laurence scott is at america's cup park. >> i'll tell you what, we know the defenders, oracle team usa are a very strong team. they have not been in head to head competitions on the bay quite yet. the kiwis which we saw run through the louis vuitton cup, well, they look extremely strong today. the racing here on nbc, spectacular. a beautiful day out here on the bay. the wind was just right, and when 2 was all said and done. oracle team usa, they're in for a challenge. take a look at what happened here on the bay. >> with the buildup to the 34th america's cup, de23e7bder and challenger did not disappoint as their ac 72 took flight in race one. the challenger nails their entries in round one with a razor thin advantage over oracle team usa. during the third leg, two lead changes. the defenders getting ahead of the kiwis. the advantage extends to a 36 second victory in race one. >> really proud of way the guys felt. they were spot on today. they did a fantastic job to get it ready. and it's going to be a better -- >> it would be rough for the defender. in morning practice, oracle team usa

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and were donated this morning during a presentation at the paul laurence dunbar high school. the portable devices are used to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm.. and can help prevent sudden cardiac death. the idea for the donation came from doctor theodore abraham, a hopkins cardiologist who was concerned about student athletes. "incue: heart disease can affect young kids.. outcue: and it very often can be fatal." the israel and mollie myers family foundation donated 10- thousand dollars to johns hopkins in order to purchase the aeds. a... bag ...full of... hundred dollar bills.../ imagine... finding that... in... the middle of the road! it... happened... to one maryland driver.../. what... he did next... may surprise you. croft says: "it was right in the middle of the road down there. it looked like a bag. something just said 'back up and see what's in there'. i was shocked. i've never really found anything like that before. " what robert croft found was money - $6,000. around 3pm sunday, he drove right over it on a ramp along route 29. croft says: "it was strange. i

whereas laurence larry mountain was born in pining bluffing arizona and began helping out his mother packing shelves latter he made clifrz for her store and his accept farts motorcycling and storage company. whereas larry began his career he was elected the chairman of the san francisco railroad in international representative and international vip in 1993 and over 38 years he retired in 2004 from that job. whereas, he proudly worked with and sometimes p had dpifsz well known with dianne feinstein and willie brown and edwin ed lee and wrarsz he served on had any delve half a years and the planning commission 8 and a half years and was appointed to the committee it's exfoliating enjoyed how many years whereas larry has a deep finding of the committee meetings and larry stock exchange believes in the public outreach and whereas the rec and park and did not have been fortunate enough to have a person with a sense of commitment and whereas larry will be sorely missed as well as his input and you expertise now in front be are we revolted on behalf of the city of san francisco they recogni

for more information >> good morning i'm laurence cornfield chief building inspector and like to welcome you to our brown bag lunch we do the third thursday of every month at the department of building inspection. we invite you to participate so call for information and join us. our next talk is on decks and balcones. today we will talk about commercial restaurants in san francisco. we have a lot of people in the audience who are restaurant exe experts and architects and industry people. i should talk about commercial restaurants and how to get permit issues resolved and problems resolved during lunchtime. is probably not a thing that's going to attract a lot of people in the commercial restaurant business because they work at lunch and they are not here. hopefully we can broadcast this and may be if there is an interest we will do it at a future date. another thing, perhaps we should do this at a restaurant because we want to support restaurant necessary san francisco. we did last year have lunch at town hall restaurant we will do that again later this year. we have a lot of topics to c

seismically, ooh, that's a laurence question. >> they have limits on what both the transient drift and permanent drift is allowed to be, how far they are allowed to sway and how far they're allowed to be out of plumb. what they calculate it to be they come up with a resilient system of setting the glazing so that at the levels of drift there should be no pressure placed against the glazing. so that's the design. we will wait for a big earthquake and see how it plays out. but should be okay. the drift issues are things that we've been talking about for these high rise buildings. what are appropriate drift limits, and how much can a 600 foot building be permanently displaced and still be an acceptable building. how long can we expect the glazing in one of these new buildings to last? >> the state of california pushed the idea of, ooh, insulated glass is the answer to everything. it will keep energy down, and heat in. this is mandated, insulated glass. the problem is that they -- the public is not fully aware that insulated glass does not last forever. and that in time, it will -- it's re

i'm laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of san francisco's department of building inspection. and this is one of our monthly brown bag lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. this is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. i ask people to come and share points of view with me. and so for today's discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have a couple people joining us. pat buscovich, structural engineer who is one of the people who has seen more failed retaining walls in san francisco than anybody else. and he owns a few actually. and jim mccormick from the mr. -- planning department. he's been here 20, over 20 years. jim mccormick runs the planning information counter on the first floor at 1660 mission street. the signing information counter, by the way, is one of your primary sources for information in the city regarding what you can do, where you can do it, how you can do it. and if you want to reach the planning information counter, what do y

military base and some residents are crying out for help artie's laurence smith reports. it's a tiny island in the middle atlantic made of volcanic rock and covered in pitch no but to eight hundred people. but now the story of ascension island has all the hallmarks of being another diego garcia the british owned indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived through generations islanders accuse the governments of. operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago when all the difference person was promising democratic institutions for the islands a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the populations already decreased by. with communities replaced by contract work has retired or unemployed people eighteen to leave and the similarities with. the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of those now infa

inmate laurence stall learned that lesson the hard way. >> there was a guy, he apparently thought i disrespected him somehow, and he asked me outside. as soon as we got out there, he swung on me. we got into a scuffle, nothing real big. that's what caused me to get thrown out of the honor dorm. thanksgiving a year ago this may. honor dorm material. >> honor dorm material. >> that's me. hopefully pretty soon, i'll go back. i'm on the top of the list now. >> without the possibility of parole, lawrence stall has nothing but time to reflect on the events that landed him in prison 26 years ago. >> it was a homicide/robbery that got me here. i had never done any pcp. i was high, not really even thinking about what happened. we go rob a place and then two people got killed. we picked them up, took them out to a wooded area and they were killed. it's not really something i like to talk about a lot. and i've come to accept prison, you know, as my lot in life. we got one coming in on that bed. >> with a bed freeing up, chaplain summers informs the man at the top of the list that it's his time to move back

