dana. >> all right, linda yee, thank you very much. moderate republicans, there is deep disappointment in the deep south. evangelicals gave their political blessings to rubbing santorum. he squeaked out a victory in a three-way race in mississippi. this is a huge setback from newt gingrich. santorum won in alabama. the presumed front runner, mitt romney, came in third in both states. so now what? what does this all mean? susan is staying up late for us out of birmingham, alabama tonight. susan. >> dana, mitt romney really needed to win these two states. alabama and mississippi to prove that he could connect with the truly conservative voters, the christian conservatives. he needed it to get some long jeffty and stay in. at the end of the day after a tight race that came down to the wire, a three-way dead heat, santorum wins. cbs news projects rick santorum has swept tuesday's primaries in the south. winning both alabama and mississippi. >> we did it again. mitt romney spent the day rallying supporters in missouri. looking ahead to satu

we linda yee has introduced a bill that would prohibit employers from demanding social media passwords from employees or job applicants. it is a growing trend that he calls and an inseparable invasion of privacy and possibly in a legal one. >> currently if you are applying for a job, the employee cannot ask you what your age is or your sexual orientation, so now in the social media accounts we might have that information then the employer would be violating the privacy of that particular applicant >> facebook is warning employers that it could initiate legal action against those who continue to demand passwords. >> a computer glitch caused apple's stock to do something unusual today, it drop. there was a single erroneous trade that caused shares to briefly dropped. it is known as a flash crashed. trading was stopped for about five minutes to fix the problem. apple stock ended the day down about a half percent. it turns out that steve jobs final hired was a sushi chef. and before he passed away in october he hired the owner of a menlo park restaurant. jobs was apparently a regular at th

linda yee on the latest spark reigniting a long-standing debate. >>> reporter: the proposed law would allow clinicians like nurse practitioners and midwives to perform abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy. women's health advocates back the bill. >> it's very necessary to have clinicians and physicians assistants who are in those areas who women already trust them and they go to for their care it will be, you know, really wonderful that women have this access to as well. >> reporter: before the bill was proposed, uc-san francisco did an abortion safety study on 16,000 patients. they found that nurse practitioners, doctors assistants and nurse-midwives could be easily trained. there were no major complications. >> i wouldn't want to perform one. i think that's definitely something that i feel is not within my job description. >> reporter: angelica has been a midwife for 30 years and has delivered 3,000 babies. she may not want to perform abortions. but she believes in choice. she says midwives could easily learn the procedure. >> it would not be very difficult to add that surge

senator linda yee and the education board faced the governor today saying no way. they introduced a new bill that would prohibit a raises to top university leaders during bad budget years but the effort failed >> this is kind of scary. what am i getting, is this worth it? going to college and paying for all of this and not really receiving anything back. >> east bay says the university has no input in these types of decisions. in a statement they say the trusties understand that the duties and responsibilities of csu campus presidents require specialized experience, training, and understanding of the system in these very challenging times. csu and administrators say the compensation packages like these are necessary to help attract and keep top leaders that their institutions. >> a new report at prison realignment, counties are enduring cheaper and better alternatives to incarceration. the aclu says the response to a court order to reduce crowding the state is funneling billions of dollars to counties and much of it is going towards building or expanding jails. it

it comes as state senator linda yee is pushing to repeal a 50 year-old law that blocks access. the metropolitan transportation commission is set to vote tomorrow on whether to recommend $457 million of federal funding towards the project to electrify cal train. the total cost is estimated at $1.5 billion. electrification of the tracks would like outran replace its current diesel trains. it is intended to speed up service, reduce noise and help the environment and it would also pave the way for a high- speed rail to share the court from san francisco to san jose. san francisco's board of supervisors is expected to vote on a deal today regarding the america's cup yacht race. it is expected to be the last major hurdle for hosting the event. >> lottery investigator is examining some surveillance video that the ticket purchased in mount be worth $260,000. the video shows emily leach buying a beer and some lottery tickets for everyone in the store. this after people having recognizer as winning a $1 million before. now she says that since she paid for the ticket and the winnings are

in san francisco, linda yee, cbs 5. >>> san jose mayor chuck reed is outlining his recommendations for the city's budget. the city is projecting a $10 million surplus in the upcoming year. the mayor hopes to use some of that money to open four newly built libraries. he also wants to put $2 million toward gang prevention and invest in street repairs on the city's most heavily used roads. the city council will hold a public hearing on the mayor's recommendations next week. >>> the pentagon's proposed budget may lead to big job cuts at an air force base north of sacramento. if congress passed the budget, beale air force base would lose more than 750 positions. that's about 16% of the entire base. but 4,000 military and civilian workers would keep their jobs. >> the economy is down the tubes right now as it is. and if you lose more jobs and everything, it's just going to make it worse. >> it would be yet another hit to the base. recently it lost the global hawk spy aircraft program which was a major source of employment. >>> campaign 2012, newt gingrich is vowing to stay in the race no mat

