i am the representative from the national park service. to get to your point about the allocation, the majority of structures on the presidio are under the jurisdiction of the presidio trust, about 5.5 million square feet of space. that is the major structural fire protection responsibility. san francisco fire has traditionally provided responses to national park service plans in the rest of san francisco. we welcome being a part of the san francisco fire department family. we look forward to working with the staff. i have met many of them to discuss the details. i am confident in being able to work collaboratively with them, moving forward. we appreciate and embrace the opportunity. chairperson avalos: if follow up question. you said the fire department has jurisdiction over other aspects of the golden gate national recreation area? >> historically, the san francisco fire area has provided response for areas like ocean beach. they help us out down there. that would continue. the presidio is the one station that is being looked at right now

the future of this nation is you. l you that they have the right to take their country back. i will remind you that it is our country, too. [applause] today, we reclaim the dream, a dream that was hours from the beginning, a dream that we will make reality. thank you. [applause] >> it is time to step up to the podium. i know we are in howard country, what can i say? i have to say that because i paid four years of tuition, room, and board. my god, am i happy that is over. [laughter] is there a a more house in the house? here is your president of morehouse college, dr. robert franklin. [applause] >> thank you. god bless you, reverend al sharpton for this important moment in american history. to all of the leaders and organizers and those present today, i stand as a member of the higher education community representing the 105 historically black colleges and universities in america. we're not going anywhere. [applause] we are here to stay. i stand here to remind us all that when martin luther king jr. arrived at morehouse

he was representing the national bankers association. that is to iran as the meeting for. -- that is to i arranged the meeting for. >> they focus a lot on the actions of your chief of staff. it seems to indicate an opinion that you were responsible. is he under investigation by the ethics committee? >> i don't know. >> why do you think not at the root of so much around his action? >> if you look at the e-mails that they were -- you would have to ask yourself, what did he do? what did he say? did he ask any agency of government for assistance? did he make a telephone call? did he ask the congresswomen to ask him? at did he do? that is probably why there is no investigation. no one can say that he actually took any action. that is my thinking. >> this may not be the main issue, but do you think the ethics process should be changed? how would you change it? >> i am not opposed to the ethics process or any ethics process, but i think there has to be due process. somewhere in this process, you cannot file a claim after a certain date. i think

we pay the same federal taxes as everybody else in this nation. illion in taxes and we can't even get a vote in the congress for one of the most outstanding representatives in this nation, eleanor holmes norton. and so, instead of jist fighting for a vote, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to stand up and fight to become the 51st state in the nation. it is time for us to be outraged. those of us who live in the district of columbia, let's demen strait our outrage. and those who live outside the city, go back home wherever it is and say it is time to right the wrong in the nation's capital that we can't fight for democracy in foreign places and we can't fight for it at home. ladies and gentlemen, let's right the wrong. let's make dr. king's dream come true. let's have equality in our nation's capital. thank you all very much. >> we are now in the final banks ft pee speakers. they're all -- banks of the speakers. reverend sharpton is here. bell is here. they're all standing by ready. we've still got people coming in. but we're not going anywher

i welcome you here to the nation's capital, the last plantation, the last colony. as long as you have 600,000 people living in the nation's capital paying the highest federal taxes per person in the nation who do not have representation in the house or the senate and cannot get the $2.3 billion that we lose every year because we cannot tax people that work here and don't live here, we need your help. go back, and tell your senators, your congressperson, free the state make us the 51st state. your brothers and sisters are here waiting for your help. freak d.c. --free dc. i would be remiss if i did it acknowledge the 350,000 students from howard university. >> my name is brandon harris. today we are here not just to reclaim a dream but to realize a vision. over the last 47 years, undoubtedly advances have been made by it is a battle for justice and equality. we must remember that every shovel reaches a turning point. we confront a world on the brink of monumental change, a new administration, accelerated globalization, and a society still unsure of how to cope with t

