thompson was certain she served a higher good. she wrote because she felt she was divinely ordained to make the world on earth many tandem with god -- in tandem with god, more perfect. west wrote because she is simply couldn't help it. her mind was is so quick and fertile, and her interests were so far-ranging that not to do so would have been tantamount to suicide. while they both were to reach the height of their professions, west was clearly the more gifted of the two women. and dorothy agreed, thompson, i should say, agreed. deemed by many as the greatest 20th century writer in the english language, rebecca west wrote as though her words alone could save the world. and when one reads the glorious passages in "black lamb and gray falcon," her novels, articles and essays, one can almost agree. while thompson was the quintessential public policy wonk fixated on the daily turnings of the world who had even contemplated a run for the presidency, west at the core was not a political animal. she have interested in the big -- she was

they fired thompson, put loeb on the board along with two of his allies. and another bombshell, thompson says he has thyroid cancer according to the "wall street journal." thompson becomes the ceo with the shortest time at yahoo, roughly four months. jerry yang lasted 18 months, his second time around. now checking yahoo share price up about 1.5% this morning. we've only been trading for about two minutes. all of this is just another stunner for the yahoo employees who have been so patient through so many different ceos. marla tellez joins us now from sunnyvale. she's been talking to some of the people out there getting reaction. good morning. >> reporter: scott, good morning. well, from the outside, it looks like business as usual for yahoo headquarters. some of the company's 12,000 employees already making their way to work on this early monday morning. but it is safe to say uncertainty lingers throughout the yahoo campuses. scott thompson was entrusted to turn around the web giant hired as ceo in january as scott mentioned four months later. he is on hi

now scott thompson was appointed ceo in january. he was hired to turn around the struggling web giant. and in early april, he executed a plan to reduce yahoo's 14,000 employees by 2,000. he's now become one of those casualties after his recent resume debacle. yahoo saying thompson will step down effective immediately after it came to light his resume was padded with two degrees. one in accounting, another in computer science. turns out thompson only has an accounting degree. one man said thompson had no other choice. >> back in the days when a ceo made 20 times the average working man salary, that's fine, but when he's making 400 or more times the average man's salary, that's just unreal. and to pad your resume to get that position is unconscionable. so, yeah, he should step down. >> reporter: in thompson's place, the board has appointed ross levinson interim ceo. until now he was the global media head. now beyond the ceo shake-up, five members of the board of directors have also resigned. so there's a whole lot more to this story.

we have a picture of scott thompson, former ceo as of yesterday. he resigned after just four months on-the-job. the last several days of which, weeks maybe have been plagued by scandal that thompson's official biography said he had a computer science degree when he only had ha accounting agree. the bigger news may be -- maybe the "wall street journal" is reporting that thompson told the board when he resigned he was also suffering from thyroid cancer and would begin treatment immediately. no details on what the treatment is or the status of his cancer if they caught it early or net. ross levinson has been name the enter sraoupl ceo hired to help turn the company -- enter ceo higher to help turn the company around in 2010. >> yahoo is a media company, but it needs to figure out its social media strategy to compete with facebook and it doesn't have one. i think the company is still floundering a bit. hopefully this guy will give it better direction. >> reporter: call it floundering, struggling, yahoo has had four fulltime ceos in past five years. the

thompson: and so that gives you your calendar.ou can see it on the margin of the ice cap, and you can see it in the ice cores when you drill, and you can see it in the analysis when it's done in the lab. and if you want to talk about rates of change, you need that annual calendar. and we now know, probably 25 years later, that that ice cap contains the highest resolution, the longest annual record, that we will ever find in the tropics. narrator: the peruvian expeditions were the beginning of an ambitious worldwide drilling program. over the next 30 years, lonnie and his team continued to make technical improvements to better retrieve high-resolution ice cores from extreme locations. to create a global archive of past climate, lonnie has made more than 50 expeditions to africa, antarctica, bolivia, china, greenland, peru, russia, and the united states. at the end of every expedition, the ice is rushed back to the cold room at ohio state university, where it is preserved in a frozen library, waiting to be deciphered. thompson: and

