made from swiss students. you are in, you're in an in house communications manager suggested they switched the letters to draw inspiration from the latin word for gold instead. that's why they chose orin. to be clear, the ear wagons that you would separate you are in an fecal matter and collects the students you're in because number one, it's easier to treat our waste when it's separated. number 2, most of the nutrients are concentrated in the urine and most of the bacteriological bombs, the ones that kill children, are concentrated in the feces. one afternoon we found ourselves that one of the biggest factories in the world the sin of, i'll waste water treatment plant in paris, the wifi liberal port. here you see the sledge produced at our facility, but that will, that pile is 2 days worth. the slides will be carbonized, which will make it high genetic, then we can spread it on agricultural field. so pipe will not have you got another dose as if, if the fat good people like bill gates won't to invent almost dry toilets, which separate urine and fecal matter always brings us back to one question. why did rich countries choose the flush, the toilet which uses so much water and a central sewer system terminating at a waste water treatment plant? until the mid 19th century in major european cities, the most common custom was to empty your bucket out of the window. the streets were so filthy that the scientists of the day ended up wondering if the bad odors themselves were causing the epidemics. that was called the miasma theory. who in $1858.00 london was sweltering and the level of the thames where all the excrement was dumped was at its lowest. the stench was so strong that the members of parliament feared they'd fall ill. it took powerful people smelling the odor for the tide to turn this event to cold, the great stink was the spark, which launched a vast undertaking. the city was gutted to create a centralized sure system. thousands of kilometers were dug at the same time in several major cities like in paris, which had nearly 3000 kilometers of sewer pipes. the same period saw the invention of the flush toilet the height of efficiency when it came to making what you didn't want to see any more disappear. discussed for fecal matter is a human constant. and our super expensive and sophisticated system does all it can to evacuate excrement every day. we produce about one overly of urine and about $400.00 grand off. why do you want to add another few gallons of water to make the problem bigger and then go and filter it out? it must be crazy. when you're working on the toilet issue. you constantly hear about mister toilet. a business man in singapore who at the age of 40, realized that all he had done was accumulate money based on the life expectancy of a singapore young man. he calculated how many days he had left to live and decided to devote them to a single cause, the revolution of sanitary facilities. so when i was 3 or 4 years old, we live in a come phone, which is like a slum village. and we do not have pilot in our own house. the toilet is in the row of hot with british bucket system. so you go up a few steps and you are squatting on the blank. and then the you put into the bucket. when the bucket truck comes to collect it and replace it with a fresh new one, everybody wants to go to the pilot. but after a while is the full of other people's and the different colors. and then you have any pets with the blood. by the paper and the flies immediately come and there it is. very, very disgusting and very disturbing mister toilet, but all his weight behind the battle against sanitation inequality. he wanted the whole world to take on the issue he found in the world toilet organization, through which he talks about troops on every continent. over the last 10 years, the stars have aligned the u. n's sustainable development goals of put sanitation at the center of global concerns. for n g o's, for the people who always worked in development, it's a toilet moment. they feared, would never come. a furnace from billiards, rational c, p o, the bill gates foundation founded several studies and research labs in the field of sanitation to try to gather more data on this subject. yeah. i wasn't remotely shocked to see someone outside the field showing interest. okay. junky aren't there . i see. yeah. not like don't ask, it's always good to have a different kind of actor in the development sector up with someone who's able to challenge our own development practices. look more, he was, he got, there's a complimentary dynamic in that kind of approach. hope all pipe he could develop on mush response gone the almost when was you do complement i he was he no dancer or suit not at the push. all development experts will tell you for decades, rich countries have been digging dry toilets in poor countries to bury waste. and they have a very hard time convincing states that it's a vital public health issue. all that was true until october, the 2nd 2014 i'm glad you did that. why? we bought them a lot of that by letting you buy banner. yeah. that, that but on a monthly hey, i indian prime minister la render and moody. i chose gand his birthday to announce the launch of the biggest ever latrene building campaign for them to plug in. you know, in his speech, he said that a nation like india, which sends its own satellites into space, can no longer allow it to people to relieve themselves outside. the figures are stark at the time of the 900000000 people in the world who had no sanitary facilities. 40 percent were indian that not only due to the vastness of the country or its lack of infrastructure by a prevalence of outdoor deification in india is also due to a cultural problem. some dr. pat act created through lab international which wants to put an end to a tradition that lasted thousands of years in india. the one which involves leaving the handling of proved to the untouchable cast away our child. i just, i go through and i don't fight that matter. my then mother forced me to swallow foul gun and to drink got. busy eulley in the ancient sacred texts of hinduism, required a man to difficult on the arrows flight from his home. and if there was unfortunately, excrement very close to your home, it was considered absolutely unclean to take care of it. so the untouchables went from house to house to pick up your feces. a living up in rochester and i picked up peoples fecal matter leakage when we were hungry or thirsty people gave us water or left over food on it, but without ever touching us. so wasn't the little they tossed some coins at our feet, we really suffered that we couldn't do anything else. pick to that. it's what we've always done. generation after generation. i got a legible, there has never been any other option for us giving a lot of food that would have gone a lot, a lot of li company if we had tried to sell vegetables on the no one would have bought them this year been get they can look some of the vehicles go we later, the garden i don't about himself, a member of the very high brahman cast decided to go against his own class interests. and to break with tradition, i study finds my study. oh, their new daily, his organization, hosts a school for children of untouchables. everything is devoted to showing that excrement has value, that it can be used to make gas for cooking. for lighting, for feeding plants. dr. patrick wants to convince his fellow citizens, the toilets are desirable space and that you should have one at home rather than defecating outdoors. he has even created a toilet museum for business, which generates the money for doctor pat. tax organisation is public paid toilets, thousands of which are spread all over india employing more than $35000.00 people. he's even creating the taj mahal of public urinals all this so that the hindu culture of hating excrement no longer.
uses that nuclear weapon in ukraine, the u. s. president says vladimir putin threats mean the risk of nuclear catastrophe is at its highest since the 1960 s. denisia is rising sea levels of flooding homes and forcing people to flee. d w me to feel it just goes once thriving community is being destroyed by the effects of human made climate change and europe's list of inter governmental blocks just got longer. the european political community has convened its 1st summit in the check capital, focusing on ukraine and how to bring down energy costs. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. thailand is in morning today after a mass shooting as a child care center in the northeast left at least 36 people that a former policeman storm the building on thursday. he later killed his family and himself. silent king is to visit survivors as flags across the country, fly at half mast a stream of coffins arrive at the morgue after a day of unimaginable terror. it was here at a rural daycare center that an ex policeman killed at least 36 people. more than 20 of them children, one teacher describe what she saw about it. he used his feet to take the window and then he shot at the door. i thought you got inside, so i ran to the kitchen behind. i was in shock. i didn't know what to do. some family members remain at the scene as investigations into the massacre continue. local police said the shooter had appeared in court on drugs charges, and the verdict was jus. though so far, no motive has been established. while thailand's prime minister described it as a shocking attack, this definitely shouldn't happen. i feel deep sadness for the victims and relatives . despite relatively high gun ownership. my shootings are rare and talent. but that's little consolation for the families of those killed and it's worse rampage by a single attacker. has got the license from jonas to jacob goldberg and the tie capital bangkok. welcome a jacob. what's being said about a possible motive? police haven't identified a specific motive, but they have confirmed that this former police officer who carried out the shooting had a history of drug use. and it was under apparently, under a lot of stress around the time of the shooting because he had, he was being prosecuted for drug crimes. and his mother also said that he had a lot of data related to his drug use. but again, a specific modem hasn't been identified right now. the king and queen are due to visit hospitals. today. i'm talk of through that. that's right, the king and cleaner schedule to visit the area. members of the royal privy council, representatives of the monarchy. i've already visited some of the survivors in the hospital and conveyed their condolences. they offered to support the families of the survivors, end of the victims, and also pledge to sponsor real ceremonies nations ceremonies for the victims of those. those pledges might be reiterated when the king, right, right. and so the practical help that all parties are providing for survives and dependents. what does that look like? from what i've seen, and in addition to what the king and queen have pledged, there have been mental health workers assigned to assist the relatives of the victims. but the prime minister is also scheduled to meet with the provincial authorities today. so more details on practical health may emerge after that meeting. right. we heard in the report that gun ownership in thailand is quite high, but the but our firearms are strictly controlled. has this incident sparked a debate on gun ownership? there's been some debate about gun ownership, guns can be purchased legally for self defense and recreation after undergoing a screening process. and there are around 6000000 registered guns in time. but there are also another 4000000 registered guns. and this might contribute to some high rate of done homicide in the country, but done homicides are really in the form of mass shootings. and when they are, they've been perpetrated by members of the security forces, the military or the police. i've seen more questions asked about the recruitment processes of the army and the police necessarily about the gun was thank you for that. jacob jones, jacob goldberg again in bangkok present biden's has the risk of nuclear armageddon is that it's highest since the cuban missile crisis of the 960 s u. s. president warner to russian liter vladimir putin is not joking when he talks about using nuclear weapons following losses on the battlefield in ukraine. and the latest incidents, a russian missile strike destroyed an apartment building in the southern city of that region. i missed came. russian forces lost more grounds, ukraine's counter offensive in the south and east gutted by russian rockets here in zap parisha rescue workers search the rubble from missing residence. local officials say several people were killed while more had been hospitalized off the initial door and attack fire fight is headed to the scene. but a 2nd silva sent locals running for cover as well as rescue workers. present zalinski condemned the strikes was a but easier beast of persons aboriginal after the 1st rocket strike. to day when people came to pick apart the rebel, what russia conducted a 2nd rocket strike available in absolute vileness absolute evil up. and there have been thousands of instances of this already, and there could be thousands more unfortunately, he shannon, as ronald, more humbled locals were left reeling through them. why aren't you doing this to us? what are they trying to prove? killing or people? why? for what? the attacks come, as ukraine continues to force russian troops back in the south and east with these ukrainian troops and the don bass telling french reporters that they were using shells captured from the russians with winter. fast approaching, keep seems determined to press its current advantage, as long as it can straighten ukraine than that. nic conley, joseph from kate. welcome. nick will come to president biden's comments in a moment. a 1st service attack on separation seems to be part of a russian patton defeats on the battlefield, followed by attacks on civilian infrastructure. let's definitely the way it looks and that's what the ukranian government has been talking about for a few weeks. now. we've seen a tax on heating plants on electricity infrastructure was a water infrastructure. so there's a sense here, especially leading to this winter situation for civilians could get a lot worse even for people living quite far away from the direct fighting that they could be stuck in high rise apartments without the ability to heat their homes or, or even the electricity to go about their work, their businesses. and there is the sense that russia wants ukraine civilians to put pressure on their government to make compromises that, that is basically the last hope shorter of the kind of nuclear brickman ship that we've been seeing in recent days. and that, that is now gonna increase its interesting, we try to report on the situation what your friends doing to repair that infrastructure, but they weren't let us anywhere near it. they are very, very worried that anything, any information could provide clues to the russians about what else they could destroy, what else they could do to we can discover which countries infrastructure and this nuclear brakeman ship is something that b, u. s. president has said that we should take very seriously a because this is not a threat. this is, this is, this is something that we should add. mr. putins threat is a fear is something that we should take seriously. the biggest threat since the cuban missile crisis, i want to people there and keep, say less interesting things. so basically up until the last couple of days, people just haven't been taking it seriously. they've been seeing it is kind of symptom of russian weakness of desperation. and attempt to can escalate, given those kind of russian failures on the battlefield. and basically kind of sabre rattle. i think what really has made people think here have been those comments from the u. s. or any from joe biden, but also in previous kind of days and weeks from retired top us generals who've been kind of talking about what nato, the u. s. would do, in case of a russian use of nuclear weapons. talking about me seeking the russian fleet, attacking all russian troops on ukrainian territory. i think that really has made people think that the u. s. are taking the seriously and we've seen how precise those u. s. intelligent predictions were running into the war when people here didn't want to believe that russia was gonna launch full scale invasion. and those american predictions turned out to be right. so there's lots of kind of nervous talk about buying id and tablets working out what to do if a nuclear attack would happen. and even lots of kind of dark humor about raves in the kind of things people would do on their last few days after nuclear attack, to this kind of attempt to try and kind of lighten the tone. but people now increasingly take thinking about this seriously and thinking about what to do and all of this because that ukraine's counter offensive has been that so especially effective in the last a few weeks. what is the latest on that? so we've heard figure coming out of the ukrainian military st. absent. they are talking about 500 square kilometers, retake in the capsule region in the south just in the past week or the details pretty sparse. the keep it very tight grip on meter access and so those details the kind of filtering through quite slowly, but definitely there's a lot of panic on russian social media among the kind of military blogs, people who support this war, who are really worried that those russian forces in had san are going to be stuck on the western bank of the per river without any supplies coming in. the bridges have been destroyed and the cranes are really in hammering home with their artillery to the sense that they're going to be more ukrainian victories. next couple of days while they try and take advantage of their kind of a momentum before the wind sets in and at the front lines, kind of get more stuck and kind of less mobile in a couple of weeks. i think thank you for that. that nick connelly in cave on the counter offensive has come at a terrible cost or thousands of soldiers have died and there are constant casualties on both sides. the doubly correspondent mathias bulio was given access to the front lines named mc alive by the ukranian army and sent this report. these positions are well fortified. ukrainian soldiers have withstood several months of shelling in the trenches. the lines haven't moved to most of that time. the recently thing started shifting up ahead. they've started to attack russian positions more aggressively by year upon asthma, in some directions, we have been able to move forward. even right now, an attack is going on, not us. we try to put them under constant pressuring, so it'll go our way, though others of several of them don't. because we do want to prove, let me show you where i guys live. miss o, just stay for several months. the army doesn't have enough personnel to retake them in and out. more often. this group is getting ready for the cold seems to have written fluid here or kelly. as you move forward in winter, we will have to heat all of the space and will be in his own by then. let's hope so for god's sake. 2 days ago a shell hit just about their beds. look, thankfully the roof is so well built, get through hostile nipple bill. further behind the lines, ambulances wait for injured soldiers to evacuate into hospitals. we told that 3 ukrainians were heard by a storming, rushing position. frontline, paramedics had them over to an ambulance that shuttles between the