brown, governor schwarzenegger has issued a reprieve for albert brown scheduled to be executed for a murder he committed in 1980. my question is, do you think the process for the death penalty appeals is too lengthy, too involved and if so, what should be done about it? >> it's certainly too lengthy and by the way it's gotten longer during each governor's term after i left. now it takes five years before you get a transcript up to the supreme court for the initial review. i want to say in this respect, the death penalty is a serious issue. i expressed my own preference, that i'd rather have a society where we didn't have to use death as a punishment. that view yand preference is overruled by the legislature and the people in an initiative ballot measure that passed. so we have it. eve got to make it work. as attorney general i've defended, literally, hundreds and hundreds of death penalty convictions. but, as you say, this thing goes on and on forever. you've got to appoint the lawyers you've got to appoint the investigators. and, unfortunately, it does take money to make the process

brown. >> yes. the budget has never been this late before. i do know something about budgets, i must say, and the budget is always the heart of any kind of democratic society. how much you spend and what you put it in. the budget mess is one of the key characteristics of how screwed things up are in sacramento. how do we get at all? first of all, you have to live within your means. we had a boom, and wall street was going, and dot command all that, and it collapses. and you have to reset, reset 15%, 18%. i authorized an 18% reduction in the governor's salary, the legislators' salary, and my own. you start the week after the election. i'll bring all 120 together, and i don't care whether it takes 200 hours, 500 hours, i know that many of these legislators have no idea what's going on in the budget. they are sitting in the bleachers while the big five group, that's the top four legislators and the governor, a quum of people, work it all out behind closed doors. we need a transparcht exhaustive

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. the u.s. treasury and insurance giant a.i.g. unveiled a plan today to speed up the repayment of more than $100 billion in federal bailout money. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, economic writers louise story of the "new york times" and roben farzad of "bloomberg business week" weigh the pluses and minuses of the deal. >> brown: then, kwame holman looks at the down-to-the-wire scramble as congress pushed to adjourn just weeks ahead of the midterm elections. >> suarez: judy woodruff talks to speaker of the house nancy pelosi about the battle over tax cuts and the stakes for democrats in november. >> our members left congress last night. they are confident that they would return in the majority. >> brown: special correspondent miles o'brien reports on a mississippi community's plan to use stimulus money for mass transit in rural areas. >> suarez: betty ann bowser updates the johnson and johnson story as company executives and the f.d.a. come under fire on capitol

jerry brown. california needs major changes. >> reporter: the meg whitman 2010 campaign responded by saying after 40 years of politics protecting the status quo, it's no surprise jerry brown kicks off his campaign with a misleading historic renovation of his own record. jerry brown is the last person we can trust for major change in sacramento. brown takes exception to the accusations that when he left the governor's office the state was flat broke, flirting with bankruptcy and with 11% of residents out of work and he says he was able to reduce taxes and create nearly 2 million jobs despite a recession. >> we're dealing with a campaign on the republican side that has no regard for truth. when california came out of the recession the revenue came pouring into the state because i left it healthy and structurally sound. >> reporter: brown's campaign claims that meg whitman has run 45,000 ads just since the primary. he says he thinks people are tired now of listening to her negative attacks and they'r

again, brown has been sentenced to death now. the new execution date is the day before. >>> we appreciate that. new details today. pg&e has reported gas pipeline leaks at a rate six times higher than the nation's other large operators according to the "los angeles times," which investigated pg&e leaks following this month's deadly explosion in san bruno. since 2004, the utility has reported 38 leaks near highly populated areas or environmentally sentencive areas. pg&e says its numbers are higher than other utilities because it has more rigorous standards for reporting those gas leaks. >>> meanwhile, congresswoman jackie speier visited san bruno today to announce new pipeline safety legislation. she plans to introduce the bill tomorrow. it would require automatic or remote shutoff valves on some transmission lines. utilities would also have to tell home owners about the location of nearby pipelines. >>> on to the governor's race now, where a new poll shows democrat jerry brown has widened his lead. a "los angeles times" uucs poll

