i saved her last message on my phone and i will never take it off. >> maya angelo was 86 years old and there is still no word when and where her funeral will take place. >> just look under hot topics. >>> the drought tips and there are growing concerns, not he have one is sharing water. that was set pack in february. a new report from the water board shows gilroy and milpitas and others have not adopted any retuckses. >> -- reductions. >> it does not appear that any messages are getting to the cities. i am disappointed it has taken so long. and water district managers use water from level ors and have to figure out how to balance the ditch guidelines. >>> and the have a engineer hunt, -- scavenger hunt, he let us fill up with of his money filled nfl how he wants the game to go know ball. and i hope this is not for good. >>> we just checked the account and they now have more than 235,000 followers. >>> and a man spotted the hidden cash while he was doing mornings on 2. >> he found $135. >> it was taped to a fire hydrants. >> he was excited and he plans to use the money to take his wife

is a former kron 4 anchor and reporter. >> reporter:she says maya angelo valued honesty and truth over flattery. and that she did not realize how big her impact was on people around her. and there's more to come. >> catherine: tonight at 8:30. we will take a look back at the inspirational life of maya angelou. >> catherine: ahead at eight. >> catherine: concern that bay area traffic has reached the crisis stage. one of the reasons drivers are spending more time behind the wheel. also - the search for hidden money has the bay area in a frenzy. >> catherine: where an anonymous millionaire may be headed next. giants star hunter pence has his stolen scooter retunred. >> reporter:why the right fielder will no longer be riding it to and from games.despite having his prized posession back. new tonight at 8 >> reporter:a tech start=up hoping to expand in the bay area is bringing jobs here. our tech reporter gabe slate joins us. so who's hiring ? >> reporter:the company is called blue apron, like the cooking apron they are based in new york but the service they offer is expected to be popular h

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. >>> time now 6:46, the sad news we first brought to you yesterday morning, the death of maya angelopolitical activists, poet, she is a among the remember them sculpture and last night people gathered outside that statue to share their grieve and their memories. she moved from arkansas when she was only a teenager and that's her right in the back row, this washington high school year book photo. her son still lives here and he will tell us what he will miss the most about his mom. >> her love and the ability to call her, i saved her last message on my phone and i will never take it off. >> maya angelo was 86 years oil and we still have no idea when and where her funeral will take place. coverage of her death is especially dedicated to her life, just look at hot topics. >>> they spent more than 24 -- he spent more than 24 hours clinging to the tallest cliff. he was stuck and desperate for help. he called rangers late tuesday night saying he got separated from his friends. while he was trying to find a shortcut down, wearing only a t- shirt he spent the night completely exposed. >> if

. >>> we now continue with the coverage of the death of maya angelo.d in remember them. we share in their grieve. she moved here from arkansas when she was just a teenager, that is her in the washington high school year photo -- year book photo. he talks about what heel miss most about his mom. >> her love and the ability to call her, i have saved her last message on my phone and i will never take it off. >> maya angelo was 86 years old and still no word on where her funeral will take place. we have a special spot and dedication to her life. >>> after clipping to the side of a sheer clifton one of colorado's tallest mountains. you can see him in that red circle. he was stuck desperate for help. he called rangers late tuesday night saying he had become separating from his friend. he was trying to find a shortcut but had no climbing equipment. wearing only a t-shirt he spent the night exposed. >> if i slipped one foot more, i would have fallen to my death. >> a helicopter was not able to reach him because of the strong winds and somehow a ground rescue t

a look back at the life of poet and activist maya angelo. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, may 29th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the investigation into veterans affairs administration is expanding. a preliminary v.a. report found scheduling delays and efforts to cover that up throughout the v.a. system. 42 centers are now under investigation. a spokesman says president obama calls the findings extremely troubling. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. it is up to the president now. he says he wants to see the report and if the allegations prove to be true, there would be accountability. the question is does the accountability go all the way to the top of the v.a.? the inspector general's report found nationwide scheduling problems that led to long wait times for veterans seeking medical care. house veterans affairs kplit committee chair jeff miller led a tense hearing last night, pressing v.a. offi

