she has transcribed pamphlets and news letters into braille.uide dogs' volunteer manager jennifer bernstein admires her work ethic. >> she has never, ever come with a bad attitude. she never said that's not my job. her approach is just always do it with a kind heart. >> reporter: joanne ritter guide dogs' marketing director calls elisabeth a role model. >> we look at a person-dog team, a person with a guide dog, as a model for interdependence for team work. elisabeth and guide dog are a great team. >> reporter: so for more than 40 years of transcribing braille and serving guide dogs for the blind, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to elisabeth scheibach. sharon chin, cbs 5. >>> well, it took lawrence, oh, about two or three months but he finally delivered a little summertime weather. >> finally managed to get it right. >> yes. we are getting it right and we're going to keep it going. not bad weather around the bay area now. sunshine out there and high pressure holding on starting to weaken a little bit. it's going to be hot in sp

annie doubts the thief would even know what to do with the braille note. it's use less to anyone who doesn't real braid. the equipment was on loan from the california school for the blind and annie just found out she will have to pay for the equipment if it's never found. >> we would love for this equipment to be returned no questions asked. >> it really does hurt people if you do steal from them. no matter what it is. >> reporter: the family has filed a police report but it's a really low priority for oakland's overwhelmed department. the school is urging anyone who sees that device to return it to the school here in fremont or to any police department with a note affixed to it saying, for kevin. >> thank you. >>> let's recap breaking news out of west oakland. a fire burning at the schnitzer plant is mostly out. this is west of the nimitz freeway. they recycle steel there. it's metal recycling facility. same plant caught fire a couple times in the last year, once in 2010, once in 2009. they are getting a lot of water as you can from our picture from chopp

she has transcribed pamphlets and news letters into braille.uide dogs' volunteer manager jennifer bernstein admires her work ethic. >> she has never, ever come with a bad attitude. she never said that's not my job. her approach is just always do it with a kind heart. >> reporter: joanne ritter guide dog's marketing record calls elisabeth a role model. >> we look eight person-dog team, a person with a guide dog, as a model for interdependence for team work. elisabeth and guide dog are a great team. >> reporter: this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to elisabeth scheibach. sharon chin, dr.s cbs 5. >> go to cbssf.com and click "connect" and go to down jefferson awards to nominate your local hero. >>> it was a quiet evening until just after 6:00. >> i was at my son's baseball practice when my wife and i saw the explosion. and i turned to her and she looked right at me and she said, go. >> the moments of horror and heroism in san bruno and what we have learned about the disaster one year later. >>> right next to city hall, close to a play

, then moved to the -- transcribed thousands of books into braille.ted with a class at the college of mirren. >> i thought that might be worthwhile that does some good for somebody. >> reporter: elizabeth said she transcribes 35 pages flawlessly to earn her certification from the library of congress in 1969, then joined a local transcribers work. their work enabled sightless people to read. >> i enjoy doing what i do. >> reporter: elizabeth transcribes braille at home, but once a week for the last 45 years, she's come here to volunteer as guide dogs for the blind. she and her husband arrive faithfully every thursday morning. her volunteer work at guide dogs began in 1966, when as a young widow and mother of three young children, she needed something to help her heart heal. >> it made me feel that i, you know, contributed something and i didn't, you know, stick at home and worry about what to do next. >> reporter: elizabeth has poured her hands into office work, from alpha be tieing to stuffing envelopes, transcribed pamphlets and newsletters into brai

it's useless to anyone who doesn't read braille. the equipment was on loan from the california school for the blind and annie just found out she will have to pay for the equipment if it's never found. >> we would love for this equipment to be returned no questions asked. >> it really does hurt people if you do steal from them. no matter what it is. >> that was christin ayers reporting. >>> today jurors in the michael jackson murder trial got a closer look into the events leading up to the pop star's death. jackson's bodyguard, alberto alvarez, took the stand in the trial against the singer's former doctor, conrad murray. alvarez testified that murray asked him to get rid of vials before calling 911. >> he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials and then he reached out to me and said, here, put these in a bag. >> prosecutors also say murray didn't tell doctors at the hospital that jackson may have overdosed. >>> we say ecstasy and immediately teenagers, rave parties and overdoses are probably your first thoughts but the drug out

he was entirely blind by the age of 13 but learned gerschwin's rhapsody in blue by using braille scores. he was also one of the major instrumentalists of the feeling -- many of you recollected remember -- the thrilling sound of the 50's that blended the latin bolero with the latin sound. the second was chico, we like always to put these little names to people. my name is carlotta but my real name was charlotte and they called me carlotica, little charlotte. he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were ha

inside the backpack was what is called braille note. it lets him do everything from word processing to web surfing and reading e books. >> to realize that someone had violated not just any damage, but a 14-year-old boy. >> i depend on it to do all my homework, like english homework and things like that. >> that device is worth anywhere from $5,000 to $7,000. it was on loan from the california school for the blind. and if it's not returned, kevin's mom could be on the hook for it. >>> roberta says there's rain on the way and that has napa wineries worried. don knapp on why tonight will be a long one for some growers. >> we're going to be starting at 2:00 in the morning and pulling off about 40-tons of these chardonnay grapes here. >> after a growing season delayed by cooler weather, napa valley vineyards are making sure they don't lose any of their wine grapes to cool, wet weather headed this way. >> we're looking at a quarter inch of rain coming in on tuesday, wednesday, thursday. the forecast has shown a few showers. most of the suit s

. >>> nasa launched its so-called braille moon mission this morning. the rocket lifted off from cape canaveral, florida, just after 9:00. the mission actually involves two satellites, grail a and grail b. they will map lunar gravity and try to figure out how the moon was formed. . each week in our 2:00 eastern hour, we focus on getting your financial house in order. today, we're going to focus on made in america, products that you could buying that are made in the u.s. in the 3:00 eastern hour, we're going to talk to the co-author of "the power of half." a young woman who convinced her family to sell their house and give half the money to those less fortunate. her book is being used in a novel way in at least one public school. and at 4:00 eastern time, at the movies, we're getting the grade on "contagion." >>> president obama calls his plan a jolt, not a stimulus. but it is. still, the big question remains, will it work? i'm christine romans. welcome to your "your money." the american jobs act includes payroll tax cuts for 98% of businesses, a tax cre

and so today we sell braille the 50th anniversary of -- so we celebrate the 50th anniversary of a remarkable program put forth by president john f. kennedy, the idea that americans can reach out to the whole world and serve wherever that need might be. happy birthday, peace corps. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. dold, for five minutes. mr. dold: -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the chair will remind all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the house and that any manifestation of approval or disapproval or proceedings is in violation of the rules of the house. the gentleman from illinois. mr. dold: thank you, madam speaker, and i, too, want to send my happy birthday out to the peace corps and certainly it's a great day to celebrate that birthday. madam speaker, what we are seeing at the united nations this week is a brazen rejection of the basic principle of a negotiated peace. tomorrow, mahmoud abbas will deliver a speech at the united nations where he is expected to formally announce a resolution to unil