jean elle brings us up to speed. >> reporter: the state admits the gates malfunctioned. the driver says he wants to be compensated for the damage the faulty equipment caused. but the state is refusing to pay. drive into the caldecott tunnel at your own risk. in march, bob seankoff, nba bay area-tv, hold us about the gate rising while lanes were open. >> i see these metal bars rising -- >> reporter: the steel poles ripped through his car. his insurance filed a claim with the state for $10,000 to cover the damage. the california victim compensation and government claims borden need the claims. >> not surprising but disappointing. >> reporter: even though cal trans admits the gates malfunctioned, when water caused an electrical short, and a chp report confirms the gates malfunctioneay cal trans recommended the claim beio deni because it had no notice of the alleged hazard prior to the incident and can't be held liable ford damages without prir notice and sufficient time to remedy the situation. the board agreed. even though cal trans said in march it was the second time the

jean elle, nbc bay area news. >> b.a.r.t. and caltrain say it's hard to predict if heat will cause these kind of delays again today. the heat of the day may determine the speed of the commute and of course the delay. mike will keep you updated throughout the morning. the hot weather forcing vallejo to open an emergency cooling center after a midday power outage. 4,300 pg&e customers lost power and didn't have air-conditioning during the triple digits, but the power is back on this morning. >> heat is a big concern on parents' minds as we send our soccer stars and peewee football players out on the sizzling fields. as nbc bay area's vicky nguyen reports, plenty of pint-sized athletes are powering through the heat and getting ready for another day of sweating it out. >> reporter: the sweltering heat didn't stop this cheer quad from going all-out at practice. >> we're going to train night or day, heat or no heat, we just get through it and drink a lot of water. >> come on, alice! >> reporter: but the coach is sending e-mails to

jean elle is in san francisco tonight where a lot of couples were left standing at the altar once again. >> reporter: people her in the castro remain hopeful tonight. same-sex couples and businesses are planning for wedding celebrations next week and the constitutional law expert says at this point, prop. 8 supporters face a real challenge ahead. same-sex couples erupt in cheers after hours of waiting, news spread federal judge vaughn walker decided to let marriages resume. >> finally, it's happening. >> reporter: then came the details. weddings can't begin until end of business august 18th. >> i'll be back in another week. >> reporter: while couples wait it out, the legal battle over same-sex marriage moves forward. supporters of prop. 8 appealed walker's decision to overturn the same-sex marriage ban and late tonight asked the ninth circuit court of appeals to halt marriages as long as the case is in court. but prop. 8 supporters are facing a legal hurdle. >> we're down now to the question of whether the backers of prop. 8, what's required, constitutional standing, to be able to bring

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as of this morning, the graffiti had not been cleaned up but school officials say it ell b removed soon and such behavior will not be tolerated. >> i'm saddened and also sickened by this disgusting behavior. obviously, we have to make sure that we find the culprits and bring them to justice. we cannot have people putting swastikas or writing "white power" on any of our facilities. >> rich mopped police say the vandals face felony vandalism with a hate crime enhancement if caught. >>> tonight the state of alaska mourns former senator ted stevens. as leanne gregg reports, a high-profile nasa official was also on board. >> reporter: 86-year-old ted stevens was on a fishing trip with eight others when their small plane crashed in a remote area in alaska. stephens and four others died. >> it's with deep sadness that i acknowledge the loss of senator ted stevens. >>. >> also on board, former nasa murder trial, shawn o'keefe. he and his son are reportedly among four survivors now being treated. a team from the national transportation safety board is en route to investigate the cause of the cra

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jean elle. facebook's 500 million members will soon beable to broadcast not only their status, but where they are. that's what a number of tech news sites are blogging this morning. so do you want to have a facebook low jack? for more on what that means for you and your privacy, even if you're not a facebook user, here's nbc bay area's vicky nguyen. >> reporter: it's called geo location. basically, it's a service that allows you to log on to a website from your mobile device and tell all your friends where you are. maybe not that exciting when you're at work, but say you're at a cafe and you want to see what friends are in the area and who might want to join you. a few taps on the screen and you broadcast your location. now, websites have already posted the information for the event tomorrow, 4:30. an update on service's feature and products from facebook. if facebook does launch a location-based feature, here's what you can expect. the potential for retailers to create facebook pages allowing u

ells some people say it depends on how much you've got but in fact everything depends on the people that surround you and on your emotions and state of mind. yes that i feel like it's a good question i always try to make myself happy without it but i don't always succeed i try to do it this way. i've got daddy you've got a question again. because most of the with the i do happy countries have such a high suicide rate. professor that's a good question ok that's actually a myth yes it is not good but it will read it in the paper or sweden what why have they one of the highest rate of suicides. has a more you has a surprisingly high suicide rate but hungary finland japan career a bunch of other countries have even higher suicide rates i think there are a couple things involved sweden does have a surprisingly high suicide rate for a country of israel happy norway denmark if you which are just as happy or happy or have low suicide rates i think that there is a historic tradition where suicide was acceptable in sweden more than in most societies the protestant countries in general religiously

