the "l.a. times" book review said over the last 15 years he has filed the best dispatches about mexican migration and its effect on the united states in mexico bar none. he lives in southern california. kathryn ferguson is the co-author of crossing with the virgin, stories from the migrant trail. she is also a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. she is produced and directed to feature-length award-winning documentaries the unholy connemara andrea of the sky. she is native to sony in and she has volunteered with samaritans since 2004. jed parks a co-author of crossing with the virgin spent most of his career in the restaurant business. he became involved with the samaritans movement in the fall of 2005 and norma price also a co-author of crossing with the virgin moved to tucson after a 25 year career in medicine in atlanta where she was an oncologist. she has lived here for just over 13 years. norm of volunteers at a local medical clinic and for the uninsured and also the samaritans. thank you

county jail but -- door at l.a. county jail boomerser lee we didn't see any sign of him because for his own safety and safety of staff members around him as he begins parole they wanted to keep his location secret. but this is the release order in my hand here from friday, saying that he was to be released today and the family oscar grant's family got word of his release at 12:25 a.m., they were waiting outside the jail since 11:30 p.m. last night here in downtown l.a. they were upset about changes in the case they say they were not informed of grant's uncle wanted to speak at the final hearing but didn't get a chance. >>> we need to talk about the issues of race and racism especially that which occurs in this criminal justice system had that been a black police officer that shot a young white kid that black police officer would have been incarcerated for the rest of his life. >> johannes meheserle the exbart cop will now be on felony parole for 5 to 7 years he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter last summer m

the movie opens friday in new york and l.a. we are glad you joined us. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. >> nationwide is on your side >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- books george packer's include "the assassin's gate." he is also a staff writer for "the new yorker." his article this week is called "a dirty business." he joins us from new york. always good to have you on this program. >> it is good to be with you for the first time. tavis: there is someone who cares about washin

l.a. only a high of 71, san francisco 68. stl kind of stuck in that marine air. arizona 105. texas just as hot. we really roasted yesterday, 102 in san antonio. that's where the really hot stuff is. it wasn't bad in the pacific northwest. it wasn't too hot, too cool. metro go a little warmer at 78. boise at 69. still very much middle to high spring temperatures. we haven't seen any signs of a heat wave in the west this spring. now high pressure's going to provide us with a really nice weekend. i know a little system will clip us saturday here in the northwest with some showers. but most areas are going to be cry right through father's day. that's a really nice forecast. here's how we're looking for the day today. in l.a., we still have that marine layer to deal with, maybe fog and drizzle. we'll get rid of that as we go throughout the day. hoping to break out in sunshine this afternoon san francisco down to l.a. the valley should see temperatures in the 80s. as we go up the coast, not bad

in fact the l.a.es tried repeatedly to get propel supporters -- prop 8 supporters to comment on it throughout the course of the trial but they refused now they have filed appeals and they argue judge walker has a conflict of interest and should have taken himself out of the case because they should not have financially benefited. given the long history and legal precedent recausing or disqualifying a judge is highly unusual. >> well, really the sexual orientation of a judge has nothing to do with his ability to apply evidence to the law in a particular case really just as sexual orientation of an ordinary citizen has nothing to do with whether they should be able to marry or not which is the whole point of this case. >> the new judge in this hearing, could issue a ruling from the bench today or make a written ruling later on this week. maybe later this year the hearing is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. back to you. >>> thanks a lot. >>> it was a sunny weekend looks like a sunny week. >> i know i broke out th

grant's uncle is in l.a. and feels the system failed. >> you know, this is a travesty to our criminal justice system, it's a travesty to men of color in our communities and a travesty to us as a family to have to suffer this injustice that we did in this issue concerning him shooting my nephew. >> reporter: where johannas mehserle is now and what his plans are, his attorney has not said much about that. this is far from over as far as the courts are concerned. with a federal civil suit and appeal of mehserle's conviction still active. back here live, i wanted to show you the shooting happened up there on the b.a.r.t. platform on the side closest to us. in the past after the verdict, the b.a.r.t. station here was boarded up and access was limited. but this morning you can see it's pretty much business as usual, at least for now. reporting live, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. it is 6:04. we'll learn more about a class action suit filed against the oakland police department. the lawy

