chronicle's website. it includes singing during an appearance by the president at the regents hotel. but the white house is threatening to unpool marinuchi from a white house reporter. >> for marinuchi to use her cell phone is approved as a reporter. >> reporter: the san francisco chronicle vie -- the white house says the san francisco chronicle violated their rights. chronicle director offered his own comments saying. -- required by key people in the white house communications office who told us it would remove our reporter then threaten retaliation to chronicle reporters if we reported on the ban. henry brady the dean of the goldman school of policy says the white house is making too much of a benign protest. >> they might have gently chided something, we told you you could only file a print report. we are distressed. but we understand the world has changed. that's the proper response. >> reporter: the chronicle was asking the white house for an on the record statement that marinuchi will remain as the

we had a conversation about the chronicle. it was threatening to close, saying it was losing $1 million a week. you have made massive cuts since then. how has that affected the quality of your coverage? >> one of the thing that is exciting is that people are so passionate about news, about the chronicle, a number of people we employ. one area where we trimmed a lot of jobs in a lot of different areas of the operation, including the news room, and it is not always about the quantity of people you employ of the quality of the product in the information you put on the pages day in, day out. that is the most important thing. is the quality there on a daily basis? i look back over the last couple of years. i have only been here about a year-and-a-half, but i have been very familiar with the chronicle. i might be biased, but i think is better now than it was a few years ago. we are doing that on a more efficient basis then we did before. i do not think it is always about the tonnage, but it is about the quality. i think we are doing

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. >>> the san francisco chronicle says it's in trouble with the white house 37 according to the chronicle, this video you are looking at of a protest that happened during one of president obama's fundraisers in san francisco is the source of the controversy. coming up at 6:15 we will bring you a live report from washington, d.c. on why the white house says the newspaper should not have posted this video on its website. >>> a fremont man is in jail this morning after crash into a school bus. the 20-year-old was driving drunk around 7:30 yesterday morning when he hit the bus on middle field road. 38 elementary students were on board. officials say the bus driver was shaken up and complained of pain after the crash. no students were hurt. >>> our time is 6:07. we will get you to where you need to go this morning. sal has the very latest. sal. >> traffic is moving along well around the bay area. highway 4 is doing very nicely coming up to the willow pass grade. we had an earlier exit. also this mornings commute has been looking good on interstate 880 north and southbound driving up past the c

chronicle executive released his own statement. henry brady says the white house is making too much of a benign protest. >> they might have gently tried at something and say you know we only told you you can only file a print report. we wish you wouldn't do that but we understand the world has changed. that's the proper response. >> reporter: the chronicle is asking the white house for an on the record statement that marinuchi will remain at the presidential pool reporter in san francisco. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> california democrats are tackling national politics tonight in sacramento. delegates began checking in today at the party's annual state convention. the next goal is washington. during the three day convention, delegates will discuss ways to take back the house of representatives. >>> $1 million. that's how much california loses in state taxes. it recommends california starts collecting sales tax on internet sales based out of state such as amazon. right now customers are supposed to calculate and pay sales taxe

. >>> the chronicle reports it's facing retaliation from the white house. ktvu alison burns live in our washington, d.c. newsroom with the video that is at the center of the controversy. allison. >> reporter: dave, the riff between the chronical and the white house -- chronicle and the white house shows how much press access we get. it centers on this video that chronicles senior reporter captured when she was covering the president in san francisco fundraiserrer. protestors paid $76,000 to get in and then interrupted the president. she was assigned to be the print polar reporter for the event. but she also took this video and posted iten her blog. the white house is now threaten to exclude the paper from coverage of the president's future events in the bay area. chronicle editor says the paper was within its rights to post the video and the pool coverage rules are too restrictive. if something more serious happened would you still expect us to cover the news? we are reaching out to the white house press office this morning for its side of the story and hop

