this was-- (laughter) mers. (laughter) (cheers and applause) all right. so it was mers. how does merses work. >> instead of filing papers at a local courthouse, mortgage changes are simply registered inside the mers computer. but with no official paper trail lenders are now scrambling to produce documents to prove they have the right to foreclose. >> jon: as it turned out the big banks didn't enjoy filling out paperwork. for every single mortgage. they wanted to reassign or security advertise so they formed a consortium. mortgage dumpster, if you will. (laughter) >> that would allow them these mortgages to trade electronically within this corporation, they were all shareholders of. think of it as a tea party. but instead of [bleep] your wife, they lose track of the deed to your house. but fear not-- (applause) fear not. fear not, my spiderphobic friends. i'm sure there is a better name for that but i don't know. fear not, this type of inevitable free market overreach is why the government must maintain its watchdog status go get them boys. >> the office of the controller

winner hops jumped mer than 10 feet. >> the shortest less >>> this is "world news." tonight, terror trail. investigators link the suspected boston bomber to overseas known militants. did these known terrorists inspire that older brother? >>> speaking out. the abc news exclusive interview with the nba player who stirred the nation by going public, saying he's gay. >>> caffeine craze. everything from chewing gum to popcorn, packed with caffeine. how much is safe for children? >>> and amanda knox. the american college student accused of murder, speaking out. the devastating lie she says she was told in prison, and what she said made her suffer. >> i was tired of them having to sacrifice everything for me.

. >> susan whies berg and mer vin wo ng, tina change and i apologize in advance for miss promounsing names. lorenso lastana. patty lee. and derek sorata. >> go ahead and it will be two minutes. >> thank you supervisors. my name is susan wisberg and i am a long time renter and rent resident of san francisco. san francisco does not need more condos, contrary that home ownership is the american dream, many people do not want to own homes or cannot. over the 43 years that i have happily been a renter i have seen the renting become more and more impossible for the people who have made the city the diverse place that it has been. one of the ways this has happened is the loss of affordable rental stock to condo conversion. this leads to evictions followed by tic converted to condos. >> next speaker? >> hi my name is mer vin and i leave in the building in the district eight with my 75-year-old disabled mom. and recently they speculate a call (inaudible) bought my property and (inaudible) they said that i received a letter from the attorney, stating that they intent on converting my building.

a respiratory virus known as mers. 49 have been sickened. 27, more than half, have died. no cure.accine. the symptoms come on like the flu, fever, chills, muscle aches and then get rapidly more serious. breathing becomes difficult. so far every person with mers has traveled from the middle east or caught it from someone did, but the fear is it could take off like sars, the deadly virus that went global ten years ago. one case of sars in a hong kong hotel in 2003 infected 12 other hotel guests who flew out of hong kong. within 9 months, there were more than 8,000 cases over the world. more than 7,000 died. now i'm ready to work. to keep the new virus from taking off, the only line of defense is containment in special wards like this one i saw in hong kong. this is pretty incredible. a futuristic isolation ward where everything is engineered to keep a virus from spreading. we can only hope it works. dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. >>> well, here's a jarring wake-up call for anyone who drinks a little too much soda. researchers say over time your teeth could end up looking ju

it's called middle east respiratory syndrome or mers for short.ight world health experts are sounding the alarm and state officials are monitoring hospital here for possible cases. >> we understand too little about this viruses. when viewing the magnitude of its potential threat. >> reporter: the world health organization says this new virus is a threat to the entire world. >> we do not know where the virus hides in nature. we do not know how people are getting infected. until we answer these question, we are empty-handed when it comes to prevention. >> reporter: the first person from france to be infect with the respiratory virus just died. officials say that 65-year-old man recently traveled to dubai. the world health organization says most of those infected are in the middle east. half of the confirmed cases ended in death. >> there seem to be for the moment, we see men much more affected than women. we don't understand exactly why this is the case. >> reporter: the virus was first detected in april last year in saudi arabia. health experts com

