all the boys were students at john f. kennedy middle school. >> the u.s. post office is considering closing3600 locations across country because it's losing billions in revenue. at least ten of the officers are in the bay area. eric thomas has nor on how your neighborhood could be affected. >> the u.s. postal service lost $8 billion. to save money, they are studying 3700 retail offices across the country to see if they are worth keeping open. the list includes more than a dozen locations, five in san francisco. four in san mateo and santa clara counties and four in the east bay in alameda and contra costa counties. here are a couple. colonade post office in san jose. it's too close to other locations. or business fair is down significantly. the same goes from oakland east mall location. >> about 35% of our sales come from places outside the brick and mortar post office. places like atms, costco ad that sort of thing. >> it will take the postal service about five months which are vie ideological and which are not. employees would be eliminated through attri

<Ñ Ñ+gÑÑÑçÑw >>> happening right now the american airlines terminal at new york's john f. kennedyt is on lock down as police investigate a suspicious package. the port authority of new york says a bomb squad has been sent to inspect that package. port authority police tell us that they are looking for a man who got on a flight to san francisco this morning, they want to talk to him to see if he is linked to that security breach. but again the american airlines terminal in new york is on lockdown right now and we will continue to update that story. >>> time now 6:14. over seas financial markets are down this morning as the stalled limit talks are raising fears about a u.s. default. allison burns in our washington, d.c. newsroom, on the worldwide crisis. >> reporter: unless congress acts this week to raise the debt limit the u.s. could default for the first time in history. now talks at the white house broke down in spectacular fashion with house speaker john boehner stopping negotiations with president obama. now the republicans and democrats are trying to come up with plans of the

all the boys were students at john f. kennedy middle school. >> the u.s. post office is considering closing 3600 locations across country because it's losing billions in revenue. at least ten of the officers are in the bay area. eric thomas has nor on how your neighborhood could be affected. >> the u.s. postal service lost $8 billion. to save money, they are studying 3700 retail offices across the country to see if they are worth keeping open. the list includes more than a dozen locations, five in san francisco. four in san mateo and santa clara counties and four in the east bay in alameda and contra costa counties. here are a couple. colonade post office in san jose. it's too close to other locations. or business fair is down significantly. the same goes from oakland east mall location. >> about 35% of our sales come from places outside the brick and mortar post office. places like atms, costco and that sort of thing. >> it will take the postal service about five months which are vie ideological and which are not. employees would be eliminated through att

it is a place that is a living memorial to john f. kennedy. we are very proud to be part of it here on behalf of the kennedy forum and the university. host: what was your role at the white house? guest: i have the honor of being secretary andess communications director. i was with her for almost three years. i was with her on a september 11. laura bush was really catapulted in a way she never expected. , and of course -- and in a way that the country never expected. host: noella rodriguez, did you ever given a chance to meet betty ford -- get a chance to meet betty ford? or did you ever look back at her career and tried to push laura bush in that direction? guest: i never got the opportunity to meet mrs. ford, but was suddenly well aware of her legacy. -- certainly well aware of her legacy. we used her legacy as a way to inform what we would do. mrs. bush, of course, have three issues that she was focused on, primarily early childhood education and women's health issues. but she also focused on breast cancer. it is not a very, known trade that

representatives by either bloodline or marriage of every president of the united states going back to john f. kennedyso appropriate and so interesting to see members of the ford family. for our generation and above in this country we watched them grow up. we watched their family with great fascination. this president who turned out to be such a noble and thoroughly decent american and this american icon that he married. this towering figure in this country named betty ford who did so much to destigmatize alcoholism, drug addiction and treatment and breast cancer as well. appropriately remembered today in a warm, family-based service. feel terrible for the family they have to go do this again and go through these emotions in the days to come. such a towering figure should be appropriately remembered. that started today here in palm desert. >> thanks, brian williams. well put. >>> coming up next, a marine who needed a date for the ball considers a longshot and takes it on youtube. >> hey, mila. i'm sergeant moore. but you can call me scotty. i want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the ma

