as bill plante reports, the documents have deep personal meaning for countless american families. >> this is the document that changed my life. >> reporter: when cheryl wills found online this 1866 discharge certificate from the union army for sandy wills, her great, great, great grandfather, it opened a door on history. what was your reaction? >> utter shock and my mouth went dry. >> just clicked up on my computer like poof, like magic. it's surreal. >> reporter: that discovery led her to the civil war draft registration record at the national archives where she discovered the enlistment record of sandy wills and five other slaves who escaped from their owner and volunteered the fight in the union army. they joined the fourth heavy field artillery, part of what was then known as the united states colored troops. >> he became real to me 150 years after his death. he came alive. >> reporter: now those civil war draft registration records are available online at ancestry.com, which digitized them for the national archives. they're free for a week on ancestry.com and will go back to the

bill plant, cbs news, washington. >>> fascinating part of history, no doubt. >>> the latest on japanrisis now in the same category as chernobyl, plus more aftershocks. and mitt romney is closer to joining the presidential field. and katie couric reveals it best advice she's ever gotten. that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday, thanks for watching everybody. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

here's senior white house correspondent bill plante. >> reporter: the day of reckoning with uncle sam is less painful for some than for others. the tax policy institute says 45% of americans don't owe the government anything today, but they're not the superrich. >> many elderly people don't pay any federal income tax. low-income elderly. the second group of people is low income working people and people with families. we have a large number of credits that have been introduced in the tax system. >> reporter: the very rich do pay, but they pay a lot less than they used to-- 17% in 2007, down from 26% in 1992, according to the i.r.s. but tea partiers protested around the nation charging that the government takes too much. while the liberal view moveon.org protested corporations pay to little. president obama's return, released today by the white house, shows a sharp drop in the first family's income, from $5.5 million last year to $1.7 million this year, reflecting fewer sales of the president's books. the obamas paid $453,000 in taxes, about 26% of their adjusted gross income. the pres

>> okay, bill plante. ck to last month's earthquake knocked out power to nearly 1 million homes. the latest tremor was a strange magnitude of 7.1. at least two people were killed and 130 hurt. >>> arizona is about to make it legal to carry guns on college campuses. the legislature passed a bill yesterday and sent it to the governor. the measure would not permit guns inside campus buildings. >>> bell, california, has a new city council this morning. they replace former town leaders now facing trial for looting the city fresh ray by paying themselves huge salaries, including the city manager, at $800,000 a year. >>> everything is bigger in texas, they say, including the speed limit. now the texas house has passed a bill to up the state's top speed limits to 85. the highest in the nation. >>> and finally in thailand this morning, it's a lizard roundup. rustlers were caught trying to ship about 800 bengal monitors out of the country. the monitors apparently are in demand as exotic food. it's four minutes past t

a crash of philosophies over the role of government and you can expect to hear more of that. >> bill plante for us in chicago this morning. bill, thanks. >>> michael steele is former chair of the republican national committee and he joins us as well this morning. sir, good to have you with us. >> it's good to be with you, erica. >> bill just went through the comments, the president saying he's happy to have the debate. is he essentially framing the debate now on health care and even the budget? is that a debate that the gop wants to have? >> well, i think a little less bravado and a little bit more leadership by the president on this issue would go a long way. i think his speech the other day was more partisan than it needed to be, particularly with republican leadership that he invited to be there. and i think this rhetoric that we picked up last night is consistent with what we've seen so far, is that there's a lot of noise, there's a lot of, you know, excitement, but the nuts and bolts is what we really need to focus on. my hope is, is that both sides will come to some, you know, accommo

cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante has more this morning. bill, good morning to you. we know the controversy has obviously been out there for a couple years now. any more clarification from the white house this morning on why they came out and did this now? >> well, good morning, jeff. the president did say that he thought this issue was behind him. that it was pretty well settled except, of course, for those people out there on the fringes. but, in fact, our polling shows that 25% of all voters, and 45% of republican voters, believe, or have some doubt, anyway, that he was born in the usa. and so the president, when this began to occupy lots of news coverage, after donald trump began to bring it up, decided that he ought to put an end to this once and for all. and besides that, as he told oprah winfrey in an interview which will air next monday, there are other things that he'd much rather be talking about. >> we can't be distracted by side shows and as i said in my press conference, carnival barkers, who are going around trying to get atten

chris. >> cbs's bill plante in washington for us this morning. bill, thank you. >>> joining us from washington as well with more on the president's speech is cbs political analyst john dickerson. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. >> the president's speech not big on specifics but forceful. the president did draw a line in the sand. were you struck at all by the president's tone this early in the negotiations? >> since the state of the union speech, we've known from the president and the white house they were expecting this battle of two philosophies once the new republicans in control of the house came out with their budget. this wasn't just a speech. this was a battle cry. the president here laid out -- made the case, essentially, that the american government's relationship with his people has always had some promise of basic dignity and security for the american people. he said the republican budget threatened that basic promise. he not only -- he went further. he said that basically america's greatness was at stake. you don't get

