but hawaii is doing slightly better in large part due to the impact of the japanese visitors into hawaii have high expectations for the japanese market. >> that was nhk world's namakawa reporting from hawaii. >>> time to check on stories we've gathered from broadcasters around as. we begin tonight sent b thi item sent by ddi, india. for the first time in 35 years, th pakistani commerce ministry is visiting india with the aim of boosting trade between the two countries. during the five-daysit, the pakistani official met with his indian counterpart in new delhi on wednesday. they agreed to double trade between two countries to $6 billion from the current $2.7 billion in three years. india has agreed to issue one-year multiple-entry visas to pakistani business people and they will be free to visit any part of the country. pakistan has created that it will consider giving india most favored nation status. india has already granted the status to pakistan. >>> bangkok police say they're going to install 13 high-resolution cameras on city roads to monitor speeding. the move is part of a campaig

hawaii is more spectacular.thank you. it seems like it's been important to try to capture some tradition here about the island. >> it's more than just a beach. there are things that are going to happen to you that are part of being in a real place with real people, with a real history, and a real culture, with real stories to tell. and that's hawaii. >> reporter: the very name aulani means the messenger of a chief. a messenger of the hawaiian spirit culture and warmth. helping to keep that culture are real hawaiians with deep ancestral roots. >> my family has been here for over 2,000 years. from the very island, the very soil of this land. >> reporter: her unwaiversvering eye assures that everything is locally correct. and kapa making decorative designs on tree bark. once a vibrant artform centuries ago. it kind of became lost until a new group of artists brought it back to life in a fresh and modern way. >> real artists from this place telling our stories of hawaii. >> reporter: even learning the language is en

are all from hawaii. >> reporter: she is one of them. you -- he is one of them.ill find him tending bar and teaching tourists the beauty of his language. or trying. here's my lesson with god morning. >> aloha -- kaka >> then you say it real quick. >> reporter: aloha -- >> that was close. >> reporter: here's an easier word for us all, joy. that's what the aulani hopes you will feel if you visit. disney is the parent company of abc 7. live on the island of oahu. >> i really like that george. >> she is showing off now. >> yeah, a little. when we think disney we think family and can is that who you are seeing or is there a mix? >> i think you will get something for everyone. there are definitely things just for kids. kids have learn how to snorkel on the property. there are all sorts of things you can have your kids do if you want to spend time alone. there's even a pool for the grown-ups only. some of the architecture here is set very low. adults walking by won't notice anything but kids get a different view so they will see a lot of different add haven't and myster

are all from hawaii. >> reporter: she is one of them. you -- he is one of them.l find him tending bar and teaching tourists the beauty of his language. or trying. here's my lesson with god morning. >> aloha -- kaka >> then you say it real quick. >> reporter: aloha -- >> that was close. >> reporter: here's an easier word for us all, joy. that's what the aulani hopes you will feel if you visit. disney is the parent company of abc 7. live on the island of oahu. >> i really like that george. >> she is showing off now. >> yeah, a little. when we think disney we think family and can is that who you are seeing or is there a mix? >> i think you will get something for everyone. there are definitely things just for kids. kids have learn how to snorkel on the property. there are all sorts of things you can have your kids do if you want to spend time alone. there's even a pool for the grown-ups only. some of the architecture here is set very low. adults walking by won't notice anything but kids get a different view so they will see a lot of different add haven't and mysterie

this is about hawaii in a generic sense. how did you get interested in the history of hawaii? >> am i audible? >> yeah. >> it's about the history of america's relationship to hawaii, so the first time i went i went to see pearl harbor, just as a tourist. i always wanted to see that, and then while i was there i went to see the old palace of the hawaiian markey and realized that the two sides aren't related because the japanese never would have attacked honolulu harbor for being part of the united states if the united states and descendants of american missionaries had been overthrown the hawaiian queen who lived in the palace and handed over the islands to the u.s.. so i guess that was the sort of start of buying interest in the relationship between the two countries. >> take us back there. when did the missionaries first go to hawaii? >> they left boston harbor -- they were new england calvinist. they left boston harbor in 1918 and arrived in hawaii in 1820 and also in 1819 the first new england whalers also from the boston harbor area arrived because hawaii was a great stopp