hosted by the national press club, this is an hour. >> the afternoon and welcome to the national pressb. i am a reporter for bloomberg news and the president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists and are committed to the future of the profession. for more information about the press club, visit our web site at www.press.or.g to donate, please visit the same website. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees which include guests of our speaker as well as working journalists. i would also like to welcome the c-span and public radio audience. after the speech, i will ask as many audience questions as time permits. i would now like to introduce our head table guests. from your right, frank snelix, a realtor and special guest. larry-3, a librarian and a member of the national press club. glenn marcus, an independent writer and producer for public television. emily arrata, deputy director for affairs of new orleans. and energy reporter. another editor. senator mary landreua. we have anjou s

i and the national incident commander. i will issue the order when we decide how we are going to proceed. it will be based on my determination of what it will take to kill as well. we will determine when the well is dead. once the well is dead, there is no longer a threat of discharge. then there will no longer be a role for the national incident commander. it will shift to a regulatory issue for the bureau of ocean energy and management within the department of the interior. next question. >> this is from the associated press. i know there has not been an order issued yet. pending an order, with the 96 hour time frame -- but that still apply, going forward? >> that is correct. that refers to a statement i made earlier. once we want to proceed with the drilling would take 96 hours to do the ranging run to make sure we knew where the drill bit was in relationship and to intercept it. that would be 96 hours. >> your next question from the phone. >> admiral, were you able to make any sense, or does bp have an idea, based on th

, the national interest, the best thing for britain now is a new government that works together in theional interest, and i hope with all my heart that is something we can achieve. that is all i have to say for now. i hope you understand, but i will not be taking questions because this urgent work must begin. thank you. >> we leave the british leader's speeches. you can find them in their entirety at c-span.org. next, president obama on the latest unemployment numbers released today. the labor department report shows unemployment rising to 9.9% in >> in my day, i said he was and still is the best dressed da mayor in the nation. am i correct, everybody? willie brown. [applause] you will need him again, but please help me welcome send francisco assessor phil king, supervisor david chiu, carmen chu. [applause] supervisor eric mar, right here. [applause] public defender jeff adachi. it was just here. and from the city administrator's office, edwin lee. right here. [applause] and i would also like to welcome some generals who may be in our audience. i did not get a chance to see if you were

we are the gateway to the nation's goods. with 460 million tons of cargo annually shipped down the mississippi and moved up the river, let us not take for granted but the coast is the home to the second largest fishing industry in america annually accounted for 30% of all seafood consumed in this country. whether it is food, clothing, metal, oil, the rest of america can rely on us to put food on the table, keep the lights on and keep the gas in the tank. contrary to popular belief,-this not come from the gas pump. by focusing on higher short-term profits, instead of long-term sustainability. we are greedily robbing resources from future generations. decades of bad deals have left the decade -- had left the coast defiled. the federal government is taking billions of dollars of revenue from our shores and register bidding to other parts of the country. national environmental groups cluster on the east and west coast leaving local environmental groups on the gulf coast to fend for themselves. at the same time, bp has been incredi

that's the idea behind the annual national night out. which is taking place all over the bay area tonight. in oakland, where fewer police are on patrol neighbors come together like never before. nbc bay area jodi hernandez is live at oakland city hall where the national night kickoff is about to get under way. >> reporter: that's right. city leaders including the police chief are about to start a night of activities with those kick-off press conference here at city hall. an event organizers expect oakland residents who participate in the national night out event in record numbers. there are 452 block parties planned here in oakland tonight. we visited and spent some time in one oakland neighborhood today where folks feel it's more important than ever to organize. >> right here, this is where they've actually cut with bolt cutters, the hinge. and then have tried to pry it opened. >> reporter: jeffrey shows us how a burglar broke into his garage last thursday morning targeting his north oakland home for the second time in two weeks. only th

