. >> eric: thanks for waking up and joining us. >> kristen: i'm kristen sze. let's begin with the latest on a campus shooting that left three people dead at san jose state university. terry mcsweeney joins us from the parking garage where it happened. >> reporter: look at the scene you would not know anything happened out here. police are gone, cleanup crews are gone. shooting took place on the fifth floor of the six story garage between ninth and tenth. take a look from an hour or so ago. cleanup was still underway. removing blood from some of the parking spots. san jose state police saying all three people are dead including the gunman. whether the victims were students or not. they are not saying that. but they are saying some things about the shootings. >> it was an ordinary evening at san jose state. we hold classes from early in the morning until quite late at night. there were a their number of faculty employees on campus. this is not at all a drive-by shooting. we have no reason to believe it was gang-related, it was isolated. >> reporter: dozens of st

i'm kristen sze. >> eric: i'm eric thomas. space shuttle is fueled up to launch.ounded arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords is at the kennedy space center to see her husband, commander mark kelly lift off. john hendron is live where nasa anticipates a launch date crowd possibly in the hundreds of thousands. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. and abc news has learned that commander mark kelly and his wife gabrielle giffords exchanged wedding rings before this mission so by the time it's all over, she will be able to tell people her wedding ring in outerspace. >> the crew is suited on and on board before one last mission but they sorry soar to last frontier, retirement. joining gabrielle giffords to watch husband mark kelly command. >> she has been working really hard to make sure that her doctors would permit her to come. >> they come as far away as california where endeavour will retire in los angeles. >> i want to watch endeavour launch and land and then i'll follow her back home to california. >> it kind of like shakes the ground. >> they scrubbed a la

. >> eric: thank you so much for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> kristen: and i'm kristen sze. showers from the latest storm not totally done with it yet. >> eric: almost. let's check in with mike and see what is happening. >> all is quiet. most of our showers are low level and not getting that vertical extent, not going to produce heavy rain except for where you see where the amgen tour is running from livermore all the way down to san jose. so the higher elevations and santa cruz mountains, we do have a lone shower showing up around daly city but all looks of it right now, light rain falling in santa clara valley and minimal drizzle into the east bay and also in the north bay. if you are traveling in the sierra we still have snow. it too is starting to taper. >> and across the benicia bridge wind advisories and making your way out towards martinez. so it's pretty quiet on the freeways. go ahead and check out golden gate bridge next, light heading into san francisco. also you'll notice roads are not as damp as yesterday. the traffic flows well and so far no wind advisories. >>

we'll tell you how ab >> eric: it's 5:24. in alameda county they are concerned about an outbreak of the west nile virus. warming temperatures combined with rainy weather has made an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. they feed on infected birds and then transmit the virus to people and animals. officials say they are already seeing more mosquitoes this year and residents are being encouraged to take precautions. experts say clearing stagnant water is key to controlling mosquito larva before they become adults. they recommend wearing long sleeve shirts and pants containing deet to help prevent mosquito bites. >> kristen: a kiatdz go report questions the high speed rail project. high speed rail is threatened by the state's budget crisis as well as questionable financing and management. this is animation provided by high speed rail authorities. they are suggesting the project be turned over to the state project of transportation for evaluation. >> eric: getting to south lake tahoe will be more difficult. for two weeks highway

cal fire says they plan to hire crews to address the risks. >> eric: all that grass. let's check in with mike. that stuff is going to start later. >> this morning, scattered showers in and this afternoon steady rain and tomorrow showers. we are looking at clouds that are trying to drop a few sprinkles on your morning commute from mount sutro. we can't see mount diablo because of the cloud cover. we were tracking a shower but it's fallen apart but you will find wetness on the streets and frances was covering a couple of accidents because of that. in napa county we were watching a shower but since moved to the north and moved away. let's put the last few hours in motion. you see anything that does develop will move from south, southwest to north-northeast. let's talk temperatures since most of us shall dry, 40 in fairfield, up to 51 in san francisco, pretty mild morning. 50 in santa cruz. record cold high temperatures, temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s. that is very unusual and could set record cold-high temperatures today. the difference between rain and showers

