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provisions. there are many parts of the act that premise regulation based on the acnims quite quickly quite deeply, best achieveable control neck noling backed. maximum achieveable controlled technology. several others for various kipeds of sources and various kinds of situations. that can be helpful to industry who are typically able to develop some of those sorts of technologies and have a discussion with regulators such as eacha that it's frankly harder for citizens to become involved in because it's such a high technical level often. i think another point to be made about industry is companies often want certaintyty as much as they want and i think that's a difficulty that has come out in a lot of the environmental laws. >> host: they want to know how does this affect my bottom line. >> guest: and they want to be able to plan and to invest and say, do we need to put $1 million into this scrubber system or do i not? >> guest: it's more like a billion dollars. so it is really quite expensive for some of his programs. >> guest: >> host: a scrubber system is -- >> guest: the uses something to reduce sulfur dioxide. if you're burning a lot of coal, sometimes if you're burning oil that has a high sulfur content. >> host: our guest teaches at george washington university. what do you do? who do you represent? >> guest: our firm represents primarily people in the energy business. we represent companies that are involved in any kind of energy that you can imagine everything from coal-fired power plants to natural gas, developing exploration to refiners and wind and solar projects. our law firm where i've been now for the last seven years or merely represents the energy industry. >> host: lbj signing the clean air act into law, photograph provided to us about that event. we are talking about the ultimate impact of the clean air act with our guest, linda from texas, republican line. >> caller: i've heard several things about the epa coming afterward -- wood-burning so some people not using wood burning stoves in their homes anymore. is there any truth to that? and how come there's no one on your panel that's opposing the other side? >> guest: well, epa i think it's in the process of updating regulations for wood burning stoves. >> host: it comes down to personal level. >> guest: it is remarkable the reach of the clean air act. the hairspray people use and the lighter fluid and the cosmetics and paints and coatings as well as vehicles. so the clean air act is extraordinarily broad. it regulates virtually every aspect. look around this room and all of these things here were produced at plants that are subject to the clean air act. >> host: was that result of further revisions of the act? >> guest: yes. it was very generic and no one anticipated you would have these sorts of programs. but over time as this it's become much more aggressive. >> host: what about the scope of who is effected by the clean air act? >> guest: the clean air act is brought. no question about that. i think that's appropriate. another thing that's quite interesting about the clean air act and environmental laws in general is the power of citizen suits. that's something we've talked about so far. i think we as environmental lawyers tend to forget how unique they are, but the clean air act in 1970 and much of the subsequent environmental legislation as well adopted provisions, often talked about his private attorneys general in which citizens groups, individuals, and our mental groups have the power to enforce provisions of these statutes themselves. you don't have to lobby the epa or another regulator to take action. you have the power to take action yourself and i think that's a significant and powerful provision and tools that our citizens have to use. >> host: oughtn't oklahoma republican line, you're on with our guests. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. i've been listening to you for 20 years. this is the second time i've goal. i just wanted to give credit where credit is do during this discussion about lbj. it was, in fact, richard nixon who created the epa. he did so in 1970 by executive order which was then ratified by the senate and the congress. so let's not leave richard nixon out of this conversation. >> host: nixon's influence. >> guest: the caller is right. nixon created the epa in 1970. 1970 is when jeff and i both talked about some of the very important provisions coming into the clean air act. 1967 provided a starting point, but three years later is when many important things certainly happened. >> host: this is caroline from louisiana, independent line. go ahead. >> caller: yes. you still didn't answer the question as to who was running, was it a house of democrats or republicans under nixon whenever he signed this act? and if he did it by executive order, was it -- it seems like it was bureaucratic mission creep to make. >> host: when it comes to the clean air act? >> caller: yes. bureaucracy in the enlargement of our government and the epa itself. and the encroachment on the individual or the companies. i just want to know if it was liberal democrats, congress, or if it was a republican congress under nixon since want to give nixon so much credit. >> guest: maybe i can just answer that. the clean air act was not created by executive order. that was done through legislation. and i don't know what the makeup of congress was but is largely uncontroversial back in those days. so the past the clean air act. the present create the epa by executive order. let me address the bigger question that a couple of callers have raised, just the extent to which epa and other environmental regulators have been hinged on the things that people care about. i think there are a lot of people who believe that that is grown to an extent, and citizen suits, for example. our country is the only country in the world where people have that option. it's often abused in my view. you have well-funded opponents, people who want to stop the project on the particular plant if they're well-funded and well loaded up they can delay the building of a plant for years, and often try to drag it out enough so that the project is not completed. i think there is reason to be concerned and reason to ask, does the clean air act need to be changed? are the ways in which the regulatory apparatus has really gone beyond what is good for society. and i think that's a debate that people are now having. my own view there are ways it should be changed. >> host: what are chief among them? >> guest: one of them, just the difficulty of citing and building new projects. even if you're using the world's best control technology to minimize emissions, that process can be abused to stop people for years and years. and i think washington is epa should set regulations so people know what they're shooting at. a lot of these decisions are made kind of on a case-by-case basis, and what that's like you as i said as a lot of uncertainty about what you're going to be allowed to build. if we have clear standards and people have certainty going forward, they would want to know if you want to build a plant, standards are stricter penalties they know where they are. >> host: are there any proposed changes you would like to see? >> guest: i think all of us can point to situations where there's been more gridlock in a development and some of the proponents of the development may have thought was fair or right. i do think that citizen's ability to have a voice is important, and i think citizen suits are an important part of that, even if they are not used. even if they are present as a threat. i think that that has an important regulatory purpose. >> host: last from maryland. thanks for holding on. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. i have two questions and i apologize for my unfamiliarity with the terminology, but the woman on the panel mentioned the band are targeted substance during the period where the regulation was coming from h.e.w. was carbon dioxide. i was under the impression that came along much later. >> guest: yeah, i did not, i said carbon monoxide, and that was one of the original criteria pollutants as jeff pointed out. we got into the discussion, the criteria pollutants without making the transition clear. those pollutants were articulate under the 1970s act, not the 1967 act. so it's carbon monoxide, and the called is completely correct. carbon dioxide, which is part of the greenhouse gases debate, has been a much more recent issue. >> host: >> guest: if i could address that question. when the clean air act was passed no one thought that carbon dioxide would be regulated. i think people generally agree with that over time. >> host: why so? >> guest: it just wasn't considered to be a pollutant. it was just a byproduct. we exiled carbon dioxide. a lot of the programs were designed to take pollutants and convert them into less harmful substances, particularly carbon dioxide. and the other thing, it's finally different from any thing else that is regulated in the clean air act, and given just the volumes that are involved. a lot of clean air act programs just don't make any sense if you try to use co2 to deal with them. so until fairly recently no one really thought the clean air act could be used to regulate co2 emissions. and not under the obama administration for the first time after a decision by the supreme court they are trying to use the structure of the clean air act, and we're kind of at the beginning of the process and i think we'll see how that plays out, but that is controversial in particular a recent proposal that's come out which i think goes well beyond what epa can do under the clean air act but that's certainly a very big debate right now. >> host: this just coming on the wire at 11:00 today the epa administrator gina mccarthy is only a conference to release the second and final urban air toxics report to congress. could you give some background as far as this survey and what does it mean? >> guest: sure. so the air toxics program really existed in a very nation for earlier but got a lot of teeth in 1990 amendments to the clean air act. so this is a set of pollutants that are different from the so-called criteria pollutants that we've been discussing earlier. and address air toxics which can be carcinogens, can be pseudo-toxins, that sort of thing. so this report will be expanding that program and providing further information. >> host: -- >> guest: if i could point out, if you look at independent analysis of the clean air act, those programs have cost much more than the benefit has been worth. those programs have actually turned out to be very costly and post significant cost not only in business but on consumers. i think epa would say if we had the choice, we would spend less of a resources on those programs and more on other programs. so again in my view that's one of those things that could probably be fixed under the clean air act. >> host: how is it a cost to consumers? >> guest: if it's more costly to produce any type of a good, then that cost in large degree is passed along to the consumer. we are starting to see that in a much more significant way when it comes to power bills. as power bills have gone up significant over time, and that's for a variety of factors, but in recent years is primarily because of new and our mental requirements. that's why you see the cost of electricity is much, much higher in california, much higher in the northeast and the other parts of the country because of those environmental requirements to post significant costs on consumers. so i can tell you that the paint you use for your house is more expensive because of environmental requirements, and those are passed to the consumer in many different ways. >> host: randy, hello. >> caller: thank you. i was wondering if the entire epa lives in the real world. have a look around and notice that there are no car manufacturing plants, no steel mills anymore? i couldn't even auto my truck in boston at a rest area because it was polluting. but if they just look around and see that we have nothing going on like we used to, mexico city, look at that place. we cannot control them. i said i guess that stuff is floating over the tray, i don't know but i think the epa is an entity of the government that's really gone wild, you know? it's putting a burden on everybody. all the citizens of the united states. that's my comment. thank you. >> guest: that's certainly a viewpoint. there are others who would disagree and say it's okay if we're spending a little more for our energy. it's okay if we're spending a little more for our products. it's important to me that my kids have clean air to breathe and are able to go outside in a way that may not have been true in some areas in the past. we don't have killer smog's anymore. we have made a lot of progress. just make this point early on. we have made a great deal of progress. in the last 40 years on clean air. and i think that's something to celebrate. >> host: from columbia, maryland, tom republican line. good morning, yes, good morning. i would like to thank lbj, especially his wife, lady bird. when i grew up in washington when i was a kid, the potomac was a toilet bowl. and not just washington. baltimore, it's berg, these are all places i visited as a kid. charles townes, richmond -- charleston, richmond all these cities that have beautiful areas around their water known. they were toilet bowls back in the '60s. something had to be done, and god bless that they did it. now, a year, that's another story. -- air. washington doesn't have any industry in the air site other than power and automobile pollution, suffers from dirty air patterns from around the country. and we just have to do what -- and be good stewards of our environment. >> host: thanks, caller. anything from the? >> guest: i think it's true, goes back to our original discussions, that the problems were visible, workload a big issue back in the '60s and that's why there really was a consensus around all these issues. the issue now is, for example, people agree we want clean air. if we use the definition of clean air that was in place for many years, virtually everybody has clean air but that standard has changed. and so there are debates over how much spending -- how much we should be spending. the other caller issued -- it is true there's been an incentive for especially heavy industry manufacturing as to move overseas. that's a product of a number of things but part of it is environmental regulation. i point out that california's that a significant manufacturing sector and significant industry, and almost and highly that it's been moved out of the state not as they've been subject to more and more stringent requirements. is a place where we have to draw the line because it does have an impact on jobs. it has an impact on cost and consumers. the question is how much more expensive are we going to make things. we've been blessed in this country with an abundant supply of natural gas, which is attracting more industry to certain parts of the country. there's concern that overregulation may basically stop that renaissance in the manufacturing sector. >> host: are you saying that current epa standards for air or too low as far as the particles and things found in the air, too low and unachievable? >> guest: that's true certainly with ozone. ozone is a pollutant we begin with for 40 years. there are parts of the country that simply cannot meet the ozone standard the matter what they do, because of their local geography, because of natural conditions. i would argue a lease with respect to ozone standard is not achievable in certain parts of the country. states have a legal obligation to meet that standard even when people know it can't be met. that's another troubling part of the clean air act. >> host: what about these current levels? >> guest: it's an interesting political point, truly. it's hard to explain. jeff would say people understand that it can't be met. i'm not sure that the mother to his word about her kid with asthma running around and playing understands that. and that's part of the political conversation and part of the education process that needs to go on. but we live in a democracy where individual citizens have a right to express their views and to help you decide whether or not an ozone level is too low or not. >> guest: i do agree with that but, unfortunately, as in many parts of our society there's a certain amount of demagoguery that goes on, and people are fond of referring to ozone medic julie. no matter what the bloom is, what impact the scientific issues are much more can't locate it than that. so the debate serve the needs to be had, but it's a difficult one because these are technical issues and people tend to line up on different sides of them. >> host: i'll ask you, we have a viewer off of twitter said if you could comment on cuba thoughts as well about president bush's clear skies act an impact on the clean air act. >> guest: this action was something that i was involved in in developing back during the bush administration. the basic insights that we had, and it was shared by epa career staff and others, was that it te was a way that we could get greater environmental protection at a lower cost and provide certainty to the industry by setting very stringent standards but giving industry enough time to meet those standards, and to do in those cost effective way possible. unfortunately, we came up one vote short in the senate of getting the past, and begin that was largely because of the debate over co2 and the democrats in the senate said, well, this may be a good idea for those pollutants, but unless you also include co2 we are not going to vote for this act. so again i don't think there's, in my view, it's been clear that would've been a more cost-effective way to get these reductions. you can argue over whether the capsule in the right place but it was an effort to provide longer-term certainty to the power sector. >> guest: another example of the difficulty of getting consensus on a legislative fix. because i think there were some valuable things of the clear skies initiative. it wasn't able to get through. certainly there can be disagreement. if we were able to have a democratic process in the congress to deal with some of these issues and actually get them passed, i think many of us would think that that was a better regulatory system, but epa is left with a circumstance where they are trying to adapt legislation from 1990 at the earliest by and large to situations 30 years later, and that's a difficult thing. >> host: one more call for our guests. darrell from washington state. democrat line. >> caller: yeah, i've been listening to your audience. i'm originally from missouri, so tying beach missouri a one time was desolated by toxin. they may go back to the 60s with the bald eagle was decimated by the pollutant from all the other -- stomach so as americans, as we are progressive in our state and our country, we're a bunch of crybabies. we do not need to consume more than we need. and we need to be good stewards. for our children and beyond. so when we talk about jobs and so forth, i'm 57 now. i was in the military. my point is we have to come together to make this happen. we have to put our differences and say, we can do this. as americans, as democrats and republicans. and the congress needs to come together and look down the road 20 years from now. these jobs are going overseas. now -- >> host: we have to leave it there. and you both talked about the divide these issues usually takes, you talked about coming together. is that a possibility on any front? >> guest: i think it is. i think that are people of good will on both sides of the spectrum. i think congress in particular is a difficult for him to make that happen, but i think a lot of policy can be developed outside that context. and certainly some work and guidance by congressional representatives can contribute to the process yesterday i'd like to use the example of presidential ? >> guest: george w. bush was republican you took an active role in trying to get consensus through the congress. i'm critical of president obama who really didn't engage in the kind of consensusbuilding when he was trying to promote legislation. the problem we now have in my view is epa is trying to pound a very large square peg into a small round hole, and some people would say is abusing the authority of the clean air act. that will ultimately be decided in court probably, but i think there is an opportunity to come together. i'm still optimistic about that but i think it takes presidential leadership. that's the lesson of the clean air act in 1990, someone who could go out and talk to both sides and find some common ground. we've not really seen that since 1990. but i'm optimistic that at some point the situation will be repeated. >> host: a discussion about lbj's great society, the clean air act. you heard from jeff holmstead, and robin juni with george washington university, environmental law professor. to both of you think you aspect thank you for having us. >> i'm greta brawner and this week on washington will be focusing on president lyndon johnson's vision for a great society and its impact today. tune in at 78 eastern time and join the conversation like calling us or send us -- singh as any move. you can send us a tweet and join a conversation on facebook.com/cspan. >> earlier today attorney general eric holder announced a $17 billion settlement with bank of america over that institutions role in the 2008 financial crisis. he discussed the justice department wrote in the investigation looking at the murder of american journalist james foley by the group isis. is a look. >> yesterday as you know i visited ferguson in order to be degrees on the ongoing federal civil rights investigation into the august night shooting death of michael brown. investigation i launched more than a week ago. during the course of my visit i met with law enforcement as well as community leaders. we had i think constructive discussions about the importance of maintaining peace, averting future acts of violence or vandalism, and ensuring public safety as well as the need for outreach and engagement to rebuild a fractured trust between the community and the law enforcement. going forward i will continue to get regular updates and closely monitor the situation as it unfolds. although our investigation will take time, although i cannot discuss the specifics of this case it in greater detail since remains open and very active, the people of ferguson can have confidence in the federal agents, investigators and prosecutors who are leading this process. our investigation will be fair. it will be thorough and it will be independent. at a personal note i've seen a lot in my time as a dr. angell but few things of effectiveness greatly as my visit to ferguson. i had the chance to meet the family of michael brown. i spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son, myself. they want answers. in my conversations with dozens of people in ferguson yesterday it was clear that this shooting incident has brought to the surface underlying tensions that have existed for