hawaii and the east/west center. we had come to the university of hawaii at the time. and ail of the influence -- all of the energy on the campus, a lot of it had to do with foreign students coming in, and the extraordinary ferment that was occurring between western and foreign students. who knows. maybe these kinds of things would have happened had she been older, you know? so i've never had a sense of any regret. maybe just because constitutionally that's not what she was inclined to do. she did write a wonderful letter to a friend when she was 30 that i saw. she had been -- gone through her first four years in indonesia, back to hawaii with her -- this was in the period after she returned to rejoin barack and she had her daughter, maya with her. she brought a friend and she was congealing him to give her information. don't hold back. lord knows i've screwed up royally more than one. i asked maya about that. maya says the term i've screwed up royally, she remembered her mother using that phrase. i think she had a resilience. thatthis is what the president o talks abo

desk at the maturity of a cent from hawaii by his grandmother.ter on, there is a system called calvert, which maya was raised with from a school in baltimore that handy precursor distance-learning. they sent boxes of material. i don't know whether he was doing cowbirds or whether his mother was katharina. as they say, it was mainly to get him up to speed so he would do well when he got there. postcode anything you've discovered about them that could be symbolized in a gift for a keepsake for something that she had of his or he has of hers, that in any way interested you? >> guest: i don't know about him versus her, between the two of them. i don't know anything about that but i can think of right now. but when she died, she was a huge collector of stuff. she had gobs and gobs of stuff. trunks full of stuff, jewelry. and her staff they think of it as the jewelry diaspora because i would interview people and they would say by the way, i got these. these are from ads. people would come to interviews wearing clothes, fantastic clothes they had inheri

and when we came to hawaii, we discovered that there were great stories here.a way we could tell them in this resort. that's what we've done. ♪ >> and we are -- this is all the talent i have. they have the talent, by the way. this is all i do. we have been live. and that's the reason we've been live. our parent company, disney, opened this beautiful property. we wanted to bring it to you. >> it's been great to see it. people should know a big portion of the proceeds from the resort go to the disney worldwide conservation fund. >> yeah. they started this on earth day back in the '90s. this is a worldwide fund. disney decided to take the money and give it to programs all over the world. a lot of the money here will be held for hawaii here. and the idea is, they wanted to build. but also preserve while they were here. i have to tell you, george, that meant a lot to me to hear it. and i hope it means a lot to everybody else. >> i think it will. sam, thank you. >>> now, let's have some weather before you go. >> right now? oh, yeah. i forgot. sorry. george, i was get

this is about the history of hawaii. how did you get interested in the history of hawaii?> guest: it is about the history of america's relationship to hawaii. first, i went there i went to see pearl harbor. just as a tourist. i wanted to see that. while i was there i went to see the old palace of the hawaiian monarchy and realize those two sites are related because the japanese never would have attacked honolulu harbor for being part of the united states if the united states and descendants of american missionaries had not overthrow the hawaiian queen who handed over the island to the u.s.. that was the start of my interest in the relationship between the two countries. >> host: when did the missionaries first go to hawaii? >> guest: they left boston harbor, new england calvinist left boston harbor in 1819 and arrived in hawaii in 1820. the first new england whalers from boston harbor arrived because hawaii was a great stopping of point between whaling grounds. these groups arrived within six months of each other and they had an enormous impact on the island's. >> host: wh

hawaii august 23rd, 1959. before that, not enough of a population to be considered states. thank goodness they came aboard. apparently the residents of hawaii are the happiest in the country. >> i believe that. >> from surveys they do. it is paradise. >> people forget, hawaii, very expensive. high cost of living. there's always a downside to everything here. wiwier's coming, i hate cold weather. honolulu, the average temps in december, january, february, 74. july, august, september, 80 or 81. tell me how good does that sound. >> are you trying to depress me? shu we talkbout average temperatures in february in new york city? >> no. no. after all those blizzards last year, no, no, no. hawaii is where we need to be. after the show we're going. >>> coming up the holiday weekend's bibiest movies coming up in "insomniac theater." >> one movie "apollo 18" takes you up in space. "shark night 3d" gives you a squa scare from the deep. our previews are next. >> stay with us, everybody. hó you go next if you had a hoverou

what about package deals for hawaii not so much a mountain girl. to hit the beach. >> hawaii is a great destination for fall traveler as well. for west coast travelerers you can find package deals for just around $900 for your airfare plus five nights. i looked from san francisco to hawaii $929 for your airfare plus five nights at the tour star turtle bay resort which is a gorgeous property. >> very nice. i know we've been having some difficulty with your audio. thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. thank you for joining us. craig melvin picks up our next hour of news. >>> in the meantime president obama is celebrating the holiday in detroit with aretha franklin. she's warming up the crowd. we're looking at live pictures right now. the president is in the motor city to preview his ideas for job creation in front of support of labor union members. we're going to bring you this event live when it happens at event live when it happens at 1:15 eastern.etter and feel sof. how 'bout we start

