over there on street that doesn t have a lot of people. not busy, you know. you wouldn t think this would happen here. like a lot of people come here all day. reporter: as for jennifer williams, she s thankful she wasn t caught in the cross fire. she says she would have had she decided no to the wait for the elevator. i come through here and i would have been like innocent bystander and in the middle of it. if i had gotten in the wa way. reporter: bart service was not affected. police did close this side of the station here on mcdonald s avenue. riders able to enter and exit from spirit avenue. live in richmond, abc 7 news. thank you. developing news tonight. bay area teacher arrested on charges of possessing chilled pornography has been hospitalized after attempting suicide. nathan expected to survive after apparent over dose. he was arrested yesterday at the school where he taught in sea side near monterey. search of his east san jose home police say turned up more than 1,000 video kleps and photographs of children who appear to be under 10 years of edge. we didn t find any videocamera or anything like that in the thus would make us indicate that he was manufacturing child pornograph pornography. however we have not done a complete forensic evaluation of the computer to find if there s any child porn that we consider not known. he worked in san jose astute teacher from 2008 until a few weeks ago. the school district there has notified airports the school where he worked. search under way for 20-year-old man who suffered a head injury while biking last week which could be associated with his disappearance. matthew seen here playing guitar in the you tube video last seen at 9 last night in scoot valley. searchers now looking between there and henry cowell state park in shelton where he liked to go mountain mountain biking. lisa joins us now from the command post in scott s valley with the latest. lisa? reporter: the third canine unit arrived over an hour ago. this entire search really has escalated. namely because it has gotten later and still no sign of matt abraham. darkness brought reinforcement in the search for matt abraham. last seen yesterday at the scott s valley home by his airports. they have been keeping a close eye on the 20-year-old because just this week he was hospitalized after falling 50 feet off this trestle in henry park. he suffered a severe concussion. i went antd and visited him yesterday still at home and he was saying how he kind of slips in and out of knowing what he is doing. reporter: for some unknown reason he left home. without his phone or wallet. he also didn t make it to class today attica brill 0college. most lejust because of the head injury concerned from might be something wrong with him or he might be in danger. we are canvassing the area. reporter: teams scouring henry cowell park, area schools anywhere that may significant to the abraham. his friends and family mean time are passing out fliers and doing what they can to help. just amazing he would be doing this fours. such a roller coaster. we all heard about it his fall on saturday and his mom said that she felt like they had turned the corner and everything was going to be okay then this happened. reporter: it seemed as though matt abraham thought the say. he posted this you tube video just yesterday. i m going to be just fine. better than ever even. and i promise that i ll see you guys again. reporter: more teams will arrive tomorrow morning from santa clara and monterey counties. live in scott s valley tonight, lisa, abc 7 news. thanks very much. new at 11:00 gas leak in san francisco mission district forced evacuation of 5 homes tonight. we were over the lake minutes after backhoe sliced 2 inch plastic gasoline that was about 7:00 o clock. department of public works crew punched 2 holes in the pavement in order to get to the leak. manageed to shut it off at 8. evacuee allowed back in 30 minutes later. crews will be on the scene however as long as it takes to repair the line. well the cool down has started. abc 7 meteorologist is here with a look at live doppler 7hd. the temperatures felony where from throw 10 degrees today and i want to show you live doppler 7hd we have cloud cover. but the north bay is not seeing much in the way of cloud cover right now. that will change. no radar returns to track from our high definition camera. you can see visibility is good and temperatures right now upper 40 s santa rosa, napa most other areas in the mid 50 s. change of season just around the corner and so is our weather pattern. i ll show you when rain is coming back that the picture. thanks very much. man responsible for keeping our border safe has been charged with internet child porn. story uncovered by abc 7 news all righter vick and seen only here. gilbert lamb homeland security agent. investigation into suspicion that he was sharing child porn began two years ago. investigators wept to lamb s home in san francisco and found 85 images they say and video on sophisticated computer system. being at the house and had he a whole closet downstairs and like had he os own independent server. several computers. several hard drive drives. electronic storage devices. reporter: lamb was arrested last week while working at sfo security checkpoint for passengers from overseas flights. he s being held on 150,000 dollar bail. new at 11:00 san francisco police are lacking for the attacker who dragged a woman off a bus in san francisco in an attempt to steal her smart phone. 3 men are wanted in connection with the assault on february 13. take a look at surveillance images of one suspect. police say the victim was holding the phone when one machine tried to grab it out of her hand. victim wouldn t let go of the phone and then dragged off the bus. the other 2 men are accused of blocking the path of any one who tried to help that victim. come up next on 7 news at 1 11. pilot gets drowsy aboard a plane and only life line, woman working in air traffic control. who could tell that something was wrong. what she did to save his life. also the woman claiming to have been pope francis childhood girlfriend. the promise he made to her that changed his life. i-phone new challenger unveiled in glitzy new york spectacle. what it does that other phones do not. later on jimmy kimmel live. thanks tonight. movey from zigy and lieutenant governor newsom is here plus from the big bang theory jimmy parsons. it s jim. jim par sons. it s jim. jim par sons. i guess somebody if. pope francis returned to the sistine chapel for the first mass of his papacy today. pope delivered off the cuff homily challenge to cardinal ta to help build up the church. sign of the pope humble nature on display today in rome. instead of taking a sedan set aside for the pope he rode the shuttle bus with other cardinal and pick up his own luggage from the hotel and even paid his own bill. his wardrobe is already simpler than past pope. he kept his cross from his time as bishop. woman claiming to have been pope francis childhood girlfriend says she helped him become a priest by rejecting his marriage proposal. in buenos aires today the woman said she lived 4 houses down from young man. she says when she was 13 he told her quote if we don t get married i ll become a priest. is he she is she has high hope for his role as pope. air traffic controller was awarded the medal of safety for saving the life of a pilot. he was sounding fine one moment when suddenly the air traffic controller heard a slur in his speech. the pilot seemed to have no idea he was in any danger. is paula has the stor story. reporter: nearly 5000 flights go through the air space each day. but it was the twin prop plane on the way from dallas to michigan that alarmed air traffic controller woman. of i think you need to start a descent. maintain. reporter: all she heard on the other end heavy breathing. is that is the sound of an unresponsive pilot. soaring at 27,000 feet and one of the country busiest airway. there s just nobody saying words. and then after 20 or 30 miles i kept trying to call him. reporter: the pilot tries to respond. i reporter: listen to him again. slurring his words. another pilot hears the exchange. i don t know if he can hear that guy but he doesn t sound good. i didn t know if he would ever answer me again. reporter: she realize he could be suffering from lack of oxygen. it s a dangerous condition at high altitude pilot and passengers can last consciousness in a matter of minutes. it s what happened on board famed golfer payne stewart jet in 1999 lead to go tragedy. sheree pete he hadly urges the pilot to descend. if you have the oxygen try that. descend maintain 1 80. reporter: finally a clear response. papa mike. you are sounding a little better. reporter: guides him to safety. 13,000 feet in 15 minutes. thanks for the help. reporter: the this week she received a notice of furlough because of government spending cuts she will have to take an extra day off every few week to save the faa money. tech news tonight new big thing was unveiled in new york. the samsung galaxy 4. new smart phone lighter slirm than predecessor. with what makers boast is the cutting edge camera. analyst say the galaxy 4 make the i-phone look like yesterday hot smart phone and wonder how or if apple will respond. samsung apple main competitor in the high end smart phone market. tonight facebook wants to steal some thunder from the rival twitter. according to the wall street journal facebook planning to incorporate the hash tag into its service. hash tag would unable facebook to index conversations makinging it easier for users to take part in conversations on specific topics. hash tag helped turn 20th near a major social networking destination. new at 11:00. salute to hometown hero in oakland tonight. education reporter lee ann was there at the plaza. this was the fifth annual hometown hero ceremony honoring 28 bay area residents for making their community a better flies work, live and play. event is a partnership between comcast and bay area news greingt. what a nice event. weather forecast close to the weekend. yes sandhya is here now. and we are getting closer to bringing on the rain. all right. but the weekend is just fine. you look at live doppler 7 hd. cloud moved out of the north bay. we have a few clouds still across the peninsula. east bay. we look from the high definition camera shaking a bit. wednesday a little bit on the gusty side over the higher terrain. clearly see back towards san francisco, though. temperatures right now in the 50 s. 52 in san francisco. 55 in oakland. right now san jose reporting a number of 53 degrees. here s what is coming. partly cloudy overnight. cool mild for your friday afternoon depending on where you are. and it s a dry weekend but rain will be back in the forecast next week. here s pacific satellite picture. here is the cloud cover that came through the bay area. we are still seeing some of the high clouds and they are just passing through. we are going to see a similar pattern as we head in your friday. here s what is going to happen. 11:00 o clock tonight. few wispy clouds then we head into the morning hour. some patches of fog may form. occasional high clouds is the story for your friday. filtered sunshin sunshine. temperatures about the same as where you are, where were you excuse me, today. first they think in the morning. some patchy fog. low 40 s to low 50 s. really quite comfortable to start off your friday morning but that fog may dense in pockets. nothing like what we saw this morning where it was wide spread and it was dense in many areas. we are not expecting repeat of that. 72 degrees in santa cruz and south bay tomorrow. 76 in los gatos. it s nice day in san jose. 74, 72 sunnyvale. temperatures run higher than where you should be for this time of year. 72 in palo alto. 71 redwood city. 66 degrees in millbrae. coastal area upper 50 s. half moon bay 59 degrees in downtown san francisco 65 in daly city. 58 may a patch or 2 of fog into the afternoon. 59 in the sun set district. as you look at the north bay numbers will range from the 50 s along the coast to most areas in the 70 70 s. 75 calistoga. clear lake. 74 santa rosa. sausalito 65 degrees. in the the east bay beautiful day. 71 in oakland. 70 for newark. 69 degrees in hayward. inland communities still going to be on the higher than normal side in terms of your temperatures. 74 walnut creek. 75 concord. livermore. here s look at my accu-weather 7 day forecast. and tomorrow we feature sun clouds. temperatures in the same range for your saturday. cooling on st. patrick s day. a little breezy as well. the monday very little change other than the cloud cover but then by tuesday we are bringing in the rain. much cooler weather. wednesday which is start of spring at 4:02 in the morning effort. you will be seeing spring showers. how appropriate. 7 news has another great weather resource for you follow twitter bay area weather conditions rain or shine. great resource carolyn and dan. we have some of the rain coming but if you day away. absolutely enjoy your weekend without wet weather. thanks. insanity back in the bay area tonight. film about basketball sensation and palo alto native jeremy lin open special event this evening. part of the center for asian american media festival. guest include his parents, they are proud. high school college and shooting coaches and he have van jackson young who directed the film.en sanity debut at sun dance film festival and sudden rise to fame on the basketball court last year. larry was at the event tonight. you are even in the film. yes a little spot there. i have cameo. only about 3 or 4 seconds. i thought i nailed the scene. nailed it. audience reaction. no small part only small alaska toyvrment okay. that was i didn t say it. i don t know how to react to. that. the point was. the film is greatment when it comes out worldwide distribution hopefully. it s fantastic. theme from jeremy lin actually. he tells some great stories and the wonderful thing about the movie is they didn t just make a film after he became a worldwide supersta superstar. they had followed him from his early days at harvard getting cut by the reno big horns. all the up and dow down. he s hi layer news see. behind the sdmeens what about your scene. you know did you see it actually. it was there and gone. all right. in sports. hence my agent. very small clip. cal bears have short stay in las vegas pack 12 tournament. won and done in sin city. what about good evening. this is why a lot of coaches hate conference tournaments. there s not much to gain and a lot to lose. no. 2 steve cal knocked off by 10 seed utah in the pack 12 quarter final. came in with record of 14 and 17 but enthusiastic. justin cobb bringing a game tonight. to the rack. bears up at the hal half. lowest in the pack 12. wouldn t know from it this mov move. glen dean athletic and acrobatic. under 2 minutes to go. cobb that s the 3. game high 26 points. 