commissioner moran: ok. there were two like that from a list of projects. >> the ones where they have responded on going because for acre-foot fort large landscapes, for conservation projects, and those things. what i have asked the staff to do is whenever they bring anything like that to the commission to start an ongoing mission -- an ongoing list that gets updated each time that say the range of things out there and the cost of those. each time you see a new one, you can add to the list and compare to what was seen before. commissioner moran: the question about what the wisf program -- those have been answered. seeing as we are spending thousands of dollars an acre foot for pretty much anything we do, i had specifically asked for a list of conservation projects that came in at less than $2,000 an acre foot. >> right. but the next time you asked for those over that period we put all of them on a list and will have it before you each time we bring anything forward. you would have it available each time some

he said moran is questioning his qualifications to run. >> when jim moran, who is the congressman inistrict that has the most hallowed ground in the country, arlington national cemetery, says tt military service is not community service, i think that's highly objectionable and he should apologize to the veterans in this country and their family members. >> reporter: veterans supporting patrick murray include tom hadden who was a prisoner of war in vietnam. >> it means my military service unqual fuse any veteran for being a member of congress to represent our district. >> reporter: this video posted on youtube of congressman moran at a community forum has gotten more than 23,000 hits. >> what they do is theyfind candidates. usually stealth candidates. that haven't performed in any kind of public service. my opponent is typical. >> reporter: but congressman jim moran says his commentsave been distorted. he says he criticized his opponent's lack of civic involvement, not mill service. >> serving in the military doesn't prevent you from getting involved in the community and mr. murrayas

>> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weirnew york city, this is "nightline," october 6th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with religion and free speech and the explosive intersection of the two. the westboro baptist church is known for picketing the funerals of u.s. soldiers and marines in protest over what the church sees as the ills of american society. gays, in particular. today, their free speech case ended up before the supreme court, but we wanted to know more about who they are and what terry moran boarded the westboro van for our series, "faith matters." >> reporter: they're shocking. ♪ god showed his wrath to thee >> reporter: they're cruel and outrageous, and for most americans, simply beyond the pale. >> thank god for dead soldiers. >> reporter: should they be against the law? what the members of this church in kansas do at the funerals of fallen soldiers and marines seems to have violated an almost universal sense of basic human decency. and they know it. and they're proud of it. you seem to have crossed a

commissioner moran: thank you. vice president vietor: i wanted to also follow up on the comment about these educational opportunities around our system and students. it seems to me with our almost former commissioner stepping into the assistant general manager of external affairs role, it might be a wonderful program to think about developing as some kind of focused educational program for students on our water system, our energy programs, our waste water system, and what that might look like. i am sure she has a full plate, but since she is not here i will delegate in someone's absence. we could continue the dialogue. i really appreciate that. i think there is a lot of value to it. >> we have a variety of things going on now and part of it is to focus. we talked about the possibility of using the arts commission to present and how that can fit into educational programs. waste water does a variety of those already. we have even talked about should we buy a bus so it is easier to get kids to come. how do we do the b

in new york city, this is "nightline," october 19th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with the hunt for a missing child in north carolina. 10-year-old zahra parker, who at such a young age had already lost of left leg to cancer. was last seen by someone outside her family in september. her step-mother, lisa baker. she faces felony obstruction of justice charges in relation to this case. but that is only one of many complications facing north carolina authorities. tonight, yunji de nies has our report. >> reporter: it began the way these stories sadly so often do. a missing little girl, her smiling face sent in amber alerts and a father's desperate plea for help. >> i just hope i can get my dau daughter back. i miss her so much. >> reporter: but from the beginning, something different add up. and this husband seemed to implicate his wife. do you think your wife was any way involved in your daughter's disappearance? >> i'm not sure. i'd like to think no. because that's my wife. but -- until they've completed their invest game, i can't hon

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in new york city, this is "nightline," october 8th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with online commerce. on a day when the latest jobs numbers paint a depressing picture of a struggling economy. but for some people, there's one avenue at least that still seems to intersect with easy street. and that's the auction website ebay. the site has moved far beyond its early incarnation as something of a sprawling online rummage sale and it's become a slick 8$8.7 billion market. outlook for sellers who built their own businesses, one mouse click at a time. john donvan has our report. >> all of this is listed as on the ebay site right now, all for sale. we moved from 5,000 square foot space to now 12,000. >> reporter: and so it was that a one-time lawyer turned stay at home mother named linda lightman came to be running in pennsylvania a full-time consignment clothing operation. >> this is the photo room. i used to go outside, because when i started i didn't know how to use a digital camera. this is the shoe room. shoes are put away by designe

