i am very happy that i am joined by my colleagues here, the vice chair jerry lee. cheryl brinkman and bruce oka. the director would have been year, but he was away on business in oakland. thank you, directors, for being here. we really appreciate the input we got -- over 650 responses to the questionnaire, which we put through the citizens advisory committee and other interest groups, and we are very pleased. we believe we of dawn and else standing at job. -- we believe we have done an outstanding job. [applause] i think that was the honeymoon right there, guys. [laughter] before we talk about today's event, i want to meet -- i want to mention debra johnson, who unfortunately had a medical appointment this morning. she wanted to extend our congratulations. ms. johnson has served this agency so incredibly well. particularly, our work with the union negotiations recently, successfully completed. she is an outstanding, dedicated member of the team here. we look forward to working with her for a long time in the future. i want to say one thing in particular. i think a

this is about bowl jerry running amuck again. leeastic call leftist academic who heads columbia university who was the same man who in 2007 i brought you invitation and the person of mahmoud ahmadinejad, the president of iran. and, of course, known to everybody as a great hater of jews. so he invites him to columbia university, which caused an uproar, high jewish population of students at columbia university but, nevertheless, he was getting press sod bowl jerry proceeded and then once he got him there he insulted him which even made better copy for him. so bollinger is not shy about seeking publicity. now, his latest try is about getting a sort of b.b.c. for american. a totally government-funded news service for america. bad idea. he says it's a good idea. let me give you an example. he wrote about this in the columbia journalism review, which is like the house organ and here is what he said about his proposal. he said i propose something new, an american world service, a media institution with sufficient funding to bring the highes

. >> and may lee just got off the phone with congressman jerry mcnern ease office and local leaders pressed the state department to search for possible funding to conduct a dive for the -- so good news there f that doesn't happen, they say that the families are prepared to hold fund-raisers to raise the estimated $300,000 for a private dive because they say they have to know what happened to their loved ones. reporting live in san ramone, abc 7 news. >> thank you. and an east bay hospital is on the verge of having to shut doors once again. doctor's hospital serves a quarter million people in west contra costa county but can't stay open without state support and the funds are now going away. we're live tonight with the story. laura? >> hi, carolyn. this hospital has been to the brink and back, but always from so called bridge funding came through to keep the hospital open. during recent battle in sacramento, state lawmakers decided to pull their money out of the pot as it were, and now, the hospital cannot afford to stay open. >> did a series of health set back as leasha visits the hospital

schwarzenegger and jerry brown refuse refused to challenge the federal ruling. >> ed lee is now poisednted to. five political rivals declare declared are jointly calling for an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations by a committee pushing him to enter the race. the main fund-raiser got an executive to help gather employee signatures for the petition urging lee to run. they recently got a garbage contract from the city. the company says the executive has been disciplined. >> pg&e is expected to complete it's excavation of an abandoned pipe in san bruno by tonight. they are digging up a section of the pipe that has been unused since the 1950s and it was part of the line that exploded last september. the state's puc wants to look at the pipe as part of its investigation into the san bruno explosion and fire that killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes. federal investigators say there were shoddy welds on the pipe that exploded. pg&e records show that it should have been a seamless 30-inch pipe. >> friday but don't worry the tips of the warm rays will come later today. >> an

jerry. except ray was turned over to a woman named anna lee brown who named him jimmy brown, the only name heme she had adopted me, but i was also shipped around a lot from home to home because she had a lot of health problems from what i was told. >> he was neglected he said, and often abused, bounced around for years, until anna brown shipped him to a colorado couple when he was 14, and that's when he found his birth certificate. started calling himself ray smith and began puzzling over the apparently unanswerable questions of his life. >> why did ann name me jim brown if me name was really ray. how come i never knew about jerry, things like that? and i wonder, you know, was i kidnapped? >> no answers from anna brown who died soon after that. and as for life in colorado, by the time he was 16. >> things were getting a little rough, maybe because of my past. i wasn't an easy kid. so i was put into foster care. >> and then he graduated from high school. he got a job, moved in with some friends, and started his own rock band. this youtube video shows him singing lead. and for all he has wonder

jerry springer show" for $1 million. the offer is contingent from cindy lantny and lee would appear with her.'s word on the street that she's been offered to participate in a pornographic film. so everybody's interested out there in giving this woman some money to cover those costs. >> we've heard that there's some signs in the county saying jurors you're not welcome. >> reporter: that's right. one in particular the first one had a big sign that says not welcome for a not guilty verdict. of course, nobody knows what these jurors look like. their information, their identity. their names have not been released. but they will. yesterday several newspapers and news organizations filed a motion and there was a hearing yesterday to require the court to release those names because they are public record, but judge perry said the names will be released no time soon. not anytime soon. >> nbc's lilia. >> reporter: for their protection, of course. >> d.c. police are turning to the web for new leads to crack a 13-year-old cold case. authorities hoping it will lead to an arrest in the 1998 georgetown murd