he was on board an army cargo plane that crashed in the himalayas.he veterans along with sims' relatives and classmates attended today's funeral. >>> a group that is credited with igniting a revolution in egypt is in the bay area tonight. he topped time magazine's list of the 100 most flume people in the world. he was born in egypt used facebook to organize millions of egyptians. the demonstrations overthrow president hosni mubarack earlier this year. >> it's something that i'm not, like, -- i was not looking for and i think the most important thing is the cause. the cause was to get rid of a bad regime. >> tonight he is at stanford to talk about how egypt can move to economic recovery. >>> a tweet brings a commitment to stay in san francisco. twitter told the world this afternoon that it will be moving into a san francisco building, this one here on market street by mid 2012. the former furniture mart building is four blocks from the current headquarters. san francisco is providing a payroll tax break to keep the hometown startup in the city. >>> ca

simms died in a plane crash in himalayas in 1943. he and crew members were transporting supplies to chinese forces battling the japanese. according to the "press democrat" a mountaineer found remains in 2003 and dna sample from relative resulted in a match. >>> new york to los angeles. still ahead, the cross-country road trip three guys are taking in a yellow cab. plus -- >> everybody was shocked. like speechless. >> a teenage girl conducts a courageous social experiment.  >>> in the mideast, april grim christians are crowding jerusalem old town on good friday. each year thousands retrace the route they believe christ took to the crucifixion and walk to the church they believe he was buried and ultimately rose from the dead. pope benedict held good friday mass at the vatican. earlier in the day, he made an unusual television appearance, answering questions submitted online by catholics and non-catholics around the world. most questions dealt with how people struggle with suffering. pope benedict told a

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the term pilots used for the dangerous 500-mile route that crisscrossed the jagged ridges of the himalayas. in 2003, a private expedition searching for mia's found the wreckage and simms' bones. the man who lead the expedition said by luck his guide found a small piece of aluminum. >> i looked at it and here was the aircraft data plate. it was bent up. but this is the most important identifier you can find. >> reporter: two months ago they notified his next of kin that they finally identified him through a dna sample. she is simms' niece and never knew her uncle. >> do you recognize him from the picture? >> oh yes. >> reporter: today she got to know him better through his friends like evelyn, simms' first girl friend. >> he was a wonderful guy. didn't have him around long enough when they took him into the service. >> i think the community got what they needed as well as us as a family got what we needed. it is a perfect day. >> a day celebrated with sadness and gratitude. most never knew private simms, but today everyone here was his friend. vic lee, abc7 news. >>> an elaborate tatoo has

the term pilots used for the dangerous 500 mile route that crisscrossed the jagged ridges of the himalayas3, a private expedition searching for m.i.a.'s found the wreckage and sims' bones. clayton cools who led the expedition says by luck, his guide found a small piece of aluminum. >> and i looked at it and here it was the aircraft data plate. it was kind of bent up but this is the most important identifier you could find. >> two months ago, the army notified sims' next of kin that they had finally identified him through a d.n.a. sample. roloff is sims' niece but never knew her uncle. >> you recognize him from that picture? >> yes. >> she got to know him better through his friends like evelyn, sims' first girlfriend. >> he was a wonderful guy. didn't have him around long enough when they took him into the service. i think the community got what they needed ises us as a family got what we needed and it's a perfect day. >> a day celebrated with sadness and gratitude. most never knew private sims. but today, everyone here was his friend. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> president barack obama says one

merryl earl simms died in himalayas in 1943.supplies to japanese forces battling the japanese. they found simms' remains in 2003. dna sample from a relative was used to match them. >>> nevada start john ensign is turning in his resignation today. he has been under ethics investigation. he says the ongoing probe would put further wear and tear on himself and his family. ensign insists he has done nothing wrong. resignation takes effect may 3. lieutenant governor gavin newsom was one of the first bay area politicians to tap in the power of soldier media when he was mayor of san francisco. now he is working on a book on the topic. he announced his literary effort in a tweet. he says the deal is signed and the ink is dry. no word when the book will be published. >>> tuesday nights were popular at washington state bar because of the goldfish racing. but then, peta started protesting. the owner said his bar only used 10-crept feeder fishes in the races. the fish were eight-foot long plastic gutters and patrons used squirt guns, squirt

i decided to go to what some call the earth's third pole, the himalayas. my guide was climber and filmmaker david breashears. he's been to the summit of mt. everest five times. this time, he was returning on a special mission. so where are you going? >> i'm going to go right up there to about 19,000 feet on these rocky ridges here that are in this early morning light, to get a viewpoint here to shoot from a place where george mallory shot in 1921, and see how much has changed in that amount of time. i'm going up here. right up there on those pinnacles. >> he passed this river? >> yes. it's a long way, and then we'll see how much this glacier has melted here. >> smith: first, breashears had to cross a small river of icy water with his three porters. i stayed behind. it was going to take a fast climb in thin air up the side of a steep ridge with no trail. eight hours later, breashears reached this spot at 19,000 feet. he'd identified it as the outcrop where british explorer george mallory took his photograph of everest in 1921. at the foot of the mountain, t

