the heaviest rain can be found across southern italy. there is severe thunderstorms popping up here. but things are gradually weakening. so that's good news for you. down toward -- out toward the east a very severe and powerful low pressure system is moving across the iberian peninsula bringing torrential rain as well as fierce winds. and strong winds have created high waves along the east coast. and some precipitation is falling across the southern uk. and the rain will also spread to southern france in the next 24 hours. meanwhile, it stays dry and settled across eastern europe. temperatures are shaping up like this. very warm in rome. we have 23 degrees. and 18 in athens. but there is moss kuo with 6 degrees and 9 in stockholm with re rain. all right. that's all for me now. and here's your extended forecast. ♪ ♪ >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. ♪ >>> in northeastern japan's iwate prefecture, where the tsunami caused severe damage, bob james played with a local big ban

on the other hand, it's not true that no southern chips are involved in the slave trade. writer mathilde civil war there were southerners who were actually smuggling slaves then. the slave trade had been illegal. international slave trade had been illegal for decades at this point. much more, there were many southerners and very few northerners involved in the just as terrible internal slave trade that tore apart families that send people especially from the upper south slaves to the lower south and also disrupt millions of lives much as the crossing of the atlantic to. i do think that looking at the records, you know, many people say because the south of the north were both involved in slavery, this means the south was not the cause of slavery. reading the documents and i've read many, many documents, he was the southerners themselves set in 1861, it's abundantly clear that they were fighting for slavery, that the civil war was about slavery, not about terrorists, not high taxes, not internal improvements. this is a war they were fighting in order to preserve the institut

this lease was presented at the southern waterfront advisory committee. it was met with -- very favorably. regarding ceqa, there is no ceqa required. it can be exempted from the california environmental quality act, and i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this item? commissioners? all in favor? resolution 1161 has been approved. thank you. >> 10a, requests approval of the proposal by the black rock arts foundation to extend the port commission approved temporary installation of public art by 12 months until october 2012, located near mission street on the east side of the embarcadero, on the plaza between the agriculture building and pier 14. >> good afternoon, commissioners. planning and development commission. on june 8, 2010, the commission authorized the installation of a sculpture to be located in the plaza area between the agriculture building and pier 14 for 14 months, which the license will conclude on october 7 of this year. black rock is now

attorney for the southern district. >> thank you. as been described, the complaint reveals a well-funded and pernicious plot but had as -- that act as -- that had as its first priority the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states. they had no concern concern -- no care or concern about inflicting mass casualties. the confidential source noted there could be 100 people to 150 people in a fictional restaurant where the requested bombing could take place common and including possibly members of congress. the lead defendant said no big deal they were ready and willing and able to carry out their plan, and it did not stop there. the assassination was intended to be the opening act in a series of attacks by their cohorts in iran. i want to thank all the partners for unraveling this plot before it even got off the ground. our work is the product of a collaborative effort of monks -- of intelligence and law- enforcement agencies but share a commitment to keeping america saves. -- keeping america safe. i want to commend direc

but the southern portions are on the warmer side. 31 in houston and 29 in miami. finally, let's go over to europe. it's still stormy to the west. we've got a powerful low-pressure system. this one continues to bring severe thunderstorms across much of italy as well as the alpine region. and the wet conditions will likely continue throughout wednesday. and another system is bringing rain across the british isles and parts of spain out front. the rain will stretch to the southern scandinavian pranciliauskas as well as europe in the next 24 hours. the iberian peninsula is escaping rain, but more on wednesday. temperatures are shaping up like this. it's going to be 22 degrees in rome and 19 in athens. but very chilly in moscow with only six did he gleeegrees. all right, then. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. >> "california's gold" is produced in association with kcet los angeles and is seen statewide on california public television. this series is endorsed by

but the southern portions are on the pleasant side. 26 degrees in miami and 24 in houston. 22 in los angeles. finally, let's go over to europe, then. a large low pressure system will continue to bring cold precipitation as well as strong winds across much of the west coast of norway, parts of finland, and the northern tier of continental europe. and the system is approaching the northern british isles. so it's going to be wet and windy across the british isles in the days to come. and down in the south rain is moving southward and reaches italy as well as the northwestern balkan peninsula in the next 24 hours. meanwhile, it's largely dry across the iberian peninsula. we're expecting 19 degrees in madrid and 26 in lisbon. but it's largely cold in much of europe. 10 degrees in berlin and 9 in vienna. and it's going to be 13 in kiev and 9 in moscow with plenty of sunshine and 8 degrees in stockholm. all right, then. here is your extended forecast. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> our lead story this hour, much of greece came to a standstill on wednesday as tens of thousands of people walked off

