and nick revels in every moment with his girls. the one thing nick doesn't have is time. even gee vanna knows it. >> at least you don't get to go to heaven yet. >> not going to heaven yet. still playing around playing candy land and i am going to win. >> no, i am going to win. >> in early 2009 nick was the happiest he's ever been. but a shadow was creeping in. the robust nick charles had never been sick in his life. but something was changing in his body. >> i would ask people my age do you get up at night to urinate? i get up, i wouldn't ask how many times. i was getting up six and eight times. i said something is wrong. >> it took six months to find the culprit. >> test in atlanta, she said here's the deal. you have metastatic stage four bladder cancer. very serious. the five year survival rate is 2%. the average life span is 20 months. >> but after a lifetime of covering fights, the fight was coming to him. >> you were going into win. >> oh, to win, absolutely. >> knock out cancer. >> absolutely. let's go at it. >> this is morphine, which is slow release. oxycodone. >>

it's another lesson nick taught me. dreaming and imagining the future. >> thank the lord for this day, and all my friends, who, all the love they are showing, and that i am achieving the milestone of getting in this new house. >> during a hectic day of packing bosses, nick sneaks away for the delivery of a special surprise gift for his daughter. >> well, welcome home. how about that? wow. right here. right here between the window and here. i got up in the middle of the night and researched these things, you know. keeps you going. i always need a project and i love to research things. that took probably 15 hours researching this piano, you know. wanted the very best one and for the very best price that i could for my daughter. i nailed it, and i feel fabulous about it. i wanted to get the soft close for sure. man, that's great. this is awesome. ♪ >> what do you think? straighten it out. straighten it out. go ahead. just play. ♪ >> when i went to see nick, i was looking for a lesson, or lessens, and turns out, it was more

nick charles has died. nick was a cnn staple for years on sports tonight.th bladder cancer. he was 64 years old. dr. sanjay gupta now looks back at the career of nick charles. >> we're here at the rose bowl. at the superdome. got the feel of the place. hello again from pontiac, michigan. i'm nick charles. >> reporter: the voice, the smile, the hair. nick charles was cnn's original sports anchor and part of the longest running anchor team in television sports history, teaming up with fred hickman on "sports tonight" for almost 17 years. nick did it all, from the olympics -- >> reporter: because the olympics have finally arrived. to the kentucky derby. >> but for now the one to beat is a girl. >> reporter: but the one thing he never missed was a good fight. >> in the back parking lot of the stadium here at caesar's palace, we'll find out more about what mike tyson is made of. >> reporter: but in august of 2009, the fight became his own. this time nick was in the ring and the opponent was stage iv bladder cancer. nick chose to do what he's done all his life --

nick charles has died. nick was a cnn staple for years on sports tonight.his battle with bladder cancer. you may remember his name, certainly from the time he was here at cnn. but most recently our sanjay gupta did a profile that got overwhelming reaction, a profile of nick and how he was preparing to go. he was preparing himself and his family for the last days of his life and important the time when he would not be here. nick charles has died at the age of 64. we'll have much more on this man and his life and, again, what he knew inevitable. >>> i do have to tell you i had the pleasure of knowing nick charles and what a superb human being. >> he did. we got overwhelming reaction. it might have been last weekend or the week before that sanjay profiled nick. just unsolicited reaction from our viewers. they were touched by what he was doing and preparing -- >> a beautiful man and a beautiful life. >> again, we'll have much more on that if you're not familiar with the story. >>> turning to our morning passport. we turn to dubai where there are tourists in jai

