there are 1,300 inmates serving life sentences at kern valley. their crimes were often cold-blooded. >> i'm here for aggravated mayhem, attempted murder, kidnapping, and great bodily injury. >> i'm in here for the heat of passion. i caught my wife with somebody and killed her. >> for some of these inmates, the prospect of spending decades behind bars affects their ability to function. for others, a prison job can give them a sense of purpose. they work in the kitchen preparing and serving the food. they serve as porters, clerks, and barbers. marcus armstrong and jeffrey cattera know it's likely they'll never see the outside of prison again. >> january 13th, 1989, i committed my crime, was arrested the same day. it was a murder/robbery. i got life without the possibility of parole. stupid. stupid. i was a kid. did the wrong thing. you know? i've never denied my crime. i accept responsibility for what i did. although i regret what happened and -- i mean, it happened. i can't take that back. >> i'm in here for first-degree murder. i have 25 to life

it's the subject of a new book looking at president's roosevelt and taft by doris kerns. theodore roosevelt, william taft, the golden age of journalism. . an ambitious topic there. great to have you here. great. to have this book. i'm early into it it. i'll finish b it by the 2016 campaign but that's only because i'm a slow reader. there's a tender neness in your approach to the subject, to the writing, to the treatment of them as men, as husbands, as fathers. i was feeling inadequate about comparing myself to theodore roosevelt's father. >> i think what happened because of my experience with lyndon johnson, watching him at a vulnerable stage at his life where he opened up to me in ways he wouldn't have if i hadn't known him. i began to feel empathetic. from then on that privilege of working with johnson made me want to choose subjects that i would basically like and respect so i could feel empathetic. i loved living with teddy roosevelt. the most fascinating character. taft, i began to feel more empathetic towards him. it's a way to make them come alive through the stori

i want to bring up our director of operation, kerns and alvarez. >> thank you. the group that operates the park is several groups. the park patrol has been the security and the safety contention for that particular facility since it was first brought online. candlestick park is parks and recreation largest facility. it's a huge a very complex building, buildings i can say and the park patrol is responsible for the site security and the building and those inside. they are there 24/7, three different shifts. you can see them out in the parking lot where they are controlling the surveillance cameras throughout the stadium and on game day where they are augmented by the sf p.d. and the private security. since they are there 24/7, they are the site experts and have done a tremendous job, and like everybody in the department they are very short resourced, but they stretch and make it work. i was going through names to call a couple of them out. i don't see any of them here. we have doubled up the security between now and the 23rd. they are resting for coming on tonigh

kerns is still the prosecutor in that county. maybe this whole insane story would have gone away out of the public eye if one of the prosecutors who worked on that 41-count indictment against sheriff trout, if he was not suing the state of new jersey right now for wrongful termination related to that case. bennett barlyn was one of the prosecutors in the hunterdon county office assigned to investigate sheriff trout. he says the christie administration wrongfully stepped in and squashed that prosecution against the sheriff and her gang from the spca. mr. barlyn says he was fired because he spoke up and when he spoke up. he says his firing was politically motivated. mr. barlyn is now trying to get confidential grand jury records unsealed. he contends those records will show this was a real case, a case with merit and should not have been dismissed. a judge ruled in mr. barlyn's favor last summer. christie administration appealed that ruling. this week three judges heard from both sides and have yet to decide if the records will be

if it was not for joe duffy or senior inspector kern we would have had a bad situation, so they have helped to get us to this point which is really important. and this case starts and i believe one of the commissioners what is here a decade ago, regards a project where 1997, the project sponsor same owner decided to do a project with this house and gets the permit and he grocery exceeds the scope of the work, to give you an idea that this is the project right here. and this is here and my client lives below an incredible steep section of edge hill drive and it is famous, for the land slide, and the project sponsor wanted to build a garage here, and recently the project sponsor decided to do some irrigation work and so if you look at a site map this might help a little bit. this is their house, and this is the this is my client's house, and this is 1997, there was permit to do the remodel and the board revoked the permit because it was a violation of the planning code and it violated the land sider edge hill mountain protection act, the board also required required them to get a commi

