that's where we find laurence scott who has more on the america's cup racing.ence. >> reporter: it is a beautiful night here, and a great day of racing on the bay thus far in the match cup competition. a little bit of intrigue. a little bit of surprise as both oracle team usa teams were competing. both pushing for giants. but one of them not too happy right now. take a look. the bay area is playing host to some of the best sailors in the world. 11 boats from eight countries on super fast ac-45s are fighting it out in round two of the america's cup world series. and the crowds this weekend will be some of the biggest ever to watch america's cup racing in north america due to the fact that it's fleet week here in san francisco and an estimated one million visitors will be packing the shoreline for the annual displays by the united states navy and the blue angels. and those huge crowds will also see some of the top skippers in the world humming some of the fastest boats on water in fleet and match race competitions. and one of those skippers, the winningest sir ru

that's where laurence scott has been spending his saturday. laurence? >> hey, diane. how you doing?emendous day of racing today, full of spills, some chills, and nonstop action. there is a new champion in the match racing. we'll show you that in a second. and there is another guy who is right on the doorstep of the fleet racing championship tomorrow. we'll give you all the action that took place today. just take a look. it was an absolutely wild day of racing on the bay at the america's cup world series. oracle team usa spithill first punching a ticket to the finals, and then at the start of the first fleet race, they find themselves upside down and out of action. but spithill and crew would right the ship and rejoin the group of 11 in the second fleet race with a chance to get back on track before their twilight match race. and the troubles continue for team usa as sir russell coutts and his crew were forced to deal with a sail misfunction. the most points are to be had in sunday racing. and in the grand finale, the match race finals before sunset, oracle team usa spithill puts the

let's go out to nbc bay area's laurence scott.au laurence, the championship roundzs are approaching. >> reporter: they are. the match race semifinals about to take place in 20 minutes, later this evening we will know who that match racing champion is when they have the finals after a series of fleet races. but i want to tell you that we've got the fleet race finals right here on nbc bay area tomorrow with our coverage starting at 1:30. right now i want to show you everything that has been leading up to today's action, right here on the bay. after four exciting fleet races, ben ainslie continues to rule the waves, the greatest olympic wailer of all time making his presence felt. anyone who thought the early results were a one-off are completely mistaken. jpmorgan dar, the team to beat and yesterday they get another win and another second place finish in both of the fleet races. ainslie's boat tops the table and leads the ac 45 fleet. in the match racing leading into today's final for the finishes a mix of confusion and disbelief. s

i'm laurence cornfield chief building inspect or. we're at the brown bag lunch serious. we're here with the department of public works street use and mapping section. nick has been here for 23 years. >> 23 -- who's counting. >> and we will talk today about streets and sidewalks. mostly about sidewalks and a number of the related important issues in san francisco disabled access, hazards, encroachments. what they mean and how you can solve the problems. and maintenance responsibilities, who's responsible. good point. want to welcome you all and invite you to ask your questions. this is a dialogue and discussion. the weather is cool and might rain. we will keep the pace up and keep ourselves warm. we have a guest joining us, a special guest. a structural engineer who does a lot of work in the city with street and sidewalks and repair. >> nice to see you. >> he does a lot of the work for subsidewalk basements. many builds which down the face of the building ask extend under the sidewalk is and need a permit from department of public works. >> annual assessment fees courtesy

that's where we find nbc bay area's laurence scott who is once again an honorary skipper. >> we are on the bay with team korea, victorious today in the america's cup series match racing qualifiers. the youngest skipper by far in the world series competitions here on the bay this weekend. tell me something. what a thrill, not just competing in your first race, but winning your first race. how did it go? >> it's pretty awesome. we managed to get a good start. and we kind of trying to throw it away a little. we managed to hold it together. and all the guys worked really hard and we came away with the win. >> i want to tell you guys something. not only is he a two-time olympian, but he is 21 years old right now. he competed at the games in london, winning a silver medal in the 49er class. and then back in 2008, competed in china at the age of 17. the olympics twice. what did you get out of the olympics that you bring here to the bay in the america's cup competition? >> sailing with the pressure. you kind of yeah, it's one of the things you spend all your time and you just build up to one t

