today decided to award the 2013 nobel prize in physiology or medicine, jointly, to james rothman, randy schekman, and thomas sudhoff. schekman and sudhoff were honored with the nobel prize for medicine for solving the how the cell organizes its transport system. schekman's work has led to discoveries in insulin production in help help titus b vaccine. >> i never worked on myself but happy to have contributed in some small way to making that possible. so this is really the value of basic science. >> schekman is uc berkeley's 23rd factually member to win a nobel prize. thomas sudhoff is number 29 in stanford. he is traveling in europe so his wife took the call. >> he said he cooperate believe it. he wanted me to go on to the nobel prize web site to see if it's real or someone pulling a prank on him. i told him it's real. reporter: it's not just the prestige of the nobel prize. the three professors will be splitting $1.2 million. >> speaking of money, san francisco middle schools are getting an unprecedented boost to prepare students to succeed in this high-tech world. the found irof sales force.co

>> americans james rothman and randy schekman share the prize with german thomas suedhof. all work with leading american universities. schekman discovered genes, movement of hormones and enzymes in cells. in his research, rothman identified a group of proteins that help in the transfer of molecules. suedhof's work, nerve cells direct precision delivery. their discoveries will throw light on the way transport malfunctions contribute to conditions such as neurological diseases and diabetes. >>> a white diamond the size of a small egg has sold for a record price at an auction in hong kong. the bidder paid the most ever paid for such a jewel, more than $30 million. two people spent about six minutes vying for the 118 carat gem. the auctioneer says the winner wishes to remain anonymous. miners unearthed the diamond two years ago in south africa. price tag of $30.6 million is the most ever paid for a white diamond but well short of the $46 million paid in 2010 for a pink diamond. hong kong is joining geneva in new york as a leading auction center. its jewel auction are popular wi

thomas suedhof and james -- and randy schekman.red for giving insight into diseases such as diabetes and alzheimer's. both reacted with humility and surprise. >> hello? >> hello? >> this is adam smith calling from the nobel prize website in stockholm, where it's just been announced that you've been awarded the noble price together with jim rothman and randy schekman. >> are you serious? >> he was actually driving somewhere in spain and had to pull over. it took a while to sink in. but the professor could not say how much he enjoys to be a scientist and that this honor is incredible. randy schekman said he danced around with his wife and called his 86-year-old father to share the wonderful news. he list hopes this means a uc berkeley free parking space which is tradition. dave and tori? >> we'll have more at noon. thank you. >>> today, a controversial proposal to close san francisco's city parks during certain hours will be debated by the city's board of supervisors. under the plan, all city parks would be off limits between the hou

he and randy schekman are being honored for their work on how hormones hormones and enzymes are transportedithin cells. he acknowledged his high school biology teacher and red us an e- - read us an e-mail. >> what a trip you have taken. i imagine you have loved every minute. i am thrilled i lived to experience this moment. you pushed tiger woods aside as the most famous alumnus. >> they are sharing the nobel prize for medicine with a professor from yale. they will receive the award december 10. >>> how a 9-year-old boy got on to a flight from minneapolis to las vegas. the boy cleared security and walked on to the plane thursday. flight attendants became suspicious and handed the boy over to child protective services. delta will only say they are working with authorities and won't comment further. >>> concerns over a pipeline leading crews to shut it down. >> pg&e takes the pipeline out of service in san carlos. >> why authorities think a fire at a home may not have been an accident. i want you to know stuff i want you to be kind. i want you to be smart. super smart. i want one thing in a do

he won the prize with randy schekman, a uc berkeley professor. and a third professor from yale. they solved the mystery of how the cell organizes a transport system. sudhof is traveling in europe. his wife spoke with him this morning by phone. >> he said he couldn't believe it. he wants to go on to the nobel prize website to see if it's real or is this someone putting a prank on him. i told him it's real. >> reporter: the professor not only get the prestige of winning the nobel prize but split $1.2 million. live in menlo park, matt keller, abc7 news. >>> san francisco middle schools are getting an unprecedented boost prepare students to succeed in the high-tech world. the founder of salesforce.com is giving $2.7 million the two middle schools. what's amazing when the mayor first asked the tech giant for money, he said they asked for too little. he urged the mayor to think big, come up with a plan and return for more. now there are ipads for everyone, wifi in every classroom, equipment for robotics and much more to come. >>> more than a decade after her kidnapping and rescue grab