>> bill plante at the white house this morning. bill, thanks. >>> i want to head back to new york now to check in with jeff glor at the newsdesk for a look at some of the morning's other headlines. good morning, jeff. >>> hey, erica, good morning to you, good morning to everyone at home as well. your grocery bill is going up. food prices are rising right now. the agriculture department reports the price for beef is expected to rise 8% this year. pork prices are predicted to rise 7.5%. the price of food overall predicted to increase 3% to 4%, the most since 2008. >>> there's news on the presidential campaign front this morning. ron paul will announce today he's forming a presidential exploratory committee. paul, a texas congressman, libertarian, and tea party favorite finished fifth in the 2008 iowa caucuses. >>> also, yesterday, mississippi governor haley barbour said he will not run. political correspondent jan crawford is in washington with more on these stories. jan, talking about barbour. why did the barbour team decide this is

cbs news senior white house correspondent, bill plante, has more from the white house where the president just finished speaking. kind of an extraordinary news conference here this morning. >> it was preceded by a white house briefing with are officials brought out this letter they had received a certified cope of the long-form birth certificate. they said they had regarded the issue asset ld even though they knew there were people who doubted it. our polls showed that 25% of all people doubt that the president was born in the u.s. and 45% of republicans doubt it. yet, the white house said they were ready to ignore this until in recent weeks and they didn't mention donald trump's name, it began to overshadow the debate about what they considered the important things, the debate over the finances of the nation to come. the debt and the deficit. the white house put it out and they said, they put it this way. here is their spin. this he said, look, this would have played out to the president's advantage if we had let it stay out there. the president thought it was more important to bring the

bill plante.rrido is expected to plead guilty to all charges in the jaycie dugard kidnapping case. garrido and his wife nancy are charged with multiple felonies in dugard's 18-year abduction and confinement. his expected plea is aimed at winning a reduced sentence for his wife. >>> federal aviation officials are dealing with another case of an air traffic controller who fell asleep on the job. and this time it will cost the controller his job. the controller worked at the knoxville, tennessee, airport. the faa says he deliberately went to sleep during his midnight shift on february 19th. a co-worker had to handle both incoming planes and other aircraft in the area during that time. >> regarding this situation, at no time were the passengers, based on the information that we were given, the safety of the passengers compromised. >> last month the lone air traffic controller at reagan national airport fell asleep while two airliners landed. it's 8:04 right now. never sleep on the job, chris, rebecca

bill plante is at the white house now with more on what the president might be saying momentarily. the white house doing this now? >> reporter: the one thing you haven't heard mentioned around here this morning is that of donald trump but he does indeed seem to be the reason why the president is speaking out about this today. the white house puts a slightly different spin on it. they say, we have had the information out there since 2008. but it's been a distraction since it's come up in debate recently. what we should be talking about is the way to reduce debt and other important issues facing the nation not this sideshow. so the white house spin in a briefing earlier today is that the president decided to request his birth certificate and put it out there so that this debate would end. we hope, he says, or the white house official who spoke to us earlier said, that this will close the debate. the certificate which they have shown us is a copy of live birth from hawaii which has more information on it than the computer generated copy which is out there. that copy is what every hawa