and of all the winter sports to the outside it kerning can seem not one of the most complex the game has been dubbed chess on ice due to the strategic moves involved and at the sochi winter olympics it has its very own venue. it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling lympics stadium at least will be perfecting this sweeping slide and ultimately the quest for gold the ice cube curling center is a three thousand to multi-purpose arena it's one of the smaller centers here at the olympic park it will be hosting the wheelchair curling competitions the come the paralympic games now it's quite a spacious small center and those with disabilities will be able to enjoy this center so one of these green you made one point have seen this. this weekend this to some it looks like a sweeping map but it's more than that physics and strategy play a role. the idea is to push the story in from one end of the ice to the other aiming for the center of the house which looks like a bull's eye the sports plant to comes when the sweeping begins sweepers with what looks like a mob to go

. ♪ >> reporter: lisa bianconi has been teaching music for nearly 30 years at the kern hatton schooler, vermont. here, children across the northeast who have trouble at home and in school are sent for a fresh start. >> they're kids that have been abused and neglected. they come in here really angry and the first thing they don't want to do is music. ♪ no life no life >> i came here with an attitude with -- i don't want to be here. >> reporter: an orphan from ethiopia 12-year-old emma beth stot was adopted by an american family, but says she never fit in. >> i was so beaten down and so insecure about myself, i didn't know if i should open up. that's when miss bianconi, she talked to me. she felt like the mother i never had. >> you never give up? >> no, never, never, never give up. these kids have been given up in a lot of different areas of life. i feel my role as a teacher here is to do every day like it's the first day. positive energy. give these kids 100%. >> reporter: all 102 students here are required to take two hours of music a day. join the choir and play at least one instrum

kern, what's your day job? >> great question, peter. well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the american people give us. you know, we host over 30 million people to the museum. my job is to help make the museums work, help the directors do their job. i have to take care of budgets and politics and public relations and things, but also the content of the work, what we do, what we show, the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. >> how long have you been with the smithsonian? >> i first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the united states, and then permanently since 1994. >> as the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense? >> well, we have three under secretary, one a earth science, one is finance administration, and i'm for everything else. i have a ph.d. in anthropology. >> all right. american history in 101 objects. where did you get the idea? >> well, there's a fellow who runs the british museum, ewen mcgregor, an

doris kerns goodwin in her time it shows the power of that relationship. all i can say is distant isn't quite the right word for that to the unusual, definitely >> and they supported each other politically. and probably that was important to each of them to be supported by the other. >> guest: >> the depended on other people that there is a strong bond you could see so, it was more less if they were can i say in the book was more like they were aging siblings who lived together. i wrote a book about the wright brother. when one brother died the other lived on with their sister katherine. the roosevelt relationship after polio reminds me of that relationship in the wright family. devoted, but not intimate. thank you. >> anybody else? >> in relation to all the things you said i remember about the famous novelist if there was anybody in the public eye that he just thought was absolutely deserving of as much praise as you can give him. he thought for a minute and he said franklin roosevelt he thought was as close as he would ever come. and i thought that made

doris kerns goodwin -- [inaudible] shows the power of that relationship. so all i can say is that not quite the right word. unusual, definitely. >> and i supported -- they supported each other politically. >> no question. >> and probably it was more important to each of them to be supported bit other; is that correct? >> yes. personally in term of the intimate relationships in their lives they depended more on other people. that was -- even personally there was a strong bond i can tell you. it was more or less if they were in the book more like they were aging siblings that lived together. wroi a book about the wright brothers. or ville lived on with his spinster -- sorry the old fashioned word. spinster sister. they were close. the roosevelt's relationship after polio remind of that relationship with the wright family. devoted but not intimate. >> thank you. >> thank you. anybody else? >> in troalings all the things you said, i remember they asked the famous novel ivs if there was any he thought was absolutely deserving as much praise as you can give him.