the term pilots used for the dangerous 500 mile route that crisscrossed the jagged ridges of the himalayas003, a private expedition searching for m.i.a.'s found the wreckage and sims' bones. clayton cools who led the expedition says by luck, his guide found a small piece of aluminum. >> and i looked at it and here it was the aircraft data plate. it was kind of bent up but this is the most important identifier you could find. >> two months ago, the army notified sims' next of kin that they had finally identified him through a d.n.a. sample. roloff is sims' niece but never knew her uncle. >> you recognize -- >> she got to know him better through his friends like sims' first girlfriend. >> he was a wonderful guy but didn't have him around long enough. when they took him into the service. >> i think the community got what they needed ises us as a family got what we needed and it's a perfect day. a day celebrated with sadness and gratitude. most never knew private sims but today, everyone here was his friend. vic lee. >> president barack obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is spend mo

crashed over the hump the term they used for the dangerous 500 mile route that crisscrossed the jagged himalayas. a private expedition found the wreckage and simms bones. grayton says by luck his guide found a small piece of aluminum. >> i looked at it, it was the aircraft data plate but this is the most important thing you could find. >> two months ago the army notified the next of kin they had identified him through a dna sample. she never new her uncle. >> you see that picture. >> she got to know him better through her friends like evelyn simms' first girlfriend. he was a wonderful guy. didn't have him around long enough when they took him into service. >> the community needed and the family got what we needed. '. [ bag pipes playing ] >> a day celebrated with sadness and gratitude. most never knew him but today everyone here was his friend. vic lee, "abc 7 news." >>> finally home. >> gas prices continue to soar at the pump. highest price in california yesterday 4.99 outside yosemite national park. $5 gas signs are appearing in major cities. >> six dollar gas is probably one well placed hurri

simms died in plane crash in himalayas in 1943 and the plane was transfer supplies to chinese forces battling the japanese. according to the press democrat, they found his remains in 2003 and dna sample from a relative was used to match them. >>> well, just hours from now, some of the most influential business leaders in silicon valley will offer critical information for hundreds of thousands looking for jobs. they will be sitting down with some of the biggest names in local and state politics. abc7's amy hollyfield is live in san jose. the leaders will be armed with a new survey that could be an eye-opener. >> they are not pleased with the government an they will confront top public officials at the ibm research facility in san jose. three-fourths of the ceos in silicon valley who were surveyed gave legislature a negative performance rating. three-fourths. that is the most in the survey's eight-year history. they're unhappy with the state budget gridlock and the cost of the government. in the survey more than half of the ceos said they expect to hire more people this year. but they

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the picture of the himalaya formed by the asian plate.so the plate tectonics which incorporated the olver constant of the continental drift showed that the earth is a totally different body than we had imagined. i got my degree in geology in 1972 and that had just finished. it had just sunk into the consciousness. i learned about the geosyncline when i was a geologist deutsch and and i don't think there is one now who would even know what the term means. the other thing that happened was the idea that catastrophes happen and this seems sort of basic fundamental logic but just because you have the uniformitarian process doesn't mean it can't become punctuated and there's two times, multiple kind of catastrophes, the biggest were impacts, both a lot of the work in the 60's was documenting earth impact craters and the effect of the shock metaphor for some in the terrestrial rocks, and there was a body of work designed specifically to support the scientific aspiration and the moon apollo was turning out. we studied the craters to understand w

they are taller than the himalayas and deeper than the indian ocean. in practice, they've given them a lot of weapons. but in every clutch situation, the china hasn't done anything more than we have. china's short answer is china in is in a quasi rivalry with us and india. but it's also in a relationship with us and india which is an economic cornucopia. china is trying to figure out how to balance all of this together. for me, it's the high road here is to try to get the chinese to row with us in this. they don't want a jihadist state in pakistan. they don't want to see the indian economy suffer a devastating blow. because they are investing in the economy now. tricky? hard to do? but something that we tend to do. iran is a more difficult partner. the short version is in afghanistan since 2001, iran has largely been a supporter of what we want to do because they hate the taliban. the trick here is to somehow segue off their relatively positive pursuits in afghanistan from the so many other things where we have very serious disagreements with them. tha

they are taller than the himalayas and deeper than the indian ocean. in practice, they've given them a lot of weapons. but in every clutch situation, the china hasn't done anything more than we have. china's short answer is china in is in a quasi rivalry with us and india. but it's also in a relationship with us and india which is an economic cornucopia. china is trying to figure out how to balance all of this together. for me, it's the high road here is to try to get the chinese to row with us in this. they don't want a jihadist state in pakistan. they don't want to see the indian economy suffer a devastating blow. because they are investing in the economy now. tricky? hard to do? but something that we tend to do. iran is a more difficult partner. the short version is in afghanistan since 2001, iran has largely been a supporter of what we want to do because they hate the taliban. the trick here is to somehow segue off their relatively positive pursuits in afghanistan from the so many other things where we have very serious disagreements with them. tha