thousand nine hundred eighty nine during a session of the congress sattar of gave an interview to catholic television the questions concerned the future of the senate test site in kazakstan it was a place when you clear weapons have been designated for decades sachar of demanded that the site be closed because the people who lived in this facility or paying too high a price for those nuclear tests. yeah right that mankind will tell a critical period of history when we can peters and inventing weapons of mass destruction it is a kind of examination and condescend to say that a test of the ability to survive a thoughtless wishlist. it was his last interview a few hours later sucker of heart failed his friends in a twenty in the previous day would deeply shocked. they had no warning signs. thousands of people came to bid farewell to the academic sattar of. in his final year sachar of was drafting a new constitution for the country. but died before it was finished. many of those in and read sachar of early articles and his political supporters had lost their chance of meeting him in person. while at the

. >>> a los angeles television station reports the roman catholic diocese of orange is offering to pay the crystal cathedral. the church is trying to sell its property to erase its debt. >>> time is 8:20. they're zipping into success in sonoma county. we're going to take you in for a look at a local business that is booming. >>> afternoon highs are expected to fall short of the seasonal norm once again. the numbers for your neighborhood, coming up. >>> a fundraiser inspired by candlelight raised $1,000 for a local orphanage this morning. lee rhodes' candles have raised more than $6,000 for charity. >>> thought july in walnut creek, you would expect hot, but it's been a strange summer. >> it's been a little cool along the coast. gorgeous weather. giving you a look at mostly waking up with cloudy conditions. we are expecting a bit of a slower clearing. a little bit of cool down for the first half of the week, and a nice warm up for the second half. highs today, similar to yesterday. 77 in napa for today. 84 expected in concord. 87 in antioch. widespread upper 60s, low 70s into hayward. y

the biggest challenge, of course, today was one point television for catholics, jews, and others, which is the muslim community which without question since 9/11 had a difficult time. last year, quite difficult, but when we polled muslim-americans and did the first representative american survey of muslim-americans ring we were surprised at the extent which they absorbed basic american values and on rates of citizenship and language acquisition and so forth were really very far advanced in terms of their incorporation into the united states, so, again, to get to the specifics, probably if i'm judging our survey results correctly, it's this sense on the religion side -- now, i'm not speaking overall that they get a fair shake here, religion, their religion is republicked and from -- respected and from a legal framework, treated like every other religious group. >> why don't we take a moment now to open it up to all of you and take questions and comments, and i'll ask you, in stating your questions and comments to be as brief and concise as you can. >> thank you, we have two of us going a

i remember one who worked with the catholic church and worked through the restorative justice program to meet with surviving family members. it was actually televised. that is how much that individual changed. then he went on to have a very successful career and retired on a golf course in florida, as a matter of fact. they were debating the death penalty he

i remember one who worked with the catholic church and worked through the restorative justice program to meet with surviving family members. it was actually televised. that is how much that individual changed. then he went on to have a very successful career and retired on a golf course in florida, as a matter of fact. they were debating the death penalty at the country club one day, and he said in two weeks, he would bring its former death row inmate. two weeks later, he walked in the room. he said that he immediately changed the minds of those arguing for the death penalty. that is just one powerful case, but there are many stories like that. i know that was not my question, but -- [laughter] >> your question was how could you bear to preside over an execution. how did you handle it? >> i would tell myself that it was my role to lead, and leading that many things to me. that meant leaving my staff for the process. it meant leaving the inmates at the facility through the process. it meant reaching out to the family members of both the victim and the inmate. i just focused on what my responsibility was and my efforts to conduct this event as profes