many years. there is a history to these tensions and that history simmers in more communities than just ferguson. law enforcement has a role to play in reducing tensions as well. as a brother of a retired law enforcement officer i know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform the duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. they put their lives on the line every day and often have to make split-second decisions. a national outcry we've seen speaks to a sense of mistrust and mutual suspicion that can take hold in the relationship between law enforcement and certain communities. i wanted the people of ferguson to know that i personally understood that ms. truss. i wanted them to know that while so much else may be uncertain, this attorney general and this department of justice stands with the people of ferguson. i hope the relative calm we witnessed overnight last night can be enduring. a person yesterday, the people would take great pride in their town and the mistrust that exists, they reject the violence we've seen over the past couple of weeks. in that sense while i went to ferguson to provide reassurance, in fact they gave me hope. my commitment to them is that long after this tragic story no longer be sees this level of attention, the justice department will continue to stand with ferguson. we will continue the conversation this incident has sparked without the need for trust building between law enforcement officers and the communities that they serve, about the appropriate use of force and the need to ensure fair and equal treatment for everyone who comes in contact with the police. >> a portion of the attorney general's remarks from earlier today. we will have is entire briefing later on a schedule or you can watch it online at c-span.org. >> here's a look at our primetime schedule on c-span networks. >> and we wrap up today's look at washington or with your phone calls, facebook, spent weeks. this is about 25 minutes. >> host: for the remainder of our time, open phones. again the numbers, (202) 585-3881, republicans. (202) 585-3880 for democrats. and independents, (202) 585-3880 to. this from the "washington times." here's the headline from tom howell junior. tax for most new challenge for obamacare. he writes that -- >> host: you can read more in the "washington times" this morning. if you go to the pages of "usa today," a profile of texas governor rick perry and the headline from the store but ricky gervais. rick perry comes out fighting. talks about his recent events. he goes on to say -- by the way,k perry >> host: by the way, rick perry scheduled to speak in washington at the topic is on immigration. in the address other concerns as well. you can see that live on c-span starting at 11:00. texas governor rick perry speaking here in washington, d.c. open phones, florida, democrat's line. good morning, hello. >> caller: hello. i wanted to ask a question from the other show that was on just before. mr. hamilton -- hello? >> host: mr. hamilton? what do you mean? >> caller: well, he was the gentleman who's on the show just before tal talking about the cln air act. >> host: correct. go ahead. >> caller: i can't hear myself speaking. >> host: go ahead. >> caller: well, mr. homestead, i'm sorry. first of all, we are taught that in being a former government employee and representative of the environmental protection agency. but i would like to know his current position. i believe he is representing the coal industry. can you tell us exactly what he's doing right now? >> host: he is gone now but he did say during the course of her conversation that he represents a wide variety of energy industries. >> caller: no, he represents the coal industry very strongly. it's in his bio. >> host: okay. >> caller: okay, and then he talked about profits and how the business cannot exist under the clean air act. well, the clean air act has been in existence since the first president bush put it in place. i'd like him to answer the question being that he represents the coal industry, the amount of profit the coal industry is making. >> host: well, he's no longer here, so he is not able to answer that question. let's move on to joe, austin, texas, independent line. >> caller: yes, good morning. i wanted to make a comment for the general public. what we are seeing in ferguson, missouri and the militarization of police, i hope that everyone has a chance to look at some of the photos, read some of the articles, things like this are happening more and more across the country i believe, as the government unloads excess surplus equipment. and as they unload, i believe as much as $5 million across the country so far, i believe it's sending a message to the police that they are more military warriors involved in warfare more so than to serve and protect. i think it's setting a dangerous precedent for the future. i hope everyone takes notice of the pictures and photos and becomes more informed on this subject. thank you. >> host: philip from fairfax, virginia, democrat's line. >> caller: i just had a quick call on an arcane subject of tax policy. if anybody is listening, any republican candidates lately, including the speaker of the house, mr. bennett, the third republicans complain continued about taxes being too high, or taxes being too hot and spending being too high and they want to cut spending and want to cut taxes. if anybody would take the time to actually look at the statistics they will find for the last five years, except for the first year of the obama administration, three items abound spending and those items are medicar medicare, medicaid,h care, social security, national defense. they add up to 60 boo% of the federal budget. if you throw in interest, we have to pay up to 70%. if they are serious about getting rid of the deficit, republicans need to stand up and say, let's cut social security, let's cut the fed, cut medicare or else they have to stand up and say we will raise taxes. you can't have it both ways. i wish they would be honest about this. that's all i have to say. >> host: national section of the new times. take a look at the 2014 section but in the longer context of the 2016 election -- unlike mr. obama, she is this >> host: this is pete, district heights maryland. democrat's line. >> caller: yes. i was listening to the guy came on that y'all were talking to isis, people over there in iraq. and i think c-span should really need to actually come out and tell the truth and say that these guys was trained by the united states and the situation in georgia is nothing new. i don't know why you guys don't come out and say that. >> host: carlos, florence new york independent line. >> caller: i have to comment. wanted you had the lady that was on early from the brookings institute, she talked about the poverty growing up. for to determine in the '90s to talk about urban sprawl. said it cut down on construction, and what she did mitchell is anything but this whole thing about regionalization. i live in nassau county and jeb was county and jeb westchester surrounding manhattan. these are wealthy suburbs of new york city. a lot of these to have wealthy suburbs. i don't think she was the most forthcoming about just type of the poverty growth in all these small towns, which i don't understand why we let it all the illegal immigrants coming to the country when we assume the americans they can't work and we have no manufacturing. i think she could have been a little more up front. the other thing about the two people from the epa, they are talking about like all the resources and everything that people don't mind paying a little bit more. people don't -- the epa is basically is doing the work for the top 1% come all these people that are democrats and their liberals. all this whole thing about global warming, epa controls these forces. that's all it's about. that's more than enough food, more than enough of everything and they just want to use this whole thing about the global warming and the environment, an environment has improved. i have lived in the city. there was small in the '70s. now the air is fresh. they're taking to an extent i think it's great is on his like no one is watching them what to do. you know they're doing funny this is because why do the e-mails keep disappearing? in 2000 the e-mails disappeared. a couple years ago, all these left wing organizations who back and forth. all this is about controlling the resources and not letting people move in, out in the west. >> host: a fight taking place over a voting map in florida. >> host: missouri. >> caller: i live in north county. and the issue in ferguson is not poverty, because ferguson has very strict rules on the property there. the people are concerned about the violence against people that live there and the police -- michael was visiting his grandparents. he did not live there in that complex. and he was shot in broad, open daylight at 12:04 any afternoon and he laid on the ground for five hours before the removed his body. they are concerned about people being killed, nobody is doing anything about it. the black people are targeted. michael and all other people should be, feel like they can walk down the street on a saturday morning and not get shot. >> host: (202) 585-3881 the line for republicans. (202) 585-3880, democrat's line. and (202) 585-3882. of your mention ferguson, missouri. attorney general eric holder in ferguson, a story that comes from the "washington post" says -- this took place before briefing that took place at fbi headquarters. he addressed the situatio situan ferguson potential of it of him talking with viewers. >> our investigation is different from that which the state is doing. we are looking for violations of federal and criminal civil rights statutes which is different from what the local investigation is. we have brought substantial number of people here, agencies, who denigrate job and if the canvassing been done over the past week and. they continue to follow leads so that we can do a thorough and a third job in making a determination about what happened on august the ninth. i'm confident that through the ability of these people we will make, be able to make a determination about whether or not any federal statutes have been in fact been violated. >> host: that is attorney general eric holder. marietta, california, francisco up next, democrat's line. >> caller: good morning. yes, i have a question. why is the pashtun to longer offered a federal tax credit for people who want to buy a hybrid vehicle in 2014? and i asked because in 2008, i was commuting a 96-mile round-trip, and i bought a 2008 altima hybrid and received a 2050-dollar tax credit. it was worth it to me to buy a hybrid vehicle but now there are no longer any federal tax credits. additionally i'm in the market for a new vehicle now and i would like to buy a factory option of having a gasoline and compressed natural gas vehicle. i used to work in the city palm desert planet department. they had a fleet of ford contours that you just flip the switch and it would go from natural gas to gasoline but that option is not being offered as a factory option for any car manufacturer selling cars in the united states of america host mike james, lafayette indiana, independent line. >> caller: in the words of the great communicator from mississippi, and most folks will know who he is, i think most of these people in washington are educated beyond their intelligence. thank you. >> host: reading, pennsylvania, republican line. >> caller: good morning. i had a question about the situation in ferguson, missouri. our attorney general eric holder has gone down there, yet three days after that, after the shooting in ferguson, in salt lake city, utah, a white man was kneeling on the ground and was told to kneel on the ground and he was shot dead by a black police officer. now, i wonder why there is not the moral outrage of the incident in salt lake city, utah, as there was in ferguson, missouri? i mean, it's just a question i have. you have everything happening in ferguson, and nothing in salt lake city. what's the reason? >> host: what do you think the reason is? >> caller: i haven't the slightest idea. people like jesse jackson and al sharpton and at times going into ferguson, missouri, are creating a hotspot situation just to stir up emotions. and they are completely ignoring the similar circumstance in salt lake city, utah,. >> host: what you think about the involvement of the attorney general and what's going on in missouri and him being there? >> caller: i don't think it's necessary for him to be their. >> host: why so? >> caller: why so? because that's putting the influence of the president on the situation when it's not putting the influence of the president on the situation in salt lake city, utah,. >> host: stanley from west virginia, democrat's line. >> caller: my name is joe stanley. i'm a retired union coalminer. you just had a segment on air about the clean air act and the environmental protection. people should come to southern west virginia and see what we have left after the extraction of coal. there's been approximately 2 million acres of mountaintop range in all the station, animal life in goes without because of mountaintop removal. we are at the bottom of every list in america, or tied for every list. we were one of the richest states in america. we have one of the largest natural gas capacities, or the probability for improving natural gas. but our electricity is over 98% coal generated. our environmental laws, if it weren't for the u.s. epa, would not be enforced. the west virginia department environmental protection has constantly, constantly for over the last seven years, had over 250 vacancies in enforcement. if it weren't for the federal government, which runs over 50% of west virginia dep mining permit -- positions, we wouldn't have any enforcement at all. >> host: anthony from mississippi up next. good morning. >> caller: yes, california. my name is anthony. you know, i think that tax breaks for foreign vehicles are just be done for foreign corporations. i think that if they aren't giving those tax breaks and more i think that's a good thing, along with trying to recover some kind of job situation for america. just a quick note on ferguson. i think that opportunity has to be the priority for cities like ferguson or any other city in this country. stockton, california, is another one where there's a lot of people who are out of work and people get out of jail and they can't get a job. so our situation is just being exacerbated strict because of a few free trade agreements. that's all i have to say. >> host: the topic of president obama's vacation in the "washington post" this morning, saying -- >> host: memphis, tennessee. hello. this is brian. >> caller: the guy that called from pennsylvania a few minutes ago, he referenced what was going on in ferguson and tried to parallel that with salt lake city, or utah. the media makes those decisions. that's not a decision that individual news outlets make. i mean, it's a big deal in ferguson. this guy was killed by ed -- by the police department. so just to comment on that, i think it's one. i think it makes no sense. but i think to draw parallel between the two is not, is not adequate. thanks. >> host: from michigan, here is john, independent line. >> caller: good morning. how are

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together. i'm still optimistic about that. i think it takes presidential leadership. that is a lesson of the clean air act of 1990, someone who can talk to both sides and find some common ground. and we have not really seen that since 1990. but i am optimistic that at some point, the situation will be repeated. host: a discussion about the clean air act. guests.d from our two thank you. coming up in the last half hour, open phones. here are the numbers if you want to call in and make your comments -- we will take those soon first an update from c-span radio. >> an update on ebola the officials from the world health organization are visiting two hospitals in liberia in an area authorities have sealed off to help prevent the spread of the ebola virus. has returned to west point after clashes between protesters and security forces, nighttime curfew has also been put in place. authorities say ebola spreading fast in liberia. meanwhile, both american health care workers infected with the virus in west africa could soon be released from the hospital. they have been undergoing treatment at emory university hospital in atlanta will stop there holding a news conference early this morning to discuss the discharge of dr. kent brantly and daisy writebol. dr. bradley were turning to the economy, fewer people applied for u.s. unemployment benefits last week. the labor department says weekly claims for the benefit fell 14,000. the less volatile four-week average rose 4700. it remains close to levels before the great recession started in 2007. this from politico's playbook, they have what they call a sneak peak. they write that texas governor rick areas coming across as increasingly confident, even sassy, in his out-of-state appearances. today he is in d.c. before heading to new hampshire post up today he will warn of a possible islamic state attack on the u.s. homeland, this from his prepared remarks. you can hear governor perry live on c-span radio or watch him on c-span television. the event begins at noon eastern time at the heritage foundation. and those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. are some of the highlights for this weekend. find our television schedule one week in advance at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us or e-mail us. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. host: for the remainder of our time, open phones. this from "the washington times." you can read more in "the washington times" this morning. "usa today" a profile of texas governor rick kerry and headline talks about his recent events. by the way, rick perry is scheduled to speak your in washington. the topic is on immigration. e-mail addresses political and -- he may address political and other concerns as well. you can see that on c-span starting at 11:00. to open phones, this is florida, democrat line. good morning. hello. i wanted to ask a question from the other show that was on just before. mr. hamilton? hello? host: mr. hamilton, what do you mean? caller: he was talking but the clean air act. host: correct. go ahead. caller: i can't hear myself speaking. first of all, we're talking about him being a former government employee and represented of the environmental protection agency. but i would like to know, i want to know his current position. i believe he is representing the coal industry. can you tell us exactly what he is doing right now? host: he is gone now, but he did say the course of our conversation he represents a wide variety of energy agencies. caller: no, he represents the coal industry very strongly. it is in his bio. host: ok. caller: then he talked about profit and how the business cannot exist under the clean air act. well, the clean air act has been in existence since the first president bush put it in place. i would like him to answer a question being that he represents the coal industry, the amount of profit the coal industry is making. he is no longer here, so he is not able to answer that question. let's move on to joe, texas, independent line. caller: good morning. fornted to make a comment the general public. what we're seeing in ferguson, missouri and the militarization has aice, i hope everyone chance to look at some of the photos, read some of the articles. things like this are happening more and more across the country , i believe, as the government unloads excess surplus equipment. and as they unload, i believe, as much as $5 million across the country so far, i believe it is sending a message to the police that they are more military warriors more so than to serve and protect. i think it is setting a dangerous presidents for the future. i hope everyone takes notice of the pictures and the photos and becomes more informed on the subject. thank you. host: fairfax, virginia, democrat line. call on anad a quick arcane subject of tax policy. if anybody is listening, any republican candidates lately including the speaker of the house, they've heard republicans complain continually about taxes being too high or taxes being too high and spending being too high and they want to cut spending and they want to cut taxes. the timey would take to actually look at the statistics they will find for the last five years, except for the first year via obama administration, three items have dominated spending. those items are medicare/medicaid, health care, social security, and national defense. they add up to 62% of the federal budget. -- if they'ren serious about getting rid of the deficit, republicans need to stand up and say, let's cuss a cut social security or raise taxes. you can have a both ways. i just wish they would be honest about this. host: take a look at the 2014 election, the longer context of the 2016 election. unlike mr. obama, she is this is peach, maryland, democrat line. was listening at the guy that came on that you're talking about isis. the people over there in iraq. saying we need to come out and tell the truth and say these guys was trained by the united states. is situation in jordan nothing new. i don't know why you guys don't come out and say that. host: carlos, new york, independent line caller: you had a lady on earlier from the brookings institute who told growing up.verty i remember in the 1990's there were talking about urban sprawl, so they cut down on construction. and you did not mention anything about the regionalization. i live in nassau county. the of westchester surrounding manhattan. these are wealthy suburbs of new york city. a lot of of cities do have wealthy suburbs. the mosthink she was forthcoming, talking about the poverty growth in the small towns, which i don't understand why we're letting all the illegal immigrants come into the country when we have so many americans they can't work and we have no manufacturing. i think she could've been a little more up front. the other thing about the two people from the epa, talking about all the resources and everything that we people don't mind paying a little bit more, -- the epa is doing the work for the top 1%, all these people that are democrats and liberals. this whole thing about global controllede epa resources. that is all it is about. there's more than enough food and everything. they just want to use this whole thing about the global warming and the environment and the environment has improved. in new york city, there was smog in the 1970's. now the air is fresh. i think it is very dishonest like it is watching what they're doing. they're doing funny business because why do their e-mails keep disappearing? there are tied with all these left organizations going back and forth. this is about controlling the resources and not letting people move into or out in the west. host: taking place over voting map, the subject of a story in "the new york times." missouri. caller: i live in north county. the issue in ferguson is not poverty, because