known for its redwood, what tree is the official state tree of california?again. >> jimmy: known for its red wood, what tree is the official state tree of california. yes, jonah? >> the redwood? >> jimmy: that is absolutely right, jonah. you nailed it. i'm trying to make these easy. all right, we're going to make this the tie breaking and final question. what is a sushi roll containing crab, avocado and cucumber called? brook? [ inaudible ] >> jimmy: no. jonah, do you have a guess? >> a sushi roll? >> jimmy: no. that is not it. the answer was a california roll. i'll give you one more. what are the 10, the 101 and the 405? brook? >> street addresses. >> jimmy: no. jonah? >> highways. >> jimmy: that is absolutely correct. jonah, you are the winner, but brook, you are not going back to the hostel empty handed. for you, we have a special gift. it's a haz/mat suit. you can sleep in that in the hostel. congratulations, jonah. cousin sal is going to take you and your luggage over to the roosevelt hotel. welcome to all of our friends from foreign lands. there we go.

school officials cut the ribbon today at the newly rebuilt thomas jefferson elementary school. the brand-new statef-the-art school was three years in the making, sitting near the epicenter of a strong earthquake that rocked the east coast back in 2011. the new structure officially opens its doors for classes on august 15. two american doctors fighting for their lives overseas. the evil a virus outbreak may be spending -- spreading. and response to the >> in west africa to american doctors are fighting for their lives tonight after contracting the deadly ebola virus. hundreds have died since the outbreak started in march and there is concern tonight that one of the victims may have infected countless others when he flew on a plane days before his death. >> the liberian community right now is shocked. the victims family recently returned from liberia to minnesota. so far they show no signs of carrying the virus, but people are not contain just until they show symptoms. the victim's family left the days before he got sick. developing news tonight in the case building against donald sterling. late as

is the russian ministry of justice has also officially stated they are going to appeal so the ultimategame seems to be to gain time and not pay in the end. if that will happen or not is unclear but experts say all options are being used and it could take 10 to 15 years. two reasons why that try men will appeal. it is a large sum of money and russian media has said it is about 10% of the russian yearly state budget and more importantly is the fact that -- a question of principle. one of the main policy statements russia has is don't meddle in our affairs and especially right now in the relationship with the rest is already so strange, russia and vladimir putin do not want to lose face. >> russia's economy is suffering the effects of what the west says is its role in the ukraine conflict and the impact is likely to be getting worse. the eu will be making more decisions on tuesday. >> a top policymaker and angela merkel's party voted to import less gas from russia. they said this would be the strongest punishment for russia. the eu added more high-ranking russian companies and officials t

for the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county of education in the official state form [inaudible] in accordance of california education code sections 33129 and 42127. >> thank you very much. we have no public speakers signed up. any comments from the board of superintendent. i think we're ready. >> mr. haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> wynns. >> i. >> fewer. a: yes. >> yes. >> six ist. s. >> may [inaudible] for fiscal year 2014, 2015? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. rita, i think you're reading it again. >> thank you. subject, the resolution [inaudible] the requested action is that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county office of education approve the approved expenditure proposed expenditure of state revenues anticipated to be received in fiscal year 2014, 15 in protection [inaudible] accordance to the spending plan incorporated here in. >> i see no public speakers signed up. any comments from the board of superintendents. a roll call vote, please. >> mr. haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendo

but that official state-issued i.d. cannot include a student i.d. the institution that issued that student i.d. is a state college. they started shutting down on-campus voting sites like the one at democratic-leaning appalachian state in western north carolina where the republican-controlled local election board in the county there moved voting off campus and on to a local site where there's no bus stop anywhere nearby and pa 35 parking spaces. one republican-led elections board tried to rule this young man was ineligible to run for congress because he attended the historically black college in elizabeth city. ineligible to run for office because he was a student, and wouldn't you know it, the eligibility rules for running for office are the same as the eligibility rules for vote. so the local republican chairman took a brief stab at trying to get all college students in north carolina ruled ineligible to vote in the state. this has not been a subtle couple of years in north carolina. perhaps the most amazing one is when the republican state legisla

