i'm in san francisco, ahead of the hearst building, once the headquarters of william randolph hearst, newspapermen extraordinary. a monster to some, but a hero in journalism because he was so pioneering. he built a great change, and to me, san francisco is not just the city where cable cars climb to the stars. it is also, for me, the center of a kind of energetic journalism pioneers in this building behind me. and in this tradition, we have the honor of talking to phil bronstein, who is an editor at large and a great crusading journalist with a reputation up and down the country for his unique jugglers. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with

i sat down -- i put together a roundtable of san francisco conservatives and was actually hosted by a lovely day couple who were talking about very amusingly, charter is to be conservative and a place like san francisco and to be gay. >> host: there is a beautiful story in the book about a guy who wears a t-shirt and a t-shirt, this is san francisco, says "war has never solved anything except fascism, communism, slavery." and people see the t-shirt and say right on. because they don't read it. and he said they can't process it and that i think is an interesting mind set. it's like a foreign language. if you say to them on and conservative they don't know, it is as if he were from another country. >> he was absolutely right. they can't process it, but it's also a matter i think of ignorance. they don't know who we are. they really don't. they believe their own character. they believe we are racist, sexist, homophobic, all those things they tell one another. somebody said to me very recently talking about affirmative action. it's upsetting i will look it up to get it right i quoted a de

in the san francisco area. witnesses said those who were injured were sitting on benches along the boarding platform after the crash, some of them bleeding from their heads, all very scary stuff. transportation officials are investigating mechanical left-hand human error as the cause of the crash. it is at least the third major transit accident in the country in the last few months. nine people killed and more than 70 injured june 22nd in washington, d.c. when a metro train slammed into another train stopped on the tracks. the cause has not been determined there. and then on may 8th more than 50 people injured when a boston subway trolley plowed into another plane. investigators say the 24-year-old operator blew through a red signal while texting his girlfriend on his cell phone. can he could get three years in prison if convicted on that, by the way. >>> committee members are trying to figure out how to stop these types of crashes. they have to look at all of them to improve public safety. some commuters conce

lee was appointed post master of san francisco. at the time it was the highest federal appointed post ever held by a chinese american. though mr. lee once said his only experience with the u.s. postle system was, quote, walking up to the window and putting down a nickel for a four-cent stamp, end quote, mr. lee mastered the nuances of his new position. during his 14-year tenure, mr. lee greatly increased the hiring of minority and disabled persons and even started an alcoholic recovery program. best said by retired california state senator burton, quote, by the time lim finished with it, it looked like the face of san francisco, with asian, african-american, latino and female workers. perhaps most notable was his establishment of the post office in the heart of chinatown in 1977. recently this post office celebrated its 30th anniversary and fittingly, recognized mr. lee for his significant contributions. . he passed away on june 7, 2002. his legacy remains beyond the post office. the executive director of the voter education commit

laura marquez is in san francisco. >> reporter: it was chaos near the boarding platform after two light rail trains collided. one crashing into the back of the other. >> i was standing on the edge of the platform, waiting for the l-train to pull up. i saw a driver's head down. he looked like he was asleep or passed out. he was not looking up. he was not slowing down or braking or, no signals, nothing. >> reporter: the accident happened saturday afternoon, sending 48 people to the hospital. four of them severely injured. federal investigators have launched their own inquiry. the sligs here in san francisco is just the latest in a series of terrible train wrecks, raising questions about the safety of the nation's aging and often cashtrapped rail syst systems. >> whether it's not as much training as necessary, maybe deferred maintenance. we're talking about systems that are getting pretty ante-kuwaited. >> reporter: last month in washington, d.c., nine people were killed an 80 people injured when one subway train rear ended another. and 25 people were killed in a communi commuter train col