chronicle executive released his own statement. henry brady says the white house is making too much of a benign protest. >> they might have gently tried at something and say you know we only told you you can only file a print report. we wish you wouldn't do that but we understand the world has changed. that's the proper response. >> reporter: the chronicle is asking the white house for an on the record statement that marinuchi will remain at the presidential pool reporter in san francisco. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> california democrats are tackling national politics tonight in sacramento. delegates began checking in today at the party's annual state convention. the next goal is washington. during the three day convention, delegates will discuss ways to take back the house of representatives. >>> $1 million. that's how much california loses in state taxes. it recommends california starts collecting sales tax on internet sales based out of state such as amazon. right now customers are supposed to calculate and pay sales taxe

the day from the chronicle is here. with someone from emergency management. we have someone from sfpd. we have the guardians of the center and ron ross from the history association. we are about 10 minutes away from the motorcade showing up. we have come together at this ungodly hour to remember those who survived being tossed from their beds 105 years ago this morning at 5:13. 105 years ago, powerful seismic waves rolled across the city of san francisco. experts estimate the earthquake was around 7.9 on the modern skills. by the end of the first day, the city suffered 26 aftershocks and then succumbed to a raging inferno that showed no mercy for 74 hours. i would like to give you a moment by moment description of what happened to our great city on that day and its citizens. this is not boring history. this is very real, as we all saw recently in japan. here is how it went. an opening shock at 5:12 was felt. 25 seconds later, residents were zerawakened. the first casualties from the massive earthquake occurred when tenements in the market district collapsed.

front page photo caption, san francisco chronicle june 14, 2005. after the bleeding the blood spattered walls draw the gaze of children wanting to see what has caused such a noise. how can they not stair. arms and legs, pieces of torso scattered, the smell of new death and feared hair. they must be asking the same question. a person who blows themselves up must believe in something. must believe in something or else not. hopelessness degreesed in apnigzs, righteousness disguised in a tuxedo of death much the children don't understand. i being of the dead dying man the bleeding bystanders who left to buy cheese or tobacco. in car bombs suicide bombs and we keep talking as though this will end like the final judgment of that black man who looks white and sleeps with boys but doesn't touch them. after the bleeding the children's shoes will be forever stained in the crimson color of death. who will set the doves free then. >> the next is sdaefrt on the horizon. i'm sure many of you have seen or heard regularly in the news. my father came from iran so e

the panel last night, it looks like there is no after the chronicle, so congratulations. we were talking about how people to get them to eat their broccoli with their ice-cream. reading city hall coverage with subway breakfasts. can you talk about ways you are experimenting with getting people to eat them both? making it palatable? concrete experiments that you will try? >> that will -- that sounds terrible. [laughter] >> maybe we can have broccoli with cheese? i do not think that there is a simple answer. i think that people come to read various news sources. there will be multiple sources. some for entertainment, some for other resources. the key thing about broccoli and in sustaining a democracy, it tells us what we need to know even if we did not need to know it. it is about the role that the journalist plays, telling the community what we did that no we needed to know. cheese, ice cream, it does not matter. that means editors. that means transparency. that means education about media. it means membership of junior journalists. without all of those things, there is no

chronicle political reporter took this video last thursday. in it you see protesters singing a song about wikileaks during president barack obama's fund-raising breakfast. the chronicle says the white house press office is threatening to exkaoud here for breaking -- excluding her from breaking the no camera rule. >> for her to use social media it is appropriate as a tool to do her reporting and then to be punished for it is outrageous. >> in a statement the white house says she vie lated rules. but no reporters are banning from future e sreupt -- violated rules but no reporters are banned from future events. >>> today, chef rop posted the best quarterly earnings -- chevron posted the best quarterly earnings since 2008. chevron benefited from the higher crude oil prices and better margins on the refined products. chevron stock finish thursday day up 63 cents. the dow closed at a new high. rising 47 points finish with april with a solid 4% gain. the nasdaq gaped one point today. the onagain off again nfl lock hut out is back on again tonight. a

