we started with a boy guinea pig. >> what? you taught your kids sex ed with guinea pig?ll we had a boy and a girl guinea pig that clearly likeddo each other. >> aren't. you afraid these kids are going to treat these guinea pigs like role model? >> well, you really couldn't see anything because they're big, furry little fuzz ball things. that's why there aren't guinea pig porn movies. >> for now. let's hope the porn industry doesn't catch on. ( applause ). >> jon: thank you, >> jon: my guest, you can see him every week on "dan rather reports." his new book is called "rather outspoken." please welcome back to the program, dan rather. ( applause ) ( cheers ) >> jon: how are you? nice to see you. >> nice to see you. i didn't realize you had become the donald trump reelectiongh headquarters. >> jon: can i tell you something? what a joy.is what a gift that would be. imagine what he would do just decorating-wise to the white house. just trump white house and casino. just think about it. ( laughter ). the book is called "ratheral outspoken." this is-- you know, it covers your wh

pop and new guinea? -- papau new guinea?he next decade, president vladimir putin wants to spend 6 billion euro on new weapons. he says he is willing to work with the west, at the same time. the idea of a joint missile defense system has failed to get traction due to mutual mistrust. moscow rise in -- is insisting it we signed a non-agression treaty. >> a compromise is still possible. perhaps an agreement can be reached at the highest level. we will never accept any threat towards us. >> moscow's as the door is still open for dialogue. but time is running out. there is a fear russia may try to force nato back to the negotiating table by following up its tough talk with action. >> sports news coming up in just over a minute. >> first, a look at other stories from around the world. >> aid workers tending to survivors falling a deadly earthquake that killed at least seven people in northern italy. thousands have been left homeless. the earthquake, measuring six. on the richter scale, hit the region in the south on sunday. >> two

so i got 1,000 guineas and i have a letter from the national theatre saying we award 1,000 guineas notto play pericles. and i brought my, brought my wife a dress, more expensive dress and an expensive dinner and that was 1,000 guineas. >> rose: anything you wanted to play in the theatre that was made for you and you haven't gotten around to it? >> no, no knot really really ths nothing i can think of that i want to play n the theatre as i say, i generally have done new plays. >> rose: right. >> and i have been very, very -- i mean, super fortunate in that respect, inasmuch as i have done world premiers of several of david hair's plays, and, you know, what i want to play, i want to play -- i want to play a great part in the next david hair play is what i want to play. >> rose: well, david hair -- >> it hasn't been written yet. >> rose: but does he tell you when he is in to the midst of writing this is what i am going to do and this sucker will be finished by 18 months and clear your calendar? >> he did do that with page 8, he didn't say -- he didn't know if we would get it made he said i

he injected a rat, two guinea pigs and a monkey. he placed the test animals in their cages and then inside earthen aware vessels for safety hen he waited. downtown the san francisco chronicle and all the other newspapers ridiculed the plague scare. political pundits believe it was a scam to win money for the underfunded board of health. there were jokes about the board of health. kenyon was branded a charlatan. he was lampooned in the paper. newspapers loved to report stories in verse. the verse went this way. have you heard of the deadly bmp acili sunday scourge scourge of a populace land. which threatens to kill us. the monkey is living and thriving and guinea pigs seem to be well and the health board is con drivering excuses for having raised hell. inside chinatown it really was hell. anxious, hungry, fearing for their lost wages and their unattended jobs, the chinese were sick with dread. those who believed the disease was plague feared being trapped inside the infected zone. those who doubted that the plague was real by all acc

so i put together one of my workouts and used natalie as my guinea pig.ether a 10 to 12 minute cardio strength training blast. you need no equipment for. look at her shoelaces by the way, i'm blinded. or you can do it as a stand alone. >> like any of us could do that. >> i promise you, when i i explain it, we did it on the web -- >> that makes it easier. >> that means we can sit there and watch it while eating cheetos. trust me. >> trust me. this could work. there are substitute exercises you can do. i've spent time with lester in the gym, as well. and he still shows up on sundays. so, you know. check our website out today.com. you can see the video and jenna can be training you in your home, too. >> let's not get crazy. >> so -- >> now, time for weather. >> weather al. >> boom. >> you know what, first of all, before we do this, i want to make sure we have enough time for something we want to say. >> we absolutely do. because it has been seven years, i believe, and counting since our senior producer mark victor has been working with us. i think we have a

