. >> this piece is on angel island. the angel island immigration station where chinese and otherim grants were detained and interrogated from 1910 to 1940 before they were allowed into america. many adopted false identities in order to escape this strict act. our morning strolls to mountain lake park my wife of 50 years stays a step behind. she needs my arm for balance but avoids my touch. she counts the 10 sign posts. 5 stop signs and 2 mailboxes to our destination. she moves her lips as if remembering. before i came here, i had a name. 4 palm trees faced us when we landed loomed like guardians to pass the golden gate we tell them what they wanted to hear. on this island of desperate dreams we shed our skins and wore new once. we burned our parents name and let our past curl into smoke. no longer my father's daughter. no longer my husband's wife. only the sea gulls know who i really am. for months we were held in separate rooms the dampness went through the bunks and gnawed our bones the wales of ghosts kept us awake.

this was also interesting in that you can see alcatraz and angel island at beyond, which of course are the natural peaks of the underground mountains in the bay. so this slide wraps up a lot of conditions. >> is this back on the docks? >> no, these walls were designed as gravity walls. they had the 1 inch steel rod at the top, and a 1 inch rod that went from the wall to the middle of the street. they had a big blob of concrete that went from the wall, the rod, and then the block of concrete. if the wall tried to move, it would engage the rod, which would engage the block of concrete. these were built as gravity walls. they're very, very wide at the base. gosh, some of them are six, eight, 10 feet wide, and they are like dams. they are faced with basalt blocks that came from the quarries in marin county. they have performed very well. the classic gravity wall. there is enough friction along the base, and there is a slope on the backside, so there is enough weight pushing down on the wall that keeps it from moving. >> this is on broadway, along rage and russian hill. >> that is a complet

the couple had been drinking heavily on a luxury lot on the islands near los angeles with christopher walken. she went overboard. her body and arms were bruised and she had a cut on her face. the corner said it was an accident, that she had fallen while tying up the disney. now, police have reopened the case. she had fallen while tying up be -- the captain said that he overheard the couple fighting and that robert wagner told him not to search for natalie, course we will not turn on the searchlight. -- >> we will not turn on the searchlight. >> robert wagner said that he had nothing to do with her death. "what we're thinking is that she went outside and hit her head. -- >> what we're thinking is that she went outside and hit her head. >> there were many questions unanswered. there is enough new evidence for them to open the case again. >> you only have to blunt the headlines lately to see that while the weather is wreaking havoc on many parts of the world. it could get worse. according to international climate scientists, the potential is there for unprecedented extreme weather caused

support h.r. 2422 in honor of sergeant angel mendez and designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 45 bay street in satin -- staten island, new york, as the sergeant angel mendez post office. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from maryland. mr. cummings: i yield myself such time as i may consume, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: i'm very pleased to join my colleagues in supporting h.r. 2422 and i would yield to mr. per lucy of puerto rico. five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. perriello: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to -- mr. pierluisi: thank you, mr. speaker. angel mendez who at age 20 in vietnam laid down his life for his fellow marines. sergeant mendez died far too young, but his short life was filled with greatness. with his bill, congressman grimm, a devil dog himself, honored sergeant mendez, the marine corps, and this country. the bond between new york and puerto rico is deep and strong. sergeant mendez's parents were born in puerto rico and like

we have the asian americans that came inhrough angel island. those that came the state few minutes, they were documented and were sent into the country. the asian americans, it was like a prison. they were there for days, sometimes months, sometimes years. when people left asia, they tried to send a the most educated and the healthiest. when they got to enjoy island, they were stopped. this is the beginning of racism, sexism, the wen were sent into a farm worker doing hard labor all day long. they were used as cheap labor. let's think about asian-american history in the united states of america, it is with a lot of pain that i studied this. what i think about pain, i can't think about any real strong asian american leader that can speak to the pain, address the racism and address those that have the happenings throughout the asian american history in the united states. so what i think i about -- i can't think about any political leader or any social activist, any religious leader that rarely spoke and addressed these issues, it really saddens m

