i'm carol costello. this morning, we begin with the near tragedy in washington state. and one that could raise questions about your own safety when you get behind the wheel this weekend. this crumpled heap of twisted metal used to be part of the interstate 5 bridge over the skagit river. all three on the bridge at the time it collapsed survived. the man on the right will relive the terrifying plunge on the water. here is how he described the moments leading up to it. he followed a tractor-trailer with an oversized load. >> when the dust hit, i saw the bridge start to fall, at that point, forward momentum carried us right over, and as you saw the water approaching, it is one of those, hold on as tight as you can, and just a white flash and cold water. definitely cold of this time of the year. >> wow. before the dust even settled, the vehicles were in free fall toward the skagit river. katharine is at the scene. what are they looking for? >> they are not exactly sure where it slammed into the structure. it

i'm carol costello. we begin with a bombshell announcement out of hollywood. one rooted in dark realities and tough choices facing many american women. angelina jolie, undergone a double mastectomy to remove both breasts done as a preventative measure. jolie's mother died of breast cancer six years ago. this is a tribute to her that jolie and her brother posted on youtube. routine tests show the academy award winning actress carried a mutant gene that put her at higher risk of ovarian and breast cancer. on the op-ed piece in "the new york times," she says, "i wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. but it is one i am very happy and glad that i made. my chances dwoching breast cancer have dropped from 87% to under 5%. i can tell my children they don't need to fear that they will lose me to breast cancer." nischelle turner joins us from los angeles. >> she went on to say in the op-ed and i loves when she says this. i don't feel any less of a woman. i fe

carol. >> all right. we'll be ready. indra petersons, thank you. >>> michele bachmann, one-time tea party candidate is calling it quits. announcing overnight she will not run for a fifth term in congress. kin of surprising since bachmann once the face of big government rage. in fact, "nukes week" tagged her the queen of rage in 2008. no worries, bachmann insists she will not fade away. >> looking forward, after the completion of my term, my future is full, it is limitless, and my passion for america will remain. and i want you to be assured that there is no future option or opportunities, be it directly in the political arena or otherwise, that i won't be giving serious consideration. if it can help save and protect our great nation for future generations. >> bachmann says her tough re-election battle last november has absolutely no role in her decision not to run again, nor did an investigation into her presidential campaign. >>> a drone strike has killed the number two leader of the pakistani taliban, a

carol wasn't the only one.rs earlier, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits, and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> they're vital to our investigations, no question about that. >> reporter: sergeant welsh turned to the team here at the southwestern institute of forensic sciences. he asked them to test every single untested swab sitting in their freezer. there were thousands of them dating back to 1970. not a single one had ever been processed. the sergeant says decades ago, law enforcement just didn't have the tools to solve these cases. dna technology wasn't available to them until the 1990s. >> we've solved well over 80 cases from the early '80s and early '90s. >> reporter: from the rape kits. >> from the rape kits. >> reporter: carol's case was one of them. just four months, four months after carol's kit was located and analyzed, the man who raped her was identified. but adding ins

i'm carol costello. what did they know and when did they know it? 40 years later that simple, iconic question from the watergate era once again hangs over the white house. some republicans are accusing the embattled obama administration of abusing its power and your trust. unlike anything we've seen in generations. >> never seen anything quite like this except in the past during the nixon years. >> i can tell you people who make those kind of comparisons need to check their history. >> this morning, though, double trouble. the irs accused of targeting and bullying the president's critics and the fbi investigating government snooping on a news agency and even its reporters' personal calls. >>> later today lawmakers will grill the president's attorney general eric holder. now keep in mind the republican national committee has called on holder to resign although that wouldn't be the first time. holder has long been a lightning rod for criticism. >> ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in welcoming