8 seconds left. utah down 3. leading scorer jerrad 6 of 3 sending in overtime. cal had a foul to give didn t take it. they would pay. in o t utah dominated jordan love ridge put him up 5 and jason washburn ices it. cal eliminated from the tournament 79-69. at 20 and 11 the bears should still get an invite to the tournament on send but this loss might hurt the seeing the. ice last summer. shark sat at home and watched it. so-cal rival hoisted the stanley cup. they were trying to snap a slide hosting the champ from l.a. with a shot here on frasier. that leaves to fight between these 2. end up getting 4 extra minutes of penalty. disgusted. men behaving badly. shark capitolize on the power play. irwin with a wrist and minute 27 later still on the power play. logan with a rocket to the point. kings make come back. fall short. todd the franchise all time winningest coach with two 07 wins. 4-3 shark. matches in l.a. 49ers defensive line man, ricky signed 4 year two million dollar deal with the colts. a lot of money for a guy who started only 2 games. back up to justin smith. colts hoping 6 foot 3, 2 90 pound will bolster their defense. world baseball classic this sunday in san francisco. will team usa be here? in a must win scenario after did s game with the dominican republic. in miami. dicky won cy young with the nasty knuckle ball. solid for 5 innings. gave up just this run but rocket launched by are mile an hour educates in the fifth. tied up at 1 appease until the 9th. eric with base hit. nelson cruise nasa score. 3-1 dominican republic the final so they qualify for the semi. coming to san francisco. brian of the giants will start tomorrow for team usa. they have to beat puerto rico and winner will advance to the sem semi. 7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. watching tonight after the movie premier this small scene you are too big for us now. that s what i was think snooing on the subject. coming snooing on the subject. coming up. book so small you need a the look at the wake up weathe weather. comfortable temperatures first thing in the morning. light breeds. patchy fog near the coast. mike here at 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. with any updates. thanks so much. japanese company is hoping that its created the world smallest pwichblingt can t imagine they can get any smaller. 22 passengers called flowers of seasons. to give you perspective. object next to it it s a sewing needle. comes with the own magnifying glachlts company aiming for official title from guinness book of world records. can t imagine. make one smaller than that. coming up next. newsom pars sons and ziggy. thanks for watching. for all of us here, thanks so much for being here. we appreciate your time as always. tomorrow morning news starts on 7 news at 4:30 in the on 7 news at 4:30 in the morning. cleato cleakimmel live! tonight jim parsons. california s lieutenant 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[ cheers and applause ] jimmy: hi there. thank you very much. thank you for watching. thank you all for coming. i appreciate your interest and your enthusiasm. i m going to promise you one thing. tonight s show is going to be the best show you ve ever seen on television. [ cheers and applause ] if at the end of the night anyone goes away disappointed, if even one person says that was not the best hour of television i ve ever seen, i will let me think. what will i do? [ laughter ] oh, i will apologize. that s right. i will say i m sorry. [ applause ] in fact, let me get that out of the way right now. i m sorry this show isn t going to be the best one ever. [ laughter ] i was hoping it would be and i got carried away. i shouldn t have done it. we ve got some fun stuff from our viewers today. last night, i shared a story of oakland raiders defensive tackle desmond bryant who got arrested on charges of criminal mischief. wound up taking what might be the greatest mug shot in the history of them. [ laughter ] it s such a fantastic picture that we thought we could possibly give birth to a new internet craze. so we came up with the word dez g, like tebowing. instead of posing on tim tebow, you would do this, like desmond bryant.
number, too. [laughter] $661 million? all right. let s find out how much suge knight s worth. [laughter] now i assume, when he s shaking people over the balcony, it s like, hey, did anything fall out? [laughter] hugh hefner. i m gonna say he s worth $45 million. [audience ohs] [laughter] that ll buy you plenty of viagra. okay, larry flynt. if hef is worth $43 million, i m gonna say larry flynt is in the ballpark of $25 million. [audience ohs] i guess that proves that soft porn doesn t pay as well as watching someone get peed on. [laughter] lesson learned, america. daniel tosh. i think the shocking part is that i made the list. [laughter] $400,000 in the red! [laughter] by the way, there s good debt and bad debt. currently, i m upside down on a mortgage. [laughter] probably doesn t help that a hot girl flies me to mexico to invest in her family s tequila business either. next time, i m saying, no, gracias. [laughter] go to our blog to see the ones that we didn t have time for. see you next week. good night. [cheers and applause] [eagle caw] stephen: tonight, big changes for texas. their 10-gallon hats are now 38-liters. [laughter] then, can our drone program win the war on terror? yes, if you go up, up, down down, b, a, b, a, select. [laughter] and my guest, physicist michio kaku believes an asteroid could destroy the earth. global warming, solved. [laughter] ice land is considering a ban on internet porn. now there s nothing to do in iceland. [ laughter ] this is the colbert report. captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) [cheers and applause] welcome to the report, everybody. thank you so much for joining us. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting stephen! ] thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please sit down. [cheers and applause] welcome to the show, everybody. thank you for joining us. [cheers and applause] thank you, everyone in here welcome to the program. dominus vobiscum. folks, as the cardinal of cable, i m giving you nave to narthex coverage of pope benedict s resignation in my new series popewatch: inde-schism 2013. [cheers and applause] remembers remembers folks remember, it has been over 700 years since anyone has voluntarily depoped themselves. [laughter] well, buckle your chausable, because there are dramatic new developments. we all know that when a cardinal is elevated to the papacy, he becomes the heir of st. peter there choose a new name. so, naturally, now that benedict xvi is leaving office, he has asked that we call him simply: benedict the xvi. [laughter] okay. okay. that s understandable. he doesn t want to have to get new towels and stuff. [laughter] but that s not all. he says he s still going to be pope emiritus and his holiness, continue to wear the white robes and live in the vatican. [laughter] folks, that means there s going to be two pontiffs. we re one pope over the line sweet jesus, one pope over the line. [laughter] [cheers and applause] it ll be chaos. you can t have one vatican with two popes. it s like gotham with multiple batmans. [laughter] you shine the bat signal, all these clowns show up. [laughter] i mean [cheers and applause] holy sausage fest! [laughter] [cheers and applause] after all, i mean i mean, which one s infallible? say you re having a smoke break in the apse, and the two of them start walking towards you from different directions. you re getting double-poped [laughter] you know d-p ed [cheers and applause] think about this which pope do you bow to and which one do you just go sup? [laughter] and imagine the confusion in the breakroom fridge when there s more than one yogurt labeled pope. [laughter] i m so worried. i m so worried about this. as an observant catholic, -6- but, to the man s credit, he s not holding onto all the trappings of power. he ll trade in his famous red shoes, the prada red shoes, for a pair of hand-crafted brown loafers out of mexico. stephen: okay, red shoes are gone. meaning he is no longer able to transport himself to kansas. [ laughter ] and this is significant, i think he s losing the symbol of his office. on february 28th, they will take away his ring. the symbol of his authority and destroy it. stephen: so, i guess it is over and i m worried about nothing. because there shouldn t be any problem with a really old person losing his ring of power. [laughter]ñi he looks good. nation, if there s one thing the reelection of barack obama proved, it s that demographic shifts are making it harder for the gop to win nationally. apparently in 2012, minority voters just didn t connect with the republican message of stop thief! [laughter] the man behind obama s minority outreacharound was jeremy bird,i [laughter] who focused on face-to-face communication with core obama support groups, nonwhites unmarried women, and millennials. because we know how much millennials love two face-to-face communication. [laughter] well, now bird has set his sights on a new target. team obama s former national field director jeremy bird, one of the masterminds behind the president s reelection victory has decided his next job will be turning texas blue with a new grassroots organization battleground texas. you re not considered one of the battleground states. although that s gon be changing soon.ñr stephen: yeah, that s gon be changing even faster than obama s accent! [laughter] [cheers and applause] nation, this means the democrats are messing with texas! a, i believe that s unconstitutional, and b, i believe it might work. texas is one of four majority minority states, and its 9.5 million hispanics, currently 38% of the population. just 4.1 million hispanics are registered to vote, and only about half make it into the voting booth. stephen: which means if jeremy bird can get these minorities to the polls texas republicans may soon be saying the spanish word for adios. [laughter] so can this jeremy bird character enact his sinister plan to win the next election through the dirty, underhanded trick of voting? [laughter] here to tell me is the field director of obama 2012 and the founder of battleground texas jeremy bird. jeremy, thanks so much for joining us. good to see you. [cheers and applause] now, jeremy, let s talk turkey for a second. how much of this is bluster? can you reallyñi flip texas? because there s a damn good chance before the next election they will this is definitely more than bluster. if you look at the state, if you look at the demographics it s the state that is changing. the country is changing. stephen: what do you mean changing? a more diverse state. it s becoming a lot more young people. we re going to go out and expand the electorate. get the new voters, register them, bring them into the process. the folks registered to vote and not turning out in texas we re going to build a grassroots campaign and turn it into a competitive battleground state. stephen: if you do that, that will upset the natural order of things. we know it s in the constitution that ohio and florida get to pick the next president. do you not believe in the constitution? in texas if you go there and talk to volunteers. i ve seen theçó volunteers whetr it s in el paso driving up towards new mexico or calling down they want to focus on texas. we re going to bring the fight to texas and make the a battleground state so that anybody that wants to be the commander in chief, they have to fight for texas. stephen: what do you mean the demographic shifts are happening? that s just liberal you ve mixes for hispanics and black people d you ve ms.ims deuphemisms for hispanics and black people. if you look. [laughter] if you look at the state it s not just about the demographics it s the turnout. only 54% of the latinos were registered to vote and only 35% turned out. with only 50% of a population turns out to vote you get a government in texas. it for half the people and by half the people. we plan to change that it s not the demographic shift in the future it s the folks there in the future. stephen: you are reaching tout african-americans and hispanics? of course, and young people, women, across the state. stephen: you are a racist. what i want to do in texas is make the people there part of democratic process. get everybody in the state to turn out and vote so that the government reflects the people of texas. stephen: is voter i.d. going to stop you. rick perry behind the voter i.d. law, isn t he? if you look at the state the way republicans have gerrymannedered it. stephen: it s an ugly word. it s extremely accurate but ugly word. the laws they put in place make it hard to vote. we re going to get people out to vote, fight tour their voting rights and turn them out in force. stephen: do you want to make a bet? $100? yes. stephen: i bet you $100 you cannot get barack obama reelected in 2016. jeremy bird, [cheers and applause] stephen: welcome back, everybody. thanks. [cheers and applause] folks, over the past few years, as i ve been watching the story unfold in the news, america s fleet of drones has semi-autonomously piloted its way into my heart because it works. [laughter] last week, senator lindsey graham revealed that drones have now killed 4,700 people. [cheers and applause] all right. if fans here tonight. and most impressively, many of those 4,700 people were the ones we were trying to kill. [laughter] unfortunately, not everyone is as proud of president obama s drone program as i am. for instance, president obama. [laughter] just listen to former press secretary, robert gibbs. when i went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was you re not even to acknowledge the drone program. you re not even to discuss that it exists. stephen: though, truth is, the secret got out a long time ago. i don t know how, but it was leaked to at least 4,700 people. [laughter] i just don t get why the administration is so ashamed of its extrajudicial robosassination spree. [laughter] after all, a whopping 83% of americans approve of it. even among liberal democrats 77% endorse the use of drones. and those remaining 23% of liberal holdouts are just the same spoilsports who eventually ruined the iraq war, the japanese internment camps, and the 1902 law permitting the irish to be catapulted into the sea. [ laughter ] why don t these liberal peace-humpers get how successful our drones have been? i mean, over in pakistan drone strikes have made travel to the tribal areas so perilous for western al qaeda recruits, that terrorists are actively dissuaded from making the trip. thus cancelling this year s mtv s spring break: waziristan. [laughter] [cheers and applause] the party lasts all year because the girls are never in school! [laughter] folks, our heroic drones have so rattled al qaeda, its leaders are distributing a 22-point tipsheet on how to avoid them. like tip number twelve maintain complete silence of all wireless contacts. here s a pro-tip: switch to at&t. no one will ever find you! [laughter] [cheers and applause] i love