. >> eric: i'm eric thomas. child protective services wants to talk to a san francisco mom who made an admission in a tv interview. she admitted that she gives her eight-year-old daughter botox injections. amy hollyfield is here now. she is following the story for us. >> reporter: she is not the only mom doing it. terry campbell says she helps britney compete in beauty contests and other pageant moms gave her the idea. she administers the shots her search and regular gives them to britney. but child prefb services received several telephone calls and has decided to investigate. >> we need to sit down to talk with the mom and talk with the child and see what is going on. >> its tough world. but being confident is something she has to be. >> does it look better after you get the botox? >> yeah. >> how? >> like beautiful, pin like. >> they are often painful and she says it does hurt and she cries a little. the fda does not recommend botox for anyone under the age of 18. she has tried wagging and she says that was t

i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm kristen sze. top story, new lelgsz that the former head of the contra costa drug task force. in addition to charges of selling drugs, he now has been accused of running a brothel out of a business park. terry mcsweeney is there live. >> reporter: it appears private investigator chris butler is rolling over on his former friend. together they ran a brothel in this business park. name of operation, miami divine skin. enough said. 34-page report coming out of chris butler. what he is saying that he and former contra costa county narcotics officer norman wielsch ran the brothel. they were once on the police force together. they have been charged with selling drugs taken from the police evidence lockers. attorney says the story is not believable. >> he says he ran the place and collected the money but it wasn't me and i gave all that money to other people. i didn't keep just a small part of that. if you want to believe that, i got bridges in oceans i would like to sell you pieces of. >> why would he be

. >> i'm eric thomas. topping the news, santa cruz man who was nearly beaten to death following a giants game with the dodgers is headed back to the bay area today. he has been in a medically induced coma since the attack. amy hollyfield is live at san francisco general hospital. that is where he'll be transported today. >> he'll be here this morning. he'll be treated by the team of neurosurgery that specialize in brain and spinal cord injuries. he has opened his eyes. they say that is a good sign, but he is still in critical condition. stow was attacked in march as he was leaving a giants-dodgers game in l.a. his attackers were wearing dodgers' jerseys and stow was wearing a giants shirt. the family is glad to have him home. they do consider it a good sign he can be moved to san francisco, but they realize he has long road ahead of him. >> we have indications long road to recovery, over a year of rehab. so we're prepared to take that next step with brian definitely. >> police are still looking for the two

. >> eric: thanks for joining us.ad to think about that one for a minute. >> kristen: bay area cycling fans are expected to gather by the thousands in livermore for the only bay area stop in the amgen tour of california. terrify at the are joins us from the starting point with the latest on the race and economic impact. >>> i'll tell you about the race. gred henderson is in the lead after winning the auburn to modesto. stage four kicking off in downtown livermore. they are getting the downtown ready for this and having a huge banner about amgen and city of livermore. they are going to have a staging area. the city is in an uproar over this race rob white the $50,000 is what you put up. that is chump change what you are going to make? >> we think so. this will be a huge opportunity to get exposure internationally. we think $50,000 is well worth the exposure for livermore. >> can you handle 10,000 people in your downtown area? >> we absolutely can. our wine festival brings in 20,000 to 30,000. >> some of the wine you ar

check out flight tracker at abc7news.com to find out the latest. >> eric: it's 4:50. army prosecutors have charged a vacaville man in a plot to murder afghan civilians for kicks. the staff sergeant played a big part that conducted patrols in kandahar province. they are accused of finding isolated men pretending they posed a threat and killing them with guns or grenades. discipline can break down when soldiers aren't sure of their mission. >> there is no reason for this kind of conduct. i would suspect there may be other instances like this. the longer they were there, the more these problems will surface. >> he attended a buckingham charter school back in 2001 and 2002. he is not charged with killing with civilians but he is charged with solicitation to commit premeditated murder and planting evidence. >>> gabrielle giffords will undergo surgery to replace a section of her skull removed after she was shot in the head in january. giffords was critically wounded when a gunman opened fire at a political event. they say the procedure is relatively simple and recovery time

