robert mans field. alice rodgers from southpark improvement association. mimi filbert, you were here way before many others were here with delancy street foundation. you experienced the brunt we're experiencing today. it is a beautiful new addition to this area connecting to the blue greenway which will be a 13-mile corridor along san francisco's southeastern waterfront that started here. karin woods, already mentioned our citizen bay advisory committee. many these folks are advising us on an equally noncontroversial project on the waterfront. [laughter] >> which we'll hear more about in the next year and a half. i also want to welcome the relative of the late wong fu yen who is with us today. both mayor and chiu mentioned this. we have a new wall to recognize the special contribution that asians and asian americans have made to this part of the waterfront and the city. as was mentioned, 9 the waterfront was the place asian immigration came to the united states and the california gold rush certainly brought a steady influx of asian american laborers who he

robert sand man is considered a person of interest in the murder of a georgia man back in march.mexico and was set to be extradited to georgia. they sent the paperwork to the wrong place and sandman was let go. >>> does it seem like your car is costing more and more money each year? that's because it is. it is not necessarily because of gas prices. fox business network diane macedo is here to explain. good morning diane. >> good morning patti ann. the cost of own ago car is on the rise. every year it becomes worth less and less. it is costing you more and more to drive it. according to aaa 2013 your driving cost survey the annual cost of owning a car now chanra from 7,000 dollars to more than 11,000 to the average american due to combination of factors. where in the range you fall will depend on what kind of car you are driving. the average cost of all sedans the most typical american car is 60.8 cents a mile based on 15,000 miles of driving 7-11,000 annually. small cars cost the least while 4-wheel drive sport utility vehicles cost the most at 11,599 annually due to their fuel c

because as it is, he's going to have to live his life as a marked man as his brother robert said. >> clearly he's a free man in the eyes of the court but he's going to be looking around his shoulder for the rest of his life. >> stephen: yes, he'll be looking around his shoulder. can you imagine feeling like you're being followed. everyone just assuming you're a criminal. i mean, if i were him, i would wear something to hide my face. next on the t-dubs, a tip of the hat to fox news for bringing in some fresh blood and not just for rupert murdoch's wine cellar. jim? >> elizabeth hasselbeck will be joining us very shortly in september to be one of the hosts of fox and friends. she'll be coming on over to the curvy couch. >> stephen: elizabeth hasselbeck from the view will be replacing gretchen carlson on fox and friends or as the brown-haired guy who is not steve doocy puts it, "are you my new woman?" the gretch who saved christmas is abandoning her couch buddies to take over megyn kelly's spot in the arch which disappoints me because i believed that they were fox and friends but i guess

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man in san francisco. it's beethoven on a bike. robertwellington catches up with a man pushing a 320-pound piano around the streets of san francisco. >> i always loved san francisco. my name is gary, and i lived in san francisco for eight years. i've seen some people pull off really great musical feats in the street. i fell in love with the sound of outdoor instruments when i was a kid. these days, for the last five years or so, i have been going around san francisco on this piano that i put on a bike. and playing for tips. >> oh, the duck, my biggest fan. it took a couple years to figure out how to put the peon piano ae pike together. the piano is a miniature player piano from the early '60s. it had been sitting out in the rain in someone's backyard for ten years. the bike itself was from a hotdog vendor. the piano and the bike weigh 320 pounds. and i have always been a pretty lazy piano player and i'm 51 years old and with no athletic experience. i don't even golf. so it's hard for me to push around a big piano. i wanted to hear piano u

man for now. speaking to cnn this morning, zimmerman's older brother, robert zimmerman, jr., said the entire ordeal has been deeply emotional for the family but hope george can move on. >> freedom is a new concept him. he is really free to move about the country and do whatever he pleases for the first time in a long time. >> robert says despite his younger brother being a free man, george zimmerman will need to learn to move with a very low profile, and keep to himself. >> if you want to follow the department of justice investigation, or the protests, you can find updates on our twitter feet, abc7 news bay area. >> still to come on abc7 news at 6:00, where authorities in alameda county searched for a 21-month-old last seen wednesday morning. >> a million dollar powerball winner in the bay area. >> the author of the harry potter series, j.k. rowling, reveals she has been moonlighting as a most writer. >> leigh: i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. some locations today, temperatures came down thanks to the low clouds and fog racing over the bay. how does that affect your >> a fifth straight day of search