state officials are looking into -- developmentally disabled. state officials are looking into how he died. they were in the process of moving out the 10 children that lived there following allegations of neglect. >>> the environmental health experts are trying to find out if something inside a building in oxon hill is making office workers sick. it is a 10-story complex on oxon hill road called the constellation centre. a lot of irs workers work there. the agency confirms employees raised the alarm about recent illnesses, even deaths, that some suspect might be linked to conditions in the building. the management firm said it just learned about the concerns yesterday and immediately they called in experts for testing. >>> tonight serious questions of in competence and danger at our own government research lab facilities after a desperate move by the centers for disease control when it was revealed yet another deadly virus had been mishandled. three times in less than a month reports uncovered the centers for disease control has mishand amed or m

the newly-released documents that san bruno city officials say show an inappropriate relationship between the state agency and pg&e. >>> plus, we're following the latest on several raging wildfires burning in california, including closures still in effect near yosemite national park. >>> and a bay area college with several campuses throughout. the scramble for hundreds of students still trying to figure out what to do next. >>> good afternoon. i'm brian flores in for tori campbell. we do begin with breaking news out of antioch where authorities say a police officer shot and wounded a suspect there this morning. it happened around 8:50 a.m. at a home on folsom drive near spaulding street. the suspect was taken to the hospital in walnut creek. no word on his condition. police have not said what prompted the shooting or if anyone else was injured. we'll bring you more details on the news at 5:00 and 6:00 as well as twitter and facebook. >>> well, today, more than four years since the deadly gas line explosion in san bruno killed eight people, city ed lookers released -- city leaders released criticism

lawmakers recently voted yogurt the official state snack. brooklyn, new york. >> vegetables in yogurt. >>> broccoli yogurt. >>> we are starting to see activity popping. most of it is west of us and actually, toward pennsylvania. but up in the hagerstown area, tracking this near clear spring, so stay up with the weather this afternoon, some of these storms will likely be severe. >> stay in for a little bit. we are going to be back with more news at 5:00. have a great day. >> kelly: if you do this, jack you're not just gonna hurt summer. you're gonna end up hurting yourself. forget about calling christine. just go to the chapel and walk your daughter down the aisle. if you don't, you will regret it. a girl never forgets what it feels like to not have her father there. >> jack: i already regret this entire deplorable situation. >> kelly: i understand that. >> jack: if you did, you wouldn't be asking me to support this farce of a marriage. >> kelly: i'm not asking you to support the marriage. i'm asking you to support your daughter. >> jack: the

>> in an email, ice officials stated that they target specific violent criminals. >> but we wanted tosk them about allegations that latino communities are being profiled in the process. >> ...to check on a machine. what tells them that an individual is who we're going to check out? >> so we roll up on the scene.... >> just to be clear - by "scan" he means handcuff and fingerprint. >> so people have been out in the parking lot of this grocery store and as they're walking out of the grocery store, handcuffed and fingerprinted. there's a laundromat across the corner... >> the problem with that is that ice law enforcement officers are not permitted constitutionally to create a latino person dragnet and arrest everyone, fingerprint them and then decide who they want to remove. that's exactly what the constitution prohibits. >> president obama won a second term with 70 percent of the latino vote. while he was campaigning, he promised to reform the nation's immigration laws. that goal has proved elusive, and a powerful new voting block is losing patience with the process. >> we're trying to

