. >> heather: let's talk to conner powell about this.e's live this morning in our middle east bureau. hi there, conner. neither side, though, in this is really a good actor, wouldn' you say? >> no, not at all. for months there has been conflicting reports about the use of chemical weapons in syria and just this week u.s. officials reluctantly acknowledged it appears the assad regime did use the chemical weapon, sarin gas, on rebels. there are reports that rebels have used chemical weapons, at least allegations made by the syrian government that chemical weapons have been used by the rebels as well. that has not been proven. there are a lot of accusations from both sides. however, there is still a lot of disagreement about who and when used chemical weapons in syria. syrian officials denied the claim that they used them, calling it a bold faced lie, insisting turkey is providing chemical weapons to rebels. president obama said repeatedly that the use of chemical weapons would cross a red line, forcing action. but he stopped short of sayin

i mean conner i cannot bring up this other bizarre trend in the same climate that we're seeing social issues such as gay marriage and drug legalization gaining widespread support across the u.s. i just saw a study that said the pro-choice position is actually gaining support why do you think that we're seeing these kind of backwards trends and also the kind of the shut down of sex education. so we have sort of a back or deal i mean we were. want to support for example gay marriage is great lake is a great example of what you're talking about we want to support these values of giving people rights and freedom but we still don't want to have to accept seen people as full human being so when i mentioned before the idea of the president supporting somehow supporting the rights but not supporting pornography it's sort of the same argument of well i don't care what you people do in the privacy of your own homes but don't bring it out into public once we start embracing sexuality once we started racing you know the idea that we all have bodies and you know we know that we can show but some b

carol wilen conner at this time and is, part of the relationship isn't at all related to our financial contribution of sufism. we have things we are very committed to. >> thank you. please join us. >>> welcome back. if you joined us you know we've been talking about sufism oriented and schools and what terry and others have done in the schools. tell us more about that. >> one of the expressions we're mentioning is a more public service and serving god through service to his creation has been to the schools and we are very happy that the preschool in the past two years has been identified as the best. it's very affordable. we try to keep the cost as low as we can. all of the teachers are dead dated to serving the children who living the highest principals we can, our love for god, the things at the heart of sufism. we integrate very richly into the curriculum the art. there's a lot of music and drama and fine art. the children are the broad spectrum. >> it's the way in which we live and the energy we share. so it's not a school in that sense, it's just a small private school. >> you wer

dan joins me now, along with brent o conner, who was feet away from the explosion. dan, your feelings about what this means to boston, the marathon, to this country. >> patriots day in boston, it's a very unique thing. nobody goes to work. nobody goes to school. the red sox play a game at 11:00 in the morning. it's a boston only event. it's always been sacred and a very inclusive event. the people finishing that race, that's every man at the finish line. they're not elite runners. this hit hard and hit at home. >> you put the crepe up there, >>> we're back now with "boston globe" sports columnist dan shaughnessy. he describes yesterday as one of our best days is forever tainted. the 117-year-old boston marathon will never be the same and there goes another piece of our freedom and another sacred institution. dan joins me now, along with brent o conner, who was feet away from the explosion. dan, your feelings about what this means to boston, the marathon, to this country. >> patriots day in boston, it's a very unique thing. nobody goes to work. nobody goes to school.

congressman is getting some competition from a fellow democrat. 36-year-old owe -- 36-year-old row conner plans on challenging honda who is a fixture and has been serving in congress since 2001. >> i have a lot of respect for mike honda's many year of service. >> he served with obama with the administration department and he now teaches with the immigration student law and he posted on the website saying he is looking forward to his strongest campaign yet. >>> and there are two leads in the recent killing of two prosecutors. on saturday, mike mcclellan and his wife cynthia were found shot to death in their home. investigators say they had been interviewing a prison gang for its roll and they are focusing on them after he lost his job after a corruption investigation. >>> the national rifle association task force is proposing to arm at least one adult in every school. now they are preparing for that possibility. troy coleman runs certificate or security training in san jose. he is planning to make presentations to local school districts. >> it starts with handgun safety, these are all fab

a big chunk of the people came for the free ticket giveaway to the big conner is this weekend by blake shelton. >> leave my job today to come here and get my ticket. i'm so excited. i got my autograph. >> is that a seven gallon hat ? blake shelton, the country star and the star of nbc's hit show "the voice." the first 200 fans in line got to meet shelton on saturday night. he is playing a conner is sponsored by microsoft on saturday. >> he will be singing his big number "foot loloos"footloose." >> keep singing. >> all i can do. >> zee see the box it said meet jessica on it. >> look at the marine layer for today. if you had those smartphones and looking at it. a lot of them had trouble tracking that fog, just because the forecast models don't do well with wit. we can show you on our computer that fog did start to back off throughout this afternoon. easy signs of returning the next two to three hours. on-shore flow is strong. ten to 16 miles an hour in san francisco. ag also in oakland. the fog will be back for tonight and also for tomorrow morning. here's the thing, though. the wind is