in sports, the l.a. dodgers rallied in the ninth against the angels, but it was a crushable play that stole the freeway series spotlight. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning. to say it's been a rough year for the l.a. dodgers would be an understatement. their owners frank and jamie mccourt are going through a nasty divorce. the league has taken over day-to-day operation of the team. and the dodgers have one of the worst records in baseball. but yesterday the boys in blue had a reason to smile. freeway series in los angeles, angels up 2-1 in the ninth when the dodgers make a date with lady luck. aaron miles with the fly sac to center. gordon tags from third. the throw was there and they call gordon safe. but take another look, it appears jeff mathis blocks the play perfectly yet the umpire sees it differently. dodgers tie it at two. next batter, tony gwynn jr. with a page out of his father's playbook, a walkoff rbi. dodgers avoid the sweep with the 3-2

that was the case before the l.a. case. and it would be odd for naumann leading the defense not to know i think if your lieutenants are out doing that. there is sort of circumstantial evidence that would suggest that darrow knew what was going on. when his lieutenants were arrested in los angeles to darrow is running to them on the street corner trying to alert them that the police had said a sting duress burt franklin and some other people there on charges of bribery. what i think and alan dershowitz is very critical of darrow and perhaps rightly so but i think what we missed is the context for those cases and what we have to understand is this is an era before collective bargaining and buckley had in the year before collective bargaining was a class war and i really mean war. where there were armies, private armies hired a capitalist to destroy unions and the way they destroyed unions is also by using violence and agent provocateurs and sometimes the unions would do violence on their own but sometimes they were instigated

according to the "l.a. times," in 2000, a tipster reported seeing catherine creig getting her hair done at a salon in the fountain valley. and in 2005 he was looked at for a series of bank robberies in the area. >> amazing. right under their noses in santa monica. >>> triple digit losses on wall street. coming up, what's fueling a big sell-off. >> plus the emergency action the white house just took to drive down gas prices. >>> they might be ashamed, feel remorseful or be scared. >> deer john, get lost! a creative way some east bay neighbors are fighting prostitution. when we come back. can add a pound a year to your waistline! ============b r e a k == >>> the one food that can add a pound a year to your waistline, coming up. >>> hi, i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the cbs 5 weather center. a cool breeze in the bay area today. how much cooler could we get? we'll talk about that coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and oil prices are plunging. digits, but it seems to be making a comeback. here to explain what's

i would like to add that the l.a.ice chief has already admitted this case is based huely on eyewitness identification -- hugely on eyewitness identification and acknowledges that these types of cases are very difficult to prove. if ramirez is found guilty, it gives lapd more time to build their case. frank? >> but this is a parole hearing and that was his attorney and he said a whiff of anything wrong. chances are he will stay behind bars, then, don't you think? >> that's true. the burden of evidence is not as high as if it was a normal case before a criminal judge, for example. so yes, that is why there are prosecutors and defense attorneys who both think that ramirez will likely stay in jail. >> we will find out. hunter, thank you very much. >>> a driver loses control and shears off a natural gas line at a san leandro apartment complex, it happened at the parkside apartments at 143rd avenue just before 9:00 this morning. the driver of the suv accidentally pressed the gas after parking, crashing into the building's u

a congressional auditor tells "the l.a.imes" as much as $6.6 billion of iraq reconstruction funds remain unaccounted for and may have been stolen potentially making it the largest theft of funds in national history. the money, which came from the sale of iraqi oil, was part of $20 billion shipped to iraq between 2003 and 2004. iraqi officials say they may sue the u.s. to reclaim the lost money. >>> some progress in eastern arizona where officials say more than 700 square mile wildfire is now 18% contained. crews are clearing brush and lighting backfires to stop it from spreading into new mexico. >>> amateur video captured a horrific scene in germany as a good year blimp burst into flames, killing the pilot. three passengers managed to escape unharmed. no word on the cause. >>> and a public relations nightmare for mcdonald's. a photo being circulated on-line falsely claims the fast food chain is charging african-americans an extra fee due to a recent string of robberies. mcdonald's called the photo a "senseless and ignorant