i wish people could know nick better and know the real nick.zed what good friends he and john were and that it was not a street racing accident and it wasn't a reckless or negligent situation. >> what is john's condition now, do you know? >> john, i believe, is now out of the hospital and he's home. his mom takes care of him, and i don't really know what his actual condition is, but i know that he's not able to speak or walk, and i live with that every day. nick lives with that every day, and -- >> do you have any contact with his family? >> i don't. there was a situation where the media was just so blown up. we lived in clearwater. it's a very small town and the situation like this with a celebrity was big news there, and we couldn't even go to the hospital. we couldn't go anywhere, to court. it was just a circus side show for the pr, and i think they got tired of having that there. they just wanted to be private and stay to themselves and i don't blame them. >> an awful situation though. >> yeah. they didn't really like it when we came to the

nick, are you there? >> i'm here. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: go right ahead, nick. go ahead.>> thank you, jimmy. dear mom and dad, today i am going on the jimmy fallon show. it is very exciting and fun to be backstage at a tv show with lights and makeup and many extension cords. since my show "parks and rec." is on vacation, i've been enjoying many outside activities such as swimming, biking and being outside. i should warn you, mom, that i grew a beard. i know you don't like them but i think it makes me look very adult. a pretty girl asked me about it and i told her it only took three days to grow it and so she would think i was cool. that was a lie. it took four days. [ light laughter ] love, nick. >> jimmy: thank you so much, nick. [ cheers and applause ] i think the beard looks good, nick. i do. and of course i always write home too. as usual, i'll read my letter writing -- letter reading voice for this. [ in bad english accent ] "dearest mother and father, i hope this finds you both basking giddy in anticipation of the summer days ahead when all of nature is in bloom. th

loopg with nick o'kelly, we've got nick now. here's nick. there you are. >> not only that. i just wanted to mention. not only is he an excellent, excellent meteorologist, rob is a heck of a good guy. >> he is a really nice guy. >> he is a genuinely nice guy. let's get to it and talk about your weather. we are looking for big changes. the golden gate bridge, there's been a bit of mist. a little drizzle out there. upper level low pressure system. not a big deal. a couple of showers in the northern sierra. that's moving off across nevada right now. what's in store for us here over the next couple of days is a big ridge of high pressure. what that means for us is some warming for the midday hours in the inland areas tomorrow. then after that, into monday and tuesday, we really heat things up. we're talking 80s and possibly near 90 degrees. the reason, this big ridge of high pressure offshore. it's been taking its time. should have been here a couple of weeks ago. it's finally moving in. it's going to stick around through this entire week, i think. so dry, quiet weather. after w

abc7's nick smith joins us live with the latest. nick? >> been a long morning indeed. morning for us, watching the fire burn, and for the firefighters fighting it, it's been a long morning for matty. you and your fraternity brothers were inside the home when it started. what happened? >> pretty much everyone was sleeping and i woke up to people screaming, get out of the house. there is a fire. we all went around the nature, that everyone left the building. knocked on everyone's door. made sure everyone left the building and everything. there was smoke coming out from the rooftop. and only, like we called the firefighters. it was just a little bit of smoke. we have thought that everyone was fine. >> you didn't take it seriously at first. >> not really. >> we thought it's all going to be under control. just a little smoke. 20 minutes later, pretty much. it was like a huge fire. like coming out of the rooftop. it was huge. we had to go a block away from the house. we felt the heat of the fire. that's how huge it is. >> everyone is fine. you have some place to go. >> every

everybody knows nick so well. years ago after being healthy his whole life, he was having troubles and went to the doctor and was diagnosed with stage four bladder cancer. he was told at that time two years ago that he had about two years to live. it hits you like you might think it would hit anybody. he started asking questions like the one he asked me which is what would you do if you suddenly heard that sort of news? how would you change your life? he has changed his life in ways big and small, big changes. also, specific ones. he keeps a journal every day, notes to his family that he wants to leave behind, thoughts about his life. he wanted to read some of it for me as well. take a listen. >> i know it is going to take all of god's grace, which is never in short supply, to make me live longer. i want to for you and mommy so we can be a family again in santa fe. sorry. if god takes me home, it will be forever. meanwhile, i am not going anywhere today. >> reporter: it is so tough for nick to write and it is toug

