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ity would say the superintendent. he was a conductor at one time. >> excellent.ing run. i'm hammered already. ladies and gentlemen, mr. frank ware. [ringing bells] [applause] >> ah-ha! yes! oh, yeah. >> frank ware, ladies and gentlemen! got a little body english in there. frank ware. our fifth contestant is his second time to qualify for the finals. he is a grip. he's been with muni for nine years and spent seven years with the cable car division. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. trini whittaker. so trini -- >> like i told frank, the cable car has two people. who would you take as your second person? >> my son. my son loves the cable cars. >> oh, that's fantastic. work on the sentimal -- sentimental vote. very smart. very smart. ladies and gentlemen, mr. trini whitaker. [ringing bells] [applause] >> nice. trinny whitaker, ladies and gentlemen. our sixth contestant is qualifieding for the -- qualifying for the very first time today. he's a conductor

iti>>> people often forget the enter-ethnic violence that preceded the turkish invasion of cyprus, mass murders perpetrated by extremists on both sides. now after some of the victims have been identified, relatives have taken their case to the european court of human rights. both committees are coming under pressure to launch investigations. >> for this person, the steps down to the cellar of his house aureus -- are a sad descent into the past. turkishgunman shot his parents and gunman dead in 1974. he was 10 years old at the time and survived with severe wounds. his brother was only six. >> he was shot next to me, and he was wearing shoes for the summertime. i was shot in three places. i was unconscious for maybe a minute. i woke up or something. i went on side that, -- i went inside, and i laid on my bed. i heard someone asking for water. >> we are on the way to the village where he was born, and now the no. turkish-controlled part of the island. this journalist brings us to the site of the massacre. her research uncovered not only a mass grave in an olive orchard, but many others as

a commander says the d epartment's refocus on the c ity's areas where most of the crimes occurred has given officers a way to focus on the efforts and then the chief addressed the most recent controversy, the o fficer- involved shooting of a man in a wheelchair. >> the administration was conducted -- the administration investigation was conducted. in terms of training and policy, that's discussed with our t raining staff in order to see, number one, whether there were any training violations, and number two, is there anything that we cha learn from here. >> the chief then invited the media to attend a use-of-force simulator at the academy later this afternoon. the chief said he will. >> back to the board in february to request tasers for his department, a move he says could have prevented the shooting monday. even commissioners giving the green light on tasers this time around, police would still not be able to use them for at least another year. the chief says he will continue to be up front about investigations like this one and any others. >> we're very transparent. we're talking t

police say it happened at about noon on turk street in the c ity's western edition neighborhood. officers say the child was shot in the lower abdomen. the 9-year-old was taken to san francisco general hospital and is expected to survive. police are not sure why the boy was shot. no arrests have been made. >>> a surfer was seriously injured after he wiped out after the maverick surf shop. fire officials say the man in his 30s was riding a 15 to 2 5- foot high wave just before 10:00 this morning, when the wave smashed on top of him, he was unresponsive and towed to shore by a jet ski and he was airlifted to stanford medical center. the surfer is in serious condition. >>> a high surf advisory is in effect until 3:00 tomorrow morning. the national weather service is predicting large swells from 15 to 20 feet high. ktvu meteorologist, mark tamayo, will be here in a bit with a look at some of the high spots in the bay area. >>> police are trying to identify a body found on a north bay beach. this cell phone video was taken pipe a ktvu 2 channel 2 reporter from a -- taken by a kight cha

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>> again, i don't know how manyo of you have actually read this book, but the first line in itis is freedom is addictive.om and i, the book was, for me, ar coming of age story, and i grew, up reading primary colors andre fear and loathing on the campaign trail by hunter s.d i thompson, and i was really inspired by those books. i j and i just wanted to write my sort of coming of age story.i wa i was 22 when i joined my father's campaign, i was 24 when it ended which is a pinnacle a time for any young person. a and it was such a labor of love. hi, anna. anna navarro's a good friend right here from the campaign. and it was just such a labor of love. and people that have responded v to it seem to be people like me that sort of feel disenchanted f by the political process and politics in general. so it's been really nice to go to colleges and see a lot oferal 20-somethings that really sort of relate to this out-of-water,e fish out of water, coming of age story. so i'm just happy anybody's reading it, honestly. >> well, you talk about feeling like an outcast in this campaign. why? >> well, i was

iti was a young reporter who got dlown into it. it was dramatic and exciting and amazing and completely memorable. i went to iraq later on and off in 2003. just covering the events and watching everything more or less fall apart has been part of my experience. >> this book is about nine years in the making? >> yeah, that book is drawn from reporting from 2001 until 2006, 2007. yeah, it took a few years to write and get into the market, so, yeah, it's a decade of my life. >> where did you get the title? >> it comes from afghanistan. it's a phrase that somebody said to me before i went into afghanistan, every man in the village is a liar. it derives from an old greek paradox where the person who says it, i think it's all the creations are liars, but the person who says it is actually a creation. if he's lying, he's telling the truth. i used it as the title because it seemed to me as an apt description of the nature of truth and war and the difficulty of reporting in a war zone and villages is the global village as well. there wasn't