. >> she's now a 52-year-old moirj of sismt and begins aum odds she has mer tan achieved her goal. she has two bachelor's he degrees and a phd and a masters from other schools. >> i know if i get this education, i will be able to give back to my own community she came to oprah's attention. host gave her $1 million to build schools. >> to see these kids going school? >> it's something you wanted to do. >> it's something i wanted. >> her children's father died of aids. now, with her degree she will make aids education a priority. >> she wants to make the world a better place. in my health it's called healing the universe. >> my mother says if you follow your dreams they'll always call you back. oo in g.news story. >> yes. >> weather forecast wasn't pretty nice. >> yes. it's nice out here but cooler and breezy outside. clouds beginning to gather here. it's a sign of changes coming up. we have our own radar not seeing moisture but will be tracking showers of the fact thl be woetd roadways. watch out for breezy conditions. you can see cloud cover. 63 in oakland, highs so far today, uppe

officially fire season has not bee gun will have you a mer intense season? its hard to tell. we'll have an earlier than normal fire season. >> sounds like we are. >> we are. >> more than enough for nick who lost much of what he obed including pictures of him and his wife in these frames. the photos burned. >> i was watching it go up saying i forgot by bicycle. you know? medicine. and i said i've got giant tickets up there. >> did you find them? >> yes. >> two silver linings. not only did he manage to find his giant tickets. the fact that the owners of the home plan to rebuild it. behind me here, this fire red flag alert continues ask and they expect full containment tomorrow evening at 6:00. >> high heat, low humidity, windy. worst combinations for fire danger. sandhya? >> taking a look at those conditions at the firefighters are facing right now. only a patch of fog around marin county. skies are clear otherwise, dry out there. it's 9%, winds calm as far as sustained winds. there and we're expecting that 5:00 looking at 15 miles per hour winds, heading into the night time ho

whit doumz oil, right now, and probably gasoline this mer, whole supply and demand thing has been put on hold. oil prices have rallied. the price is remarkable coming despite factors pushing oil prices lower, domestic stockpiles at their highest in three decades. and domestic oil prices is soaring. still, with prices like these, expect this summer to be an expensive year for driving vacations. we're being told the next big economic bust is going to be student loan crisis. one new york senator is proposing a bill refinancing federal student loans savings would be dramatic. her bill would drop the interest rates on most government student loans to a fixed 4%. that would be a huge savings. most students paying nearly 7%, some as much as 9%. the tax on soft drinks that is pretty much dead. got through one committee. no one expects it to go anywhere. >> spencer, we're taking a look at this tornado. >> temperature said to be almost two miles. this is just remarkable. it's ranked ef 4. this winds up to 200 miles per hour. it's been on the ground a very long time. and this is a same area knit

starting with the night of november 1, mer zit kercher is murdered. >> what are you doing the night ofwe stayed in. and we had dinner, we watched a movie. >> reporter: a witness confirmed she and raffaele were in his apartment as lates a 8:40 p.m. the internet confirmed they ordered the movie "amelie." >> we smoked, we had sex. we made faces at each other. we were just getting goofy. >> jimmy: how high were you? >> i smoked. what it did with my memories was make them less concrete, but it didn't black them out or didn't change them. >> reporter: you remember with clarity that you did not go out that night. you stayed in the whole night? >> we stayed in the whole night. >> reporter: the next morning it's undisputed that knox is the first person in the house after the murder. she said she made the five minute walk to take a shower at home and get fresh clothes. >> reporter: you go home to take a shower. he has a shower. why go home? >> he had a crummy shower. >> reporter: she noticed the front door standing open. thought it was odd but the latch didn't always work. she took a shower afte

net flix has recently winning back quest mers. >>> well, open for business, the head rails are now in place and hikers are began to begin stealing the granite monolifrt. officials say limiting the number of climbers will make it easier to evacuate the dome if the storm hits. we'll be back sports in a moment. mush push . >>> not the ending we'd hoped for. david feldman joins us in the comcast news room. the giants used to own the colorado rockies. tonight, colorado was looking to win their fourth straight, something that hant happened since 2006. michael, fresh off the d.l., a home run. top of the eighth, 5-0 rockies. they would win by that score. mindy bach with more from at&t. >> three outings against the rockies so far this season. tonight was the best. but he certainly struggled. the right fielder came off the disabled list just thursday and was responsible for driving in three runs. >> timmy is all right. he mixed in a little bad luck there. he did make a couple mistakes. overall, he was okay. he threw decent. this is about three games. but, i thought, overall, it's a pretty good

