the sister turns out to be mona simpson, the novelist.and steve jobs totally bond. separated as birth, as they say. then they go on a quest, a journey to find the birth father, especially mona wants to find what she calls "the lost father." >> reporter: eventually, they locate abdulfattah "john" jandali. a syrian american with a ph.d. in political science who is managing a restaurant in sacramento. but 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 ever met and not tell him anything about me. >> so mona goes to the coffee shop and meets this guy, mr. jandali, who is running it. who says, among other things when she asks how sorry he is, but then he said that he had had another child and mona said what happened to him? he said, oh, i don't know. we'll never hear from him again. and th

together in steve that is the arc of the ow mantism gets ike his he never found him and of his sister mona simpsons down the birth father and finds ou syria and studied in wisconsin by he moved toia and ran a restaurant and steve had been in the restaurant. i don't know there's a certain buddhist or coincidence. >> jon: even adopted father sek cantic but -- mechanic but someby learned toll bargain prices on. pragmatic practical guy. brought that wozniak it work as atical and pragmatic o he is creates amazing circuit board 1. he is hs for for free. and steve is steve jobs is saying, wait a we can make it and sell it. they did itsomething calledhich allowed peoplemakeonecalls byating the tones. arket it. that conflewence too, of the business. >> jon: there's great about gates and jobs and all the apple people say we hated gates. he have nthe microsofteople said jobs were all right at some was was these -- the a star system where stars are digital agelege dropouts born in 19 gates. unbelievably differe is miss comes from counter bill gates is smart process to him and makes a great business m make art

mona simpson is taken aback. she doesn't say anything. she doesn't say steve jobs is your son. and he looks at how shocked she is. he used to come. he was a big tipper. mona goes back and tells steve and steve says that balding syrian guy, that was my father? forget it. i don't ever want to see him. >> amazing story. >> you couldn't make it up. >> did they have any type of contact at all even at the point when steve was publicly dying? >> no. i think that -- i heard that he said that he sent text messages but no. there was no contact. >> what do you think that did to steve jobs? he obviously had this huge curiosity about his real parents but did he feel great anger do you think towards his father in particular? >> i don't think he felt anger toward his father. he didn't want anything to do with the guy who abandoned the family and mona. i think he was very deeply connected to his -- what he called his real parents. parents who adopted him. he didn't want to hurt them. paul jobs is a guy who was an auto mechanic and had taught steve all of the lessons of design and how to be a go

had abandoned the sister, the younger sister they had who turned out to be the novelist mona simpson. discovers he is the brother of mona simpson, this wonderful artist. >> had he known about mona's work before. >> not yet. she had not published anywhere but here but she was about to. she was working for the paris review and the mother said i haven't told you this, he just tracked me down. i am not going to tell you who he is. he is dark hair and famous and is rich. and everyone tries so guess who he is and they come up with john travolta and it ends up being steve jobs. >> a better outcome for everyone. >> but you know, let me tell you. >> what happened with the father. >> mona tracks down the father. the father is running a coffee shop in sacramento, he was born in syria, graduate student of the university of wisconsin. that's when he had these two children. . abandoned the family. running a coffee shop in sacramento. you can't make this up. mona goes there and steve doesn't want to have anything to do with him. he starts crying and said i wish you could see me earlier. i used to ha

he never found him and finally with the help of his sister mona simpson he tracks down the birth fathers out even though he is from syria and studied in wisconsin by he moved to california and ran a restaurant and steve had been in the restaurant. i don't know there's a certain buddhist conflewence or coincidence. >> jon: even his adopted father s a mek cantic but -- mechanic but somebody he learned toll bargain prices on. a pragmatic, practical guy. what jobs brought that wozniak didn't have was a sense to make it work as a business. a practical and pragmatic operation. >> wozniak is a wonderful guy. he is there and creates amazing circuit board that becomes the apple 1. he is handing out specs for it for free. and steve is saying, steve jobs is saying, wait a minute we can make it and sell it. they did it earlier with something called the blue box which allowed people to make free phonecalls by replicating the tones. woz is giving it out. he said no let's market it. that conflewence, too, of the electronics ant business. >> jon: there's great stuff about gates and jobs and all the app

mona simpson says death didn't happen to her brother, instead he achieved it. she met her by cal brother when she was 25. jobs had been put up for adoption and she was not. she said he was humble, loyal and loved to keep learning. >>> feeling more crowded this morning? the planet earth has reached a major milestone while were you sleeping. >> population milestone. >>> the incredible new estimate for cloning -- for cleaning up a nuclear plant. >>> osos >>> welcome back. most of the country after the weekend is running on time. flight arrival delays into philadelphia. maybe some cancellations lingering from the storm. check out our flight tracker. before do you, let me show you those temperatures. 48 boston, melting snow today, 52 new york, 56 d.c.. warmth around dallas 77 and 89 abc7news.com at the bottom is >>> republican presidential candidate herman cain is having to off reports of sexual has hawaii ment. his campaign disputes -- -- the incident took place when he was head of the national restaurant association in the 90s. according to politico the women sign