>> yeah. >> reporter: today she lives on a nut farm in hawaii. you say that you're crazy but you don't sound crazy at all. >> really? maybe you need to visit a psychiatrist. >> reporter: later on sunday morning, taking a ride with roseanne. >> osgood: as i know from experience, nothing can fully prepare a man for the mixed bag of emotions that come with being a father of the bride. but there are some pointers to be learned on the subject from our own bill geist. >> you know what time it is? quarter past 4:00. we should be there right now. >> reporter: the tortured father of the bride, a role played by spencer tracy and later steve martin in films of the same name. it's a largely powerless ceremonial position. you pay handsomely for the title. i know. i was the father of the bride last weekend, operating under the cardinal rule, wallet opened, mouth closed as you'll see later on sunday morning. >> osgood: all through the morning we'll be looking at the new season in art and music and at the movies. anthony mason takes us suit shopping on london's

her combined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a uniqueuch the language of threads, dreaming water and others. please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] >> so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book? [laughter]. i'm always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now? i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good

there was video out of hawaii. t.j. here you see almost a contrail of a jet or anything. and whatever kind of video we get it's going to be almost impossible to say for sure whether or not this is part of the debris from the satellite. i will say it's impossible to tell unless somebody makes its way on land and someone is able to recover that and send it to nasa and nasa is able to determine whether or not it's part of the original space junk but still looks like for now, t.j., most of us escaped being as you said clocked in the noggin with the space debris. >> thank you. we'll check in with reynolds plenty throughout the morning. if a piece of satellite hit your house or damage your property, you need to give nasa a call because they actually still own it. it's not some souvenir you can keep and they may want it back. it's actually against the law to sell it unless they give you the go-ahead. also, if something happened just another piece of information there, if it happened to damage your home or property, nasa could

utah has more immigrants from tonka, hawaii, then anyone else. -- tonga, hawaii, than anyone else. >> in the heart of salt lake city, seven island nations fly their flag at this cemetery. the landscape has barely changed since the first settlers claimed -- came back in '89. >> they would say, if you can imagine water between here and then down, that would look like home. >> this man's grandparents were one of two families that decided to stay. by maintaining the cemetery, he hopes to teach the younger generation about the sacrifices that their ancestors made. >> this is where it started. >> when the second wave of pollinations immigrated in the middle of the 20th-century, they did not return. -- when the second wave of polynesian is integrated. many americans have grown accustomed to the tall, athletic pacific islanders. at brigham young university, the tribal tattoos have been replaced by logos and team helmets. the team will rely on 34 polynesian players. in some areas, they represent as much as 30% of the team. this is not a recent phenomenon. this goes back to the 1950's. the play

her combined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a uniqueuch the language of threads, dreaming water and others. please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] >> so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book? [laughter]. i'm always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now? i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunny. it's the book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the publishers are wondering if the author has a second book. everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have

they found a body along a cliff side highway in hawaii last night.here were reports of a domestic dispute. an unidentified 38-year-old man also from santa cruz was at the crime scene when they arrived. he was in the hospital after leaping off a cliff when officers approach him. they call him a suspect in the death but they have not arrested him. >>> the california department of alcoholic beverage control says it has never heard of a proposal like this one before. a san jose city officials believe a new proposal on alcohol sales is a good way to lure grocery stores back to neighborhoods in the city. >>> there are 31300 places on buy alcohol in san jose and a supervisor says that is enough. >> this would cut out some of the liquor stores. it would cut out drugstores that also want to sell liquor. >> the councilman supports the proposal to issue new liquor licenses only to full service grocery stores that offer fresh produce and healthy choices. >> to allow more grocery stores to open in shopping centers. >> here at the corner, there are two abandoned g

