to that i will turn it over to ruth wallace.on't know what would be of the portola without ruth wallace. so, ruth, thank you so much for everything you do. (applause) >> thank you, david. well, i have the easiest job because jack's biois the shortest. he's 12. he's done a great job. * , he's actually helped us to finance the portola garden district scholarships at city college of san francisco. and will continue. thank you. (applause) >> jack? ah, come on. >> i don't think jack wants to say anything, but i think that jack just basically said that actions speak louder than words. so, thank you. (applause)♪ >> jack, are your parents or your family here? yep? so, if we could ask jack's family to please stand up and be recognized. because this is a family effort. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you very much. thank you. ♪ >> you can see the user bringing back the bow tie. without further ado, i'd like to introduce supervisor john avalos to introduce our next award. (applause) >> thank you, daniel. and thank you all for being here

ruth will call you back.' well, she didn't call back for a couple of days, and jim hasn't talked to her for--didn't talk to her for about a year and half after that. c-span: where does jim thompson live today? >> guest: key west, florida. c-span: when was the last time you saw him? >> guest: i think i saw him probably four or five years ago. c-span: you ever talk to him, any--in any way? >> guest: i've talked to him a couple of times as the book was in publication, and jim--jim thompson, i believe, is quite pleased that his story has gotten out, but i don't think he--it's the story he wanted, precisely. as i was researching the book, jim had hoped that it would be about him alone, his story and his heroics, and what i found was this compelling story, not only of jim thompson, a hero--five years in solitary confinement, five escape attempts. his first five years he never s--talked to another american. extraordinary what he went through and--nine years, long as hell. but what i found was the war had impacted his

i want to talk about when i was on the pack ruth was my mentor. i had been active at the till level but not district wide. she coaches people into leadership positions and i is that georgia has that gift. and we were challenged to make better decisions and students assignment and now the practices it's been a tremendous asset to the school board so i want to thank you for your work. >> did you want to make a comment commissioner? >> well, i was going to go around the - >> well, i'm happy to congratulate the consonantalor or on they're tenth anniversary. i think the reason we were successful this time is because it came from the community. it was not an idea of the board member it was the community and all the other organizations you mentioned he parents for public schools, you know, it was parents voices, it was a whole group of people that came together and said we need a voice. also i want to take a moment to thank the generous funders. well, the board said you can't have it unless it's funded and a leap of faith we will fund it and they've been

and ruth. do you think there is a strong argument that the accountability review board should have questioned, for example, hillary clinton? >> well, i don't know why if you're doing an accountability review board you are wouldn't want to make sure that you're covering all your bases and i don't really understand the argument about we had a discussion with her versus we interviewed her. you know that something like this is supposed to exist for the purpose of making sure that everybody is satisfied that, all the ts were crossed and is dotted and that we know who was involved. this one was so obviously politically frustrate from the very get-go. i don't know why you wouldn't want to be more inclusive in terms of who you interviewed, not just secretary clinton, but all of her aides who were involved. i'm just so frustrated with this because it seems like another one of these self-inflicted wounds on the part of the administration because they're acting look they have something to cover up and it'

and their oldest daughter, ruth, the baby ruth was supposed to have been named after her.d their next daughter, marion, born in 1895 was named after marion because they loved living here so much. and they also had le exception -- receptions here and were very accessible to the people of marion so the people from marion here are very, very fond of the memories of the clevelands. >> what is the house like today, judith? is it still in the style of the period or has it been renovated? >> it's been added on to. they lived in it when it was more like a farmhouse, and i actually have quite a few photographs of them sitting on the porch. then later on in 1891 or 19 -- 1892 it was made into a much larger house of the shingle style that was very popular for houses on the water. and so it changed. and actually, grover cleveland wanted to buy this house but the owner then named a very high price so he decided he was a very frugal man, he decided not to buy it and went down to born and bought a house there, grey gables. >> you may be getting phone calls from our guest there is so see

i want to talk about when i was on the pack ruth was my mentor. i had been active at the till level but not district wide. she coaches people into leadership positions and i is that georgia has that gift. and we were challenged to make better decisions and students assignment and now the practices it's been a tremendous asset to the school board so i want to thank you for your work. >> did you want to make a comment commissioner? >> well, i was going to go around the - >> well, i'm happy to congratulate the

i want to talk about when i was on the pack ruth was my mentor. i had been active at the till level but not district wide. she coachespl