ricardo is a busboy at a bar and restaurant here in l.a.t pop-a-shot player i have ever seen. last year, ricardo battled some of the best. lebron james -- he beat him. charles barkley -- he beat him. kobe bryant -- he beat him. ricardo conquered them all. but tonight he faces maybe the most electrifying player in basketball. we go now to the great marv albert for introductions. marv? >> thanks, j.k. hello, america. i'm marv albert, and it is time once again for the "jimmy kimmel live" pop-a-shot challenge. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> oh, sorry. >> let's meet tonight's competitors. first, at 6'10", 250 pounds, an nba all-star and rookie of the year from the los angeles clippers, here is blake griffin. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. oh, sorry, sorry. >> and now -- and for me, this is a very emotional moment -- at 5'7", 148 pounds, he is a full-time busboy at local watering hole barney's beanery. he is the crown prince of pop-a-shot. here is ricardo the busboy. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow! this is unbelievable! hello, ricardo

as in most places you need a permit to film and certainly an l.a. and certainly in their place it's it's crowded with pedestrian traffic right venice beach but you know people try and and renegade the situation will bring us a small film crew down here to try and film without a permit so what a couple of rap groups have done in town is send out tweets saying hey we're going to film a video then a speech or we're going to theme a film a video downtown here's a location meet us there you know so they get this they summon this huge crowd for free for their video and they don't need a permit really don't need to pay any extras or anything so we've had a few instances where unfortunately the film crew gets caught they get told but there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of kids here all dressed to the nines waiting to be extras in some rap video then they find out it's not going to happen if they get really angry and you know fights of broader program there's a lot of mayhem from that and then they all gather at the bus stops. to try and filter back

salonpas. >>> a secluded l.a. mansion. a 911 call. >> he's not breathing?he's not breathing, sir. >> and he's not conscious? >> he's not conscious, sir. >> a 50-year-old man in distress. that man is michael jackson. >> michael jackson, the king of pop -- >> -- was taken to the hospital and there were rumors -- >> he was apparently administered cpr in the ambulance. >> as the news breaks, michael's brothers, tito and jermaine, begin to hear grim and troubling reports from loved ones and the media. do you remember the date, where you were, and the time? >> oh, yeah. i'll never forget it. i was -- i happened to be home. my middle son, terrell, called me on the phone. dad, is it true, what they are saying on tv about uncle michael? i said what are they saying? he was rushed to the hospital and he's not breathing or something like that. i say, what? >> you called and said do you know anything about michael being rushed to the hospital? i said no. and i called my mother immediately. and she said she was on her way to the hospital. jermaine's mother, katherine, co

michael jackson spent his final hours here at this rented mansion in l.a.physician dr. conrad murray told police it was a restless and ultimately a drug-filled night with jackson battling his chronic insomnia allegedly pleading with murray to give him a powerful and dangerous drug anesthetic called propofol. anesthetic called propofo randy taraborrelli is a jackson biographer and a life-long confidant. >> he used to say, and i believed it, michael would have paid $1 million for a good night's sleep. that's not an exaggeration. he actually would have. >> michael jackson was plagued with insomnia for years. >> he spent years covering jackson. >> he was just plagued with this horrible inability to go to sleep. and he would rely upon doctors to provide him with medication so that he could sleep. >> according to police, jackson's final hours, beyond these windows, involved a cocktail of drugs, allegedly administered by dr. murray. based on the affidavit, dr. murray's efforts to get jackson to sleep began with a 10 milligram tablet of valium around 1:30 a.m. it d

. >> kristine lazar is live in downtown l.a.h more and the crucial test that could happen at any time. good morning -- or rather, good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon. i just got off the phone with ramirez's attorney. he says they are under a gag order so he cannot confirm whether ramirez will take a lie detecter test this afternoon but we do believe it will take place. he had no comment, however, on a police report out of nevada that says ramirez is a suspect in yet another attempted murder. hoping to prove his innocence, the prime suspect in the near fatal beats of giants fan bryan stow may take a lie detector test this afternoon, one day after his attorneys say they turned over cell phone records and a list of alibi witnesses to the d.a.'s office. they say their client, giovanni ramirez, is innocent. now we have obtained a police report from henderson, nevada, which identifies a man named giovanny ramirez as one of two suspects in a shooting. while giovanni ramirez is spelled differently, possibly a clerical error, the

area that wear l.a. dodger caps and aren't necessarily fans of the dodgers. >> reporter: what the attorney said did not come up on the polygraph exam is a nevada police report implicating ramirez in a january shooting outside los angeles in henderson. police there will say only that the case is open and no warrant has been issued for ramirez. will ramirez be charged here for the dodger attack? >> i would be shocked if they filed it. >> again, that was patrick healy reporting from los angeles. >>> let's turn your attention now to the mysterious disappearance of nursing student michelle lay. tonight authorities are focussing on her cell phone records. the 26-year-old disappeared friday night while on a break from rounds at kaiser hayward, but her cell phone was used on saturday, and cops are now pinpointing the location where the phone was activated. police have also issued search warrants and interviewed between 15 to 20 relatives and acquaintances. one person was brought in for questioning, but that pers