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out with a recommendation that the others should be in the run-off which was a change from whatthe iti governmentnd electoral commission originally said. that report has gone to president preval. we expect we'll get some sort of statement from him on whether or not he will accept that. the second round of the run-off was supposed to be yesterday. that just didn't happen. it's been postponed. it could get dragged out for, you know, weeks. we really don't know. >> ifill: jason beaubien good to talk to you down there on the scene. thanks. >> good to talk to you, gwen. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, the tunisian uprising and the arab world; heightened tensions on the korean peninsula; advances in treating traumatic brain injuries; and students keeping the dream alive. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: congresswoman gabrielle giffords has had another surgery, this time to remove bone fragments from her eye socket. doctors in tucson said the procedure went well, and giffords is showing impressive progress in recovering from a gunshot wound to the

other vend ears are offering discounts to try to enspice companies to shoot their projects in the c ity. it's called the seen in san francisco program. a new picture from kate winslet will be taking part in the film. there is an open casting call this saturday at fort mason between 2:00 and:00 p.m. or sunday at the embarcadero ymca between 4:00 and 6:00. you are asked to bring a pen and a small photo of yourself. >>> east bay bike riders you may be spending time under the t racks. they want to build a ten-foot foot ton. this would go all the way past the hayward station. there would also be a pedestrian trail along the same route. >>> 7:55. we want to check in with sal who is telling us that traffic is a little bit slow in the south b ay. that's right, we do have a lot of traffic there. look at 280 northbound. we've been watching it for you. it's been very slow getting up into the valley. so is 85 and so is 101. i can't recommend one or the other. let's take a look at the bay bridge temperature. this seems to me like the heart of the commute, the busiest traffic we've had this morning.

our observer michael in the c ity, he just sent me some information. on january 5th at 9:45 p.m., san francisco was 50 degrees. has not had a temperature of 50 since. see if you live in -- that's cold. this is colder than sometimes we get in july. it's been really cold. everybody has been -- everybody has been cold. this happens a lot. we can get a stretch, sometimes a week, sometimes a month and a half where we don't get any r ain. it will end tomorrow on the 11th and probably light rain into the 12th. and after that, the five, t en- day outlooks look dry. this does not look like a bullish month for any rape. we start out -- for any rain. we start out with 30s, 20s. the fog has moved into the city and it's creeping back in. cloudy tomorrow, light rain. the overnight lows will be warmer. but the five to ten-day outlook looks very quiet. that valley fog will be back. kenwood, 26. yountville, 26. gill row's 27. woodside is 29. novato at 29 degrees. fairfield is. santarosa is down to two bits. that's cold. concord, 1 with fog. livermore is 28 and then 30s

it's been a project of the c ity's glbt society and this opening marks the 25th anniversary of the formationat organization. this 16,000-square foot museum is on 18th and castro. the exhibits include items belonging to slain supervisor harvey milk and much more. the add mission to get in is only $5. >> sounds interesting. >>> we want to check with castanedo. >> let's go out and take a look at -- traffic on westbound 24 is moving along pretty well. if you are driving out to the tunnel, it is going to be slow, but there are no accidents. that's what i mean by -- i should qualify that. pretty well, i would say. bay bridge, the commute there is going to be okay. no major problems coming into san francisco right now. eastbound 580 at 5th there is a crash there. it lanes. it's now on the shoulder. in the noncommute direction. so watch for that. that's eastbound 580 the a -- 580 at 35th. 85 fund is slow. we had an earlier problem -- 85 is slow all the way from cupertino. let's go to steve. >>> good morning. cloudy skies. a few sprinkles but not much else from yesterday's system who gave us light am

. >> here are crime statistics from the bay area's other c ities. oakland had 94, compared to 110 the year before. sanfrancisco was 50 in 2010 -- was 50 in 2010. >>> yesterday, apple said it was aware of the problem with the alarms on the iphones. they should all of the alarms should be working by today. it wasn't a problem with the recurring alarms, just the single alarm function. iphone alarm systems also f ailed to work properly when daylight savings time took effect last year. now microsoft isn't saying what caused a problem reported by any hot mail users over the weekend. hundreds said they had old e- mails to the delete file and actually deleted without any prompts to do so. hot mail is the world's mostly largely used e-mail service. >>> facebook has raise the $ 500 billion from goldman sachs and a russian investment firm. that puts facebook at $ 50 billion according to the new york times. the new money will give facebook the chance to pursue a cquisitions all without being a publicly traded account. ap after the least for now. that's because

