august 19th, 1981, i ran away from the meridian home for girls just outside philadelphia to the streetsf the fort lauderdale strip. i was 14. june 11th, 2011, 30 years later with 5 years sober, i started walking home. with my walk, walking up the east coast, i would walk about 10 miles in the morning, and then in the afternoons i would visit homeless shelters, treatment centers, battered women shelters. i'd go back into the alleys, under the bridges, and tell my story and share hope. i started sandraswalk.org to spread little mustard seeds of hope in places that there were none. and there's a lot of fantastic things going on in the recovery community, and i think the stigma of coming into recovery and the fellowships, and you can't do this and you can't do that, kind of wards people off. it scares people off from coming into recovery, because they think they're going to be sentenced to a church basement and a coffee pot. (music playing.) we have recovery concerts. we have sober comedy events. we have the 12-step music fest in the keys. and there's a lot of fantastic things going on in t

home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridiand a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and sometimes challenging. sound art is an artistic and event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because san francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the programming. ♪ looking into meridian's future, she says she wants to keep doing the same thing that she has been doing since 1989. to enlighten and disturbed. >> i really believe that all the arts have a serious function and that it helps us find out who we are in a much wider sense than we were before we experienced that work of art. ♪ ♪ oh, my! haa ha ha! ha hha ha! [snortg] 9 judge terri l. jackson. the court is now recruiting prospective civil grand jurors. our goal is to develop a pool of candidates that is inclusive of all segments of our city's population. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how w

homes around the accident have been evacuated as a precaution. of course, we will continue to follow this. again, this is curtner avenue, near meridian and san jose. >> now to decision 2012 and the race for the white house. just hours after clinching enough delegates to win his party's nomination, mitt romney hitting the bay area atm. he'll be in hillsborough tonight, hosting a fund-raiser at the historic carolyn chateau. at 65,000 square feet, it's one of the largest mansions in the country and a california landmark. christie smith is outside the chateau with a look at romney's visit. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, john. it really doesn't get much more grand than this. 93 rooms in this. this is a backdrop for mitt romney's fund-raiser. still, even in this neighborhood, a lot of neighbors telling us this morning, they support president obama. but they feel fund-raising in california, particularly the wealthier areas, are becoming too much of the focus. >> reporter: there's a quiet buzz around hillsborough this morning that gop fund-raiser mitt romney is coming to this estate this evening, carol ann's chateau, 65,000 square