scot thompson has resigned as the company's ceo. the wall street journal reports that thompson told the board last week that he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. his interim replacement is ross levenson, head of global media for yahoo!. he will be working with a number of new board members. >> i don't think it is so much scott thompson and the fact that he exaggerated his resume but it is also an opportunity to shake up the board and i think that is almost more important to the stockholders >> yahoo! is working on a massive reorganization. among other changes, a board member has been appointed as chairman of the board. he was the board member who led the investigation into the inaccuracies on thomson's resist. in a statement he said the board is pleased to announce these changes and is confident they will serve the best interest of our shareholders and further accelerate advances the company has made since last august. >> today the governor jerry brown will officially deliver bad news about revise state budget >> we are now facing

thompson is a highly-qualified executive i, with a successful track record. in his letter to the board of directors, david lopes said, it undermined his credibility as a technology expert. and reflects poorly on the character of the ceo, who has been tasked with leading yahoo! at this critical juncture. >> reporter: he wants the board of directors to take immediate reaction. it's not clear if that means removal. >>> let's turn things over to jeff, who joins us at the weather board. is there a change for us? another equalization, of the temperatures that have been out of whack for the past two years. it's been hard-pressed to find a normal season. right now, the doppler raider is finding low-level moisture across the hills in the east bay. can't rule out drizzle for tonight. and noticeably, out behind the frontal system, it's humid. we have 61 in sunnyvale and 56 in san mateo, a lot warmer out there at the current moment. what you find in san francisco, we do have that low cloud cover and the fog. and drizzle happening across the golden gate bridge. there it i

thompson: mr. speaker, i have no more speakers, if the gentleman from new york is prepared to close. mr. king: ranking member, i have one further speaker, the gentleman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. king: for three minutes. mr. poe: thank you for yielding the time and appreciate mrs. miller offering this legislation. having been a resident in texas, a border state with mexico, i see firsthand the situation on the border. we hear everything politically from the border is safe to it's a war zone or somewhere in the middle. we do have a border security problem. just a couple of statistics to show you how the border is pourous. in our federal prisons is a group called i will -- illegal aliens. 25% in our prisons are illegal aliens. and i regularly go and visit with our border sheriffs and i ask them how many people in your jail are foreign nationals. the latest statistic was 34.5% in our jails are foreign nationals. so, yes, crime comes into the united states is

she helped install thompson as ceo. loeb is claiming she has similar discrepancies in her credentials. claiming she has a bachelor's degree in marketing and economics but it's in business administration. >> investigators trying to figure out what clogged a hydrogen leak forcing pixar and other businesses nearby to shut down. there are pixar evacuated and the secondary school cancelled classes and sent the kids home. witnesses reported seeing a fireball this morning. and ac transit says this storage tank began venting for an unknown reason. and saying there was safety risk to those on ground. >> and we never felt it was a threat to the immediate community. and again, local emergency officials decided that it would be better to be safe than sorry. >> most streets reopened hours later. >> and there is sheriff deputies working on a sketch of a man who chase aid female hiker wednesday after the noon. deputies say a man popped out of the woods behind her on a hiking trail appearing to be in his 30s wearing a black baseball ha

tavern and go up on the roof of thompson's tavern to see the fireworks. well, thompson turns the slave away. it's a female slave. no, you can't go up there. well, rutledge is outraged. and he goes then -- he's a major figure of course in the state legislature. he goes to the state legislature and he urges a bill to banish thompson from the state for this insult. well, thompson takes to the press, and he writes what can only be a typical american claim of equality against -- this kind of arrogance. and i think it expressed the kind of resentment that's coming out. for all places to take place in charleston shows that even there, where the structure of the society was much more hierarchical than it was, say, in boston, to have that kind of resentment expressed, typical american resentment against the snobbing -- the snobbery, this arrogance expressed by rutledge. expressed by rutledge. outrageous by our standards that he should go to the state legislature and banish the man. but that's the -- i think a sign of an emerging egalitarianism that comes to really

scot thompson has quit as ceo of yahoo!. the wall street journal reports that thompson told the board that he was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer as well. >> governor brown plans to unveil a revised budget. the california deficit is not $9.2 billion but rather $16 billion. >> bay area drivers accounted for 20 percent of the distracted driving tickets last month. cell phone calls, texts and other distractions led to 6000 citations locally during national distracted driving awareness month in april. 30,000 were issued statewide. i saw a woman one morning eating a bowl of cereal while she was driving into work >> >> let's go live to the bay bridge toll plaza. as you can see, so far is not too bad. if your lit using fast track flames, so far everything is in the clear what we are starting to back up in the cash lanes which is usually the first indication that they will turn the metering lights on. it is starting to get a little bit slow at the incline as well >> we're following a problem blocking one lane of traffic north