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 14th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin again tonight with the extraordinary story of the chilean miners. news this evening that three of the rescued men left the hospital by the back door as the media swarmed in front. they are the first of the 33 to be given a clean bill of health. what life will be like for the men once they return to their homes remains to be seen. for one of them, surviving in the mine may have been the easy part, as his mistress, not his wife, greeted him above ground. neal karlinsky has the details. >> reporter: when they descended into the mine a little more than two months ago, they were simple men with simple lives. they were victor mario and yonni. but they've come back transformed. today, in chile, they are the entertainer, the writer and the lover. three miners who came out of the tunnel and straight into the limelight. the lover was yonni bare yoesrios, the 21st miner to come up the only one with medical exper

in new york city, this is "nightline," october 26th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with fame and consequences. in new york, charlie sheen, the actor and bad boy for many years, was arrested, taken into custody at the plaza hotel here in new york after his -- police responded to a disturbance in his room. sheen has had many problems over the years, and yet again, he is in trouble, but this time, the question is, what will be the consequences? andrea canning has our report. >> reporter: it's happened again. charlie sheen, living up to his bad boy image. police sources say they discovered the actor drunk and half naked in his new york city hotel room early this morning. >> police responded. mr. sheen was taken to the hospital, no arrests were made. no one willing to sign a complaint. >> reporter: according to police officials, sheen had been drinking heavily and was reportedly screaming that he couldn't find his wallet or phone. >> he had a whole situation in that hotel room in the plaza. they found him apparently naked and intoxicated.

but the stress of caregiving is so intense, it rated a 5 out of 5, and so terry moran has some postcardstersweet edge. >> reporter: in every hard journey through the shadowlands of alzheimer's, there is always something even the shadows cannot darken. there is life. and beauty. and abiding love. breakfast at the jones family home in ft. lauderdale, florida, can be a hectic affair. natalie has to get to second grade. laura has to get to work. and jay -- >> did you take your pills? >> reporter: at 53, jay has to live with alzheimer's. jay jones is one of 500,000 americans living with early-onset alzheimer's disease, when the disease strikes before the age of 65. >> for me, it's like seeing my husband, someone that i love, and he's in quicksand. and i can see the fear in his eyes. i can't reach him. i can't get there. >> reporter: laura holds down a part time job making one-fifth of what jay did and she tries to help natalie who had to change schools when jay lost his job. >> bye. i love you. have a good day. she is -- she's so mad about changing schools, it's unbelievable. >> reporter: but

political analyst matthew dowd and abc "nightline" co-anchor terry moran. thank you all for being here. has the tea party gone one step too far with christine o'donnell? i mean this was a safe republican seat? >> presumably and they probably did but i don't think that's going to make the difference between controlling the senate or not. and the senate, the story of the senate is already written in stone and that is that mitch mcconnell is going to have 47, 48 senate seats which means he's going to have 41 votes for anything, which means nothing shall pass that he doesn't want to pass. >> matthew, do you think that's right because everybody there was saying that republicans would have to look elsewhere to get a seat to gain control of the senate? >> well, obviously this is if you were wanting to win christine o'donnell does not help that cause any time you run an ad that says i am not a witch. you know you got problems in the campaign. even if it's halloween this month. but i think the real thing here that she has identified is that there's a huge passion in

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there's a lot of hope, and i think terry moran is right.e have to have that hope and invest in the research. there's so little money invested in the research. >> one of the great things to get us hope will be more people who volunteer for trials. there are lots of trials going on right now, but anybody can volunteer for a trial, and the thing that we've learned in the last kind of six months is that alzheimer's develops 15, 20 years before diagnosis. so people need to be aware of what's going on with their parent, with themselves and get in early. that's where the hope is. >> you, your husband's term is coming up. you will not be in the california governor's mansion. >> there isn't a governor's mansion. no mansion. >> what will you be doing? will you continue to lobby publicly for these kinds of things even after you're first lady? >> well, i'll work on alzheimer's because i'm passionate about it. and we have 78 million baby boomers who are entering their 60s and entering this time prime, so i think it should be not just me but everybody sh

commissioner moran: how does this effort relate to the cca process we are going through? >> this is specifically what is not in mthe cca. this is everything else we do now currently. the cca is a unique stand-alone entity that would be reviewed and prices set and proposals reviewed based upon its own procurement of power in the marketplace of whatever level it is adopted. commissioner moran: this is where we really are as a power provider. cca is the generation. this happens at hunters point, this happens in treasure island. cca is the distributor, they do all of the work. >> the interface would be in those circumstances where if we were to provide power to them. >> that would be a separate rate schedule providing at a wholesale level. >> what our current budget is is what they're selling to the housing authority. this was projected in the 10- year capital plan. the peace we are adding would be the additional new housing on treasure island. we also need the commercial shipyard and the trans bay area. >> does this include city hall? >> it does. we will be able to look into

i'm terry moran. we're going to begin tonight with the subject of sex on american campuses and how, in this age of instant information oversharing, stories meant for a few can become stories read by the world. the latest example is a detailed presentation a graduate of duke university wrote about her sex life that proceeded to go viral on the internet, embarrassing the author and those she named. so what's going on here? is it that social norms are changing? or does the change have more to do with social media? vicki mabrey reports for our series "modern sex in america." >> reporter: that one wild college night can live on forever in viral videos, raunchy blogs, even in a power point presentation. a few weeks ago, karen owen, a recent duke university graduate, came to embody the perils of the "too much information" age. >> a recent duke university graduate has a lot of explaining to do. >> reporter: when she cataloged her campus conquests recently in a 42-page document that became a viral sensation. >