in fact san francisco police department has said that there are injuries mostly minor injuries. no fatalities reported her too that is the good news. but this happened at the west portal station in the city. it is now closed and dozens of passengers are being treated at the hospital. so they being treated there with braces on the scene and transported to the hospital. this crash reportedly happening on one train per and another as they both apparently were leaving the station. i say we can, beautiful day in san francisco, there were children, men and women and young and with onboard so certainly good news to know there were no such alleys. mostly minor injuries reported in separate cisco. sue on hot weather, transgression claims not a good mix for fire fighters. it's our first step as we go across america. and suing california: it's appointed 200 fire fighters to get the upper hand on his brushfire friday afternoon but had some strong aerial support. in the end, only 50 acres were scorched. no homes were lost. >> wisconsin: is this what they mean by the dog days of summer? the f

. >>> several dozen people were injured in this train crash in san francisco. authorities are trying to get to the bottom of what caused the accident. >>> and who says pro sports are for young men? 59-year-old tom watson is one round away from winning the british open? can he pull off a win for the ages? this is hln for sunday, july 19th. thanks for spending part of your weekend with us. i'm susan hendricks. >>> new video of an american soldier who has been missing for nearly a month. the taliban just posted a video of the soldier online. the defense department hasn't released his name yet. the u.s. military believes he was taken prisoner when he walked off his base in eastern afghanistan. >> i have my girlfriend, who i was hoping to marry. i have my grandma and grandpa. i have a very, very good family that i love back home in america, and i miss them every day, when i'm gone, i miss them, and i'm afraid that i might never see them again, and that i'll never be able to tell them that i love them again, i'll never be able to hug them. >> so devastating to listen

he has been a journalist in the bay area, san francisco, and an editor for many years. would you like to run over what you do these days? >> i think running over is a great phrase for my career. i started out at kqed here in the 70's, and they had an interesting nightly news show, a semiprofessional operation made up of old newspaper reporters, and i went to the examiner in 1980, became an investigative reporter, and really the first full-time foreign correspondent maybe ever when i was in the philippines, and then i went to el salvador, central america, peru and the middle east. in 1981 i became the editor of the "examiner," and in the merger in 2000, i became editor of the "chronicle." i am now editor at large, encompassing many things, including figuring out this internet phenomenon. >> one thing you are doing is to try to bring the disciplines of journalism together, through the tendency of the emphasis to hold up paper and say, who wrote this? we have all experienced that. i did. how are you making out? the newspaper people, myself being one of them -- how on disci

new details coming in on a train crash in san francisco. the two trains collided late yesterday and injured more than 40 people. investigators wrapping up an interview with the operator of one of the two trains involved in that crash on san francisco streets that left dozens of passengers hurt. welcome to a brand new hour of america's news headquarters. i'm jamie colby. >> eric: i'm eric shawn. 48 people were injured in that crash. they were taken to the hospital after the collision. witnesses say one of the trains just plowed right into the other one that was parked, sending passengers flying right out of their seats. nearby business said the impact shook their building. this is just the latest in a series of crashes involving public transit. laura ingle joins us now live in new york with more on the troubling string. what is going on? they've been in los angeles, boston, washington, and even long island an engineer was accused of letting a passenger drive a train. >> this has left a lot of commuters on edge. definitely, lawmakers are conc

. >> authorities in san francisco are investigating the country's latest mass transit accident. a collision between two light rail trains in the city's westport tall district. ben tracy tells us what happened. >> reporter: some witnesses say it sounded like a bomb went off, two san francisco light rail trains collided saturday afternoon sending 48 people to the hospital, at least four with severe injuries, including the operator of one of the trains. >> they need to have this area cleared so paramedics and the injured can get through. >> reporter: the san francisco municipal train rea rear ended e train at 2:00 in the afternoon both packed with saturday shoppers. >> i had to spend hours away, inside, it was frightening. >> rescue workers treated some of the wounded on the scene, but there were so many they brought in a public bus to transport the rest to the hospital. >> most of the people on board this bus was the one that was able to walk right now. >> reporter: the ntsb is investigating the cause of the crash and will consider both mechanical and human causes. >> the driver's