judge kern wrote, equal protection is at the very heart of our legal system and central to our consent scarce commodity. a congressman offered a crass rebuttal saying the judges need some basic plumbing lessons. the sources of it, including the congressman, are becoming increasingly marginalized. these decisions in oklahoma and utah will be litigated. even in these reddest of red states, that progress looks irreversible. once you've gotten up the courage to take sides, it's really hard to go back. >>> the highest court in the land is taking up the issue of reproductive freedom. it is questioning buffer zone law in massachusetts. i will discuss the shame game with the president of pro choice america. that's next on "now." ...but he'd wait for her forever, and would always be there with the biggest welcome home. for a love this strong, dawn only feeds him iams. with 2x the meat of other leading brands... ...to help keep rocky's body as strong as a love that never fades. iams. keep love strong. with 2x the meat. love the iams difference or your money back. plays a key role throughout our

district judge kern rolled oklahoma's ban violates the constitution's equal protection clause. the decision is on hold pending appeals from state officials. it's the second time in a month that a federal judge has overturned a gay marriage ban in a traditionally republican state, following utah in december. the supreme court later put gay marriage on hold pending utah's appeal. you talk says it won't recognize any of the marriages performed during the three weeks when they were legal, but the justice department says they'll be recognized at the federal level. new jersey governor chris christie delivered a highly anticipated state of the state address on tuesday amidst the unfolding scandal threatening his political career. last week, governor christie fired a top aide after it emerged she had ordered the closure of lanes leading to the george washington bridge, apparently, to punish the mayor of fort lee for declining to endorse governor christie's bid for reelection. christie opened his speech with an apology to voters. >> as a result from a we let down the people we are inter

. >> reporter: michael kern is calastoga water director. >> what does that look to you when you see that. >> it looks like an empty hole. >> reporter: that empty hole he says is supposed to supply half of the town's water supply. but the situation in calistoga is not dire at least not yet. calistoga is one of many towns connected to the state's water project which still has enough supply to get through this year. but another dry year after that could be bigger trouble. >> that would be a problem because if it's not raining here, it's not raining any where else in the state. and the state's water availability is you know, pretty, pretty small right now as it is. >> reporter: calistoga has asked its residents to restrict their water usage. outdoor irrigation is limited. people should sweep their patios and walk ways not use water. >> we all need to conserve. and it's awful to see the hills that were lush and green all brown and burned. >> some of the other water agencies we called including northern marin county are advising counties to preserve water for irrigation. but in calistoga some

they say they worry russia is really not up to -- not prepared for these serious kerns and threats at the olympic games. >> so what we're finding is not giving full story about what are the threat streams, who do we need to worry about. are the terror groups who have success, are they plotting. there's a missing gap. you never want that when you go into something as important as the olympic games. >> i would not go, and i don't think i would send my family. i don't know how you put a percentage on it. it's such a rich target in an area of the world. they have almost broadcast they are going to try to do something there. >> the fear of a terror attack at the games will be hanging over these olympics from the opening ceremonies and all the way to the closing former cia operative and cnn national security analyst robert bair joining me from los angeles with more on this. bottom line, is it your feeling, a, this had threat is credible. how concerned are you about anyone who may be going to these olympic games? >> i think it's absolutely credible. i think these people will strike somewhere

. >> reporter: michael kern is calastoga water director. >> what does that look to you when you see that. >> it looks like an empty hole. >> reporter: that empty hole he says is supposed to supply half of the town's water supply. but the situation in calistoga is not dire at least not yet. calistoga is one of many towns connected to the state's water project which still has enough supply to get through this year. but another dry year after that could be bigger trouble. >> that would be a problem because if it's not raining here, it's not raining any where else in the state. and the state's water availability is you know, pretty, pretty small right now as it is. >> reporter: calistoga has asked its residents to restrict their water usage. outdoor irrigation is limited. people should sweep their patios and walk ways not use water. >> we all need to conserve. and it's awful to see the hills that were lush and green all brown and burned. >> some of the other water agencies we called including northern marin county are advising counties to preserve water for irrigation. but in calistoga some

. >> treasure cop, attorney general, governor hews, governor glen bening, attorney general kern, cheap journalling barbara, colleagues from city and county government. to all of the people contributing to the life of the state. and to my mom who is with us today. [ applause ] >> mom, thank you for raising me with an appreciation and a love for the tide of our state's history. members of the hardest working cabinet in america, men and women of the maryland general ass assembly. there is one more person i would like to a specially acknowledge this day. she has been at my side every day for 23 years. she is my best friend, my partner in life and the finest mother anyone would want. [ applause ] >> over the course of these seven years you and i have carried commitment. it is commitment to a better future. a better future that our children deserve. a commitment founded on the belief we share in the dig nity of every individual. a commitment strengthened by the belief we believe to increase the common good and the belief we hold that we are in this together and each of us is needed in god's

