what was archbishop hanna's role in the 1930s? >> he became archbishop 1915 and was the most beloved of all the san francisco archbishops. people loved him as a personment now they are past that but before it was archbishop hanna he was very good with the people so part of what he did was similar to roosevelt was to lift the spirits of the people, as sure them even though these were difficult times he would be there with them. he served in a number of capacities in a state level, state committee for unemployment and so forth but this last major act was he served as an arbitrator and a great general strike of 1934 long shore men went out on strike and shut down the city of san francisco for a period of several days. hanna was so trusted by em employeers and workers he was a key figure bringing that crisis to a close. >> he was prominent 1924, march san francisco. tell that story? >> in the early 1920s the ku klux klan made a revival in the united states and expanded their hate red to include catholics. they had a major march down p

jack hanna is the director emir tus of columbus zoo and host of "jack hanna's into the wild."n the sights of three bears. managed to get away. wildlife officials tell cnn that bear attacks at separate sites in the remote campgrounds in montana have left a person dead two others injured. sounds like jack was lucky. he joined us from the coudini lodge in big fork, montana. what happened, jack? >> saturday night, my wife and i went to glacier national park. we glacier national park, lived here 20 some years, our favorite place to hike. we got there late in the day. some of the hiking trails are cut into the walls where there's 500-foot dropoffs. person took a picture of us. then they started going down. 15 minutes later, we followed them. a girl, 18 and her parents. she went around the corner of a ledge that went just like that and she saw the three bears. n now, at this time, i'm coming down and she comes back around, not losing composure, just going, oh, my gosh, there's three bears. let's get against the wall. there's a 500-foot dropoff here. a bear here. i said no. the bear s

jack hanna is the director emeritus of columbus zoo and host of "jack hanna's into the wild."and his family were in the sights of three bears recently, managed to get away. wildlife officials tell cnn that bear attacks at separate sites in the remote soda butte campgrounds in montana have left a person dead and two others injured. he joins us from the lodge in montana. what happened, jack? >> saturday night, my wife and i went to glacier national park. we lived here twentysomething years. a person took a picture of us on top of the mountain. they wanted a picture. then they started going down. 15 minutes later we followed them. the girl, 18, and her parents. she went around the corner of a ledge that went just like that. and she saw the three bears. now, at this time i'm coming down and she comes back around not losing composure, just going oh, my gosh, three bears on this trail, let's get against the wall. 500 foot drop here and here. the bear can't have four feet. i said no. then the bear started coming 30 feet from here. i said no, get behind me and we're going to back up a

our own renowned animal expert jack hanna in a surprise, heart-pounding standoff with bears. thank heaven for pepper spray. >>> good evening. we have breaking news tonight. a watershed moment for the 9-year-old war in afghanistan. the house tonight voted to give the president his $33 billion to fund the war for a year, but a stunning number of democrats, his own party, broke to vote against him, sending a seismic statement about what is to come. and all of this a day after that 92,000-document leak about the troubled history of the fight. jonathan karl was there for it all today on capitol hill. jon? >> reporter: diane, more than 100 democrats in the house voted against the war funding bill, revealing a growing democratic revolt against the president's policy in afghanistan. democrat after democrat came forward, not just to oppose the war, but to cut off funding for it. >> wake up, america. wikileaks release of secret war documents gave us 92,000 reasons to end the war. >> it is wrong to be borrowing money from china, laying off american police officers to train police office

but hanna's encounter took in daylight in montana.not in the pre-dawn hours of the fatal comp ground attack. brad wheelis, abc news. >>> and ln "good morning america," one of the survivors of that vicious mauling, live. hear what she did to cause the bear to let her go. >>> rod blagojevich's fate is now in the hands of a jury. jurors will try to determine if the former governor try to sell an appointment to president obama's senate seat. lorenzen wright has been found dead in memphis. sources say it appeared wright had been shot several times. a power forward, wright played in the nba for 13 years. most recently with the cleveland cavaliers. >>> former first lady, nancy reagan, made a rare public appearance to honor her late husband. she attended a signing ceremony with california governor, arnold schwarzenegger, over at the reagan library. one bill makes the president's birthday, february 6th, ronald reagan day each year. the other establishes a commission to mark his 100th birthday in 2011. >>> in medical news this morning, two, new

animal expert jack hanna survives a bear attack in glacier national park. he will tell us how he made it out alive "early" this wednesday morning, july 28, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody. i'm harry smith. we are happy to get to wednesday. >> yes, we are. i'm erica hill. good to have you with us this morning. a lot to get to this busy day. a plane crash in pakistan, wildfires in california. we will get you caught up with that this morning. >> we begin with breaking news the the deadly crash of a jet in pakistan. it went down the hills of islamabad. cbs news correspondent mark phillips is in london with the latest. mark, good morning. >> harry, the number of confirmed casualties in this crash keeps rising as bodies are recovered from the wreckage. earlier hopes that there may have been some survivors have now been sadly dashed. there has been 152 people on the plane. would american passengers were among those onboard the plane as it approached islamabad in terrible weather. this is the monsoon season with high winds, heavy rains, d