. >> his sister, mona simpson, he meets is an artist like him.reat novelist and loves that she's an artist. she says we have to go on the quest to find the lost father. he's not all that interested but she's able to track down the father who had been born in syria, a graduate student at the university of wisconsin and in one of the weird coincidences of the world moved to california and so there he is running a coffee shop in sacramento. mona goes to see him and steve says don't tell him anything about me. i don't want to have anything to do with this guy who abandoned you and your mother. he says i wish you could have seen me earlier when i ran one of the great restaurants. a big restaurant near cupertino. everyone used to come there. even steve jobs. mona simpson is taken aback. she doesn't say anything. she doesn't say, steve jobs is your son. and he looks at how shocked she is. he said, yeah, he used to come, he was a big tipper. mona goes back and tells steve and steve says that balding syrian guy, that was my father? forget it. i don't ever

and mona simpson and steve jobs totally bond-- separated at birth, as they say. they go on a quest, a journey to find the birth father. especially mona wants to find what she calls "the lost father." >> kroft: eventually, they locate abdulfattah "john" jandali, a syrian american with a ph.d. 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. >> jobs: when i was looking for my biological mother, obviously, you know, 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 ever met and not tell him anything about me. >> isaacson: 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 says, "oh, i don't know. we'll never hear from him again." and then he says, "i wish you could've se

his family truly was a loving close family and all four of his children and his wife and mona simpson, his sister. they're all there when he's in his last days. there is a closeness and a love that even though he worried. so when he told me he did it because his kids may not know him. that wasn't exactly satisfying. he said i want to do it because there will be a lot of books written by me and nobody will know the real, my side of the story. he said i want to do it because want to tell the tale. i think he wanted to do it because he knows history, he loves history and he thinks of himself as you said in the introduction of being part of a flow in history in which we build on the people before us and try to leave something for the people behind us. and he wanted people to know that. this is a question i never really had answered. even in the end he said i had trepidation but i'm really glad i did this. i kept saying why are you so glad you did it. he said well,'m really glad i did it. i couldn't figure it out. >> charlie: there was a moment in which you told me while you wereki+o÷ writ

that included his sister mona simpson but not the father that put him up for adoption. >> mona trackedn and he started talking about the great restaurants he used to run including one in silicon valle valley. he said everybody used to the eat there. even steve jobs. and this is the father. >> the father. buy lj cal father and steve had told moep a don't tell him about me. and so she had to bite her tongue and couldn't say steve jobs is your son. >> just looked shocked and yes he was a great temper. >> electronic version of the nearly 600 page book also a big hit. a lot of readers have it on the i-pad. >> if you haven't booked the flight yet to travel this holiday season, you will pay more. delta united continental today increase fare by 5 dollars each way for holiday travel. even before the increase fares already 70 dollars higher than last holiday season. >>> dna testing has found that many fish sold in markets and to restaurants is mislabeled. research commission by the boston globe found about half the fish tested in massachusetts was labeled as more expensive and new trish us varie

it comes from his sister, mona simpson in a eulogy publishes in "the new york times." she said his death was like life. she said he seeps to be climbing a steep hill. then he looked into the distance and said his last words. oh, wow, oh, would yow, oh, wow. >>> we turn to st. louis. thousands of people lined the streets to honor the world series champions. some of them maybe still pinching themselves. aefr the come-from-behind seven-game victory. party hard in st. louis. >>> they are. you know it. >>> staying with sports, here's espn. >>> good morning, cole wright here. pittsburgh, pa. the steelers hosting the patriots. second quarter, steelers up by three. big ben, bias himself some time, finds himself antonio brown. fourth quarter, patriots down, 23-10, first and goal, tom brady to aaron hernandez. pats down, 23-17. last chance for the blue and silver. brady back to pass, hit by brett kiesel. hit out the back of the paint by troy polamalu. what is new? >>> sean payton in the booth. his saints take on the rams. there's the skipper of the cardinals. trying to get good

