sandra and debra of both written wonderful books are going to jump in and ask sandra bullock to book a fact? >>> daisies' perfect word a children's book character casey is a girl that loves words and she keeps track of her favorite words in her green notebook covered with purple polka dots and she has word lists she accumulates and she's just a character that i tickets will be able to relate to the wanted to read a book that had to do the themes of words but not academic book a fun book and a fun story but bringing literature character that is all about language which i have fun with my cellphone find exciting. >>> deborah what is your book about? >>> spirit in nature titi teaching judaism any, ecology on a trail of a book to be used outside and went eroded in the cover recently hope it's messy and dirty and full of the paris and leaves and grass is because it's a tool that we created a co-authored the book for jewish educators it did know about a term to take its outside and for naturalist that did not but judea's them. either type of person to pick up the book can use it to take pe

so we had the good fortune to discover debra and when i went back and said, debra, let's talk about "t through with a bottle of vodka, a rainy night, and i'm begging you to come to do "will & grace." somehow debra was willing to relive that. so it was -- it was a pretty phenomenal period of discovery for so much talent to go back and read that in "top of the rock" everyone was up for it. >> there is clearly a special place in your heart for "will & grace" and you almost didn't take the role, debra. can you talk us through your decision at that point? >> that's true. i had just wrapped a very popular abc drama called "pray." of course nobody has any idea what i'm talking about. but i was exhausted. so at first it was just, i can't get out of bed. then my agent said, we are messengering a script to you. as soon as i read the script i said okay, i have never read anything like this before. but i was really hesitant because the thing that made it so exciting, which was this has never been done on tv. we have never seen a lead character, a gay lead character on television and we have never

ktvu's debra villalon is live at the scene of the crash and tonight's vigil, debra. >> reporter: there were a few 100 people here tonight right into 8:00. the candles keep multiplying along with the tribute to the two who died here. >> reporter: turai nuri was surrounded by family, supported by love to see where her husband and daughter died. 12-year-old hannah was on the bicycle too but survived when a 17-year-old boy driving an suv jumped the curb and drove into them a block from home. the 17-year-old boy is in juvenile waiting for sentenced. >> whatever happened we're going to find out. >> reporter: concord's afghan community knows this family well. >> he loved his daughter, he loved kids period. he used to coach soccer for the community. >> reporter: from the soccer league this video of 41-year- old suleman nuri known as sam and his daughter described as polite, affectionate, sweet. >> reporter: the vigil brought families from throughout the community. >> i think it means a lot to the family that nonafghans also cared about what happened here and care about the tragedy. so i think

i would like to thank debra franks. and miss rhonda ford for her generosity. i hope we do better next year. >> thank you. [applause] >> on behalf of the board of directors and the entire bay area, thank you very much. >> from our capital programs construction division -- a civil engineer who has been with us for 18 years. he has served as a project manager on some of our most critical projects. such as overhead wire reconstruction in the subway. he is now managing the overhead for the transbay project. almost all of our electric vehicles rely on the overhead system. he has been one of the lead engineers on that. he also supported f-lines when that ran out to fisherman's wharf. over 18 years he has and continues to provide leadership for this important and unique part of our infrastructure. the expertise is rare and quite valuable. looks like he is not with us today. >> good afternoon. it is my pleasure to be here to recognize one of our standing -- outstanding employees. it is unfortunate that he has taken ill and could not be here today. i am here to recogniz

debra saunders, sure, mitt romney is very likely to win the gop nomination, but where does the presset off declaring this over? oits over unless there's a solar flare-up or something, and have you to start deciding how you want to cover things. ron paul came to the chronicle for an editorial board meeting on thursday, and i have to tell you, i din treat him as if he were a viable candidate. he is the like the candidate ameritus now. he is having a great time talking to college students, but everyone knows he is not going to be president in 2012. >> why are newt and santorum still running? it seems like the media can now kill off a candidate just by cutting off his oxygen. >> i think that's true. i think as a reporter, though, you have a problem where if you want to analyze the news and you truly see that the guy doesn't have a chance, what do you do? do you not say it? sort of like the exit poll controversy we had in the past. now we don't release exit polls early because we're afraid people won't go out and vote. same thing now. it is true. if you prematurely call a candidate dead,