. >> reporter: in everyone, maya angelo saw the possibility for goodness and grace. >> how you treat other people. >> reporter: her message always delivered in that distinctive poetic voice. >> the hells we have lived through and lived through still have sharpened our senses and toughened our will. >> reporter: a best selling author, she defied stereotypes, an activist and medal recipient, she embarked on a life long crusade alongside malcolm x and martin luther king and wrote about it all. >> i want to see honesty, fair play, i want to see kindness and justice. >> reporter: born in st. louis, missouri in 1928 her first big break came as a singer in the 1950s. ♪ she won three grammys for her recordings of her writings. she was also nominated for a pulitzer, a tony, even an emmy for her role in the landmark tv mini series "roots." >> grow as tall as a tree and i will still be your grandmother. >> reporter: but her place on the world stage didn't come easy. her life struggles fuelled her work. >> you can stumble and fall and fail and yet somehow, miraculously rise and go on. >> reporte

. >>> reporter: a tribute to maya angelo in the park. she says the last time she saw dr. angelou, a family friend was over thanksgiving. >> her spirit lives on. >> reporter: and so do maya angelou's roots in the bay area. she spent part of her childhood in oakland and her iconic best selling autobiography, i know why the caged bird sings, she recalls asking her mother where she worked. she walked us to 7th street where bars and smoke shops sat in the laps of storefront churches. as an adult maya angelou would make a living in san francisco as a calypso dancer at the purple onion and as the first black streetcar driver as she once told oprah winfrey. >> i loved the uniform. [ laughter ] >> reporter: but it was, of course, her work as an author, poet and civil rights activist that had a global impact. those works are what inspired oakland artist mario kyoto to create this sculpture as part of oakland's remember them monuments. >> she would tell me the stories about her relationships to malcolm x and to martin luther king and it was incredible. >> reporter: kyoto spent hours

maya angelo has passed away at the age of 86. her family said she went quietly this morning in her home in north carolina. she gave way to a literary generation with the biography, i know why the caged birds feels. >> i know what the caged bird feels when the sun is bright on the upland slopes, when the wind blows soft through the springing grass and the river floats like a sheet of glass. when the first bird sings and the first bud opes and the faint perfume from its chalice steals, i know what the caged bird feels. to hear it, my lands, oh my goodness. oh, that voice. >> the voice, the power the wisdom. that original piece of work became more than just a book. it was an anthem about her life growing up in the jim crow south. it became a movie starring ic iconic stars. anglo is considered one of the greats. her prose would serve as a teaching ground for generations and presidents to come. this was her remembering her friend the great nelson mandela in the way only she could. >> i'm on my journey down mount zion, on my journey no

maya angelo dead at the age of 86. >> it is with conservative causes.ican party? joining us now, the author of the new book called redeemer. the life of jimmy carter. & professor of darmouth college. the name of the book "redeemer" what did you mean by that. >> i wanted it to be "redeemer president". but in the accepts that i didn't meany carter came along after watergate and redeemed the country from the sins of watergate and a southern baptist sunday school teacher and promising the american people he would never knowingly lie to them. and redeemer in the second sense. after his presidency which was not successful by most measures, he redeemed himself in the eyes of the country and world through humanitarianests. >> he harnessed the votes of evafrjelicals, right? >> he did. and part of the reason he was able to do so. there was a brief resurgence in the mid to known 70s and that harkens back to evangeliical. and they were working for equal rights for women and voting rights and very much in support of public education known as common schools at the ti