[applause] here to introduce the award is longtime cbs correspondent and our friend, bill plante.ause] >> congratulations. good evening. the award i am about to present honors an extraordinary woman. we are probably the only people who knew joan. she started out as a researcher and became the executive producer for "face the nation." one of her early mentors was a seasoned political reporter who salt that she had the right stuff. his name was david. joan was tough. she was smart. she enjoyed life and love politics. she was someone who would be publicly at home and very entertaining at any one of your tables. she had the kind of standards that the critics say our business does not have any more -- it does not exist in the kind of work we do. but the roster of winners of this honor over the years is proof positive that those standards still exist. here is what the judging committee had to say about this year's wenner. "what distinguished this year's award winner was a concise body of work. there was an essence of joan s. barone. the award was based on three pieces based on congressi

he will sign a bill to increase renewable energy at a solar manufacturing plant. the bill will require one-third of the state's electricity to come from renewable sources. afterward, he heads to san francisco to talk about the state budget problems at a conference there. >>> oakland teachers will brainstorm their ways to tackle budget problems today. they discussed improving teaching and learning conditions in public schools but did not talk about financial challenges. the superintendent will hold a meeting from 4:30 to 6:00 tonight. they face desperate shortages which may get worse as sacramento figures bigger cuts. >>> a downtown marriott for sale. if you are interested, the price tag should be around $50 million. it's expected to get several visitors today. >>> the panel of eight women and four men will deliberate for a third time today. yesterday, they listened intently and took notes as some of the most dramatic testimony was reread to them in open court. it came from kathy hoskins who said she was an eyewitness to bonds steroid use. it kept them work iing all

bill plante of cbs, as always, thanks for helping us out at the congressional correspondents dinner. the rtca's board jeff ballou, headed up the committee for the award. he was helped by jerry bodlander, kia johnson, david mcquinny of al jazeera and christina rafeeney of cbs news. thank you for your work this year. now the david bloom award was started in 2004 at the urging of the late tim russert to honor the late nbc anchor and newsman, david bloom, who died in the iraq war in 2003. we are honored to have here his three daughters to present the bloom award. her are christine, nicole and ava. [ applause ] >> good evening. it is such an honor to be here tonight. it's hard to believe it's been eight years since we lost our dad. but we want to star by thanking the rtca for naming thi in his memory and recognize tim russert, who played such a big role in founding the award. we appreciate the challen many of you face as journalists when report progress war zones or natural disasters and having to spend long piods of time away from family and presented to cover a story. >> i am continuall

points out all then we are going to remove my will get help and we will move remove the plant and we will send you the bill it might sound good you need at least send us an e-mail and said you're not allowed to do to those plants whatever you want because they're our property so i told them it's your property it's on my property we want the land we pay the taxes get your property off our land. first he hired a neighbor to remove the plants and sent the bill to month sent over a total amount of six hundred canadian dollars one son so refused to pay and luis miser filed a claim in the local small claims court. can you imagine being bearish going to my town till a billion dollar corporation come to court for six hundred dollars by five minutes before the trial might sound to agreed to settle out of court and they agreed that there would be no gag order my wife and i could talk about it i could talk to you about it you can make so it was not only a great victory for ourselves but now would open it up for all farmers. in every part of the world if you are contaminated you know have an avenue where you can take

>> bill plante for us this morning, thanks. joining us is house majority leader eric cantor. sir, good to have you with us this morning. it has been analyzed over the past few days, the republican plan, it essentially looks to slash the deficit through cuts. but doesn't there also need to be perhaps some more money coming in at the same time to pay things down and make a meaningful dent? can you really establish that just through cuts? >> erica, you're right. we cannot fix our fiscal crisis and bring down the debt just through cuts alone, but everybody understands that washington has been on a spending binge of late and we've got to start spending money the way the taxpayers are right now, and that's learning how to do more with less. but you're right, we need to grow this economy, and i think that's where the difference is, and i'm hopeful i can hear from the president today something that actually will come to the middle and meet us. i don't think there are many americans right now who want to pay more taxes. we're a few days out from tax day and i think most people underst

for example, he had "wild bill" officers plant rumors in papers in the u. s, new york times, and overseas that top nazis were fleeing germany for south america and leaving the germans' high and dry. a very, very famous singer, saying for a lot of the radio propaganda broadcast that donovan broadcast into germany. there were, for example, the leader of lonely woman leaflets that were dropped off as german soldiers which said that their wives and co friends back home had joined the legal limit and were having sex with their comrades who were returning back from leave. another idea they had that they tried out was the job fake mail bags over germany that were stuck with poison pen letters. the addresses the gap for the letters from german phone directories and of the city directories. they hope that the german citizens to pick him up, figure it was lost, and give it to a german postmaster and deliver of amal. stanley even contracted one idea or concocted a hormone that if they could ever get to hitler's festivals that would inject the one on and his vegetables