the nrc, the utility officials, state government officials and so that was the parallel track with fukushima daiichi too. we had 30 some years to learn the lessons read it didn't appear that they had quite sundem from three mile island. >> host: what was different watching the fukushima accident in a sense of a layperson as opposed to three mile island where you had a professional goal? >> guest: i was taking notes constantly and visually i mean, visually it was phenomenal. as we write in the book, people watched the reactor building explode. we saw the helicopters flying over. you saw the people being rousted from their homes, packing their belongings and fleeing compounded with this horrific natural disaster. i think we tend to lose sight of the fact that a natural disaster would have been headline making in and of itself. so i did watch it with a certa certain, with a certain arm's length objectivity but i kept taking a lot of notes because i had a lot of questions that i wanted to find out more about amp to my reporter's hat on. >> host: to me a little bit about the combination. >> guest

tonight state officials voted for dramatic water cuts. if you don't comply, you'll be slapped with a hefty fine. the new restrictions might put some businesses out of business. but there are people who don't have to follow the rules. nbc bay area's jean elle is in san francisco this evening with details and loopholes of tonight's big decision. jean? >> reporter: raj, state water

part of a training drill for cadets and news readers and turns out missouri isn't the only state with an officiale of maryland officially endorses -- >> now you are a doing riverdance. this is not -- >> maryland, their official exercise is walking, ryan, if you'd like to demonstrate that and walk right off set. because you're ruining -- okay. and in -- thank you, ryan. and a 9-week-old baby has become a viral star after sleeping through a wild encounter at a zoo in kansas. take a look at this. mom angie widener says she was watching her two older daughters feed the animals when a stranger said to her, "um, ma'am, there's a lemur on your baby." apparently the lemur was quite taken with the little baby's toys. but doesn't that remind you of "seinfeld." "a dingo ate your baby." >> wait. that's "seinfeld"? >> yes. >> oh, okay. >> oh, gosh. we're going to have a crash course. >> i know. >> and today is national etch a sketch day, the so-called magic screen has been around for 54 years now with more than 100 million sold. professional etch a sketch artist, brian lee madden or madden. is that madden or

specifically planes with direct flights to the united states. officials believe terror groups may be trying to create

though, to be fair, to be fair, hog meat is mississippi's official state currency. the point is...nd applause] the point is, thad cochran is playing the dirty politics of promising people stuff and then delivering it. but not chris mcdaniel. he's so against federal spending that he told a crowd at ole miss, i'm not going do anything for you. i'm going to get the government off your back. then i'm going to let you do it for yourself. thus standing by his old campaign slogan, mcdaniel 2014, you'll get nothing and you'll like it. [cheering and applause] well, folks, it's sad to say the results are in and cochran won 50.9% to 49.1%. few things are ever that close in mississippi other than the genomes of married couples. [laughter and applause] but it's not just... it's not just that cochran won. it's how he won. >> thad cochran said, look, strategically i have to win over blacks and union members. that's who he went after. evidently they showed up. >> congress fan reached out the voters beyond his conservative base, including blacks. >> it's unreal the level of black turnout in a repub

but basically what it was, it was an official state acting as a rogue state, because that's what it is. and basically we have precedence of them officially sponsoring terrorism, being part of terrorism, leading it, planning the attacks. but it went too far this time. so this one should be a game changer, from my point of view. >> if it is a game changer, it is one that's occurring in almost silence from european leaders. there seems to be no urgency. there seems to be no outrage. there have been voices of support for ukraine. but a muted response at best from europe, which is protest proximate and which has the greatest interest in the outcome of the ukrainian conflict with the separatists. >> yeah. imagine what would happen if russia's plan succeeds. that would mean millions of refugees, huge traffic -- violence spreading all over the place. and russia going further. final goal of putin is to blow up nato, undermine the atlantic alliance, undermine the free world. it's all about values that are at stake of europe. europe is not only -- is failing to act. and it's always acting too lat