debra villalon got an exclusive tour inside the university.eaders are saying tonight it will survive, debra. >> reporter: well this raid came out of the blue and at an officially tough time for this embattled 5-year-old school as it graduates its latest class. >> it seems that they ripped out all the little babies. >> reporter: seedling grown by students torn down. >> this is our operations manager. >> reporter: and doors bashed in as agents went after computers and confiscated files of thousands of students. even took dvds of classroom lectures. >> this tall. >> reporter: mature plants would have been harvested this final week of the semester but they were bagged and carted away by federal agents. >> they come in here, i had a little tear in my eye. because our students are very loyal. we have a very loyal fan. this is just uncalled for. >> reporter: we have not had crime or violence associated with our dispensaries. >> reporter: among those objecting to the raid the councilwoman who says oakland needs federal help with gun crime not cannabis

debra villalon got an exclusive tour inside the university. leaders are saying tonight it will survive, debra. >> reporter: well this raid came out of the blue and at an officially tough time for this embattled 5-year-old school as it graduates its latest class. >> it seems that they ripped out all the little babies. >> reporter: seedling grown by students torn down. >> this is our operations manager. >> reporter: and doors bashed in as agents went after computers and confiscated files of thousands of students. even took dvds of classroom lectures. >> this tall. >> reporter: mature plants would have been harvested this final week of the semester but they were bagged and carted away by federal agents. >> they come in here, i had a little tear in my eye. because our students are very loyal. we have a very loyal fan. this is just uncalled for. >> reporter: we have not had crime or violence associated with our dispensaries. >> reporter: among those objecting to the raid the councilwoman who says oakland needs federal help with gun crime not cannab

he lives in abilene with his wife debra and children walker and savannah. his presentation today is what was houston thinking, understanding houston's bizarre behavior during the texas -- during the san jacinto campaign. please welcome dr. stephen hardin. >> thank you, bobby. when governor perry was kind enough to name me an admiral in the texas navy, i informed my wife, debra, that henceforth i expected her to call me admiral. i won't tell you what she called me. but it wasn't admiral. there we go. when sam houston first booted his horse across the red river on december 2nd, 1832, he had but one object in mind, and that was to west texas from the mexican republic and append it to the united states. notwithstanding pledges of allegiance to mexico, houston remained an american expansionist, a protege of andrew jackson, and a political operative. while many will find this a remarkably bold assertion, there is abundant documentary evidence to support it. and once one comprehends that houston's predominant aspiration was to add texas to the federal union, such

debra borchardt is a markets analyst at thestreet.com. deb, what's the connection between restaurant hiring and coffee? >> well, here's the thing. a lot of these places that are hiring are places that serve coffee. and the coffee stocks have been hot all last year. but they started to company done a little bit. and now i looked at a couple of things that brought me to the thinking that, you know, coffee stocks are going to company back. >> tom: and what are those things that make you think that dare we say t that they could perk higher? >> well, again, when we looked at that report from jobs on friday, we drilled down and it did say that restaurants and specifically beverage serving restaurants were the ones that were hiring. and also coffee prices. when you look at a chart of coffee prices, coffee skyrocketed in 2 o-- 2010 and kept going up in 2011. just recently those prices started to fall. so you know these coffee companies and coffee sellers are going to go in, buy up that coffee that i cheap and lock in their prices. and that's goin

we're live in santa rosa, debra villalon. >>> someone has played a cruel hoax on the family of missingierra lamar. the teenager's twitter account was hacked and a message was posted on it. >>> santa clara sheriff investigators returned to the clavaro reservoir. calaro is just one of several bodies of water that are being searched in and around morgan hill. crews will be scourering areas. they're going to be focusing on hills and rough terrain. a family friend said the exact plans will be finalized tomorrow. >>> a new study finds the cost for health care in prisons soaring. california now spends $60,000 a year per inmate. the report comes two weeks before the federal judge will decide whether the state can resume control. >>> new details are merging tonight about a suicide. kim conover has requested an energy protective order but the judge found no evidence she was in immediate danger. a police report shows she had lodged five domestic violence complaints over the past year. >>> two top executives are facing felony charges for siphoning off $100 million of employee retirement money. cha