it always warmed our hearts and it always gave us this idea of the underdog, the southern lawyer who s uncouth and very little sophistication, had to go up against the wall street lawyers. at the end of the day ended up with the verdict and they were always scratching their heads. how in the world that happened? and when you saw the jury, listening to the lawyers, they were always, when the southern lawyer was talking, would talk about experiences they both had. and you would get this nodding of the head. yes, that is exactly right. the northern lawyer would get up and say well this is a very complex case that involves all these different things, and the heads would go the other way, like i don't think so. but we have had a great -- this has been a great cultural experience i think in talking about the law and depicting lawyers. and it is a great example i think that you raise when he do you do that about the differences to culture professionally in our country and how you can get the same legal education that have but have a whole different outlook. >> i grew up in the south and when

baptists in the united states, so your church has 10,000 members, there are 16 million southern baptists. are you saying that they would be giving credibility to a cult if they vote for governor romney? >> well i have always said, john, given the choice between mitt romney and barack obama, i would vote for mitt romney. i think it is much better for those of us who are evangelical christians to have a nonchristian who embraces biblical values in the white house than to have a professing christian like barack obama who addresses and embraces up biblical positions. and so, while i am hesitant and would be at this stage, when we can choose a christian candidate for office, i do think there may come a time when it's the lesser of two evils. and so i would not say under no circumstances would i vote for mitt romney, but it was john jay, the first chief justice of the supreme court, who said we have the duty and privilege to vote and select christians as our leaders. and again, mitt romney's a good, moral person, but he done embrace historical christianity. i'm not sure why that's new

they were the three founders at the southern leadership conference in the 1950s. mr. shuttlesworth was a godly and devout man of faith who trained for the ministry, but also braved beatings, bombings, and fire hosings in order to advance the cause of equality. on christmas day itself in 1956, somebody placed 15 sticks of dynamite outside the parsonage where he lived. the explosion destroyed his humble home, but he survived. a year later, in 1957, he and his wife took their daughters to enroll in an all-white school in birmingham. but as they arrived, they were met with men carrying chains, brass knuckles, and baseball bats. his wife, ruby, was stabbed in the head. he was beaten unconscious. mr. shuttlesworth once said from the pulpit, i'm answerable to

europe here, some strong storms are going to be possible for this southeast corner of europe across the southern end of the balkan peninsula and over into turkey. you may see stronger thunderstorms, and looking active along this long frontal system across the northern end of europe today. we're looking at cold rain, upper elevation of snow as well as winds especially, winds strong along this northern end of continental europe. as for those temperatures, definitely looking cooler. moscow into the single digits now. 9 degrees only expected for the high. looking at 16 in berlin and then 19 for both london and paris. on the other hand it's sunny for the ibearian peninsula and the same in lisbon. that's a look at your weather conditions for now, and here is your three-day outlook. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." do stay with us.

so, the decision was made to lock down the southerners. pending the outcome of additional investigation, we're going to limit their movement, limit their access while we're investigating the possibility of violence. what we want to make sure of is we go through cells on facility. we search southern hispanics and try to find any type of intelligence we can. >> although the lockdown affects only southern hispanic inmates, the resulting tension affects the entire prison. this increases the ever-present friction between all inmates and corcoran's officers. >> if a staff below me disrespects me, i have the opportunity to take care of him or i get taken care of. if you don't know what take care of means, i got to stab the officer or my people's gonna try to stab me up, point-blank. >> i don't care about no write-up. i was in here with for life without the possibility of parole. i don't go to a parole board. i was sentenced to die in prison. whatever the police say, i don't give a [ bleep ]. put it on paper. send it to me. what they going to take?

meanwhile, a front is dutching heavy rain across southeastern china, the southern japan as well as theern korean peninsula. the rain will develop and will target western japan today. we are expecting over 150 millimeters of rain, but some of the areas could be seeing as much as 300. so definitely stay on the watch for flooding as well as land slides. central and northern japan will see torrential rain on saturday as for china, southeastern corner, we will see things will be gradually easing here as we head into tonight. but it will stay wet across the northeastern parts of china. az for temperatures, we are expecting 24 in tokyo and 17 in seoul. it is getting up to 26 in hong kong and 30 degrees in taipei. as for the americas, irsomeone a tropical storm and continues to bring heavy rainfall across much of central america so the risks of flooding as well as mudslides will remain high for the next several days. meanwhile, several storms are dumping heavy rain across the eastern u.s. as well as ontario. and the wettest weather could be can be found across the mid-atlantic region, tornadoe