laurence scott joins us from san francisco. lawrence, you were literally on the boats in august. were the sailors happy with the support here in the bay area? >> reporter: they're loving it. they're loving it completely. and we'll be back on one of the boats. tomorrow we'll be with team korea. we want to thank oracle's jimmy spittle or the taking us out the first time in august. it's going to be a busy weekend, but it's going to bring all kind of attention. they may be anticipating the largest crowd ever to see one of these races in north america because of all the events here in san francisco this weekend. and the racing will continue through sunday. let's show you a little bit right now as to what was out on the bay today. ♪ the america's cup world series is back on the bay for another week of racing with match racing qualifiers set for wednesday as the action continues through to the fleet racing finals on sunday. tuesday practice sessions were just part of the scene as the skippers from all 11 teams came together, and nine of them looking to challenge oracle team usa which to

my husband laurence hoped to be here as well and jeff and i business partner and we are lucky to be included in this month's honorium and thank you for having us and we will keep doing what we do because we love doing t thanks. [applause] >> thank you. supervisor olague. i have the honor of making the next presentation for my district, district three. let me start off by saying i hate restaurant appreciation month for two reasons. one, during the ceremony i get extremely hungry. secondly, san francisco we have the highest per capita number of restaurants of any city in the country, and my district apparently has the highest number of restaurants per square mile of any square mile in our city, and we have so many amazing restaurants it literally takes my staff several meetings and i to hash out who we think should be recognized every year and it's my honor to recognize a relatively new restaurant in north beach and extremely loved in the neighborhood. i would like to invite up liz. i think i saw you back there. if you could step up to the microphone and liz is half of the partnership of dane

rooting for the giantses and become a critical part of this giants organization, the giants president laurence baer. [cheers and applause] >> welcome giants fans everywhere. hello to way back. look at this. wow! what do you say we make a habit of getting together like this every late october? what do you think? [cheers and applause] we all saw a lot of familiar faces and heard a lot of familiar voices on the parade route today. there were faces and voices which from february through october energized our players and coaches and manager and enabled them to bring home a world series championship. thank you. my favorite sign on the parade route was very simple. it said "san francisco, the happiest place on earth". and we're a happy place today because we see what a team can do in a two way love affair to bring a city and a team together as one. i remember when flying back from detroit on monday as the city flew over the beautiful city in the bay area we all in the giants family wish we could go door to door to blow kirbs to every one of you to return the unconditional love you provided us selling

. >> reporter: from the home of the giants, laurence scott. >> it's all high-tech. we invite you to stay with us at nbc bay area, and our website for our behind the scenes coverage of the world series. that includes our partnership with comcast sportsnet bay area. we'll get reaction from inside the giants clubhouse. both clubhouses immediately following the game. you can switch over to sports net central live from willie mays plaza. >>> new details on the serious discovery of the body of a teenaged girl that washed ashore on sunday. the girl's been identified as missing albany high school student. the team had been reported missing to the richmond police department. but apparently it wasn't the first time. a fellow high school student heard about the discovery of a slender dark haired girl with braces whose body was found at the beach. and contacted authorities. her identity was confirmed through dental records. investigators are trying to piece together how the east bay student ended up in the pacific ocean. they want to confirm also she left on her own. there's no

this we have seen 2 fire hydrants the new fire hydrant, an old fire hydrant and across the street, laurence. this is part of the high pressure water system develop indeed san francisco after the 1906 earthquake when the board of supervisors passed legislation to prevent the failure of the water system. this was the blue top is part of the separate system that's tied to reservoirs in the city and can be pumped directly out of the bay through this pump station. there is one by the ballpark where they pump live sea water into the system. >> let's go see when the date. >> well -- i don't think so. 1905. 1909. yeah. okay. >> the thing about this is this is under high pressure. if a fire truck hooks to this into a regular fire pump this water will flow through the fair truck and back to the regular fire hydrant hooked to the regular drinking water. there is an issue after a fire of flushing the water system. >> let's look at market street. this is an interesting sidewalk condition. >> this is a huge public works project to repave and redo all of market street years ago. it was. and -- >> there it