careful preparation and attention to detail that has propelled 24-year old kevin sullivan from lahaina hawaiito 150 in the world rankings in just four years. >>sullivan: you gotta stop doing what you wanna do and start doing what you need to do - that's kinda how i think. >>reporter: but professional surfing is a sport that doesn't come cheap, as kevin's father - and chief sponsor -explains. >>sullivan: he does have sponsors that finance him but i also contribute to that and it would probably be in theneighbourhood of 60-thousand a year where it would take him to maybe 12 to 15 events throughout theyear. it can be more if he is not doing so well on the tour he'll want to be in more events. >>reporter: finding the finance to pursue the sport takes more than just being good in the surf. >>howse: in the past you used to get sponsored if you had the ability - nowadays we look at everything from personality, whether they can hold themselves in front of the media, how they work with photographersand video guys and the relationships they have with the magazines ... so there's a lot more to it than j

utah has more immigrants from tonka, hawaii, then anyone else. -- tonga, hawaii, than anyone else. >> in the heart of salt lake city, seven island nations fly their flag at this cemetery. the landscape has barely changed since the first settlers claimed -- came back in '89. >> they would say, if you can imagine water between here and then down, that would look like home. >> this man's grandparents were one of two families that decided to stay. by maintaining the cemetery, he hopes to teach the younger generation about the sacrifices that their ancestors made. >> this is where it started. >> when the second wave of pollinations immigrated in the middle of the 20th-century, they did not return. -- when the second wave of polynesian is integrated. many americans have grown accustomed to the tall, athletic pacific islanders. at brigham young university, the tribal tattoos have been replaced by logos and team helmets. the team will rely on 34 polynesian players. in some areas, they represent as much as 30% of the team. this is not a recent phenomenon. this goes back to the 1950's. the play

>> they go to hawaii.he grown kids have had trips to hawaii. >> bill: does she admit she's a bad mom? >> she's irrelevant. the law has been on the books since 1922. show me the money? >> bill: she wants 750 from these kids, even though she's documented as a bad mom. is she going to win? >> under the law, she's entitled to it. >> bill: even if shea abandoned them. >> the amount is excessive and by the way, this law should not be on the books anymore. this is outdated. >> the judge could have discretion and say you forfeited that right because of your abandonment. >> bill: if i were the judge, i would make her pay the kids. listen, lady, you teed me off. you're a bad mom, you pay them so they can go to hawaii more. >> yeah. she's a pinhead, right? >> bill: pinhead, guilfoyle? don't even cover it. okay. we'll let you know which lady gets fired. i would never do that. i've been here 15 years, i've never fired anybody. shaked a few people down, but never fired them. plenty more ahead. howard dean may be in trou

there have been lots of reports from possible sightings from texas to hawaii. reynolds wolf has been following the developments of this. hopefully it means no one is hurt. >> as of right now i think we can breathe easy. i think we'll be okay. >> nasa would let us know. >> i think so. there's a tweet this morning, official tweet from nasa saying it made its way through the atmosphere over the pacific ocean early this morning. pacific ocean is the largest single geographical feature. take all the continents, slam them together and have plenty of room for anything, even space junk. 26 separate pieces made their way through the atmosphere, some 100 pounds, some much lighter. the idea is hopefully as they were coming through the atmosphere, some of them began to break up. hopefully if they hit water, hit whatever, they would disintegrate rather quickly. there's a very good possibility, strong possibility that we will never really know where every single piece of this satellite went. take a look at the video. this was in hawaii where you see this in the sky. could it

it was found yesterday in a beach clean up project in hawaii. inside the bottle, four flowers and the letter wanting a response. he said he will write back and will visit the city when he goes to see his family in japan. >>> over to the morning drive. >> excuse me. i want to adjust my chair. i am in the center. life can go on as planned. we are planning on a good drive, traffic is looking good. at highway four, slow in that construction zone and one day that will be finished and some people will cheer! traffic is looking good, if you are on 580, only a bit of crowding going on. let's go to the line pictures, the traffic in the east bay, 880 is looking good. this morning, at the bay bridge, a bit of a back up in some lanes. more on what that will do to the morning drive. over to steve. >> the temperatures close to yesterday. 60s and 70s. upper 40s, especially on the north bay. some showers, no popping up, especially in yosemite. there is the 49, red wood city is 53. a system coming through and another in southwest oregon. that will have to go thr

