italian actress isabella rossellini is part of the jury. e grit" opens the festival, but it is screening out of the competition. our entertainment correspondent is it down there at the edge of the red carpet. hello. jeff bridges continues his career role, playing the one- night sure of that cannot quite shoot straight. what can you tell us about the film. >> well, jeff bridges, last time he was here, he was playing the dude. now he is playing the duke, for pricing their road john wayne played in the original film. i think this is a bit better. it is really a classic western, i returned to mershon representative read a lot of people thought was dead. the cohen brothers revived it in a credible way. a very horrible movie. i think it will be a huge success with western fans and all film fans in berlin. >> letter people sang about the iranian director. he was there toa member of the jury but was banned from travelling abroad by the government of tehran. what is the word? >> the jury press conferences morning, there was an empty seat next to the

nearly identical the jury said nope. court says that's not the interpretation of the trademark law. the jury should have been asked to see if it was similar enough to blur the lines. they don't have to be identical but similar enough. so levi's will take a back to court. you be the judge? we will be back. ♪ i thought it was over here... ♪ [car horn honks] our outback always gets us there... ... sometimes it just takes us a little longer to get back. ♪ >> darya: quick check on the top stories. mt. diablo school district is closing hobart anwok middle school. the third school could be sold or what or west would. they'll make that decision a couple weeks. >> james: protests are defined in egypt following a warning by the vice president's that if they do not negotiate the could be a coup. they have called for new protest of millions this friday through cairo. we will see if that materializes. >> darya: federal chair will make its first appointment before the house. it will be before the budget committee will likely be tough.

now, the actress is a member of the jury for the amnesty international film prize. she and her colleagues will decide which movie has made the biggest contribution to addressing human rights issues. >> in a good film, you learn a lot about the situation in the country. information is the most important thing. when you have information, you can help. >> one of the nominated projects comes from iran. the film tells the story of a couple torn between traditional duty and the challenges of modern life. movies have been ninated, including both feature films and documentaries. >> making these films is often forbidden in their home country, so directors shoot without permission, and you can tell. it is a completely different situation. >> a documentary and bills the brutal practices of torture and of the action in chechnya. the director meets a torture victim in a former prison. >> [speaking a foreign language] >> it keeps me awake at night. i cannot sleep because this film shows such clear, graphic images of the abuse going on in that country. also, they have touched me s

leaving home and leaving their loved ones behind and all the sacrifices they made, and that stirred the jury's patriotism and anger at wright. >> narrator: rebecca thomas won the case. >> lincoln was aware of everything that was going on in court. he had--just had that sense: the sense of movement, the sense of listening, the right time to object, the right argument to make, the right time for humor, the right time to be serious. >> he had a tremendous ability to think through both sides of the case, and he would in fact surprise judges and juries by starting some of his arguments by giving a pretty strong case for what his opponent was trying to say. >> he would say, "my opponent has a good argument on point 'a' and has good evidence on point 'b' and sound reasoning on point 'c' and"-- and meanwhile, the client would sweating bullets, thinking, "oh, my goodness, he's giving away the case here." >> but then he would go and pick it apart sentence by sentence or thought by thought and substitute his version of what the case was really about. >> he'd be in all these towns of the circuit practicin

this is the jury pool. the jury pool is constantly affected and infected by nancy grace, law-and-order. it is constantly being polluted -- i truly believe this -- by the media. it sounds silly but it is not. i really believe in the power of media to influence people. that is why i got in it. so we have to use it to our advantage. you have got to be in it to win it. if we are not controlling our image, someone else is. so you have got to start thinking about the way that the image of the public defender is going to be portrayed, either in dramatic television -- over which you will have a lot less control. or certainly, in news media. years ago, i got a phone call from a public defender in san francisco. he had a case receiving a lot of media attention, and he wanted me to come to cover the case for 20/20. some of his colleagues thought he was not to. what are you bringing a barbara walters in to cover a case at the san francisco public defender's office? they turned their noses up at him and thought it was s

