murphy's office in las vegas was the model for "c.s.i.," and he was the only coroner the national academy of sciencesited to testify. the national academy of science's study, you contributed testimony to it. >> yes, sir. >> bergman: you support its recommendations? >> not in its entirety. >> bergman: what do you object to? >> i guess one of the things i'd have to say is the elimination of the coroner office, per you know, it was a pretty broad stroke. can you do it with a nuclear approach? >> bergman: "a nuclear approach." they... they want to blow the whole thing up? >> i think they want to say, "wipe all this out and go this direction." and i'm going to tell you that... i think there's a chinese proverb that says, "be careful what you ask for." i don't think the system could... could function without the coroners at this particular time. the first thing you're going to have to do is make sure you have enough forensic pathologists. and if you don't have that, i think the system would... would start to crumble. there's a... a huge demand, and there's very little supply. >> bergman: it would take at l

moscow a limited physical institute of the academy of sciences the employees of the institute were the only people allowed to visit sacro and the city of gorky. his colleagues kept in touch with him during the whole seven year exile despite the difficulties such actions could bring them. when andre sucker of was in exile we did our best to preserve his office your rule nobody's of his place at the table signed bearing his name was still hung on the door that was attached to me in a side of the door and we separated by the wall guarded the sign. no official soviet establishment supposed to enforce law has taken responsibility for the fact of my deportation it is only up to a court to establish either someone's innocence or to determine the measure of punishment and a term of imprisonment my case is glaring unlawfulness. meanwhile in gold key all a sacrifice and bonus the tensional contacts were under k.g.b. surveillance. when the academic arrived in the city even the manager of the local pharmacy was specially instructed by the k.g.b. on how to behave should sack of suddenly show up i w

soon set or of was elected to the supreme council as a delegate from the academy of sciences which in june one thousand nine hundred nine sacro found himself at the center of a scandal that flared up in the first days of the session he had condemned the situation concerning the soviet troops in afghanistan it read out that on the war in afghanistan was a crime to be nuclear but a great wrong in itself. and it's not clear who should be held responsible for this great wrong country. his statements were judged offensive by the offices who had foreseen that war themselves one of such close nine opponents has made just silly gay children a piece a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war he didn't look at it we're very shocked by the provocative behavior of this famous scientists told ya know. today sergey lives in kiev and is head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that secular of was to go of all interesting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. powerful generally speaking apart from being a great physicist

a behind-the-scenes at the california academy of sciences as they prepare for a summer of slither!announcer ] most women in america aren't getting the calcium they need. but yoplait wants to change that. only yoplait original has twice the calcium of the leading yogurt. that's 50% of the daily value ♪ so pass on the news and we can help close this calcium gap together. to get you started, we're giving away a million free cups at yoplait dot com. the yoplait you love, now in a 4-pack. try it today. >> welcome back, everyone. on this saturday morning at 6:38. low lying clouds and the camera is shaking and jostling a little bit. i'm not the expert. so let's let the expert handle the weather forecast and check in with meteorologist lisa argen. >> you know what? we felt a little bit day to day the changes and today even bigger changes and by tomorrow, even maybe some showers around. you can see the low cloudiness here so ushered in a gusty westerly wind. low clouds across the bay this morning and as a result, temperatures are cooler. it's gusty in spots as well. 49 in san jose with 51 i

of science has some upcoming free days. may 13, 14 and 15 will be free for families in zip codes 94127, 94131 and 9413 and families can look that up on the academy of science website. president mendoza: thank you. i attended the district four, district seven budget town hall. i'm not attending fun stuff like you guys. but it's been really great that the mayor and supervisors have been including the school district in that discussion and i know that others have been going to the district meetings and there are a couple more left and then we also attended their rec and park egg hunt that they had for 4,500 students and many of our students actually performed onstage as part of the entertainment. and we got to be part of the rib cookoff which was really fun and then we attended a really great event last night held by mo-magic and they were celebrating, it was their fourth year and it was just a really wonderful event to see our students performing and to see so many community members in the western edition come out and support their efforts. that was great. >> rosa parks school community invited me to be on their v.i.p. cable car in which i did. an