congressman is getting some competition from a fellow democrat. 36-year-old owe -- 36-year-old row conner plans on challenging honda who is a fixture and has been serving in congress since 2001. >> i have a lot of respect for mike honda's many year of service. >> he served with obama with the administration department and he now teaches with the immigration student law and he posted on the website saying he is looking forward to his strongest campaign yet. >>> and there are two leads in the recent killing of two prosecutors. on saturday, mike mcclellan and his wife cynthia were found shot to death in their home. investigators say they had been interviewing a prison gang for its roll and they are focusing on them after he lost his job after a corruption investigation. >>> the national rifle association task force is proposing to arm at least one adult in every school. now they are preparing for that possibility. troy coleman runs certificate or security training in san jose. he is planning to make presentations to local school districts. >> it starts with handgun safety, these are all fab

jobs for her community and we have been working very closely on this hearing and i want to thank conner johnson and supervisor breed's office. they are the ones doing the bulk of the work in getting this hearing prepared. >> thank you so much for being here today. this is my first response -- sponsoring this hearing. the communities we serve need these kinds of opportunities. i know that us working together both from the city side and the private sector side can really help to create the kind of opportunities for our communities that are so desperately needed. i want to thank the directors, rufo and simmonds and staff for presenting today and i want to thank the tech companies that have joined us today. i know everybody is very eager to get to work and coming here to talk about this matter. it's very appreciated. while san francisco is contributing to its economic success, that does not always reach our most disadvantaged communities. i'm here to help everyone be part of this success. i don't want this to be silicone valley or career for other areas. san francisco's tech center should b

neighborhood theatres of this size are the conner stone of commercial neighborhood districts. so you have a special consideration of this project, but there is a couple of things i would like to caution you on. if you were to consider this project as open space, no theatre, just let us say all parking lot or level, the department and the commission would probably require some type of give back to the public in the form of open space. the small triangle that is shown here to me did -- does not meet that concept. it is far too small, the give back is far too small. that's my first comment. the second one is i have always thought and i have no reason to the absolute that this is a project that will be sold after entitlement and my caution to the department of the commission is that watch out for any major changes at that point this is a very very important project to the richmond district. it is the focal point . i would be very very careful about that. other than that i think the project has finally come to some reasonable degree of the possibility of the neighborhood very much.

conner powell has more from our middle east bureau. >> arthel, u.s. officials reluctantly acknowledge that the assad regime appears to have used chemical weapons in its fight against rebels. likely sarin gas. however, syrian officials today denied the claim that they used chemical weapons, calling it, quote, a bold faced lie. insisting that turkey is providing chemical weapons to rebels. but opposition leaders called on the international community to take action. >> we at the syrian national coalition, we will invite investigators, we will cooperate with investigators and we are certain that the evidence will show that the syrian regime actually used chemicals weapons against innocent civilians. >> president obama said friday that his administration would respond deliberately and prudently to this new information. essentially, though, reducing expectations that the u.s. would intervene in syria any time soon. president obama has said repeatedly that the use of chemical weapons would cross a red line, forcing action. but he stopped short of saying what

conner. >> chairman leahy, thank you for those comments. ranking member grassley and members of the committeeee, thank you for the invitation to testify on agricultural, american agriculture's need for immigration reform. as noted in your introduction i ham chuck conner, president and ceo o the national council of farmer co-ops and also here as one thereof founding members of the agricultural work force coalition or the awc. it prinze together nearly 70 agricultural organizations that represent the diverse needs of agricultural employers across the country. the awc came together because increasingly finding enough workers to pick crops and care for animals has become the number one priority for many of our members across the country and all regions of the country. i dare say that for many producers, this immigration legislation and this debate before us is more important to the survival of their operations than any other legislation pending before congress. we have all seen reports of crops, left to rot in the fields because growers lack fi

ann's church, but father conner, sean conner, figured out very early on that they were not going to have enough room, so they moved to the playground. there were thousands of people there. it was very moving. the guys on engine 7, four guys on the truck knew the family. one of them, his daughter was in third grade with young martin. and he was, he had to work on the kid. so you can imagine what was going through his head. another, the chauffeur of engine 7, his daughter is a babysitter of martin. and then the lieutenant on the truck, his kid is in grade with one of the richard kids, so they weren't just working on some people. they were working on their friends and their neighbors and like i said, i can't say enough about the firefighters, the police officers, the ems workers and if you look at the pictures, chris, there were ordinary civilians right alongside of them and i said to one of these firefighters, aren't you guy trained to say when a civilian shows up, you aren't supposed to be here? he said that went out the window. there was a picture on the front of the globe. you could see