down toward the south a northeasterly monsoonal flow across vietnam and the southern end of the indochina peninsula as for bangkok, a slight chance of thundershowers today. temperatures looking like this. another cool day for you in tokyo with 18 degrees, the same with seoul. manila expected to be 34 degrees, with mainly clear skies. >>> heading over to central america then, hurricane rina downgraded to a category 1 system, but still packing winds of 140 kilometers per hour. moving in a northwesterly direction and expected to hit the northeastern end of the yucatan peninsula by thursday. after it makes landfall it could become a tropical storm and head toward western cuba. right now, hurricane warnings have been issued along the northeastern corner of the yucatan peninsula. torrential rain and fierce winds will affect the coast. starting wednesday. as for rainfall accumulation, we're talking about 200 to 400 millimeters by friday. and strong winds could create a dangerous storm surge as well as distracted waves, so watch out for coastal flooding. we'll keep you posted on the situation. me

so he saw the population quintuple overnight like 2,210,000. one day it was a sleepy southernere and it was filled with these roughneck oil boomers or boom chasers who are making their fortunes hand over fist every day until 1928 when the oil ran out and okemah went from boom to bust. very quickly was that as an oil town so hundreds of these oil boomers weren't turned out to roam the countryside dessa to. annette keizo came and her children became the microcosm of the fate of towns and communities across the southern plains the following year when the depression kicked in. in 1929 after a series of some pretty incredible family tragedies, the burning down of their family home, the burning to death of his sister and another house fire, the near fatal burning of his father and he had a third house fire and the incarceration and slow death of his mother in the oklahoma state mental asylum. she wasn't crazy. she had the undiagnosed misunderstood hunting tends to seize. huntington's disease. after those tragedies woody went to join his recuperating father and of them to bust place

the system will then move to the southern scandinavian peninsula. ld precipitation and strong winds will effect this region through friday. to the south, severe weather across southern italy and western balkan peninsula. things getting clearer here, but western balkan west through friday. stays dry through most of continental europe. 11 degrees in paris. 10 in berlin, 8 in warsaw. 20 degrees in madrid and 25 in lisbon. here is the extended forecast. blab that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. i'm catherine k tokyo. do stay with us. >>> our first pick this week, a science program known for breathtaking misty scenery. its milky fog is on an island. the fog formed on the ocean surface some 500 kilometers away. the latest filming technology captured the mechanism behind its journey. >>> next, a program on mal asia. an islamic country with unique export strategy. the islamic term means it is allowed. in mal asia, products including food stufs are certified as halal according to a national standard. now

attorney for the southern district of new york. >> thank you. as has been described, the complaint unsealed today reveals a well-funded plot that had as the first priority the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states. the details of the plot are chilling to say the least. the defendants had no care or concern about inflicting mass casualties on innocent americans on american soil in furtherance of assassination plan. for example, to set forth in the complaint, they noted there could be 100 or 150 people in a fictional restaurant where the requested bombing would take place, including possibly members of the united states congress, the lead defendant, acting on behalf of a component of the government of iran said no problems and no big deal. as we allege the defendants showed they were more than ready, willing, and able to carry out the plan by among other things, causing $100,000 to be wired through a new york bank as a deadly down payment for the hired gun. it didn't stop there. the saudi ambassador's assassination was intended

half of the southern crossing. next week, the machine will agree mobilize down to the west end, and the two of them will work together to finish that shoring also the excavation can begin in the western section. as far as his own four, were the buttress operation is taking place, the equipment mobilized over the last month, i have some pictures of that in a moment. that drilling operation began yesterday, and it there restoring some of the drilling mud that comes out of the hole and the water. the water treatment plant is nearly finished, and they should start production drilling next monday, september 12. that is the long ships we talked about yesterday in the board meeting. that is coming up. that will be for the next 18 months. we will be in a zone for drilling those shafts. if you have not been down there, this is a picture from the end of june, with the cdsm wall just getting going. you can see the equipment being mobilized for the badgers operation. that green and yellow piece of equipment side-by-side in the

and it always gave us this idea of the underdog, the southern lawyer who was uncouth and very little sophistication, had to go up against the wall street lawyers. add the end of the day, ended up with the verdict. and they all were scratching their heads like how in the world did that happen? and when you saw the jury listening to the lawyers, they were always -- when the southern lawyer was talking, would talk about experiences they both had. and you would get this nodding of the head, well, yes, that's exactly right. and the northern lawyer would get up and says, well, this is a very complex case, and the heads would go the other way. it's like, i don't think so. [laughter] but we've had a great -- this has been a great cultural experience, i think, in talking about the law and depicting lawyers. and it's a great example, i think, that you raise when you do that about the differences of culture. culture professionally in our country. and how you went to -- you could go get the same legal education, but you could have a whole different outlook about how to try a case. >> well, you kn

and that's the one that southerners write a lot about. but when we interviewed, um, was it bexie cox, but lee smith -- >> lee smith -- >> and doris bet, they told us that, yeah, the students today have a different south that they're writing about. they teach, they teach at the university of north carolina. and those students may come up and write stories that are very southern, and yet their places are like in the great, these strip malls and the cities that have changed dramatically since i was born, since jeannie was born and since those authors were born that we write about in this book, "growing up southern." but it's still a southern theme. those southern tensions are there. and i think shelby was really right about this overall picture of how southerners do, are very close to their history. we're very close to our family is big in the south as is extended family. i have a newspaper friend who says we're all cousins in the south anyway. and i think to a serb extent -- to a certain extent that that's kind of true. we may be looking bac