. >>> debra villalon is live with a new outreach effort that's possibly a new way out. >> reporter: whatf they had a number to call before trouble and before it's too late? >> i would love this phone to stop ringing. >> reporter: kevin grant gets called to shootings like this one tonight, a shooting of a 17- year-old. grant tries to defuse retaliation. >> we are eating our own people. how do we do this? lay another black man down over nothing. >> reporter: new commercials and music are aimed at showing them a way out of street violence. but the purest persuasion. >> the first thing he said to me was, mama don't let me die. >> reporter: a mother who's son was left paralyzed by nine bullets just four months ago. >> now, all i can do is sit up in a chair and push myself around. >> reporter: it's not a crowd easily moved. they found today's violence overwhelming. >> i have to keep going back and forth to the operating room, to the trauma bay to deal with this, it's just too much. >> so half of my face was gone. >> reporter: whether it will make a different seeing scars. >> on the dashboard i

ktvu's debra villalone is live at newark where the victim was a popular athlete poised to graduate next month. >> reporter: a football star and at this school of some 2,000 students, i'm told everybody knew ossana futie. a big guy friends say with a bigger heart. >> we all loved him to death and it's just a sad situation. >> reporter: kelly helped guide futie. >> i was waiting for the day that he could walk aross the state and graduate -- across the state and graduate. but it's not going to happen. >> reporter: last night, futie and several others got a text about a party. those with ossana say that they were trying to run when ossana they say got hit with a sword. in the high school weight room, students are shocked. >> he's always smiling. always having fun, he makes a joke out of everything. >> reporter: coaches say futie was menacing on the football field but left it there. >> he was big in stature. >> i made sure he did all his work, just to keep on top of it. i feel horrible. >> reporter: a vigil for ossana is planned at his high school tomorrow night at 8:00. and i just hung up f

we're live in santa rosa, debra villalon. >>> someone has played a cruel hoax on the family of missinga lamar. the teenager's twitter account was hacked and a message was posted on it. >>> santa clara sheriff investigators returned to the clavaro reservoir. calaro is just one of several bodies of water that are being searched in and around morgan hill. crews will be scourering areas. they're going to be focusing on hills and rough terrain. a family friend said the exact plans will be finalized tomorrow. >>> a new study finds the cost for health care in prisons soaring. california now spends $60,000 a year per inmate. the report comes two weeks before the federal judge will decide whether the state can resume control. >>> new details are merging tonight about a suicide. kim conover has requested an energy protective order but the judge found no evidence she was in immediate danger. a police report shows she had lodged five domestic violence complaints over the past year. >>> two top executives are facing felony charges for siphoning off $100 million of employee retirement money. charges

. >> debra? >> uncaring. >> uncaring. chuck? >> evil. who else? >> liar. >> what? >> liar, yeah, that's the best one. >> out of touch. >> okay, out of touch. here we go. >> mitt romney. word or phrase. laurel. >> i like him. >> decent character. >> okay? >> undecided. >> okay? >> identifiable. can relate -- can relate to him. >> chuck, word of phrase? >> i like him. i like -- he speaks out. says what he needs to say. >> michael? >> charismatic. >> ben? >> wishy washy. >> debra? >> manufactured. >> manufactured. christine? >> vanilla. >> laurel? >> i have to change it? >> no, who else? who haven't i asked? >> jonathan? >> innovative businessman. >> chris? >> unimpressed. >> unimpressed. what was your word? >> he's wishy washy. and you were -- >> manufactured. what does manufactured mean? >> he's made. he's a politician, he's taken all of the things that we care about and said, that's what he is. >> and so, frank newport, these foe kucus groups play an import role in this process. >> they do. i've moderated, like peter hart, a lot of focus groups, primarily for busin

debra, first of all, how did you make this decision to do this?ot many people take such action. >> that's just part of who i am. i would do it for a lot of people. i knew that she needed it. i knew that i could help her have a better life. >> you didn't donate the kidney directly to her but the chain of organ donation and that moved her up the list. >> you have to have a good kidney to give away in order to get a good kidney for yourself. >> how were you fired? how did this happen and how quickly? >> fairly quickly. my surgery was august 10th of 2011. and i was fired -- i was no longer working by april 11th of 2012. but in the meantime i had been transferred from my job at the auto group working with jackie, a job that i loved. >> jackie being the boss that got the kidney. >> right. >> and what did they say? >> they told me they were going to transfer m because it was too personal. i don't know for who, not for me. i just wanted to go do my job. so they transferred me to another location. i was just devastated over it, partly because -- a big part