abc7's nick smith is live at fremont bart. nick?discuss and come up with a plan to somehow help those who would like to extend the nights out on the town but not hinder those who need to get to work early the next day. bart board of directors are scheduled to hold a meeting at 9:00 a.m. to discuss a plan to add later night service on the trains on friday night. bart is proposing a six-month pilot project to extent train service for an hour from midnight friday to 1:00 a.m. on saturday and begin train service an hour later from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. on saturday. administrators say it must be coupled with a later start on the following morn so crews have enough time to do maintenance on trains that are not running. riders themselves are split. >> on the weekend, it would be nice to stay out in the city. take bart home. and don't worry about drinking and driving or anything like that. >> i don't think it's necessary. it screws up saturdays. if people go to work on saturdays, then they got to wait another hour. that doesn't work right.

i'm nick charles with bob kurtz.ent. >> reporter: before the advent of 24 hour sports news channels, charles was the network's nightly authority when it came to chronicling the winners and losers of the games people played. he was paired with fred hickman for a nearly two decade run on cnn's sports tonight program. >> fancy meeting you here. >> yes, indeed, after all this time. >> this is a milestone show for fred and me, 3,000 together. >> seems like only yesterday and it wasn't. >> i've always looked up to nick and always kind of aspired to do what he did. he was a great inspiration to me, taught me to be a better storyteller and better reporter and better journalist, better person. >> reporter: charles reported on all of the major sporting events, from the olympics to the super bowl. >> i'm nick charles of cnn sports. hello again from pontiac, michigan. in city, australia. it is not just another day on streets of london. we're here at the rose bowl and the scoreboard tells the story. this is nick charles on the st

and in his early days, nick charles had this to say about nick. his passing is a loss to cnn.ts world and to the fans and friends everywhere who were with him to the end of his extraordinary life. like them, our thoughts today are of nick and with his family. nick charles, dead at the age of 64. ♪ you love money ♪ well, you know i love it too ♪ ♪ you love money ♪ well, you know i love it too ♪ ♪ i work so hard at my job ♪ and then i bring it home to you ♪ ♪ i love money in my pocket ♪ hey, gramps, what do you got in there? well, a trout lure, a set of dentures, broadway albums. you know -- stuff. yeah. about that. that big wheel behind us... yeah? he's got a flat-screen, swivel chairs, and a fridge. oh. hey, man! can we come over tonight? it's surprising just how affordable an rv vacation can be. visit gorving.com and get a free video. or see an rv dealer. go affordably. go rving. >>> i don't have kooties, i promise. >> okay. >> good. a lot of flavor. >> mooching a bite of a steak taco from a brand-new friend. she didn't get it at a fast food joint or restaurant, she got it fr

cnn's nick peyton walsh is in the country. he joins us live from bagram air base. nick? >> reporter: absolutely. what we're about to see is a report from a remote part of the border with pakistan, an area called newer stan. this is a small village surrounded by valleys. nato used to have a fairly strong presence here, outposts securing the area. a few years ago pulled back. that left the afghans in control. since late march of this year, the talibans have moved in and taken over this village. the report you're about to see is sinister for some people because it shows their flag flying above the local administration there and them suggesting they are the law in that part of afghanistan, potentially shocking for the future of this country. in this quiet village near the pakistani border, one of nato's fears is realized, the local

meteorologist nick o'kelly.e are starting wauf a lot of cloudiness may bayh-wide. marine layers prett deep. almost 3,000 feetre deep. going to take a bit of time to burn off. by midday, partly cloudy skies, temperatures inland will warm a few degrees, the start of a trend that will carry us through most of the coming week. high pressure settles in we will look at a lot less cloudiness by tomorrow morning and a lot more sun, that leading to warmer temperatures inland, going to be seeing 80-degree readings warmer spots throughout the week. by midweek, we could be talking about highs approaching 90 in some of the warmest spots. how it breaks down us for this ridge of high pressure offshore. now normally this would have built in across the west coast a couple wks ago but we have been plagued by these troughs moving through. the latest one, exiting off to the iner mountain west and that ridge will start to build in as we go through the day today. wearing away the marine cloud, helping to boost temperatures. here are