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. >> news coming out of the u.s., the award winning maya angelo, died at 86. cancelled appearance held in her honor, she wrote essays, poems, a prominent civil rights act visit. the first one, "i know why the caged bird sings" which brought her international recognition. m maya angela, dead at 86. we are back with more in just a few minutes. >>> hello. i'm del walters in new york. you're watching al jazeera america. we're awaiting the president right now. the president about to deliver the commencement address at west point. he's expected to announce a major foreign policy shift for the u.s., all of this one day after the president announced a major drawdown of u.s. forces in afghanistan on tuesday announcing plans to end the presence there by the end of his term in office. three years ago there were more than 100,000 troops stationed in afghanistan. the president saying he will lower that number to 32,000 this

brown on maya angelo '1:00:38 she was a cable car driver believe it or not the award- winninghor, activist and poet died toda at the age of 86. >>> past rooted in pain, i rise. >> she turned pain into poetry. >> leaving behind fear. i rise into a daybreak miraculously clear. >> reporter: tonight, the life and legacy of maya angelou. >> she has inspired countless others who have known injustice and misfortune in their own lives. >> reporter: and her deep bay area roots. >> she was a cable car driver believe it or not. >> the award winning author, activist, poet, died today at the age of 86. admirers have been leaving flowers outside angelou's north carolina home. he she was a professor at wake forest university for more than 30 years. mike sugerman shows us angelou's incredible and inspirational career began in the bay area. >> reporter: before maya angelou had a platform on the world stage this was her platform the back of a municipal railway streetcar. she wasn't pushed there because she was african-american. she was working at age 16. the first black female streetcar conduct

maya angelo's work touched millions. we will look at her enduring legacy. >> i will never cease. i mean to say, i want to see a better world. i mean to say, i want to see some peace somewhere. >>> thanks for joining us. you are watching krrch newsroom and i'm rosemary church. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. well, australian officials leading the search for malaysian airlines flight 370 say the area where acoustic pings were heard last month can now be discounted as the final resting place of the missing plane. the statement officially ends phase one of the search which became centered on the mapping missions by the blue fin underwater drone. the second phase of the search will begin in august. now all of this follows earlier comments on the pings from a u.s. navy official. cnn's rene marsh has more. >> reporter: it was the most promising lead, and now we know it's false. new information the u.s. navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. >> from the u.s. navy standpoint, these sound

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also ahead today we remember legendary poet, writer, and activist maya angelo. >> every human being hasility and the privilege really of inspiring someone else. >> we start in west point, new york, where just a short time ago president obama laid out his vision for american foreign policy and a new $5 billion counterterrorism fund. in a commencement address before a group of graduating cadets. it comes a a daf president obama announced an updated timeline for ending our military mission in afghanistan. with fewer than 10,000 troops scheduled to remain there by the end of the year. down from 180,000 total in afghanistan and iraq when mr. obama took office. now, while t

also ahead today we remember legendary poet, writer, and activist maya angelo. >> every human being has the possibility and the probability and the privilege really of inspiring someone else. >> we start in west point, new york, where just a short time ago president obama laid out his vision for american foreign policy and a new $5 billion counterterrorism fund. in a commencement address before a group of graduating cadets. it comes a a daf president obama announced an updated timeline for ending our military mission in afghanistan. with fewer than 10,000 troops scheduled to remain there by the end of the year. down from 180,000 total in afghanistan and iraq when mr. obama took office. now, while the speech touched on points from syria to boko haram, to even climate change, it's the lessons of afghanistan that control the tone of the president's speech and that clearly still guide his view on how to confront a more decentralized terrorist threat. >> the service members who stood in the audience when i announcesed the surge of our forces in afghanistan gave their lives in that effort. a

news today that author and poet maya angelo has died at her home. she was very active in the civil rights movement and was well known were her memoirs and delivered the inaugural poem at the president's clinton swearing in ceremony and in 2011 president obama awarded her the presidential honor of freedom. angelou passing away at the age of 86. the president's statement saying in part that mitchell and i join millions around the world in remembering one of the brightest lights of our time. a brill i want writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman. we will have her bock book appearance on her sixth bock set in between the assassination of malcolm-x and martin luther king junior. and then debates on several issues. the first on gun control and the second on charity. that is tonight starting at 9:30 eastern. >> the problem now is future peace. that is your job in germany. by your conduct and attitude while on guard inside germany you could lay the groundwork of a piece that could last forever or just the opposite. you could lay the groundwork

