scott: mr. speaker, i urge -- i yield such time as he may consume to the the gentleman from california, former prosecutor and the sponsor of the legislation, mr. schiff. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. schiff: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i thank chairman scott for his leadership on this issue. mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 1469 the child protection improvements act. i first introduced this legislation in 2007 with congressman mike rogers of michigan. it would ensure that any mentoring organization or child-serving nonprofit will be able to obtain a background check of a potential volunteer. about 25 years ago, i began as a volunteer with big brothers, big sisters. big brothers paired me with a young man named david and i have learned as much from david as he ever learned from me. the experience also helped me understand the huge amount of trust we put in volunteers at organizations all around the country. in the vast majority of cases

that is an interesting question and scott hills considered it. but -- scott himself considered it.ut political science and history is a good education. he shouldn't be considered disqualified from the workforce because he didn't take a business course. most people in 4ehis father's a grandfather's generation did go to college just to learn and went into career, what amounted to career oriented work. now, he is fortunate because of his family to be able to keep struggling for a career oriented job. he is quite concerned and he has reason to be concerned that if he takes this claims adjust or job, associated claims adjustor job which would be auto claims. he would have been on the phone all day answering -- processing paper and answering questions from people who were in auto accidents. that doesn't have -- and he is a very intense and hard working person. he would have given that all of his energy. that is a dead-end job. you can go up to department head in claims but you probably won't go much higher than that. and his fear -- and it was a fear during the depression and is one when

the suspect, 27-year-old jason thomas scott, a college graduate, studying for a master's degree. maryland police say he is also a killer, whose victims include two pairs of mothers and daughters. scott, they say, studied police forensics, to learn how to hide his crimes using bleach and arson to destroy evidence and the database from his job at ups to identify potential targets. pierre thomas has the story on a cerebral serial killer suspect. >> reporter: the horror began at this home on january 26th, 2009 as an intruder neutralized the alarm system and slipped in. karen lofton, a 45-year-old nurse, was fatally shot as she tried to hide in this corner. her 16-year-old daughter was repeatedly shot as she frantically dialed 911 from her bed. police were perplexed. the doors were locked. no signs of forced entry. neighbors were terrified. >> so when they catch them, i'll be afraid. >> reporter: two months later, the bodies of delores dewitt, 42, and her 20-year-old daughter ebony were found in a burning car less than a mile away from the loftons' home. another nurse and a daughter k

scott: mr. speaker, the bill has examined the criminal justice system its in -- in its entirety to make recommendations for appropriate reform to the president and congress as well as state, local and tribal governments. the united states depends on the criminal justice system to maintain our system of security and we expect it to be reliable, fair and effective. it must provide a sense of justice for all americans and must treat victims and their families with compassion. the last comprehensive review of our criminal justice system was president johnson's commission on law enforcement and administration and justice conducted more than 45 years ago. to fight -- despite the progress in achieving fair outcomes in the criminal justice system since president johnson's commission was convened, there is still work that needs to be done to fulfill these objectives. currently the united states has the highest reported incarceration rate in the world. whereas most countries lock up between 50 and 200 peo

scott. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i want to thank the gentlelady from wisconsin for her leadership on this bill as well as the gentleman from north carolina, mr. coble. this is important legislation. it will protect a lot of seniors and i would hope that we pass the bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yield back the balance of his time. all time now having expired, the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3040. as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the -- the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and the chair's prior announcement, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from vir

. >> reporter: scott was charged with murdering delores dewitt, a nurse, and her 20-year-old daughter ebony in march of 2009. >> she was a beautiful person, had a beautiful spirit. >> reporter: their charred bodies were found in a stolen car that had been set on fire. just months earlier, less than a mile away from the dewitt murders, police believe scott disarmed the security system at this home and then shot another nurse, karen lofton, as she hid in a corner. her 16-year-old daughter was repeatedly shot as she tried to dial 911. authorities believe scott, a ups employee, used his access working in a package sorting facility to find his victims' addresses. >> his employment is a core piece of this investigation. it's going to be very critical in laying out how the victims and everyone was actually identified. >> reporter: it's unclear why he killed these women, or if he was targeting nurses. police say the suspect was meticulous, cunning. they claim they found on his computer research on police forensics, which he allegedly used to cover his tracks. bleach to wash crime scenes. fire