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." >> announcer: from the global resourtss of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weiryork city, this is "nightline," october 22nd, 2010. >> good evening. we're going to begin tonight with one of those colorful corners of american culture that can be mysterious to outsiders, but all consuming to those who participate. child beauty pageants. little girls as young as 3 compete for beauty crowns, all with the encouragement of their parents. but now, it's not just the moms, it's the dads, who are playing the role of head coach and cheerleader for their daughters. and tonight, andrea canning introduces us to pageant dads. >> reporter: they're a sideline staple on the pageant circuit. extreme stage moms accused of living through their daughters. >> our next contestant is going to be ava perez. >> reporter: but now, there's a new and unexpected face emerging in the world of glitz and glamour. the pageant dad. >> shaky shaky. >> i don't know. i didn't see -- >> she did a back flip. >> reporter: on the hit show "toddlers and ttiaras," david per perez wants to take his daughter t

here is terry moran. >> reporter: they're shocking. ♪ they're cruel, outrageous and for most americanseyond the pale. but should they be against the law? what the members of the tiny west borough baptist church in topeka kansas do at the funerals of fallen soldiers seems to violate aid universal sense of basing human decency and they know it and they're proved it. you seem to have crossed a line. they have been spewing a dark message. the message that is theirs to spread. they brought that message and that argument to the supreme court. >> when you have a public funeral and you broadcast to the nation that that dead soldier is a hero and that god is blessing america, we will be there and tell you god is cursing america. >> reporter: margie phelps whose father fred found the church. she is their lead attorney and that is one side of her. yet this is her yesterday. yes, her wearing the american flag around her waist. >> i have been representing this church for 20 years and picketing for 20 years and i win them all. >> reporter: for the past four days church mep berz ambers and have been

i'm terry moran. >>> for many women who become pregnant that's when some of the fun pretty much endsand drinking of course for two. >> i can't wait for that part. of course alcohol is typically one of the first things to go. a study is questioning if a little booze isn't so bad for mothers to be. here is juju chang. >> reporter: we know the dirty looks pregnant women get for drinking alcohol. >> why did you avoid it in public? >> you don't want to be accosted. >> reporter: brit, researchers looked at 11,000, 5-year-olds, surprisingly children of light drinkers showed no increase in behavioral issues like hyperactivity. and curiously had slightly higher cognitive test scores versus those whose mothers who abstained. it does validate children of heavy drinkers are look low to have lower test scores. here is the science when a pregnant woman drinks alcohol so does her unborn child, passing through the placenta. the fetus' liver is unable to process the alcohol like an adult so it attacks the developing central nervous system. the new study sends a mixed message, british researchers are

terry moran, abc news, the supreme court. >>> today, the u.s.ed war in afghanistan enters its tenth year. more than 94,000 u.s. forces are now fighting there. and that number will rise to 98,000 when the surge of forces ordered by the president is complete. >>> also this morning, a criminal investigation is being launched into that toxic sludge spill in hungary. investigators are looking into whether on-the-job carelessness may have led to this environmental disaster. crews, now, are desperately trying to contain the mess before it gets to the danube river. that river passes through several countries before finally emptying into the black sea. >>> and bill clinton has gotten a firsthand look at just how far haiti has to go as it still recovers from january's devastating earth quake. the former president, who is helping oversee haiti's reconstruction, visited a refugee camp in port-au-prince yesterday. he expressed frustration in the aid that's been promised has actually arrived. >>> the governor of texas is wishing mexican authorities would do m

moran of -- more of an opportunity for the neighborhoods to weigh in on this. at this point there's no action that i would ask of you. i'd ask that you just continue -- discontinue this item. president newlin: thank you and thank you for having the meeting and any public comment had? -- comment? >> [inaudible]. >> could you please speak into the microphone and state your name. >> i'm holly trees and i'm a member of the public. i was president at the september meeting, just found out about this proposed legislation and i was wondering, aside from what you had just mentioned in terms of preventing the type of incident that happened over the summer, what has there been in terms of any study as far as the budgetary concerns that the legislation may pose for stet in terms of enforcement, registration fees, etc.? commissioner meko: there are no prejudice administration fees required by the lenl -- there are no registration fees required by the administration. it's an informal process whereby anyone goes online and fills in an online form. in terms of enforcement, i t

thank you, terry moran. big day at the court and a big week ahead. we'll have more reporting from there. >>> on friday, we told you about something that outraged a lot of people. banks foreclosing on homeowners. hundreds and thousands of them. without bothering to read the legal documents. one sign how desperate homeowners have become once again. people on the brink spent the day in line in los angeles where a community outreach program is trying to help homeowners talk to their banks. but how is it possible some of these banks don't read the documents? matt gutman is in tampa. >> reporter: officials at the big banks now admit they were signing thousands of foreclosures a day without actually looking at the details of any of the cases. tack a lack at these. abc news obtained a copy of multiple signatures attributed to this lawyer with the florida attorney general's office who moonlighted as a robo signer. in only 45 minutes aweek, she allegedly vetted 1,000 summary judgments to evict homeowners. this attorney was one of the first to discover thrash o