how did they pick eric? >> guest: well, as you mentioned, the venture capitalists put $25 million into google in 1999, did it with the expectation that these two young men from stanford, with no experience in managing a giant company, would get what's called in the valley adult supervision, and hire an experienced manager to be the ceo. >> host: that's because you dress like a cow. >> guest: there's some interesting april fool's videos of eric. he mad fun, too. a few months after they got the money, they called john and said we changed our mind. we think we can run this company ourselves. and john -- his first instinct was to say, i'm out of her. but he held back and said, wait a minute. just go and talk to a number of ceos. some of the companies in the valley that you respect. and i'll set up tours. they went on what i call the magical mystery tour of the best ceos, which were the jeff baezo and steve jobs and all the greats. so they came back from the tour and they said to john, you know, you're right, we

. >> eric: i'm eric thomas. a little drama. >>> top bart official wants a new way to report problems on the train. he is urging creation of a text message phone line that report system's fal functions. terry mcsweeney at millbrae bart with more. >> reporter: bart president bob franklin to be passengers to be able to tell passengers of any problems with bart. this is very interesting program. passengers could quickly and quietly, pretty much privately let bart about an out of control package or a suspicious package. they can call police or they can fill out a comment card. but that is not likely to happen and certainly not as likely as someone sending a text. one thing that might not be reported is a dirty bart car because bart is thinking about using a surplus of $4.5 million to start a mint car program but they would be in somewhat mint condition. a rollback of bart fares or four free commute days per year. getting back to the text messages, it's an idea that has been tried by muni, they say it's very successfu

eric etheridge. >> thank you. good evening. i am the photographer and author of breach of peace, a portrait of the 1961 mississippi freedom riders. preach features damone shots of 328 riders arrested that year in jackson and my new portraits of over edu writers. i am also a native of mississippi. eig rabin hydetown called cartage, a town 60 miles northeast of jackson and you can get more information about me in the project that -- it preach.com. i am delighted to be here tonight at the harlem book fair and i am honored to be joined on the panel by three people who chose to come self in 1961 to help liberate my home state. wet the time, bob and helen singleton to my immediate right for college students in los angeles were they still live today, and at the far end of the cannel loose buckman, 1961 was a college student in new york city and he still lives here. i will introduce them more in detail in a moment, but first to set the stage for their comments, i want to run through a brief history of the freedom writes. in 1960, the s

i am rabbi eric wise. we are joined by rabbi marvin goodman executive director northern california board of rabbis and rabbi in residence jewish federation san francisco welcome. >> good to be here. >>> and rabbi bennett, rabbi of temple israel alameda. we are about to start a wonderful conversation as a historic trick to israel -- trip to israel. the first time we had been put together for a week long trip the end of january. so let's just jump in. why did we go to israel? what was the trip about? >> alan wanted to go. >> and i'm glad we did. a year ago january i was at a are bin call convention and heard someone talking about an interdenominational trip to israel and i wondered if anybody else had done that. the reasons it sounded interesting resolved how rare it was to have a group of rabbis going together to israel, would be unprecedented for northern california. i started pushing for it. >>> this trip would not have happened without your working with the israel down sell general for north -- counsel g

eric, kristen? >> all right. frances, thanks a lot. >>> 5:54. >> you may be if line for a pay raise this year. >> me? maybe you. or maybe you. here is jane king with the bloomberg business report. >> good morning. made in america used to be a blue collar thing. now the clothing maker is cashing in on the growing popularity of the theme. take the men's wear maker. their banner on the suit-maker website advertising the massachusetts factory that makes them. olson twins also getting in on the wave of patriotism. an american express survey says more than 75% of customers like brands made in america. good news about the paycheck. staffing agencies starting to charge more for the part-time temp they place in companies. analysts say that is a sign wages for full-time permanent workers may go up. today's workers burning fewer calories a day. a study shows dramatic drop in manufacturering and farming and the increase in sit on your you-know-what office jobs are to blame. the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king with the