they attended john f. kennedy middle school.ey apparently took place after the boys broke away during a field trip in march. a fifth boy also faces charges. >>> hundreds of same-sex marriages will be performed in new york again today. the state's new law took effect yesterday where hundreds of ceremonies were performed. >> i now pronounce you legally married! >> there is a 24-hour waiting period. san francisco en masse wedding will take place in niagara falls. the state will ring up an extra $400 million in the next three years in the same-sex weddings. in new york city, 823 same-sex couples signed up at the clerk's office to get married yesterday. >> now we can truly take care of each other. we can truly be married. >> new york is the sixth and largest stated to legalize same-sex marriage but not everyone is cheering. thousands protested calling for the state to put the new law to a vote. >> california has the first confirmed case of west nile virus. state public health officials say a man in santa barbara county contracted the

and the historians who have tended to defy john f. kennedy i will confuse the life out of you that i have a son named for john f. kennedy. you know, i really liked kennedy in so many ways. but the historians who are biased toward him have tried to argue that eisenhower really had set this up and kennedy just carried it out. i am convinced -- and one scholar i know who has seen the documents that i haven't seen is convinced that eisenhower would have never done it the way kennedy did. he withdrew the airport and even the plan with the air support just didn't look like an eisenhower kind of intervention. eisenhower would have done in what he did in lebanon in 1958 when he landed 14,000 troops. i mean, he really believed in overwhelming force and you do it. now, he was open to covert action and we know in that guatemala and iran so he was not an angel when it came to covert action but the cuban invasion is a strange phenomenon. you know, the cia -- if you knew today what contingency plans the cia has, you would be horrified. and so these conting

shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political support for john f. kennedy's sort of crazy statement what we're going to go to the movie had it not been for american paranoia over the russians over the soviets and that was particularly made clear even through the farmers in iowa who pay taxes by sputnik and gary that space budgets right now are being cut. defense budgets are still secure yet we know that you know to say it's in a financial trouble as a former defense industry top man what should be the top priority right now well. that's a long i have a somewhat different from most of my colleagues view i think for our space program has been on the wrong track ever since the end of apollo with the space shuttle flight so well i think the space shuttle is spectacular it is so dead in the program you know that certainly brought the point by it being terminated and now we have to hitchhike rides with our prior competitors who must be laughing up their sleeves that the americans who got to the moon first now have to ride on a russian rockets. or space shuttle was

. >> you never get anywhere attacking the media, whether it was john f. kennedy canceling subscription to the herald tribune or richard nixon declaring war on "the washington post" and new york times. we saw how well that worked out for him. >> you tried whether there's cal pablty or malfeasance, as if the white house is dictating it. >> you're making the same mistake that so many people out there in media land are making, you're assuming that fox news and what the news of the world are part and parcel. >> i'm not assuming that. i work for this company. i know they're not the same. >> that's like saying that the folks at nbc are responsible for the-- >> and you're saying that-- assuming that the fbi moving against in company somehow the white house is behind it. >> what we'll know eventually because everything will get foia. and in the past, white houses and administrations have used the power of the justice department to crush their enemy. and-- >> that's, we have to. >> we have to take one more break, sorry, judy, when we come back the final harry potter movie

right now the defense budget is 4.7% of the gdp compared to 6.6% under ronald reagan, 8.6 under john f. kennedy the problem is not military spending. the problem is domestic spending. caught a break that. as ronald reagan often when he rejected isolationism, when he decried appeasement and identify churchill is the greatest hero of the 20th century, reagan said, it takes generations to build freedom. you can visit a new generation and if you do said, it is often going to be because he withdrew from your responsibilities in the world. i handsome, eloquent colleague quoted actually teacher i know for, not cardinal newman when he was citing examples of what happens when you wake up and find you have no friend. naturally the quote proves the opposite point. von hawker was making that observation can decried appeasement and withdraw in the 1930s exponentially raise the cost of dealing with hitler. they're gathering dangers dangers in the world which only american power can deal with. you don't want to do it, that the alternatives to not doing it are infinitely worse. klotzbach [applause] >> well, i

shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political support for john f. kennedy's sort of crazy statement about we're going to go to the moon had it not been for american paranoia over the russians over the soviets and that was particularly made clear even to the farmers in iowa who pay taxes by sputnik and think about the average age of a team on the ground twenty four and looking back at it do you do you feel safe to trust a bunch of twenty year olds now more than the old guys. well that was in a period when we had some very good elderly leadership. but that leadership was smart enough to leave a lot of the technological and quick decisions up to the young people it was very they had a lot of screening and they were tested time and time again. but there was a. they the management listened to the younger people. not sure i could say the same about the soviet thank you very much for this interview nice to be with you so if you. if you're followed up on my debt snowball the. candidates are sort of a twelve pack and if i can't part of our law. it goes back to a time