it and then there s tip number 18 encouraging militants to arrange fake gatherings using dolls andi statues to mislead the enemy. in the al qaeda training video home al lone. [laughter] [cheers and applause] but that s not all. this tip sheet also has the key to bringing reluctant liberals on board with our drone program. number ten reads: hide under thick trees because they are the best cover against the planes, advice that originated with bin laden himself, who wrote, i want the brothers in the islamic maghreb to know that planting trees helps the mujahedeen and gives them cover. trees will give the mujahedeen the freedom to move around. you hear that, tree huggers? [laughter] [cheers and applause] our drone program is encouraging reforestation. [laughter] so unless you support our deathbots you re killing the planet. remember, think locally, bomb globally. [ laughter ] we ll be right back. we ll be right back. [cheers and applause] [ male announcer ] fact: the 100% electric nissan leaf is more fun than ever. sees better than ever. charges faster. and will charge. cool. and heat. from your phone. fact: leaf never needs gas. ever. good for the world. built in america. now, leaf s an easier choice than ever. shop at choosenissan.com. stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is a theoretical physicist who s written a newsweek article entitled asteroid apocolypse. shocking stuff there s still a newsweek ! please welcome michio kaku! [cheers and applause] thank you for coming back. good to see you again. glad to be on it. stephen: everybody knows you are the author of the national best seller the physics of future. you are the professor of theoretical fizzists in new york. you awjerred the cover story on the newsweek let s call it magazine, will after the roves destroy the earth. okay. what are the theoretical physicists know about actual asteroids? well, we look at the evidence. in 1908 we had a city that fell on sigh beera, wiped out 830 square miles of siberian real estate. stephen: the tungasta event. that s right. it could have happened last week. it scimed the earth. we dodged a bullet and then another asteroid hit russia. and if that meteor was delayed by two or three seconds, it would have been a ground burst rather than an air burst and at 40,000 miles per hour do the math it s 20 hero sheema bombs. her hiroshima bombs. stephen: i m happy do you the math. how often is this happen something in. we didn t have large metropolises hundreds of years ago, we had fishing vil yanlz they hit the earth before. we were oblivious, blissfully unaware that we had near misses and actual collisions with objects about the size of an apartment building. these are city buses. and then we have a nation buster which is going to come grazing past the earth and may even hit the earth. that s called the asteroid apofet. it s ten times bigger than the asteroid that scimed the earth last week. stephen: what do you mean may hit? what is the do the math. [ laughter ] what is the math on that one? well, first it s going to skim by the earth in 2029 and it s going to graze the atmosphere. that s the question mark. we don t know how much friction it s going to encounter. that cannot be factored relyibly. when it grazes the atmosphere on the second pass in 2036 there s a window of opportunity where the thing could actually hit the earth even though it s still very small. stephen: because of the friction it encounters on 2029. that s right in the second pass. stephen: can we lubricate the earth in some way so there s not so much friction? [cheers and applause] and just duz [cheers and applause] the russians have taken this seriously. stephen: of course, they would. they almost got tagged. they said we have to maintain serious propals. maybe in 2029 steve: where do you stand in space to do the nudging? first you have to land on it, put a rocket on it and the rocket will push it slightly out of the way so in the second pass it will miss the earth. stephen: i assume this is like bruce willis and a team of miners who get trained to be astronauts for some reason. president obama has stated that the next goal now that he canceled the moon and mars mission is to land on an asteroid, in which case if we land on one, it will be a dress rehearsal. blowing it up ala bruce willis there s baby asteroids coming at you. stephen: it turns a bullet shotgun pellets. yes, up want to keep it in tafnlgt we re going to be looking at it very carefully to see the structural integrity f. it s held together by graveity or a solid piece of rock that we could push with a hydro again bomb or a rocket. stephen: the comet is coming by? perhaps the end of this year the comet of the century will come by. they are rarer than meteors. shooting stars stephen: those are meteors. however atomic can linger in the night sky for weeks at a time scaring the panlts off everyone and that s why everyone thinks the kings is foretold by the coming of comet and the comet of century is. cog later this year in november. stephen: do you know what it s called? no, i have to look it up on the internet. stephen: we can look it up right here. thank you so much for joining me.
xi jinping as president. ( applause ) he was the only candidate, and won 2,952 votes. a lone delegate voted no, and three abstained. ( translated ): it meets the popular expectations, and it meets the expectations of the chinese people and the nation. it is a happy ending. woodruff: the 59-year-old xi had already been named military and communist party chief in november. now, he will officially lead the most populous country on earth with more than 1.3 billion people. china also boasts the world s second largest economy, after the united states. and it is the second largest foreign holder of u.s. debt, about 7.5% of the total. but the two nations economic relationship has been marred recently by allegations of widespread cyber-attacks on american targets. increasingly, u.s. businesses are speaking out about their serious concerns about sophisticated, targeted theft of confidential business information and proprietary technologies through cyber intrusions emanating from china on an unprecedented scale. woodruff: china s foreign minister initially dismissed the allegations, but on tuesday a spokeswoman took a different tone. ( translated ): what the internet needs is not war but rules and cooperation. china is willing, on the basis of the principles of mutual respect and mutual trust, to have constructive dialogue and cooperation on this issue with woodruff: u.s. officials welcomed that statement, and today, white house press secretary jay carney said president obama telephoned xi to congratulate him on his election. as for the cyber-attack issue. i can tell you that at every level when we engage with our counterparts in the chinese government, we talk about all the range of issues that are important between us and, you woodruff: another friction point with the united states is china s growing military reach and its confrontations lately with japan and other neighbors over territory, disputed islands. on the home front, xi s arrival has raised hopes for reforms to stop corruption, environmental damage and a growing gap between rich and poor. the people of china and the rest of the world will have the next decade to size up xi. he s expected to serve two, five-year terms. for more on china s new president and what it means for the united states, i m joined by ken lieberthal. he was senior director for asia on the national security council in the clinton adminsitration . he s now a senior fellow at the brookings institution. and gordon chang. he was an attorney in hong kong for twenty years. now, an author and contributor to forbes.com. let me start with you ken lieberthal. what do we need to know about xi jinping? the most important thing we know is he s going to govern china for the next decade and that will be enormously important for china, asia and globally. he s worked his way up to every level of the chinese political system so he s a very experienced politician and administrator. he s coming on a program saying he s trying to clean up corruption, revitalize the communist party and keep in the power and use these capabilities to reform the chinese economic system while maintaining or building military strength. woodruff: is there something about his background we should know? his father is a comrade of mow say dung, which makes him a princeling. he s the first communist party to be born after the communist leadership came to power. xi jinping is in a system and a politburo at least for maybe five of those seven member bodies are conservatives, the hard line anti-reformers. xi jinping, whatever he thinks, has got to work with those people. pelley: ken lieberthal, what do we have to look for that will be different? what will change from ching? he s already tried to change the style by being much more of a lively politician than his predecessor was. but gordon is right. we have to see whether he can forge the consensus to make deep structural reforms in china that the country deeply needs if it s going to move forward. woodruff: for example? for example, they need to shift from an export oriented and investment focused economy to one that s much more focused on domestic consumption as a driver of economic development which requires expanding the services sector, increasing incomes and so forth. that runs against huge vested interests in china. so he needs to rework through this system so that he can build the services sector, building comes, reduce huge capital intensive from you can which you are projects and reduce dependence on experts. woodruff: looking at him from the united states, what will we see that looks different do you think? i think the one thing we ve been concerned about is al that although he s been in power for a few months when he became general secretary of the party china has engaged on provocative maneuvers against the japanese because the chinese claim sovereignty over the east china say. people say xi jinping is leading china s foreign policy on this issue and if so we re in trouble because this is a troubled area. woodruff: do you believe ken lieberthal that that s a primary priority of his his real priority is domestic. he needs stability abroad in order to reform domestically. but his big problem is that he that the communist party has nurtured ardent nationalism domestically and can t allow themselves to get on the wrong side of that or he won t have the political capital to carry out reforms. so he s trying to walk a tightrope, he has to be seen as strong in international affairs but i don t think he s looking for trouble internationally. he d rather avoid if it if he can. woodruff: do you see that the same way? i think he would like to avoid trouble but china is doing things which is causing trouble not only with its neighbors from the arc of india to the south to south korea in the north but also with the united states. it s not just a question of cyber hacking, it s these questions of sovereignty, closing off the south china sea, support of north korea, these are ngs that deeply trouble the international community and the united states and if china wants better relations with us they can stop do what they ve been doing for the last three or four years. woodruff: is that something that s believed the chinese leadership wants to pursue or is it something that just happened? clearly the people s liberation army, the security services, even the communist party itself have been involved. they re going after our corporates and trying to get information to use for commercial purposes but most important they re attacking the institutions of a free society. new york times, wall street journal, washington post. this really goes the core of what america is and so this is very serious for us. woodruff: how much does that, ken lieberthal, interfere with everything else that xi jinping wants? well, i think the cyber security issue is moving to the center of the u.s. china agenda so it s likely to be an issue that s troublesome. the chinese are engaging in a huge amount of cyber espionage, by the way, so is everyone else. i think this is an area that requires a lot of very careful thinking we can t ask the chinese to stop doing something we re doing. we can t ask them to obey rules that we don t ask france and others to obey. but this area is going to be troublesome, i think it will take a while to figure out even what we want with rules that we would like everyone to adhere to that we re prepared to adhere to ourselves. woodruff: what about the huge role, gordon chang, that china plays in the u.s. economy, holding so much debt. a trillion dollars of american debt. i don t think that s a big issue or should be a big issue for us. last year china s transfer was 136.3% of its overall merchandise trade surplus. that means they re running deficits with the rest of the world so they can run a surplus against us. that gives us leverage if we care to use it on issues that ken s been talking about like cyber attacks. woodruff: finally to both of you, ken lieberthal, as you look at the next ten years of leadership under xi jinping, what can americans do they look for constant internal struggle in china or what? i think if you really understand the chinese system you ll see this is a place that s in serious trouble. there s trying to be revarp the economy and the system of the population i would much rather have barack obamas problems than xi jinping s problems looking ahead. we ll see over the course of ten years whether china has managed to make the changes necessary to be the dynamic wealthy economy ten to 12 20-years from now and beyond. if not they ll be in serious trouble within a decade. woodruff: quick final board? i think political system is in disarray. the communist party doesn t have its consolidated. you have to military breaking free of civilian control setting the tone for chinese foreign policy. that is problem for us. woodruff: ken lieberthal shaking his head. i ll disagree that. i disagree with a lot of what you say, too. woodruff: we ll get you back soon to finish the conversation. brown: still to come on the newshour : the view from argentina of pope francis; an emergency manager for detroit; the bright lights on san francisco s bay bridge and japan s recovery, two years on. but first, the other news of the day. here s hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: president obama went back to the capitol for a third day, bidding to build support for a long-term budget deal. he met today with both senate republicans and house democrats. but it was unclear how much headway he will be able to make. most republicans are balking at any additional tax hikes to cut the deficit. many democrats are opposed to substantial cuts in entitlement spending. the democratic led senate judiciary committee approved a new ban on assault-style weapons today. the bill would outlaw the sale of 157 kinds of semi-automatic weapons and limit ammunition clip sizes