more affordable would have access to the tax credits whether or not it was operated by federal officials or state officials. the intent here is pretty clear. we feel pretty confident about our case. >> is the administration considering any legislative fix if necessary to clear up any ambiguity the court noted in the legislative language. >> the president has said countless times he's willing to work with congress to make improvements to the law. the prospects for that considering that republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal the entire law, the prospects for the kind of legislative fix that might actually improve the law seem rather unlikely. >> when steve asked you about the structured dialogue, it sounds to me that there now be a formal channel of communications that did not exist before between this administration and the merkel administration on these issues of intelligence. since the precipitating factor was intelligence. is that an understanding of what this opaque language actually means. >> i don't know if i would necessarily describe it as a new channel primarily because conve

while the white house has said it officially stated it supports israel's right to defend itself we can see from mr. gordon's words that they're a little bit imapatient. >> and -- impatient. >> no peace process. >> and no peace process. >> now for some more stories from around the world. we begin in iraq where islamic state militants he continue their violent attacks in the region. 50 bodies were found wednesday morning that were blindfolded bound and shot in a mass execution during the night. the militants have also attacked religious sites. one of the bodies in a tomb is believed to have belonged to biblical prophet jonah. >>> next we head to new orleans, where former mayor ray nagen was sentenced to ten years in prison. convicted of receiving bribes, cash, free vacations and materials, for his family business. nagen continued to proclaim his innocence. >> in my opinion, i've been targeted smeared tarnished. i still maintain my innocence, going to appeal this thing. >> we end up in russia, where the being nsa leaker edward snowden has applied the extend his temporary asylum. he looks

that it was operating above the law but the american embassy sided with blackwater former state department official peter buren told us washington knew about the reckless and dangerous behavior. the state department was so afraid of its mission in iraq being slowed down or delayed by replacing blackwater as a contractor that they were willing to accept almost any standards of behavior out of the company in order to continue the contract even though they understood it was detrimental to us aims blackwater was an organization out of control in iraq and we now have absolute proof that the state department who was supposed to control them knew that they were out of control knew that they were dangerous people knew that they were acting contrary to u.s. policy aims and did nothing. just weeks after the death threat to blackwater unit murdered seventeen people in the iraqi capital u.s. officials said they were shooting without cause and that innocent lives were lost no that it stopped the firm from getting other lucrative contract contracts it's believed indeed to assisted the cia's drone mission in paki

that it was operating above the law but the american embassy sided with blackwater a former state department official told us washington knew about the reckless and dangerous behavior. the state department was so afraid of its mission in iraq being slowed down or delayed by replacing blackwater as a contractor that they were willing to accept almost any standards of behavior out of the company in order to continue the contract even though they understood it was detrimental to us aims blackwater was an organization out of control in iraq and we now have absolute proof that the state department who was supposed to control them knew that they were out of control knew that they were dangerous people knew that they were acting contrary to u.s. policy aims and did nothing reporting to just weeks after the death threat of blackwater unit murdered seventeen people in the iraqi capital u.s. officials said they were shooting without cause and that innocent lives were lost not that it stopped the firm from getting other lucrative contracts it's believed to have assisted the cia's drug mission in pakistan blackw

blog this area and this question went so far that president obama had to talk about this in the official state capacity and basically we have talked about this being a part of terrorism, being a part of this attack, and that went too far this time. so this time it should be a game changer. >> if it is a game changer, it is one that is being and occurring and almost silence from european leaders and there seems to be no urgency and there seems to be no outrage and there have been voices of support by the muted response at best from europe, which is most important and which has the greatest interest in the outcome of the ukrainian conflict. >> yes, as i said, imagine this. that will be millions of refugees andes. and plus russia going further because the final goal of dimer goodness to undermine the free world. so it's all about bad news that is at stake. and he's always acting too late into little. so in the midst of this, they are trying to use dell takeover and so how can one country actsf aggressive? and this battleship in the middle of the whole thing, that is beyond something that i can pe