i'm carol costello.ore special coverage from ohio in a minute. other top stories in 30 minutes past the hour. watching the opening bell on wall street. stock actualities pointing to early gains after thursday's lower close, and investors are eager to hear what fed chair ben bernanke has to say. he speaks in a few minutes in chicago. the international space station crew will take care of a repair job tomorrow. the commander tweets, two crew members will go on a space walk to fix an ammonia leak in the cooling system. the leak detected after the crew saw small white flakes floating away from the station. nasa says no one is in danger. >>> a tragedy during training for america's cup on san francisco bay. and it's raising concern that the 72-foot catamarans may be too difficult for the race. andrew simpson died after the boat he was on capsized he was trapped underneath the boat and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. other members of the artemis racing team are okay. >>> more clues out of a home in cle

i'm carol costello. this morning, near eugene, oregon, students returned to west albany high school. and the classmate accused of plotting a murderous plot is in court. he is due in court. he intricately plotted an attack inspired by the columbine massacre. the only difference? he wanted to wrack up a higher death toll. miguel marquez joins us live from corvallis, oregon. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. very disturbing claims police are making. they say this was a mature plot and not for the -- a tipster, a friend or family member turning him in, he may have carried it out. police say 17-year-old grant accord planned and was prepared to carry out a coordinated bomb and gun attack against his school. >> this is a case of aa planned assault on a target-rich environment and that target-rich environment is west albany high school. >> reporter: police found six explosive devices hidden your honor the floorboards of his mother's house. >> me and my friend were just in shock. how could someone e

i'm carol costello.tories we're watching in the "newsroom," markets preparing to open on wall street after reports that the jobs report better than expected. opening bell ringing right now. alison kosik, numbers going up. >> see them? the bulls are running, carol. get ready for a record-setting day today, as the jobs picture gets brighter. 165,000 jobs added in april. unemployment rate ticked lower from 7.6% to 7.5%. and 88,000 jobs that were added in march. that was revised higher. that is giving jubilation to the market, as well as in february, revisions there as well. to actually a level we haven't seen since 2005. we talk about this, the dow making history. a new record high. 14,908. s & p 500. crashed into the 1,600 level first time ever. this takes the index to a new century. more upward momentum to stocks psychologically. a boost to confidence if you are invested in it. and the jobs report is strong and revisions are certainly giving more momentum to the market this morning. >> carol, nice to hear

carol wasn't the only one.r, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> they're vital to our investigations, no question about that. >> reporter: sergeant welsh turned to the team here at the southwestern institute of forensic science. he asked them to test every single untested swab sitting in their freezer. there were thousands of them dating back to 1970. not a single one had ever been processed t. sergeant says decades ago, law enforcement just didn't have the tools to solve there's cases. dna technology wasn't available to them until the 19 then. >> we solved well over 80 cases from the early ''80s and early '90s. >> reporter: from the rape kits? >> from the rach kits. >> reporter: and carole's case was one of them. just four months, four monthings after carole's kit was located and analyzed the man who raped her was identified. adding insult to

good morning, ted. >> reporter: good morning, carol. a tiny town.he news that the house you see behind me is at the centre of this riens investigation, where fbi agents have spent a great deal of time over the last 24 hours collecting evidence. law enforcement officials are questioning a man at this new boston texas home about threatening letters believed to contain ricin sent to president obama, new york city mayor michael bloomberg and a gun control group. >> it hits home more when it could be someone down the street. >> reporter: the letters were postmarked to shreveport, louisiana. the ones to addressed to mayor bloomberg and the president never reached them. both were screened at offsight facilities. white house spokesman jay carney emphasized this in the past when other threatening letters were sent to the president. >> the mail is screened t. mail sent here is screened. these are tested at remote sites to e mitigate the recipients. >> the fbi is testing the letter 10 sent to president obama. the new york police department says preliminary tes