plant. i can save me farm same a home with no pain that cost the monsanto you know i was looking at a two hundred thousand dollar bill so that is a major victory to me. the court rules for the a page and on the gene allows the owner to control the entire plant that is the pavement on the gene has priority over the ownership of the place. where it says surprise or loses a court battle to monsanto and as i said just was talking to another lawyer that it could be the biggest win for us or for the people concerned about you most and time only cal and i'm sure that this for in court and for pride years will have to revisit because with the results up there at the station could mean that a corporate. it could control almost anything that you put your genes into or anything to put their patents are that's the way it stands right now also some people legal people have expressed that and then it was a wife decision that eventually now monsanto will be faced to be able to have to control what they could into the environment for although i built the issue and if they put something in an environment that the parent ate and it's

turn off your electricity going well i mean there are a few points the first is that bill's right the current plants that are operating are very profitable but when you're talking about building new plants which is prone to costs that are incredibly high cost that could be as high as eight or nine thousand dollars per kilowatt cost of building a new wind turbine is about two thousand dollars per kilowatt the only other technology that's not expensive on a capital intensive basis is solar panels and nobody's talked about making centralize solar facilities so there's not many countries it's the second interesting point is that when you talk about capacity factor it is true that most plants in the u.s. are actually close to ninety six ninety seven percent for the last few years but if you look at the worldwide history over the course of nuclear power the global capacity factors below seventy percent and that's a largely due to what's called a steep i don't want to call learning curve with new reactors and so if we're talking about historic reactors keeping the reactors are law i learned truly very litt

percy hired a neighbor to remove the plants and sent the bill to months and so for a total amount of six hundred canadian dollars monsanto refused to pay and luis mizer filed a claim in the local small claims court. can you imagine the end there is going to monsanto a billion dollar corporation coming to court for six hundred dollars but five minutes before the trial and i'm sad to agreed to settle out of court and they agreed that there would be no gag order my wife and i could talk about it i could talk to you about it tonight so it was not only every thirty three per ourselves but now it opened it up for all farmers in every part of the world if you are contaminated you know have been asking you where you can take my cat and not only monsanto you could take syngenta dupont to court if you are contaminate contaminated because now if president has been established. when i travel around the world and i need so many people so many organizations that have such a good education they went good food they want safe food and they don't want the environment our air our lay and our soil conta

the governor and energy secretary will be here to dedicate the plant later today. that bill, the idea being the state of california gets roughly a third, 33% of energy from renewable sources by the year 2020. in about nine years there. brent and laura. >> thank you very much, bob. >>> more and more people going sol solar. we have plenty of sun here. we want to check in with christina to get a look at the forecast. >> we are going to see a lot of sunshine. mostly sunny skies today. 39 degrees in navato. 49 in livermore. 50 in hayward. depending on where you are waking up this morning, yeah, it's chilly up in the north bay. you will need a heavy parka up there. a light sweater or jacket along the peninsula. a clear, cool start this morning. when the sun comes up, you will be able to see a really, really nice sunrise. it's going to be gorgeous out there. warm as you head through the afternoon. by wednesday, rain moves through the area. high pressure is still in control. it's going to bring the temperatures up to the mid to upper 60s. depending on where you live, near the coast,

the governor was at this morning's dedication of this new solar panel manufacturing plant in milpitas. he signed a bill requiring california energy firms to generate a third of their electricity from renewable sources by the year 2020. later today, he will address the state budget crisis here in san francisco. >>> energy price on the minds of most americans these days. looking at a map of the u.s., it is clear that we are paying the heist gas prices here in california. the areas in deep red mean gas is selling for more than $4.10 a gallon. green states paying 3.50. julie watts now on how the reality is prompting many to change their driving habits. >>> reporter: >> well, it will be probably over $100. >> reporter: fed up with filling up? near record gas prices have consumers cutting back. >> it made me cut down on some extra trips and kind of consolidate trips within city boundaries. >> instead of filling un, going by $30 worth, $40. >> you don't run to the storks the parts house as often. you're going to make it on the way home rather than during the job rather than running to the stores. >> reporter:

bill and the jobs it could create. >> reporter: he is using manufacturing plant here in milpitas as a backdrop for signing the legislation. some people question whether california can pull this off but here the governor will be surrounded by encouragement and lots of support. >> if you are not using solar pams for your home you should be. that is the message coming from jerry brown today as he signs legislation requiring one-third of all california utilities power come from solar cells, windmills or other alternative sources within ten years. >> i think for us to be proud. because we're leading our country on clean technology. its good moment for us. it's time for us to be educated to understand what is clean tech mean for us and what do i need to do to participate in. >> it it will be mean big business for a company that makes solar panels. they used to only manufacture the panels in malaysia creating 100 local jobs. >> we have adapted to that. >> critics worry the move to require so much renewable energy will drive up the energy costs. supporters say demand is strong and that will bring more jobs. >> it's very aggressi

bill and the jobs it could create. >> reporter: he is using manufacturing plant here in milpitas as a backdrop for signing the legislation. some people question whether california can pull this off but here the governor will be surrounded by encouragement and lots of support. >> if you are not using solar pams for your home you should be. that is the message coming from jerry brown today as he signs legislation requiring one-third of all california utilities power come from solar cells, windmills or other alternative sources within ten years. >> i think for us to be proud. because we're leading our country on clean technology. its good moment for us. it's time for us to be educated to understand what is clean tech mean for us and what do i need to do to participate in. >> it it will be mean big business for a company that makes solar panels. they used to only manufacture the panels in malaysia creating 100 local jobs. >> we have adapted to that. >> critics worry the move to require so much renewable energy will drive up the energy costs. supporters say demand is strong and that will bring more jobs. >> it's very aggressi

pge says the nuclear plant there can withstand a 7.5 magnitude quake. >>> just like bill called it, we got a little rain today. >> a little bit of rain. some areas like san francisco got over a 10th of an inch of rain. the roadways were wet out there for the morning commute. some of these clouds will filter into the bay area forecast over the next 48 hours and that could lead to a slight chance of sprinkles. we'll be watching that one. i think we're fine, but lots of clouds in the air. highs tomorrow come up 5-6 degrees. tomorrow looks like a nice day. the weekend looks nice as well. the question right now will be friday in terms of cloud cover and maybe a bit of drizzlable out there. 34 in santa rosa will get you some frost. chilly start to your morning for your thursday. the jet stream is to the north. we'll see thursday through saturday are clouds that will shoot down over the top of us giving us a hazy filter of sunshine and keeping temperatures on the mild to cool side. by saturday we might see a low 70. here's what we got. thursday morning, i want to show you the cloud cover. thu

. >> reporter: today's bill signing took place inside the flextronics manufacturing plant. a plant that created 300 jobs in just the last month. >> it's not only the green aspect, it's an opportunity for everyone. >> reporter: robert chu on hand for today's signing pledged $1.1 billion in loans to support the california valley solar project. a move the feds says will create 350 construction jobs and about a dozen permanent jobs. >> this is just the start of our strategy to lead a clean energy invasion race and under president obama's leadership we're jumping in the clean energy race and we're pledging to win. >> reporter: the federal government will help stimulate the green economy and will also help the state meet its clean energy requirement by the end of the decade. we're at the flextronics fabrication plant, christien kafton. >> and today the federal loan guarantees $1.2 billion. it will generate 2,200 mega watts. that is enough energy to power 60,000 homes and avoid putting 430-tons of carbon dioxide in the air. >>> and homes not vails took over a vacant three story bu

. >> reporter: today's bill signing took place inside the flextronic manufacturing plant. a plant that created 300 jobs in the silican valley in just the last three months. >> it's not only the pay thing, it's a good opportunity for everyone. this is green energy and green energy for everyone. >> reporter: u.s. energy secretary steven chu on hand for today's signing pledged a conditional $1.1 billion in loans to support the california green plan. a move the feds says will create 250 construction jobs and about a thousand permanent jobs. >> this is just the part of the our strategy to lead the clean energy race and under president obama's leadership we're jumping in the clean energy race and we're playing to win. >> reporter: the plant will help the state meet its goal in the end of the decade. >>> first he said he was running for president. then tim pawlenty backed off. this is what the republican said on cnn tonight. >> i'm not putting my head in the ring rhetorically, i'm focused on running for president. >> tim pawlenty had been asked if he would run as vice president a