the americans are james rothman of yale and randy schekman of the university of california at berkeley. schekman recounted the phone call he got this morning. . >> he said this is calling from stockholm and congratulations and when i realized that was it. and i-- hi gone through this in my mind so many times, what i would say. and of course, words escaped me at that moment. and i think all i said was oh my god, oh my god. >> woodruff: and there's more on this story, coming later. opening statements began today in cleveland, in the case of an alleged $100 million fraud scheme that claimed to help navy veterans. prosecuters say john donald cody siphoned money from his fake charity and used some of the money for political donations, but little, if any, benefited veterans. cody could face 40 years in prison. also ahead on the newshour, the supreme court kicks off a new term; fallout from the twin raids on terrorists in north africa; setbacks in the fight to end polio in pakistan; public policy's impact on poverty programs; and a nobel prize winner's moment of joy. >> woodruff: it's the fir

. >> uc berkeley's randy schekman was also honored for his role in discovering the machine that regulatesand transports the secretion of proteins in our cells. >>> lg display said today it will begin mass producing the world's first flexible panel for smartphones. the 6-inch display uses plastic instead of glass. it's capable of bending without breaking. the curved smartphone could be on store shelves by next month. >>> what's worse than a root canal? seeing ex-giants celebrate in dodger blue. i'm dennis o'donnell and the baseball network might want to use a five second delay for tomorrow's a's/tigers game. you'll hear why next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ♪ at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. e win away from adva >>> i think he's jinxing it. >> never jinx it. the champagne is on ice because the a's are one win from advancing past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since 2006. brandon moss and the a's were tied at 3-3 in the 5th until moss plants a no doubter into the sea

. >> at 1:00 a.m., randy schekman was awoke out of bed. he had been sound asleep, he said it was one of the best phone calls he's ever received winning the nobel prize. he was escorted on the uc berkeley campus this morning via golf court and with cameras clicking, the pronecessarier of biology -- professor of biology called this wonderful. james rothman and thomas suedhof won. nobel prize on the discovery of how hormones and other other cells. >> wow. what a trip you've taken from a high school science fair to the nobel prize. i imagined you've loved every minute of it. i'm so happy for you. you even pushed tiger woods aside as western high school's most famous alumnist. >> now the awards will be announced this weekend. schekman will split the $1 -- $1.2 million prize including thomas suedhof. they will receive the award december 10th. and that's the anniversary of nobel's death in 1986. back to you. >> thank you. >>> now to game three of the series between the as and tigers. the five-game series is tied at one game apiece right now the a

randy schekman is a professor at uc berkeley. he's on the left. thomas sudhof hails from stanford. the duo earned their prizes for solving the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system. this has helped researchers gauge a better understanding of diabetes and other disorders affecting the immune system. professor schekman told us what it felt like when the call came in at 1:30 this morning. >> i've compared this day in previous years to groundhog day, bill murray's movie where he wakes up and it's the same thing over and over. i've experienced that on this morning for the past ten years, but suddenly i wake up and it's a different morning. >> brand new day. congratulations. the two bay area scientists share the award with a third scientist who works out of yale. the nobel prize award earned them a cool $1.2 million. >>> well, still to come, the olympic torch makes its way through russia but hits a snag. oops. we'll show you the big flame out. >>> plus, education nation. hundreds of the country's top school leaders meet to talk about how students can better success. >>>

he and two other professors randy schekman of berkeley and thomas sudhof of standford won for their work on how cells transport essential molecules. rothman spoke at a press conference this afternoon. >> to have matured and started my career as a researcher at a time when your idea was the only limit, any risks could be taken, no matter how difficult. and i was fortunate to have taken a few of those risks. and today's nobel prize recognized you know, i guess the success that came out of that. it's still a little hard to believe this sell all happening, i have to admit. i was asleep, okay. now in past years i have not been asleep on such occasions. but the calls didn't arrive. as a result, i gave up. i went to sleep very nicely. and a friendly swedish voice began the conversation and professor hansan, the secretary of the nobel committee was kind enough to inform me, and i tried to keep myself on the ground, that i was a recipient of this year's nobel prize. so that call was-- was an other out of body experience. i could see that it was happening, yes, yes, you have received the nobel pri

