jodie brekenridge made things happen. what you see today is a big part of what jodie has made happen. my job is to introduce a number of people, but the first person i want to bring up here is the biggest supporter in san francisco of what we're trying to achieve. the mayor of our great city and county of san francisco. he talks the talk and walks the walk. please help me welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you. good morning everybody. or good afternoon. what a wonderful day. this week every single day we waken, my staff has given me a list of all events. i looked at it and said, we're going to do all that and look outside here and today you see this weather, no wonder it's been said that we're going to stretch out fleet week not only this week, but more year round. if we can encourage this kind of weather every single day, that's what we're going to do. thank you again, general myatt for your leadership. i want to single you out. general myatt, because you provided that very special leadership for our fleet week as

nbc bay area jodi hernandez joins us in martinez tonight with one family's story. jodi? >> reporter: raj, the public defender here in contra costa county says she has been flooded with phone calls from families who hope the change will mean their loved ones will be heading home. we had a chance to talk to one of those families today who says for the first time in a decade, they're dreaming of a reunion. >> i just thank god, you know, because it's a miracle. i get emotional. because my mom might be able to see her son walk out a free man. and be able to hug him. >> reporter: elizabeth cruz says her family finally has hope. the passage of proposition 36 means her brother, robert john cruz may be getting out of prison. cruz is serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug possession conviction, a conviction that under the state's three-strikes law sent him away for life. >> he has paid for more than enough. he has done more than enough time already. >> reporter: cruz's mother says the punishment didn't fit the crime. and now that californians have voted to revise the law, t

jodi? >> reporter: i'm on fourth street and berkeley, a street known for its unique boutique-style shops. while the area did brisk business today, in fact, you can see there are still plenty of shoppers out here, nothing like the images we saw from those big shopping malls and shoppers here are happy about that. >> i'm not looking for the biggest tv or the best deal on a blender. >> reporter: but christine and her daughter are looking for gifts that are unique. she made a point to skip the crowded malls, opting instead to support local business on black friday. >> these things are made by local people. so we feel like we're contributing to the 99% to people who are really striving to make it. and it just feels good. >> reporter: some call it plaid friday. others call it in the black. it's all part of an effort to attract shoppers to mom and pop operations. and if you don't shop today, small business saturday is on tap. >> whatever name we all come up with, it's all about shopping local. >>

for more on that, let's bring in nbc bay area's jodi hernandez who joins us from emeryville. jodi? >> reporter: raj, there are a lot of folks here in the bay area who have friends and family members either in israel or in the gaza strip. they are very worried by what is happening there. now, we got a taste today of what folks in that area are going through. as you mentioned, it is a region that is still very much under fire tonight. we caught up with the residents of gaza via skype this afternoon. a woman who has been praying for a ceasefire. but judging by the shelling outside her house, it hadn't taken hold yet. >> i was feeling relief when i hear about the ceasefire, but now coming through, i think it's less of a point -- oh my god, just a second. >> reporter: mona al farrah is a project director on the ground in gaza for berkeley-based middle children's alliance, a nonprofit aimed at making life better for palestinian children in the gaza strip. >> people are huddled together. they put blankets over them. they bring their children to them. their kids are terrified. of course th

. >> this is my girlfriend, jodie. she's solid. >> i wasn't nice at all. i used to collect for dope dealers and store guys and everyone else in here that made money. i used to get half. that was my hustle. get me half of what he owed you and i'll collect it up for you. i didn't care how bad i had to hurt the guy. the guy could have been a friend of mine. i didn't care. business is business, friends is friends. i'd send you to a hospital, no sooner you come back, smoke a joint, drink a jug of homemade wine with you right afterwards. like i said, business is business. friends is friends. >> alcohol is not allowed in prison. but that doesn't stop the inmates from making it, or correctional officers from confiscating it. >> we're on a wine run today. getting close to the weekend. that means football. they'll be drinking their wine. so we're here to spoil the party. >> inmate-produced alcohol can be made from ingredients as basic as fruit, bread and juice. >> dexter, come on. calvin holmes is considered an expert. >> mine comes off about 25%, 30% alcohol. most