ferguson has very strict rules on the care of the property there. aboutople are concerned the violence against people that -- michael was visiting his grandparents. he did not live in that complex. he was shot in broad open in thet at 12:04 afternoon and laid on the ground for five hours before they removed his body. they are concerned about people getting killed and nobody is doing anything about it. the black people are targeted. people and all other should be -- feel like they can walk down the street on a saturday morning and not get shot. the reviewer mentioned ferguson, missouri. a story that comes from "the washington post" -- he addressed the situation in ferguson. here's a little bit of him talking with viewers. [video clip] >> our investigation is different that from which the state is doing. where looking for violations of federal, criminal civil rights statues which is different than with the local investigation is. but we have brought substantial number of people here, agency or, who are done a great job in canvassing that they did over the past weekend. they continue to follow leads so we can do a servo and fair job in making a determination about what happened on august the ninth. i'm confident through the ability of these people we will make her be up to make a determination about whether or thatny federal statutes have been violated. host: that is attorney general eric holder. democrat line, next. caller: good morning. i have a question. why is the federal government no longer offering a federal tax credit for people who want to buy a hybrid vehicle in 2014? i ask because in 2008, i was a 96 mile round-trip commute and i bought a 2008 altima hybrid and received a federal tax credit. it was worth it to me to buy the hybrid vehicle, but now there are no longer any federal tax credits. additionally, i'm in the market for new vehicle now and i would like to buy a factory option of having a gasoline and compressed natural gas vehicle. i used to work in the city of palm desert planning department. they had a fleet of ford contours they just flipped the switch and would go from natural gas to gasoline. but that option does not -- is offered in the united states of america. host: james, indiana, independent line. and the words of a great communicator from mississippi, and most folks will know who he is, us to these people in washington are educated beyond their intelligence. thank you. host: pennsylvania, republican line. caller: good morning. i have a question about the situation in ferguson, missouri. that are attorney general eric holder has gone down there, yet three days after that, after the shooting in ferguson, in celtic -- salt lake city, utah, a white man was kneeling on the ground and he was shot officer. black police now, i wonder why there is not the moral outrage of the utahent in salt lake city, as there was in ferguson, missouri? i mean, it is just a question i have. you have everything happening in ferguson, nothing in salt lake city. what is the reason? host: what do you think the reason is? caller: i haven't the slightest idea. people like jesse jackson and how sharpton and the out-of-towners going into ferguson, missouri, are creating a hot spot situation just to stir up emotions. and they're completely ignoring similar circumstance in salt lake city, utah. host: what do you think about the involvement of the attorney general and him being there? host: i don't think it is necessary for him to be there. host: why so? caller: it is putting influence of the president on the situation wanted to stop and influence of the situation in celtic city, utah. host: democrat line. stanley,y name is joe a retired union coal miner. you just had a segment on the clean air act and the environment protection. people should come to southern west virginia and see what we have left after the extraction of coal. there's been approximately 2 million acres of mountaintop range in all the four station and animal life and clean water that goes with that because of mountaintop removal. we are at the bottom of every list in america were tied for every list. we were one of the richest states in america. we have one of the largest were theas capacities probability for improvement of natural gas. but our electricity is over 90% coal generated. our environmental laws, if it weren't for the u.s. epa, would not be enforced. the west virginia department environment protection has constantly for over the last seven years had over 250 vacancies in enforcement. if it weren't for the federal , which funds over 50% of west virginia dep mining permit -- positions, we would not have any enforcement at all. host: anthony, mississippi. caller: california. my name is anthony. i think the tax breaks for foreign vehicles are just a boon for foreign corporations. i think if they aren't giving us tax bricks anymore, i think that is a good thing. along with trying to recover some kind of job situation for america. just a quick note on ferguson. i think opportunity has to be the priority for cities like ferguson or any other city in this country. stockton, california is another one where there's a lot of people who are out of work and people get out of jail and can't get a job. so our situation is just been exacerbated strictly because of a few free trade agreements. that is all i have to say. host: the topic of president obama's vacation in "the washington post" -- memphis, tennessee. the guy that, called from pennsylvania a few minutes ago. he referenced what was going on in ferguson and try to parallel that salt lake city or utah. the media makes those decisions. that is not a decision that individual news outlets make. it is a big deal in ferguson. this guy was killed by pd. so just to reference that, just to comment on that, i think it is wrong and makes no sense. i think to draw parallel between the two is not adequate. thanks. host: from michigan, john, independent line. caller: good morning. how are you? i was calling in reference to the situation in ferguson, missouri. i heard people calling and were criticizing al sharpton and jesse jackson for showing up. at the parents of michael brown requested that they come to ferguson. is suffice request enough. the other comment, i think it is a big deal or good idea to attorney general chose to visit ferguson because these have been long-standing issues in ferguson , is my understanding. but it is all over the country. there are too many black young males getting shot and killed by the police. host: what do you think jesse jackson and al sharpton, what do they add to the situation by being there? caller: there are this there i guess to console the family. which at this point in time, everybody needs to console the family. in my opinion, this sound man was shot and murdered by the police -- this young man was shot and murdered by the police. that is my comment. florida,terhaven, democrat line. caller: i just wanted to call into echo on what we were saying what is happening in ferguson and the fact that reverend al sharpton, joe madison, if they do not go to a city, there will be no light shed on what is happening to our young black man getting shot down in the streets. so we would not have known anything about the trayvon martin incident, the incident with renisha mcbride. things would not be brought to the for front with a man with a chokehold in new york. we would not know nothing of this. light would not be shed on this and that she bring people who bring light. so all of us who argue against these people coming out to help, that is exactly what we need. otherwise, it would be swept under the rug. host: so the attorney general being there is a plus is what you're saying? caller: he absolutely is a plus being here. even if they brought the president or whoever they want to bring their, we need to shed on these incidences that are categorically happening in bringing destruction to our black men in this country. host: should president obama visit the area? caller: if he so chooses to. like i said, any light that can be shed. people were being hanged and you never knew anything about it. but now the light is being shined on it and people know about it and the media. people come out and rally against it and voice their opinion. other people seem to get upset about it. but when other people's kids get killed, if it's your child, you would want summit in all about it, too. by god, we ought to be bringing and shedding light on this. our: that is the end of program today. another edition of "washington journal post quote comes or way of 7:00. 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many locals here in the bay area rooting on one fighter in particular. >> reporter: yes, they were. according to dozens of tweets many people had issues with pay-per-view and some people weren't even able to order the fight tonight. they'll call it the biggest fight of the century. it might have had the biggest delay of the century. many tv providers struggled to keep up with demand. people on twitter let their frustrations be known and cable providers responded. more than 300 people poured in to this public and restaurant to watch floyd mayweather take on manny pacquiao in the ring. >> so much hype. everybody is elevating the whole boxing world again. >> reporter: this girl says her father boxed for 12 years. >> this fight, mayweather's reputation. i think he's great. he's great at marketing himself. he's got a strong mind and that's what i admire most about him. he just goes in there and gives us what we want to see, a great performance. >> reporter: jeff calls himself a pac man fan. >> boxing has been a sport in the back alley. now with pacquiao and mayweather, i feel it's going to bring it back. >> reporter: the crowd here appeared evenly split over who they were rooting for. in the end, they hoped tonight's fight will be a one-two punch for resurrecting the sport of boxing. an estimated 3 million households paid to watch the fight tonight. >> twitter was filled with reaction to this big fight. joe stanley was not impressed with the match. he tweeted that was a brilliant business scheme. snooze fest. the team's number one draft pick tweeted, usual boxing clinic. not impressed either. take a look at the amount of private jet traffic jam before tonight's flight. this is real. doesn't even look real. packed in wing-to-wing. tickets were not cheap for those wanting to watch the fight in person. so a lot of wealthy spectators decided to charter their own flight. the airport had to stop anymore private planes because the tarmac was so full. we do have breaking news to bring you right now. a woman and a toddler dead after a driver ran right into an apartment complex. this happened earlier this evening. police believe the driver was under the influence of alcohol when he lost control of his car. two young children were also hurt in the crash. they are expected to survive. the driver is in police custody. we'll bring you more details about this on the 7:00 a.m. newscast today in the bay. last night, hundreds took to the streets of oakland and left shattered windows and damaged cars in their wake. earlier this morning, the mayor of oakland said more could be done to protect property and to stop protestors. we toured the damage and spoke to shop owners who are getting fed up. >> reporter: a much quieter night here in oakland after a very long day of cleanup. at this lot alone, we counted dozens of cars with windshields smashed in. very frustrating day for business owners and people who live and work nearby. oakland police said they had extra patrols tonight after a long day of cleanup. >> we actually had six windows broken out and both entry doors were smashed. and, you know what can you do? >> reporter: dozens of parked cars were vandalized at dealerships. >> to destroy private property like this is -- you know, it doesn't serve a purpose. it really sends a negative message. >> reporter: it came after a day of peaceful demonstrations on may day. the same day that criminal charges in baltimore were announced involving the death of freddie gray. by night fall a large group of people headed up broadway. >> is very small group of people with rocks in their pockets and malice in their hearts disturbed what was otherwise a very positive day in oakland. >> the police chief says there were a number of protests other events to handle. overall, there were challenges. >> they requested mutual aid at beginning. cloud cover prevented full use of the helicopter. >> city leaders suggest the city was able to protect people, but perhaps didn't do as good a job as they should have protecting people. about 12 people were arrested. and businesses who have surveillance video are being asked to share that with oakland police. nbc bay area news. >> the city of baltimore still under a curfew tonight after days of protests and riots over the death of freddie gray. several people were arrested. overall, the streets were much quieter earlier today. more protests did take place. unlike recently today's demonstrations were people. hundreds of people participated in what some called a victory rally. this comes after a prosecutor filed charges against six police officers in connection with gray's death. justice is about the principle of fair dealing. it doesn't have nothing to do with black, white, asian or latino. >> gray died to a spinal injury while in custody. the state attorney says police did not provide gray with medical attention. two people under arrest after a chase. kepties say it started when a stolen vehicle was as to theed on highway 17. the officer tried to stop the vehicle, but the suspect wouldn't stop. at one point, the driver nearly ran into people on a bike ride. the suspect ended up hitting two cars and ran away. he was arrested about 45 minutes later after an intense search. the passenger, a woman surrendered peacefully. a person is dead, four others in critical condition tonight. this after a driver plowed through a crowd of people about 2 krok 2:00 this morning. they say he crashed into the crowd. the security guard was able to pull him out of his truck and hold him. the driver is facing vehicular manslaughter and felony dui charges. the club is holding an event to raise money to pay for funeral costs. a beloved silicon valley figure has died. sand berg died on friday. goldberg's brother reveal ltd the news but did not mention the cause. he worked at survey monkey for the past six years growing the company to more than 500 employees and reaching 25 million customers. they released a statement said that part dave hesitate genius courage and leadership were overshadowed only by his compassion and heart. they called him a loyal husband and a great ceo. soccer teams kicked up their protest a notch today against second-hand smoke coming onto their field. they put on masks to show their opposition to the smoke coming to the people attending concerts or games at levi stadium. they say they've complained for weeks now, however, the problem only goes away temporarily. >> within a couple weeks, the same situation is now back up and runs. we actually think our kids are valuable. we think our players deserve to play in a healthy environment. >> the crews report back they did not see anyone smoking near the soccer fields. a health warning tonight. a highly contagious bird flu is killing some poultry flocks here in california. it's affecting mostly chickens and turkeys. california farmers and ranchers are required to monitor their flock daily to make sure none of the birds are infected. if they're infected they're euthanized to keep the disease from spreading. the virus is not harmful to people. a big royal announcement. >> it's a girl! it's a girl! >> it's a girl. >> it's a girl. if you were wondering whose girl it would be this lovely couple. they welcomed a baby princess. where this little girl will stand in line for the crown. and the man about to be made a saint. why there's controversy. watching low clouds moving across the bay area right now. those low clouds could be dropping a little bit of drizzle in parts of the bay area. i'll show you what you can expect for the rest of your sunday in the forecast when we come right back. big news today from the u.k. a little princess has been born. britain celebrated with pink lights after the duchess gave birth to a baby girl. she was born this morning weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces. she was born after two and a half hours. she's fourth in line to the throne. britain has not welcomed a princess for decades. >> it's a girl. and it's fantastic. every woman and every little girl loves a princess. >> tonight, the royal family is resting at home. everyone is anxiously awaiting to learn the name of the royal addition. this could be revealed as soon as tomorrow. >> pope francis is moving ahead with the cannonization despite controversy. serra found admissions up and down california. the pope's decision had been met with criticism. some leaders say he treated native american poorly. the pope responded by saying he defended the people. this will be the first time right here on u.s. soil in september. as we begin to wrap up this saturday, it certainly was a beautiful day out there today. i went for a lovely hike and it was just a perfect temperature. >> yeah, pretty comfortable today compared to thursday and friday. temperatures inland were very warm. but the weekend cooling off. right now, we have low clouds on approach from the northwest in the san jose. 56 degrees in san francisco. some low clouds and misty skies. sea breeze still going. oakland, yes, the one chance of rain tomorrow at 12:30 in the afternoon as the warriors take on the memphis fwrizgrizzlies. should see temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s. the reason we're not warming up a whole lot is the wind direction still coming on shore and the wind speeds will increase during the afternoon from about 15 to 20 miles per hour maintaining that ocean air-conditions which really fired up friday afternoon. now if you're going to head out to the coast, look out for an increased southerly surge of a long period swell hitting the coast here. it will increase rip currents and rough surf. wave heights about five to 7 feet. santa cruz will see sunshine tomorrow. watch out for those unusual rip currents as you wrap up the weekend. morning low clouds and even drizzle possible for the morning hours. then you got the sunshine inland and patches of low clouds on the coast. temperatures mostly in the 70s by the afternoon. san francisco, oakland, low clouds for the morning. heading towards noon not warming up a whole lot. san jose should climb into the 70s. at the wine country festival, sunday looks pretty good. 78 degrees. one of the warmer spots around the bay area to wrap up the weekend. 60s closer to san francisco. cool weekend, upper 60s tomorrow. 72 in napa. so weather forecast not much change into monday. brief warmup approaching wednesday. there is a slight chance we could see some showers. so stay tuned. late thursday into friday we could see the system dropping from the north. it will bring cooler temperatures. we'll see what happens as we a approach thursday and friday. right now just a cooldown we're expecting for the second half of the week and chances of rain or maybe sierra snow late next week. >> a shower a week. that's all we ask. golf pros must have left their hearts in san francisco. for the second time in two weeks, the city played host to a major golf tournament. this week the world's top 60 golf participating in the cadillac play. this public course is good enough even for the elite. >> the exposure that this event brings 235 countries. we're going to approach 900 million homes. it's great for san francisco and great for the game of golf. >> golf is not quite done with san francisco yet. the u.s. amateurs will be playing the next several days. >> and it's not just golf in the bay area tomorrow. game one of the western conference semi-finals for the golden state warriors. the warriors have not played a game in a week. but you do remember, they did sweep the new orleans pelicans last sunday. tipoff we will have live coverage. i don't doubt that week didn't do them goo good. >> the debate is are they rested or rusty. >> after one week i think they still got it. >> let's check in with the expert. >> that's going to be the discussion tomorrow. have they rested too much or is it going to be just enough. we'll find out whether they win or lose. what a day today. boxing, nfl draft, let's not forget about america's favorite past time as the giants get the first win of the year in the craziest of fashion. the highlights are coming up next in sports. my name is julia grinberg. i work in energy efficiency for pg&e here in san francisco. my job is to help my customers save money, save energy and save the environment. when it comes to renewable energy, pg&e is absolutely committed to creating a clean energy future. one out of every four solar rooftops in america is in our service area. it's wonderful to work in the city where i live and help my neighbors and i feel like the work that i do reflects that every single day. together, we're building a better california. well, it was labeled the fight of the century. after five years of will they are won't they, when and how much, floyd mayweather jr. and manny pacquiao finally squared off tonight in vegas. but would it live up to its billing? that's going to depend on who you talk to. mayweather wins a unanimous decision. defending world series champions, metal ka and the angels today. 4-1 when albert pujols would make it 4-2 with one swing off the bat. the giants would respond in the bottom of the frame. buster posey in the box. he would push the lead back to three with one swing of his own. two in the top of the ninth to make it 5-4. the giants get lucky as joyce tanks his own guy. the giants make it two in a row. as trying to make it two in a row with the rangers. redick extends hit to ten games. the rangers come back to tie it in the tenth with the bases loaded. that would win it. rangers walked off. 8-7 the final. the final day of the nfl draft has four players headed to the bay. they'll compete for playing time right away in oakland. then out of kansas. the 49ers recently converted tight ends out of oklahoma. round of 16 today at the cadillac match play. rory mcilroy would hole out from the bunker. he wins six and five. then a round of england's paul casey would go to the brink of darkness. he can't believe it. they'll finish that match in the morning. also tomorrow is the opener of the second round of the nba playoffs. full coverage begins at 11:30. as expected mike connolly not expected to play. he's industrial recovering from a facial fracture he suffered in the last round. >> you want to stick around. >> we'll be back with a major announcement. this one about big bird and sesame street. well, the man behind thisby loved sesame street character is showing no signs of slowing down. he's been doing it more than three decades. at 81 years old, he says there's no reason to quit. >> he says the big bird voice is just his own voice, but a little bit higher. new documentary called "i am big bird" is going to be released next week. it's all about his life and another character he portrays oscar the grouch. >> that is surprising. >> that's a big difference. >> major difference there. 