the 40-year-old jeffrey gray is accused of raping a woman in 2013 when he drove her to a hotel after a domestic dispute with her husband and he has been in jail since mid-march. >> previouses and motorcyclist never have to pay a toll to go across the golden gate bridge if two local lawmakers have it their way. the governorren urged banning sidewalk tows on the bridges. the highway and transportation district said that charges a fee would help eliminate a deficit over the next five years. the governor has until october 11 to sign or veto the bill prohibiting the sidewalk trillions. >> victory in the battle against the silicon valley tech giants and the contractor drivers. google schultz drivers get wage increases. they make $17-20 an hour and it is bumped town $24 an hour as the union continues negotiations with the employer. drivers will get paid extra for split shifts. raise comes after a "san francisco chronicle" investigation showed that several drivers were living in their cars. >> resident whose live near at&t park are hoping ac/dc will not shake them all night tonight. melanie

gray. brian: back in july of 2015, reported that a big piece on jeffrey thompson.et us let her explain him a little bit more for a minute. [video clip] beenffrey e. thompson has in the news. he is at the center of a local investigation but no one knew who he was until i sent out -- i told my editor i wanted to write a definitive article about jeffrey thompson. he was at the center of d.c. politics and some folks say he is at the center of d.c. politics basically falling apart . for years, behind the scenes, he had been giving two candidates. he had several huge contracts with the city. one worth $322 million a year. no one really knew who he was inil things came to light 2011 over problems with current mayor vincent gray's campaign for mayor in 2010. tom: she is a terrific reporter and is probably would not have happened without her reporting. she now works for the new york times covering deblasio among other things. there,e just said jeffrey thompson was not popularly known in the public mind. known ins very well the business community. extremely well known. the a

the counts stem from gray's allege shadd dough campaign in 2010 bringing charge -- alleged shadow campaign in 2010 bringing charge against jeffrey thompson. >>> the execution of convicted serial killer alfredo prieto is sent for thursday. prieto was convicted in fair -- set for thursday. prieto was convicted in fairfax county in 2008 in a cold case after a daniel hit. he was found guilty of murdering -- a dna hit. he was found guilty of murdering two local college students. he shot them both, then raped the young woman while she lay dying. >> we'll have to read about him in the paper when he's behind bars. he forced himself into our lives. >> reporter: you want him gone. >> we want him gone. we want to get on with our live. >> virginia governor terry mcauliffe declined to intervene in the execution. barring a stay from the u.s. supreme court, he will be put to death at 9 p.m. thursday at greenville correction center in jarrett, virginia. >>> right now in georgia all efforts to safe the life of kelly dissendanner failed, the only woman on the state's death row. the 47-year-old was convicted in the murder of her husband 18 years a

jeffrey thompson donated to his 2010 campaign, but sent that money through companies. prosecutors say thompson took part in the shadow campaign to help elect mayor vincent gray.e faces up to a year in prison. >>> this morning the man who pleaded guilty to a frightening beating on a metro train will be sentenced. that was captured on cell phone video. this happened about 1:00 a.m. on june 7th. prosecutors say 52-year-old william nelson got into a verbal dispute with two teens and then one of them punched -- he actually punched one of them and a man who tried to intervene. nelson knocked the man to the ground. nelson could spend several years in prison. >>> this afternoon a louisiana national guardsman killed in a helicopter crash last march will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. family members were told that army staff sergeant that he was not eligible for burial there, because he wasn't on active duty when he died. at the time, his father called that a quote slap in the face. the army later approved the burial. flerk is from fairfax county. >>> today mike huckabee will attend a liberty rally in grayson, kentucky. kim davis was arrested last week

be some sort of legal action against vincent gray. 2013, a writer for washington post -- let us let her explain something a little more. [video clip] jeffreyhompson had been in the news. who is local businessman at the center of a major federal investigation and no one really knew who he was. editorout -- i told my that i wanted to write the definitive profile of jeffrey thompson. at the center of d.c. politics and some folks say he is actually at the center of d.c. politics falling apart. for years, behind the scenes, he candidates,ing to he had several contracts with the city, huge contracts. one was worth $322 million a year. no one really knew who he was until things came to light in 2011 over problems with the current mayor, vincent c gray's campaign for mayor in 2010. reporteris a terrific and this ghetto would probably not have happened without her work. she now works for the new york times and she is covering the -- covering mayor de blasio among other things. notrey thompson was popularly known in the public's mind. but he was very well known in the districts community. extremely well-known. back in the 1990's, 1995, the district

jeffrey thompson donated to his campaign in 2010, but hid the donations by sending the money through companies. now, prosecutors say that thompson took part in the shadow campaign to elect vincent grayo the mayor's office. kelvin robinson faces up to a year in prison. >>> this morning a man who pleaded guilty to a frightening beating on a metro train will be sentenced. we should warn you this is graphic. it happened about 1:00 a.m. on june 7th. prosecutors say 52-year-old william nelson got into a verbal dispute with two teens and punched one of them. he then punched a man who tried to intervene. he could spend several years in prison. >>> a louisiana national guardsman killed in a helicopter crash will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. the family was tom that army staff sergeant florich was not eligible for burial there because he was not on active duty. the cemetery later approved it. >>> to the campaign trail in decision 2016. vice president biden has not decided whether to run for president, but he's sounding to many like a candidate. crowds chanted run joe run as he marched in a labor day parade in pennsylvania. meanwhile, hillary clinton hitting hard on issues ex

jeffrey brown paid him a visit to talk about it. >> that is the curlew again. in the summer they just get these amazing rust pink colors. the rest of the year they go gray camouflage. >> brown: the long-billed curlew, the least sandpiper, the heermann's gull. everywhere you look there are birds. here at the moss landing wildlife area on the california coast, oddly enough in the shadow of a power plant. and jonathan franzen, a dedicated, even obsessed birdwatcher, knows them all. >> brown: it's a pastime, he says, that repays patience and a keen eye for the unexpected. much like the work he's best known for: writing novels. he will spend time with me and then we'll see him or her looking where everyone is not looking and that i definitely recognize from my own practice of fiction. >> brown: franzen lives in the seaside town of santa cruz, but was raised in a rather different setting, in the suburbs of st. louis. he gained critical attention from his first two novels, but not many readers. that changed with the 2001 publication of "the corrections," a sprawling novel about a dysfunctional midwestern family, which won the national book award and establishe