bill plante has more. >> reporter: good evening, jeff. it was a blunt message, indeed. rangel's battle to beat back the ethics charges and keep his seat took a major hit from the president. mr. obama did something presidents rarely do-- he sent an unusually blunt message to a member of his own party. >> i think charlie rangel serve very long time and served his constituents very well, but these allegations are very troubling. >> reporter: in an interview with harry smith for tomorrow's "sunday morning" and monday's "early show," the president all but said rangel should resign from congress. >> he's somebody who is at the end of his career, eight years 80 years old. i'm sure what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity and my hope is that that happens. >> reporter: after rangel and his lawyers would not agree to a settlement which would have required him to admit at least some of the allegations, the ethics committee announced 13 formal charges. a half dozen democrats in congress have already called for rangel to resign. they are clearly fearful a trial, be

here is senior white house correspondent bill plante. >> reporter: fresh from their vacation on martha'sineyard, the obama family's first stop was for lunch. >> i'm going to try this alligator sausage. >> reporter: like most of the city, this popular restaurant was underwater after katrina roared through. at historically black xavier rebound story, mr. obama hailed the city's renaissance but admitted new orleans still has a long way to go. >> there's still too many people unable to find work, and there's still too many new orleanian folks who haven't been able to come home. i wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: my administration is going to stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done, until new orleans is all the way back. ( applause ) >> reporter: the president also touched on the latest gulf disaster, promising to monitor b.p. until the damage from the oil spill is reversed. a cbs news poll shows that a large majority believes the government is not prepared to deal with another hurricane as powerful as katrina. visiting a public housing devel

director will be loaded with fuel under the strict control of the un's nuclear watchdog the russian bill plant is expected to be fully operational in about a month. and the electricity is back on in st petersburg after a citywide power. outage caused rush hour traffic chaos and commuters had to be evacuated from the metro system intercity train services were also affected. and as oil giant b.p. comes under more criticism for the way it releases information about the gulf of mexico oil spill alone and takes a look at whether the company's been covering up more all along that's coming your way in part two of the alona show next on r.t. . tonight's tool time winner involves a man in hawaii he's a gamer craig small but he's filed a lawsuit against the maker of the lineage too because he says the game is so addicting sorry we don't have a picture of craig we really searched the entire web looking for one but had no luck but now to the details in a federal lawsuit his attorney says that craig played lineage two for more than twenty thousand hours between two thousand and four and two thousand and ni

cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante has details. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, harry. as the president prepares to talk to the nation about iraq and afghanistan, he'll first meet with troops and he'll also call former president george w. bush who put the surge strategy in place. meanwhile vice president biden is in iraq meeting with its leaders. the vice president arrived at the residence of prime minister nuri al maliki this morning trying to get iraq's leaders to form a new government. today the president heads to ft. bliss, texas, to salute the troops including those of the first armored division who saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war. in his address tonight from the oval office, president obama will say he kept his commitment to end america's combat role in iraq and he'll thank those who served. one thing he won't do is make any reference to the idea of mission accomplished. he'll also talk about the way forward in afghanistan. but almost 50,000 u.s. troops will remain in iraq officially to suppo

cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plant e is traveling with the president. >> reporter: good morning. the president did celebrate here in his hometown but later today he will tour a ford plant to hail rising auto exports in the rebounding auto industry. as you mentioned the real reason he is here raising money for the democrats. the white house admits with the president's approval rating at 44%, a lot of democrats don't want to campaign with him. >> we are not going to places where people think it would be helpful. >> reporter: p mr. obama's fund-raising efforts would bring in more than $1.5 million for democrats. >> the best thing the president can do behind the scenes is just raise money. >> reporter: mr. obama was raising a glass last night and enjoying a three-hour birthday dinner with oprah win provide and friends at a downtown chicago restaurant. mrs. obama and daughter sasha are vacationing in spain. we are told that they did phone birthday wishes back to the president yesterday before he left for chicago with first dog beau. the democrats held a lot of house part

cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante traveling with the president on martha's vineyard ands that latest for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. these attacks do come as the u.s. prepares to wind down to the official end of combat operations next tuesday, august 31st. obviously the conditions on the ground in iraq don't match the reality. just one day after the last combat troops left iraq, insurgents killed at least 56 iraqis in two dozen attacks. most of them, the security forces who are supposed to protect the country, now that the americans are gone. targeting the forces was meant to send a message. >> it is about the terrorists trying to make a point about the back -- trying to challenge the security forces. does do-- put doubts in people' mind. >> reporter: in many case it is iraqis are not ready as some admit. >> they really give help -- when things get bad and baghdad, iraq. when they leave don't know who will help us. >> reporter: the u.s. commander in iraq is leaving on september 1st. he's optimistic but after seven years and more t

bill plante is joining us with more on that this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the economy for sure, the president will be on the road for today and for much of the next two weeks raising money for his party to help the democrats try to fend off the loss of control of the party in congress. with the lingering recession and unemployment hovering over 9%, discontent over the economy threatens to swamp democrats in november. there are more primaries on tuesday. and election season is heating up. the republican line of attack is clear. >> the american people are screaming at the top of their lungs to washington, stop! stop the spending, stop the job killing policies. >> reporter: the white house response? that republicans would take the country back to president bush's economic policies. here's the president at an illinois fund-raiser. >> they have not come up with a single solitary idea that is any different from the policies of george w. bush. what they are betting on is amnesia. they are betting that you don't remem

bill plante joins us for explain why. >> reporter: the democrats now hold a very comfortable majority in the house of representatives, but they're in danger of losing it in november. so president obama has begun a major effort to help his party keep control of congress. but a lot of his work is going to be behind the scenes. the president came out swinging at the republicans monday, but with an afternoon approval rating at 44% -- >> it would be one thing if the republicans had seen the error of their ways. >> reporter:-mf mr. obama fired his shots from a democratic fund-raiser in atlanta rather than from a candidate's campaign event. >> when the economy is bad, the president gets blamed and so the president is not somebody you want around in a district where people are angry at washington. >> reporter: but the president can and does deliver the democrats' message, that republicans would go back to the policies of the past. >> they're counting on that you all forgot. they think that they can run the okey-doke on you. >> reporter: sarah palin's answer to that, when he was in congress, m

. >> narrator: a court document called a bill of information says the planted gun was referred to bydetective as a "ham sandwich." >> every cop that i knew carried a ham sandwich. a ham sandwich is a... a clean gun that they would take and put it in like an old pair of jeans or britches or whatever you want to call it. and they'd let it sit there and get some lint on it. then after they let it sit in there, then you put it in a plastic bag. i carried mine with me wherever i went. some people don't carry it with them. >> so you'd have it under the seat of your car or something? >> no, i had a briefcase. i carried it in my briefcase. >> so you carried around a gun to plant on suspects? >> yeah, of course. >> some former officers we've talked to have said, "hey, this was an underground culture." they would carry around something they called a "ham sandwich," and they would plant that "ham sandwich" at the scene of officer-involved shootings. did you ever hear anything about that? >> nope. that's not on my radar. nothing about that. like i said, that investigation was done under chief ri

officials say the sapling is now 6 inches tall and will be planted near the holocaust memorial. >>> turning to weather, where bill martin is here to talk to us not only about today's intense heat, but what's in store for tomorrow. >> it was hot, record highs throughout the region. currently it's hot outside. take a peek and show you what we have. we have temperatures in the 90s and the low 100s in someplace. 94 in san jose. look at the records we had today significant, santa rosa, 106 degrees. san francisco downtown was 98 degrees. a number of records throughout the region. it will still be hot inland. these are the highs from today. highs tomorrow are going to come down a good 5, 10 degrees inland, and then, along the coast, they're going to come down as much as 20 degrees. the high pressure center has been with us the last two days, intensifying today. it was the hottest day today, and now, with this familiar character, this low pressure as we've seen all summer, parking itself against the coast, a cool trend into the week. wednesday, cool. thursday, friday, cooler. interesting pat earn. this will be the main f

