the "los angeles times" reports doreen sanchez implicated both her brother and also marvin norwood. she was tlrk they say and was arrested last week, then questioned and released. she has not been charged. she's likely to receive immune any return for her testimony. >> and wayne, thank you. and more police will be out on the streets of east palo alto part of a crack down against a surge of violent crime there. the police chief said he's canceling some vacation days and increasing patrols after four people were killed in the past two weeks. police are looking for three men, possibly connected with two murders. a 19-year-old and 24-year-old. a third suspect is already in jail. the trio is accused of violent crime sprees from east palo alto to colorado. tips from the community led police to these guys. >> now, this counsel... nor the police department, nor the community itself will allow these shootings to continue unanswered. >> police say the men may be linked to the most recent murder in east palo alto that happened last night. one person died during a double shooting. m 8áné)n÷ and

. >> up next on the 2011 los angeles times festival of books, gayle lemmon, author of a "the dressmaker of khair khan" discusses her book and takessiob booktv viewer phone calls for about half an hour. >> it's my final guest this we afternoon and we're going to move from american history to f foreign policy and talk aboutut her new next best selling book andbe this is the first book for was you.w what's it like to be on the bestseller lists with your first book? >> guest: it's nice to hear people react and people are connecting to it and i'm so incredibly grateful. >> it's a story about afghanistan but it's about one woman and one family in afghanistan so it really personalizes some of the challenges of that country. it's called the dressmakers of speed and tells the story of >> guest: it tells the story of a young woman who is supposed to be a teacher and ended up becoming an entrepreneur because there were so tough on so many people and she was left as the head of a family with five brothers and sisters counting on her and she became an entrepreneur and a dressmakers because there was

los angeles times is reporting police in l.a.o men for the beating of brian stow in march in dodger stadium. the times says it's unclear what evidence prompt add rests and the report says that giovanni ramirez arks rested in may and never charged has now been cleared in this stow beating. lapd tells axe bc 7 news there is no comment on the report. stow remains in serious condition at san francisco general hospital. >> 4,000 pages related to the investigation of the san bruno pipeline explosion were released today by the national transportation safety board. among those documents, an interview with pg&e's former manager of gas line records. in the newsroom more on what that document has to say. heather? >> this ntsb interviewed the manager of pg&e's gas line records from 1983 to 1993 and says company reorganizations in 1986 and 199 resulted in gaps in record keeping, possibly critical records like pressure test reports on line 132 that pg&e had been ordered to find but says it cannot. when the san bruno pipeline exploded, gas reco

in the neighborhood of los angeles near the corner of normandy and west beverley. the los angeles times reports the truck's driver said his face failed. >>> police have beefed up security for lady gaga concert tonight after a wild block party last night. riots clashed. hundreds of people turned up with a block party in movie premiere. police and fire inspectors will be on hand. >>> christmas came early for san francisco at go holiday toy drive program. rob roth tells us how the charity has a new lease on life. >> reporter: about a half dozen firefighters helped clean roads the toy program offices. it must move out by this weekendtreating my say that the program which helps 40,000 families last year is in the way up onto his. >> image a bit frustrating to be losing his faith because it suits our needs very well. >> reporter: the oath i house is about to undergo a seismic retrofit and they planned to build a new fire station. they told the firefighters union and had to go. but where? >> we do not purchase buildings and we do not have any baking facilities to offer them -- any baking facil

la falta de cooperaciÓn es evidente en correos electrÓnicos internos segÚn el diario los angeles times obstrucciÓn y encubrimiento era amplio y llegaba hasta arriba. >> tambiÉn honduras quiere saber si se enviaron armas a su paÍs. >> si bien es cierto que hicimos operaciones conjuntas en el pasado, el respecto a la soberanÍa de honduras. >> en audiencia la prÓxima semana se espera testimonio de varios agentes, algunos retirados y otros en funciÓn, incluyendo a agentes que trabajan dentro de mÉxico. hay gran expectativa por el testimonio de willian que estuvo a cargo de la oficina de phoenix, y a quiÉn se lo considera el cerebro de la operaciÓn, rÁpido y furioso. >> hoy fue el dÍa de mayor violencia en noruega desde la segunda guerra mundial,1 bomba estallÓ en un edificio de gobierno dejando por lo menos siete muertos y en una pequeÑa es la un hombre vestido de policÍa abriÓ fuego en un campamento de verano matando por lo menos 10. .pablo sÁnchez nos dicen que revelan las investigaciones. >> dos bombas destruyeron edificios del gobierno en el cetro de la capital de oslo, causando muerto