man for now. speaking to cnn this morning, zimmerman's older brother, robert zimmerman, jr., said the entire ordeal has been deeply emotional for the family but hope george can move on. >> freedom is a new concept him. he is really free to move about the country and do whatever he pleases for the first time in a long time. >> robert says despite his younger brother being a free man, george zimmerman will need to learn to move with a very low profile, and keep to himself. >> if you want to follow the department of justice investigation, or the protests, you can find updates on our twitter feet, abc7 news bay area. >> still to come on abc7 news at 6:00, where authorities in alameda county searched for a 21-month-old last seen wednesday morning. >> a million dollar powerball winner in the bay area. >> the author of the harry potter series, j.k. rowling, reveals she has been moonlighting as a most writer. >> leigh: i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. some locations today, temperatures came down thanks to the low clouds and fog racing over the bay. how does that affec >> a fifth straight day of searching ha

the man, robert felden lady. we do not have a picture of him., italy, ten years ago. very much part of secret operations. now the italians confirming he was arrested in panama. he is wanted back in italy. he was convicted in absentia for his role in what was said to be, several years ago, a cia covert operation to seize and arrest a muslim cleric off the streets of milan, send that man to egypt where the man says he was tortured, all for what is said to be the cleric's role in trying to recruit fighters for the wars in afghanistan and iraq. the man, robert selden lady, was suspected and convicted of being part of that operation, you know, back ten years ago. it was all very much something the cia participated in under cover with other intelligence services around the world. seizing and arresting suspected terrorists, sending them to secret prisons in various locations around the world. so-called black prisons where they were interrogated and said by many to be tortured in those prisons. so he was convicted in italy. now ten years later, arrested

. >>> the family of a man who died in police custody has won a civil lawsuit against the city of san jose. robertanda spoke with the man's children. >> reporter: well, it took a long time for this case to get to the federal courthouse in san jose. today's jury decision could mean changes in the future, including more excessive force lawsuits and how police use tasers. family members gathered, stunned but happy after a jury awarded them $1 million in a civil lawsuit. salinas died in 2007 after being jolted bay taser 6 times in about a minute and a half. the family acknowledged he was high on the drug pcp, but was unarmed. said the taser use was excessive and contributed to his death. the jury agreed. >> it was just more of a shock reaction and happy -- ecstatic for my family. >> there is wrongful death out there. a lot of cases aren't proven. we took this to trial. i'm happy we did. >> reporter: the family had been seeking $12 million. the family says it wasn't about money but trying to change or want to police department's use of tasers. >> i think the message is officers are going to be careful

robert. and he's a good man. you know? >> easley met robert when they were both inmates on the same yard at corcoran. two years later, robert was transferred to corcoran's substance abuse treatment program. >> when he left it was devastating, but i believe that we'll be back together. i think i have enough love for him to respect him and wait for him. >> he was in love and he was able to maintain this love relationship with this other inmate through letters and correspondence and you could see how it completely altered him for the better. >> dreaming of you. it just says, you are very important to me, i love you and you never have to worry. a love like ours is meant to be. you know, dreaming of you. i wrote him a letter one time and i told him, you don't have to be bill gates to be with me, but you are bill gates in your heart. and he wrote back and told me, no, i'm not bill gates, but i wish i had his money, i could give you a lot more. you know? and that was nice for him to say that. these are the letters that i get. feel