island. her death was reopened. los angeles sheriff's department officials say new information led to this decision but wouldn't give any additional details. wood drowned in 1981 after night of partying with her husband robert wagner and actor christopher walken. at the time her death was ruled an accident. >>> couple stores from bart tonight. want to pass along. first gone are those smelly wool seat and vinyl coming. bart hired wisconsin company to make vinyl seat cover smell stain resist interest material the. seats are scheduled for delivery in april. more seats ordered if customers like them. >> bart still wants to provide late night service for its customers particularly on weekends. today bart board of director directed the staff to come up with a proposal for this and looks like buss are the best answer not the train. track need maintenance which of course can only be done when the tran not running. buses would be run from bart station after midnight when train service shuts down. bart would probably begin the service wh

island. her death was reopened. los angeles sheriff's department officials say new information led to this decision but wouldn't give any additional details. wood drowned in 1981 after night of partying with her husband robert wagner and actor christopher walken. at the time her death was ruled an accident. >>> couple stores from bart tonight. want to pass along. first gone are those smelly wool seat and vinyl coming. bart hired wisconsin company to make vinyl seat cover smell stain resist interest material the. seats are scheduled for delivery in april. more seats ordered if customers like them. >> bart still wants to provide late night service for its customers particularly on weekends. today bart board of director directed the staff to come up with a proposal for this and looks like buss are the best answer not the train. track need maintenance which of course can only be done when the tran not running. buses would be run from bart station after midnight when train service shuts down. bart would probably begin the service wh

island. then earlier this month, homicide detectives in los angeles announced they re-opened the investigation into woods' death based on new information. >>> new from overnight, a 1-year-old boy was shot in the head in a shooting that injured seven others in oakland california. the aparent target was not hit, and he asked many to pray for his cousin. a boy and a woman are in critical condition this morning. no word on other injuries. >>> the syracuse baseball team will play a hom game tonight. they fired bernie fines sunday after a third person came forward with abuse allegations. syracuse head coach is expected to speak publicly after tonight's game. he fiercely defended fine when the official accusations were heard, but then backed the university when a thiaccuser ca forward. >>> and the charity jerry sandusky founded is now asking supporters to support the coalition against rape. many are earning the second mile to shut down and reorganize under a different name. sandusky continues to claim that he is innocent. >>> the syracuse case and the child sex abuse scandal at penn state are prompti

island. her death was ruled an office, but the los angeles county sheriff's office announced it's taking another look at the case after receiving new information. a press conference is scheduled for tomorrow. >>> an assistant basketball coach at syracuse university put on administrative leave amid allegations of sex abuse. espn reports two men accused bernie fine of molesting them in the '80s and '90s when they were ball boys with the team. some of the abuse allegedly happened in syracuse facilities. both victims are in their 30s and are related. fine has been with the school 35 years. >>> more fallout from the penn state child sex abuse case. a pennsylvania lawyer says his client will testify that former coach jerry sandusky sexually assaulted him. the lawyer also says other accusers are coming forward. he expects to say more in the coming days. the statement comes two days after sandusky's tv interview claiming he was innocent of all the charges. sandusky's lawyer says exacts some of the alleged victims to come -- expects some of the alleged victims to come forward and deny allegations. >>> me

. >> the catalina island cove 26 mi. from los angeles. walken, natalie wood, the captain. all had been heavily drinking. >>reporter: here is what the captain said. >> out there were on the sulfite and in won a split second he said lwhat you trying to do blank my wife " >> after they've retreated to their cabin he went out to the bridge and over heard there are doing. >> it became silent. >> this is the sister of natalie wood. >> natalie was and that the water and heat and r j did nothing to paul her out and they did nothing to pull her out. and robert wagner and welcomes the investigation. >> is robert wagner a suspect? >> no. >> they are vague on what to reopen this but it is substantial enough to take a look at this case. >> catherine heenan, kron 4 news >>marty: the mthat if big game. >>ysabel: your tech report coming up. the san mateo bridge is fairly traffic-free. it looks nice. ♪ >>marty: the 114th year between uc berkeley and stanford known as the big game. it has a tradition of building a bonfire to get people in the spirit. take

