as maria high school's president, she wears many hats-- including chief fundraiser. >> i was wondering if you could pay a visit to maria high school... >> reporter: and mother hen. >> so, how are your classes going overall? it's easy to work seven days a week in this particular job, because there are always events going on in the city of chicago where you might be able to meet people who might be able to assist maria high school and its mission. >> reporter: making the transition from the corporate world to the non-profit world can be difficult. first, there's the pay. both pritz and lynn are making considerably less now than they did at their previous positions. culture shock can be another problem, says outplacement expert john challenger. >> a lot of for-profit people come into the non-profit environment and feel that it is too slow, that things don't happen quick enough. there are too many committee decisions, and that can be frustrating. >> reporter: pritz and lynn say the transition to non-profits wasn't especially difficult. and both think they have found their true calling. >>

maria. as a supporter of high-speed rail, i can guarantee you governor schwarzenegger would love to be here today, but he is in sacramento focused on the budget reforms that are needed to protect the funding for precisely the kind of infrastructure that we are celebrating today. he sent me here instead. not least because he knows i am a standard disk in who commutes to work to sacramento by rail, but also because he knows that the sustainable economy of the 21st century simply cannot be built without 21st century transportation systems, such as high-speed rail, and 21st century transportation terminals, such as the transbay terminal. millions of people must able to travel around the state without bread box and without impairing the environment. it is great the construction we are celebrating today will create desperately needed jobs right now, but it will be even greater, that finishing the construction will create and sustain jobs that will last for decades. of course, there will always be critics of bold visions like these. even abraham lincoln was criticized for the transcontinental rail

i am sure maria will have slides, and all of you will walk away thinking, wow. high-speed rail. the fact we got $4 million in stimulus money allowed us to move forward on construction of this site. this is real. secretary ray lahood was out here with speaker pelosi. the temporary facility is open. you know this. the only press we are getting is a bad press, that there are not enough benches. by the way, everything that we did was -- in housing was for long-term shelter. 12,000 human beings are off the streets since i became mayor. i know what you say, it does not feel like it. but the last survey we did in january, 44% of the people on the streets had been there for less than 90 days. think about what that means. as soon as we house someone, someone else is arriving. real progress, 30 years like this, we are finally moving in the right direction on homelessness. we are not giving up. and i get it every day. i see the same people you do, every day. we are working to try to solve this problem, again, large and small. 2600 housing units and maria will talk about as part of the tran

maria, l.a. san diego. talk about high pressure building in, you can see it to the left of your screen, right there. right hear. that will be over us today and tomorrow. and then it look like another system moves into the northwest. sunny and warmer, though, the coast, though can't find any fog. it's good to go. santa cruz, 86 degrees. 76 half moon bay to pacifica's 74. 84 in san francisco. it will be sunny and nice to mild to warm inland. sunny and warm to hot. with 80s and 90s. it looks like about the same tomorrow. forecast projections have backed off on any further warming thursday. a little cooler on friday. and then a cooldown starts for the weekend. >>> 7:42. as the investigation continues into that emergency landing of a quantas flight at sfo, we're now hearing the dramatic cockpit tapes from that flight early yesterday morning. >>> and a mccain family member breaks her silence about the one-time vice presidential candidate sarah palin. >>> taking a live -- taking a live look at the big board on wall street, a good

avenue building, employed more than 250 lawyers around the country, with high-profile clients like bill cosby, andy pettitte, mariaharapova, and justin timberlake. what no one but marc dreier knew was that the rents, the salaries and the expenses were all being subsidized by fraud. >> dreier: i recognized in the last couple of years that what i saw as a $20 million mistake had grown into a mistake of a few hundred million dollars. and then i did some increasingly irrational things, because i wasn't thinking clearly. >> kroft: crazy things. >> dreier: yeah. >> kroft: desperate. >> dreier: yeah. >> kroft: as the financial crisis set in, dreier was holding hundreds of millions of dollars in loans that were about to come due, and everyone wanted their money back. when dreier was a month late on a $100 million loan payment, the hedge fund that was owed the money demanded a face-to-face meeting with executives at sheldon solow's real estate operations, here at his office building in new york. with reality closing in, dreier enlisted the services of a former client, kosta kovachev, to impersonate the president of solow's

maria santa barbara south but not over us. you can see the signature, the mountain, the everest of high pressure.inaudible ] >> -- start to back off and we will see cooler weather start to move in by the next end. and next week looks cool. sunny and warmer. clear on the coast. [ inaudible ] >> -- interior, temperatures going above average. 70s on the coast. 86 santa cruz, capatola. nice all the way to bug sur. 80s to 90s through the interior and temperatures will continue this trend although the models are backing off on how hot it is going to get. still in the 90s. friday the fog comes back. here is your cooling trend for the weekend, pam and dave. >> for the third time this year the old sunnyvale town and country shopping center has a new owner. a san francisco development company bought hfl the land where the old downtown shopping center stood and parents to build 280 housing units, just one block from the cal train station. street level retail could be included but for now the focus is on house in. there is no timetable for the start of scrubs. bay area based version america will offer non-st