. >> he's going to have to live his life as a marked man as his brother robert said. >> clearly he's ee man in the eyes of the court but he's going to be looking around his shoulder for the rest of his life. >> yes, he'll be looking around his shoulder. i mean, can you imagine feeling like you're being followed? everyone just assuming you're a criminalle? i mean, if i were him, i'd wear something to hide my face. looked nice? soft would be great, but we really just need "kid-proof." softsprings got both, let me show you. right over here. here, feel this. wow, that's nice. wow. the soft carpets have never been this durable. you know i think we'll take it. get kid-friendly toughness and feet-friendly softness, without walking all over your budget. he didn't tell us it would do this. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now, get whole-home installation for just 37 bucks. (girl) w(guy) dive shop.y? (girl) diving lessons. (guy) we should totally do that. (girl ) yeah, right. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy

mistake in his will and half the actor's multi-million dollar estate could be going to the tax man. robertre on that story. >> it's a really interesting story i think because of who it is. the good news here is that james gandolfini left a very detailed will to his son. he left clothing, his jewelry, rights to buy his apartment in new york city and a parking space that's actually worth a lot of money here in manhattan. left his assistant $200 now, his nieces got $200,000 each and his house in italy he left, 50% to his son and 50% to his daughter, but he also may have left too much to the tax man. a noted trust to the state's attorney calls this a tax disaster, and here's why. the rest of his estate gandolfini left 20% to his wife and 80% to his sisters and daughter. that 80% will likely be subject to the estate tax, that's, of course, about half of everything over 5.25 million. now if he had given everything to his wife, it would have been shielded from the tax because of the unlimited tax fee transfers to spouses. now we don't know the value of his estate, and the attorneys say that whoev

man. >> there have been people, believe it or not because of my height and my name that some people -- >> i would assume robertan is a white man, george zimmerman is a white man. i would not know unless someone said to me i am hispanic. unless george zimmerman said, i am hispanic. robert zimmerman said i am hispanic. so most people in the world who operate in america see you as a white person. do you realize that? >> that might be the case. perhaps the point is that. we should see the case for what it is and not the appearance of what happened. that i believe is the point he was trying to make. again, he told me he feels like they didn't make a point about being hispanic during the case because they felt race should not be part of the discussion. >> great conversation. thank you. thank you for bringing it to our attention. >>> up next, the sunday morning talk shows were abuzz with the zimmerman verdict. the great outdoors... ...and a great deal. thanks to dad. nope eeeeh... oh, guys let's leave the deals to hotels.com. ooh that one! nice. got it! oh my gosh this is so cool... awesome! perfect! yep, and no angr

john roberts with with one man's great achievement and his great loss. >> reporter: it was an almostuman act of heroism in the bloody 1944 battle he saved the marines by taking out 12 japanese bunkers. one with a backpack full of explosives. >> up it went. logs, boulders, earth. >> reporter: he was given the medal of honor. weeks later when he was taken to new york city to be honored the medal was stolen from the hotel. >> i had left my medal in its box on the bed in the room. and i knew when i went back there that was the first thing to look for and it was gone. >> reporter: the military gave jackson replacements but the original went missing for 42 years until 1987 when jackson got a call that the medal was on display at a tv repair shop in south carolina. the shop's owner told me he bought the medal at a gun show for $300. he agreed to give it back to jackson. what jackson got back in the mail was not his medal. it was this one, a fake. >> for 25 years the fbi believed shockly either kept the original or sold it. jackson's wife is outraged. >> it makes me angry that somebody would

and on that list was the cia station chief for milan, a man named robert lady, omar was considered ayourself, which is why the cia grabbed him as part of the extraordinary rendition program, where people were taken in one country and not taken back to the u.s., but instead taken to a third country, unrelated country, for torture, whatever. when the prosecutor named the local cia station chief in that case the chief claimed diplomatic immunity, but the judge didn't by buy it. by that time, the man had retired, and the judge said for a crime as serious as kidnapping, even an active diplomatic employee wouldn't get immunity. well, two years later, an arrest warrant was issued for him and 20 other people for kidnapping and seized without a warrant and taking the person to another country, also known as one to employ torture. but by the time the case had happened, they all had fled italy, including the former cia station chief guy. the judge went ahead with the trial anyway. that june in trial he read out loud the name of all 26 americans in the case, listing them all. fugitive, fugitive,