81 years old, still going strong. >> he sounds like big bird, but he can do oscar because he is oscar. >> sunny and bright. let's see if the forecast is the same thing. >> oscar would be happy about. >> nice weather. we have low clouds right now. take a close look at the middle of the screen. there's a chance of rain tomorrow inside only the arena. warriors getting starting 12:30. nice day tomorrow but some drizzle maybe for some parts of the bay area tomorrow morning. >> thank you for watching nbc bay area news. a new episode of "saturday night live" is coming up next. scarlett johansson is hosting. ♪ we came in station wagons, campers, on planes to see what walt had built. ♪ forever young ♪ and what we found was a place that was always growing, but never grew old. ♪ forever young ♪ and now comes a celebration 60 years in the making. the disneyland diamond celebration. ♪ may you stay ♪ with dazzling, new experiences for the young ♪ may you stay ♪ and the young at heart. ♪ forever young ♪ come remember that feeling. ♪ forever young ♪ come feel forever young. 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it's happening in san francisco from police procedures are under scrutiny. good evening. >> it's happened tonight a juda and 46th street in the sunset district. john, take us through it. >> reporter: right now firefighters and police officers are here. they will be here for the nec several hours. the center of activity is around the western sunset grocery market. it sustained damage when this device was detonated at a quarter to 9:00 tonight. there was significant damage into that grocery. plaster came off, walls were broken. windows were shattered. the explosion happened in a house behind the grocery store. a residents of the house died some time ago. family members were showing up to remove items when they saw something that looked suspicious. they had qualms and called police at 6:00 tonight and the bomb squad showed up. police say there were some evacuations in the area and the neighborhood. we talked to one gentleman who was evacuated from a restaurant across the street. >> once we got outside, they asked us to move down some and you hear a big explosion. they had already told us there was a bomb carry and everybody was kind of shook. >> reporter: police are still trying to figure out what that device was. whether it was a bomb. nobody was hurt. 46th avenue and juda street remain closed tonight. in fact, service has been redirected because of the police and fire activity that's going on here at the scene. they will be here for several more hours tonight. live in san francisco, abc 7 news. thank you. developing news where a brush fire continues to burn on k kimball island near antioch. the fire started around 2:30 this afternoon destroying structures and forcing evacuations. >> reporter: every once in a while you can see the glow from the fire behind me. this is the dock where the firefighters left. they went over there to protect the cabins used by duck hunters. they have this fire mostly under control. at the time you can see the fire for miles way. cal fire helicopter kept the flames at bay while 11 people were evacuated in the delta near anti antioch. wind gusts spread the fire to several spots on the island. >> we got lucky. it went right around ours. it went behind the cabins then. >> reporter: there's no official cause. he says his neighbor discovered a squatter living in his cabin. >> he was burning a knapsack or something and it just took off. it got out of hand. there's so much dry brush and berry bushes out there. it goes quick. >> reporter: witnesses say the initial fire response was slow. likely because kimball island lies at the intersection of the three counties. >> it's not specifically attached to a fire district. sometimes there could be some agencies that question whose authority they have. >> reporter: the island is in sacramento county. the deputies and the coast guard ended up evacuating the people. we are still under a red flag warning. seeing signs like there, warning of extreme fire danger in east bay lhills. red flag conditions mean wildfires could spark and spread as they would during peak fire season. fire crews patrol the hills today. pa >> part of our normal procedure is to go out and do patrol in our fire station. we are doing those, actively doing those and staffed up with extra personnel. >> being proactive is the way to be. seems weird we have to worry about fires in the middle of january. >> they have called 120 firefighters in the bay area. let's give you a live look at conditions in san francisco. still mild tonight in the city. with a first look at the forecast here is andy with live doppler 7 hd. >> winds is keeping conditions mild. red flag warnings still in effect for the northeast bay hills. diablo range right on through 8:00 a.m. thursday morning. gusty winds continue. 30 to 40 miles per hour. the humidity in the 5 to 10% range. we've already seen fires growing and that's what we're expecting if any fires develop. take a look at the hill top winds. relative humid in those areas in the single digits. gusts of 42. record highs this afternoon. 74 oakland airport. moffit field it feewas 76 in sa jose. 69 in livemore. we have more warmth headed our way. i'll be back to tell you how long the records will continue and if there's any rain in sight. in southern california gusty santa ana winds and single digit humidity has firefighters hopping from fire to fire today. again, mid-january. very strange. ten acres of brush burned close to multi-million mansions. the flames were put out before any damage was done. crews battled fires in river side county and in the santa monica mountains as well. get updates on our dry warm weather and more on twitter. developing news tonight. the san jose police department has taken over the hunt for a serial arsonnist believed to have set more than a dozen fires since last week. take a look at this sketch based on surveillance video taken near one of those fires. lisa is live near downtown with the latest on the search effort. lisa. >> reporter: police patrols are out tonight and residents are also coming out once the sun goes down. they are looking for this man who police say burned down this house. it's time for johnny's evening walk. he's a man with a mission. >> i hope to catch the guy. that's why i'm walking around to see what's going on. >> reporter: he's on the look out for this suspect. the man who may have started 13 fires in the past six days. he hates what's happened to his friends. the arsonist set their house on fire saturday. >> it upsets me a lot. >> reporter: they still can't get into their burnt home. they barely escaped from it. >> maybe in five minutes the roof went down. >> reporter: surveillance video caught this man walking back and forth across from the house four times before the fire started. they're from eric's cameras. he's now patrolling his streets from 2:00 to 4:30 a.m. >> you step out one block without being seen at this time. >> reporter: the arsonist last struck sunday morning. around 6,000 homes and byes lost power in san jose tonight. 275 of them are still waiting to get their electricity restored. this outage started after a car toppled a power pole on south 30th street after 8:00. it affected a large area west of highway 181. santa clara arson investigators are ruling a deadly fire in palo alto accident. the victims have not been publicly identified. the deadly flu season in the bay area keeps getting worse. two more deaths were reported. that makes a total of 18 deaths in the bay area and santa cruz. a man in his 40s had chronic illness. three inmates have the swine flu with four more possible cases. nearly 200 inmates have been expose e exposed. the centers for disease control has information on where you the get a flu shot. new details tonight involving the case of a san jose teenager who hanged herself a week after a drunken house party. three teenage boys have admitted to sexually assaulting the 15-year-old during that party. that's according to documents obtained by our media partner. she woke up half naked in a blue comment wren written on her body. two boys were sentenced to 35 days and the other to 40. the department received a report of shots fired at 5:30 tonight. officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound there. he was pronounced dead a short time later. so far no suspects have been identified. she's not even old enough to drive but already taking on the world. we'll have that story. a bay area girl talks about what it takes to go for olympic gold. new proof he's not your traditional pope. the unusual items he's auctioning off for charity. later he's a respected coach but he's not perfect. hmm, minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that parker. well, did you know auctioneers make bad grocery store clerks? that'll be $23.50. now .75, 23.75, hold 'em. hey now do i hear 23.75? 24! hey 24 dollar, 24 and a quarter, quarter, now half, 24 and a half and .75! 25! now a quarter, hey 26 and a quarter, do you wanna pay now, you wanna do it, 25 and a quarter - sold to the man in the khaki jacket! geico. fifteen minutes could save you... well, you know. a 15-year-old san jose teenager is heading to the olympics. she went her weekend coming in second at the senior nationals in boston. that puts her on the olympic team. at sharks ice today she admitted other skaters are older and more experienced, she's not intimidated. >> i've been skating for a very long time. i've been skating for 13 years. all that leading up to the olympic trials for me to skate well is outstanding. >> there's no substitute for hard work. she practices six days a week before and after school. she and her mom and coach will take off for sochi in a few weeks. ashley wagner said she quit twitter cold turkey and plans to avoid social media until after the olympics ends. a fire storm erupted after she was selected when she finished fourth. the pope is selling his motorcycle. he added his signature to his harley davidson. he put it up for auction in paris next month. the proceeds will go to catholic charity. the motorcycle company gave the pope the bike as a gift. he's also auctioning off his leather motorcycle jacket. who knew. he currently drives a ford focus in favor of the pope mobile. >> he would look good in that jacket. 49ers fans are gearing up for sunday's game. >> they are sharing their niners pride with us. this guy has his game face on. s s >> take a look at this one. you cannot help but smile. >> you can e-mail your photos and videos to us. you can also tweet them to us at abc 7 news bay area or post them to our facebook page. we need your help. here's the deal. we have a competition going with the abc station in seattle to see who has the best fans. seattle, emerald bay or san francisco bay area. >> to prove this, all you need to do is go to the abc 7 news facebook page and like this post. seattle thinks they will beat us. got to tell you, they're running slightly ahead right now. we plan to clobber them on the field and on facebook too. >> whoever has the most likes by kickoff on sunday wins. let's show the seahawks fans that nobody has got it better than us. we can do it. >> we can. another check on the forecast now. >> we can do it. come on. live doppler 7 hd showing you clear skies. i can't bring you the rain. next seven days are looking dry. take a look at the latest information from the climate prediction center. this is indicating how much soil moisture there is. take a look at the entire country. look at california in famili particular. that's the area of lowest moisture. this is what's really playing in along with our gusty winds and slow humidity to the high fire danger. a very rare red flag warning that's in effect right now. it's been so dry. as a matter of fact, we can go all the way back to 1850 for san francisco. that's how long we would have to go back to find the driest water years on record compared to now. you can see how bouncy the camera is. it's gusty in the hills. 57 in san francisco. 45 in oakland. 46 redwood city. 50 in san jose. it's pretty comfortable. near 60 degrees i that's why those numbers are falling in some areas. 38 in santa rosa. it's already close to freezing in napa. 42 concord. here is our tower camera. golden gate bridge under clear skies. beautiful visibility there. red flag warning in the hills. more record highs expected the next two days. still no rain in sight. no snow. even going beyond the seven daytime period no signs of storms coming in. here is the reason. persistent blocking ridge. n this time around it's right here blocking the storms from getting if here. that's why we're not seeing rain. the drying winds will continue. we will continue to see very dry conditions here, abnormally dry. take a look at how far behind we are. we need more than 16 inches of rain in santa rosa. over nine inches to get us back to normal. you can see we need up to close to five in san jose. livermore just over there. we're way behind. even if we got a couple of good soakers we have a long way to go. tomorrow morning when you leave home temperatures will vary a bit. most other areas will start out on the comfortable side and tomorrow afternoon warm in the south bay. 78 in santa cruz indicated by the asterisks. on the peninsula, 72. downtown san francisco, south san francisco 70 degrees. in the north bay it's beach weather. mid-70s around issanta rosa. inland spots. 71 degrees in concord and livermore. here is a look at the forecast as the niners take on the seahawks this coming sunday. there's a 20% chance of showers. temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. they should be fine playing that game. 70s remain in the forecast. temperatures do slip a bit leddiled i heading toward the weekend. clouds roll in. cooling to the 60s. >> back to dry. what else is new? she's going to be heading to seattle. >> you are indeed. we'll feed the beast. hopefully 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we got great players. i expect our big time players to step up this week too. >> to the ice. the sharks on a three-game road trip to face the caps. i'm not sure the two teams like each other. they're throwing hay makers after a first period face off making for a bloody mess. on the deflection. the first goal in 19 games. that's reaction there. got a 1-1 game. went to o.t. and then a shoot out. 35 save. nicholas backstram. they're in florida on thursday. five time champion serena williams back on the court. no problem with her winning. another big serve. serena onto round three. three time defending champ tweaking his ankle in the first. briefly for coach. it had little effect. he won the first eight games of the match. serve on to the third round. looking for fourth straight and fifth title. word getting a well deserved four daybreak. they didn't practice saturday or sunday. by the looks of seth curry, it should be rejuvenated and ready to play denver. another look. we'll let jim harbaugh see this arm. nothing but net. you. james young hits the three. the wildcats tied with arkansas at 885 a piece. the dunk at the buzzer. arkansas shocked. 13th ranked kentucky in overtime. this is abc 7 sports report brought to you by casino. niners head coach jim harbaugh may have hose who've bed ewelcome to covered california. now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. enroll today at coveredca.com. accelerate. shift. shift. ♪ and shift again. through all eight speeds of a transmission standard hornnected to more standard horsepower than its german competitors. and that is the moment that driving the lexus gs will shift your perception. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. fire danger will remain high tomorrow. in the hills it's going to be gusty. temperatures in a wide range, 30 to 50s. mike will be here 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. you might see 49ers head coach jim harbaugh on the cover of sports illustrated before he graces gq. >> he wears black 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[ male announcer ] soups so indulgent, you'll never believe they're light. 100-calorie progresso light soups. it's happening in san francisco from police procedures are under scrutiny. good evening. >> it's happened tonight a juda and 46th street in the sunset district. john, take us through it. >> reporter: right now firefighters and police officers are here. they will be here for the nec several hours. the center of activity is around the western sunset grocery market. it sustained damage when this device was detonated at a quarter to 9:00 tonight. there was significant damage into that grocery. plaster came off, walls were broken. windows were shattered. the explosion happened in a house behind the grocery store. a residents of the house died some time ago. family members were showing up to remove items when they saw something that looked suspicious. they had qualms and called police at 6:00 tonight and the bomb squad showed up. police say there were some evacuations in the area and the neighborhood. we talked to one gentleman who was evacuated from a restaurant across the street. >> once we got outside, they asked us to move down some and you hear a big explosion. they had already told us there was a bomb carry and everybody was kind of shook. >> reporter: police are still trying to figure out what that device was. whether it was a bomb. nobody was hurt. 46th avenue and juda street remain closed tonight. in fact, service has been redirected because of the police and fire activity that's going on here at the scene. they will be here for several more hours tonight. live in san francisco, abc 7 news. thank you. developing news where a brush fire continues to burn on bu m kimball island near antioch. the fire started around 2:30 this afternoon destroying structures and forcing evacuations. >> reporter: every while you while you can see the glow from the fire behind me. this is the dock where the firefighters left. they went over there to protect the cabins used by duck hunters. they have this fire mostly under control. at the time you can see the fire for miles way. cal fire helicopter kept the flames at bay while 11 people were evacuated in the delta near anti antioch. wind gusts spread the fire to several spots on the island. >> we got lucky. it went right around ours. it went behind the cabins then. >> reporter: there's no official cause. he says his neighbor discovered a squatter living in his cabin. >> he was burning a knapsack or something and it just took ot it got out of hand. there's so much dry brush and berry bushes out there. it goes quick. >> reporter: witnesses say the initial fire response was slow. likely because kimball island lies at the intersection of the three counties. >> it's not specifically attached to a fire district. sometimes there could be some agencies that question whose authority they have. >> reporter: the island is in sacramento county. the deputies and the coast guard ended up evacuating the people. we are still under a red flag warning. seeing signs like there, warning of extreme fire danger in east bay lhills. red flag conditions mean wildfires could spark and spread as they would during peak fire season. fire crews patrol the hills today. pa >> part of our normal procedure is to go out and do patrol in our fire station. we are doing those, actively doing those and staffed with extra personnel. >> being proactive is the way to be. seems weird we have to worry about fires in the middle of january. >> they have called 120 firefighters in the bay area. let's give you a live look at conditions in san francisco. still mild tonight in the city. with a first look at the forecast here is andy with live doppler 7 hd. >> winds is keeping conditions mild. red flag warnings still in effect for the northeast bay hills. diablo range right on through 8:00 a.m. thursday morning. gusty winds continue. 30 to 40 miles per hour. the humidity in the 5 to 10% range. we've already seen fires growing and that's what we're expecting if any fires develop. take a look at the hill top winds. relative humid in those areas in the single digits. gusts of 42. record highs this afternoon. 74 oakland airport. moffit field it feewas 76 in sa jose. 69 in livemore. we have more warmth headed our way. i'll be back to tell you how long the records will continue and if there's any rain in sight. in southern california gusty santa ana winds and single digit humidity has firefighters hopping from fire to fire today. again, mid-january. very strange. ten acres of brush burned close to multi-million mansions. the flames were put out before any damage was done. crews battled fires in river side county and in the santa monica mountains as well. get updates on our dry warm weather and more on twitter. developing news tonight. the san jose police department has taken over the hunt for a serial arsonnist believed to have set more than a dozen fires since last week. take a look at this sketch based on surveillance video taken near one of those fires. lisa is live near downtown with the latest on the search effort. lisa. >> reporter: police patrols are out tonight and residents are also coming out once the sun goes down. they are looking for this man who police say burned down this house. it's time for johnny's evening walk. he's a man with a mission. >> i hope to catch the guy. that's why i'm walking around to see what's going on. >> reporter: he's on the look out for this suspect. the man who may have started 13 fires in the past six days. he hates what's happened to his friends. the arsonist set their house on fire saturday. >> it upsets me a lot. >> reporter: they still can't get into their burnt home. they barely escaped from it. >> maybe in>> maybe minutes the roof went down. >> reporter: surveillance video caught this man walking back and forth across from the house four times before the fire started. they're from eric's cameras. he's now patrolling his streets from 2:00 to 4:30 a.m. >> you step out one block without being seen at this time. >> reporter: the arsonist last struck sunday morning. around 6,000 homes and byes lost power in san jose tonight. 275 of them are still waiting to get their electricity restored. this outage started after a car south a power pole 30th street after 8:00. it affected a large area west of highway 181. santa clara arson investigators are ruling a deadly fire in palo alto accident. the victims have not been publicly identified. the deadly flu season in the bay area keeps getting worse. two more deaths were reported. that makes a total of 18 deaths in the bay area and santa cruz. a man in his 40s had chronic illness. three inmates have the swine flu with four more possible cases. nearly 200 inmates have been expose e exposed. the centers for disease control has information on where you the get a flu shot. new details tonight involving the case of a san jose teenager who hanged herself a week after a drunken house party. three teenage boys have admitted to sexually assaulting the 15-year-old during that party. that's according to documents obtained by our media partner. she woke up nakedf naked in a be comment wren written on her body. two boys were sentenced to 35 days and the other to 40. the department received a report of shots fired at 5:30 tonight. officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound there. he was pronounced dead a short time later. so far no suspects have been identified. she's not even old enough to drive but already taking on the world. we'll have that story. a bay area girl talks about what it takes to go for olympic gold. new proof he's not your traditional pope. the unusual items he's auctioning off for charity. later he's a respected coach but he's not perfect. 