how it involves harvey milk and elizabeth taylor. >>> from calming nerves to creating the perfect ambience. a look at what you can expect behind the scenes of the royal wedding from the one man who planned chelsea clinton's big day. ,,,,,,,,,, >>> there is a battle in the castro over the gay pride rainbow flag that flies at castro and market. a group of community activists wants to have more of a say about when that flag is flown at half-staff. the merchant group that maintains the flag denied a request last month to lower it to half-staff in honor of actress and aids activist elizabeth taylor. the group says it carefully considers each request to lower the flag. >>> gas prices have gone up every, single day for 35 days straight now. bay area drivers feel some of the sharpest pain at the pump with prices here well above $4. the lundberg survey says the national average is 3.87 for a gallon of regular unleaded. that's more than a buck more than this time last year. >>> the average in san francisco is 4.26 a gallon. $4.22 in san jose. $4 .21 in oakland. >>> giving drivers a smoother ride des

. >> elizabeth taylor murió la semana pasada pero el brillo de ella noseextinge,es propiedad de un historiados el día de la madre con elconcurso , mande una foto de ella y una carta explicando porque ella es tan especial ,la fecha limite es el 8de

--los residentes de oakland exigen que la policia haga algo para remediar esta situacion ---"elizabeth tayloro se apagara jamas.---en honor a la famosa actriz de "hollywood", el restaurante "lori's diner" de "union square" exhibira un vestido de tul color lavanda que perteneÍa a "taylor". ---la prenda es propiedad de un historiador de "hollywood" que, el aÑo pasado organizo una exhibicion en san francisco, y que presto el vestido para su exhibicion en la ciudad . ---si quiere verlo, el restaurante se ubica en el 500 de la calle "sutter, esquina con "powell". --=festeje el dia de las madres con nosotros. --¿como?... paraticipando en el concurso "celebrando a maÁ ".--solo tiene que mandar una foto de su madre y una carta explicando por qué ella es tan especial.--la direccion es el numero 50 de la calle fremont, piso 41, en san francisco, california... Ódigo postal es 94-105.--la fecha limite es el 8 de abril

. >> jimmy: elizabeth taylor. >> elizabeth taylor, and yet -- and yet zsa zsa still lives. [ laughterice. >> she just goes on and on! [ laughter ] >> jimmy: zsa zsa still lives. [ laughter ] >> goes on and on. >> jimmy: it goes on and on and does not stop. >> billy: i'm pro-zsa zsa, for the record. >> jimmy: oh, i know you are. you played zsa zsa once, 15 years ago. [ laughter ] you were so convincing. >> billy: i don't need this, jerry. >> jimmy: you were so convincing. my name is not jerry. >> billy: tell me your name again. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it's jimmy. >> billy: jimmy. >> jimmy: it's jimmy. [ laughter ] unbelievable. >> i'll just wait. i'll just wait. >> jimmy: "raising hope" -- >> yes. >> jimmy: huge hit. >> well, thank you. >> jimmy: it's a fox show as they do very cool shows on there. >> it sure is. >> jimmy: and what -- [ laughter ] -- can you set it up? what is it, though? what is it about? can you set it up for people? >> okay. it's about a very hot grandmother -- no. [ light laughter ] it's about this kid played by lucas neff who is a very sweet kid who has sex with a

how the death of elizabeth taylor sparked a debate over this neighborhood landmark. [ music ] ,,,,,,,,,,,, their neighborhood. but, like it or not, the biggest of the big ove. literall . >>> well, some people in the bay area simply don't want it in their neighborhood. but like it or not the biggest of the big box stores is on the move, quite literally. in fact right to some front doors in the south bay. linda yee on the pros and cons of wal-mart's new grocery delivery service. linda? >> reporter: hey, allen. and you see one of those delivery trucks right behind me. today is their first day of actually delivering groceries. it's all part of a test project that they are doing right here in san jose. webvan started back in the 1990s but ended with a big thud during the dotcom bust so could wal-mart pull it off? for now grocery delivery is just being tested in parts of the south bay. but wal-mart is hoping it's what customers want. so far, not too many are buying it. >> like if i'm sick or something and can't leave my house then i wouldn't mind having to order online. but otherwise i am a

