she made her debut at erica kane on january 5, 1970. >> erica, why don't you get off your high horset want to be down anywhere with the rest of you. i want to be special and i'm going to be. >> she was not the typical heroin, of course not. she was the bad girl in town. she was the naughty girl in town. a 15-year-old high school girl who was very head strong, was collecting boys, mostly other girls' boy friends as trophies. she grew up and she became big girl in a bigger arena. >> don't you ever get tired of getting my leftovers? >> reporter: during the show's run, erica has been aed model. an actress. >> lights! >> how is that? >> reporter: and a mogul. >> that's where i found it enchanting. please, god, please,. >> reporter: and through it all, she has suffered. >> too much. please, just take it all back. take it all back. >> reporter: erica kane has been through so much. she has been kidnapped. she has survived an airplane crash. >> she has fought a grisly bear and won. >> you may not do this. do you understand me? you may not come near me. >> she staged that prison breakout while

bob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica.qaeda terror network. in many ways, the american-born cleric anwar al awlaki was al qaeda's biggest threat to the u.s. anwar al awlaki was near the top of the u.s. terror hit list. the american-born cleric in the past two years had become increasingly influential in the core of the al qaeda franchise in yemen. al awlaki was linked directly to two terror attacks on the u.s. in 2009, first the ft. hood shooting in texas. e-mail exchanges between awlaki and accused gunman nidal hasan, confirmed the al qaeda leader was the inspiration for the massacre that left 13 dead. he was also at the center of a plot to bomb a u.s. airliner the same year. accused bomber abdulmutallab trained at camps run by al awlaki's group in the arabian peninsula. u.s. drones took a shot at awlaki in may and narrowly missed, but this morning, a u.s. strike apparently found its target. a convoy carrying awlaki and other members was hit in southern yemen. sources say he was killed by missiles fired by u.s. drones. u.

erica cane married a dozen times. >> she had everything. she was bitchy, fun, naughty, caring. >> reporter: alas, like scarlet, erica got her just desserts. >> frankly, erica, i don't give a damn what you do. [ laughter ] >> reporter: the folks at blondie's loved it, even if it was bittersweet. >> it's very sad. this is like a mass murder here. >> reporter: did someone mention murder? >> now you will never get him back. >> just watch me. >> reporter: after 41 years, the curtain falls on fictional pine valley. a shot rings out and "all my children" fades to black. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. [ applause ] >> that is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. lester holt will be here with you this weekend. the good thing about this show is we'll be back here on monday. in the meantime, have a good weekend. good night. >>> dozens of new jobs starting today from a bay area industry trying to get past a firestorm of bad publicity. good evening, everyone, and thanks for joins

clerk of the committee is erica cheng. madam clerk, can you please call item no. 2? >> review of minutes of the july 12 meeting. >> colleagues, you have the minutes before you. before we act on it, with any member of the public like to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment disclosed. taken without objection. madam clerk, please call item no. 3. >> item #3, citizens of advisory committee report. an information item. supervisor campos: mr. davis, good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. our meeting took place last week and i it -- as a result there were three, $270,000, so they can to work at union square. passed by, seven-one, with one abstention, the discussion for the meeting was around community involvement as put into the planning. the other item on the agenda was the central subway. this was the first time we had passed anything regarding the central subway. the discussion on that was very focused on the risk management issues and the assumptions that the mta was making about the central subway project. i believe we have something coming up on th

i would like to think erica l. lovejoy it and embroiders for developing the legislation and shepherding this to this point. -- i would like to think erica lovejoy and others for developing the legislation and separating -- and shepherding it to this point. president chiu: same house, same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. if you could call items 23 through 25 around the eastern neighborhoods. >> amending various sections of the planning code around the eastern neighborhoods plan, amending the administrative code to improve the controller's assessment to improve the city ability to implement the goals and policies, and amending zoning map sheets to correct technical errors. president chiu: can we take these items same house, callbacks passed on the first reading. >> item 26, adopting findings under the california environmental quality act, including a mitigation and reporting program related to the rehabilitation of the san joaquin pipelines project. president chiu: this is adopted. >> item 27, am