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plans to avoid social media until after the olympics ends. a fire storm erupted after she was selected when she finished fourth. the pope is selling his motorcycle. he added his signature to his harley davidson. he put it up for auction in paris next month. the proceeds will go to catholic charity. the motorcycle company gave the pope the bike as a gift. he's also auctioning off his leather motorcycle jacket. who knew. he currently drives a ford focus in favor of the pope mobile. >> he would look good in that jacket. 49ers fans are gearing up for sunday's game. >> they are sharing their niners pride with us. this guy has his game face on. s s >> take a look at this you. you cannot help but smile. >> you can e-mail your photos and videos to us. you can also tweet them to us at abc 7 news bay area or post them to our facebook page. we need your help. here's the deal. we have a competition going with the abc station in seattle to see who has the best fans. seattle, emerald bay or san francisco bay area. >> to prove this, all you need to do is go to the abc 7 news facebook page and like this post. seattle thinks they will beat us. got to tell you, they're running slightly ahead right now. we plan to clobber them on the field and on facebook too. >> whoever has the most likes by kickoff on sunday wins. let's show the seahawks fans that nobody has got it better than us. we can do it. >> we can. another check on the forecast now. >> we i do it. come on. live doppler 7 hd showing you clear skies. i can't bring you the rain. next seven days are looking dry. take a look at the latest information from the climate prediction center. this is indicating how much soil moisture there is. take a look at the entire country. look at california in famili particular. that's the area of lowest moisture. this is what's really playing in along with our gusty winds and slow humidity to the high fire danger. a very rare red flag warning that's in effect right now. it's been so dry. as a matter of fact, we can go all the way back to 1850 for san francisco. that's how long we would have to go back to find the driest water years on record compared to now. you can see how bouncy the camera is. it's gusty in the hills. 57 in san francisco. 45 in oakland. 46 redwood city. 50 in san jose. it's pretty comfortable. near 60 degrees i that's why those numbers are falling in some areas. 38 in santa rosa. it's already close to freezing in napa. 42 concord. here is our tower camera. golden gate bridge under clear skies. beautiful visibility there. red flag warning in the hills. more record highs expected the next two days. still no rain in sight. no snow. even going beyond the seven daytime period no signs of storms coming in. here is the reason. persistent blocking ridge. n this time around it's right here blocking the storms from getting if here. that's why we're not seeing rain. the drying winds will continue. we will continue to see very dry conditions here, abnormally dry. take a look at how far behind are. are. we need more than 16 inches of rain in santa rosa. over nine inches to get us back to normal. you can see we need up to close to five in san jose. livermore just over there. we're way behind. even if we got a couple of good soakers we have a long way to go. tomorrow morning when you leave home temperatures will vary a bit. most other areas will start out on the comfortable side and tomorrow afternoon warm in the south bay. 78 in santa cruz indicated by the asterisks. on the peninsula, 72. downtown san francisco, south san francisco 70 degrees. in the north bay it's beach weather. mid-70s aroundsansanta rosa. inland spots. 71 degrees in concord and livermore. here is a look at the forecast as the niners take on the seahawks this coming sunday. there's a 20% chance of showers. temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. they should be fine playing that game. 70s remain in the forecast. temperatures do slip a bit leddiled i heading toward the weekend. 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quarter to 9:00 tonight. there was significant damage into that grocery. plaster came off, walls were broken. windows were shattered. the explosion happened in a house behind the grocery store. a residents of the house died some time ago. family members were showing up to remove items when they saw something that looked suspicious. they had qualms and called police at 6:00 tonight and the bomb squad showed up. police say there were some evacuations in the area and the neighborhood. we talked to one gentleman who was evacuated from a restaurant across the street. >> once we got outside, they asked us to move down some and you hear a big explosion. they had already told us there was a bomb carry and everybody was kind of shook. >> reporter: police are still trying to figure out what that device was. whether it was a bomb. nobody was hurt. 46th avenue and juda street remain closed tonight. in fact, service has been redirected because of the police and fire activity that's going on here at the scene. they will be here for several more hours tonight. live in san francisco, abc 7 news. thank you. developing news where a brush fire continues to burn on k kimball island near antioch. the fire started around 2:30 this afternoon destroying structures and forcing evacuations. >> reporter: every once in a while you can see the glow from the fire behind me. this is the dock where the firefighters left. they went over there to protect the cabins used by duck hunters. they have this fire mostly under control. at the time you can see the fire for miles way. cal fire helicopter kept the flames at bay while 11 people were evacuated in the delta near anti antioch. wind gusts spread the fire to island. >> we got lucky. it went right around ours. it went behind the cabins then. >> reporter: there's no official cause. he says his neighbor discovered a squatter living in his cabin. >> he was burning a knapsack or something and it just took off. it got out of hand. there's so much dry brush and berry bushes out there. it goes quick. >> reporter: witnesses say the initial fire response was slow. likely because kimball island lies at the intersection of the three counties. >> it's not specifically attached to a fire district. sometimes there could be some agencies that question whose authority they have. >> reporter: the island is in sacramento county. the deputies and the coast guard ended up evacuating the people. we are still under a red flag warning. seeing signs like there, warning of extreme fire danger in east bay lhills. red flag conditions mean wildfires could spark and spread as they would during peak fire season. fire crews patrol the hills today. pa >> part of our normal procedure is to go out and do patrol in our fire station. we are doing those, actively doing those and staffed up with extra personnel. >> being proactive is the way to be. seems weird we have to worry about fires in the middle of january. >> they have called 120 firefighters in the bay area. let's give you a live look at conditions in san francisco. still mild tonight in the city. with a first look at the forecast here is andy with live doppler 7 hd. >> winds is keeping conditions mild. red flag warnings still in effect for the northeast bay hills. diablo range right on through 8:00 a.m. thursday morning. gusty winds continue. 30 to 40 miles per hour. the humidity in the 5 to 10% range. we've already seen fires growing and that's what we're expecting if any fires develop. take a look at the hill top winds. relative humid in those areas in the single digits. gusts of 42. record highs this afternoon. 74 oakland airport. moffit field it feewas 76 in sa jose. 69 in livemore. we have more warmth headed our way. i'll be back to tell you how long the records will continue and if there's any rain in sight. in southern california gusty santa ana winds and single digit humidity has firefighters hopping from fire to fire today. again, mid-january. very strange. ten acres of brush burned close to multi-million mansions. the flames were put out before any damage was done. crews battled fires in river side county and in the santa monica mountains as well. get updates on our dry warm weather and more on twitter. developing news tonight. the san jose police department has taken over the hunt for a serial arsonnist believed to have set more than a dozen fires since last week. take a look at this sketch based on surveillance video taken near one of those fires. lisa is live near downtown with the latest on the search effort. lisa. >> reporter: police patrols are out tonight and residents are also coming out once the sun goes down. they are looking for this man o police say burned down this house. it's time for johnny's evening walk. he's a man with a mission. >> i hope to catch the guy. that's why i'm walking around to see what's going on. >> reporter: he's on the look out for this suspect. the man who may have started 13 fires in the past six days. he hates what's happened to his friends. the arsonist set their house on fire saturday. >> it upsets me a lot. >> reporter: they still can't get into their burnt home. they barely escaped from it. >> maybe in five minutes the roof went down. >> reporter: surveillance video caught this man walking back and forth across from the house four times before the fire started. they're from eric's cameras. he's now patrolling his streets from 2:00 to 4:30 a.m. >> you step out one block without being seen at this time. >> reporter: the arsonist last struck sunday morning. around 6,000 homes and byes lost power in san jose tonight. 275 of them are still waiting to get their electricity restored. this outage started after a car toppled a power pole on south 30th street after 8:00. it affected a large area west of highway 181. santa clara arson investigators are ruling a deadly fire in palo alto an accident. the victims have not been publicly identified. the deadly flu season in the bay area keeps getting worse. two more dthea were reported. that makes a total of 18 deaths in the bay area and santa cruz. a man in his 40s had chronic illness. three inmates have the swine flu with four more possible cases. nearly 200 inmates have been expose e exposed. the centers for disease control has information on where you the get a flu shot. new details tonight involving th case of a san jose teenager who hanged herself a week after a drunken house party. three teenage boys have admitted to sexually assaulting the 15-year-old during that party. that's according to documents obtained by our media partner. she woke up half naked in a blue comment wren written on her body. two boys were sentenced to 35 days and the other to 40. the department received a report of shots fired at 5:30 tonight. officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound there. he was pronounced dead a short time later. so far no suspects have been identified. she's not even old enough to drive but already taking on the world. we'll have that story. a bay area girl talks about what it takes to go for olympic gold. new proof he's not your traditional pope. the unusual items he's auctioning off for charity. later he's a respected coach but he's not perfect. wh worst morning ever. 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[ female announcer ] try new pillsbury heat-n-go mini pancakes. ♪ [ male announcer ] don't wait for awesome... totino's pizza rolls gets you there in just 60 seconds. ♪ a 15-year-old san jose teenager is heading to the olympics. she went her weekend coming in second at the senior nationals in boston. that puts her on the olympic team. at sharks ice today she admitted other skaters are older and more experienced, she's not intimidated. >> i've been skating for a very long time. i've been skating for 13 years. all that leading up to the olympic trials for me to skate well is outstanding. >> there's no substitute for hard work. she practices six days a week before and after school. she and her mom and coach will take off for sochi in a few weeks. ashley wagner said she quit twitter cold turkey and plans to avoid social media until after the olympics ends. a fire storm erupted after she was selected when she finished fourth. the pope is selling his motorcycle. he added his signature to his harley davidson. he put it up for auction in paris next month. the proceeds will go to catholic charity. the motorcycle company gave the pope the bike as a gift. he's also auctioning off his leather motorcycle jacket. who knew. he currently drives a ford focus in favor of the pope mobile. >> he would look good in that jacket. 49ers fans are gearing up for sunday's game. >> they are sharing their niners pride with us. this guy has his game face on. s s >> take a look at this one. you cannot help but smile. >> you can e-mail your photos and videos to us. you can also tweet them to us at abc 7 news bay area or post them to our facebook page. we need your help. here's the deal. we have a competition going with the abc station in seattle to see who has the best fans. seattle, emerald bay or san francisco bay area. >> to prove this, all you need to do is go to the abc 7 news facebook page and like this post. seattle thinks they will beat us. got to tell you, they're running slightly ahead right now. we plan to clobber them on the field and on facebook too. >> whoever has the most likes by kickoff on sunday wins. let's show the seahawks fans that nobody has got it better than us. we can do it. >> we can. another check on the forecast now. >> we can do it. come on. live doppler 7 hd showing you clear skies. i can't bring you the rain. next seven days are looking dry. take a look at the latest information from the climate prediction center. this is indicating how much soil moisture there is. take a look at the entire country. look at california in famili particular. that's the area of lowest moisture. this is what's really playing in along with our gusty winds and slow humidity to the high fire danger. a very rare red flag warning that's in effect right now. it's been so dry. as a matter of fact, we can go all the way back to 1850 for san francisco. that's how long we would have to go back to find the driest water years on record compared to now. you can see how bouncy the camera is. it's gusty in the hills. 57 in san francisco. 45 in oakland. 46 redwood city. 50 in san jose. it's pretty comfortable. near 60 degrees . that's why those numbers are falling in some areas. 38 in santa rosa. it's already close to freezing in napa. 42 concord. here is our tower camera. golden gate bridge under clear skies. beautiful visibility there. red flag warning in the hills. more record highs expected the next two days. still no rain in sight. no snow. even going beyond the seven daytime period no signs of storms coming in. here is the reason. persistent blocking ridge. n this time around it's right here blocking the storms from getting if here. that's why we're not seeing rain. the drying winds will continue. we will continue to see very dry conditions here, abnormally dry. take a look at how far behind we are. we need more than 16 inches of rain in santa rosa. over nine inches to get us back to normal. you can see we need up to close to five in san jose. livermore just over there. we're way behind. even if we got a couple of good soakers we have a long way to go. tomorrow morning when you leave home temperatures will vary a bit. most other areas will start out on the comfortable side and tomorrow afternoon warm in the south bay. 78 in santa cruz indicated by the asterisks. on the peninsula, 72. downtown san francisco, south san francisco 70 degrees. in the north bay it's beach weather. mid-70s around issanta rosa. inland spots. 71 degrees in concord and livermore. here is a look at the forecast as the niners take on the seahawks this coming sunday. there's a 20% chance of showers. temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. they should be fine playing that game. 70s remain in the forecast. temperatures do slip a bit leddiled i heading toward the weekend. clouds roll in. cooling to the 60s. >> back to dry. what else is new? 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kimball island is just north of antioch in the delta. you see a raging flame from earlier today cannell island is just north of antioch and the delta. >> : the unseasonably warm weather begins with con 4 galicia read she's there. >> : across the water there still pending a hot spots about half an hour ago we saw 82 hot spots for another still won it right across there and see just starting to come up the fire it started around 330 this afternoon because car were first on seen it in a ventilated for people. >> : the fire spread across the island of time. >> : the sun went down earlier this evening at telesat it started from any act or rent than one end to the island to another. nine is no plumbing or electricity unless they have generators. >> : it is also a few homeless people live there the only way to get to the island is by boat. >> : this fire in the delta comes at the same. that a "high fire danger" warning is in effect. in many sections of the bay area. due to the un-seasonably dry and warm weather. fire officials say, these conditions are usually only seen during summer's peak fire season. the alameda county fire department is stepping up patrols. in potential trouble areas the department's coverage area is approximately 520- square miles. and officials say, all of of area is in the danger zone when there is a high fire alert. this is the view from our camera atop mount tamalpais. you can see how windy it was in the north bay. kron 4's dan rubin is live in our weather center. he is monitoring wind conditions in the areas affected by the fire danger. dan? the north bay when those areas affected by the fire danger fire officials are also keeping a close eye on east bay hills as well. >> : she's in the delta area as you can see it's not technically in the fire danger zone but that's just the show you how great is out there. fires could start at sea level or thought or thousand feet it is really matter. >> : does anything may ignite fires will spread quickly it's certainly be careful if you're out about. with windy weather as well 40 mi. an hour winds. >> : '70s will pay around this week as well p >> : wells committee accompanying that and drybrush. one won the driest years the driest year on record in california. >> : this may not be less time we will see how quickly a fire will spread due to dry conditions. let the high winds caused some damage in berkeley. forcing crews to spend hours dealing with the aftermath. take a look at this tree. some of the big branches hit this home, landing on the roof. the homeowner was not there when the tree fell over but says, neighbors told him it was very loud when it fell. no one was hurt. still being assessed. developing tonight. two additional flu fataliites announced today. that makes 17 deaths so far this flu season in the 9 bay area counties. one of today's victim's lived in solano county: a male in his 40's who had chronic medical conditions. it was solano's first flu related death this season. all told.contra costa and san franciaco counties also have one reported death. marin and sonoma have two fatalities. county. including one reported just this afternoon. county. four in santa clara county. and these numbers do not include people over the age of 65. we have much more coverage on the deadly flu outbreak on our website -- kron 4 dot com -- there you can find tips. from how to avoid catching the virus. to locations near you to get flu shots. the show is what we have on individuals that have died from the flu. >> : this is a great resource and interesting all the same. >> : san francisco police are looking for a man who walked naked. into a girls' high school locker room. it happened monday around 5:30. when the man exposed himself to girls at south san francisco high school. the girls were changing after their heerleading practice. police say, the suspect made eye contact with them. but then left without saying anything. he is described as a caucasian male. around 40- years old. the suspect is around five - feet -10 inches tall. and has an average build. he is also balding with short, brown hair. new at 8- hundreds of ducks have been found dead in a pond in redwood city. kron 4's charles clifford has details on what could be killing the birds. and what is being done to keep this kind of incident from happening again. over the past few weeks, dead ducks have been showing up along the shores of this 8 acre pond along radio road in redwood city. the problem reached a peak last week. every fence poll at least there is a dead duck bill floated toward the shore. >> : red oliver walks her dog along the water. she says she saw dozens of dead ducks. there were also other birds that seemed to be struggling. all the more and different stages like there's something wrong to nerves because they would get paralyzed from the waist down and sit there like this. >> : is very very terrifying to watch. and >> : after collecting the dead birds and testing them, the u.s. fish and wildlife service now believes that avian cholera is killing the ducks. it's not uncommon in california and this outbreak could be linked to another case in hayward. experts say the disease is not a threat to humans but that it could spread to the thousands of birds that visit this area. the pond sits next to south bayside system authority's waste water treatment plant. to keep the cholera from spreading, sbsa has started draining the pond. once the water is gone and the soil has dried out, the cholera bacteria should die off. the whole process is expected to take months clifford kron 4 news. new at 8-- few of us go anywhere without our cell phones anymore. and that means cell everywhere. a plan to build one right near a school. is creating a controversy in the city of lafayette. kron 4's dan kerman reports. there?s a controversy brewing at lafayette?s st. perpetua catholic school. decision to allow at&t to erect a cell tower on top of the church?s rectory. that rectory is adjacent to both a garden and a recreational area the student frequent, and across the street from where their classrooms are located electromagnetic radiation it admitted from some powers and it chronic exposure that public is subjected to the we have not studied we have not looked at there is a research out there saying that it's safe is reach search saying that it does cause harm. let craig devinney has two kids attending school here, but even those