early in 2008, the leo ryan seat opened up again. this time jackie speier won in a runaway race. >> so help you god? >> i do. >> congratulations. you are now a member. >> and was sworn in after 30 years as a freshman congresswoman. for almost everyone who did survive, escape from jonestown was not a single day's journey. it has taken decades. >> it never goes away. >> tracy parks tried to hide in a bottle. >> i just drank because that's how i hid my pain as a teenager. >> but nothing could chase away the feelings of chronic fatigue, constant stress and memories that came back at night. >> all the nightmares are i end up back there. i'm trying to get out. i'm trying to run through the jungle, and i know that i might not make it through the jungle. i'm trying to run through the jungle and i know that i might not make it through the jungle and i get up and literally have a panic attack, have to open the doors and walk outside and get air. >> for jerry parks, it may be a little easier each year. but no one is home free. even at the age o

early in 2008, the leo ryan seat opened up again. you god? >> i do. >> congratulations. you are now a member. >> and was sworn in after 30 years as a freshman congresswoman. for almost everyone who did survive, escape from jonestown was not a single day's journey. it has taken decades. >> it never goes away. >> tracy parks tried to hide in a bottle. >> i just drank because that's how i hid my pain as a teenager. >> but nothing could chase away the feelings of chronic fatigue, constant stress and memories that came back at night. >> all the nightmares are i end up back there. i'm trying to get out. i'm trying to run through the jungle, and i know that i might not make it through the jungle. and i'd get up and literally have a panic attack. have to open the doors and walk outside and get air. >> for jerry parks, it may be a little easier each year. but no one is home free, even at the age of 75. >> i found in myself in my case that i break down real easy. i can cry real easy over the slightest little thing. whoever said time heals all

. >> gosney wanted to leave as soon as he arrived but couldn't until a california congressman, leo ryan, came to guyana in the fall of '78 on a one-man investigative mission. >> i had decided i was going to pass a note asking for help to escape. >> by that next afternoon, as gosney dragged his trunk towards a departing truck, more than a dozen others had decided to go. >> i thought i was going to die at any moment. i never thought that i would ever be permitted to leave. >> when the group reached the small airport nearby, gunmen open fire. >> there was blood everywhere, and i thought, i'm dying. and then i blacked out. >> that same day, gerald parks, seen here in the blue and white shirt, talking with jim jones, sensed it was his last chance to get his family out. >> you can feel death in the air. you can actually feel it. >> the parks family asked to fly back with congressman ryan's group. >> and i told him who i was and i said, we've been held prisoner here. >> at the airport, a tractor pulled a farm wagon up alongside their plane. >> about five or six guys stood up and pulled their g

. >> gosney wanted to leave as soon as he arrived but couldn't until a california congressman, leo ryan, came to guyana in the fall of '78 on a one-man investigative mission. >> i had decided i was going to pass a note asking for help to escape. >> by that next afternoon, as gosney dragged his trunk towards a departing truck, more than a dozen others had decided to go. >> i thought i was going to die at any moment. i never thought that i would ever be permitted to leave. >> when the group reached the small airport nearby, gunmen opened fire. >> there was blood everywhere, and i thought i'm dying and then i blacked out. >> that same day, gerald parks, seen here in the blue and white shirt, talking with jim jones, sensed it was his last chance to get his family out. >> you can feel death in the air. you can actually feel it. >> the parks family asked to fly back with congressman ryan's group. >> and i told him who i was and i said we've been held prisoner here. >> at the airport, a tractor pulled a farm wagon up alongside their plane. >> about five or six guys stood up and pulled their gu

congressman leo ryan and a news crew. jones was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head. >>> a series of incidents is raises safety concerns in golden gate park. an underground community of homeless people is living in the park. they say the recent incidents are examples of crime coming along with that hidden community. craig has our report. >> reporter: his name is trash, and he lives in golden gate park. on tuesday night, trash says he witnessed the latest in a series of violent incidents at golden gate park. >> he jumps on top of a dude and shanked him three times in the back. >> reporter: the man was stabbed three timed in the back but will survive. the a stabbing in july proved to be deadly. police arrested a 65-year-old man for stabbing a 25-year-old man to death near the con shriven city of flowers. >> it definitely makes me less comfortable going there. >> reporter: last sun, a man walking his dog found a body and severed arm. right now, police are calling it a suspicious death. in all three case, the victims

more than 900 people died in the cult poisoning, including congressman leo ryan who was shot on the tarmac. >> it was a solemn affair in oakland today. family members came together to make sure that no one ever forgets what happened in jonestown. families and survivors gathered in oakland's evergreen cemetery to mark the 32nd anniversary of that tragedy. there are a pair of granite panels inscribed with some of the victims who died at the hands of the temple leader. a new plans for a memorial calls for even large slabs in memorial. the organizer of this memorial lost 27 members in the tragedy. >> our loved ones and our family went to jonestown to find a better day, a day free of racism, sexism, and discrimination. they thought that they could build a better life, where they could bring not only their children and grandchildren, but friends and strangers that they knew nothing about. and so they deserved to be remembered. >> of those hundreds of people killed, more than 300 were children. now, the downturn in the economy has been one reason plans for a large memorial have been delayed for y

congressman leo ryan of san mateo and members of the media were gunned down after going to jonestown on a fact-finding mission. tomorrow will be held at 11:00 a.m. new details, the upcoming appeals court hearing on the constitutionality of california's ban marriage will be televised. the ninth u.s. circuit court of appeals gear\ granted permission to carry the proceedings live. supporters of the broker approved a ban are peeling an august ruling this trip down profit eight that says they violate the civil rights of gay and lesbian californias. coming up, another look at the weather and tell you when the weather well i mean when the rain is coming your way. before we get to that, james lick san francisco, traffic is light all of the bay area you should have a good, easy time wherever you're going this morning. we will be right back. welcome back, creek project, here is the bay bridge, traffic is starting to back up just a bit. 35 minutes to play the low, low, low price of $4. once it hits 5:00, you'll be paying $6. if you leave your home this morning at this time, bring a jacket is co