i'm priya sanger. i'm president of the bar association of san francisco. basf, as we note the bar association to be called, has had a long relationship with the public defenders office. it is crucially important for administration of justice. and so is san francisco conflicts panels where administration, which the bar association has provided in partnership with public defenders. so in san francisco when a public defender has a conflict of interest, criminal defendants and minors are represented by private attorneys from a panel administered by the bar association of san francisco. maintaining this independent body of attorneys is critically important as a well-run public defenders office. we are each other's complement. we are the sum of the parts that makes whole the criminal departments working so well in san francisco. in 2003 the superior court contracted with the bar association of san francisco indigent to have cost-saving oversight to the administration and billing associated with conflicts. so tron is the director of the courts administration and

joining me is david sanger from the "new york times." i'm pleased to have him back with us here on this program because he wrote a fascinating piece on the "new york times." and i want to quote with it. he basically says with the deal reached sunday night, the united states has a good chance of escaping the debt limit with his creditrating in tact. the united states government may not be so lucky with its reputation. so what's the threat to our reputation? >> well i think charlie tha the major threat is that for the first time, you have seen major players in both parties but primarily in the republican party. hilling to use the reputation and the credit rating of the united states as a political tool to win their way. while we've seen previous sites on the debt limit notely 1995, 1996, shortly after i moved back to washington and i covered those, they never reached this level where people around the world thought it was a serious possibility. that the united states political system may convuls as much in japanese or greek like state less

. >> birth control has been controversial in the united states from the moment margaret sanger openede country's first family planning clinic in 1916. and was promptly sent to prison for it. while many have hailed contraception as the best way to prevent unwanted pregnancies others argue that abstinence education is the way to go. in a statement, the united states conference of catholic bishops opposed the new guidelines saying pregnancy is not a disease, and fertility is not a pathological condition to be suppressed by any means technically possible. but women's rights advocates say free access to birth control can significantly reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies. >> the number of children we have determines how many we need to educate, how many we can employ, the social and economic outcomes of contraception are critical. >> the new rules would affect insurance plans beginning august 2012. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >>> before you hit the grocery store, the fresh grocer, we've got some suggestions for your list. >> he is next. >>> and getting hitched, to be a compu

. >> the trail traces the outskirts of suctiny central valley towns as reedley, selma, and sanger. and as the landscape wakes up around the area, so does business. take simonian farms, for example. just outside thfrno city limits is where you'll find this 20-acre family owned operation that has grown 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables for more than00 years, and doesn't looc to close shop atime soon. especially if the lion of fans the place has earned over the years has anything to say about it. >> oh, my god. just for people to see it. i don't think they've ever seen anything likthis. toee the beautiful blossoms, and the colors, and thcountryside, and what--what it really takes to doing farming. i mean, i think--god, i just-- i just think they get a lot out ofhis. >> blossoms are one of the most visible signs a new crop is on the way. and for about 6 weeks out of the year, you can see this spectacular sight, trees flushed full of blossoms. some have as many as 20,000 per tree. but the one thing yo discover quite quickly about the blossom trail is, besides highlighting the beaut

a panasonic down over two percent and banks are among the worst performers on the chinese honey sanger's wall with h.s.b.c. down three and a half percent let's take a look at some commodities now precious metals are in the red gold broken all time record on wednesday eight hundred dollars per ounce but it's now losing over a half a percent now silver is also there on its trade in just a notch below thirty nine dollars per ounce. and oil prices are up this hour after seeing an overnight rally in the last light sweetest currently trading at eighty three dollars per barrel of all brands it is adding forty five cents this hour. the rally in crude prices follows a surprise fall in u.s. inventories however alexander from gas from bank says the market is increasingly being driven by sense of by fundamentals. price currently doesn't have much in common with oil supply and demand but one is that oil crude oil is no want a commodity anymore is not a real material it is a financial asset i would say for sure the best case scenario is the stable oil price we should translates for example in one hund

