deborah has spent 20 years in the transportation and transit business. she worked at bart, she worked for wmata, which runs the metro ntin d.c. she subsequently became director of administration and accessible services. before i came, it you appointed her to be the interim executive director and ceo of the agency. what you may not know is that she is also president of the northern california chapter of the conference on minority transportation officials. she is active in the women's transportation seminar. she serves on the california transit association's executive committee. she is on urban habitats board of directors. i know you will recognize how phenomenal diver is for this agency and for the city -- dabber is for this agency and for the city. i met with her very early on. i had a great conversation. from that moment forward, i have had the best of working relationships. in the success i have had i really a tribute to her support and guidance. she really knows this agency inside out. she really understands san francisco, at extremely hard- working,

we have a tropical storm debby, we're dedicating this to deborah. it has finally moved into the gulf. the thunderstorm activity is on the east side of the storm. forecasters think it is going to head west by thursday toward the texas gulf coast. other models want to take to florida or alabama. we will have to see what happens. clear and cooler for us tonight. 58 to 65 for the lows. increasing customer. a thundershower late in the day. the higher range chances are on monday. most of sunday will be fine. by tuesday, we look fine. temperatures will be a bit below the average. more rain activity possible next week. >> the orioles will try to make it to in a row against the nationalist tonight. >> jason hamel was terrific. we will look back of the opening game of the series. the birds are releasing the oldest player in their organization today. that and more coming up in sports. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen in the black forest. [ metallic bell toll ] [ car speeding down the ro

with the trucks from d.c., 11 news deborah weiner has more on this story. >> if you haven't bought intois whole food truck thing, you're missing something. this blowout food truck gathering at the westport waterfront pitted baltimore trucks against d.c. trucks. a timely competition. >> it's great. i think they should do it every single year if possible. i think it's a great year. orioles are playing the nationals as well. great time, great food. >> 20 vendors from each city and apparently in the world of food trucks, size matters. >> baltimore has definitely got size advantage on us. their trucks are about five, six foot bigger but -- it's -->> guys are together? >> yeah, together. >> inside the trucks, it's like a mini restaurant sevrving up large appetites and really large lines. it seems like everybody wanted a taste from the gypsy queen truck, a canton favorite. >> not your average hot dogcart. everybody here works really hard to get the product out. >> it's just incredible especially when you're at work and they're out for lunch, you can get something different every day. unique ex

. >> and deborah weiner has more on the blue angels spectacular air show from martin state airport. >> since 1946, the blue angels have delivered. this was baltimore's turn. a big highlight of the celebration at fort mchenry. amazing how this $21 million piece of machinery can roll and flip and even fly upside down. it is no wonder many came to see this up close. the free event attracted more spack spectators than baltimore county officials expected. sale bration >> i love the blue angels because they do cool tricks in the air. >> really, it is awesome to come out and do this. >> awesome had to be the word used over and over again watching this show, because isn't it really just that? deborah weiner, wbal-tv 11 news. >> deborah is so right. there is still time to plan your visit to sailabration. you can watch ava marie's flight with the blue angels. you can get an event scheduled at our web site at wbal-tv.com. >> police are investigating what caused a deadly stage collapse ahead of a concert in toronto. the structure caved in. our report. >> from the air, a dramatic view of the stage

. >> reporter: attorney deborah fouler has studied the issue extensively and offered a report for a publicnterest law center in austin. >> a lot of people assume that it was just after columbine. but the reality is that we started to see a movement towards zero tolerance school discipline practices earlier than that. it was related to a lot of the fear around the rising rate of juvenile crime in the late '80s, early '90s. in texas in 1995 we passed our zero tolerance laws. >> reporter: the report, released last december, examined the ticketing practices in 22 school districts across texas. fouler found on top of cutting class, thousands of students -- sometimes as young as five -- were facing criminal misdemeanor charges that for behavior in another era would have resulted in detention or a trip to the principal's office. citations for disruption of class or disorderly conduct have been issued for fighting, cursing, and talking back to a teacher as viemtions of texas code. fouler says the roots of these recent get-tough laws have historical significance dating back to the days of massive p

cnn's deborah feyerick has the story. >> reporter: jasper, texas, is a sleepy town with temperatures00 degrees in summer, but it's not the heat that defines jasper so much as a crime that happened 14 years ago. >> when they tied him to the truck, as they came along here, he was going from side to side. >> reporter: as jasper's first black trooper, rodney pearson found the body of james byrd jr., a black hann dragged to his death by three white men. >> his head and shoulders caught this cover right here -- >> and it snapped it off. >> and it severed it off his body. >> reporter: not long ago, pearson became the city's first black police chief, but his term ended after little more than a year. >> i make a motion that mr. pearson be terminated as our police chief. >> reporter: pearson was hired in april 2011 by the jasper city council in a 4-1 vote. the four black council members voted for him. the one white member didn't. 16 months later, he was fired by a different city council, majority white, the vote also 4-1. >> i was fired over the race. and now i feel that me and my family are a

