s transbay tunnel, george lucas gained access to film the climate of 8:00. not everyone is what it seems in san francisco movies. and it seems no two film makers can agree on what kind of city it is. >> this is my town. san francisco. >> what a mess is that? >> bob shaw for channel 2 stphuz when we come back on a second look, woody alan tells bob shaw how his ambitions have changed. >>> woody allen is shooting parts of his next movie right here in the bay area. bob shaw talks with allen about film making and how his own aspirationses have changed. >> out of all your movies did any of them hit dead on what you were supposed to do when you set out to do them. >> close, there were a few that were close. husbands and wife was very close to what i wanted to do. purposed rose of cairo was very close and seluck was very close. the others were not as close. i mean some of them you know came out okay, but they weren't as close to what i had in mind. maybe if i had achieved exactly what i had in mind they might have been better or worse, not as enjoyable to people. >>

george lucas. >> hi. how are you?101. >> your training in the military is exactly the training you need. >> reporter: it was a face-to-face encounter with film history. r2-d2, han solo. and darth vader. >> it wasn't done as a trilogy. it was done as one movie. the script was 250 pages. i cut it in three and it was a sequel. >> reporter: while george lucas taught him how to write it. his team at lucas film taught him how to make it. >> amazing george lucas would take time out to talk to me, just because i am a veteran was fantastic. >> reporter: hank, one of hundreds of thousands of veterans coming home, is getting a chance to learn from a master. just like in the movies. >> the force will be with you always. >> reporter: the relationship will go on. >> a pleasure. >> reporter: bob woodruff, skywalker ranch, california. >> i love that. >> george is a good moviemaker. and a good guy as well. >> exactly. >> more from a >>> this morning on "world news now" -- gas prices. burning a hole in your wallet. >> why problems here

the script was like 350 pages. >> while george lucas taught him how to write it his team at lucas filmw to make it. >> amazeing that george lucas would take the time out of his day to talk to me just because i was a veteran. it was fantastic. >> hank one of hundreds of thousands of veterans coming home is getting chance to learn from a master and just like in the movies. >> the force will be with you always. >> the relationship will go on. >> a pleasure to meet you. >>> just ahead, temperatures are expected to hit triple digits. spencer back with an update on the forecast. [ byer ] jason bourne was the tip of the iceberg. what are you gonna do? ♪ [ cross ] i'm gonna finish what he started. who is he? [ dita ] it's aaron cross. consider the magnitude of what we're facing. ♪ withdraw your team. do not try to take him. aaron! you okay? let's go. [ male announcer ] "the bourne legacy." rated pg-13. >>> a utah sheriff sergeant had a day he won't forget. he was called in to help a moose struggling in a swing set. before he approached with a air of bolt cutters he gave the home owner h his ce

i cut it in three pages and it was a sequel. >> reporter: while george lucas taught him how to writeught him how to make it. >> amazing george lucas would take time out to talk to me, because i am a veteran was fantastic. >> reporter: hank one of hundreds of thousands of veterans coming home is getting a chance to learn from a master. just like in the movies. >> the force will be with you always. >> reporter: the relationship will go on. >> a pleasure. >> reporter: bob woodruff, skywalker ranch, california. >> i love that. >> george is a good >>> this morning on "world news now" -- gas prices. burning a hole in your wallet. >> why problems here at home, not in the middle east are sending prices soaring. it's thursday, august 9th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> good morning, i'm sunny hostin in for paula faris. >> i'm rob nelson. in a moment we'll see what is really behind this season of soaring gas prices. it was going down for a while. we had a nice multi-week's stretch. and here we go again. >> i filled my tank yesterday. it was scary. >> i know. i know.

george lucas. >> i have some questions for you if you don't mind. >> reporter: movie making 101. >> youring in the military is exactly the training you'll need. >> reporter: it is face to face encounter with film history, r2d2, han solo and darth vader. >> it wasn't done as a trilogy. it was really done as one movie. the script was like 250 pages so i cut it in three pieces and then it became a sequel. >> reporter: and while lucas taught him how to write it, his team at lucas film taught him how to make it. >> it's amazing george lucas would take that time out of his day to talk to me just because i was a veteran. it's fantastic. >> reporter: hank, one of thousands of veterans coming home, is getting a chance to learn from a master. and just like in the movies -- >> the force will be with you always. >> reporter: the relationship will go on. bob woodruff, abc news, at skywalker ranch in california. >> and if any of you would like to see more behind the scenes at the skywalker ranch, you can go to abcnews.com. thank you for watching tonight. i'll see you tomorrow on "gma." captioned by cl

