and the sister turns out to be mona simpson, the novelist. mona simpson and steve jobs totally bond. separated at birth, as they say. and then they go on a quest, a journey, to find their birth father. especially mona wants to find what she calls the lost father. >> eventually they locate abdul fattah "john" jandali, a syrian-american with a phd in political science who was managing a restaurant in sacramento. but as jobs tells isaacson on tape, he decides to let mona go meet him alone. >> when i was looking for my biological mother, obviously, you know, i was looking for my biological father at the same time. and i learned a little bit about him, and i didn't like what i learned. and i asked her to not tell him that we'd ever met and not tell him anything about me. >> so mona goes to the coffee shop, meets this guy, mr. jandali, who's running it, who says, among other things when she asks, you know, how sorry he is. but then he says that he had had another child, and mona said, "what happened to him?" he said, "oh, i don't know, we'll never

the mona lisa by da vinci.hat was once a convent in florence, there is a project to find and identify the remains of a woman that posed for da vinci more than 500 years ago. historical documents seem to indicate this is the place where lisa giardini, otherwise known as mona lisa was buried. beyond that, it's all a mystery. the remains of five females have been found here. the skull may have been of lisa the second wife of a wealthy florence silk merchant. remains will be compared with the dna of two relatives buried elsewhere. no other likeness of her has ever been found, and given da vinci spent years working on the painting, it's possible the real lisa giardini bears no resemblance to the mona lisa. >> translator: once we identify the remains, vincete tells me, we can reconstruct the face with a margin of error of 2% to 8%. we'll finally be answer the question the art historians can't. who was the model for mona lisa the smile on the other hand will probably remain a misery. vincenti claims that analysis says

i mean, you know, mona, she never bothered anybody.hy would somebody kill her. >> police have not released a suspect o or a motive. however some in the community believe the shooter was aiming at a car passing by. the family is planning a memorial this weekend. ktvu channel 2 news. >> we have new information tonight where police are searching for a bank robber. police tell us the city bank on third street was robbed just before 5:00. the man got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, but tonight we have just received this surveillance photo of the suspect. the man there in the road hoodie is described as white in his 20s about 5'8" inches tall with a shaved head and tatoos on his hands, head and neck. >> police say that a hit and run driver killed a man out whacking his dog this morning. the accident happened at sutor and louisiana lose streets. that's where responders found the 644-year-old victim still holding his dead dog's leash. so far they have not released his name while they notify his family. no description of a suspect vehi

the mona lisa.once a convent in florence, the television producer turned art researcher is leading a project to find and identify remains of the woman who posed for da vin economy more than 500 years ago. historical documents indicate this is the place where he's 15 de gherardini was buried. remains of five females were found here. the skull may be that of the second wife of a wealthy florence silk merchant. remains compared with the dna of two relatives buried elsewhere. no other likeness of her has been found and given da vinci spent years on the painting. the real lisa bears no resemblance to the mona lisa. >> translator: once we identified the remains, he tells me, we can reconstruct the face with the margin of error of 2% to 8%. by doing this we'll finally be able to answerer the question the art historians can't. who was the model for leo flori leonardo. >> reporter: the smile, on the other hand will reman a mystery. he claims scientific analysis suggests the smile came later. when, he say, le

i had this thing where somebody would -- i'm sort of torn when they go which do you prefer, the mona lisa painting? would you like to be the guy who made the mona lisa or do you like the postcards and t-shirts and earrings. >> rose: you said postcards. >> i like them both. >> rose: do you say postcards when it's posed that way or not? >> i suppose. you know the postcard has the biggest impact. there's something amazing about the unique wonderful painting even though you can't see it because it's behind bulletproof glass. >> tell me about this jacket you have on >> i don't know. it's -- it's japanese design. it's called "mastermind." i've found it after i did the diamond skull. that's me! >> rose: is that your biggest creation, the diamond skull? >> i said recently in an interview probably i could pick my top four, what to take from a burning building or whatever you say. >> rose: what would they be? >> "shock." >> rose: shark? you couldn't take that. >> well, it depends where the fire started. the shark, the diamond skull, a thousand years and a spot painting. >> rose: those would be

studio haidara mona what's going on here i mean what exactly is senator boxer promoting. well her save our schools act would allow governors of each state in the nation to deploy national guard troops to schools to help law enforcement in what she calls to ensure the safety of the schools now in proposing this she hasn't ruled out actually having national guards troops there in in front of the schools guarding the entrances however she has suggested that these national guard troops might be used to help police and paperwork and to build a safety infrastructure around school campuses in this would have to be paid for by the states and eventually under boxer proposal the federal government will reimburse the states through through spending which has already been authorized for the defense budget so president obama has called for meaningful action time and time again when he has these speeches i'm assuming this in of all approve backpacks on exactly what he had in mind. well from what we've seen this week he obviously appointed joe biden to spearhead of this effort now joe b