who just come to concerned as apparent i think i have concerns about what we don't know about the math and its impact on the physiology of a person. >> : at a workshop tuesday evening, a,t&t answered questions from concerned their minds at ease >> : we follow all the guidelines the layouts for us how to build the site is exactly do appear >> : health impacts of cell towers public to see the sole power somewhere else. >> : for this project to move forward it still needs the ok of the city?s planning approval from the church itself? it?s pastor, 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on capitol hill senator are speaking out about whether to authorize strikes on chemical weapons in syria. members of the house heard from the secretary of state behind closed doors, he wants congress to hold syria accountable. as congress considers the options, newly released polls show the u.s. strike against syria is losing ground, but russia has offered up an 11th u.s. military action. and syria is demanding the u.s. prove its chemical weapons acquisition. but we begin with president obama tonight. mike viqueira joins us from the white house. mike? >> they call it the bully pulpit and wih good reason. the president did a round robin interview today. he laid out his case. many of the themes and points we are likely to hear in that address tomorrow night, we understand it will be the east room. but everything on hold at the time being, john. that after the russian foreign minister put forward the proposal after meeting bilaterally with the syrian prime minister to gather up these chemical weapons, gather them and destroy them. the president reacted to that today, and told everyone that the congressional vote process is going to be on hold until this gets ironed out. >> i don't anticipate that you would see a succession of votes this week or any time in the immediate future, and so i think there will be time during the course of the debates here in the united states for the international community to work with us, to see if there is a p>> cbs aired an interview with assad. he said if a military strike were to go forward, he said, quote, expect everything in retaliati retaliation. >> assad doesn't have a lot of capability. he has capability relative to children. he has capability relative to a -- an opposition that is still getting it's a organized and are not professional trained fighters. he doesn't have a credible means to threaten the united states. his allies, iran and hezbollah, could potential engage in asemimat try call strikes against us, but the kind of threat they would pose against us are typical with the kinds of threats we are dealing with around the world, which are embassies being threatened, u.s. personnel in the region. those are threats that we deal with on an ongoing basis. >> and john the president says he is not taking his foot off of the gas. there have been dinner, and closed door briefings. the president makes a relativel% rare trip to capitol hill tomorrow, and all day long, john, we saw a consistent stream, a parade, really of house members coming in for their briefing. but what we do know at this hour is it is all on hold. they don't want that members to walk on a vote they really didn't want to take to begin with. >> what else can the president say tomorrow night? >> well, he has very high confidence is the phrase we have heard, that not only chemical weapons were deployed but the assad regime is responsible for that. he'll talk about the example that needs to be said not only for the assad regime but for other actors. so the one thing that is different, john, really is this will be a prime time audience. you see the white house embarking on this strategy, quite apparent. they are trying to reach as many voters as they possibly can to try to turn the tide. >> all right. mike, thank you very much. as mike mentioned very much, al jazeera america will cover the president's address live tomorrow night at 9:00. following the speech there will be a live townhall meeting. we have paul covering the senate debate, but first let's go to libby casey. what are you hearing after the briefing, libby? >> there are two potential game changers in place. they are hearing a lot of the same words from the obama administration, so as members filtered out, they didn't have a lot new to say, what they did say was they are going to wait and see looking at this deal that the russians are trying to craft. if you think of this as a hot potato, the president tossed it into the lap of congress, congress might get a chance to toss it away if a diplomatic incentive could be reached. so everything could change. one important member to watch a democrat of washington state who is a top democrat on armed services, said he will consider all of the information but he is not committing to anything just yet. >> there are still questions about this hold, about how we're going to hold assad accountable. what the plan is going forward after a strike, how little impact syria? >> the question is how will a member of congress like that bode? my colleague has been covering the other side of capitol hill paul? >> libby, thank you. that's right. as you said, hot potato. this is a vote that nobody on capitol hill wanted. as you mentioned those poll numbers, americans being less supportive of a strike in syria. but harry reid said a vote was on track for wednesday, but over the course of the day you could feel momentum build as this proposal came out of russia. >> we have tried diplomacy. we have gone to the united nations on many occasions, and time. notwithstanding russia's belated offer today to take action, which may only be on the table specifically, specifically because of the threat of the use of force -- >> senator robert menendez there. chair of the committee that offers up the use of military force, really giving the white house credit to bring russia and syria to this point. >> paul, since russia has made this proposal, most of the congress and senator would just as soon vote on this at all? >> as you know, senator reid saad no vote before thursday. and president obama says he doesn't expect anything to happen this week, so this may be the escape valve that everybody was looking for. >> and that's what they are talk about tonight in the halls of congress, correct? >> correct. that's expectly right. >> yes, give me an idea what would happen, how long we would have to wait. >> i think with senator reid saying no vote before thursday, again, it's going to depend on the back and forth to russia. the international body that would oversee the gathering and destruction of this process. and this gives everybody a chance to catch their breath. and senator reid originally promising a final vote on the measure before the end of the week. >> all right. paul thank you very much. joining us now is john garamendy, sorry for me mispronunciation. >> not a problem. >> give me a sense of what you did you heard anything new? >> i heard a lot. really the most important thing is what you were just talking about and that is this russian overture. this is really, really important. it really gives peace a chance, and not only to avoid this aerican attack, but it also gives the country and the people and the region an opportunity -- let's be very hopeful here, an opportunity for those chemical weapons to be contained, to be secured, and eventually disposed of. this is really the path we have got to travel. >> let me just push back a little bit on you here. >> sure. >> i understand the whole idea is to get rid of the chemical weapons, but someone and possibly the president of syria used chemical weapons against those people, shouldn't there be some retaliation for that? >> the real good retaliation is to deny him future chemical weapons. this is really an opportunity -- yes, it was horrible. yes, it was absolutely terrible, criminal, all of those things, but where do we go from here? what are the next steps? what does the future hold? the future may hold a syria with no chemical weapons. that's great for syria. the civil war could be negotiated as a result of this. this is a may -- major opportunity to make it happen. >> and no punishment for assad? >> i didn't say that. i said we have to take this opportunity to get rid of those chemical weapons. the civil war may get settled with negotiations, but it may continue on in the bloody way it has over the last several years, but put the chemical weapons aside, and that denies him of these weapons he has used perhaps a dozen times, and he won't have that available to him. and that is good for the syrian people. >> so russia has given the unted states a way out you would say? >> i would say russia has made a very, very good and important overture, and we should recognize that, and the united states, together with russia, the eu, and the entire world ought to say let's move with this. let's make this happen. i understand that the united nation's leader jumped on that and said that's good. lets move with this. and the rest of the world should say the same thing, because this may be a very important opportunity to get out of the way these chemical weapons. we know there have been other countries in the middle east that had them. to get serious chemical weapons out of the way, that's good for the entire region. good for russia, congratulations. thank you for doing so. let's move with it. i understand our president has said let's move with this. >> we'll be watching. thank you very much, we appreciate. >> thank you. >> syria's president said if president obama strikes syria, he will only be helping al qaeda. assad denied his regime launched a chemical weapon's attack. >> our police, our institutions, do't exist, how can you talk about what happened if you don't vef dense. we're not like the american administration. we're not social media administration, our government. this war is against the interests of the united states. why? because [ inaudible ] this war is going to support al qaeda and the same people that kill americans in the 11th of september. >> joining us now is ambassador to syria, former ambassador to syria, he served in the country when assad's father was president, ambassador, welcome. it's good to see you. >> good to see you. good to be with you. >> you can hear me. >> yes, i can. >> terrific. give me your reaction to the russian proposal. >> well, it's a game changer on the eve of the administration making an all-out effort to justify a limited military strike because of the use of chemical weapons in syria, all of a sudden this diplomatic initiative brings a pause button into play to determine whether it's verifiable, whether it's real, whether it can be carried out in an effective manner and under international supervision. if all of that occurred, i think this is a very positive development, and i would hope it would be an example of a u.s./russian cooperation and collaboration over this incredibly difficult crisis in -- in syria. but, again, it should not be this russian initiative -- should not become a formula for just dely and inaction. it would have to be structured in a way where forward movement on dismantling syria's chemical weapons and putting them under international supervision is verifiab verifiable, real, and done in a proper fashion. >> ambassador i don't understand how we can be sure this is not a delay tactic. >> well, we can't. and that's why we have to go into this with our eyes wide open. i think the fact that the united states made a preliminary decision to -- for the president to possibly opt for military action in syria because of the cw issue, really focused the international community, and certainly focused the syrian regime, and focused russia on what the consequences of this would be, and therefore, the russians played a very important role in bringing this proposal forward. in my eyes, this is something only russia could have done because of its very special relationship with syria, which dates back to the 1950s, the close relationship between the soviet union and syria, but there are ways under international control to inspect, identify, verify, the storage and then the shipment and/or destruction of chemical weapons, but if the process is real, if -- if this is a real deal, this all can be done. >> well, we will have to see whether or not it is done. ambassador it is good to talk to w you tonight. thank you for joining us. >> let's take a look at the chemical weapon's capability. jair is believed to have one of the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the middle east. the syrian government has more than a thousand tons in chemical agents. these chem sk-- chemicals inclu sarin and vx gas. and they are capable of using missiles of up to 300 miles. russia has come up with a diplomatic alternative. james bayes as the international reaction. >> a flurry of responses was prompted by these comments. >> sure he can turn over all of his weapons to the international community in the next week, turn it over all of it without delay and allow a total accounting for that, but he isn't about to do it. >> the state department later said kerry's ultimatum was just a rhetorical flourish. but it was picked up by russia. >> translaor: john kerry made an announcement stating the attacks on syria could be avoided if damascus hands over all of his chemical weapons we don't know if syria will do that, but if they will, we'll work with them to achieve that. >> reporter: and then this man reportedly welcomed the proposal, but it's far from clear whether that means the regime could agree. the next of event was in new york. >> i'm considring urging the security council to demand the immediate transport of syria's chemical weapons to places inside of syria, where they can be safely stored and destroyed. >> if syria says yes to transferring its stocks, how quickly can you, the un take control of those stocks? what is the time frame? >> i think that is the proper way for syria to do. agree to this proposals. then i'm sure that the international community will have very swift action. plus syria must agree to this. >> the un secretary general makes it sound simple, but even if syria hands over its chemical weapons, there are still mayor hrdles ahead. no one knows exactly how many chemical weapons the assad regime possesses. the experience of un weapon's teams in iraq over a decade ago is also worth recalling. saddam hussein played cat and mouse with the un for years. there will be many who believe that assad might use the transfer of his chemical weapons as a storing tactic. james bays, al jazeera, of the united nations. and coming up next, former secretary of state weighs in on the crisis. >> as you know, this is a fluid situation with statements from russia, syria, and others in the last several hours. >> plus the reason some opposition groups in syria don't want to see the u.s. attack against the regime they are ♪ hillary clinton has spoken out publicly on the crisis in syria for the first time since stepping down as secretary of state. she says if syria turns over its stockpile that would be an important step. but she was cautious as well. >> this cannot be another excuse for delay or obstruction. and russia has to support the international community's efforts sincerely or be held to account. >> the opposition fighting syria's civil war is made up of a variety of groups with different backgrounds and goals. those include fighters linked to al qaeda. they have been keeping a low pro file lately waiting to see what the white house decides. >> reporter: these are the men the obama administration doesn't want to see in power, and they know it. and that's why they are maintaining a low profile. >> it seems that western powers have decided to also take advantage of this unique opportunity to destroy some of the rebel groups against whom they have a certain ambivalence. >> reporter: so far the u.s. has not said any of those groups would be targed but their presence worry some in congress. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has put syria's fractured opposition into two camps, the good guys and the bad guys. basically that means groups linked to al qaeda, and brigades that fall under the supreme military council. this man heads the moderate opposition. the obama administration argues military intervention would help put his forces in a place of power. that may not be that easy. groups not allying with either side view such efforts with skepticism and feel the aim is to serve a western agenda. >> translator: any attack against al qaeda and other groups will be considered an attack against us, because these people came to syria to help us. it is up to us to decide how to handle any group that is harming our country. >> reporter: they are a loose alliance. some blame the international community for failing to give the moderate forces the support they needed early on. >> these bad guys were allowed to take root, largely because foreign countres didn't move fast enough. >> clearly there are those who are suspicious of the obama administration's intentions, especially since u.s. officials say the objective of military action is not to bring down the regime or tip the balance enough for the bad guys to prevail. two state lawmakers in colorado are fighting to hold on to their seat. a look at the competing national interest pouring money into a recall election because of guns. plus the choices new yorkers v in a primary vote for mayor. ♪ >> welcome back to al jazeera, i'm john siegenthaler. here are the top stories. russia is offering an alternative solution to the syrian crisis. it's syrian's chemical weapons to be placed under international control and destroyed. the foreign minister approves the idea. john kerry said syria could avoid a situation if it turns over his chemical weapons by the end of the week. >> it's possible if it's real. and i think it's certainly a positive development when the russians and the syrians both make gestures towards dealing with these chemical weapons. >> president obama is calling the proposal a potential break through. during interviews with u.s. television networks today, the president says he remains stepty call. according to the latest pugh research center poll, more americans say they don't want the u.s. involvd in syria. 28% of americans say they support a strike, down 1% from last week. 63% oppose the strike, up 48% from a week ago. now 9% weren't sure, and that's down 23% last week. the latest "washington post" poll and abc news poll have similar reports. more than twice as many oppose u.s. involvement. that's a 5% jump from last week. as the president and congress try to find consensus over a strike in syria, protesters are gathering to show lawmakers what they think about military ak shun. diane what are the people saying at the chicago rally? >> well, john, i would say it's very peaceful and very somber here. we only a few blocks away from northwestern university. some of these people out here protesting are a little bit older. they protested the vietnam war and the war in iraq, and they are trying to send a very clear message to the u.s. congressional delegation, particularly the illinois congressional delegation, and here is what they have to say. >> i think the false dichotomy is there aren't any other solutions. we're either accepting the horrendous use of chem -- chemical weapons in syria or you have to go in and bomb them. >> my message is you can't solve these problems with war. >> reporter: many of these people say they feel for the syrian people, but they don't want to see the united states involved in anoth involved involved in a military conflict. the illinois congressional delegation, especially here in the chicago area are pretty much flipped or undecided, so these people are hoping they with send at least a peaceful message to them to not get the united states involved in another military conflict. john? >> all right. diane, thanks very much. john kerry suggested that syria could avoid an attack all together by putting its chemical weapons under international control. barnaby phillips reports. >> reporter: the russians have called the american's blush, called john kerry's blush, picking up on the remarks that he made in london, effectively taking the americans up on an offer that they never really mae. the president and the administration will be -- skrepty call of the approach. they will look at collecting and destroying chemical weapons in an atmosphere of zero trust. and the united nations have adopted the offer, which makes it difficult for the americans to simply ignore it. >> welcome professor it's good to see you. p>> tell me what you think of te proposal? >> i think it was a brilliant move by putin. he looks strong. he has done a favor for obama by getting obama out of a jam, which i think he was maybe looking to do, because there were indications earlier in the summer that he wants a good relationship with obama. and he looks like the good guy in all of this. >> why would assad agree to this? >> it gets assad out of a jam too. if there is a way of assuring that there are not strikes on his territory. he doesn't need the chemical weapons to accomplish anything. >> and the united states talked about retaliation that you can't let a country get away with that. would the united states be letting him get away with that if they chose this russian proposal? >> no, i don't think so. because there are other ways to punish assad. i don't think it's the end of the story, but putin is a judo master, and i think this was a judo move. you don't win in judo games by being the strongerplayer. you do it by having surprise attacks. >> the world went through with this iraq and saddam hussein and it was a delay tactic. >> yes, that's a real issue that very smart people are going to have to come together to solve. who secures the weapons, who is responsible for the okay of saying they are all taken care of. but i think it's an option of exploring a win-win for both sides. >> the president still has to put the pressure on or not? >> the pressure comes off, and either you agree to this or there is still a threat of military action having. >> would it be better if congress said if you don't live up to this then we will strike? >> that might be one alternative. but something to keep in mind too is that putin is taking pressure off of the home court for this, because he had a bunch of mayoral elections today. >> it appears that the united states was on the verge of war a week ago, and now a potential solution. how did that happen? >> by accident it looks like, right? that's what everything appears to be. two off the cuff remarks, one that said it's a red line, oops i i'm not sure i meant it, and the other one -- >> it kind of bogles the mind that diplomats hadn't considered that. >> i think putin was waiting for an opportunity and he got it. >> you seem very upbeat about this? >> i think it has the potential of solving the problem and drawing putin and obama together again. >> how does president obama come out of this if this happens? does he look strong politically? >> he embraces it as a solution that kerry proposed and that putin was willing to take up, and it's a good solution for evrybody. >> thank you for coming. >> happy to be here. stocks