what she should also tell you, the winner of the los angeles times. [applause] >> earl warren. i started poking around in 2001. i became an editor at the time and was responsible for california government and political coverage. i was initially drawn to his curiosity about his time as governor. you know earl warren until quite recently, to the history of california. it was a remarkable achievement--the first race he won, and incumbent democrat in the middle of the war. a very popular president in 1950, a third of those elections, not only beat us on -- and jimmy roosevelt, over a million votes. in the middle, the most interesting of all people in those days they practice cross filing which meant if you could run for any party's nomination warren is a republican, in the democratic party's -- the only governor to win both parties nominations. my initial discovery of the fascination of tournament--an extraordinary california politician and seven times for public office is never lost. in trying to figure him out in a larger sense what i was drawn to was the sense of paradox about it

he has written noert "new york times", the los angeles times and several magazines. his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you s

poll by los angeles times found more than 60% of voters surveyed would support reducing life sentences for three strikers convicted of property crimes. 70% support early release of some nonviolent offenders. when it comes to prison overcrowding, voters are looking for solutions that don't raise taxes or take money away for things like education. >> in washington, d.c., progress remains elusive that has the government sliding toward default. they will vote on a cut, cap plan and democrats are expected to kill the measure. critics say there is larger tax increases than advertised. president obama president obama and john boehner met for 90 minutes and it was unclear whether the negotiations will continue at the white house. a new poll out this morning gives president obama a 7 ep lead against mitt romney. 51% to 44% that is among americans in general. but registered voters, 47-44% for president obama. >>> much of the nation braces for more blistering temperatures. mike was talking about this. today and tomorrow will be the hottest it's been nationwide since 1950. heat watches and warning

partly cloudy 101 in dallas and 77 and sunny in los angeles. timeor a check of the national forecast. time for a look at the national picture. latest satellite picture shows thunderstorms over the rockies and great lakes and the pacific northwest is seeing some light showers. later today severe storms expected from the great lakes to the northeast, hazy hot and humid in the plains of the northwest and lots of sun and mild temperatures on the west coast. >>> in sports heartbreak for the u.s. women's soccer team at the world cup. president obama and his family watched the dramatic event from the white house. in extra time, abby wambach scores on a header and puts the americans up by one, but japan comes back and ties it. then in the shoot-out, the u.s. chokes, three americans failed to convert. that gained japan the victory for the first time ever, they take home the world cup trophy. >> it's not what we wanted. we wanted a gold medal, wanted to bring the cup home. seems like the japanese team had nerves of steel. their keeper makes a couple good save

partly cloudy in miami. 93 with thunderstorms in chicago. 100, sunny in dallas. 80 and sunny in los angeles. timeor a check of the national forecast. latest satellite pictures shows clear skies along the west coast and southern plains. storms in the southwest and in the central plains. later today, heavy rains will hammer the eastern rockies all the way to ohio. the northeast will get hotter and more humid and the southern plains are scorching, temperatures in the 90s and 100s. >>> in sports this morning, talk about drama, the world cup u.s. women's team never gave up, now they're in the u.s. semifinals here. the u.s. was down a player against brazil, then an incredible header by abby wambach in the 120th minute. game tied at two, during the penalty kick, an amazing save, and alli krieger scores the goal, a come from behind win. >>> baseball no love loss between the red sox and orioles in boston in the fifth. boston kyle wiler tossed after hitting guerrero on the hand, next inning gonzalez throwing behind hitting ortiz, red sox beat baltimore 10-3. >>> yankees alex rodriguez surgery on his right