. >> erica paid her property tax in 2008 online.ad this credit card statement as proof of her payment. only one problem, the payment was never credited to her account. >> i received a notice from my mortgage company that they showed i had unpaid taxes with alameda county. >> over the next 26 months she would receive two tax delinquency notices from her mortgage company. both times she sent her mortgage company proof of payment. finally when she received her third notice in february of this year, she went straight to the tax collector's office. >> so i went down, hoping to get something from them to then give to my mortgage company saying, yes, you did pay your taxes. here's the proof. >> but that didn't happen. instead the tax collector's office told her her payment had been missapplied to her next door neighbor's property. >> so i said well that's great that you see that. can you please just apply it to my tax payment for me? >> but that didn't happen either. donald white is alameda county's tax collector. he said ericka had two ye

erica says her teacher docked everyone 25 points. the reason? a student said god bless you.rica admits the teacher did tell them about class disruptions but adds it seems harsh to punish everyone for three words, her mother tried to contact school officials and the school district fwhot comment to us today, either. >> and coming up next, 200 lucky drivers get a jump start with a gas give away. we'll have the story. [ female announcer ] at jcpenney uncover mystery savings this friday & saturday. everytime you use your jcpenney rewardsredit card reveal savings worth 15...20... or 30% extra off all apparel, shoes and accessories. no exclusions! go to jcp.com to see everything on sale. jcpenney. everytime you use your jcpenney rewardsredit card reveal savings worth 15...20... or 30% extra off all apparel, shoes and accessories. no exclusions! go to jcp.com to see everything on sale. jcpenney. i'm not crazy about these light fixtures. kitchen's too small. what's next? 607 franklin st. ♪ sea bass... ♪ ooohhh! ♪ i like it. yeah, i love the kitchen. [ male announcer ] the epa-estima

. >> i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim axelrod. chris wragge has the morning off. >> great to have with us here. >> thank you. >>> a startling claim from new york city's police chief. in a interview, ray kelly tells scott pelley the nypd has the fire power to shoot down a plane. >> those revelations getting a lot of attention this morning. >>> we begin this morning with president obama who is ramping up the rhetoric. last night he started a west coast trip with a blast of republicans telling big money supporters at a fund-raiser that the gop's idea of government would, quote, fundamentally cripple america. cbs senior white house correspondent bill plante has more on the president's efforts to rally the democratic base. bill, good morning. >> good morning to you, erica. >> reporter: it's no more mr. nice guise but the president is responded to liberals who think he is not willing to compromise. he offered tough love also to the black caucus. >> take off your bedroom slippers and put on your marching shoes and shake it off. stop comp

erica paid property tax in 2008 online and had this statement as proof of her payment.e problem. the family was never credited to her account. >> i received a notice from my mortgage company they showed unpaid tax autos she would seventy-two tax delinquency notices. both times she sent proof of payment. and finally when receiving her third notice she went to the tax collector's office. >> and i was hoping to get something from them saying yes. we did pay taxes. here is the proof. >> and that didn't happen. they told her her payment had been misapplied to her next door neighbor's property. >> and i said that is great. can you apply it to my payment? >> that didn't happen. and the tax collector says erica had two years to correct the error and two years had passed. >> there is a contact after the two year period. it does not give treasures or tax collectors discussion. >> and he says there were five notices over the years. here is what one notice looks like. >> we asked a designer color bar to look at. >> and they're paid up. >> so did she see the notice? >> this is somew

. >> erica paid her property tax in 2008 online.payment was never credited to her account. >> i received a notice from my mortgage company that they showed i had unpaid taxes with alameda county. >> over the next 26 months shield receive two tax delinquency notices from her mortgage company. both times she sent her mortgage proof of payment. finally when she received her third notice in february of this year, she went straight to the tax collector's office. >> so i went down, hoping to get something from them to then give to my mortgage company saying, yes, you did pay your taxes. here's the proof. >> but that didn't happen. instead the tax collector's office told her her payment had been miss applied to her next door neighbor's property. >> so i said well that's great that you see that. can you please just apply it to my tax payment for me? >> but that didn't happen either. donald white is alameda county's tax collector. he said ericka had two years to correct the error and the two years have already passed. >> if we are contacted

you know erica cain and tad martin. there's susan lucci who plays erica erica cain. martin was with me earlier. he told me it was emotional when they had to shoot the last episode. >> it was a very emotional day in the studio for all of us. some of us have known each other for decades. i think yesterday most of us were just gratified because we had been working with the damocles over our head for a long time. to know it meant so much to so many people to say good-bye, it was a good sendoff. >> what really killed "all my children?" >> i think what it is, in an age when the internet is redefining so many industries, publishing, online marketing, television had to deal with a lot of things. cost, as they had to harder for the same market share they don't have the same monopoly they did 20 years ago. they had to cut costs. it's a pretty big nut to carry a soap opera. i wouldn't say the internet or reality television killed the soaps. i think it would be interesting to see if -- because if we did find a new home on the internet, hopefully, it would be interesting to see i