petraeus had to go for the reasons jodi pointed out. you're the head of the nation's spy agency leaving inappropriate emails, sexual emails on a g-mail account and for that reason alone he had to go. reckless. chris: is there a different attitude, we always hear these stories, and you hear of the great leaders, and you hear the stories of cars parked in front of the house. and miterand, following at the funeral was the mistress andily let daughter and they didn't care and felt he had been a leader of the country and what he did by his private life it was ok by his family it was ok by them. the europeans savaged d.m.k., the former head of the i.m.f. and he was nonconsensual and they didn't like that and most europeans would agree he had to go over this because of the position he held in society. i think they're right. i would agree with sam you make a distinction based on somebody's job and how compromised they would be by what they've done. chris: or let's go another place. this is a freefall of conversation. the europeans would have sa

nbc bay area's jodi hernandez is live in san francisco to explain. jodi? >> reporter: janelle, this is the last thing students thought they would have to do after helping pass proposition 30 last week. yet here they are. students say they will camp out here overnight in front of the uc board of regents meeting to take a stand against tuition hikes. you can see they're setting up their tents as we speak. this after the uc board of regents unveiled their budget framework for next year, a framework that includes the very real possibility of tuition hikes. governor jerry brown made a rare appearance at the meeting today. uc regents told him that they will need more than $276 million from the state to keep tuition from going up next year. the governor says that is a sum that is simply unrealistic. the members of the regents finance committee voted to accept the budget framework, but students say they will fight to keep tuition down. they are shocked and they're angry. >> students can't understand now that prop 30 has passed, bringing billions more in funding fr

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in fact, jodi kantor has written about those sessions between the president and the historians. how does history judge most presidents? george washington and f.d.r. in the top three and lincoln is number one, and fourth, thomas jefferson. i'm so impressed that you got to write the book. what gives thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence, the right to be up there with the top three? del there are three things. one, he doubled the size of the country with the louisiana purchase, seizing a moment that might have slipped away. napoleon rethought this real estate deal and jefferson moved more quickly, got it done. i think he ratified in his political career, in his presidency, the promise of the declaration and the spirit of the declaration by turning the country in a republican direction aftered federalism of washington and adams. he believed that the revolution of 1800 was as significant as the revolution of 1776. and i think his essential understanding of the politics of the personal relationship he left as a model of socialability, of retail politics, that

let me bring in jodi cantor. jodi, good morning.o apply lessons of his failed attempt to cut a budget deal last year. >> what the president has to do to build his mandate is to play an inside game and outside game. us use that political asset white house more than ever before. i would 40 republicans there, 40 democrats. but the outside game, means he has to mobilize that base. >> jodi, do you see the president approaching this second term differently. >> oh, absolutely. remember the debt ceiling crisis was the endear in the president obama. there's only the united states of america. then at a critical moment in his presidency, he couldn't even bring red and blue together to come one a common sense budget deal. he has something rare and valuable right now, which is a chance to almost rewrite that history and to do things very differently this time. >> without re-election to worry about, how does that change things for him. >> obviously, things have shifted in congress. you could also feel the change the day after election day, with t

reporting live in corte madera, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, jodi. >>> let's bring in our chief meteorologist once again, jeff ranieri. the good news here is we have been talking about it for the last couple of days, so everyone is kind of warned here. >> definitely. with the first round of weather we had several storm reports moving in. good news right now. we're under an advertised break for the bay area with dry conditions from the north bay down to the south bay. but this morning, here is the thing i want to pinpoint. out here across the east bay, in alameda county, right on interstate 880, chp officers reported widespread areas of flooding on some of these roadways. and this isn't even the worst of the rain that is going to be coming our way. so we dealt with flooding conditions this the morning roads. so no doubt as we head into the next two different storms, we're going to see those situations replicated out here across the bay area. and some of the top wind gusts unreal. look at this. mt. hamilton going up to an 82 miles per hour wind gust this morning