. >> thanks for helping us remember maya angelo. dead at the age of 86.back. [ female announcer ] you never know what might be out there. the ambulance racing by you. the ambulance chaser... chasing the ambulance. a rollerblader with headphones who's oblivious to everything. the cab driver who's checking out the rollerblader. it's 360 degrees of chaos out there. but with driver-assist technology, including a blind spot system and a rear-view camera, the ford fusion will help tell you when it's coming. ♪ >>> tomorrow the house appropriations committee will vote on a bill that would revamp part of the 2010 healthy hunger free kids act to keep part of michelle obama's plan to fight childhood obesity since moving into the white house. the republican backed proposal would make big changes to the law and that prompted the first lady to go on the offensive. athena jones joins me now from washington with more. >> reporter: good morning, carol. we're seeing the first lady get publicly involved in a political fight for really the first time. this goes beyond urging

maya angelou. >> my gentleman angle--my gentleman angelo, author activist has been inspiring generations. is is her story. >> across the wall of the world of rivers sings a beautiful song. it says come, rest here by my side. >> reporter: maya angelou's introduction to most of america occurred decades after she launched her illustrious career. it was 1993 when angelo became the first woman and first african-american to present a poem at the event. >> you created only a little lower than the angels have crouched too long in the bruising darkness. >> born margaret johnson, she dropped out of school when she was 14 years old. never attendanted college but became an author and playwright and poet. her memoryaire "i know why the caged bird sings" is another first. the first non-fiction best seller by an africa american woman. earlier she stopped speaking, traumatized by abuse. she inspired generations. >> you may bury me in the bottom of manhattan, i will rise. my people will get me. i will rise. out of the huts of history shame, i rise. >> she received the nation's highest civilian honors, the

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brother could not pronounce it, so he gave her the nickname maya, although her first marriage ended in divorce, she kept her husband's last name, angeloa lot of people want to say angelou, but it's low. that's really how you want to sound smart. >>> let's talk to our man louis. yesterday you were filling us in on the feuds between cats and dogs. cats are up by one. >> that's right. working the dog story. let's start with what may be the first base-jumping dog ever, thomas. whisper is a 4-year-old miniature australian dalgcattle. owners strapped him onto his back and jumped off the side of eiger mountain in switzerland, that's more than 13,000 feet in the air. the question is, did he have a choice? look at that. he's got his goggles on. he looks like he's having a good time. and if you needed to see another animal strapped to the back of its owner, check out this video of a goat going piggyback style on a bicycle. we're not sure where this video came from, but we're just going to let you look at it and enjoy it. >> holy smokes. >> that is definitely funny. and random. now let's get to some serious news involving my former band, one dir

. >> maya angelou's introduction to most of america occurred decades after she launched her illustrious career. it was 1993 president clinton's first inauguration when angelo woman and the first african-american to present a poem at the event. >> you created only a little lower than the angels have crouched too long in the bruising darkness. have lain too long face down in inconference. >> angelo dropped out of school when she was 14 years old, never attended college, but became an author, playwright, and poet. her 1969 memoir "i know why the caged bird sings" was a first. in her early years angela stopped speaking, traumatized by abuse but she eventually found her voice. for decades she used it and her words in a tireless crusade for racial equality and women's rights. she inspired generations. >> you may bury me in the bottom of manhattan, i will rise. i will rise out of the huts of history shame i rise. >> she received the nation's highest civilian honors, the national medal of arts. the presidential medal of freedom from president obama. she was nominated behavio for pl pulitzer and emmys. and taught at wakefield university. >> i used to think that i w

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a look back at the life of poet and activist maya angelo.oning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, may 29th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.