. >>> more than 45 people were injured in san francisco when two light rail trains collided. the circumstances look a lot like the recent metro crash that crippled washington, d.c. drew levinson has the story for wjz. >> reporter: paramedics created a triage center in the streets of san francisco saturday, after two light rail trains collided. >> very little rattled. i had to spin out of the way. >> reporter: some of the injured rested on stretchers, covered boy blankets. others -- by blankets. others were wheeled away, wearing neck braces and head supports. >> they need to have this area cleared so the paramedics can get through. >> reporter: the san francisco fire department says it hasn't had this many casualties in one accident in so many years. there were so many injured, police brought in stacks of stretchers and a bus to take people to the hospital. >> the people on board this bus was the one that could be able to walk right now. >> reporter: it happened when a train ran up on a second train stopped outside of a tunnel. >> barreling in. slowing down. the driver's head

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two san francisco light rail trains collided saturday afternoon, sending 48 people to the hospital, at least four with severe injury, including the operator of one of the trains. >> they need to have this area cleared so paramedics can get through. >> reporter: the san francisco l train rear-ended the k train at a boarding platform. it was 2:30 in the afternoon, both trains packed with saturday shoppers. >> i had to spin out of the way. i saw it coming. it was frightening. >> reporter: rescue workers treated some on scene but there were so many they brought in a public bus to transport the rest to the hospital. the ntsb is investigating the cause of the crash and will consider human causes. >> the driver's head was down. he looked like he was asleep or passed out or -- couldn't tell, but he was not looking up. he was not slowing down or braking, no signals, nothing, and you could tell he was not going to stop. >> reporter: this is the fourth major transit crash in the last year. in washington, d.c. last month nine people were killed when a metro rail train collided with a stationary on

. >>> investigators are trying to figure out what caused a train crash in san francisco. dozens of people were injured when one city train slammed right into another at a boarding platform here. three people are now hospitalized in serious condition. a transit system spokesman says investigators are looking into possible mechanical and human errors. one witness says a train operator wasn't even looking where he was going. >> we came barreling in, not slowing down, the driver's head was down and it looked like he was asleep or passed out or -- i couldn't tell, but he was not looking up. he was not slowing down or braking, no signals, nothing. you could tell he was not going to stop. we just crashed right into the rear of the train. >> this is the third serious crash on u.s. transit systems since may. the other two were in boston and washington, d.c. >>> a veteran journalist walter cronkite will be laid to rest next to his wife of nearly 65 years. tributes are pouring in from across the nation and astronauts in space. remembering one of the most influential men of the 20th

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if you make your way up to the san francisco bay area, you should really check it out. it is incredible. also adds i mentioned, we just interviewed buzz aldrin and we'll hear from him coming up on the fox report. gregg and julie, back to you. >> that's big. wow. huge. casey. >> when you toss back to gregg -- >> say granddad? >> i'll file that away. i wasn't going to go there. >> his mother is here in the studio, i'm going to ask her what year you were born. closely guarded secret. >> all right. from the space celebration on earth to outer space, the hubbell space telescope capturing dramatic picture of a new star on jupiter. it's believed a comet or asteroid collided on july 19. this is the first observation following its repair and upgrade in may. nasa decided to pull it out of test to go tate image, believing the magnitude of this is very rare. >> a bunch of astronomers astroe saying jupiter saved us many, many times. >>> all right. travel in leisure magazine out with their list of airports most likely to leave you grounded. don't say we didn't tell you. topping the l

jonathan sanchez of the san francisco giants, shut out san diego, 8-0.erfect game, except for a fielding error that allowed one runner on base. sanchez has a good luck charm. his father was watching, in the stands. he was visiting from puerto rico. one proud father, indeed. >>> that's a quick look at the headlines. now, over to san francisco's sandhya patel, from our station there. she's filling in for marysol. sandhya? >> good morning. good morning to you all. it's been nice in the northeast. but cooler-than-normal again today. a cool front starts to approach. and the showers will begin to develop, across beautiful low, pittsburgh. by nighttime, it will start to move into the northeast. severe storms, definitely a possibility. out west, much nicer. above-normal for this time of year. 112 in phoenix. 96 in seattle. san francisco, you'll be jus this weather report has been brought to you by aveeno. bill? >> okay, thanks. >>> we turn to ghana once again, where president obama is making his first trip to sub-saharan africa since taking office. the president