there were a number of events that continue tonight out in golden gate park at the california academy of sciences and, of course, the closing festivities tomorrow night at city hall, and as i'm sure mike martin can attest, city hall is looking very -- i don't know. what would you call that? again, hopefully, the weather will improve. it is looking very tropical over there at city hall. an oxymoron, but nonetheless, it looks very cool. the pow wow is expected to generate more than $250 million in tourism. it is considered the biggest tourist event possible. i know it has brought in a lot of work for a lot of people, and we were honored and privileged to participate, so we are really happy about that. lastly, i just had a request. if we could adjourn today in memory of aurora, a port employees who recently passed at the very young age of 61. she retired after 26 years, the last 10 of which she was here at the port, and unfortunately, we lost her rather soon, so if we could, i'd love to adjourn in her honor. >> thank you. that is really exciting. i am planning on attending the closing tomorrow night

it turns out after it spent a lot of time working in the archives of the academy of science and looking at the manuscript minutes of the secret experiments is that they were reusing their dogs. so in many of the experiments the dogs had a third variable had previous exposure. well, the french determined their experiments failed, that the english would of course lawyers and they were happy about that. but at the same time, and this is the focus of my work and the focus of my book, a fascinating character trained in the south of france in a competing school, the university is a competing school in the 17th century to the illustrious paris faculty of medicine at the university of paris and that school was highly traditional, and if you want to practice in paris you absolutely have to get your degree of the faculty of medicine. you also have to be of a noble class, well bred, and you have to have a lot of connections. this southern french men, this of low birth, his father was an artisan trained in the rival school, but that didn't stop him from wanting to go off to paris to make a name for

. >>> a plan to manage the sacramento delta is being criticized today by the academy of sciences. $150million has been spent on the delta conservation plan. it is supposed to balance wildlife habitat against the state's water needs. the academy says the plan is incomplete. it is critical on a proposal to build a canal to carry water to southern california. >>> this truck backing up through the american river is carrying what the game and fish department hopes will be a renewed salmon population. its hoped they will make their way to the bay and through the golden gate and return three years later to return to the sacramento river later. >>> we are close in on the weekend. the weather looks good. not at hot as today or yesterday. lots of upper 70 #-s but it's still a nice day. we -- lots of upper 70s but it's still a nice day. we look at the current temperature, see the greens along the coast the light yellows. that's the cooling in for us for those on shore winds. they filter into san francisco and into san rafael. you're seeing mild temperature, 72 right now. you still have your heat in the

it turns out after i spent a lot of time working in the archives of the academy of sciences, and lookinghe manuscript minutes of these secret experiments, is that they were using their dogs. so many of the experiment the dogs have had the third grade had already had previous exposure. the french determined that their experiments failed, that the english were of course lawyers. and they're happy about that. but at the same time and this is the focus of my work and the focus of my book, a fascinating character trained in the south of france ended a competing school, the university is a competing school in a 17th century to the illustrious paris faculty of medicine and the university of paris. and that school is highly traditional. and if you want to practice in pairs, you actually have to get your degree at the faculty of medicine. you also have to be of a noble class, well bred, and jeff have lots of connection. visit southern frenchmen of low birth, his father was an artisan, trained in the rival school, but that didn't stop him wanting to go up to paris to make a name for himself. what'

to the right will beat the conservatory of flowers and you go past the museum and the academy of science one to run the park and on your left will be the polo fields and that is the lake on the right. now you take a right- hand turn, go past the golf course and just pass the 1 million make a hard left hand turn on to the great highway and right there is the finish line to bay to breakers. one thing i want to mention is there are several water stations and first-aid stations along the course. if you need a drink and our need help you will be able to find those of every other mile. also there are 1200 back and spread throughout the course. the consensus go, charles kron 4 news. your >>pam: could see the street closures indicated on the map, all streets will be rolling closures but most it said near the end should be reopened by noon. how were street will be open by 10:00 a.m.. local transit agencies will accommodate bay to breakers participants. muni has pre raise service available starting at 4:45 a.m., cow train is running for train starting after 5:00 a.m.. special trips are also planne