it also got fast tracks other board officers to approve thompson. as facebook gets ready for an ipo that could reach $100 billion yahoo shareholders one action. >>> the biggest thing they have to come up with a better social media strategy, global this time with google + and facebook thrives at also needs to beef up its media it has a lot of eyeballs but not profitability >>> the new ceo takes over in the midst of a massive reorganization last month that laid-off 2000 employees. and identified 50 services it wants to shut down or sell >>> time magazine stole the show last week this week it is newsweek's turn. the cover shows president obama under rainbow hail and a caption that reads the first gave president. this comes after his statement he supports same-sex couples to marry. the announcement has politicians weighing in. dianne feinstein said she understands the president's change of heart. >>> i don't think it is a flip- flop and not a political calculation it is not smart at the does this from a political point of view it makes no sense from a p

four other directors who also supported thompson are out. now as facebook it's rare but for an ipo that could reach $100 billion yahoo shareholders want action >>> that can up with a better social media strategy that have nothing google this time, yahoo is watching facebook fir arrived and google fir arrived it needs to beef up its media position it as a lot of eyeballs and not enough profitability >>> the new ceo takes over in the midst of a reorganization last week, let of 2000 employees and associates at press listed 50 organizations it wants to shed and >>> his resignation is expected at chase manhattaand j.p. morga the ceo apologize today for the incident >>> the wall street journal reports three executives will resign in the wake of the $2 billion trading loss including the chief investment officer. it follows an apology the man who runs the nation's largest bank >>> when made an egregious error >>> if you key based trader nicknamed the london will manage the investments >>> the investments were badly monitored and should never have ha

thompson came under fire more than a week ago. when one of yahoo's top investors pointed out there was a fake computer science degree on his resume. thompson denied lying about his credentials and blamed an executive recruiter for padding that resume. tech analysts says thompson's case is likely not unique and could cause other companies to scrutinize their own employees. >> now undoubtedly there are a lot of people sweating bullets either who have false backgrounds or who may have been incidental with hiring people with false backgrounds and both of those groups are at risk. >> thompson leaves yahoo after four months on the job. executive vice president has been named interim ceo. he's the fourth person to lead yahoo in four years. more on what that means from scott mcgrew coming up in about 30 minutes. >>> in the meantime, one of the biggest banks on wall street is preparing for three resignations from top executives this week. the chief investment officer for jpmorgan chase is expected to step down along with two people who wor

♪ >> fisher's cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as duker. convictions that could land him in prison for at least 32 years. >> keep the noise down over there. >> rap has helped the two men bridge their generation gap. >> trying to film [ bleep ]. >> the cellies share one other thing in common. they're both members of the crips street gang. >> but they were at very different stages in their life. cousin ice was no longer in love with the lifestyle. >> i haven't actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because they're from across town and all that. i haven't done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones i'm going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> duker on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the food chain. >> everybody's like that when they're young. they don't see the big picture. they can't see

confirmed that thompson has left the company. he says yahoo! has a policy that you will be fired in you falsify records and also says the problem with thompson's resume was carried with him through pay pal. and this firestorm will likely cause other companies to start doing background checks on all of their top execs. >> do a background check so this doesn't come back to haunt you. there are a lot of people sweating bullets who have false backgrounds or may have incidental in hiring people with false backgrounds and both groups are now at risk. >> yahoo! has also announced not only will thompson be out but four directors who planned to retire at the annual meeting will step down immediately. the economy has appointed lichenson. no word yet on how the changes might affect investors but people will pay close attention tomorrow to the stock. nbc bay area news. >>> kimberly, thank you. he took a political risk when he announced his support for gay marriage a decade ago andweighe impact it could have for the white house. >> i don't know there's an i