. >>> la casa blanca estalló contra el periódico san francisco chronicles, es que la semana pasada unmanifestantes entró a la actividad de recaudación de recursos del presidente barack

now i know, if i were the chronicle in a herself corporation, i would have been against landmarking as well. they stand to lose millions of dollars under developmental efforts downtown if any of their buildings get landmarked. one of the three neighborhood meetings, the developers architects said the north beach library could not be rebuilt there because it was seismically unsafe. as all of us were late persons, no one questioned that -- laypersons, no one questioned that statement. no one spoke at that time the elimination of a baseball field, which was also part of the plan. also the friends of joe dimaggio keep pushing for a change of the playground that ends up reducing the joe dimaggio baseball field and actually making the playground smaller. joe's friends would never have allowed the baseball field to be eliminated. these so called friends are not really the friends of joe dimaggio. i would call them the ebbmies of joe dimaggio. any of the three neighborhood meetings, the public has never been told that the park did not have any money for phase two. all of this has all been done

--la casa blanca estallo contra el periodico "san francisco chronicle".que la semana pasada durante la visita del presidente "barack obama" a esta ciudad, un grupo de opositores logro ingresar a un evento de recaudacion de fondos, donde interrumpieron el discurso del mandatario para manifestar su descontento. algunos de ellos mostraban carteles donde pedian la liberacion de un militar acusado de filtrar informacion clasificada a la organizacion wikileaks.--la reportera del diario "carla marinucci" grabo el incidente con una camara de video y subio las imagenes a internet. --representantes de la casa blanca dijeron que esto habia sido una violacion de las reglas y anuncio que tomara medidas contra el "chronicle' en eventos futuros. ---un tribunal de apelaciones rechazo un desafio legal que pretendia bloquear una regulacion para reducir el efecto invernadero en california, obligando a las compaÑias automotrices a fabricar vehiculos que contaminen menos el medio ambiente.---el tribunal de apelaciones del distrito de columbia rechazo la demanda legal entablad

there is a lot of noise surrounding it, which makes it seem worse, say, than "the chronicle." quality journalism is there. the new part of the media is not a new types of stories being told, but how they are being told, short for nurses long form, and how they are distributed on your one newspaper or magazine or one website, versus to run the mobile universe, or threat the internet universe, portals. do you want to give 30% of revenue to apple in order to distribute it? lots of publishers are making that decision. it is the distribution from free tv to pay tv and the change from the free online destination media to mobile everywhere media and the creation of brands there. along with the business model, that is what we are working on. >> the want to go to the next question. we have to get to everybody. >> my name is peter bergen. i am an investigative reporter. i do not write content, i do not right product. i do news reporting. i do not write material to put ads around. there are some assumptions coming from this gathering that i find troubling. many years ago, upton sinclair

rachel gordon, city hall reporter also with the chronicle.nd carla marinucci, senior political writer with the "san francisco chronicle." so carla you heard it. the governor said i'm going to find a way. to get a budget. what is he going to do? >> you heard his youtube message which came out on monday. this situation is just ugly, ugly, ugly. no other way around it. we were here just last week in this very chair. it looked like the republicans and brown were talking and things were going to get done. on monday, he came out with the youtube message. suspended all the talks with the republicans and said i just don't know what they want anymore. they don't seem to know what they want anymore. in fact, the republicans have put out a list of what they wanted. 53 items. seven pages including things like county fair management and it went on and on from there. brown has called it all off. he now says he's going to do a state tour and actually talk to voters himself. he put out a pension plan of his own and says he's going to get it out there and pas

ed lee told the "chronicle," "greg suhr's history is an open book. like all of us he made some decisions he would have made differently in hindsight but he'sed off from them and done really well." now, the tasks in front of suhr once he officially becomes chief is to trim a top-heavy administration as well as make 10% cuts in the budget something the mayor has asked all city departments to do. he will be sworn in at city hall. we don't know the time yet but we'll let you know. >> thank you, anne makovec live in san francisco. >>> drastic job cuts in san jose. now, all this because of a budget problem. and pink slips are going out to more than 100 police officers. now, kiet do joins us now from police headquarters with more on how it came to this. >> reporter: of the employees yesterday 600 got layoff notices and of those 600, 106, to be exact, are police officers. now, if all of these police officers are let go, it would be the first time in the city's history that this would be allowed to happen. now, the layoff notices went out yesterday as employe

