i'm here with james lee, and exhibiting artist, and we will have a chat today about the body of work you are presenting. after you left the military, what prompted you to go back to a place where the u.s. is engaged in military action? >> it is interesting. the population of afghanistan is around 29 million, and there's probably no more than 80,000 u.s. soldiers serving in afghanistan right now, but if you look at the stories that come out, you think the numbers are completely reversed. all the stories are about americans, and you see almost no images of stories about the afghan people themselves, so if you look at the dominant representational paradigm uc today, it is all about foreign soldiers. my idea was to try incurred counted to that a popularized narrative and focus on images and stories that really reflect that lived experience of conflict through the eyes of the afghan people. >> you are exhibiting with three other photographers. it is true all three of them have really focused in the areas where a lot of u.s. and allied forces are seeing action, are actually involved in com

. >> james: ed lee will return today is his second monthly merrill parents.. he was there e world's largest aircraft is making its first appearance sfo, it is the arrival of an airline's flight is an 8380 flight. they will arrive at about 12 05 p.m. is seats 850 people, begins service to and from asset vote today. >> justine: much more ahead, like how you can steal an entire atm. a beautiful day across the city and the entire bay area for that matter, we're watching rain for the weekend, we don't want it to dampen the zazzle bay to breakers. that is coming up on sunday. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. >> james: are developing story coming out of memphis tennessee, live pictures of a very high mississippi river. national weather service says it has crested short of 48 ft. after threatening to bring record- setting flooding to the area. it crested at 47.85 ft. they expected to stay at that level for the next 24-36 hours. all lot of low lying area has been soaked by this. this is an accumulation of we

lee. thank you. >> why don't we ask our next speaker, if you could please step up. thank you. >> good afternoon. can you all hear me well? my name is james patrick carroll, representing amnesty international. i'm also a democratic candidate seeking the mayoral position in november. i very much appreciated ms. lee's comments. i share her concerns for sanitation and cleanliness in the city. supervisor newsom, in his seven-year tenure as mayor did nothing to clean the feces and urine which still exist in the tenderloin. he was handed 31 businesses and ended up costing the city over $300 million in total. i'm also concerned are about the $40 million in cuts, which are proposed to the substance dependent adults programs in the city, as well as the services, which are now in place for marginally-housed adults. these programs have saved the city tremendous amounts in human will capital as well as in dollars and cents. a human being who is housed has a five times less chance -- lesser chance of making a police contact. a human being is -- >> thank you very much. thank you very much. >> -- has five times lesser chance of going into an emergency r

. >> james: standards as the mayor ed lee believes the first part of his budget -- san francisco mayor. his plan focuses on six departments to generate their on revenue. those departments was the total increase of about 5%. also working to develop a proposal to reform pension plans. also parking permits could go up again. the current rate is $96 a year, it could go up $200 even if it is just one of the proposed parking related costs. we'll let you know how far it gets. >> justine: much more had your kron4 morning news including how the cleanup is going after a string of the deadly tornadoes. we will get you the latest. here's a live look at side, at a shaky mount tam camp. a little greasy. temperatures are warming up. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. >> justine: plaza home and let the emissary the u.s. army put it there. the video looking at a stake in late tonight. they blew up the section of a levee downstream from the flood threatened area to ease the pressure and hopes of the orders during through will take the water lev

james durbin from santa cruz. the theme from tonight's performance is then and now. and that's fitting because amber lee is live with some stories from his past and present. amber? >> reporter: frank we are at pizza my heart restaurant right now devoted to james durbin and voting for their favorite finalist hoping that their favorite idol will be the "american idol." many fans in the audience have a personal connection with the 22-year-old idol from santa cruz. >> i watched him since he was a kid. you know he was a good singer back then. but now i am just watching him get better and better. now he is like a superstar. >> reporter: scott simon showed his support by having his image hand painted on the back of his jacket. >> a really good rendition and he made the face really well. >> reporter: other fans are inspired about durbin's openness about living with autism and tourettes. he is out there and not afraid of it. and that's not keeping him from realizing his dream. >> the community t.v. downtown santa cruz. >> reporter: and you film that had in? >> yes. >> reporter: this 19-year-old college student s

james durbin from santa cruz. the theme from tonight's performance is then and now. and that's fitting because amber lee is live with some stories from his past and present. amber? >> reporter: frank we are at pizza my heart restaurant right now devoted to james durbin and voting for their favorite finalist hoping that their favorite idol will be the "american idol." many fans in the audience have a personal connection with the 22-year-old idol from santa cruz. >> i watched him since he was a kid. you know he was a good singer back then. but now i am just watching him get better and better. now he is like a superstar. >> reporter: scott simon showed his support by having his image hand painted on the back of his jacket. >> a really good rendition and he made the face really well. >> reporter: other fans are inspired about durbin's openness about living with autism and tourettes. he is out there and not afraid of it. and that's not keeping him from realizing his dream. >> the community t.v. downtown santa cruz. >> reporter: and you film that had in? >> yes. >> reporter: this 19-year-old college student s