that's when terry thompson set 50 of his exotic animals free, then committed suicide. the sheriff's department flooded with 911 calls. >> yeah, there's a lion mount perry road. there's a big horse farm on the right. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies were forced to put down 48 animals, including lions, bears, and exotic tigers. now, many in this rural community are questioning why the remaining five animals should be returned to thompson's widow. the answer -- ohio is one of eight states with the least restrictive laws on owning exotic pets. >> i'm sure that nobody in this county really wants them back here after what happened back in october. but, as you said, our hands are tied. we cannot infringe on somebody's civil rights because the laws are just not in place for me to trounce on somebody's property. >> reporter: two columbus zoo officials who cared for the animals signed affidavits saying the animals had been grossly neglected by terry thompson, and they say, the law doesn't prevent it from happening again under his widow's care. who will be monitoring those animals

confirms scott thompson has quote left the company after four months of being there.ech analyst rob an derly says it isn't surprised since yahoo! has a policy that you'll be fired if you falsify your reports. and the problem with the ceo's resume was carried with him from paypal, and the problem will likely cause other companies to start doing background check s on all top executives. >> this is kind of executive 101, do a background check so this stuff doesn't come back to haunt you. there are a lot of people sweating bullets that have false backgrounds or who may have been incidental in hiring people with false backgrounds, both of those groups are now at risk. >> yahoo! has also announced that not only will thompson be out but four directors who have planned to retire at the animal meeting will step down immediately. >>> two small earthquakes rattled sonoma county this morning. a 3.9 quake happened about 5:30 in the town of cobb, 25 miles santa ro,of a second quake hit three hours later with 2.8. the area hit is near the guyers geothermal development. no damage was

. >> reporter: thompson says they got along great from the start.oth personally and professionally. thompson played in chuck's band and produced chuck's grammy nominated album. >> one of the easiest people to ever work with in the studio. >> reporter: one day after the death of the godfather of go- go, thompson says chuck the person and chuck the performer will always be with him. >> right now, i feel like he's everywhere now, you know. i got the travel size. i have him whenever i need him. >> reporter: a father figure is how thompson described chuck brown. >> he was the nicest guy you could ever meet. >> reporter: brian mills described chuck in the exact same way. >> got a lot of people off the streets working for him, playing with him. >> reporter: chuck's long time piano and soxophone player talked about living a good life as much as he did playing good music. for all that he will always be grateful. >> i learned a lot of things from him. what things you should do and things not to do and overall, he was a great person. my friendship with him is

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scott thompson out, ross levinsohn, new incident rim ceo. daniel loeb now on the board, and roy bostock leaving immediately, fred a.m. ross oh becoming chairman. the story continues to change. yahoo having a hands on meeting today. we will continue to cover it tonight at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> this morning, governor jerry brown revealing the revised state budget and the news isn't good. he detailed numbers about an hour ago in sacramento. brown says due to lower than expected revenues and court rulings that blocked cuts, the budget deficit has grown to $16 billion. governor brown says raising taxes is the only way to avoid major cuts to public schools, colleges, and public safety. >> we're going to have to cut deeper, but cutting alone really doesn't do it. that's why i'm linking the serious budget reductions, real increase to austerity, with a plea to the voters, please increase taxes temporarily. >> the budget relies heavily on a proposed temporary quarter current tax hike on the november ballot. he also wants to increase income tax on those m

kron 4's kate thompson is also there, live with the latest details. kate? >> reporter: yes, that man has died. the scene still very active. the shooting taking place at a quarter to 10. a 54-year-old san francisco resident has been shot and killed. a woman, 28 years old is in the hospital. outside the housing projects, you can see the police have the road closed off here. they do have homicide investigators on their way. the road will be closed off for about three hours as they continue their investigation. neighbors say they heard a series of shots, as many as 10 shots when the shooting happened. again, a san francisco man, 54 years old has been shot and killed tonight and a young woman is in the hospital. reporting live, kate thompson, kron 4 news. >>> new tonight, an at risk elderly man has gone missing. this is his picture. he is 86 years old. officials say he suffers from diminishia and alzheimer's and walks with a cane he was last seen today. officials say he was last seen wearing a cream colored shirt, gray vest and dark trousers. >>> hundreds of peo

the legs on the scott thompson resume, how far does that go? >> i think we're going to get through that pretty quickly. scott thompson has proven himself at pay pal, the leading online payments solution out there. he proved himself there. so i don't remember what he did in college. and yahoo! is another issue we are of that stock. if anybody can solve that. >> isn't it fair to ask a question, for a company that already has a credibility issue having a ceo with potential credibility issue in certain circles, you have to pay attention to something like that? >> yeah, you do. i think that's a pretty small issue. it's different than the beer drinking issue that you brought up last week related to another internet company. with yahoo! this is really a small issue. scott thompson has only been there for a short period of time. he's got good assets to work with. he's got to work with them quickly because they are deteriorating. i think this is a tiny story. >> mark, good weekend. we'll talk to you soon. >> thank you. >> let's work backwards. yahoo! fi