at age 27, he discovered his biological sister, who just happened to be best-receiving author mona simpsontroduced us. >> okay. >> he found his mother, so, of course, one of the first things she said was, you have a sister. >> reporter: you can spot the resemblance when she recently appeared on the show "steve bertrand on books. ". >> we became friends. that was very fortunate. and then we actually got married, we were looking for love and got married the same year. we both went on each other's honeymoons. >> reporter: mona spent her childhood with their biological parents who did eventually marry. he got to know her, just as he was growing closer to his oldest daughter lisa and after receiving the similarities in appearance and intensity, jobs told "the new york times," i used to be way over on the nurture side, but i've swung way over to the nature side. >> does he know his father? the syrian father? >> no. >> he does not. >> reporter: while jobs did become close with his biological mother, he reportedly spurned his father, now a casino executive in nevada. we reached out to adam pertman

that included his sister mona simpson but not the father that put him up for adoption. >> mona trackedim down and he started talking about the great restaurants he used to run including one in silicon valle valley. he said everybody used to the eat there. even steve jobs. and this is the father. >> the father. buy lj cal father and steve had told moep a don't tell him about me. and so she had to bite her tongue and couldn't say steve jobs is your son. >> just looked shocked and yes he was a great temper. >> electronic version of the nearly 600 page book also a big hit. a lot of readers have it on the i-pad. >> if you haven't booked the flight yet to travel this holiday season, you will pay more. delta united continental today increase fare by 5 dollars each way for holiday travel. even before the increase fares already 70 dollars higher than last holiday season. >>> dna testing has found that many fish sold in markets and to restaurants is mislabeled. research commission by the boston globe found about half the fish tested in massachusetts was labeled as more expensive and new trish us

abandoned by his parents and a sister who turns out to be a literary genius, mona simpson and efforto reconcile with his mother, but not miss father. i think this is the stuff oh, boy, i can just see the movie. >> there's another quote in the book about his interest in helping the new york times, he writes, one of my personal projects this year, i've decided, is to try to help whether they want it or not, the times. i think it's important for the country, for them to figure it out. i guess he's a private citizen, jim, he can do what he wants to do, but the times need his help? >> probably. (laughter) >> if you compare the new york times stock and apple stock, you would say so. i mean, look, one thing to be wary of in a biography like this, where the author of the book itself, not jobs, but the where it's coming from, a few slings at fox news in the book and i can't help, but think to myself. gee, where did isaacson once work, oh, the president of cnn how about that and it's a 600 page book, lots of interesting stuff, but be, i'm curious about some of the selection choices they made a

it's the eulogy that steve jobs' sister, the writer mona simpson, delivered at her brother's memorialervice earlier this month. it's published in "the new york times" from over this weekend. in it simpson reveals her brother's final words on his deathbed right before the end came. he said, "oh, wow." he said it three times in a row. we've put all of this on our website for you tonight. nbcnightlynews.com. >>> tony la russa did it right. in an era when almost nobody chooses to go out on top and way too many people choose to stay out too long until it gets ugly. days after winning the world series with the cardinals, he called a news conference this morning and announced his retirement. after 33 years in baseball he's third on the list of all-time winningest managers. he's a consensus hall of famer. as one sports writer put it today, he walks away a master of the game. >>> up next for us here tonight, a kid on a mission. his hero saw our story and has stepped up to make a difference. employers or employees. not white collar or blue collar or no collars. we are business in america. and e

mona simpson tracks him down. he talks about the great restaurants he used to run. he said, everybody used to eat there, even steven jobs. >> this is the father? >> the biological father. steve told mona, don't tell him about me. she had to bite her tongue and couldn't say, steve jobs is your son. he just said, he was a great tipper. >> the father and the son met. didn't know they were father and son. yet, when they both know it, steve says, i want nothing to do with this man. >> steve jobs is a person of intense emotions and loyalty. his real family, his adoptive parents, who he called his real parents. they were just great people. his four children, there's a strong bond there. if you're not part of a strong bond, somebody like his biological father, he had no need to see him. >> reality distortion field. he thought he could bend facts to fit his will. that may have shortened his life. >> that magical thinking worked. 95%, 99% of the time. he could have steve wozniak, his early partner, create a circuit board in three days that would normally take three months. he

. >> mona simpson later told jobs about the conversation and while jobs remembered meeting him, he never pursued a relationship with his biological father. isaac son will appear tomorrow on "good morning america." >> very interesting. >>> a day of liberation. coming up, celebrations that erupt in libya following the death of muammar qaddafi. and protests on behalf of syria. what the demonstrators say they want. and at 11:30, an oven door suddenly explodes for no apparent reason. michael finney tracks down an explanation. >> hi, everyone. i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. we have clear skies out there and still some mild temperatures. some locations are still in the 60s. we will see the fog return at the coast overnight, and that will leave some cooler tete ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios. want whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut c