the united nations has made this a priority. in 2005, a framework for pragmatic blueprints for action. last year, we introduced the first global risk reduction. clearly, we must follow through on these recommendations. this disaster is like few the worlhas ever seen. it requires a response to match. pakistan needs a flood of support. yet in the media, we hear talk of so-called fatigue. the suggestion is that governments are hesitant to deal with another disaster and they hesitate. let us remember that if anybody it is the fatigued, small families i met in pakistan facing hardship. instead of fatigue, however, i such determination, resilience, hope, and expectations. when faced with the tsunami, or the earthquake in haiti, or other natural disasters, we show extraordinary effort. let us begin today together stand with the people of pakistan. let us act so that this disaster to not become a man-made catastrophe. let us givehis our all. thank you very much. >> i think the secreta general predict thank the secretary general for his s

it's really a park way, and it's a parkway through the national park. nd they make the road disapeer to the national park. >> and the road is about 20 feet lower, normally midday, you go through it in two minutes. looking back from the golden gate bridge to presidio, you are more aware of the park land and less of the roads. and the viaduct will parallel the existing one and to the south and can be built while the existing one remains in operation. and the two bridges there with open space between them and your views constantly change and not aware of the traffic in the opposite direction and notice the views more. and the lanes of course are a foot wider than they are today. and they will be shoulders and if your car is disabled, you can pull off to the edge. and the next area, the tunnel portal will have a view centered on the palace of fine arts and as you come out, you can see alkatrez island and bay. and the next area is about 1,000 feet long. and when you come into one, you can see through the other end. it's almost like driving through a building

next month they'll all be attending the nation's most expensive public school. "the nedy . >>> from kindergarteners to high school seniors next month they'll all be attending the nation's most expensive public school. the robert f kennedy schools kicks off its inaugural school year in los angeles. the price tag. $582 million, a k through 12 complex. sits on the land one home to the ambassador hotel where robert f kennedy was assassinated in 1968. >>> if you subscribe to any magazines you know they are not shy about trying to get you to renew but take a good look next time you get one of those renewal notices. it could be from a suspicious source. . >> reporter: isa renewal from publishers billing exchange for his wife's favorite magazine so like a good husband ron cooper paid it. >> i filled out a check and sent it off to them. >> reporter: but a few weeks later a different renewal notice arrived this one directly from "so beautiful magazine" and for half the amount of the first bill. >> i go oh-oh, something is strange here. >> turns out the first notice was fro

gonzalez is also a founding member of the national association of hispanic journalists, the national association of hispanic publications, the association of media alternatives, the national association of third-world journalists, bay area chapter, and also he is part of new america media. mr. gonzalez is also the director of the voices for justice project that will document the history of the latino presence in the u.s. by producing a film, a book, and a website. what's very interesting is that you still see mr. gonzalez in the mission talking to young people, speaking in english and in spanish, or sometimes he doesn't talk that much. he listens. and so he is absolutely a hero for the latino community. thank you very much. juan gonzalez. [applause] >> the next award goes to march sella medina. she is a former vice president and manager of some businesses. she has acquired more than 25 years of experience in the broadcasting and entertainment industries including work in the u.s. hispanic market and broadcasting industry. the u.s. english-speaking broadcasting industry and the cable

he's the founder of the national president of the united founder and president of the national united native americans incorporated, a nonprofit indian organization formed in 1968 to promote the progress and general welfare of american indians. in his capacity of president of u.n.a., mr. brightman has testified in two u.s. senate hearings on the deplorable conditions of indian boarding schools and hospitals on reservations. he's also led investigations of seven indian boarding schools, three indian hospitals, due to the poor service and abusive treatment of indian people. he's a former football and track star at oklahoma state university where he has earned a b.a. degree. he has an m.a. deling from -- degree from the university of california at birkly. mr. brightman is an ex-marine, served one year in the korean conflict where he was wounded in action. he was a disinterested student going through the motions during high school and college in order to play football. however, when he joined the marines, he found a renewed sense of purpose. he said, when i came back from the marine corps