. >> video of a man named robert ruben. watch. >> i don't know if you have it two ways, pulling the levers or asleep at the switch. i think this is about as we try calamity, from this sure the responsibility. you are not a garden variety member. you're a chairman executive committee. you can characterize it. most, the chairman executive committee member on the board, $13 million a year guarantees leadership and responsibility. r. ruben assumed responsibility. said it was the honorable thing. prince,mr. ruben -- mr. when he resigned said it was the honorable thing to do. think my point is that leadership and responsibility matters. >> i agree with that. the executive committee is in that comment. t was a formal administrative apparatus in the institution nothing to do with ones role in the function of the institution. i did feel in '07 because of all of the problems -- it was problems all of the developed. i felt in '07 i should not get a the reasons you're alluding to. crisis s the financial inquiry committee. that's the le

man reports. >> reporter: robert caldwell was 23 years old, so proud to be a hot shot fireman.ied, he was still a newlywed. clara caldwell is his widow. >> he was an inspiration. he changed my wife. he made me want to be a better person, too. he was seriously the best person i met in my life, and i got to marry him. >> reporter: but the family's grief doesn't end there. robert's first cousin, 21-year-old grant mckee was also killed in the fire. he was engaged to be married. may hoffman is the grandmother of both. lorrie mckee is their aunt. >> it's really hard. it seems so surreal that they will just come back, don't you, mom? >> just kind of hope that i could wake up and it would be a really bad dream. >> reporter: there is so much pride for what grant and robert did to protect people. their relatives were always concerned when they didn't hear from them for hours of end while they were fighting fires, but family members knew grant and robert were doing what they loved, however, now the pain is so immense. >> i had hoped both of my boys died from smoke inhalation because i fig

robert? >> reporter: you will see what appears to be a man devastated by two charges of sex crimes involvings and a community torn by the accusations. >> reporter: he walked into the courtroom looking dazed. he was charged with lewd conduct with a six-year-old girl and possession of child pornography. he had a room full of family and friends who believe he is innocent and angry to see him hackled. >> i feel anger and anger towards the legal system. if you know the kid it is not right. >> he began to cry with his hands shaking. the atmosphere got tense after the judge pointed out he faces 15 years to life in prison if convicted and ordered him not to have contact with any possible victims in the case and had him held without bail. >> the charges are extremely serious and the conduct is very scary. particularly for, you know, parents of small children. >> police say they are still interviewing children. they are making his legal fight an emotional roller coaster. >> it is hard to see him in this situation and knowing these are possible chargeles placed against him. we absolutely support the in

robert griffin, 3rd. adrian peterson and peyton manning. they're not just saying kaepernick is the man around here, he's the man everywhere, diane? >> of course he is. thank you, henry, we'll see you at 11:00. good night. >>> the only universities mentioned in the same breath are harvard columbia, yale -- >> he's starting a new college, you'll get everything you can get from a top tier university only the classes will be online. >> the tuition will be well under half that amount. >> class action goes inside san francisco's ambitious new education start up, the minerva project. governor jerry brown finally made the move, he delivered a long time promise to overhaul california schools, he's doing it with cash. tonight we get answers for critics who want to know who's going to keep an eye on the books. >> one of the questions the public should be asking every one of these districts is how are you going to spend that money. >> and with schoolwork out of the way, bay area kids are tapping into the world of social media. a stanford professor reve

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man" franchise. no surprise here. robert downey jr. guess what. he made an estimated $75 million in earnings. wow is right. "forbes" calls him, quote, a hit machine. following downey jr., is channing tatum, one of your favorites, at $60 million. and hugh jackman is third with a paltry $55 million. >> call me, channing. >>> and finally for the first time in over 20 years, there is a new variety of spaghetti-os hitting selves. they're called cheeseburger-os. executives at campbell's soup says cheeseburgers are one of the nation's favorite foods. making cheeseburger-os, it just seemed like something in a needed to be done. you look like you're just ready to get into a can right now. you like cheeseburgers, just get a cheeseburger. how about that? we'll try to compose ourselves here. >>> when we come back -- >> rescue at sea. when a fisherman spotted a whale, he jumped in the water, armed with a knife and a camera. >>> and an american man wakes up in a hotel room having no idea who he is. and speaking a different language. this morning, the new clue that's giving investigators an idea of who this