i'm carol costello. this morning police in kentucky are tracking a cop killer at a small town police chief minces no words. >> i can assure you we won't give up on this person until we have him either in custody or in the front sight of one of our weapons. and i personally hope the latter is the choice. >> the ambush as cunning as it was cruel, a gunman opens fire when a barreds town police officer gets out of his vehicle to remove debris from a roadway. >> someone planned this. someone planned this and someone planned to shoot somebody at that spot at that location at that time. >> it was around 2:00 in the morning that bardstown, kentucky jason ellis got out of his vehicle to remove debris from the road. but someone intentionally put that debris there, hidden in and then opened fire shooting him multiple times. he never even had a chance to pull his gun. >> it wasn't a traffic stop that went bad, it wasn't an arrest that went bad. that one actually took the time to plan it and set it up makes it that m

i'm carol costello.hank you so much for joining me. 32 minutes past the hour. we'll have more special live coverage from ohio. but, first, a check of other stories making news this morning. the first capitol hill hearing on the boston bombings under way. the homeland security committee is focusing on law enforcement and emergency responders and events leading up to the attack. lawmakers want to know if there were any warning signs. >>> two passengers from a carnival cruiseship are missing off the coast of australia. police believe a 30-year-old man and 26-year-old woman went overboard some 93 miles from the coast. the search on for the couple, who were not reported missing until the ship docked in sydney. the michael jackson wrongful death trial resumes with jackson's hair and makeup artist taking the stand. jackson was in ill health the weeks before he died. jackson's mother and three children are suing the concert promoter in his death. >>> new york city mayor michael bloomberg will veto a bill requiri

>> it was, carol.s it chased us from texas to oklahoma city. we thought we were away from it, the storm we finally got into the hail core, honestly, carol, i can't believe all the windows stayed in the vehicle. we got hit by so much hail yesterday with this storm, and the winds were 50, 60 miles higher. gusting to 80 miles per hour. dust in the air, animals running away from the storm. hail hitting the car for miles and miles. in the hail core for at least 15 miles. just couldn't get out of it, kept chasing us. going as fast as we were, and it was a messy chase yesterday. because the sun never came out. today, the clouds are rolling, clouds across the sky. moisture from the gulf of mexico. today will be another severe weather day, another tornado day, right now, though, i'm a little more concerned that it's central oklahoma, not western oklahoma or the texas panhandle where we were yesterday, and much more populated area, we saw what happened to moore, when any type of tornado runs into a populated are

i'm carol costello. new details about how those three kidnapping victims in cleveland are recovering. and adjusting to all of the new things around them, including technology. police say the women were held captive for more than nine years, and just think how much the world has changed in all that time. here is more from cnn's pamela brown. >> reporter: we've spoken to people who have talked to the victims and their families, and we have learned they are enjoying their new-found freedom and doing their best to move forward. gina dejesus and michelle knight have spoken on the phone and mayra has given her a makeover. everyone who knows me knows i can do hair so i gave my sister a makeover. also according to sources, the women are learning how to use technology and just now discovering what an iphone is for the first time. these women were hailed as heroes last night as the first responser who's rescued them shared their stories of arriving on the scene and seeing them for the first time. sheer what a coup

carol, this is my first trip to oklahoma. just talking so many around here who lived through the '99 tornado and he rebuilt then and then losing their home again. they do not want to leave this is home, carol. >> i've been to oklahoma city. it's a terrific place to live and the surrounding suburbs are terrific too, because there is such a sense of family there. so i'm not surprised at all that people want to rebuild and state right where they are. brooke, back to you in a second. thanks so much. >>> we also have new details in the horrific story out of london where a british soldier was killed after two men attacked him with meat cleavers. the shocking scene unfolded in broad daylight on a southeast london street. >> witnesses say the suspects first hit him with a car, hacked him to death and dumped his body in the road. one of the attackers, with blood still on his hands, walked up to a man filming the scene and said this. >> an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. i apologize that women had to witness this today, but in our l