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the man the legend eric sprott us brought us that matters eric sprott welcome to the kaiser report max are very happy to be here particularly because you've been such a stalwart in pushing people towards silver which i think is the best recommendation anyone could make this decade and i'm happy to aid and abet that cause in any way i can all right eric sprott you call silver the investment of the decade i take it you still stand by that statement give us a rundown on where we are currently in the silver market well i've always looked at the silver and gold as a situation where the demand will exceed to supply and when i look at gold in the last decade we had a great change in from the demand side where central banks used to be sellers and became buyers we used to have no e.t.f. that we had an e.t.f. he said mining companies would hedge now they don't hedge and the shifts and ownership had been dramatic in a market where we really see no rise in supply in the case of silver what really turned me on about twelve months ago was as we witnessed people buying silver you realize that there w

eric hder centcom "if we get him, we will be giving miranda rights -- eric holder said, "if we get them, we will be giving miranda rights to a court." >> how did the leading republicans react to this, mark? >> you have to give credit to the president who was there who made the call, who put lives at risk and his own political fortunes at risk. by my reckoning, mitt romney did, so did tim pawlenty, former governor of minnesota. palin did not, and gingrich did not, and surprisingly to me huckabee did not. mitch daniels did -- >> dick cheney didid. >> it is kind of fascinating, because the base of the party do not want to give credit to the other party at any time. no one would say that george bush cares about his daughters or white if you were about fire- breathing democrats -- or wife if you care about fire-e-breathing democrats. so it is a certain maturity with romney and daniels -- >> at the lack of character on the part of palin -- >> and new? that does it. [laughter] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] with amazing innovation, driven by relentless competition, wireless puts the world at y

. >> eric: campbell police have located a missing three-year-old girl that they believe was abused by the mother and mother's boyfriend. they found the girl with her mother. the mother jane marin was taken into custody. >> it's an area where we have information she may have had some friends in that area. so they developed some leads that she would possibly going to this particular parking lot. they set up on the parking lot and located them. >> the girl was taken to a hospital and is now with child protective service. the mother's former boyfriend george rodriguez is also wanted for child abuse. they searched for her after getting a lead that the toddler was the victim of severe child abuse. while at the house on the border where rodriguez lives. >> san francisco's public defender has release a surveillance video that he says shows undercover cops breaking the law. they show them arresting a man at jefferson hotel in the tenderloin. the public defender claims the officers wrote reports that don't match what appears on the video. the tape shows an officer shoving a bystander and taking

securities and lie to me or to commute off he is chief economist at the critter financial corp ok eric i'm going to go to you first your very well known fund manager here you've been here actually longer than i have and you write this letter weekly right out of its monthly no truth and beauty and russian finance which is not only very smart it's very funny so my first question goes to you how do you correlate high oil prices and investment in russia they correlate well or not well i mean there is a persistent myth that the russian economy and market is only about oil and i've said this could be a quick argument with it i mean cents or oil is a one way bet in the medium term i don't really think it matters very much the point is that what really is the investment into russia has been a combination of extremely negative coverage in the western press and the russians own god given talent for screwing up their public relations the russians can make themselves look bad giving out christmas candy to orphans and this has different effects and different parts of the economy i mean the bond mar

