steven smith and anthony grenelli were arrested saturday morning after they were caught doing do -- donutsn a pickup truck. they caused extensive damage to a field. the two face charges of vandalism and drunk driving. >>> it was supposed to be their last show but tonight we >>> fans of san fransisco's clay theater haven't watched their last picture show at the movie house. at least not yet. the fillmore district theater was set to shut down after last night's show. but they reached a deal with the landlord to keep it en a while longer. they hope to find a way to keep the projectors running permanently. >>> losers of four out of their last five, you can boil it any way you want. giants not playing good baseball. lately terrible starting pitching. tonight great starting pitching from jonathan sanchez. no hitting. blown opportunities. messing around before the game throwing a football left handed. look out. posey with the beautiful throw at third to get eric young. nice tag by pablo down there too and posey on the offensive side of the game comes through with a nice two out single up the midd

steven smith and anthony grenelli were arrested saturday morning after they were caught doing do -- donutspickup truck. they caused extensive damage to a field. the two face charges of vandalism and drunk driving. >>> it was supposed to be their last show but tonight we explain why this 100-year-old movie theater is still in business. >>> fans of san fransisco's clay theater haven't watched their last picture show at the movie house. at least not yet. the fillmore district theater was set to shut down after last night's show. but they reached a deal with the landlord to keep it open a while longer. they hope to find a way to keep the projectors running permanently. >>> losers of four out of their last five, you can boil it any way you want. giants not playing good baseball. lately terrible starting pitching. tonight great starting pitching from jonathan sanchez. no hitting. blown opportunities. messing around before the game throwing a football left handed. look out. posey with the beautiful throw at third to get eric young. nice tag by pablo down there too and posey on the offensive side

the autopsies of senator ted stevens, the pilot, tear write smith, bill phillips sr., dana and her 16-year-old daughter, corey tindall, have been performed and their bodies have been released. while the family of senator ted stevens has yet to schedule a memorial, the community here in alaska has come together to schedule one of their own. that memorial is set for noon monday. >> andrea gusty in anchorage this morning. thank you. >>> steven wallace is a former director of the faa's office of accident investigation. he joins us from washington this morning. good morning, sir. >> good morning. >> i don't want to speculate on cause. i want to go through a couple of things we know for sure. this plane ended up on a slope cut out at 100-yard gash in the terrain there. the fuselage separated from the cockpit the left wing partially torn off. there was no fire and no passengers were ejected. from those pieces of information, what can we at least think. >> well, we can think that the airplane was under control. that's to say that it was probably in -- the pilot had not lost control of the air

christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thanks. >>> earlier this morning we spoke with melinda stevensington, d.c. she is the director of the national center for missing and exploited children. of course she does recommend many things including how important it is to keep a case like this in the public's eye as they continue to search and investigate the case. >>> sadly enough, another bay area family knows the reality of losing a child all too well. you may remember paula cass taken from her home in 1993. she was at a slumber party with other girls, then put a man broke in and put a pillowcase over pauley. pauley's father mark klass joins us this morning. thank you for joining us. how do you tell parents to keep the faith? this case of hasani campbell, it has been a year now. police are calling it a homicide. yet the community is still rallying together, keeping the faith. how do you keep that alive, mark? >> if you're the parent of the child, you basically have to keep hope alive. if the core family doesn't keep hope alive, then it's very hard to keep any attention on the case. the v

smith, nbc bay area news. >> thanks for the update there. >> so great to bring him home. >>> earlier this morning we talked with melinda stevens from washingtond.c., she's the director of the national center for missing and exploited children in hasani campbell's case, police think he may have been killed while others say he was taken and could still be alive. stevens described how agencies handle a case like this. >> we handle all of these cases with the expectation that we're going to recover this child alive. we work with distributing posters and using those posters for the general public to keep their eyes out in the constant search for hasani and all the other children reported to us. >> she says it is critical to keep the case in the public eye because several children are missing for several years before they are found alive. >>> it is primary day in colorado, connecticut, minnesota and georgia. there are a couple of cliffhanger races to look out for that could test the anti-establishment sentiment as sarah palin and mike huckabee brought georgia's race for governor to the national stage, >>> here is a look at an ad paid for by the ame