always here. >> i think of you often but joining us ruth marcus.nk for the average person they say 300 amendments offer 32 amendments agreed to, this is a process that we expected, tell us what we should take from what happened on the hill yesterday as it relates to the broader chances, some kind of comprehensive immigration reform bill passing. >> yesterday was the first day of what's going to be several hearings to hear all of those amendments and what they did yesterday was take up the board of security portions of the bill, so what you saw yesterday was the committee embracing a lot of republican amendments and bringing them on board, immediately afterwards hearing members of the gang of eight pushing this bill saying look we're including these, look how we're listening to the other side, at the same time there are four members on the committee part of the broader gang of eight and they manage to resist any bills that would really as they term poison pills, things that would blow this out. >> and in a way if you wanted comprehensive, if you wan

back to our panel, alex and ruth. first to you, alex, on this.s you were listening to leah describe the dynamics here and how sticky these polls might be, also in the consideration as a part of this is how tea party senators may have helped to draw these lines that senators like kelly ayotte had to then follow, picking a side, this or that. where the line might have been a little more centrist if it weren't for those distinctions made by tea party senators. >> well, kelly ayotte has going for her she's not up for re-election until 2016. the question is not whether or not her poll numbers take a dip, the question is whether there's going to be the same level of intensity behind this issue and the same level of financial support for gun control advocates that there is right now, largely coming from new york city mayor michael bloomberg. if you see a sustained effort on the part of democrats and other gun control advocates to make this an issue going forward, then maybe there are repercussions, but it's been an awful long time since democrats run on

let's start with you, ruth. the house passing a plan to link student loan rates to financial markets, something the president agrees with. but here's the difference. the president's plans would lock this rates for borrowers. the gop plan allows adjustment but then sets a cap. when you look at the data here, are these two sides really that far apart? >> it's unclear whether they're far apart, but one thing that is clear is this is a very hot-button issue for a lot of people, as somebody who's got a daughter who will be a freshman in college next year, i can tell you that from personal experience. and the thing that this argument feels reminiscent of to me is not just the last time we had this threat about student loan rates, but a little bit, the issue with air traffic controllers and the logjams. if there's one thing that congress is responsive to, it's constituents who are well-conducted and loud and this is one of those issues where people can be really loud about it. and so you're just going to see a jockeyin

ruth marcus. thank you for joining us.es it for what is a very packed edition of "andrea mitchell reports." she's back tomorrow to talk with nicki song gas. tammer ron hall has a look on what's next on "institution nation." >>> breaking news, attorney general eric holder still testifying on capitol hill after it was revealed that the justice department seized the phone records of ap reporters. we'll have the latest on holder's testimony. we were told it would be a grilling. so far, though, that's not happened. >>> plus, new details on the irs scandal, including how tea party groups were targeted. we're getting nuggets about that investigation. >>> and two high-profile criminal indications right now. we're hearing from o.j. simpson for the first time since his conviction. and that woman, jodi arias, back in court for the death penalty phase of her trial after spending much of time since her conviction on suicide watch in a mental health facility. both of those trials. we'll bring you live testimony coming up. d? not that we

next is ruth -- >> i am bruce wallace from the portola neighborhood association. what i'm suggesting today will save the city money to help pay for all of these worthwhile programs. on our commercial corridor, just by asking the city to enforce the code so we can have more safety on our streets. just opening up the merchants windows, taking down all the stuff on the windows would make them less likely to become victims as well as people on the street. by asking for more muny sevices, 8, 9, 44, 29, 54, would help save lives. in our corridor in the last for years we have had three pedestrian fatalities, people running for buses because they don't want to wait for the next one, they're willing to risk their lives to catch a bus. by adding more buses we could save people; we could save money, and would could help fund these are the programs that need so much help throughout the city. thank you san francisco community. apl (applause)>> moderator: -- from home care. >> mayor lee, supervisors, department heads, brothers and sisters from the committee. my name is bradley

. >> and point of fact, she married ruth ford who was a bachelor in washington and quite well-to-do. believe that the mistress status was continue us because ruth ford died and she was a free agent fo about 3-4 years before roosevelt died am i correct? >> you are correct about that. >> what's to make you thin she was continuously serving as a mess tress to him? >> their relationshi several different phase that he did have polio and that was disabling in som sfloopts they kept in touch. >> absolutely. >> that's a strong -- >> that's a friendship. >> at least a friendship. bearing in mind this was an era when one could not easily have relionshi especially in politics. everything had to be kept subterranean there is a lot of hidde history. wasn't at his side and the time of his death? >> i have no reason to doubt she loved him sin skerly. i have no reason to doubt that at all but i do think they were two people who were driven to be in together because of their political commitment >> they each cheated on each other? >> yes. >> did any other president of first ladies cheat on each other

