frank. >> sonya, thanks. your money, which comes from foundations and donors, right--and you've got a fair bit of it, it's flowing right now? >> right. >> which is a good thing. why? >> i think the foundation world, which is predom--which is where we receive the bulk of our funds, understands what a difficult period this is. they are worried about investigative reporting. they're worried about this kind of accountability joualism. they have been very supportive of the center, and they know that we do our work at a very high quality level, and we make it available to other journalists. other journalists use this work. these new centers that i spoke about, we're coordinating with them, doing some collaborations with them, providing data and documents for them to do their work. i think foundations see that as very important. >> would the "post" take foundation money? does the new--does the future of the "washington post" depend on some corollary to this? >> very good question, and the real answer is no one knows

sonya gavankar is gonna show us some of these related web sites now. sonya? >> frank, let's take a look at whitehouse.gov. it's becoming a leader in open, transparent government. the president's vision can be tracked here at open government initiative. it highlights a number of government data sites in 3 categories--transparency, participation, and collaboration. one of my favorites is "open for questions," short videos where officials and the president himself often answer questions posed on social networking sites. most of the videos are serious and cover the economy and health care with secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius doing many of the videos, but there are some fun ones, too, like questions for astronaut sally ride. you can post these on your blog because they're all public domain. there are some critics who complain that this is just not enough. with all this information that the government is making available, who is actually reviewing it? well, one site is ellen miller's sunlight foundation and its sunlight labs, founded in 200

sonya gavankar has a few sites she'd like to show us now. sonya? >> frank, the daily beast is a curated site that reflects what tina and her team think are the most important topics of the day. its home page is designed to give you a quick read on what's happening. for original content, go to "blogs & stories." these are insider accounts on what's going on in politics, entertainment, arts, and business. they also have a gallery in their video section of great viral videos. for the book beast, you can get the hottest books on the market, and a launching pad for a new effort that tina was referencing to speed up the process of creating digital books and getting them into print faster. "the cheat sheet" is a list of the big stories condensed into one paragraph with links back to the source. in many cases, the source is a newspaper. now, if you want to see newspapers, go to newseum's "today's front pages." it's a great site. and, yes, we're tooting our horn here just a little bit. you can get 700 front pages, and you can see how news is covered all ove

the work that sonya was talking about, the arts that we do, the calendars that we make every year and we have a web page which describes all of these activities and the public is welcome to look at that. >> we've been having images, i've been talking, there we are the sikh foundation and as we look at those, where were you born and grew up and how did you get to the bay area? >> i was born in india and i grew up in india. and i've been here in the u.s. for five years now. >> wonderful. well we just scratched the surface of being sikh in the bay area. remind us more about sikhs in america, in the bay area and things about your faith. >> well, i think one of the most important things in our faith is, as i said earlier, working hard, being entrepreneurial and giving for charities. those are very important aspects of our life. and most of us try to do that and find it fascinating. >> there is a holy book? >> there is a hobie book, yes. >> written, transcribed or -- q. it's written by our ten gurus, and a number of hindu and muslim saints that's all included in our holy book. and most of t

wife sonya. two children. jewish and unitarian. politics, independent. massachusetts institute of technology, b.a. computer science and literature. kurzweil technologies. parent company to nine companies. specializing in artificial intelligence. speech and character pattern recognition. and technology trend forecasting. founder and ceo. 31 years and currently. national medal of technology, the nation's highest honor in technology. recipient from president clinton. 1999. half million dollar m.i.t. prize. the nation's largest award in invention and innovation, winner, 2000. inventions, numerous. including the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. and the first large vocabulary speak recognition instrumentation. author, five books, including "the age of spiritual machines, when computers intelligence." and coauthor of the brand new "fantastic voyage" live long enough to live forever. hobbies, cycling, hiking. ray occurs. ray kurzweil and mark grossman on the live line from denver, i want to comment on the book that you've put together. this b

sonya? >> ok. item 3c, update on permit tracking systems. director day: yes. i'm pleased to announce that we have an r.f.p. that will be going to the city attorney's office and to the human rights commission by the 15th of october for review. we should be able to put the r.f.p. to the steering committee before the first of november, which is the steering committee of the permit tracking system which includes members from other city agencies, the controllers' office, the department of technology. and they will comment on the final r.f.p. we home to get it back out on the street and advertised during the month of november so that we can accept bids by the first 6 january. -- -- of january. president murphy: any comments? seems like we hear this report every month since i've been around here, five or six years now. we never get any closer. any public comments? seeing none. next item. >> item 3d, update on d.b.i.'s role in response to emergencies. director day: yes. i've had several meetings with the department of public works regarding the roles that some of of t

which could in virtually lead to sonya and weakness but we still have to be on high alert that they could turn up and actually start to intervene aggressively against the and they have to be aggressive to make it work thank you very much for your analysis is that was whole mako from has been see. the pharmaceutical industry's watching world's biggest hostile takeover in six years leading french drug makers sent a free has launched an asian billion dollar bid genzyme corp the move comes a month off to the view as biotech company rejected an initial offer from sun no fee so nothing once an acquisition to help replace revenue it is losing as some of its best selling products face competition from generic drugs. that's all for now but you can get more new small website r.t. dot com slash business. culture is that so much going on there is a huge music to share the power of finding the mark with the new settling settle israel music and building settlements for jews only in the often hard west bank putting any kind of peace process in serious doubt. in some petersburg oh she's available in hote