after 28 years of shaping up half for spanish immersion in education, i feel that we not be the guinea pigs in this experiment for this year. we do not want to have another run this year is that almost dismantle their community -- horrendous year that almost dismantled our community. he loves and cares about our diverse and rich population. and most importantly our children. i feel that no one else will provide except for larry. our children do not need to settle for less. our teachers do not need to settle for less. please give us back the heart and soul of our community. thank you. >> i am lucky to get to go to a school like buena vista. i am new to all of this. i came in with a lot of enthusiasm and love from what i saw last year. i have to say it was a shock and surprise to see there was someone new in place when a big part of the reason i wanted to go there was this incredible, thoughtful, nonjudgmental, enthusiastic man, larry. it is interesting, i had a lot of stuff written down but i want to quote president yee -- he said we do not want to waste another year. we want what is be

let's not use them as a guinea pigs in an experience -- in an experiment back could cause them a life time of pain. thank you very much. >> [reading names] if you are ready, thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i urge you not to certify the eir. we have heard from a lot of wonderful kids and families who want to play soccer. we have poured from a lot of people who value the beautiful park -- we have heard from a lot of people who value the beautiful park. the problem is the eir. it has set up a false sense of choice is because it has rejected all possible alternatives. let me point out to you that the beach chalet are 7.2 acres and will cost $11.4 million to construct. eight blocks to the south, there is west sunset playground, 9.2 acres. it is scheduled to be on the 2012 bonds for financing, $13.2 million to put in grass soccer fields. why not just swap the two locations, and give the kids their soccer, and protect the park, it is a win-win solution. it does not cost any more money. it gives almost the same albers of play. everybody is happy -- same hours of play. everybody is

. >> i want to know who their guinea pig was for this and who they sent down first. >> hopefully a crashummy down first. >> they kind of did. put together behind-the-scenes videos. >> as far as the vut construction of the rope, two hours of setup to make sure no one died. >> sent a bag of rocks over the edge the first time. >> if anything was going to happen it was going to lap to that bagful of rocks. >> shooting the very first shot. oh! >> ooh. heck. no, no, no. ♪ >> this is so much fun, that even the rock is smiling. >> yeah! >> what's the romantic part of this? don't tell me a proposal? >> yeah. you guessed it. there is a proposal in this video. >> after she swung she was just hanging there. he, then, lowered himself down as they're hanging in midair he pops the question and the ring and she said, yes. >> oh. >> if you want to see the entire video behind-the-scenes and all, go to our website at rightthisminute.com. >>> this guy -- that's a guy? this guy is josh madriga, 24 years old and trained for stunts. he has a youtube channel and wanted to make a youtube channel video. josh also

before we ended up stuck in the snow romance of guinea have been travelling for almost thirteen hours nonstop more than an hour has been wasted here. not a single vehicle has passed by them in that time remembers thoughts of focused on the ailing reindeer in the village of how to steal. his nerves are strained to the limit and this setback has not helped c'mon get rid of some of the slow work from still messing around with you. off. that is the hay for the horses yes the hay will last for three days make sure you don leave matches behind i hope you got him initially with you yes but not much. to give something to the dog's. good ninety ivanov expected a package to arrive last night there are no special shops for hunters in the village of bull good luck to where he lives in that he usually orders his ammunition from your cooks but this time it's late. eat. an egg net and the deny the visitors. the people in town of send this i mean listen ok thanks just on time i was about to go hunting. could skin the hunger last district respectfully called canady. after the famous literary character