. >>> this video has caused a river between the san francisco chronicle and the white house. the senior reporter shot it when protesters interrunted president obama's private fundraiser last week in san francisco. he was the print pool reporter for the event. she posted the video in addition to the print arl article. the white house has threatened to exclude the paper from future presidential pools. >> some of the protesters actually videoed themselves and uploaded that and some of the other attendees of the fundraiser videoed it and uploaded. what the white house expects says that the reporters will be at a disadvantage compared to an average person >> a washington, d.c. bureau contacted the white house press office this morning but nobody there would contact on the chronicle controversy. >>> just a moment ago, the atlanta braves announced the punishment for their pitching coach roger mcdowell. the braves placed mcdowell on administrative leave while the team investigates what exactly happened at at&t park this past saturday. the pitching coach used antigay slurs and gesture

crying is a common occurrence for life chronicles. tissues are always at the ready, even for the volunteers who run the cameras. but they say it's extremely rewarding work. >> through these videos i learn something every single time, whether it's how to take care of a family, how to be a better woman, how to love better. >> reporter: perhaps off and on's children will pick up those kinds of lessons. but her message for them is imminently clear. >> i did everything that i could to fight, to be there for them. >> reporter: although off and on and rick hope their kids won't ever have to watch the video because she beat the odds and long outlive its relevance. in san jose, i'm john sasaki, ktvu, channel 2 news. [ music ] >> well, we have been advertising a big change in the weather pattern all week long. it is still set to move in. it will move in as we do head into your thursday. right now the maps on live stormtracker 2 you can pick out the coverage and even the snowfall showing up in the white. i am watching this activity up to the nor

to the brave men who built it and to a photographer who climb the cable and scaled the towers to chronicle the remarkable construction. >>> plus the work to cover the hole that the loma prieta earthquake left behind. all straight ahead on a "a second look." hello everyone and welcome to a sc. tonight we're about iting to turn our attention to the bay bridge, which turns 75 years old later this year. after all, it was built before most of they will were even born and although its younger sister, the golden gate might get more otension, it's a worse horse, making it one of the three busiest bridges in the entire world. as kutv's george watson tells us from this report in 1986 that was prepared for its 50th anniversary. the bay bridge is an engineering marvel, built at a time of financial turmoil and pioneering construction techniques. >> reporter: by 1930, the ferry boat were carrying 8 million motor vehicles and 60 million people a year. without a bridge the bay didn't even look that large. when all was said and done, those who would bridge the bay were complainting a bridge that would be 8

crying is a common occurrence for life chronicles.issues are always at the ready, even for the volunteers who run the cameras. but they say it's extremely rewarding work. >> through these videos i learn something every single time, whether it's how to take care of a family, how to be a better woman, how to love better. >> reporter: perhaps off and on's children will pick up those kinds of lessons. but her message for them is imminently clear. >> i did everything that i could to fight, to be there for them. >> reporter: although off and on and rick hope their kids won't ever have to watch the video because she beat the odds and long outlive its relevance. in san jose, i'm john sasaki, ktvu, channel 2 news. [ music ] >> well, we have been advertising a big change in the weather pattern all week long. it is still set to move in. it will move in as we do head into your thursday. right now the maps on live stormtracker 2 you can pick out the coverage and even the snowfall showing up in the white. i am watching this activity up to the north

. >>> a feud growing between the white house and "san francisco chronicle." ♪ the chronicle maintainshat the white house is upset that it posted this video on its website. protesters interrupted president obama at the fundraising at the hotel when he was here during his visit on april 21st. the chronicle is part of a print-only pool. the white house says it violated rules by shooting videos and putting it online. >>> state wildlife officials are looking at dozen of dead sharks washing up on the peninsula. the california department of fish and game is sending a biologist to redwood city where residents are finding dead leopard carcasses on the shoreline. the causes range from release of pollutants by industry to infections. >>> california democrats say this is going to be a tough year for the democratic party. state delegates met with elected leaders in sacramento for their annual convention. leaders say the party needs to kick into high gear for 2012. >> we are trying to retake the house. >> california and organizers say they are prepared for 3,000 guests and elected officials try aga