island with her husband, robert wagner. now, "48 hours" and "vanity fair" have uncovered new evidence and lee cowan reports the los angeles countyriff's department reopened the case today. >> i believe that robert wagner was with her right up until the moment. >> reporter: dab necessary davern says he was there that night as the captain of the "splen dour" the yacht that carried actress natalie wood and her husband robert wagner out to sea on a thanksgiving weekend. for 30 years the story had been that wood fell overboard, no one knew how or when. but davern tells cbs' 48 hours he believes wagner did know and did little to help. i said to robert wagner "maybe i should turn on the search light" and he said "don't do that." >> reporter: the next day woods' body-- clothed in a nightgown and down jacket-- was found in the waters off ca cataa island. the coroner ruled it an accident. wagner and the captain told investigators the last time they saw wood she was below decks in her stateroom getting ready for bed. but what's different about the captain's story now is he says wagner and wopping arguing. >> yelling, things being thrown ab

the los angeles sheriff's office said this morning that new information has surfaced that is substantial enough to take another look at the case. wood drowned in 1981 off catalina island. at the time it was called an accident but questions about the circumstances persisted for decades. >> the case has been assigned to two sheriff's homicide investigators who will be following up on the additional information as well as any other additional information that may develop. >> also today the captain of the boat natalie wood and robert wagner were on said he blames wagner for woods' death. he was not specific but the times report that authorities re-opened the case based on comments by the boat captain. >>> the food and drug administration just announced the cancer drug avastin should no longer be used. they said it is causing side effects including high blood pressure, bleeding or heart failure. the agency adds there is no prove it extends patient's lives. >>> despite this new ruling it will still be used to treat colon cancer patients and certain tumors. >>> the holiday travel season is underway and sfo expects today to be its busiest day. more than 140,000 passengers are

month, actress natalie wood disappeared off a boat near catalina island in a mysterious death ruled an accidental drowning. but the los angelesoday has re-opened the case, saying people have contacted them with new information, which was substantiative. just four people were on that boat that night. wood and her husband, robert wagner, the actor christopher walken, and the boat's captain, dennis davern. david gregory is back with us to discuss the case, he's moderator of "meet the press." but this morning he had a conversation with the captain, davert who said he lied to police back then. >> sir, my question is, what happened that led to her death that we didn't know before? >> i can't answer that question right now. >> and why not? you're referring to mistakes you made. have you changed your story from when you spoke to investigators years ago? >> i did lie on a report years ago. >> and what did you lie about then? >> it was just a mis -- i made mistakes by not telling the honest truth in a police report. >> well, i know you struggled with him. you must have gone around it five or six times, just to get that information, tha

angeles, right? or you did, but -- >> no, i was born in l.a., but i moved to the cayman islands when i was young andhigh school. >> jimmy: how was island life? >> i mean -- so much better, dude. like, everything's great. [ laughter ] no snow. >> jimmy: i was hoping you'd said no. it would have been, "this is the way go, jimmy." >> no, i could cut my lunch down from a tree. like, that was my -- that was my life. >> jimmy: really? it was like "jungle book?" >> yeah, totally. i had a machete all the time. totally, totally. >> jimmy: what do you mean you had a machete all the time? >> i had, like, a machete that i sharpened every single day. i'm not even joking. >> jimmy: how old were you? >> i was like -- i moved there when i was like, 6 or 7. i was there until i was 13. >> jimmy: a 7-year-old's got a machete? >> yeah, irresponsible parenting. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, very cool. awesome. but you would just go and hunt for your food like "survivor"? >> yeah, i mean, i wouldn't like, kill animals, but, like, i'd chop down a coconut or papaya or whatever. >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. >> jimmy: and then probabl