some castro residents wanted the flag to be flown at half staff to mark the death of actress elizabeth taylor. but the castro merchants group that maintains the flag said no. so now some castro residents are demanding more community input in deciding when the flag is lowered. that's only happened five times in the past ten years. >>> your time now 6:08. pg&e customers you won't have to pay for the outgoing ceo's retirement package. peter's retirement package is $35 million. at first customers were going to have to pay $9.6 million of that. but governor jerry brown quickly stepped in and criticized that plan. the resignation comes after last september's natural gas explosion in san bruno where eight people were killed. >>> pg&e customers concerned about smart meters now have the option of joining a delay list. putting your name on this list will postpone installation of the smart meters. the delay will last until a deal with the public utilities commission has been worked out. this deal will allow an option for customers to turn off the smart meters. a pg&e spokesman says about 150,000 custome

the group that maintains the flag denied a request last month to lower it in honor of elizabeth taylor. the group said it carefully considers each request to lower the flag. >>> they have been listening for years to see if anyone is out there but now, if "et" calls earth, no one will answer. the center for the search for extra terrestrial intelligence, or seti, is putting its array of radio telescopes into hibernation. they can't listen to the cosmos because there is not enough money. what have they been listening to for all these years? >> we point the telescopes, the arace, at the stars where we think there's a pocket for there to be habitable planets and that's what we have been doing for decades. and we do listen with our radio ten scope for someone else's technology some of kind of signal that nature can't produce but technology can. >> seti plans to resume operations when and if it gets more funding. >>> it's a big week. they are getting ready for the wedding. why the queen of england will be the last to arrive. >>> a hospital no-no. the intimate medical procedure a step closer t

. >>> elizabeth taylor's fabulous collection of art, jewels and dresses will be sold in a series of auctionsbut the value of the estate and dates of the auctions yet to be determined. taylor died last month at the age of 79. she was well known for her eight marriages. >>> let's talk to leigh, sunny and cool, windy but better days to come. >> better days tomorrow. warm up and then more clouds move in here on monday. yeah, you are exactly right. a live look from the high definition camera. you can see the wind, the branches there, the trees and the camera there moving a bit. also a nice shot from ocean beach. the clouds that the west winds will be pushing inland overnight tonight. temperature wise it is cool. 57 in san rafael. 57 san francisco. oakland at 56. 64 antioch. 63 concord. mountain view and san jose checking in at this hour at 59. 61 degrees in losgatos. couple in the wind and it is howling throughout. gusts 35 miles per hour. sfo airport right now. nevado reporting gusts to 29. gusts to 25 in hayward. gusts to 23 in fairfield. and even napa, a bit breezy this hour with gusts to 22 m

wanted the -- residents wanted the flag to be flown at half staff to mark the death of actress elizabeth taylor one of the earlier supporters for raising money for aids. but one person says no. >>> the sad news in the music world. singer-songwriter phoebe snow has died of complications from a brain hemorrhage. ♪ >> she was 58 years old. her song "poetry man" was one ever the biggest hits of the 1970's. she later dropped out of the music business to care for her severely brain damaged daughter. >>> three days away from the royal wedding in london and british tabloids are speculating on how much the elaborate affair will cost. by some estimates security costs $32 million plus another million or so for things like the bride's dress, wedding cakes, flowers, invitations, music, food and the honeymoon and the price tag could hit almost $70 million. some economists say the big day could also boost the british economy by as much as a billion dollars through tourism and the sale of souvenirs. >>> you can watch the royal wedding here live. our coverage starts at 2:00 a.m. this friday, april 29. and if yo

phillip tracy, he is a very famous milliner, he is known for his signature hats, the likes of elizabeth taylor, lady gaga. the royal family. even kate middleton is a big fan of his. we went to his london workshop today with less than 24 hours to go before the wedding. they were still very busy at work. >>> reporter: it's been round- the-clock production at hat designer phillip tracy's london work room where individual works of art are diligently designed and created. >> like soft sculpture really because all the materials start out flat. but, you know, it's a manipulation of the material that brings it to life. >> reporter: a flurry of fabrics, accessories and no machinery. >> everything is done by hand. and it's really laborious, time- consuming work t takes hours and days. >> reporter: the clock is tick until the nuptials. tracy doesn't deny his head wear will be worn on the middleton side of the family of the wedding but does confirm he will see his designs worn by several guests and some members of prince william's family. princess beatrice will be wearing that? >> yes. she has a beautiful