brown missed the deadline. it must be an extraordinary experience for a lawyer to have to sit down with a client to talk about his choice of how he wishes to die. and his choice is really a hobson's choice. it's either three drugs, which we know there is a risk of some pain and which we know in six out of 13 executions in california judge fogel found problems. the second choice is a oñe-drug combination which is actually not part of california law. and has never been researched, investigated, tested, or examined by the state, and the judge has actually asked mr. brown to -- if he wants to consent to the state committing an execution in violation of state law. it's not clear mr. brown even has the authority to make that kind of decision. and i suspect that will be part of the appeal to the ninth circuit. >> reporter: near san quinten, kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. >>> in san francisco, police shot and killed a man in the tenderloin today. shortly after 11:00 this morning, they responded to a noise complaint

>> brown: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez.e'll see you on-line and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and michael gerson sitting in for david brooks, among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org [woman crying] [yells]

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm geoffrey brown. on the newshour this labor day, we report on president obama's request to congress to approve $50 billion for transportation and infrastructure spending to help create new jobs. and paul solmon examines the eroding cloud organized labor in these economic hard times. >> without the workers, without labor, where would their company be? >> we're ready to continue to operate the facility with our temporary work force. >> brown: then judy woodruff previews the mid-term elections with local public broadcast correspondents in california, nevada, ohio and pennsylvania as campaigning heads into the final eight-week stretch. special correspondent in pakistan details the health and safety dangers facing nearly eight million children in the aftermath of the flood disaster. philanthropy expert s assess the response to pakistani flood relief efforts and wrapping up our series on iraq, fred de sam lazaro reports on the day-to-day difficulties facing iraqis who fled their homeland. >> reporter: seven

brown. politics may be playing a part. no one knows what the motivation was. >> do you think can use the same arguments to appeal? >> brown did use the same arguments as morales, but what happened when it went before a judge although he indicated in the morales case, he would have examined it more carefully and looked at the regulations in his opinion on friday. i just don't have enough time to review the regulations before brown's execution date. the judge was willing to let the execution go forward without reviewing the regulations. >> it's interesting. it's pushed back to thursday at 9:00 p.m. now you have the drug manufacturer involve and the lethal cocktail is going to expire on friday. do you think it's going to be carried through? what are the chances? >> the ninth circuit issued an order and said what i think has been on the minds of many of us. why is this procedure being driven by an expiration date on the drugs. new drugs will be available after the turn of the year and the case was support back saying you need

i'm jerry brown. california needs major changes.e have to live within our means; we have to return power and decision making to the local level-closer to the people and no new taxes without voter approval. jerry brown the knowledge and know-how to get california working again. >>> you're watching cbs5 "eyewitness news." . >>> but by gosh i think our citizens deserve some information from pg&e. >> hundreds of pipelines hidden under ground. could another bay area be at risk too? why some city leaders say they are being stonewalled by pg&e. >>> reporting the structure fire with parties trapped inside the residence. >>> the dramatic calls of first responders in san bruno, what police and firefighters were dealing with as nephews faced an raging inferno. >> and an abrupt face from sierra is a should. >> a message four stories high. i'm ken bass city a. >> i'm dana king. after seeing what happened in san bruno, people want to know are their neighborhoods next. this map gives a general idea of the hundreds of miles of pipeline snaking unde

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. sarah shourd, one of three americans held in iran for more than a year, was released and left the country today. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we talk to two iran watchers, including one once jailed in teheran, about today's release and what it tells us about the regime. >> brown: then margaret warner interviews former british prime minister and united nations envoy tony blair about the newest round of middle east peace talks. >> i find it hard to see if these two political leader s in this context with an american administration pushing for a deal, if we can't get one, i don't know where we go from there. >> ifill: fred de sam lazaro has the story of a jewish entrepreneur working with palestinians and israelis for both peace and profit. >> brown: susan dentzer of "health affairs" and karen tumulty of the "washington post" sort through the latest give- and-take on health care politics. >> ifill: and we sit down with writer and cartoonist austin kleon for a dos