as a snowman a snowflake and various other snow related mascots have been presented and chosen by the jury they've made the short list also other potential mascots on that short list among them a bullfinch a very beautiful winter bird white bird with a pretty red breast that is said to be by some in this country to be a sort of a lock poem and if you do see one in the winter it is said to have disposed to bring you luck because they are quite rare so the people of this country will then have to engage in a nationwide float and that will of course take place at the end of the month at which point the jury the jury will announce what the people have chosen they'll be one mascot for the main olympic games one mascot for the paralympic games up until the moment of voting actually comes the ballot however the website of the russian olympic mascot will be operating available to everyone not just russian citizens because there will be a very handy feature that will allow users and browsers basically to choose the language that they want the presentation to run in. all of the shortlisted mascots w

the jury for the first time had a black person and a liberal woman and that trial and the klan and jointly liable with employees of the greensboro police department the survivors pool the resources that we gathered from the civil suit which warless a certain amount of money to set up the greensboro justice fund which is an organization to fund grassroots groups in the u.s. south through funding racial violence and that's really been a tremendous positive legacy this corner of the greens were a massacre i'd say a civil trial was a partial victory but other than that it was just lots of justice. documenting the klan is something that i feel is a calling in my life. my goal for the project is to document as thoroughly as possible they have vents the actions and the beliefs of the klan members. attend rallies ten marches. cross lighting ceremonies on private property i've promised these groups only to be fair and objective and documenting what they believe even though a lot of what they do i don't believe it and. i've tried to stick to that promise. no one child that i've hurt with was just fi

is what the jury is going to be deciding. >> prosecutors insist the trial isn't about what did or did not happen in the past but what happened last may, when the priest was beaten. the trial is expected to begin sometime late this summer, or fall. >> and oakland police are investigating a sexual assault of a young boy in the bathroom of a play center supposed to be a save haven for children in east oakland. laura? >> hi, cheryl. we're talking about the boys and girls club, a long-time well respected institution. accord together club president this young victim is a brand new member. akoording to police, it happened inside of this bathroom at the boys and girls club on international boulevard. the 7-year-old buy told his mother was -- he was sexual assaulted by several other boys. police say there are more than two suspects under age 12. >> we have assigned investigators to take over the case. the case is a high priority to us. and its also a highly-sensitive case due to the age of the victim and suspects. >> the young person whom i learned just joined our club on the third of the mont

the jury says there are enough qualified unbiased people in the jury to go to trial. the 25-year-old yusef bay wanted chaup cy bailey dead after working on a story about your muslim bakery. at the time yusef was the leader of the bakery. final decisions on the jury will be made on march 21st. >>> san francisco's city attorney is cracking down on smoke shops accused of smelling crack pots and pipes. dennis herrera claims that an undercover investigation found the shops were selling illegal drug paraphernalia. the city has been cracking down on new smoke shops the past couple of years. in 2009 the city prevented new shops from opening in the ashberry neighborhood. and last year special permits were required to open a smoke job on polling street. >>> a bay area doctor who survived a mail bomb attack by the unibomber died on sunday. they will remember the life of charles epstein who died of pancreatic cancer on tuesday. he did research on down syndrome and gained notoriety 18 years ago when he opened a package that turned out to be a mail bomb sent from ted co zin skooe c

. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at the biggest issue in america today? segregation still exists... racism... the repression and oppression of women the educational system stem cell research homeless people cloning government health care taxation announcer: so, is there anything you're doing to help make a change? i'm not really doin' anything. ummmm [sighs] got me on that one... >> welcome. we are here doing our building san francisco tour. we're going to have a very interesting tour of elevators in