. >> japan is facing a huge cleanup bill for the power plant crippled by the earthquake and tsunami. it's been six weeks since people were evacuated from the area. most have been living in government shelters and are running low on money. the government says they're facing a huge financial burden. >>> here's what a sudden surge in exports of bottled water to japan. there's still concern in that country about the safety of tap water following last month's earthquake and nuclear disaster. some bottled water plants in japan are running 24/7 and still can't produce enough. exporters are scrambling to ship out bottled water to them. >> it's a significant surge in exports. we'll find out later this year, more of the details in terms of where exactly the commodities are moving to. $3.4 billion passed on their way to japan. >>> marin county, there's a half marathon out there, i'm not running in it, but i know other people are. do you think the rain will be falling on those runners today. >> perhaps just a few light showers. i know the runners like it cool, it's a good start this morning, we

. >> reporter: today's bill signing took place inside the flextronic manufacturing plant. a plant that created 300 jobs in the silican valley in just the last three months. >> it's not only the pay thing, it's a good opportunity for everyone. this is green energy and green energy for everyone. >> reporter: u.s. energy secretary steven chu on hand for today's signing pledged a conditional $1.1 billion in loans to support the california green plan. a move the feds says will create 250 construction jobs and about a thousand permanent jobs. >> this is just the part of the our strategy to lead the clean energy race and under president obama's leadership we're jumping in the clean energy race and we're playing to win. >> reporter: the plant will help the state meet its goal in the end of the decade. >>> first he said he was running for president. then tim pawlenty backed off. this is what the republican said on cnn tonight. >> i'm not putting my head in the ring rhetorically, i'm focused on running for president. >> tim pawlenty had been asked if he would run as vice president a

the bill signing took place today at the grand opening of the sun power flextronics solar panel plant in milpitas. they announced tts contributing more than a billion dollars to a huge network of solar panels on the coast. that facility will generate enough power for 60,000 homes. >>> still ahead tonight, video of the runway tap that turned around a whole plane full of people. and the people who say giving these kids a place to catch some air would put their homes at risk. and then later president obama agrees to one more favor for his friend, oprah. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> a project that divided the city of fremont for more than a year got the go ahead from the city council. but that decision may not be the end of the controversy. as lisa amin gulezian reports, opponents are now considering a lawsuit. >> skateboarding isn't just a sport. for skaters in fremont, it is a way of life. but their lifestyle is missing one crucial element, a skate park. >> we have spots like this where we skate, but there are signs up that says we can't, so we are

plant. thank you. >> i'll take that as an invitation. bill, i think a question for you? >> let me say a couple things. if you can solve for me the two issues you mentioned in the omb scoring and i think the other was congressional restrictions on what kind of power we're allowed to do in the power industry, that would be terrific. that would certainly ease our lives. what we are trying to do is put in a mix of centralized funding and component-level funding so that, for instance, we funded at a centralized level the installation energy test bed to test out these various technologies. no individual component is going to make the multiyear investment that it takes to develop these technologies and then test them, but once you have them, the return is quite -- it comes quite quickly and so the incentives for a component to be more energy efficient in its installations, in its buildings pays back very quickly. and so what we're trying to do is get the centralized funding in a position where it primes the pump for the components to then utilize those technologies to reduce th

plant into the sea. the clock is ticking. president obama warns of a government shutdown after failing to strike a budget bill. ♪ >> hello therelks are continuing to try to convince laurent gbagbo to give up the presidency of ivory coast. there have been reports he's close to surrendering, but in an interview on french television, he insisted he won last year's election and not alassane ouattara. hundreds of civilians have died in the past few days after being caught up in the fighting between rival forces. the french government says a cease-fire is now in force in abidjan and the situation appears to be quiet. andrew harding is there for us and sent this report. >> battle weary. we found these troops resting at a petrol station in abidjan this morning. no one in the shattered city has had much sleep these past five days. this is the invading army fighting to instore ivory coast elected president. abruptly a radio announcer declares the battle is over. laurent gbagbo refusing to give up power here is preparing to surrender. the news digested cautiously at first. if you say it's too late, well, it's too late. it will be too lat

plant. it will be most aggressive alternative energy mandate in the entire country. under the billfornia utilities and other power providers would have a deadline 2020 to draw 33% of their power from alternative sources. supporters say the new bill will assure that funding for renewable energy will grow about you bu some say electricity bills could rise for californians because utility companies would have to spend billions of dollars with installing the equipment. sticking with traditional would be cheaper but the u.s. department of energy commends california for the efforts. janelle wang, "abc 7 news". >> kristen: thanks a lot. >> eric: time to look at the weather forecast and a little bit of a warmup. am i right about that? >> still a couple of days away. >> right now, we still see some of the fog, patchy fog that has been developing over the last couple of hours as the calm winds and still relatively wet ground giving away some of the moisture but this will quickly be replaced by sunshine today. it was clear and you a calm for most of the overnight hours, it is cooler when you