to 10 bullets. it passed on a party-line vote of ten to eight, with all republicans opposed. but it faces long odds in the full senate. the head of the transportation security administration is defending a proposal to allow small knives on passenger planes. the idea has provoked a backlash by pilots, flight attendants and others. but john pistole told a house hearing today that the concerns are misplaced. he said an attacker could use any number of things already on planes. a metal knife or fork, whether it s a wine glass or wine bottle that they break and use, there s any number of things that could be used as a deadly instrument. it really gets again to what is the intent of the person on board as opposed to the object. if we simply focus on objects, then we re always behind the 8- ball. sreenivasan: pistole said airport screeners find some 2,000 small knives a day, and each one consumes several minutes of time. in afghanistan, the top u.s. commmander is warning american troops to be ready for more attacks by afghans. that s after afghan president hamid karzai accused the u.s. and the taliban of colluding to destabilize the country. the new york times reported today that general joseph dunford sent the warning to battlefield commanders. he told them in an e-mail, we re at a rough point in the relationship. karzai issued a new statement today saying he wants to help reform relations with the u.s. a coordinated attack on the iraqi justice ministry killed at least 25 people today in baghdad. car bombers and gunmen launched the raid, near the heavily fortified green zone. fighting lasted for an hour, as ambulances attempted to remove scores of wounded. no group immediately claimed responsibility, but the assault bore the markings of al qaeda in iraq. there s been a surge in the exodus of syrians escaping the civil war in their country. u.n. officials reported today the number of registered refugees increased 10% just in the past week. that brought the overall count to more than 1.1 million. it s believed thousands more syrians have fled, but have not registered. israeli prime minister benhamin netanyahu reached an agreement today to form a new coalition government. it s the first in a decade to exclude ultra-orthodox jewish parties, and it s expected to try to curb preferential treatment for that minority. the coalition may also push to re-start peace talks with the palestinians after four years of virtually no movement. but netanyahu warned, none of it will be easy. ( translated ): we are engaged in the final details of the coalition agreement, in order to bring israel a new government next week. the next candidacy will be one of the most challenging in the history of the state, this is not lip service. we are facing great security and diplomatic challenges, there s no exaggeration, there s no exaggeration. sreenivasan: the new government is set to be sworn in on monday, two days before president obama plans to arrive for his first visit since taking office. honda motors is recalling 250,000 vehicles worldwide due to braking problems. the automaker said today the problem may cause braking even when the driver is not pressing the pedal. the recall affects four models made between 2004 and 2005: the acura r.l. sedan; the acura mdx s.u.v., the honda pilot s.u.v. and honda odyssey minivan. no accidents have been reported. wall street pushed higher again today and the dow jones industrials rose for a tenth straight day the most since 1996. the dow gained nearly 84 points to close at 14,539. the nasdaq rose nearly 14 points to close just short of 3,259. those are some of the day s major stories. now, back to jeff. brown: yesterday, a selection that took many by surprise. today, the new pope spent his first day as head of the worldwide catholic church. we begin with a report narrated by jonathan rugman of independent television news. reporter: he s a vatican outsider who speaks five languages. pope francis or jorge bergoglio, celebrating mass in the sistine chapel tonight with the cardinals who elected him decked in gold. he s 76, a little unsteady on his feet here but the argentinean spoke in fluent italian without notes and last night italy s bishops were so convinced that one of their men had won back the papacy that they sent out a message of congratulations by mistake. this morning the pope, who is also bishop of rome, visited one of its oldest churches, praying for the city s safety he s the first non-european to become pontiff in 12 centuries but his parents were italian and the welcome here could not have been warmer from here he took an ordinary police car to collect his luggage and pay his bill before the move into a more upscale neighborhood a no nonsense debut from what appears to be a back-to-basics down-to-earth pope. apparently hoping to change the vatican more than it changes him st. peter s square heaving with excitement last night when his church pulled back the red curtain and sprung him on the world. he used to be known as father jorge, now he s pope francis, but determined, it seems that these dizzy heights won t change him. bowing his head and asking the people to pray for him then sharing the bus back home with his fellow vicars. we toasted him, the cardinal secretary of state toasted him then he toasted us and he simply said may god forgive you. (laughter) which brought the house down. in other words i hope you don t regret this later. reporter: the biggest cheer, of course, from his fellow latin americans. for a man with the common touch, yes, but no doctrinal pushover as tough on abortion or gay marriage or women priests as his bookish predecessor. brown: outside of rome, perhaps no group was more excited about the choice for pope than catholics in argentina. a short time ago i talked with hugh bronstein of reuters in buenos aires. hugh bronstein, welcome. so 24 hours later, what s been the reaction there in argentina? well, at first it was stunned silence and it gave way very quickly to jubilation. the fifthful in argentina really believe this is the right pope to do what needs to be done at the vatican to improve transparency and get back to the gospels. brown: there s been much attention to the new pope s simple life-style, his work with the poor. how has that manifested itself in his life and work in argentina? well, this is a soccer-crazy country and when it came out yesterday that he is a card-carrying rank-and-file fan after sam lorenzo, one of the top five teams here in argentina people went nuts. twitter went wild and it came out as well that he has a very unassuming kind of life-style. his apartment is very close to the neighborhood where the headquarters of san lorenzo. is he takes the bus to work, if not the subway. on the bus and on the subway if the team did well the night before he talks with his friends his fellow commuters, if you will, about the triumphs or the disappointments of the san lorenzo football team. that puts him in very good said the here in argentina. brown: his appointment as pope reraised some long ongoing questions about the role of the church, about his own stance during the years of the military dictatorship, the so-called dirty war of the 1970s. what is known and what has been debated and looked at there? well, that s a very serious concern so far i can tell you there is no smoking gun that stands up when you take away the politics. a book was written called the silence about his performance during the take tateorship. the accusation postulated in the book is that he did not properly protect two jesuit priests who were ministering in the poor neighborhoods and basically allowed them to be taken away and imprisoned by the dictator. his allies contest that version. there reason very deep investigations into that period but so far no smoking gun. brown: now, pope francis is described as theologically conservative and i gather you ve seen this in argentina in his disputes more recently for example with recent governments, including the current president. tell us how that has played out. what kind of issues? sure. this is a progressive country. it s a catholic country but it s a progressive country as well. the president, christina fernandez dekirchner sent a letter of congratulations to the pope yesterday. it was only two sentences long. this is the first pope to be elected outside of europe in 1,300 years, the first from latin america, the first jesuit, the first from argentina. one would have thought that maybe three sentences would have been merited under the circumstances. but it was two rather frosty sentence which is says a lot about the rather distant relationship that she has had in her six years in power with the pope. he spearheaded the opposition to her bill which became law in 2010 which became marriage. there s been a distant relationship ever since then. brown: briefly, hugh, if you could, finally how does that play out. you started to talk a little bit about argentina, it s a catholic country but more liberal socially. how does the what is the role of the dlurj these days? how is it seen? well, if you ask the average argentine are you catholic the answer is absolutely yes. but not that many people go toll church here? they don t go to mass on sundays. you don t see huge crowds at mass. other countries in latin america colombia, mexico, central america, are countries where you see a much bigger presence day to day of the catholic church so keep in mind this is the land of evita. this is a place this is a country a little bit of populism goes a long way and the fact that he s taking the subway to work. the fact that he s a rankaround file soccer fan is going to bridge the gap. it shows a certain amount of political skill on his part that he knows that he s in a country is catholic but is one of the most progressive countries in latin america so he s doing what he can to bridge the gap and that s what he s known for. brown: hugh bronstein of reuters in buenos aires, thank you very much. thank you. woodruff: now, to detroit, where the governor of michigan announced an emergency state takeover of the city s finances today. margaret warner has our report. warner: it was once a bustling midwestern city alive with people and the humming heart of the auto industry. but detroit today is just a shell of that with widespread decay and population loss. the 2010 census showed one person moved away from the city, every 22 minutes in the last decade. it makes me sick and i want to leave. i would have somewhere else to go because i will leave, and never come back. warner: detroit is also the poorest major city in the u.s.: running big annual deficits, and $14 billion in debt. all of that led michigan s republican governor rick snyder today to declare a financial emergency and recommend the appointment of an emergency financial manager for the city, kevyn orr. look at the history of the city, this is a problem that s been evolving for 50 plus years. this is a problem that now has reached a true crisis point. in many respects, it s a sad day, to say we have this day but again i like to view it as a day of opportunity. this is an opportunity for us to work together. warner: orr is a lawyer with the washington law firm jones day. he s best known for his work on restructuring chrysler in its bankruptcy of 2009. as emergency manager, he will have the power to renegotiate or even terminate the city s labor contracts; privatize public services and sell some city assets. detroit s city council has vigorously protested the move. but today mayor dave bing said he will work with orr to do what s best for the city. bottom line here is that we must stop fighting each other. we must start to work together, and so i m happy that now i ve got teammates. i ve got partners that can help me do some of the things that need to be done in our city. our citizens obviously deserve more than they are getting. warner: orr faces huge challenges in doing that: a city in which even police protection has broken down, and corruption has blighted city hall. just this week, former mayor kwame kilpatrick was convicted on two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery. for more on the struggles facing detroit, we re joined by michigan governor rick snyder and the city s soon to be emergency financial manager kevin orr. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. governor snyder, the mayor and the city council last year put forth their own plan to get the city sol venn. why is it necessary to do this now? margaret, i appreciate them coming forward with the plan. the issue was the plan was not being implemented fast enough and was not going to be sufficient enough to resolve the financial crisis. so it was helpful. i urge them to continue to work on their efforts on that plan but what i would say is we need to do more. that was the point of adding a financial manager. so let s turn around so let s turn around detroit. we can and will address these financial issues. is. warner: mr. orr at your press conference you called this job the olympics of restructuring. what rur r your most pressing immediate priorities? what do you have to do first? well, hello, margaret, nice to meet you teleon theally. the first thing we need to do is ensure the citizens of detroit that we are focused on their needs as customers and enhanced city services. the reason i said it was the olympics is because we ve got to deal with issues regarding employee and retiree benefits but we have to provide key services to the citizens so we need to look into that and see how there are ways we can improve it. some of which are in the pipeline already. woodruff:. warner: but in terms of coting costs, are you going to be looking at things like cutting city workers in a city with high unemployment or renegotiating labor contracts, privatizing some city services. margaret, everything is on the table. i think under these circumstances the three things everybody agrees two things everybody agrees on, there s a financial emergency in the city, something needs to be done about it. the question is what? so we want to taken a extended and granular look at what can be done and needs to be done but everything is on the table. i want to make no decisions now because i haven t had an opportunity to look at everything but we deal what makes sense and what s driven by the data. warner: governor, the members of the city koun swhil have opposed this, who appealed the decision, who are talking about going to court say essentially it s undemocratic to take the power out of the city to run the city out of the hands of elected representatives. what do you say to that? the city is a subset of the state of of michigan. we re the sovereign sfwity here. i m responsible to all the city of michigan, detroiters and not detroiters and i m focused on improving detroit so there is an elected official in charge of this process. if you go back to the consent agreement i worked out in the city in the past we all agreed on a series of things that needed to be done and that s a starting point is to say here s a list 2061 