. >> an effort is underway to try to unlock one of the mysteries of the mona lisa.may have unearthed a skeleton of the wife of a wealthy merchant who is believed to have posed for the painting. those remains will be compared with dna from two relatives buried elsewhere to determine if it is her. >> once identifying remains we can reconstruct the space with a margin of error 2% to 8%. when doing this we'll be able to answer the question art historians can't. who was the model for leonardo? >> no other likeness of lisa gardini has been found. it's possible she bore no resemblance to the mona lease yachl the source of the smile will probably remain a history. vincetti claims evidence suggests the smile came long after the initial sitting. >> it's fascinating. >> yes. it is. >> still ahead year on twitter. most retweeted tweets of the year. some probably carolyns and plus... this caught on video. scary moments for a family. they watched a roof collapse. >> and our sutro camera, looking over the bay, downtown there. thick dark clouds over the bay. rain will be falling in

who was mona lisa?r leonardo da vinci's muse. >>> she had one of the most famous faces in history. and more than 500 years later, this team of archaeologists say they may have found the missing link to the mystery of mona lisa. ben wedeman reports from the site. >> reporter: the smile has perplexed art historians for centuries. leonardo da vinci's priceless masterpiece, the mona lisa. in the frigid bows of what was once a convent in florence, television producer turned art researcher silvano is leading a project to find and identify the remains of the woman who posed for da vinci more than 500 years ago. historical documents seem to indicate this is the place where lisa gardini, mona lisa, was buried. beyond that, it is all a mystery. the remains of five females have been found here. the skull may be that of lisa gardini, the second wife of a wealthy florence silk merchants. the remains will be compared with the dna of two relatives buried elsewhere. no other likeness of her has ever been found, and giv

they're both angry and frustrated and say that everyone loved mona.er should have happened. >> everybody in the neighborhood knows her. everybody loves her. it's like... it's a shock. >> she is oakland's latest victim of gun violence. the mother of two and grandmother of four was shot and killed only blocks from where she lived. >> go two people shooting. we don't know who they were. but we know it wasn't meant for my mama. >> police agree, tell meeg she was caught in the cross fire two of shooters and was not their intended target. they say she was leaving this dollar store with her sister, headed home, bullets started flying. she was hit and died in this corner, word spread throughout the neighborhood and to her family. >> everybody, everybody told us it was mona. i ran through yellow tape. >> investigators turning to witnesses and surveillance cameras to them identify those responsible you know, it's a grandmother. it's, you know an older black woman. >> another innocent victim of the violence. this organization are working to change that. >> this

leonardo da vinci's priceless master piece, the mona lisa.ion producer turned art researcher is leading a project to identify and find the remains of the woman who posed for da vinci more than 500 years ago. historical documents seem to indicate that this is the place where lisa geradini, otherwise known as mona lisa, was buried. beyond that, it's all a mystery. the remains of five females have been found here. this skull may be that of lisa, the second wife of a wealthy florence silk merchant. the remains will be compared with the dna of two relatives buried elsewhere. no other likeness of her has ever been found, and given that da vinci spent years working on the painting, it's possible the real lisa geradini bears to resemblance to the mona lisa. once we identify the remaining, vimceti tells me, we reconstruct the face with an error rate of 1 to 2%. by doing this, we can finally answer the question the art historians can't, who was the model? the smile, on the other hand, will probably remain a mystery. vinceti claims scientific analysis s

host: on the phone from illinois with mona yacoubian.ant to know she knows what the kurds have to do with this. are they trying to make their own country? my other question is if syria has used droned on their people. -- used drones? guest: kurds make a tender% of the syrian population and they live predominately in the northeastern part. -- they make up tend% of the syrian population. this is a concern going down the road. there have always been some skirmishes between arab and syrian rebel groups along with teh kurdish factions. some are accused of fighting with the government. they're trying to stay neutral and look for an opportunity to assert themselves. host: going back to life in syria, how did they deal with the basic needs and all of the infrastructure, the economy, and how people survive? guest: the economy has taken a huge hit. it is extremely expensive. fuel shortages abound. the world food program has noted that they are increasingly unable to reach them because of the security situation on the ground. they are in the midst