mer and more cities are realizing gravanis is a pattern crime and as dr. spicer pointed out, it's a great way crime to many other activities. so you can wind up precluding with a lot of other stuff by dealing with them when they are down to the part doing gravanis damage before they escalate to a more violent crime or serious crime. it's nice to attend different trainings. this one here is great because we have people from all over the country, canada and the united kingdom. there are things you are going to listen to when you go, yeah, i would never do that or couldn't do that because of the laws in my political jurisdiction or whatever, we are not allowed to do that. then there's going to be other things when you think, gosh, i never thought about that, i think that would work really good. i'm going to take it back it my jurisdiction. probably over the past few years i've got 500 people i've dealt with, officers that have come to the class and subsequently become gravanis experts and set up programs. almost every program is different. a lot of the basis

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. >> and stocks hit another record today dow jones soar frtd opening bell up mer than 200 points. the closing bell markets surged after the home prices report and news that consumer confidence reached a five-year high. here are the numbers. dow closing at 15,409. and s and 56789500 rose 10 points. >> coming up, how walmart promises to clean up its act after pleading guilty to an environmental crime. >> and a showdown over who can give students life saving medicine autos trader joes feeling the heat of a group trying to pressure it to take certain products off shelves. >> i'm sandhya patel. hot weather and high fire danger ahead. i'll >>> a 9-year-old horse recovering after nearly dying yesterday. we brought you this story at 11:00 bud yeet horse fell down this well in rural san rafael yesterday afternoon. it took a team of people to keep buddy afloat. buddy has just cuts and scrapes and his owner expects a full recovery. >> good to see everybody just jumped in. >> the nurses union is fighting an effort. they don't want nonnurse as loued to give insulin shots to diabetic kids to sc

a 13-year-old girl who is night cancer finally met mer match. the match that led to a successful bone mar row transplant and ultimately saved her live. jodi hernandez has the heart warming story. >> i like to bring down the do nor, vincent. >> reporter: san francisco's vincent never thought signing up for the bone mar row rej tri five years ago would lead to this. but donating bone mar row has given a little girl who has leukemia a new chance at life. today he met the girl he helped save for the first time. >> i want him to know that he saved my life and that he did a really good thing. >> i think with all the different people involved i probably have one of the easiest jobs which was to show up for some very easy blood tests and draws and to have a little bit of time at the hospital. >> reporter: but his gift was huge. minorities make up only 15% of those on the national bone mar row registry making finding a match for asians, hispanics and african americans extremely tough. >> your chance of finding a do nor depends on your ethnic background.

question is this the kind of scrutiny charles assume mer demanded from the irs in handling tea party applications? rich and. >> reporter: there was a general atmosphere where these people could have felt they are being egged on to on do this. one of the defenses is this is their filter to do this more efficiently. it is not efficient to ask these detailed questions to go back round after round and to delay them for years when you are sweeping the progressive groups right in and giving them a stamp of approval. that is not just a bureaucratic error that is unbelievable on the face of it. >> i don't know progressive groups were swept if. >> they were. they got the rubber stamp. >> reporter: but you had 250 employees he have denly dealing with 70,000 applications. they shouldn't have the discretion to make these decisions based on vague deadlines. how do you decide what is political and what is educational? frankly a lot of this looks political it me. i think they ought to do away with this tax exemption left and right. i think it is a scam, they are getting a beneficial tax treatment f