once it was over, i saw a white car drive off and then when i got to the conner of 28th -- corner of 28th and virginia, there was a father crying over his son. he was ulkaing his son's -- calling his son's name and the other son in the program he was just upset and crying. the next thing you know we were all crying about this young man being shot. >> reporter: you are part of a construction organization that's teaching people how to build. these people were part of that group, right? >> yes. we're part of the richmond built carpentry construction school. we were in stage iii of this qualify for the program. one of the things that you have to do is show how flexible you are, bendable. one of the things we had to do was run around the block. >> reporter: well, thank you so much, anna, for your information. as anna said, it sounds like these three men were a group of 20 people running around the neighborhood jogging on an agility test, when this guy drives up, and shoots. three people shot. one person dead. we're working on as much information as we can. we'll bring it to you at 5:00 an

tied at 6 in the third, hopkins to conner doyle. he gives notre dame the lead. georgetown fall 10-8. drop to 5 and 7 on the season. >>> final round of the masters taking place today. jason day, adam scott are the leaders at 8 under. angel cabrera at seven under. tiger woods, mark leishman five under par. see how they finish today, it is raining extremely hard at augusta. >> they're still playing. >> yeah. >> i guess no lightning. >> yes. >>> "nbc nightly news" is next. we will be back at 11:00. until then, the grief was staggering. one hundred days after us senate starts to act are coming together background checks the second amendment hands of dangerous criminals. ninety percent of america background checks. urge them to join comprehensive background checks. demand action. now.

once it was over, i saw a white car drive off and then when i got to the conner of 28th -- corner of 28th and virginia, there was a father crying over his son. he was ulkaing his son's -- calling his son's name and the other son in the program he was just upset and crying. the next thing you know we were all crying about this young man being shot. >> reporter: you are part of a construction organization that's teaching people how to build. these people were part of that group, right? >> yes. we're part of the richmond built carpentry construction school. we were in stage iii of this qualify for the program. one of the things that you have to do is show how flexible you are, bendable. one of the things we had to do was run around the block. >> reporter: well, thank you so much, anna, for your information. as anna said, it sounds like these three men were a group of 20 people running around the neighborhood jogging on an agility test, when this guy drives up, and shoots. three people shot. one person dead. we're working on as much information as we can. we'll bring it to you at 5:00 an

conner? >> dwelleth fixes the problem fundamentally by creating two different groups of guestworker programs. one would be the seasonal attwell that would be the most similar to the h-2a program but the other is a contract program again where you would have the ability to bring an year-round workers on a contract as you noted to perform those milking functions and the horses on the farms and those kinds of things where u.s. was noted earlier house don't stop producing milk. they produced 24/7 everyday the year. >> that is the nice thing about cows. they are considered in that regard and produce year-round. looking long-term do you think this solves it for the long-term? do you see this as a long-term fix for something we would have to tinker with every four years? >> there is no question that senator lee we picture this is a long-term fix. this was fundamental to our coalitions efforts. we are not looking to come back and do this in a few years because we know that is not going to happen. thi

and we have conner johnson from supervisor breed's office. >> yes. as krista mentioned supervisor breed is supportive of this application. this business contributes to the unique feel of the valley and she is highly supportive and i want to thank supervisor wiener about the letters of support and i am wondering the same thing. we wrote a letter of support as well as as the neighborhood associations and we fully support the application. thank you. >> thank you. is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. so colleagues is there a motion on this item? supervisor wiener. >> yeah, i move to forward this to the board with a positive recommendation and removal of condition number 11, and i understand just to be clear from the deputy city attorney that these conditions are recommendations to the abc, but when the board adopts a resolution on a liquor license i imagine we can do it with a statement that we don't want that particular condition? >> deputy city attorney john gibner. the ultimate authority

bother to do that research so it didn't fit in her preconceived narrative kind of blew her mind on the conner just seems strange that we live in a society over inundated with sex with entertainment advertising at the same time there's this crackdown on discussing sex i mean sexual discourse at the educational level why is that we're so happy to sell sex here we're so scared to talk about it . well because if we sell it but don't talk about it we can use it as a method of control if we use sex in advertising but we don't allow people to talk about sex we can tap into their sex drives without having anybody understand them we can sell them stuff all that sort of thing but anything that actually drags sexuality on to the light makes it a point of discussion makes it something for people to really engage with and understand it is something that's going on their lives daily in their thoughts daily well that would be much more problematic and also the people using sex to control would lose their control you know it's funny that you said that especially in america as compared to places in europe or

