we then went to the galapagos islands visited during the 1800s by charles darwin. islands sea lions and penguins and more types of birds than one can imagine frolic and play right on top of the equator, and within arm's reach of the human inviters. the isolateed galapagos islands are about the only remaining environment where a giant land "t" can survive. they're relics of a distant past. what have these two adventures got to do with each other? evolve or die. species likewise, all because they failed to evolve and adapt and failed to recognize that new environment and changed circumstances required the risk of new ideas and new approaches. of course this metaphor does not apply just to ancient cityies and species of birds. it applies to us and it's the type of metaphor for the type of leadership that we need. sometimes yet too rarely politicians are willing to break the mold experiment and think afresh. recall fdr's famous statement. take a method and try it. if it fails admit it frankly and try another. but above all try something. from the distance of south amer

>> evolution in that galapagos island. i have a fond place in my heart for that book. one of the most extraordinary stories. to biologist from princeton go to darwin's i land every year. since 1973 and they camp on a desert island that darwin never sought and they documented of militiamen inaction by natural selection. they see it and a measure it to with exquisite detail. doing what dar whenever it imagined and thought it would take geological ages. no mortal could but we can. we're watching. i have gone back twice to visit the of galapagos and to visit peter and rosemary. it is wonderful they still do the research. officially they retired but they are there every year. >>host: and talking to jonathan wiener with his most recent book long for this world. thank you very much. >> it is a pleasure.

it included a system in purifying water permit the whether it wins a trip to the galapagos islands and $550 grand in cash. the grand prize winner is sydney wenger. she created a cloud computer program the could provide a cheaper, less the base of meth method to detect milligan breast tumor. >>> be world record a tent right here in california, and,,,,,,,,, >>> we've just got this into the news room. video of today's deadly apartment fire in martinez. it started at 338. we learned the fire killed two people and a cat. 16 people has been displaced. the red cross has been called in for help. >>> a lot of sunshine by the afternoon. '60s and '70s around the bay area. more on your weather coming up >>> no major accidents or stalls reports. your complete look at traffic in just a few minutes >>> a roseville women could become a new world record holder this morning. she has been writing beat harris will 5¢ o'clock yesterday. she is getting plenty of their food delivered to our currento proceeds go to the uc-davis children's hospital >>> nice catch, the giants beat the padres in a big way last n

. >> eliot: my trip to the galapagos islands helped me figure out something about politics.'s check in with jennifer granholm in "the war room." governor, what have you got for us. >> welcome back. and as you've been reporting lots has been going on. healthcare bus has left the station. the question is how quickly can republican governs throw their own constituents under it. we'll chase down the politics and the politicians with governor ted strickland and we'll have joe williams talk about his public departure in the wake of his comments about mitt romney. the role of the media. and we'll talk third party politics with another former governor and another former colleague of ours. >> eliot: i want wait to watch it. i'll watch it every the real world and politics collide on "the gavin newsom show." this week the experts are wrong. failing is good and wall street is bad. but how does vinod khosla really feel?

a camp on the little desert island called daphne major in the middle of the galapagos. an island that darwin never saw. they watched in a document evolution in action. evolution by natural selection, year by year, they have watched it and seen it they have measured it, they understand it in exquisite detail. they are doing what darwin himself never imagined possible. he thought it would take geological aging in order to see evolution in action, that no mortal could see it. it turns out that we mortals can watch it and we can watch it on darwin's island. i love that. i just love that. and i have gone back twice now to visit the galapagos and many times to visit peter and rosemary grant. looking over their shoulders, i think it is wonderful that they are still doing this research, all of these years later. he never retired. officially they have retired, but unofficially, they are still there every year in the galapagos, watching evolution. >> host: we have been talking with jonathan weiner acclimate university. this is his most recent book. "the lonely soldier: the private

the winner gets $50,000 and a trip to the galapagos islands. the winners will be announced later tonight. >> breaking news out of east oakland where police are searching for two suspects that may have shot at a california highway patrol car this weekend. joe vasquez is here with the perimeter police have just set up. what can you tell us? >> behind me you can see the perimeter right behind me, you can see the police officer with the police issued rifle, that is the scene throughout this neighborhood in the 2300 block of east 23rd looking for two men that they believe may to be heavily armed. it is related to an incident saturday where chp officers were conducting a routine traffic stop, trying to stop a van for a vehicle code violations at 54th and east 14th street when a black market out of nowhere and shot out the chp car rear windshield. the cops eventually arrested two men on the scene but to got away. this afternoon these two men were spotted here in this area. both men believed to be heavily armed, police believe that is one of the suspec