nick smith is live at station in fremont to explain. nick? >> reporter: absolutely. eric, you know that bart knows they want to extend the hours. as you mentioned, they think the plan may be a problem. the bart board of directors are scheduled to meet this morning at 9:00 a.m. to discuss a plan to add late-night service on their trains on friday night. bart is proposing a pilot project to extend the train service an hour from midnight friday to 1:00 a.m. on saturday. and begin train service an hour later at 7:00 a.m. on saturday instead of 6:00 a.m. bart administrators say the later friday hours must be coupled with a later start the following morn something crews have enough time to do maintenance when the trains are not running. as you might expect, commuters themselves are divided. >> cow know on the weekends -- you know, on the weekends, it would be nice to stay out in the city and take bart home and don't worry about drinking and driving or anything like that. >> i don't think it's necessary. it screws up saturdays. and people that work on saturdays. they got to

charles, what we are all learning from nick charles.urday and sunday at 7:30 eastern for a special sanjay gupta m.d. nick charles, less lessons from the fight. >>> men are like peacocks. one conclusion we are told from a new study about guys who spend some serious money to strut their stuff. but alison kosik, as you learn from check out this study, that it doesn't always pay off! apparently, you know, women may be attracted to the man with a porsche but it doesn't mean long-term commitment! >> reporter: exactly. you said it. here a little tip for men. you don't necessarily have to spend big bucks to get the ladies. so, yeah, the basis of this study, believe it or not, is peacocks and porsches and it found men find porsches and other flashy items the other way peacocks show their feathers to get girls! it works! women found the flashy guys to be more desirable but a catch in awful this, of course. the porsche guys are more intriguing for a date but they were not considered marriage material so that is the difference. and when it came to

in nick's case it was not.ncer his bladder was starting to make it difficult for him to urinate, to good to the bathroom. he had to get up often to do it. that was the earliest sign. if this is a cancer that gets caught early, he could have been treated successfully and we wouldn't be having this conversation. >> is it as simple as that? to hear him say that, if your body is doing something out of the ordinary, go get it checked out. >> that was it. it was as simple as that and more so for men. if you look at studies on this, women are the primary health drivers in families and they're also more likely to go to the doctor themselves and encourage family members to do so. men often keep symptoms to themselves. they don't talk about it and may talk to their buddies about it but you're not getting the complete answer. and in nick's case, he says if there was one thing he regretted in this whole thing was not getting this diagnosed earlier. >> bottom of the hour, just a few minutes away, "sanjay gupta, md," again,

this is meteorologist nick o'kelly. warmer temperatures inland today after the morning clouds. the clouds will be pretty thick along the coast. for half moon bay down to santa cruz, partial afternoon clearing. high in the low to mid-60s, maybe a touch warmer than yesterday. mid-80s for concord and napa, bodega bay, afternoon sunshine with highs near 61. some interesting things in the extended forecast. here's how it breaks down. clouds moving back in tonight and for tomorrow morning. tuesday mostly the same with increasing clouds, a chance for showers and thunderstorms on wednesday. >>> in other news this morning, fremont police say they found a gruesome discovery in alameda creek. the body of a man was found saturday along the creek in an area not far from interstate 880. the alameda county coroner's office has yet to release the identity of that man. fremont police detectives believe the body may be that of a missing fremont man. >>> this morning san francisco police are making headway investigating a daring daytime s

