next did the space race really die with the cold war our latest edition of technology update is heading your way. hello and welcome to technology update april twelfth two thousand and eleven marks the fiftieth anniversary of an incredible achievement to put soviet science and innovation not just on top of the world but beyond this world altogether. it was that day in one nine hundred sixty one that saw the unprecedented launch of manned into orbit the soviet cosmonaut you got and making history aboard of us talk spacecraft going in became a hero and the whole world caught space fever but behind the scenes the technology that made man flight possible had been a top priority for over a decade with both peaceful and military objectives. along with talented specialists like but he told masterminded the soviet rocket program that emerged after the second world war as with their rivals in the us this will be its first developed rockets based on the german v. two that it was known as the r one first tested in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight soviet engineers work simultaneously on origin

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but join us later this hour for the latest edition of technology update where we look at the modern space race that's coming up after a recap of the headlines just after this. world through the. years after a minster slate the flames of species race are again alike grim new rockets need to do more on site private companies now enter the flight to explore the cosmos skimpier right speciously one technology of. the future covered. download the official. pod touch from the top story. video on demand. and all registry now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. in canada and the us that it is legal for. a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the shines out of most independent they are sponsored by industry and most of the guys they don't claim it's a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer in my family therefore i protect focus because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers occur among people with health funding histor

this technology hasn't been updated in 60 years and made the stuff and have been using it, but it takeseople like him to come along and say why are we wasting so much in when you read his story of not wasting anything, you understand that that cultural foundation that he grew up with coupled with his under grad degree and masters degree suddenly put him in a position to innovate and think differentlily and do something about it. that's what the stories are. 10 people in here that combine 19 degrees. there is a story there too about the power of higher education to propel you into positions of leadership. >> why are you so passionate about it? >> several reasons. first of all, i used to fly for the air force. i have seen the globe. i have seen the globe from a unique perspective and i understand how tiny it is. i think that seeded environmentalism for me. i have three children and they get to inherit the planet as your children do in whatever condition we leave it? . are two powerful reasons >> very. >> the approach i'm taking to go into colleges and universities and talk to high school

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technology. while they updated it back then it needs to be refreshed. >> i look at the cable car like a roller coasterbody is waiting to get on, how fun is the ride going to be. >> for now walls is waiting hoping the return of the cable cars will bring back business and the familiar sounds at his end of the line. >> the bell will be missed. >> wonderful part of our culture. bring in jeff ranieri. you promised a little more sunshine today. you on the hook for this? >> i'm off the hook. the sun came out, you guys. you guys were at work unfortunately. but you know, yeah, the sun it looked like it may have come out a little earlier today. none nonetheless. 70 in gilroy, santa cruz, and low 70s. and feel like spring out there. thought woe would go through the nbc library and take you some where else for a quick view. yes, we're taking you to portugal, spain, free of charge. these are not cherry blossoms but walnut trees, blooming here. in fact so many blooming this tomb of the year it its said to lock like a white carpet in some of the fields where the wall net trees are l -- walnut tree. related to the pl

mccain was in the middle east and people kept talking about the way new social media technologies helped their causes. updatesrobably helped even more. the question some are asking is whether zuckerburg will befriend mccain. >> the fbi gets involved in the investigation of six san francisco police officers accused of falsifying police reports. >> a dangerous protest comes to an end at u.c. berkeley when students finally come down from a building ledge. >> another bay bridge milestone. workers put the 40th tower lift in place ahead of schedule. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live at san francisco military airport where it's more than jets that are taking off. have you seen airline ticket prices lately. they've gone up six times this year alone. we're going to give you some tips how you can bring it back down-to-earth coming up in a live report. >> a look at our airport delays. notice houston, flight departure delays. chicago, detroit no delays yet but ♪ [ female announcer ] there's only one you. that's why sutter health created thedoctorforyou.com, where you can find a doctor based on criteria important to you. and be

they issued a software update that circumvented technology that allowed from playing online muse identical music devices. >> eric: founder of craigslist has launched a new venture that he hopes will be the craigslist of nonprofits. it lists nonprofits and try to help people sort the good from the bad. he got the idea from his own work with charities. it will have a platform where users can weigh in on the performance of others. >> kristen: airlines charge for early check in in or leg room but the luggage charges that can hurt and much more than $25 a bag. michael finney reports. >> travel attorney and expert is giving me a lesson in luggage economics. to to take the bag on the right will cost you $125, the one on the left, way more. >> 25 for a bag and 150 for the size and 50 for the weight. each way. >> most airlines allow bags with winds and thickness of 62 inches but your 62 and their 26 can be different. airlines don't measure just the clothing them measure everything with mini bags that will put you over the limit. >> it got worse and worse. you used to be able not to pay for baggage.