jeffrey brown talked to him this afternoon. >> brown: tom, give us an update first on where things stand with the rescue efforts. there's three separate plans at this point, right? >> that's right. there are. the first plan which is located up on the hill over there. frank can pan over and show it to us. option number one it's called. that's a drilling machine that's in the process of trying to drill a hole that's large enough to be able to retrieve the miners in a steel capsule that would be hauled up from a half mile underneath the ground. you can't see the other two options. one of them is is not here yet but the second option is to enlarge the communications hole that's been in place now for a week and possibly make that large enough to do the same thing. remove the miners out through the capsule. the third option is arriving tomorrow. a huge drilling rig that will arrive here from the airport on 42 different trucks. it's an oil drilling rig. it will be assemblyed on the far side of the mountain. it would be the fastest of the options but since it's getting a much later start than th

fact: brown promised to cut crime.bled, making oakland the 4th most dangerous city in america. jerry brown. he just can't deliver the results california needs now. it's a belief in everything we do. it's a 5 year, 50,000 mile promise. with complimentary scheduled maintenance no-cost replacement of wear and tear items and 24/7 roadside assistance. because when you create the most beautiful, fast cars on earth, you create an ownership experience to match. now it integrates your work e-mail, so you can be hooked up to everything you need to do. now it does 1 ghz speed on a more intuitive keyboard. turning you into an instrument of efficiency. introducing the new droid 2 by motorola. part of the next generation of does. >>> all right. the giants are a game out of first in the national league west. three straight wins and tonight at the diamondbacks, madison gets kennedy, 5 hits, 7 strikeouts, scoreless into the 9 9th. parra gabe as great play. and we go to struinning -- extra innings. top of the 11th, nate gets a hold of o

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight. our political editor david chalian reviews the winners and losers. >> ifill: then, a roundtable of political strategists explains what the results mean for republicans, for democrats and how they will affect who controls congress. >> brown: ray suarez talks to mexican ambassador arturo sarukhan as his country celebrates its bicentennial and fights an all-out war against drug-trafficking. >> as mexico seeks to shut down the flow of drugs moving north, the united states needs to step up to the plate and shut down the flow of weapons and cache moving >> ifill: plus, jose luis sierra of new america media reports on how the drug war has affected the tourism and manufacturing industries in the mexican state of baja california. >> we want to get back to getting people to think about mexico as fun in the sun and margaritaville and those types of things and stop associating mexico with blood and violence. >> brown: global post's suzanna koster reports from pakistan on an islamic charity provid

again, brown has been sentenced to death now. the new execution date is the day before. >> it might go past that time? >> reporter: they haven't talk about that. the governor has once again decided that brown has a right to exhaust all his appeals so that's what they are discussing. >>> the condemned man will be put to death using a three-drug cocktail. dr. kim mulvihill joins us now with details. hi. >> reporter: the three drugs are the same powerful agents that have been used before in lethal injections. what's different are the new rules that govern how these drugs are to be given. even so, one medical expert i spoke with still has doubts. >>> reporter: three hours before the scheduled execution, before albert brown takes his last steps into the injection room, a select group of prison staff will prepare the three drugs that will kill him. a powerful anesthetic to render the prisoner unconscious, a muscle relaxant to paralyze his body and finally a drug that will stop his heart leading to death by cardiac arrest. >> i think th

jerry brown. failure as governor. failure as mayor. failure we can't afford now. >>> you are looking at a live picture of oakland where it is going to get hot. there is nowhere to escape. the further east you go, the hotter it gets. we will take a look coming up in weather. the tables turn on teachers. a public forum at uc berkeley will grade the best methods of evaluating teacher performance. experts from media and policy groups give their takes. it's meant to better prepare journalists on a report on student testing and performance. it's available 1:30 to 4:30 on the uc berkeley campus. we know what is giving swimmers and waders a nasty rash. bubble snals. to be more specific, a parasite carried by san joss. there a lot of them off the crown memorial state beach. the parasite causes swimmer's itch, similar to poison oak. no one knows how the japanese snails arrived in the bay, but some speculate they could have come on the hulls of ships or accidentally introduced by bay by oyster farmer. bubble snails, mike. bubble snails. >> bubble