house majority leader eric cantor is here with us. but today, we're first going to go and get an update on this week's big story-- the joplin tornado, which took 139 lives. and that number is expected to get higher. president obama will be there later today to tour the devastation and speak at a memorial service. i spoke with the governor of missouri just a short while ago. governor, good morning. thank you for taking the time to be with us today. now that it's almost a week since this tornado hit joplin, is it possible to put into words just the scope of the devastation and the human suffering that your city is enduring? >> well, with the focal point during the early part of the week and all the night last night into work, it has been hard to put into context how deep this destruction is. i think today's memorial service when people have a moment to pause for an hour and pray together and think about this, they'll begin to see the pictures of the hundreds of friends who are gone, the schools that are gone, the fact that it's going to

i'm eric thomas. >> kristen: i'm chris chris. there are new allegations against the former drug counselor. in addition to charges selling drugs, he is accused of running a brothel out of a pleasant hill business park. terry mcsweeney is there live. >> reporter: private investigator and former cop chris butler is accusing another former cop of running a brought el together right here in plain sight in a business park. name of it was, my divine skin. take a look. chris butler put out a 34-page report claiming that he and former contra costa county officer norman wielsch ran the brothel together. recently charged with selling drugs taken from police evidence lockers. no while's attorney says the story is not possible. >> what he saying in one part there was brothel that he started along with my client norman wielsch. i'm saying that is not true. that is absolutely not true. that is butler fairytale. >> reporter: according to cardoza, butler fairytale may be because he is trying to get his prison sentence reduced for selling the drug

. --- eric holder visit hoy 'san jose job corps,' un centro que ayuda a jvenes a evitar las pandillasesar ---- jaime peluffo n0s amplia.. jaime.. take peluffo live cu - peluffo ---- csar, el procurador general elogi el programa anti-pandillas y dijo que otras ciudades deberian imitarlo.. take pkg el procurador general eric holder recorri 'san jos job corps,' un centro que ayuda a jvenes en riesgo a alejarse de las pandillas.. .. how you doing? holder convers con varios muchachos, entre ellos angel miranda de 21 aÑos quien creci sin padre y entre amigos pandilleros.. s.o.t. ngel miranda/participa de job corps 19:30:00 nada mas necesitas saber en tu familia lo que necesitas porque tu familia siempre está ahí, ellos son los que te van a prohibir de meter en las gangas y ellos son los que te van a ayudar y soportar a llegar a programas como estos.. s.o.t. eric holder/procurador general del país 8:05:00 i really think that the approach that is being taken here to really kind of look at individuals, youngsters whollistically.. eric holder catalogo el programa antipandillas como integral por

so you know eric holder you know me in. your case in your so many other. cases neal thank you for sharing your story and i shant from the d.a.'s perspective is there any connection with the top end of traffic cops on the sea every day with the drug war oh sure i mean it's a dangerous job and it's a dangerous job because of the prohibition scheme you know people aren't shooting each other over a liquor distribution or beer distribution they're shooting at you over other over drug distribution so you know all of these tragedies are really a function of the policies that are in place and and i would dare say that eric holder is aware that absolutely absolutely thank you so much really appreciate examinant neil franklin executive director of law enforcement from philadelphia pennsylvania and former analyst again here in studio with us tonight in writing the opinion for the majority in kentucky versus king just the same really a legal genius so that when cops burst in residents who quote attempt to destroy evidence have only themselves to blame so if you flush

general eric holder recorri 'san jos job corps,' un centro que ayuda a jvenes en riesgo a alejarse de las pandillas.. .. how you doing? holder convers con varios muchachos, entre ellos angel miranda de 21 aÑos quien creci sin padre y entre amigos pandilleros.. s.o.t. ngel miranda/participa de job corps 19:30:00 nada mas necesitas saber en tu familia lo que necesitas porque tu familia siempre está ahí, ellos son los que te van a prohibir de meter en las gangas y ellos son los que te van a ayudar y soportar a llegar a programas como estos.. s.o.t. eric holder/procurador general del país 8:05:00 i really think that the approach that is being taken here to really kind of look at individuals, youngsters whollistically.. eric holder catalogo el programa antipandillas como integral porque se enfoca en las necesidades del individuo y agreg que es la estrategia que debe tomarse en todo el pas.. s.o.t. mario maciel/grupo anti pandillas 1:34:00 proveer los servicios que adecuadamente se ocupan en prevención, intervención y cuando se ocupa, cuando un joven cruza esa linea y empieza a lastimar nue