scott: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. scott: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scott: mr. speaker, s. 1789, the fair sentencing act of 2010, is a bipartisan compromise that was negotiated and drafted by democratic and republican members of the senate judiciary committee. then passed the senate judiciary committee and the senate by unanimous consent. the legislation will reduce the 100-1 sentences disparity between crack and powder cocaine in federal law from 100-1 to 18-1. the crack personalities, it only take five grams of crack to trigger a mandatory five-year sentence but powder it takes 500 grams of cocaine, 100-1 ratio. this disparity is particularly egregious when you consider that the sentencing commission has concluded that

for more analysis, we turn to our in-house technology guy, scott gurvey. scott, wow, that was some quarter. >> it was a blowout quarter for apple, and reason has to be all of the gadget products which every fan has to have. apple sold 8.4 million iphones. it sold 3.3 million of the new ipads, and it also moved respectable numbers of macintosh computers and ipod music players. steve jobs promised more new products in the second half, and apple's stock soared in after-hours trading. now the question is will the apple shine rub off on the rest of the tech sector, most specifically on microsoft. jim yen of staple standard and poor's says he expects a good report from the company. >> the main driver for this quarter's results is increase of p.c. sales, mostly by consumers. and i.b.c., and other industries analysts thinking that p.c. grew in excess of 20% the first half, and the increase of window 7. >> susie, while microsoft is certainly happy with the uptic in computer sales, and the uptake of window 7, it has caught the eye of lots of consumers in the world.

scott mcgrew is live now in cupertino. scott, you have sources inside. they giving you any indication about what we might hear today? >> reporter: i know what we're not going to hear, brent that is no recall. apple doesn't want you to deposit your iphone 4 in the mail and sending it back to headquarters here. what you will see is an acknowledgement that has this had gotten out of hand. they didn't expect this. some sort of make good. this has happened before. back with the first iphone. they dut price really suddenly and a lot of first adotters fell a little burned. so apple made good. they had an itune card and rebate. i think we will see something similar ability here today. maybe some kind of solution, i'm hearing, in the apple store itself. no matter what does happen here today, you do have to keep this historical per spespective on af this. apple always calling the sort of press conference to talk about what is essentially a flaw in one of their products. we will be comping this throughout the day. we will have live coverage and live blogging on n

scott budman is here with the news and some nice numbers, scott? >>> they are. optimism ruling wall street once again and it has been a good week. strong corporate earnings mixed in with the rise of general electric dividend. the dow up another 102 and nasdaq up 23. in the spirit of full disclosure, ge is the parent company of this tv station. among the stocks popping, ford with motown standout continues to improve on car sales and money made from the sales. ford pulled in near live $2 billion worth of profit in north america alone. the company's share price jumping by more than 5%. >>> car sales are up, but so are home foreclosures. today, a bit of a bright spot. a group called "neighborhood assistance corporation" holding round-the-clock clinics to help homeowners lower their payments and stay in their homes. here's how. they are both from atlanta but william jack some and chaz met today in washington at the huge anti-foreclosure clinic run by neighborhood assistance corporation of america. people came from across the country. some camped out and lined up at d

police believed scott disarmed the security system at this home.d then shot another nurse, karen lofton, and her 16-year-old daughter. it's believed the accused, a u.p.s. employee, used his access to find his victims' addresses. >> this investigation has become critical. and laying out how the victims and everyone was identified. the mansion he used as a hideout, to clues to how many lives he may have taken. authorities have discovered that jason scott was doing research on police forensics. information they believe he used, such as washing down crime scenes with bleach. t.j. winick, abc news, washington. >>> just weeks after that extraordinary spy swap, there's been an arrest for trying to smuggle weapons to russia. anna fermanova is accused of having three rifle sites in her luggage, on her plane to moscow. her attorney says she was taking them to her husband, who works in russia. and that she has not been charged with espionage. >>> also, a new york woman is facing drunk driving charges after her own daughter called 911 from the car. jamie hicks