war zone and the hospital. ah, we grain, you know, authority is have admitted to roughly 10000 dead soldiers as well below estimates of russian losses. but neither side are releasing precise or credible number. this time none of the injuries seem to be severe. it was right before the roof. the counter attack is costing ukrainian blood, the paramedics say they've become busier recently. bishop on nick a message, the number of injured is higher during the attack because our guys move forward to the positions of the russian villains. and then it's easy for the russians to hit them because they know their positions well and can show them even if i can to some it was it's in ago. the paramedics returned to their waiting position. they don't know when the next trip to the hospital will be, they know it will come. i will take a look at some more stories making news around the world. and you, as president joe biden has pardon, thousands of people convicted under federal law are possessing marijuana. he didn't call for full day criminalization of cannabis, but said no one should be in jail for his using the drug people convicted on the state. laws are not affected by this executive action, which comes about a month ahead of mid term elections, which went biden's. democrats may lose control of congress. the rent calling for a humanitarian corridor to allow the distribution of fuel from haiti's or main terminal in puerto france or where an outbreak of cholera and surging gang violence have raised international concern. prime minister ariel on re or use a speech to the nation to call for international assistance. far as far as scorch some of the ancient stone statues in a wrapper, new e, also known as easter island. authorities say an unknown number of the sacred figures have been affected by the blaze. are there also, there are round a 1000 of them on the southern pacific island coughed by the wrapper. new people, more than 500 years ago. flooding has killed at least 3 people in the indonesian capital jakarta or the students died when a school wall collapsed. major roads have been closed and several neighborhoods evacuated waters in some areas among a meet 30 of you and says human may global warming will displace nearly a 150000000 people across asia in the coming decades for communities on the northern coast of indonesia, central java that's already a reality. rising seas of destroyed crops and roads and resulted in villages being frequently flooded. some people are being forced to abandon their homes and start new lives elsewhere. it's pointless. but cassini tries it anyway. sweeping the water out of the house in both local village in central java by the tide keeps coming in. there was a mouldy and from time to time, the water rises to the level of her hips. if the tide is too high, the family is trapped inside for hours passing his daughter has had enough somebody new. so i sang, so i want to live someplace that isn't like this, that be good data then in again with them or with more land and that's dry. had a veneer to hopefully some of it's safe from floods and you know her grandfather, remember the times were cars and motorcycles sped driving at the main street were burned, the village was good. there was nothing like this and it was just dry land. it was lush, lots of vegetation. it became like this 10 years ago. her and the numbers were a felony. the village has cut down mongrel forest that they're protecting the coastline. but this is not the only reason for the catastrophe. global warming and rising c levers are threatening the whole area as you used to lift him under local village near by. to day she needs a boat to access her village makes if structures lead to her former home assia just came to pick up some of her personal belongings. yeah, bonnie o'brien, of course i miss home. mm hm. but what can i do, but that, that it's not habitable anymore that will deal with that at the beginning. rec, all. she had no other choice and to move to the next city. swapping a house for one bedroom, concrete apartment, but at least she has dry feet here. no more than 40 national leaders are in prague for the inaugural meeting. the new strategic grouping. the european political community brings together a e u countries and others outside the block, including britain, turkey annoy top of the agenda, the war in ukraine and worries about energy. the inaugural summits of the european political community brought together $44.00 european heads of state and governments . the meeting in prague was attended by all 27 e u members. the u. accession candidates, an ex member, a neighboring countries. they all agreed on the need to discuss a common strategy regarding russian aggression in ukraine, thus as good. this is good for peace and security. and of course it's also good because the european union can then improve relations with its neighbors. many of whom want to become members of the european union are based on the summit is also being attended by serbia, which has traditionally been closer to russia. and by turkey, which has a strained relationship with the you. the possibility of closer ties with the you even brought armenian azerbaijan, currently in conflict with each other into the same room, even without resolutions. the new community wants to form a common strategy for supporting ukraine. ipg hunter and the poor, the you member in your candidate or ex member. and we do share a common region and often a common history that you can make it up to us to shape our future together. an avenue the ukraine crisis is also creating new divisions. germany's proposed to 100000000000 euro scheme to caution high energy builds has been questioned. huh. the german economy is so large that the assistance that the german government is giving to its businesses could distort the common market i with within the european union. the 27 e u member states. a said to talk on friday about how germany and the you can together help to bring down energy prices. there are proposals on the table. the time is pressing because winter is coming. a political cause bullet. nina hossa is there in prague. welcome a nina. a lot of smiles, a war words out of this or 1st day. anything concrete? announce them. well, 1st up that there are 2 important messages that came out of prague on thursday. one of course, that europe is about more than the you. it is an entire continent and that continent there were no agreements, there were no decisions made here in prague on thursday. nevertheless, european leaders visibly enjoyed this opportunity to talk freely to each other without any set of gender, without having to agree on every commer in a final document. and this is an opportunity where in the situation of multiple crises like we are dealing with here in europe as in other areas of the world. and you to pin leaders having this opportunity to get together and talk face to face about inflation, about how to tackle rising energy prices. what to do about global food shortage, or the consequences of the pandemic and rushes war? this is something where normally they would have to go on pompous state visits and it all gets very complicated. so here in this new format, they get face time and so they have agreed that they are going to continue with this format. for now it is baby steps, but the next meeting will take place in moldova, which is of course, ukraine, small and very troubled, neighbor m, next year. all right. talk us through the criticisms, germany's facing that. oh, bridge plans for dealing with exposing energy cost. yeah, we heard that in the report that there is a lot of criticism, in fact, because germany announced this financial relief package aimed at helping german consumers and businesses deal with rising energy prices. they are getting extremely high. and so the german government has announced that it will spend up to 200000000000 euros. and in order to help people deal with this issue and of course, or the some countries are arguing, well, germany does have the economic clout and can do this. other countries, cancer is unfair, germany argues, of course, this is something where they're only playing by you. rules are the countries are providing other assistance, for example, france is supporting its nuclear lobby and this way also financing gas and energy prices. but of course, the debate is about just how it to get gas prices down in particular. and germany wants to show itself very constructive and wants to get into a conversation also with other areas in the world like japan and korea so that they can coordinate gas prices and how they can bring them down. i found that nina, i'm nina hossa in prague. so any and now's books are famous for blending fiction. and autobiography drawing on her experiences as a working class woman to tell powerful stories, having written more than 20 over 50 years, a french author has now one the nobel prize for literature. before the prize committee announced this year's winner, they tried to call her, but couldn't reach her french author on the on will soon out know, did find out. she'd won the world's top literature prize, or just because, well, i'm very happy. i am proud. that's it. you're not overcome with emotion? no, no, i'm not overcome a fitting answer for an author who writes about her own experiences with what she calls the knife, meaning a kind of surgical precision. her autobiographical novels prob subjects including her work in class childhood, her affair with a married diplomat, her own battle with breast cancer. her mother's, with all timers, really hard experiences and she gives was for these fears is that the various in striking stories have resonated with many readers, especially women at a press conference in paris l. no said that writing from the perspective of a woman was also a responsibility. mm hm. it does not seem to me that we women have become equal in freedom empower b o y. in general, there still this domination said the human when she 1st started writing l no was told by publishers that she was too ambitious. her 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>> reporter: right now, i am read outside of the coast outside kron 4yerb europe pour enoug i am outside of yerba buena this is video from abc seven. 4:20 they received a distress calls from a family sailing off the california coast. possibly west of monterey. they say that the 29 year-old single boat was 29-year-old sousail boat was taking on water. this is the last message. >> we are abandoning ship. >> reporter: from the radio messages, there were four people on board, man, woman, a four year old and the 8 year-old cousin. but they do not know anybody stayman, where they were from, or how long they were at sea. the vessel did not have a gps or proper safety quick massage as lifejackets. they could have also tried to make a life raft with a cooler. the search was all night. they say they will continue looking. >> we're going to continue search for this evening by boat. through tonight and tomorrow. at first sight will launch air craft with a real searches. with-- aerial.. searches if anybody has information or recognizes that voice on the distressed call is asked to call the coast guard. >> the single vote was not very close to shore. that sailboat. was not close to shore it was still 65 mi. off the coast. this focus search effort is extensive. the water is moving south. >> new at 8 tonight. las vegas police are making finding an oakland man's killer. the shooting happened last week on the vegas strip. and left three people dead. kron 4's j-r stone is following the story and talked with the victim's father this evening. >> reporter: the sun did not know the suspect. and he said that he was not a bad person. a young man that was just trying to make it. >> we can say with certainty that he is a suspect who fired the fatal shot. >> reporter: las vegas police have charged terrace with three counts of murder in connection with this las vegas shooting that left oakland demand dead. this shooter is still on the loose. >> if anybody is aware of his location or is assisting him in any way, you will be a arrested and prosecuted >> reporter: they believe that he also was responsible driving this maserati with a passenger in side. after he was struck he was also struck through an intersection. people were killed in the focus of las vegas was on a fugitive, and for those thelping him. you mige thinking that he was a friend but keep in mind that he is wanted for the murder of three citizens. >> they reportedly got into an argument outside of a hotel early thursday morning. a short time later gunshots were heard. the black range rover was recovered but that where parts are not known. >> we believe somebody knows where he is, his whereabouts. >> reporter: family members in oakland arson and get the fuel records are being right now. perhaps thursday or friday of this week. we should know more, tomorrow. j.r. storm, kron 4 news. >> jacqueline: --the federal orangeman' are being made righ. -the funeral of derangementsa arrangements the l of arrangements. are being made. possibly for thursday or friday. >> jacqueline: we could see 60s tomorrow. rather mild. tickets seven degrees in napa. 50s through pleasanton, redwood city. and 50s-with 20 m.p.h. wind speed along the coast. breezy and it will keep that fog at bay. very little fog. again, very similar to what we saw today with mild temperatures. but we do have more in store for later. temperatures in the '70s by thursday but will talk more about that and changes. >> ahead at eight. free after spending nearly seven years in prison. for the first time. hear the jailhouse interview that became a key piece of evidence in getting ronald ross's case overturned. >> the search for an oakland couple. who disappeared in peru nearly a month ago. after his arrest in dublin. rapper m-c hammer is speaking out. what he has to say about the incident. next. ♪ roundup ♪ i want a weed free season, that's how i roll ♪ ♪ so i reach for roundup extended control ♪ ♪ with the all-new, no pump, one-touch wand ♪ ♪ it kills weeds dead and keeps weeds gone ♪ [ whip cracks ] ♪ roundup extended control ♪ i just spray them weeds, then spray them cracks ♪ ♪ the weeds are gone, and they won't be back ♪ ♪ driveway, patio, i just spray once ♪ ♪ and it's adios weeds for up to four sweet months ♪ [ whip cracks ] ♪ roundup extended control [ male announcer ] roundup extended control ♪ yeha with the new one-touch wand. [ whip cracks ] >> new at 8 tonight. we're hearing audio recordings for the first time - it's from an interview that helped free an innocent oakland man - after he spent nearly 7 years in jail. this is ronald ross when he was released from prison on friday. and tonight, the tape that helps prove ronald ross was not at the scene of a 2006 murder at the campbell village complex in west oakland. >> do you remember the shooting? >> yes. >> do you know ronald ross? >> no. was he knew the shooting? >> no. >> we just heard the two people. we heard one of ross' attorney's interviewing steven embrey senior. that's the man whose son says his father, embry senior, was the shooter in that 2006 murder. embry senior is in custody for a crime spree in 2011. as for ross, the 51-year old enjoyed this weekend - his first as a free man in more than 6 years. ross says he ate shrimp, enjoyed the fresh air, and had to pinch himself.to make sure his new found freedom is in fact, reality. tonight, the search continues for a young oakland couple. who disappeared about a month ago. kron4's maureen kelly talked to garrett's mom about her search efforts. the family of garrett hand has turned this concord living room into a war room.with maps.and notes on the latest developments.as they try and track the missing pair's movements. it was thru facebook that they realized the couple had gone off the grid.after they stopped posting photos about their trip as they biked across south america. and garrett's online bank account record.shows he stopped taking out money at the same time. his mother says technology has helped pin down where they were last scene. >> the social and networking has been a dream it has been actually showing their ipod and a bus station that was the last location. that is absolutely huge to us. to begin this search for them. we have them located in a bus station. >> reporter: now the family has created a facebook page to reach out to people in peru and other travellers.and created an email account where people can send in their tips.all in hopes that somewhere.either on the ground in south america or in cyberspace can help bring garrett and jamie home safe. maureen kelly kron4 news. >> new details tonight surrounding the arrest of bay area rapper m-c hammer. police say hammer was in a car with expired plates. and refused to cooperate with them. leading to his arrest. but as kron four's terisa estacio reports, hammer is calling the incident racial profiling. >> on this twitter page eight shows that he is tapping on his window asking him if you are on a parole or probation? and it was comical to me when he pulled out his gun and asked for backup. they took him into custody and arrested him for resisting an officer. he posted bail and was released and has a march court date. this is the booking photograph. he said instead of being better i am taking this opportunity to make this a teachable moment. t terisa estacio, kron 4. >> in the south bay. taxpayers may have to foot the bill to pay for road repairs in san jose. this is an example of the more 375 miles of city streets that are now rated to be in 'poor' condition. repairs could cost a hundred million dollars a year, more than five times the current budget. next month the city council will consider options that include raising sales taxes or a bond measure that could cost the average homeowner 100-dollars a year. here's some reaction from those who travel those bumpy roads. >> if it is $100 per year? that's how much are the taxes already going to our taxes what should guide be giving more of money if their release was to be taking care of this? >> if we are traveling at high speeds on the highway it could be significant damage. however, if i am on a fixed income, $100 is a significant. >> the roads are bad and on the other hand people are getting taxed. there is probably a fair amount of resistance. would you support this? >> " i would, yes" >> san jose has more than 300-million dollars in backlog repairs alone. most of them are the result of on-going budget cuts. >> jacqueline: these conditions looking breezy. temperatures along the coast about the same as what we saw today. 40 degrees. we will warm up slightly but that. warming trend will take thursday towards friday. 60s and even 70's. more on that in a moment but first, we are going to see some preconditions. that should keep the fog at bay. fog tracker, not much pinpointed. a bit of fog towards the south bay. and by eight, mostly clear skies. temperatures a bit more mild. still, 30's in the delta and inland valleys. by noon, quickly getting into the 60s for the north bay. portions of the south bay. and by 2:00 a.m.. it will be about 40's and '50's with still not that bad starting with the morning lows. portions of the north bay but above freezing. 