. >>> debra villalon is live with a new outreach effort that's possibly a new way out. >> reporter: whatf they had a number to call before trouble and before it's too late? >> i would love this phone to stop ringing. >> reporter: kevin grant gets called to shootings like this one tonight, a shooting of a 17- year-old. grant tries to defuse retaliation. >> we are eating our own people. how do we do this? lay another black man down over nothing. >> reporter: new commercials and music are aimed at showing them a way out of street violence. but the purest persuasion. >> the first thing he said to me was, mama don't let me die. >> reporter: a mother who's son was left paralyzed by nine bullets just four months ago. >> now, all i can do is sit up in a chair and push myself around. >> reporter: it's not a crowd easily moved. they found today's violence overwhelming. >> i have to keep going back and forth to the operating room, to the trauma bay to deal with this, it's just too much. >> so half of my face was gone. >> reporter: whether it will make a different seeing scars. >> on the dashboard i

debra harrison is a long time family friend. >> we just want their family, when he comes home from this hospital, to go back into their family unit home so all of them can heal together and i feel he will be able to one day walk again with the support of everyone believing in him. >> reporter: bob barnard, fox 5 news. >>> prince george's county on the lookout tonight for whoever stabbed two teenagers in brandywine late last night. a group of teens crashed a house party on poplar ridge road and two victims were stabbed after a fight broke out. tonight they are in stable but critical condition. anyone with information is asked to call police. >>> new details in the secret service scandal, president obama wants a thorough and rigorous investigation after agents were accused of misconduct with prostitutes during an official trip to colombia. it comes as congress is prepared to launch a full inquiry of its own. >> reporter: 11 secret service agents and five military personnel all assigned to the president's security were all implicated in an embarrassing incident involving prostitutes that m

i also want to thank and acknowledge debra atherton. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: it is nice to see everybody. jeff is generous. i was not expecting to be up here. i know you have had a productive day. i think that the public defender's summit is something not to be missed and a template for the rest of california and probably the nation to follow. i am proud of our public defender. i am proud of our criminal justice partners because over the last four years, we have seen a great amount of innovation. jeff and i started the city's first reentry council, and it might be bewildering to you, but before we started it, believe it or not, those stakeholders in the criminal-justice system really very irregularly rarely would come together and talk about ways that we might mitigate, reduce our recidivism rate. great progress has been made, but san francisco still needs to step up its game. i was delighted to hear the conversation that took place here, but no the statistic that for every four people that sanford's is the police department arrests and t

we're live in san francisco, debra villalon, ktvu news. >>> a judge in san francisco has dismissed acase that sought to ban toys in mcdonald's happy meals. a mother from sacramento sought the suit. it claims mcdonalds violated -- by luring children to eat unhealthy foods. >>> a southern california based developer wants to turn the vacant mervyn's headquarters into apartments. the building on foothill boulevard has been vacant since mervyn's went out of business in 2008. >>> an accused killer faces a judge, his plea in san francisco's mass murder case. >>> plus innocent lives lost, the stories of the seven people who were working toward a who were working toward a better when i take a picture of this check, it goes straight to the bank. oh. oh look the lion is out! no mommy no! don't worry honey, it only works on checks. deposit checks from your smartphone with chase quickdeposit. just snap a picture, hit send and done. take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> the man accused of killing five people in a home pled not guilty today. 35-year-old luk appeared in court in chain and

we're live in concord, debra villalon. >>> surprise announcement from lucas film. it is scrapping plans to create a studio because of neighbor complaints. people living near the property opposed the development, they said it would generate noise, traffic and create environmental damage. in a statement, lucas film says the level of the bitterness and anger by the homeowners led them to abandon the project. they will now look for a property where they are welcome. >>> the rain slowed traffic but it did not keep a youth soccer team, in fact, some people there told us they welcome the rain. the rain is causing problems at sfo. at last check airport officials told us 60 outdoing flights had been cancelled. delays between one and two hours are expected to last through midnight. officials recommend checking with individual airlines if you are flying out of sfo. >>> in this the first of a couple of storms moving in, it was a wet morning commute. a wet afternoon commute, it's wet out there right now. live storm tracker 2 picking up the rain. heaviest rain right now showing

