conservation movement and by first volume was called "the wilderness warrior," with roosevelt, john muir and n ca others.whole this is the second installmentes and it is the whole campaign wit that begins in 1879 with john, the co-founder of the sierra gop club going off and seeing those incredible glazier's glaciers ue inside passage of alaska and writing about it and how a whole group of what i call, really, wilderness lawyers have worked to safe wild alaska including theodore roosevelt and people like walt disney, william o. douglas, on and on. so i'm now working on "silent spring revolution." in the 1960s. this is not just a history book. i end it in 1960 when eisenhower saved the arctic refuge, anwr that you hear about in the news all the time. >> well, this really is a story about personalities, and let's talk about some of them. let's begin with president teddy roosevelt. his involvement in alaska. >> well, t.r. saved the whole grid of modern alaska. today we have an alaska marry time national wildlife area, the aleutian change -- chain. he stopped the timbering and created on the

the sierra club founded by john muir in 1892 and the club protected nearly 10 million acres of wilderness. now planning to focus on working with unions and business autos community and interfaith leaders gathered to remember more than 100 people who have been murdered in oakland this year. and this toork place in west oakland. organizers hold a service to remember those killed and encourage the community to prevent what they call rampant violence in the city. >> in the middle of the tragedies what number do we use? to count misery index? how many bullets are go tok expended until we come to see that this violence must be stopped? >> organizers of the event say there have been 102 murders so far this year. there were 94 killings for last year. >> and san francisco school officials may be the last hope for a bilingual speech therapist. he came to the u.s. nine years ago to work with chinese special education students and applied for permanent residency authorities ordered her deported. a third of the students need help and schools are in need of language pathologists. >> there is a national

. >> the helicopter through the second driver to john muir hospital to be checked out. >> as for the woman who died, chp isn't releasing her name until they notice the family. >>> this morning penn state played the first game without joe paterno in nearly 50 years. a candlelight vigil was held in support of the victims in a child suspects sex abuse scandal. they have forced the out the university's president as well as paterno. it was in stark contrast to the violent demonstration in support of paterno. >> this morning a kidnapped major league baseball player is safe and sound in venezuela. wilson ramos of the washington nationals, venezuela officials are calling it a kidnapping. first major league player to ever be a victim of that type of violence. three men are in custody in connection with the kidnapping. >> coming up next, a bay area exploding gang problem, even our smaller cities aren't safe but a new way to fight back. pg&e gets ready to retest a segment of pipeline that burst during safety testing last weekend. >>> the growing gang problem in the bay area is hitting small cit

the man was rushed to john muir medical center. a family dog was wounded.ken away by animal control. the suspect has been arrested. we're expecting to get more information in later newscasts. but the victim has died. a suspect is in custody. report live in pacheco, lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> if you have shopped at -- if you have shopped at lucky stores stores -- stores, check your receipts. there's been some compromised accounts, in the checkout lanes. lucky is telling customers to keep a watch on your cuts. ktvu.com has a complete list of the stores involved in this tampering, you will find it under the latest headlines. >>> right now, tents have gone up at the best buy protest in milpitas. kraig debro is live in milpitas, hanging out in their tents this morning, talking about black friday which is coming 24 hours early. they are protesting the -- this store is closed. it's thanksgiving. it's lessedded. it doesn't hope -- it's closed. it doesn't open until tonight. these people are in line 0 right now because as we said earlier, there is a s

the department told us a woman wounded in the shooting is still recovering at john muir medical center. deputies have not made any arrests. >>> former penn state coach jersey sandusky breaks his silence about -- jerry sandusky breaks his silence about the sex scandal. pam cook has more. >> jerry sandusky is already charged with molesting eight boys. now "the new york times" report ten more people are telling investigators about their contact with a former coach. in a phone interview with bob kostas, he says he's not a child molester but does seem to admit to inappropriate behavior, dismissing it as "horse play." >> i can say i've done some of those things. i've horsed around with kids. i've showered after workouts. i've hugged them and i have touched their leg without intent of sexual contact. >> find the evidence, find the witnesses, get their confidence. >> now, sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight boys, some on penn state property over a 15-year period. a state senator is push for stronger legislation regarding reporting child sexual abuse. we've been asking our viewers o

third is the john your road site. -- muir road site. that property relates to the lake and management of the watershed. we are taking on responsibility for that lease. it is broken into the region into those three terms. >> can you separate that from the rowing club? >> the tenants are well established. things seem to work. one of the great concerns the rowing clubs had into time is the new docks. those have been in use for a couple of years. >> would it make sense for the puc to be in charge of the bauhaus, but not working with the rowing clubs? >> who would have on other boating activities -- kayaks? sailboats? we could expand the use of the clubs to the upper floor, because they have needs beyond just what their boats are. the third is a more general public having a space there that could be used as partly interpretation of the lake and the watershed, used for meetings of the various kinds for the department, with all its possibilities. we think it is primarily rec and park, but we would want to be involved. >> this topic has been ar

abc's david muir leafs through "life's" vintage photo album. >> reporter: july 1, 1960, then-senator johnd brother bobby in a hotel huddle. this moment during the democratic national convention in los angeles. this iconic portrait of astronaut john glenn in 1959 as "life" puts it, capturing the clear sense of purpose, glenn and colleagues embodied. opening night, 1952, the first full length color 3d feature. the audience all dressed up for the movies, wearing their 3d glasses, too, looking almost hip -- hypnotized. and the movie, "what a devil." rare pairing backstage, two actresses won best actress, audrey hepburn and grace kelly about to present themselves. they would never star in a movie together. shortly after this picture, grace kelly would move away to become a princess. george, john, paul, ringo taking a dip during their first trip to america. what we didn't know was how cold it was in miami that day. ringo's grimace our only hint all these years later. in the fall of 1955, jackie robinson taunting the pitcher, playing the yankees, brooklyn's number 42 propelling the dodgers to a

he wrote a children's biography of john muir, and here he is the supreme court justice. what douglas would do is do walks. not sit-ins like in the civil rights movements. he'd gather a gun. of people and say let's save the canal, let's save the beaches along the olympic and washington state. and douglas also was very close to the kennedy family and was a promoter of racial -- [inaudible] so by 1960 douglas is a big influence on why we have the arctic wilderness saved. in the '60s he's sort of seminal with secretary stuart udall, bobby kennedy, john f. kennedy on making people understand that conservation and environmentalism was good for public health, that people needed this, that we needed clean air and clean water, and that species needed to be saved. we once had a billion passenger pigeons. there's not one alive today. but a species like the polar bear, for example, who are very stressed right now, the american public has to say, no, enough's enough. we need these species. you saw a minute ago i have three little kids running around here. all little kids love an hall