35 in livermore, 45 for most of the bayshore. and for the afternoon, 60s. 55 degrees and palo alto. 63 and san jose. 50s for the east bay. 60s in concord, walnut creek. and and union city. we are expecting breezy conditions. mild through san francisco. with warm conditions for the rest of this week. temperatures in the '60s and '70s. temperatures will be the warmest day. changes returning to the forecast. seabury's is continuing with cloud coverage and cooler temperatures. gabe slate tech report sea breezes. -- >> the tech headlines. if you, or you are going to get in and for smart phone you might want to wait. samsung has officially announced that march 14th will be the new phone. it has been a huge success even outselling the iphone last quarter. it might be worth waiting for. details could be next week. and the oscars would be a big hit on social medial from pace polk & twitter. the most talked about was not the argo st was 'django'.. and jennifer lawrence cut the bragging rights for best dressed. and the most watched a moment of the oscars was the best supporting actor for 'djang o' yesterday was steve jobs is birthday he would've been 58. there is a you tube channel. it is called every steve jobs video and everything that he is given. and if this is also interesting he is known for his amazing public speaking skills. however there is one from 1978 showed a very nervous steve jobs. >> look at that i am on television. and this is not the real thing you just wanted a picture of me? and where is the restroom because i am catholic going to throw up any moment definitely--going to throw up in a moment--gabe slate tech report >> coming up there is a collector of truck mirrors. in the next edition of people behaving badly. >> gary: coming up later in this broadcast the latest on andrew bogut his bad back and a mug shot you never want to have. and a snow boarder that is only 1 year old and in a corridor being recruited and an eighth grader being recruited for basketball. (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> ofyou are looking at truck mirrors, mirrors that have been collected on sir frances drake blvd. in the town of san anselmo. the collector of said side mirrors believe it or not is this electric pole, yes you heard me electric pole you see about a few hundred feet away are two advisory signs reading no trucks in right lane. but wait how can ayellow advisory sign tell you not to do somethingthis sign should be in black and white, not yellow. but if you were ever going to head an advisory, this would be it because if you take a close look at the pole you will understand the reason why trucks, and buses, should avoid this lane it't been basically shreadded. which would account for the broke truck parts littering the sidewalk around the pole. a lot the truck driver who frequent this stretch of sir frances drake are aware of this issue. but every now and then you will see a truck in the right hand lane ignoreing the poorly engineered advisory sign and the fact that since the road is on a slight angle large trucks lean into the pole, which would account for the numerous marks on the pole. now i spoke to central marin police authority and they had no record of any pole collision in 2013. but looking at this mirror by the pole there is a strong possibility some collisions go unreported. so who is behaving badly here, the town of san anselmo, this street need to be re-engineered before someone get hurt. in san anselmo stanley roberts kron 4 news. if you have a comment or story idea for stanley, you can email us at peoplebehavingbadly@kron4.co m mom, i invited justin over for lunch. good. no, not good. he's a vegetarian and he's going to be here in 20 minutes! 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[ both laugh ] ♪ [ fancy voice ] brilliant idea, darling. ♪ [ female announcer ] the wireless receiver. get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for 1 year when you bundle tv and internet. rethink possible. >> now for a look at our top stories at eight-thirty. the search continues tonight for a family of four. missing at sea of the coast of monterey. the coast guard says a husband, wife and two young children sent a series of destress calls sunday. saying their sailboat was sinking. a search is underway in peru. for a young oakland couple who disappeared about a month ago. jamie neal and garrett hand were last heard from on january 25th. a few weeks after their disappearance the state department issued a travel warning to u-s citizens that criminals may be plotting to kidnap american tourists in the area the couple was last seen. hand's family has created a facebook page to reach out to people in peru and other travellers. >> he was wrongfully convicted for nearly seven- years for a violent assault in west oakland that he didn't commit. ronald ross is now a free man. due in large part to law students from the northern california >> a powerful winter storm is moving across the plains states, pounding texas, oklahoma. and parts of kansas and missouri. in some cities. it's becoming a record-setting storm. melisa raney reports. >> reporter: the national weather service is calling it "a crippling historic blizzard." a snowstorm that pounded the texas panhandle monday with two-to-three inches an hour. in amarillo, texas the national weather service says nineteen inches fell monday--breaking a single day record for the month of february that was set in 1893. things got so bad the texas department of transportation actually pulled its plows off the roads.as national guard units helped stranded drivers. oklahoma declared a state of emergency >> "i've done this spot, probably seven times today." colorado snow plow driver joel thompson spent hours trying to clear one parking lot. last week--wichita kansas got its second-highest storm snowfall on record with more than a foot in two days--the city says it used half of its salt and sand. now this next storm could dump as much as 26 inches more. governor sam brownback says it has him very concerned. >> "the ditches are full of snow, so you can throw it off as quick or as easy, so this one could be much more treacherous to travel in." kansas city, missouri, is getting close to shattering a 50-year-old record for february snowfall -- 20- point-7 inches. i'm melisa raney,kron4 news. >> jacqueline: heavy rainfall. through the east coast. pressing into georgia. and some severe storms issued with what is on the very bottom of your screen. tornado warnings in louisiana. this nearly was exact just a few days ago because of the general pattern. with warmer air is mixing with this cooler air, that this mix it with the snowfall. as we take a look at our satellite and writer clear skies. high pressure is building offshore. through the central plains. keeping it dry. picking up that cold arctic air. and towards the central plains. this pattern that is impacting the entire country. dry, warmer conditions that will continue. >> donations and toys poured in after the deadly shooting. now, the family has a chance to reflect. >> if it is a race car or a hot start it is christmas and february for the children in newton, connecticut. he grabbed back for gaps. >> is really special that everybody donated these. because of what happened. >> what happened was unprecedented. toys and presents pouring into the community. as they did what they could to combat the tragedy. >> it was everybody wanting to be a part of this healing process. >> this is just a handful of the 60,000 people and you did. thousands of others that were given out. this makes up just one third of everything that was built in from around the world. >> we want to thank everybody. >> their children were paid with troy and the also reflected on the gesture. >> is pretty special that they gave it to us. they were pretty cool. >> just for us, i think it is pretty cool. and for us to try to be happy and get over it. the desire that they recognize the true meaning behind the donations. >> i am hoping that they understand and their parents explain birdies came from. so they hear the love. >> fauja sing, the world's oldest long-distance marathon runner, ran his last race sunday. to much fanfare -- fauja went to hong kong to run his final race -- a 10 kilometre event. he crosses the finish line in just over one hour and 32 minutes. he completes it around 4 minutes faster than when he ran the race last year. he says the secret is not his diet. or even his training routine. but simply his love for the sport. >> it is because of the happiness that i get out of it. and i do it well. >> fauja took up the sport to cope with the untimely death of his son about a decade ago. he's completed 9 successful marathons. and in 2011 when he was 101-years-old. he became the oldest person on record to complete a marathon. fauja says although he is retiring.he'll continue to run for pleasure. >> automatic budget cuts. the impact it will have on california, next. >> now for today's market update. stocks plunge, as italy appears headed for a political gridlock. here are a look at today's closing numbers. the dow dropped 216 points to close at 13-thousand- 784. that's the biggest drop since november. nasdaq lost 45 points. to three-thousand-116. and the s-and-p 500 dropped 27 points to close at one- thousand-487. billions of dollars in forced budget cuts are only four days away. members of congress were finally are back on capitol hill today after a recess. and president obama welcomed the nation's governors to the white house. but is anybody looking for a compromise that will avoid the chaos scheduled to hit this friday? jim acosta reports. >> "welcome everybody." >> reporter: speaking to a meeting of the nation's governors. president obama said if congress wants to stop those forced spending cuts that start going into effect at the end of the week. lawmakers better do something about it. >> "these cuts do not have to happen. congress can turn them off any time with just a little bit of compromise." >> reporter: to get congress in the spirit of compromise. the white house is warning what's about to be cut. on a state by state level: 12 hundred teacher and aide jobs at risk in california. 74 hundred fewer children receiving vaccines in florida. and 52 thousand defense workers furloughed in texas. the president asked the press to leave a closed door meeting with the governors.so he could have a frank question and answer session. >> "what i want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions." >> reporter: and candid. is what the president is getting. from louisiana's governor bobby jindal. >> "i think that the president needs to stop trying to scare the american people, that absolutely you can cut less than three percent without all these awful consequences." >> reporter: just as jindal wrapped up his remarks. homeland security secretary janet napolitano suggested to reporters that the cuts could make the nation's borders. vulnerable to >> "i don't think we can maintain the same level of security at all places around the country with >> reporter: "can you just say right here for the record that you are not here just trying to scare people? that what you're saying has to happen, is a necessity as a result of these cuts?" >> "i'm not here to scare people. i'm here to inform." >> "line by line, page by page." >> reporter: house republicans released a web video pointing out the president has repeatedly promised to comb through the federal budget to find smarter savings. while a pro-obama super pac pointed out in its own video that republicans approved the forced cuts. >> "we got that in the law. we got that in law. we got that in law." >> reporter: governor jindal doesn't sound encouraged. >> "do you think these cuts are going to happen?" >> "i think as you've heard these governors say we think there's enough time for this administration to come up with a sensible alternative. but for that to happen for these cuts to be averted the ball's in the president's court." >> tonight we're getting a clearer picture of just how big an impact the cuts will have here in california. kron 4's grant lodes reports. california primary and secondary schools will lose 87 million dollars. that's pay for 12=hundred teachers and aides. disabled students: another 63 million cut. no financial aid for about 10=thousand low income college students. no head start programs for 82=hundred young children police, courts and prisons: federal aid drops by one=point six million dollars. 3=thousand women will no longer have access to programs providing protection from domestic violence. clean air and water projects would lose more than 12=million dollars. nearly two million more would be cut from fish and wildlife protection. health care: no money to vaccinate 16=thousand children for childhood diseases or treat 94=hundred people with substance abuse problems. or test 50=thousand people for h=i=v. the pentagon says it will cut 64=thousand civilian jobs in california. 130=thousand unemployed californians would lose help in finding jobs. and everyone receiving emergency unemployment benefits will get 11 percent less money. grant lodes, kron 4 news >> same sex couples don't qualify for many tax breaks - but there's one advantage they do get. it's called the second parent adoption tax credit-- and same sex spouses can claim it when they adopt a partner's child. straight spouses can only claim the credit if they both adopt a child together. second parent adoptions can be very expensive and can run up to four- thousand dollars in legal and court fees. qualifying taxpayers can claim up to 12-thousand-650 dollars per child for certain expenses. last wednesday may be the alex smith, the trade rumors coming up with gary radnich, coming up. 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last time warriors fans see andrew bogut for a while the center has a bulging disc in his back that is causing spasms that will keep him sidelined with no timetable for a return in his 7-year career he has missed the equivilant of a season with various ailments bogut has played in only 12 of the team's 54 games so far this season due to a surgically-repaired ankle that took longer to rehab than anticipated the good news is a specialist at cedars-sinai in los angeles said that if it is indeed a disc protrusion bogut should be able to return fully recovered in 2-to-6 weeks and the condition should not threaten his career >> according to one report the a trade of alex smith from the 49ers is basically a done deal although no team has been indentified for certain the kansas city chiefs have been mentioned as smith's probable desination the compensation is also mostly guesswork but a 3rd or 4th round pick seems to be the popular prediction trades cannot be confirmed until march 12 so nothing can become official until then smith's passer rating was third among nfl starting quarterbacks last season but he was replaced by colin kaepernick after sustaining a concussion >> desmond bryant raiders defensive tackle desmond bryant looked pretty out of it in his mug shot which was taken yesterday morning around 9:30am in miami bryant was arrested and charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief bryant allegedly went over to a neighbors house shirtless and drunk and caused a commotion, according to miami-dade county records. bryant has been on the raiders the last four years but is set to be a free agent come next month. >> tom brady has received a three-year extension from the new england patriots worth about $27 million. the 35-year-old two-time league mvp was signed through 2014, and has said he wants to play five more years. by redoing his contract monday, brady also has cleared nearly $15 million from new england's salary cap. brady currently has a four- year, $72 million deal with $48 million guaranteed. 49ers fans remember all too well the dance moves of ravens wide receiver and kick returner jacob jones. the 28 year old jones torched the niners in the super bowl with two long touchdowns and then got his groove on afterwards well jones has danced his way all the way onto dancing with the starswhich is now in it's 16th season the rest of the cast will be announced tomorrow. >> the nfl combine has not been too kind to former notre dame linebacker manti te'o te'o ran a 4.82 40-yard dash which put him 20th out of 26 linebackers te'o wasn't overly impressive in any of his drills. a one-time sure fire early first rounder, te'o's issues off the field, combined with a poor showing in the national championship game, as well as a mediocre combine, and he could fall into the 2nd round or later brett pill 2-run double down the left-field line buster posey and hunter pence score the giants took a 9-0 lead but the white sox come all the way back bruce bochy's son brett bochy gives up a three-run home run to seth loman to tie the game 9-9 final: 9-9 tie cactus - a's/indians josh reddick makes a nice running catch to rob cord phelps of a hit josh donaldson makes a nice diving snag at third base and gets juan diaz at first for an inning ending play saving 2 runs. final: 14-10 indians and mattel footbal tcal... football still struggling, with those selling with those seats. sonny dykes , and watch us play for fr watch us for free. andbrett bochy gives of a three- run. to loman to tie the game 9-9 and josh reddick makes a mice running catch to rob cord phelps of a hit. 14-10 daytona 500 ratings up danica patrick delivered big time at the daytona 500 - and with her in contention throughout the race ratings were up 30% over last year and the highest they have been in seven years. patrick also became the first woman to lead the daytona 500 on lap 91. whe was 3rd into the final lap but ended up finishing 8th jimmy johnson won for the 2nd time and dale earnhardt jr. finished 2nd >> at alabama is the number one the country and football and in eighth grader has been offered based scholarship. dillon moses. they saw him in the eighth grade. the word has leaked out l s u offered him a scholarship when it was only in the seventh greatgrade and hw about this one year old in oregaon will turn 2 years old in one month... >> pam: see you at 11.