was up for the pulitzer prize, the qualified jury of theater professionals voted the play that it shouldget the pulitzer prize that year. but there were a bunch of newspaper editors who sat on top of the jury, so to speak, and decided whether the jury's recommendations were tolerable or not-- editors and publishers, i think. and this group of 15, the new york times, bless them, told us all, decided eight to seven that who's afraid of virginia woolf? was too what? too controversial, too good-- something; i don't know-- to get the pulitzer prize that year. and the new york times went further and talked to some of the eight who had voted against it and found that half of them had neither seen it nor read it, which gave them a kind of objectivity. [laughter] clearly. so i don't know that whether that year, i got the pulitzer prize and they took it away from me, or i didn't get it. so since i got three later, i think i have 3 1/2. (paulson) a lot of people apparently believe art can be dangerous. it should be. and that provokes a response, though, as we know from the discussions surrounding t

italian actress isabella rossellini is part of the jury. e grit" opens the festival, but it is screening out of the competition. our entertainment correspondent is it down there at the edge of the red carpet. hello. jeff bridges continues his career role, playing the one- night sure of that cannot quite shoot straight. what can you tell us about the film. >> well, jeff bridges, last time he was here, he was playing the dude. now he is playing the duke, for pricing their road john wayne played in the original film. i think this is a bit better. it is really a classic western, i returned to mershon representative read a lot of people thought was dead. the cohen brothers revived it in a credible way. a very horrible movie. i think it will be a huge success with western fans and all film fans in berlin. >> letter people sang about the iranian director. he was there toa member of the jury but was banned from travelling abroad by the government of tehran. what is the word? >> the jury press conferences morning, there was an empty seat next to the

. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call esident newlin: called to order the meeting of the entertainment commission. entertainment commission. please call the roll.

. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth c

the jury will decide. >> what makes you think, though, a jury -- was there something that the judge didn'tly buy or hear that you think a jury will? >> i'm not exactly sure. i mean, the jury will -- they've seen the story. they know what is going on. and i mean, it's basically just up to them and i've been fighting and i've been doing my best and i wasn't actually there for the judge's decision. i was sick at home with pneumonia. >> and i know you were sick and not feeling well. we hope you're feeling better. but the pageant officials really made a big deal out of your reliability and you admitted that you were late to some events and they really down played the weight issue which you had talked about last time you were here. do you think that the reliability question is a legitimate one? >> no, i don't believe so. i mean, they really made weight a big thing in the beginning of this and i think they're really just trying to cover up for their mistake. my reliability, i've been reliable since i was 13 years old in high school graduating early. i mean, i've been a volunteer for many organiza

. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call commissioner mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting. i am are his mirkarimi. >> avalos present, campos present, chiu and accept. chu absent. chen absent -- cohen present. elsbernd. elsbernd present. commissioner fairly. present. commissioner kim absent. commissioner mar, absent. mirkarimi, present. >> weiner present. we have a quorum. commissioner mirkarimi: read item two. >> approve men

now, the actress is a member of the jury for the amnesty international film prize. she and her colleagues will decide which movie has made the biggest contribution to addressing human rights issues. >> in a good film, you learn a lot about the situation in the country. information is the most important thing. when you have information, you can help. >> one of the nominated projects comes from iran. the film tells the story of a couple torn between traditional duty and the challenges of modern life. movies have been nominated, including both feature films and documentaries. >> making these films is often forbidden in their home country, so directors shoot without permission, and you can tell. it is a completely different situation. >> a documentary and bills the brutal practices of torture and of the action in chechnya. the director meets a torture victim in a former prison. >> [speaking a foreign language] >> it keeps me awake at night. i cannot sleep because this film shows such clear, graphic images of the abuse going on in that country. also, they have touched me

now it was time for the defense to make its case to the jury. ng and female from small town rural illinois. lawyers for shirley emphasize the fact there was no physical evidence lichinking her to the evidence. they argued shirley's statement to the first responders, is he dead, i shot him, were made when she was having a medical emergency. how reliable could those statements be? the defense focused on a sloppy, inept investigation by the police chief and pointed at jennifer through innuendo and implication with her ugly divorce and custody battle as the one with the motive to kill steven. they didn't directly argue jennifer pulled the trigger, only there was no hard evidence shirley did. what did jennifer have to say to the jury? nothing. she didn't attend the trial. the defense called no witnesses of its own. so what did jurors think of the case? we spoke with three. does shirley skinner look like someone who could commit this kind of crime? >> honestly, no. as a matter of fact, when i first walked in there, i really thought that she was one of