the nation needs a real conversation about the size of government and the tax system that should pay for it. that discussion will likely be front-and-center in the campaign. in the meantime, extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts will support the recovery and jobs. i'm glenn hubbard. >> susie: and finally, today marks warren buffett's 80th birthday, but the oracle of omaha has no plans to retire as c.e.o. of berkshire hathaway. he's vowing to work past 100, buoyed on by his well-known love of hamburgers and cherry coke. buffett says he'll rely on berkshire board member and longtime friend bill gates to tell him if its time to step down. when it comes to investing, buffett has made billions by following these kinds of investment strategies: "be fearful when others are greedy. be greedy when others are fearful." tom, here's another good one: "you can't buy what's popular and do well." all i can say about buffet is that a few months ago when i saw him, he was playing ping-pong with a teenager, a very aggressive game, and he shows no signs of slowing down. >> tom: between the ping-pong, uk

the money that is given to support the national endowment is not government money. t's people's money. i wish the government would stop referring to it as its own money. it is not. it--it is the people's money. the whole thing about subsidy for the arts in the united states comes down to the fact: do we believe as a society that we should have an aesthetically educated population? now, i have a feeling that an aesthetically educated population is probably better able to vote intelligently than one that is not, 'cause i think the arts are enormously instructive to us on how to live our lives. if whoever is running the government feels that people should not be aesthetically educated, then they will destroy the national endowment, which, you know, even the national endowment-- what, $100 million bucks a year? the per capita support of the arts in the united states from all of the endowments and all of the funds that do it, public and private in this country, is about 1/5 of that happens in some european countries. yeah, we do very, very little for the arts. and even th

remember, the birthplace of the united nations, and the full promise of the united nations -- it all began here in san francisco, and there, many of you were. 100-plus-wrong with the largest demonstration this nation had ever seen at the time of people saying enough is enough, and we are going to demonstrate our right to demand that our rights are extended, and people paid attention. in so many ways, that was the cataclysmic moment in time that really will people of so that some 13 years later, we woke up the nation when 3000 people strong came out in washington, d.c. democrats, republicans, independents, and we got the americans with disabilities act signed by then-president bush at the white house lawn 20 years ago today. so it is remarkable, those origins. is remarkable progress. it is remarkable the work that all of you have done. if you have ever watched, and maybe you do not want to, or maybe you had to -- i never good with notes. i have my own learning disability called dyslexia, so i cannot be very well, but i thought it was important to make susan's point, and then doing some

i said as an independent state with the new nation looking for ways to really strengthen its sovereignty. those are the headlines now the united nations says more than seventeen million people have been affected by pakistan's worst ever floods and international aid is now flowing into the country but the disaster has already taken at least sixteen hundred lives and we spoke to the un's deputy envoy to pakistan to find out what needs to be done that and that interview is coming up right now. some see it is the guts of the century. has devoted all its resources its called into the international community to her. message got this trophy disaster. as a u.n. special envoy in pakistan. and pakistan how do you assess the you in rule at this time i believe the united nations has been a very important partner to pakistan for the pakistani people for decades we have been working in this country and some of the worst crisis. which affected the people of pakistan the influx of the afghan refugees thirty years ago the different natural disasters this country is experiencing unfortunately on this very

the senate makes history with the confirmation of the nation's 112th member of the supreme court. >>> seeing red. an alarming new report has social security this year paying out more than it takes in. >>> and hot pursuit. a suspect leads police on a wild chase through the streets of los a suspect leads police on a wild chase through the streets of los angeles. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to onour viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with heading to the high court. elena kagan will become the fourth woman ever to serve on the supreme court after being confirmed by the senate yesterday. five republicans and two independents joined all but one democrat in voting for the former dean of harvard law school. kagan will officially join the bench when she is sworn in tomorrow afternoon by chief justice john roberts. her addition will mark the first time three women have served together on the nine-member supreme court. kagan will be the only justice on the current court who has never been

it was not the united nations nor the united nations agency in port-au-prince or any other humanitarianrganization. it all started here. in this living room with a handful of graduates to. students. several dozen showed up but days later they movement grew and got more and more graduate students and we got undergraduate students and tufts university in boston, london, montreal, washington, a d.c. it was not only students but the haitian diaspora. they treated this matter and maintained it over the next few weeks. by the end of the first week, thousands more volunteers across the world came together connected by social media and networks online to translate tens of thousands of text messages that were coming and from the disaster-affected populism in haiti and translating these text messages within minutes and locating them and adding them to this map creating this live map. if you put the faces behind these spots, you have a human story. you have individuals with their own lives and responsibilities and work and concerns and families who still find the time and make the time to come tog