last night's shooting killed ramona foreman, better known as mona. >> mona, she was outrageous courageous person that would do anything for you. loving, caring. >> reporter: the victim lived at this house a few blocks away from the crime scene. friends say she was walking to a store when the stray bullet killed her. >> there is a woman laying on ice in the coroner's office and her grandkids will not see her again and her kids is not gonna see her again. >> reporter: homicide detectives are reviewing footage taken from the two surveillance cameras mounted at the head start building. >> vehicles there around the time of. crime giving us general descriptions of individuals involved in crime, we believe that videocameras in this case may help us as well. >> reporter: as a family friend honored the victim to over the small makeshift memorial, police tried to reassure neighbors by stepping up police presence along international boulevard. the victim is oakland's 124th homicide victim of the year. no one has been arrested. in oakland, i'm da lin, cbs 5. >>> if you are flying out of san francisco

mona hit and died at the corne corner. words quickly spread through the neighborhood and eventually to her family. >> everybody everybody told us it was mama. i ran straight through the yellow tape. >>reporter: today investigators are turning to to witnesses and surveillance camera to help them identify those responsible. >> you know, it's a grandmother and it's an older black woman. >>reporter: another innocent victim of oakland violence. this organization restorative justice for oakland youth working to change that. >> this is a big loss. affect add lot of people. it's not just her children but all the children in the community that have come to know her. >>reporter: billboard mounted above beg for end to gun violence. today one more east oakland family has been forced to add their voice to a growing chorus. >> she never hurt nobody. nothing like this to happen to her she was a good persons. >>reporter: investigators tight lipped about their progress but stress this is an active investigation. oakland police asking that

i was married to mona mayfield, aka mohammad, an egyptian national. i attended a local mosque.an only surmise one of the reasons i was arrested is because i was muslim. and there was this insinuation that somehow being a muslim meant that you are a criminal element. >> declaring his innocence, mayfield is incarcerated for two weeks on 24-hour lockdown and under constant surveillance. with federal agents claiming a match on the fingerprint, despite major doubts by spanish authorities, a federal judge rules in favor of temporarily releasing mayfield. false id in law enforcement, has always happened. post-9/11 with the powers of the patriot act and some of the other expanded powers that the government took, did false id become a more dangerous thing? >> there are certain rights that were demanded by the people and guaranteed to us. and one of those is the fourth amendment to privacy, which essentially says you're to be free against unreasonable searches and seizures, and no warrant shall be issued but upon probable cause, particularly describing the place, person or thing to be se

last night's shooting killed ramona foreman, better known as mona. >> she was outrageous courageous person that do anything for you. loving, caring. >> reporter: the victim lived at this house a few blocks away from the crime scene. friends say she was walking to a store when the stray bullet killed her. >> this is a woman laying on ice in coroner's office and her grandkids will not see her again and her kids is not gonna see her again. >> reporter: homicide detectives are reviewing footage taken from these two surveillance cameras mounted at the head start building. >> vehicles leaving after a crime arriving before a crime, giving us some general descriptions of individuals that are involved in crime. we believe that videocameras in this case may help us as well. >> reporter: as a family friend honors the victims over the small makeshift memorial, please try to reassure neighbors by stepping up police presence along international boulevard. this is the 124th homicide victim of the year. no arrests in the case. live in oakland, da lin, cbs 5. >>> gassing up not so painful lately. what driv

the priceless masterpiece, the mona lisa.igid bows of what was once a convent in florence, a research is leading the project to find and identify the remains of the woman who polesed for did i vin tea more than 500 years ago. lisa, other known as mona lisa, was buried. beyond that, it's all a mystery. the remains of five females have been found here. the skull may be that of lisa, the second wife of a wealthy silk merchant. the remains will be identified with two remains buried elsewhere. no other likeness of hers has ever been found given that da vinci spent years, she bears no resemblance to the mona lisa. once we identify the remains, we can reconstruct the face with the margin of error of 2 to 8%. by doing this, we'll finally be able to answer the question the art historians can't. who was the model for leonardo. the smile on the other hand will probably remain a mystery. he claims scientific analysis suggests the smile came later. when, he says, leonardo began painting the model in front of him, he didn't paint that elus