. >> and behind the scenes in the california academy of sciences. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> the push to ban the sale of shark fince has a celebrity endorse someone expected to influence the public community in the chinese community. >> houston rocket center yao ming is a superstar on and off of the court in the chinese community. people pay attention when he makes public service announcements like the one in san francisco. >> it is the second in a series of psas for the shanghai born ming. it is the practice of cutting off shark fins to use them in a soup. ming joined with the wild aid and promising he will never eat it again and urging others to do it again. >> if you would see how sharks are killed . >> but an expert in the chinese historical society said the soup is a delicacy . proposed ban chips away at tradition. >> this is one of the dozens of little things that people use to erode someone's cultural identity. >> it is a asian-american who is co-authoring the legislation to ban the sale of shark fins. >> a culture giving up a soup is minor co

the museum and the academy of sciences and so many other institutions. but also, a lot of community arts centers. there is all these community arts space is that i just love, and it makes our neighborhoods a much more colorful and livable as well. >> what motivated your interest in politics? >> i guess i have always been passionate about civil rights and equality for everyone, and i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality and other issues, but i guess i have always been someone that is vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, and having to listen to many perspectives before making key decisions. as an activist in chinatown, i have always felt that working families and people who work in our neighborhoods need to have much more support. it is always about giving more voice to immigrants or the underserved and workers in the city. that is what drives my passion as a supervisor. >> tell me about the process of running for supervisor. what did you learn from the campaign process? was anything surpr

finer exhibits and finer venues when you join our san francisco international airport and our academy of sciences at their venue. i want to say, though, please keep coming back to san francisco. we enjoy preparing ourselves, we enjoy the hospitality that we provide for you, and we want to make sure that the over 70,000 business appointments are very productive for you. and i want to say to you, too, that we've got other events coming up. we're expanding our mosconi center. we have a brand-new airport that we've just opened up, terminal two. we have a lot of things going on that will continue making our city inviting to you. and ultimately if you will join me in 2013 as we host the america's cup, we would

overwhelming vast maturity absolutely most of the scientific societies around the world national academies of sciences the intergovernmental panel on climate change all the leading experts of the world they get together and make scientific statements about climate change they all agree that climate change is real it's unequivocal and they're very worried about the lack of action on the parts of weaning ourselves off of fossil fuel these guys have been able to delay action on climate change for two decades all along making billions and billions of dollars in dirty energy according to pay our man and author jim hogan the success of this occur china has nothing to do with science and everything to to spin it was a media campaign they wanted to create doubt in the minds of journalists they wanted to create doubt in the minds of the public your average person will never know they just see some articulate guy and even be a scientist basically being shills for industry people like fred singer he was a guy who worked for tobacco now works on climate change but because they're wearing a lab coat and they have

they come to the academy of sciences, etc., to -- and sometimes they eat in the neighborhood. the recent exhibit drew large crowds into the neighborhood as did the egyptian exhibit. in general these people are, let's say, not aware of the urban situation. the second group comes from ucsf. patients come from all over northern california, oregon, nevada, south america, africa and the middle east. i'm often asked where is the emergency room. my husband's wife's son is having an emergency surgery, where can i park? when i see people who are very stressed standing in the neighborhood and i ask them, can i help you? one woman said, my child is having an eight-hour surgery, i thought i'd walk around the neighborhood. and try passing the time. she's not alone. i've heard these things many times. the relatives of patients come down into the ninth and irsyringe area to take a break from the hospital room. these people are stressed themplet really stressed -- stressed. they are really stressed. so how will your proposed student population interact with these people? how will you handle th