healthcare for public option, or , student loans, our biggest break out with the campaign by a man named robert .pplebaum for debt relief a lot of the work we do, when it comes to election time, they understand the connection between issues and elections. they're organizing their communities when it comes to election time. part of our theory of tame -- changes to elect candidates who stand for those issues. as long as that of a story told in our e-mails and an authentic way, the fact that our strongest fundraising continues to be, with the exception of the moments, between september and november when people are excited about candidates. what we do with he can -- with the candidate, you will really see an e-mail that we do not see connected with an issue that moveon members care about. we find that transition make sense. some folks are just issue base. but they are engaged in politics, and we tell the whole story of campaigns organizing and issue work fitting into a regular cycle. >> one thing i would add is after they sign that petition, they land on the donate page. one thing we found, 2010, p

dianne roberts introduces you to a young man who hopes to go to caps fan to caps player. >> this is 9-year-old, sam, he played for the little caps as a youngster and watched the professional team with his hockey-loving family. >> good save. >> cap season ticketholders. >> sammy is on now. >> now the 20-year-old wants a shot at the real thing. >> pretty cool for now. one thing, hopefully one day i can wear the real caps jersey. >> he has his work cut out for him. at 155-pounds, he was one of the smallest guys in camp. he uses it as motivation. >> all the way through. >> that tee tenacity served him well. he broke a number of team records. >> what a goal for sam. >> his size also earned him a nickname, the baby, from his friends. many of them, his hockey teammates probably watched at the cap scrimmage. >> seeing him in a caps jersey now, hopefully really amazing. >> there you go, sammy. >> not just friends, but the family was at the rink. >> nice move. >> sister, dad, mom, and -- >> never misses the game. >> he worked for this all his life. this has been a goal of his. but he worked ver

. >> robert was a brave young man.s ready to go, spent his whole life devoted to being a firefighter. he answered the call every time, never late and was willing to put his life on the line and help protect other people. >> he was known as the smart one. he had an iq of over 150. a big philadelphia eagles fan. even though he loved arizona, always remained loyal to philadelphia. he had so much going for him, didn't he, claire? in all sorts of ways. tell me about your husband. >> my husband was the bravest, most selfless man i've ever met in my life. he was a hero. and the thing that i want to say about him the most, and all hot shots, is that they sacrifice so much for everybody every day. so just say thank you to our hot shots. because every day this could happen, it could have happened every time he left. so don't forget how much they sacrificed for us. he's a hero. they're all heroes. >> and dave, obviously there were 19 of these brave young men who lost their lives, one of the most appalling tragedies imaginable to

robert downey jr.'s starring role in "iron man 3" and a new contract for two avenger sequels launched him to the top of the forbes 2013 list of highest paid actors. with an estimated $75 million in earnings. doesn't that sound good. he is followed by magic mike's channing tatum, hugh jackman, mark walburg and dwayne "the rock" johnson. >> over $40 million each. >> much better than us. >>> and a cutting edge web series could crash the party at the emmy nominations are announced this season. for the first time house of cards and arrested development are expected to be in the running for gold statuettes, along with cable and broadcast network shows. i think that's a good idea because there's some really good shows out there. >> have you ever watched a show that only aired online? >> no. >> neither have i. >> well, i -- >> "arrested development" though because the only ones are out on netflix. i guess the answer is yes. i'm betty ngyuen. this is "early today." we hope it's just your first stop of the day on nbc. >>> leading the news in "usa today," housing recovery leaves millennials behind. high unemploym

in the clinton years summers was a fiscal conservative and solid man working under robert rubin.es a free spending tstimulus guy. i don't know if he is for obama care, would the real larry summers please stand up, dean? >> the obama years he had to deal with the fallout from the clinton years. that got us on the bubble of the economy of the 90s. that got us in a stock bubble that burst that got us to the session in 2001. we got knew the housing bubble which guess what, burst. that gave us the catastrophe that we needed and large stimulus to boost the economy. >> do you blame summers for the housing bubble? because that occurred in the clinton years. >> well, it began in the clinton years. >> that's right. >> i think summers began -- >> it began. >> it began. bush was sitting there and the idea that he couldn't do anything to change the course, i don't necessarily have great respect for president bush's economic abilities. he was sitting there. he had plenty of time to change courses. >> i just wanted to ask that. dan mitchell, let me come back to the principle matter at hand, wit