but then there's a thing called movie magic, and bette davis and james mason turned into elizabeth taylor richard burton. and oddly enough, mike nichols stayed mike nichols, and...but i sort of trusted mike. i didn't think he was going to allow them to really screw it up. and what happened, finally, by some great fortune: there was no screenplay. i mean, there's this guy, ernest lehman, who is credited with the screenplay. but then again, he produced the movie too. but i think he changed two sentences of my entire script and maybe cut about five minutes, so the text was intact. and i am told all sorts of apocryphal stories about hollywood and film. i am told, for example, that a screenplay was written in which the nonexistent child was changed into a real deeply retarded child that they kept upstairs somewhere. i don't know whether i believe stuff like this or not. but anyway, i was quite amazed when i went to see a rough cut of the movie that it was what i wrote, very much what i wrote, except those two dumb sentences: "hey, let's go to the roadhouse" and "hey, let's come back from the r

last month, residents wanted the flag flown half-staff for elizabeth taylor.ut the merchant group that maintains the flag says no -- said no. that's only happened five times in the past few years. >>> a proposal to turn a -- to turn a san rafael park into a baseball team hayes angered some people. center field partnership is hoping to make it the home of a new north american league team. some of the neighbors say the parking, the know iz -- the noise, the traffic, the drinking at the park are already big problems. the department of parks and recing will -- and recs will review this proposal. and they will decide whether to recommend it. a 9 - -- a k-9 handler and the handler, they are suing the department. the handler says she's not being payed for the time she spends -- spends with the dog off duty. her attorney says his client is owed $80,000. >>> we want to check in with sal. >> there's slow traffic, a lot of people consider that a problem. i want to show you that traffic -- show that you traffic in marin county has closed. -- has slowed. also this morning

some castro residents wanted the flag to be flown at half staff after the death of elizabeth taylor. now some castro residents are demanding for community input on determining when the flag is lowered. >>> and there is much more news just ahead. ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 is next. >>> sick of seeing homes like this in your neighborhood. warnings from leaders in one city, they say either you clean it up or you pay up. >>> san jose police officers are getting pink slips tonight. >>> a beloved school worker gunned down in oakland. the action his school is taking tonight to call for an end to the street violence. >>> good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. the city of san jose tonight is issuing hundreds of pink slips. robert handa is live to tell us how deep the projected cuts will be and why it's causing uncertainty among many workers including police and firefighters, robert. >> reporter: hundreds of city workers have been dreading this. lay off notices, they are being handed out this week. but many employees say the pink slips are also generating a lot o

but groups are upset because it is refusing to lower the flag to half-mast in honor of elizabeth taylor's death. they say one group should not have control of such a symbol. they need to pay maintenance costs for the flag as well. >>> now to a story you'll only see on nbc bay area. a high school football player suffers a pinch field, not on the field but off. his father is filing a complaint, saying that his son was bullied, pushed down, and that that caused the painful injury. we have more on this exclusive story. >> reporter: jessica, this local father says he knows that football is a contact sport but he never expected his son to get injured when he wasn't even playing football. he says that's exactly what happened and claims school officials here did little about it. >> my son is 6'2" and weighs about 215 and there's not an ounce fr fat on him. >> reporter: his son is not the stereo typical target of bullies, but he was. claiming his own teammates singled him out at the high school and they did little about it. >> he was what they called table topped. one boy gets his attention, anoth

this is when one of their own, an opera singer named elizabeth taylor greenfield came up from philadelphia, black singer to sing in which the whole hall she was to sing did not have a segregated section. and so the black elite were turned away and told that they couldn't enter. so they raised a brouhaha and were finally allowed to get in. so that is to show the confusion in new york for the black elite and fraud black new yorkers. so for the remainder in may next half of the talk, i'm going to focus on this area, which is something dean asked me to do and i'm going to be focusing specifically on three sides. one is broadway. another is lawrence street, which is parallel to thompson street north of houston in the third is -- that they lawrence street school. in the third is the african theater which was located on mercer street. and i want to show two things. one the way in which distance and proximity still obtained in this area and the other is i think i see away what i'm talking about what happens at certain places to point out some of the moral values underlying the happenings. so what