attorney general eric holder before we get a full reaction from law enforcement against prohibition so if the government treats raw milk like sex how can we can get away with making videos of someone milking a cow so you tune for all the racy footage featuring our op ed for morgan the pennsylvania jersey dairy cow only on out on the versus the man. some things just piss me off whether i have good reason to be pissed off about them or not but the fact that selling raw milk is about as illegal a selling marijuana treated by our government more like sex than food is just one of those things under current federal law known as the past milk ordinance all milk must meet certain standards of pasteurization to get the f.d.a. . grade a stamp of approval pastor's ation is simply a process of heating something for a period of time before cooling it rapidly for extended storage the point of this with milk allegedly this a kill disease causing microbes this gives milk a longer shelf life the problem with doing this with milk however is that it also kills a lot of the good stuff in naturally occurri

. >> eric: this morning stanley cup fever is reaching new heights in san jose. tickets go on sale this morning for the sharks home games in the western conference finals against the vancouver canucks. tickets will be sold at ticketmaster locations or at ticketmaster.com. last night game sunday, they survived against a hard charging red wings team to advance. third period, patric marleau hadn't scored a single goal this series but slammed home the winning goal. they take on vancouver, game one sunday night in vancouver. >> kristen: a new twist in the story the whole country is talking about. child protective services is now involved in the case of mother that injects her daughter with botox for beauty. >>> she is saying she is not the only mom that does it. she helps 8-year-old britney compete in beauty paneling echbts. she administers it herself and regularly gives them to britney. child protective services received several concerned phone calls after the interview aired on "good morning america" and has decided to investigate. >> we need to sit down to talk wit

eric, kristen? >> all right. thank you so much.o show you breaking news right now from virginia. where a tour bus crash has now taken at least four lives. you can see the scene right here. happening right now. you can see the firefighters trying to free the trapped passengers. again, this is caroline county in virginia, where the breaking news is coming out of. doctors nationwide are calling at it crisis. hospitals are having trouble getting supplies of more than 200 critical drugs. the medication range from ritalin to chemotherapy drugs to ones needed in the emergency room. the shortage is blamed on the drug suppliers making fewer less profitable generic drugs, as well as manufacturering problems. university of utah study shows there has been at least 1,000 medication errors because of the shortage. even some deaths. >>> changes are coming to the grammy awards next year and some are calling them a form of subtle racism. the recording academy is consolidating dozens of awards and eliminating 31 categories. for example, no longer be

eric, kristen? >> thanks a lot. 5:10. >>> still ahead, the crew of the space shuttle "endeavor" places a phone call to an arizona classroom. why this call was very special for the youngsters. >> also, facebook looks to create some official friends around the world. >> special honor for murdered gay right pioneer harvey milk on what would have been his birthday. next, how the memory will be used to give hope to lbgt youth. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> 5:13. welcome back. elementary school students in tucson, arizona, got a lesson from orbiting astronauts on board the space shuttle "endeavor." students at mesa verde elementary school attended for sat lithe question-and-answer period with two astronauts. they were classmates of 9-year-old christina taylor green. the youngest of six people killed in a january shooting rampa rampage. congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot in the head in the ram pain. her husband mark kelly says the crew will sign the school's yearbook