let's go to jodi hernandez who joins us in orange county with the republicans there. >> jodi, we just heard president obama a moment ago saying he was going to reach out to mitt romney and work with the governor to move the country forward. how was that taken there? >> reporter: jessica, the weren't a lot of folks around to hear that message. it's been a disappointing night in orange county. this was supposed to be a victory party. most of the room has cleared out as folks have headed home. again, headed home to deal with a crushing defeat. >> she would have been a wonderful first lady. >> reporter: the state's gop headquarters in orange county. what was supposed to be a victory party turned into anything but, as governor mitt romney conceded defeat. >> we'll recover. we'll rebuild. we'll move on. and we'll follow a leader. and we'll hope for another tomorrow. >> reporter: former governor pete wilson took the podium, telling the crowd, we will live to fight another day. he called the re-elect of president obama worrisome and painful. >> this was a battle. but the war goes on. >> repor

joining the panel is jody kantor of the "new york times." welcome. >> thank you. >> a lot of assessment and dissection last night about what happened. i guess following all that sound and quotes, wrb does wrshs where does the gop go? fred barns writes no doubt the media must insist the republicans must change, embrace social liberalism, all that is hogwash which is why republicans are likely to reject it. their ideology is not a problem. >> my colleague carl set up a great contrast in this morning "times" and said the republicans have two camps. they have the mathematicians, people who are looking at the kind of demographic numbers you were talking about saying the party has no choice. then on the other hand, there are the priests, there are the hard-core ideologues who believe that if only the republican party could be more conservatively pure, they could dominate. so we are going to see the latest chapter of a struggle that has been playing out for a while over the soul of the gop. and in a way, it is a weird postponement of coming that wa

i'm jody hernandez. i'll have details coming up. >> 49ers coach jim harbaugh hospitalized for a potentially serious heart condition. analysts thought it was because of plant went off line. however, a new report suggests otherwise. were we misled? >> jodi hernandez has the details and joins us from richmond this evening. >> reporter: raja,

jodi hernandez has more on that. jodi?porter: i'm at ford street and berkeley, a street where the majority of stores are small business owner operated. merchant here very much want shoppers to take part. they say the push to buy local is a win-win for everyone. >> let's put the money where it counts. >> reporter: natalie of oaklandish is urging shoppers to kick off the shopping season at a place like this campaigns like plaid friday, in the black, and small business saturday are all part of efforts to push shoppers toward mom and pop operations. >> whatever name we come up with, it's all about shopping. >> it's an alternative to the big box. keep your money circulating within your local community. >> reporter: while much of the christmas shopping hype centers around retail chains, helen bullwick says small business plays a big role in the holiday shopping picture. >> the strength of the small retailer is in creating and developing unique products that don't require sale prices but are very special and something that people

jodi, the fact checkers have looked at that and it is true.t is a true statement that he cannot nor has he pledged to murder anyone, but it speaks to how the republican base feels about these issues. we know from the bush aera, you send people to washington, you ask them to do one thing, cut taxes and spending and they don't do it because the bush era clearly ballooned the deficit. that's why there's such heated rhetoric here. do you see less fear among these folks toward grover? >> i think what we're seeing is a desire for republicans to find their answer to one of the great questions of our age, which is that all of our leaders right now have a responsibility in one way or another to say to us, to give us the bitter medicine of saying we're all going to pay more in the future, we're all going to get less. that is the truth, it's been the truth for years, everybody knows it. norquist has to find a way to deliver that message. everybody has to find a way in washington to deliver that message. that, by the way, is why i think you also see the t

. >> reporter: soon after she began her treatment for breast cancer, jodi, an author found herself in a mental fog. a condition known widely among cancer patients as chemo brain. >> chemo brain was like having my brain constantly out of focus. it was as though i couldn't get the words in the proper alignment. as a writer, that was devastating. >> reporter: the cloudiness continued. even after the chemo ended. >> emotionally, i really wondered if i would ever be the same. >> reporter: in research out today, dr. rachel leggos adds much to the understanding of the condition. >> i have imaging evidence that shows chemo brain is real. part of being able to address a disease and help a patient through a disease is realizing the disease exists in the first place. >> reporter: the team at west virginia medical center performed brain scans on 128 breast cancer patients before, during and after chemotherapy. with these images to measure how the brain is using energy, the researchers discovered chemotherapy sets up very specific changes in several key parts of the brain that control memory and d

