patricia jones calls her a force of nature. >> and she has that very gentle diplomatic friendly exterior but there are serves of steals inside. >> reporter: winning many battles with the powerful developers that plan to fill the bay. >> and that has been like it throughout the world, you know, you're one. i thought it was pretty nice. >> reporter: and today, the members and supporters were more than 40,000, an army of volunteer that will keep them healthy. a beautiful sight if you ask sylvia. >> the big privilege for them and in my home and half way up the hill. >> reporter: and for more than half a century of saving the bay, this week's jefferson award in the bay area, will go to sylvia. sharon chin, cbs 5. >> you can connect with them online, using the link at cbssf.com and click the connect button. you can find our story here on sylvia. >>> following their road to the dome, finally waking up in the big easy. mike, good morning. >> and i can see the dome from my hotel room, just like sarah palin. i cannot believe that i'm here and after 2,600 and 21 miles, not the most direct route, bu

you can look around very community leader patricia jones is still working to get things back.overnments that are dragging their feet. >> count the years. eight. for us, that's real. for every apology, that's not enough. people are not home. it trickles down to regular folks and it hurts. >> the lower ninth ward has take an long time, and for those of us that are from there, it's disheartening, discouraging, and a lot of us ask why. >> reporter: pastor fred luter is a local boy who made it big. he grew up in the lower ninth. he serves at one of the largest churches. is it economics or is it race in your mind? >> i think it's priorities, i really do. they made it a priority to do the airport and clean up downtown. it was a priority because the super bowl was coming. well, the super bowl is one day it's going be gone. that's make the same priority for other areas. >> it's not a tale of two cities. it's a tale of one part of the city getting back faster and the other part not coming back. >> reporter: mitch landrieu has been mayor of the city for three years. he sat down to addres

contributor to "newsweek" and the daily beast, pa tri ma murphy and mother jones staff reporter andy croel. thanks for joining me. patricia, five days until the cuts take effect. does either side have any real incentive to compromise? it seems like there's little common ground here, the president who wants revenues, republicans want only the spending cuts, and never the twain shall meet. >> there does not seem to be any ensi incentive for either side to compromise, and i don't understand that because both sides stand to lose significantly when it comes to going back to voters and explaining how this happened because both sides have their frinlts on this deal. the president did come up with the idea. 70% of republicans voted for it. so nobody is without blame in this situation. i think once you start to see how these sequester start to affect people not in d.c. but around the country, 780% 80% of change, the furloughs will happen outside washington. once people see their neighbors being affected, losing their jobs, security lines longer, people will see the effects of these cuts. there's no benefit to americans in their da