where 30 years after actress natalie wood drowned off catalina island, police are reopening the case. our careen winter is in los angeles angeles county sheriff's department says robert wagner, who was on the yacht the night she died, they say he is not a suspect. but still, this hasn't stopped investigators from taking a second look at this mysterious case. natalie wood was one of the most popular, sought after actresses in hollywood which made her death in 1981 at just 43 years old all the more shocking and for some inex plik believe. officials were vague friday about what led to the reopening of the investigation after 30 years. >> recently, we have received information which we felt was substantial enough to make us take another look at this case. >> it was thanksgiving weekend 1981 when wood and her actor husband robert wagner went sailing on their yacht the splen do you remember. they were joined by christopher walken. they got into a heated argument. a short time later, wagner notified the fourth person on the yacht, captain dennis davern. that wood was not on board. he told cnn she might have tried to take the y

island boating with her husband robert wagner and fellow actor christopher walken. her death, ruled an accident, but the questions began almost immediately. and today, 30 years later, los angeles sheriff's detectives announced they are re-opening the investigation. >> recently, we have received information which we felt was substantial, enough to make us take another look at this case. >> we're all -- all intoxicated. >> reporter: dennis davern was the captain of the yacht. he says he lied to investigators about what really happened. >> if i could take that lie back -- it wasn't lying, it was just merely not telling them everything. >> reporter: in a book he co-authored two years ago, davern says wood and wagner had a fierce argument. >> robert wagner had taken a bottle of wine and smashed it on the coffee table. >> reporter: he says moments later, wagner told him natalie was missing, but he would not allow him to start a search. >> i said to robert wagner, let's turn on the search light, we'll see maybe if we can't see her out there. and he said, no, we're not going to do that at this time. >> reporter: in 2008, wagner told diane sawyer his version of that night. >> what we t

island. the cause of death, accidental drowning. the case is closed but for 30 years questions have remained. now, the los angelesriff's department is reopening the investigation. partly because the captain on the boat that night says he believes robert wagner had something to do with natalie woods' death. doug bombard found natalie's body in the waters off catalina island. he joins us now on the phone. doug, good evening. >> hello, judge, this is doug. >> judge jeanine: it is good to talk to you, doug. i appreciate your being with us tonight. tell us, doug, how is it that you found natalie's body? >> well, they woke me up just before dawn on that morning and kind of clued me in to what had been going on all night. we had had boats out searching and everything else. but i pretty quickly figured that we knew by that time that we weren't looking for a live person swimming around or something like that. >> judge jeanine: how did you know that, doug, when you say they woke you up? who woke you up? >> well, that area i operated at the time and it was people that worked for me, my harbor department woke me up and clued

angeles. the lone suspect in the disappearance of an american woman in aruba is out of jail scott free to leave the island. you'll recall 35-year-old robyn gardner went miss not guilty early august. she was vacationing with a man she reportedly met on the internet. that man, gary giordano, says they went snorkeling and somehow she never made it back to shore. but he did reportedly take out a $1.5 million life insurance policy with a convenient death benefit. last week, a judge declined to extend his latest detention past today's deadline. an appeals panel is scheduled to meet tomorrow and if the decision is reversed, prosecutors say they will immediately seek extradition. >>> embassy under siege. protesters have stormed the british compound in iran. one american lawmakers says it looks a lot like the u.s. hostage crisis in 1979. this is serious and a live update is coming. plus, google maps, not just for driving anymore. now they can help you find your way indoors as well. that's ahead as fox report's live tonight capital one's new cash rewards card gives you a 50 percent annual bonus. so you earn 50 perc

angeles. miguel, good morning. >> reporter: natalie, good morning to you. it was 30 years ago today that natalie wood's body was found off the shores of catalina island.ht and he's telling his story for the first time since 1981. >> it's always bothered me that things went the way they did. >> reporter: november 29th, 1981, 2:00 a.m. harbormaster doug oden boards natalie wood's yacht shortly after she is reported missing. also aboard, her husband, robert wagner, actor christopher walken and the captain, dennis davern. >> they had been drinking and it was a little difficult getting information from them initially because they were slurring their words. >> reporter: according to the three men, after a long night of drinking, an argument broke out and wood went to her cabin at the back of the boat, when wood and the boat's dinghy went missing, wagner told investigators he initially thought his wife had taken the dinghy back to shore. the author of the biography say friends told her wood had a fear of water. >> i certainly don't think that she went into the dinghy. i think she went overboard in a way that was beyond her control. >> reporter: sometime afte