. >> it was hard core tough love because at the very end of this diatribe, robert basically says, i love you, man you need anything. >> a lot of love, dude. wherever you go, i'll send word that a way. stay out of trouble. >> love you, bob. >> all right, see you later, man. >> yep. >> straight idiot, man. if i could hit him in his mouth right now, i would. >> while harrison was waiting for his disciplinary hearing on possessing a weapon, he got an additional writeup for slapping another inmate. as a result of the two infractions, harrison lost 180 days of good time and was given a year and a half in segregation. that means he'll be separated from the general population, including the one man who might be his best hope for someday getting out of prison. >> josh is a little bit wild. he's not a convict. he's just a kid. that got no understanding. he's mad at the world right now. you know what i mean? he thinks the world owes him that, you know what i mean? i guess that's another thing. we make our own choices in life. if you lived a violent life in here and you don't try to change, you're going to l

po >>> and redskins quart back, ba robert griffin the third a a married man. but more people are talking about the video he made after ma the ceremony than the wedding itself. >>> hey, laura i'm in richmond, virginia, standing outside of the redskins training facility. we will take you and show you yu what the fields look likes and video, that included guest appearances of governor robert mcdonnell. that as the news continues.  inside and hernandez is chargede with child endangerment, shent,e left her eight-month-old son in- a car for six hours friday whilh she went to work. she didn't notice that the babea hbabywas in the car until she wo pick up 1 of her other children she rushed the baby to the babyt hospital but the baby did not survive. >>> several witnesses testified aboutse the 911 calls recorded e night trayvon martin was killed we have more from the courthous in sanford, florida.ida. >>> i met jorgie at mortgagemore company. >> reporter: one by one, zimmerman's friends took thefrie stand today. >> do you know whose voice that is in the back g

live in morgan hill, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the man charged with kidnapping and murdering morgan hill teenager sierra lamar was back in court today. angelo garcia torrez did not enter a plea. sierra lamar disappeared last year despite many searches her body was never found. her dna was found in garcia torrez' and on her clothing which was found by her home. >>> ktvu's david stevenson live with how -- >> reporter: the fatal collision happened at the intersection just behind me. today prosecutors said the cyclist in that crash faces community service but no prison time. >> bicyclists sped alongside traffic on market and castro streets today. it's the same intersection where 71-year-old wee died last year after being struck by a cyclist who prosecutors say ran a red light while racing down this hill. >> the bike peuszed me off. they really peuszed me off. they don't follow the rules. >> reporter: george gascon today said 37-year-old cyclist bucari pled guilty to a manslaughter charge. the first such conviction in the state and possibly the nation according to the da. >> he wi

reporter: the judges rotate, serving one week at a time, appointed exclusively by this man, chief justice john roberts, who at his confirmation hearing, expressed initial reservations to the idea. >> it's not what we usually think of when we think of a court. we think of a place where we can go, we can watch, the lawyers argue, and it's subject to the glare of publicity. >> reporter: but the federal intelligence surveillance court is far from public. it's here somewhere in this sprawling complex here in washington, d.c. it's a court so secret, we don't even know exactly where it convenes inside the building. and how does it work? it was designed to allow government surveillance on individuals who pose national security concerns before bad things happen. >> and so the need for secrecy is to make sure that the spy isn't alerted to the fact that you are now watching whatever he or she is doing. >> reporter: the question now is whether this court post-9/11 is protecting the privacy of americans. >> it's the fact that there's a secret law and a secret body of law that makes it the most vexing and the most