close sharply on monday. the dow finished up 140 points. best performance in two months. the s&p extending its longest winning streak since july. and the nasdaq rallying to its highest close since september of 2000. after three terms in office, new york voters are about to vote on a successor for mayor michael bloomberg. the campaign has been nasty. race and ethic politics threaten to overshadow the primary, why the republicans square off in a traditional mud slinging match. >> reporter: it's election season in new york. [ applause ] >> the front runner in the polls among democrats is bill deblazio, who has built his campaign around criticism of michael bloomberg. he has been criticized for campaign ad featuring his mixed race son. >> bill will be a mayor for every new yorker no matter where they live or what they look >> the spotlight hasn't helped christine quinn. >> i'm not about finger pointing and complaining. i'm about getting things done. >> quinn would be the city's first openly gay mayor, but has fall tone third place in recent polls. thompson has moved into second place. this year he has worked to win both the city's black and hispanic communities and plays up his strong ties to unions. trailing badly are current city comptroller john lou who has two campaign workers convicted in an illegal campaign fund raising scheme, and anthony weine weiner -- each can play the role of spoiler. >> you are fine -- we're glad you worked out your problems but stay out of the public eye. >> that's up to you to judge my friend. >> you are a bad example for the people. >> joe lota boasts of his backs from major giuliani. his opponent has tried to turn that against him. $15 to cross a bridge? what was joe lotta thinking? >> it's the most open, most competitive race new york has seen in years, and during bloom beginning's term in office here at city hall, new york has changed. >> new york has become increasingly diverse. and so now we're seeing a new slate of issues and a slate of sort of stakeholders that we haven't seen in -- we haven't seen maintain as much voting power in the past. >> reporter: all of this seems to have failed to energize voters. turnout is expected to be light. only half of the voters are registered to vote in the primary. each candidate is hoping to get at least 40% of the votes. and now to colorado where the governor is warning against any attempt to disrupt tomorrow's recall election. the recall involves two legislatures who voted in favor of strict gun-control laws. one of them john morse has been going door to door trying to win support from voters. after the shootings in aurora, colorado, and newtown, connecticut, they passed legislation that restricted run purchases and restricted magazine clips. >> i have worried as much as i can about being as good of leader as i can be, and not focusing on being a good politician, and that will get you into a recall, and i'm in support of that. >> this is the first time a colorado -- in colorado state history that elected lawmakers are facing a recall. unions have been seeing a decline in membership in recent years, but california is bucking that trend. here is stephanie stanton. ♪ >> reporter: these recent labor marches for more pay and better working conditions understood score the strength of california's union. >> we embarked on a new way of doing things, a new of representing workers in los angeles. >> i'm going to continue to be our united of america. >> reporter: she is the executive secretary treasurer of the aflcio, while union membership across much of the country has been declining for decades, california's unions are strong and growing. she says one reason is union recruits in the latino community. >> we found they really wanted to change their working conditions from low pay to sustainable jobs for themselves and their familiar list. >> reporter: in 2012 california add more than 100,000 union members. and leaders say many of their members are undocumented immigrants who managed to find work in spite of laws designed to prevent hiring them? 1999 union officials stopped asking their members about their legal status. manualel recently finished a study on immigration. >> immigrant workers have been the backbone of a growing labor movement in the state of california. >> today is a very special day -- >> reporter: a move he says has become more politically motivated and politically focused. >> because of the lessons in california about how labor unions are partner to change the political playing field in a way that will be more favorable for union organizing and more favorable to community trust. >> reporter: they say in spite of political opposition to illegal immigration and unions, it's clear these workers are starting to emerge from the shadows. >> the fear is definitely something you live with us, and almost being ashamed of being who you are. >> it's fear every day to go out, to work without your documents. >> when they see we care about all of the things that impact their lives, then they trust us. >> reporter: union leaders hope strength in numbers will lead to better lives for their members and their familiar list. it's time to head down to washington, d.c. joie what have you got tonight? >> coming up, we're going to take a look ahead to see what is behind the growing of marijuana. lawmakers on capitol hill will take up the issue tomorrow, even as some local communities have begun to see the business benefits of legalized marijuana. we'll see how entrepreneurs are thinking around nichol bag and head shops to develop new shops. >> initially it was very nerve-racking, when you tell your family, parents or friends, they immediately think you are a drug dealer, and i'm the farther thing from it. >> we'll get the whole story tonight. and we'll take a look into a dark and disturbing issue facing a religious sect. >> we'll be watching joie, thank you. coming up next, jim harbaugh takes a shot at the packers, and discovering a masterpiece after being hidden away for decades. >> well, ross is here with the sports headlines, and the 49ers are taking a shots at the packers. >> jim harbaugh as always been a tough guy. he had major issues with linebacker clay matthews. >> he is talk about launching, he is talk about a clothesline to the neck area, when a quarterback is 6 or 7 feet out of bounds, it was a -- he just got struck -- it's like i have seen this play before. i thought of [ inaudible ], you know? you all know who he is number 45 of the giants. back when that was legal, you know, he would stand there in the middle of the field, wait for receivers to cross, clothesline them, and their feet would fly up in the air and their backs would hit the ground. and i was struck that's what i'm seeing here. and then joe staley jumps in, and, you know, locks him up, and then somehow joe stanley gets a personal foul called on him, where i looked at it with my own eyes, i could see, you know, two punches thrown, you know, to joe's head, and -- well, one punch and one open slap, which, you know, that was just a -- if you are going to go to the face, come with a -- come with some knuckles, you know? no an open slap. so i think that -- that -- that young man works very hard on being a tough guy. he'll have some -- he'll have some repairing to do to his image after the slap. >> can't slap. come in like harbaugh. all right. the rookie quarterbacks pretty impressive for the jets and the bills. anita marks spoke earlier about that hot topic and her thoughts on week one. >> they were going up against the bills, and that's why everybody is freaking out. they anticipated the patriots to just annihilate the bills with the rookie quarterback. but tom brady, he lost welker, aaron hernandez is in jail, they didn't bring back brandon. tom brady is working with a totally new crew of weapons. and that patriot's office, that's a very intricate scheme. i think the patriots will be just fine this season. >> elsewhere in the afc east what did you think of geno smith's debut? >> one thing i took away from that debut is confidence. he had just 42 seconds to march down the field and try to kick a field goal to win the game, and sure enough they did. but he had confidence, swagger. something that mark sanchez never brought to the jets. >> how much of a game changer is antoine bolden for the 49ers? >> i think he is huge. they were definitely missing antoine bolden in denver. one thing i know he brings to a team is veteran leadership, and also the chemistry, you saw that yesterday as well. colin kaepernick through for over 400 yards. the packers planned for that read option offense, and the 49ers mixed it up. pick your poison against the 49ers team. it will be interesting to see how they progress, because they can do it all. >> reggie bush was he the best free agent signing in the nfl? >> i do believe he is. one thing about the detroit lions, they need somebody out of the backfield to be aggressive and present. jonathan best was the guy they were hoping to do that. but bringing in reggie bush allows them to do that. it opens things up for mega tron, calvin johnson, their tight end, so i believe the best pickup in free agency. i know the lions are a force to be reckoned with this season. >> thanks, anita. >> ever in queens new york tonight, raphael has done it again. he has won the u.s. open. his 13th grandstand title. second since 2010. he has taken down the number one player in the world. the match was a marathon, john. three and a half hours, and it was just amazing. it was like a painting. [ laughter ] that was a good one, because we do have painting to talk about, a priceless painting in fact. it has been discovered in the attic in a home in europe. the painting was unveiled today. it was stored away for years because it was thought to have been painted by someone else, but new research techniques convinced art historians of its authenticity. they said it would likely be worth tens of millions of dollars. america tonight starts at the top of the hour, after a quick break, your weather forecast with kevin corriveau. ç] ♪ good evening across the sentry part of the united states, we're looking at another day of temperatures in the '90s, and in some cases into the triple digits. we have an air why of high pressure dominating right here. [ technical difficulties ]no ca0 in that's a are look at your national weather. your headlines are up next. >> welcome to al jazeera. i'm john siegenthaler. here are the headlines. congress has begun the debate on whether the united states should carry out military strikes against syria. senator harry reed delayed any vote until at least thursday. russia wants the syrian chemical weapons to be placed under international controls and destroyed. >> it's possible if it's real. and you know, i think it's certainly a positive development, when the russians and the

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>> reporter: a flurry of global diplomatic activity were hospitaled by these comment business u.s. secretary of state john kerry. >> sure he can turn over the chemical weapons to the international community in the next week turn it over. all of it. >> it will allow full and total accounting before that but he isn't about to do that and can't be done obviously. >> reporter: the state department said his ultimate was a flush eur. flush -- flourish announcing a surprise change. >> translator: john kerry said the attacks can be avoid if damascus comes over to the u.n. we don't know if syria will agree to that. if they do, russia will immediately work with damascus tie chief that. >> reporter: he has welcomed to russian proposalle but it's far from clear whether that means the assad regime will agree to oh new plan. the next in a far moveing chain of events came here in new york. the russian plan became a u.n. one with strong support from the secretary general. >> i'm urging the security council to demand the transport of syria's chemical weapons to places inside syria where they can be safely stored and destroyed. >> reporter: if syria says yes to transferring its chemical stocks to international control, how quickly can you, t*upb, respond to take control of those stock? es what's the time frame? >> i think that is the proper way for syria to do. the agree to those proposals then i think the international community will have a very swift action. syria must agree to this. >> the u.n. secretary general makes it sound simple but even if syria hands over its chemical weapons and that's a big if, there's still major hurdles ahead. for start, no one knows how many chemical weapons the assad regime possesses. there's no to independent entry of the stocks. >> the experience of u.n. weapons teams in iraq over a decade ago is also worth recalling. saddam hussein played cat and mouse with the u.n. for years. there are many who believe assad might try to use the transfer of his chemical weapons as a stalling tactic. a way to put off u.s. bombing for months on end. al jazeera, the united nations. president obama makes his case to the american people during a prime time television address terrorism night it's part of the media. the white house began. mike reports on that. >> reporter: well they call it the bully pulpit and we are going the find out how effect it is. the if the airing all evening on monday. after that he goes to capitol hill. he speaks behind closed doors on tuesday with the senate republican, senate democrats and the big speech 9:00 p.m. eastern time just behind me in the white house. everything on hold at the moment after that surprise announcement by the russians. they have a proposal, the white house has received it but leaving the door open. now the president talked about that effect on the vote on capitol hill in one of those interviews earlier today. >> i don't anticipate that you would see a success of votes this week or any time in the ine immediate future. i think there will be in the time in the united states for the international community the russians and syrians to work with us to see if there's way to resolve this. >> reporter: w iran and north koreas and others on the international stage are watching. this will be a nationwide prime time audience. this is the tragedy on the part of the white house. they are trying to remove votes when those vote seem to be going the other way against them at the moment. president obama wasn't the only one to give an interview today. bashar al assad himself sat down with cbs. he made some threats against the united states if a military strike were to go forward he said expect everything in retaliation. the president had an answer for that as well. >> mr. assad doesn't have a lot of capability. he has capability relative to children. he has capability relative to a opposition getting the themselves organized. he doesn't have a credible means to threaten the united states. his allies, iran and hezbollah could engage in ac in asymmetril strikes against us. we are dealing around the world that i have spoken about recently which are embassies that are being threatened. u.s. personnel in the region. those are threats that we deal with on an on going basis. >> reporter: on that russian proposal that has everything on hold here in washington is by no means a done-deal. the administration, the president still looking at it but we do know it has delayed things. initially the senate was to vote on wednesday afternoon the first of many procedural votes. a strong indication on where they would stand. the majority leader harry reed said those vote would be delayed. nobody wants to bring these members to walk a plank on a tough vote if they don't have to it aos a wait and see approach in washington. >> al jazeera america will carry the president's address to nation live tomorrow night it begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. there will be a live town hall meeting in washington, d.c. hosted by joey chen. >> law makers are divided whether they should take military action in syria. 331 members would vote against the strike. 44 remain undecide and 25 say they would support military action. this in the house 241 say they would vote against the strike or leaning toward voting against it. 166 are undecide and 26 say they would support military action. we have more in capitol hill. >> reporter: over in the house of representative sendives it's a moment to wait and see. there are two po ten eurpbl game changeers on the table and house members say they want to see how these turn out before they commit to a vote. one is president obama's speech on tuesday night. his address to oh the nation sa moment, members say, for him to make his case and try to convince american people that military action is needed in syria. the second oh potential game changer, rush trurb putting on the table the option that syria would put its chemical weapons under international scrutiny. this can get everyone out of a touch situation in a vote over this. that might be enough for the u.s. to pull back on its military threat. congressman adam smith, democrat of washington state, the top republicans on armed services says he's going to take a moment and wait and see. you know there's still a question about law makers. it's about this plan and how we're going to successfully hold assad accountable for the use of chemical weapons with the plan going forward after a strike. how it really impact things in syria. >> well congressman smith and his colleague miss the house on both sides of the aisle are experiencing an intense campaign by the white house. the big pitch, the big moment is when the president addresses the nation nap may change the opinion of constituents back home. in a television the interview that aired on cbs we heard more from syrian president bashar al assad and said congress has a very important decision to make. >> well, they are going to vote. i think congress is directed by the people to represent the people. they should ask themselves -- what can they gain now? no political gain. tphop economic gain. tphop good reputation. the united states is at all those times -- so -rb this is against the the interest of the united states. why? because this is the world will support al qaeda and the same people that kill americans in september. the second thing to the congress that they should add and ask the administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story. the allegations that they presented. an joining us now from las vegas is a national security analyst at stanford law school. welcome. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> give me your reaction on what you saw today from russia? >> it's a surprise move. it's good news if you look at it that way but i'm concerned why the russians came out and made this offer today a day before the president is said to address the nation and the world for that hater. president made it clear months ago where his red line there was and made it clear two weeks ago that he was set to punish the regime in damascus for use of chemical weapons. last week the russians had all the time they needed in st. petersburg to talk to the president and their team. apparently some talks went on in st. petersburg but the move today, right before the president is set to tie dress the nation, is surprising. if bashar al assad is willing to put all his chemical weapons under international inspections and allow inspec inspectors to n and destroy these weapons that is great news for everybody. >> dow think the secretary of state made an off the cuff remark that the russians just picked up on? secretary kerry today was very clear in his remarks in trying to deliver the message of the administration. again the president and his team have had a very tough uphill battle to fight especially when it come downs to getting the congress under side. whether it's democratic majority senator republican-led house. >> but was he really pushing this proposal or was he just throwing out an idea? >> i'm not sure if secretary kerry was talking about specific details but he seized the moment. it seems that secretary try kerry went along with it. this is a good, positive development regardless of whether this was an accidental offer or whether this was something they land oh on before. if the syria regime is willing to allow inspectors in and follow through in good faith with inspections and securing and destroying these chemical we weapons they will save themselves and the rest of the world a lot of headache. >> what makes this different? >> that's why a lot of people are very skeptical about this. first of all, skwraeur is a war zone. -- sirer yeah i -- syria is a r zone. how will we ensure their safety to secure these weapons? in the place where is the syrian regime has good control a lot of these weapons are based or houseed and based on military bases. is the regime going to let inspectors to come in, secure and inspect inch by inch of these nil tear facilities that are very sensitive to the regime iregime? as an idea it sounds great but when you talk about nuts and bolts on what has to be done on the gold to make sure that the world and international community is satisfied with a full weapons inspection a lot of people are skeptical. >> it sound likes you hit the' very unlikely. >> it is unlikely but it's not impossible. at this point, the government of president bashar al assad really feels the pinch. general wesley clark the former suformersupreme of nato said so. he -- had it not been for president obama's threat of force it would be unlikely for the russians oh or syrians to accept this plan. is it unlikely? probably. is it impossible? i'm not sure. let it give it a little more time. let's exhaust all option. the president faces an uphill bat until congress anyway. question manage to do this and get this out of the way without a political defeat in the house and the senate, more power to the president. >> the international security analyst. in stanford law school is in california with us to the night. good to talk with you. according to the latest research epbt iser poll, more americans say they don't want the u.s. military involved in syria. 