brown asks voters for new mayoral power to appoint school board members. he gets it, and promises better schools. but the drop out rate increases 50%. the school budget goes into a 100 million dollar deficit. the schools become so bad the state has to take them over. it was "largely a bust," he admitted. jerry brown. failure as governor. failure as mayor. failure we can't afford now. it's been a dream of mine to restore it. and it's my dream for him to finish it. frank has something great to save up for. this is my dad. isn't that cool? and a very understanding girlfriend. i showed him a wells fargo savings account with my savings plan. [ frank ] and what it does is it takes a little bit of my money and puts it towards my goal. i want to get all the original parts and do it right. for my dad. there's a couple months in between parts. so, one at a time. [ male announcer ] wells fargo. with you when it's time to save. ♪ are chasing you...don't lead them to your stash. >>> a little note to pot borrowers out there. when the cops are chasing you don't lead 'em

jerry brown and bill clinton. let me finish tonight with the inspiring sight i saw this weekend in front of independence hall. let's start with newt gingrich's tribal attack on the president. "newsweek's" harry fineman is an msnbc political analyst. i think you have to go back to almost pagan rights to find this kind of commentary by a major american official. talking about obama basically being a kenyan, anticolonial-type who's operating as his father's pawn. he's accusing him of conning us to elect him president. what do you make of newt, howard? >> i've been covering newt for many years. he's a bomb thrower. he's a guy who knows the weak point to attack. what's interesting to me here is he feels free to say anything at this point. it's a kind of free fire zone within the conservative movement. and newt, who's always trying to say the most outrageous thing and that goes back many, many years, now has moved from saying outrageous things about the ethics of the house members in the democratic leadership 15, 18 yea

the family of brown's victim just wants it over with. here's her brother speaking about what it was like after his 15-year-old sister disappeared. >> i remember getting in the truck with my father and... [ crying ] >> ... driving up and down the... uhm....... driving up and down the streets, you know, callingherr name. >> reporter: the stay of execution is being appealed to the state court of appeals and can also go to the u.s. supreme court. but the time is running out because at midnight thursday night technically friday morning, one of the state's drugs expires and likely won't be restocked until next year. now, michael morales and mitchell sims, they are two other inmates here at san quentin that also have some appeals going through. and they have until thursday for those. those are also going to the california supreme court. same arguments that the death penalty here in california is cruel and unusual punishment. juliette? >> all right, anne makovec at san quentin, anne, thank you. >>> it looks like california will not get millions

clinton said brown would be an excellent governor. brown says he is honored of the endorse. don't forget, jerry brown and meg whitman will debate on october 12th here on nbc bay area. nbc's tom brokaw will moderate from dominican university in san raffaele. >>> governor schwarzenegger took a ride on japan's bullet train today. he and 100 california business leaders in asia promoting everything from tourism to wine to technology. it is also an opportunity to research the kind of major transportation investment california is planning. >> i'm very impressed with technology and also with the infrastructure itself, with the way the rails were built, the tunnels and everything. it is much more than just the rail, as you know. >> the governor wrapped up his asian trip in south korea, meeting with a pro-vichblgal governor, they agreed too boost scientific and technological exchanges, expand trade and strengthen their cooperation. >>> president obama went become to the future he's delivered today's back-to-school address. he got a rock star welcome at philadelphia's masterman school

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. housing prices showed signs of stabilizing in july, but worries remain in many parts of the country. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, jack hough of "smart money" magazine and karl case of wellesley college weigh the pluses and minuses of home ownership. >> brown: then we look at the record income gap between the richest and poorest americans. >> ifill: judy woodruff talks to alan cooperman of the pew forum on religion in public life about what americans know and don't know about religion. >> brown: special correspondent john tulenko reports on a college program that's raised graduation rates for minority students. >> some of these kids have lives that are so complicated that they need a lot more. that's what we do. >> ifill: and margaret warner speaks to two analysts about north korea's latest succession drama. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporati

. >> brown: i'm geoffrey brown. on the newshour tonight naftali ben-david of the wall street journal sorts through the politics behind a recent white house and congressional exchanges on tax cuts. >> ifill: financial reporters john cassidy and andrew ross sorkin look at at the collapse of lehman brothers two years later as global regulators issued new rules to prevent future melt down. >> brown: and a report on the lack of safety regulations in a dangerous industry. >> we visit a chilean copper mine one similar to the unwhere 33 miners are trapped half a mile underground. >> ifill: an independent television news report on mass rape in congo. we hear from t victims, the rapists and the advocates trying to end it. >> brown: ray suarez visits a special camp in maine that helps veterans and their families heal the emotional wounds of war. >> it touches the person at a deeper level. it allows them to reunite with their families not just in the technical areas that they may need a little bit of help with but on the more p

. >> la republicana meg whitman y jerry brown se enfrentaron hoy. >> ambos candidatos expusieron suse crear empleos en el área de manufactura y jerry brown en áreas verdes . >> meg whitman muy comoda presento su tactica. >> la clave es crear empleos. >> pero jerry brown parece que leyo de unos apuntes y tambiñn quiere acortar los salarios de los legisladores. >> jerry brown utilizo el sentido del humor y en un momento dijo que el no favorecera a los millonarios, molestando a meg whitman . >> jerry brown legalizara a nivel federal. >> pero meg whitman dijo que ella no. >> al final meg whitman se reunio con los periodistas. >> ella dijo que favorecera solo a los empleados documentados. >> esto permitio conocer a whitm >> asi es buenas noches, las reacciones no se hicieron esperar, entre ambos hay mucha diferencia. >> un grupo de profesionales se reunieron para saber las posiciones de meg whitman y jerry brown . >> me molesto que ella noc crea en las ciudades santuarios, cada ciudad puede tener el derecho de recibir a quien quiera. >> meg whitman no cree en ello. >> el como maestro apoy

she spent millions saying jerry brown raised taxes. fact is brown cut 4 billion in taxes.e keeps growing by the millions.

brown, could you just answer a few questions? >> jerry brown in an out of character move never stopped to aner questions. he did prompt that it was an exciting exchange after switching to whitman. whitman, on the other hand, says she's delighted about how thipgz went. our coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. followed by the debate at 6:30 which will be monitored by our tone tom brokaw. we'll also be featuring the entire thing happening on a rope. >>> police are looking for a suspect who beat, attacked and robbed a woman in east bay. he is 560 pounds. it happened at noon on capitol hill. the victim remaining in fair condition tonight. >>> he's been convicted, but after this round, we'll be staying there indefinitely. a federal judge caps he would his execution this thursday, saying his falt would be decided on the execution das of his execution drug. with all the legal wrang lynn folding, because the attorney general waentd an execution date a month after the murderer, arthur and his attorneys not to look at one of the ways. a law profess

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we look at a key group in the president's winning 2008 coalition: younger voters and where they stand this time around. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez has the latest on a suspected mumbai-style terror plot in europe and the possible threat in the u.s. >> brown: margaret warner examines china's growing economic and military assertiveness in asia and globally. >> they're breaking diplomatic egg which is three or four years ago they would not have broken. so i think the change is palpable. >> woodruff: we talk to former clinton administration secretary of labor robert reich-- the last in our series of conversations on extending the bush-era tax breaks. >> brown: and jonathan miller of "independent television news" reports from northwest pakistan, where relief-aid is still slow in coming two months after the floods began. >> this is one of the worst affected areas in pakistan, but these people industrial no safe water, no food, no shelter, no medicine. something

jerry brown. failure as governor. failure as mayor.ailure we can't afford now. >>> after a four-week rally on wall street, stocks slumped in the last hour of trading. the dow was down 48 points. the nasdaq was lower down to 11 points to close at 23.69. >>> in less than 24 hours, california's leading candidates for governor will square off for their first debate. conan nolan gives us a preview. >> it is potentially the make or break moment of the campaign. for the seasoned political veterans and former ceo with all the state watching. >> we are not decided yet. >> undecided. >> jay brown, what is he going to do differently? >> what question would you have for her? >> same question. what would she do differently? >> i will be watching closely and i guess after this, will have to make my conclusion. the way things look now, i can't decide. >> jerry brown, the democratic candidate for governor, has a tremendous amount of debate experience going back 40 years, but that's not always an advantage says sherry jeffrey. >> jerry brown sometimes