the first earth most sure can pinsky switzer children close knit hold bill to let me know it's going to. iran's bush era power plant is fueled up with the help of russian engineers and said to be fully operational within a month it will be run out of the strict supervision of the un watchdog. russian security forces kill a top militant believed to have been behind the suicide bomb attacks on the moscow metro in march. new york says farewell to the iconic cabs that have graced its streets for decades the competition is now underway in the big apple to find a more fuel efficient successor. and artie's close travels to one of russia's northern outposts on the coast of the white sea to meet the locals who depend on the region's natural resources for their lives and their livelihood. seven am in moscow. thanks for joining us here on r t our top story the first nuclear power plant in the middle east has been switched on in iran the southern city of new share the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control of the u.n. atomic watchdog and that international concerns over to iran's nuclear ambitions arti

>> we can water plants, certainly we can water school kids as well. >> reporter: there is a new billovide free access to water drinking during lunch. >> if it's the law, it's troebl expect parents to step up and do it any more than buy the textbooks. >> reporter: but parents at oakland didn't wait for law. they took action years ago. simply put, the drinking fountains weren't cutting it. >> broken water fountains, low pressure, kids couldn't get an enough to drink off the fountain themselves and those who wanted to fill up a water bottle had to do it in bathrooms and wasn't clean. >> reporter: they raised money and got matching funds from the city council to install cold filtered water near the cafeteria. >> just drink it in class. it's really cold and helps me concentrate. >> reporter: it cost the school some $400 not including the donated water supplies and labor to build the water station. in tough economic times the original sponsor of the bill, thank senator mark laho. >> we're talking minimal of expense, a pitcher of water on the table with paper cups. >> reporter: he believes

bill pay, a decline and postal service, that there were going to raise rates, cut one the day delivery, and eliminating advanced payments for retirement to offset the losses. >> in chicago, a ford plantesident barack obama highlighted the success of this bill out to the industry that was on the brink. and marof the0 billion bill out was a lot of criticism he chose that because of his face in american workers. pates. >> i refuse to walk away from this industry, and american jobs. i put my faith in the american worker! >> i believe the american worker is the best worker in the world. if we can get a sense, common purpose begin once again see the best design engineer, right here in chicago, right here in the midwest. right here in the u.s.a.! >> and are here, the 250 million dollar bank loan that can help for exports this just in to the kron 4 news room room president obama is the economic advisor is stepping down. she will return to uc berkeley, and in a statement, that she provided extraordinary service to our country when we need it hurt economic expertise and an economic crisis. dan kerman, kron 4 news. >> a live look, and you can see the fog moving in and the traffic is moving medi

plants will drive up costs. which in turn will bring alternative energy prices more in line. the bill is a priority for president obama, who's visited a solar station in florida. >> these are jobs in the industries of the future. >> reporter: a high-tech battery facility in michigan and recently taken a spin in a new car. one that has a lot riding on it. general motors hopes that what's under the hood of this car is the future. this is the chevrolet volt. the first mass market electric car ever produced in the united states. >> these are packs for the volts. >> reporter: this is the chief engineer of the volt, which hopes show rooms in november. he hopes this electric car will finally take the edge off of america's appetite for oil. how many miles to the gallon can i expect to get if i drive a volt? >> well, that all depends on how far you drive every day. if you drive under 40 miles a day, you get infinite miles per gallon. >> reporter: that's a because gm designed to volt to get 40 miles on a single charge. based on government statistics that show nearly 80% of americans drive fewer