thanks so much, chris cillizza, see you later, thank you, ruth as well. and is this the earhart elect? those sonar pictures which could be the plane she was flaying when she vanished 75 years ago. the international group for historic aircraft recovery has been investigating earhart's case for the past two decades. and they released these images, which they say shows an anomaly about 600 feet below the waters off an uninhabited island in the southwestern pacific. some 350 miles southeastern of earhart's targeted destination back in 1937. 6. >>> russians said they were just completing an old contract. but israel has warned those weapons could be game-changers. joining me is former california congresswoman and president of the woodrow wilson center, jane harmon. just back from a trip to the region, having been it in cairo. let's talk about syria. and the russian role. you can say john kerry is trying to negotiate the geneva conference, we're hearing it might be july, not june to get everyone together. the syrian rebel groups have yet to agree on who would go

>> i agree, i agree with ruth.tement, i had the vision of someone in a very deep hole digging the hole deeper. >> well, he does have three daughters and he says, that he, he references that. chris fraits. i don't know whether you have children or whether you juggle family issues and careers, how have you managed in this grueling tchb world of journalism? >> it seems like such a bone-headed thing so say. as ruth pointed out, you have many things you have to handle and the focus on women and children. men have many things they're focused on as well because everybody does. i find it incredible. whether it's birth, death, divorce, moving, there's always things that are going to take away your focus from jobs. and everybody handles them. to suggest that women want do it, they can't handle these things, it's very outdated and i feel like it kind of reflects some of that wall street ma machismo. it still has very much a boys' club feel to it. in talking about it, he obviously thought this was not something that would beco

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that's "new york times" columnist david brooks and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. mark shields is off today. and whether they're watching us on television or their laptop or their smart phone, we're glad you're here. >> or stone tablets. (laughter) >> warner:. >> woodruff: so the president's big speech on national security, he said we need to redefine as a country our approach to the war on terror. you said if we don't -- he said if we don't define it, it will define us. david? >> i think "redefine" is a little strong. i think we're fine. we had a period of intense expansion of the national security state in the early bush years. by the middle of the bush years we'd begun to try to normalize things and they tried to figure out how to scale things back and get out of guantanamo bay and things have been slowly returning to some sort of permanent normalcy since and i think with the speech the president gave this week was a very mature speech and serious speech and moved us another step in the direction. rhetorically it was big, substantively it was uncertain and small

quote, the ruth fountain is a beloved monument.nd will the hyatt have intended to find the best location so it can live on in the community. >> so they're going to have it in a secret place in the center of the apple store. >> they haven't said where they will put it. >> there's some people that are wondering what's the big attachment? it's only a fountain. >> what's life? what's history? what's not to love. it's been here for 40 years. it's part of san francisco. it's what san francisco's all about. >> reporter: if you look closely here you can see this fountain was custom made for the staircase. so that will be a consideration. also, a consideration, the mayor ed lee wholeheartedly endorsed the move by apple but now, today, he hold reporters, you know what he wants to come back down here and visit the fountain again. it's early on in the planning process. a lot of papers have to be stamped yet. >> well the detail in the fountain is spectacular. it's amazing. >>> there has been a big spike in cases of valley fever. the mysterious

people like cunningham was a friend of ruth and anyone who stopped by the house would be asked if theywant to make something for it. she had dough ready and make something small. >>reporter: tourist are often taken to see the fountain. while the family doesn't want to get involved in this controversy she says it really belong ins that plaza on the steps. >> it had all engineered. architect designed and the original pieces had to actually be put together in ruth back yard so to make sure they were going to fit in fact on the brick stairway so it's all custom fit and built so that it can't go to any other scary case than this one right now. >> family told me ruth herself development. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> if talk about the weather. about sandy is in for spencer. red flag warnings going up tomorrow. >> tomorrow morning. >> if when you get into the 90's and you have really dry conditions expected with the gusty winds anything could get setoff quickly.so we are going to be watching for the fire danger. heading into friday and saturday for the next two days. red flag warning for t

