he was born in 1952 in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle, washington. parents immigrated to the u.s. from china and the 1930's. his father fought in world war ii and worked as a cook. he passed away when the mayor was 15. his mother was a seamstress and a waitress. mayor lee has five siblings, he graduated from college in maine, he also went to uc- berkeley law school and finished in 1978. he and his wife have two daughters. i also want to mention, prior to becoming mayor, one of the key points in his contributions to the community is after he completed law school, he worked as a managing attorney for the san francisco asian law caucus, where he was an advocate for affordable housing and the rights of immigrants and renters. mayor lee -- [applause] >> thank you. welcome to city hall. the people's city hall, san francisco. i want you all to note that that was such a wonderful rendition of our national anthem. please give another applause to the millennium -- melanie and her daughter. i am so excited about all of you and seen so many of you from all over

that's at the henry art gallery in seattle, washington. you can go there this afternoon and see the records from the '60s to the present. that's your pacific event of the day, lynn. >> thanks so much. >>> and now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. well, "the dark knight rises" will finish first at the box office this weekend, but with how much? most experts see a 60% drop-off from last weekend. that would earn the film roughly $65 million, closing in on $300 million overall. >>> well, six months ago hollywood had huge expectations for the debuting comedy "the watch" starring ben stiller, jonah hill, and vince vaughn. what could go wrong, right? well the reviews are awful, it's rated "r" and in the wake of the trayvon martin killing, audiences may not take to the idea of a neighborhood watch comedy. still it should earn a respectable $20 million. >>> elsewhere director robert rodriguez tweets lady gaga will make her acting debut in his upcoming film, "machete kills." >>> and in the wake of his girlfriend havi

of the shooting, it was determine the suspect was of recidivist criminal who was wanted in seattle, washingtonfor the murder of young, pregnant woman just one week before. this inference is the police department delayed -- delineates the criteria that must be met for an officer of the san francisco police department to be awarded the medal of valor. that includes outstanding bravery beyond that expected in a line of duty, or failure to take such action would not justify censure. with the rest of life actually existed and officer had time to evaluate the risk, and where the objective is of the sufficient importance to the risk, and lastly and most importantly, where the officer accomplish the objective. on july 16, 2011, officer richard hastings and matthew lopez the kill each and every requested criteria for the medal of valor. they exemplified bravery of the highest level. in doing their duty and deterred by the fact that their lives were in imminent peril. they engaged in a gunbattle with a career criminal who was engaged with the ones in respect for public life and wanted to escape to not b

he is recording from a bunker outside of seattle washington. >> about two weeks before we finally drop out of society and fully commit to this. >> he first made news back in april of this year when he shot and killed his wife and his 18-year-old daughter in their home in washington. and then set fire to the home trying to destroy the evidence. >> they are his wife and daughter, neighbors called the fire department very quickly. they had plans and photos of this bunker. he went inside a few days after he killed his wife and daughter. swat teams arrived, and after a 22 hour stand off, they raided the bunker where they found the videos. >> i do have my escape, i'll just shoot myself, and i'm okay with that. >> listen to him talking about that. >> basically i can last months. i have propane, gasoline, soap, supplies. it's more comfortable for me to think about living out here, robbing banks, pharmacies, and taking what i want for as long as i can. at least it will be exciting, not boring. >> what was his motive? >> he talks about it to a degree in this video. >> i used to sit here and thin

of the shooting, it was determine the suspect was of recidivist criminal who was wanted in seattle, washingtonfor the murder of young, pregnant woman just one week before. this inference is the police department delayed -- delineates this inference is the police department delayed -- delineates

. >>> i will take you guys on a trip to the woodland park zoo in seattle, washington, to give you a behind the scenes look at some 10-week-old little cubs. >> oh. one of his eyes doesn't even look open yet. >> these are snow leopards, and you are right to notice their eyes. there are two snow leopards just born, they have a congenital eye problem. it's an infection that both of the cubs have. right now, as you can see in the behind-the-scenes area of this zoo, these cubs are not on display yet because they're getting treatment, surgery and are expected to recover. these cubs were just born to, i love this, they were born to helen and tom. >> adorable. >> neighbors. these are the new cubs of helen and tom. >> helen and tom. >> what do they think is going to happen? are they going to be able to see completely eventually after treatment? >> they didn't say. all the zoo is saying is they're behind the scenes now and spending time with their mom in this little area. dad, tom, is never far away. they are performing different medical treatments and surgeries in order to correct this problem that