. >> with that pessimistic but very realistic and honest one, i want to thank you joseph and the mona for a very stimulating discussion. thank you to the audience for your questions. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> today on newsmakers, we're joined by elliot engel. he will talk about how the house and senate are winning issues around the september attack on the u.s. consulatein benghazi and the state department report in hearings held last week on the attack. >> if you work for him, you would get a material, sometimes generous overbearing, sometimes almost cruel boss. he did not know how to apologize. men of his age and class, they're not going to apologize to a young secretary or typist. he had a way of sort of turning the tables in his version of an apology would be to say, actually, i am kind manage your doing a good job today. the issue was never settled. -- a kind man and you are doing a fine job today. one night to going through naipaul, a german bomb went off. he should not have been

mona, she never bothered anybody. why would somebody kill her? >> reporter: police haven't released information about a suspect information or motive. some believe the shooter was aiming at a car passing by. live in oakland, paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. >> a person on a bike was killed by a amtrak train. it happened before 11:30 a.m. the train left oakland 10:00 a.m. there were 92 passengers on board. the cause of the crash is under investigation. >> a man and his dog were killed in a hit-and-run accident this morning about 8:30 a.m. officers responded to a report of a man down. the 64-year-old man and his dog were suffering from major injuries. the accident is under investigation at this point, there are no suspects in custody. >>> more fuelrens today in #-- funerals today in newton, connecticut. friends and family said good- bye to benjamin wheeler. he was one of six funerals for the 26 students and teachers killed. funeral rangements for the gunman's mother are being made in new hampshire. >>> vice president joe biden met with officials

in italy could these remains be mona lisa? the dna from the bones from a convert in nature rens. whether it is lice saw gerdini she is the model that posed for da vinci's famous painting. >> the list of the ten best states for doing business. all but one of those states is actually a right to work state. there could be other factors involved. diane macedo has more on that. >> thousands of people came out to protest. unions there can no longer force workers to pay union dues. but forbes says according to a new survey right to work states have a clear advantage. they show all but one of the top ten states have right to work laws the exception colorado. the rankings for the third straight year. they attribute that to corporate taxes. the pro business regulatory climate and north dakota moves up to number 3 after having the most economic growth after the last five years. the top ten expanded their economies 1.7 percent during the tough years between torques 6 and 2011 the economies contracted an average of .1 percent of the year during that time. all but mississippi do not have the r

i mean you know mona, she never bothered anybody.why would somebody want to kill her. >> reporter: police have not released any information about a suspect or motive. however some in the community believe the shooter was aiming at a car that was passing by. foreman's family is planning a memorial sometime this weekend. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> using live storm tracker 2 to track the showers. these showers worked their way south as we go into the overnight hours and by the morning commute it's wet and it's windy. the wind advisory on right now and it stays in effect throughout the night. at 2:00 a.m. it tries to migrate through the area. when we get to 6:00 a.m. when many folks are on the road you have wet in the south bay, wet in the north bay and wet all around. tomorrow morning's commute is going to be one of those friday morning get away commutes where you're going to want to leave a little early and check on with mornings on 2. back here at 10:45 and we'll be talking about the long range forecast which has two ki

i mean you know mona, she never bothered anybody. want to kill her. >> reporter: police have not released any information about a suspect or motive. however some in the community believe the shooter was aiming at a car that was passing by. foreman's family is planning a memorial sometime this weekend. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> using live storm tracker 2 to track the showers. these showers worked their way south as we go into the overnight hours and by the morning commute it's wet and it's windy. the wind advisory on right now and it stays in effect throughout the night. at 2:00 a.m. it tries to migrate through the area. when we get to 6:00 a.m. when many folks are on the road you have wet in the south bay, wet in the north bay and wet all around. tomorrow morning's commute is going to be one of those friday morning get away commutes where you're going to want to leave a little early and check on with mornings on 2. back here at 10:45 and we'll be talking about the long range forecast which has two kinds of these syste

the lady was dubbed "mona lisa" by the press when we found her because she is really an extraordinary depiction of a beautiful woman of roman antiquity. and the picture we get is a community very much in the mainstream, but on the high end of the scale. sepphoris was not just a city with houses and with waterrks and things like that, but it had satellite settlements around. zare, toll ients and purpose, was a satellite village attached to the region or municipality of sepphoris. >> the findings really are requiring us completely to rethink jesus' social economic setting, because we really had thought of jesus as being really out in the... in the hinterland, utterly removed from urban life, especially roman-influenced urban life. what the excavations at sepphoris suggest is that jesus was quite proximate to a thriving and sophisticated urban environment that would have brought with it all of the diversity of... of the roman empire, and would have required, just to get on, you know, as the price of doing business, a level of sophistication that one would not have thought characteristic