26% of americans say they support a military strike in syria. that's down 1% from last week. nearly 2/3, 63% oppose the strike up from 48% a week ago. and 9% weren't sure. that's down from 23% last week. outside of this country, there was also opposition against the u.s. strike against syria. in cairo, dozens marched in protests to the u.s. embassy. anti-war demonstrators also get gathered at the embassy in imam. we will look at some of the protests that have been taken place in several u.s. cities this evening. hezbollah is a major force in lebanon. they are fighting along civil government forces. al jazeera's day streud jackson has more on hezbollah's power in the region. >> reporter: complete with guards an guided provided by hezbollah's fighters. support banners line there streets here in praise of their own leadership. bashar al assad syria and statements over their own authority over south lebanon. but this place.ing rebuilt after a car bomb killed 29 people here also serves as a statement. it's response to hezbollah's military support of syria's pa shar al assad. people i spoke to here are angry and exhausted by the cycle of violence. >> translator: in woman died. many men died. many people died. about what? >> reporter: yet hezbollah's leadership continues to drive their shiite followers to fight over the boarders in syria with assad. it pushes hezbollah to battle israel, the united states and suni opposition groups in syria some aligned with al qaeda. lebanon's former am pwas do to the u.s. oppose the syrian involvement with lebanon says there's no secret to what hezbollah really wants. what is their aim? what is their strategy in syria in war. that's their victory scenario. syria at war is a syria in which they can play. >> reporter: he maintains that peace is the enemy of hezbollah and they fear a u.s. military streubg strike on syria could threaten the survival of the assad regime. the worst possible out come for hezbollah. some analysts say their leadership has been ominously quiet. hezbollah has been very silent and when they're silent you have to worry about it. they will not stand down when an assad happen against syria. >> reporter: but in the streets of south beirut even strong hezbollah supporters are growing weary of the fight. >> i talked to a man down the street a the few doors down. she a shia and a supporter and supporter of bashar al assad. he doesn't want to speak on tv because he's angry following this particular blast. he says he wants peace and wants it now. he said for 15 years here in lob none they had a civil war. he fought in it, he lost his right eye fighting in that war. he said it was brutal and thousandthousands the lost thei. he said at the end of that war, everybody can sit down and talk and work things out and reach a truce. his feeling is, if that can be accomplished after that kind of a civil war, it certainly can be accomplished now. >> reporter: but that peace does not seem close. hezbollah believes a u.s. military strike only elevates the scale of the fighting possibly causing hezbollahle to strike at israel or even cause iran to pour nor weapons to hezbollah's a ar sendal. people may want peace but they say more likely the warfare will continue. >> and jackson is reporting from beirut. keeping track of syria' syria's chemical weapons. what the country has at their disposal and the weapons used to deliveer the agent. it's not just al qaeda-linked groups in that country. reason why iranians are riskinging their lives in the middle of war. . . syria is believed to have one of the largest chemical weapon os stockpiles in the middle east. here are the main locations where those we upons are reportedly stored. according to to french surveillance the government has been developing its chemical we tpopbs program since the 1970s. the syrian government has more than a thousand turns of chemical agents. these chemicals include sarin and another substance called vx which is one of the most in the world. syria is capable of delivers chemical weapons using missiles with a range of up to 300-miles. earlier i spoke with professor kimberly martin from bonard college at kphrup columbia univ. i asked if the u.s. will allow syria of getting rid of chemical welfares by acceptin accepting s proposal. >> no, i don't think so. putin is a judo master. you do it by having surprise attacks that throw your opponent off balance. putin is taking pressure off the home court for this because he had a bunch of mayorial elections today that his opponents won or did much better than expected. he has a reason to deflect attention to what's going on in russia to what's going on in the international community. >> we went through this with iraq and saddam hussein and it was delayed tactic. >> yes. i think that's a real issue that very smart people are going to have to come together and solve. who does the inspections. who's responsible for giving the okay saying they are all taken care of. there's huge challenges ahead. >> it appears the united states is on the verge of war a week a go. now a potential solution. how did that happen? >> by accident it looks like. that's what everything appears to be. >> it's a red line and the other one being let's destroy -- that boggles the mind and diplomates wouldn't have consider that. >> just waiting for an opportunity and i think he got it. does he look strong that's fighting syria's civil war. these the men the obama administration doesn't want to see in power. and they know it. that is why al qaeda-linked groups in syria are maintaining a low profile it seems they feel they could be just as much a target as the syria regime if the u.s. decides to take military action. up next, building america's blue collar work force on al jazeera. and the new, the one state where unions are growing and the group of people helping boost the membership. and hidden away for decades the arttist whose painting and painted this masterpiece is now worth toefpbworth tense of millf dollars. . . welcome back to al jazeera. a solution to the crisis in syria may rest on taking control and dispotion syria's chemical weapon's stockpile. president obama says the russia proposal could be a potential break through but he says he's skeptical that a diplomatic solution can be reached. the latest now from white house press correspondent. >> reporter: this was supposed to be president barack obama's chance to convince the american people that the u.s. military needed to launch strikes in syria but instead during interviews with six domestic networks the president announced he would give diplomacy a chance. >> i instricted john kerry to talk directly to the russians and run to this ground and if questiowecan exhaust this and cp with a formula it gives the international commune they forceable mechanism to deal with the the chemical weapons in syria then i'm all for it. >> reporter: he asked for the weapons to be destroyed. it wasn't the russian idea. it came from his own secretary state john kerry and he dismissed it as a possibility. >> he can turn over every bit to the international community in the next week. turn it over. all of it. without delay, and allow a full and total accounting before that. but he isn't about to do it. >> reporter: the president's comments seem to contra dick cot we were hearinging from his own staff. they tried to distance themselfs from secretary kerry's comments saying it wasn't an official ultimatum and down play the significance of the proposal they call "russia's idea." >> we find highly unlikely. >> it ice also mont>> it's alsoe that syria has stock weapons around the world spread across the country. >> reporter: but president obama didn't ebs press any of those doubts just a few hours later. he did admit the american people are overwhelming against intervening in syria. he doesn't have the votes in congress so now vote won't happen as expected on wednesday. >> i think what we need to do is make sure that the president has an opportunity to speak to all 100 senators and all three people before we do this. >> reporter: the president will speak to the senate and the american people on tuesday trying again to make the case for strikes in syria. polls show they are so far been unconvincing and if not refusing to the majority of americans. al jazeera, washington. >> as the president in congress discuss whether the u.s. should carry out a military strike in syria, protestors from coast to coast are showing law makers what they think about military action. in san francisco the group move on.org helped collects and deliver some 200 petition. than slater an thety war protess ral tphreuprotestorsrallied in e federal building near pelosi's office. >> reporter: in the chicago suburb tonight a peaceful, yet somber -bgs protest. many protested the vietnam war some years ago. some protested the war in iraq. they don't want to see the u.s. involved in another military conflict. they say there are other alternatives other than war. here's what they had to say. >> i think the economy that is forward is there are not any other solutions that we are either accepting the use of chemical weapons of the people in syria or we have to go in and bomb them. my message is that you can't solve these problems with war. it's only two u.s. senators richard during ban have both come out in favor of a military strike against syria but the congressional del case has been evenly split. some are undecide what they want to do and these protestors are hoping to send a message to those people that they don't want them to be in favor of a strike against syria. >> that's reporting near chicago. syrians who fled their country are discoverering new side effect of the crisis. it's syrian pound has lost much of its value. syrians living in refugee cams in jordon are struggleleing to afford food and other necessary necessities. the syrian pound has dropped by 400% as the syrian crisis escalated. one u.s. dollar was worth 47 more syrian pounds. know it taeubs 13 takes 130 syrs to equal one u.s. dollar. california is bucking that trend. state's union are actually grow egg. stephanie has more on why big labor is growing in the golden state. >> reporter: these resent labor marches for more pay and better work conditions under score the strike on the california's uniopinion. >> we have embarked a new way of doing things. a new way of representing workerss in los angeles. it will continue to be our united states of america. >> reporter: maria is the executive secretary treasurer of the la los angeles federation of labor. why it has been declining for decade, california's unions are strong and growing. one reason is union recruiting within the latino and immigrant community. >> we are finally reaching out to them that they want to change the work conditions from pay to sustainable jobs for themselves an their family. >> reporter: in 2012 california added more than 100,000 new uniopinion members according to the study of the bureau of labor statistics. nearly 17% of workers in california are in unions compared to 11% nationwide. leaders say many are undocumented immigrants who manage to find work despite laws designed to prevent hiring them. >> reporter: unions in california stopped asking potential members about their legal status. they are currently 2.6 million undocumented workers in the state. nearly 10% of the work force. >> immigrant workers have been the backbone of a growing labor movement in the state of california. >> today is a very special day. >> reporter: a movement he says has been more politically motivated and community focused. this snot your father's -- this is not your father's labor movement. it's how labor movement can partner with community-based organizations to changing the political playing field in way they will be more fay veryable in orin organizing. >> they don't know how undocumented workers they represent but despite political opposition to illegal immigration and unions it's clear that these workers are starting to emerge from the shadows. >> the fear is something you live and walk with. it's almost being ashameded of who you are. >> it's a fear every day to go out. to go out without the documents. >> when they see that we care about issue thaeupls pact their lives especially on immigration reform then they trust us. >> reporter: union leaders hope strength and numbers will lead the to better lives for their members and their families for skwr-pb rations of californians to come. stephanie statton, al jazeera, los angeles. >> on wall street shocks closed sharply on monday. the dow finished off 140 points. the s&p 500 finished its longest winning streak since july. and nasdaq with its highest close since september. there's a word of warning from one u.s. secretar u.s. sec. he was in the white house. he says the risk of another recession is still out there. >> of all the progress that has been made, however, there are a number of issues with trouble and in some case flabbergasteded. five years after the financial crisis, we have made no progress in reform, we have not had the shadow banking market. we are still debating whether we will solve the delimma of too big to fail banks. >> and shares of apple finished the day up nearly 2% as investors wait for the release of its latest iphone on tuesday. more important, however, will be what the boss tim cook says about apple's plans. speculation is the tech giant to unvail a cheaper version of the iphone, iphone 5 aimed at china's luketive market. >> a stand off between government soldiers and islamic rebels forced officials to shut down the airport in the fill teethephilippine city. trying to march to oh the city hall to raise will flag and at least 150 are still.ing held hostage and 6 have been killed. the group is attempting to der rail peace talks between the government and the mmlf. it's about issue in the verdict of the man accused of gang raping a woman in a bus in new delhi. the four suspects were charged with raping and kidnapping a 23-year-old medical student who later died from her injuries. the incident sparked massive protest across india. >> reporter: a call to arm to protect the rights of woman. the group in new delhi dramatizeed from harassment to attacks it' a message told mostly by men for other men. we are trying to a level base to make our country safe for ourselves, for our children, everybody and also for all over the world. >> reporter: the horrific gang rape of a 23-year-old student in. new tkhreu new delhi focusee country's prejudices against woman. thousands prooh tested in the streets of india and the media increased its coverage of sexual assault. whilele many have welcomed the debate on woman's rights they're worried about the stereotypeing of all the indian men as sexual predators. i am now interacting with many people who are scared to come to india or people who want time pact or migrate out of india. people who oh are scared.ing alone with indian men. >> reporter: men's product companies are tapping in to this public anxiety. this commercial calls on men to join the fight against gender violence. >> woman's activist says high levels of domestic abuse and the preference for boys contributes on assault on woman. >> what men are experiencing when they grew up. when is it normal? but men also understand from a very early age in some indian family systems that they will get way with it. >> reporter: if there are men who are fighting these attitud attitudes. it's played more than 5 thourbss me5,000 timetimes in india. >> hong kong is taking a kefr to curve its severe air phraous pon problem. they hope an entire fleet will reduce air pollution which is estimated 3,000 deaths a year. transforming one bus it's more than $600,000. a chicago photographer is on a quest to document some of nature's smallest creatures. to photograph all endangered species in illinois. she's been working on it in ten years and not only half way through. in her own words. carol freeman tell us about her own journey. >> my quest is to photograph 483 endangeredangered species in ils it' all these flowers and grasses and you can't have one without the other. so, that's why it's important to photograph them all. we had a very hard time finding good quality images of those spescys. species. i realized i didn't have pictures of them. i realized th-fr was a need for somebody to go out there and document beautifully these images. i think i'm over 140 right now it' take the about ten years to get that far. my favorite story for the most difficult species to find the dragon fly. rarest dragon fly in the united states. i would go out every other week during its flight season looking for this dragon fly. it took me three years and i finally tracked it down and got some photos of it. she was beautiful. she flew right in front of me. landed on some cat tails it was really thrilling. it was so exciting to finally see it and photograph it and have have such good shots of it. my goal is never to go out and get the picture first. it's always about my appreciation of nature and if i get a good picture that's a bonus. the tact that these species are so rare i'm one of maybe a handful of people whether have actually gotten to see them and they're in my own backyard. didn't have to travel thousands of miles the. i think so many people have lost touch with that. they take it for granted and say, i've seen that. there's no point. but i go to oh the same prairie that's five minutes from my house and every dasey something that i haven't seen before. it's truly amazing. that's carol freeman in her own words. helping america's aging and population still ahead on al jazeera. the hope researchers have for one robot without being told. people living in the united states are living longer than ever before and researchers are making life better for older americans. as mark schneider reports part of the solution may be ro robot. this lab in fort worth texas looks like a small apartment. its resident a $400,000 robot. >> our goal is to get these out of the laboratory and in to homes peupts' slo. it's a slow process. >> reporter: scientist at the university of texas at arlington spent their days to get this robot to become a better kitchen table companion. it can grab the box of cheerios but not able to open and pour the cereal in to a bowl. think of a simple as the it can as folding laundry. this is one of the tasks they're programing the personal robot to do. ben kramer uses a 3-d map to keep the robot on task. you can also navigate. >> once the robot can go do all the things resempers say it can do. who can afford it. remember, $400,000. the executive director said robotic ability and afford ability go hand in hand. question can solve all the world's problems but if nobody can afford it we just wasted our time. we focus on those things that can be produced and be affordable in the home. >> reporter: general rick lan -fp pictures the day ro pots on a smaller scale it will be mass produced and cost as much as a new car. $22,000 or so. >> if you're looking like a robot like you saw on jetsons when we were growing up that will not happen any time soon but gradually. >> reporter: resempers say in-home robots could be on the market in less than a year. arlington, texas. fort worth, texas. were here with sports. all eyeballs on, a lot of eyeballs on the u.s. open. men's final. the men had a tough act to follow ap serena williams yesterday. but rafael na the dal are up to the challenge it's great theater because the stars were out and about. justin timberlake, jessica piel, leanardo canes caprio. justin was like "cry me a river." >> he got worked by nadal. he would man up in the second set breaking rafa in one of the long test rallies. 54 shots. your 2011 u.s. champion will go on the to win to even things up. he had major knee problems and had to take 7 months off. but at 27 years young, nadal looking stronger than ever. he continues to go on to win it in four sets to capture 13th grand slam title. it's a second u.s. open championship but the first since 2010. and in the process, an emotional nadal topping $$3.6 millions. >> playing against him is always a very special feeling. probably nobody brings my game to that limit like he did so congratulations for you are an amazing player. you having an amazing career and i'm sure he will finish his career being one of the best in the history of this sport so congratulate an the best of luck for him and the rest of the year. well, obviously disappointing the lose a match like this but, tkpepb, it was a huge privilege and honor to be fighting for there trophy. one of the most valuable and most important troe tpaoeus in our sport. i will be definitely coming back next year and thank you all guys for supporting us. all eyes are on rg3. robert griffin iii has been jonesing to get back on the football field after undergoing major knee surgery. they've promised it was going to be fast and furious. the red skins are the defending nfc east champions. but the eagles are flying high. michael vic with all kindss of time. shows it to jackson nap gives the eagles a 1406 a 10-7 lead. as for offense, sloppy. that's the safety. remember this is griffin's first action in some 8 months. as for the eagle's offense they ran a staggering 53 plays in the first half which is the second best by the team since 1991. the redskins trying to keep up anyway they could. it's a personal fall right there after thby the horse collar it'e pipe to brent and who takes it in to the happy place. eagles happy as can be. 19-7 up. vic had quite a night and he also ran for another just before the half. there he goes don't get hurt as the eagles would take a 26-7 lead in to the break. in the third quarter, rgiii trying to get something going. he comes up with the play of the night. full extensive for ton believeable interception. griffin through for 329-yards on the night and gets two touchdowns with those two interceptions and turnovers. most of that came late in the game put vick is a better quarterback tonight, people. mccoy also had a monster night rushing for 184 krards including a touchdown. all right. 49ers head coach jim has always ban tough guy even when he played quarterback. now he's happy after he receiveed the packers 34-28. he had major tissues with linebacker clay mathews against collin kaepernick and had a fight. >> you talk about launching. you talk about a clothes line to the neck area when ou our quarterbacks are six or seven feet out of bounds. then joe stanley jumps in and locks him up and somehow joe stanley fetes a personal foul called on him. where, i looked at him with my own eyes. i could see two punches thrown to joe's head and one punch and one open slap which that was -- if you're going to go to the face come with some knuckles. not an open slap. i think that young man works very hard on being off the guy and he ought to have some repairing to do to his image after a slap. >> great character. a method to his madness. >> you to sing more often. >> thanks. new research along to a reference to the painting in a letter to his brother convinced the historians that it is authentic. the painting would sell for tense of millions of dollars. >> your weather forecast is up next. hello. good evening. it was hot day across the central plains. i'm talking about temperatures that were above 50 above average and higher. what's been going on here is high pressure has been dominating this region. with that a lot of sun has been coming in to play. let's take a look at what's happening now current temperature wise. they have come down. omaha is 82. but earlier today we are up to 97-degrees across this area. were going to see these temperatures tomorrow higher. omaha 100-degrees. it's about 20 degrees above average. what is happening is this ridge of high pressure is beginning to shift a little bit more towards the east. so we are going to see a high rate of valley get warmer as well. notice the temperatures behind. we have a big problem with the rest of the next couple days. that is the tphaoding that's going to be going on in parts of southwest. we have a lot of rain going on in arizona. we can see some circulation right there. that's do to an old tropical system that came up to the gulf of california. warnings and watches are in effect and we expect to see three to five inchs in this area for the next couple day. these a look at your national weather. have a great evening.

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