is, you know, think of how many books there are on abraham lincoln, on george washington, on john f. kennedy, on martin king. there should be no one book on malcolm. there's always going to be an ongoing conversation as more materials become available about how malcolm was, about what he did, about who he spoke to, about what he meant. so manning clearly expected, you know, a vigorous discussion around the issues that he raised -- >> and it should be. >> absolutely. because malcolm was not a sacred cow, and neither was manning marable. and manning marable writes with, to me if you read the book, great humility where he can be definitive, he's definitive. where he cannot, he is not. and people have criticized him for the should have, could have, would have, must have, might have, but this is the thing. history is not -- a historian doesn't deal with, often times, certainty. you also deal with probability. and your job is working with a string of artifacts that maybe you have maybe three artifacts to cover a month of activity. what is the meaning of these three artifacts in kruking the subject

john f. kennedy drive in golden gate park to ocean beach will be closed. >>> well, you might think that celebration of all things related to corn would only happen in the midwest. you'd be wrong. red wood is hosting corn fest this weekend. thousands of people spent the day enjoying music, carnival rides and, of course, anything and everything made from corn. money raised at the event goes to local nonprofit groups. >> if you think about it, a lot of these groups that come out here, this is one big fund raiser each year. there's none that would survive without doing this. >> the corn fest continues tomorrow from 10:30 in the morning to 6:00 tomorrow night. to find events taking place this weekend across the bay area, go to ktvu.com and click on the weekend extra tab. >>> work is under way to bring back a legendary north bay night club. sweetwater closed in 2007 after almost 40 years. it was known for big named stars and cozy atmosphere. investors told them they obtained rights to the name sweetwater a

he did this because john f. kennedy saw prostitutes?> he got permission from kennedy because he caught j.f.k. hoover caught j.f.k. having a fling with a prostitute from east germany. the f.b.i. alleged indicated she was east german spy. hoover could destroy kennedy. they leaked it to whispering willie williams who is determined to tear down kennedy by exposing this affair. the kennedys had to turn to hoover. hoover had sex files on every senator, every congressman, anybody who is anybody in america. >> john: and washington was cess pool of sex and sexual blackmail? >> that's right because hoover used these sex files to create a government within a government. he brings in the head of the senate and shows the sex files. no more investigation into this east german spy miss stress but hoover wanted in return for that one, his reappointment as f.b.i. director. >> john: which he got. >> and to bug and wiretap martin luther king which he used having affairs to persecute king. >> john: one more example we learned about the teapot dome scandal

there was a governmental agency, the hudson avenue corp., which was set up after john f. kennedy wrote his inaugural address. at that time -- he said to people around him, we have to do something because this is the main street of america. i went to the pennsylvania avenue organization and said, if you can get me into these places i will do this for you, and i will photograph all of it. and i spent about 17 years photograph in the rebuilding. >> when you start showing some of your photos -- we can catch up with all of this. the first is in alabama. why were you in alabama. >> i had a relationship with the library of congress and they were kind enough to put this in their collection. last year, i was honored by a man who funded me to go to the state of alabama as the first in a series of going across the united states, to photograph the beautiful and amazing state of alabama. so i spent all of last summer, with these historic structures, way out there, and everything about this beautiful state is just enjoyable. some of this i did with black and white cameras, the beautiful flower

two other boys from john f. kennedy middle school are awaiting trial in. >> it's a california is no longer one of the top states in the nation for higher education. a new study warns the state colleges are average at best. community colleges as well as the uc and cal state systems. the report also warn there is significant performance gaps depending on where the school is and racial and ethnic enrollment the report was done by leadership policy. >> you have to work with the resources that that you have. i think there are ways we can better focus our attention with those resources to invest them differently in order to try to get the best outcome we get with the dollars that are available. >> the report blames what it calls a crisis on a lack of coordination across all of higher education. no state level planning and ineffective leadership. >> governor jerry brown has signed into law the california dream act. it makes undocumented students eligible for privately funded scholarships if they attended three years of high sc

