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investigators say romer's 22- year-old son joseph romer hit his father's body -- hid his father's body in a box and stashed it in a relative's backyard in vallejo. the body was found this month. >> my sister had walked over there and got about to where the red car is and she is like, wow! i mean, she could smell it from that far off. so that's a good, you know, 40, 50 feet away that she could smell it. >> the cause of romer's death is still under investigation but he had been sick. joseph romer and his girlfriend sandy are accused of hiding the body and cashing thousands of dollars of pension checks. >>> pg&e crews have now found the source of a gas leak in brentwood. a group of neighbors stayed awake all night though after reporting a gas smell at about 6:15 yesterday. people evacuated three houses that showed elevated gas readings on the 600 block of allbrook drive. the source of the leak remained a mystery for hours. then just after 3:00 this morning, pg&e crews finally found the source. the leak was coming from a cracked cap on the underground plastic gas main. after controlling th

investigators say romer's 22- year-old son joseph romer hid his own father's body in a box and standard it in a relative he is -- stashed it in a relative's backyard in vallejo. the body was found earlier this month. >> my sister had walked over there and got about to where the red car is and she is like, wow, i mean, she could smell it from that far off. so that's a good 40, 50 feet away that she could smell it. >> the cause of romer's death is under investigation. joseph romer and his girlfriend are accused of hiding the body and cashing thousands of dollars worth of pension checks. >>> the woman accused of hitting and killing a tourist in san francisco apparently wanted to be a police officer. 23-year-old gina eunice was arrested thursday night near twin peaks after allegedly hitting four members of a family from china and then leaving the scene. one of the victims ended up dying at the hospital. eunice is expected to enter a plea in court next week. >> hoping to become a police officer, studying criminal justice. >> we are very concerned about the use of alcohol and driving and espe

now romer and his girlfriend are behind bars facing charges for theft and elder abuse. christin ayers, cbs 5. >> the two suspects haven't been charged in richard romer's death because it's still unclear how the man died. >>> new at 6:00 from big ones like borders to small ones like stacey, the last few chapters have been brutal for bookstores but in this dark evolving narrative there may be opportunity. as cbs reporter mike sugerman explains, long-struggling libraries see a chance to turn the page. >> reporter: shelve this with the nonfiction the story of the scrappy hero who hang in there after being down for the count. check it out. shhh! not that it's a secret but libraries are making a comeback in a big way. >> anytime there's an economic downturn you see a resurgence in library use. >> reporter: that's the story here. san francisco libraries, for instance, seeing 40,000 new card carrying members last year. that's up 10%. while bookstores are dying, libraries are flourishing. and changing. >> it's not the grandmother's library. >> reporter: luis of san francisco lib

romer's 22-year-old son joseph romer is accused of hiding his father's body in relative's backyard.was found earlier this month. >> my sister had walked over there and got about to where the red car is and she is like, wow. i mean, she could smell it from that far off. so that's a good 40, 50 feet away that she could smell it. >> the cause of death is under investigation. joseph romer and his girlfriend are accused of hiding the body and cashing thousands of dollars of pension checks. >>> getting a check on other bay area headlines the search is on for suspects in a gang- related shooting in south san jose last night. it happened shortly before 9:00 in the area of serenade and lullaby drive. officers say the suspect started an altercation with the victim, shot him and took off. >>> the bomb squad helped deal with an explosive situation in oakland yesterday. a man cleaning out his basement found more than 5 pounds of dynamite inside. he called the police and the alameda bomb squad showed up to remove the tnt. officials say the explosives actually date back to world war ii. >>> the ra

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and dennis kucinich and tom romer -- tim romer, both came to this committee to try to get something done there. it was not all cotton candy and rainbows. people at least were working together to try to reach a reasonable conclusion. here in indiana, as a state legislator, i have seen governor daniels be a get-it-done governor. i remember the first meeting with governor daniels came to our caucus. i had been in the general assembly for two years. some of the members were saying, bir going to balance the budget here in two years or four years. governor daniels walk in the room and said we would balance it in one year. that was the most important leadership decision of his tenure. if we keep that principle in mind -- he had some challenges, but as he has said often, people are fair minded. if you make the right decisions for the right reasons and the results come from that, the politics and campaigning will take care of itself. i think there are a lot of lessons in that for what needs to be done in washington. >> mr. messer, to bring it back to the current fiscal cliff talks -- during the c

of humor, and it was all very dirty, and that was the one thing that got my students to really love romer and juliet" and the parents thought it was good and my students understand there were magnificent dirty jokes and words that they understood and their parents didn't. milton was one of the first that got it and help the other students to see you really need a good vocabulary and if you study the words that shakespeare uses, you can learn a lot of things that your parents probably wouldn't appreciate, but that you would, and so milton was fun. he understood puns. he understood every time i told a joke that went over everybody's head. he was one of the three people in the class that had the look in his eyes that said "i at least get it mrs. kelar". i get t we kept in touch over the years after he left presidio and when milton was ready to serve with the community we talked about what he could do. milton came to my house and talked to my husband and i dennis and he talked about the school board, not the college board where he was distinguished and twice e elected, but the hard politics o

