brian kabilka answered the call in his palo alto home and told that he and robert lefkowitz had won the nobel prize for chemistry. >> i had trouble saying anything. probably more towards crying really hard to believe. >> reporter: dr. kabilka had been studying proteins more than a decade starting at duke then stanford because he was curious. he and his wife had a sense his discovery was a big deal his wife realized it when he first announced it at a conference. >> said i still didn't think it was going to work, but here it is and everyone in the auditorium, sat up. i guess that gives me an idea too it was a big thing. after that conference everyone was surrounding him, everyone wanted to know about. >> reporter: his research explained the body's communication system. his discoveries involving g-protein-coupled receptors could change how we treat disease in the future. >> my hope is that we will be able to use these structures to develop more safer more selective drugs more economically. >> reporter: there were obstacles. the doctor said he lost funding source as long the way because the

. >>> stanford scientist the recipient of this year's nobel prize in chemistry many brian kabilka is sharing the 1.2 million dollar prize with robert lefkowitz of duke university. the two were selected for ground breaking discovery about proteins that let body respond to signals from the outside. we are expecting to hear from kabilka during a 10 a.m. news conference this morning at stanford. >>> san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi will be back on-the-job this morning after a late night vote at city hall. katie marzullo is live in the newsroom with reaction to this decision. >> reporter: sheriff mirkarimi says he will talk with sherry department officials this morning about transitioning back to being in charge. his attorney says the sheriff is automatically reinstated and he's entitled to six months of back pay. the board of supervisors heard testimony and public comment for hours last night. they to decide whether to uphold the ethics' commission ruling that the sheriff committed official misconduct when he bruised his wife's arm in argument. nine votes were needed to oust him only

brian kabilka answered the call in his palo alto home and told that he and robert lefkowitz had won the nobel prize for chemistry. >> i had trouble saying anything. probably more towards crying really hard to believe. >> reporter: dr. kabilka had been studying proteins more than a decade starting at duke then stanfd beuse he was rious. he and h wife had a sense his discove was a big deal his wife realized it when he first announced it at a conference. >> said i still didn't think it was going to work, but here it is and everyone in the auditorium, sat up. i guess that gives me an idea too it was a big thing. after that conference everyone was surrounding him, everyone wanted to know about. >> reporter: his research explained the body's communication system. his discoveries involving g-protein-coupled receptors could change how we treat disease in the future. >> my hope is that we will be able to use these structures to develop more safer more selective drugs more economically. >> reporter: there were obstacles. the doctor saihe lost funding source as long the way because the project was

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