the government influenced what we put on our tables with a special spot for our presidents, john f. kennedy's chowder to this recipe. >> st it's river -- it's river chili, and it was so popular they had special cards printed up to send out. >> reporter: this vegetable soup has the precision of a 5- star general. >> he worked very hard to polish his craft, and he often cooked as a form of relaxation. >> reporter: other presidents inspired americans to try new things. the simple southern dishes of the south introduced grits to many. richard nixson inspired interest into china's foot. >> president roosevelt complained bitterly about the cooking, and i understand that people who attended the state dinners did as well. >> reporter: proving not only presidential cuisine gets the popular vote but still gets a place setting in history. karen capa for 9 news now. >> feeling rungry at this point. the presidential food exhibit is on display on january 3rd. >>> a check of the news before you go is next. >> but first the answer to the july 4th question of the morning. every year on the 4th americans spend

they range in age from 12-14 and they attended john f. kennedy middle school.ey broke away from their school group during a field trip. >>> a 11-year-old girl is improving after a stray bullet missed her heart. shots rang out and at least one bullet went through the window of a ground floor apartment. the family says the bullet hit her in the chest while she was kneeling on a bed waiting for her uncle to bring her a late night snack. >> congressional leaders are still struggling to reach a compromise debt limit that would avoid a default come august 2nd. today house speaker john boehner will discuss the clash with president obama over spending the government's borrowing authority. lilian kim has the latest. >> reporter: markets in asia are showing no major swings despite the inability to reach a deal to the debt ceiling. >> frankly i think people believe that u.s. will come to some sort of agreement so people aren't panicking yet. >> they hope to reach a deal by 1:00 p.m. but that deadline came and went. congressional leaders have since come up with separate pl

two other boys from john f. kennedy middle school are awaiting trial in the case. >> east palo alto has had six murders this year after reducing the number of homicides to four in all of last year. now, the police chief is asking for the public's help to identify the gang members that are behind this latest wave of violence. the chief says three gang members are likely responsible for a rampage of violence spanning two states. crime spree includes three murders, two in east palo alto and one in grand junction along with two armed robberies and a burglary. authorities have one suspect in custody and looking for two more. >> as long as they are out there clearly we can see the kind of violence and kind of damage they can do in a short period of time. what we don't know whether they are in in palo alto or between here and colorado. >> it's a risk to all of us in this community. >> the chief says the uptick in violence has prompted him to increase patrols and cancelling some officer's days office. >> pg&e plans to close fiv

flexible, not going to care one way or the other but someone like dwight eisenhower, i think even john f. kennedy, very, very reluctant to lie for i think moral reasons, it's just a form of behavior that is actually quite a detestable but the fact is when you're dealing with international politics, and if the security of your country is on the line, you wouldn't hesitate to lie not because you are an evil person but because you do what you have to do to protect your country, and that's really what i'm trying to get at in this book. >> are there examples in the book of leaders lobbying for personal reasons were not national security reasons? >> no, i made it clear in the front of the book wasn't going to consider those sort of cases. there are certainly lots of them, but i left them out. i have been on a few radio and tv shows where president clinton lied about the monica lewinsky of fair has come up and people have asked me what i think about that, and i say that that is a case of a leader maudine basically to save his own skin and that doesn't fit the category of the allies and looking at. i'm l

roadways from john f. kennedy drive to great highway will be shut down. a circus, free skate rentals and soccer demonstrations. the event starts at 11:00 this morning and more sunday streets are planned for throughout the summer. >>> one of those events was a special performance by san francisco symphony orchestra. they will hold today an instrument petting zoo and demonstrate instruments to children before children in golden gate park. there will be a range of classics. stake out your spot early. the instrument petting zoo starts at 12:30. >>> in oakland, special events for families to learn how to make clothing and art work. the fiber and textile festival will be at oakland splash pad park. starts at 10:00. admission is free. there will be hands-on demonstrations on knitting, spinning and weaving. organizers say the event builds community by interaction between people and businesses. >>> 50 nannies from 30 countries will take part in all that san francisco has to offer while completing a list of entertaining tasks in several shops around union square. t