. >> he's wearing a fur coat and carrying stolen mer chchandisem >> the second video from dallas, about 2:00 in the morning and you see a couple guys walking up to this burglary barred doors. this suspect starts putting a tow rope on to the doors. that tow rope is tied to that truck and then once the tow rope is tied they pull them off with the truck. you see a couple suspects come back with boxes and start loading them up with cigarettes, lottery tickets and wine. >> they obviously thought about this. >> every time we see one of these burglaries they're all stealing cigarettes. >> the thing is shocking is stealing lottery tickets. they're going to be bummed if they win with a stolen ticket and cash it in you stole the ticket, get arrested and don't get their millions. >> hopefully someone does actually recognize them. >> somebody will recognize the coat, the hat, or the truck. this one should be easy. >>> everybody be aware. >> hold on. we might be in control. >> multiple things that require a police escort. herd of cattle i never thought was one. in a small town in ireland the local p

weaving from the bottom up and in mer segments, the completed section is pulled below the working bridge onto the floor, enabling the nished portion to be viewed as the work progresses. in march, miro visits his young colleague's studio he inspects the progress, makes suggestions, and gives his approval. royo works with a team of fellow weavers whom he has carefully trained to accomplish this imposing task. allows weaving to be performed from eitr side using multiple groups of yarn twisted together and passedver varying numbers of warps meter by meter the forms of the tapestry gradually begin to emerge. miro has said of his approach to art, "this come to me slowly. my vocabulary formsas not been the discovery of a day. it took shape alst in spite of myself. in this way, ty ripen in my spirit." into the steamy month of august, the spirit of "femme" grows until the figure is complete. now, with only a few inches of background remaining, royo welcomes miro to his studio once more to witness the final steps of an eight-month process. royo says, "working together, we have become so closely at

they are competitive but they are very good freeness and so we have asked each mayor to send his or mer vision for their city and is there are priorities and challengeses and what are they doing to improve the climate for business and how are they working to bring list business to the cities or prevent them from leavings and encourage future development and how do they week together so before we get to the mayors, we are going to get some expert insight on the economy, the first look at the real estate outlook and then a general economic for cast and the financial market and we will get a look at what is in store for 2013 and once we have heard from the opening sparkes we will get into our conversation with the mayors and then end at ten and so lets get started and let begin the program with a look at the real estate outlook with our long time partner dave crest man who's executive managing director at cornish and carey commercial new mark night frank and dan has been actively engaged in as a brother in the sales and leasing of commercial real estate in san francisco for 30 years and he

ftse mib up 0.5 mers.olatile session, up 3%, down 3% and then closing up nearly 1% today over the course of the last seven days, it's down nearly 3%. joining us from hong kong with his views, nicu kamada. good to see you. how would you characterize what was behind, what's been behind these moves? we've just come too far and people were looking for an sclus? >> yeah, i think that's the most simple and straightforward way to put it. if you look at some of the details in the market, there's a bit more to the bone because, of course, we had some volatility preceding this move in the japanese bond market, which is a pretty big and important market. so there are some reasons to be concerned about and some relatively good excuses to take some chips off the table of this bond market situation. hopefully calms down. it has to large degree and also do not forget there is an election upcoming in japan, potentially an important one. so, you know, ahead of such an important event, it's not uncommon for markets to, you

s marisa mer both have taken center stage as they look to execute a new vision. >> brian will be taking the helm on may 16th. for "nightly business report," i'm jackie deangeles. >> when it comes to finding bargain stocks there's no one like warren buffett. the billionaire investor is the driving force behind the success of berkshire hathaway and its shares hit a new record high today at $164,000. berkshire's stock was just one of many topics that buffett talked about at his company's annual meeting this weekend where some 40,000 shareholders converged on omaha to hear from the oracle of omaha. >> this is warren buffett at 82, just a year after his cancer diagnosis. he still made the rounds at the berkshire hathaway meeting. >> that was like a perfect fit for me. >> with energy and enthusiasm. >> i'm not sure if i'm allowed to shake your hand or not. >> thank you. no charge. >> making time for fun with billionaire buddy bill gates. >> he's doing it slightly better than i am. >> warren, what's your favorite part of all this? >> i like it all. >> not only did buffett have the stamina for