and abc's deborah roberts has been looking into it very closely. you, robin. people have been asking about it since i got here. it's the diet, a permanent way to curb their appetite, to finally drop that weight for good. some women insist they have now found it. like so many women, 34-year-old krystal townsend had long struggled with her weight. >> i was a sad person most of the time. i am blessed with a beautiful family. but there was -- i was not happy with myself. >> reporter: at 229 pounds, she was at her wits' end. until she came to metairie, louisiana, where women who want to slim down a bit have a little secret. his name is dr. tom lavin. >> you ready? >> reporter: there are women who are calling you a hero, a godsend. >> that's kind of crazy. >> reporter: dr. lavin, the pry near of the hottest, new surgical weight loss procedure, called p.o.s.e. >> the p.o.s.e. is for patients who want to lose 25, to 50, maybe 60, 70 pounds. it's a much different group of people than we normally approach in bariatric university. >> reporter: it's like a cla

deborah kostroun has the weekend bloomberg business report. >> this past week, very disappointing jobsrt. only 65,000 jobs in may. that is short of the 65,000 expected by economists. that is the smallest number of workers added in a year. the unemployment rate picking up to 8.2%. a report out friday showed manufacturing in the u.s. is cooling off, and that has been the bright spot at least for the u.s. economy fofert past three years. for the week, stocks were way down with the dow losing all its gains. this coming week electronics are taking center stage. november, stopey and nintendo starting things out. on tuesday, nintendo will unveil its first new consul model since 2006. meanwhile, facebook is letting members vote on its privacy policy this week the changes include new sections explaining how it uses people's information and newly added features like timeline. what is the most a car has ever sold for? $30 million. a 1962 ferrari 250 g.t. o. it was made by race car driver sterling moss and became the most expensive car selling in a private auction last month. i'm deborah kostroun

my next guest has been in a similar position. deborah norville replaced an anchor on "today." which, by the way, is covering the drama. deborah, nobody probably on earth knows more about what ann curry is going through than you. what are your feelings? >> i think personally what ann's probably going through is she is determined to show up for work every day, do the great job she always has been. i suspect she is reminding herself of the things they're not saying. they're saying she wasn't comfortable to the viewers on the air. well, what is she going to do about that? nobody said i did a lousy job. i won an emmy when i was on the "today" show. my problem is i was younger and blonder than my predecessor. a lot of the harping is just that. what happens when you are a high profile figure. is it going to be enough to force her to go into another position? but it doesn't mean the end of her career. i think that's the important thing she personally should recognize. she's got a great future ahead of her. this is maybe a pothole in the road of her career. >> very strange kind of scen

for 23 years deborah harris worked as a washhngton dc parammdic. now retired she has little to show financially - no nestt gg, littleeincomee thinking i get my education and get a good job and i'll have some kind of security. they don't have that now. reporter: do you have that now, that security? no, i pon't have thaa security. harrii was injured on the job. but medical bills wiped out her savings. now she's on the verge of lossng her homee she's s finding that promised american dream is not her reality. and in the last ive yeers she has slipped deeper into poverty. yes, i was better off than i am now. better off than i am now. so, that's it. her story could be told in just about any city or family's net worth dropped by a staggering 40 percent between 2007 and 2010. to answer why - look o the houuing market. when net worth fell between 2007 and 2010 because of the bursting f the housing bubble, it fell really heavily on middle class families ecause most of their wealth is housing. peeple felt riccer when housing prices were on the way up. but muuh of thatt"paper" we

show tonight about the timelessness of these stories, how cary grant and deborah carr can have the same scene that tom hanks has 50 years later with mg r er witr w nothing changed. it is as fresh in the morning and will prove it again in a minimum. here is your final eulogy. why is a single woman, woman of great brains and great poise and beauty, like yourself in fact, yourself, why is -- why is this writer so important we just lost? nora ephron. >> because i think she really did show us who we are and also reassure us it all turns out well in the end. there's always a happy ending. and she lets you embrace all of your own neuroses and inconsistencies and reassures women that they are beautiful the way they are. world is complicated. and that they can have fun. she made feminism fun. women -- we can care about equal pay and also care about our love lives. we are complex people. i think she really brought that out into american culture in a way that i don't think i had seen before. >>okay. thank you. rob rieiner, my friend. good luck with your political work this year. joan walsh. we will be right back. >> it is