l.a. unified is banning chocolate and strawberry flavored milk from cafeterias in the hopes of fighting child obesity and obesity, one reason behind the troubling reversal in life expectancy. nationwide a baby born today can expect to live 78 years and 2 months. that is a record. however, a new report has found that life span is decreasing across a large swath of the south with men in parts of mississippi not expected to see their 66th birthdays. >>> and finally, a home improvement job that went off the rails. look at the massive crane moving a hot tub into place in minnesota and, oh, yes. down went the hot tub and the crane as you can see. jackknifing the truck, roof and chimney on that house, gone. though here's the thing. after realizing no one was hurt and thankfully no one was, the homeowner reportedly wasn't even upset. repairs are being made. the hot tub is, in fact, in place. >> it's in place. that's where it's supposed to be? like over the fence. >> a win/win. i think it was the c

but one of the shows that i really enjoyed was "l.a. law." the reason i liked "l.a. law" was that it was about the kind of business of law. you know? a lot of it was about the real, you know, business. you have to work hard in that context to get drama. it's harder to write a show like "l.a. law" because you have to find drama almost in the ordinary practice of law. to my way of thinking, you know, doing a crime show or even a criminal defense show, that's the easy stuff to do. you know? there's drama that's inherent in it. the hard stuff to do is say, like "the paper chase" where they're going to the library. really. so you've got to figure out a way to make that interesting. we did a show called "scavenger hunt," a massive search through all the libraries. and it's actually a very exciting show. but when we went to the network, they said, what are you shooting? we said we're shooting an episode with seven libraries. and they were like, we got to cancel this. how did osborn get here? you know? that's the hard kind of stuff for television. i'd like to see more of tha

and l.a. a sunny 80 degrees. >>> time now for a check of the national forecast. latest satellite picture shows rain moving into the pacific northwest, and down the west coast. thunderstorms are drifting over the southeast. it's fairly clear from the southwest to the great lakes. and the northeast has some patchy clouds. but later today, much-needed rain will fall over the southeast. scattered storms will track through the northeast. it promises to be dry in the midwest, while rain comes back to the northwest. and expect high heat across the southwest, and southern plains. >>> in sports, the los angeles dodgers have filed for bankruptcy. owner frank mccourt is expected to ask a federal judge to approve $150 million in financing, and allow him to auction off the team's tv rights. that's something baseball commissioner bud selig has refused. major league baseball took control of the team's day-to-day operations in april, and is looking into mccourt's handling of the team. a hearing is scheduled for today. >>> the bankruptcy filings seemed to energize the dodgers in

l.a. kate will look gorgeous, of course.the couple mindful of the economy won't bring up full staff along. their itinerary has been released this morning. it is the talk of the morning, afternoon, evening. hi, max! >> reporter: it really is. i spent the morning where they outlined details of what is effectively -- they will take in everything from -- big red carpet event, sit-down dinner with all of the hollywood great figures. celebrities as well. all -- veterans. a very busy three days. and no time we are told to meet old friends who they have in l.a. like the beckhams and this is what david had to say. >> we know, obviously, they are going over to the states but i'm sure their diary is more than full for them to be doing so many events, so it's going to be exciting for them, i'm sure. they have got many other things going on in their lives, but, you know, it's incredible to have them together and have them married. >> reporter: there he is! david beckham. it's not about celebrities but it's about promoting uk interests. t

l.a. is the homeless vet capital of the u.s., with more than 8,000 on city streets.kes cordova angry again, especially since just blocks away sits almost 400 acres, half the size of central park donated to the u.s. government after the civil war expressly to provide housing for disabled veterans. while today there is a large v.a. hospital there and an old age home for veterans, most of the land and buildings that once housed homeless vets have been vacant and dilapidated for decades. what's more, with the city encroaching on all sides, the v.a. now leases about a third of the property for private use to a bus company, to enterprise rent-a-car, for u.c.l.a.'s baseball stadium, a private school's athletic field. there's even a golf course and a dog park and there's no public record of where the money goes. >> i got serious about it. >> reporter: for seven years, bobby shriver, former mayor of nearby santa monica, has been pressuring the v.a. to provide shelter to homeless vets. >> i think it's terrible. people are dying in this street when there's enough of this kind o