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along with ruth and frances. i had no idea.that out. >> we're about to learn the story of of their post-white house years. he was a new jersey native. after he ran for the white house for the second and final time, how did they decide where to live next? >> what is interesting is, she said that they could not go out and look for a house on their own. they had agents. finally, they both came down for breakfast and one said to the other one, i had an idea where we should live. the other one said, i did, too. they decided on princeton, new jersey. it was the best from the time that they got married. they were a family unit. they got involved in princeton university. she got involved in the growing number of women who graduated college. they adopted princeton students who did not have family close by or money. they provided a home and support for them. cleveland worked with the life insurance association. he wrote articles. >> they had more children. their first was richard. in 1903, she gave birth to their last child. >> how long

and the "washington post" ruth marcus., both. >> this was a fun sunday, if not a full ginsberg, going door to door. it was enough. >> hoping to put this story away, which it's pretty clear, it's not going away any time soon. >> it's only 10% of the white house's attention right now. >> sure, that sounds about right. >> the real question i think is how much more, how much leverage can republicans get on the day-to-day drip drip drip story but can they turn this into an election issue in 2014. the only way they can effectively use this is if they make it much more about the government incompetence, than they do about process. which a lot of the story is now about process, who knew what when. and to say -- if the government right now can't handle these little issues here, 60,000 applications, how are they going to handle obama care? i'm surprised we haven't heard it yet, people against immigration reform. conservative groups talk about this as well. how possibly can the government handle processing 11 million new people if th

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and recall what it's been into through the years and ruth took to another level. it's been a great asset strikts wide and we've all bend from her leadership and i know all members have benefited. thank you all of my board colleagues and as i see you advocates of the council and making sure the advocates get to the board of education. it's tough to hear you parents but i continue to go to the community and give the full story and bring that information to the board of education again directly to us at the highest level and i'm grateful. i'm grateful that i continue to exist in a powerful way. thank you for representing the pack so well. thank you >> so i want to add my voice to the congratulations for the 10 years and your leadership. especially as a new commissioner and the only non-partial parents on the board and we work clo together. i'm looking forward to work together to a meeting and congratulation on 10 years and thank you for your leadership. (clapping) >> thank you commissioner. >> i just wanted to also is a we celebrated earlier and thank you to commissi

consent calendar the last time to authorize the construction contract for the new running track at the ruth school of arts at the campus and that resolution was removed for further discussion because one or more commissioners had questions. so the recommendation which received a positive recommendation unanimously at the committee last time was that the board of education approve a contract between the unified school district and spig final documents on behalf of the district from the sports fund. and then it goes think to say we can't enter into a lottery bird and they award the contract as $844,000. there are no public speaker signed up are there any comments from the board. seeing none i believe we can call a role call ms. lee >> (calling roll). >> thank you. all right. item o vote on the content calendar that was put under section f. roll call please, ms. lee. >> (calling roll) and a yes vice president - collapsed p there are no discussion tonight and item r board members there are none tonight. item s board members report standing knee cap so commissioner can you give us a report from

shameless plugs. >> ruth marcus, happy birthday, but my colleague, dan balls, has a new book coming out election. >> excellent. >> i will plug the national law enforcement memorial today in the capitol is honoring thousands of offers that have been killed in the line of duty. everyone tune in to cspan. >> hopefully all of us will be showing a little bit. >> and i'm going to plug a day late angelina jolie for really adding to both awareness and willingness for women at risk to take the steps they need to take to preserve their health. >> let me add happy birthday. tomorrow on the show, a deep dive into the benefits of burdens of running for office when you have a famous last name. up next, chris jansing. ♪ [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. ♪ to more efficient pick-ups. ♪ wireless is limitless. then you'll love lactose-free lactaid® it's 100% real milk that's easy to digest so you can fully enjoy the dairy you love. lactaid®. for 25 years, easy to digest. easy to love. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 adv

it was created by ruth asawa. plans would replace that building with a square apple store but renderings do not show the steps between two buildings or the fountain. abc 7 news has contacted apple but we have not yet received a response. >> in san mateo planning commission will get a chance to review a proposal to revamp hills daels shopping center. sears and development company are talking but have not reached an agreement. a spokesperson says the company looks forward to continuing to serve it's customers. tonight's meeting taking place at city hall. >> another great honor for a bay area boy injured in boston marathon bombings. aaron hern will take the moubd mound and throw out the first pitch at the oakland coliseum. the 12-year-old injured watching his mom run the race. he was visitsed by josh redic and first base coach ty waller. first pitch tonight 7:05. >> how cool is that? >> spectacular. >> up next fresh pizza toppings some kids hit today. >>> coming up at 6:00 the improving bay area economy. tonight loca

which is awesome, by the way, babe ruth meets abe lincoln. it will be a party. tweet me at bshactman using the waytoobbq. right now, let's get to our top story here on this friday. lois lerner off the job at the irs this morning, two days after refusing to answer questions on capitol hill about the tax agencies targeting of conservative groups. lerner, who was placed onned a pen straf leave after reportedly refusing to resign is now the third irs official to be pushed out. it follows senators john mccain and carl levin who said she lost the trust of the public. they are particularly aware of when she became aware of the information and whether or not she kept it from congress. lerner was alerted to the targeted groups with the words tea party or patriots in their name back if june of 2011. at that time she did order the criteria to be revised t. "wall street journal" reports in april and may of 2012, letters from ms. lerner made no mention of the problems that had surfaced and just two weeks ago, lerner suggested she only found out about the issue in february an