>> good morning, carol. pretty much got to be today. the judge or judges consulted, say 48 hours after a time of arrest, you have to come up with charges if you intend to. you look at the clock, it goes back to 6:30, 7:00 on monday when the suspects were taken into custody. time frame, probably around that time tonight. city of cleveland will announce with a press conference when that happens, elsewhere, i should talk about questioning. that actually began last night, just had a conversation with the fbi, they say that federal and local authorities began questioning the men last night. it continues again today. in these interrogations, have you a local officer, the fbi and the suspects brought in one at a time. that's how it's going so far. but the other focus on the home where this all happened. investigators scour the home on seymour avenue, searching for evidence in this house of horrors. throughout the day and late into the night, fbi agents meticulously search. removing the front door, searching the crawl space, carting away a red

the new one by joyce carol oates. every time she writes when it is an automatic "the new york times" best seller. i think you will find it delicious to read. thank you for being on this program. things for watching. as always, keep the faith. today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. join me next time for a conversation with the doors drummer about preserving the band's iconic legacy. that is next time. we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. always the right time to do the right thing. by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hungerwalmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. thank you. don (♪) (♪) daniel mansergh: imagemakers is made possible by a grant from: celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image. and by the: (♪ slow, dramatic music ) (♪)

i'm carol costello.ns brace for a possible repeat of yesterday's terrifying weather. >> we got to go soon! . >> if this shifts, we're done. >> this tornado near oklahoma city, a monstrous half mile wide. the weather service issued this dire warning, you could be killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter. torpsd ripped across five states. at least one person killed. hundreds of homes tag4 hoems damaged or destroyed. >>> illinois and iowa are cleaning up today. in all, there were some 50 reports of tornadoes over the weekend. entire neighborhoods gone. many more without power. those bright flashes are electrical transformers popping as they are swallowed by a tornado in wichita. with daybreak a couple hours ago, crews are searching for victims. they're watching the skies, because at any time a round of new deadly weather could strike. >>> just ahead, we look at the threat of more violent weather today. first, let's go to cnn's nick valencia is in shawnee, oklahoma, where it sounds very windy. >> re

newsroom can carol costello begins right now. >>> happening now, a cnn exclusive. the brothers of ariel castro speaking out. >> did you in any way know, help, assist your brother? >> absolutely not. >> no. >> onil and pedro castro and the red flags and warnings. and we're behavior. >> i didn't go to his house very much. but when i did, he would let me in not past the kitchen. >>> also, breaking overnight, a huge fire multiple fatalities, now investigators on the scene trying to find out how it happened. >>> plus -- >> protect the constitution. >> tea party targeted. >> i don't care if you're a conservative, liberal, democrat or republican, this should send a chill up your spine. >> a report about to be made public, agents singling out groupses with tea party or patriot in their name. this is what they have said all along. >> there is absolutely no targeting. >> this morning the agency is apologizing. >>> and a community devastating. walls of ice almost 30 feet high swallowing homes. residents devastated in disbelief. how could this have happened? you're live in the

what we haven't seen, carol.ican consumers put their hands back in their pocket, their wallets back in their pocket. they continue to buy the stuff. >> that's the only way you will change retailers and where they buy their clothes if shoppers don't buy the clothes. >> you are right. is we've seen again and again, shoppers in america choose cheap over everything else. when you look at -- this is why companies run to these places. they can make them very cheat. sell them very cheat there. and there is this disconnect. people see the pictures of what's happening in bangladesh. people pulled out of the rubble. they don't think there is a connection between that rubble and the happeningers in their own closet. american consumers rarely make the connection, some online starting to do that. hundreds of people online starting to blog and tweet about that connection and say we need to take a good, hard look at ourselves and consumer behavior here. >> christine romans live from new york. >> you're welcome. >>> still ahead,

>> carol lee carmello, are you on the phone?tony-nominated actress who is now on the phone. >> how are you? >> how do you feel, sweetheart? >> i'm thrilled. i mean -- you know, it's -- it's bittersweet of course, because we wished the show was still running and i wished that you had been recognized for your great work and -- but you know, it's an exciting day and i'm still in my pajamas fielding phone calls and texts. >> carol lee, honestly, you and i have been friends a long, long time and i wouldn't say this if it was just because you're my friend. i'd love you, anyway. but the truth is you gave the finest performance i've ever seen a woman give on the musical stage. and to have you honored this way -- along with the other ladies who were so deserving as well. but i'm telling you, the range you showed, and the emotional range, the ages you played -- the, the notes you hit -- that are just -- i am so happy for you. >> thanks, kathie. >> and nothing is more thrilling than following your flatulence story. >> only you could do it.

