ron smith from the president of the hospital council. this will be the only time you will be able to write graffiti on a city building. without him coming after you. we want to introduce the director of public works.

. >> ron smith with the hospital council. we represent all the hospitals in san francisco. for the sake of all hospitals, every hospital supports the rebuild of cpmc. it is our largest hospital. we do not understand how residents will be cared for without cpmc. i want to bring up another issue. why every hospital is rushing to rebuild right now is we are worried. the earthquake is coming, it could be tonight, it could be five years from now, but a delay in two weeks in approval could mean nothing. or it could be that the big one hits and that hospital has to care for many of the people of san francisco. we have to have all of our hospitals open as soon as possible. let me quickly go to the point that san francisco hospitals employ 99 -- are responsible for over 99,000 jobs. we bring an $11.3 billion into the city. that is almost twice what tourism does. when the economy was tanking, hospitals increased employment by 10%. we are a steady employer for the city. we have 22% higher salary than any other business. we are not -- we hire far more women. we are vital to the city. b

. >> ron smith died late last year after a quick battle with advanced pancreatic cancer. he had just turned 70 years old. >> now, your 11 insta-weather plus forecast with meteorologist john collins. >> checking our hd doppler radar, we are seeing less and less rain on the radar, but there is still plenty of it. this is reaching into cecil county at this time, both north and south of the bay. also in talbot county, coming off of the bay. most of this has led up. westward, no rain to speak of, although there are still some spotty showers out west. let's widen our view of the radar just a bit and give you a view of what is going on with a larger scope of the store. the heavier rains are, for all intents, outside of the bay, then moving up into new england. we may still have some way to put up with. it is very spotty and scattered. there may be a lightning strike or two before all of this finally ends, and let's take a look at what has happened today. 76 was the high. baby was the high at the inner harbor. after 2:00 when the rain hit comedies temperatures dropped down. this

might even be staying the night say they're not going anywhere that was our correspondent laura smith and ron paul not winning the g.o.p. nomination is not stopping his supporters from taking the establishment on once again this time with litigation they call themselves lawyers for ron paul and their group and affiliated with the official campaign their beef the fact that unbound delegates will have to vote for romney instead of their conscience simply because their states voted that way to explain more about the lawsuit and what it all means i'm joined by austin peterson director of production for freedom works. thank you very much for having me thank you austin so breakout of last year really quickly and the whole i'm bound bound elegant thing for everyone sure absolutely i should preface it by saying that i'm not a lawyer but i have read over the details of the case and it does appear that what they're trying to do is to prove that the delegates are not actually bound by federal law to vote for any of a candidate the only problem with this is that the republican party is a private organiza

. >> reporter: suspended san francisco sheriff ron mirkarimi will testify again today in his fight to keep his job. i'm christie smith. coming up in a live report we'll tell you what he says happened in an altercation between he and his wife. >> reporter: i'm bob redell live in san jose for what could abpivotal day in the priest attack trial as the defendant is expe

back for its future you're a smith closeness and well remember all the latest stories are also on our website r t v dot com here's a taste of what's there for you right now. ron paul's son says he's now officially supporting g.o.p. front runner mitt romney as a party's ultimate candidate to face democrat barack obama in the presidential election even though his father has always been his first choice. and residents of a scottish village called dull and the american town of boring are trying not to live up to their names so we can find out how they do that at r.t. dot com. now political forces in egypt have decided on who will write the country's new constitution and that lasted nearly three months a special panel consisting of one hundred members of parliament will be tasked with the job military councils a span of the constitution when they took power in the wake of last year's uprising that toppled president hosni mubarak the country has since plunged into unrest with numerous protests and demonstrations against the ruling army and demands for change at the end of next week there will be a presidential election runoff in which a muslim brotherhood candidate

smith, competitive enterprise institute. i think one of the most interesting things that is come out of the ron paul revolution has been withsome of the new people who have been elected and come to the tea party. the rediscovery of property rights and the importance of the fifth amendment and particularly the takings compensation. and it just happens that, perhaps, the first and the most courageous person on this in the u.s. senate in the 40 years since the environment movement got started has basically been using environmental laws to take property rights without compensation, rand paul and mike lee and particularly with the legislation they have introduced to stop the epa and the army corps of engineers from declaring dry lands as wetlands and then taking with no compensation and preventing the use of the lacey act to prevent a gibson guitar company from bringing in the woods from foreign countries. and i wonder if you would comment on that? >> it is top secret, and i'm not allowed to tell you. no, we are -- i am actually collecting a lot of these stories together in a book. i was hoping that david would invite me back we