abc7's nick smith is on the scene with the latest for us. nick?re gathering information as we speak. the pictures are better than anything i can tell you. this is smoke billowing. i want to show you how it looked when we arrived. a student from the fraternity house called to report smoke and fire from the ventlation system. when san jose police department arrived, they attacked the fire on the second floor. they realized that there was a situation that caused for the evacuation of the building. >> we evacuated and we have no reported injuries. we did evacuate everybody out of the structure. working on coordinating housing and needs on that end. >> none of the students have been injured. none of the students need additional housing. go back live to the picture. fire coming from the second floor of the building where they believe the laundry room is located. but fire departments do believe that they have the situation mostly under control. none of the students really want to talk to us right now. they thought the situation was less serious than it w

thank you, nick. in hours there is an important court appearance for the suspect in the beating of giants fan bryan stow. this comes as stow's young children spent an emotional father's day at the hospital. abc7's amy hollyfield joins us now live from san francisco general where stow is getting treatment. amy? >> the kids said they made a collage for his father for the hotel room. they usually spend father's day at a giants game with him. he is here under heavy sedation to prevent seizures from the brain injury. the man suspected of beating him is aggressively defending himself. they've released this picture of giovanni ramirez with hair. they say this is what he looked like at the time of the attack. he was bald when he was arrested and had his mugshot taken. with the bald head he resemble the sketch police have of the suspect. stow is in critical, but stable condition, and police believe they have found the man who beat him. but they are looking for another man and a woman who drove the car. but, ra

at san francisco general, nick smith, abc7 news. >>> nick, thank you very much. san francisco police have now identified the young man found dead in the water near fort mason in the marina district. investigators say 20-year-old dennis noton from olympia, washington, was stabbed to death. divers are expected to return to the bay today to look for more evidence. residents called investigators monday night after seeing trail of blood. they were called out again yesterday morning after someone reported a body in the water. investigators say they're looking for two men who neighbors say have been living in a car in the area. >>> newly released documents confirm pg&e crews did install the pipeline that ultimately exploded in san bruno last september. the explosion and fire killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. the documents are part of the 225,000 pages of information. utility what been ordered to provide to investigators. initially, pg&e said they believed an outside contractor may have installed a pipe. but the documents show the pg&e employees installed that

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at san francisco general, nick smith, abc7 news. >>> nick, thank you very much. san francisco police have now identified the young man found dead in the water near fort mason in the marina district. investigators say 20-year-old dennis noton from olympia, washington, was stabbed to death. divers are expected to return to the bay today to look for more evidence. residents called investigators monday night after seeing trail of blood. they were called out again yesterday morning after someone reported a body in the water. investigators say they're looking for two men who neighbors say have been living in a car in the area. >>> newly released documents confirm pg&e crews did install the pipeline that ultimately exploded in san bruno last september. the explosion and fire killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. the documents are part of the 225,000 pages of information. utility what been ordered to provide to investigators. initially, pg&e said they believed an outside contractor may have installed a pipe. but the documents show the pg&e employees installed that

nick charles was cnn's very first sports anchor. he shared hosting duties on "sports tonight" with fred hickman for two decades. charles died this morning from bladder cancer. he was 64 years old. he will be missed. >>> 30 days from now, gay couples will be allowed to legally marry. late last night, new york became the latest and the largest state to legalize same-mention marriage. -- same-sex marriage. hi, lisa so six states and the district of columbia now recognize the right of same-sex couples to marry. how important is this that new york has crossed that line? >> it's a wonderful opportunity for same-sex couples to be possibly marching to the alter in the next 30 days. it's something that governor cuomo ran on his platform and he did it within four months. >> it's interesting because he was barely in office for five minutes. the question is a lot of people are saying they're going to fight to appeal this, they're going to fight to overturn it. what's the legal ramifications and what's the possibility of that? >> they can challe