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elling sharksome back, the country. sharks traveling this eve the. the week."he signs they found. they'll make you smile. our "persons of the week." there's oil out there we've got to capture. my job is to hunt it down. i'm fred lemond, and i'm in charge of bp's efforts to remove oil from these waters. bp has taken full responsibility for the cleanup and that includes keeping you informed. you may have heard that oil is no longer flowing into the gulf, but our spotter planes and helicopters will keep searching for any oil. we use satellite images, infrared and thermal photography to map and target the oil. we're finding less oil every day, but we've still got thousands of vessels ready to clean it up. local shrimp and fishing boats, organized into task forces and strike teams. plus, specialized skimmers from around the world. we've skimmed over 35 million gallons of oil/water mixture and removed millions more with other methods. i grew up on the gulf coast and i love these waters. as long as there's oil out there that could make it ashore, i'm gonna do everythi

it's in "elle" magazine. they say the theme of the shoot was "the graduate."ly 16, a bit young to > hhe's >> i've heard her say she wants to hook him up with oneof younger sisters. >> kylie or kelie or kiwi. >> i don't know what their names are. >> something like that. i've never been jealous of him until right now. that's pretty cool. i have a serious story today. this is another one. you heard the news about lawrence fishburne's daughter montana. it kind of went public recently she has embarked on an adult entertainment career, has a porn flick out there. she kind of sat down at her first interview and kind of confirmed her and her dad, strained relationship. >>> here are some stories to watch today on abc news. it is day 11 for jurors deliberating in the rod blagojevich trial in chicago. the former illinois governor is accused of trying to sell off president obama's senate seat. >>> two nasa astronauts have a big job ahead later this morning at the international space station. they'll go on a space walk to repair a cooling pump. >>> the holy month of ramada

ex-husband, i was in the handbag business and we owned it togetherth and from the pages of "vogue" and "elleing homeless was a shocker to me. >> we lived together in a war zone for two years. "war of the roses," exactly. what victory over divorce, what i'm trying to show is you can be even happier. you can be double that kind of happiness. >> but it is kind of hard to prepare for something like this, michelle? >> it's scary. >> you never see it coming and even if you thought you did, you're thinking i'm doing allky to preserve the situation, to keep it from happening. so when it does happen, you really have to take care of yourself. because you can easily fall apart. >> it's funny. sometimes it's not the big things that are so painful, it's the little tiny things. >> you mean like getting cleaned out of a certain bank account or something like that. >> when you're dividing things, sometimes people take things just to hurt you. >> because they know you love it. >> like an oil painting i had done of my daughter. >> the hardest part for most divorces is the threat that you're going to lose your

tipper did pictures and intrude for me in elle magazine and i took a picture of her. >> larry: she'sphotographer. >> i got the better end of this deal, but i took a picture of her in a mustang that al bought for her like the mustang that she had in high school. her first car. you can see the affection they had for one another. california and washington, d.c. and nashville with their lives spread out that much, it may have been that it was easier. >> what are do you make of michelle obama? >> she doing a really good job. i get a lot of people say that it's the worst job in the country. i think she is doing a splendid job. >> larry: worst job why? >> people talk about what you are wearing and if you talk about an issue and you know she cares about real issue, people can be critical about talking about that and i can't imagine keeping your mouth shut and not talking about anything that matters. >> larry: raising kids? >> raising kids at the same time. her girls look lovely and i love that she is wearing american designers. that's fantastic. >> larry: the reflections on the burdens and g