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now, over to sandhya patel our san francisco affiliate, kgo.s filling in for marysol. >> good morning, david. good morning to you all. let's look at severe weather that's going to start to move in across the eastern great lakes and the ohio valley. also, the northeast has been nice. but not for long. tonight you'll need those umbrellas. let's look at what's happening out west. very warm. getting up to 86 degrees in seattle. well above normal. 69 in san francisco. and hot in the deserts. 112 degrees in phoenix. as far as your >> it's a pleasant start to our weekend. temperatures right now in the 60's. we're at 68, reagan national. 67 at dulles airport. mid 80's today, partial sunshine. thunderstorms later this evening and into the early nighttime hours. partly cloudy tomorrow, upper 80's. this weather report has been brought to you by avino. bill? >> okay, thanks. >>> we turn to ghana once again, where president obama is making his first trip to sub-saharan africa since taking office. the president says he feels a personal connection to the cont

. >>> investigators are trying to figure out what caused a train trash in san francisco. dozens of people were injured when a train slammed into another at a boarding plat tomorrow here. three people are hospitalized in serious condition. a transit system spokesman says investigators are looking into mechanical and human errors. one witness says the train operator was not looking where he was going. >> he came barreling in, not slowing down, the driver's head was down, he looked like he was asleep or passed out or -- i couldn't tell, but he was not looking up or slowing down or braking. no signals, nothing. i could tell we were not going to stop and we crashed into the rear of the train. >> this is the third serious crash on u.s. transit systems since may. the other two were in boston and washington, d.c. >>> a 30-year-old man is in custody in connection with the killings of six people in two states. jacob shafer was iowa state arrested yesterday. five people were found at two homes in fayettesville, tennessee. another body was found in huntsville, alabama. one of the vic

collision between two light rail security cameras capture a collision between two light rail cars in san francisco. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm christina brown. today we begin with the president's prescription. last night president obama took to the white house podium to deliver his diagnosis of the nation's health care system, a system he sees on life support. nbc's steve handelsman reports. >> i'm trying to make sure everybody has good health care and they don't right now. >> reporter: president obama stuck to his guns in a news conference dominated by the fight over health care. >> if you don't set deadlines in this town, things don't happen. >> reporter: this year, he said, he'll get a reform bill with universal coverage. >> we've got doctors, nurses, hospitals, even pharmaceutical industry. it means the stars are aligned and we need to take advantage of that. >> reporter: he did back attacks like on the rich to insure the uninsured and he reached out to republicans. >> the politics may dictate what they don't vote for health care reform becaus

nobody at the table has health insurance. >> i have healthy san francisco, i never used it. which is a government-run health program. >> i have it right now because i'm on disability. >> on disability again. >> it's minimum, but if i need something, i could probably get it. >> can't afford it being unemployed and, you know, especially with health care costs these days. i think it would be like $300 or $400 a month. >> so, again t comes back to an issue of trust when congress, speaker pelosi from this area say we're going to pass major health care reform and we're going to get universal or near universal coverage. >> then do it. stop talking about it and just do it. you can do it. every other country in the western world does it. we're the wealthiest nation yet millions of people who don't have insurance and it's so sad. >> how do we pay for that? >> with all the influences, political influences in the world now, it's nearly impossible to even come out with something even partly workable. there are just too many political interests. >> i feel like at the bottom they're trying