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with nbc bay area's coverage of the america's cup, i'm laurence scott. >> and you can watch the america's cup finals today at 1:00 on cozi tv, comcast 186 and over the air 11-2. >>> many activities were affected by yesterday's downpour, but one event got a boost thanks to the weather. coastal cleanup volunteers for save the bay braved the rain and headed out early saturday morning to pick up ash. although the wet weather caused some problems, organizers say it ultimately helps them in their cleanup effort and in indicating the public. >> if a lot of people don't think about how a piece of trash on the street could possibly end up in the bay. a lot of people think it's been illegally dumped there or thrown out by someone walking along the bay shoreline. the majority of the litter we see is coming from our urban streets and through the storm drains and out into the bay. >> organizers say cigarette butts are a big problem. they account for nearly 40% of all the litter collected. >>> thousands of people took to the streets of san francisco yesterday to raise both money and awareness for alzhe

but dunbar-- named for poet paul laurence dunbar-- is also a school with a glorious, historic past.ed in a small museum in the new building and eagerly touted by principal jackson to the outside world and to his students. >> when they come to this new dunbar and they are able to see the museum, it basically comes to life and the people that really made this school what it was and what it is, they come alive and so the kids can actually see who mary jane patterson was; the first african american woman to get a college degree in 1862 and she was the first african american principal of a public high school in the country. >> reporter: indeed dunbar, founded in 1870 as the country's first black public high school, produced many firsts and famous alumni: senator edward brooke, jazz great billy taylor, the artist elizabeth catlett and the roll call goes on. >> first black general, first black graduate of the naval academy, second black of the naval academy, first black presidential cabinet member. what do they all have in common? it's this place, it's dunbar high school. so that was a big

actually a photo from -- it was taken two years ago in arabia and this is one of the trains that laurence lou up out in the desert. so, just a kind of wrap things up having spent so much time in the middle east over the past 20 years and thinking of how not just how you can trace the historical or political lines of what's happening there today back to this time but i think there's also an element of the personality of the place. i think what has happened ever since is the partitions that took place at the end of the war is that the arab world has tended to always see itself in terms of what it is supposed to. anti-imperial obviously but anti-zionist and anti-western and anti-western take so many different forms whether it's western music playing on the streets of cairo and i think so much of what you -- of this collision course that we have seen play out certainly in your lifetimes and earlier really stems from this kind of philosophical -- maybe philosophical is not the right word but this mindset that has really come to exist in that part of the world ever since that time. and the last

[laughter] >> the alternative was laurence tribe.s want to know, despite this friendship, there have been some serious constitutional disagreements between the two of you, most notably during this past remarkable supreme court turn the just ended involving voting rights and affirmative action and the defense of marriage act. very strong words have been exchanged. how is it possible to maintain whenpersonal friendship you are really engaged in intellectual and constitutional conflict of such nature? hallmarks of the court is collegiality. we could not do the job that the if wetution gives to us did not use -- one of scalia's favorite expressions, get over it. [laughter] we know that even though we have sharp disagreements on what the , we have an means trust. we revere the constitution and , and we want to make sure that when we leave it, it will be in as good shape as it when we join the court. there are a number of cases. they are not picked up by the press too often. justice scalia and i are in total agreement. cases, theamendment

laurence summers. talk about him as we show folks a pictur of him there with the president.st: so he's been a lightning rod in terms of the potential for him as a candidate. has very little to do with his policy. in fact, the media noise around larry summers has been exclusively because of his personality. politically, though, there were some issues with the liberal contingent of the democratic party. because of larry summers' role in deregulating the financial markets. there are some who thought that that role actually led to the financial crisis. now, larry summers has come out, said he would be strong on regulation going forward but his past kind has caught up with him here at least in terms of liberal democrats. he is a breath of fresh air in terms of the financial markets because what it is avoiding is a contentious and acrimonious confirmation process, when we're dealing with the threat of a government shutdown and the debt ceiling being raised, the last thing we needed was to have a confirmation process that was chaotic. host: and the candidates that are left on the t

>> good morning i'm laurence cornfield chief building inspector and like to welcome you to our brown bag lunch we do the third thursday of every month at the department of building inspection. we invite you to participate so call for information and join us. our next talk is on decks and balcones. today we will talk about commercial restaurants in san francisco. we have a lot of people in the audience who are restaurant exe experts and architects and industry people. i should talk about commercial restaurants and how tog

laurence freeman, i am the director involved in africa for 25 years. i have been touched by what is going on in africa and a good friend of mine was killed at donna and he was a secured ambassador of the united nations that was killed in the attack. the question that was raised that i would like to ask again, this question that saudi arabia has funded many of these movements, including in somalia and there is an investigation being pursued in the congress of the united states to release the cases with the two or three 9/11 commission report and that 20 to work with the former ambassador and other saudi's and is now at discussion in the u.s. congress to release these papers to declassify them, which are classified under george bush. so i don't -- the terrorists themselves come from this ideology. the recruitment of these young men, and i have been in mali and sudan and all over nigeria, these young men have been recruited because of the economic conditions. as long as we don't have any of those for border, our culture, it is up for grabs for you to move