>> it's amazing how it, so much came down scott brown, the republican from massachusetts. he was the key here and you will not be shocked to learn that there were certain massachusetts-based financial institutions that got exactly what they wanted in this bill because scott brown's vote made the difference. gwen: like what did they get? >> well, state street was one. fidelity was another. they did not want it to be designed based on a dollar amount but on how risky the firm's behavior was because they thought that that would exempt them from that new level of regulation. they wanted to be outside that scope. that's something scott brown was able to do for them, delimple the democrats let him do that for his home state firms and in turn they said now we've got to have your vote and they finally got it. brown really held out until the last minute. >> so when we had the cornhusker kickback on health care, this can -- is what, the boston bonus? >> brown's office is very sensitive about that concern and they point out that well, this does benefit fidelity but also a whole group

>> thank you very much, scott. >>> in just hours, b.a.r.t. will consider temporarily reducing fares. riders are saying, thanks, but no thanks. 80% of riders surveyed by b.a.r.t. don't want the four-month fare rollback b.a.r.t. is paurchg when b.a.r.t. discovered a $4.5 million surplus, directors decided to roll back fares 3% for four months as a thank you to riders. but riders say they'd rather have longer service hours and cleaner cars. b.a.r.t.'s board will vote on the rollbacks at 9:00 a.m. in oakland. >>> right now 6:38. we want to check your morning commute. >> b.a.r.t. lines not reporting any delays. always nice to hear about updates you have from all sides of the transportation system because the roadways sometimes, you don't want to watch the slowdowns. the southbound side at malorie coming through fremont. see the slowing happening just over the last minute and a half. we have an accident now currently blocking two lanes in the southbound direction. northbound is okay. southbound heading toward the auto mall and then mission. that wi

she is 100 years old. >> somebody called willard scott. >> shepherd? >> that is wonderful. >>> check the forecast, another cool one for the weekend. >> is. lots of low clouds on the coast there mike mentioned it on his traffic report right there. peninsula and the coast misty skies, san jose, the cloud bus not much in the way of fog. 58, get your morning started, good air quality, thanks to all day long sea breeze. the mild summer continues today. you will see the satellite radar view, the sierra looks dry, did have thundershowers later in the week, now that has moved off to the east, our temperatures this morning, you just saw, 50s get the day started, late-morning clearing around the bay and inland locations, 70s to mid-80s, as warm as it will get inland today and through the weekend, middle part of next week, first week of august, slightly warmer but mild this time of year. >> thanks, rob. >>> time 5:40, up next, the latest on breaking news out of the east bay, a man walks into the emergency room at children's hospital with a gun and takes somebody

scott mcgrew is check for the latest in the newsroom. getting confirmation that those attacks were indeed ieds as suspected there were two separate explosions, three american deaths that we hear about this morning. this sadly pushes news a new record. 63 american men and women killed in afghanistan in the month of july that make it is deadliest month on record now ever in america's longest war. 41 soldiers in the nato alliance also died so for this month. we are monitor iing everything, laura with the u.s. military and when we find out more, we will tell you. >>> officials aren't the only ones looking at leaked documents about the afghan war. taliban leaders as well. a taliban spokesman says they are stud dick the 92,000 pages released by the website called wicky los angeles. they will hunt down informants named in the papers, the taliban says. the pentagon asked the fbi to join in its investigation. "the wall street journal" reports investigate verse concrete evidence that army private first class bradley manning leaked the documents to

lauren scott is here. what a surprise this one. >> not happy about it either. >> not billionaire software tyco tycoons, but a venture capitalist and entertainment industry ceo. a record sales price for a nba franchise. oracle founder larry ellison released a statement saying he was the highest bidder, but according to the firm, the paperwork on ellison's bid was not filed in time. the shot clock expired. so enter the man with the winning $450 million bid, joe lake koeb a partner at kleiner perkins who specializes in life sciences. he purchased a stake in the bass stop celtics. guber, a film producer. there's crisco hand who bought the team in '95 for $119 million. now, lacob spoke with nbc bay area sports director roj mathai and said, quote, we didn't know we won the bid until the last 24 hours. i'm excited about the sale. it's a dream come true. we always felt we were in it. our goal is to restore the franchise and be accessible to the fans. we will tell you what co-hand had to say plus lacob's take and i