what's going on, nick. >> major change.his is a roller coaster ride as i talked about earlier for the next five to seven days. temperatures are going to be swinging big time. we're talking about rain as well. beautiful shot of san francisco. sea breeze in effect. a little marine layer peeking through the gate, cooling things down. temperatures, as expected, warmer for the inland spots, made it near 80 in san jose, concord, 66 the high. tomorrow a carbon copy. then tuesday and wednesday, let's show you what's going on. marine layer take a little break. dry air from the north. clouds will reform overnight. temperatures right now getting down into the 70s inland. headlines look like this. more cloudiness overnight tonight and for tomorrow morning. then by late tomorrow we're going to be watching this big thunderstorm possibly producing storm moving in for the middle part of this week. here is a story, high pressure offshore. this is our typical weather pattern for this time of year. not so typical, this area of clouds. very de

nick? >> u.s.ng their head over their decision to allow a passenger to fly dressed in an odd manner. take a look. this is of a man wearing women's panties provided to "chronicle" on a passenger from june 9 from fort lauderdale to phoenix, arizona. the passenger said that passenger and others complained about the man's attire but employees ignored their complaints. you may remember that six days ago, college football player deshon marman was arrested at sfo in a dispute because he tried to board a u.s. jet wearing saggy pants. the u.s. airways spokesperson said that according to the policy, if they are not exposing the private parts they are allowed to fly. she would not comment on the incident involving deshon marman and he was removed from the flight after allegedly denying the pilot request to raise the pajama pants above the mid-thigh level. the spokesperson says what we do is if you do not abide by the employees' rulous're removed from flight. the debate will continue. we go live now to amy hol

abc7's nick smith is live at sfo to explain. nick? >> reporter: good morning. u.s. airways has made a couple of decisions lately that have had some questioning their policies. take a look at this photo. this photo of a man wearing women's panties provided to the "chronicle" by a passenger on a flight to phoenix. the passenger said other passengers complained about the man's attire but the employees ignored their complaints. you may remember six days ago college football player deshon marman was arrested at s.f.o. in a dispute that began because he tried to board a u.s. airways jet with sagging pants. u.s. airways spokeswoman valley wonder con -- valerie wonder confirmed she received the photo before last week's incident in san francisco but said the employees had been correct not to ask the man to cover himself. she said u.s. airways does not have a dress code policy beyond the need to cover private parts. according to a quote she gave the "san francisco chronicle" if they are not exposing their private parts, they are allowed to fly. she would not comment on the in

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live in sunnyvale, nick smith, abc7 news. >> nick, thank you very much. >>> traffic on highway 680 in san jose is getting back to normal this mid-day. a truck carrying pesticides overturn in the southbound lanes north of south king road at 8:15. highway patrol says 25 gallons of pesticide spilled across the freeway. the three right-hand lanes were closed as a hazardous materials crew cleaned up the mess. the c.h.p. reopened the lanes about an hour ago. >>> residents of a leaned leaned apartment complex -- san leandro apartment complex back home after an eventful morning. suv severed a gas line when it crashed in the 103rd avenue complex at 8:20 this morning. seven apartments were evacuated as a precaution. pg&e crews turned off the gas line. everybody was allowed back inside one hour ago. the alameda county fire department tells us nobody was hurt. >> the u.s. supreme court today blocked a potentially massive sex discrimination lawsuit against wal-mart. the court ruled that the suit cannot proceed as class action. that reverses a decision by the ninth circuit court of appeals in san f

we were running low on nick names for anthony weiner's penis. so-- (cheers and applause) that is the big diesel. so congratulations, shaq. now we have time to return to your first love, acting. i look forward to seeing you in the long-awaited sequel, kazam m-2, see it or i'll make kaza m-3. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: we will have no more on shaq later in the broadcast. (laughter) >> stephen: folks, this week a lot of stories got overshadowed by anthony weiner's penis. so i-- that was not the version i was expecting. (laughter) >> stephen: i must say. oh, that can go. so i have yet to address the big election news. last week mitt romney went to new hampshire and declared his intentions. >> i'm mitt romney, i believe in america. and i am running for president of the united states. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: mitt romney may not be my favorite candidate but i can say this, he's also not my second or third favorite candidate. (laughter) >> stephen: he's hovering about five or six depending on whether ted nugent jumps in. ♪ . >> stephen:

nick peyton walsh is in kabul covering reaction there. nick, welcome. we're hearing the president plans to draw down 10,000 troops this year, 20,000 next year. does the size and timing of draw down make sense, nick? >> reporter: i think domestically, yes, it does. he is keeping his promises. also it helps the military out to a certain extent, gives them a pretty long time to keep working with those surge troops of 30,000, two-thirds of whom will be here another 18 months or so. that's enough time really for the military frankly to fulfill the agenda they have. 10,000 this year helps explain the narrative to the american public that they are succeeding here, bringing the troops home, getting that transition story told ahead of the november, 2012 re-election. so yeah, it makes sense domestically. i think in terms of afghans here, how they will perceive it, it is very much restructuring the nato preps here, and giving them the simple idea that there's a new fiscal landscape in which they have to come to some common with the insurgency. >> are forces ready

live in sunnyvale, nick smith, abc7 news. >> nick, thank you very much. >>> traffic on highway 680 inan jose is getting back to normal this mid-day. a truck carrying pesticides overturn in the southbound lanes north of south king road at 8:15. highway patrol says 25 gallons of pesticide spilled across the freeway. the three right-hand lanes were closed as a hazardous materials crew cleaned up the mess. the c.h.p. reopened the lanes about an hour ago. >>> residents of a leaned leaned apartment complex -- san leandro apartment complex back home after an eventful morning. suv severed a gas line when it crashed in the 103rd avenue complex at 8:20 this morning. seven apartments were evacuated as a precaution. pg&e crews turned off the gas line. everybody was allowed back inside one hour ago. the alameda county fire department tells us nobody was hurt. >> the u.s. supreme court today blocked a potentially massive sex discrimination lawsuit against wal-mart. the court ruled that the suit cannot proceed as class action. that reverses a decision by the ninth circuit court of appeals in san fra

nick charles died yesterday at the age of 64.been battling bladder cancer for the last couple of years. last hour i spoke with sanjay gupta who had a chance to sit down earlier this month. >> he was told in 2009 he had two years to live. what would you do with that information? what would you change about your life? would you dream bigger, or get into little compartments? he did both. his dreams got grander. he has a 5-year-old daughter, so he wanted to plan for her life. a very inspiring guy. >> our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. nick charles, dead at the age of 64. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you book matters. expedia. [ lane ] here's the trouble with most anti-wrinkle creams. the cream disappears but your wrinkles don't. ♪ introducing neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest

>> nick paton walsh reporting. malcolm chalmers is an expert at the royal united services institute. that's a security think tank here in london. how does this change the military strategy on the ground? >> well, this is a very significant step by the united states. it goes far beyond what obama's advisers, including general petraeus, was asking him to do. the drawdown is going to be support troops. that's entirely manageable. the additional 23,000 next year which will be out by september or so is a very important drawdown and other countries like the uk are likely to follow that. >> are we going to see a shift to more covert operations, similar to what we've seen in yemen, for example, or in pakistan? >> there's an awful lot of covert operations going on right now. the taliban being kill ready being killed mainly by american special forces. that will continue. the big question is, where will the troops come from? >> what are some of the dangers of the pace of withdrawal that we're seeing? >> a good example will be

here is the nick swisher with the a's leading in the fourth, hits a 3-run home runner and that was pretty much the game. 10 straight win over the a's, 4- 2 is the final. c.c. sabathia did not pitch in the series but he did return to his home grounds, in fact, his old little league field. he helped out financially, refurbishing the field. signed a 7 year, $161 million