but hawaii seems to avoid most dangerous weather patterns. and also alaska.a." >> you can see russia from here. almost. >> reporter: well, there's that. but also it has -- >> so few people and infrastructure. >> reporter: as for the continental u.s., good news for lobster, cars and ice cream. the three states with the fewest big disasters? maine, michigan and ironically this week at least, vermont. clearly mother nature doesn't always follow government statistics. and the locusts? they have to go somewhere. john berman, abc news, new york. >> thanks for watching tonight. we're always reporting on abcnews.com. and check out "nightline's" exclusive interview with marc anthony later. ll see you tomorrow on "gma." have a good night. >>> investors ratchet up their case against a man accused of a ponzy scheme. >> and solyndra may have broken the law when it sent home without job autos protesters targeted bart now goes to battle in courts. tonight the pleas to a indictment. >> and a foreclosure crisis hits home for this woman, who could wind up homeless if the bank

looking at pictures of mallee hawaii, you would hardly guess at the story of sex abuse in and killing. celestial caste men may have just been in that type of murder. she was on a superb boyfriend. fact they were staying in a hotel on mallee. if they were driving along a highway toll on the cliffs. there have been reports of someone driving erratically and a car partially blocked the lead. elderly woman reported that when she stopped cassandra ran up her door and ran up for help. the male party grabbed a team of from behind us with one arm around her neck. galloway told the witness everything was fine. the witness told officers he then began lifting the quinella in the slamming her body to the ground. galloway was naked from the waist down and ran when police told him to stop, he jumped off the cliff into the ocean. he was later caught. >> the suspects in this case was scheduled to be in court today. he is still in the hospital and has been there for the last week or so. a heart breaking story. >> you have spoken with friends of the couple, what are people saying? >> people are truly s

this belief helped build the middle class in hawaii and across our country. right now what working men and women need most are champions in their corner, champions who are fighting for real jobs and instead this bill takes aim at our working families, it's another direct assault on them and workers' rights. let's face it. companies today can move their business operations for any business reason at all. except for an illegal one. today retaliating against workers who want to organize, join a union, is illegal. this bill changes that. it says companieses can go ahead, you can move your -- companies can go ahead, you can move your jobs to other states or even other countries to punish your workers who want to organize and have a voice. this would have a chilling effect on any attempt by workers to ask for a seat at the bargaining table. workers have already taken big hits in their paychecks, in their retirements over the years. we should not make it easier for businesses to gain the -- game the system. i urge my colleagues to fight against this bill and to stan

hawaii stanley. >> high. -- hi. are there any books that they might recommend for reading in regards to mr. blaine? but i would suggest the but you are holding right there. if you want to know about the time. or the state in addition to this, some other books to can recommend it? >> i would agree. neils book is the most recent and up-to-date and comprehensive lkof blaine. yet to go back to the 1930's to have two biographies for him. neil is also an author to turn to their. he has done and over view of the state of maine. >> he is getting a lot of that valentines in this room. what we are talking about houses. in this book, you described the scene when blaine learns he is successful in obtaining the republican nomination in 1884 and he goes to the front door of this house to greet his supporters. will you tell us about that time? >> when it the news first came, the people were gathered down on water street which is right down by the river. around the post office, his biggest crony was the post office are down there.

. >>> about 370 people have had to be helped or rescued in hawaii. some of the waves there are hitting about 15 feet high. there's a high surf warning for the south and west facing surf of all the hawaii islands. only experienced surfers should be out in the water. >>> why victims will have to wait on crucial decisions on how and when the court will move continue on pg &e's order. >>> what was supposed to be a step forward in the resolution of the aftermath of the san bruno pipeline explosion today turned into a delay. a judge put off the decision on if and when the victim's cases will go to trial. >> this redwood city courthouse was the setting today for a hearing on the san bruno pipeline explosion. >> the most important thing this court can do is set a file date. >> reporter: more than 30 victims of that disaster have filed suit. pg & e favors consolidating the cases when the liability issue is decided followed by mediation on a case by case basis for damages. consolidating the cases could lead to a lengthy trial. mediation would hide information

the top united states carriers were hawaii, alaska and southwest.t is expected to decline because of the havoc created by irene. the stats released today came from the transportation department. if kenya at least 75 possibly more died in a fire in a crowded slum. more than a hundred were badly burned. a gasoline pipeline leaked in to a sewage stream. as people rushto collect the gas somebody threw a cigarette but. >>> the united states hopes to reopen its elm bass yeah embassy in libya. it was trashed on may first. >>> in turkey a wedding party was caught in a fire fight. guest was dancing when the gun fire started. they scattered ran for fire. five people were killed but nobody in the wedding party was hurt. >> the department of agriculture is expanding -- officials will now test for seven strains of the bacteria in raw ground beef instead of just the most common. health experts say the additional strains cause more than 100,000 illnesses a year. the u.s.d.a. is expected to make an official announcement. they are expected to begin in march. >> fore