la hoja de vida de thompson, dice que l estudi computacion o "computer science" pero no fue cierto.,mater stonehill" donde thompson dijo que curso, no tenia esa clase sino hasta 4 aÑos despues de graduarse. --yahoo, confirmo que thompson no tiene el titulo de computacion y solo una licenciatura en contabilidad y administracion de negocios. take vo --por otra parte, la mayor red social del mundo hace su estreno en wall street! --facebook, pondr por primera vez acciones a la venta, con un precio por unidad fijado entre los 28 y 35 dlares. --los analistas proyectan que la empresa podra recaudar hasta 11 mil 800 millones de dlares con este movimiento. --facebook, cuenta con 901 millones de usuarios activos y se mud recientemente a un nuevo campus en menlo park. cu --estudiantes protestaron hoy el posible incremento a la tasa de inters de prstamos universitarios . take vo --este es video de una manifestacin esta maÑana en la universidad estatal de san jos. --a menos que el congreso intervenga, la tasa se duplicar de 3.4 a 6.8.por ciento.. eso representa unos mil dlares para el estudiante

five of terry thompson's pets are being returned to his widow in ohio.ust before he died by suicide, he released about 50 of his lions, tigers, bears, wolves and monkeys. triggering a massive search for his pets and investigation in his death. most of the animals were killed by authorities but those that survived are returning home to the stump hill farm. neighbors have mixed feelings. >> well as long as she keeps them penned up it's okay in my opinion. >> as long as she can take care of them and they are healthy and taken care of that's fine. just not on the loose or be let out. >> jason carroll joins us live from zanesville, ohio. after a threat to the community, why is she getting them back? >> reporter: the short answer to that, kyra, is the law is on her side. and if the law had been written in such a way to help the folks at the columbus zoo, who wanted to keep the animals, perhaps zoo officials would have them, that is not the case. i'll talk more about that in a moment. first update you if i can in terms of what is happening with the animals. the

. >>> scott thompson's arrival created quite a mess when it was revealed he padded his resume. eric rasmussen tells us about the changes at the top. >> reporter: the news of scott thompson's exit was hardly a shock at silican valley. >> i think it was inevitable that he was going to step down. >> it took a while. i thought they were going to make this decision faster than that. >> reporter: thompson's resume included a computer science degree one he never earned. yahoo says ron levinson will become interim ceo. after a meeting this morning yahoo announced a settlement with his largest shareholder third point adding three new board members. in a statement about the changes yahoo's new chairman said the board is competent they will serve the best interest of our shareholders and further accelerate the advances the company has made since last august. but some experts say any recent games are jeopardized by this latest misstep in a long series of mistakes by the internet giant. >> yahoo is a very important company to both silican valley and the over all internet. it would be a sham

all run by a man who used the name bobby thompson. >> had a great story. help our troops.r troops family. talk about iraq. talk about afghanistan. >> reporter: and thanks to tens of thousands of dollars of charity money in political donations, the man called bobby thompson got his picture taken with president bush, senator john mccain. and rudolph you yanni, among others, adding credibility to his charity's spiel. >> i figured he was a real player. >> reporter: and yet he was an imposter. >> absolutely. >> reporter: looking disheveled in court today in cleveland, he faced charges including identity theft and rep fused to tell the judge his real name or anything about his background. >> i believe, your honor, that the state has a burden of proof as to that. >> reporter: thompson told the u.s. marshals that caught him he preferred to be called mr. x. >> he signs his name mr. x. he's not admitting who he is. >> reporter: and even his former lawyer says she doesn't know he real name. >> i have no idea. >> reporter: helen mac murray admits she fell for the pitch that the u.s. n