with an assist from the back-up singers but maria calls out somebody come and take these shoes off. the assistant showed up and took the shoes off. how highthose heels? don says take your own shoes off. that's a good question, don. i should have asked that if i was a good journalist. >>> live tv is not always perfect. here's the highly anticipated grand finale winner for australia's next top model winner contest. no. i'm so sorry about this, oh, my, i don't know what to say. this is a complete accident, i'm so sorry. it's amanda. it was fed to me wrong. >> oh, that's painful to watch. winner kelsey martinovich enjoyed her one-minute rein and then gracefully stepped down. >>> was sarah palin booed or not when she was introduced on "dancing with the stars." the show set the record straight. we know palin is cheering her daughter on, but what about bristol's former fiance, levi johnston. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a di

particular requirement, that she act as his girlfriend and wear high heels and a skirt on the bizarre date. tuesday, a third woman, mariama city university law student, brought even more charges against him. she says he asked for sexual favors in exchange for supporting her request for have a teen-aged drug charge removed from her record n. one text, he wrote, what are you going to do to please me in between the sheets? >> i was freaked out. he had his hand in the success of my going to law school and the success of being able to apply as a non-felon in the future. >> this obviously is an embarrass -- serious embarrassment for us. >> reporter: the wisconsin governor called the charges unimaginable and mind boggling and promised, if proved true, he would remove him from office. joining us from oklahoma city is maria ruskiewicz. good morning, maria. >> good morning. >> you are the third woman to make similar allegations against mr. kratz. were you surprised other women are saying they went through the same thing you did? >> you know, actually, i wasn't surprised, even when this happened to me in 2008, there's no way that

high. she says she has tried to do a search on the lincoln light to find out what school the catalog references but can't find a thing. mariathank you so much for asking. you know, i love this sort of -- this history mixed with the african-american culture here in d.c. thank you for asking me to look into this. what i thought was going to be a 15-minute search, i've got to be honest, online it turned out to be an adventure and a history lesson not just for me but i bet a whole bunch of you too. i couldn't find any information on the all-knowing web. i had to do a little leg work. it led me here to the historical society of washington, d.c. and specifically the kiplimit nger center. there was an abraham lincoln school in washington, d.c. with great historical importance. this is a picture of the lincoln school taken in 1904, 1905. it was dedicated on may 1, 1865. c and 2nd street. it housed about 200 students. check this out, though. this is amazing. it was the first public school built in the nation's capitol for african-american students. there were other schools for blacks operated by philanthropic agencies and the freedm

maria, tiahuitoltepec, southwestern mexico. the mudslide is another blow to mexico as it faces unusually heavy rains from tropical storm matthew that triggered massive flooding. swollen rivers forced evacuations of thousands of people from their homes. high waters also flooded sugar and coffee farms and blocked roads. to the south, torrential rains were behind this mudslide in colombia. dramatic pictures caught on amateur video buried about 30 people alive. colombia's president inspected the devastation. our hearts are with the families of the people who have disappeared here, he said, and promised, we're doing our best to locate them. it will take at least a week to recover the bodies. alex stone, abc news. >>> now to the tropical trouble that could have a big impact on southern florida. tropical storm warnings are now in effect for miami, ft. lauderdale and the florida keys. preparations for what could become tropical storm nicole are now well under way because the system could dump several inches of rain on that region. >>> and all that rain will be pushed around by strong winds. >> accuweather meteorologist ava dinges has all the details. good morning, ava. >> good morning, rob and vinita. the hurricane season's far from over althoug

maria is a landslide which is covered potentially up to 1,000 people. we got 200 to 300 homes affected by this. mountainous area, very rugged terrain. some of these mountain tops 2,000, 3,000 feet high and with that heavy rain we had some land giveaway. early this morning in the last hour, i talked to a journeyist out of oaxaca and here's some of the information she geena davis. >> reporter: it happened at about 4:00 in the morning when many people were still sleeping in their homes. there's not a lot known except what the oaxaca governor said on the news station program and he said that there were between 100 and 300 people or i'm sorry homes that had been buried and up to 1,000 people trapped under the mud. >> give us an idea of the terrain. i assume it's rugged. are search and rescue crews able to get to the people that have been trapped by that? >> reporter: that's the tricky issue right now is that they have army, they have police, they have rescue and medical teams on the way. this is a very mountainous region with very muddy roads that's hard to get to especially after the recent rains with tropical depression matthew. >> those rains continue to come down. this is tropical de