. >>> from hawaii to california, why hundreds of donkeys are being shipped to california today. >>> it's unreal to see yourself like that. >> he cheated death and fought biker with who was trapped under a burning car is speaking out. what it was like watching strangers save his life. ,, ,,,, [ screaming ] [ zapping ] there goes dwayne's car. oh, man. there goes dwayne's house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not like dwayne. [ male announcer ] state farm's got you covered. nice landing. it was. san jose police ar >>> let's look at some of the top stories on this friday here in the bay area. san jose police still on the scene at this hour of an officer-involved shooting. they say they were trying to stop a stolen car, a wounded suspect is in the hospital. >>> university of california regents want more ideas to deal with the system's budget problems. they weren't happy with a plan to raise tuition by 8% over the next four years. the next meeting is in november. >>> a cruise ship that caught fire off the coast of norway now in danger of tilting over. yesterday's fire

didn't she name her kid hawaii? maui! yeah... she built a yacht for her pug.lly, it was a lakehouse. yeah, he's right. this heel is so fabulous. mine. look at that. cute. she was here once. what? she had toes like a sloth. really? ew. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. i'm a curious seeker. i am a chemistry aficionado. diphenhydramine. magnesium hydroxide. atheletes foot. yes. i'm a people pleaser. if elected, i promise flu shots for all. i am a walking medical dictionary. congratulations virginia. inflamed uvula. i'm virginia. i'm a target pharmacist and i'm here to answer your questions. >>> president oe obama is once again headed to the area to campaign for crash. as ken pritchett reports, the state is reports -- >> reporter: the republican candidates have also been here. >> thank you, for what you have given to our country. >> reporter: and while they make public appearances, a big reason for california stops are private meetings to raise cash. >> traditionally california has donated about 20%. so california is a big deal when it comes to donating to na

a local woman at the center of a deadly fight in hawaii. >>> and a break in the case of nursing student michelle le. jodi hernandez with an update on the clues that led police to the suspect. >> also fireworks in southern california as we speae republican presidentt-runner of republican presidentialield takes the stage. we'll go live next. >>> today a break in the homicide case of michelle le. hayward police say they've made an arrest of former friend of the nursing student. nbc bay area jodi hernandez joins us live with the very latest. jodi? >> janelle, michelle le has not been found yet. but hayward police say they have solved half of the mystery. they've arrested le's killer. 27-year-old giselle esteban, le's former high school classmate and a woman who has gone on record saying she blamed le for ruining her relationship with her boyfriend is behind bars facing murder charges. police arrested esteban at her union city home this morning. they also searched the home another time and removed several bags of items. police call the evidence they've uncovered compelling. from bloodstains

the top united states carriers were hawaii, alaska and southwest. is expected to decline because of the havoc created by irene. the stats released today came from the transportation department. if kenya at least 75 possibly more died in a fire in a crowded slum. more than a hundred were badly burned. a gasoline pipeline leaked in to a sewage stream. as people rushed to collect the gas somebody threw a cigarette but. >>> the united states hopes to reopen its elm bass yeah embassy in libya. it was trashed on may first. >>> in turkey a wedding party was caught in a fire fight. guest was dancing when the gun fire started. they scattered ran for fire. five people were killed but nobody in the wedding party was hurt. >> the department of agriculture is expanding -- officials will now test for seven strains of the bacteria in raw ground beef instead of just the most common. health experts say the additional strains cause more than 100,000 illnesses a year. the u.s.d.a. is expected to make an official announcement. they are expected to begin in march. >> fo

what started 37 weeks ago in hawaii has come to a dramatic and memorable conclusion here today. bill haas, the winner of everything for the presentation, i go to commissioner tim fincham. >> bill, congratulations. what great play. start with today's work and this week's work first. you played great all week. four rounds in the 60s, incredible on this golf course the way it was set up. let me just thank coca-cola and southern company for the presentation and east lake for your hosting the event. fantastic week an congratulations on winning the tour championship by coke co-cla. >> that's number one. >> that's number one. and then -- and bill, you came in to this tournament only four players have won twice. 25 players have won once. tremendous parity on the tour right now. 1 1,9,805 shots. the most exciting fedexcup finish we've had. pill haas, our fedexcup champion. >> they're both yours. >> well, bill twlb were so many story linsz coming in to this afternoon and perhaps we wouldn't have known where to start until you hit that second shot on the 17th hole in the playoff. that was