justice elena kagan joining justice sonya sotomayor and justice ruth bader ginsburg up there. but, diane, the most remarkable thing on this historic day was how unremarkable it was. the court really went about business as usual. a bankruptcy case. a sentencing case. no mention made of the history being made. but maybe justice ruth ginsburg summed it up best in an interview she gave when she said, when the schoolchildren file in and out of the court, they look up and they see three women, and that will seem natural and proper, just how it is. and that is how it was. >> and how was justice kagan on her first day? >> reporter: well, the one word that leapt to my mind was "ready." within minutes of the start of these arguments in this bankruptcy case, she was jumping into the fray of oral arguments. she was confident and well prepared and fluent and probing. at one point she asked a question of one of the lawyers that frankly seemed to stump him a little bit. a quiet kind of came over the courtroom as he gathered his thoughts. you could almost sense or imagine some of the other ju

. >> when you got the call or letter from smith sonya. what did you think?idn't think it was a possibility. >> it was a huge honor and her late husband's characters are timeless. >> they speak to the ordinary things that away all feel, our ordinary emotions, our hopes and fears our dreams. >> they met when they were building the museum. charles had passed away. she told me that her back then her husband was a genius and famous but he was so modest. >> sparky wasn't that interested in having the museum because he couldn't see how his life and work could be any more than this comic strip in the newspaper. >> imagine, what he would say today about being i mortalized in the smithsonian. >> today the museum in santa rosa will celebrate with free admission from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00. certainly we have more details, find them on our website at www.abc7.com. >> we are looking as some extra clouds. this weather system to the south of us, partly cloudy today, maybe a sprinkle around the diablo range, mid-level clouds, but still 80s. 76 in fremont. low 70s in san rafael.

wife sonya. two children. jewish and unitarian. politics, independent. massachusetts institute of technology, b.a. computer science and literature. kurzweil technologies. parent company to nine companies. specializing in artificial intelligence. speech and character pattern recognition. and technology trend forecasting. founder and ceo. 31 years and currently. national medal of technology, the nation's highest honor in technology. recipient from president clinton. 1999. half million dollar m.i.t. prize. the nation's largest award in invention and innovation, winner, 2000. numerous. including the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. and the first large vocabulary speak recognition instrumentation. author, five books, including "the age of spiritual machines, when computers intelligence." and coauthor of the brand new "fantastic voyage" live long enough to live forever. hobbies, cycling, hiking. ray occurs. ray kurzweil and mark grossman on the live line from denver, i want to comment on the book that you've put together. this book is reall

. >> reporter: sonya gilkey is fighting foreclosure in a court, trying to save her family's home. >> i think i'm lobbying for a whole lot of people out there, who just did not have the energy or the fortitude to just holler and scream loud enough for someone to hear you. >> reporter: but more homeowners are following gilkey's lead, after some of the court documents that banks used to process a record number of foreclosures were filed improperly. one executive from mortgage giant gmac admitted to blindly signing up to 10,000 foreclosure affidavits a month. >> he was not reading them before he was signing them. and he didn't have a real knowledge of what their contents were. >> reporter: in addition to bank of america, jpmorgan has also suspended foreclosure proceeds. and gmac has halted proceedings in 23 states. millions of americans have lost their homes to foreclosure so far. evidence of the staggering crisis, thousands that camped out in los angeles, desperate for mortgage help. over the past few months, nearly one-quarter of all homes sold were in mortgage trouble. raising questio

>> sonya, it's nice to see you here.ope i wasn't too far off in what i -- i hope you recognize we were at the same event -- at the same event. actually no one tried to discourage me. including former colleagues from the government, from the department of state. they never said don't go. they said, you know, go. i went because my wife told me to go. and i always do what my wife tells me to do. but again if we don't -- we in the iranians have not spoken to each other. we have not listened to each other. i'm reminded a little bit of an interview. some of you ma have heard that ambassador von neumann gave a few weeks ago about afghanistan and the reporter asked him, well how do you deal with president karzai? how did you deal with implication being someone as difficult as president karzai? and he said i listen to him. what a revolutionary idea that we actually listen to what the other side says. not that we through with it, you know, not that we necessarily accepted her like it, but at least listen. because you know, if for

>> sonya, it is nice to see you here. i hope i was not too far off and what i hope you recognized we were at the same event. actually, no one tried to discourage me. including former colleagues from the government, from the department of state. they never said, do not go. they said, though, it sounds interesting. i went because my wife told me to go and i always do what my wife tells me to do. [laughter] again, it is the whole thing. we and the iranians have not spoken to each other. we have not listened to each other. i am reminded a little bit of an interview some of you may have heard that senator ron newman gave a few weeks ago about afghanistan. the reporter asked him, "how do you deal with president karzai? how did you deal with someone as difficult as president karzai?" he said, "i listened to him." what a revolutionary idea, to listen to what the other side says. not that we agree with it, not that we necessarily accept it or like it, but at least listen. if we are not listening to people -- we can always talk to