and san francisco, down 20%. no matter where you're going, you can rest assured you'll be paying a lot less this year than you did last, except for rental cars. a airfares and hotels, all down a lot cheaper this year. >> if you come to a place like new york or other places you can walk, you don't necessarily need a car. >> that's true. that's one thing you want to be aware of. traveling on sundays, that's a great way to save money, too, especially when you're viting a big city like l.a., new york, san francisco, the business travelers aren't there yet. the leisure travelers have left. sundays are generally the cheapest night of the week. >> last week southwest had $30 airfares. when have we had 30 airfares? >> almost a decade since we've seen prices that low. southwest kicked off this huge sale last week. only a two-day sale, so you had to act quick. it speaks to where the airlines are and where their lowest factors are for this fall. right now southwest has a fare sail going on, $49 for one-way ticket. air tran

fran uses a -- san francisco uses a system similar to metro. can their safety system help d.c. the answers are technical and frustratingly vague for board members. >> reporter: washington's metro and san francisco's bart are heavy rail systems opened in the 70s. both were designed with automatic train control as the norm. a recent "washington post" article suggested that bart managers concluded early on that atc was insufficiently relile so they designed and installed a backup train separation system. board members who oversee metro are intensely interested in this extra level of safety since the automatic train control system apparently failed to keep apart two trains june 22nd resulting in a crash that killed nine people. bart's own web site refers to this secondary system as a backup train protection system. but metro managers told the local board what bart has is more of a diagnostic system rather than a secondary safety system. more than one board member expressed confusion. >> the barred system, whatever the bart, if it had been in place at the time of this collision, wou

laura marquez, abc news, san francisco. >> thus far in the investigation they have not yet been ableinterview the operator who switched from automatic to manual. he was one of the four seriously injured. it is a sad story on the heel of what seems to be a lot of these stories. >> the expert talked about these systems being antiquated. if these previous cases, that hasn't really mattered, it's been operator error. we'll see what happens with this one, what the actual cause was. >> it should be interesting to see what it is. >> the former new york city english teacher who became a best selling author has died. >> frank mccourt, beth known for "angela's ashes," his story was so compelling it won him a 1997 pulitzer prize. >> he had been battling maneloma and men jeremiah wright when is he died in new york yesterday. he was 78 years old. >> three, two, one, liftoff. we have a liftoff on apollo 11. >> tranquility base, the eagle has landed. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> the thing i remember most is the view of planet earth from a great distance. tiny, ve

. >>> and coming up this morning, a new look at last week's light rail crash in san francisco. human error is now the focus. >>> and trials for a swine flu vaccine are about to get underway. the fall flu season is only getting closer. re;Ñ >>> welcome back. these are the latest headlines from abc news. president obama takes his campaign for health care reform to ohio today. he'll visit the cleveland clinic and hold a town hall meeting. >>> at his news conference last night, the president said that the arrest of a harvard black studies professor proves the need for better policing techniques to eliminate potential bias. >>> and at least six people were hurt in a gang related shooting on or near the campus of texas southern university in houston. >>> the call is going out for thousands of volunteers to roll up their sleeves to test the first h1n1 swine flu vaccine. there is growing concern about what's going to happen when flu season starts this fall. >> reporter: in the battle against h1n1 swine flu, the race is on. with the fall flu season closing in, clinical trials on a swine

newsng "earlyor a look at somei today" in america. >>> the san francisco transit agency has released video from the light rail crash this weekend which injured 48 people. security cameras on the platform show one train barrel into a second train which is parked in the station. two pple are still in the hospital from that crash, including the driver of the oncoming train. >>> a fire truck in detroit last control while turning and smashed into two cars. surveillance footage here from a nearby business caught the truck plow through a car at a red light and slam into another vehicle. that second car was tossed nearly 50 feet. fortunately this accident only caused minor injuries. >>> elsewhere, in california, it was a strange sight on the streets of long beach. a 50-ton fuselage from the military cargo plane was trucked through the city. the 170-foot hull was en route to a naval dock where a ship will transport it to virginia for soldiers to use for training. at 22 feet wide it certainly did rule the road. >>> a massive wayward tortoise is safely back at home. a 100-pound giant tortoise.