put an ad in the chronicle or announce it. that is one. the one, the chronicle and other english papers, i think because they have new reporters that don't understand the context of immigration and the complexities, they go on and on stererotyping latinos unfairly and unwarranted. i would like this commission to call them or send a letter. that is what i think a lot of the spanish speaking people want from you to feel that you are there. and the last thing i want to say, and i want to say this with a lot of respect. and i do respect this commission. i so appreciate all of your testimony, but i am going to cry, and so too with my other meap friend because we didn't see any many testimony. hundreds of thousands of mexicans have been affected by these laws. mexicans, and others are affected. they are from latin america. representation is so key. that doesn't invalidate any of your stories. on the contrary, it makes us unified. whether it was logistics, or whether no mexican was available or whatever, but they are not here. so i really -- but

"san francisco chronicle" reports the utility mislabeled 34 miles of pipeline as seamless. those inaccurate records came to light in the wake of the san bruno blast. the piece of pipe that exploded in september was also labeled as seamless. the pipeline will be tested for weld problems this year. and today we'll learn more about pg&e's work following the explosion during a town. it killed 8 people and destroyed dozens of homes. long-term recovery efforts will be at the top of tonight's agenda. it starts at 6:30 p.m. at the san bruno senior center. >>> bryan stow remains sedated as he recovers from an attack outside dodger stadium that happened nearly four weeks ago. stow's website says the giants fan from santa cruz has been heavily sedated since friday because of seizures. and today all chili's restaurants in california are offering to donate money to help pay stow's medical bills. customers who bring in a flyer will have 15% of their bill go to stow's family and you can find that link of the flyer on the cbs 5 "early edition" neighborhood facebook. >>> a veteran afghanist

the amazing thing in san francisco is not that the "chronicle" is still here, but that it is still here and seven other levels of debt you want to consume the information that are available to you. all the old media are investing today in mobile the way they were struggling to learn internet fundamentals even 15 years ago. at the same time, they are being forced to do that because entrepreneurs specializing in mobile are showing them how it is done. both kids and grown-ups are going to have the chance to read any format they want, and that is a bigger choice every passing year. >> as much as we focus on new media, it is important to point out that most people still rely on television for their news. right? >> that is precisely the point i wanted to make. you are not alone. america does not read. they do not. if you look at the numbers, the latest numbers or even look at the report on stateofthemedia.org, you will see that well over 60% of americans will cite television as their primary source of news. also, more and more americans are spending more time in transit, so they are either in

i am reminded in thinking about his accomplishments with the chronicle said about it -- what "the chronicle" said about him, which is that he was an environmental visionary whose efforts from solar, wind, and biomass power into countless homes and businesses. he truly was a visionary, and i think we have a lot to learn from what he was able to accomplish. for those of us who served with him on the board, we will miss him, and give our condolences to his family. the second item that i have is a hearing request for the city's external auditors to present a comprehensive annual financing report single audit management letters for this item to come before the government audits and oversight committee. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you. i have two items today. first of all, in terms of stock options, i want to thank president chiu and supervisor mirkarimi for starting a dialogue about a stock option. i have actively been working on a for a number of weeks, have been meeting with a number of technology executives that i have worked with personally

chronicle. the senior leadership is assembling, these guys should be happy but the state where it is, what are the many concerns that will be discussed? >> yeah, democrats meeting this week in sacramento. you're right, belva, they have a lot to be happy about. they have every statewide office. they have a voter advantage of more than 2 million in california. i mean, this is a party that should be celebrating a lot, except this hangup for their governor, harry brown, he needs just a handful of republican votes to get him those budget proposals in front of voters to california and it has not happened. i think this weekend we'll see drama up there. all of the statewide elected officials there will be, attorney general, gavin newsom and dianne feinstein will give the address on friday but the party will hear from brown on sunday and i think brown will have to give them tough love and say, look, we have to come to some agreement with the republicans and you all are going to have to give up a little m