the remnants of hurricane ileana created high swells at newport beach yesterday. body surfers took advantage of waves as high as 15 feet. life guards were on high alert the entire day. fortunately, no incidents or problems have been reported. >>> take a look at this. two beaches are closed in rhode island after a great white shark washed ashore. fisherman noticed the carcass on a popular beach in little compton where it drew a crowd. great whites are rarely seen in coastal waters. the beaches will be closed all weekend. >>> travelers are feeling the pinch this labor day holiday. gas prices have gone up throughout the current but as nbc's tom can costello explains, there could be relief in sight. >> reporter: if your mode of transportation involves tires, it turns out a labor day get away has never been more expensive. gas prices have jumped ten cents in a week, 30 cents in a month. hurricane isaac gets much of the blame as it took aim at louisiana. oil rigs, refineries, even a critical pipeline all shut down. while they escaped unharmed, the down time pushed price

we have a few clouds but most of the moisture from what used to be hurricane ileana continues to weakene west winds are easterly, keeping most of the moisture away from us as opposed to the westerly winds to the west of california. you can see the low clouds for the morning they will stay on the coast during the day, not much low clouds inland tomorrow morning. and temperatures are going to start off warm. some of the hills of the east bay, you could be waking up to 60s tomorrow morning. very warm air aloft. 50s around the bay area to get your monday started. mid to upper 80s around san jose, 90s around the almaden valley and out to pleasanton and livermore and danville, making a run at mid-90s before the sea breeze starts to pick up. for the north bay, lots of 80s, maybe 90 in the warmest places, san francisco not bad, upper 60s for tomorrow so the coast, mid to upper 60s, we're going to see slow cooling inland by the middle of the week. once we pass wednesday we'll see temperatures dropping back in the 80s. the labor day weekend living up to expectations. 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. >> i w

certainly, this process has punished not just ross, but ileana and audio -- theo as well. you have the power to stop it. [tone] thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is michael. i am a city resident and supporter of ross mirkarimi. thank you for letting me speak and the work that you're doing on this. it has not been an easy process. i have watched these proceedings from the beginning. just as a side note, i was here during the bomb threat for the mayor. it would have been nice if you could have told some of us about it, just so we did not get blown up, but whenever. what is going on here is that two people had a personal problem that they did not want turn into a personal reality show. the share of mercury me was elected by the people. -- share if mirkarimi was elected by the people. as you can see it today by having to listen to the testimony, you can see as many supporters. i urge you not to uphold the charges. thank you very much. >> that afternoon, commissioners. >> you can raise the microphone. it moves. >> i come here for truth and justice for all. an

what about tropical storm ileana. will it impact your labor day plans? i will have a look at that coming up. >>> paper or plastic? not at the grocery store but on your next road trip. more and more drivers this labor day weekend are using their plastic gps devices on the dash, leaving paper maps in the dust. nbc bay area reaches in to the glove box to go down memory lane. >> tell me how to get there. >> where are you? >> reading a map. >> over here. >> sure about that? >> i dpientd it. >> i can't read maps. >> i think we're lost. >> none of which is lost on ron meter who'ses no stall jik for the old days when those paper maps were easier to find. >> early '60s set of map and more interesting to look at. >> this one is interesting, look at the cover. >> through his trips to every state and on ebay he has more maps than you can shove in a glove box. some possibly scribed by hand. >> we cut out letter by letter. >> >> look at a map like this going to the '20s. >> where he is still employed but not as a mapmaker. >> you can see the art. >> aaa outsourced pro