different items that need to get done. a lot of those restill in process or need to get started so that s one of the things that clearly needs to happen and we are all part of that process. the other thing that was very exciting was mayor bing was at the press conference so say this is about partnership. this is not about someone versus someone else. this is all of us getting focused on the citizens, the customers in detroit to create a long-term environment of success let s solve the short term problems and grow detroit. warner: mr. orr, you spoke about wanting to have a team approach but are you going to take the views of the members of the city council who oppose some so these potential steps into account or can you just override them? there s the balance there? well, i don t think all the members of the city council necessarily oppose some of these steps, in fact some of them were baked into the consent agreement they agreed to so the reality is i m a creature of a state statute that allows me to expeditiously bypass the impediments to achieving the very goal miss of them have agreed with. what i d like to do, though, is as we see with the mayor and the governor who s taken a very courageous step in terms of declaring the emergency, this has been breeding for a long time. in 2005 there was a discussion of a restructuring. what i d like to do is embrace nerve that process to achieve the goals that have been identified in a collegial and ed expect dishes way. woodruff: what if the time frame you set for yourself. mr. orr, and if it comes to that is bankruptcy which is certainly what chrysler did is that an option? well, chapter 9 is different than chapter 11 but everything is on the table, including the possibility of a bankruptcy. the reason i keep emphasizing the need for stakeholders to come together and reach a consensus is because that would be more fair. it would be quicker, bankruptcy, specifically chapter 9, could put a finger on the table in terms of the powers that the municipality has vis-a-vis other stakeholders. so i d like to get to an agreement quickly, have 18 months to do it under my appointment. i m going to enter into discussions with interested parties as soon as i can and make an assessment from there going forward. i hope we can do it collaboratively because the reality is new york and philadelphia were able to do it that way. other great cities, baltimore and pittsburgh for instance ten years ago were considered in crisis and look at them now. they re thriving. there s no reason detroit can t have the same outcome. woodruff: gentlemen, i d like to close by asking you both and i ll begin with you, governor is the underlying message that when a city is in this much trouble of long standing that only an outside manager with if not autocratic than tremendous power cans do what has to be done? that s not necessary, it s a situation here we ve got at least 50 years of this problem growing and a lot of people on good faith in the past have tried to solve it and be unsuccessful. so i view it as this is all hands on deck. this is not to exclude people, this is to say the mayor s been working hard on this. the city council have, many people in the community and let s add the resources we can and this is another tool in the cool kit to bring the powers of the emergency manager and to add this level of expertise. kevyn is one of the finest restructuring bankruptcy people in the country. let s go and do this as a team to turn detroit around because it will be a fabulous outcome for detroiters, michiganers and our whole country to feed detroit in a positive way. woodruff: final word from you mr. orr? margaret, this is an issue and an opportunity whose time has come frankly if we get everybody as the governor said pulling all oars, if you ll excuse the pun, pulling together we can get this done very quickly. i m not unmindful that i m comfortable in the bankruptcy courts in america and they re tremendously talented. they handle horse farms to airlines, they will be able to provide heft and impetus but i m hoping we don t have to go that that route. that sounds odd coming from a bankruptcy practitioner but that s my goal. warner: governor rick snyder and kevyn orr, thank you so much. thank you so much, margaret. woodruff: michigan public radio has ongoing coverage of detroit s financial crisis. find a link to that reporting on our homepage. brown: next, bright lights over the bay. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports from san francisco on a work of public art. reporter: for 75 years, the bay bridge has been the workhorse on san francisco bay, linking oakland and san francisco, and carrying 270,000 cars and trucks a day. on the san francisco side, its towers support suspension cables that keep the bridge up. but this gray, utilitarian structure that partially collapsed in the 1989 earthquake has never captured the world s attention, the way its nearby cousin, the golden gate bridge has. built toward the end of the depression, both were engineering marvels. now, the bay bridge is making its own splash. on a cold rainy night last week it was transformed into a giant work of art. 25,000 tiny white undulating l.e.d. lights, strung from the vertical cables, were turned on in a flashy display of public art that can be seen for miles. for california politicians like lieutenant governor gavin newsom, it was a chance to tout the area s uniqueness. here we are in san francisco- - a wacky and wonderful place and a city that is probably best described as 49 square miles surrounded by reality. a city of dreamers of doers of entrepreneurs and innovators. reporter: the high tech installation, which is called the bay lights, is being billed as the world s largest l.e.d. light sculpture. it s also a major piece of public art, an increasingly popular and often increasingly controversial art form. like the gates in new york s central park by christo. or the new york city waterfalls, by olafur eliasson or cloud gate, a public sculpture in chicago by anish kapoor. bay lights is the creation of leo villareal, a new york city artist who specializes in using l.e.d. lights and computer programming in works on display at several major museums and in numerous installations. villareal operates his laptop, using specially designed software to control and program the lights. once set up, it works automatically. the overall effect is meant to be abstract, but to reflect different movements around the bridge, from waves and boats to traffic and clouds. when you finally pulled the switch on this the other night, and the lights came on, what was your personal reaction? it was overwhelming. i mean it was really very, very exciting. i worked very hard to integrate this piece into its environment, but it s not specific and it s meant to be open-ended, highly subjective so you can just relax, be with the piece and take from it what you will. you will never see the exact same progression of sequences twice. reporter: the lights, which are on every night from dusk until 2:00 a.m. can be seen only on the side facing north towards alcatraz and the golden gate bridge. drivers on the bridge cannot see, or be distracted by, the lights one of many safety precautions dictated by a host of government agencies. installing the piece was also incredibly challenging. we had workers 525 feet up over the water at night from 11:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. for months on end. reporter: it s cold up there. it s cold. you know thousands of cars rushing at you with a couple of cones protecting you. you know dangling you know over the water at night. reporter: the $8 million project is being financed entirely by private donations, so far $6 million has been raised, much of it by public relations man ben davis, who came up with the idea. the rest of the money is still being raised. this is going to bring in my estimation hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy. i think we re going to smash all records for public art. reporter: is there something a little commercial about all of that? not really, because that money s not going to anything but the communities that are here already. there s nobody catching a profit from this involved in the project. reporter: public art used to consist mostly of statues of generals or politicians, today many cities are requiring developers of large projects to pay 1% or more of construction costs for public art. j.d. beltran, who teaches public art at the san francisco art institute and is president of the art commission, says getting public approval is tough, especially for complicated or abstract works. many times the public feels like they don t understand a piece, it s being shoved down your throat, and they don t like it and they ll be very vocal about it. reporter: but beltran, who was not part of the project, says the bay lights works as public art. it doesn t take much to understand, because it s a gorgeous piece. i think it s beautiful, it s delightful, it fulfills all those requirements i think that the public wants in terms of a piece of public art. i think i can safely say it s pretty universally liked. reporter: unless they malfunction, as they did last weekend, the lights will remain lit every night for at least two years. a few years after that the bridge will need painting and the lights will have to come down. brown: spencer has written more about the bay bridge in a blog. you ll find that on our website. woodruff: we ll be back shortly with the long road back after the tsunami in japan. but first: this is pledge week on p.b.s. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support brown: finally tonight, japan two years after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck its northeastern coast. ray suarez has the story. suarez: the 2011 quake was one of the strongest in recorded history. it set off a tsunami that killed at least 16,000 people, left another 2,600 missing and triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant. today, official records show over 300,000 people are still living in temporary housing. for more on life in japan, two years after the disaster. i am joined by yuki tatsumi. she s a senior analyst on u.s.- japanese relations at the stimson center, a non-profit, non-partisan international research group. she was just in tokyo last week. yuki, welcome. what are the observable effects of that earthquake in japan two years later? the answer depends on where you live, frankly. if you live in the disaster-hit area, if you know anybody who were affected by the disaster, the disaster is still very much with you everyday. people worried about radiation not only in their soil and the air but also in the produce that they buy in grocery stores but the further you move away from the affected area you feel much, much less impact. suarez: well, you were just in tokyo. there is there a conscious feeling of still trying to cope with this disaster and rebuild the country? yes and no, actually. on the day of the earthquake anniversary there were memorial service everywhere, including tokyo. there was actually a big memorial service in tokyo where prime minister and emperor and empress attended and gave a prayer to those who lost their lives. at the same time people in tokyo at least, go around and live their normal life but i wouldn t say as if nothing happened because parents very much worry about the radiation that still could be carried in the air, worried about their children s health and, also, like i said, in the food that may be still contaminated. suarez: we should talk a little bit about nuclear power because japan has no significant natural resources to create energy. it s relied very heavily on nuclear power and that nuclear power became a subject of great controversy after the power plant disaster followed the tsunami. what s the state of play now? is japan abandoning its stated desire to move away from nuclear energy? well, the reaction you just describe exactly what happened in tokyo or in japan as i should say in the immediate 12 months that followed. the government at that time partly because they were very much aware that they could not respond to the nuclear melt down as well as they could have so they went completely the other way and declared that japan will be a nuclear power plant free country in some 20 to 25 years from now. however, since then japanese expands two summers and as you may know wherever you are it s very humid, hot, much, much worse than the d.c./metropolitan area. people actually feel the power shortages and the implication of trying to reduce their dependence on nuclear power in a too soon, too short time span. the current government has a little bit more balanced approach, they still do believe that japan should reduce its dependence on nuclear power. however, they take a longer perspective of doing so and they are intending to invent more resources into accelerating the developing alternative energy to replace the demand currently met by the nuclear power. suarez: you mentioned radiation. you can t see it, smell it or taste it. we mentioned that they were still setting off radiation long after the power plant disaster. it must be unnerving to think that everything in your life might be contaminated. it s very unnerving. especially if you re the mother of a small child it s very unnerving. there s no solid scientific data that can say anything about the impact of the health in terms of how much radiation it can take in a contamination and so on and so forth so it s still very unnerving and in that sense, yes the aftereffect of the disaster very much sfchl with japanese. suarez: there was a great deal of shock after the tsunami and its aftereffects that more things didn t work better. has this been a knock now that we re two years away to japan s confidence? right after the disaster, as you can imagine, everybody was shell-shocked. no one ever imagined in their wildest dream that the disaster of that degree could happen and to them and immediate reaction among the public was that in some strange way we discovered their inner strength in terms of the way they were able to keep the stability as you remember we really hardly heard any news about rioting, money from of that. some in a sense in the public level they rediscovered the self-confidence in themselves but i think their confidence inform the government very much was shaken by, like you said, the system s not working, the government not being able to respond to a nuclear meltdown as quickly, the government not being able to provide a reliable information about the damage very quickly. suarez: in the intervening months, of course, japan has changed its government, changed its prime minister in partially in reaction. yuki tatsumi, thank you very much. thank you. woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: xi jingping assumed the presidency of china. he now is the leader of the army, the communist party and the state, in the world s second largest economy. and pope francis spent his first day