. >>> in hawaii, prosecutors have -- i'm sorry. >> prosecutors have filed kidnapping charges against a man for killing his ex- girlfriend, an attorney from santa cruz. the two had been staying together in maui. she was found along a cliff thursday. when galaway was confronted, he jumped off that cliff. he was injured, but is expected to recover. >>> san francisco police are conducting an internal investigation into searching for the missing iphone. a prototype for the iphone 5 -- in the end, that search did not turn up the phone. apple is set to unveil the details of its plans for a new campus in cupertino tomorrow. called apple campus 2. it's to be located at the former hewlett-packard site. apple expects to have up to 13,000 people working there when it's completed. construction could start in 2013. >>> the excavation is beginning on the new transbay terminal in san francisco. >> it's going to bring together housing and office development. it's super exciting. >> construction of the terminal is expected to create 125,000 jobs over seven years. the first year is completed, and proje

there is a number of beach clean-up organizations that work in california and hawaii that irregularly cleaning up this plastic. the model is just to intercept that plastic, which is normally taking it down to the landfill and take the portions we can use in denver that down to california for manufacturing. the only remaining step we have to do is to get enough of the supply. we're not finding it that hard to get enough of the plastic. it is a matter of scaling how broadly we roll this out at retail and the ability to get the supply. i am certainly will be able to do it. >> obviously, this is one company of many that the administration is hoping to support with the american jobs act. i am interested in utility scale alternative energy companies, which is a huge market, right? i am wondering how the american jobs act will help create a whole group of jobs in alternative energy? >> well, let me remind everyone that the stimulus act, the american reinvestment and recovery act, had $80 billion in grants and loan guarantees for the clean energy space. the loan guarantees were very important

. >>> hawaii is also seeing the high surf. advisories and warnings are in place. some beachfront businesses say they are losing customers because the huge waves are keeping some tourists away. i think that might be mark tamayo. >> usually they are way down there as far as the surf height wise. today, very nice and great to be out there. also nice to be out here in the bay area as well. lingering haze and patchy fog. we will begin the long warmup. we have the fog hugging a good portion of the coast from point rays down. other patches and fog closer to santa cruz county. forecast story for today. we have the clouds this morning pulling back near the shore line. temperatures near 90. mostly sunny skies. the weekend forecast holiday weekend we will bring in minor cooling but still on the nice side. here's a look at some of the current numbers. santa rosa lower 70s. 12:00 hour already in the 80s for fairfield. cooling we've been talking a lot about that over the past few weeks. cool temperatures for the coast and hot numbers inland. here's the overall trend. high press

. @ >>> a message that bottle washed up on a beach in hawaii. petty officer spotted the glass bottle during a cleanup project on the island. he found a letter from a sixth grader dated march 26, 2006 and flowers. the note said she wanted to it be a graduation memory. they are trying to locate the girl they found the message. bottle traveled some 4,000 miles over five years. apparently it reached the principal of the girl and they are all very excited about this. >> who knows, maybe the petty officer. >> and let's see how the weather is going to be. >> a little cool, probably not as cool as today. a little more sunshine. a little cloudy along the coast and in to san francisco and from the top of sutro tower from mount tamalpais. the clouds are retreating ever so slowly around the golden gate bridge. it's very sunny as we look at the port of oakland this morning. take a different look and see the clouds are stubborn into the monterey bay and salinas valley rest of us breaking out into sunshine thanks to the drier air that is coming behind the cold

. >> senator daniel inouye, a democrat from hawaii s reading the lost symbol by dan brown and the fiery trial by eric foreign. >> visit booktv.org to see this and other summer reading lists. >> so i began two years before the bombs began to fall on cuba, exactly two years, in fact, to the day. april 15, 1959. that evening fidel castro arrived in the united states for a visit. this was his first visit to the united states since he'd taken over cuba at the start of the year. dwight eisenhower was still president, richard nixon was vice president, john kennedy was still a junior senator from massachusetts. castro came to deliver a speech to some newspaper editors, but the visit was something more like an invasion in its own right, a charm offensive. he and his bearded entourage arrived in washington loaded with cuban cigars and cases of cuban rum, and castro spent most of his visit hugging and smiling and saying all the right things. there were some americans, including some in the eisenhower administration -- including dwight eisenhower himself -- who had pretty serious concerns about eis