the "los angeles times" reports the attorneys accused police chief charlie beck of rushing to judgmenthen he announced ramirez was the person who attacked stow. after two other suspects were arrested, the chief said ramirez was not involved. >>> police in walnut creek have arrested a transient suspected of stealing a car that contained baseball memorabilia. the items were linked to former san francisco giants star willie mccovey. surveillance video captured that theft outside of the mcdonald's there. the car was found and a man was later arrested at a walnut creek motel. >>> game show host alex trebek is on crutches after playing crime fighter in san francisco. the jeopardy host will undergo surgery for his leg tomorrow. trebek was in town filming the national geographic world championships at google. his wife woke up early tuesday morning, saw a woman inside their room grabbing cash and valuables at the hotel. well, the woman ran away, and trebek ran after her. during the chase he ruptured his achilles tendon. >> everything is okay, thanks, though. >> okay. did you get a bracelet back

you might have heard about the story of norma in the "los angeles times." she was held as a victim of domestic violence to call the police for help. because they did have to investigate the perpetrator and victim -- that happens in some cases -- not a lot, but in a significant number of cases throughout california -- they took her fingerprints. even though they found out she is the victim, they kept her in the local jail because of secure communities. those of the types of folks being held under this program that is really undercutting the hard work being done by realignment. scom comes at a cost to san francisco often in terms of local dollars and public safety. it does not provide reimbursement to our city for the cost of the program. there is a separate program called state's criminal alien assistance program, which is unrelated, and it only reimburses for about 10 cents on the dollar and only in a limited number of cases. because it unfairly and unnecessarily burdens local law enforcement with immigration enforcement, the sheriff asked to opt out of the

sanchez works as an auto detaylor in fontana and the los angeles times reports that one or both bragged to coworkers about the attack. they allegedly attacked three other people that night at dodger stadium. >> the other alleged assault occurred after the game prior to the attack on mr. stow. >> court documents show that norwood had five weapons in his home and that sanchez told a witness not to talk about the stow assault. >> the family of a washington state man who died during a gun battle with san francisco police has teamed up with oakland attorney john burris. burris' firm will represent ken it harding's family to ensure what the attorney says is a transparent investigation into harding's death. harding's mother described her son who was on parole for juvenile rape and also called a person of interest in a recent murder a god-fearing man who was raised in a church. >> he was very independent. umm, he was very loving, caring, giving. he loved his family and he loved his mother. >> police say they shot at harding after he opened fire on them during a foot chase. neither burris or the

the "los angeles times" reports google is in preliminary talks to buy hulu. it also says hulu is meeting with others including microsoft and yahoo. the site is partly owned by nbc comcast, news corp and disney. it's expected to do half a billion dollars in sales this year. >> susie: one company watching hulu closely is netflix. they're arch-rivals. netflix is the nation's largest video rental subscription company, with nearly 24 million people renting d.v.d.s or streaming movies and t.v. shows from the california based company. but as silicon valley reporter robin mcelhatton reports, netflix is still protecting its turf in the fast-growing video streaming market. >> reporter: netflix has been renting d.v.d.'s by mail for 12 years, but since it started streaming movies and t.v. shows over the internet four years ago, the company has taken off. it's stock has jumped more than a 1,000% in those four years. the latest quarterly earnings show income, revenue and subscribers are all up dramatically in the last year. netflix vice president steve swasey says the comp

a report in today's "lei times" -- "los angeles times" says they may be trying to surgically implantombs in their bodies to blow up plans. there are no specific plots, but they warn terrorists are wondering how such devices could be implanted in passengers flying into the united states. the alert may mean you have to plan for added delays at u.s. airports when the travel. the tsa says the additional screening may be necessary because of the threat. it would include more pat-downs and questioning of passengers. >>> a bill that would allow the state insurance commissioner to reject what he sees as excessive health insurance rate hikes is making its way through the legislature. opponents of bill a.b. 52 claim the bill would only add bureaucracy, cost the state money, and limit access to care. some claim the state insurance commissioner should be allowed final say in health insurance fee hikes. the commissioner already has the authority to block excessive auto insurance rate hikes. >> we've had 10, 20, 30, 40, sometimes as high as 90% rate hikes year after year in california. helps expla