the sheriff's office along with state and federal agencies say laurence stewart tossed the first pipe bomb around 7:00 yesterday morning, and the second half an hour later. while there was some damage to some of the homes, nobody was hurt. police say the 25-year-old man is armed dangerous, and possibly carrying explosives. >> a 15-year-old girl in maryland is dead tonight. she was killed on her way to school. she was hit by a car while crossing germantown road and was. drive, steps away from seneca valley high school. police say the 10th grader was not on a crosswalk and the driver of the vehicle had a green light. they spoke with christina's mother, who believes the driver may not have seen her daughter. >> it was dark, and she had on all black. the car, i guess may be they did not see her. >> friends say they will remember her unique fashion sense and told us cristina wanted to become a pediatrician. >> coming up, the president takes a tour of the destruction in new jersey today, but any time out of the political truce of hurricane sandy did not last long. >> come to you from your w

coming up at 6:00, our laurence scott will introduce you to one of the bmx stars at the event. you can catch all the action this weekend of the dew tour. it will be broadcast right here on nbc bay area. >>> this week we've got some hot weather. but if we go to st. louis, rain, lots of it, forcing the giants to delay their game. >> that's right. big-time news for a lot of our giants fans here as we are tracking some of the strong rain moving right across st. louis, a lot of the heaviest rainfall moving east. we do expect clearing over the next 45 minutes. but the big question here, will they resume in the seventh inning? i'm not sure on all the particulars on that, but it definitely is going to be something close here to watch. busch stadium right there. and you can see over the next 30 to 45 minutes, the rain will be lessening up. so a much improved picture, again, over the next 45 minutes for the giants. hopefully they can get back to game play and the giants can take a win. okay, back here at home it has been a much different situation. near record-setting temperatures. 10 to

i'm laurence scott. i'll give you back the phone. >> lawrence, stay with me just a second. looking at live pictures outside civic center plaza where everyone is having a great old time, waving the rally flags, everything is lit up in orange. i imagine you have a much different feel where you are in detroit in comerica park. >> a very humbling scene when you think what the owner wanted to see happen. he tried to bring a payroll that would make a championship team, the american pennant by sweeping the yankees swept themselves, and just never really got the bats off their shoulder. costilla didn't have the world series they thought he would have. miguel cabrera finally got the home run he wanted, but they knew the wind was probably going to be out of the sails, unfortunately. people in detroit,ly te i will you, even in defeat, these folks in detroit are really kind, nice, classy people that have taken what was a shocking scenario for them -- they thought there would be a series. they didn't think it would be three games, over and out. >> i love to hear that, lawrence. good spo

ford had just lost the election, so that laurence silberman and bob bork and nino scalia all came out of government. and before going on to their other careers as judges or as professors, they spent something like six months at the american enterprise institute. and we had no cafeteria then, we had no lunchroom, so we--the four of us brown-bagged it every day and just talked. then jude wanniski came down on a fellowship--he was writing his book then--and he started talking to us about supply-side economics, which was very interesting and about which we knew nothing, and those were a very stimulating peri--that was a very stimulating period for all of us. at our luncheons, we never talked about law, about which, of course, i knew very little. we talked mainly about religion and economics, religion being my subject and economics being jude wanniski's subject. and everyone was interested, and we became very good friends and have been very good friends, all of us, since then. c-span: did you ever talk about some of the things we've just talked about in--in the s--like aristotle and plato

there is a multiple-state all- manhunt for 25-year-old laurence stewart. >> he has made three bombs and deploy them. morenot know anything vicious than that. a county sheriff's detective live here, and his e able tombers wer unharmed, even though the bomb damaged three rooms. be it wasght may something from the storm -- a explosion, power surge, like that.razy never thought a bomb. people were not home at the time, but no one was hurt. investigators say the targets criminal previous n the countyns i wanted forrt is exposure and violating protective order in earlier case involving an ex-girlfriend. news obtained this of heavilye video d equipment when mobileties searched a after theortly bombing. of a booby concerned trap. until thisnot stop man is in custody. >> store grew up in and attended law school. -- stuart grew up in philadelphia -- stewart grew up in philadelphia. now live look at the charges. stewart faces two counts of f a law-d murder o officer, attempted usetal murder, arson, and weapon in a terror act. this case is taking agents the d.c. metro area. abc news will be coverin