oklahoma state senator sally kern launched a measure to counter school policies she thinks are too strictr inflexible. under her bill students would not be suspended for possessing small toy weapons, using pencils or fingers for simulating a weapon, drawing weapons or wearing clothes that support the second amendment. >>> republicans are up in arms calling the appointment of an obama political donor to head the investigation into the irs targeting of conservative groups an unbelievable conflict of interest. here's that story. >> reporter: this new revelation that the justice department lawyer heading the irs investigation is an obama campaign contributor has destroyed any remaining trust between the obama administration and the committee. robert muller was asked who was heading the investigation, had victims been interviewed? >> his response to those questions was i don't know, i don't know, i don't know so when you view it all in context, the head of the fbi couldn't even tell us when this investigation started and what was going on, and now we find out this is the person who gave $7,000

we never thought about kerning man as-- crowning the president of lebanon. we went to lebanon to destroy the terrorists headed by arafat. it was a question of life and death for us. a new lebanon. that i learned about lebanon, i read about it and met with lebanese. i never thought, maybe i missed judging -- i'm misjudging. i went to lebanon secretly. north of beirut, i spent 36 hours, meeting with lebanon leaders and meeting the lebanese forces and going to the mountains to see their forces, their stronghold there. i wanted to see them in their homes, how they speak, they behave to be more sure of that. we made all the preparations. i tried to convince him to give a certain number of weapons to the shiites, and have more cooperation with them. i believe it was not the goal of our war -- >> there is a wife. >> my wife and myself visit to to meet with pierre gamayel. this is a picture -- that is my visit to beirut right before the war. i believe it was not the goal of our work, but result of the war. the situation in lebanon could have been entirely different.

the simple reason that it's me in the kern and i guess i should have gone to stand at the same time the six meetings and events of the game to leave you with a little accents all the magic of the impressive set of books at the same as flinching you will see next week will come on blue earth being a hoosier the uganda. i mean. the man seen the on the he said the gentlemen in ntt data will be muted. in all this. who knew. mom and i love guru. is this. was. it is. she is. i do. st yet for thousands of protests is define your goals and got there in the haunted the ukrainian capital was the biggest rallies so far this year. waging in syria the interior ministry here in paris is that teenagers are among the schools of friends that since fighting to oust president bush out of sight the shoring up a shortlist all ages and central african republic zero choose an interim president is fast asked me to put a stop to sectarian problems. looking back i got news for months religious wilson. we begin in the ukrainian capital at protest is being passionate drive police today as they headed towards the p

underlying medical condition by last week of each one and one. 12 people have been hospitalized in kern county into and ventura county with flu like symptoms 3--h1n1 virus. a california mother was arrested after investigators say she let homeless people babysit her son so she could go out and party on new year's eve. 36-year-old summer collras of san bernardino allegedly asked two homeless friends to look after her 10-year- old. she went out for the night, got back at two in the morning, and said her son was gone. it took search and rescue teams 14-hours to track down the boy. he was found walking home from a friend's house. county welfare officials are now taking care of him. starbucks for breakfast, lunch and dinner. a seattle woman did just that in 2013. she challenged herself to eat and drink only items that could be purchased from starbucks, or its partner stores -- for an entire year. she blogging and photographed her meals along the way -- and even lost some weight! her name is "beautiful existence." that's right, her legal name really is "beautiful existence." she says she had p

and kern counties. >> catherine: drought problems are forcing people in santa clara county to cut backeasure to to reduce water use by 10 percent has now been approved. water officials are also going to spend a half million dollars to inform the public about the problem. >> catherine: at six. the teen accused of killing >> catherine: his sister last week is in police custody tonight. oakland police say mario toliver jr. turned himself in today. kron4's scott rates is live in oakland tonight. >> catherine: scott? >> reporter: mario is the main suspect in the shooting of his all-star justice. also the mother of a three year old girl. the shooting happened on thursday at 1800 block in chinatown area of oakland. the two were in an argument over justice bleaches some of mario's clothing. the likely believe that it was pressure to cause more real to turn himself into that. today >> i will like to take my hat off to the family and friends who helped talk this young man to turn himself in today helped take some of the pressure off. >> reporter: reported in oakland scott rates kron 4 news. on t