scott budman, send it back to you. >> thank you. >>> the b.a.r.t. board of directors conceded today the transit system cannot police itself and announced a citizen oversight committee. the 11-member body has the mission to improve the way b.a.r.t. deals with the community and enforces its own policies. it creates and auditor's position who would be called to the scene of any incident and make recommendations. >> the importance is the aju ajudication to the table. >> that refers to the oscar grant killing. the oversight committee is part of a state bill the governor signed. it will take effect in january of next year. if a man convicted of involuntary manslaughter is getting support from the people who plan to rally at the superior courthouse in walnut creek next monday. sheryl herd is live there on information who is planning this event. i can't imagine police are happy about this. >> they are being diplomatic because they say people have the right to protest. the person who is putting on this protest wants to remain anonymous, he tells police. poli

scott is here to talk about movies and gadgets. i just see that plane makes me think of the old time movies. >> it is cool. and the dc-3 is a classic. don't forget to close the door in the back it will get cold up there. there you go. >>> we've got two movies to talk about. the first one is "ramona and beesus" it's not gotten good ratings. you read about it -- >> i read those, what, back in the '80s, and finally to -- >> finally a movie. it's gotten a 53% on rotten tomato. >> they're cute books. >> and kind of disappointing because it was going to be a neat movie. i'm not saying don't go, but it's not getting blowout ratings or anything. the one is "salt." it's getting fairly solid response. this was actually a movie written for a male lead and then angelina jolie took it and apparently does just a great job in it and people have really talked about how we've kind of come to the point where it doesn't matter if the action star in a movie is a woman or a man. i guess you could make that argument about sigourney weaver in "aliens" bu

scott. they didn't say ok, we will do this for you for free, but they actually had their staff work with us on a daly basis and help us really project manage the details and logistics and the complications of exporting a work of this scale and complexity. would you please stand as well diana, leslie and scott? i couldn't have done it without your expertise and guidance. we are total novices at bringing 30,000 pounds of a copper and bronze sculpture from shanghai. thank you so much. [applause] now that we had the shipping and the export taken care of, the project really gained tracks, and with that, our development director was able to add that information to our pending grant with the national endowment for the arts that was mentioned, and we procured that $70,000, one of the highest awards given. everything builds up, and again, it takes a village. every day somebody else participated and added more. scott, the president of fine arts handling, puts his heart and soul into everything he does

. >>> scott's valley is saying no to smart meters, at least for now. the city council is putting a hold on installing the controversial meters. there's also the concern about inaccurate readings. scott's valley joins a growing number of bay area communeities issuing morator knrums fairfax approved one earlier this month and san francisco supervisors are talking about doing the same thing. >>> shoppers in san mateo county may have to pay higher sales taxes. county supervisors may put a sales tax increase on the november ballot. they will consider that proposal tuesday. the increase could potentially raise about $30 million a year for the cash-strapped county. critics say even a small increase could push the county sales tax to near 10% and that could drive shoppers to other counties. >>> do you feel like the economy is getting better? scott mcgrew says most people have some deep concerns. >> you are seeing this in retail sales, home sales, consumer confidence. lots of people taking a wait and see attitude. now the latest survey by the conference board f

right here what you're looking at, scott, is standard in what would be the new chevy volt. we've got tony sitting in the driver's seat. the one thing that struck me when i was in the car a few days ago, you've got the touch screen technology, but the technology that you have here. this new type of, what do you call it? >> compasstive switches. the volt comes standard with a seven-inch color cluster and a seven-inch color touch screen with compasstive switches and a full navigation system, standard with the chevy volt. >> reporter: let's say i'm looking at the chevy volt, looking at the nissan leaf. your guy's range is 340 miles, that's with the generator kicks in. their range is 100 miles, they don't have the generator. your price point difference is about eight grand more. why would i buy your cars over theirs? >> with the chevy volt, we offer a very, very attractive $350 a month lease. that lease is equivalent to the leaf. this car can take him. as i've driven it from austin, texas, to new york, nonstop, if you will. and it's a car that you can use every day. you don't ha