would you volunteer to be a human guinea anything? we talk to people who have agreed to take part in drugs trials. >> fresh warning that the crisis in the euro zone is the biggest threat to the recovery of the world economy. opportunities must now be taken to tackle the problem. it comes to us after youth unemployment, particularly in europe remains at crisisal levels with no sign of improvement for at least another four years. the split between europe's leaders on whether to cut or widen debt. >> alexis, the greek ultra left leader is riding a wave of popularity at home. but here in paris, he's been welcomed this time only by like minded politicians. the french president is now a socialist, the man next to him on stage is another socialist. and then there's the crowd. >> your presence gives us strength for the fight we fight, because we are fighting for everyone in europe. we are going to win altogether. >> despite being anti-austerity is not anti-euro. he play be in the elections, but by then they will have the program in place. one

among the items in is storage container work a celebrity chefs stolen weber guinea, weapons, a police uniform and stolen identification. >> a concert promotion company may have a partial solution to solve san francisco's homeless problem. another planet entertainment puts on shows that the bill graham's civic center auditorium, a longtime popular sleeping spot for the homeless so the company decided to blast sound effects like chain saws, jackhammers and motorcycles between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.. >> it was loud and gets intense >> with sound effects seem to be working, where the no trespassing signs have failed. >> the oakland mayor and city business leaders plan to hold a news conference today to unveil a new plan in hopes of keeping the a's in their city. oakland is scrambling to keep the team as the owner tries to move the ball club down south to san jose. we officials have been slow to make a decision on that vote. a new bay area business getting the cold shoulder. $100 a and a back, the airline charging more for carry on as than for tickets. >> talk about a close encounter, th

it looks like if we download the app, we are like the guinea pigs and helps the city better planned bicycle route. >> that's correct. two years ago, we first deployed a cycle track. after six months of data collection -- supervisor mar: a bunch of other cities are falling? >> we have cleared up on several open source sites and other cities have tailored to their needs. eugene, ore. and others who are interested on east coast as well. supervisor mar: what are the benefits for someone to get the app? as a give you suggestions of where to ride? >> it was the important trade off, gathering data as opposed to providing information. we wanted to make it fun enough for people to actually use, but if we told people where to ride, we would not understand why they are choosing different route. it provides information of your average speed of the hills that you climb. it is not designed to be a route finder. that would defeat purpose of trying to figure out where cyclists want to ride on their own. supervisor chiu: could you talk about what they are doing in conjunction with what sfmta is doing? >> we

you can work with tony's kitty rescue, with the small animals and guinea pigs and birds and chickens. >> you always have an appreciative audience. >> do you feel that what you have learned here helped you with your own dogs? >> the training they don't have? yes. and it's things that you learn, we usually outlive our dogs and every time you get a new one, you have skills to teach them. >> one of the programs is training program and it's staffed by a member of the community and one of the programs she has is dog socialization. >> we started this program for canine socialization. and all the dogs available for adoption get to play for two hours. and it's a time for them to get incredible exercise and play with other dogs and we have remedial socialization. and it's incredible the dogs and they get exercise and run and tumble and when most adopters come to look in the afternoon, they are quiet and settled. >> and i want come and someone sees a dog and loves it, it's quick. and after three weekends, i saw him and he connected and i connected and came back. >> what is your experience of wor

these enhanced interrogation techniques were designed to break the prisoners, and zubaydah to be the guinea. >> zubaydah was planner and facilitator. he was a senior al qaeda person. also very smart. [gunfire] zubaydah sees in pakistan six months after 9/11 and rendered to a secret cia black side thought to be in thailand. he was the first high-value targets to be captured. initially, he was interviewed by the fbi, who did not lay a finger on him. he revealed to them the i did it did publish identity of khalid shaikh mohammed, but the cia thought he was holding back. >> we were dead in the water. he had shut down. he was not talking. and we needed to come up with a set of alternative techniques that would convince the terrorist that he had no control over the situation, that his fate was in our hands. >> the cia's top lawyer believed it was essential to have the secret techniques authorized at the highest level. >> there was considerable hesitation. that was the entire reason frankly that i made the decision to make sure that we were not going to conduct these kinds of unprecedented activit