. >> uc berkeley's randy schekman was also honored for his role in discovering the machine that regulates transports the secretion of proteins in our cells. >>> lg display said today it will begin mass producing the world's first flexible panel for smartphones. the 6-inch display uses plastic instead of glass. it's capable of bending without breaking. the curved smartphone could be on store shelves by next month. >>> what's worse than a root canal? seeing ex-giants celebrate in dodger blue. i'm dennis o'donnell and the baseball network might want to baseball network might want to use a five second ,, the recent increase in cafeteria prices is not cool. when you vote for flo, we'll have discounts. ice-cream discounts. multi-cookie discounts. pizza loyalty discounts! [ kids chanting "flo!" ] i also have some great ideas on car insurance. [ silence ] finding you discounts since back in the day. call or click today. i like her. yes honey? dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that

two american scientists -- randy schekman and james rothman -- are receiving the 2013 nobel prize in medicine. they along with a german-american researcher spent decades researching cells, leading to discoveries in hormones and enzymes. their work is credited with helping develop a better understanding of immune-system disorders and diabetes. for "teen kids news," i'm rick leventhal -- "fox news channel in the classroom." >> as we've reported, when it come to pollinating fruits and vegetables, bees are the "a"-team. without them, we'd have a lot fewer foods to eat. bees also give us honey, which many say can be a healthier alternative to processed sugar. >> we have to remember that it's still a sugar, so we don't want to go crazy with it. >> since honey is sweeter than sugar, you can use less of it. and if you think all honey tastes the same, you're in for a surprise. zeke explains that honey can be varietal. that means there's different varieties depending on where the bees gather the nectar. >> single-varietal honeys are honeys that come from a specific floral source, whether it be

a big honor for three american scientists, the nobel prize in medicine went to james rothman, randy schekman and thomas sudhof. they will share the prize. together they mapped a chemical pathway inside the human cell which could hold the key to battling diabetes and brain disorders. >>> tonight we are awaiting that other nobel. the nobel peace prize historically awarded to men like nelson mandela. the average age of the winner is 62. tonight the youngest nominee is a 16-year-old girl who spoke up for the 31 million girls around the world who do not get to go to school. she was shot in the head by the taliban, but she emerges tonight with a new book, "i am malala," and her message that it's possible for every one of us to change the world. >> reporter: out of the valley 7,000 miles away, a powerful light. >> we are starving for education. for us it's like a precious gift. it's like a diamond. >> reporter: tonight a tiny child may be the bravest girl in the world. malala yousafzai who loved her little home and loved her school, when out of the shadows came the taliban, the radical fundamentali

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randy schekman from uc-berkeley, and dr. thomas sudhof at stanford, teamed up to unlocked a fundamental process and sale physiology. their discovery enhances science's understanding and research of the disease like diabetes. doctors and schekman pictured in the middle, identified the genes that regulate sales of transportation system. dr. sudhof pinpointed how ves icles now exactly when to release the molecule a contents. >> the government shut down enters its second week with no resolution in sight. house speaker john boehner says that he does not have the votes in the house of representatives to pass a clean the spending measure. democrats and even some republicans chalice the speaker, asking him to call a boat that the united states is moving closer to the possibility of the first ever to fought in the nation's history. >> coming up on the kron4 morning news. some bay area drivers are filling some new pain at the gas pump. we will have a live report coming up. i love having a free checked bag with my united mileageplus ex

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as kron four's terisa >> pam: estacio reports, at cal today, scientist randy schekman talked about whatwas like to get that new tonight at 8-- >> reporter: he'd only been asleep a few hours when the phone rang in was trembling when he picked it up. >> the chair of the nobel committee in which i happen to know because i served on another communing with him a few years ago. he assured that it was not a crank call i did nothing that would happen but when it happened it could happen and you have all these things the checkpoint to say but i like to say because i was so shaken was all my god, oh my god! my father had been waiting on this the years that time was lower was wasting and that he could not live forever and i'd better hurry up! (laughter) >> reporter: including the use for hepatitis b vaccines and human insolence. >> pam: and the next edition of people behaving badly coming ♪ nice car. sure is. make a deal with me, kid, and you can have the car and everything that goes along with it. [ thunder crashes, tires squeal ] ♪ ♪ so, what do you say? thanks... but i think i got this. ♪ [ mal