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> carol lee is unbelievable.you guys for a second we could reenact this in the makeup room when we found out about it. because it was one of those moments where i was clock-watching, i knew the tony nominations were on cbs and we were kind of not trying to pay attention in case something doesn't happen. i know you guys all thought, i wonder if this is going to happen -- >> in your life, you don't set -- you don't set yourself up for disappointment. it was such a disappointment when the show closed early. such a disappointment that so many people that had tickets and were coming to see it over the holidays didn't get a chance to. you spend 12 years of your life on something that just means the world to you. and nobody can have any concept of what it's like to do that if they hadn't done it themselves. and so congratulations to all the nominees. >> we're going to speak to carol lee a little later in the program. >> this is thrilling, she has been my leading lady for about ten years of those 12. >> and we love her.

tonight a conversation with carol burnett. her life has had more than its share of challenges and tragedies. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: it is a well-worn cliche to say someone does not need an introduction, but look at his face. does she really need an introduction? i am delighted to have carol burnett on the program. she has entertained us for 15 years. she has also have significant heartache, most particularly with her daughter kerry who after overcoming addictions lost her battle to cancer. she wrote about it in a book ."lled "carrie and me" i did not think he would come back for this book. there's a chapter where yo

, particularly carol and paul. is there perhaps [speaker not understood] could answer or someone could tell me why there is no buffer along the south side of carol or the -- along paul, the south side of paul. >> i hadn't noticed that, but i don't know the thinking behind when they did the zoning for that area. but we can look into it. >> yeah, i would check that. the other areas i noticed at a quick glance, there were a couple areas along williams, not a long area, and also along newhall where you had the blue areas directly across the street ~ from the yellow area. so, i'm not sure if that's an oversight or there's something there. i know paul has a railroad track there that the caltrain comes through. so, maybe that's part of what's there. >> so, i think that you're getting at, commissioner, this pda1b was added a number of years ago. doesn't mean maybe it should have been applied a little more liberally. i would say in particular reference to carol, the south side of carol there is actually a new development wi

carol wasn't the only one.rs earlier dallas police sergeant patrick welch discovered a huge backlog of rape kits and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> they're vital to our investigations. no question about that. >> reporter: sergeant welch turned to the team here at the southwestern institute of forensic sciences. he asked them to test every single untested swab sitting in their freezer. there were thousands of them dating back to 1970. not a single one had ever been processed. the sergeant says decades ago law enforcement just didn't have the tools to solve these cases. dna technology wasn't available to them until the 1990s. >> we solved well over 80 cases from the early '80s and '90s. >> reporter: from the rape kits. >> from the rape kits. >> reporter: and carol's case was one of them. just four months, four months after carol's kit was located and analyzed, the man who raped her was identified. but adding insult to i

grabbed a set of keys. >> a fellow officer follows carol.ash cam is also trained on the chase. >> i'm in a green ford expedition. i don't want to kill anybody. i tried the ignition. it wouldn't work. i tried hitting the dashboard to see if that would disengage but that wouldn't work either. i tried all i thought i could do to try to get the car stopped. >> as patrolman carol's car sets out to find jeter, jeter is facing a life or death decision. how to keep from hitting somebody and killing them and himself. what would you do? would you drive off the road at 60 miles per hour? and purposely ram into something, or stay the course and risk dozens of lives in hopes that someone somehow figures out how to safely stop you. >> my thoughts were to swerve off the road, hit a tree and hit something. >> while officer carol's car races in hot pursuit. he's haunted by a fatal accident in san diego two years before. >> i remember a youtube video with a family of four or five who made a phone call to emergency dispatch. >> there's no brakes! and captured