there was a direct conspiracy between the police and the klan orchestrated in some instances by bull connerlic safety commissioner who was the long long-standing dictator of city hall, really albeit an elected official. so villainties generally are engaged in order to enforce the status quo, but often the very violence that they used to achieve that starts being -- starts undermining the very mission that they were supposed to do. so this started being bad for business. birmingham couldn't get companies to locate there, managers to move there and so that was sort of the beginning, and it was because of not only the actions of the civil rights movement to provoke this blowback, but also the klansmen who were unrestrained for decades were finally creating a bad business climate. >> michael: and the racists they were divided into two classes, the normals and the extremists. tell me what the difference is? and is that how we are today in some respects as well? >> yeah, the ku klux klan we try to paint them as marginal lunatic fringe, but they were actually considered good americans. was also a

benjamin netanyahu who kerry will meet with tomorrow as part of the ongoing dialogue. >> heather: conner, thank you. >>> as we mentioned, this is actually the second time in less than a year that america has lost a diplomat in the line of duty. anne served as secretary of state, kerry's control officer during his visit to afghanistan two weeks ago. christopher stevens was ambassador to libya when he died on consulate in benghazi. their deaths the first in more than 30 years. 1979, a person was serving as ambassador to afghanistan when he was captured and killed during a rescue attempt. >> gregg: congress is now returning to washington, d.c. tomorrow after a two week recess and very high on the docket is the hot button issue of gun control. president obama admitting the task of passing any gun measures will be a tough one. peter doocy is reporting from washington. >> the white house wants enforceable background checks for anyone buying a gun, but the man enlisted by the nra to help beef of school security, with those calls the president is taking the debate in the wrong direction. that ma

conner. comments.ranking members, thankr the invitation to testify today on american agriculture and its need for immigration reform. as noted in your introduction, i am the president and ceo of a farmer co-ops, but i am also here as one of the founding members of the agricultural work force coalition. other nearly 70 agricultural organizations that represent the diverse needs of agricultural and employers across the country. we came together because increasingly finding enough workers to pick crops and care for animals has become the number one priority for many of our members across the country and all regions of the country. i dare say that for many producers, this legislation and the debate before us is more important to the survival of their operations than any other legislation pending before congress. we have all seen reports of crops left to rot in the fields because they lacked sufficient workers to bring in the harvest. it is estimated that in california alone some 80,000 acres of f

dan joins me now, along with brent o conner, who was feet away from the explosion. about what this means to boston, the marathon, to this country. >> patriots day in boston, it's a very unique thing. nobody goes to work. nobody goes to school. the red sox play a game at 11:00 in the morning. it's a boston only event. it's always been sacred and a very inclusive event. the people finishing that race, that's every man at the finish line. they're not elite runners. this hit hard and hit at home. >> you put the crepe up there, but my sense is next year, you'll have just as many entries. do you think it's going to have a permanent mar? do you think we're going to have a permanent bad aspect to something as great at the marathon? >> people are going to remember this. it will have an association with the marathon, but the marathon, i think the mayor said it, bigger and better than ever. a lot of people are going to go out and run. they're not going to let this take away a great boston institution. >> let's talk about the rivalry, when somebody sold babe ruth to the yankees

liz: so the far left conner, you see that second explosion, there you go with the smoke to the right of the first explosion. and you, runners didn't quite understand what was happening. you see all the run, continuing to run. then you had the police come in trying to clear the area, almost up immediately. just so you know it, at the finish line there are bleachers lining the sides but they keep the sidewalks open because there are many businesses along the boylston street route. adam: scott, a lot of people who work at cme and a lot of traders who work across the country will watch after-market trading. what is it in particular they will be looking for? >> he will well, you know, where did this come from? who is responsible. how big could it be. those types of things will rile a trader. a trader likes to think we have information on all the trades and we think we have an edge that way. when these things happen everybody knows nothing and that really riles the markets. you will probably see if we don't have any clear answer what was going on today, you will see the markets, also trade