up to san francisco. >> can we talk about wine regions for a second. if you're from california you know napa and you know the prices and it is very expensive. you have a great idea that won't break your budget. >> michigan. >> michigan. >> the leelanau peninsula. there are dozens of wineries that growing hundreds of acres of grapes up there, specifically pino blanc grapes and 35-foot high sand dunes and it is an all around destination. >> all right, so, you have some suggestions on the website, we should mention your website. is. >> travelandleisure.com. >> you just click through, it's absolutely gorgeous. one other idea here, though, that's the neighborhood. you're talking about boston here and i spent some time in boston, interesting change there that made one neighborhood very accessible. >> you better believe it, gerri. the north end. very italian american and great restaurants and used to be separated by the rest of boston by a big elevated highway and made an underground highway and now the north end is part of boston again. they're having two re

. >>> and in san francisco pablo sandoval had four rbis, including a homer that sailed clear out of the park to splash down in mccovey cove. the giants beat the phillies 7-2. what a catch. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. >>> and -- >> i heard that on the way here they were suspending the program at midnight. so i barely made it. >> drivers swooping in for deals before the cash for clunkers program runs out of gas. or 100 pringles. both cost the same, but only the new pringles super stack can makes everything pop. the choice is yours. 100 of these... or 100 pringles. same cost, but a lot more fun. everything pops with the new pringles super stack can. how many washes did it take cheer brightclean to get this from dingy to bright? ten. seven. it's six. why? why is... one... yeah! hundred. no. cheer brightclean. surprisingly bright in just one wash. cheer brightclean. discover a smoothie like no other! new activia smoothies. creamy, delicious, and above all, it contains bifidus regularis and is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system. new ac

metro's sister system in san francisco says it experienced similar problems with a track circuit but took safety measures to correct it. nine people were killed when two trains collided on the red line last month. the problem was traced to a faulty circuit. according to "the washington post," workers at san francisco's system flagged the same sort of issue. they installed a backup system to prevent any problems but metro never followed suit. metro says every system is unique and it's difficult to know how these systems compare with each other. >>> marion barry's lawyer says he thinks stalking charges against the council member wl be dropped. it's a story you saw first on 4. u.s. park police say a woman named donna watts-brighthaupt flagged down an officer on saturday in anacostia park and accused barry of stalking her. barry says he has been dating watts-brighthaupt for more than a year now. he says they were on their way to rehoboth when she decided she wanted to go back to washington. >> he denies stalking anyone in the district of columbia or at any other time. we believe the char

." >> two light-rail trains collided last night in san francisco. and 48 people were taken to hospitals, and three with severe injuries. thorities say one train barreled into a stopped train. and it happened on the muni transit line. and the operator of the striking train appeared to be asleep or passed out. earlier this month a worker told a reporter that failures have been affecting the muni system. >>> funeral arrangements have been made for tv news legend walter cronkite. and cronkite died friday night in his manhattan home with his family by his side. he was 92. for nearly two decades cronkite covered the most important stories of the century. dan rather said cronkite never lost the drive he had. >> he never ceased being a reporter. i touched on this before. i think the public recognized this. walter loved the news and was passion for it. >> he will be buried next to his late wife, betsy. in lieu of flowers, they are requesting donations. >> i saw him the most, really, at the space shots, because that was one of his first loves, because he was

