marsha fritz is not talking about a lucky scratcher ticket. it's the pension plan of state's top paid public ploy fleece the game is stepping up. her watch dog group has identified 12,000 public retired in california making more than 100 grand a year. and most city and county officials are not keeping track. >> there's no control. they don't know it's hitting them until it hits them. >> our analysis of debta found threeo 78 are found are in the pension club. >> four of the top 10 work at the same agency the san ramon value fire protection district. their four pensions total a million dollars a year. it's a huge number. chief richard price says firefighters fight hard and risk their lives every day. retirement is the reward. the huge pension is because the employees spent decades. >> they are not paying the highest salary. every employee started at 20 years old. >> price admits loopholes in the pence system allowed excess. former chief bowen was able to pad his final year's salary by $61,000. adding in yearly cost of living increases makes him

. >> fritz has done a remarkable job leading the company to run unprecedented time of challenge and changementum has been building our company over the past several months. but we have all agreed that some changes needed to be made going forward. >> and the transformation continues. ed whitacre will hand over power at the end of the month to this man, and dadan qakakerson. he will be the company's fourth chief in 18 months. is he the right man for the job? >> i think he wrote said it -- he is set up to come in and take it over and be successful. >> the detroit firm has cut costs and axed jobs and is making money again. >> the obama administration still owns two-thirds of gm, learning it the nickname "government motors." the only trustee have is to return here to the stock market. >> it is one of the largest stock offerings ever made by an american corporation and it may not be a coincidence. >> people are going to invest in this company and they want to know who is going to be running the company in the future. i think they have let us know. >> gm is hoping to recapture some of its former

. >> my name is fritz. i am a connecticut yankee bar. i've owned it for over 21 years. the city of san francisco seems to have no concern for small businesses. i'm paying employees that have $30, $40 in tips and $10 in wages and provide health care to all. it's ill-managed. one person says one thing and another changes it. this is happening to me. no one seems to know what's going on. business is down 8% to 10%. have any of you ever owned a small business? i used to fear that having -- not having a lease, rent would be my downfall. but now i fear that the city itself is going to do me in you hear about greedy landlords but what about the city that continually puts the burden of society on my shoulders as if we, the backbone of this town, can afford to solve the ills of san francisco. a few years back with a meeting at the river association, we were addressing our concerns about the impact of health care. he looked at us as a group and said, maybe it's time for some of you to consider moving to the east bay. this guy was maybe 30 years old. is that your stance? if you ca

as this loops around kind of quick, the computer's kind of on the fritz here. what you notice is the circulation here. basically that's what helped deepen the marine layer and cooler for our inland spots. that's going to be going away throughout tomorrow. but what's going to be coming into play is not only a region of high pressure across the southwest but one in the pacific. they look to combine together to kind of get us at least into the upper 80s for some of our inland spots by the weekend. as for tomorrow, though, not so fast. the fog is going to be back with us with mainly 70s. only a few 80s in the south bay. for friday, that's when we start to switch the pattern. that's when it looks like the weekend will be shaping up to be warmer than we've had for the entire week. as for tomorrow morning, 49 in napa. 54 fremont. 55 gilroy. 54 in los gatos and low 50s from fairfield down into livermore. talked about the 80s, morgan hill, gilroy, santa teresa, evergreen, 81 for you. los gatos, 80. upper 70s in san jose. 75 in fremont. and for the peninsula, upper 60s t

. >>> the national driver registry was on the fritz for a time today. it was used by motor vehicle departments across the country. what it meant, the pirate system that allows officers to check the records before issuing a license. the offices in virginia were unable to process those transactions because of this problem. about mid afternoon, the system was working again. dmv officials say sense reps are wok hard to catch up on the backlog of customers that this created. >>> coming up, a 2-year-old dog shot and killed by prince george's county sheriff's deputies. >>> the federal agents captured one of the convicted killers who escaped from prison. >>> mia farrow contradicted testimony. >>> we'll tell why you doctors say the pet food in your home can be dangerous to your kids. >>> it will get a little warmer. i'll give you the complete check of the forecast. >> reporter: coming up in sports, guess who had a full practice today. >>> actress patricia neil died yesterday. she was celebrated for her roles in movies such a breakfast at tiffany's and hud. she w

. >> reporter: ma insists ab-1987 addresses abuses by the state's top earners like rizzo but fritz is worried it will create opportunities for other staffers to pump up final pay. contra costa county supervisor john joya agrees. >> it doesn't solve the problem that it's claiming to solve. >> reporter: joya sits on the county's pension board. he says ma's legislation ties allstate agencies to a judge's ruling originally meant for only a few. >> this bill would lock all of us into a court decision and a settlement of that court decision from many years ago that would result in employees being able to use unused vacation in their final year to increase their pensions and then that can change only if the employer and the union bargain that issue away. >> reporter: gioia is concerned 1987 will end up costing contra costa county taxpayers even more in the long run especially considering four of the top ten bay area pension earners retired from the san ramon valley fire district. >> we are facing a drop in revenue here in contra costa county and across the state. we're facing increased costs

. >> reporter: marsha fritz isn't talking about a lucky scratcher ticket. she is talking about the pension plan of the state's top- paid public employees. >> the game is really stepping up. >> reporter: her watchdog group, california pension reform, has identified some 12,000 public retirees in california making more than $100,000 a year and she says most city and county official aren't keeping track. >> there is no control. they don't know what's hitting them until it hits them. >> reporter: our analysis of the group's data found over 3,000 are in the so-called $100,000 pension club. four of the top 10 all worked at the same area the san ramon valley fire protection district. their four pensions alone total more than a million dollars a year. >> it's a huge number. >> reporter: the chief says firefighters work hard and risk their lives every day. retirement is their reward. the huge pensions are mostly because the employees spend decades with the agency. >> it's not that san ramon is paying the highest salary but every, single employee started at, you know

fritz henderson was c.e.o. at the time. >> from this point on our efforts are dedicated to customers, cars, culture and paying back the taxpayers. >> lehrer: henderson was replaced last december by ed whitacre, who announced today he will step down as c.e.o. come september first. whitacre had made clear his tenure would be brief, and today, he said, "i believe we've accomplished what we set out to do." the new c.e.o.-- the fourth in just over a year-- will be g.m. board member dan ackerson. he's also managing director of the private equity firm the carlyle group. ackerson will oversee efforts to ramp up u.s. sales and production of new lines, including the chevy cruze, due out next month. later this year, g.m. begins selling the chevy volt, an electric car that got a presidential test-drive last month. g.m. hopes the volt will help reinvigorate and recast its image. the government still owns 61% of g.m., but the auto-maker plans to file soon for an initial public offering of stock. that could lead to reducing t

fritz glacier, a lawyer and art patron. >> this is really the prediction in a situation of a german jew922 with this metaphoric winter outside and a loss that seems to be a construction site and in a certain sense he's being frozen out of his existence. >> reporter: in 1933 hitler came to power. dix, along with dozens of other artists, was declared degenerate. he retreated to the countryside where he painted sweet pastoral landscapes and inoffensive religious paintings. >> the man had a family. he wanted to survive. he gave a message. in the last painting in our exhibition is 1939. it's saint christopher. this large figure carrying the little christ child through a river. and the message, of course, is that we will get through this. we will pass through safer shores. we will move on. >> reporter: otto dix survived the war and he continued to paint but was largely forgotten. he died in 1969. as a young man he declared with a certain bravado, either i will become famous or notorious. now 40 years after his death, he has achieved both. he also left us a powerful legacy of human followy at