here is nbc bay area jodie hernandez. >> basically, they drive around the neighborhood, they're very quick, in and out. >> reporter: you're looking at evidence gathered as part of operation mail trap. a neighborhood organized sting, set on capturing mail thieves in action. >> we wanted more evidence. we wanted to find out who was doing it. so what we wanted to see, faces, more details about the car. >> reporter: suspecting postal theft in the neighborhood would let mike miller organize the sting, putting up red flags on mail boxes, then rolling surveillance video. and the suspects took the bait. >> i feel violated. that somebody out there has my information. >> reporter: this lady knew there was a postal problem, for ten days last month she didn't get a single piece of mail. still, she was stunned to see what this sting uncovered. >> whoever has taken the mail, i mean, i hope you go to jail and get caught. drop it off at the police station, can we have our mail back. >> it is actually quite rewarding for us to get the cooperation from the community that we've gotten, we have videos w

reporting live in oakland, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> okay, thanks, jodi. >>> it's happening now. from the airports to the roads, the rush is on to get away for the thanksgiving holiday. we want to take a live look of 80 in oakland, actually slow going right now. this is a live picture of 880 holiday traffic. a little bit of a slow going, but not too bad for 5:00 right now. we want to take a look at 101 near palo alto. the right side is southbound, and a little bit slow there, but not too bad. people heading to the relatives' house possibly a little bit early. and now let's take a look at our south bay traffic cameras. it shows a little bit slow going southbound on 880. but other than that, maybe a little slow going on 280 southbound. but other than that pretty smooth for this time of day. >> as for the three major airports so, far so good. here is the scene at sfo today. some long lines this morning. take a look. but pretty clear by this afternoon. despite some delayed arrivals, most departures at sfo were on time. travelers who turned out early, anticipating big lines, well

i'm jody hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> jody will be there throughout the night bringing you updatesn what is happening there, the mood and how things are going with different propositions and election throughout the evening. more and more californians are voting by mail but some enjoy doing it in person. >> nbc bay area, sharing their service in today's bay area proud. >> it's democracy ever needed a home address in the bay area, it could do worse than the corner house on beverly boulevard. for yet another first tuesday in novembering wi helen garza movi furniture around. she was just recognized by the secretary of state of her 52 years of election volunteering. >> i feel happy i've been able to do it this long. >> helen's volunteer history began at age 21 in a polling place set up in a neighbor's garage. the year, was 1960. >> a record number of americans upwards of 67 million -- >> it was really exciting. and that night i can remember, the people were lined up outside the drive way and down to the next house. >> helen says they counted ballots until noon the next day. >> we were t

actress jodie foster will be honored with the cecil b. demille lifetime achievement award in january at the "golden globes." foster started acting as a child appearing in more than 40 filming over the years. she won two oscars and has also branched out into directing and producing. george lucas is revealing what he plans to do with some of the $4 billion he'll get from selling his empire to disney. lucas who made the "star wars" and indiana jones franchises reportedly wants to use the money for philanthropic causes. it could be done by the end of the year. "gossip girl" fans the send is in sight. a two hour finale airs monday, december 17th. and that's your eye on entertainment, teresa garcia, 9news now, hollywood. happy friday, i'm jessica doyle in for andrea roane. >> and i'm mike hydeck. monika samtani will have traffic momentarily. mr. howard bernstein. >> next week it's going to be -- >> 85%. >> a-ok. >> if i'm lucky. >> i just got off the phone with a scout master in springfield. this is one of the impacts from the storm is that the