they feeling the pressure having signed off on hiring thompson. one of those board seats will be filled by daniel lobe the activist shareholder who brought the resume scan tell to light. ross levinson has been named interim ceo. experts are hoping he can help turn the company around. >> it will strengthen them from their media perspective, it is a media company it needs to figure out its social media strategy to compete with facebook. i think the company is still floundering a bit. >> reporter: levinson was hired in november of 2010 previously he ran internet services at news core. he will be having a -- news corp. he will be having a corp wide meeting to talk to yahoo employees. other new board members in addition to daniel lobe, mtv executive michael wolf and turn-around specialist, harry wilson. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> governor brown will announce deeper cuts than expected five hours from now when he explains how he plans to close a 16 billion dollar budget deficit. governor delivered the bad news over the weekend in this video posted on

dye, proceed when you're ready. >> chairman thompson, members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear today on behalf of the national association of state foresters, as stewards of more than two-thirds of america's forests and state and private ownersh ownerships, state forests receive outreach and financial assistance as well as wildfire protection in partnership with the u.s. forest service, nrcs and other agencies. my comments are endorsed by state foresters who -- my written statement includes a complete set of priority recommendations from nasf. the development of state wide forest resource estimates and strategies was an important outcome of the 2008 farm bill. these forest action plans provide an analysis of forest conditions in each state and delineate a priority role and urban forest landscape issues and areas. common among the threats, to forest identified in the forest action plan included, forest pests, invasive species, fuel loads and wildfire, loss of forests to development, threats to urban and community forests, the forest action plans also provid

a major shake-up at gatto ceo scott thompson resigned after under fire for patting his resin made. don knapp with two is in and out. >>> ever since yahoo co-founder jerry ng it turned out microsoft's offer and watch the stock drop in half shareholders on happy now will find out how shareholders feel about this change. yahoos fourth ceo in five years is out but down by mansion on is resin made that had a computer degree he did not have. after controversy the board approved russ levenson as the new ceo of the onetime prominent internet company >>> stockholders were unhappy with the direction chiao who was going in, i don't think it was necessary is that thompson but it was a shake-up on the board that was more important >>> at technology log levenson rights today's announcement let laid to rest the unfortunate distractions. levenson and is looking to accelerate the process made and enhance stockholder value. that's what they hope scott thompson would do >>> yah hoo struggling for years they've been tremendous eyeballs in their sights that not been able to leverage that >>> as faceboo

scott thompson has been fired. he will keep a $1.5 million bonus and restricted stock worth 5.5 million dollars. he will be replaced by ross leavenson. stock rose 2 2% today. >>> "occupy the farm" came to an end today. police raided the encampment, arresting 9 people. the protesters took over the land on earth day last month, then started planting their own crops. where the occupiers gone, the faculty and students will plant their research crops. >>> secret operation between oakland police and u.s. marshals netted 32 felony arrests in oakland and several guns were taken off the streets. authorities believe those arrested were involved in murder, robbery and one shooting. there are still 91 felony warrants outstanding. >>> in the search for sierra lamar investigators sell us that red car they believe is involved in the disappearance was in police sights when they announced they were looking for her. kron 4's terisa estacio has more. >> reporter: working over time, examining every inch of the jetta in the search for

shareholder is trying to remove thompson. >>> b.a.r.t. is back on track with 410 next generation railcars. canadian-based firm bombardier will fill the order. many protesting against the contract, saying bombardier doesn't use enough american workers and suppliers. executives with the company say a majority of the trains' parts will be american made and all of the cars will be assembled here. >> is that real? >> either the mother or the child is not letting go. >> reaction to a magazine cover that's hitting home with some and striking a nerve with others. tonight, the image that has some mothers saying, it it's about time. >>> and millions of dollars in stimulus money given to the bay area's biggest companies. tonight our investigative unit finds out what taxpayers really paid for and who it really helped. >>> not a dry eye in the house. the homecoming surprise one marine never knew was coming. >>> good evening. i'm jeff ranieri in the weather center. warm today, still a cooling sea breeze for some, but here we go again, temperatures on t

i don't know what scott thompson was doing.ographical error. >> you said something interesting, scott thompson is 54 years old. most people who are internet savvy, you would think the ceo of yahoo! is, would know you can find out the real information on anybody for no money. >> why would you have to embellish a degree, when steve jobs dropped out. >> accounting degree is not a silly degree. >> he's got a track record and he ran paypal. the take-home advice to me is everyone screen your resume especially if you're trying to get a new job. for $10 on the internet everyone can find out anything about your academic history. >> and when you're young and savvy and got a good product that the degree doesn't necessarily matter as much. >> best of luck to him and his family as he begins treatment for tie 'roid cancer. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> ahead on "early start," "newsweek" magazine creating a stir with this week's cover calling barack obama the first gay president. stay with us. e announcer ] nature valley granola bars,