laurence pope is tapped for the diplomatic post a month after the death of u.s. ambassador christopher stevens in the benghazi consulate attack. pope retired from the foreign service twelve years ago. >>> the 2012 nobel peace prize awarded just a couple of hours ago. it didn't go to a person. but the european union. takes the prize. the eu was formed out of the rubble of world war ii and for more than six dpek aids it has promoted democracy and reconciliation across europe. the nobel committee noted that the eu is now battling one of the worst economic crises ever. >>> mission 26 is the shortest and slowest mission ever for the space shuttle "endeavour." the retired spacecraft began the journey overnight from l.a.x. to its retirement home at the california science center. big crowds are expected as "endeavour" snakes its way through the straights of los angeles at a whopping 2 miles per hour. the 12-mile trip will make 46 hours, and it ends tomorrow night. >>> the detroit tigers and san francisco giants are a step closer to the world series. the tigers shut out t

francis laurence is directing the movie, looks like a giant blockbuster, which we sure hope it is.ut we also have other things in our pipeline like "divergent," which is a book series we bought and a trilogy of books and it's outpacing both twilight the series of books and hunger games a the this point in the life cycle. that's exciting. >> i don't know if you whisper to anyone on anger management, but guy would be perfect to fill in on an episode of "anger management." >> yes, he would. we start airing the show in january. >> excellent. all this chase now for streaming content and you see what verizon's doing for coin star. do you think there'll be -- not necessarily with you, but do you think there'll be consolidation, acquisitions, partnerships that there has to be for this to perfect itself the transitory model to more treatment streaming content? >> i think they're ultimately in any sort of life cycle like this you're going to see consolidation. but i don't think it's going to happen immediately. i think what we're seeing is actually new players emerging. for example, in the u

. >> holman: in today's installment of "ask larry," retirement expert laurence kotlikoff takes your questions on social security, including how marriage might change disability benefits for mental illness. we take a spin in a "driverless" car in california, where new legislation allows automatically piloted vehicles access to the open road. and poet sharon olds reads some of her work on art beat. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we report on the race in north carolina, which president obama turned blue four years ago, with the help of an historic african-american turnout. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporat

. >> laurence pope, the new u.s.oy to tripoli, liberally -- libya and his first remarks says the u.s. would continue "on the continue on the path" of chris stevens who was killed in a terrorist attack. he went on to say the u.s. is determined to bring to justice the perpetrators of that attack. the incident has triggered a debate in washington over whether the visitor -- ambassador and mission were given sufficient protection. turning to the economy, the commerce department says retail sales rose sharply in december, reflecting higher consumer confidence and improve and the job market. consumers bought more cars, gasoline, and electronics. sales rose just over 1 percent in september after a 1.2% rise in august that was revised higher. both were the largest since october 2010. stock futures reacted to the games are seeing gains. s&p 500 futures up 7.9 points. the dow adding 60. the nasdaq 100 are of 19. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> take a look as he stands debate have. video of the vice-p

. >> laurence olivier. >> how do you balance those two things?ng school and all that stuff so for me it's not that much -- i ended up on "the daily show" from an audition as an actor, you know, and now because of the popularity of "the daily show" and people think of me as more of a comedian which i've done a lot of comedy in my life and continue to love doing comedy, but i also love doing dramatic stuff. >> so really he's saying that jon stewart has perverted him from his true calling. >> yes, he's perverted me in a lot of ways. >> by the way we'll talk about that in just a minute but first let's talk about "disgraced" and the setup. you're a successful pakistani lawyer on your way up but there's a scene in the dinner party where -- >> it all goes south. >> and suddenly you're going, what? >> i'm from india. >> well, it's a wonderful play and it really is the meat of it is a dinner party where you have these very smart erudite sophisticated upper east side new yorkers discussing race politics, identity politics, islam, sexual politics and then t

her you discover that she is just as warm and gracious to a government employee as she would be to laurencerockefeller in her home. she was really a wonderful hostess, and she treated everyone with such warmth and kindness, and that was particularly valuable when her husband was as volatile and demanding as he was. she could soften the lbj treatment and nullify the people that he had irritated pipit. >> i think they were utterly symbiotic. a perfect partnership, and i think per refines charms, her smooth to his rough edges. calling his frequent storms, and i think they both gave each other something. i think she gave him solace in so many ways. very tempestuous personality. i think she sues stamp in so many ways. and i think he, by her own account, sort of allowed her to reach beyond her own dissidents, natural any dissidents and to become in her words more than she would have been. >> that certainly is the impression that i have gathered from both books. as she herself put it, we were better together than we would have been, and the implication is as individuals apart. one of the things th