bill now goes to governor brown. >> toyota announced overnight it will resume production of all japanese plants starting a week from monday. all production was hauled late last month after the devastating 9.0 quake we've been telling you about. production will start back up, the plants will only on operate at half capacity because of pipe shortages. toyota officials don't know when the company will return to full production. it's been quite a year for toyota. >> quite a 24 hours in the weather department. >> we all jammed it in to yesterday. live doppler 7 hd shows some moisture. in the south bay and even into the east bay. we're looking at showers, cold rain from 280, 101, belmont, san mateo, woodside and higher elevations looking at the snow on either side of 101, gilroy, morgan hill to the east of you but we are looking at slowly to sink to the south this morning. still the risk of some icy roads the black ice out there with temperatures in the 30s and 40s. you'll need a jacket this morning. 42 in redwood city. temperatures remaining on the cool side but winds will not be as gusty. still breezy and a few locatio

operator of the fukushima nuclear plant to pay some twelve thousand dollars to each household forced to evacuate because of radiation leaks it is estimated the compensation bill could end up topping twenty five billion however the country's leadership has come in for its own criticism from those still living in shelters a month on from the quake they say help spin it too little too late when it comes as emergency response crews are finally carrying out intensive searches for tsunami victims near the nuclear plant delayed over radiation fears. italian activist has been found dead in gaza city hours after being abducted but already oh my god me was seized on thursday by islamist radicals threatened to kill him if hamas did not release a number of palestinian prisoners extremists posted a video of him on you tube tied up and blindfolded before the killing the mass officials say two suspects have been arrested and others are being sought. now russia's supreme court has accepted an appeal by the defense of the jailed ex tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky but it was well to extend his arrest in august last year however today is that decision would have made no difference

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bill was the manager of the plant and then the wife was something lower than him. when he was promoted, she was promoted up to take his position, and she didn't get the money to go along with it. i find that very sad. i have buttons, buttons galore, and it's a little boy and a little girl, each one in a diaper, and the little girl is -- has the diaper pulled out and looking down into the diaper and says, oh, that's why you -- that's why boys are paid more. okay, i was going to make another point, but right now, i can't think of what it was, but same thing of what i wanted to say. >> host: anything to respond to? >> guest: hearing a story from a couped decades ago, certainly there's a history of discrimination against women, and there's wonderful it doesn't affect us as much today as it did in the past. one thing, a final appointment, it's interesting that the women are the majority of managers, increasingly in positions of power who are deciding wagesment i think this idea that there's still, you know, it's only mep who are making these decisions is becoming increa

second, plant is highly individualized claims for monetary relief bill to satisfy rule 23 b.o requirements for certification of mandatory not opt out class. regarding rule 23 a, because the plaintiffs' claims in this case hinged on a delegation of discretion to individual managers throughout the country, they cannot meet the code used requirements that are reflected in rule 23 a. the delegation of discretion in some ways is the opposite of cookies of claims that are common to everyone in class. the common policies of the plaintiffs that -- that the plaintiff's 0.2 are either neutral and not party to be discriminatory, or our affirmative and nondiscriminatory. the company has a strong policy against discrimination in favor of diversity. >> i suppose if corporate headquarters had learned that these objective decision making -- that the delegation of decision making to the field was resulting in several discriminatory practices, patterns of discrimination -- in other words, the centralized process was lead to discrimination, then i suppose -- had that been attributed to the poli

bill into law requiring utilities to generate a third of their electricity from renewable sources by the year 2020. he launched that ambitious plan while dedicating a new solar panel manufacturing plant in milpitas. the governor says california has been a pioneer in alternative energy sources. >> we're the leader in wind technology and we were and are the leader in energy efficiency and our buildings and in our appliances. so this is something to be proud of. >> well, this new plan does come with a price. the public utilities commission says it will increase energy costs by at least 7%, an increase that will likely be passed on to customers. >>> a commuter plane sent into a spin. a jumbo jet clips a smaller jet on the runway. and it's all caught on tape. >>> bay area neighborhood bombarded with debris and it's not the first time. where tons of trash were found dumped illegally. >>> and sweet sabotage? how much damage that office candy jar can do to your diet. ,,,,,, california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done