our nick smith has just arrived on the scene. he is getting in place now, gathering some information. we'll take nick live coming up with information on this fire in just a couple of minutes. stick around for that. >> it's 4:49. plans are in the works to build a plant in gilroy to build first jet fuel approved for aviation use in the country. it will be produced by bioenergy company solina using agricultural and urban waste otherwise headed for land fills. 11 major airlines including united, continental, southwest and fedex signed letter of intent to use the fuel at any one of the three major bay area airports. the head of solina spoke to us by skype via the paris air show and says the new fuel would not require any changes in the airport or in the planes. >> it's drop-in fuel. they can drop it in the jet. storage system and the airport. without having to change engines. or storage facility. >> they expect to convert 550,000 metric tons of waste to 60 million gallons of fuel per year by 2015. >>> it's win or go home for the cal b

abc7's nick smith joins us now from s.f.o. with a photo adding controversy to the already hot topic. nick? >> u.s. airways made decisions that left some scratching their head. look at the photo and you will see why. this photo was provided by a passenger on a flight to phoenix. the passenger said other passengers complained about the man's attire, but that employees ignored their complaints. you may remember that six days ago, college football player deshon marman was arrested at sfo in a dispute that began because he tried to board a u.s. airways jet with sagging pants. u.s. airways spokeswoman valley confirmed she received the photo last week in san francisco but said the employees were correct not to ask the man to cover himself. she says the u.s. airways does not have a dress code policy beyond the need to cover private parts. according to a quote she gave the "san francisco chronicle" if they are not exposing their private parts, they're allowed to fly. she would not comment on the incident involving deshon marman and how

they are live with new information, nick. >> and chris and eric.5 witnesses stood on shore as 53 year old raymond zack lost consciousness and drowned 150 yards out. the coast guard boat was hampered by shallow water and delaid by another call. they followed department policy by staying out of the water. new questions are raised as to whether discontinuing the rescue program in 2009 was meant to be temporary . according to the alameda patch, almedia issued a press release saying it contacted a number of agencies for assistance including oakland and alameda fire department. neither oakland or alameda say they were ever asked to provide assistance. tonight, the city council will meet and attempt to assauge the concerns and answer questions from the community. they have imentplemented funds to retrain rescuers for water rescue, but it takes time before those people are trained properly. we will go live to amy hole field in hayward for the other top story. >> good morning, nick. police here in hayward think they know what happened to missing nursing stu

scott, welcome to san francisco unified. >> thank you, nick. this year, six school districts from across the state distinguished themselves and are recipients of the a.i.r. health awards, achievements in respiratory awards. and san francisco unified is one of those six districts. why is this important? in san francisco, approximately 16.2% of the students have been diagnosed with asthma so in a class of 30, approximately six students have asthma and there's an enormous financial cost. in california each year approximately 1.2 million students miss school each year as a direct result of asthma. and that means that approximately 39 million dollars in a.d.a., average daily attendance revenue, is lost, because of asthma-related absences. now, it causes one to wonder how many teachers could be put in the classroom for $39 million or school nurses, how many facility staff could keep classrooms clean and ventilation systems in good repair. and what's the cost in lost income when a parent stays home with a child who's ill? also, asthma is a distraction

nick walsh joins us from bag ram air force base. nick, what's the reaction in afghanistan as the president announces the surge troops are going to start coming home? >> reporter: the commander in chief hasn't spoken yet, we privately hear that he is ordering the end of the longest ever war. it is fair to say not the same energy for this conflict that we have seen previously or even iraq. one said we got bin laden, the job is done, we should go home. another expressed fears that a precipitous withdrawal could let the taliban come back in force. i think a recognition of the dangers here, but also perhaps acknowledgment that maybe some of america's cards are being played. >> that question of a vacuum being created and the taliban stepping into it, to sort of seize control, how likely is that for real? >> reporter: i think across the whole country that is unlikely because of the pockets created in kabul. you go out towards the afghan, pakistani border where we sent a cameraman recently, there is a town where it does appear the taliban h