thank you, eric.reciate that. >> no problem. >> it might be cold outside but -- >> you want me to read it again? >> that would be great. no time for that. we have a lot of rain to talk about. >> we do. this is a little rain. cause problems, potentially in the forecast. 5:18. even this rain won't be heavy enough what we saw. [ laughter ] >> trying to figure out a way to say something. it had to say something. >> let's ramp up the radar to show what is going on. northwest corner of sonoma county. cobb, hillsburg, occidental, north of the bay. cloverdale and they're seeing light rain now. it should move in to santa rosa and rona park in the next 40 minutes or so. it will be light but it will cause enough moisture to reach the ground. it could cause slick streets. keep an eye on that. frances will be, let us know if anything develops from that wet weather. all right. as far as the temperatures, we're in the upper 40s to low 50s everywhere. los gatos at 46. around the monterey bay and inland, we have the m

eric, kristen?. next the new health guidelines for eating fish caught in the san francisco bay. >> a medical breakthrough. new drug that could prevent liver transplant in tens of thousands of people. >> crosswalk collision caught on tape. why the terrifying pictures don't tell the whole story. >> "america's money" brought to you by discover. >>> welcome back. 5:24. there is an important medical development in what doctors call a turning point in the fight against hepatitis "c," the leading cause of deliver transplants. the f.d.a. just approved a new medicine that could be a major step forward. renee enrolled in a clinical trial for the drug marketed in the name insivic. the doctor says the drug helped stabilize the effect of the disease renee has been battling for the last decade. >> marked the turning point in the treatment of hepatitis "c." right now with the rise of the virun we cure less than half the people in the united states. with the f.d.a. approval of the medication we are going to cure cl

sprott or yourself what is the sweet spot in this curve if you know a million of corn eric sprott is not the number one hundred million according to what i just heard you say is yes you have a very very very big events you know in the market at some point so what you know is that we know what the aboveground supply of silver is you know the demand is you know the mining output is we know what the training volume is we don't all these things so what is the sweet spot what is the number that it would take to drive one dollar up in the price of silver is it a million is it two million is two point five billion that number can be extrapolated from the information that we have what is that number i'm not sure it can be extrapolated to be because there's too much data we don't have that so i'm not sure i agree with that actually but what i would say is ratcheting maybe that's the point is the thousand hours balls actually i think perhaps you know yes without question the core and most important point is people of the grassroots level taking some small denomination coins out of circulation

. >> i'm eric thomas. in the news, the los angeles prosecutors are a step closer this morning to filing charges against the prime suspect in the beating of giants fan bryan stow outside dodger stadium. that's after the suspect was identified in a police line-up. abc7's terry mcsweeney is live at san francisco general hospital. terry? >> reporter: yeah, the prosecution's case appears to have gotten stronger last evening when giovanni ramirez was picked out of a police line-up. but the attorney for ramirez says he could not have possibly done it because he wasn't at the game. the person who is going to give him that alibi is his 10-year-old daughter. take a look at the first picture that we have of ramirez. you can see it next to the sketch of the suspect in the case. you see similarities there. ramirez was arrested sunday at an east hollywood apartment for assault with a deadly weapon but he says he was not at dodger stadium at march 31 when stow was beaten and kicked. ramirez's attorney says his client was

i wonder if eric bolling is. he'll be here in a second. more than a third say we are cutting back on other necessities just to afford gas. eric is here with us. what do you think of that. >> i'll stay with my fossil fuel that i love. oil was down about a dollar and change yesterday. another $2 today on the heels of good numbers, good stockpile numbers that come out every week. a little easing, we are down to $110 a barrel. it was $116 a barrel a few weeks w-g. backing off a little bit but the gasoline prices continue to rise probably 40 or 41 days in a row now jenna, that will continue. i think we'll start to see a leveling off a little bit. the all time high nationally is $4.11, or $3.98. only 13-cents away. i think we will work through that and make a new high. the peak driving season starts about now. gasoline prices will go up. this year we'll probably see $4. next summer $5 is an absolute lock unless they start to do the things they need to do in washington. jenna: what are those things. >> permits to drill. there were permits during