erica hill joins us from new york. good morning, erica. >> reporter: hey, guys. good morning.e liked a 15-minute delivery. fantastic. >> but not on a plane. >> neither one of my children were that kind to me. i love them still. [ laughter ] >> but that's a story for another day. ahead this morning, you guys, on "the early show," we are keeping a close eye on the typhoon blasting japan. it's striking the northeast coast. a million people coastal evacuation and, of course, one of the areas most concerning to people is all around the crippled fukushima nuclear plant. the deadly cost of delay in areas here in the u.s. a new report finds tornado warnings went unheeded in joplin, missouri, earlier this year so how can things change? does the system need to change? goss the reaction of folks on the ground need to change? we'll take a closer look at that. and also it turns out -- i hope you're sitting down -- men and women see relationships differently. >> what? >> no way. >> i know. [ laughter ] >> the rules are changing. we'll look at some of the new rules especially in this faceboo

. >> reporter: best friends erica and taylor are students and required to take a health class in order to graduate but say their teacher is more interested in his own agenda. >> i sneezed some body said bless you. he said do you think that girl is evil? do you think evil spirits are coming out of her? the guy who said bless you, said no, i was just, doing what i'm supposed to do when somebody sneezes trying not to be rude, you know. kind of frustrating when someone -- what? no, don't say it. >> reporter: in erica's classroom it is more than a religious issue, the teacher told students that sneezing and saying god bless you us a distraction. >> the teacher warned us, the first time that the kid said, because i guess, that sneezing is already distracts the class. but if saying bless you, i guess, distraction it more. >> reporter: erica says a student sneezed while they were reading. >> the first time he did it he took 25 points off everybody in the glass's grade for one person saying it. somebody did it the next day. >> if the kids are being disciplined because they're out of order it is

was lazy as i'm saying you are you're right he's deciding selling coffee pots ok erica in toronto. you know please enough with the sort of propaganda from you lindsay kosovo there was a risk there were eight hundred thousand all brainy and civilians who were being driven out of their homes in the dead of winter many of them would have died from exposure this is not about body parts probably which doesn't mean there are very much let me finish let me finish. nato did the right thing the united states did the right thing by intervening in this real humanitarian crisis libya is something entirely different and what we're seeing is a return of the old colonial powers in north africa france i think totally and spain. and they are and they are rivals they are notating against each other already to see who gets control the french are ahead the italians are very dismayed now that the french may be gobbling up only golden eggs in libya so we can compare the two things together ok daniel benito i think i hear some one more thing on the right are jumping ahead. no i said i simply want to do l

de san pedro erica. >> al regresar de comerciales la poblaciÓn venezolana tomó una medida para protegerser a narcotraficantes. un ♪ ♪ >> no es frecuente ver que la poblaciÓn de una ciudad se autodeclare en toque de queda. pues justamente es lo que sucede en caracas, venzuela. a causa del temor que tienen sus habitantes a transitar por calles donde la violencia es casi una escontante. agosto ha sido el mes mÁs violento. cifras y testimonios de esta dura realidad. >> llanto, luto, impotencia. historias repetidas. causas comunes. todas con un mismo motivo: la violencia. >> esto no puede seguir asÍ! porque si no, este paÍs dÓnde va a llegar entonces? >> agosto fue el mes mÁs sangriento en caracas. 560 personas murieron baleadas. las cifras son extraoficiales, pues no existen cifras oficiales. >> impactada, narra cÓmo su vecino, un sastre querido en su comunidad muriÓ apuÑalado por un cliente a quien no le gustÓ el arreglo de su cantalÓn. tres mil cadÁveres terminaron en la morgue en lo que va de 2011. el 75 % del de los cuerpos con mÁs de cinco disparos. se asgura que hay 57 homicidios, por c