when the three suspects, 34-year-old, 30-year-old jason and 33 year old george vicors pulled up in a mer say dees wagon and tried to rob three men. the suspect opened fire. police say they tracked the gunman down to the bayview district. investigators say the suspect tossed the handgun out of their vehicle and rammed a police patrol car before being taken into custody. >>> it could be considered assault with a deadly well. police in san francisco say they're looking for a man who threatened a store clerk with a needle saying he had hiv. live now in san francisco where it all started, eric, over a petty theft. >> the suspect had just stolen a can of soda from that store. police say the 72-year-old woman work there try today chase imdown but that's apparently when he pulled out a needle and threatened her. police won't nanl the store, but neighbors say it was here where an elderly woman trying to stop a shoplifter on sunday morning suddenly faced a serious threat. >> he produced a needle and brandished it at the victim. >> even worse the suspect claimed he had hiv. the woman backed off and

victs ranged in age fr >>> three more people have died from the new sars like respiratory virus called mersglobal total is 30. the victims range in age from 24 to 60. they have been hospitalized for a month in saudi arabia. dozens more people are sick and the cdc says there are no reports of this syndrome in the u.s. but the w.h.o. says it's a threat to everyone. >> we understand too little about this virus. >> it's still not clear how the disease is spread. the world health organization says it may have originated in bats or camels. >>> well, if you piled on some extra pounds lately, you may want to blame your job. career builders says people who spend long hours behind a desk or in high stress positions are more likely to gain weight. administrative assistants are at the top of the list reporting packing on the pounds. that's followed by engineers, teachers, nurse practitioners and i.t. managers. we'll be right back. benjaminmoore.com/bayarea. (sir can-a-lot) good day, ma' lady. [muffled] i am sir can-a-lot. i am sir can-a-lot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. wake up those e

. >> a drop of almost 5 mers. sharon epperson striking the action.re weakness ahead. they are looking to the fact that we may see it. always what we have been seeing, a lot of declines in holdings has also impacted the gold futures market losing about $10 billion just in the first half of the second quarter of 2013 and most of that has been gold and silver. and again, miners are facing the fact that there has been a decline in profitability. >> thank you very much. >> every day, modest advances. four weeks. four straight weeks of gains. dow keeps moving up every day. i will tell you what is interesting. the dollar is just screaming. we are at three-year highs essentially. they don't normally do that. and normally that will have some influence on commodity stocks. that is not happening today. leading economic indicators all day and all week. you see the commodity stocks not being influenced by the move up in dollar. biggest ipo of the year. >> thanks bob. to the nasdaq. a 12.5 year high. >> another 12.5 hit. basically confirming the inflow of capital.

. >> berry a child mers when we was kidnapped now returns home with a daughter of her own. >> the littler baby. >> yes, she's my daughter, born on christmas. >> i thought about you all this time. i never forgot you. >> berry's grandmother told me how she's ready to embrace change. >> it's the most important thing that's ever happened in my life, that she's back with us. i can't wait to see her and the baby. the babe pi is my great grandchild and i'll love it because it's part of her, part of ours live. amanda you hang in there honey, you be strong. i'm praying for you and i love you. >> when we come back, he became a hero, a house hold name and and internet sensation literally overnight. anderson cooper's interview with cleveland rescuer charles ramsey right after this. [ male announcer ] centrum has been a leader in multivitamins for over 30 years. and it's now the most doctor recommended, the most preferred and the most studied. so when it comes to getting the most out of your multivitamin, the choice is clear. centrum. the c[growl]s clear. we used to live with a bear. we'd always have

they're calling it "mers". >>> world health experts describe a new sars like virus as a danger for thele world. more being are dying. they are calling it mrs. it acts like a cold virus and attacks the respiratory system. 24 people worldwide have already died the most recent in france. the who concerned that if countries do not act quickly the virus will continue to take lives. >> we don't know where the virus hides in nature. by every we don't know how people are getting infected. until we answer these questions, we are empty-handed when it comes to prevention. >> cases have been identified in eight countries. no cases have been reported so far in the united states. >>> scientists studying toddlers on the autism spectrum say they have figure out a way to predict which children will develop language skills and which will struggle leading to new interventions at an early age. nico stevens loves playing with his big brother sean. he is three. he is autistic and doesn't speak. >> it's really frustrating because a lot of times the guessing game. he can't face, well, mommy, i just want a hug