. >>> and as sunnydale deals with job cuts, scott mcgrew has a little bit of some hiring. >> wells fargo says it has at least 50 good jobs open. these will be in santa clara county. these are tellers and bankers. now, the san francisco-based bank has been quite stable through the economic crisis. employees of about 19,000 people in the bay area alone. so you know what a teller is. as far as a banker, he or she deals with accounts, mortgages. wells fargo on its job opening website considers these to be salespeople. the bank recently announced its customers were saving more money in their accounts, up about 10%. wall street worries a bit when the consumer stops consuming. we do have a society that, for better or for worse, depends on people buying stuff. so a shakier day on stocks tuesday on consumer confidence, but still to the positive, we've had three straight days, or we had three straight days, of triple digit gains. the dow industrial's never seen four triple digits in a row, and it didn't this time. the string remains unbroken. >> we'll wait and see. maybe it will. >> maybe some day

scott -- scott macfarland has more. >> reporter: nancy pelosi, george miller, other house leaders announcedweeping legislation. there is a big call here, a big concern about how tony hayward has handled himself. even the white house saying after hayward's departure, bp must still work on cleaning the gulf and be monitored. there's something called a golden parachute for hayward. he's getting 1.6 million as part of his transfer out of the job. >> i wish him well in his retirement. i hope he will deliver some of that money to the gulf coast and show he really cares about what happened out there. >> reporter: i'm told there are new restrictions on oil companies putting heavier penalties on companies that will spill oil. george miller used language about restricting drilling if the company has a history of violations. we'll have another update in about an hour. >> thank you, scott. >>> 7:16. new this morning, meg whitman says she has no interest in running for president. in a tv interview this morning, the republican candidate for governor says she's focused on canada and how to climb the state

scott gurvey, "nightly business report," new york. >> susie: from european banks to american ones. a new report shows 17 banks paid their execs more than a billion and a half dollars during the height of the financial crisis. the obama administration's special master on pay, kenneth feinberg, has decided those payments were "ill-advised," but not illegal. stephanie dhue talked with feinberg this morning and asked him about that decision. >> they were too big, some individuals were getting in excess of $10 million in bonus payments over a five-year period, there were severance payments where individuals, companies, after they received tarp, we're paying people walking out the door, no longer working at the company, there were gross-ups, where in order to cover tax payments, there would be additional money, allocated to these individuals, we concluded after months of review, these companies should not have done what they did. >> reporter: six banks that made what feinberg calls "ill- advised" payments still owe taxpayers. they are citibank, c.i.t. group, which has since gone through

good morning, scott. >> reporter: good morning. tony hayward is getting shifted to a new job with bp in russia and gets $1.6 million for his troubles because of that shift in job title. if that was supposed to quiet the critics here in washington it has not this morning. in about three hours local u.s. house leaders including nancy pelosi announce a wide range of new legislation to respond to the oil spill but also to crack down harder on big oil, bp includes, perhaps bp in particular. meantime, that man is planning to take over october 1st, the new ceo of bp will be robert dudley of mississippi. the obama administration's point man on this disaster is already being asked about dudley. >> i talk about dudley when i need to any hour of the day or night and i have woke him up on several occasions and from time to time he has woken me up as well. >> reporter: tony hayward's removal didn't quiet critics at the white house either. when asked about this transfer of power they said bp cannot leave the gulf without meeting its responsibili

scott is 27 years old.pursuing a master's degree in computer science. he also worked at the u.p.s. and law enforcement sources say he may have used the company's database to help select victims. >> again, he utilizes employment to methodically identify his victims. so again, he had inside information. he knew a lot about his victims. he studied our response, the way we investigated crimes. so he managed to actually throw us off and disguise the crime scene based on his knowledge of police investigations. >> reporter: scott allegedly used bleach to clean his crime scenes. arson to destroy evidence. and changed the location of bodies to confuse police. he also studied other serial killers. he also studied other serial killers. neighbors who have known scott for years say there were hints early on that he might be a predator. >> most of the problem started when he was around 10. started him being a peeping tom, leading to videotaping people, breaking and entering. you'd never have known he was going to commit

. >>> scott mcgrew joins us with details on dell. >> it's a big disappointment for fans of dell. michael dell, founder of dell computer and the company took payments from intel to use only intel chips in dell computers. that's not illegal in any way, shape or form. but the securities and exchange commission said the executives at the computer company then pretended as if those payments were actually sales and misrepresented the income to dell investors. in fact, the s.e.c. says a major part of definitely's profits each quarter weren't really from sales just intel payouts. the company based in texas is going to pay a staggering $100 million fine. michael dell himself will pay $4 million. now, neither mr. dell nor the company admit wrongdoing but they promise never to do it again. intel often pays companies not to do business with a competitor. micro devices the biggest competitor. it raises anti-trust issues and intel has been the focus of several government investigations both here and in europe. about the you cannot lie to investors. you are -- the mom and pop are taking their m