but "the los angeles times" analyzed census bureau figures and found that in california the traditionaly now makes up only 23.4% of all households. the others are part of a fast-growing variety of single-parent families, married couples with no children, unmarried couples with children, same-sex couples with owithout children and so on. many organizations are tring to preserve and strengthen traditional heterosexual marriages, among them, as saul gonzalez found, the federal government. does that support violate separation of church and state? and does so-called marriage education really work? >> every year, more than 2 million couples marry in the united states. >> when is your wedding? >> august 25th. >> oh, you want to sign up here? >> sure. >> and some of those soon to be brides and grooms were here at this southern california wedding expo. as they plan their big day, it's easy to find people ready to talk about what it takes to keep a relationship strong. >> i think we definitely are working every day on our relationship, making sure that that stays steady, and then we also have our

there was a survey that just came out yesterday, thursday, from the "los angeles times" university of southern california that showed californians when they're actually briefed on what these agencies have and haven't done, they're actually okay with some of that money being taken away from them and going to the state to help with the state budget deficit. >> refresh my memory. is this one of those things governor brown told the state, if we don't make these tax extension, we're going to have to cut super, super deep? is this part of the plan? >> part of the deal that resulted from not having any new revenue. you do have to look at it as a part of that. and certainly that's still something i'm sure the governor would like to be able to remedy next year, but this is -- unless the supreme court stays, this would go through a lot sooner. >> belva: can you think after any project that would not happen without -- >> oh, i think you'd see job losses, you'd see a halt to various redevelopment, you know, business development projects in cities in every corner of this state if this were to happ

york. 90 in miami. 82 degrees and sunny in chicago. 103 and sunny in dallas. 79 and sunny in los angeles. >>> timeor a check of the national forecast. latest satellite picture shows thunderstorms over the southwest around a powerful storms in the central plains racing east. to the west coast is looking absolutely marvelous. the southeast sees scattered showers. later today, severe weather forms over the northern states. more storms will hit the southeast. another hot and humid day in the southern plains with temperatures in the 100s. it will be mild in the northeast. >>> in sports this morning, good news for football fans. the four month long nfl lockout could end this week. the players executive committee. expected to meet today to go over a tentative agreement approved by owners last thursday. one issue still a sticking point is the lack of an opt-out clause in the proposal. once the players executive committee votes, it then goes to team representatives. >>> an emotional day at baseball hall of fame in cooperstown. great roberto alomar was inducted. he won a record 10 gold gloves at second base

the "los angeles times" reports in march the agency mailed out 2.1 million placards to people in the data base. 1,000 returned because of death or change in address. the dmv conducted a one-day sting operation in 25 cities and cited more than 200 people for illegal use of the placards. costs the dmv $1, 200 ever year to mail the placards. >>> bryan so it's family said he had emergency surgery this week. massive amounts of fluid had built up around his brain causing a 30-second seizure. when they drained the fluids, they discovered an abnormal growth. doctors removed the growth during the procedure. stow has been in the hospital since that march 31st beating at the dodger stadium parking lot. l lapd has increased the reward to $225,000 for information leading to an arrest. >>> cities across the east bay are finding it hard to pay for police to patrol the streets. a new report reveelts it's causing poor -- reveals it's causing poor response times. budget cuts to police and sheriff's departments are resulting in a struggle to maintain standards. the money crunch has shrunk or eliminated

the information we are getting this morning is from the "los angeles times," of course, we have some feelers out to the lapd, but they are being very careful with their case this morning because of the fact that they may have made a mistake in the first naming of a suspect. but so far giovanni ramirez hasn't been officially cleared. we'll continue to monitor this for you. >> thank you, anne makovec in san francisco. >>> in the meantime a fundraiser for bryan stow in san jose last night brought in about $600. it was held at the liquid playground, a water sports store. the store's owner had never met stow but felt the need to help. >> extremely sad that somebody is put in a situation like that after a sporting event. >> he says one of his customers got a phone call from stow as he was going into dodger stadium on the day he was attacked. they joked about whether he should be wearing giants gear to the game. stay with cbs 5. we are going to be checking in with los angeles later this morning as well as cbssf.com. we'll have continuing coverage of the new arrests in the bryan stow case. >