from the get-go, there was a kern that maybe we can do something to limit the role tv ads play. >> a bipartisan one, this is not a liberal versus conservative. this is changing the nature of politics in a way that's not healthy, thus in terms of raising money to be raised and dubious nature of the ads, they are really garbage to be frank. why it was pushed for was pbs and npr and a what rallied support for that is the idea we would have election, cam page coverage because by 1968, people were naysuated by the tv ads, the lame spin, and here we were in 1961, one of the truly great political years in american history, more than anyone, so many crucial issues on the table, and instead we are getting ads, nixon has marching bands and it's like a car commercial. >> that's a great ad. compared to now. >> compared to now. that's what we discovered. people hated political advertising from the beginning. when they pulledded for it, they didn't like it. >> faze enating how the old ad guys. oh, like, it's great to sell soa. it's just honest, honorable, but the political candidates did not want

david kerns said in a statement released by the league tuesday, dennis rodman's visit to the countryith the team of former nba players can be helping in bridging cultural divides. this is not one of them. so this says to me the nba wants to totally remove itself from dennis rodman and players he brought to north korea for the big basketball game on the north korean leader pea's birthday. we'll have more in the 10:00 hour. >>> for the first time saturday night live has a black female cast member. there she is. her name is sasheer zamata. she'll start the show january 18th. i can remember talking to you about this. you said hey, none of it will make a difference unless they deliver. they delivered. >> absolutely. we have been talking about this for months, when was it going to happen, what would happen? it has. her name is sasheer zamata. she was in college the last time there was an african-american woman on the cast. when rudolph made her last appearance as a regular on saturday night live, sasheer was at the university of virginia. she has been here doing improp the last few years.

ninth on the list the bully pulpit by doris kerns goodwin focusing on the relationship between president theodore roosevelt and william howard taft. go to booktv.org to see the talk at the miami book fair. finally political commentator glenn beck's miracles and massacres, true and untold stories about the making of america. these are the current best-selling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly. >> at the time the central intelligence agency had really taken a beating. they had been through a grueling hearings before congress about who should be blamed for 9/11 and whether the cia failed to watch list, certain individuals and otherwise failed to share information from the fbi that might have foretold or allowed to the fbi to investigate the plots on 9/11. the cia it is fair to say, really buffeted, the 9/11 commission came along and had another set of hearings which were very tough. the chairman of the 9/11 commission noted there staff statements about what happened, what the cia did on 9/11 was an indictment of the agency's performance. as second factor that occurred that con

. >> yeah, i think doris goodwin kerns wrote an amazing book, "team of rivals," and what you see, president. it's like the 2004 dream team for the olympics, which then did not win. and so, what i really think the focus has to be is on team building, and i think you bring a new administration in, any administration, on either side, they are still forming, storming, and norming as a team. then trying to work with military, who probably don't have personal relationships there. the most important thing you could do, particularly if you're going to go on something as complex as an endeavor as a war, you need to build a team in which trust between individuals and groups is really strong. we didn't do that as well as should have been done. >> general, secretary gates suggested there was a misunderstanding or a lack of understanding about the military culture, specifically the point where they ordered the president, the vice president said, basically, this is an order on afghanistan to the chairman of the joent chiefs. was that your opinion, as well, that maybe they didn't understand the military c

. >> now, we all heard from don kern this morning talking about the whole political environment.e fed, the consequences, both for monetary policy and our future fed decision makers will be able to respond in a crisis? >> first of all, it wasn't really a surprise. this is another place where history helps you. if you think about the 1930s, as you well know, we had exactly the same kind of reaction. in fact, it was much more intense. >> although those guys did the wrong thing and you did the right thing. >> well, it wasn't so much even the fed, it was -- it was -- because the fed did keep its head down in the '30s unfortunately, but the government in general. you know, there were marches on washington and strong populous movements and serious talk about revolution even among some parts of the population. roosevelt, what he argued is the strong actions he was taking were about saving capitalism essentially. and, of course, analogously to the report that we had on the crisis in congress this time there was the commission and all of that has happened before and it's not surprising, in