. >> thanks a lot, scott. >>> we have another reason for you to be bay area proud this

scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> that's a cool car. kind of cool outside today, too. >> absolutely. 70s and 80s. no 90s on the map. >> that's weird for this time of year. >> we're going to continue that this week. let's show you the highs for everything. 60 in san francisco. the wind is howling right now. coming through the golden gate. only 82 in livermore. one of our warmer spots. 81 in los gatos. sometimes those pockets across the south end of the bay manage to get close to the 90s. not the case today. in gilroy, only 77 degrees. give you some live shots right now. we'll start off with san francisco. look at that flag just going. the wind is blowing through the golden gate anywhere from 15 to 20 miles per hour at times. and then as we head off into the inland valleys, sunol, see the trees on the lower part of your screen howling as well. just kind of blowing around as the wind is coming through. as we head into the south end of the bay, san jose, clear conditions. wind coming out of the southwest at 13 miles per hour. the wind for t

scott budman, nbc bay area news. >>> half a billion people served. tech crunch is report that facebook is set to announce its 500 millionth user. social networking is such a big teal that a new movie is set to come outen the big screen. it is called the "social network." and the first full trailer has just been released. >> if you want to go on the internet and check out their friends, go to a website who offers friends' pictures, and profiles. ta talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online. >> 22,000. >> this idea is potentially worth millions of dollars. >> millions. >> stole our website. >> they say we stole the facebook. >> i know. >> did we? >> yeah, the film is battle website, theoretically facebook. it's based on the book "the accidental billionaires" by ben mesrich. it's set to be released in october. it certainly has been a phenomenon. >> you think about all the different things throughout the course of history that has changed people's lives and it's one. >> amazing. sounds like a good sound track on t

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. >>> first, fairfax, now scotts valley. city leaders decide whether to impose a moratorium on pg&e's controversial smart meters. the new meters have been criticized for providing inaccurate information and for being a source of potentially dangerous radio waves. yesterday, marin county supervisors asked the state public utilities commission to put a hold on meter installations so that hearings can be held on how the meters could affect a person's health. fairfax approved a moratorium earlier this month. more than 6 million smart meters have been installed in northern and central california. the utility intends for that number to double by the year 2012. >>> with a slice of the pen, the president today ushered in a new era of financial oversight. mr. obama signed the financial reform bill today, making harder for loan sharks to operate and giving more protection to consumers. live at san jose city hall, people are on the verge of losing their homes and they got some very important advice today. damian? >> reporter: that is r

. >> thanks a lot, scott. appreciate it. big numbers there. >>> 30 people recovering this morning after a flight headed to carr hit severe turbulence. the united airlines boeing 777 took off from washington, d.c., yesterday afternoon. it was headed to l.a., but as it flew over kansas, the turbulence started so the pilot had to divert to denver. passengers talked about what it was like. >> the person behind me, he actually flew up and then he landed like kind of across the aisle on to somebody else's head. so he got a bruise on the chin. >> most of the people injured had bruises and some whiplash, even sprains. about 20 of them ended up going to the hospital. there is no obvious damage to the plane, but obviously they are going to inspect that. >>> as we mentioned a short time ago, they're about ready to change the straight lightbulbs in san jose. there's a reason behind it and a reason why people are concerned. we want to check in with kris sanchez now and she has the details on what's going on. kris? >> reporter: good morni

what is scott brown so important in the process?depending on what happens in çwest virginia, with respect to the seats filled by the late robert byrd. the latest cloture vote was as closeç as these things can be. democrats were barely able to get 60 votes. when the bill itself came up for a vote, it passed with four republican votes. chuck grassley, theç two senats from maine, and scott brown. two democrats voted againstç i, recant well and russ feingold. cantwell has said she will support the bill this time around. susan collins and olympia snowe has also -- have also said they wouldç support it. chuck grassley will likely vote for it again. feingold çhas decided he will e sticking with his opposition. it does not do enough for the liberal priorities, does not do enough to limit the size of big banks, does not do enough to prevent a future crisis. çif you are keeping score at home, that makes scott brown the 41stç vote. of course, that could change, if a person sent to washington than to fill byrd's seat is a democrat, as w