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. >> elise, i want to ask you about the comments that ruth bader ginsberg made this weekend on roev.having a volatile and boisterous debate about women's basic reproductive rights from contraceptive choices. ruth bader ginsberg said the court should have held only that the texas law before it in roe which prohibited abortion. leaving for the future the question of what other restrictions on abortion might be constitutional. that would seem to be a considerable walk-back of the ultimate decision in roe v. wade and i wonder how your reaction to that. >> well, bader's, bader ginsberg's comments went much further than that. and actually she has pointed to the fact that roe has given her political opponents a target on which to focus. you know, speculation about what might have been if we had done it differently is the privilege of those who have 20/20 hindsight. think what's really important is that the courts decided the merit of the case. and that's what it's supposed to do. that the privacy of these decisions is constitutionally enshrined. the other thing bader ginsberg said which is

and her colleague ruth bader ginsburg was on "saturday night live." the host was playing a very eager contestant on a game show and all he had to do was name the justice. >> name this person. >> i don't know. some old pilgrim? >> that is so wrong. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> all right, well, southeast floods after days of heavy rainfall. this weekend four inches of rainfall fell on the already saturated grounds of chattanooga as creeks and streams filled their banks. bill, more heavy rain? central flooding. all of that can be coming their way? >> nothing will be causing too many problems. minor. minor issues. i say it will be a rather quiet weather week because may is typically anything but. right now we still have some rain left over from yesterday. that continues to plague us in tennessee. minor flash flooding especially if you get into some rain bands. it's raining in the northeast corner of alabama. a little further to the north the rain has moved into indianapolis. a little bit of a rainy ride. the rain bands will beg

. >> my name is ruth, assistance -- coordinator of the nursing program -- >> and i'm monday reynolds the studen heet producer of the story. >> i'm really excited you did this story because this is the new thing in higher education, being able to provide online education of education is something our society is demanding. 16million students are taking at least one class across the united states. that tells us it will grow. but you are the envy of the programs. >> these are working nurses who are mature in their careers and they are coming back to school to enhance their practice and to really have value added to their nursing practice. these are working individuals so online is the way to go for them. >> but a nursing program we know how valuable nurses are we are trying to wrap our brains around how do you teach it online. >> good question. in the program there's much more touching going on learning how to do the skills -- like the shots -- in the doctor program these students already have those skills. it is more a matter of adding to their practice. >> they have actually thought th

ruth wakefield, class of 1924. she ran out of chocolate one day and improvised with roque and pieces of a chocolate bar and invented the chocolate chip cookie. people like o'neill who after tornadoes in massachusetts in 2011 created recovers. board to help communities with disaster herecovers.org to help become -- communities with disaster recovery. and ended up a hero with a friendship forged in the heat of tragedy. throughout our history, we have seen people abandon their well when anted plans, opportunity opened up or a challenge to 10. -- hit them. this has been a driver of our success, the willingness to take risks, innovate, adapt when our plans do not work out as we expected. so to all of you that have always known exactly what you wanted to do when you grow up, go get them. good for you. thefor everyone else, people with plans, the people with no plans, keep space in your heart for the improbable. i promise you won't regret it. 2013.tulations, class of [applause] >> congressman bill flores gave the commence

he mentioned that he was married for 50 years to his wife, ruth, and he doesn't seem to have any contactg son, andrew. >> this is all about him. but what about all of the hrali that he really harmed? i talked to somebody that lost tons and tons and a victim that will be on next said he was decimated by it. >> he is believed to have stolen $17.5 billion, and he said it was more like $9 billion. he says that he feels bad about the fact that he victimized all of the people, and at the same time he says that he shifted the blame to three investors who he said should have helped him out more in 1987 when there was the stock market crash that he blames for being the impetus for the ponzi scheme. >> one of the very interesting things that only you got to hear is how does he sound? >> he sounded very calm and collected. he is quite obviously an intelligent man with a lot of knowledge in wall street, and he basically sounded very reassuring, and i could easily see how people would get taken in by him because he basically is very convincing, and he -- to tell you the truth, he comes across as kind