watching us in honolulu, study various forms of art in an exhibit from throughout the state at art is of hawaii at the honolulu academy of art. >>> new court documents show michael jackson is still the king of pop, even in death. more than two years after the singer died, deeply in debt, his estate has generated more than $310 million in gross revenues. enabling executors to doll out $30 million to creditors, his mother and children and charities. >>> even though charlie sheen performed jon cryer by calling him a troll earlier this year, it didn't stop cryer from worrying about his health. he tells ellen degeneres he was worried sheen would die. >>> finally, "forbes" has come out with its annual list of highest paid male entertainers and topping the list, movie and tv mogul tyler perry who made a staggering $130 million from may last year to may of this year. other names in the top five, producer jerry bruckheimer, steven spielberg, elton john and simon cowell. dr. phil beat out howard stern as well as tiger woods. >> dr. phil's doing well. >> he certainly is. >> how many people would have pred

and american flags that the navy flew in hawaii. >> grieving as one big family, the community, families. everybody is grieving. >> reporter: after unveiling the names, the department paid tribute with a last alarm. the fire chief told me the investigation is complete and a report should be out within the next month. live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 news. >> there was a stock market melt down. bad economic news from around the world sent stocks plummeting. there were significant down side risks to the outlook. the dow fell more than 500 points at one point today. closing at 391 points resting at 10733. the nasdaq dropped 83 points and closed at 2455. >>> been a rough 6 months fallen more than 2000 points since high in may. left nearly 14 points above its lowest close for the year and represented its steepest drop since august 18th. caused a big drop in oil prices. new york oil prices fell more than 6%. crew was down $5.41. that's the lowest its been since the beginning of august. you can get more information on today's market melt down by sticking the stock market tab on our home pa

ababababababababababababab >>> a message that bottle washed up on a beach in hawaii. petty officer spotted the glass bottle during a cleanup project on the island. he found a letter from a sixth grader dated march 26, 2006 and flowers. the note said she wanted to it be a graduation memory. they are trying to locate the girl they found the message. bottle traveled some 4,000 miles over five years. apparently it reached the principal of the girl and they are all very excited about this. >> who knows, maybe the petty officer. >> and let's see how the weather is going to be. >> a little cool, probably not as cool as today. a little more sunshine. a little cloudy along the coast and in to san francisco and from the top of sutro tower from mount tamalpais. the clouds are retreating ever so slowly around the golden gate bridge. it's very sunny as we look at the port of oakland this morning. take a different look and see the clouds are stubborn into the monterey bay and salinas valley rest of us breaking out into sunshine thanks to the drier air that is coming behind the cold

we had video from hawaii which showed a contrail in the sky almost like you'd see from an airliner. we had video that came in from minnesota. the video from the minnesota from an i-reporter is interesting. they see streaks popping up. could that be it? could be. could it be something else? absolutely. so again, you never know. >> what else could that be? >> it could be pixie dust. sent in from kris rakowski. we have au kinds of things in the atmosphere. do i think it might be, yes, definitely there's a chance. what do you think t. j. >> i have no idea. >> you're going to put pressure on a man like me to make the call. >> you deal with all things spheric. appreciate you. we'll check in plenty throughout the morning. we're nine minutes past the hour. >>> she's trying it again, trying to swim from florida to cuba. all right? she just got started a little while ago. and already, we have a problem. we'll tell you about diana nyad's third try here. >>> also, a 14-year-old orders a barrel for a paintball gun. innocent enough. but you know what arrived at his house for him, viagra. that sto

i'm from hawaii. i like the island breezes. >> very nice. hawaii girl. i like it. a ton of buzz about the next generation iphone. word is that apple could be weeks away from an announcement about, yep, the new iphone 5. >> i want one. apparently there will be a few more changes. one upgrade expected to be an 8 megapixel camera. iphone 4 has 5 megapixels. >> how do people live? the new iphone is also expected to have a faster processor not to mention mobile payment functions so you can swipe your iphone over a reader just like a credit card. >> before you know it, it will be chips in our heads and swipe your fingertip. >> iphone 4. the 5 is out. makes me mad every time. more "world news now" coming up after the break. ♪ mr. telephone man there's something wrong with my line ♪ [ male announcer ] meet rachel and annie. we asked them to be part of an experiment to prove febreze air effects eliminates tough cooking odors. [ facilitator ] take a deep breath, tell me what you smell. it's grassy. it's green. it smells like fresh wood. like a latte. [ facilitator