for illegal entry, period. the message is that no one is exempt from immigration law. and attorney general jeff sessions says zero tolerance, he had an announcement, that's his zero tolerance this spring that the government will pcute all lawful immigrants as criminals, set up a situation in which children are removed when their parents are taken into federal custody. a policy he reinforced himself last week. >> if you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. it's that simple. if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you. and that child may be separated from you as required by law. >> yes, we are pursuing a zero tolerance prosecution policy at the border. having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution. bringing children with you doesn't guarantee you won't get prosecuted. count on it. our policies that can result in short-term separation of families is not unusual or unjustified. >> but secretary of homeland security claims no policy, no such policy, exists, tweeting, quote, we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. period. and yet hear is counselor to the president saying exactly the opposite, on "meet the press." >> nobody likes seeing babies ripped from their mother's arms, from their mother's wombs, frankly, but we have to make you sure dhs laws are understood. if i commit a crime and put in jail my four children are separated from their mother. why would you want the children in jail with their parents. nobody likes this policy. the president wants this to end. >> he can end it on his own. >> mr. president, do you agree with children being he at border >> i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to ce their law. that's their law. >>. [ talking at the same time ] >> that's the democrats' law. >> i think it's been well established that there's no law currently that requires president trump to do this. i mean that has been shown to be patently false. that is a lie. this is a deliberate policy change, which is why you see a sudden spike over the last six weeks in the number of kids separated from their parents. >> president trump could stop this policy with a phone call. if you don't like families being separated tell dhs stop doing it. >> okay. couple of things, you have the president actually at least confirming the policy exists. you have kellyanne confirming the policy exists. usually she's a little more alternative. i'm not sure why the secretary of homeland security, john kelly's pick, said we have -- we do have a policy of separating families at the border, period. i would have no idea -- >> maybe because -- >> why she would say something unsfru would she test fi in front of congress. >> maybe because she violently disagrees with the policy and getting ready to resign. >> that could be it. >> not sure what's going on there. others blatantly lying. this is where we're at. at the same time there are children being separated from their mothers at the border and we don't even have the exact numbers on that. we're talking about the united states of america. so people, you need to wake up and see what is happening and speak out if this feels wrong to you. we're looking at republicans who i guess have a game to play here, perhaps votes to lose. in a tweet on saturday the president seemed to acknowledge the policy is a negotiating tool. he acknowledges that it exists and he's saying it's a negotiating tool posting, quote, democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the br by working with republicans on new legislation. the truth is there is no law and that this does not belong to the democrats. no law requires families necessarily be separated at the border. as we noted, the current policy resulted from a decision made in april by attorney general sessions to prosecute all migrants who cross the border including thoseh you children. you saw him saying it himself. those migrants have avoided detentions during previous presidential administrations. 1997 court settlement bars children from being imprisoned with parents and justice department officials say they have no choice but to isolate the children which ultimately has them being separated from their parents and held in some way. we have a lot of people using a lot of different terminology and i think it's all fair, but in order not to lose at this game in the -- in the category of rhetoric and in the category of overshooting the runway out of anger, i think we can say they're being held and they're being held against their will and that this does not belong to the democrats and that this i a trump policy that is blatantly cruel. >> you know i have in san antonio on friday speaking with educators and texas school board members who told me that they're really concern about this and people who are on the front lines of this decision and are being forced to make these decisions, so now since secretary nelson says that this is not the policy, does that mean border patrol agents don't have to do this? they don't have to enforce this policy anymore? and i'm just grateful that mrs. laura bush spoke out and is using her voice and is being a brave republican in speaking out against this moral abomination. >> i also appreciate, mike barnacle, melania trump, who did everything she could to make a statement that was clear that she would like an america that has a heart. unlike i guess the others around her. i'm glad melania trump at least spoke out. i'm not sure where others in the white house are. i'm not sure exactly where nikki haley is on this and i'm not sure where ivanka trump is on this. i bring it up only because she's very focused on women and very focused on parenting. i -- >> isn't she the white house's -- >> i don't know -- >> lead person for children -- >> i posted on her instagram account about a conversation we had after her father won, invite med to trump tower to speak with her and wanted desperately to set up a platform for women and actually wanted to work with dina powell who is an incredible force on many of these issues, and i don't know where she is right now. i wonder how she does this. i wonder how anybody can allow this actually. >> setting up a platform for orphans. >> well -- >> that's what -- effectively orphaned thousands of children taking them from their parents. >> i'm heartbroken by what's happening and i wonder what this means about the fabric of our country. >> it's -- that's exactly what it is. >> it's falling apart. >> it's just another unraveling of what america has stood for for over 200 years. i don't know how anyone in the republican party, no matter which wing of the republican party you're on, and i'm not asking you to explain all of it or all of them, but how can they sit there so silently while this is going on. >> it's astonishing. the only two prominent republicans that have come out are both women, both first ladies, one former first lady. this is a colossal political miscalculation. i don't mean to be crass about it. let's break it down. they sold this as a policy, right. they went out there, jeff sessions went out there, stephen miller and said this is going to be a deterrent and keep people from coming to the border. that has backfired. the good every once in a while a story comes along that's so big that even the president and the white house -- and this president is particularly good at look over here, look over here -- that justticks with the imagination or captures the american public in a way that it won't let go. this president will not be able to escape this story. they're trying to deflect and blame and trying to blame the democrats which is not true. i look forward to the president saying at some point this has never been our policy. you know, you can hear him already saying this. and this will be a catastrophic, colossal mistake for the republican party who will not stand up for this. these are families who are being literally torn apart at the border and now they're trying to sell it as law. first they promoted it as a policy, this is the policy we're promoting and no, it's not our fault, this is the law. it's not the law. it is a policy. the policy could be changed by the administration and/or the congress can change the policy by virtue of law. and they have not done either. >> so, you're talking about the important details of this. i want to look at the legislative angles and the people behind that in washington with heidi and nick. but first i want to pull out to 30,000 feet. david ignatius, when you have a policy like this that then you have a president and his people around it not telling the truth about it, and i think that's putting it kindly, blaming it on others, also arguing its existence, arguing it's form policy versus law, from abroad, in terms of our strategic alliances, in terms of our immigration policy, in terms of our national security, what's the impact? what should we be worried about? mika, people will see this as one more example of the united states being unable to solve a fundamental problem. it's true. we d have a problem with immigration. we've been struggling for hor than a decade to get bipartisan legislation that will deal with it. john boehner, former house speaker, made this his priority and it fell apart on him. he was unable to bring the wings of his party together. the country is as divided -- missay the republicans are as divided as they've ever been on this. the administration, donald trump, wanted to look tough on immigration to appeal to the base and you know what, they succeeded. they look tough. they look tough in a way that people can't live with. that's what these quotes are telling us. but as i pull my camera back, what i see is this fundamental inability to solve problems. it's not as if the immigration problem isn't real, it is. it needs a solution. our system isn't taking us to a point where we get legislation, get compromise, and get past this. >> yeah. >> instead we're stuck on the politics and this hideous cruelty of separating children from their parents. >> a fundamental inability to solve problems and this one is an easy one. president trump is set to head to capitol hill this week to huddle with republican lawmakers on a bill to professionally protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation. the president is scheduled to meet with gop house members tomorrow evening in an effort to clarify where he stands on a bill shielding dreamers. trump's trip to the hill comes days before the house is expected to vote on a pair of bills addressing immigration, including a compromise between conservative and moderate republicans. the president's appearance comes just days after his off-tuff remarks on his support for the compromise legislation through the strategy by gop leaders into chaos. >> it sounds like they're going to take a vote on aple of different bills on immigration, probably next week. >> yeah. >> one of them, the goodlatte bill, something more moderate, would you sign either. >> i'm looking at both of them. >> what does the bill have to have. >> i need a bill that gives this country tremendous border security. >> those remarks prompted hours of confusion on capitol hill as republican leaders indicated they were reluctant to move forward with votes unless the bills had the president's support. the problem is, you can't really get his support if he doesn't get it and he doesn't read it. so it's a real big problem that you have because the president has no concept of whatis, qu supporting which leaves you twisting in the wind. later in the day, friday, the white house tried to walk back the president's comments saying in a statement the president fully supports -- i think they mean fully understand -- both the goodlatte bill and house leadership bill. he was commenting on the discharge petition in the house and not the new package. he would sign either the goodlatte or leadership republican congressman tom cole chalked up the president's comments to confusion while speaking with kasie hunt last night. p. >> i was confused myself on friday, but i think the president gave an impromptu press conference and may not have understood the question. he's ban busy guy between north korea and the g7 summit and may not have been fully briefed. >> you know better and you know that. we like you a lot but you know better. that is complete and utter -- what's the word? >> don't use it. >> i won't use it. you're doing your best to cover for the president. why? president trump getting mixed up on where his party stands on the immigration bill is not the first time this has happened. this should help you understand. you shouldn't cover for someone who will lie or muddle. before a vote on fisa surveillance legislation trump tweeted an accusation that fisa had been used to ase his campaign, briefly throwing the legislation into chaos until paul ryan and called and calmed him down. last september trump eagerly agreed to a deal on daca proposed by democrats nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and turned back on that the next day. much like he embraced a bipartisan compromise on health care during remarks to reporters and then reversed himself at the heritage foundation that same night. this past february, trump appeared to jump behind diane feinstein's assault weapons age limit and even a ban in a televised meeting as other republicans tried to interject and later reeled him back and back in march, the president tweeted a threat to veto the spending bill that his budget director had said he would sign just hours earlier. tom cole, that's for you. that's information for you to know who you're protecting and muddling the truth for. i think you are a lot better of a man than that. heidi, what's going on on capitol hill? what am i missing? >> well, let's just boil this all down, okay. when we talk about these children and how they're being used, the president and most of his advisors, except for nielsen, she would be the only exception, are being pretty transparent about what's going down here. the president did not succeed in using daca as a leverage tool in order to get his wall, and so now these children are being used in that way. the presidake it from me, take it from the president, because he is the one who said that this democrats' fault, right, and the translation of that is, they're not giving me the funding for my wall and so they're making me do this. they're making me do this. it's his policy. so when you say you're not hearing from republicans, well part of the reason why is a lot of these republicans, i think, are hoping that when the president comes up toapitol hill, there's going to be some kind of a breakthrough, not on -- there's two bills. not on the more conservative bill but on what is the more quote/unquote moderate bill. what you just saw last week may have been enough to blow that up. we'll find out when he comes up to capitol hill and meets with repuicans, but i think the hope is that they're going to be able to get this more moderate version through. let me put cold water on this in terms of expectations. even if they get that through in the house, then it's got to go to the senate. democrats are never going to agree to give the president full funding for his wall and so we're back at square one with the question of what are you going to do about this policy? and here you don't see anyone joining the democrats on the republican side. you see jeff flake, you see susan collins sending a letter to the adnistration, but you see none of them jumping on board with a solution to this very immediate problem that we have of these children being ripped away at the border and nothing in sight to address that. >> mike? >> this self-proclaimed policy of the trump administration, and it is of the trump administration, has been in force now for several weeks. it's been going on, children being separated from parents, for at least four or five weeks, and the attorney general and others from the white house have indicated publicly that this is the law, when it is not a law. let me ask you in media in this. we have covered each and every presidential tweet over the past four or five weeks as if they were parts of the magna carta. and ignored, not ignored, but not covered extensively, the separation of children from parents really like a fury, like we ought to have been doing, only over the past week or ten days. >> well, there's a lot going on in the world, mike, but this is going on right now. i think the answer is facts and reporting. we're seeing some great reporting from nbc and "the new york times" taking us to these camps. >> no doubt. >> tent cities, to the ces to show us what's happening inside. i think that's the best corrective in any policy. look, just to pull back for a second, susan collins and jeff flake could stop this policy tomorrow if they went out and said, i'm not going to approve a single trump judge until it's over. they have leverage. but we have seen over and over again with few exceptions that these senators on the right just don't want to use their leverage on this stuff or take on the presirectly and it goes to the fear that the president has created in his own party of him. it's astonishing. i think these lawmakers are more afraid of trump than the outcry from the media or from the population. >> they're afraid of tweets. >> afraid of tweets. >> who treat these tweets as, you know, as law or statement but, in fact, they are extraordinarily popular or powerful in steering our politics which is crazy. >> well, i mentioned earlier that first lady melania trump released a statement essentially hitting back on the policy of separating migrant children from their parents. former first lady laura bush was more direct in a guest op-ed for the "washington post" writing in part, quote, i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero tolerance policy is cruel. it is immoral. it breaks my heart. and then there were these comments that caught our eye from former cia director general michael hayden, who we have a great deal of respect for. he tweeted this photo of nazi germany's concentration camp with the caption other governments have separated mothers and children and tweeted, quote, no one who now walks through that portal on that side can casually believe that civilized behavior is guaranteed. david ignatius, there are a lot of strong voices out there who are comparing this to an experience with the nazis. my concern is that it gives fodder for the fox news hosts who are stooges for president trump to hide behind a different argument, to actually use that to not have to talk about the truth, that babies and children are being separated from their mothers at the border and this is a trump policy. so i worry we have to stick to the facts here while this may have similarities, it's different up till ntil we know d it is it's own reality of hatred and ofespair for these children. i'm sure we can come up with our own name at some point. having said that, to hear general hayden using that analogy, what does that tell you about exactly what's going on at the border, again being executed by this president, president trump's policy. >> mika, i don't think general hayden is saying that we're nazis, that this administration is nazi like, but by raising this historical image, he's warning us what happens to a society when it begins to lose its empathy. when people because of intense political disagreements stop being able to see life from a standpoint ofse who are suffering. i think for many americans, looking at the picture that we've all seen and that little girl in her red jumper in tears separated from her mother, was just one of those moments you couldn't look at that and not think there's something really wrong here. i want to do something about this. i think that feeling, thank goodness, is spread beyond democrats into the republican party. you can't be more emphatic than laura bush was. you said susan collins uneasiness in having to defend this. you sense that from the secretary of homeland security. so we are still a country where these images of suffering, of the caring for other human beings matter and i think we're going to need enough public pressure that president has to look at this and do something different because republicans ll demand it. if republicans don't voi that feeling that's out in the country, this is wrong, i want to believe they'll pay for a price for it. >> i'm going to just beg, i mean, i will make a plea to republicans this morning, that it is on you to speak out. we need to hear from you. what exactly does this president need to do to get you to step up? what is it? how bad does it have to get? >> nick pointed out, there are three actually corker, flake, susan collins. >> three. >> those three could tip the balance on almost anything this president wants to do or not do. all they have to do is use their voice. >> it's the american voter. the american voter has to -- if you call get calls in the congressional office those people react and start to panic. when the president goes this week to meet with the gop the gop needs to say, mr. president, we're hearing from our constituents, we can't -- it is the voters who will ultimately overwhelm what the president says. you don't want to be attacked by a president. that's fine. want to be attacked by your voters, that's worse. people have to -- let's remember who these people are. these aren't people coming here on welfare. mostly women traveling over land