lot of fun i'll tell you moua i people are here of course the back to the future booth we found marty mcfly. all sorts of things happening here all sorts of people famous people famous shows and good causes terrie holler here from the fox foundation tell me how you're helping out. >> fund rising for the. even with marty's truck. >> come on by we also have terminator to my right. all sorts of movie props here. you can find it all night until about 9:00. it opens here at san jose convention center .steve wozny yack here signing autographs a lot of the cast from various star trek shows reporting live from san jose scott budman nbc bay area news. >>> sfl? >> you're walking around san jose and you see everyone dressed in back to the future war or star trek. >> good weather for that. >> what a friday. >> so nice. this weekend we are going going to see some changes no rainfall in the forecast saturday or sunday. but do expect cloud cover to move in at least for saturday's forecast. here is the storm system that we're tracking and this is a close call. but by all accounts wet weather to the north n

and there's that wonderful moment in there where marty mcfly, michael j. fox, is talking about the scientist professor, the mad scientist professor and he asked him something about the future. and he says in the future ronald reagan will be president. what the movie actor, that's crazy. my

and there's that wonderful moment in there where marty mcfly, michael j. fox, is talking about the scientist professor, the mad scientist professor and he asked him something about the future. and he says in the future ronald reagan will be president. what the movie actor, that's crazy. my kids ask me why do people find it so strange. he seems so normal in contrast to our politicians today. we have a wonderful panel here, four really suburb original exciting papers that do fit together. that's going to be my thought to talk about that a little bit. each speaker will present for 13 to 15 minutes, 15 minutes maximum. i will cut them off at that point if that go beyond 15 minutes. i'll give comments for five, six minutes and then we'll open it up for discussion from the entire audience. we have a lot of experts in the audien audience. i will introduce the four panelists right now and we'll go in order from the program. seated immediately to my right we have fritz bartel who is finishing as we speak his dissertation at cornell university. on the privatization