we are going live to l.a. with how the big bust went down. >> using me millation to weed -- using humiliation to weed out prostitution. the letter to johns in one bay area city. >> he says he does it all the time, the man who wore women's underwear on a u.s. airways flight speaks out. there he is. the reason behind his skimpy outfit. should save for retirem, but what happens when you're about to retire? woman: how do you go from saving to spending? fidelity hus get to this point, and now we're talking about what comes next. man: we worked together to create a plan to help our money last. woman: so we can have the kind of retirement we want. now, you know how this works. just stay on the line. oh, yeah. what makes hershey's s'mores special? hershey's chocolate goodness, that brings people together. hershey's makes it a s'more. you make it special. pure hershey's. >>> welcome back. here's a live look at conditions through pleasanton approaching the dublin interchange. so far, we are off to a trouble- free proble

fallon disaster because he lives in new york, she lives in l.a.an for jimmy fallon at the end that says, there's only one slight problem here. mrs. fallon lives with mr. fallon in new york. >> do i have a spokesman? still i have to say "star" magazine is 95% of the time correct. so you've got to give it up for -- no matter what, i swear those magazines they're all right. they're all correct. that one -- >> can you still laugh even at stuff like that? you find it funny? >> i called her -- we found out it was coming ouflt i said, honey, we're in a lot of trouble. apparently we're splitting our time between -- do you have a home in l.a. that you're not telling me about? this is really upsetting to me now. she's, like, oh, my gosh. she's a fan of those magazines. my wife loves "us weekly," "star". she reads all of those trashy magazines. why would you read those -- those -- oh, jessica simpson is getting -- what? she's on a diet. it's candy. you don't have to think. you just read and they're the best. they're rags, but they're the best things in the w

where we're not immune to it either here in l.a. and you know what happened here specifically was. two rival gangs started sending tweets out to meet at the basketball courts here in venice beach they started on a on a friday afternoon and they said you know meet at the basketball courts tomorrow at five o'clock in venice beach and you know i monitor all the the tweets for venice beach and normally i just do it because we have so many tourists and people you know take a picture and send a picture and i started just seeing this massive reach tweeting of this message and it was it was really strange and then i started seeing the gang language so you know in l.a. that's a pretty sensitive subject for us so. i learned the police i let them know that you know there was a call out. hundreds of tweets being retreated to me to the basketball court so the next day around five o'clock in that there was a lot of gang language being used and sure enough there were hundreds and hundreds of kids here not the normal tourists that you see walking around and about an hour later somebody was shot so

he came to l.a.get into the entertainment game and he has. >> my parents gave me like a 30-day ultimatum. find a job or come back to texas. so i went and signed up for the extra work and i was working that night on a movie called "rat race." >> reporter: now, we've watched "rat race" a bunch of times. paused. rewound. we just can't find him. but the first to spot jesse in this "cougar club" clip will win this signed photo. tweet me. watch it between on our site. you can pause and stuff. anyway, jesse's been working flatout for 11 years. he was even on "glee." >> got a long wait. >> reporter: right there. he kind of worked with larry david. his imdb credits include, nerd, nerd number one, nerdy guy, geek and third ufo enthusiast. >> i've done my fair share of speaking parts. just not many people have screen them. >> reporter: here's one of those moments on "monk." >> he was going like this. what do you think it means? >> reporter: but what will life be like as a background artist? >> most shows, they'

protests are expected to happen sunday in oakland and l.a. oscar grant's uncle says it's impossible not to react. >> to hear people of different communities expressing maybe we should lay down, put our hands behind our backs and get on with our lives is painful. >> reporter: again, the coalition for justice for oscar grant is going to be here at the fraught vail b.a.r.t. station to talk about what they are going to do about mehserle's release. we are going to be here for that. i should mention the oakland police chief saying he does recognize the right for free expression. he's hoping for peaceful demonstrations. >> thank you very much, marla. the story will be following. it's 4:34 now. >>> alameda firefighters had the money for rescue training but didn't give it. in a memo, the division chief says they were given money to train to rescue swimmers. the memo goes against what the interim fire chief told the council the day a man died in alameda waters. at the time, they said they lost the water rescue team due to budget cuts. >>> at least 5,00