in martinez, jodi hernandez, nb bay area news. >> thank you, jodi. ahead here at 6:00. local city behind a landmark lgbt decision. >> helping veterans fight with ptsd, with a high-tech pen. newt program at one local college. >> our investigation into how a single key is a lug crooks to cash in while you are filling up. we'll be right back. >>> the next time you fill your car, you may want to go inside and pay. one key opens the gas pumps across the country. >> gas station owners know about it so do the thieves. an easy way to steal your credit card information. >> bring in the investigative reporter, it seems unbleach bulk aseashell that just one key can unlock so many pumps, vicky. >> it is true. all gas station pumps were made with the same look to make inspections easier. now keys are providing easy access to a lucrative crime. in the end we are all on the hook. >>> we all do it. swipe. pay. pump. but hidden behind here -- a new blue tooth enables skimmer that can rip your credit or debit information in second. police say the blue tooth technology makes it harder to

reporting live, jody hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> jody, thank you. >>> a southern california kmunt is reacting with shock after a 21-year-old man was arrested and accused of being part of a home-grown terror plot. 21-year-old miguel santana lived with his parents at this duplex in upland. nearby residents say fbi agents who arrived on friday used sledge hammers to get inside the door. a former schoolmate described how santana had grown distant since converting to islam. a 77-page affidavit indicates he was one of four southern california men who bought tickets to mexico last thursday with plans to fly from there to turkey to train with terror groups. >> they made travel logistics, including flight arrangements, required documentation and cover stories. >> two of the men were going to go to dubai and travel to pakistan. >>> long-time elmo puppeteer has resigned from "sesame street" after a second allegation he sexually abused an underage boy. the 24-year-old claims they engaged in a sexual relationship when he was just 15 years old after they met on a gay chat line. his attorney say

and if i could ask the panel to stay where you are, jody, if you would sit down. i want to bring the closing remarks, i want to bring up former secretary of state george schultz. >> for closing remarks, want to bring up secretary of state george schultz. if you could help on this end. >> that was a great panel. thank you all. >> well, we've had quite a display. we've had a lot of area planning, filled with op exercises. we had the ocean beach yesterday. the military made something difficult look easy. it was a display of competence. and it gives us confidence that not only is the military going to help us if we have a problem here, but the military is able to do its job of protecting our national security with confidence. it's wonderful to see confidence on display. i was asking myself as i listened to the panel today and i'm working with mike and leslie on the program, what kind of words would describe what we're doing? well, certainly impressive is one. reassuring is one, that we see what's going on, the planning, the capabilities. i think another is to underlin

nbc bay area's jodi hernandez joins us in walnut creek tonight. jodi, this is a pivotal time. what are some of the options that you know of? >> reporter: that's the big question, raj, where to go from here. i'm standing in front of campaign headquarters for republicans. last week it was bustling with activity and with hope. tonight as you can see all that remains is a few -- are a few discarded lawn signs. analysts say the state gop is in need of a major makeover. >> and after a lot of work there's a big letdown. >> reporter: that's how republican state chair describes how the outcome of last week's election has left republicans feeling. the state's gop suffered a sweeping defeat. not only did mitt romney lose, voters rejected their stance on the proposition and democrats won a super majority in the state assembly. >> the republican party has no good news other that once you hit bottom there's only one way to go if you're going to survive. >> reporter: east bay political science professor says things couldn't have been more disastrous for the gop. he says the party needs to do

jodi hernandez joins us from the walmart in oakland, pretty vocal protest, isn't it, are jodi? >> reporter: raj, if you're planning on shopping at walmart this black friday, you may get more than you bargained for. demonstrators upset with the big box chains are planning protests across the bay area and a pre-thanksgiving protest at this oakland store. shoppers got an earful at this oakland walmart store as protesters chanted and marched up and down the aisles. they believe walmart workers are being shortchanged and treated unfairly. >> we want walmart to start respecting their employees and increasing the amount of pay they give them. also, we've heard from parents they schedule them to work without knowing. >> stay away from walmart. shop elsewhere. >> reporter: demonstrators are urging people to ban the chain. they are forcing workers to cut their family gatherings short. >> i think it's unacceptable. it just shows they're putting greed and profits above the lives of their associates. >> reporter: raymond is fired up. he's scheduled to report to work tomorrow night but plans