defined by reasonably good or not reasonably good science have been published by the american academy of science. well i've just approach this from a tax perspective the real concern here is that. legalisation of marijuana will cost the taxpayer an awful lot more than the benefits we receive and i'll give you an actual case in point there's presently i believe twenty states with a marijuana tax stamp and so far over the past twenty years not a single state or municipality has collected one thin dime of voluntary marijuana tax and the argument is people will say i never paid tax on this before why should i now it allows for a black marketeers to come in under cut the market additional. that was the argument was i mean it's against that was the argument was made against not having taxes on things over the internet i mean if the us very true i'd have said that's still a very contentious issue right now it is delusional people have not been named taxes because they're illegal companies there's no provision in state law to get in taxes . well be that as it may you're still allowed to pay the taxes yo

this is from the proceedings of the national academy of sciences. the reason i bring up fracking fracking is a way of extracting gas and other fossil fuel lot of the out of the year out of the ground out of the soil france today said no more fracking we're not going to do this these are active fracking was fracking is where you inject enormous amounts of chemical soup toxic chemicals into the ground under high pressure and it cracks up the soil these are active fracking wells these are inactive for old dead fracking well and this vertical axis these red dots are the well this is the amount of methane in in the water in the wells nearby this area is the action level for hazard from the u.s. department of interior so anything above this is like deadly dangerous deadly stuff so so what we have here is we're creating dangerous deadly stuff i mean if you've seen the movie gasland for example here's here's a clip from the movie gas land where they're talking about what happens when fracking comes to town. and the gas drilling they use is called hydraulic f

. >> a new exhibit at california academy of sciences is just for you. g star of the exhibit is a 15 foot long python. his name is lemon drop. you can see why the name. he is missing the dark pigment that would help him hide in natural environment and better off in a secure cage that keeps him safe from people. >> we are trying to create a connection that people that view the exhibit and animals and their wild spaces. >> the summer of slither features 60 other snakes and lizards on loan from the zoo in new york. if they were placed end to end they would stretch the length of a football field. go to abc7news.com and click on see it on tv. >> 5:25. next at 5:30. why pg&e are telling residents in mountain view and antioch not to panic if they smell natural gas this morning. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live at san francisco international airport. it was terrifying but was it terrorism aboard inbound flight last night when a passenger rushed the cockpit door and had to be restrained. the story coming up in a live report. >> i feel terrible for what i did. >> also a

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the bay area is getting 60 new residents at the california academy of sciences in san francisco. w exhibit called the summer of slither, wi show kaz a vaerlt of lizards and snakes. some are a 15-foot albino python named lemon drop and a lizard that can walk on water. the exhibit opens on may 9th a few days from now and runs through september 5th. >> hopefully they have credit cards in good standing, or they're not getting out. brett joins us now to tell us what's coming up at 7:00. >> also experts from san francisco look at what the arab world is saying about the death of bin laden. also, special look at carlos santana and george lopez coming to the bay area. >> sounds fun. >> you're new 7:00 newscast on comcast digit 186. we'll see you.

for prominence you have any victors on thealso battlefield but also scions.nc so the french academy of science start to do these experiments hopefully to determine the english were wrong and they did not work. i had to figure out how did the english has such great success and the french did not? how could they do this with animals? ibl we have -- they have pled types more than humans and don't know anything about anesthesia how is it they could survive? there were three variables part of the first is how fast the blood goes in and how muchst and third if there is previous exposure.. very likely not a lot of b blood got into the animals to begin with because they were using rudimentary systems for a transfusion. the first among animals was done with goose quills to jam the answer to quell the was wrapped around other quells with twine and connect that way. been no the blood did not move very fast and many times clots in whed n it went through the goose quills. why did the french experiment failed? it turns out after i spend time working in the archives and looking at the manuscript minutes of t