to save their children's lives. and they are getting ripped from their -- their children are getting ripped from their mothers' arms. it's outrageous. it's shameful. i don't -- i wouldn't compare it to nazi germany. that's a step too far. something that will go down in our history as shameful. >> it's a step in the wrong direction, that is for sure. i think that we can safely say. again, i ask, as we go to break, what exactly does this president need to do to get you to use your voice? and i guess i speaks to the voters, but especially to republicans who could make a difference. coming up on "morning joe," federal prosecutors are putting together the pieces literally in the case against michael cohen. the new developments on those shredded documents seized from the president's fixer are just ahead. plus, mitch mcconnell channels rudy giuliani in telling bob mueller to wrap it up. are you kidding? we'll have the latest on the special counsel investigation. later steve bannon lies about president trump not lying. that very surreal intew with the former white house strategist. you're 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400 for the mueller probe. on friday former cia director john brennan discussed his preelection 2016 briefing with mcconnell on russian interference. >> i spoke with mcconnell as well as others and -- >> were they questioning your findings at that time? >> senator mcconnell did, yes. >> under what gooiz? >> i think he thought the democratic administration was trying to undermine a republican candidate and i took great umbrage at that and told him, senator, i would not in any way politicize any type of intelligence and so i want to make sure that you understand this is the considered view and assessment and intelligence from cia and so i let it be known in no uncertain terms i did find that comment of his a bit repugnant. >> i'm not questioning the legitimacy of the investigation into the clinton administration and bill clinton, but i want to show all -- this is called a witch hunt and now mitch mcconnell, heidi, wants this to wrap up quickly. they got a lot of witches at this point and at this point in the clinton investigation, i don't know how many they had but it wasn't 19 plus. and so i'm confused as to how mitch mcconnell could say that without laughing? maybe speaking sarcastically. or maybe just admitting that he is blatantly being a trump stooge at this point? >> let's just put on the lens through which everything has to be viewed from here on out up on capitol hill, which is through the 2018 midterms. i'm told by sources as recently as last week, mika, that mitch mcconnell is in unbelievable amount of coordination and communication with the white house right now on their 2018 strategy. you juxtapose that with where we were last year in terms of the tension and hostility between this white house and between mitch mcconnell and steve bannon, for instance, who was publicly calling for his head. they were concerned they were going to have a bloody midterm fallout with the party divided and now this president is their -- deploying him in a strategic way into the midterms. he's pushed aside some of the candidates who might be more problematic for them like danny tarkanian in nevada, and they're deploying him very effectively. they don't want to see that come to an end. that is the lens through which you view everything, including the tariffs, including the mueller investigation. everything that mcconnell is saying right now is an attempt to keep his conference united heading into these midterms. >> that lens, mike barnacle, has the cap on. he's blind to his buffoonery at this point. his wife works there and there's a lot of deals as heidi pointed out, coordination and communication, between the president and mitch mcconnell. i really -- maybe it's -- maybe it's that i'm a democrat and i can't completely understand this, but at some point, don't you have to draw a line between right and wrong? >> well, mika, the level of hypocrisy in all of this is so thick that it's -- it's hard to cut. mitch mcconnell is one of the leaders of the hypocrisy movement. david ignatius, all of this, and you've been around a long time, i have been around a long time, you mentioned decision making a few minutes ago, at the it certainly there's the 2018 elections coming up. but at the root of it, the function of government, the decision making apparatus of government led by a president or led by a congress, by a strong speaker in conjunction with a senate majorit leader, whatever, i've never seen and can't recall a time when our government seems so peril iaraln terms of making the simplest decisions for the common good as it is today. >> something is broken. it's clear to the country, it's part of what people are angry about in their anger they keep, unfortunately, i think reinforcing the underlying political problems and so the problem gets worse and worse. government gets more demoralized, less able to orm ices for the country and we go down. it's an unfortunate fact that good nations sometimes go bad. it's thisth through history. the thing i'm struckwith, mike, is that it's on us. democracy is the system of government where if there's something wrong, citizens get a chance to fix it. we're gog to have a chance come november and it's really going to be a test of the united states as a country, of our voters, whether they can penetrate the fog. i mean this fog machine is going 24/7 in washington. when you have mcconnell saying time to call off the probe and giuliani saying we're going to try to declare the probe illegal and people have to look at that and think about the evidence and make good decisions. i think in the end this is a democracy which means it's on us. if it's broken, we got to fix it. if we tonigdon't it's our proem much as it is donald trump's. >> nick? >> listen, to pull back for a second, senator mcconnell and speaker ryan have not always been fans of this president but they are deeply invested in his presidency. and in a lot of ways this presidency is working extremely well for their party on a lot of policy goals. it explains a lot of the lack of tension here on judges, on tax cuts, on deregulation. this administration is moving extremely aggressively an smoothly and effectively on those fronts and they have no desire to upset that. they are investe this presidency for policy ends that matter to them and explains all the things that they're willing to excuse and overlook and walk away from. >> i guess that is the question, what are you willing to excuse? what are you willing to excuse? because i'm at a loss we're at this point that we would excuse what's happening here, lying to the american people, racism, sexism, that is rampant in the administration and the president himself and president's attorney and ripping children away from their mothers at the borders. what else, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, tom cole, what else are you willing to excuse, overlook, talk around? what else? what else needs to happen? coming up we're going to bring in "the washington post" with the new 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>> what i see he has. this is another thing to demonize him. >> the president has never lied? >> not to my knowledge, no. >> he says things that a aren't true all the time. >> i don't believe that. >> i don't believe that? >> he speaks in a vernacular that connects to people in this country. >> as long as i'm on this set that's the last time we'll hear from him. i wanted to get out of the sound bite early because i don't need more lying. i don't need kellyanne or steve bannon to come and tell us more lies. that's not helpful. we're here to tell the truth. >> that's political propaganda. >> i'm looking at his face while he talks, he doesn't believe that. >> interviews with steve bannon, you're just giving a platform for political propaganda. >> it's just as bad as -- >> you said earlier, this immigration problem separating children at the border is solvable, but it starts with dominant mor leadership. you have to have a president who goes to the congress and says, you fix this because i'm going to use a bully pulpit every day to create the outrage to fix this. as we showed earlier in the show he reverses his policies on whims. on syria, on the russian investigation. why he fired comey. it goes on and on. this -- the republicans can't trust anything that he's going to say or do now or in the future which is why they can't hold on to a ground. but if he was a dominant moral leader he would say do this or i will win because the bully pulpit is very, very powerful. >> he's been clear, mika, don't you think, about what his strategy is. the president has been quite clear in this instance. he is using children as political pawns to try to get his wall. >> the white house said that. >> he is not going to get his wall, so the children are going to continue to suffer, going to continue to be separated from their parents, going to continue to be kept inetal cages. i'm sorry people had problems with the terminology cage. i think that the wire that i've seen -- >> four walls and wires -- >> should we call it a dog kennel. this is going to continue as long as this white house is using children as political pawns. >> but also using lies and muddling of the truth and undermining the free press and all the things that have been happening every step of the way here to make people really feel confused about what realty is and, therefore, leaving them with less power, less authority over themselves and less understanding as to what direction our country is headed in. so those people cannot be given a platform. we want to have the truth. we want to understand what is happening. we want to stick to the facts. we have to worry about what david ignatius said at the top of the show, the dangers of a country losing its empathy. read madeleine albright's book called "fascism, a warning" and we are clearly way past the warning phase and that's not hyperbole or rhetoric. this is deep concern about the direction of our country and we'll say it calmly, that way the stooges on fox news and there's some really good people there, but there are a few who are absolute megaphones for this president and they will take any little overreach, any little shrill comment and use that as a way to promulgate the president's extremely cruel lies and policies. and we can't let that happen. it's happening in the media as much as it is in this presidency and -- >> they're the shop. fox news is the shop for the white house. >> it's frightening. >> up next, how much does the president really envy the control that kim jong-un has over his people? 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>> mika, i think we here in the cleanup phase after the president's summit in singapore which was largely photo opportunity, a vague communique we're trying to understand better. i think the white house is wrong to say that journalists or the country generally has been dismissive of what was done in singapore. any sensible person, i think views diplomacy as much preferable to the threat of nuclear conflict with north korea. the question is how these details are going to work out. it's been interesting to watch secretary of state mike pompeo travel the capitals of asia in the days after the summit trying to make clear to people that, well, this is conditional that we'll stop military dpexercises for as long as north korea is negotiating in good faith. that's a crucial clarification. i think pompeo is similarly trying to say to china yes the president may have tweeted that the north korean nuclear threat is over. that doesn't mean it's time to take off sanctions. so this is complicated diplomacy, the president tends to go with these comments that are flip, shoot from the hip. pompeo has a lot of cleanup to do to make clear where we go from this high visibility photo-op summit to real policy. >> not sure how this works. coming up, outrage grows over the trump administration's decision to separate migrant children from their families. two republican senators are demanding answers. but where are the others? 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(♪) i'm a four-year-old ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. ill won't eat my broccoli, though. and if you don't have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. so get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here? >> mr. president -- >> do you agree with children being taken away? >> no, i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change their law.that's their law. >> reporter: mr. president, that's your policy. >> quiet. quiet. that's the democrats' law. >> i think it's been well established that there's no law currently that requires president trump to do this. i mean, that has been shown to be patently false. i mean, that is a lie. this is a deliberate policy change which is why you see a sudden spike over the last six weeks in the number of kids who are separated from their parents. it'sely staggering and also frightening when the president puts a policy in place through his attorney general and his attorney general speaks on camera about it and announces it and then the president lies about it. that is not a good way to run a country. especially a democracy. president trump's trouble with the truth is clearly spreading to other top administration officials. the secretary of homeland security boldly denied something a senior white house adviser boldly stated as fact. welcome back to "morning joe," it's monday, june 18. that's where we start. still with us, we have former aide to the george w. bush and white house and state department. nick confessore, david ignatius, republican communications strategist rick tyler, and joining the conversation editor of "commentary" magazine, contributing editor at the "weekly standard" and columnist at the new york john pou podhor. yamiche alcindor and robert costa. joe has the morning off. we'll read some of his tweets and hearing from him as well. we begin again with the trump administration on both defending that separates migrant children from their parents at the southern border. senior policy adviser stephen miller told the "new york times" "it was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero-tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. the message is that no one is exempt from immigration law." but the secretary of homeland security claiming no such policy exists tweeting "we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. period." and yet just to muck things up further -- and i really don't like putting her on the air, but here's counselor to the president kellyanne conway saying exactly the opposite and what she's doing here is at least admitting the policy exists which is why we're going to show her. she does this on "meet the press." >> nobody likes seeing babies ripped from their mother's arms, from their mother's wombs, frankly, but we have to make sure that dhs's laws are understood. if i commit a crime and i am put in jail, my four children are separated from their mother because we don't have a policy -- why would you want the children in jail with their parents? i will tell you nobody likes this policy. you saw the president on camera that he want this is to end but everybody has -- >> he can end it on his own. >> so she does a lot of alternative facts usually when she speaks to the media but in this case, at least unlike others, apparently, she admits the policy exists and again twists it and mixes it up with a law, which is not true. in a tweet on saturday, the president seemed to acknowledge the policy is a negotiating tool posting, quote, democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with republicans on new legislation. but no law requires families necessarily be separated at the border. the current policy resulted from a decision made in april by attorney general sessions to prosecute all migrants who cross the boarder, including those with young children. here is the attorney general in his own words. >> if you cross the border unlawfully then we will prosecute you. it's that simple. if you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you as required by law. yes, we are pursue ago zero-tolerance prosecution at the border. having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution. bringing children ywith you doesn't guarantee you won't get prosecuted. our policies that can result in short-term separation of families is not unusual or unjustified. >> so i'd like that ask, alex, that wherever we bump out and go to break, any opportunity we get, if we could please play attorney general jeff sessions announcing the policy himself and warning families they will be separated. i think we need to play that as much as possible and i know it appears we're reviewing the past but in an age where the president lies everyday about whether or not this exists and who owns it, i think we do need to review and showis attorney general announcing this policy himself in his own words in april and we'll do that as much as possible throughout the show today. johnpodhoretz. >> so kirstjen nielsen showed the tweet saying there's no such policy. this is what she said on may 10 to npr. "what this mean, however, is that if you are a single adult, if you are part of a family, if you are pregnant, if you have any other condition, you're an adult and you break the law, we will refer you. operationally what this means is we will have to separate your family. that's no different than what we do everyday in every part of the united states when an adult of a family commits a crime." so she said this is not the policy on twitter yesterday, this is what she said on may 10. now, as a matter of fact, it's true, you don't arrest children with parents, right? she's talking about arresting people at the boarder who are crossing unlawfully. however, when you arrest a parent in a house in the united states, the child can stay in the house in the united states with another adult and if you arrest somebody crossing the border who has a child in her arms or his arms, then the child has to be taken somewhere else and put in a cage. >> i'm not really -- i don't understand -- she's john kelly's pick, which was so interesting and i thought we would expect more but, again, this is part of whittling away at the truth and at the core of what is it to be an american citizen. the "new york post" is out with a blistering editorial this morning entitled "top breaking up families at the border." it couldn't be more clear. it reads in part this, house speaker paul ryan's answer is to stick a change of the law into two big immigration bills making it so immigration and customs enforcement can detain kids along with their parents is only a minor improvement. since i.c.e. is already running out of space to hold people and looking at tent cities as a supposedly temporary expedient, you can bet critics will start calling these trump's concentration camps and the term will catch on if they're full of kids. we recognize that returning to the policy of two months back creates some perverse incentives, bring kids along and you'll just be deported if you're caught, but at least switching back avoids having the u.s. government earning comparisons to the nazis. if the president doesn't want to admit defeat he can just add this to the long list of things he blames on attorney genel jeff sessions, trying to tough this one out is guaranteed disaster and that, yamiche alcindor, is from the "new york post." and just add to that melania