. >> debra villalon is live now in san francisco, she tells us the coast guard plans to review safety procedures and she talks to sailors who say it goes too far. >> reporter: it's a safety stand down in light of the accident that killed five sailors. we're at the st. francis yacht club starting point for many races, including one this weekend that has been moved to the bay. this is one of the next ocean races coming up. the feralon has been closed for racing. >> i am not sure that they're learning from any inquiry would lead to drastic changes. if that is not the case. then the racing that we do today should continue. >> reporter: but the order from the coast guard san francisco commander is clear. no race permits for all shore events for an unspecified time. captain cynthia stone says, the temporary stand off from racing will allow the coast guard and racing community to further common safety goals. >> reporter: but competitors say this becomes a duck race instead of a boat race. venturing no more than a mile from the coast. >> you just can't stop a community from doing what they lo

we're live in concord, debra villalon. >>> surprise announcement from lucas film. it is scrapping plans to create a studio because of neighbor complaints. people living near the property opposed the development, they said it would generate noise, traffic and create environmental damage. in a statement, lucas film says the level of the bitterness and anger by the homeowners led them to abandon the project. they will now look for a property where they are welcome. >>> the rain slowed traffic but it did not keep a youth soccer team, in fact, some people there told us they welcome the rain. the rain is causing problems at sfo. at last check airport officials told us 60 outdoing flights had been cancelled. delays between one and two hours are expected to last through midnight. officials recommend checking with individual airlines if you are flying out of sfo. >>> in this the first of a couple of storms moving in, it was a wet morning commute. a wet afternoon commute, it's wet out there right now. live storm tracker 2 picking up the rain. heaviest rain right now showing

we're live in san francisco, debra villalon, ktvu news. >>> a judge in san francisco has dismissed ase that sought to ban toys in mcdonald's happy meals. a mother from sacramento sought the suit. it claims mcdonalds violated -- by luring children to eat unhealthy foods. >>> a southern california based developer wants to turn the vacant mervyn's headquarters into apartments. the building on foothill boulevard has been vacant since mervyn's went out of business in 2008. >>> an accused killer faces a judge, his plea in san francisco's mass murder case. >>> plus innocent lives lost, the stories of the seven people who were working toward a better life. >>> and the first ko in, y video went viral, the message in a sequel and what's missing this time. [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids? it's nice having u-verse, isn't it? see back in my day, we didn't have these newfangled wireless receivers. fangled? no, we watched march madness in the living room... that's where the tv outlet was. what is he talking about? and if mom was hosting her book club that day, guess what...you missed it!

. >> debra villalon is live now in san francisco, she tells us the coast guard plans to review safety procedures and she talks to sailors who say it goes too far. >> reporter: it's a safety stand down in light of the accident that killed five sailors. we're at the st. francis yacht club starting point for many races, including one this weekend that has been moved to the bay. this is one of the next ocean races coming up. the feralon has been closed for racing. >> i am not sure that they're learning from any inquiry would lead to drastic changes. if that is not the case. then the racing that we do today should continue. >> reporter: but the order from the coast guard san francisco commander is clear. no race permits for all shore events for an unspecified time. captain cynthia stone says, the temporary stand off from racing will allow the coast guard and racing community to further common safety goals. >> reporter: but competitors say this becomes a duck race instead of a boat race. venturing no more than a mile from the coast. >> you just can't stop a community from doing what they lo

. >> debra jenkins is 52 and divorced her husband after 27 years of marriage. >> i had my family and my children to help me through it and i joined a gym. and that was the best thing i could have done. >> married at 24, she had every intention to be married for life. >> my grandparents were married for over 50 years and my parents had been married for 55 years. so yes, that was a legacy of wanted to follow. >> but the recession forced her husband to take a job out of state. >> you grow apart emotionally, physically, and, we just could not relate to each other anymore. >> new data shows that one out of four people getting a divorce is 50 or older. more than double the rate 20 years ago. a study in ohio points to several reasons. women are more financially independent and there's less social pressure to be married and more focus on individual happiness rather than filling traditional marital roles. this 55 year-old has stated bachelor since his divorce nearly 12 years ago. >> we had grown apart. the intimacy had faded away. we were more friends than anything else. >> the photographer a