. >> zoo keeper and tv host, jack hanna, was on a hike over the weekend. his own advice when a family of bears came too close for comfort. hanna shared the ordeal with diane sawyer. >> we have to get out of his way. so i back up, and i seem like a seem like an hour, but it was just five minutes. >> reporter: where were you looking? >> no, i wasn't looking it in the eye. just looking to back up on this trail. it's not a matter of looking in the eye. the thing is, you cannot run from these animals. they run a football in six seconds. 100 yards. i finally found a clearing, as i'm backing to my left. because remember, on the other side is a cliff. i say, everybody, get on your hands and knees. >> reporter: then, one of the big, young bears, seen in this picture taken by jack's wife, suzy, turns toward them. >> just stops. and his hairs brisle up on his back. i said to myself, crap, you know, which means, this ain't good. so i take my pepper spray and i unload the first blast with the wind blowing. it blew the pepper spray right away. he's still coming. so, i b

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. >>> animal expert jack hanna had to chance to put his advice to the test recently when he came faceo face with a bear. >> he was hiking last weekend when he crossed path with a mother bear and two cubs. one the cubs ran to them. he fend had them off with pepper spray. >> i it right in his face. i unloaded right in his face and he went balk wards, he went backwards and he took off. >> he recorded a public service announcement encouraging hikers to always carry pepper spray. >>> still ahead at 6:30, they are headed to battle a wildfire that has now gutted more than 40 homes. >> and new wave of cancellations on some of the a.c. transit's busiest routes. >> and big incentive major league baseball is offering san jose if the city will delay a measure to put on november ballot. >> and milestone moment as the bay area skyline begins to change. i'm teresa garcia live on treasure island where soon we'll be watching the first part of a tower being installed. >> and clouds made it to sfo, only parent with flight delays. potential of great lakes and new england of severe weather later this afte

animal expert jack hanna 10 feet away from a grizzly bear set to attack him.e is going to telling how he survived. something i never would have thought of carrying in the wilderness. now i won't go hiking without it. and my favorite segment of the morning, i hope you're sitting down for this one as i squeeze into my indycar, it's my day for a dream job. indycar race car driver. that's me. >> i would love to do that. did you have a good time? >> it's amazing. when i -- honestly when i watched the piece i start smiling again because i think of how much fun it was and how badly i want to get back behind the wheel of that car. [ laughter ] >> you go, erica. good deal. >> can't wait to see that. >> see you in a couple of minutes. >>> "the early show" is at 7:00. it's 6:52. there is a fire still burning out of control in southern california. >> we'll have the latest headlines when we come back. >> and the bride wore... polka dots?? so did the grooming. it was a rather unusual wedding theme. check of today's top st ,,,,,, good idea. you know because then they can run

she's here with her daughter morgan and her friends kristen and hanna.ready to go? >> i'm ready to go. whoo! >> this is so much fun. over there are her daughter morgan and the friends kristen and hanna. take one last look. don't take the blindfolds off. here's sherry spencer before. let's bring the new love v lovelier schey eier sherry spen? >> oh, my god. you want to take a look? okay. >> there go the tears. >> don't look at that. we're going to lose you. we're going to look at yourself. turn right around. >> oh, my god! >> nobody can believe it's you. >> wow. beautiful. >> it's absolutely stunning. louis, is that a -- >> you can see the hair. >> she does saucy better than anybody. >> i have to tell you, the great thing what she has to do in the morning, absolutely nothing. that's wash and wear. it's absolutely beautiful. she did this trick where she made the iliner a little thicker on the end to lift up her eyes to give her that look. >> look straight into the camera, please. look at the difference there. >> wow, wow. >> we need a kleenex over here. >>

host: thanks for the call, hanna. your thoughts.uest: one thing that concerns me about this, we are a nation who, as i pointed out with his father and grandfather, generated enough good jobs for people to get into the workforce at the level they wanted to or to start out in jobs that would lead to the level they wanted to get to. we don't have that now. and after this story came out there were a number of people who said he's spoiled, he should go to work, earn whatever living he can, settle for what the world provides. look, that is one point of view. but if he and millions of other young people have to do that, that is an implicit admission that the career opportunities, the opportunities to join the middle class at this point have deteriorated terribly. and even the most trained people have to compromise and end up in work that was below or less thathan -- below is never a good word -- less than what their parent, grandparents and even older brothers had to settle for before the recession. so hopefully the recession will lift. as

. >> you could have a hanna room.u do? >> this is the wallpaper. >> and it's kind of this random format, so double-sided tape. what do you do with all this? >> i love it. this is fun with kids in a playroom or something. >> it's adorable. >> teenager's room, jonas brothers, justin bieber, zac efr efron. >> in my day it was beethoven. >> if you wanted the clean classic look, black and while photography, get the forecasts oft fridge and you can have this rotating. think of it for like a guest bedroom, powder room where people come and visit a lot. you can ask people to -- >> you don't want people leaving pictures light that. >> all right. >> you could customize. >> phone numbers on the bathroom call. >> for a really good time. >> last but not least, pet portraits. >> uh-oh. >> they're part of the family. boyfriends and went with me, but my jack russell has always stayed there. you send off a picture. >> look at this one down here. they transform is into various types of art, of modern art. surre surreal, andy warhol sty