the fire started yesterday in a kern county oil field and is now spread into san luis ob isp o. fullnt is expected tomorrow. investigators say they don't know what started it. >>> it may have looked like san francisco was in the middle of some sort of disaster today. robots and swat teams lining union square. a convention. disaster relief and recovery experts is in town. they showed off the latest technology including bomb detecting robots. there was also a hospital bus. experts say sharing knowledge is kee in disaster recovery. >> on wednesday the president is hearing two opinions, some who want a significant draw down in afghanistan soon while military leaders are calling for a slow reduction. >> the president's responsibility, his responsibility is to look out for the long term national security interests of the united states. >> there are about 100,000 american forces in afghanistan. that includes some 30,000 surge forces who were sent there in 2009. >> our latest field poll may give diane feinstein concern in her bid for re-election. 43% of those survey reasonable doubt inclined

the fire started yesterday in a kern county oil field and is now spread into san luis ob isp o. fulled tomorrow. investigators say they don't know what started it. >>> it may have looked like san francisco was in the middle of some sort of disaster today. robots and swat teams lining union square. a convention. disaster relief and recovery experts is in town. they showed off the latest technology including bomb detecting robots. there was also a hospital bus. experts say sharing knowledge is kee in disaster recovery. >> on wednesday the president is hearing two opinions, some who want a significant draw down in afghanistan soon while military leaders are calling for a slow reduction. >> the president's responsibility, his responsibility is to look out for the long term national security interests of the united states. >> there are about 100,000 american forces in afghanistan. that includes some 30,000 surge forces who were sent there in 2009. >> our latest field poll may give diane feinstein concern in her bid for re-election. 43% of those survey reasonable doubt inclined to vote for

are they are o on the edge of a fu full-blown civil war? >> and plit clael incorrect, 50 years of speaking his mind, leaving nearly no one unscathed. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening, i'm lester holt, in tonight for brian. sarah palin's short royse from obscurity to a source of analyst's fascination reached a new level as reporters lined up to scour thousands of pages of e-mail from her time as alaska governor. looking for insight and clues into her political ambition. nbc requests the state of alaska release 24,199 e-mails covering 2006 when she was sworn in as governor to 2008 when she was john mccain's presidential running mate. can her foes try to use them to find her candidacy? michael has been examining some of those e-mails. he joins me now from juneau, alaska, with more. >> reporter: good evening, lester. news organizations have waited three years to get access to the docume documents. stacks of e-mails from palin's time as governor in alaska. she fought having to make them pu

reallocating and uncomfortable with the controller and seeing that a full and prompt disclosure of what the expenses are. we're going o have a brand-new mayor and we need to have that mayor hit the ground running. >> thank you, supervisor. i would echo your comments. i this it's property to have that comment but if that's the will of this committee that we would allow the next mayor to have the flexibility to spend it. we still have an open item for next week. if i can is you mr. wagoner to follow-up on che members to follow up on that particular plan. thank you. next department, ethics commission. >> good afternoon, madam chair, supervisors, i appreciate the opportunity to be here. i just gave you a handout. it's kind of an update on the status of the election campaign fund. to this point this year we've been going on the asurpgs that there would be eight qualified candidates. in all likelihood that number is going to be nine. so we have some updated figures for you on that particular issue. i don't have a formal presentation. the budget analyst has no recommendations for the commission this year, a position with whi

or thanks so much for being on the kaiser report i hear from doug o. a much more coming your way so stay right there. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make us. rich bright. from fresh. start on t.v. don't. welcome back to the kaiser reports i'm out to go to washington state and speak with david morgan silver and vester dot com david mark and welcome back to the kaiser a for a true if you max david morgan this is exciting stuff you've just returned from utah where you took part in it and historic event tell us what you were doing there what's going on in utah the house bill three seventy one what's passed into law signed by the governor of utah i was invited to participate in the ceremonial sorry this is the first state in the several states of the u.s. to quit back in the law believe voluntary basis to do transactions in gold or silver right so what us through this little bit here david margan in other words i've got a pocket full of solar bullion i can walk into the store and i can buy a pair of shoes and give them some or bullion as a work first o