i am carol bach, and this is not exactly a straight-up renewal. but it's a repeat solicitation process. we have had a pool of as-needed environmental consultants available in the ports in-house. environmental staff for as long as i have been here. it's every three or four years we have to renew this process and get a new pool of three firm to work with. and the kinds of services we need, because of the really wide range of activities that go on here at the port. there are very specific specialties that you may need only once, every three years. but it's something that only a few people can do. so some examples are underwater sound monitoring during pile driving. that is a highly technical type of sound monitoring. we have to do marine mammal monitoring during pile driving. during almost all projects we need certain types of construction inspection and -- what is the word i am looking for, monitoring during construction to ensure environmental compliance with regulations. for example, dust monitoring, you need certain equipments to collect ambient

i'm carole costello. boston where new developments pushing the bombing story back to the forefront. robel phillipos is due in court. he is one of the three friends accused of helping the younger bombing suspect cover up his crime. investigators say he lied to them. also today, one fund boston will unvail how it plans to distribute $28,000,000 in donations to the bombing victims and their families. they tell cnn the money will fall short of compensating them for long-term care. >> never underestimate the charitable impulse of the american people. it's a great deal of money. it will be distributed wisely, but enough, absolutely not. >> in the meantime, the area's raw emotions cast the accused master mind of the attack in limbo. more than two weesks the older bombing suspect was killed in a police shoot out, the city of cambridge says he cannot be buried there. cemeteries across the area also shunning requests to bury tamerlan tsarnaev on their grounds. the funeral director tasked with making those arrangeme

set the scene for us. >> thank you very much, carol. having a little bit of communication issues there. we know what happened here on monday, carol. the question, how quickly can the community come back? we're told from government officials that what they believe about those who lost their lives here, 24 people, 9 children, those numbers are not expected to change. now, the silver lining is that you remember the numbers had been higher, and the estimates have been higher than that. so the adjustment to the numbers we have is welcomed by everybody in the community. this has changed into recovery, from a search perspective in terms of what they are looking for, but also just in terms of the large sense of how this community learns how to get back on its feet. reaching out to each other, help coming from neighboring community, states, and all across the country, we keep directing people to go to cnn.com/impact. so they can figure out how to help the people on the ground. need is great right now, and will continue for many months to come. t

carol king. she is incredible. >> one of my favorite albums is >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by choice hotels where you'll always find a cozy room. book today. >>> unprecedented government surveillance of an american journalist. has the obama administration gone too far to stop leaks? >>> all that glitters is not gold especially when it comes to your investments. mellody hobson looks at why gold is suddenly losing its value. >>> and a trip back in time. americans reaching out to those in vietnam. >> hi, darling. >> hi. >> bye-bye, daddy. i love you. >> film not seen in decades is finally coming down. the news is back in the morning here on "cbs this morning." stay tuned for your local news. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by the makers of zyrtec. zyrtec. love the air. you know who you are. you can part a crowd, without saying a word... if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts... well muddlers, mu

carole king incredible. >> one of my favorite albums carole k >>> all right. little windy in spots early on this morning mainly at the coastline. a lot of sunshine. sunny day ahead temperatures well below average for this time of year. outside now cool for late in may. 44 degrees in napa. 47 in fairfield. 50 degrees in livermore. this afternoon, though, highs only going to be running up into the 50s and 60s toward the coast. 60s to low 70s inland and a bit windy too. a little warmer over the weekend. >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by choice hotels where you'll always find a cozy room. book today. >>> unprecedented government surveillance of an american journalist. has the obama administration gone too far to stop leaks? >>> all that glitters is not gold especially when it comes to your investments. mellody hobson looks at why gold is suddenly losing its value. >>> and a trip back in time. americans reaching out to those in vietnam. >> hi darling. >> hi. >> bye-bye daddy. i love you. >> film not seen in decades is finally coming down. the