i and the national incident commander. i will issue the order when we decide how we are going to proceed. it will be based on my determination of what it will take to kill as well. we will determine when the well is dead. once the well is dead, there is no longer a threat of discharge. then there will no longer be a role for the national incident commander. it will shift to a regulatory issue for the bureau of ocean energy and management within the department of the interior. next question. >> this is from the associated press. i know there has not been an order issued yet. pending an order, with the 96 hour time frame -- but that still apply, going forward? >> that is correct. that refers to a statement i made earlier. once we want to proceed with the drilling would take 96 hours to do the ranging run to make sure we knew where the drill bit was in relationship and to intercept it. that would be 96 hours. >> your next question from the phone. >> admiral, were you able to make any sense, or does bp have an idea, based on th

president obama will address the nation tonight about the withdrawal of combat troops from iraq. we'll have live coverage from the oval office at 8:00 p.m. eastern. following the president's remarks, we'll take your phone calls. . . >> judges around the nation are sometimes termed the hidden judiciary. some of them are not able to attend social security theories. americans don't know what is happened at this courts. at the same time the likelihood that an american will see the inside of a federal courtroom, these have a kind of course they will appear before. in addition, in recent months, immigration courts have very much been headlines and yet we don't know a lot about what goes on in immigration courts with immigration judges. today we will try to take the cloak of the hit in the judiciary. speaking today will be randall frye. he is president of the association of administrative law judges which represents hundreds of social security judges across the country and the president of the national association of immigration judges who represents to better 37 judges across the natio

warning by the united nations that the disease is. a chronic disease would spread in the areas was affected what is the how the you were in will deal corteen contain these diseases in these with the fifty's well again the united nations has been present and working with the health authorities in the country again for decades on the over the occasion of polio etc so there is a capacity on the ground and again intertwined with. the government health structures. sort of deserving and the need there may be and may have been even before but still there's a capacity to respond. there has been a very. a high level consultation involving and chaired by the prime minister himself to address this issue because it is of concern again because of the rather poor state of health of many of the people let's not forget that before the floods because. the food insecurity was enormous in this country a lot of people did not have enough food on their plates every day poverty is a big issue here so you have very weak people. and these are in many most ca

novak when the agent exclusion act, the chinese exclusion act was before congress in 1870, the first national leader to speak out against that was frederick douglass. the same man who fought against slavery. do you know that when the chinese exclusion act was voted on in congress, there was one black senator named blanche bruce, the only african-american in the u.s. senate, voted against it. similarly, we work side-by-side for semel -- civil rights and improve public education. in '86, and laundry owner sued the san francisco board of supervisors for a racially discriminatory law, and it brought equal protection to minorities, and that overturned the 1857 dread scott case, which held that minorities were not protected by the u.s. constitution. we have the landmark case of brown harris is board of education, 1954, to thank for equality in education. -- brown v. board of education. seven years later, the chinese community here worked shoulder to shoulder with the african- american community to expand civil rights and public education. we have a history of working together. mayer brown, and reve

the headlines. dick's winning debut national coach of the cart leads russia to one friend living. in pittsburgh and his first game in charge. spain cannot win them all they helped one all drop by mexico. and interim three of russia's top medical liability is in good form at the masters . let's start with football where courage to give a card has led russia to victory on his managerial debut as his men beat bill gary a one nail in the international friendly in st petersburg. didn't my god has made a triumphant return to the petrowski stadium in st petersburg where he coached zen needs a side that he helped win that you wave a cup and the russian title of course but now you see they sing a much tougher task with the russian national team who are banking on not simply qualifying for the year olds when t twelve but perhaps wouldn't as well although that's going to happen in a couple of years but for now let's review the friendly match between russia and bulgaria the game started on a high note for the russian fans who continue singing the national anthem as the referee blew the whistl

