yesterday republicans voted at their state convention in sacramento to elect tom dell be car row as -- dell beck car row. now the new gop leader is urging governor jerry brown to follow the lead of his east coast counterpart. he also said he's opposed to a june special election. >>> a san jose republican activist died while attending the gop convention. he collapsed on the dance floor saturday night. they used a defibrillator to perform cpr but he died at the hospital. he ran for state assembly last year and ran for congress back in 2002. he was also active in the taxpayers association. >>> boeing is waving about how the new test flight of the newest and largest passenger plane went. the newest version of the 747 is wider than a football field and six stories tall. two pilots flew the jet. the jet has a new wing design and can fly up to # thousand miles. the jet will fly more than 600 hours before it will carry passengers. he thinks it's ready now. >> it's one of the cleanest first flight airplanes of a new design that i have seen and it just went perfectly. >> it plans to put them into service