talked earlier about relevance of the play, you wrote it in 65 and everyone was talking about elizabeth taylor or sandra dee, the worse thing that happened to sandra dee she the could be find her hair rollers, a tragedy, it was awful. they have thrown themselves to someone sort of half famous for some reason. it's in us and perhaps more rabid now and there's more media but the info is there and it's real there. >> it's getting out of your own life. that's why people watch television in general to get away from your own. >> charlie: they're obsessed by celebrity. >> there are greek plays, they're looking at poor -- the chorus is all the towns people gossipping, what is she going to do. we are all caught, we are in the role of being chorused to the title roles of our lives. >> charlie: all right. let me ask you. we can't talk about how this play ends, can we. >> that would give it away. >> charlie: it wouldn't be good, would it. >> come see it. >> charlie: all right. what good advice from the playwright. thank you. great to see you. >> thank you. >> charlie: thank you, john. nice to see you. i l

month some castro residents wanted the flag flown at half staff to mark the death of actress elizabeth taylor. however the merchants group that maintains the flag said no. so now some castro residents are demanding more community input in deciding when the flag is lowered. this only happened five times in the past ten years. >>> well, the days may be numbered for a program that allows san francisco police officers to get a pension and a salary. that's known a double dipping. the examiner reports the program's actually costing taxpayers $52 million more than it would to hire new police officers. one reason is that according to the report officers are getting payouts even if they don't stay in the program. however, the police union president says the department would be left short staffed if this program is allowed to expire in june. >>> pg&e is now saying shareholders will foot the bill for its outgoing ceo's retirement package. his package is $35 million. originally customers were going to have to pay $9.6 million of that. but governor jerry brown quickly stepped in and criticized that plan.

elizabeth taylor's family has reached a deal for christie's to sell her jewelry collection. imagine this, estimated that it's worth $150 million. >> wow. >> taylor's clothing, art and other memorabilia will be sold at series of auctions. i don't think everything i own is worth a few hundred dollars. >> she was married eight times. so did she have -- i wonder if she has eight wedding rings. >> probably at least. at least. i'm sure more than that. >> later on in the show we'll talk about whether kate middleton should be wearing a tiara or flowers. i'm sure she can borrow a tiara from elizabeth's collection. >> i say tiara. >> let's check the weather. >> ron has feelings about this. >> i'm going to tweet about that. >> something about ron and tiaras. >> let's check the weather now. from our houston station kcrk. meteorologist, casey curry. casey, we like your tiara. >> oh, i would love a tiara. i'm a tiara girl. i'm a little fancier. a few minutes ago we showed you all of that video from the severe storms and this storm system is not done yet. later today we're going to watch t

. >> and elizabeth taylor and richard burton, a good match.aura it was love at first sight. >>> heidi klum and seal are the perfect match, if you take away the color, they have the same facial feature. >> reporter: she started a new dating website called find your face mate.com. the site uses face recognition technology from face.com and breaks it down into points, eyes, ears, nose, chin, and corners of the center of the mouth. and the man loaded over 500 celebrity photos and gave it a whirl. the higher the percentage the better the match. brad pitt is a 74% with sienna miller, who knew. what about other royalty? no divorce in their future? >> i don't know. >> rest assured, "gma" exclusive. >> reporter: how about jackie "o," michael dukakis, as well as other men with presidential ties. george? wow, george and jackie "o." ali better not see this. there's one question i couldn't resist asking. i'm a newlywed, it piques my curiosity. >> we're looking at areas of face, impairing it. the ratio, to see if it's a match or not. >> i've been told we lo

. >> and elizabeth taylor and richard burton were a beautiful match facial featurewise.ealized he'd be searching for her his whole life. george bush said the first time he met laura it was love at first sight. heidi klum and seal are the perfect match, if you take away the color, they have the same facial features. >> reporter: bloom believed in the idea so much that she started a new dating website called findyourfacemate.com. the site uses face recognition technology from face.com and breaks it down into points, eyes, ears, nose, chin, and corners and center of the mouth to find similarities. the man behind the technology gave us a demo. he loaded over 500 celebrity photos and gave it a whirl. the higher the percentage the better the match. brad pitt is a 74% with sienna miller, who knew. what about other real-life royalty? >> 71%. no divorce in their future? >> i don't know. >> rest assured, "gma" exclusive. >> reporter: how about jackie "o," michael dukakis, as well as another man with presidential ties. george? wow, george and jackie "o." ali better not see this. th