. >> this is david from "the los angeles times." i was wondering if the san francisco police department and other law enforcement-related agencies will be moving to this system. >> we've been in discussions with them. we went through two rounds of requirement analysis. right now the system as we see it meets the requirements. however, we still have some conversations we're having about specific security requirements. we're working with them and microsoft on that. again, i'd like to stress, though, that's one of the reasons why we went with the solution because it provides us ogs options and we had conversations with other municipalities to take in their public safety groups to the exchange platform. and we think at the end of the project we'll either be able to, a, host them in the cloud, which is the goal of the project, or for some unforeseen reason -- can you continue to provide them email services that is integrated with our cloud clients. again, it's more than just a single point solution. it's a strategy for us. a lot of those

>> from the 2011th los angeles times festival of books, walter mosley, author of "twelve steps toward political revelation" discusses his book and answers to tv viewers questions. it's about half an hour.y,th >> radanovich was the creator of characters like fearless joe anh written about that reminded me e about the pamphleteers run the time of the revolution.e did you think about that? >> guest: i love those guys.ou >> host: what are you doing with this? >> guest: i have a deepp distrust of specialists and experts. experts. as we understand it, if you are smart enough and educated enough to be an expert in something, then you're brought up by the appropriations so mainly what to do is why, you tell people things against their best interest even though you're the smartest and most capable person to tell them the truth. and so i decided i would write a book from my more pedestrian standpoint about how one can reclaim citizenship in the united states by understanding certain things about themselves, and by going through it will step kind of program that would free us from those things t

[applause] >> this event was part of the 2,011 los angeles times festival of books. to find out more visit events.l atimes.com/festivalofbooks. you have been watching booktv. 48 hours of book programming beginning saturday morning at 8:00 eastern through monday morning at 8:00 eastern. nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. .. >> the house returns today at noon eastern for legislative business. >> this week on "the communicators" federal communications commission robert mcdowell on cell phone security issues, service charges on consumers phone bills and issues before the fcc. >> host: we welcome back to "the communicators" robert mcdowell, the lone republican commission on the federal communications commission at this point. also joining us for this half-hour discussion is amy schatz who covers telecommunications issues for "the wall street journal." commissioner, let's start there, what's it like to be the lone republican on the fcc? >> guest: over 90% of what the fcc does is not only bipartisan but unanimous. so it's probably one of the l

to national security and the media whether it's the new york times in new york those were the los angeles times reports and stories as if they're actually true i give say the same thing happens in russia same thing happens in france and same thing happens in germany now because there are what give them it honest we orders and newspapers that attempt to you know who i quote fair and balanced reporting but in general i think that saying brothers being guitar murdoch certainly used on almost any media that paul and a lot of what's happening could it send shock waves through the media world and we . see those of us who could be targeted who have a politician celebrities could now be thinking my life's going to be safe and how or perhaps could this cut tel press freedom which after all many journalists do not want to see happen. well big question of press freedom is is a tricky question and yes on some level i suppose it could but look what is this press freedom we talk about today in in the united states there are over a thousand prisoners on hunger in california. san francisco chronicle were conce

whose work has appeared in numerous publications including rolling stone the nation and the los angeles times she brought us stories from all over the world places like uganda iraq india her first book kingdom coming the rise of christian nationalism explore the rise of religious fundamentalism particularly within the republican party and a more recent book the means of reproduction sex power and the future of the world documents the fight for women's reproductive rights around the planet and that book won the j. anthony lucas work in progress award currently she is the senior contributing writer at the daily beast and newsweek it was to say she brings in the light and perspective to many of the issues we're tackling both at home and abroad today so i'm pleased to welcome from our new york studios michelle goldberg michelle welcome to the program. thanks so much for having me thanks for joining us what motivated you or motivates you to do the work you do and take on the topics you. why don't i narrowed it down i can tell you a little i've always been fascinated by religion and idiology you kn