the 14 grand challenges of engineering in the 21st century the vet check best of the national academy of science headset. they included solar power link, used nuclear fuel, advanced biofuels, rain buildings and even fusion. now, and you were a part dr. chu of the national academies effort to say to congress what we should do to help our country be more competitive and recall that the america competes. based upon your report. you have moved to -- in several areas and in your request you want to form more. i would like to indicate my broad agreement with that sort of strategy and work with you to find ways, even in this tight budget situation, to find, to prioritize spending and find more money for clean energy research. or example, my colleagues have talked this week about subsidies for energy for big oil. if we are going to do that i think we should talk about all subsidies. i suggested on the floor this morning we might talk about big wind. the taxpayers on the hook for $27 billion over the next 10 years to subsidize windmills which is more money than we would save if we cut out the tax breaks

present plans 1991 white house meeting on day crimes and recently convened by the national academy of sciencesport on the health of sexual, day, and bisexual people. these are detailed. my written statement details the findings of social science will there's -- research related to school violence. to put that research in context it also discusses current knowledge of sexual orientation and stigma. in my oral statement i will briefly summarize the material. sexual orientation is commonly used to refer to an enduring pattern of sexual romantic a pattern of males or females are both sexes. also used to refer to an individual's sense of identity, his or her patterns of behavior is expressing them, and his or her in the community of others to share them. all the sexual orientation ranges along a continuum, it is usually discussed in terms of three categories. in terms lesbian and gay, commonly used. the mental health professions have long recognized that, such shoddy is in normal expression of human sexuality and there is no inherent linkage between sexual orientation and the person's mental health

the national academy of science says the plan is incomplete.the proposal is to build a 45-mile canal. >>> we're waiting to hear back from pg&e on repair work on a broken gas line. a gas broke was reported on oak park boulevard between stevenson drive and keith circle. crews have been working since then. pg&e said they would be finished by 5:30 at the earliest. the gas leak prompted a shelter in plaissments neighbors were warned to stay inside until the order was lifted. gas service in the area was not affected. >>> a judge may decide today if a suspected serial killer will be allowed to represent himself at a murder trial. the judge delayed the ruling so joseph naso could pete with a public offender. he said he doesn't need a lawyer because he knows his case better than anyone else and that defense attorneys are too exspean spi. prosecutors say naso, accused of killing four northern california women have or than a million dollars in assets. >>> a judge will died whether the city can empose tough restrictions on dozens of suspected gang members.

he's been the first minority elected chairman of the board of national academy of television arts and sciences in 1984. he's an emmy award winner of course. but more importantly, i think, is that he's used his position all these years and also as a member. asian-american journalists to promote others. that's really to me the key to success. when you get to a position of dignified contribution, you then open the doors for others. that's what i continue to aspire to in this position. so i want to thank the judges for putting forth david louie as a finalist. for janana hero. we've grown up with jan. evening magazine from the mid 1970's to the 1990's, all. great wonderful shows that she's sponsored, pacific fusion and others. and you know jan is all around the bay area. all around the san francisco communities. she's helped us on engagement with our public and helping us dialogue with a difficult -- with difficult topics and being moderator or immediate -- mediator and hosted so many nonprofits and being there for every important fundraiser like the ones we've had with kristi yamaguchi and always

the conservatory flowers, the young museum the academy of sciences. d then the polo field and that is a struggle slakstrilces >> after the crastriclke course, and golf coure, windmill and 1200 bathrooms, and penty of water sopts. >> marty: download the free app, and find photo tab. of all the pictures and there will be on a or website, and also for facebook and page. the top five will receive a $50 gift certificate. if you do not have a smart phone? you can upload from a website. we havewe will have live coverage of the zazzle bay to breakers 100th running bay to breakers. pam moore and - with cameras set up all along the race. don't miss morning, on kron4. atm and then a encore 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night. at 8:00 a.m., kron 4 tomorrow coverage of the race. when we return, your full forecast. overcast, with rain expected. we will be right back. [ coach ] in albuquerque, citi pre-approved my mortgage. [ whistle blows ] all right, layups, guys. let's go. in sioux falls, i locked in a rate. coach, you get that house yet? working on it. [ coach ] the apprais