mayor ed lee will break the trend on the store. >> james: we will take a quick break, at 4:13 a.m. we'll have much more straight ahead on the kron 4 morning news. lots of news to get to, police are still searching for a murder suspect. a quick look get sad, and shot as we go traffic is light. >> justine: welcome back to the kron 4 news. >> louisa: unclear shattered downtown san francisco, lots of sunshine and of our way yesterday we set some records, today a little bit cooler especially around the bay and the coast. nice, warm, sunny. we see this temperatures and to these once again the much as we head into the weekend. currently a mixture of 50s and 60s all warm start to the day. 66 for antioch, mind you, san jose low 60s. satellite, radar richard high-pressure shifting to the east a bit of a change even today a bit more that onshore breeze as we had to into the afternoon temperatures along the coast a little bit cooler today. as we head into the afternoon our eyes warm, 73 in san francisco today lower than we were yesterday. 84 santa rosa the state, after seven days could reach 8

arrested 21 year-old at and carpenter and lee roy gramm and they have conducted the search fighting khmer one ever evidence indicating it intent to sell. >>james: good morning, here is a look at to a minute. low coastal fog. a lot more sunshine reaching of the ground. it could mean that we will see temperatures that are slightly warmer than yesterday. sunny and mild. friday looks good and this weekend is set with their rain to arrive all day sunday. 61 degrees in san francisco. we dropped a couple of degrees enough book. we were 74. antioch is 51 degrees. we're seeing a warming. as for high as we will see them get up into the mid-upper 60s. 59 degrees in san francisco. we hold onto the general 62-63 trend throughout the east bay corridor. if you are in a loss cat us is 73 for you. morgan hill expected to be at 73 as well. if you are going to the giants' game today. 12:45 p.m. first pitch. mostly cloudy and cool is the forecast. we have some clout trilling end. it will be around 59 degrees. all and all lot of. as for the weekend we are tracking a system that will warm things up it. it will dampen things considerably. will get more into the timi

. >>> american idol finalist james durbin was voted off the show last night but there is a silver lining for his fans. ktvu's amber leeta cruz where the whole city is getting ready to celebrate durbin day. >> reporter: julie what the santa cruz boardwalk where there's a grad celebration under way. but tomorrow, up to 15,000 fans are expected to show up tomorrow to watch their hometown hero perform. >> james will be performing on our beach bandstand tomorrow. he starts at 5:00. >> reporter: kathy kealy says the campaign for james durbin to perform began when he was voted off the show. kealy said american idol finally agreed to the hometown concert at 11:00 this morning. >> we really want to honor james. the whole community is so behind him. >> reporter: dale arkeman is packing up equipment for tomorrow's concert. he will be performing with durbin. the musician told us the american idol called him this morning. >> his mood sounded very excited. a hometown concert, i get to play for my sisters, my brothers, my friends. the guys i used to perform with. >> reporter: many fans tell us they admire durbin for overcoming a typ

. >>> american idol finalist james durbin was voted off the show last night but there is a silver lining for his fans. ktvu's amber leeive now in santa cruz where the whole city is getting ready to celebrate durbin day. >> reporter: julie what the santa cruz boardwalk where there's a grad celebration under way. but tomorrow, up to 15,000 fans are expected to show up tomorrow to watch their hometown hero perform. >> james will be performing on our beach bandstand tomorrow. he starts at 5:00. >> reporter: kathy kealy says the campaign for james durbin to perform began when he was voted off the show. kealy said american idol finally agreed to the hometown concert at 11:00 this morning. >> we really want to honor james. the whole community is so behind him. >> reporter: dale arkeman is packing up equipment for tomorrow's concert. he will be performing with durbin. the musician told us the american idol called him this morning. >> his mood sounded very excited. a hometown concert, i get to play for my sisters, my brothers, my friends. the guys i used to perform with. >> reporter: many fans tell us they admire durbin for ov

jordan is probably the greatest scorer but look ron james is maybe the greatest ever to play the game because not only is he so potent offensive leeme. no word from what michael jordan thought about that one. now used to be that the gearhart name men stand for football because of tobey gearhart, but speaking of stanford softball, there are some gerhard sisters, iraq they were against the second seed alabama crimson tide. look at that, carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning. check out this, you do not think they are tough? watch this. that is a runner taking ashley of stanford. hanson did stay in the game, but the 15th seed cardinal could not hold. item six, here is a triple down the line, driving in, that is all the crimson tide needed. stanford loses the game one to nothing. they lost earlier in the day, so on the streets of those losses, stanford comes home out of the ncaa playoffs. now the top seed, upset by danielle. 61, and 63. she had #one for 32 weeks the long as ever span of a woman without a major title. she joins the second seed to be bounced out. when we come back, arguably the best athletes on the planet his san fra