for a republican-led two weeks on, one week off approach to congressional busyness, but as the los angeles times necessarily time spent in washington where the congress is falling behind, it's how little it accomplishes when it's here. the 112th congress is on pace to be one of the least-productive congresses in more than 60 years. joining me now, the democratic assistant leader in the house, congressman jim clyburn of south carolina, thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you so much for having me. >> president announced congressman pelosi will be in attendance. what do you think will take to get the deal done, seems to me the impasse has been done for three months and nothing has budged to get it done. >> well, i think a lot has been done. the fact of the matter is i am a member of the biden group. i guess we still exist. we, i believe, 85% there. we were about to have our very last meeting, or next to the last meeting, when eric cantor decided he would no longer participate. we did a lot. i'm very proud of what we've done, and i think the vice president will tell you that we are about 85%

diameter of the editorial page at los angeles times. [applause] belmar still in los angeles? i was called at the last moment. one of the people who dropped out because tonight is the night of the white house correspondents' dinner and it turned out i had a panel of journalists talking about obama at the white house correspondent. , will start by doing something a little bit mean. i will turn to something garrett graff wrote a few years ago. and have absolutely no idea what this is going to be. >> nothing terribly embarrassing. to remind us what we were thinking when president obama was elected and i will introduce my fellow panelists and ask questions. back in 2006 garrett graff wrote the following. a few short years ago he wrote no one heard of the skinny chicago senator and constitutional law professor with the big ears and a funny name. now all bets are off. obama just might be willing to be the next president of the united states. it would be the capstone of an amazing rise for a politician whose charisma and personal story. the harvard educated has breezed life into the

screenwriting at pepperdine university seaver college i'm pleased to welcome from our studios in los angeles times shadyac welcome. tom it's great to be here and just for a point of clarification the class i teach at pepperdine is actually called film and life because it's a conversation that i don't think we have with our youth which is we use films as an access point to start a conversation about the sit ins and choices that our youth are going to make. in their in their graduate from college and when they move on with their lives so that's a conversation that i also wanted to start with i am just reflected that in the class i teach well it's fascinating it's kind of. robert mckee comes home to my life i don't think it's the the notion of the story as person. how did i get it how did you get out of that how did that come about. well i've always been a teacher in my heart i taught acting for years at a studio called the vincent chase workshop and vincent chase is now one of the characters on entourage they named the lead actor after me so renowned and i just enjoyed teaching and they called one d

los angeles police department. it had schedule aid press conference, but cancelled ate at the d.a.'s request. the "los angeles times" says the suspects bragged to friends, helping lead police to them. a motion file bid prosecutors today says at least one of the suspects warned witnesses not to provide information about the crime to authorities. the two men are being held on $500,000 bail tonight. >> wayne, what was the reaction, if any from brian stow's family? >> i spoke with john stow. he says the family knew nothing of what transpired, not in los angeles today. nor did he know anything more about another victim the complaint names, he thinks she may have run into trouble with the suspects in a separate incident. >> and a spike in violence in east palo alto has the police chief calling on the community to help turn in criminals and stop gang violence. the chief says the latest rampage spans to junction, colorado. and we're live from police headquarters tonight. >> east palo alt yochl peer yensed six murders this year after making a significant dent in the number of murders last year, there were four all of last y

. >>> 69% of respondents to "the los angeles times" usc poll say they favor releasing nonviolent offenders>>> in news of the world tonight in somalia, famine has led the u.s. to reverse its course, saying it will send aid to areas controlled by the islamic group, al-shabab. some 10 million people in east africa have been affected by the worst drought there in more than half a century. >>> in venezuela gunshots rang out today outside a prison. just last week, the venezuelan government ended a month's long uprising outside another prison. >>> in india, a leopard blamed for mauling at least 11 people died after being captured. wildlife authorities tried to tranquilized the cat, but it attacked them, so they beat it with sticks and knives. >>> a discovery by scientists at uc davis may offer new hope to couples struggling to condition receive. they found a protein that coats sperm, helping it to reach a woman's egg. researchers say it should be easy now to create a test to diagnose the problem and help couples find proper treatment. >>> shuttle atlantis is scheduled to touchdown in just hours.