. >>> i'm jodi hernandez. >>> i'm jeff ranieri. you can see the rain developing across the north bay right now. and also some estimated travel delays. we'll have more on your full forecast coming up in a few minutes. >>> a group of bay area kids got a big pat on the back from the first lady. oakland youth radio honor at the white house today. while not everyone involved in the broadcast could make to it d.c., they got to see the ceremony online. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez shows us. >> the next award goes to youth radio. >> reporter: students in oakland couldn't contain their excitement as they watched a live feed of first lady michelle obama awarding their program, youth radio, with one of the nation's top honors, the national arts and humanities youth program award. >> i think it's great that we've been recognized by the first lady and the white house. i'm glad my friend shyra got to accept the award, close friend of mine. yeah, i'm really pumped. >> reporter: oakland high school senior and hip-hop rapper shyra gun and a produc

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reporting live in vallejo, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, jodi. >> one of the propositions on the upcoming ballot is prop 30. its success or failure might hinge on undecided voters. it is governor brown's tax initiative to raise money for schools and colleges. a new field poll finds 48% are in favor of this tax initiative. 48% are opposed. 14% are undecided. prop 30 would hike the state sales tax by a quarter cent for four years, raising about $6 billion a year and help close the state's budget deficit. >> new at 6:00, san francisco police showed the suspect who beat and kicked a muni station agent last month. they want the public's help in identifying this man. the pictures show a tall, slender man about 35 to 30 years old carrying a bike or black suitcase. you see him right here. the victim, a 55-year-old station agent told the man that bikes are not allowed in the station. the suspect repeatedly ignored him as he made his way to the muni platform. once there the detectives say the man turned on the agent, kicking him and punching him, forcing him to the ground. he has no

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we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a

jodi hernandez joins us from city hall. talk about digging deep. >> he is digging deep into his own pocket. he feared two of the city's top workers, including the police chief may be lured away by others. he came up with a unique solution. some are calling it an act of selflessness, others call it self preservation. it's the season of giving and a top official is doing just that. the city manager is giving up a chunk of his salary so two coworkers can get a raise. >> i've always felt if you do the right things that certainly you enhance the certainty that your team will stay together. and without people it doesn't work. the people are the magic. >> zapata will take a $20,000 a year pay cut so they can each get a $10,000 a year raise. with san jose and fremont on the hunt for new chiefs, zapata hopes his contribution will entice san leandro's top cop to stay put. >> she's essentially remade the police department. it's really made this a safer place. without her talent, i think we would be in a very different place. >> zapata

jodie breken ridge, catherine hooper and those i can't possibly remember to name. i know the major general is not a big plaque fan. but we want to show off our partnership and if you will allow me, i have a plaque for you as well. >> thank you. [applause] >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> thank you. so much. i want to thank admiral beaman for what he has done and continues to do for the city. during the 75th anniversary celebration of the golden gate bridge. we had the u.s.s. nimitz come under this bridge. thank you so much for that. it was wonderful. >> i would like to have the senior officer military in the bay area come talk next. he's the coast guard officer, the commander of the half the coast guard stretching from, i think he says, well he covers the whole pacific. but before he really gets to talk, i want to say that i announced it last night. we had a softball tournament yesterday. usually the fire department, they have a professional team. the game was tied at seven inings and went two extra inings and the coast guard team won. they had a false alarm fir

reporting live in richmond, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >>> thank you, jodi. >> the bankrupt solyndra has a new buyer. there's been a sale approved to sea gate technology for $90 million. drastically below the $300 million it cost to build the pa silt. the plans to use the building for research and development. solyndra received a half billion dollar loan from the government to create that building. how could it have happened? that's what parents are asking tonight after a registered sex offender was allowed on campus in the midst of hundreds of students? turns out, there's a loophole which police powerless to close. marianne favro is live in san jose. it's not sitting well with parents. >> reporter: no it really is not, jessica. the registered sex offender was volunteering here at this parish last month during a church festival. parents tell me there were hundreds of kids at that festival. when deputies questioned him, he produced a letter from the church that gave him authorization to be here at the school. tonight, both sheriff's deputies and the diocese are investigating