her dress was beautiful it reminded me of elizabeth taylor.on next to you [laughter] and this was good. >> isabel: if the was a contest? >> jan: what so much fun >> isabel: >> isabel: i found that the colors were not that sedate. what do think? the queen is very colorful. >> jan: i have seen wonderful royals through south america in their 80s that address stylish. the queen, not so much? and the beautiful yellow. the archbishop. i thought he and the queen is that is who is wearing the better yellow? the real tradition with hats. you can see shows like faulty towers, and keeping up appearances and they live out loud. sir eltonhjohnm i wa nice to see there was more than just one clean in the house. queen [laughter] and they're hoping that kate middleton will be as a social conscience as princess diana. with world issues. >> perhaps the beckhams are thinking that for their child's wedding this is not even going to be big enough of a scale [laughter]. >> isabel: speaking of that. >> marty: and the t already, the wedding gown is making maknock off'

check out famed treasures worn by the likes of marilyn monroe, elizabeth taylor, and charlie chaplain, just to name a few. they are owned by debbie reynolds. there she is. she's going to be here to talk about those items. >> she's always fun. we'll begin in washington with the threat of a government shutdown by week's end. savannah guthrie has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this morning white house aids are telling me this could go either way. there were late-night meetings on capitol hill. but there were no major developments to come out of this. but the threat of a government shutdown is very real. >> all right. hello, everybody. >> reporter: a government shutdown now potentially days away, the president is venting frustration over the failure to reach a deal. >> we don't have time for games. we don't have time for trying to score political points or maneuvering or positioning, not on this. >> reporter: after a closed-door meeting with congressional leaders at the white house produced no breakthroughs, it was back-to-back duelling news conferences. >> we want t

. >> you have had so many wonderful people as part of your life, elizabeth taylor being one of them.month ago. what did her life and passing mean to you? >> she was my oldest friend. we met when i was 20, she was 22. we hung out together. i introduced her to todd. >> mike todd. >> because we were doing "around the world in 80 days." i watched the negotiations for dinner that mike would make with elizabeth. all right, we'll have dinner. here's one diamond. no. it's going to cost two diamonds. they were a wonderful, funny couple. understood they were outrageous. she had a wonderful sense of humor and of course he was the master of barnum. >> the two of you had to deal with fame. obviously it came to you both. you write in the book that you were surprised by how much people nowadays obsess over fame. you say it's a drug of annihilation. >> i think it is. >> what do you mean? >> just to want to be famous? what do you do when everyone is really staring at you, literally, look at you interested in you and you don't feel up to par with what you give back? >> is that what happened to you, sh

he put a portrait of elizabeth taylor by andy warhol up for sale.hes, if they create value for society. after all, they didn't build microsoft or invent the iphone. >> once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. >> reporter: the fund managers argue that they play an important role in the capitalist system. they also point out that they pay themselves little in salary and unlike some corporate ceos only dole we well if their inve have a good year. matt? >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> still ahead, a woman who claims a botched cosmetic surgery left her unable to close her eyes all the way. that's coming up after your local news. you're getting calls from his teacher he's impulsive in class. and his inattention makes focusing on homework tough. i know how it is because my son has adhd too. i didn't know all i could do to help manage his adhd. our doctor suggested a treatment plan with non-stimulant intuniv. [ male announcer ] once daily non-stimulant intuniv has been shown to reduce adhd symptoms. don't tak

. >> that's 12-year-old elizabeth taylor with mickey rooney in the film that made her a star "nationaln items going up by another legend debbie reynolds. she'll be here with us wednesday for show and tell wednesday on "today." >> exciting. >> pretty cool. >> very neat. >> i'm al roker with natalie morales. coming up this half hour, on the road with the warlock. >> charlie sheen got in a war of words with his bosses, got fired from tv's top sit com, "two and a half men" and sheen is now continuinging his rants on stage. how did the act play with live audiences? not well. but we'll find out more in a few minutes. >> with millions of parents divorced or spending more time away from work it can be difficult to see your kids' faces each night. coming up, we'll show you how to stay in touch and a part of their lives even if you're thousands of miles away. >> all right. is that working? there we go. also we head into the kitchen for tasty dinners you can turn out in no time flat. looking good there. looks like salmon? no, chicken. first a check of the weather. >> salmon, the chicken of the se