a former journalist, kidder was founder of the institute for global ethics. the institute said his lifetime goal was to bridge the gap between moral philosophy and daily life. kidder appeared on "religion and ethics newsweekly" several times and was also a longtime member of our advisory board. >>> that's our program for now. i'm kim lawton. you can follow us on twitter and facebook, where i have a fan page, too. find us on youtube, and watch us anytime, anywhere on smart phones. there's also much more on our web site. please comment on our stories and share them. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, music from the daughters of st. paul choir. ♪

in the south bay, a san as a community group wants the city to crack down on hotels they say kidder toiance for californians community empowerment marched in the washington neighborhood in claims one of the problem hotels is located in that community. one of the nation's top supermarket chains does an about-face after a public uproar about what is being called thinks line. as dan kerman tells us, the safeway store chain says they will soon stop carrying lean finely textured beef. >> safeway says after it sells its existing stock they will no longer purchase any fresh or frozen ground beef fat contained leaned finely textured beef. safeway will joint wholefoods and costco that already refused to sell the product in stores. wal-mart, target and trader joe's have refused to answer questions or did not respond as to whether they carried this type of beef. >> if you shop at one of these unknown stores your best bet is to simply ask the grocer. some >>pam: of san leandro police are investigating a home invasion and raped. jeff bliss explains the happened. jeff >> police were called out to a

several has 7.9 kidder to 16.2 last year and san jose has 3.7 compared to 9.5 last year. with rainfall totals trending downward, the national weather service says these numbers are 33- 50% of where they should be during a normal year. >> it is certainly a negative impact on water levels. the snowpack in the sierra is also impacted. will probably seek critical fire conditions reached a lot sooner and probably last a lot longer, particularly when we get to september and october, that it definitely lead us into some trouble. >>erica: it looks like we do have some more what whether on the horizon. on the golden gate there is no fog or rain to speak of but it is cold. most of the north bay locations are sitting in the 30's. we do have the areas of apache frost. it is windy in the higher elevations. as we head into the afternoon we expect partly cloudy skies. temperatures will be in the '50s. as looks ahead we do have the potential for rainfall and those chances look like they will stay north of the golden gate. here's a look at temperatures outside the door. the north bay. the

one thing missing snow in the high country as kidder's no. 4 for the day of course is intended snow the past couple of days looking at their how about this a hundred 44 in. on the ground at kirkwood more campus core value of 90 in. on the ground the chances snow and showers this weekend it had additional 100 in. stormy weather this weekend morning weather coming up ron welcome back 615 is your timeless take a look at some of the top stories on this wednesday sent as the mayor at least is the share fully charged today with misconduct mercury news refusing his kolffs to step down buildings are damaged after an earthquake kids out in mexico yesterday there no injuries are reports of deaths support is involved aftershocks as well and the from the is the winner of the republican presidential primary in illinois taking a wide share of the electoral votes he beeper santorum by double-digit margins or one have insights from a political analyst in that fight from shanghai of this the third year or trip took more than today it days to the lyndon anchorage alaska and seven time on for hours before

. >> he's such a kidder, oh, wait, he's serious? it wasn't the one mention in the one speech.ney campaign is actively trying to raise money from regular human beings. there's evidence. the "l.a. times" reporting today on two separate small dollar fund-raising pitches the romney campaign launched. sent out a fund-raising e-mail, quote, donate $3 today to be automatically entered to be mitt's special guest on election tuesday. they put out one to ask for $20 contributions to fight the, quote, obama attack machine. they have two problems with this strategy. mitt romney up to this point has been raising money from other people who are like mitt romney, raising money from other rich guys. and there it is again, right? when he is soliciting money, he's basically just talking to wealthy people. and to his credit, he has come up with a really great pitch to wealthy people which is, here, look what i'll do for you. a new analysis by the nonpartisan tax policy center shows wealthy people will make out like bandits under mitt romney's tax plan. quote, the romney plan would give the top 1

he's such a kidder. oh, wait, he's serious. it wasn't that just one mention and that one speech.gn is trying to raise money from regular human beings. the "l.a. times" reporting on two separate small dollar fund-raising pitch that's the romney campaign launched. they sent out a fund-raising e-mail, donate $3 to be automatically empntered to be mitt's special guest. they also asked for $20 contributions to fight the obama attack machine. they have two problems with this strategy. first, mitt romney up to this point has just been raising his money from other people who are like mitt romney, right? he's only been raising money from other rich guys. and there it is again, right? when he is soliciting money, he's basically just talking to wealthy people. to his credit, he has come up with a really great pitch to wealthy people. look, look what i'll do for you. a new analysis shows that wealthy people will make out like bandits under mitt romney's tax plan. the romney plan would give the top 1% of earners an average tax cut of $150,000. those making a million dollars or more will recei

activities also a lot of too much risk but because of what happened in the wholesale markets where kidder was weaker capital requirements and more funding risk and was brought collapse of the banking system in the united states that proposal system that caused so much pressure in the trauma and damage. there's is a much more sweeping separation and i do not think it makes sense for our country. >> i'm not saying that it does either. i think the point you're making earlier and certainly there's a number of solutions being topped up there and whether it is the basil discussions and what inlet is doing and others and we know there's great differences between greece and germany and france and italy and others within the e.u.. very specifically though, it had been brought to my attention looking at our debt structure and the british debt structure there is a chart how to verify salles that indicated the amount of debt that a great britain has and when it is coming out to be renewed and the of much more effectively in my mind back looted this. their debt window is very different than our tenure

thank you, kidder, for inviting me. i basically want to endorse much of michel's analysis. i think that the race to war has been halted. i think president obama handled netanyahu brilliantly, and he embraced him close and at the same time he basically read him the riot act and said no you're not going to start a war now and you will not start a war before my reelection, at least my hope for reelection. if you look at the remarks that were made at the aipac conference and when the two of them mad and afterwards, i think this is rather clear. at the same time we have seen some interesting signals from tehran, and perhaps trend one will talk about that a little more. not exactly, well, what -- right after the comments that obama made talking about decrying the loose talk of war and stressing that diplomacy was his preferred option for dealing with iranian nuclear program, the supreme leader reiterated in 1995 hot law which he said building nuclear weapons would be a quote great sin, unquote. and he praised obama which is something -- not something the supreme leader of iran do