mccain talked about how social media technologies helped their causes. facebook.com updates probablylped more. now the question is whether zuckerburg will friend mccain. >> there's new optimism that amelia earhart could be solved soon. a dive team is preparing to investigate the wreckage of a plane in the pacific 800 miles from new guinea not far from where her airplane was last seen. putting together a team experienced enough to dive on it has been difficult until now. earhart disappeared attempting to fly around the world. that flight originated in oakland. >> who says love was not a science. it certainly was for an emeryville. they suggested they take a public tour of the berkeley national lab. when she looked into a high-powered electromicroscope she saw an engagement ring. that's when her fiancÉ got down on one knee and proposed. set the whole thing up for the renaissance roamna shall we say. we're happy to report she said yes. that diamond stood up to the test. >> it did. it did indeed. >> the microscope. >> we'll forget the irony that's used to look at some of the smallest thi

technology. >> tom: this is a frequent question folks want to get updated on. are you still holding super media? you chose this on september 15, 2010. and the stock prices have been volatile, but headed lower generally speaking. >> at first you would have had a chance to make 40% on your money, that's the key here. what's important for investors watching to understand is that if you see the opportunity and you make even 25% on your money, take some off the table. i'm in super media for the longer term. for me it's about the m and a activity that someone may be out there who wants to get into social media and would use a cheap company as a means to do that. the old yellow pages, but they've migrated onto the internet. >> tom: any other disclosures tonight? >> i do not own seven days sbn, i am watching it carefulfully, but i do own the other two stocks. >> tom: you can follow along with us and e-mail us at street critique at nbh.com. tonight hilary kramer with gamechangerstocks.com. >> susie: and here's what we're watching for tomorrow: weekly jobless claims and

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technology. so that technical teams are looking at that in conjunction n.ywith petro-solar. lastly, i wanted to give a quick update on some of the regulatory activities we have been undertaking. setting the bond amount that we would have to post. we have been filing comments on that as well as comments about the exit fee. it is sometimes called a cost responsibility surcharge. it is a power charge. in the case of the exit fee, even the utility's are sort of forced into of knowledge in the current way that that structure has too much in favor. it is favorable for the overall prices. importantly, the last thing the is that there is a new legislation introduced by leno that is legislation that we worked on with his office hit her in edition with other interested cca's. i wanted to make sure that my colleagues from lafco were part of that discussion. it was designed to clarify, really trying to undo some of the unfair advantages. a few highlights of the legislation include the code of conduct and better enforcement of procedures for utilities. and bringing violations to the cpuc. it may not be terminated without a fai

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around -- and technology policy, rate policy, >> in both cases, on the environmental surcharge, there are issues coming up with both of those. we will schedule a meeting before an update. some of us were under the mistaken impression we had answered some of those on the other updates -- we have not and we are adding them back. vice president moran: what i will probably do is give you an e-mail on my thinking behind that. the last one is during the budget process, they indicated they were developing a graphic to show rates over time as to how they are disaggregated by what i would think of as value packages. i know there has been a draft prepared, but i'm assuming that as still been worked on. >> i have a question on the ongoing calendar. we have a number items pending that don't seem to be assigned to any particular meeting time. >> that is true. in some cases, we have had -- with climate change, we had a discussion in the last meeting. we're not sure we should be scheduling them quarterly or when it is topical. that is why we created this pending group. every two weeks, we review these pending items to see if we have a date to put in and if we do, we put them in but

releasing data for such a long time, they're now receiving the attention they need to get updated for modern technologies. in terms of sort of the centralized effort to release this data by the administration, i think that data.gov has been a rallying point. it has been useful from that perspective for agencies. to identify the high-value data sets and publish them through this mechanism, internal processes have had to be made to grapple with this question of open data. the last panel addressed exactly what a high-value data set is being a problem. i think that is something that we are going to have to pay more attention to. but it is clear that data.gov has been useful in getting this process started, to get open data plans proposed and get people thinking about this problem across the entire and ministers in. the value to the public of data.gov is more of an open question. it is updated catalog. it is sort of like the old .ahoo! . back when the weather was taking off, there was this hierarchal ordering of your experiences on the web. that is not help people discover information on the web. the use sear

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technology regulating safety of our pipelines. you can watch it live at 6:00 this morning on nbcbayarea.com. we'll continue to have updates throughout the morning. >>> this morning more than a dozen people protesting fee hikes for the u.c. system are under arrest. at 10:00 last night police told a group of protesters to leave u.c. berkeley's lee hall. police arrested them one by one as they chanted "no cuts, no fees, and we are doing this for your kids." one student said why he was there. >> they can raise fees 32% every time an economic crisis happens, and those happen every eight years. what's going to happen to our children? that's what this is about. >> there was a big police presence. cal campus police got help from officers at san francisco state. >>> this morning we don't know if two buildings reopened after raids by federal agents. we heard they were going to reopen this morning, we called this morning and no one answered. more than a dozen rooms were raided yesterday as they concentrated on the oaks card club in emeryville. they were looking for people, documents and evidence related to gangs, gambling and money

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technology. >> great. thank you. >> this is a segue to the next item. >> i want to make sure there is no other public comment on this. >> an update on climate change. following up on the conversations that we just had. david behar is here to talk about climate change. >> good afternoon. i am here today to give an overview of our climate change projects. we will go through these relatively quickly. please feel free to ask questions at any time and interrupt. i am privileged to be able to work both locally and at the state level and nationally on these issues. what i appreciate is how we don't -- we are accepting of the fact of a climate change. we know this is happening, it has been happening, it will happen in the future. this allows programs to reduce our carbon filament to be expected in the community and allows many of the programs in terms of assessing our vulnerability to the future and climate change can move forward without controversy. what is going on in congress is that we should be appreciative of our ability to do this. we will focus primarily on all of those issues but really zero in on adaptation and assessment a little bit more. i wi

technology. >> great. thank you. >> this is a segue to the next item. >> i want to make sure there is no other public comment on this. >> an update on climate change. following up on the conversations that we just had. david behar is here to talk about climate change. >> good afternoon. i am here today to give an overview of our climate change projects. we will go through these relatively quickly. please feel free to ask questions at any time and interrupt. i am privileged to be able to work both locally and at the state level and nationally on these issues. what i appreciate is how we don't -- we