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the children who made the trip from austria to shanghai were a brother and sister who grew up to be debrand eli they have written a book about their escape from europe and unusual path that led them to america. authors of uncommon journey join us now i am so excited to meet you both to know about your story good morning. >> good morning. >> welcome to washington. >> thank you. >> mr. wax i will start with you you leave austria as children, tell us about you know i know it is hard to get this into a short answer could you tell us about your journey you and your family? >> well, we left austria in 1939, august 1939 just a week before the war broke out, and the reason we left was because we were warned by a man who worked for my father, a tailor was a member of the nazi party and told us you better leave now because if you don't leave now you will be deported and you should leave now and he told us earlier in the year so out of desperation we booked passage to shanghai being the only place in the entire world there was no immigration requirement of any kind all you had to do was book passage

commission drafted some language that the staff -- and i really want to thank kevin troy, ken coates, and debraor putting a lot of time into this. >> are there any public speakers for this item? >> i want to add one more thing. >> go ahead. >> i have it here. i will not read it, but i hope all the board members have gotten the memo about the credential in the issue about the health education teachers. there have been some changes. we have some teachers who will need help. there are requirements for what kind of credentials to teach help you need have changed. hopefully everybody has the appropriate credentials. >> the associate superintendent, kevin triplett. >> good evening, commissioners. tonight, we are presenting a revision to the 1996 board of education health policy. the revisions made to the existing policy reflect the most recent california standards and guidelines specified in helping people in 2020. additionally, staff has needed to provide more direction and support to our schools to achieve greater consistency and stability from school to school, which will lead to increases in stud

. >> but as cnn's debra feyerick reports, for many families living in those homes, that big idea has been a disaster. >> and the men and women who served to protect us are fighting a losing battle at home. >> reporter: when these sailors and marines left the u.s. to serve their country, no one imagined many would come home to this. so you know people who are affected in this house? turning the housing over to private companies and let the free market do its work. >> but as cnn's debra feyerick reports, for many families living in those homes, that big idea has been a disaster. >> and the men and women who served to protect us are fighting a losing battle at home. >> reporter: when these sailors and marines left the u.s. to serve their country, no one imagined many would come home to this. so you know people who are affected in this house? >> yes. >> reporter: then over in this house? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: and that house. norfolk naval base in virginia is the largest in the world. home to the u.s. atlantic fleet. but it's facing a crisis. >> i'm in essence combatting a war on two fr

a proposal on a football scoreboard reading, "look, debra we both know we're not each other's first choices but i don't want to pay for another month of e harmony. you're a worthy companion. so, come on. settle for me." can anybody... ( cheers and applause ) ... anybody out there offer a strong unequivocal endorsement of mitt romney? mitt romney's wife. >> sometimes he appears stiff. do you have to fight back like my husband isn't stiff? >> well, you know, i guess we better unzip him and let the real mitt romney out because he is not.... >> jon: we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome back. one second. your children's education. nothing is more important. you want them to learn enough to do well in the world but not so much that they can win arguments with you. what are they really learning in school? we have this eye-opening story. >> reporter: across the country public education is failing, but in arizona lawmakers have found the solution to the biggest problem facing their schools. >> arizona's governor jan brewer just approved a bill banning ethnic studies classes i

our presenter is debra small, the founder and director of break the chains. -- our presenter is deborah small. >> i want to go back to where we started this evening with conflict that president huffman made and talking about what the war on drugs is and how we got to this place. i feel like it is particularly important that we're having this conversation in san francisco because san francisco was one of the first cities to pass a law restricting drug use back in the late 1800's. not surprisingly, as was noted by alice in her talk, that first drug law was specifically directed at opium use and it had its bases in discrimination. it was specifically designed to target the chinese community for their drug consumption and completely ignored similar drug consumption by europeans here. in that way, that that law here in san francisco was based and built in discrimination, so have all of our drug policies in the u.s. parent is not an accident that we have chosen to target cocaine as opposed to ritalin, opiates as opposed to other products that we have targeted. all of the laws that we have pas