the part i can attest to is that katherine has kept me calmed down at various times about this project, and that's her job in part, which is no fun. i think that pat kontraneo, our v.p. of finance, has been a leader and facilitator across the entire spectrum of activities, and pat is very self-afacing and doesn't seek to credit himself. but i know what he does and he does a lot to make sure things get done right in this program. so thank you, pat. when we started, we came from south san francisco, and we came here because amgen, who competes with us in the markets, and jenentech were fighting over space there. there was a period of time when the rents in san francisco were higher than the rent here. the total cost here was still higher, but that one moment, i knew only happened once every couple decades. and so we jumped on it. we got our board to agree to let us come peer. the shorensteen family built this building. they did a very, very good job, but when we got here, we were alone and it was an economic crisis, a period of time. and we had this idea that if we had a quality building

katherine sharp. we are very excited today to have a press release from the mayor and have him join us. this has been an amazing experience for those of us from the very beginning. we look forward to sharing that story with you. without further ado, mayor lee. >> thank you, katherine. thank you very much for being here. i wanted to join this great moment of celebration for fibrogen, which is more than a serial. that was what i first thought when i saw that name. i want to congratulate fibrogen and all the companies that have spouted up. i had -- the creation of this experiment with bioand life sciences here in mission bay. now a few years later, it really began in 2009 where there were five companies that started in this building. today, there are 23 of these microbusinesses that are doing biotechnology research, clinical laboratory research as well as applications for that. right here, the three areas of work that they're doing. they told me they're here because of the talent, the graduates coming out of berkley and stanford and the school systems are really feeding the kind of talent that they

katherine has proven to be one of the important network hubs, and she deserves our thanks for that. so congratulations. >> i think with that, that concludes the scheduled speakers. but now i'm going to open this up to any questions that we might have from the press. ok. with that, i would invite you to either stay out here and special outside or join us inside. i believe we do have some treats in there. and fairly shortly after a few minutes, we are going to take the mayor on a tour of a couple of the labs and give him an idea of what this really looks like. thank you all for coming. [applause] ♪ oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ ♪ >> [speaking foreign language] ♪ [singing in fo

katherine has the latest from reagan national. >> the transportation security administration is celebratingnder fire. >> the tsa has an important agency as far as security for the american people. unfortunately, this report details that tsa has lost its way. >> representative john mica, the house transportation committee chairman released a report entitled, a decade later. mica says the agency is plagued with problems, including its size, claiming tsa has grown into a massive bureaucracy. inadequate technology, including 500 technology machines that can be easily defeated. ask more than 20,000 since the agency was established. to fix the problems the record recommends the following. reducing the staff. revising the screening program with private firms and raising the authority of the tsa administrator. >> we hope from the ten year anniversary and from our review that we can make tsa even more affective and eliminate some of the problems we have experienced over the past decade. >> report comes as it announces its findings. 2/3 of respondents were somewhat or very satisfied with the overall

players including the protagonist and along with the very hard work necessary to write a good book, katherine has captured the man and his time. and at least in my case reminded readers how much our political life and our political discourse has changed. since bob strauss' heyday. and i think, you know, some of us who have lived through that era and are living through now kind of shake our heads and say, you know, is there something missing these days? maybe a lot. so i really am delighted to welcome a first-time author, katherine mcgarr. she will tell us the story of how this biography came to be and a lot more about her famous great uncle. so thank you so much for being here. please, join me in welcoming katherine. [applause] >> thank you very much, lissa. for having me and everyone at politics & prose and c-span, and thank you all for being here because i know it's a miserable night out, and i really appreciate it. um, so lissa and i were talking about how do you write a book about your famous great uncle and remain in the family and, also, write an accurate book? and the way i tried to get ar

katherine has proven to be one of the important network hubs, and she deserves our thanks for that. so congratulations. >> i think with that, that concludes the scheduled speakers. but now i'm going to open this up to any questions that we might have from the press. ok. with that, i would invite you to either stay out here and special outside or join us inside. i believe we do have some treats in there. and fairly shortly after a few minutes, we are going to take the mayor on a tour of a couple of the labs and give him an idea of what this really looks like. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> good afternoon. i have wanted to say this for some time. thank god for heroes. thank you very much. [applause] thank you for being here this afternoon to do something that is a great, great celebration for our city. last october 19, while driving her daughter to school very early in the morning, she saw a crash, a very horrible crash. she decided she would stop. she decided to take a look at what occurred. as she saw the flames and the truck overturned and noticed there was somebody in the

katherine has been a nurse in northern nigeria for more than 30 years.es and saved countless others by training the next generation of midwives. expectant moms in nigeria need all the help they can get. every year, at least 1,400 newborns in the country die. >> no light. no good water supply, no roads. so the midwives, in the rural areas especially, they have a lot to cope with. >> reporter: for this 19-year-old from afghanistan, lack of resources is made worse by lack of security. she is the only midwife for her entire district. sadia isn't even her real name. we had to change it for her protection. her choice to stave lives means putting her own at risk. >> translator: the community is taught that i am just a young girl and not married. how can i help their families? but the more i keep helping people, the more they accept me. the aid group save the children honored both with hero awards, recognizing their extraordinary work under the difficult circumstances. >> we hear a lot about sports players, music heroes, actors, actresses, but these are our real