walnut creek to connered, 10- degree spread. just don't see it very, very often.locations, it's calm. others it's cranked up. i've seen gusts also 67 miles an hour atop mt. diablo. the ocean beach went from 46 to 66 when the wind turned northeast. that fog, usually when the fog is there and the water temperatures are there, usually that sea breeze starts to work its way in. while we're sitting here dry, it's snowing in kansas city. it's still snowing in denver and 19 degrees at this hurt. unbelievable -- at this hour. it's unbelievable. 60s for some already. with that wind it's in the mid- to upper 60s. its going to take another day for some inland areas. 60s, 70s and 80s. the wind could chance and the temperature could drop 10 degrees. these are tough forecast, some will be cool, warm, nice. it will be cooler tomorrow. we'll take that into thursday. a nice pattern takes us into the weekend with a little bit of a warming trend. >>> a year ago, many were writing netflix' obituary. why the local stock was up 20% in overnight trading. >>> is this going too far? googl

conner powell is live with the latest.you think of the death of this young woman. >> they confirmed that she was killed in the province on saturday when her convoy was hit by an ide traveling through the capital of the province. three other troops and unnamed civilian were also killed in that attack. there were part of a group delivering textbooks to an afghan school when the convoy was hit. they frequently worked with journalists and whole fox news team. she put a friendly face in that war-torn country. secretary kerry had this to say about her. >> yesterday we lost a very bright and brave young woman, a young diplomat, we lost her to a horrific attack in afghanistan. today our hearts are broken. >> john kerry arrived in the holy land had evening to jumpstart the peace process. he is meeting with mahmoud abbas. though are hoping they can make an influence on the palestinians to broker a peace agreement. but john, there are very low expectations that this peace effort will lead to tangible results. >> john:. they are calli

conner? >> yes. >> thank you. flight schools. a g.a.o. report released last year found that many flight schools obtained student and exchange visitor program certification from immigration and customs enforcement without being certified by the f.a.a. according to g.a.o., 167 out of 434 flight training schools, 38% today do not have the required f.a.a. certification. i'm told i.c.e. is often unaware of instances when the f.a.a. revokes certification for flight training providers. and i understand that i.c.e. is working with f.a.a. to address this issue. what updates and assurances can you provide about i.c.e.'s efforts to improve its communication with the f.a.a. to address this issue? >> i think we're very far along and by the way, senator, we're one to ing from civas civas two which is governing education institutes which educates visit holders. this will also help solve that problem. >> yes, good, i'll goat that in a minute. but the asylum scrining process in this bill -- screening process in this bill, under the present system, as i un

conner. >> thank you, mr. cha% >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm pleased to provide testimony regarding the effects of drought and energy and water management and on a personal level it's a pleasure as both privilege to appear before this committee and work with former colleagues on the committee staff. it's an honor to be here with my esteemed colleagues and experts in the field water resources. the southwest and great plains remain a state of extreme drought. infrastructure anticipates reality is by reclamation and where projects are built. recognizing it can be eliminated or more, and which is existing products that helps guard against the devastating effects of drought. they state that most of his activities and results we achieve in. reclamation disconsolate work with contractors to adjust plans to mitigate impacts of water shortages. in california's central valley january through march was the driest on record in april is preventing the release. who supplement contract allocations insert here the project. actions include rescheduling stor

and james conner will join mer dict and me to talk economics and the dow and s & p and the economy but first. this is the full court press. >> headlines for the day, yes, indeed sorry to have to do a news story in front of you? >> that's okay. i like people who work it out. i have oftentimes, so go for it. >> last night t kevin ware the final 4, the final match-up we will see syracuse playing michigan like i said the story was all about kevin ware. he suffered a compound fracture by trying to block the shot of a duke player. it was a close game until the end when louisville was turning away so they are in the final 4. >> i don't want to talk about it but at least i have my degree and i am not wearing a cap today. >> wow. i am not a hater. i am not a duke hater. shrapnel for that. burning love a face transplant for dallas wiems married a burn victim. the dallas morning news reported a story, wiems was the first full-face trans plate and the bride, jane nash was burned over sent percent of her body. she speaks at schools and churches about the perils of texting while driving. >> wonder h

we provided several intel products and briefings to law enforcement across the country, critical connernd operators, and we have been reaching out to community organizations who want to know what they can do. we are and lamenting security measures, both seen and unseen, at airports, transit hubs with in the maritime and run it, and at ports of entry. the coast guard is providing security on the ferries in the doing area, and teams are searches on terms of ground transportation and fell like. and finally, with respect to the public, but we do urge the public to remain vigilant. we are all in this together. security is a joint responsibility. to see something, the say something message is something we can emphasize, and events such as boston remind us the importance of that. this is an all hands on that effort by the entire federal government pick, led by the president, and we a committed to m sure we bring the perpetrators to justice. janet the paula tunnel of homeland security testifying earlier today broadly on her department boss budget for fiscal year 2014. you may see that later on