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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:09:44:00

give cuba an oscar for that one. >> we're talking about the money of an early 20th century industrialist. named wellington burt. >> he sounds rich. >> he does. he died decades ago leaving behind tens of millions of bucks. >> but none of his descendants, none, have seen any of this windfall until now. rebecca trylch of wjrt has more. >> reporter: in the 1800s, wellington r. burt earned his iron, making him one of the wealthiest men in america. >> his second home was right here on this site. a three-story brick mansion. >> that once magnificent home is now a parking lot. only a few reminders of burt's life remain in the city of saginaw including this road and of course his mausoleum. most significant though is probably this handwritten will. >> i think that he was kind of a wise old man, kind of foxy and i think he knew what he was doing in the long run. >> reporter: burt died in 1919 leaving very little fortune to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:10:19:00

private company. one of a new breed of enterprises competing to reach orbit. and this one is the first to make it. >> now in orbit around the earth. >> reporter: a rare glimpse inside its factory in los angeles. a new generation is working on the rockets. average age, 28. and the atmosphere, well, it's pretty laid back. the film "iron man" was shot here. and its sci-fi hero was modeled on the boss here, elon mosk, wealthy from the internet firm paypal, he now believes space is good business. >> i think that we're really entering a new era of space travel that's very exciting. and one which is likely to evolve rapidly compared to the past. >> reporter: there is a reason for this, america is retiring its old space shuttles this summer and needs to keep its astronauts flying so it is paying private companies to do the job. this animation shows how space ex plans to do this. won't happen for real at least two years, but hardware is taking shape.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:10:25:00

♪ we could have had it all that's adele. >> absolutely. thank you, guys. finally this half hour, question following last month's royal wedding. you may have heard a thing or two about the wedding. >> yes. >> who was the star of the show? the key question this morning. >> of course it should be the bride. we saw her get out of the car and all of that, however, if interested in the ladies' dresses, forget about kate. seems people cannot get enough of pippa as we hear from bianna golodryga. >> reporter: it was the wedding seen around the world. and kate's dress was all of the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:10:45:00

>> reporter: how do you feel now? you're about to be reunited for the first time with your new face. what's going through your mind? >> i just want to hold her. it's been so long. >> daddy! >> i missed you so much. >> daddy. >> reporter: a father/daughter reunion tinged with undying gratitude for the man whose face he now bears. and the donor's family, what would you say to them? >> what they did has given me a new life. they've given my daughter a new life. >> reporter: juju chang, abc news, boston. >> that's great see him with his daughter. >> absolutely, good reunion. >> interesting fact, too. he was now down the hall from the guy who the first ever -- or the second ever face transplant so you can imagine the bonding,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:10:56:00

mouths, there is white lining that's where the word cottonmouth comes from. >> they can cause a fairly serious bite but there is an enormous amount of tissue damage. >> reporter: riding along with director bob nations of shelby county preparedness, i ask him about all of the treacherous and fleeing animals. have you seen alligator? >> there was a report of two over on the mississippi banks yesterday. water moccasins, we're getting a lot of reports on the snakes. >> reporter: that's the big problem, in a way, isn't it, because they're going to be in people's homes even when they go back. and it's not only the snakes. >> you are going to have spiders. >> reporter: rats. >> snakes, rats. >> reporter: fire ants. >> fire ants. >> reporter: they float, they float in big pods on top of this water. >> that's right. >> reporter: and spend enough time and you're bound to see some the herds of deer looking