o. flight delays up to 50 minutes. your full forecast, coming up. (music) >> marty: 8:43 welcome back.lnut creek thread moisture on the freeway for. when a saudi look at walnut creek. >> that is an accurate description. it will change eventually, let us check them with jnau >> janu: and live look at some say. san jose that overnigt rainfall will taper off until later shower activity throughout the day today. pop-up showers and even thunderstorms possible. a dry out on thursday. the stormtracker 4 is still indicating light-moderate downpjour in the inland. a three antioch and brentwood through a mod.. the boar these weather cells /+ office shore. offshore-- light showers through the sierras. even rainfall and even snowfall! indicated by the blue with an active rainfall totals getting up to 2 in. in the north bay. three-quarters it in the north bay, and perhaps even more for the santa cruz mountains. if checking the rainfall the future futurecast-is shown by 10:00 a.m., a heavy downpour. flight 12:00 p.m.-noon, the light green color is indicating less rainfall. 4:00 p.m., a dry out along

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o. no russian office staff could soon be forced to pay for the water they drink at work. forces are planning to do it full story for you. of course. european parliament strasberg has been debating a report into whether bold kerry and rumania are ready to join the area it would mean easier travel to and from those countries within the e.u. but sarah not for the british liberal democrat thinks that without internal borders within the e.u. the problem of illegal immigration cannot be solved. it's finally up to the e.u. government to decide whether those countries can join and they're meeting next week to decide but the apartment just has a role of saying whether they agree but of course there has also been migration pressures other pressures other worries about those countries joining the border free zone particularly arising from the events in north africa the arab spring which of course has been extremely welcome but one of the offshoots of. migration across the mediterranean tragically with hundreds of people dying actually in the med but pressures on countries like italy and greece pressures with which t

because all three of them do want to become full members but there are some hurdles to be overcome in iran's case for example it has un sanctions against it and the s e o is looking forward to adopting a un resolution improving the relationship between the us and the s.d.o. having more cooperation so this could be an obstacle but nevertheless iran is here as an observer and they are also involved in the dialogue afghanistan is also here but if you want to send is here as a guest of the of the c.e.o. however afghanistan has also applied for an observer status and they were saying that at the end of this summit it is expected that they will come up with a decision of whether or not of ghana's side will indeed become an observer it is an important part of this region and they do want to talk about post nato afghanistan what is the future of ghana said after the nato forces do withdraw in the future and this ability of that country of course is essential to disability of the region for this. specific summit they do want to give ample time to economic and financial issues they do want to come up with a special account so to speak now china for its part has

o following the and delays on muni on the and and o.j. lines. you can see the muni trenches sitting there we'll have a fullate on this in just a minute. >> now that saggy plants have made the news once again. it not only is news but is a fashion statement. >> well lucky me i get to look at the box of dunes. first i as worded sagging come from? >> slaves didn't have anything dolled up their pants so that's what happened. >> and apparently there's different kinds of sags this is my comfort level >> sagging is not just a brother thing and is not just a fashion statement. >> because my legs are too big and my butt is too big. >> not everyone i talked to was into sagging. >> you should wear your clothing with the respective matter >> it is indecent exposure free and man. >> i get all fashion statement thing what i don't is, why would in the world you would want anyone to see your drawers. >> for the record i have my pants upper. the kron 4 morning news will continue in just a minute and remember we are on until 10:00 a.m.. ♪ [ male announcer ] spare toothbrush, just in case: $4. ♪ home cooked meal: $28. ♪ first

full throttle. so naer tear the peak you get o these things a week. get two or three a day. these things are headed to the earth and could cause these solar storms. we know them as visually, you'll see the aurora borealis. you'll see colors in the northern and southern hemisphere because they are interacting with the ionisphere. but when these can crash to earth and knock out satellites. or they may wobble a little bit. we can knock out power grids, too. this one is probably not going to do that. this was a big cme but it was not pointed directly at the earth. understand the earth and sun are three-dimensional. half of these we don't see because they're on the other side of the sun and they blast away from the earth. this one kind of blasts slightly toward the earth but we'll only get about a 20% brushing by of this one. >> there's no possibility that any of that stuff would come to the earth, like land on the earth. >> i think the ionisphere protects us from that. but i want you to go to a website called spaceweather.com. can you learn all about this

o must adhere to a clear nonproliferation treaty so we'll get asked a variety of important topics having been discussing agreed upon at the shanghai cooperation organization summit. reporting there well full exclusive interview with the roles nuclear envoy to the international atomic energy agency will be here in just over an hour from now. the west is weighing in to yemen's ongoing unrest with deadly force officials in the troubled country say u.s. drone strikes have killed over one hundred people including civilians in the past two weeks now the u.k. is preparing attack helicopters and commandos squads for possible action. on this. they are becoming more and more involved saying all the time we don't want to get any more involved in the conflict in yemen any more involved in libya than we can help it any more involved in the middle east as a region as a whole apaches attack helicopters we've seen them in in general. in iraq and afghanistan and of course most recently in libya where involvement was seen as a marked escalation in the involvement of u.k. and french nato troops very low flying so the likelihood of casualties is much increased. presence there and it does like an escalation o

. ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com >> now to the increasingly dangerous situation in yemen. there is a full civil war tonight. what began as a protest became an assault in the yemeni capital. protesters attacked the presidential palace. explosions rocked the mosque inside the palace during friday prayers and reporters say embattled leader abdullah salei was, quote, lightly injured. yemeni television played an audio recording from salei claiming seven people were killed in the attack. a quick prime run on this latest mideast country plunged into the crisis. it is twice the size of wye onlying with a population of 24.1 million, most of them poor. the gdp per capita is $2,600, a fraction of what it is here. unemployment at last estimate was 35% which, of course, was a trigger for the unrest that began there back in march. joining me now from the capital city of sanaa by phone is abdul alvaradi, he is a member of the democratic awakening movement in yemen. thanks for joining us. >> caller: thank you. >> the president spoke today. is there any progress in reaching a resolution ever what is incre

automatic and full opening of the domestic market to foreign goods vulnerable industries will be protected by higher import tariffs but we will be acting strictly within the rules of the w t o l. russia's carbon existing supplies to bellow spoil because the troubled country has not paid a fifteen million dollar bill power generator in so route will reportedly stop all power transmission if the bunny is not forthcoming supplies to the baltic countries should not be a factor though the company says even though belarus is a transit country. it's but the possibility that we certainly won't be delivering electricity to bill or us for free but let me underline because we've a lasting relationship with bill a russian energy companies we want to find a way for the debt to be paid for and i must add that russian electricity is not a critical part of the deal or us is energy consumption more. now we will be back next hour joining if you can headline. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future covered. wealthy british style. but i. like that. market finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with minds conjure f

full forecast. now, back to of marty. >> marty: after united airlines having a network issue a grounding flights across the country and take a look at s f ounited/continental passengers standing in line and hours try to get the flight status, a peat or what led to the delay. a trouble nightmare for united airlines' passenger. a computer outage ground in passengers, now it is up and running but the damage has been done. travel plans in shambles people waiting for several hours at the gate. reggie kumar. >> at sfo, united and continental are slowly bringing their computers back on line. a computer problem shut down the entire system. grounding flights country-wide. terminal three the airlines are only going to allow them to carry their backs on the board. no checked baggage. the san jose airport had one fight--flight with one hour delay. at sfo, reggie kumar, kron 4 news. >> new from overnight, oakland fatal shooting of a teenager at 11:40 near been croft ave. the 17 year-old was shot in a parked car. so far, no suspects and no arrests. the search for nursing student, michele le was seen from kaiser permanente a on may 27th her family, frie

o those premiums. seniors would be on their own tg pay the remaining $12,500, aal. full 61% of the total. now, how many of the 20 million near elderly americans who are now ages 50 to 54 will be able to afford that? let's review what we have to read let's say when you become v 65 in ten years and are living on $15,000 in social security, y you're going to be asked to pay $12,500 more for health care that is currently the case, how do you do that? kin how do you do that? w what kind of health care plan ad are you going to buy when you g are older and sicker and given and $8,000 voucher, how many days in the hospital will you be able to have? an you can run and 8,000-dollar bill in one day, today's. i so if the ending of medicare ass we know it, forcing seniors to n somehow come up with all kinds of money that in many cases they don't have will be a disaster for tens of millions of people. force 4 million seniors in this country to pay $3,500 more on b drugs by reopening the medicarea part b doughnut hole and that bl goes into effect as soon as thao bill would be passed if it were to be pas

operate by attacking, maybe not on a full frontal basis but certainl creating difficulties for afghanistan. >>ose: do you believe there's a growing momentum to bring o thtroops faster than they might have expected a year ago or six months ago. >> yi. i think there is. after last year's debate, the year 2014 was often cited as the time in which most of the troops would come out. not all, but most. and n 2012 is being subjected as more likely to be that date. and it's coming about because, by and large, there is the feeling that we have, in fact, achieved some peaceful circumstances, some provinces of afghanistan. but they are ones that are less close to pakistan or to the taliban who are up against border. and th there we really have a continual fight on our hands. the questi is on the part of the afghans themselves. are they prepared, really, to stay wh the united states to undergo the training that's necessary? not to desert but to fight on? orventually will they seek to make their own peace as has been the case historically with afghanistan, with ma hostile neighbors around. >> rose: as you know, there was a debate within the administration betwee