>> that's right, she was boating on catalina island with christopher walken, officially ruled an accidental drowning. but now 30 years later, the los angeles county sheriff's department is going to take another look at this case. they say it's based on new information from people who have contacted police, david. >> yeah, some of that new information is believed to be coming from the yacht captain who was on board that night. we are going to talk to him exclusively in just a moment. but we begin on all of this with nbc's george lewis. he is in los angeles with details this morning. george, good morning to you. >> good morning, david. natalie wood's death has been filled with speculation that her drowning was no accident. ♪ i feel pretty oh so pretty ♪ >> reporter: pretty and talented and at the top of her career, as maria in "west side story." natalie wood's death at age 43 in november of 1981 from drowning shocked the world. a who's who of hollywood among the mourners at her funeral. to some friends, the tragedy didn't quite add up, because natalie wood said she had always been afraid of water. >> i've always been terrified, still am, of

island back in november 1981. investigators concluded that she had hit her head while falling off a yacht after a into the drinking possibly while trying to board a dinghy. the los angeles county sheriff's department announced it is re-opening the case after new revelations from the coast guard and recent comments from the yacht's captain. >> natalie would never in a million years take that dinghy out by herself. >> among the others on the yacht at the time was husband robert wagner and actor christopher walken, who reportedly had arranged. a statement says the wagner family supports the efforts but hasn't heard anything from the investigators yet. the sheriff's department plans to release more information today. wagner and walken had reportedly argued. there will be more on this show business mystery saturday night at 10:00 on "48 hours: mystery" on cbs 5. >>> a memorial for those who died in jonestown in 1978. more than 900 people died in a mass suicide there. they were following the orders of their leader at the time, jim jones of the people's temple. a woman who lost more than two dozen relatives will preside over today's event. it happens at the evergreen cemetery

island in november of 1981. investigators concluded that she had hit her head while falling off a yacht after a night of the drinking, possibly while trying to board a dinghy. but the los angeles county sheriff's department says that it is re-opening the case after these new revelations from the coast guard as well as these recent comments from the yacht's captain. >> natalie would never in a million years take that dinghy out by herself. >> the captain told nbc that he believes wood's husband, robert wagner, was responsible for her death. wagner and actor christopher walken reportedly had an argument while on the yacht that night. wagner's spokesman released a statement saying that the wagner family supports the sheriff's department efforts but has not yet heard from any of the investigators. >>> it is 6:12 now. a new child molestation case at an eastern college this time syracuse university in upstate new york. police now investigating allegations against this man bernie fine who has been an assistant with jim boeheim at syracuse university now for 35 years in basketball. two former ball boys for the team who are now adults have told espn that fine molested them for years st

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and los angeles detectives are reopening the investigation into the death of actress natalie wood. she drowned off catalina islander actor husband robert wagner and christopher watkin. it's believed she was drunk and fell overboard but the captain of the boat now says he has new information. let's go over to eric. >> wow, thank you, ali. it's certainly not your average wedding photo. last week, this couple had their big day all planned out but something went terribly wrong. the reception hall went up in flames just hours before the ceremony but the couple didn't let a little fire ruin their day. joining us now from halifax, canada, to share their story, mike and nancy rogers. nancy, i have to ask you first. when we got married, my wife was nervous. it's her big day. now you hear your hall is on fire. what's going through your mind? >> well, there was an initial moment where it was like oh, my goodness, you know, what are we going to do? and one of my bridesmaids gave me a great big hug and she said it's going to be fine and we decided it was. >> and mike, what was your response? were you like let's do this anyway