james mcavoy dropping by. we have music -- [ cheers and applause ] music from bon iver. we have the cars reuniting. that's pretty cool. amos leese ] but first, i'm so excited. our next guests just released their critically-acclaimed second album, "helplessness blues." we're thrilled to have their first american tv performance in support of it tonight. with the song "sim sala bim," please welcome fleet foxes! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ he was so kind such a gentleman tied to the oceanside ♪ ♪ lighting a match on the suitcase's latch in the fading of night ♪ ♪ ruffle the fur of the collie 'neath the table ran out the door through the dark ♪ ♪ carved out his initials in the bark ♪ ♪ then the earth shook that was all that it took for the dream to break ♪ ♪ all the loose ends would surround me again in the shape of your face ♪ ♪ what makes me love you despite the reservations? what do i see in your eyes ♪ ♪ besides my reflection hanging high? ♪ ♪ are you off somewhere reciting incantations? sim sala bim on your tongue ♪ ♪ carving off the hair of someone's young ♪ ♪ remember when you had me cut your hair? call me delilah then i wou

what i did, james, to get me through the night, i sat in my room and watched "the fall guy." do you remember the show "the fall guy" starring lee> yes. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: to help you get through this, we're sending you a vhs tape "the fall guy" and also the same 14-inch black and white television that i watched mine on. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: and who knows, maybe you'll get your own talk show, too. it will work out. thanks. i hope somebody has a clear head. >> all right. >> jimmy: i hope you get to the prom. don't go without him, sonali. that would be terrible, wouldn't it. we learned yesterday that actress alicia silverstone had given her newborn son one of the strangest names, bear blue. he won't be going to the prom either. i don't think she's the first celebrity to give a kid a crazy name. >> when celebrities want a special memorable one of a kind name for their baby. they all know who to call. >> hi, i'm gary busey and i name babies. >> gary will name your maybe. >> boy or girl? blond or brunette? hmm. the coming to me. it's coming to me. papaya aquarium! >> he spent three years studying nomenclature with ti

lee perriman, mrs. diane jones, wife of general james jones, our guest speaker today. now, moving over the podium, melissa charbeanno and pat milton with the cbs news and she's a new member of the speakers committee and she organized today's event. pat, thank you very much. buzz hefty is a guest of the speaker. andrea stone with the "huffington post." john donnelly senior writer with "congressional quarterly" covering defense and foreign policy issues and he is vice chair of our board of governors. and shannon o'reilly a new member of the national press club. she is with the center for new american security. please give them a round of applause. [applause] >> our guest speaker today is a man who spent his life facing the most critical challenges one can imagine and handling them with grace and a steady hand. those who know him point to his intelligence, his integrity, his calmness, his confidence and believe it or not, his sense of humor. at 6'4" he played basketball for the georgetown hoyas and could have probably pursued a sports career but he chose to follow in the

lee perryman with the associated press, diana jones, wife of general james jones. moving over the podium, mullis up with media and she is the chair of our speakers committee. pact milton, investigative producer for cbs news. this is her first event today. thank you very much. buzz is a vice-president and is a guest of the speaker. john donnelly, vice chair of our board of governors. she is with the center for a new american security. please give them a round of applause. [applause] our guest speaker today is a man who's spent his life facing the most critical challenges one can imagine and handling them with grace and a steady hand. bows to know them point to his intelligence, his integrity, his confidence, and this sense of humor. at 6 ft. 4, he played basketball for the georgetown hoyas and college. he chose to fall in the footsteps of his father and his uncle and joined the marine corps. he had big shoes to fill out. his father retired as a major and he was the first commander of marine corps reconnaissance. all three, father, son, an uncle, ended up serving in

. >> james: three men arrested yesterday on suspicion of possession of marijuana and cocaine for sale. police say the area has been plagued by violent crimes. 21 year-old adam carpenter, and lee roy washington. the swat team ensures office conducted the search. >> justine: we are expecting an update on the murder-suicide that happened at san jose state university on tuesday night. it left three people dead including the suspected shooter happened in this parking garages people report hearing at least 10 shots fired. the identities have not been released. officials say the three did have an affiliation with the school. officials are reassuring students everything is safe. >> james: details now we are learning the giants fan that was a salted in march at the stadium could be transferred it next week. they're trying to determine if he is stable enough to be transported, he will likely be taken to ucsf medical center. a new effort to try and find the man who attacked him has been launched. there is a new campaign to find the suspect will be hard to mess. 300 billboards will be going up in l.a. plastered with sketches of the two men wanted in that murdeand attempted murder. the co

i'm here with james lee, and exhibiting artist, and we will have a chat today about the body of work you