smith, nbc bay area news. >> investigators are back on the scene of a plane crash in alaska that killed five people including former u.s. senator ted stevens morning four survivors are still in the hospital with injuries they suffered in that crash. ntsb investigators are looking for clues as to what caused that small float plane to go down on monday. the plane was headed for a fishing lodge with stevens, three teenagers and their parents on board. >> no record at this time of any distress calls from the accident aircraft. and no emergency transmissions. >> when that group was overdue to arrive, private aircraft began a search and spotted the wreckage. there were four survivors, including former nasa administrator sean o'keefe and his son kevin. before a rescue team could get to them, the survivors had to spend a cold, wet night in the wreckage near the dead. >>> right after the gulf oil spill, demand surged for booms, those flooding tubes of fabric, but now some of the companies that make the booms say bp left them drowning in red ink. an nbc news investigation shows dozen of boom businesses across the country face losses ranging from hun

smith. room a lot to get to. including more on you just saw there, steven slater, the now famous flight attendant, former flight attendant, at this point for jetblue. we are learning more about what he is facing. a number of charges, possible jail time. criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. rather serious. >> we will talk to jack ford about that in a bit. we begin this morning with that tragic plane crash in alaska that claimed the life of former senator ted stevens. president obama praised stevens yesterday saying that he devoted his career to serving the people of alaska. andrea gusty of ktba in anchorages that latest on the crash and the investigation. >> reporter: good morning. truly a founding father of our state. many alaskans new him as uncle ted. stevens was very instrumental in alaska's statehood back in 1959. and this crash is a tragic end to a very long and sometimes controversial career. this is the wreckage of the plane carrying senator stevens and his friends through a remote area of southwest alaska. they took off in a light rain around 3:00 p.m. monday from a lodge on the lake and headed towards a

after misleading authorities, smith confessed and is now serving a life sentence. the mother in this case remains steven >>> there was great relief this morning in central arizona. now that a missing 4-year-old has been found. searchers on horseback found travis mitchell about a mile and a half from the spot where he was last seen sunday night. travis told his mom that he just got lost while playing with other kids. he suffered no injuries after spending a night in the woods. >>> denver is seeking federal help in investigating an alleged case of police brutality. the mayor has asked the fbi to investigate the videotaped incident which involves two men outside a nightclub. clayton sandell is in denver. >> reporter: on a snowy night in april 2009, denver cops have shawn johnson on the ground. he's under arrest after being kicked out of this nightclub. his friend, michael de herrera, worries cops are being too rough so he calls his father, a sheriff's deputy, for advice. just then, officer devin sparks grabs de herrera and slams him to the ground. the officer repeatedly strikes him with a small metal club.

. >> reporter: investigators now know that the pilot terry smith reported turbulence that morning on his way to pick up senator ted stevensgroup at their lodge but described it as a nuisance. the group took off around 2:00 p.m. an hour earlier than previously reported. they want to know why it wasn't until some four hours later that anyone realized they hadn't arrived at their fishing destination. there was no distress call. the single engine plane hit the mountain possibly in a climb, with its left wing dipped. the ntsb has tried to talk to the four survivors, but their medical conditions won't allow it. former nasa chief sean o'keefe, critically injured, his son kevin, 16 years old, also seriously hurt, but both expected to make a full recovery. washington lobbyist jim morehart in serious condition, his sister-in-law by phone described that moment she learned of the crash so far away. >> horrified. not shocked that he was there or involved, just so scared that we were going to lose him. >> reporter: stevens' former chief of staff bill phillips died in the accident. but phillips' 13-year-old son wi willie survived. >> fr