marianne thompson. >> jason carol, thanks so much.ef operating officer of the columbus zoo where the animals had been kept until today. so is that the case, what jason just said? there really was no choice? these five animals had to be returned to the owner. >> unfortunately, that is correct. the columbus zoo and aquarium acted as a resource for the state, and when the state enacted a quarantine order, they were placed in separate areas so our veterinarians and the state veterinarian could keep an eye on them. >> what kind of condition are they in? >> now that the state -- they left the columbus zoo and aquarium in perfect condition, and now returned to marianne thompson's farm. >> what kind of concerns do you have now? >> there's many concerns. i was there on october 19th, and i saw the horrible conditions. this is no place for any animal, let alone any type of restricted species or dangerous wild animal. in addition, the leopards are a breeding pair. while they were at the columbus sdwloo and aquarium, they were separated for quaran

the company's official filings state thompson has a degree in computer science, a degree thompson now admits he never received. he took over as ceo in january of this year. shareholders have sent a letter to the board calling it unethical conduct and claim if yahoo! doesn't let him go, they will take legal action. >>> the partnership between google and nasa is raising some ethical questions. our investigative unit digs into moffat field's flight records to get to the bottom of that controversy. >>> just about everyone has heard of food treks. fashion treks? they are now rolling in. we'll show you the boutique on wheels that's turning heads. >>> if you missed last night's super moon, we'll have the most stunning pictures from around the bay area and the world. >>> there could be some resolution tomorrow to a high-stakes fight between two silicon valley giants, oracle and google. a federal jury in san francisco is expected to deliver at least a partial verdict in a copyright infringement trial. the 12 jurors informed the judge they have unanimously agreed on three of the four issues at

. >> tommy thompson, not what we need in the u.s.te. >> he's hoping to benefit from a three-way race that he ends up taking on and becoming the alternative along with mark newman. now, this all shakes up well for congresswoman baldwin. remember, thompson, newman will have to fight it out for another four months before voters go to the polls. baldwin is already outraising more than the two of them. in 1998, congresswoman balanced baldwin became the first openly gay as a nonincumbent. if she ends up facing mark newman, gay rights could become an issue. back in 1997, newman said the gay and lesbian lifestyle is not accepted and would never hire a gay person for fear that they would try to promote their agenda. the president's announcement was personally gratifying. she says these are values i share and that we all share and that i take pride in the president's recognition today comes not just at a deeply personal level but also because he has done the right thing for so many people. i am pleased that the president has today joined a gro

this is after thompson was accused of lying on his resonator. he blames a job hunting firm in chicago for that area. this person will serve as yahoo is fourth see ito. >> you cannot have a ceo end -- in this position that has falsified his background. it would raining many questions up as far as his ethics parent >> setback for yahoo. the top executives from chase are expected to resign in the wake of the $2 billion trading loss. see no jamie diamond says that they will have tighter regulations and chase stock plummeted on friday. >>mark: gov. jerry brown will lay out the plans that of the revised state spending plan today. day -- the budget is down an additional 7 billion from january. the governor glances on the economy and the housing market. he says education will likely take a major hit. public schools will have to shorten their school year for up to three weeks and college students will probably have to pay more for their degree. >> it will really affect my family's ability to pay for not just my education bomb isoprenes education i have a

the remaining are going back to thompson's care.ub is the chief operating officer of the columbus zoo and is outfront tonight. tom win appreciate your taking the time, coming on the show. obviously you've had these animals at your zoo for the past few months. are you opposed to having them returned? >> well, i was also there during the tragedy at the thompson farm on october 19th, and what i witnessed as their holding facility inside the house, as well as outside, was horrific. so i am opposed to having these animals leave the columbus zoo and aquarium and go to such conditions. >> and i'm a little bit confused, because i know at the time, there was -- people were shocked around the country that this could have happened. that these animals could be not just kept in what you describe and others described as bad conditions, but just that you would have animals like this at someone's home. and my understanding was, the law had changed. obviously not? >> well, they're in the process -- unfortunately, ohio is one of only a few states tha