. >> we can water plants, certainly we can water school kids as well. >> reporter: still there is no bill to provide free access to drinking water during lunch. >> if it's the law, it's expected for parents to step up and do it any more than buy the textbooks. >> reporter: but parents at oakland didn't wait for law. they took action years ago. simply put, the drinking fountains weren't cutting it. >> broken water fountains, low pressure, kids couldn't get an enough to drink off the fountain themselves and those who wanted to fill up a water bottle, the only place to do that was in the bathroom, and that wasn't clean. >> reporter: the school's pta raised money and got matching funds from the city council to install cold filtered water near the cafeteria. >> just drink it in class. it's really cold and helps me concentrate. >> reporter: it cost the school some $400 not including the donated supplies and labor to build the water station. but in these tough economic times, the original sponsor of the bill, state senator mark laho, doesn't want it to not be in schools. >> we're talking minimal

today's emergency bill is just another in a long line of unaccountable spending bills that has sup planted the regular budget and appropriations process simply because this majority quite obviously is not up to governing. some of the funding contained in this bill is no doubt very worthy. our teachers, nurses, and cops deserve our full support. i concur with my colleagues' remarks on those priorities. let me say our teachers, nurses, and cops deserve our full support. no one disputes that. these are precisely the kinds of top priorities that should be funded in the regular budget process. madam speaker, teachers, nurses, and cops should not be used as pawns in a cynical political game held hostage by the democratic majority's failure to govern responsibly. contrary to the quote that i read in politico last week from speaker pelosi, republicans, democrats, and independents alike all want to see teachers in the classroom, nurses in the emergency room, and cops on the beat. not in the unemployment line, as the speaker claimed republicans wanted to see. let me repeat. while speaker pelosi offe

people are billing nuclear power plants around the world. you use enriched uranium, or plutonium. if you can enrich the uranium for a power plant, you can enrich it for a weapon. that's the iranian situation. and you can reprocess your spent fuel and get plutonium. remember the nagasaki bomb was a plutonium bomb. so on a world scale, if we're going to have more nuclear power plants, we better get control of this fuel cycle. there has been considerable headway in that regard. to try to work toward a situation where there is international control of all enrichment facilities. now, if you had something like that in place, you could say to the iranians, ok, it's for peaceful purposes, put it in the international setup. that means not just that you're going to have inspectors there, you're going to have people in the operation of the plant, so we know that it's not enrichment going on. >> there are obviously many different ways of handling this problem of the possibility of iran developing a nuclear bomb. secretary schultz appears to be saying that one of those has to be recognized as

here on r t our top story the first nuclear power plant in the middle east has been switched on in iran the southern city of who share the russian bill reactor is now operating under the strict supervision and control of the un atomic watchdog amid international concerns over terrazas nuclear ambitions artie's oksana boyko was at the grand opening. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the chaparral have always been more than just an education or ready to sell it for all it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof of what's good for in times of iraq critics the embodiment of the climate republic's ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the building which are in a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but the first batch of nuclear fuel just loaded into the reactor the station is expected to start producing electricity by the end of this year but iran's top nuclear fishel says it's all rea

famous travellers were two months named bill curry or whitey and little arrow fifty years ago after months of strenuous training they and a bunch of mice rats flies plants and a rabbit boarded sputnik five all. the most important criteria was the dog's size there was only that much space aboard the spacecraft also dogs are much better tolerating cold temperatures but it wasn't every dog that was acceptable their character their physical condition all that was taken into account. he worked with the soviet space program for decades he remembers bill can still get as they really were under different names. the dogs got named by our lab assistance on the girl's name these two dogs and they like the sound of those names but then our boss found out and he was not impressed he criticised us for giving these dogs foreign and politically incorrect names so we changed them and that's how they became famous. still his fame continued on the ground she had six pups one of which was presented by the then soviet leader nikita khrushchev to j.f.k.'s daughter caroline and international room and believe him to be true or fluffy and another kennedy dog called charlie they