for 23 years deborah harris worked as a washington dc paramedic. now retired she hasle income, and lots of bills. i'm thinking i get my education and get aagood job and i'll have some kind of security. they don't haae that noo. reporter: do you have that now, that security? no, i don't have hat security. harris was injured on the job. she had some health insurance, but medical bills wippd out verge of losiig her home. american dream is not her reality. anddin the laat five years shh has slipped deeper into poverty. yes, i was better off than i am now. so, told in just about ann city oo - toww in america. the average family's net worth dropped by a staggering 40 percenttbetween 007 and 2010. tt answer why - look to the housing market. when net worth fell between 2007 and 2010 because of the bursting of the housing bubble, it fell really heavily on middle class families because most of their wealth is housing. people felt richer when hoosing priccss were on the way up. but mucc offthat "paper" wealth has been erased. the median net worth of the american family droppingg

has been delayed for too long. please approve this today. >> thank you, ms. ray. next speaker? >> thank you, members of the boards of supervisors. my name is deborah edelman. i'm here with the march of dimes. i'm here to volleys our support in rebuilding cpmc. the marnl of dimes is a national organization with offs and staff working in san francisco. we are dedicated to prevent birth defect, premature birth and infant mortality. cpmc has been a ha march of dimes partner for many years, helping women have healthy pregnancies and healthy children. the march of dimes is here today to speak on behalf of cpmc as a long-standing community partner with whom we have collaborated on countless projects with over the years for mothers and babies in the bay area. in particular we would like to underscore cpmc's support of the march of dimes premature campaign and for our annual walks, which works hard to prevent premature births. we thank the colorado medical center for their support and community service to improve the health of women, infants and children in the bay area and support their efforts to rebuild. >> i was a premature baby so i think of preemies like me a

>>mark: california has certified to more initiatives for the november election. deborahat this will require mandatory labeling on fears that we contain genetically altered to will also see the three strike sentencing law. we will watching them all altar of the year. it's at francisco -- in berkeley allot will prohibit sitting on the sidewalk at night. it either receive a fine after perform community service. the attorney what cracked the language of the ballot measure in the will be ready by july 10th. >>darya: the man they killed the father and his two sons will be serving three life sentences. at the buss was convicted when he opened fired on the father and his two sons. there was one surviving son. he testified what happened for the prosecution pit so now the 25 year old rum as will be imprisoned for a long time. . at top of that a sense of a hundred into -- 182 gears -- years in prison. >>mark: coast guard helicopter were looking for signs of a budget that was set to explode it carrying 21 passengers off sandy hook. they found no evidence at our now investigating the

has that story . >>rob: signaling how high emulsions are warning in this priest abuse trial ,, deborah lucas ,, the limited orange on the bench only moments earlier confronted the elderly father , a verbal liberating the former priest in a stairwell as he was about to enter this court room her friend tells what happened . >> the people he attacked let him know that he is not want to get away with this . they wanted to confront him . they wanted to show him that they have power now . >> deborah lucas is one of several people including william lynch and his brother that claimed to be molested by the father on a camping trips more than 35 years ago . >> it is completely understandable that a woman who was raped or tortured saugh ,, created situations in which they felt the breeze was approved . >> william lynch ,, the man on the far right is on trial for allegedly assaulting linder hoping to publicly humiliate the priest . he took the stand on wednesday denied molestation lynch . >> all of these kids need to have their story out . everyone needs that . >> alleged supporters are calling actions of look a zerot

has been delayed for too long. it is time to rebuild two new hospitals. please support our plans to rebuild. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is deborah. i am registered nurse of about 23 years of cal campus. i am speaking off the top of my head and out of my heart. nurses are the face of your hospital. s or theou -- you are the soul of your hospital. you're the heart of your hospital. we're tired of being treated like cattle and being forced into blue uniforms that advertise that we are nurses all over the city. i think it has been a demeaning process. we're proud of the work we do, and we do not like to be treated like something unimportant. i am concerned that it has been misconstrued -- misconstruing the press about our salaries. i think there has been a lot of media press that cpmc has put out that is not true. i wish our nurses were being respected in terms of the new facility. i also have concerns that maybe you guys want to again to the effect it appears that a lot of nervous -- a lot of nurses from the south are being hired as cpmc these days. not only are nurses not being hired from san francisco, but you why it -- you might

deborah potter in oak park, illinois. >>> in california, the united farm workers union is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding by the late, charismatic cesar chavez. but saul gonzales reports that the union has come upon hard times, facing a dramatic loss of membership and sharp criticism of its present leaders. >> reporter: in a packed convention hall in bakersfield california, members and friends of the united farm workers recently celebrated this legendary labor union's 50th anniversary. they also came to honor the legacy of the ufw's founder, the late cesar chavez, one of the most famous figures in organized labor history who during his life some saw as a dangerous radical, and others, as a kind of saint. >> you know, cesar passed away 19 years ago. to some of us it was like yesterday. >> reporter: arturo rodriguez is the president of the united farm workers and cesar chavez's son-in-law. >> he taught us. he nurtured us. he made sure that we understood really the importance and the criticalness of doing what we're doing. he lived the ideals of the farmworker movement. ♪ >> reporter: it was in the 1960s and '70s that chavez, who worked in the fields himself as a teenager and never receive