i was very lucky in that, the brenners are a family of letter writers. everyone had a typewriter in the era before computers and bang away at typewriters in the middle of the night as children and my father and mother, long, long letters. anita brenner turned out to be the same kind of obsessive letter-writer pack right. all of her letters were in the university of texas, the great archives of the world. i was able to go on a traumatic day and see she had neatly kept hundreds of letters that my father and family wrote to each other in the 20s. i saw patterns, the anger that had gone on 60 years before i was on the planet that became stamped on us. it became our dna. >> anything that helped you get insight as to why so much of your brother's anger and passion into what you regarded as coo coo politics? >> that is an interesting question. it is hard. what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her father. my grandfather wo

the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very

the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he

. >> brenner was partially paralyzed after a riding accident. she and her mare have won over 16 medals, eight at the paralympics. >> my horse and i have grown together well. i always hoped we would get the chance to show what we can do together. >> the german swimmers just missed out in the 50 meters freestyle. the netherlands won the women's event. >> i was nervous at the start. incredibly nervous. i was just missing a bit of luck. >> in the men's event, china's swimmer was the man to beat. germany as a swimmer swam hard but only managed to come in fourth. germany's sitting bali team beat egypt 321, giving them a clean sweep of the preliminary round and securing their corner final slot. >> you are watching the "journal" on dw. >> more news at the top of the hour. stay with us. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

. >> other muni riders like san francisco resident jill brenner are given hope that his good fortuneay sometime turn into theirs. >> it's awesome to see that kind of community. >> i would hope that would happen in my case, as well. >> paul rose tell me they did identify the drive. he was driving all day and they couldn't let her know she is the good samaritan driver. once they get ahold of her they will initiate a reunion. >> terry: the weekend is here and depending on where you are in the bay area you have clouds, partly cloudy or sunny skies. you can take your pick. >> later on the sun is going to win out. big day. >> terry: everywhere. >> lisa: yeah, we're talking. >> terry: davenport. >> lisa: it's going to be cloudy. we're getting sunshine in san francisco. 65 and a little cool for the city. still very warm inland. i'll have those temperatures in a minute. >> terry: and holiday down at the farms, they shoot a film at stanford university. >> living on budgeted doesn't mean you have to give up on all the fun. i'm michael finney, later, three tips to put you on the road to fun and

. >> as he waits his hopeful reunion, other muni drivers like san francisco resident jill brenner areiven hope that his good fortune may some day turn into theirs. >> it's awesome to see that kind of community in san francisco. >> i would hope that that would happen in my case, as well. >> muni spokesman paul rhodes told me they did finally identify the driver. the problem is she was driving all day and they couldn't let her know that she is in fact the good samaritan driver. once they get a hold of her, they will initiate a reunion. abc7 news. >> abc7 meet olympics jest lisa argen joins us now. >> yes. >> what are you doing, reacting to my comment? >> i said that's me. i can do that from time to time. you know, we are looking at the fog behind us. so a better shot of that show we have the cloudy skies from our watermark camera. of course, the bay bridge. 55 degrees. we look for a warmup. low 70s by the end of the day. and in oakland the big a's game tonight. we will talk about that and the weekend forecast straight ahead. >> and also ahead, hollywood down on the farm. movie stars sho

>>reporter: as he waits the hopeful reunion other man i riders like san francisco resident jill brennerre given hope that his good fortune may some day turn that theirs. >> it's really awesome to see that kind of community. hope would it happen in my case a asally. >>reporter: earlier this evening muni spokesman rose told me they did financially identify the driver. she was driving all day and they couldn't let her know that she is in fact the good samaritan driver once they get a hold of her they will initial 80th a reunion. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >>> house of representatives passed a bill to avoid more solyndra. the fremont solar panel manufacturer that went bankrupt last year. legislation pulls the mug on the program that garren tea loan for clean renewable energy project. solyndra closed the doors shortly after getting half billion dollars in loans from the federal government. lawmakers named the bill not more solyndra act. it's not expected to pass the senate. >> university of california will pay damages to 21 students alumni pepper spray by uc davis campus police last year

. >> as he waits, other muni drivers like san francisco residence jill brenner are given hope that hisood fortune may some day turn into theirs. >> it's awesome to see that kind of community in san francisco. >> i would hope that that would happen in my case, as well. >> muni spokesman paul rhodes told me they did finally identify the driver. the problem is she was driving all day and they couldn't let her know that she is in fact the good samaritan driver. once they get a hold of her, they will initiate a reunion. abc7 news. >>> lisa argen with your weekend forecast. we have some overcast now. not exactly unusual around here but bright skies in our future. >> yeah, and from this shot there's a little hole over san francisco. >> we are peeking through. >> we are. most of the bay is cloudy except our inland valleys. also north and south of the city. so the 1200-foot marine layer causing a little bit of dense fog out there, i'll have the details and talk about the clearing coming up. >> all right. also ahead, hollywood down on the farm. movie star vince vaughn and owen wilson shoot scene