authorities say his son, 22- year-old joseph romer, never told a soul.nstead, he allegedly hid the body in a large box and stashed it here in a backyard. >> i can't believe somebody would even think about doing that. >> reporter: even worse, authorities say joseph romar and his girlfriend began collecting the dead man's money. thousands of dollars in pension checks, over two years. relatives at the home did not want to speak when we knocked on their door. authorities say they didn't know that richard romar had died and only realized that there was a body in their yard when it began to smell. now romar and his girlfriend are behind bars, facing theft and elder abuse. the two have not been charged in romar's death because they still don't know how he died. he was severely ill before his death and they are investigating. >> there was a report he suffer from aids. any word on that tonight. >> reporter: they could only say he was severely ill. it's really tough to tell how he died. >> all right. thank you. >>> a young woman aspiring to become a police officer

the other thing is the fifth vote on romer versus evans for gay rights was justice kennedy and he is often the swing vote. also what goes unreported a lot is that justice roberts actually worked on romer when he was a lawyer at hogan and hartson and he worked in favor of gay rights, so all of this taken together maybe they see the handwriting on the wl and think maybe the court is going to not uphold doma. >> is it possible for the gop to remain radio silent? that was the description someone gave, as we move forward here. >> yeah. i think it is. well, they have -- they do have a lawyer that's going to have to speak so we'll hear a little bit about their thinking on that but -- >> sure. >> also, you know, the white house is not going to defend it. the solicitor general is not going to defend the law which is very unusual. >> all right. lois, thank you very much. kenji, we'll be talking with you a lot in the days and months ahead. thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, senator john mccain one of susan rice's biggest critics, we know that, goes after a seat on the foreign relation s co

. >> the ninth circuit tried to narrow its ruling by equating it to a romer versus evans. >> reportert case, they stripped gays and lesbians the right to equal protection. the supreme court ruled it unconstitutional. justice kennedy wrote that singling out gays and lesbians was a violation. the ninth circuit court chose that same logic. the supreme court will hear arguments in march. the decision on whether same- sex marriage will remain banned or become legal is expected in june. linda yee, cbs 5. >>> almost everyone was expecting a lousy jobs report today. boy, were they wrong. the economy added 146,000 jobs last month. not great but it's a lot better than a lot of people expected. the unemployment rate dropped two-tenths of a point to a four- year low, though it's mostly because of the people who stopped looking for work altogether. >>> a couple of crooks out to make a quick buck got a rude awakening. they ransacked a community theater in pacifica. then christin ayers says they fell asleep on the job. >> reporter: a pacifica children's theater where kids as young as seven have been

talk about whether the rhetoric cited in his dissent, the rhetoric that he used in 1996 dissent in romer he compared gay sex to murder among other things. i wanted to ask him are those things really necessary to make his point. i don't think he answered about that question. i can talk about why. he was polite with me. he was cordial with me. i think he was respectful with me. but he didn't really address the question. i think the response in the room was excellent. after i asked the question, i received a round of applause from princeton students. princeton does a lot of work to integrate the town into the community. there were many older residents there. after scalia started talking, the older residents gave him applause, which i think highlights the difference in views on gay rights and marriage. there was a back and forth in terms of who got more applause. again, i think he was polite and cordial in how he responded. i mean, he compared it to the reduction of the absurd. i think his response was absurd in many aspects in the sense that there's really no comparison between intimate hom

kennedy has been the one who has issued the main opinions on two very important gay rights cases one was romerhe stories that people are excited. i know -- i talked to chris perry right after i talked to you guys. they feel the same way. elated and hopeful. >> until we get our final opinion in june, there will be nervousness. but i feel very confident. we felt -- we felt confident right from the beginning. right from the first time -- the first day of the trial and the district court in san francisco. >> stephanie: um, that's why i love you. i would marry you if i were straight then i could knock that michelle reiner off. >> well, maybe i can turn you. there is always that possibility, stephanie. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] different kind of therapy. it is not like what bachmann's husband goes through. it is a different type of therapy. >> stephanie: exactly. but you know, obviously if they hadn't taken this, we, as chris perry, they could -- kris perry, they could have gotten married this weekend. i don't have anyone to marry. by the time this happens in june, that's your job. >> is to find somebody f

christina romer, former chair of the economic advisors under president obama, equated a 1 percentage point change in g.d.p. with a million jobs a year. given these estimates there should be a bipartisan consensus that what we need is higher economic growth, not higher taxes. i would propose that the fiscal cliff is both a challenge and it's an opportunity. it's a challenge to get the federal government's runaway spending under control. but it's also an opportunity for us to make real entitlement reforms and to put in place a structure for comprehensive tax reform next year that will have enormous benefits for our economy. i hope, mr. president, that our president, the president of the united states will soon join the discussion that many of us have been having about comprehensive tax and entitlement reforms. presidential leadership on both of these critical issues is long, long overdue, and it is essential, mr. president. you cannot do big things in this country. you can't do entitlement reform, you can't do tax reform absent presidential leadership. president obama has a unique oppo

points out if you add up food stamps, unemployment insurance, and you've seen the studies that even romerout extending -- >> alan krueger. >> about extending unemployment and how that is detrimental to the jobless rate, if you add food stamps, which are way out -- you add unemployment insurance and disability which has skyrocketed, disability payments and then you take, you got a job offering you $16 an hour, and you got this social safety net paying you $30,000 a year, if you decide to work you got to drive to work. that costs you money. you got to get child care. you got all these other things you got to do to leave the house. i'd be discouraged, too, i would stay home for $30,000 a year in government subsidies rather than go work running on, sweating, running some manufacturing facility. i'd rather stay at home and that's a problem. >> is that true? >> as far as i know the economic research that i've seen suggests that the unemployment rate may be a half -- a quarter to a full point higher on the other end, because of jobless claims. that's the first thing i see. the second thing is, j