the property is owned by george lucas.e made headlines earlier this year and proposed developing affordable housing instead. the facility would have created hundred ofp jobs and millions of dollars in revenues. >>> the had -- hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue us. >>> this beautiful turtle is the largest in the world. it measures up to 9 feet long and weighs more than 1200 pounds. >> if you live in the south bay, listen up. we're gonna go to sal. hey, sal. >> if you are in a santa clara commuter, we have a live picture of it for you, it looks re-- it looks pretty good. but the traffic isn't all that bad not only that but not on the morning commute is okay here in the bay bridge toll plaza. about a 15 to 20-minute delay. but nope it's still very slow. it's getting better. but 580 into. the roads okay. let's go to rosemary. >>> a little cool in the mona valley. upper 40s -- sonoma valley. upper 40s to 50. lye by noontime, 60s, widespread inland. low to mid to upper 70s near livermore and concord and then for

or george lucas saying, "star wars" was written by a wookie. this is what they do.gratulations, obama. you did build this! >> dana: yesterday you could see plausible deniable, especially working in the white house. but when you see the conference call, would you have had a sharp intake of breath if you saw this would blow up in your face? >> so much coordination between using someone in both places. let me say what you just drew there, i could take any of the mitt romney campaign independent expenditure committees and draw the same thing. they have people -- >> eric: i'm not sure you can. >> bob: at cross roads you can. >> eric: you can't. if you use karl rove or anyone at crossroads, mitt romney didn't, they didn't work together. romney does work for bush. >> bob: the largest group working on behalf of romney is the independent committee has shares, the guys who runs the thing, used to work on the romney campaign. there is a connection. we are naive if they're not coordinated at some level. >> dana: but they said they didn't know anything. if you were in a court of

the properties owned by filmmaker george lucas. he made headlines when he withdrew plans for a production facility and opposed developing affordable housing instead. the facility would have created hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue. >> may be a little down but not out yet. hundreds of little leaguers will be filling out the movie theater to watch their team play in the little league world series. >>> the movie theater boulevard 14 packed yesterday watching second game of the world series. it was close but they did lose to a team from tennessee. but it's not over yet. because the world series is a double elimination. >> close game for a long time. and we will look forward to this next one. we're a believer. we think they have a good chance still. >> they will play a team from new jersey. that's at 1:00 today. the boulevard 14 movie theater will be showing the game. tickets are $10. the money all goes to the little league. >> we're all on that bandwagon. let's check in with sal. >> starting in san jose northboun

voy a platicar cÓmo se hacen efectos especiales en las pelÍculas y me traslado É a estudios de george lucaslos efectos visuales de innumerables cintas y entre los artistas que aquÍ trabajan, los hispanos tambiÉn decimos presente. >> los hispanos tienen un sentido cultural que es mÁs amplio que estos artistas, asÍ que los invitamos que vengan a trabajar para george lucas. >> perfecto ¿dÓnde firmo yo?. >> (risas). >> cintas como avatar, juhan si producida en estos estudios que les han dado 16 premios oscar. >> y los efectos visuales no estamos pensando en los oscar y nada mÁs en la innovaciÓn y contar una historia que sea buena. >> pero por supuestos que los oscares son importantes tambiÉn. >> actores pudieran llegar a tener miedo que se queden sin trabajo porque todo es digital. >> las conversaciones de este tipo no sÉ hace 5 o 10 aÑos porque empezaban a salir los primeros humanos, y lo que es una buena interpretaciÓn no la puede hacer mÁs que un humano. >> escenas como esta de la cinta battle chip, y posteriormente se traen a este lugar donde se trabaja en ellas utilizando la mÁs alta tecno

first up, "american graffiti," putting george lucas on the map as a director. nights, the theme," stars with great actors. then there is bill mur ne"meatballs," the summer camp epic, his first starring role, right there. he is a riot. finally, "lifeguard," with sam elliot. an excellent look at the southern california beach culture. this is for adults. i really like that movie. check them out. the factor tip of the day. >> hollywood, this is business, not personal! >> indeed, business not personal. that's it for us tonight. check outer the fox news factor web site. we would like to you spout off about the factor from anywhere in the world. name and town if you wish to opine. word of the day, no prevericating. so good. when writing to the factor. let's put up the touts for the clothes. i want everybody to take a look because i know i am going to get mail about wearing

the tract is owned by george lucas and in april lucas pulled the plug on a proposed compound over complaintsneighbors about the environmental impact. >> the jury in the apple/samsung case could reach a verdict this week. >> they will have plenty to play with. >> right. good morning. lawyers say they will provide jurors with dozens of cell phones to play with and examine as they come up with a decision, did samsung copy apple's iphone and ipad? final arguments should come tuesday in san jose. the jury should get the case by wednesday. apple wants $2.5 billion in damages. the judge in the case has hinted apple will not get it. >> also this week we'll see inside the financial world of long suffering hewlett-packard on wednesday, other companies have reported slower pc sales. in fact, sad to say the most interesting thing out of hewlett-packard, explaining how layoffs are going. hp is cutting 8% of its work force. and video from stanford, engineers unleashing the latest robotic car. over the weekend students took measurements from real race car drivers in cars so they could get a better idea whe