as head of the worldwide roman catholic church. brown: online: math geeks and dessert lovers have something to celebrate today: pi day. hari sreenivassan has the details. sreenivasan: march 14, or 3.14, is the official date of recognizing the mathematical constant pi, the number that represents the ratio of a circle s circumference to its diameter. so celebrate by eating a circular and delicious pie on pie day. plus, new findings strongly indicate scientists have found the holy grail of physics. the higgs boson. read about it on our home page. all that and many is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. brown: and that s the newshour for tonight. i m jeffrey brown. woodruff: and i m judy woodruff. we ll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org this is nightly business report with tyler mathisen. a perfect ten. the dow registers its first ten-day win streak since 1996 and posts another all-time high. the s&p is just 2 points away. new treasury secretary jack lew weighs in on the markets and the american economy. his interview just ahead. and the tsa under fire. the growing backlash over knives on planes. what every traveler needs to know. good evening, everyone, and welcome to our public television viewers. suzy, the market beat goes on and on. it s like the energizer bunny. it just keeps going and going. the dow marches on higher for the tenth day in a row, the first time since 1997 1996. it ended at 14,539. the nasdaq added 14 and the broader s&p 500 gained almost 9 points, and it s now just 2 points away from its own record high close. there is some concern that the rise in the markets may have been too high too fast. and this could be the start of a market bubble. but newly installed treasury secretary jack lew tells steve liesman not so. the analysis i ve seen doesn t give me reason to be worried right now. we ll have more of steve s interview with the treasury secretary in just a few minutes. as the dow hits unprecedenteded heights and the s&p 500 nears its own peak tantalizingly close to it, there s a battle below the surface that could determine which way stocks go from here. jackie deangelis explains. reporter: the bulls are at it again. another day, another all-time high for the dow. but despite the impressive run, there s an underlying tug-of-war being played out in the u.s. economy. we had a couple of huge risks hanging over the global economy for the last year. china had the hard landing, the euro break-
beautiful lady and she invited me into the back room and served me sak . go on! go on! well i stayed there all afternoon. talking and drinking saki and suddenly she looked at me and said, mr. kimono man, come closer. closer. and she looked me right in the eyes and said, i think i m falling in love with you. i am! i love you. i want you. i need you. then she started taking off her kimono. she started to take off her - what happened next! calm down. i can t. i m just so jealous. wow you must have had a wonderful night together. you think so? yeah. actually, no. no. just because right as i was kissing her. samurais brother suddenly came home. diver suddenly came home. what happened? well, when he saw us he was so angry and he puld out his sword and was going to kill me. oh! how exciting. it was not exciting. what happens. as he ran towards me, he slipped on the shiney floor and dropped his sword. so, i picked it up and i cut him down! you killed? that s right. at that point the wife took out 100 yellow gold coins and said, come on, let s run away together. now is our chance, let s go, let s go. and did you? no. i cut her down from behind. you killed the samurais wife? my god! why did you do such a terrible thing. because then there s no proof. no proof. ah, right. so, you killed two people and got all the gold and nobody knows about it and your still a free man. your really smart. your a real lady killer! get it? lady killer. your a playboy! [singing]hia chi! hia chi! [yawns] oh, samurai is calling again. i wonder what is wrong. oh, i ll never get any sleep tonight. samurai did you call me? yes,iha chi, come in. listen? oh, no. next door being noisy again. i ll go tell them to be quiet. not this time. hia chi let me introduce myself. my name is goto motimoshi and 8 years ago my wife and brother will were killed and i ve been searching since for the man who did it. fortunately, i found him. congratulations! where? here. here? the man next door and i m going to kill him. tell him to come here now. go tell him to come here now. [crying] excuse me. [singing] come on in and listen to this story! is it the story about gatomoshi. how do you know. because the samurai next door is him. he s going to kill you. kill me? no. listen, it wasn t me. it was somebody else. i just hear that story. i m sorry. last month and i thought that s good story but actually it wasn t me. it was another man. it wasn t you? oh, no. someone else. go tell samurai, please! okay. i ll try but, i don t know if he ll listen. he s very, very angry. please! please! samurai - where is he? bring him to me! wait. let me explain. he said actually it wasn t him. it was somebody else and he just told the story. i m sorry. it wasn t him. it was another man. another man? i don t think so. he did it and i m going to kill him! bring him here now. please! please! don t kill him here in this hotel if you kill him here, everybody will think it s a dangerous place and no one will stay here and it will be the end of my business. please don t kill him here. okay. i understand your situation. all right. then i will fight him tomorrow morning at the temple. is that okay? thank you so much. thank you! but if he tries to escape tonight i will kill all of them and you too! me too? why me too? excuse me. iha chi is everything okay. no. i told him what you said but he didn t believe me. he s going to kill you. kill me? here? now? no. he said he will fight you tomorrow morning at the temple. if you try to escape tonight he ll kill you and your friends and me too! friends? we re not his friends! we just met him. we hardly no each other. the man was so panic stricken and afraid that they couldn t sleep all night. they just sat in total silence. it was a very quiet night. the next morning,hia chi, hia chi! oh, this is a voice i will never ever forget. samurai, good morning. oh, good morningiha chi come on. i had a very good sleep last night. very good. wonderful. yes, so i d like to pay my bill. keep the change. thank you. thank you. and now, i m leaving. leaving? what about the fight at the temple? huh? oh, that! no,iha chi that was just a lie. what? a lie? why would you tell such a lie. because,iha chi i just wanted a quiet night! [applause] [musi in conjunction with an an exhi bigz we had ann an exhi bigz we had ann anan tholl have the same title. it s my pleasure to introduce some of the writers from this book. i will give you an introduction of each of them as i introduce them for their speaking turn. first up we have debbie yee. debbie yee is an attorney and poet and supporter and organizer of the nonprofit asian american arts community. she s received her undergraduate and law degrees from uc berkeley and bolt. born and raised in sacramento, california. she continues to call northern california her home. and now lives in san francisco. so, with that i d like to introduce debbie yee as our first speaker. this is called jasper john s wagon. i have an idea of how the fifth star was killed dear empire not by gunfire at close range, not in the study with the pen knife, not by the umbrella, crushed by the revolving door not jostled or hemorrhaged the narrow drain. we caught the tar and the bullet we came to the body encostic casement of skin rig motor us framed the opened mouths scream. wail for your mother wrap our sons in silken ribbons in a galaxy. the cause has been perp traited. we are adrift on a baron sea. the fleet diminishes me. who shouts for us now, dear empire? this next one is a postcard for a reason that i kept of harold s club in reno, nevada. i don t know if it exists it s a really old postcard. harold s club made we think of harold and the purple crayon. harold s club. who would figure let loose the boy with the purple crayon. let him conkokt the loses slots in women. let loose his imagination. ended as high as sea gulls or the reverse w s topped with bold topped centers the rudeaments of the buzzum and life itself. pen and ink. in the way we demonstrate speech by quotation marks the ill administrator kapt urs speed by 2 lines of the pen much the trotting horse quoted at the knees all 4 and the lady side saddled atop him frozen in place by crossed hatched marks. courseut to indicate the petticoat aroused into activity by the muscular steed. unintended garden. whether o(inaudible) the propery line, i promise not to water the spring flower and plants that remain as brown stubbel on the chins of my train. take care of dry foilage. i let the japanese maybel swat the afi ds on it s own. purple spotted brush. 2 calla lillies take root. birds return listening to lost meats all day until dusk beckons them to come to the nest and try again in the morning. this next poem is indian an ina ontholingly. on telegraph avenue it s no longer in existence, the sadness of this. berkeley, late fall. um this is from forest hamer who is a bay area poet who wrote berkeley late spring. this is berkeley late fall. i have been browsing the peet ree section had come to lose the unconcern but persistant rain that followed me in as a trail of damp shoe prints and dripping conscientious hacompanied to a solitude. i ran my right index if anything are across each spine flesh going along volume and groove. imagine the book seller anding by to fold and flatten we down to on an oblong shape and reshelf me into an americay sandwich between the t s and v s stacked up along the unexpected and unknown. i notice that the pe ems i imagine crowding around you were the unquieted the unrequited. distant citizens far from the disposition of the safety of s s the determinant d s and resultant r s where the poems are make believe. unlike the bumpy organic one i find myself wandering into. this one is about the moon. mabel and maureen. the moon regrets it s father s avd vise, take the night shift. [laughter]. each evening he dressed his forehead in linseed oil and drying powerhouse the expansion of reflection. it s difficult to get shut eye the hours before how the sunshines and how dollar is no curtain wide enough to screen it s rays. he takes out his bag lunching mouthfuls of apple juice and pb and j. on his watchdog garts. diners are darkened, empty much we are not open for you, moon they seem to say. and so said the cart vendors the waitresses like mabel and maureen. how mabel and lauereen stroll indeed full skirted prichled merrily the moon lit evening arms in other men s arms. this next one is, the next 2, which are my last 2 are something about passing. among us. in the sunken spring as in winter and fall and every season that our teak of spring with souro and jubulation are fragile hearts are as children grabbing drink tumblers spilld and milky. teach finger tips reaches for the stars and night clouds hopeful that we might give respite to our orbegans our earth bound regrets. we ask or wonder in the moments when we catch ourselves breathing where do the beloved go. in the warm cham bers of the living. we imagine how they might wallow away our earthly number of days playing gin rummy with another grand mother. ladies of historical footnotes. telescope the heavens on capurncus s shirt tales. wounds and so spots pounding out quiet inner drum beats while we traverse the gravity boots. warmed bite disassistant c.j. hunt inner spaces is dusted with enchantments of what love has left us. this is tile. consider the corn s ear a tiling of pale yellow pillows, tiny. or hexagonal pearls addressed on the bathroom floor. i flip through a 12 month calendar each tile numbered, each 30, each sheet of a dozen passing, passing. thank you. [applause] our next speaker is nancy hong. nancy is an artist, writer, children s book ill administrator, curator and art s administrator. devoted her artistic career to the nonprofit art s sector creatingim mags for political, social and community events and causes her writing has been published in severalan tholologies. with that i introduce nancy hong. thank you for coming this is called bread and soup. beneath the bear bulb we gather to eat our evening meal of bread and soup. here behind the mission walls the kind speaks to us in euphemisms we avoids staring at our brown roasts faces, our hard boiled hands and violet veins he mouths his words like a fish careful not to mention china to us who are now fartherless and motherless in this new country. he does not know we created our own miracle that transformed the stale, hard crust into wrich crackling pork skinning. the soup and broth. our lips smack in satisfaction of this, our only taste of home. this piece is on angel island. the angel island immigration station where chinese and otherim grants were detained and interrogated from 1910 to 1940 before they were allowed into america. many adopted false identities in order to escape this strict act. our morning strolls to mountain lake park my wife of 50 years stays a step behind. she needs my arm for balance but avoids my touch. she counts the 10 sign posts. 5 stop signs and 2 mailboxes to our destination. she moves her lips as if remembering. before i came here, i had a name. 4 palm trees faced us when we landed loomed like guardians to pass the golden gate we tell them what they wanted to hear. on this island of desperate dreams we shed our skins and wore new once. we burned our parents name and let our past curl into smoke. no longer my father s daughter. no longer my husband s wife. only the sea gulls know who i really am. for months we were held in separate rooms the dampness went through the bunks and gnawed our bones the wales of ghosts kept us awake. 32 steps to my father s house. 4 windows facing north. 24 steps to my uncle s house, 2 doors facing south. i have 3 sisters, 2 brothers, 4 cousins on my father s side. now i store the memory in a drawer along with bitter herbs and rhinoceros horns we dine at restaurants on the better side of towns with pink table cloths and real flowers in the vases. we hardly go to china town. before i came here, i held his hand. now my heart is a chinese box of riddels, no one understands. i blew hot soup for her on foggy nights. she trims the ends of my thinning hair, still she can t forget that day she faced the interrogation officers and said she was my sister. i have not told anyone we move like shadows in a haze of secrets and lies. now stairs fascinate her. she knows the neighbor s house by heart. 21 steps to the door. 9 windows. 1-1/2 bathrooms. she counts every timely visit just to make sure. in case one day she has to know. before i came here, i had a name. ships of wind. softly size the swaying trees in the secret place stilled by time. we toil between the deep brown earth crumbs past frommant toant in orderly procession surrounded by crushed new born grass and flattened flowers. many of us have died here. who s secret [inaudible] we do not know. nor the shift of wind the sudden wake that blocked the sun changes the course and brought with it the endless nights. we enl know the passing of formless clouds o pass the porch forced to forge a new since the coming of the black rain. number 2. there secrets here not ever known. we only carry the sudden weight of memories. not at hair pins, green tea, rice balls wrapped in silken cloth. melted crayons, moth and marbles. flightless wings in a brown bag. they are safe inside us. neither shift of wind nor sun s cruel wrath can force us from our charge into the endless night we stand our ground monolithic protectors of the broken spirit. 3. there was a place sacred beaconed by time. i remember. the new born grass trampled beneath the earth. no one else should die here. there was a flash, no, 2 secrets locked in a fire ball. the shift of wind the sudden weight of blue heat formless days worn past,