state department official peter van buren told us everyone knew blackwater was simply out of control. the state department was so afraid of its mission in iraq being slowed down or delayed by replacing blackwater as a contractor that they were willing to accept almost any standards of behavior out of the company in order to continue the contract even though they understood it was detrimental to u.s. aims blackwater was an organization out of control in iraq and we now have absolute proof that the state department who was supposed to control them knew that they were out of control knew that they were dangerous people knew that they were acting contrary to u.s. policy aims and did nothing ok we're going to go to a very short break but stick around because we've got a report about the expectations that western oil companies have of the conflict in iraq coming right up. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks seven c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. back

but, warren, can you find one evidence during president khatami, any high level officials have stated wiping israel off the map? you would not find during president khatami. you would find a lot of statement during president rafsanjani, very high level they said we would not disturb peace process. it was a green line, signal that if there is a deal, iran would be prepared not to disturb peace process. but was there any changes in u.s. position when during rafsanjani many statements were made that we would not disturb peace process or -- there was no statement during khatami wiping israel off the map. the u.s. position, israeli position was the same. therefore, we have to think a little bit about this side, because during last 10, 15 years netanyahu every day waking up asking for military strike against iran. and nobody here criticized netanyahu. why you are asking, putting pressure on the u.s. to attack iran. but if iran denies holocaust like earth quake in the u.s., you know -- earthquake in the u.s., you know, if netanyahu would ten times a day repeat taking iran, nobody cares. here

folks in missouri are jumping out of bed the news they're about to get an official state exercise.. if you're not familiar with the exercise, ryan has kindly agreed to give us a demonstration. >> got you. >> oh, my rheumatism. >> okay. >> you're showing your age. show us what a jumping jack looks like. >> he's channeling his inner p.e. class. >> this is great. >> how long do i do it? >> you keep going until i say stop. >> okay. >> apparently -- >> keep the jacket buttoned. >> i've got information about this jack. you do your thing. be a model. >> you realize you're on live television, though. >> the exercise was invented by a missouri born general who led u.s. forces in world war one so they're serious part as part of a training drill for cadets and news readers and turns out it's not the only state with the official exercise. >> now you are a doing river dance. this is not -- . >> maryland, their official exercise is walking, ryan if you'd like to demonstrate that and walk right off set. >> okay. and in -- thank you, ryan. -week-o 9--week-old baby has been a viral star. mom angie

mell made history by becoming the first elected state official to have a legal gay marriage. e and christin baker joined in a civil union in august of 20-11, in iowa. she was a state representative at the time. the politician in japan breaks the mold with this. >> speaking in japanese and crying. you don't need an interpreter to note that this elected official is really sorry. he's accused of misusing public funds. he spent three hours apologizing. the video is now a barrel. >> 3 hours? he looks like he needs a spanking and then just let him go. but a vote so he can think about his own things. currently 59 degrees outside. we have wind out of the west at 7 mi.. temperatures are cool. we only reach 78. typically we should be in the '80s. 59 in waukegan. 61 at the lakefront. 53 in aurora. temperatures will move today once we get some sunshine. we have high pressure out there. at the end of this weekend this will swing into the south and west warming us up a bit. if you're heading out to the fireworks today taking a long sleeve jacket especially if you're watching evening firewor

the mixed messages from state and federal officials. tomorrow, recreational pot stores will be open for business in washington while state officials say it's okay to light up the feds are not giving out free agencies. one family that is literally caught in the middle. they stand to lose everything if the feds get their way. that story and more coming up on. >> stores in washington state are getting ready to sell recreational marijuana starting tomorrow morning. we're live from seattle, alan, good evening. >> it looks like supply and demand will be an issue in the state of washington. there are those who plan to have marijuana products on hand to sell tomorrow expect to sell out quickly. but frankly a lot of stores are not going to have anything to sell. high demand and low surprise is what we're looking for. >> there may not be enough weed to go around. he'll start with 10-pound sold by the graham. >> that gives us 2,200 packages. the first 2,200 people. >> by wednesday? >> that's the prediction. >> reporter: throughout washington's mari