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:09:51:00

other times it will succeed but i don't ever want to get in this mindset of becoming risk adverse because i think that's one the most intriguing things about this project to me and the community. >> reporter: will wright says is he is waiting to hear if current tv will renew bar karma for another season. in the meantime time though i'm sure that he has some other cool projects up his sleeves. rob and peggy, back to you. >> even if you are into it, you cannot underestimate the market for this sort of thing. it's huge. >> i have never played or been a part of it so i don't know much about it. >> we do need to have a lot of free time to get into that. coming up, we've got papers. give a shout-out to all of those sort of -- moms who did not have a great mother's day. there you go. >> our virtual life. >> i look better in the virtual. >> i like that, yeah, let them come in. we'll call out sick. we have a great mother's day story. i missed that one. >> we will have a quick update. yeah, good papers coming up. >> hopefully you have calmed down. >> just a little bit. date.ering. yeah, good papers coming up.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:10:35:00

especially for an ally the u.s. has given more than $20 billion in aid since 9/11. pakistan is home to dangerous extremist groups. provides key help to the war in afghanistan. and has a large nuclear arsenal. >> if untethered i think it very easily could fall into position as being the most dangerous nation in the entire world. >> reporter: bin laden may be gone, but in his wake, a growing divide with an essential u.s. ally. jim sciutto, abc news, islamabad. libyan rebels are deadlocked in their battle to oust dictator moammar gadhafi. earlier this morning, nato, though, came to the raid launching at least five air strikes on the capital tripoli, where gadhafi of course remains in control. at least one government building appears to have been hit. so far, though, there are no reports of any injuries. jury selection continues this morning in the murder trial of casey anthony. the orlando mom charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter. the trial will take place in orlando. and because of the intense media coverage, potential jurors are

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:09:33:00

city from flooding. >> just like we say during hurricanes, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. >> reporter: and for thousands of memphis residents along the mississippi, anxiety is already setting in. they hope the levees hold and prevent a slow-rising natural disaster from ruining t they call ho jim ryan, abc news, memphis >> devastated farmers in missouri have gotten their first look at their land which is now under water, 130,000 acres were flooded last week when the army corps of engineers blew a hole in a nearby levee to relieve pressure on the mississippi river and the levees. most the farmers do not though carry flood insurance. now to the grim search for a serial killer on new york's long island. it's even grimmer this morning. investigators say that ten sets of human remains that they found along a remote stretch of beach were actually left there by terrorist by several different murderers. wabc's lucy yang has the latest. >> reporter: the overgrown brambles along ocean parkway so isolated, so dense, so tempting a dumping ground for not one,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:10:05:00

levee. >> this is basically nothing. i mean it's not even a -- down on the bottom. >> reporter: they're looking for four distinct threats to a levee and flood wall system. like the one keeping the mississippi out of the streets of memphis. first, overtopping. that's lapping over the top. the army corps says that threat has passed, and in fact the river could rise another six feet before going over the flood wall. second, erosion of the levees. those dirt berms remain strong and then the flood walls protecting downtown, they too appear to be holding. the fourth and final threat are those sand boils, even now eroding the levees from underground. >> we will wait until the water goes down a whole lot more and then we will celebrate success. >> reporter: the mississippi surged pass cairo, illinois. where the corps blew up a levee to relieve pressure and flooded farmland. now the river is cresting in memphis. then it's expected to be at full height in vicksburg, mississippi, by wednesday morning and crest in baton rouge on thursday. new orleans opened its floodgates saturating farmland but saving the city from high water expected friday. >> if we didn't have the elements that were put in place '27 there today this would be a massive disaster that would dwarf hurricane katrina. it would be easily the most enormous disaster in american history.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110510:09:49:00

a huge amount of creative story-telling. we got thinking what if we could make a system where it was more collaborative and what would the right format would that be? so did some experiments and kind of eventually came up with the idea of what would be a television show. >> reporter: bar karma has just finished a full season on current tv. which wright says was a perfect fit. >> current was much more open to the idea because they were kind of -- generated content and they were also very tech-savvy. they understood how to run a website, build a community, stuff like that. >> for folks who haven't seen bar karma can you give sort a brief description what it is about. >> what the community came up with is this an idea of a bar. there was this place in time. we could tell stories wherever we wanted to even points in time but we still had a core cast. we could build a long time art on top of that. >> reporter: the story lines of bar karma can range from the mystical to science fiction.

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