if we notice that there is an overage for one year, there is a maximum amount of payment from the national park service as well as presidio trust. that money is not lost. that is carried to the four years and can be picked up as review the contract. we not only came up with these estimated numbers -- we look at the cpi. it is around 3.3% to 3.5%. we feel comfortable with the cap we have. it meets the needs of the federal government and the city and county of san francisco. for implementation, it was approved by the fire commission. we would go to the full board for approval on august 10 and would like to be able to make final job offers to the fire personnel on august 25 and start the academy on august 30 and have them on the streets sometime in october. we recommend that you approve this today. i would be happy to answer any questions you might have. chairperson avalos: thank you become a deputy chief. thank you for your work. -- thank you, deputy chief. think you for your work. i know there were years spent developing this relationship. thank you for your effort and work on that. i know

this is hard for the nation to understand. in terms of how he have taken resources out of the ground and not restore the ground. a lot of it has to do with being able to eat. not having the wisdom or the strength to say, "you can drill, but you have to restore." we have gotten better over the years through regulation -- every regulation that is in the book that needs to be measured appropriately. we have got to the point where it has become obvious that you have to restore the land. you are on an unsustainable path going forward if you do not. we have to change course on the federal side, on the state side, and all the local site. national groups have skirted past louisiana, in my opinion. it does not work anymore. we have to change. the good part about that is that we actually know how to do it. on top of that, it is not something that america is doing alone. it happens all over the world. we are not at a competitive disadvantage is if we are in an international market. but we find a new way, we really do not have much choice

if we notice that there is an overage for one year, there is a maximum amount of payment from the national park service as well as presidio trust. that money is not lost. that is carried to the four years and can be picked up as review the contract. we not only came up with these estimated numbers -- we look at the cpi. the cpi. it

the united nations has asked governments to provide dozens of helicopters to get lifesaving supplies to pakistan some eight hundred thousand people remain trapped after the country's worst ever floods with more than seventeen million affected to get an inside look at the situation and find out what needs to be done we spoke to the un's deputy envoy to pakistan his interviews coming right out. some see it is the catastrophic of the century and the un has devoted all its resources its called upon the international community to help. in this message of this trophy disaster. as a u.n. special envoy in pakistan. and pakistan how do you assess the you rule at this time i believe the united nations has been a very important partner to pakistan for the pakistani people for decades we have been working in this country and some of the worst crisis. which affected the people of pakistan the influx of afghan refugees thirty years ago the different natural disasters this country is experiencing unfortunately on this very frequent basis so we are with pakistan have to do with pakistan really with p

how the nation honored them decades later. all straight ahead on "second look." good evening, i'm julie haener and this is look look. it is one of the most famous photographs of its generation. a sailor kissing a nurse in the midst of a celebration in new york's times square. that seen, 55 years ago captured the joy of a nation that had just gotten the news. four long years of war were over. the japanese had surrendered and world war ii had come to an end. from new york to san francisco people poured into the streets to mark the end of the long night of war. it's difficult for younger generations to comprehend how much world war ii had consumed american society. nearly everyone knew someone who died in the war. and nearly everyone back home had done what he or she could to help the war effort. that's why there was such a celebration when the fighting s over. ten years ago ktvu's bob mckenzie brought us this look back at august 14, 1945, the day the war ended. >> reporter: 37:87 p.m. eastern wartime. >> the japanese have accepted our terms fully. that's the word we

within the afghan national police, it was about 16%. ve three major sub components. you're the afghan national police, the uniformed police, and her border police. in the afghan national police, the attrition rate is unacceptable. right now, it is about 47%. we first started addressing that specific attrition issue, it was at 70%. they will have to reduce the attrition within the afghan national police. there is an ongoing effort there to do that. from working at their pay -- we established a living wage and brought the base pay that would give them the the ability to lead at a basic level and take care of their families without having to turn to other needs to develop and come. we also added propane and -- pro-pay for areas that were considered hazardous areas. we also added longevity pay. all pay modifications -- most recently, we also added pro-pay. you get an additional $50 a month. for each deployment, there is a bonus there that you also gets from the afghan government. we are working the kepis pretty diligently. the next one was t