. >> so steve jobs is a acquisition guy and picks star he bought from george lucas, the underlying business of picks star he bought from somebody else that is hot to say he is not inventive but at some point maybe they would consider doing other things with the money. >> rose: i think he only paid ten idea. >> it was it was a very cheap deal. >> he not it for a stopping. >> rose: okay. there is this question, then, what would steve do? >> well, i came up with this list and by the way -- >> it is sort of speculative, sort of fun list to start thinking and pie in the sky, blue sky, what would you do with all of this money? i think that steve jobs would probably hold on to that money until he could find one or two big target, parks and by the way before his death in 2011 he talked about using that cash for the day that some great opportunity came their way, so the question is. >> rose: like google? >> the question is, when a great opportunity comes their way. and i think that at some level now steve of. that steve jobs is no longer there the company is in a bit of a crossroads, never continuin

has become the go-to device for thrill seekers, dozens of tv adventure shows and even filmmaker george lucas not fit. >> analysts estimate the company based in half-moon bay, california, sold 800,000 cameras last year taking in $250 million. go pro gets almost all of its marketing material for free because its customers upload a new video sto facebook and you-tube every two minutes. this foot anl of a mountain biker taken down by an african gazelle has been watched 13 million times. it even found its way inside a shark's mouth and he snapped a go pro for the birth of his son. >> without you-tube, without facebook, does this work as well? >> no. if you're a great skier and you go around telling everybody how great you are, you're kind of a tool. but if you have a great day out on the mountain, create a go pro video about it, people look at it and say wow, you rip. now they know more about you. >> to know more about nick, all you have to do is rig his new porsche race car. with about a dozen cameras. >> we've got a lot of them. >> and then put another one on us. >> look how tiny this is and ho

a friend brought them out to jersey luke is to meet some of george lucas' people. lucas was getting rid of their software and hardware decision he had. steve thought that was really cool. he thought he could make consumers. this digital rendering. i never really took off. but there was one guy working there in charge of making sure it to show off how cool the machines were named john lasseter. he made a couple of shorts with a laxer lamp and one called tin toy and the rest, as they say, is biography if not history. eventually leads to toy story. so pixar becomes the main thing in the business. >> he says something profound in the book about that period, which is the strain that running pixar and next simultaneously put on him physically. and even says i think that's something to do with my eventually getting cancer. >> i don't think that the case. i don't think you get cancer from working hard for stress. but he felt that way and he felt there was great stress. he was driving up to pixar. he was handling. and then of course when it goes back to apple he is juggling

that includes the likes of george lucas and steven spielberg. our guest joins us in part to launch his latest series which began airing last night on pbs. i hope you had an opportunity to see it. like all work highlighting pivotal years in american history like all of his work, this three part series examines the rise and fall of the eighteenth amendment to the u.s. constitution. the season title "prohibition". our guest has a history, called history at table around which americans can all have a civil conversation. with the release of his "prohibition" series this veteran film maker is taking the opportunity to call for a new dan national discourse on stability and democracy. particularly relevant as "prohibition" airs in the midst of this heated prohibition campaign season when the absence of civil discussion is causing distress. with the prolific record of film innovation and documentary work his films have won 12 many awards and two academy award nominations. among numerous accolades our guest is the recipient of the academy of television ar

of 80s fog on the increase it remains a tropical spinoff of kabul san lucas and might filter by the end of the weekend. >>> george zimmerman's troubles in the spotlight, why his attorney wants a new judge. >> plus how republicans are rallying behind the running mate after a not so favorable pole. >>> and a key test for an experimental aircraft that is designed for speed. . >>> right now police are investigating an officer involved shooting, this story is happening in northeast modesto, he rammed an suv into a home and the suspect was then shot by police and no officers were hurt and we will bring you more information on the shooting as it comes into our newsroom. >>> george zimmerman's defense fund is dippedelling and the attorneys will consider asking for help. he was charged with the shooting death of trayvon martin he is out on bail and saying in sent not county -- sent not county. >> his defense fund is not doing well. we are close to 50,000 and 20,000 is due out in bills. the money is not coming in that strongly and as we move forward we will have to consider incidents i for mr. zimmerman. >> he claims the c