plant the seeds that they save. but for now it was time to dig in and enjoy. >>> and now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc's meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. good morning, bill. >> so is that to encourage everyone to skip the sausage and bacon this morning and go for the more healthy melons. >> probably a good idea always. if that's what you need to remind you, then we've done our job. >> this is the time of year for that stuff. it's fresh and good. >> along with tomatoes. >> are you with the tomato national register. >> yes, i'll make 0.10 from the industry. >> it's a pretty nice weekend, 50s from denver to san francisco. of course, the desert areas are a little bit warmer. seattle right now is at 53 degrees. now, as we continue to go through this weekend, what we'll be watching for the most part is mild air in place. temperatures are the warmest down here in the south. it's going to be a warmer weather pattern, especially in california. los angeles in the downtown area should be near 90 all day right through the upcoming weekend. a little more of a ridge is starting to build in the west. we do have a st

security numbers out there that people are using to work, it is planted affect unemployment especially during times of recession. this bill should be passed immediately. we are working to get it passed. it is my hope that we can do that. >> i hope you can. it is hard when you are my age to compete with it coming out of college pain their student loans. if bill gates needs people to work with all computers, i work across platforms. of the more than glad to take that job. [laughter] [applause] >> how good afternoon. thank you. i am from west fullerton. a couple weeks ago when your meeting was on, of austin to ask you a question i was cut off in the middle of it. you enter something out and not even asking. can you hear me? >> we can hear you. continue. >> this goes to what you are already talking about. i am sure you have heard of the push to ask congress -- and this started to you personally. congress should be as not to pass any laws that apply to us that not apply to you guys. similarly, by sen perceived and divisive versa. there is a big push going around to get rid of incumbents. is not because you are not doing a good

bill does not go away. that is what i am -- of the spill did not go away. that is what i am committed to doing. bp's fondest wish is that their commercials on television soap plant actual congressional hearings and -- supplant actual congressional hearings. >> the sort of effective mormon -- this sort of effect a moratorium on drilling, would precautions would -- what precautions would satisfy you? >> what we did in the spill response bill that passed on the floor of the house of representatives three weeks ago, on the last day before we broke, was to say that a system would be put in place that individual rigs would be cleared one by one and then they could go back into a operation. the republicans, of course, voted against that. they would have -- they would rather have the issue of the moratorium than a solution to the problem, which is to not have the time limit on how long it would take, but a mechanism by which, as soon as the rig was checked out and proven to be said, people could go back to work. as the -- proven to be safe, people could go back to work. there is the $20 million compensation fund that is paying the workers on the rigs until they return t

bill whitaker. >> reporter: the second iowa egg producer, hillandale farms says eggs it's shipped under five brand names since april could be contaminated with the salmonella bacteria. the cartons are stamped with plantp-1663. what's now the biggest u.s. outbreak from eggs has put the spotlight on egg production, especially the facility with where this outbreak allegedly began, wright county egg in galt iowa. the huge seven million chicken facility is owned by jack decoster, no stranger to controversy. this year, decoster was ordered to pay more than $100,000 for ten counts of animal cruelty caught by hidden cameras. in 2000, fined $150,000 and dubbed a habitual violator of iowa's environmental laws. even with tougher new federal rules, researchers say there are too few regulators to oversee today's megaproduction facilities. >> the problem is that f.d.a. doesn't have the muscle to enforce those rules. >> reporter: the strain of salmonella linked to the eggs is showing up three times more than average, 2,000 cases so far. and for every case reported, researchers say 30 go unreported. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> smith: and the manhunt for two of america's most-wanted fugitives is over. jo