somebody poisoned bottles of orange juice and left them for kus mers. police say this san jose woman took two bottles of evolution orange juice then replaced them with ones tainted with rubbing alcohol and nail polish. when shaken customers says she brings her granddaughter here often. >> she does get orange juice. i get orange use. i come here a lot so it was a little unnerving. >> fortunately a customer saw what happened, told employees, and drove off. police traced the car's license plate to her home on chamberton drive four miles away. >> she was arrested immediately at her residence, and she was later booked for poisoning as well as attempted murder. the quantity of rubbing alcohol inside the bottles was a lethal quantity in both bottles. >> her next door neighbor saw police arrive. >>. i'm really shocked. >> can't imagine that a neighbor would do something of the sort, but certainly if she's guilty, she should suffer the consequences. >> today starbucks told us all juice bottles on the same shelf were destroyed. bottles at other stores are being e

there's -- there's a mercs, too, mers. sometimes people get that confused with a k or an s. you can look at the pictures or try to match them up to the graffiti you have currently. the other thing about this, it's not just taggers, it's also gangses. we have gangs over here. we have like what's a big gang member, smily. there's always going to be a smily, right? the great thing is when you do do it, it pulls up. if i pull up like merc, i see that merc tags with five different other people. so, how can i get hold of merc? start finding out what the other guys are doing. it's a big, big thing for you to use. and this is how we put our big cases together. this is our hotline program and it's, like i said, the hotline program is similar to silent witness program i was telling you about. you remain anonymous. that's big for the kids, too. a lot of places that we use this hotline reward is in the schools because that's where you're going to get a lot of intel. once they see a little bit of this and they see a little bit of money going out, they become more and more -- people are r

lot of these faulty documents especially ones where the homeowner's loan has been transferred to the mers mortgage electronic registration system if you see a transfer demurs it's a big red flag that there's going to be potentially mistakes in the foreclosure i think we give you a whole other side just on mars but real quickly i wanted to get to one more question are there any other negative consequences that homeowners should be on the lookout for if their home is being foreclosed on or if it's going to be sold in a short sale besides the fact that they're you know taking credit and losing their home. well you identified two of the big issues you know there are going to lose their home and a lot of times you know that credit his negative although you know many times they don't have much credit to begin with so it's not a big issue for them the real big issue that they need to understand and specially in a short sale because you can prevent this in a short sale by requesting you know those clauses being the be removed from the short sale contracts is you've got to look for the deficiency

it's not girly, but it's mer da. >> won an oscar golden globe and grossed $550 million but now that she the ranks of the princess collection she gets a glit si do over. an online petition to change disney's mind was started which pushes for better images of women in media. >> it's a lovely site. >> it's all about issues. >> it's all about issues for girls. >> but disney can't be swayed saying the new look is the same strong and determined character. well, yes, she is. >> linda yee, kpix 5. >>> well, switching gears, the weather has been absolutely gorgeous. >> yeah, it's been great. mother's day, awesome. >> beautiful. >> today couple of degrees cooler but we're going to see this cooling trend continue throughout the week. temperatures going down not to uncomfortable levels but you certainly will notice the difference toward the middle of the week. let's haed outside and take a look at telegraph boulevard on this beautiful evening where we have temperatures quite comfortable outside. we are looking at low 60s for concord, oakland, livermore, mid 50s for san francisco. san jose, 59 in sa

and the commission will be allowed to site violaters who don't have mer mitts and right now if you set up a nightclub and you don't bother to get a permit. the entertainment commission has not power to go after you only the police can. that will allow the commission and the police to go after someone who operates without a permit. it will allow the city to pursue civil violations through the city attorney's office against businesses that are in violation of their place of entertainment or place of business after hours. >> and the department of public health for noise violate ors in the streets and public places, currently the police can cite them but the police cannot over stretch and it will allow the department of public health to enforce but the noise ordinance. the legislation remanufactures a session on a perspective moratorium of extended hours permit so that the entertainment commission can continue to bring late night businesses into compliance, currently it kicks in if the commission grants extended hour permits that lead to a 15 percent increase every year. with roughly 90 ho