linda yee tells us that the push to get more women the option. >> the proposed law would allow people like nurse practitioners or even midwives to perform abortions in the first trimester. >> it's very necessary to have conditions, clinicians and physicians assistants who are in those areas. wouldn't trust them and they give to them for their care and it would be really wonderful if women had this access. >> before the bill was proposed, uc san francisco to an abortion safety study on 16,000 patients. they found that most partitions, doctor assistance and her nurse midwives could be easily trained. there were no major con patients. >> i would never want to perform one, i think that's definitely something that is not within my job description. >> angelika nugent has been the midwife for 15 years and has delivered 3000 babies. she may not want to perform abortions but she does believe in choice. she says midwives could learn the procedure. >> it would not be difficult to have that surgery to your skill. >> they are already trained for doing that, so we believe that within the first trim

linda yee it shows us what they discovered inside of the bag is raising more questions about what may have happened. >> dozens of fbi agents concentrated their search in the young girls neighborhood. they fanned out, walk and 3 yds and fields and were looking long after sunset. >> looking for any evidence of a crime. clothing. weapons. tire tracks. anything suspicious. any information that could help in the investigation. >> the 15 year-old disappeared last friday morning, she never made it to school. sheriff's deputies revealed that they found her purse last sunday just off of the road to miles from her mother's home. it was not far from where her cellphone was discovered earlier. >> inside of the bag was her clothing, a pair of pants and a t-shirt. neatly folded and put in side of this bank. we do not know if those were the clothing she was wearing were forevefor whatever reason. >> search teams went back to pick up possible new evidence from fields, and creek beds. they also looked through a vacant home that had been foreclosed. >> unfortunately no information through forensics or

it's the kind of information that the mayor told linda yee he needed before making any decisions. >> even after his plea deal, sheriff ross mirkarimi said he would not resign. >> he is upholding the law. if he's out breaking it, the two don't go together. >> sheriff insists he can still do the job. that hasn't been the opinion of mayor ed lee. >> i had asked sheriff to maybe take a voluntary leave so that it wasn't be connected to the operations in the office and made this decision not to do so. >> the mayor can suspend mirkarimi for official misconduct, but mirkarimi cannot be fired without an ethics committee recommendation and nine supervisors agreeing. the mayor says he is weighing public opinions. >> i think he should go. >> would it be easier if he resigned? >> well you know, again, that something up to him. i do think now we have a different situation here with this plea of guilty for false imprisonment. >> in our poll, half the people say the prosecution was wrong to let mirkarimi plea down. >> is it worse than a domestic battery charge? >> you know, in some ways it is not. i

here again numbers show the bay area starting to buck the trend and linda yee with more on the industries helping to lead the charge. >> reporter: well, allen, you' right. california is still struggling but the news zen couraging for the bay area. this is the sixth consecutive month that they actually have added jobs. jody mack just landed a full- time job as a marketing coordinator at marin software in san francisco. it's been a year and a half long job hunt since graduating college. >> next are changing. >> reporter: how many resumes do you have out there? >> countless. >> reporter: dozens, hundreds? >> in between. >> reporter: mack is one of 121 new employees marin software expects to hire this year. the company is growing so fast, it is adding a third floor to its downtown offices. they are part of the encouraging bay area-wide picture. 14,000 new jobs added just in january. it is the strongest job growth yet. but california is still struggling compared to the rest of the country. >> we gained 130,000 in the past year but we lost so many jobs at one point 4 million. and we still have

linda yee on how tough times have led to tough decision in the north bay. >> reporter: they will be paying more into their pension costs and both firefighters and police agreed that new hires will have to work five years longer to collect full pension. retirement age will be 55 years old instead of 50. santa rosa calls the concessions a miracle and credit honesty for the result. >> we develop credibility for sharing information

linda yee, thank you. >>> new tonight, san francisco might not get as many america's cup sailing races as first thought. a city race official tells me races scheduled for august may be held in new york harbor instead of san francisco bay in order to increase the tv audience and worldwide interest. america's cup executive says holding races around the statue of liberty would engage the east coast. but then adds, the chance of that happening is less than 20%. organizers hope to present their final plan for the america's cup championship to the san francisco board of supervisors march 27. >>> for a second straight day, a gray whale has been spotted in san francisco bay. this time it was a single whale spotted this morning near fort mason. yesterday, chopper 5 caught these pictures. we had reports of a mother whale, a cow, and her calf near the golden gate bridge. wildlife experts say it's not that unusual it happens this time of year as whales head north but boaters are warned to steer clear as whales are protected inside the bay. >>> it is the first step in cleaning up a toxic mess in th