. >> juan erica en california y no se va a ir a ningÚn lado. >> del otro lado, el aspirante a la nominaciÓnr servicios pÚblicos a los hijos de inmigrantes indocumentados. la congresista dijo que perry habÍa hecho mal en oponerse a algunos sobre la frontera estadounidense. ella apoya a que se concluya esa medida. >> gracias a una coaliciÓn de organizaciones que se preocupan por los derechos de los indocumentados, quienes enfrentan una deportaciÓn en chicago, tienen una lÍnea de ayuda. tambiÉn se les ofrece asesorÍa, es la primera de esas lÍneas en el país. >> este es el mensaje que escucharÁn quienes contactan la nueva lÍnea de apoyo para inmigrantes. >> "gracias por salvar a llamar a la lÍnea de ayuda" >> si tiene una necesidad de ayuda legal, tenemos una red de abogados que van a estar dando una consulta gratuita para estas familias. >> ademÁs de consejerÍa legal, la informaciÓn que ofrecerÁn tambiÉn serÁ de referencias a servicios sociales y religiosos para las familias. >> estas lÍneas nos ayuda a conectar con familias en crisis. buscando encontrar los recursos, contactos. >> los planes

the local expert will speak after me, and there is erica lovejoy, will be implementing the $70,000 grant from the fish and wildlife -- today i will cover for topics. the first as a review of the events that led for -- led to today, with the problems and the available solutions and then i will discuss the draft ordinance. in 2009, the commission heard a presentation about the birds program. specifically about bird building collision production, and in 2010, at the request of the commission, which drafted documents. and this is the adopted document, for prosing -- proposing standards for the bird-safe buildings. in june of this year we drifted -- which drafted the ordinance, and then we have the document that you now have in your hands. today, we haven't ordnance from the comments of over 2200 people and the staff conducted outreach with building owners and architects, and environmental interests. let's look at this issue and why this is important. you may ask yourself, why should we share. and the staff is looking at this as we began the investigation. the number of birds that died from b

everybody's knows erica kane but nobody knows you. thing that m rprise >> the gnome showed up everywhere, this is going to be a sassafras situation. >> maybe the media coverage will help. in t.v and maybe i was too young or maybe i just didn't get it but i didn that. >>> time to get up to speed on the roads. we will look at how to get around them. so the things you just never know. today she offers this advice for all those struggling to get their own careers off the ground. don' slow traffic on outer loop at liberty road. we will show you what else is going on when good morning maryland continues. ÑwÑ[= when your eyes are smiling... you're smiling. and when they're laughing... you're laughing. be kind to your eyes... with transitions lenses. transitions adapt to changing light so you see your whole day comfortably... and conveniently while protecting your eyes from the sun. ask your eyecare professional which transitions lenses are right for you. much of north georgia hit with heavy rains and strong winds as the remnants of tropical

for several years rabbi erica sherman was protected palestinian formers when they were being harassed or attacked by religious jewish settlements. posted. because it's usually. that's what you're doing giving me the finger that was lifting his hands to fight but all of them said oh yeah i don't want five yet for the rest of the rest and now. i think i do you have an arab giving the finger to a jew should have his hand cut off oh now he's gone completely crazy. about coming here to guard the arabs one. of. our but i've heard soldiers say well the high court is there we're here our presence here is what's essential not only sometimes sometimes we actually are as human shields. is equated to stand between palestinian people threatening them and sometimes it's important we're here to keep the army honest to make sure they're doing with their supposed to be doing. the settlers are protected by israeli soldiers and the soldiers themselves are sometimes sutlers. there's a set up here to meet you did you walk and comes down and when anyone tries a worker he tries to stop them but this time be

it's erica hill. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.soni because i can't afford the real stuff and tried to get the target stuff and i couldn't get it either. i thought, i'll do it online. the store will be crazy. understatement. >> no dice. couldn't get in. totally insane. >> you look great anyway. >> reporter: we'll have more on that coming up so stay tuned. also ahead on "the early show" big loss for democrats here in new york. former congressman anthony weiner's seat of course there was a special election held, that happened yesterday in the district it went from blue to red overnight. so now there's a lot of talk about what this means for 2012. could it be some sort of indicator? we'll get you that answer. and you may remember this video that we showed you, a bunch of people run over to lift up a burning car pull this motorcycle rider from underneath it, saved this guy's life. you're going to meet a few of the heroes this morning. one says, didn't even think twice, just did it. we'll update you on the victim's condition. plus a new

i mean, erica, miguel, you know, at 16th and valencia. so there's quite a few. there's an endless number. delores street. i can sit here and sort of name 10 of them if you're interested at all ever. i received e-mails and none of them were familiar with who you were. i just thought that was curious. i'm supportive of the youth. but i just thought i would make mention of that. encourage you to do more outreach there. president olague: commissioners, do you have a motion? >> i just wanted to say thank you for that. that's definitely something we're trying to do now as we're moving into the neighborhood. we've been meeting with neighbors on a regular basis, hoping to bring in as many communities and groups as we can. president olague: i took a walk on 24th last weekend. i was really concerned by the swrurned lying tension that i sensed from the existing community, the communities that have been there for a couple of generations or more, and some of the newer residents there. so i think whatever you can do to try to bridge some of those tensions -- i mean, i just wa

