. >> john ralston was right there. the death of the republican party in nevada seems to have doomed sharron angle's chances at winning a senate seat that year. despite her standing in the polls heading into that election. now, this is not to put republicans down. this does not represent anything morally qualitative about republicans, but it's a really important organizational fact about how different the two parties are. it doesn't factor, i think enough into the way we think about partisan contests. the republican party, at this moment, is not a very strong party. just organizationally speaking, they don't seem to have it together. the republican party exists alongside a very strong, very rich conservative movement. very strong, very rich conservative movement that can give unlimited money anonymously even from corporate sources thanks to the conservative decisions on the supreme court that have endone campaign finance law. the imbalance between the republican party conservative movement is not matched by anything on

ralston. he's the father of two.ictim. >> bloody fluid is present within the left chest space. i know what my 3-year-old can and can't do and her emotional reactions and her response to pain and fright. and so it obviously brings it a little bit closer to home in terms of what may have -- this child's final moments may have been. >> still, he maintains his professional composure. he has a job to do and a duty to the victim's family and to the investigators. >> we're doing a service to a number of people by telling them the final story. then beyond that, it makes you just appreciate life. because you realize how fragile we truly are. >> in this case, the autopsy reveals the victim was healthy when he fell into the pond. >> inverted "v." that's the vocal cords, right? given it being found in a body of water, we'll say that the findings are consistently with drowning. provided everything else comes back within normal limits. >> the conclusion, death by drowning. and given the circumstances uncovered by investigators, it

through the peninsula, redwood city, light showers, san mateo skyline boulevard and further south on ralston avenue. south bay not wet yet. temperatures with the breeze and cloud cover in the 50s, 54 san jose, 55 san francisco. rainy and cooler today possibility of a thunderstorm coming in tomorrow on the back side of this system. next system comes in thursday and friday keeping it unsettled. high pressure moved on off with this narrow band of clouds the cold front where we are seeing heaviest precipitation behind it we get unstable that's why with a little afternoon heating you notice we still got plenty of green here through the evening compute tonight through half moon bay, santa cruz mountains overnight, light showers, wednesday here's where the atmosphere gets more unstable. we'll have the possibility of maybe some heavy downpours with the isolated thunderstorms and then into thursday afternoon here's our second system the colder system and that too promises perhaps maybe a quarter inch of rain maybe more in some of the wetter locations. by the end of the workweek, timing is everything,