. >> eric: bob, can we point out the liberal hero of all time, john f. kennedy.n a list of medications this long for depression, yada, yada, yada? >> bob: his weren't legal. >> greg: funny when media focuses on prescription drug use among politicians. i never worked in a place where there wasn't heavy drug use in the media from magazines to tv. >> andrea: but this woman has a law degree and raised 23 foster kids alone. c'mon. that would give me a headache raising one kid. >> bob: say one thing and get out of here. herman cain is back at it again. now he jumped on mormons. he started on doing this thing about the muslims then he is mormon. next thing he is going to do and jump on the dalai lama. >> dana: it was like a "seinfeld" episode. not that there is anything wrong with that. >> bob: speaking not wrong or right with it, e-mail us comments at "the five." we love to hear it. thefive@foxnews.com. we'll be right back. yeah, we'll be right back. we really will. ♪ ♪ also get a free flight. you know that comes with a private island. really? no. it comes with a hat.

>>neil: this president's support of the space program has changed since john f. kennedyople look back. a poll showed sentiment expressed at what voters think. who do you think has it right, 63 percent say president kennedy and 13 percent say president obama. >>guest: it reflects a very long support, long-term support for america's dominance in space by americans and by the voters. eisenhower and kennedy working together made sure that we, really, won the space race with the then soviet union. it was part of the cold war gentleman i don't -- geopolitics and johnson and nixon determined do terminate and space policy has drifted since that time in spite of the remarkable accomplishments of the space shuttle. >>neil: do you fine it odd that everyone is in but us. the japanese. and the chinese. i was expecting to see luxembourg pock before pop up, everyone but us. we triumphed and now we are leaving it and hitching rides. >>guest: we left deep space back, really, in 1968. we started to leave the nearer space playing field when we did not fund the george w. bush initiative pro

we had john f. kennedy give at it rest. >> greg: president obama is adorable. >> bob: wait a second. this is true. i had 190-some campaigns in my career. the uglier my candidates lost more than the better looking ones. i had a guy running for state senate, 320 pounds and ugly. for the official campaign post i went to his college yearbook when he was 175 and looked great. we used that for the official -- >> kimberly: what about chris christie. >> greg: he is still a good looking guy. >> bob: a good example. what i did on that -- can you imagine? do we have a picture of greg here? this is an example of how you can distort. look at this. this stud look. bulked up, all that stuff. he looks strong. positive guy. you wouldn't want to mess with him. get back to greg. that is my point. >> greg: this is an amazing point. i want to make the point we discriminate against ugly people. we talk about bigotry and race and sexual orientation, but it's really the ugly people that get the short shift from the world we don't

edgar hoover secretly taped martin luther king, he did this because john f. kennedyaw prostitutes. >> he did this because hoover caught jfk, having a fling, if you will, with a prostitute from east germany, that the fbi alleged, indicated she was an east german spy. so hoover could destroy kennedy. >> john: kennedy was terrified. >> in fact, the fbi leaks this to senator whispering willy williams of delaware, determined to tear down kennedy by exposing this affair and the kennedys turned to j. edgar hoover. fortunately for them he had sex files on every congressman, senator, everybody who was anybody. >> he wrote that washington at the time was a cesspool of sex and sexual blackmail. >> that's right, because hoover used the sex files to basically create a government within the government. he brings in the heads of the senate, shows them the sex files on all of their colleagues and they say no more investigation into this east german spy mistress. but hoover wanted in return for that, one his reappointment as fbi director. >> john: which he got. >> number two, foreclo

roadways from john f. kennedy drive to the great highway will be shut down to cars.he city will host activities along that route including a circus, free skate rentals and soccer demonstrations. the event starts at 11:00 this morning and more sunday streets events are planned during the summer. bring your bike or your skates. coming up at 7:00 this morning, the latest on an overnight stabbing in the south bay and search for seven bay area fishermen missing off the coast of mexico a week later. we'll have more on that and all of the day's top news coming up at 7:00. here's more of the "today" show. >>> we're back on this sunday morning, july 10th, 2011. a beautiful, warm summer day here in new york city. equally beautiful crowd joining us out on the plaza. we thank them oh, so much for being here outside studio 1a. i'm jenna wolfe alongside lester holt. kate and will wrap up their trip to the u.s. today. >> it was their first trip to the states as a couple, but a short one. missed the highlight, rockefeller center and being here with our crowd. william had his day in