here we have new guinea impati ne ss. your asiatic lilies love to be planted anywhere. sun, shade.ou take instant impact of great yellow color. moving on down, lantana has finally hit the stores. loves the heat. loves to be hot. blooms all summer long. does absolutely fantastic. >> we have knockout roses which i love. >> knockout roses, they keep blooming from now till thanksgiving. virtually maintenance free. virtually bug resistant. they're just the greatest plant out there right now. >> in terms of shade, shade can be difficult. you do have options. you've got these potentially and these. >> basically your impatiens, begonias. this is a regular impatien and this is the one that can do sun and shade. >> john, we appreciate t. thanks so much for coming in and bringing your beautiful flowers. that's it for 9news now at noon. we'll be back at 9:00. you can check us out 14 hours a day on the web at wusa9.com. have a great memorial day.

. -- we are guinea pigs. they are just going to put the antenna's there. there will be there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and they're just hoping nothing will happen to us. i do not think that is appropriate. we ought to know what is going to happen for the residents there, the long-term health effects from radiation. we should not have to bear the burden of providing this service for the entire city. thank you very much. president fong: any additional public comment? commissioner borden? commissioner borden: i just want to speak to the member of the public. the health department issues a permit looking at the radio frequency levels. and in our report it says that the radiofrequency is about two 0.4% of the public exposure limit. it you can ask at&t to come to a reading -- to do a reading in your unit if you're concerned. there are a lot of things that produce those radio waves. we do not determine other than nine years. al department determines the health exposure and has said that is fine. our jurisdiction is the land use, whether or not the antenn

but in fact guinea will cheer teach was fast inspired by nike off some of the trace the first version of the statue was half the final size twenty five meters there were plans to build a messiah cool under the morning meant it but then the weight of the statue doubled while the foundation had been made for they initially planned lote so they decided to add one hundred fifty thousand more tons of earth. for the most part of could go is a huge cemetery as a result of the construction the mass graves ended up buried under eight meters of earth. village two hundred fifty kilometers from volgograd alexander sunico left his home here in nine hundred forty one never to come back. one day alexander was giving an old man a lift he was told that he would die at the age of twenty. alexander loft but his mother sank deep into. that. when alexander volunteered for the front he left his mother three sisters and the younger brother behind from the age of nine alexander became the man of the house people used to say that even if alexander was hungry and self he would find food first for the others. t

the hottest car in the country found how police stumbled onto a celebrity chefs still a member guinea but the real question is could a teenager really pull off such a lab highest? >>> california banned assault rifles years ago some manufacturers got creative. >>> in the symbol but in the makes it illegal gun that totally legal. tonight the new gun of choice for many californians. >>> + palin top-selling new ad rates are looks it's called the other leaders see what happens when we put people's most beautiful woman to the test. within the past hour vandals attacked a police station in san francisco's mission district this could be a case of what we will see tomorrow during plan to make a protest will tell you about a big disruption to tomorrow morning's commute in just a moment but first juliet goodrich's in the mission right now what a mess. tonight's police are on guard and facts in front of their police station alberta the way and show you in front of the mission district police station where you can see some of the damaged vandals did quite a bit in fact they did with paint and eggs

they had kingdoms in senegal, guinea, and in the timbuktu, they rule the king on the throne at timbuktu. the culture is a very interesting culture. at the time she was captured in the 1860s, the colonel was born. about the same time she is captured. she is about, some where between 7 and 10 years old when she is captured, early 1860s. the colonel was a graduate of a university at timbuktu. educated african. we know quite a bit about him and his culture. they were monotheist, believed that god created all that exists. they believe god was the master of man. that god had given man, free will and man lived in god's providence. these were monotheist believers. they had a term in their language which means a true believer. a true believer could be a you, christian, or muslim. most of the culture was indeed muslims. but they associated themselves with true believers. in their language. it would mean master, captor. it would mean to the people, yes, evil captor. in the african knowledge circles, they would understand this language. these codes. and when we examine phyllis wheatley's work from