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hundreds of rallies across the country in cities like berlin, amsterdam, san francisco, los angeles, all these people condemning what they call gross human rights violations in iran. they're also calling for detainees. hundreds of people arrested after the disputed election on june 12 to be released by iranian leadership. joining us now, dr. kazman a la dori, an expert. why should americans care about what is happening in iran? >> there are two impacts. one internally, externally or globally. inside iran, the impact is to boost the morale of iranian people. people who participate in demonstration. globally it educates people that iran is ready for democracy and change. >> why does iran matter though? why should people care about what is happening in iran? how important is it to foreign policy in the united states? >> well. [ inaudible ] and also the western societies are concerned about the nuclear bomb that iranian government is moving towards that, that stake. if there is an elected government and it a democratic society they will not produce a nuclear bomb. >> quickly yesterday, t

thunderstorms cool them rapidly for you. 96 in houston. 98 in las vegas answers 63 in san francisco, seattle checking in with 86 and the emerald city. a look at your forecast. things look good for most of the country. watch out for storms in the ohio valley and parts of big sky country in the northern rockies. up to speed, guys. >> and san francisco, i like that. >> beautiful there. >> reynolds, thanks. >> thanks. >>> you know, it takes a lot of grit to make a small business thrive. especially when the economy isn't so great. >> for some people they say you can't stop at that. a racial minority, too many barriers there. the president says this in her naacp speech. succeeding despite the odds in our "black in america 2." >> reporter: this is mister. a membership based barber shop where a plan can get high-line cuff links and a glass of wine while having a massage. >> linked in. >> cooly walker and sean haywood created this. >> always represent a refuge from the outside world and a place where you can kind of be yourself. >> reporter: owning a business in the heart of san francisco has

a giant surprise in san francisco. hakeem has details next. w >>> in baseball.closeness doesn't count. >> you need a higher score than the other team to win. >> lincoln once said, a man is as happy as he makes up his life to be. that statement hits home for the nationals manager. when his team costs errors, you will never hear manny say it was frustrating. he always sees the positive. the approach you have to have. managing the worst team in the big leagues. and giving the astros all they could handle. top four. adam dunn at the plate. and singles up the middle. and nick johnson. and isn't very fast. sent home. bad decision. michael borne had a great arm. perfect throw. and johnson is so out at the plate. bottom of the eighth. nats, a-4. and lifts one into foul territory. up the right field line. nick johnson is tracking it. anderson hernandez following. no one has got it. ouch. keeps the inning alive. astros would tie the game. top nine. game tied at 5. niger morgan. and going to test his arm. puj rodriguez. great scoop, tag. harris out at the plate. bottom nin

hornet docked here in the san francisco bay, it is a 19-story floating aircraft carrier.ox news got inside for a sneak peek. the history incredible as you walk the halls. the ship fought in nine major battles in world war ii, the ld war and then vietnam. but she is perhaps most famous for her mission in july of 1969. the splashdown as it's called 40 years ago. that is when the u.s.s. hornet plucked the astronauts and the space capsule from the apollo 11 mission from the waters of the pacific ocean. the world watched as the helicopter brought neil armstrong and the rest of crew crew on board. now some 40 years later folks can tour the monstrous ship and see replicas of the space capsule, the helicopter and the quarantine unit where armstrong and the other astronauts had to stay for 21 days so make sure they didn't bring back any new germs to eah. >> i can stand exactly where neil armstrong put his feet firsafter having walked on the moon. it's an amazing piece of history for us to preserve. >> reporter: there's a lot of activity planned this weekend to commemorate the 40th

. >>> and looking at a light rail fender bender in san francisco. witnesses say one train hit another one stopped on the track near a boarding platform yesterday. now both trains were full of riders, and four people were hurt seriously. investigators say that the operators could be to blame. >>> and hundreds of passengers hurt, some killed riding public transportation recently. now commuters question why the crashes happened at all, forcing officials to investigation. more on the transportation troubles. >> reporter: 47 people injured in san francisco when two light rail trains collide. some witnesses say the driver was hanging over before the crash. >> wow. >> reporter: and in washington, d.c., nine dead and 70 passengers injured in a metro accident in june. the cause is still unknown. >> at first we thought a bomb went off. >> reporter: and more than 50 people injured in may, when a boston trolley plowed into another train. investigators say the 24-year- old operator was text messaging on his phone while driving. in the wake of all three crashes,