thank you carol for that. the boat clubs down in the pier 48, 50 area were teaming with people who were curious to see what's behind all those private clubs. and up here was just an amazing amount of people. so please /skwroeupbl join me in thanking this group of port personnel. you guys get to be seated and i have one last group. my photographer was in the crowd so he couldn't take a picture. all right. so last, this could not have been possible at all without a huge volunteer group of folks who stuffed something known as the committee for the 150th and it took a lot of their time -- regular hours and overtime hours -- and i want to recognize the committee. come forward when i call your names -- megan, jane, dave, dan, damon, jerry, jay, vicki, tonya, carol, wendy and of course their fearless leader, rene. . we have a little something special for all of the committee members. this one's megans so bear with me while i open it. megan, it's very fitting. this one is the first one i pulled out. it is a beautiful

(applause) carol and i are heros today so are all the social workers of san francisco general and we continue to be inspired by the work they do today. nobody want to have cancer it's not part of the plan that we all have for our lives it's most likely that each person here today has been itemed by can retro a friend or family member and now imagine going through surgery and if you are knew to this country and don't speak english if you are a single mother with no church or do a minimum wage job with no health insurance if you loss your home last month due to the rents raise in san francisco and are sleepling on a couch and amendment shorn is nothing if you don't have a safe place to go to sleep at night or a our patients didn't on san francisco hospital foundation and individuals like you here today to help them travel this journey with a little bit of diggity and carol and i wake up everyday to do this job that is so hard first of all, because we have the support of our friend and family that are here today we we it's an amazing thing to touch the life of someone evidence. it's rea

quite impressive. >> and the smart money is on carole to be the one to get her hands dirty. >> carolered granny. she's got three children of her own so she'll know a lot about raising babies. how to get them to sleep at night and all of that. the middletons will be the hands on ones. >> because, well, i wonder how many diapers the queen ever actually changed? and i've heard the queen's own kinds have to make appointments to see her when they swing by the palace. william, who clearly misses his own mother dearly, will welcome middleton involvement. >> he loves the middletons. he loves the fact he can go there and say, can you do the washing up? that's being normal. >> the queen might be a little intimidating. she has that look. and she has her own army, but i think carole might win the grandma faceoff. now, when the time comes for the official baby photo in the rather luscious white drawing room at great-grandma liz's house, who will be anointed grandparents? >> we all love prince harry, because he's such good copy. >> harry is a no brainer. he's a perfect godfather. foot loose and fan

good night, carol. promises promises, promises. it makes me angry when people don't do what they say they will do. i promise i won't do that with "word play." i think you should know, sir there are people outside... placing pieces of wood with stripes on them all over the street in front of your cafe. and i promise i will not make you late for the rest of the story. shall we go ? well, mr. councilman knock 'em dead. jess, jess, jess, jess ! my fellow citizens as we look ahead and prepare to confront the difficult issues that loom before us the stakes could not be higher. do we want our government to tie the hands of our business community... with unnecessary rules and regulations ? no. no. or do we want-- or do we want to give them the freedom they need to pump new economic blood-- into-- what is wrong ? i'm sorry. this is not me. - and this definitely is not me. - jess ! look, the only reason i ran for city council in the first place... was because i got a water bill for $30,000 and i couldn't find anybody to do anything about it.

>> well, it's hard to say, carol.tainly the ages of the two young girls when they were abducted, one 14 and one minors abducted. michelle was approximately 19 or 20. even though it deserves the same level of attention, the reality is, you know, more focus is given to children who are abducted. >> police said there were a number of vigils held for the two younger women, but not much in the way of vigils. or a big movement defined militia knight. i don't know. i was just curious to what you would say about that. did you get a chance to listen to the news conference by police? >> i listened to a good portion of it, yes. snoo what went through your mind? what caught you? >> the fact that they remain vigilant and active for the past ten years working on leads, you know, following up on any ponl tips that they received. engaging the community and the families, from all intents and purposes it sounds like these agencies did a wonderful and comprehensive job. they never gave up hope. >> and you also work for an organization t