well, we need to find out. the superintendent and police have been asking questions determining the man hat sath in the front of the bus a few rows from kids. based on our internal investigation and preliminary investigation there is is no reaction with this adult and our students. he now plans to retrain faculty. that is my college that our district is not arou loued to happen it again. jos plees tell me the school policy was broken and that is what the superintendent is worried about. a former web producer for a sacramento tv station has been charged with conspiring with members of the hacker group anonymous. kathy-sh matthew keys indicted today, charged with providing pass words to servers. he worked briefly as i web producer here at abc 7 before moving on to routers. a protest over disputed access to a bay area beach. a group of surfers filed a lawsuit to regain access to a beach that has been gated. today the surfers and former congressman climbed over gate to demand the road be reopened to the public. martin s beach road is the only way to access the beach. the road was closed in 2008. it s illegal to sell. pardon me. you can t put a gate on the public beach in california. people have the right to go down here since god knows when. i mean, 47, i went down there. sheriff deputies were on the scene today but did not fight or stop anyone from crossing the gate. the property owner lawyer says he s anxious to have the court decide. it s foggy there today. cooler throughout the bay area. yes. spencer chris hin has the bayday off. sandhya patel is here now with an accuweather update. you ll see clouds increased and we have fog at the coast. temperatures have been running cooler it s not advancing. let s try to do this one more time. we ll have problem was the computer, i ll be back a look at the forecast in just a few minute autos pope francis celebrated his first mass today at the vatican and it gave insight. this is where he was elected. his first sermon was informal and off the cuff there was a reference to children building sand castle autos and pope francis has put his humility on display instead of taking a sedan set aside for the pope, he rode the bus with other cardinals to pick up his own luggage from his hotel. he then stopped in the main office, greeted everyone and decided to pay the bill for his room that he s been occupying. he was concerned of giving a good example. the difference is evident in the pope s wardrobe. he september a kept a simple cross and wor the simple white vest instead of the red cape when presented to the world. new at 4:00 uc students will to the get hit with another tuition increase this fall but a small surcharge will continue to be added to the bill. why students say they should not have to pay this fee. it s only $60 a year. still, many uc students say the surcharge seems unfair. rather than just turning to students every time, including fees on students. students have been forced to dish out $60 a year since 2007. facing massive cuts, uc officials unexpectedly raised tuition in 2003. uc had also reassured graduate students they would see no tuition hikes. the courts later found uc raids fees and ruled that those former students had to be reimbursed. and it s today s students who are paying for that reimbursement through the surcharge. money has to come from somewhere. regents voted to extend that surcharge through 2018 to finish paying off the last of the lawsuit judgment. increases were a result of funding cuts now, the surcharge one third goes to financial aid. so that is benefiting our neediest students. it will bring in $91 million by the time it expires in 2018. lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. the price of paper grocery bags will go up for shoppers in parts of santa cruz county. they pay a dime for paper bags they take from the store. now, fees will more than doubl a quarter. the higher bag costs will apply to stores in santa cruz county one year after the county banned plastic shopping bags. the law will require restaurants to start charging for bags next month. happening now in downtown san jose, going online while on the move just got faster. today, mayor reed unveiled a free wi-fi snfs a one and a half square mile area going from the center of the performing arts to san jose state university using the fiber network and dozens of new antennas from a company called ruckus wireless to super charge web speed. we ve been able to push the boundaries of typical wi-fi mesh design. offering two to four times faster speeds an thorj comfortable networks. it s similar to the speed of a dsl land line. users can connect by selecting the wickedly fast network. i like the name. wicked fast. it will be used to process transitions in downtown parking meters. state treasurer withdrawn papers to divorce his wife. former alameda county supervisor nadya lockyear following her resignation from her seat in april after admitting to drug addiction and an affair. nadya lockyear just finished a six-month stay in a rehab program. a speck spokesman says the couple agreed to try to work things out. still ahead, why facebook is looking to take twitter s favorite symbol. a special day for math enthusiasts. the story just ahead. forget about the stimulus, how about tacos? creating thousands of new jobs. then at 4:30 why you shouldn t gatorade shower your coach indoors. it comes with hazard autos speaking of, which traffic is really slow going at mcarthur maze going from left to right. it s on interstate 80 headed towards berkeley. it s better but still kind of snaking into a slow speed on the righthand side. those folks heading back towards 580. back breaking news in southern california a rescue in pacific pal saids one person has been rescued in this trench. these are live pictures. 100 firefighters are assisting. officials sate men they expect construction workers were stuck about six feet below ground. the man pulled out was sent to the hospital. his vital signs said to be pine. we ll have the latest on our web site abc 7 news.com. those folk who s didn t file taxes in 2009 better hurry if they expect to get a refund. the irs says there is $817 million in unclaimed tax refunds and time is running out to claim the cash. refunds owed to nearly a million people. irs says taxpayers must file by april 15th of this year if they don t that money becomes property of the u.s. treasury. in case you re wondering there is no penalty for filing a late return that qualifies for a refund. these are crazy good times for taco bell. the chain says it hired 15,000 new employees as a result of the popularity of the doritos tacos. taco bell sold 375 million of the tacos last year more than a million per day. taco bell officials expect more growth with the recent addition of the cool ranch flavor tacos they believe they d al add 2,000 restaurants in 10 year autos facebook reportedly looking to snag twitter s hash zpag bad news for google reader fans. good afternoon, larry and carolyn. the book is closing on google reader, google shutting down the rss service on july 1. the company says usage is declining and it wants to focus on fewer products. the decision sparking anger in fans who are venting on twit jer have started a petition to keep the service going. nintendo ordered to pay to a former sony employy. a jury found the system infringed on a patent held by a japanese inventor. nintendo says it s confident verdicts will be thrown out. amazon cutting the price of it s larger kindel tablet. now starting at $269 instead of $299 and 4 g starting at $399 instead of $499. cuts make the larger kindel cheaper ant ipad minutey. cam amazon launching a larger kindel today. the dow s longest rally since 1996 and pushing close to breaking it s record high. your bloomberg silicon valley index gaining on shares of apple and ora cell. and facebook may be making a move toin vaid twitter but using it s hash tag working to incorporate it to into its service and may allow user to pull up similar posts as you can see, on twitter. not clear how much along facebook hash tag integration is. sources tell the paper it will likely take more time to develop. back to you. thank you, emily. hundreds of people converged on san francisco water front today to celebrate the live of pi. the number, not the movie. it s national pi day. to celebrate the math constant that begins with 3.141 and stretches. staffers hosted a number of events, one of the pi-lights, the sky flipping pie dough. it s march 14th if you agree it s 3.14. sheer how they re celebrating pi day at 49ers headquarters. niners tweeted out this pick turk not a lot of math, those thoe pecan pie there looks pretty good with a chocolate sf. look but it s there. we had apple pie in the studio today. that is right. right. i missed my piece. yes. sandhya is in for spencer today. those who are late for pi. people going share, share. right. exactly. hopefully, next time he ll think of us, cooler weather today. temperatures are going to continue to go down for the weekend. and will introduce rain. changes coming up. let me show you right now, and you ll notice that we have a lot of cloud cover. temperatures did come down as mentioned a good three to 10 degrees and looking from our south beach camera, some peaks of blue. it s 55 in san francisco. 70 degrees in san jose. and speaking of san jose, you can see nice-looking day. temperatures loi 70s so far running cooler than where you were. sun continues to be filtered by high clouds, temperatures now 70 degrees in santa rosa. and here is what is coming up tonight. mostly cloudy skies. overnight, cool to mild for friday. dry throughout the weekend. but rain appearing next week. now, computer models getting bullish with possibilities of rain tuesday into wednesday. here is a look at satellite picture this, is the cloud cover you re seeing in advance of the area of high pressure. so high clouds continuing tlaut the weekend. you ll see clouds clearing. more clouds come in. it will just continue to be that way as we head into friday afternoon. it will be a nice day. looking at morning lows starting out into low 40s to low 50s fog forming and returning but i don t think it is going to be quite as dense with cloud cover overhead it s going to be a while before we can see clearing. so tomorrow afternoon, 74 in the south bay. 72 degrees in santa cruz. 68 san mateo. coastal areas you re going to hang on to gray skies. 57 pacifica. downtown san francisco, 65 degrees, daily city, 58. mid-70s santa rosa. clear lake, 75. east bay, mild conditions, 71 in oakland. 70 in newark, inland temperatures warmer an average. pleasanton, 75 in livermore. here is a look at the accu-weather forecast. temperatures remaining in the same range. st. patrick s day, dry but cooler mid-50s to low 70s. a change in numbers monday, then, by tuesday rain coming back to the bay area, wednesday, first day of spring will feature showers, how appropriate. i didn t get pie either. right. right. he keeps digging in. it s nice to have you back. by the way. up next, can you spell sorry? one california girl s reward after she was mistakenly eliminated from a spelling bee. and here we go again. another carnival cruise vacation gone wrong. the plans to get these passengers home. school officials making amendments to a fresno county girl because of a mistake in a spelling bee. but it didn t come easy. this is bad. the 12-year-old eliminated from the spelling bee last week. the judge claimed she spelled the word braille incorrectly. she spelled it properly but nobody spoke up. i didn t want to say anything because you know the word master tells you a word is wrong you don t argue. i was kind of like what? i looked around at the audience, half of looking at each other. people in the audience were looking around and murm youring but nobody spoke up. she got the second place trophy and sent on her way. everyone knew she spelled it right an appeal filed on her behalf was denied her school appealed and won. that means she ll allowed to compete in the fresno county bee. the judge had left off an l. way to go, sierra.. she handled it beautifully. she was classy about it. baby news for michael bubl ee. justin beiber back in the headlines defending himself. justin beibe re. r went on a big rant. he wrote how tired he is of the lies in the press saying it s based on stupidity. he wrote, quote, i m 19 with five number one albums, 19 and i ve seen the world. 19 and i ve accomplished more than i could have dreamed of that i could have dreamed don t think i deserve this negative press. michael cane turns 80 today. to celebrate muse assume of london opens an exhibit in his honor its like when they do a lifetime achievement award they go through movies. for half an hour you watch yourself age 60 years but i only look at young ones so it s okay. michael announced his wife s pregnancy now we ve learned the grammy winner is having a boy. his next album released april 23. go to otrc.com for more celebrity baby news. still ahead head of the tsa stands by his policy allowing pocketknifes on plane planes. plus. i m in the a sixth grader, i ve been on this committee 20 years. gun debate gets heated. what made dianne feinstein spar with a colleague today. in the delta what a new plan means for those who depend on this vital water way. i m michael finney. blenders can be one of the best appliances to have but do you have to spend hundreds of dollars for the best one? the head of the tsa defended his decision to allow small pocketknifes on airplanes responding to critics saying it s a bad idea. more now from washington, d.c.. a knife fight in congress. lawmakers grilled tsa administrator about his decision to allow small knifes, golf clubs and hockey sticks on planes. this is a big deal. and i m trying to figure out how this could not be perceived something potentially dangerous to them, to the people on planes. we focus on objects then, we re always behind the 8 ball. saying hardened cockpit doors make it difficult to hijack a blaen a knife. he d rather screeners focus on bigger threats since as ieds. small knifes are not going to result in failure of an aircraft. the decision has set off a fire storm with major airlines and unions voicing outrage. today, screeners gathered at the capitol. we know anyway you slice it a knife like this is a weapon. it doesn t belong on an airplane. not now, not ever. box cutters like the ones the september 11th attacks hijackers used would be banned but the poll say lous folding blades and goes into affect april 25th. congress introduce aid bill to stop the plan from getting off the round. carnival cruise lines is flying passengers home from another stranded liner. the dream liner docked at st. martin about 200 miles east of porto reeko a generator failed causing outages to elevators and toilets. one passenger said it was just a mess. two separate tests of the el vitors and toilets they ve had to shut them down several hours. last evening they were overflowing. down into the common areas on the main floors. last month a fire crippled the carnival triumph leaving passengers stranded for five days without working toilets or power. 