what's left of ileana here. the low moving to the west. eventually the low aloft will switch out of the south so we'll have to watch maybe for mountain thunder, certainly for the sierra by midweek. maybe over the coastal range for the south on tuesday night. tomorrow low clouds, around the coast and the inner bay, then mostly sunny and temperatures inland at the marine layer with 1,000 feet monday into tuesday we'll see plenty of sunshine and very warm temperatures again, upper 80s and low 90s out toward our inland valleys. tomorrow starting off in the 50s. notice the temperature of livermore, about 59. some of the east bay hill top locations may see 60s for the morning so it looks chilly. as we go through tomorrow you'll see mid to upper 80s around san jose, and some 90s around morgan hill and gilroy. out to pleasanton and livermore looking at numbers in mid-90s. pretty hot. 580 back to the bay and you cool off as you get to oakland. mid 70s, upper 60s san francisco. 80s out to the north bay. close to 90 in the hottest spots around wine c

some of this moisture from former i should say tropical storm ileana some of it is streaming towards baja, california, we'll have to watch out for it maybe tuesday and wednesday we may see tropical clouds heading our way. but this is the story. the marine layer is getting squished down. we'll see the temperatures climb tomorrow. it looks like upper 80s and low 90s. but for the coast not much change. the sea breeze is not going away, so the inner bay and coast will start to see maybe a little bit of a warm-up, but the bigtime warming, 5 to 10 degrees of warming, will be felt out towards the tri-valley and areas south of san jose. in terms of the cloud cover for the morning, we'll be watching those clouds quickly peeling back to the coast. maybe a little more sunshine we hope around pacifica and half moon bay. again, santa cruz is your slam dunk to find the sunshine as you wrap up the labor day weekend, heading on into monday. 40s and 50s outside tonight. we'll see the low clouds push inland and tomorrow's highs we should see the numbers come up a few degrees in san jose. mid-70s today

not just former politicians and people who had a former role we're talking about current lawmakers ileana roslin and the chairman of the house foreign relations committee she has apparently accepted at least twenty thousand dollars in donations from iranian american groups or their leaders that went into sort of her you know political campaign war chest that's according to the center for responsive politics and. you know she's been outspoken about the need to delist and u.k. and to protect when they were living many of the members were living at camp ashraf i just wanna play a little bit of what she said the safety of the residents of camp ashraf is in jeopardy it's in jeopardy right here right now right this moment it will be in jeopardy until the international community says this is unacceptable this cannot happen. so jamal why do you think so many you know former and current people involved in politics accepted money and sort of now go to bat for this group you know as we saw with the remarks by congressman ross leighton and there was this frankly this red herring about the situation a

i would like to chang congresswoman and chair ileana ros-lehtinen for her hard work along with ranking member berman in finding a compromise to permit this bill to move forward. and i thank my colleague congressman mario diaz-balart for his work if the time the first reports of contaminated dry wall surfaced. for all these reasons and for all the people who have been affected, i urge my colleagues to evening to support the passage of h.r. 4212 and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back. the the gentlelady from california is recognized. mrs. bono mack spiff -- mrs. bono mack: i have no further speakers. i'm going to close, i want to make one more point here, it's a great point, republicans and democrats are united on this very important safety issue. made in china is stamped on everything from toys to consumer electron exs. let's make sure it's stamped on our drywall too and make sure that our quality standards are upheld and we stand behind it. i thank the staff of the subcommittee and the full committee for their work over

>> ileana zealous japan followed. the damage battle ships, the nevada, west virginia, maryland, california, pennsylvania repaired and performed as the war road on. pearl harbor and the best parts began the long hard her luck road to victory through the guadalcanal, hiroshima, okinawa, the philippines, making headway until that is on the deck of the battleship tokyo harbor with the surrender of the japanese. equally hard the road, equally heroic the men that fought on the hot sands of africa, on the beaches of normandy. along are the descendants of men who wonder washington fought the counterparts for freedom and equality. a day like all days eliminates our time and you were there. [laughter] >> clich show of hands, who misses that guy? here is our first kind of question. what is it that we miss about that guy? i'm sorry, what is it that we miss about mr. cronkite and this generation of journalists? why does it stir the soul to have stuff like that. i'm going to open it up to you guys. >> well, i should recuse myself.