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as kron four's terisa estacio reports, at cal today, scientist randy schekman talked about what it wast call. >> reporter: randy sherman was very humbled by receiving this award. he'd only this week for if you hours when the phone rang and he was trembling when he picked it up. >> the chair of the nobel committee i happen to know him because i sat on another committee with him a few months ago. and he assured me that it was not a crank call. i did not think that it was going to happen and the new ec about what you're going to say about all like it to shake and say oh my god o my god. >> ptolemy every year that time was wasting and that i'd better hurry up. >> reporter: his work has led to several break through technologies with hepatitis b vaccines and insolence. celebrating his success was his deputy students and along with his family. >> catherine: no ticket.no i-d.no problem. for a 9-year-old boy. airport and airline officials are investigating how he managed to sneak past security. and get on a flight headed to las vegas without a ticket last week. the plane left minneapolis and no

randy schekman james rothman and thomas sudhof for their ground breaking work. >>> five of bernie madoff'smployees including his long-time secretary are on trial. they plan to prove they played role. his chief financial officer is the star witness. madoff claimed he worked alone. prosecutors believe he had help. madoff is counterly serving a 150-year sentence. researchers in china found something interesting. they think they found the secret to albert einstein's brilliance. a well connected brainment they say the left and right hemispheres of his brain had more extensive nerve fibers compared to young men of his era and present day men. >> we all need to work on the fibers connecting the hemisphere of our brain. >> i can find a smooth think that does that. >> let's get to that troubling security mishap at minneapolis st. paul airport. delta air lines and the tsa are now investigating how a 9-year-old somehow managed to get through three levels of security and board plane. the boy finally stopped in question when the plane landed in las vegas. george howl has been following the developments

james rothman, randy schekman and sudhof won the prize. >>> some of the country's biggest youth sports organization are teaming up to tackle concussions. the coalition includes football baseball soccer groups along with concussion experts. >>> the current says easy dents of new town connecticut voted to accept $50 million from the state for a new school. crews could begin tearing down sandy high school elementary next month. a gunmen killed 20 children and six adults there in december. >>> new york times looks at the new designed $100 bill. it has a new holographic bell. it goes into distribution tomorrow: >>> in louisville kentucky, more than six mchinches of rain fell over the weekend. some neighborhoods turn into a swimming pool. >>> the 170 miles per hour winds struck friday. governor surveyed the damage monday. >>> more digging out this morning in the upper midwest. blizzard conditions in wyoming stranded tourists at yellow stone national park. a record setting snowstorm hit south dakota. more than 21 inches fell in rapid city >>> good morning, everybody. roberta gonzales here wit

american vacate roth man and randy schekman won the award. it was unveiled in sweden. >> today marks 100 years since henry ford in vented the moving assembly line. back in 1913, the first mod tell t. cars were rolled out, allowing ford to double worker play while cutting the price of his cars in half. it helped put the world on wheels and forever changed the manufacturing business. aljazeera continues, del walters is back to you in two and a half minutes. have a great morning. >> house speaker john boehner drawing a line in the sand, warning the nation is heading for its first ever debt default unless president obama starts negotiating with the republicans. >> clashes in egypt between army security forces and supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi leaving dozens there dead. why that violence could escalate further this week. >> u.s. special forces grabbing a suspected terrorist in tripoli. he was on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for the embassy bombings in kenya. why the libyan are calling for him to be returned. >> buying a home for a

randy schekman is a professor of molecular and cellular biology.ghs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] available at walmart, for a low price every day. >>> welcome back. good monday morning. beautiful blue sky here. we're going to check on your drive with mike in just a moment. want to show you the same blue sky over san francisco. it is clear out there. temperatures are going to be really comfortable today. plenty of 70s around the inner bay. 79 degrees in san jose today. 83 for livermore. 74 degrees in san francisco. staying nice and comfortable as we head through the week. we have a very slight chance for a stray shower on wednesday. overall, temperature aren't going to drop off by that much. let's check your drive. here's mike. >> looking over here towards san jose, which was looking good until a few minutes ago. look at this. things are bogging down, north 101 toward north mckey because of a crash. things are thinning out as far as your commute. the earlier crash has cleared, but a new crash is bogging down from tulley once again. southbound direction of