here you were chairman of the republican national committee. were a long-time lobbyist here in washington, and now you are the popular, i would also add, governor of mississippi. so i want to start with this. if joe miller does win in alaska, it will be the second time this cycle that an incumbent republican senator has been denied his party's nomination to the senate. the other being bob bennett of utah. is this a little bit scary to the establishment types like you? >> not to me. when i was chairman of the rnc, bob, as you mentioned, in the last decade, we never took sides in primaries. we did not endorse incumbents over challengers. i'm the chairman of the republican governors association today. we do not take sides in primaries. here's why. the republicans of alaska have the right and should pick their nominee. they don't need somebody in mississippi to tell them who ought to be the senator of alaska. >> schieffer: debbie wasserman shultz, we had this big rally here yesterday on the anniversary of martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech

that could have messed up a lot of people's lives. >> the suspects are all mexican nationals who have lived at the home for a year. authorities say they expect to make more arrests. >> the santa cla county sheriff's department has stopped illegal marijuana arrests in the wilderness. a man shot and killed by deputies and during a marijuana farm raid last month near morgan hill had a pellet gun. depues and say the suspect didn't obey commands to drop his weapon so ty opened fire. >> a millbrae clean up after a suspected unk driving smashed into a tree, awnings and house overnight. the suspect was travelin at high speeds and lost control of his s.u.v. just before 12:30 on ca koya avenu the house did not have any serious structural damage. the family was home at the time but fortunatel nobody was hurt. he wasn't arrested because other than doing a lot of property damage, he didn't injure anybody except himself. >> in san francisco police investigating the city's third fatal shoong in less than 24 hours. the most recent shooting happened just after midnight. police say a man was shot and k

. >> sadly we know there have been instances throughout the nation where unfortunately real tragedies have occurred. and we don't want that to happen here. >> when referring to violence in schools nationwide and how the reaction toward handling any such threats has evolved over time, top of mind are the fatal school shootings at columbine in colorado more than ten years ago as well as at virginia tech university in 2007. now, the hope here is at briarwood it will end as just another normal school day at 2:30 today. live at santa clara, theresa garcia, abc 7 news. >> i certainly hope that's the case, theresa. thank you very much. three suspects believed to have a link to a mexican drug cartel are being held at the santa clara county jail charged with one of the biggest drug operations local authorities have ever seen. authorities seized 500 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and cocaine. today it would get $100 million on the street. this is exclusive video. in addition to the drugs, police believe the men may have been using that home for cockfighting and for dog fights. local and fede

thank you, bob, and the national press club for the invitation. we're here to discuss the upcoming elections which are 67 days from today. 67 days from today, millions of americans going to the polls to vote in the 2010 midterm elections, an election which we all agree was shaped the national decisionmaking for years to come. congressional republicans inside the beltway are already talking -- popping champagne bottles, saying that they're going to seize control of the united states congress. it is an agreement for celebration. i can assure you that the summer washington political chatter, the reports of the democrats designs -- demise are greatly exaggerated. i've been talking to people at home meeting their constituents, they're talking about issues that matter that are important people and make a difference in people's lives. it is very clear that the democrats will retain a majority in the house, come november, for three reasons. first and most importantly, america wants to continue to move lord and not turn back to the same economic policies t

president obama addresses the nation as the u.s. combat mission ends in iraq. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we get the analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> lehrer: and margaret warner in baghdad examines the challenges iraqis still face in their daily lives. >> woodruff: then, from mexico city, we learn the latest on the arrest of an alleged drug lord from jason beaubien of npr. >> lerher: we have another in john merrow's reports on the washington, d.c., schools. tonight he looks at a new test for teachers. >> how can you possibly have a system where the vast majority of adults are running around thinking i'm doing an excellent job when what we're producing for kids is 8% success. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown updates the story of new orleans musician and scholar michael white, five years after katrina. >> i went through a serious period of depression, of anger, of many different kinds of emotions. ♪ and then i came to realize the most valuable thing that i have i never lost. it's inside. it'