4200 passengers had to sleep on the deck autos a federal assault well wep ons ban will force a vote today. senators voted for the bill along party lines 10-8. rejecting several attempts to exempt certain people from the law. the debate featured a heated exchange between ted cruise and dianne feinstein its seems to me all of us should begin as our foundational document with the constitution. and the second amendment and bill of rights provides right of the foam keep and bear arms should not be infringed. i m not a sixth grader. i was a mayor nine years. i walked in. i saw people shot. i looked at bodies shot with these weapons. i ve seen the bullets that implode in an instant. feinstein refer together assassination of supervisor harvey milk. president obama proposed the ban after december deadly shooting in connecticut. and coming up at 4:55 family who s lost children in that sandy hook shooting have come to the bay air with some ideas to reduce gun violence. seven years in the making. california department of water resources released first stage of the plan to rebuild the delta. governor brown supports it, others lining up to criticize it before hearings begin. laura? under this plan just upstream there would be three new intake pumps channeling water south to two huge underground tunnels. the project has been reduced by 40%, some critics remain far from satisfied. this plan is about resolving some resource management conflicts. with that, the director released a draft of the first chapters of the plan pla plan. our plan isn t without controversy. no plan of this magnitude could be. because of the efforts into working through tough issues, this plan enjoys an unprecedented amount of consensus. the 50-year plan includes building three new inlets or pumps in the northern part of the delta channeling water to two 35 mile underground tunnels then linking up with the pumps in the south delta. we re talking about restoration and this could be observeable from space. the draft includes 22 measures, 214 goals and protection to 57 species including endangered delta smelt. this video provided by department of water resource ootz plan proposes to restore, protect and manage almost 16,000 acres of sand hill. swanson s hawk. the critics say whatever environment benefits it contains are outweighed by short comings. i think every responsible person knows that with the delta needs is more fresh watt yerk not less. the tunnels upstream from the delta means less fresh water going into the delta. this draft plan is being released in three stages over two months. first public meeting on this stage is next week in sacramento. golden gate salmon association is opposed. we ll hear from them tonight at 6:00. strong holiday season wasn t strong enough for second harvest food bank. food bank officials say dispute generosity they maced their $12 million goal by $300,000 saying unless they can raise funds 600,000 meals will not be available. if you d like to help go to abc 7 news news.com and click on see it on tv. international rivalries will collide in the world baseball classic. workers busy hang bunting at the giants home today, japan plays a yet to be determine opponent. another will follow on monday. the game will be on tuesday. restaurants are expecting a lot of extra business. the city perfect jekting fans will spend over $850,as they enjoy team baseball. everybody wants to see team usa. of course,. a sports celebration goes wrong. and the winning coach isn t the only victim here. plus, one man s efforts to keep a shark from beach growers lands him in hot water. from our camera, clouds overhead and rain is on the way. taking a look at san francisco skyway it s very slow going for drivers in both directions. left side of the screen are drivers trying to make their way ee. folks on the rift heading to the anyone sla and beyond. it s not often an act of heoism will cost someone his job but that is what happened to a british man. he and two other men were videotaped tangling with a shark yanking it from waiters on a beach. this video amazed everybody but not marshal s boss back home. the boss fired him. the british man was at the beach on leave from work related stress. he says his doctor advised him to take a vacation. you won t think go together beach would be more stressful than going to work. looks like you re tangling with a shark. a tradition is celebrating a sports victory fell flat on its face for a community college basketball team in nebraska. take a look. players doused the coach with a cooler of water but unexpectedly the coach took a header there on the floor. the video taken by the granddaughter on the cell phone and it s gone viral. he is fine. he is sore because he caught himself but he was laughing like crazy. and it just unfolded from there and has gone crazy. now, a second person who came out of the stands to help also slipped and went down. the video is exploded with almost 1.9 million hits on you tube in just three days. the gatorade shower goes back to new york giants in mid-80s. it s been going on. bill parcels was the first guy to get doused. a. let s get another check on the forecast now. here is sandhya. going to be dry for the weekend. next week right now, we have some harmless clouds passing throughout bay area right now. tomorrow, state wide temperatures pretty hot in palm springs 97 degrees, los angeles morning fog. 78 for sacramento. 79 chico. 62 degrees and we re looking at sun and clouds. here in the bay area high clouds overhead in the afternoon and low clouds lingering near the coast. 65 in san francisco. 59 half moon bay. temperatures mid-70s. and st. patrick s day parade taking place this saturday as it works from second and market street to civic center plaza looking good for that parade. temperatures in low 60s at the start. falling by 5:00 p.m. going to get breezy so prepare accordingly. just take a layer if you re going. the rain doesn t arrive until tuesday next week. heading into wednesday. we like that timing. yes. get the weekend in, then, the rain in. up next quick thinking action of an air traffic controller saves life of a pilot who nearly passed out behind controls. i m michael finney. details on a major hand honda recall ask taking a look at blender chz is right for your an air traffic controller in texas being singled out for quick thinking that may have saved a pilot s live. radio check please. that is bad. you can tell he didn t sound good. air traffic controller was talking to the pilot who was in distress and recognized the pilot s slurred speech signaled he was suffering from low oxygen levels. she ordered him to bring his fleen a lower altitude. we knew it was that bad. if we didn t give him started to descend, he can die it went on several minutes before hollingsworth got the pilot to descend then land before he passed out. hollingsworth received an award at a bank qet last week. honda announces a recall of hundreds of thousands of vehicles. michael finney joins us now. zombie breaking this time. yes. honda recalling 180,000 cars because of breaking problems saying issue with the vehicle s electric stability control system. it can cause the car to brake when the driver isn t pressing on the pedal including 2005 honda pilots, 2005 acura rl is on the list as is 2006 acura mdx. honda says it will contact customers next month with details about how to schedule a repair. you don t need to contact them. interesting. these are older model cars. yes. michael has a report on the best blenders on the market. blenders are great for making drinks and soups but consumer reports shop start wanted to know if you had to pay a lot to get a great one. testers sized up the blenders. when it comes to blenders everyone is getting in on the action. consumer reports tested more than 50. testers evaluated sandra lee s blender this ninja and this blender from bon appetite. consumer reports sized up a glenn tech and two vita mix blenders. blenlders can do a bunch of different tasks but performance varies so we put them to their paces. testers crush ice, running wlend blender 20 seconds to see how the end results are. and they pureed soups and this blender didn t deliver on frozen drinks. worse was sandra lee s blender. it could barely crush ice. there are ice cubes left in the p nismt a colada. as for the vita mix both did an excellent job on tests performed by consumer reports. you don t need to spend that much to get a great blender. the super versatile ninja prep aced the test, too. pureeing and mixing up a great drink. consumer reports also recommends $100 kitchen aid model. ksb 565. it wasn t good as pureeing as ninja was it offers a glass container, five speeds and sleek controls. and you can strain that pina colada and it will be fine. coming up next, sandy hook promise, parents teeming up with tech leader autos why they think silicon valley can help. i m cheryl jennings. coming up at 5:00 a controversial plan to suspend test taking for some students, next, the unlakely figure to come out in support of the idea a popular guarderning program at an east bay school could be on the chopping block. today marks the three months since the massacre in newtown, connecticut. parents and luminaries came together in an effort to reduce gun violence. it s not unusual to hear people who lost loved ones to gun violence they feel compelled to action to try to prevent a similar tragedy from happening to anyone else, it s unusual to have some of the biggest minds and biggest bank accounts in the nation tech industry behind them in that goal. on december 14th20 first graders were murdered. among them, 7-year-old daniel barredden. three months ago today i held his little hand as we walked to the bus. kissed him goodbye. as you know would be the last time. the next day, a grass roots organization called sandy hook promise was launched by friends and neighbors of the victims. today, in san francisco, sandy hook promise joined by a dream team of tech industry venture capitolists and angel investors to announce they re backing innovation if gun safety and mental health, and school safety. smart gun technologies are promising. some include pass codes ask others electronic firing pins. others, rfids. this 6-year-old was this couple s only child. they re scientist who s want to pursue brain imaging technology. we don t know enough. we can t identify and intervene before people become violent unless we know what to look for. and how to treat it. dylan would have turned 7 last friday. his mother hopes this is a turning point for the nation. this morning she met with bay area families who lost kids to gun violence. the look of pain has become all too familiar to me. the same pain i see in the families who lost loved ones on 12-14 and i now see every time i look in the mirror. so far, 30 venture capitolists and investors signed on, promising to help fund and newer tour promising companies to maturity and the market. heather, thank you. and thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i m carolyn johnson. i m larry beil. the news at 5:00 begins right now. a south bay teacher busted for child porn. did he use any young kids he taught? and unintended consequences from furloughing state workers why billions saved are disappearing. clouds now, rain in the future i ll be back with the forecast coming up. a trusted teacher arrested accused of possessing and sharing child pornography. good evening. i m dan ashley. police say he taught nearly a dozen schools and is among the worst of the worst based on the enormous number of pictures found. allen? yes. we found out he d been a substitute teacher here for four years .s police say this guy went out of his way to erase trace of his name on the internet. he must have been confident because he was one of the more active child porn offenders online. in a sting police say they caught the 44-year-old trying to share his files of children between four and 9 years of eastbound age. most of the collections we run into will average from 100 to 500 image autos detectives say he had a thousand clips of children. there are so many suspects out there that are sharing child pornography. we have to pick the worst of the worst he was arrested yesterday in the monterey county community of seaside. he s been a teacher for a month but spent four years substitute teaching in sans jose s allen rock stool skool district. whenever this happens it s like getting punched in the stomach. the superintendent says forsteel taught at 11 of the districts 27 schools and prior to that, substitute taught 13 years in new york, florida, and california. greatest fear is that this goes beyond just possession of child porn that he tried to influence students he has been released with out bail but was not at his apartment today. 20 kids hang around there is play. the search found no tofdz show he was producing child important but now, police want parents to find out if the children may have been victimized by him. i don t know. it s a hard one. i will not know how to talk to him about that. with resources the unit says it makes about two to three arrests per week about 125 per year saying it s just a fraction of the offenders out there. so difficult to talk to children about child abuse, you can call your local prevention center for advice. we have a web site for you called enough abuse.org. new details about how a registered sex offender ended up on a bus with high school students in sab san jose. it s a story we broke last night at 11:00. we learned he was with a parent. the soup says he never should have been let on to that bus with the high school students. we have a parent volunteer wheelchair bound with another adult request a ride back on the bus. because they did not have a ride. according to the lease the man sat row as way from kids and did not have interaction with students. the superintendent says he plans to