security numbers out there that people are using to work, it is planted affect unemployment especially during times of recession. this bill should be passed immediately. we are working to get it passed. it is my hope that we can do that. >> i hope you can. it is hard when you are my age to compete with it coming out of college pain their student loans. if bill gates needs people to work with all computers, i work across platforms. of the more than glad to take that job. [laughter] [applause] >> how good afternoon. thank you. i am from west fullerton. a couple weeks ago when your meeting was on, of austin to ask you a question i was cut off in the middle of it. you enter something out and not even asking. can you hear me? >> we can hear you. continue. black>> this goes to what you ae already talking about. i am sure you have heard of the push to ask congress -- and this started to you personally. congress should be as not to pass any laws that apply to us that not apply to you guys. similarly, by sen perceived and divisive versa. there is a big push going around to get rid of incumbents. is not because you are not doing a

produced the outline of their own bill with changes to attract republican support like scaling back with the cap-and-trade provisions to apply only to utilities and power plants. but the effort stalled amid competing priorities like health reform and financial regulation. late last month majority leader harry reid announced he didn't have the votes to pass it. instead he offered a narrower bill to respond to the gulf oil spill. it would raise liability limits on oil companies and offer modest incentives to boost natural gas production and household energy efficiency. >> many of us want to do a thorough, comprehensive bill that creates jobs, breaks our addiction to foreign oil, and curbs pollution. unfortunately this time we don't have a single republican to work with in achieving this goal. >> warner: but last week reed did postpone that vote too. now the administration's push to regulate emissions falls to the environmental protection agency. in 2007 the supreme court ruled the epa had the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions like other pollutants under the clean air act. white house energy and climate czar carol browner made clear last week the ad

bill manchin won for the u.s. senate. that gives him the party's nomination to run in the race to replace the late robert byrd. >>> and crews plantede center site here in new york city, the first of almost 400 trees that will create a quiet green space at the 9/11 memorial to those who died in the terror attacks >> that's a quick look at the headlines. now over to chikage windler from our abc affiliate kstp. >> thank you, jeremy. what we're dealing with today is more rip current threat. video coming to us from far rockaway, new york. great for surfers. if you're an inexperienced swimmer, be ware. as you can see today, more rip current threats, 4 to 7 feet. now hurricane earl likely to intensify into a major category 3 storm as we work through the week and getting close to the carolina coast. this storm much closer than danielle. 09 in orlando. heavy rain for the gulf coast. cooler a >> this weather report has been brought to you by dairy queen. >> all right. chikage, thank you. >>> coming up on "good morning america" revisiting new orleans with some of the pilots and paramedics who rescued so many after katrina and why they can't f

bill because it is wrong. i believe that we send that message together as a people, first of all, by defeating harry reid. secondly, by putting our plant ford on november 3. we cannot just sit back and say, now we have won this election, we will wait until january. we cannot. there is a lame duck session coming at us and we need to begin on november 3 telling them what we want. and the repealf obamacare is first on our list. that is what we should begin talking about right then on november the third. third, if everyone in the united states is united behind this race to put the pressure on harry reid and to defeat harry reid, we can put that same kind of pressure on the folks in the u.s. senate who ll be voting on these bills. they need to feel at pressure. i think they have already been feeling the pressure. we've seen that they could not get capping trade past for their amnesty passed. we know that those are things that harry reid said fourop priorities. so if we have got them concerned about that now, we need to keep that pressure up in november. and just follow through. it is exactly the same thing. [inaudible] >> of big difference

obama praises the jobs bill as house democrats are said to hold an emergency session to pass it will have the details. san jose firefighters union is in a boat on the city's largest plante money, jobs. do not hold that cell phone will you're behind the wheel the chp is cracking down today. we'll have details bill let them get to grips fall of the sunshine is a walnut creek we caught it. it looks nice here, but much of the bay is locked in. christie. >> thank you, sunshine and those in the spots is certainly not the case in san francisco, anybody yet there giving you from seeing the top of those buildings fog for the next couple of hours and then pulls back. bob, drizzle today particularly if you're at the coast debitors similar to yesterday below average warmup in store for this weekend we'll get to that in our forecast. firecrackers shine as the will of the debacle of its and stadium. 10:00 we will see fog sitting over the bay and down along the coastline. new not fog should really be going back to the coast. although will sit there all day long, you may nancy any sunshine for those inland spots by this afternoon you should see some partly sunny skies. highs for the n