. >> jody?re sitting discussing barack obama's talking about something t different that none of us are considering right now. z- >> absolutely right. >> the other presidency is that they just get overtaken by obama's team in november 2008 that they would be dealing withe of greek pensioners and that this would help determine the outcome of the looked at you yad three heads and we are just at such turbulent time in the world. think of the sto happened last week. you know although of course the president has to make his plans, i just have a feeling that w don't know what's really going to happen. >> michael, just the fact that johnson, vietnam, you think about foreign policy or things often are the things that define for positive or negative president's legacy and we can't anticipate will happen in four years for obama. >> absolutely. >> it's been a on the stage, michael beschloss. >> indeed. and one or two things may happen in the middle east and it may be very soon. >> and as mark halperin point

reporting live in san francisco, i'm jody hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> the night is young for those campers. we have new details about the state budget. take a look. adramatic improvement, the numbers here projected $2 billion deficit next year, compare that to this year's deficit, which is almost $16 billion and look at 2010 the deficit was 25 billion. why the turnaround? improving state economy and prior budget cuts and passage of prop 30. unfortunately home burglaries are on the rise across the bay area, especially on the peninsula, san mateo residents are fed up. a surge hit east of 101 with 15 different burglaries. just this week there were serve more break-ins near the south end. you see the red dots there with the homes are. san mateo police are trying to fight the spike in burglaries, they might follow the leads of others. >> reporter: good evening, raj, they saturated both of those areas as an immediate response. we checked in with other cities that experienced similar spikes and found one success story across the bay. >> on lodia avenue where neighbors know each other by n

he tried to gain the affection of jodie foster. he pled insanity and images were used for the very first time in this case. they used to support the diagnosis that he was psychotic. he heard voices, hallucinations, delusions. the images at the time or something called -- we know that it is not diagnostic now. it is a risk faster -- factor. you are more likely to develop these types of illnesses. but he was found insane based on this information and sentenced to an insane asylum. he has now been released, starting in 2009, to a thousand -- 2010. he is well treated and managed. they told me i had to go away faster. if you happen to have schizophrenia or you hear voices or hallucinations, it is with 99% certainty that i can show that your brain is different. if you have schizophrenia -- just pretend. what do you see that is different? these areas are much different, much more engaged. you might see there is a lot more blue as well in this map. look at this area. it is very different than that area, much more engaged. if you have a bip

i was involved, jodi, and i wasn't involved. >> okay. know what i told you we caught it all on videotape. >> but i wasn't in the fight or involved in the fight or nothing. >> so you stood there, you watched them clean up the blood -- >> no, i did not stand there and watch them clean up the blood. >> well, the videotape has a little bit different take on it. >> the video doesn't like. you can clearly see peaches trying to clean up the aftermath of this crime. >> coming up -- >> i want to show you the video. >> okay. >> kenneth morgan is confronted by the evidence. >> and who is this? >> that's me. >> and then -- >> hi guys. >> by an inmate who just might take his place. >> mr. peach, you've got competition. >> i see. [ forsythe ] we don't just come up here for the view up in alaska. we find the best, sweetest crab for red lobster that we can find. [ male announcer ] it's time for crabfest at red lobster! this year, try 1 of 5 entrees. like our new snow crab and garlic shrimp. a half-pound of tender crab paired with savory shrimp. just 12.

reporting live at uc berkeley, jodi hernandez. p >> thank you.m the uc system to the csu system. administrators of the csu system say some students are taking too long to graduate. so they're considered to plan a push, to plan to push them along faster. the board of trustees will vote next week on new fee hikes designed to push students to he shall their degrees faster and therefore free up some admission spots. the 23 schools say they've been pulling away 23,000 students for four straight years. >>> still ahead, fighting fires with some high-tech help. the new weapon on fire line. >>> relief is on the way for one of the most notoriously congested areas of the south bay. we'll show you where coming up. >>> and you'd better pack some patience. the grand opening of a shopping mall in the east bay. look at the traffic here. it led to a lot of headache for drivers. even at this hour. we're back in a moment. >>> san jose police say the man they've arrested for having a pipe bomb is not cooperating. he has been booked into the county jail. amateur vide