. >> the final words of steve jobs according to a eulogy delivered by his sister, mona simpson.her brother stated oh, wow and repeated that phrase several times before he died. jobs was an intensely emotional man who was driven by a deep appreciation for love. >>> the economy takes center stage and the super committee holds a committee tomorrow. kelly o'donnell said one of nine interrupted the hearing and what we were seeing with anger there. the first order of business according to the "washington post" article will be assuring the government so we do not see another situation where there is a showdown over a shut down. >> they have been motivated by deadlines and we have seen that with different crisis that pops up with a deadline that takes everything to the brink or perception it's headed to the brink. that's one thing that members want to do is take that off the table. the threat of a shut down. having additional time to work it out. the super committee has a smaller deadline when i talk to members on the committee who say they believe this week is crucial to get some piece

in his sister's touching eulogy, mona simpson shared the emotional moment that he looked at his childrenilling phone call the day before his death. he told her to "hurry up to palt owe although owe" and that he was deeply sorry to be leaving everyone. those are your headlines this morning. having walter isaacson on the show coming up in an hour, the man who wrote the autobuy ago -- biography on steve jobs. >> dana perino was on a better show "fox news sunday" with chris wallace. welcome back to the show. i know you're preparing to hop on a train and come up here for "the five." first thing's first, what is your take on the sexual misconduct charges against herman cain that came his way in the 1990's according to a report that appeared on politico. >> as with most people, i don't have any idea they are true. i'm not surprised that a story like this surfaced and i think some people are quite skeptical that oh, sure, as soon as he starts rising in the polls, you'll get a story like this. that said, sexual harassment allegations are serious and while his spokesperson gave a quote yesterday,

a eulogy published in "the new york times," jobs' sister mona simpson talked about reconnecting with him after years apart and how he loved what he did every day. she wrote, "death didn't happen to steve. he achieved it. before embarking, he looked at his sister patty, then at his children, then at his life partner laurene, and his words were oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, wow." >>> the airline surprised passengers when it grounded its entire fleet on wednesday after a labor dispute. qantas says the rolling strikes by unions left them with no choice but to shut down. >>> jet blue apologizes to a number of passengers forced to sit for hours on a plane because of the october snowstorm. three jet blue flights were diverted to hartford, connecticut, on saturday because of heavy snow in the new york area. once they landed, passengers said they weren't allowed to get off the plane for another seven hours. they say the airline ran out of food and water, and the toilet stopped working. the department of transportation says it is investigating the incident. >> how could they possibly not let people of

that was mona simpson, steve jobs' sister and this is say quote from the eulogy she delivered at jobs earlier this month. >>> this headline definitely caught our attention, mosquitos genetically engineered to kill their own offspring. that's better than off, isn't it? let's go to kristie lu stout. could this mean the end of mosquitos forever? >> not quite. researchers have engineered mosquitos that pass a lethal gene to their offspring, thus killing them before they mature. a study was just published on sunday said 19,000 engineered mosquitos released in a controlled experiment on grand cayman island on 2009. the trial has been deemed successful. the idea is to help control mosquito-borne diseases. authorities in the florida keys, they're looking at the study and hope to carry out an open air test of these modified mosquitos as early as this december. they're waiting on approval from the agricultural department. wait and see. carol. >>> on another topic, boeing is getting into the taxi business? >> yes. according to company sources boeing is indeed planning to manufacture space taxis.

and author mona simpson the sister steve jobs didn't know he had until later in life delivered a heart wrenching yulg. -- eulogy. my whole life shed she said i've been waiting for a man to love who could love me and thought that man would be my father. at 25 i met that man. and he was my brother. jobs was a a.dopted but found out his parents had a daughter and simpson who happened to be a gifted writer they found each other and became invaluable companions and recalled his last words which were oh wow oh wow, oh, wow. >> thank you very much oo. and time now for our trick or treat forecast and beyond. >> yes. i am the great pumpkin. >> and this is pretty. >> things looking clear here is a high definition view on to the bay. there is some fogginess near the coastline but it's mainly clear temperatures are on the high side and it's warm 80 degrees now and upper 70s in other locations 63 degrees here and highlights are these sunny skies and warm again tomorrow high fire danger in the hills. it will be cooler with a chance of showers on thursday. so there is a center of high pressure northw

jobs' biological parents, they did eventually get married, even had another child, the novelist, mona simpsonn they became adults and became very close. some suspect her book is actually about jobs. but he never developed a relationship with his biological father. just six weeks ago, he told the "new york post," now i just live and hope that before it is too late, he will reach out to me, because even to have just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man. we don't know if jobs ever had that coffee with his biological father. but we do know that throughout his life, jobs was philosophical about his relationships and about life. >> you can't connect the dots looking forward. you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path. >> what a remarkable man. we're following several other stories tonight. isha sesay joins us. >> the occupy wall street protests enter