the first restaurant for maryland hotels started out in san francisco in 1981.s great places all over the country. >> in baltimore, maryland. >> reporter: the chef has pulled over to baltimore. >> if you have an idea of where we can dine on a dime next, let us know about it. head to abc2news.com and send mean a message. that's going to be a big hit. >>> yesterday's high made it to 84. we had hefty storms roll through the area. so far knocking at 66 this morning. the almanac on the 24th of july -- my mother's birthday, by the way. 66 degrees. 88 in the afternoon. records range from 55 in 1985. two years later setting the high mark of 97 in 1987. all right. look at this thing. i mean, we had our flare up of storms roll through right there just around midnight. then we had this thing that looked tropical. i have to shift our focus back up to the north with this thing passing its way on into new england. it was starting to look like a tropical storm just right out of warm water and rolled right on through eastern new england. we had rain. they are getting 2 to 5 inc

i was born in san francisco, and i grew up there. in the book -- and i want to, i hope we can develop this theme later. but you asked me where i grew up. i grew up in san francisco. my earliest memory is of a city exploding with joy. the date was november 11, 1918, armistice day. i was 2 years old. the city was san francisco. it was celebrating, obviously, the end of world war i, which we'd won. but more fundamentally, it was celebrating the belief that that was a war to end all wars. that was president woodrow wilson's view. that was the view of many, many americans. we were totally wrong! this is the bloodiest century in history. we, the human race, will have killed a 160 million other human beings. in any event, i grew up in san francisco and, you know, in a wonderful environment. i went to first grade there in a school that i could walk to. there'd been a slight baby boom in world war i, and by the time i got into the first grade in about 1922, there weren't any classrooms in the normal school buildings; they were full. so i lite

. >> jamie: also covering a developing story in san francisco, this morning, and investigators there are now looking into what could have caused a commuter rail crash late yesterday. and the reason it is important to follow the story, is the third major train accident in the u.s. in just the last two months. this crash injured 48 people and four of them seriously and thank fully june of the injuries are considered to be life-threatening, and the incident happening late day afternoon, when one train barrelled into the back of another train, near a platform. and looking at some of the video of some of the injuries. and there are eye witnesses that say the operator of the moving train appeared to be, quote, slumped over, transit officials are not ruling out either mechanical or human error, as possible causes. >> eric: in tennessee police have a suspect under arrest. not telling us much about the killing spree yesterday. that left six people dead, in tennessee and in alabama. this is the suspect, 30-year-old jacob schaeffer, from fayetteville, tennessee and is charged with six counts of

>> randall pinkston, cbs news, san francisco. >> mitchell: and that's the "cbs evening news."tie's here tomorrow. i'll see you on "the early show" good night. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> coming up next on wjz eyewitness news. a conclusion, a search comes to an end and tonight, what the rescue crews are saying. >>> i'm jessica kartalija, after a series of crimes on the b anda trail, people are on the lookout. >>> we're tracking storms in parts of the region and

. >> decenas de personas resultaron heridas al chocar dos trenes ligeros en san francisco, californiaas autoridades dijeron que unas 44 personas fueron hospitalizadas. tres de ellos con heridas graves. >> acuerdo para eliminar un dÉficit de 26300 millones de dÓlares. dicen que hubo un progreso en las conversaciones en las oficinas del gobernador arnold schwarzenegger. >> propuesta para poner fin a los beneficios que ese estado le brinda a los inmigrantes. desde los angeles, jaime garcÍa, nos informa.h@h@tre[[og propuesta, dice que se gastan miles de millones de dÓlares. >> cualquier persona que nazca en los estados unidos, sin importar su origen, el status migratorio es ciudadano. >> tienen que reunir 488,000 firmas para poder estar en la boleta electoral de 2010. >> el gobierno de barack obama, estÁ considerando la posibilidad de crear una unidad especial de cuestionadores profesionales para casos de terrorismos. serÁ entregado a un grupo del gobierno dedicado a mejorar los interrogatorios. >> astronautas que realizaron la primera caminata del >> astronautas que realizaron la primera

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