no less than the world champions deserve of the grant entrance at today's home opener for your san fransisco giants. >>> and out with the old to make way for the new. a hospital reduced to rubble and what is coming next. . >>> and good evening to you. it was a deal made just in the nick of time after months of finger pointing and trash talking congressional leaders got it done. they agreed on a deal to keep the federal government running and they did it with just about an hour to spare. cutting billions from the budget. we're going to go live with the latest on this deal breaker that happened hours ago in a last-minute crunch and as here's the president calling painful decision. >> reporter: the negotiations have been going on for weeks but lawmakers took them right down to the wire. congress and the white house have agreed on a spending plan to keep the government running. >> we've been able to come to an agreement that will in fact cut spending and keep our government open. >> we knt didn't do it at this late hour for drama, we did it because it's been hard. >> the bill is amend the as pas

i never lived in san fransisco, but i've visited here for extended period. i make it a point to come to city lights. it's neat to be here this this capacity. i appreciate it. originally my plan was to read the first four or five pages of the book and have a wide-ranging discussion. i decided not to do that. i did this event last week in atlanta, and in order to read the type, i have to hold the book this close to my face, and that's awkward. i don't know if my eyes are deuterating or masturbation. [laughter] what i'm going to do instead is just talk through the introduction very carefully, but i want to pass around underground newspapers. there's people here who know about the underground press, but maybes others are not as familiar. they are rare, but not that rare. you can buy these for $15-$20 any day of the week on e bay, and they are delicate, but not so much you can't handle them. this is the los angeles free press, considered to be the first underground newspaper in the 60s that started running in 1964, and that issue is from 1965. what's interesting

one can see why that was picked up and changed to san fransisco. you know, every year, cities like vancouver and seattle write me asking if he said it about their city. i'm tempted to represent it to them for $75 a day. [laughter] i can't proof the kneeing -- negative. we have never found any evidence that he said it. >> did mark twain ever live in san fransisco? >> oh, yeah. he had to live virginia city because of the dual. dualing was outlawed. he came to san fransisco and takes a job on the morning call as a local reporter. in is? may of 1864. he hates local reporting, so he resigns just about the same time george barns is going to fire him. he then stays in san fransisco really without serious employment. he writes things, but not much money. he's living off the income or value of stocks he managed to get a hold of. he runs out of the stocks, and he has to get a job, so he writes his old boss on the virginia territory enterprise saying let me write a daily letter from san fransisco to the enterprise, and joe says, sure, do it. he writes a 2,000

tonight looking good over the city of san fransisco. mostly clear skies.atchy fog on the coast hien. still, high pressure digging into the bay area. get a sense of the flow here. low brought the showers yesterday, a ridge building in time for the weekend. so not a heat wave for the weekend but so far it's been dry than will continue for tomorrow. should be mostly sunny. few degrees warmer as we head into the afternoon mid-60s. coast line, cool side, patchy fog and temperatures in the 50s and 60s. 47 in napa right now, 49 in vail and some of the winds condition to blow. around the state warmer weather in the interior valley, 67 in sacramento, you want to get up to do skiing in looking good up there. the road way the nice and clear. they have a ton of snow. i saw the squaw valley had 700 inches of snow for the season. that is an all-time record for them. something else up there. partly cloudy skies as we look toward money if you want to ski up there, slushy mix the following day as on monday we're expecting showers and mixture of snow. prepare for spring ski

he played for the new york giants who are now the san fransisco giants. he played for the canton bulldogs which is why the hall of fame is in ohio is because of jim. if you walk in the front door, the only statue you see is thorp. >> in his time, was he as well known as a michael vick or a brett favre is today? >> oh, many, much, much more. he was a multisport athlete, football, baseball, track and field, won medals in the 1912 olympics. he could do all of that which is why he still retains this status as the greatest multisport athlete because they don't allow athletes to play sports like that anymore. in his day and beyond, one the large reasons i wrote the book is he remained large and people revered him. >> what was the significance of his native american heritage? >> oh, huge. the playing of games as a young child, i go into that in the book, kind of a cross training almost. he sort of ran free and played free on the oklahoma plains, and he learned strengths, concentration, stamina, quickness, agility, and also this respect for physical effort to res

the san fransisco bay area, he was a self-proclaimed rocking the couch circuit. [laughter] he was an editor then with specific news service who happens not incidentally to be this year's winner of the george polk lifetime achievement award. he began freelancing and writing for the "san fransisco bay guardian" specializing in abuse in authority and corruption. he now works for propublic cay and port of a book called torture taxi and won a george polk for local reporting >> the front line documentary that won him this year exposes killings of civilians by police in the aftermath of cay tree that in new orleans. i think we have a snipit of the introduction that we can play now. ♪ ♪ >> tonight on "frontline" an exclusive investigation. in the chaotic days of hurricane cay tree that. >> people were shot and killed by the new orleans police officers. >> this will not be tolerated. >> as rumors circulated about a declaration of mar shall law -- >> i heard rumors it was in place, and then i heard rumors, that, no, there were not. >> i never declared the law. >> they beli

in the san fransisco bay area, he was a self-proclaimed rocking the couch circuit. [laughter] he was an editor then with specific news service who happens not incidentally to be this year's winner of the george polk lifetime achievement award. he began freelancing and writing for the "san fransisco bay guardian" specializing in abuse in authority and corruption. he now works for propublic cay and port of a book called torture taxi and won a george polk for local reporting in 2005. the front line documentary that won him this year's george polk award discloses killings of civilians by police in the aftermath of katrina in new orleans. i think we have a snipit from the introduction which we can play now. ♪ >> tonight on front line, an exclusive investigation in the chaotic days after hurricane katrina -- >> people were killed by the new orleans police department. >> 11 civilians shot by new orleans police officers. >> this will not be tolerated. >> as rumors circulated about marshal law. >> i heard rumors that was in place and there was rumors, no, it was not. >> i ne

in the san fransisco bay area, he was a self-proclaimed rocking the couch circuit. [laughter] he was an editor then with specific news service who happens not incidentally to be this year's winner of the george polk lifetime achievement award. he began freelancing and writing for the "san fransisco bay guardian" specializing in abuse in authority and corruption. he now works for propublic cay and port of a book called torture taxi and won a george polk for local reporting in 2005. the front line documentary that won him this year's george polk award discloses killings of civilians by police in the aftermath of katrina in new orleans. i think we have a snipit from the introduction which we can play now. ♪ >> tonight on front line, an exclusive investigation in the chaotic days after hurricane katrina -- >> people were killed by the new orleans police department. >> 11 civilians shot by new orleans police officers. >> this will not be tolerated. >> as rumors circulated about marshal law. >> i heard rumors that was in place and there was rumors, no, it was not. >> i ne

in the san fransisco bay area, he was a self-proclaimed rocking the couch circuit. [laughter] he was an editor then with specific news service who happens not incidentally to be this year's winner of the george polk lifetime achievement award. he began freelancing and writing for the "san fransisco bay guardian" specializing in abuse in authority and corruption. he now works for propublic cay and port of a book called torture taxi and won a george polk for local reporting in 2005. the front line documentary that won him this year's george polk award discloses killings of civilians by police in the aftermath of katrina in new orleans. i think we have a snipit from the introduction which we can play now. ♪ >> tonight on front line, an exclusive investigation in the chaotic days after hurricane katrina -- >> people were killed by the new orleans police department. >> 11 civilians shot by new orleans police officers. >> this will not be tolerated. >> as rumors circulated about marshal law. >> i heard rumors that was in place and there was rumors, no, it was not. >> i ne