." >> and we do that with erica hill live from new york. >> reporter: good morning.g to have more on that story out of nevada, heartbreaking, a gunman opening fire on national guard troops eating breakfast. this morning five people are dead including the shooter. you will hear from an eyewitness who tried to save the wounded. also the gop presidential candidates scheduled for a debate tonight. and the new front-runner texas governor rick perry is kind of a question mark. there was some talk about whether he may actually make it to the debate because he had gone home to texas to deal with the wildfires there the worst in the state's history. we are now hearing he will be there. so what could we see? we'll have a preview for you. and also ahead this morning, a little something for you to discuss prior to the segment. we are going to be talking about a story out of france where a woman wanted to be divorced after more than 20 years of marriage. one of the reasons cited, her husband wasn't there enough for her in the bedroom. the judge found in the favor. the ex-husband

we'll see how they handle it. >> susan lucci, everybody knows her -- >> erica kane! "all my children" for four decades. "all my children" has been pulled from abc daytime and susan lucci's not going down without a fight. "all my life: a memoir." in the paperback version, a new epilogue was aed where she had a few choice words for abc daytime president brian franz. she basically accused him of having an iconic show lose out to greed. in other words, the cheaper to produce "chew" took the place of "children." and she says that that is very upsetting. >> e erica is not happy. she slapped him, did something. people love their stories. we told you about this story the star of "glee," heather morris, posed in this photograph, basically had a black eye, people criticized her for glamourizing domestic vile lens. the photographer said she felt so bad about this, this wasn't the goal, to glamourize violence. she says she will auction off the photo for $100,000 and dedicate the proceeds to a domestic violence charity. now that controversy has been settled. >> we talked about th

erica edwards, nbc news. >>> while stranded on a roller coaster, crews rescued a dad and son stranded and they did it the old-fashioned way. the original plan was to use ladders to reach them but the ground was too soft. so they strapped rope to the roller coaster and pulled them to safety. yikes! >>> if you see a strange object in the sky do not worry. it's just the satellite the size of a bus falling back to earth. it should disintegrate but 26 pieces or so will make it to earth. they could be significant in size and weight. what are the odds of you getting hit? about 7 billion of us on the planet. the odds are 1 in 21 trillion. in fact, there's a much better chance you'll get struck by lightning. where and when it might hit, nasa is not sure. somewhere between newfoundland and argentina. >> no plans to argentina. >> let's check out with jeff ranieri with your forecast. >> let's get jeff to put a forecast today for the space junk. not going to be happening. the chance is so slim. look at these numbers today. it was hit. 100 in livermore. 897 in morgan hill. south san jose, 96. we di

here is erica edwards. >> reporter: it's the magic elixir of groggy mornings across america. and now doctors say coffee may lower the risk for depression in women by as much as 20%. some avid coffee drinkers are way ahead of science. >> this is my high. i get this high every day. >> i'm never depressed. >> reporter: harvard researchers looked at data on who were 50,000 middle aged women over ten years. those who drank the most caffey natured coffee were less likely to be diagnosed and treated for depression. >> in why not, i'm a positive person. so whether that has to do with the coffee or not, i'm not sure. >> reporter: in fact thets are the experts. decaf coffee did not have the same protective effect. the key is likely caffeine, but researchers didn't have enough data on caffey natured soda or tea drinkers to know for sure. still -- >> i've seen a number of women who are already depressed, middle aged women who tell me that caffeine does more for them than any of the other med cases around. >> reporter: depression affects by one in five women during their life time. >> we

erica miller reports. >> this morning there was silence on what would normally be a noisy trading floor. just before the opening bell, singing from those gathered. at today's commemoration with the former head of the nyse. chuck schumer and hillary clinton, new york senators at the time, the former governor and former mayor rudy giuliani all rang the bell on september 17th, 2001, the day the exchange reopened. many felt a mix of emotions. >> the worst memory-- memory i have of that day is watch a man throw himself out 16901s, 102nd floor, it stays with me always. i will never get over it. >> you have that horrible memory, and the horrible memory of the loss. but then you also have the inspiring memory of the thousands and thousands of new yorkers who rushed to the site. >> reporter: in the financial world much has changed since 9/11. america's unemployment rate now is double what it was back then. and the nation has endured two recessions. but one thing hasn't changed much at all, stock prices. since september 10th, 2001, the dow has risen just 14%. that means an average gain of less th