. >> numbing shock and for a parent and for a grandparent that has three grandchildren, mona and i, that one of them is in first grade, it brings all kinds of emotions to the front. these are babies, they're teachers, and the sanctity of school where life was beginning for many, many of these children as they discover themselves, it was a numbing, numbing shock, horrific. i thought the president's comments immediately after were reassuring to the nation and comforting. i thought his comments at the memorial service were that as well, but in particular i was very, very gratified for him to say this is enough. we've gone too far. we've reached a point of no return, and something needs to be done, and i sincerely hope we follow through on this commitment and i hope congress views this issue of gun safety and gun control with a much broader look. we have reached a point of in return. to continue what we're doing is to continue to invite the kind of tragedies we've seen over and over again, including in my hometown, tucson, where former colleague gabby giffords was seriously wounded and my pr

it's raining up the i-5, raining just about into napa and also into sow mona b-- sonoma.for northern california. the storm will taper off for you. not good news for washington, oregon, and british columbia. the storms are going to be sliding up farther to the north and four more storms are on the way for this area in the next 16 days. i know people love to go skiing up there, but just to give you so perspective, whistler has picked up 133 inches of snow on top of their mountain. that will be their watter er to drink in the um ser. i'm going to whistler over christmas. >> chad myers, thank you. also thanks to dan simon for bringing that you say story. for only $45 a month per phone. would we get the same coverage? same coverage on america's best networks. you saved $146.76 by switching to straight talk. awesome! now you can afford to share your allowance with me. get the season's hottest smartphones like the samsung galaxy s2 and get straight talk with unlimited data for just $45 a month -- from america's gift headquarters. walmart. ♪ if you're a man with low testosterone,

there were two singers, one was mona, one was lisa so he finally married her. >> ifill: and the famous wife we knew about was by that time dead. >> indeed. she had succeed wallace as governor, a one term limit or four year limb south that wallace could continue to try to pull the stringsment and she died in the middle of her term. >> ifill: fascinating. as you look back and come across these images and come across some audio occasionally that you post and other things, do you get-- take any heart at all from the kind of reactions you are getting from people who suddenly discovered this through you on twitter? >> i love it because what i'm trying to do is get people interested in history and get them to think about some of the larger issues. an these picture does this and the other thing is you and i have talked about this. we're living this an age in which imagery and presidential politics has become all the more important. so people have become pretty good at deciphering what they are seeing in a picture and often times there is a lot of meeting packed in there. and i hear from if, fr

how one woman can truly make a great change in the world, please welcome a proud supporter of the mona. [ applause ] >> anderson cooper, my personal hero. for some people, no matter how blessed their lives have been or how much hardship they have endured, they cannot ignore a problem that surrounds them and breaks their hearts. catalina escobar is this kind of woman. she lives in one part of colombia, the part with nice houses, loving families, food and medicine. but she also saw the other part of the country, the place where teen mothers and their babies live in shacks, with hunger, illness, violence, and where children die too often simply because a young mother could not afford medicine. this daily preventable tragedy was something catalina refused to ignore so she started the juan felipe gomez escobar foundation, named for her son. her organization provides women and babies with proper medical care and a place for them to become independent and break this crippling cycle of poverty. it seems impossible that one woman should take on a problem so big, but there is nothing more powerf

say my favorite phrase in this book describing paul volcker is the man who could find fault with the mona lisa. [laughter] paul volcker made a living saying no. he said no to gold in 1971, he said to to inflation in 1979, and he said to to commercial bank speculation in 2010. but the underlying theme, the underlying storyline is trust which, by the way, is the title of the last chapter of book. it is six pages. you can go directly there, and you can skip all the stories if you want. when president obama appointed him, chairman of the president's economic recovery advisory board, prab, wrote paul volcker a three-word letter. that letter still sits in a chrome frame on his desk. it says: we trust you. and in this book i show how paul volcker earned that trust and follow up with the lessons. and i'm going to start at the beginning. paul volcker learned about trust as a child. his father, paul volcker sr., was the town manager of -- [inaudible] new jersey from 1930-1950, and he had a quotation from george washington hanging in a frame behind his desk. it's an obscure quote from a letter georg

i think the phrase in the book describing paul volcker is the man who could find fault with the mona lisa. [laughter] he made a living saying no. goldberg 1970s one. inflation 1979. speculation 2010. the underlying story line is trust which is the title of the last chapter of the book you can go there and skip the stories obama appointed him chairman of the advisory board the former president of italy wrote paul volcker a letter that still sits in a coma frame on his desk that says we trust you. and i show how he earned the trust and to follow-up with the lessons he learned about trust and his father senior 1930 through 1950 had a quotation from george washington hanging in a frame behind his desk in a letter he wrote to his officers at the time it said do not suffer your good nature to say yes and you ought to say no. remember it is not a private cause to be injured urban if it did buy your car is" he has said no ever since. paul volcker is known today by the volcker rule but he earned trust synonymous with his name by standing up to political trip pressure with inflation that almos