if you do this, if we have this castor oil and have it in this cold showers and root canal tha itis gng bete and itoing t b a lot better. that did not come through to me. >> lehrer: was there enough there about, other than just say this is what we need to do, here's how we need to do it. that's big stuff he's talking about. >> i agree with that. but he is a big supporter of entitlement reform and medicare. but i'm not sure that there's a consensus within the republican party on that either. i think this fiscal challenge is a challenge to both parties not just to one. i think ryan has not necessarily built a consensus within the republicanarty. it's a big debate going on right now where they are on this. both of them will have to become more specific over time. you're going to have the president's budget in february and the house putting together their own budget. we'll get more details. >> lehrer: of course congressman ryan says we need to limit government. president obama said we need to reorganize government. if you wanted to say, oh, they're saying the same things but they're not, ar

prefer that this continue to be the case.ul but this country's dire fiscal situation and the threat itisoses to american influence and credibility around the worldic will only get worse unless the u.s. government takes its -- gets itsh finances in order.nmen and as the the biggest part ofr the discretionary federal budget, the pentagon cannote presume to exempt itself from the pressure faced by the rest of our government. no doubt these budget forecasts and related program decisions will provoke criticism on twowo fronts: that we are either gut g defense, or we have not cut nearly enough. as to the former, a reality check are in order. even after the projectedeven reductions in the active army beginning in 2015, the service' permanent end strength wouldilur continue to be larger by nearly 40,000 soldiers than it was when i became defense secretary fourr years ago. and as i've described ined previous speeches, when it comei to striking power and global reach, the gap between the u.s.n military and the rest of the mil world -- including our biggestig potential rivals -- will continue to be

. >> meanwhile, 61 in sacramento. 44 in salt lake ity. 57 in billings.m fargo to kansas city. a snowy 36 here in the big apple. 50 in atlanta. 73 in miami. >>> the wintry weather shortened president obama's wednesday trip to wisconsin but he managed to visit three factories, pushing his state of the union message that the u.s. needs to step up the pace in order to compete and win in the world marketplace. specifically, the president tauted investing resources and innovation and infrastructure which he says will create jobs. >>> ohio congressman and former presidential candidate dennis kucinich has a beef with the food providers on capitol hill. the democrat is now suing for dental damage after biting down on an olive pit and then cracking a tooth. according to court documents he's now asking for $150,000. a spokesman in his office refused to discuss the matter. >>> it is not often that a 6-year-old boy can brag he saved his mother's life. but this morning that is what ethan can say. those who know him best are calling him a hero. tonya mendes of koat in

the commune nointo obamain 2680, ity traffic to the war in your route. the inbounds central freeway is heavier now is starting to slow things right at the march. there is no back up on either freeway. james. >> 7:49 a.m., out of russian capital is on high alert following the bombing of the busiest airport. russian president says all homs,hubs ned to have more security. i want you to pay attention to the right hand portion of the video. you will see that last happened. blast happened. they are blaming terrorists for that. it is an open area, suicide bomber used a homemade device. the person stuffed the device with metal objects so would spread shrapnel to injured people. the airport continue to function even after the attack. 35 people did lose their lives. 150 people were injured. the minister said those victim that did survive are still trying to process what happened. >> the general feeling is thank god we are like, because there was a man was deafened by the blast. but now he has not recovered his hearing. he was standing 3 m from the explosions. luck

itis is time to pass ethics reform, and it is time to pass ethics reform now.stat [applause] we will propose a clean-up albany plan with real reform. this is not going to be aanup situation where the people of this state will have suffered for years and lost trust and now we're going to give them ais s watered-down or half-baked ethics reform bill. they're going to have real ethics reform. we're going to end pay to play, we're going to have full disclosure of outside income, we're going to have an independent monitor, we're going to listen to ed koch's warnings, mayor ed koch who's been going all over the state -- and we applaud him for it talking about independent redistricting. congratulations, mr. mayor. [applause] and we need public financing of campaigns. [applause] we must also at the same time once again become the progressive capital of the nation. yes, we must deal with these my call realities, and they are difficult, and they will be time-consuming. but at the same time we also have to continue to achievear social progress that made this m state famous. [applause]o when it

afforded the pomp and circumstance of a white house state dinner, catholic bishops, protestant pastors,ity bet tan monks are in chinese jails for practicing their faith. i've seen how china plunderedity bet. china abuses -- china's abuses do not stop at home. they are significant arms suppliers to the genocidal regime in khartoum, sudan. do we really want china to be our banker? all these realities must prompt some soul searching on the part of our nation's leadership. almost five years ago, during the last republican majority, i came to the floor of the house proposing an independent, bipartisan commission to address unsustainable federal spending. it would put everything on the table, entitlements, all of the spending and tax policies. the safe commission, short for securing america's future economy, would operate in a transparent way. holding public meetings across the country to hear from the american people and give them a vested interest in the outcome. further it would require congress to vote on its recommendations. i reintroduced this legislation with congressman jim cooper in the