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. >> reporter: i am scott mcfarlane in washington. huge changes at bp is not stopping one local congressional leader for making a big play at the oil company. details coming up. >>> welcome back to the morning news. bp ceo tony hayward is out and will be replaced by an american. today the oil company will seth aside $three billion for damages caused by the gulf oil disaster and that is apparently just the beginning to major changes for the oil company. scott mcfarlane joins us now from our washington, d.c. newsroom with the very latest from capitol hill. good morning, scott. >> reporter: good morning to you, bp's new ceo takes over october 1st but if that was supposed to quiet the critics in washington hammering bp it hasn't. u.s. house leader including nancy pelosi stage a conference call in an hour and a half to announce sweeping new legislation that would tighten the rules on new oil companies including bp, perhaps especially bp. and the white house and local officials from louisiana issuing statements saying either with tony haywa

bureau, scott, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. really an unprecedented release of military information and as you mentioned the website's editors defended what they did and said those records indicate there is certainly a friction between the u.s. government and pakistani officials and said they have been downplaying civilian deaths trying to fudge the numbers. the white house has condemned this leak and says it puts lives in danger, but the editor of the site say if you look at the documents yourself beware, they say some of the military's own information can't always be trusted. >> those are legitimate reports. it doesn't mean that the contentsare true. [overlapping speakers] [ inaudible ] >> -- people should exercise caution. >> the editors of this site and the site itself are well-known here in washington, d.c. this leak was anticipated. it wasn't necessarily anticipated to happen this weekend but it has happened. again the editors of the site have no connection, for direct relationship with the u.s. government. live in washin

welcome, scott. >> thanks, belva. >> belva: so why was this announcement such a surprise?well, because there was every indication that ronald george was going to run again and stand for a reconfirmation for another 12-year term. he had indicated that in the past. there weren't any big problems on the court that he was trying to get away from. some of the budget issues seemed to be settled. and so it was a big surprise. there was no big campaign to oust him. so everyone just kind of assumed. and he's 70 years old, which for many people would seem like retirement age. but as judges go, it's really not that old. and so all of his colleagues were shocked to learn that he was deciding not to run again and they learned on the same day we did, which was this wednesday. >> belva: well, how much do you think politics played in this decision? he was the key judge in the proposition 8 decision. and that could have been some trouble for him coming up for reconfirmation. >> well there, were two real gay marriage rulings, or three essentially, but the second one where gay marriage was l

scott sanchez. >> i am sorry note -- i am sorry. your time is up. mr. sanchez? >> scott sanchez. the appellate has proposed all sorts of complex solutions that address the planning commission's decision, and the most recent submission by the appellant was measured at 21 inches in height, which contradicts what be was most recently submitted, which was 21 inches above the cricket, -- which contradicts what i believe was most recently submitted. we can go back to the clans -- plans that they submitted in march 2009 that satisfied the planning commission's requirements. this was only one or two months after the hearing. they submitted something that met the hearing. it seems to me that they understood the requirements. i do not think there is much room for discussion or analysis or interpretation for this decision because it is clear. i think the appellant has recognize the depth -- has recognized the -- that. for some reason, they are not willing to go back. president peterson: high have a question. the plans submitted in march that were approved, those that start from the plate? >

scott budman here with a look inside pixar. scott? >> you think of a museum, you might think of old artifacts. pix sar is 25 years old and a local museum is about to give you a peek behind the scenes. >> how about organic fuel? >> there among the most loved, most successful movies of all time. and now from a wall of fish to wall-e, the pixar movies you know and love are coming to oakland, the oakland museum of california is showing buzz and woody as part of an exhibit to commemorate 25 years of pixar animation. >> he always wanted to share the art of pixar with the world and have an opportunity to really celebrate the art and artists. >> reporter: and the exhibit makes sure to celebrate the artist, not just the computer. so you'll see cells, sketches, even early a lamb made famous in pixar's very first film. the exhibit has been touring those involved in bringing it here say there is something special about having local technology shown off in a local setting. >> here is pixar right in our own backyard. it is the quintessential califo