full-time residents and also some vacation properties. it's some beautiful parts of arizona, and every home out there is extremely special to the residents o livethere and we take them all with the highest regard. >> brad, we wish you guys the best of luck in what is an uphill battle for you right now. again, thank you. >>> now we move on to iraq and the deadliest single attack on u.s. forces there since the u.s. combat mission ended almost a year ago. the military is saying that five american troops were killed in an attack on central iraq. u.s. officials are providing very few details but the timing of the attack is significant. it comes with the u.s. preparing to withdraw it's remaining troops from iraq by the end of the year. jim miklaszewski joins us live. >> when i first heard about five americans being killed by a rocket attack and that it occurred in iraq, i at first thought they must be talking about afghanistan because since the end of the formal combat mission there last august, there have been very few casualties and certainly not in these kinds of numbers. but according to u.s. military and iraqi officials, two militants at le

o lord. into our poverty comes your wealth. into our emptiness comes your fullness. into our fears comes your peace. into our ugliness comes your beauty. empower our senators to prepare themselves for your coming. remove any barrier that will keep them from experiencing your presence. lord, give them more than human wisdom so that justice, truth and peace will prevail. come to us, o lord, and make us instruments of your peace. we pray in your great name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., june 21, 2011. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable michael bennet, a senator from the state of colorado, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. i

o. jack, make your second point and we'll move on. caller: the point is you're fullbaloney as far as the war not being about oil. british petroleum at the behest of our partner in crime, the british government, was sending oil out of iraq about three months after our invasion. they had oil in barrels on the ground that were loaded on the british ships before our invasion, american oil companies could not have oil contracts. now exxonmobil has an oil company. occidental petroleum has a contract. host: jack, i'm not cutting you off, but you have made your point, so i'm moving on. guest: first of all, i usually don't -- preface any arguments with my opponents full of baloney. no. i followed these things, probably as much as you have, and my opinion deserves as much respect as your opinion deserves. i think that any -- i've been told by the left in this country that everything that we have ever done that america has done, whether it was vietnam or elsewhere, was always motivated by the oil companies or some big, powerful, rich interests. that's just -- i think that there

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o this again. >> reporter: with the fire 0% contained, experts say the lab mamahave to put worst-case scenario plans into place. >> realize that we've never tested a full a conflagration of this nature. >> reporter: lab officials say they are confident all hazardous materials are secure and that the public has nothing to fear. high winds have been a major problem with this fire. the chief was saying that the wind keeps changing directions, making it very tough to figure out where to battle the flames. peggy, daniel? >>> speaking of being on edge, it was a terrifying four hours for guests at a luxury hotel in the capital of afghanistan. they were trapped inside after the taliban launched a rare nighttime assault on the intercontinental hotel. >> now, the standoff ended only after nato gunships fired on the roof and also afghan security forces stormed inside. at least ten people were killed, most of them hotel workers. >>> moving on now, in medical news, new evidence that mammograms can indeed help save women's lives. a swedish study showed that if screened regularly, 30% fewer women would die of breast cancer. >> experts say that a 30% reduction would t

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o off. >> not knowing what the future has in store for us is the most difficult part. >> reporter: the nation's housing prices remain a huge obstacle to a full economic rebound. >> we simply have too many houses. during the boom, mms of homes were built that we don't need, and until young folks find good-paying jobs so they can become home owners we're not going to get rid of those millions of homes in foreclosure. >> reporter: whatever economic recovery was under way earlier this year is now very much in question. home prices at their lowest level since 2002, a decade of home equity wiped out. manufacturing growth is slowing, jobs growth, slowing, car sales and consumer spending down, unemployment seems perpetually stuck, and something that hits every household and business, gas prices near $4 a gallon. as if that's not enough, there's plenty to worry aboverseas from the middle east to europe and asia. >> a debt crisis in greece that is yet to be solved. frankly, we've been dealing with it for a year and a half. that appears to be worsening in some ways, and you'll stiff got the ramify kags of the terrible earthquake in japan. >> reporter:

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