trump put out a statement today, melania trump, who obviously can't stand it to the point where she had to say something which i'll take. laura bush put out a beautiful op-ed in the "washington post" as well. there are three republicans who are at least stepping up. but at this point it is a bit frightening to see the twisting of the truth around this cruel policy. >> we know for sure there have been almost 2000 children separated from families, and that's coming from the department of homeland security. i was on a call where reporters were asking how many kids were separated, what's going on. so the federal government has admitted full stop they are doing this and we have the numbers to back it up. i think what the pros is that you have president trump -- and i would venture to say melania trump -- feeling the heat of this policy, feeling the heat of the media showing images of children and now you're having the president say i hate this policy, i need to back away. you have to first lady now wading in and you have republicans also asking questions but one of the things i think is important to point out from a reporting point of view is that when kellyanne conway says if you break the law you will be separated from your child. in these cases some of these people, allegedly, are people seeking asylum in the united states. it's not illegal to seek asylum in the united states. if you come if honduras and show up at the a legal entry point and say i want asylum, i'm in fear for my ty, i'm running from violence, the u.s. government isn't supposed to say now we'll prosecute you for a crime and the allegations are that people are either one being pruted whenhey're trying to seek asylum or they're being turned away and then being forced into these points that are not asylum-seeking points so we're forcing people into a crisis because we're saying you can't go the legal way. so it's important to make that point because we're not just separating families breaking the law. you're separating families trying to do something legal. >> robert costa, you've spent a lot of time reporting on the mueller probe and i find that when the president does something extremely despicable and there have been a few occasions along the way where that's happened and this would be one of them not trying to figure out how trump works on a deep intellectual but how he worked when he was a real estate mogul in new york city. he played the press, he deflected. and i wonder if the slow squeeze of robert mueller is causing this president to flail around despicable things so that everybody gets focused on that as opposed to the fact that all these witches, to use hiswords, investigation could be closing in. what are you hearing about that? >> mika, your point about the context here is very important because the president does have the mueller investigation. the potential interview hovering over his entire presidency and in many ways his inner circle had been shrinking. you think about the people he's at the golf club. day when he's former mayor rudy giuliani urging him to be more aggressive on the mueller front and on immigration so many advisers have left this white house, the cabinet is in many respects isolated for him. they don't valls a rapport with the president and it's stephen miller, the long-time hard-liner, who's crafting policy in the close spaces around this president and that is the context for what's happening and why the president is acting in this way based on my reporting in the last few days. >> i definitely see that. nick, go ahead. >> john, think to the future. if the special counsel comes out with a report and finds obstruction with the president, when they say prepare for battle, how d you imagine the battle progressing? what are the stakes aho are the combatants? >> well, if robert mueller says that donald trump obstructed justice the republican party will be hurled into a crisis in which some will be moved -- some small number will be moved to cross the aisle and join democrats in the notion that there should be an impeachment proceeding and the vast majority of republicans will say -- will go to the witch-hunt line because 90% of republican voters support trump. now this moment with migrants at theder remind me of 2014. because if 2014 if you remember there was a border crisis in the summer of 2014. no one knows how ithappened. 55,000 people ended up in camps in texas because there was some kind of rumor mill going that if you came across the border you would be legalized with your children. that had an enormous effect on the midterm elections. people forget that the obama administration was hit with a crisis not of its own making, unless you think moving on the dreamers was the reason that this happened and nine senate seats changed hands. when from democrat to republican. i'm not saying that can happen this way because of the way the senate is constitutes but when you have an unpans patrioted crisis that has no clear and ready easy solution, trump can say it's the democrats' fault. but the mess is on him. he's the president, it's all his officials speaking. they're saying three different things at once and i think this is a potential recapitulation for the trump white house of the 2014 crisis that met obama and the democrats and led to the flip of the senate. >> well, it's so interesting because you look at -- elise, you take it to rick but you look at the situation republicans who are somehow trying to find a way to blindly support this presiden president. you have to make a decision for yourself as to whether or not you can support this president and you have to make a -- you have to deduce not just the politics on this but how it's going to end for you. and you've got a president who lies in plain sight and the lying is getting worse everyday. it's becoming even more impactful on the fabric of this country and the people of this country everyday. . you could argue you have a president who obstructed in plain sight, talking about relieving the pressure on james comey, working on a press release about a meeting with russian operatives about dirt on hillary clinton. you could say that this is obstructing in plain sight because he's trying to protect himself but he's also obstructing an investigation you could argue into russian meddling in our election which impacts our natiurity so if you're republican and you are deducing the politics of this, how do you end up on the si of the president? >> historically i don't think this is going to age that well. you also forgot another major news story because this is how this administration rolls, the new york attorney general and the trump foundation and criminal fraud using a charitable foundation. >> it's hard to squeeze it in. >> that is huge and we aren't even talking about it because there's so much chaos happening with this presidency. >> as david ignatius called it, the fog machine. but we call what john read from the secretary of homeland security on npr, that's called a policy rollout, right? thats we give talking points to all our administration officials who talk to the media and they say essentially the same thing and that was reflected by the secretary -- jeff sessions, he said the same thing. they were trying to put this policy out and part of the talking point was don't bring your child to the border because if you do you'll be separated. this is their policy. they rolled it out. >> you're right. >> and now they want to change that to say that this is the law. but one thing i wanted to ask the exceedingly fit, trim, and handsome robert costa. >> it's amazing. it's amazing. you look fantastic. >> wow. okay. role reversal. >> i'm curious what you think because you're as close to this as anybody. why would mitch mcconnell say what he said about any of the mueller investigation? he's watching these senate races. what is his calculation of ending the mueller investigation before 2018 or havinggo after -- wrapping after 2018. what are your thoughts. >> they know robert mueller would like to issue his report on the president's conduct and possible obstruction of justice before the election. at this point, mayor giuliani continues to push off the interview decision about the president sitting down and the more this back-and-forth continues the more it becomes likely that the obstruction of justice report is likely released after the election in november. and that's to the benefit many congressionals tell me of themselves. they would like to avoid the russia investigation but the mueller investigation is under pressure when you talk to people who are focused so the american people know they have been working hard at their effort in the past year. >> in response to what mitch mcconnell said, joe tweeted this "hey, mitch, white water lasted almost ten times as long and you never complained once about that. if you're going to keep humiliating yourself by playing trump's chump, maybe you're the one who should wrap it up." and there are a lot of chumps, stooges, court jesters who are not only humiliating themselves but really letting the country down. yamiche, i want to ask about what happens legislatively. the president is headed to capitol hill i believe but that's another thing where republicans can deduce how this might end for them. we'll tweet it out later. all the different ways the president misunderstood, didn't read, didn't understand intellectually legislation that was being discussed therefore leaving republicans twisting in the wind so it's not like they can trust him on anything b having said that, what are they banking on this week? >> well, the thing that the president has -- the thing that's important is the president is going to be capitol hill, he'll be meeting face to face with lawmakers. that's important because this zant president that has deep relationships with capitol hill but on friday when the president said he wouldn't back these two immigration bills that the house is planning to vote on, it sent everyone wondering and what what is he talking about? the republicans have been working on this for some time, the white house qckry backtracked to reporters like me and others saying the white house misspoke, he fully supports immigration so in this way what we will see is republicans trying to push out an immigration deal. i'm not sure whether it will get passed. there's some so many things the democrats want and can't compromise on. i think when we see republicans wanting to have some sort of stake in stopping the separation of families but president trump made it clear that even though he quote/unquote hates the policy, it's a policy that will be around for a while until he get what is he wants from the democrats and that's a lot of money for fund ago border wall that both republicans and democrats tell me they don't want. >> so david ignatius, i know you have to go. i want to back up to 30,000 feet and ask you to give us your thoughts on where we stand right now with what is happening at the border. you talked about it last hour but for people just joining us, you mentioned the dangers of a nation losing its empathy. hhos and now the lying if it's possible is getting worse. it's twisting into policy and appearing to have a ripple effect within his administration even to people where perhaps once we wouldn't expect that. where do you think this is going. we have a lot of people on the air and online and a lot of people we respect making comparisons that are frightening about what' happening at the border and i wonder where you think those fit in the conversation as well. >> one reason we're having this passionate conversation about immigration policy is because yesterday was father's day and most of us spent the day with our kids, with our parents. we probably didn't look at twitter much, we didn't look at television then we catch up on statements on twitter. we were thinking about families. and a reminder that there is a very tough, i want to say cruel view of how to deal with the immigration problem. attorney general sessions said it flat out that the whole point here is to be so tough on parents who come with children that they'll stop and what i think the republicans didn't understand is that in this day in age, people can watch what that toughness looks like on television. they see that little girl who is two years old in her little red jumper separated from her mom sobbing and they look at it and people can't live with that. what worries me the most to conclude this is these poor kids are now going to be bargaining chips. president trump is going to say okay, democrats, you want to solve this problem? you want to end the zero tolerance and get these kids back with their parents, give me the wall. if you care about the kids so much, why don't you do what my base is demanding and the kids will be in the middle, as the daca kids have b in the middle, as we try to bargain over a same immigration policy. that's the problem. our system is broken and we keep making children the coin of the realm that as we try to negotiate. we should stand back and look and think that's not the way our country should work. >> everybody has something to say. we'll get there. david ignatius, thank you very much. hold that thought. everyone else stays, robert costa, thank you as well for your reporting. so still ahead on "morning joe," laura bush shows courage where it is largely absent elsewhere. we'll read from the former first lady's powerful new problem. plus two members of congress who descended on one of those detention centers. what they learned next on "morning joe." >> if you cross the border unlawfully then we will prosecute you it's that simple. if you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you as required by law. 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>> well, we decided to make the trip to see for ourselves, let's go there which we usually do, we're the first responders, and we weren't shocked. when you're listening to it, when you're hearing from the emotion from fathers on father's day you have to sit back and you have to listen and you have to reach out and try to be of some comfort to the individual. we feel very strongly ant this, and i want to reverse the term, mika, the term that they've used and that is zero tolerance. we have zero tolerance for this, i want you to know this. there were seven of us who were there. we have zero tolerance. we're going to use that term over and over again. we cannot allow this to go on. the academy of pediatrics that we talked about before, those folks came out strongly. church organizations have come out very strongly. even part of the evangelical community sees this as an envelope pushed too far. we can't accept this as americans. we can't just talk about it. we've sent a letter, i've sent a letter to rodney frelinghuysen who is the chairman of appropriations. you better not allow money from appropriations to go to any of these because if we continue to fun them, that i'll continue to grow and that's what i'm very concerned about right now. the president has to step up to the plate, he has to do his job for change. >> thank you for going and bearing witness to this moral outrage. this is horrific, i can't believe this is happening in america, that we're using children as political pawns for a border wall. what can americans do, reach out to our congress, congressional representatives, but what can we do to stop this as quickly as possible? >> a great question. the president will be on the hill this week meeting with our colleagues on the republican side of the aisle. if the american people reach out to all of their representatives in the house and senate and express the sheer outrage at the notion of a policy being put into place by our government that's unconscionable, unacceptable, un-american hopefully we'll see my colleagues communicate to the president that this is not acceptable and the president can end this today with a phone call to his so-called beleaguered attorney general saying enough. this ends. >> there are two different things going on. you mentioned there are people that cross the border illegally at an unrecognized border crossing place carrying the kid arrested as a misdemeanor because it's a first offense or felony if it's another offense. then people come to the border at an appropriate border crossing and request asylum because of fear of persecution or violence. these are two different procedures so what we are being told, although it seems to be entirely anecdotal a is that there are people being caught in the dragnet who are following the law. they come, they request asylum, they have a kid with them and yet this is still happening. is. you were told they had followed the rules, got arrested and had their kid taken from them anyway. >> that's right. as sessions said we're not going to accept asylum from folks who are under tremendous pressure through gangs or the government themselves. that's why they left. fear of their own security. we won't accept those people. we won't listen to them. listen to these people. we didn't separate them from their children, that's the one thing we didn't do. there is no justification for that whatsoever. what political rend we looking for here? what's the end game? >> well i have a couple ideas on that. >> this is one center in new jersey and there are multiple ceers in the u.s. that reporters haven't been allowed access to, i believe reporters have been allowed access to two centers so those have been cherry picked and are the best case scenario and yet the pictures and images are still horrifying. where are the young children. where are the girls? >> the three individuals who we met with who are apprehended on the southern border, though they voluntarily turned themselves in seeking political asylum had no idea where their children were. some of whom had been in this detention center for months. and it didn't seem as if any of the individuals who were responsible for their quote/unquote care in that facility had endeavored to try to figure that out. there was one individual, a father, who had his daughter torn f him at 3:00 a.m. in the morning who fell down to his knees, as he communicated to us, begging for them not to take her away as she was cry iing. this is somebody who fled one of the most violent nations in the world in central america, as others had, because a gang showed up earlier in the day looking for his daughter at the school and he decided at that point that was enough. he was going to take this risky journey in order to save his child and we know that mothers all across the country who have been apprehended on the southern border have done the same thing. >> so, again, important to keep to the facts. we appreciate you all going and getting firsthand accounts. definitely queue up jeff sessions's bite in april where he announced this policy himself, this policy is brought forward by the trump administration and announced by the attorney general. you will hear otherwise from the president at times blaming it on democrats. it's not politics,a lie. ngressman bill pascrell and hakeem jeffries, thank you so much. appreciate it. our next guest has served in the last three republican administrations and says the political divisions in this nation will only get worse after bob mueller releases his obstruction report. pete wainer joins the discuss next. >> if you cross the border unlawfully then we will prosecute you. it's that simple. if you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you. and that child may be separated from you as required by law. if you are looking for a house, you should be looking for a mortgage. yocould mortgage in the dark... or know the steps with better. you could mortgage like it is 1970... or do it now with better. you could hope you are getting the best price... or know you are, with better. you could mortgage on their time... or with better, on yours. you could pay their commission... or mortgage with better, and save. go to better.com to mortgage right. start by finding out how much house you can actually afford in just three minutes. my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? 