. >> let's be clear, the jury is back, the verdict is in. >>> tonight the government waáeugs weighs infety of toyota. >>> and coming up, what happened right before robbery, all which was caught on tape. >>> later that day, we found this video posted on a blog. >> the video was taken by a concerned citizen who did immediately call the police. >> san francisco police tell us it was not a random attack. the man and woman met earlier that day. >>> a government investigation of run away toyotas has concluded and the bottom line, it found in evidence of software or electronic flaws. lloyd lacuesta tells us what did cause those vehicles to accelerate. >> reporter: this time last year toyota was very busy, not in the factory. a worldwide recall resulted over claims of sticky gas pedals. today the government released the findings of a 10 month investigation. >> let's be clear, the jury is back, the verdict is in, there is no electronic based cause for unintended high speed acceleration in toyotas period. >> reporter: nasa and the national safety administration conducted the study. >> we are inc

. >> let's be clear, the jury is back, the verdict is in. >>> >>> later that day, we found this videoposted on a blog. >> the video was taken by a concerned citizen who did immediately call the police. >> san francisco police tell us it was not a random attack. the man and woman met earlier that day. >>> a government investigation of run away toyotas has concluded and the bottom line, it found in evidence of software or electronic flaws. lloyd lacuesta tells us what did cause those vehicles to accelerate. >> reporter: this time last year toyota was very busy, not in the factory. a worldwide recall resulted over claims of sticky gas pedals. today the government released the findings of a 10 month investigation. >> let's be clear, the jury is back, the verdict is in, there is no electronic based cause for unintended high speed acceleration in toyotas period. >> reporter: nasa and the national safety administration conducted the study. >> we are incredible confidence that the only causes of acceleration are the two mechanical causes. floor mat entrapment and sticky pedal. >> it would mak

half of those cases, there are acquittals, and what that means is a series agree about half the time -- juries agree about half the time with our assessment of the case. we know about the failures we have heard about in san francisco of late, including a technician in the police department crime lab, who was stealing drugs from the lab. we do not know for what time, but there are grams of cocaine that are missing from evidence common and that opened -- from evidence, and that opened and pandora's box. that is shocking that an individual could do that, but probably the more outrageous factor is that it went on for as long as it did and nobody acted on it, and then just recently, we heard there were as many as 130 police officers who have either criminal convictions or misconduct records that are not being disclosed by the district attorney in san francisco, and that is the obligation they have under the law. how could this happen? who is affected by this? the media often portrays it as criminals walking free, but we do have the presumption of innocence in this country, and the question we shoul

. >> the court is now accepting applications for the civil grand jury. this investigative watchdog body is comprised of 19 public spirited citizens. >> we are seeking candidates from all walks of life, 18 or older, who will bring to the grand jury a wide spectrum of talent, ideas, and issues of concern. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or calll >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used

the final decision in the jury will be made on march 21st. >>> there is a big announcement regarding y bridge later this morning. it could have an affect on your morning commute from the east bay. and christie smith is on treasure island now with more on that. >> reporter: good morning to you, brent. you know, what you are going to see is a series of lane realignment and detours way down there on that end on the oakland side right near the tole plaza. and this is important because of this construction project being the last piece of the puzzle, but now it is going to keep pace with work that you see on the suspension span going on. bottom line is that it means the new eastern span built for seismic safety will be done and available for you to drive on much sooner than originally expected. the critical part that we are talking about is called the oakland touchdown, about 1,000 feet of road where the bridge deck meets the ground over there on the eastern side. today caltrans and the bay area toll authority will be giving a media tour and unveiling details on how the realignment detours