. >> katherine mcmillan has been in segregation for almost two years. >> i have an 11- to 14-year sentence as a habitual felon and i am in prison for making checks on the computer and cashing checks. i got into a fight. i beat a girl up down in the seg quad and she had two black eyes and she had to go to the hospital and i ended up coming up here. >> there are two classifications of inmates in the segregation unit, intensive control or icon, or maximum control, also known as mcon. both require isolation, but mcon inmates pose the most serious threat. >> why i do have this on? because i'm an mcon inmate. mcon inmates have to where this right here. technically, i'm supposed to have on leg irons, but because i have a medical from the doctor, i can't wear those for six months. once i become an icon inmate, i go in handcuffs. and when we put it through here and they put our hands through there and they take it off. yeah, the fresh air feels good, because you got people that stink and they don't like to take baths and you are shut up in a building all day and it's kind of cloggy in there and it

constantly following developments surrounding the occupy movement our listener katherine is currently open for us and has posted on her twitter stream but hundreds of people have been gathering in the city despite the police warning that has also tweeted that protesters have taken their plans to the home of mayor michael bloomberg cool and intend to place the place of ours that the one thing this is these are things that that. set to become a reality a year grazing union is to be established by twenty fifth russia along with some of its post soviet partners are planning a common economic space where the power to resist the global financial crisis is going up story three nations twenty million square kilometers of the land one giant idea. is that we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration conscious or what we're doing when just stern who we are integrating with there are three countries sharing a common history and today we are forming a common economy eurasian union will be based on the already existing customs union between the three nations which are among the largest economi

katherine. she says all she wants for christmas is to be fan of the day. well, your wish has been granted. of the day, search for fox5 morning news, no space between fox and the number 5 and post a comment under katherine's freshly done hair in the photo. she's in the barber -- the beauty shop. i love it. you are our fan of the day. hope you have a good day. >>> here's the answer to today's trivia question. michael j fox changed his middle initial when he became an actor. the answer is a, he is michael a fox, it stands for andrew. there already a michael fox in the screen actors guild. he reportedly chose j after actor michael j. pollard, who michael j. fox went on to supersede in stardom many times over. >> we love him, don't we? >> i love him. we also love allison. >> thank you, love you back. if you have a question you might want to ask me, send it in. you'll find the link on our web site, myfoxdc.com. click on mornings and you'll find it there. send in your questions. >> cool. >>> speaking of cool, cool this afternoon. 53degrees. cold tonight. nice five-day forecast, lots of sunshine.

katherine sharp. we are very excited today to have a press release from the mayor and have him join us. this has been an amazing experience for those of us from the very beginning. we look forward to sharing that story with you. without further ado, mayor lee. >> thank you, katherine. thank you very much for being here. i wanted to join this great moment of celebration for fibrogen, which is more than a fibrogen, which is more than a serial.

has more. >> reporter: state senator katherine hughes passed a law that opens up free family planning services to women having their first baby. >> family planning services for your very first child is the most important thing we can do to tackle the chronic and persistent infant mortality rate in this state. >> reporter: maryland comes in 27th when it comes to infant mortality. this will give new mothers and teens services. >> what could we do without a place like this. >> reporter: in order for this new program to work, health care leaders need to get the word out and they're doing that with a new outreach program. >> we have to make sure that more women know about this coverage and get enrolled. >> digs believes women need to know care is available. >> that you're not alone, that there's some help for you. >> reporter: monique griego. >> according to the officials, -- >>> i know for a fact right now she is not dead. i know that. >>> new efforts to find michelle parker days after she vanishes in florida where police are focusing their search. >>> a professional baseball player is murdered, t