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>> that would be among them, yes, sir. >> here's the bottom line, mr. rosenstein, the deputy attorney general and director wray have to decide whether or not they want to be part of the cleanup crew or they want to be part of the coverup crew. >> wow. joining us now, senior adviser to the romney/ryan presidential campaign and white house staffer under three republican presidents, senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center, pete wainer. he told the "washington post" "what we're going through now is a walk in the park compared to what's coming when the report on trump's conduct comes out. even if theeport i devastating indictment of trump, the political tribalism in the country is so deep and won't suddenly go away. i tend to agree with you. i'm very concerned about this. having said that, pete, you're not arguing against holding back on the report, you're just warning it doesn't get better from there, correct? >> that's right. i think mueller should go forward with this, i think republicans should let him go forward and we have to let the report speak for itself. trump has accelerated the worst tendencies in american politics, including this tribalism and polarization and he is a post-truth personality, post-truth president and what that means is that when the mueller report comes out for some large number of trump supporters it won't matter what he says. it doesn't matter if he has tapes, it doesn't matter if he has e-mails, they will disregard it because it's a cult of personality and whatever trump says and attack he makes, whatever argument he puts forward, they're going to believe them whether they're detached from the truth or not. >> pete, you did communications in the white house and with romney and and there used to be this effort to make your words conform with the truth. that's why it's called spin. but it seems we're past spin, that trump has decided spin is unnecessary and that he simply will assert that which he wishes his fan base to believe, that democrats are responsible for the border crisis and this this is something new because people would twist themselves into pretzels trying to make sure when they worked at the white house that what they said was minimally defensible on a factual basis. is that -- am i reading that right? >> i think you are. i think it's a very important and deep point. we're in a time and era and moment that is different than anything we of ever seen in american history where truth doesn't matter for some large number of the public and as you said in the past if you are caught in a lie, a self-evident lie in an administration, you had to confront it and work your way out of it. in this case it doesn't matter. i will say this is not -- it's unique in american history, it's not ue, of course, in other countries. there's a powerful essay written by vaclav havel who was a magnificent and eloquent czech dissident and he wrote an essay called "the power and the powerless" and he talked about what happens when a polity, a group of citizens live within a lie and what happens -- it's a corrosive effect on the civic culture and political culture and that's where we are and why it's so important that people not willing to live between lie, in havel's flaz live within the truth speak the truth, that's the press, those are political figures and citizens but it has to be republicans. what's troubling here, it's no surprise trump is doing this, that's the kind o person he is but r but what's so discouraging as a life long republican and conservative is how the republican party has bought into this and is now his sword and shield and that is something that frankly surprised me and is discouraging and i think it's a terrible indictment of the modern gop. >> yamiche, this search or this request for documents raised again, this time joined by speaker ryan, it's been raised prior to this by devin nunes and trey gowdy but now this renewed effort. what's your understanding from your reporting of what they are looking for within these documents they're requesting. what do they don't think they might have and want. >> i think it's more a political question than what are they looking for. this has become such a polarized issue. you have republicans like devin nunes who are seen as arms of the white house who are looking for justification to either exonerate president trump or to at least have facts they can float throughout to say, look, we found this new thing and this shows there was no collusion. it shows there was an exoneration of president trump. the problem is that that won't happen until robert mueller's investigation is over and until then the president will have this cloud hanging over him. i think when you see these requests for documents and see these meetings where there's classified information discussed you talk to democrats and they say nothing has changed and we still have to wait for robert mueller and then you talk to republicans and the republicans are saying we learned something new that makes me think the president is more clear than we thought before. >> pete, if you saw the clip from trey gowdy at the start of the segment, i was struck by the force of his rhetoric, how strong he was being, we'll unleash the full panoply of powers of the house if they won't back the investigation into the investigation. so where is that strength when it comes to protecting the actual investigation of the special counsel? . how do you explain that difference? >> trey gowdy is a serious guy. i must say if something went on with the department of justice and fbi that one untoward and problematic we should know about that, too but that's not what's going on here. it's not only what's going on here. this is part of a full scale frontal assault, institutional assault on the fbi and the department of justice and the media more broadly. they're trying to discredit every institution and every group of individuals who could find wrongdoing with donald trump. and the republican party is by and large on board with this. that's why i said tin the "post piece that this is going to get ugly. it's intense right now but it will get worse and also because those who surround him, his mouthpieces, they seem to relish this acrimony. they seem to relish the realism after o of all of thisnd others of us don't relish it quite as much but that is what one is called to do. this is an important moment and it's not just a political moment in the shallow sense, republicans and democrats i mean political in the deepest sense about what this country is. >> yep. >> and whether truth matters. so you know, this -- we're having collisions now, but once that mueller report comes out it's going to be -- as said, it's going to make this look like a walk in the park. >> you made so many good points and the last one as to whether or not the truth matters is such a key point because i believe what we're seeing happening with this president is he is trying to make the truth not matter and it's a race against time for him. because when that report comes out. he wants the truth to not matter. >> that's right. and he's drawing people into that vortex with him. he's drawing an entire party with him into that vortex with him and when that happens, when you are -- when you have politics detached from truth, you know, then everything is up for grabs and that's just not a good place to be. >> thank you so much for coming on. thank you. >> coming up, water gate gave us the saying it's not the crime, it's the coverup. yesterday we marked the anniversary of the crime. ahead we'll talk about the coverup and what it means for today's politics. presidential historian will join the table. 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nice for them. it's good. republican leaders have spent a lot of time talking about lifting up families and caring for children, talking about their own kids, that's not what's happening on the southern border of the united states and that's where we begin this morning. welcome to "morning joe," it's monday, june 18th. we have mike barnicle, rick tyler, former aide to the gorge w. bush white house and state departments jordan and columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ig nashs. joe has the morning off but we'll be hearing from him through his tweets. we begin with the trump administration on both defending and outright denying its policy that separates migrant children from their parents at the southern border. this is where we ended the show on friday and it's where we begin today because this is so unbelievably frightening is happening and it's also frightening how little people are able to do to stand up to the president, especially republicans. senior policy advisor steven mill e that young man right there told the new york times quote, it was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry period. the message is that no one is exempt from immigration law. and attorney general jeff sessions says zero toll rabs,er his zero tolerance announcement this spring that the government will prosecute all unlawful immigrants as criminals set up a situation inch children are removed when their parents are taken into federal custody. a policy he reinforce hips last week. >> if you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. it's that simple. if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you. and that child may be separated from you as required by law. >> yes, we are pursuing a zero tolerance prosecution policy at th border. having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution. bringing children with you doesn't guarantee you won't get prosecuted. policies that can result in short term separation of families is not unusual or unjustified. >> but the secretary of homeland security claims no policy, no such policy exists. tweeting quote, we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. and yet here's counselor to the president saying exactly the opposite on "meet the press." >> nobody likes seeing babies ripped from their mother's arms but we have to make sure that dhs's laws a understood. if i commit a crime and i am put in jail my four children are separated from their mother and why would you want the children in jail with their parents? i will tell you nobody likes this policy, you saw the president on cam are. >> he can end it o his own. do you agree with children being taken away? >> no, hate it. the democrats have to change their law. that's their law. that's the democrats' law. >> i think it's been well established that there's no law currently that requires president trump to do this. i mean, that has been shown to be patently false. i mean, that is a lie. this is a deliberate policy change which is why you see a sudden spike over the last six weeks in the number of kids separated from their parents. >> president trump could stop this policy with a phone call. if you don't like families being separated you can tell dhs to stop doing it. >> a one l of things. you have the president at least confirming the policy exists. you have kelly anne confirming the policyti exists. not sure why john kelly's pick saying we do not have a policy of separating families at the border period. i have no idea why she would say something so untrue. >> maybe she's getting ready to resign. >> that could be it. not sure what's going on there, but then you have others blatantly lying and this is where we're at. at the same time there are children being separated from their mothers at the border and we don'tven have the exact numbers on that. we're talking about the united states of america, so people, you need to wake up and see what is happening andak out if this feels wrong to you. we're looking at republicans who i guess have a game to play here, perhaps votes to lose. ? a tweet on saturday, the president seemed to acknowledge the policy is a negotiating tool, so he acknowledges that it exists posting quote, democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with republicans on new legislation. the truth is, there is no law and that this does not belong to the democrats. no law requires families necessarily be separated at the border. as we noted, the current pol sult resulted in a decision made in april by an attorney general sessions to prosecute all migrants who cross the border including those with young children. you saw him saying it himself. those myogrants have avoided detention during previous presidential administration. a 1997 settlement bars children from being imprisoned with parents. and so the justice department says it has them separated from their parents and held in some way. we have a lot of people using a lot of different terminology and i think it's all fair. but in order not to lose at this game in the -- in the category of rhetoric and in the category of overshooting the runway out of anger, i think we can say they're being held and they're being held against their will. and that this does not belong to the democrats and that this is a trump policy that is blatantly cruel. well, you know, i was in san antonio on friday speaking with educators and texas school board members who told me they're really concerned about this. and people who are on the front lines of this decision and are being forced to make these decisions, so now since secretary nealson says this is not the policy, does that mean border patrol agents don't have to do this? they don't have to enforce this policy anymore? and i'm grateful that mrs. laura bush spoke out and using her voice and speaking out. >> i also appreciate mike barnicle, melania trump, who did everything she could to make a statement that was clear that she would like an america that has a heart, unlike i guess the others around her. i'm glad melania trump spoke out. i'm not sure exactly where nikki hay lee is on this and i'm not sure where ivanka is on this. i bring this up because she's very focused on warranting. i don't know where the lead person for women and children -- well, i thought. that's definitely what she told me. i posted on her instagram report about a conversation we had. she invited me to trump tower to speak with her and she wanted very desperately to set up a platform for women and actually wanted to work with dina powell who is an incredible force on many of these issues, and i don't know where she is right now. i wonder how she does this. i wonder how anybody can allow this. >> now she can concentrate on setting up a platform for orphans. because they've effectively orphaned thousands of children taken from their parents. >> i wonder when this means about the fabric of our country. it's falling apart. >> it's just another unraveling of what america has stood for for over 200 years a don't know how anymore in the republican party, no matter which wing of the republican party you're on and i'm not asking you explain all of it or all of them, but how can they sit there so silently while this is going ? >> it's astonishing. so the only two prominent republicans that have come out are both women, one former first lady. this is a colossal miscalculation. lit's break it down. they sold this as a policy. they went out there, and they said thi going ton a decurrent. this is going to keep people coming to the border. that has backfired and the good news is a story comes along that's so big that even the president and the white house and this president is particularly good at look over here, look over here, that just sticks with the imagination or capturhe amecan public in a way. this president will not be a to escape this story and now they're trying to deflect and blame. i look forward to the president saying at some point this has never been our policy. you know you can hear him already saying this and this will -- this there a catastroph mistake for the republican party who will not stand up for . these are families who are being literally tornapar the border and now they're going to sell it as law. at first they promoted it as a policy. it is a policy and the policy could be changed by the administration and -- or the congress can change the policy by virtue of law and they have not done either. >> still ahead on "morning we'll a live report from the scene of one of those detention centers in texas. nbc has been leading the reporting on this. >> and why is mitch mcconnell involving himself in it? what the majority leader just said about bob mueller. >> but here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. so many people in the east all spring. can you finally get us the heat? it's here and here in a big way. heat advisory new york city and 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i think he was -- he thought thaybe the democrac administration was trying to undermine a republican candidate and i told him, i said, senator, i would not inay split size any type of intelligence and i want to make sure you understand this is the intelligence from and so i let it be known in no uncertain terms that i did find that comment of his a bit repugnant. >> i'm not questioning the legitimacy of the investigation into the clinton administration but this is called the witch hunt and now mitch mcconnell wants this to wrap up quickly m they got a lot of witches at this point and at this point in the clinton investigation i don't know how many they had, but it wasn't 19 plus. and so i'm -- i'm confused as to how mitch mcconnell could say that without laughing. maybe speaking sarcastically or maybe just admitting that he is blatantly being a trump stooge at this point. >> let's just put on the lens through when everything has to be viewed from here on out up on capitol hill which is through the 2018 midterms. i'm told by sources as recently as last week that mitch mcconnell is an unbelievable amount of coordination and communication with the white house right now on their 2018 strategy. you juxtapose that witness stand where we were last year in terms of the tension and hostility between this white house and between mitch mcconnell and steve bannon for instance who was publicly calling for his head. they were concerned that they were going to have a bloody midterm fallout with the party divided and now this president is their -- they're deploying him in a very strategic way into these midterm it is. he's pushed aside some of the candidates that might be problematic for them and they're deplaying him very effectively. they don't want to see that come to an end and that is the view that you view everything. including the tariffs, including the mueller investigation, everything that mcconnell is saying right now is an attempt to keep his conference united heading into these midterms. >> that lens, mike has the cap on. he's blind to his bah foonry at this point. i guess his wife works there and there's a lot of deals. coordination and communication between the president and mitch mcconnell. i really -- maybe it's -- maybe it's that i'm a democrat and i can't completely understand this, but at some point don't you have to draw a line between right and wrong? >> well, mika, the