fast and governments just move to slow us we have technology versus bureaucracy do you think that eric schmidt is right i think there's definitely a lot of truth to that i mean. what has to be understood is that the technology kind of frames the debate the way there's some things that are really easy to do on the internet share files and how people use and there are some things that are really hard like censorship and so if the government is going to try and come up with censorship regime the way the u.s. government is planning to work on this week in the senate i don't think that's going to fly because there's so many ways to run around it phonology is developing so that since they shut down one with file sharing the new one sprout up on the other hand there are things that can be done to increase our privacy to make sure that e-mails that are sent through g.-mail don't get spied on that things will post on facebook that we can't share and i think there's a legitimate role for bills to play in protecting our rights online but what has to be understood is the way these things work beca

. >> a year ago, eric holder appeared before some congressional committee, and some senators said to him -- he said, "we are going to capture him." somebody said, but what are you going to give him his miranda rights?" eric holder said, "if we get him, we will give miranda rights to a court." >> how did the leading republicans react to all this, mark? >> always fascinating, a time like this. you have to give credit to the president who is there, who made the call, who put not only lives at risk but his own political fortune at risk. met ronnie did in his statement, so did tim pawlenty -- mr. romney did in his statement, asserted tim pawlenty. mrs. mayland did not, mr. gingrich did not, -- palin did not, mr. gingrich did not, a surprising to me,. huckabee. >> dick cheney did. >> the base of your party, you don't want to give credit to the president at any other time. no one would say that george bush cared about his daughters and wife if you care about fire- eating democrats. it is a certain maturity on the part of romney and pawlenty and daniels -- >> and the lack of character and a

attorney general eric holder was on an official visit to parents i want to held a joint press conference with the french interior minister he made a statement about guantanamo bay but left a lot of people out there confused he said. although we have not closed guantanamo within the time period that we initially indicated it is still the intention of the president and it is still my intention to close the facility that it exists in guantanamo really as eric holder slept through the last oh i don't know year or so give notice questions yes then presidential candidate obama vowed to shut down the facility within the first year of office but frankly those efforts to shut it down it pretty much stopped altogether thanks in part to outcry from both democrats and republicans and legislation blocking the movement of detainees to american soil as well as what seems to be a change of heart from the commander in chief in fact obama officially turned pro get no earlier this year when he signed an executive order to resume military commissions for detainees there wasn't planning on closing the facili

commissioner hwang: it says eric krebs. >> we usually let people appear. there is no board rule to prohibit that. if there was evidence brought forward that suggests that he did not have authorization to represent the appellants, the board could reopen the case at a rehearing, but there is nothing in the board rule, but i do not believe there is anything pitt that would prohibit it. -- anything that would prohibit it. commissioner peterson: it says eric krebs, and then it says bad it is the san francisco citizens against building permit from, as if they are representing themselves. commissioner hwang: i guess the paper that was submitted was for the entity. president goh: we have never had an objection, so i am inclined to go forward. let's just go forward. >> i was here earlier this evening representing another protest, and he has filed four protest with fraudulent names, and that is why there was no appearance earlier. there are two more more -- more permits than he has been protesting. vice president garcia: you are protesting another permit. >> he is n

the politics of bin laden's death, with michael eric dyson and colonel lawrence wilkerson. and the reaction from the people who lost their loved ones on 9/11. >> i could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform. >> great to have you with us tonight, folks. this is the story that the globe is paying attention to. there is no question about it. it's the story that we are all fired up about. i'm fired up about this guy, right here. the president of the united states, you know, i wish i had five hours to talk to you tonight and have fun with this. because we're going to talk about american exceptionalism tonight. and before we start with the president, we've got to thank those navy s.e.a.l.s and those military guys that give it all their all the time for the united states of america. tonight we're going to show you some interesting footage about how they love this country, how we responded to all of this, and, of course, we just can't forget what they have said about our president. this president right here, president barack obama, if we can just for a moment talk about t