>> reporter: white house counsel katherine rum bler has indicated republicans are going to have to be specific about what they're looking for before she will comply with a subpoena demanding more e-mails regarding solyndra. she says general curiosity isn't enough to encroach on what she calls white house or executive branch confidentiality interests. congressman fred upton says e-mails he and other law makes -- lawmakers have already obtained clearly establish george kaiser or his operators discussed solyndra with white house members. one of those e-mails says, quote: >> reporter: now, solyndra, as you point out, went bankrupt earlier this year after receiving a half billion in government loan guarantees and importantly, a revision of the deal that put the government behind private investors in the event of bankruptcy. the white house says there's no evidence anywhere of improper pressure from here. the president himself says it's the nature of high-risk, cutting-edge technology that some start-ups go bust. another e-mail from kaiser himself warned he was, quote, concerned that the de

has resulted in charges. could civil charges come. katherine cryer is a former judge. ant do you think it is that paterno has gone out and talked to a prominent attorney in washington, d.c. >> it's very significant. he may be talking but i bet he's already hired because he has said publicly he's sorry he wished he had done more. there are already admissions that his lawyer would love to able to take back. >> public admissions. >> public admissions that would certainly stand up in a court of law. >> could penn state itself be legally held liable? >> of course. >> how much we talking about >> you're talking about, depending of course how many victims eventually come forward and if the allegations are proved to be true, you could well be talking into multiple millions. >> wendy, let me bring you into the conversation here because i saw you on last night and i heard what you had to say and it really raised a lot of important issues. anyone who has read that 23-page indictment has to be struck by the number of folks who heard or had to have suspected something was going on.

katherine. >> thanks very much. >>> you may have experienced it coming to work. tokyo has been having mild weather recently. global weather forecast now. >> welcome to your weather update. let's look at what's happening across east asia. cold air is flowing into china, the korean peninsula and japan bringing widespread showers. we are expecting rain across southern china and mix of rain across the korean peninsula. for japan, hokkaido , we will see snow even in low lying areas today, and rain will also spread by tonight. in the south, wet across the philippines. may see scattered thunderstorms and rain developing as we head into thursday. for the indochina peninsula, it stays largely dry. parts of vietnam will see on-going rain throughout the day. as for temperatures, we are expecting 17es in shanghai, 26 in tie pay, and single digits in seoul and beijing. tokyo warm with 17 degrees, but temperatures cool down starting thursday. heading to the americas, a developing low pressure system is impacting the northeastern corner of the u.s. and eastern canada with heavy cold precipitation as well as strong winds a

katherine adair. i mean, my life -- today has been awesome, girl. >> some people out there in our nation don't have that. and i believe that our education, like such as in south africa and the iraq, everywhere such as, i believe that they should -- our education over here in the u.s. should help the u.s. -- or should help south africa. >> you can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government -- >> yeah. >> -- i would do away with the education, the -- >> commerce. >> commerce. and let's see. i can't. the third one i can't. i'm sorry. oops. >> the pantheon of very public long pauses, deliberate and not deliberate. amazing political brain freezes and pregnant pauses done for effect. a dumber man. the pantheon of those things is chock full of rick perry. that cup runneth over. last night what governor perry was trying mightily to remember is that the third government agency he would abolish if he were president is this one, the department of energy, d.o.e. the energy department operates almost 40 facilities across the nation. so hard we would have had to triple our graphics department to name the

katherine. >> next, we go to bangkok to find out what's making headlines. >> reporter: assian has kicked off a series meeting in bali, foreign ministers met on tuesday, ahead of the leaders summitt later in the week. among items on the agenda, mynamar's bid to become chair of the group. the ten assian foreign minimum -- ministers discussed whether to support the proposal to lead the block in 2014. they have been coveting the role in a way to gain international recognition after years of isolation. indonesia is the current chair of the group. its foreign minister expressed confidence that mynamar is up to the task. >> mynamar is creating a positive condition that make it more possible for them to chair the assian in 2014. and then some countries were quite explicit in expressing their strong support for mynamar. >> the final decision on whether to endorse mynamar's bid will be taken when assian leaders meet on thursday. >>> here in thailand, hopes that the worst of the flood crisis was over for bangkok have proved short lived. tensions between residents of flooded areas and officials have led t

the family has been in court at least some of them every day of this trial over the past six weeks. they vowed to be here and they have been. his parents, joe and katherinea toya just arrived. janet jackson was staying down there and not returning for the verdict, but they are in the courtroom and waiting to hear if conrad murray has arrived here. we have that staked out and watching for him as well to arrive with the attorneys. we are less than 15 minutes away from hearing what the jury decided. people continuing to arrive and wanting to know if the jury has convicted the man that they at least blame for michael jackson's death. >> thank you very much and do stay with us. the prosecution sought to show that dr. murray agreed to treat jackson's insomnia with a procedure many other doctors flat out refused. let's bring in the doctor, chairman of anesthesiology at the case medical center in cleveland. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> would you conceive of administering a drug like propofol in a domestic house, in a patient's bedroom? >> not in a million years. this is really, this is a drug that's a very powerful surgical anesthetic. assist sleep