level of hypocrisy in of this is so thick that it's hard to cut. and mitch*connell is one of the leaders of the hypocrisy movement. david, at the root of it, certainly there's a 2018 elections coming up, but at the root of it, the function of government, the decision making apparatus of government led by a president or led by a congress by a strong speaker in conjunction with the senate majority leader. whatever. i've never seen and can't recall a time when our government seems to paralyzed in terms of making the simplest decisions for the common good as it is today. >> if something is broken it's clear to the country that's part of what people are angry about. that thein their anger they kee reenforcing the underlying political problems and the problems get worse and worse. the -- and we go down, it's unfortunate that good nations sometimes go bad. that's just truth through history. the thing i'm struck with, mike, is that fit's on us. democracy is the system of government where if there's something wrong, citizens get a chance to fix it and we're going to have a chance come november and it's really going to be a test of the united states of a country, off our voters but they the penetrate the fog. this tag ma sheep is going 24/7 in washington. you have mcconnell saying we've got to call it off and people have to look t that and think darefully and make good decisions but i think in the end this is a demockery say which means it's on us. if it's broken we got to fix it and in the end it's our problem as much as it is trths's. >> coming up, a picture 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was that his question? >> zero. >> do they eat at the same time three times a day breakfast, lunch and dinner? >> they eat three meals a day but they eat on rotation. >> is it a menu or a specific -- >> no, it's just -- i mean, when i was in there it was peas and chicken, some vegetables, a thing of jell-o and you know, i wasn't like a school cafeteria. and they have a limited amount of clothes they can wear. they do go to school but everything is very structured. the calls going in and the calls going out determine t not by them. it's incarceration. >> so jacob speenging with us last week. he saw a first look housing over 1,000 kids who came to the country without documentation. now jacob just finished a rare tour of the border patrol's processing center where more accept rations happened than anywhere else and jacob jones us now with that story p jacob, what did you see? >> hey, mika. so this is actually the first stop and a dhs official told me it is the epicenter of family accept rations. inside there are me people actually separated, children from their parents than anywhere else along the entire southern border. nobody had been able to get inside until yesterday. we we the did. take a look. >> when are they step rated from their children. when they go to court. >> facing the cameras and opening his doors for the first time, rio grande alveodoubled down on the trump administration's zero tolerance policy. but he didn't say it was designed to separate parents from children. >> can you describe the separation process? how does it happen? >> there is no separation process. as they go through the judicial process they are temporarily separated. >> he told us here alone 1,174 kids were taken from their parents since the policy was enacted. it happens inside this building. the facility serves as an intake, the biggest of its kind in the country. we are invited to see it with our own yeahs but not with our own cameras. all we can show you is photos provided to us by the border patrol. migrants were kept in chain link fences wrapped in myolar blank kets. when we walked in the door of the prokufacility, 197 unaccomp minors and the rest x adealts on their own. migrants are sorted based on age, gender and family status. that's what the border patrol calls them, pods. one for girls 17 and under, another for boys 17 and under and then there are the families. moms with kids and dads with kids. another one of these heart photos. they show a 2-year-old girl as a border patrol officer obtains her mather. images like this are only adding to the contentious debibt about u.s. immigration policy. >> there's been some talk, some conversation that will are no teenages, people aren't kept in dajs inside the afaulty and i saw with my own eyes. you guys saw it in the photos and increasingly the children that are kept in those cages are being sep from their parents under this policy that is a manufacture crisis. not only is it afking the children but the agents inside this facility. it's kre yachtsing a stretch on the system and think will only for licensed social care workers in this bare the certification. so if a warrant is taken away and you have a 2-year-old child, i asked, if they come in and take him away, they could do simple things like change diapers and with the accept rations increedsing, this is going to get more ten , guys. >> i was going to ask you squuz this changing of typers. soims for comfort, sometimes for changing the diaper. what's the policy? >> what i was told is by the department of health and human services, i last weeng which with the second step the interaction is limited because of laws ke signed to protect churn from sexual harassment. they're actually prison rape laws which, you know, when they say these aren't prisons, if you're operating the same laws that are intended to protect children from sexual assault in prisonen then what do do you call these places? >> i don't know if the same policies are put into place here but you would have to assume so. >> jacob, i wonder about the people working these facilities. i mean they're human beings. i'm sure sm of them are rying to do the best they can. have you talked to them about what's going on and how it's unsustainable? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, the chief of the border patrol sector, manual padilla told me that they're not at 100% yet because it's too chaotic. they can't manage the volume of people coming in. one of the things that the border patrol agents said there really are not enough agents process people that are going off to be separated from their children. so there are these virtual stations and you can talk to agenerals in the el centro rg which is close. so it's almost like you're an agent sitting in a remote location away from here and you're separate people from their kids. i can't imagine what it does to the agents elise, this is just a little bit of a glimpse into what jay sob is talking about. texas monthly has this description from the executive director of on a nonprofit. i was talking to onemorter and she said don't take my child away. the started screams and violently and i she asked the officers, can i have at least fivemontes to console her, and they said no. >> you are doing incredible job. i just want to back to what you said about the judge children and about the touching and the whoelding of these scare young children in their byes who need their diaper change. it sounds like there's simply not enough workers to hue melanialy take care of the needs of little ones who we are essential putting in place. this is tantamount to child abuse. >> it makes you sick. i have a two and a half-year-old son myself and you see children that are -- that are sitting there and it's- you cannot fathom what these little kids are going through and what's going through their little brains and what it means for them for the rest of their lives. and you know, again, what -- these facilities were not new. they were here amid previous administration. but they act of separating children from their parents as a system attic policy is a direct thing he wants to happen right now and it's just not true when anybody else says otherwise. >> it's worth repeating many times that there is a campaign to twist the truth. this was a policy of course, that the kpaern general announc himself and the president has been walking with me and we haven't gotten into it and it mr. lay outn the roads in the lives of these children especially churn urn the the age of # ever 7, 6 years of age. the damage to your mind, a four or five-year-old child is going to remember having his mother torn from her or him and the resid yawl damage done in terms of how grow grow up and when you think of what's around you. >> joining us now, president of the action network. you announced over the weekend that you're going to serve in the coming days. tell us what you plan to do. >> well, tomorrow we're going to be in washington holding a prez conference while the president is in the houssaying they must end this. it's a civil rights issue. because first of all, mika, and we were just talking about talking about this. imagine if this were canadian children. would president trump even think about grabbing canadian children? >> he might. >> i don't know. he talks a lot game but i thought if he wow do this. i'm talking about we spent the weekend talking with the anti defamati deaf malgs league and muz rim. these children need to be able to have some comfort and some clergy people look and talk to hem. gang centers, mobsters get clergy visits. we want to see if they will deny him. ez leshl i with the other. kids have been smached literally from their mother's orms and it will spend their life having remembered in their formeriers. they were ne lacy. >> is this not -- it is political, that's no doilt. >> absolutely. >> but is this not at its core a ral issue and a defining issue about who are we as pro plies. the. >> the moralish shoo is what you raise and do it whether you're republican or democrat. can you sit by and watch kids in prison taken away from their parents? who -- all i'm asking for an asylum. maybe some of them need asigh collum but you're going to prejudge that i licelated t-- isolate the kid. i had to do 90 days in jail for civil disobead yeps. they got these kids in vail because their parents are eejing so tet away from stuff like that and you lock them hup and give them a worse condition. you give them without even in the solace that brought them into the world pt it's a moral disgrace. >> talk about those who have used to just fi please actions. i think jeff sessions should be a sunday school techer x for him to not fish i had a you see any amount of description the bible talks abou rebelled or standing up wrong.ernmen that are if you don't stand up against governments when they're wrong, then moses should have never questioned pharaoh and daniel should have never questioned with the three. i mean, the whole bible is full of correcting people when they're wrong. and isn't it interesting that this is the administration that came in and questioned every law barack obama put in the book but now they're telling defenseless children, you and your parents obey the law. they didn't obey the affordable care act. so this selective kind of obeying laws and using the bible is -- it would be heresy if i wanted to be extreme, but it is certainly a double standard. >> and the lies and the lack of empathy at the top is something we've grown used to, something we've grown to expect from presidenump himself but to the republicans who have a chance to make a difference on this, the question is what more does he need to do to have you step up? i can't imagine any re-election win is worth this. i can't even imagine. >> what's the point of serving in plitd cal office? >> yeah, why are you serving? why are you serving if you're not there to lead? and if you need to win re-election that badly at -- really at the risk of damaging of burning our national fabric of what makes us americans, what more does he need to do. how low do you need to bow down, do you need to go to try and win re-election because right now you could do something. of all the people right now who have the ability to do something right now, it is republicans in washington. we'll be right back. >> having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution. bringing children with you doesn't guarantee you won't get prosecuted. i would cite you to the apostle paul in his clear and wise command in romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because god has ordained the government for his purposes. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? 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does your bed do that? experience the new sleep number 360 smart bed today and unleash your incredible, only at a sleep number store. disney pixar's incredibles 2, now playing ! a controversial day in politics. a man arrested trying to bug the offices of the democratic national committee in washington turns out to be an employee of president richard nixon's re-election campaign committee. >> nbc's garrett utley reporting 46 years ago today. the arrest of five burglars inside the democratic national headquarters in washington's watergate complex. marking what would be the beginning of president richard nixon's eventual downfall. joining us now, author and nbc news presidential historian, micha michael beshlast and sally quinn, good to see you both. >> thank you. >> this moment of history as we look back, as we look maybe forward as well. >> history sometimes rhymes. >> well, is anything rhyming with today? can we just get off topic for a second. >> you may have a president who's committed malfeasa and we may have a special prosecutor telling us about it pretty soon. but the big difference to me is richard nixon lied occasionally i think mike barnacle will agree with me over those two years of watergate from time to time, but you did not have the constant barrage of lying that we've got today. even nixon would have found that a little bit much. >> the duplicity was missing in watergate and now it is hourly. the other aspect of it, sally, is really interesting to me and i'm sure to you. when you think about it, and i bet you thought about it, is "the post" then, led by your husband bill bradley. was an old police reporter. he initially recovered it. bernstein, bradley just gave them the reins and said go to it. "the post" did incredible work then. as it is today. >> absolutely. >> all these years later. >> but, you know, what's interesting is the time line, because people are sort of saying, oh, my god, this can't go on, this can't go on. if you think about the time line, we are only in the middle of where we were during watergate. >> right. >> the break-in was a year -- was yesterday, june 17th. it took over two years before nixon resigned. and, by the way, today is the day the an niversary of "the washington post" printing the pentagon papers and on the 20th is when the supreme court ruled in favor of "the times." this is one of the things about watergate in the end is there was the tapes. you had clarity, proof. i think everybody keeps saying with mueller where's this going, where's this going. it could take another year. >> yes. >> it could. the other thing is if you think about the way that news was decimated in 1972 and '73 and '74, very little time on tv networks. now you've got a president who has a very loyal, very expansive media that will broadcast whatever lies he chooses to tell, and it's much easier for a president to blur the difference between truth and fiction. >> yes, there is. there's so much flying around. >> the other thing is "the washington post" was out there alone for a long time. and nobody picked up the story. and katharine graham kept saying, this is such a red-hot story -- >> the globe did. >> right, why isn't anybody picking it up? it wasn't until october, right before nixon was re-elected and he was re-elected in th middle of the watergate scandal that walter cronkite decided that he wanted to broadcast this. he called ben and said, i need documents. we're going to send cameras down. ben said, well, we don't have any documents. so but walter did a two-part series. i think that changed, in terms of the media, that changed the way people began to see the watergate story. >> it's inherently not in your interest, some path logically so, to lie to yourself. it took a little while for them to tell the truth to themselves. what could potentially happen when the party decides it's going to lie to itself? >> well, that's the problem. it didn't in 1974. what changed, what sealed nixon's fate was the tape was released. the committee who had been arguing for weeks nixon is innocent of any crime. they gave press conferences saying i was wrong, i'm going to vote for that article of impeachment that says obstruction of justice. we've not seen anything yet that same thing. eaders will do the >> one of the interesting aspects of exactly what you were just talking about, and to your question is there was a very reluctant speaker of the house. >> absolutely. >> carl albert. >> absolutely. >> who was prodded by the majority leader, tip o'neill, into action finally. >> we have an complicit congress, on many levels. >> abandon any morals, values are ethics. >> the point you made about they're so desperate to be elected, that just rang home with me for so much. they go back to the founders. they want these guys a few years, then back to the plow. >> not dictators for life. >> we've had people who -- i have great r for people like general hayden, joe who made the comments and the white house actually came after him. you have people like laura bush even making comparisons -- >> amazing piece this morning. >> and to the japanese interment camps. how would you characterize what's happening at the border? are the parallels within the bounds of where the conversation should be? >> well, you go back -- i think laura bush drew a wonderful historical paral the interment of japanese americans in 1942. you can argue about roosevelt's motives good or bad, but it was one of the terrible moments in american history we all agree and i think we'll look back on this moment with shame. >> even joe brought up and got criticized for talking about -- for comparing this to the nazis and saying they were sending the children to the showers. and in this case, they were telling showers they were goi to separate their parents from them so they could go take baths. that is an act comparison. i mean, this is -- and, you know, i think one of the things that makes me crazy is this evoking the bible. jeff sessions talking about how this is biblical and sarah huckabee sanders who lies for a living and who is an evangelical christian talking about this. that is a lie. this is not biblical. >> we're living in the age of george orwell unfortunately. >> ben bradley was all about the truth and the truth is slipping away as we speak at this moment. michael beshlast, thank you, sally quinn, thank you. the book "finding magic" a love story is out now in paper back. it's been a long show, i have to say. mike during the break at one point said this is just depressing. it is. that's where we're at now. i hope today throughout on msnbc you see attorney general jeff sessions, using his words, speaking out loud to the public, saying this policy of separating children from their families at the border belongs to the trump administration. he announced it. president trump owns it. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. >> thank you, mika. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle. starting with just that. zero tolerance. two first ladies criticize family separations at the border as outrage erupts from both sides of the aisle. the trump administration sending mixed messages and straight-up lies about its own policy. >> nobody likes seeing babies ripped from their mother's arms. >> romans 13, to