the mustang ranch was in northern nevada. it broke 200 years of puritan mores by having sex legalized for sale. the man who started this whole thing was notorious in any way you look at it. in the mid-70's, there was a great fighter, a boxer named oscar. these forces came together because joe comforte was a boxing fan. oscar had fought ali. ali liked him. ali took him to the limit. he stopped him in the 14th round. he knocked out joe frazier down twice. he had no style. but he had a punch. he had a left hook that knocked your head off. when these people came together, smart as flu, explosions. it is kind of an operatic story. a journalist friend of mine who works for "new york magazine" -- 30 years later, he found the story. i remembered researching it. i was looking for a role for my wife. it is a fascinating triangle. you have this madam in the middle, the guy who is the promoter, who is played by joe peschi, who had to be charming to convince voters to vote in competition. then you have this fighter who is young, virile, a

most thunderstorms have diminished and thft noon there is close to 2000 strikes in the sierra nevada also northernuntains and nevada. there is quite a bit of lightning activity. thunderstorms heading into next couple days so just keep this in mind tlchl is instability as thunderstorms were developing. there is around lake tahoe, numbers clear skies in the morning. there is noon time, barely hitting 70s in antioch. temperatures warmest location, antioch low 80s. there is starting to see warming thursday and friday. mid to upper 80s, low 60s at beach autos will be nice. >> this is people complaining it's not july weather. >> it's june kbloom in -- gloom in july. >> demolition set to begin august 13th. today, community members met with developers to hear about proposed work schedule. most will be carried out on weekdays. developers say main problems will be noise and dust. >> going to be doing watering and misting of the debree. noise is the one impact that is difficult to mitigate. >> there is expected to take eight months and seven years of construction to create a new transportation hub with homes

the gentleman from northern nevada had an amendment in the rules committee that said unobligated stimulus money should go to pay for this. how many times does he have to hear that there are no unobligated funds in the stimulus bill? for any nevadan to condemn the stimulus bill is to ignore what's going on in the state of nevada. let me tell you what the stimulus package did for us. it put $700 billion into our education system. i'm not talking about only paying teachers and keeping them employed. i'm talking about the possibility of having to close schools and put $500 billion into medicaid so that poor children and poor adults aren't going to be out on the streets dying for lack of medical care. our unemployment compensation trust fund was broke, zero, zipo, we were able to put money into that. and in addition to that the construction projects that came directly from the stimulus package, not public but private contractors bidding on these projects and then hiring construction workers. the downtown transportation center, the park and ride in centennial hills, the boulder highway transpor

department was leaked to call for curbing the two national monuments all ofÑ we parts of central and northern nevadaart of the great nation this range is in mw county and the desert in nevada= and oregon. it appears to me this administration doesn't have the= Ñst interest=Ñ--ww==== of las vegas and of the nation'= greatest convention and tourist- destinations. as a= result of irresponsible= comments can't list companies= and agencies counseled thew5 conventions have lost hotels causing these totals and the city millions of dollars and thousands of jobs. that is one impact these policies have had a much more far-reaching and negative impacw beyond los vegas.ww and closing i want to thank both of you for holding the hearing today and it's really important- job creation should be number one back here and instead we are having policies that are costing jobs in the western states. thank you. >> thank you for your timely comments and i appreciate the insight you brought to this discussion. we have a number of people who wanted to be here to testify. we have a short video of some of that t

when that moisture gets up into, call it, nevada, northern utah and idaho as well, it's heat in the mountainsin the heat and humidity to the deep south. even though we have a break in the humidity >> and we're on. that's a beautiful sign, by the way. >> thank you. >> did you guys all make this? >> yeah. yes. >> that was hmm, some worked harder than others. back in times square in the next half hour. george. >>> thank you, sam. there's a story that caught our eyes in "the new york times" that asks a provaocative question. why do good parents have bad children. it's in the age-old debate of nature versus nurture. as juju explains, a bad nature will often trump even the best nurture. >> reporter: it was one of the happiest days of jodie richardson's life. the birth of her first son 11 years ago. >> it's a wild experience. kids don't come with an instruction manual. you've got this little being totally gent on. you. >> reporter: as a teacher, jodie had plenty of experience with kids. she thought she and her husband were ready to be good parents. even before he was out of diapers, she needed help.

. >> those are all over northern california, and we're awaiting information from te trans.and 'e pretty much blanketing this part of the state dropped its sierra nevada mountains. right here is a waffle fire, the larger one, and it is in a wrongfuruffle fi0 acres with trees and brush. it is outside in the metropolitan area and this is is your present containment. firefighters are rushing to the scene, with one person per acre and many are on the way. it is currently at a 0 percent containment. and wanted to get a sense of where this was. and honestly, the flames are only burning in one area. the fire is about 15 mi. north east of eagle lake--northwest of eagle lake. and it is pretty much burning in the middle of nowhere. but it is a number of the fires caused by lightning. these mountains are set ablaze. and these are uncontrolled, there is no line are wrong misfires of firefighters are going to do with everything that and sharing smaller fires with other resources. jonathan blum. >> jonathan, thank you, and another pbudget resolution still seems to be several weeks away. governor arnold schwarzenegger says he is going to sign this before he leaves o

thunderstorms in the mountain areas mainly up along the sierra nevada mountains up to lake tahoe and further up to the north up to northernifornia will be the best chance by say tomorrow afternoon. for us clouds in the morning and partly cloudy conditions is by the afternoon. highs in the 50s and lower 60s along the coast. warm upper 80s inland with more sunshine expected. let's take a look at temperatures out to san jose 80 degrees for you today. sunnyvale about 77 degrees. at the peninsula see 70s all around. mountain view up to redwood city still cool along coast barely getting a 60 out of pacifica with clouds sticking around. patchy fog, as well. 66 degrees south san francisco up to the wine country 83 in sonoma. out to the east bay we'll see a cool 69 in oakland. 72 san leandro. and 90 in pittsburg and 92 in antioch. livermore about 90 degrees. warmest temperatures around the area. monterey bay we'll see 66 degrees with the fog sticking around along the coast. same thing for santa cruz about 68. seven-day forecast looking kind of the same trendy right through tomorrow for the marathon. we'll see sunshine in the after