plant there, president obama will be speaking any moment. i saw some people stand up a second. we'll check back and see what's happening later. >>> meantime everything a bill now working its way through congress could have a big impact right here in the bay area. it's a $26 billion measure. it's aimed at giving states and the school districts the money they need to prevent laying off teachers and other public employees. alison burns is it live in our washington, d.c. bureau with all of the details. good morning, alison. >> reporter: good morning, dave. the senate is expected to start voting in about a half hour. california senator barbara boxer says 13,500 california teaching jobs are on the line with this vote. senator boxer is leading the push to get a $26 billion state budget bailout through congress. she says it will save teaching jobs -- jobs apartment other public service jobs. >> the police, the firefighters, those jobs will be saved. nationwide, today, with this passage -- with the passage of this bill, we save 250,000 jobs. think about what that means. >> reporter: california is getting more than any other state. republicans say it's another budge

plant today. and later on, a political fund-raiser. >>> and finally this half hour, the billionaire challenge. billnes to charity. >> so, they challenged their billionaire friends to do the same. here's bianna golodryga with the ultrawealthy willing to share vast sums of money. >> reporter: $249 billion. the equivalent of almost $1,000 for every american, is how much these 40 americans are worth collectively. and they pledged to give at least half of their wealth away. >> we probably called somewhere between 70 and 80 people on the "forbes" list. and it was a very soft sell. >> reporter: warren buffett, together with bill gates, personally called their fellow billionaires, even hosted private dinners, in hopes of convincing them to donate to charities of their choosing. is it surprising that, given the uncertain economic times we're in right now, 40 billionaires already pledged to give roughly half of their money away? >> remember, we have dire economic times. and rich guys usually aren't the guys that look really good in dire economic times. so, it's really good p.r. to align yourself with buffett

narcotics officers said they seized marijuana plants worth more than two and a half million dollars from my garden west of carter about floor billndred 50 ft. long and water by a lake on the property they found the garden during a search of the residents they say they also found several guns on the property. we will be right back as kron 4 continues to live lookit outside at one of the few sunny spots getting sun in walnut creek traffic moving smoothly. ó caltrans is ahead of schedule on the lifting the legs on the new bridge. we have a look. >> two weeks ahead of schedule it took 12 hours to move the first tower legs into position they did the second over the weekend i watched from this catwalk as the third piece was just moved into place. the 1,200 t is lifted until the that the same time is time consuming so i will split speed up the video 6000 persons agency being moved once its vertical straight up they hoisted up so they can lower it on their rods coming up from the foundation you cannot tell from here but those rods are each 6-10 ft. tall. the tower has to slip down perfectly on to 100 broads. the tower was finally stand

bill whittiker has this report. >> reporter: a second iowa egg producer implicated in the salmonella outbreak. hill len dale farms recalling 170 million eggs under five brands stamped with plant numbers p-1860 and p-1663. what's now the biggest salmonella outbreak from eggs in the u.s. has put the spotlight on egg production, especially large-scale factory-like facilities like wright county egg in gault, iowa, where it allegedly began. the huge plant houses seven million chickens producing five and a half million egg as day. researchers say even with tougher new food and drug administration regulations, government oversight is too weak with too few regulators to monitor today's mega facilities. >> the new rules the fda issued for eggs in july are helpful because they set standards. but, they are lot like a speed limit sign without a cop to enforce it. >> reporter: what this california rancher says, most producers know it's in their best interest to keep their facilities clean and eggs safe. >> we just got through testing in july and came up negative. it's something our industry is going to have to start monitoring and, you know, through the -- >> reporter: for now, the center

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