>> i think it was addressed this week very well by general car elle specifically. the purpose of the review which was widely reported on was to understand as much as we could about what the problem was. it is not a problem that exists just in the army because the suicide rate is up in all our services. we don't have the answers. i am one who believes that the pressure of these wars and the repeated deployments is a significant factor but there's a significant population that have committed suicide that have not deployed. it's an incredibly complex, vexing problem. i think what general carelle did was focus on leaders to be attentive to this in every single way and know that we certainly are not close to solving it. it's an enormously complex problem nationally for us and we're a microkoz m of that. our rates exceed the norm in the country and it's something we have to focus on. >> admiral mullen, thank you very much. >> thank you, david. >> we'll continue the discussion up online this afternoon in our web extra and look for updates from me on our website. >>> up ne

tipper did pictures for an interview for me in "elle" magazine once and then i took a picture of her larry: she's a great photographer. >> she is a great photographer. i definitely got the better end of this deal. for the contributor's page i took a picture of her in a mustang al had bought for her which was just like the mustang she had when she was in high school, her first car. so you could see the affection they had for one another, but, you know, california and washington, d.c., and nashville with their lives spread out that much it may have been that at some point it was just easier. >> larry: what do you make of michelle obama? >> i think she's doing a really good job with -- i see a lot of people saying she really wanted to be first lady. i think it's the worst job in the country, and i think she's doing a splendid job. >> larry: worst job, why? >> huh? >> larry: worth of job, why? >> because people talk about what you are wearing. if you talk about any real issue and you know she cares about real issues, people can be critical of you that you are talking about a real issue.

so ted of seeing our ki to have been born here getting second-hand treatment in many areas that the ell o learners get. most of them were born here in the united states. we snd over $1,000 per student. they get quite sure teachers for the kids. our english students get one teacher per 500 students. we're seeing that cutting in the fine arts and these money -- this money is going to these kids. i'm getting tired to see our kids -- not our kids, the american citizens who were born here legally, they get the second-hand treatment. i was like for you to go in there and take that course. they are not listening to us at the local level. >> you brought out the exact reason why i have been so vocal about local control of education. all politics, as you know, it is local. it starts. the local level. and when you have to implement policies that are formed for you in washington, d.c., it takes away a lot of the local control. a lot of that has to do with the -- being tied to those federal dollars that should have been yours in the first place, never spent out of the state in the first place. that

ell, it's actually kind of like well, it'su go to the zoo, you open up all the cages, see what theensct personalities. i thought if you combine those together, you might come up with comthing interesting. a lot of action films aren't actionbout action. it's about reaction. it's about setting the mood. why we're doing something. and what's at stake. what's at stake here is our humanity. and what's a that's what sort of separates wh it. that ot it's not just -- because i've made the mistake of just going the out. justght. >> this time, i take a little breather, get to know the haracters. nd enjoy the ride. >> is that what this sylvester that what tuld tell the younger sylvester stallone, looking the? >> yeah, this sylvester stallone this punch the young person would punchhe mouth every morning, before breakfast, you square in the got to learn your lesson. go if we could just truly take a if we lesson from someone who has already been through it, about humility, about focus, about bout's really important, about ant, aamily comes first, because in the end, that's all you rst,ly have is yo

>> >>ell, once again, won the specifics, but what we do is try to bring all the expertise we have to bear to any operation we have. so it's not just one person. we have people that have specialty in terms of drilling operations, casing design, cement design, operation, so we actually usually try to have a number of experts involved in each operation, and we bring people from further outside, if we need them. >> would you expect an expert on the rig to have to rely on the beach for guidance in the performance and interpretation of such tests as negative tests? >> that would be up to the decision of the individual on what their expertise level was, what the results were of whatever test or activity you had going onnd whether they felt they needed to consult with someone else. >> do you think from your experience the rigs or platform were reld on on the beach? >> i don't kw. >> jammed how long did you work in the -- and how long did you work in the gulff mexico, sir? >> i was there from -- for a little over two years. but that was in the shallow water business. we had a deep water busin

can it give a major address that ells out what is needed in a bill, but only congress can pass a bill. >> this bill raises the fee on a visa. is this discrimination and will it hurt retionship with india? >> i do not think it well. the united states and india have a robust and vital relationship, and nothing in this bill should interfere with that the request just to follow u. >> just to follow up >> thadallen briefed reporters on the efforts to close the relief well. his remarks are about 20 minutes. the leaking well in the gulf of mexico. his remarks are about 20 minutes. >> i have the head of unified area command in your lives with me. it has been a busy day. -- head of unified command in the new orleans with me. it has been a busy day. i will talk to you about the meeting we held with parrish president. i will let him talk about that. the issue has been raised over the last week or so about the 26% in the oil budget and where we are going with that. we will talk about the well head, the pressure test and the relief wells. when we are done, we will be glad to take questions. first,

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