. >> great news from the woodland park zoo in seattle, washington. due to a heart defect a rare baby snow leopard has been euthanized. he was so young, he didn't even have a name. romney 2012. (laughter) (applause) >> stephen: because the only way that mitt can win is to remember the old saying, if it ain't broke, insist that it is and maybe they'll hire you to fix it. and that's the word. we'll be right back. . >> stephen: welcome-- welcome back, everybody, thanks so much, nation, i don't know about you but in high school i was a model student. in that i spent most of it sniffing airplane glue. this is eyes on edukashon. tonight chemistry. anyone with a teenager knows that the tightest end of the educational thinker is college admissions. everyone is looking for that edge, to help them spend a quarter of a million dollars on a worthless philosophy degree. and folks, it keeps getting harder and harder. you're up against an army of overachieving geniuses with an 8.0 gpa who played the violin since the second trimester and whose extracurricular activit

over a month later on july 23rd, 2011, rachel was killed in a tragic car accident on i-90 in seattle, washington >> wow. >> the beautiful thing about this story is rachel's family, they carried on rachel's wish. in fact, ended up raising more than $1 million for charity water in rachel's name. so one year later, july 23rd, 2012, rachel's mom samantha and her grandparents, richard and roseanne, all traveled to ethiopia to the area that had been helped by all the money rachel had raised. >> wow. >> this video is set to a beautiful song. it's music by sleeping at last. >> 6:00 in the morning. we're about to go see some of rachel's love. >> i am richard. i am rachel's grandfather. i really wish rachel could be here today. first of all, rachel would think that this is probably the neatest thing she'd ever seen in her entire life. >> in total, the amount of money that rachel and her family really were able to raise helped 60,000 people in 100 villages. they've always now got clean drinking water. >>> the shake weight is here. what i'm about to show you is, like, here. on the sexual innuendo sexually.

president spent the day in portland, oregon at yet another fundraiser and tonight it's off to seattle, washington. the president managed to squeeze in a trip to reno yesterday. >>> and republicans spoke at the republican convention. romney said that american is the greatest country in the world but that obama's policies are hurting the country. romney will spent a few days overseas to outline his ideas on american foreign policy. >>> alameda county is planning to pass on the responsibility for the proper disposal of prescription drugs. the move will save the county $300,000 a year. the companies have until next year to come up with a plan. >>> we have a recall to tell you because of fears that children could be strangled. the strollers are made by the company peg perego. and the recall includes two models manufactured in the u.s. between 2004 and 2007. the company sites two incidents involving children getting trapped between the seat and tray. one child died back in 2004. peg perego says it took years for them to be notified. >>> clearing out a south bay homeless camp has an unintented consequen

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seattle, washington, next. go ahead, jack. >> caller: good morning, excellent show. it's my understanding that president madison personally, physically, commanded the troops in the battles, making him one of the only two presidents who personally had the front command of troops during his tenure, and then, also, as a former marine, our belief is that the commandant of the marine corps' house, not far from the existing white house, still today, was not burned because of the british respect for how the u.s. marines fought in the battle. any comments? >> those are two very good question, but i have to correct the caller. he described himself as a former marine. once a marine always a marine. i learned the hard way. addressed somebody as former marine. it's quite correct to say that james madison was the first president on the battlefield to face incoming enemy fire. at the battle he was in the knot of cabinet secretaries and rockets passed over them, only then did they ride out of range. a lot of people, including the national parks service, keep repeating in their lite

services, new york, new york; justin riley, at-large board member, faces and voices of recovery, seattle, washington; bridget ruiz, technical expert lead, division of systems improvement, jbs international, bethesda, maryland. bridget, 21.5 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds have an issue with illicit drugs. talk to me a little bit about that and what kind of drugs are they using. it is quite different than it was even 2 or 3 years ago. we see a huge increase in pharmaceutical drug use, not using it as prescribed. we also see an increase in alcohol use, and binge drinking is a serious problem, as well as some of the more legal types of drugs labeled as incense or those types of things in different smoke shops. and jonathan, does that hold true for what you are seeing in new york city? absolutely. we are seeing the use or the misuse of drugs such as ritalin, adderall, inderal being used for specific purposes to help kids stay up late and study, to calm kids down. we're also seeing a lot of binge drinking and we're seeing a disturbing kind of resurgence in the amount of nicotine smoking. i think kids are

. >> seattle, washington grunge may be done, but the 2012 elections are firing up stephanie miller andm in seattle ♪ [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> on saturday september 29th, 2012, the sexy liberal comedy tour will return to the northwest. featuring john fugelsang, hal sparks, and a favorite of pike place market stephanie miller. >> her brand of tuna was bent. >> get tickets online or call. that's the stephanie miller sexy liberal comedy tour. seattle, washington this is our final chance before the 2011 election to experience pure progressive progressive progressive nirvana. >> we were talking to eric holder about it's 30,000 gun deaths a year in the united states. and he said that just isn't covered -- so some right-wing calling called in and said how were in home invasions. >> really? >> most of those were just bad guys that were killed legitimately. don says steph one of your callers seemed to indicate all of the 30,000 gun deaths were justified. the cdc had some numbers on that. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> total gun deaths, suicide 18,735. homicide legal intervek shun 333. >>

the president is on the move again and it includes stops in portland organ and seattle washington. >>nd standoff began in oakland and it came to an end just hours ago. police arrested one suspect, wanted for firing shots at a chp patrol car and that arrest followed a 12 hour standoff at a home in east oakland. also this morning, 2 people have just died in an early morning apartment fire in pleasantville. 60 more people have been displaced. we are trying to help them with temporary shelter. flames shot 20 feet in the air and you can see it for miles. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >>> following overnight news from richmond. police are looking into clues from an early morning shooting. >>> you can see near the gate, the second one happened earlier back in january, you can see there is actually notes written to that person and his name was edwin and i will have more on that in a second. this is what we know about this morning's shooting and we have very limited information and a person was shot in the 2100 block. that person had to be airlifted and is expected to sur