it happened on the now infamous dan sanger bridge.any reportedly handicapped they did not do so willfully, in other words with evil motive. for context here, they were responding to an officer down distress call on the bridge. witnesses say instead of fully assessing the situation as they were trained to do, they just shot at innocent people. listen here. >> the vast majority of those men and women in blue out there who sacrifice every day do precisely that they put the safety of the citizens ahead of everybody else. these men did not. >> sentencing in this case, harris, is scheduled for some time in december. >> harris: you know, i had just said moments ago that one of the victims was shot in the back. what about the other victim. >> that victim you are mentioning is a 40-year-old man. the other was just a 17-year-old young man. he was actually shot twice with a shotgun, twice with an ak 47. and at least two other times with a handgun. that young man's mother reacted to the verdict and said this. listen here. >> it took the twinkle o

brake lights towards sanger road. bay bridge not too bad.efore 6:30 but not backed up to the end of the parking lot so good commute heading into san francisco. san mateo bridge fine, 14 minutes is your drive time out of hayward toward foster city. let's get a check of your forecast with lawrence. >> it is looking very nice as we are going to see more sunshine around the bay area today. beautiful already looking toward mount diablo. clear skies in many of the valleys now, still a couple of patches of fog inside the bay and out toward the coast. but it's going to clear out nicely today. temperatures heating up, 90 the expected high in livermore, 79 in fremont, 71 in oakland. 60s for the most part out at the coastline with a couple of patches of fog. still over the next couple of days, night and morning low clouds and fog giving way to mostly sunny skies. no major change over the next few days but latter part of the weekend temperatures expected to cool down. ,,,,,,,, >>> welcome back to "the early show." bottom of the hour, i'm chris wragge he

. >> reporter: birth control has been controversial in the united states from the moment margaret sanger plannic country in 1916 and promptly sent to prison for it. while many of hailed contraception is the best way to prevent unwanted pregnancy, others argue abstinence is the way to go. the united states conference of catholic bishops oppose the guidelines saying pregnancy is not a disease and fertility is not a pathological condition to be suppressed by any means technically possible. but women's rights advocates say free access to birth control can significantly reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies. >> the number of children we have determines how many we need to educate, how many we can employ. the social and economic outcomes of contraception are critical. >> reporter: the new rules would affect insurance plans beginning august 2012. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> joining us from the white house is stephanie cutter, deputy senior adviser to president obama. >> reporter: good morning. >> what are the preventative services included on this list? >> well today is an impo

there are a lot of undesirables breeding and that's what margaret sanger was all about when she foundeds part of the mantra from the beginning. control the undesirables. >> brian: keep in mind, there are a lot of chinese people who are not for the one child policy. mark stein wrote a book saying our greatest hope against china is the fact they have one child policy. they're going to run out of ways to procreate. >> i must say that the president is making this big push for the latino vote out there, back door amnesty. i wonder what the very religious latino population in the united states is going to think about the vice president basically saying it's okay to have government control of childbirth. i wonder what they're going to think about this. they're very religious people. >> steve: it's not something they're talk being in the main stream radio, but we are today. laura, thank you for dropping by. >> sorry about the pause. but don't i blend in with the tv set? >> steve: thank you. coming up, this ain't no fish story, folks. >> oh, yeah, daddy! >> steve: a little boy with a camera and

david sanger writes about this in the "new york times" this morning. and when talking about this process he says, quote, it has left america's creditors and allies alike wondering what has changed in american politics, that a significant part of the country's political elite was suddenly willing to risk the nation's reputation as the safest place for the rest of the world to invest. have we been emotionally downgraded, david, even if we avoided technically being downgrades? >> i don't think so, matt. as the president said last night, this was messy. the president last week urged the american people to reach out to capitol hill to demand our leaders compromise. i think that was one of the reasons leaders finally compromised. but the president said last week, the american people did choose divided government but they didn't choose dysfunctional government, and there were moments it looked dysfunctional. moving forward it would behoove all of our leaders to lower their voices a little bit and be more earnest in seeking compromise. >> david plouffe at the