mostly the southern half of the peninsula starting to look at the focus of the heavier rains today as well as central vietnam, looking at a chance of heavier downpours. watch for that. deadly flooding has been a serious problem across the peninsula. looks like you'll continue to see more showers hanging around. highs on monday, things on the cool side for seoul. only 13 degrees during the day. tokyo expecting 25 degrees, 24 in shanghai. slightly hotter in manilla with a high of 33 with thundershowers. as for the americas, looking at a lot of activity towards the caribbean islands. central americas have been reporting some heavy rains since last week, and they do continue again today. just a lot of tropical activity, continuing to dump showers. watch for further flooding and landslide risks. towards north america, a well developed low pressure system here moving through the eastern canada. this is moving at a slow pace, so we will be talking about gusty conditions and precipitation hanging around areas like quebec and ontario in the next couple days. some of that rain impacting the nor

very wet picture for you, especially vietnam and then down through the southern end of the peninsula. as highs for tuesday look like. 16, quite cool again in seoul. tokyo, too, at 22 degrees. will be a couple of degree drop from yesterday. 22 degrees in shanghai, as well. and then looking at 27 in taipei so slightly warmer here. and over towards the americas. lots of activity continues in the caribbean. a lot of cloud development here. we have a pretty active system to continue to bring in locally heavy rain and gusty conditions to areas like southern mexico through parts of cuba and even thousand in towards sections of southern florida. now, this system is headed northward and will start bringing in precipitation to the deep south. also, coupled with this system that's going to be heading eastward, the eastern half, the southeastern corner here of the u.s. looking pretty wet as we head in to tonight and tuesday. some areas looking at heavier amounts of rain, mostly across georgiand the carolinas. for eastern canada, active system in place and starting to lose steam. it looks like the

there was an earthquake off the southern coast of oregon. people have reported feeling the quake from as far north as portland to areas near san francisco. experts say there's no threat of a tsunami there and there's been no reported damage so far. >>> 6:38 is our time. still to come, the deadly outbreak at a beach total. >>> and the rush hour has been mighty slow the past couple of days for thousands of folks. what to expect this morning. >>> and what to expect for the rest of the day. weather and traff >>> weather and traffic on the 1s on this thursday morning. good morning, i'm meteorologist tom kurine. we've had some passing thunder and showers over the last couple of hours. right now, where you see that area of red and orange on the radar, that is a thunder shower in charles county. that's advancing north. it's going to be near quantico, dale city ask perhaps moving into southern prince georges and southern fairfax county in the next 15, 20 minutes. there's another moderate shower now between ulney and montgomeryville. we're in the low t

kirk shaffer told him where in the southern philippines dennis would hang out. king questions and passing around her photo, karl found the girl. she was now 20. but was underage, she said, when the relationship with standefer began. and beyond being too young for a relationship with an adult, she said, something happened to her that could land dennis in far deeper trouble. she claimed she had been sexually assaulted by standefer five years earlier. and now, she wanted to press charges against him for rape. karl took her to the local prosecutors office. >> he heard the story. and he said, i'll file charges against this guy for rape. >> reporter: karl had now uncovered something about dennis standefer far more grave than anything he had been pursuing. and he could have dropped out at this point and let police handle it from here. but karl pushed ahead, feeling he had to do this himself, convinced that only he could find standefer. >> and an investor told me that dennis will tell you he's going up north if he's going south. it's always misinformation. >> reporter: r

>> the lra has operated in southern sudan. part of the displaced people are in southern sudan there are probably 250 core fighters in the lra, plus a company people, all in that area. >> what about a special advisor to the great lakes region that has been suggested -- you use the word special envoy -- but is this in the making? what is the prospect of that? >> be of taken it under indictment very seriously. -- we have taken it under advisement very seriously based on the recommendation of your committee. >> the fact that we know that there is an expense of mobile phones and fm radio, will you be using that technology to try to get word out to ask for defection from the lra fighters? >> that is correct, sir. there are cell towers and the use of cellphones and right now they are using other radio waves. many communities are calling in on a regular basis to say where the lra is. so we need better coordination. >> thank you. >> mr. duncan of south carolina is recognized. >> thank you madam chairman. back in the spring of march or a

very wet picture for you, especially vietnam and then down through the southern end of the peninsula. as highs for tuesday look like. 16, quite cool again in seoul. tokyo, too, at 22 degrees. will be a couple of degree drop from yesterday. 22 degrees in shanghai, as well. and then looking at 27 in taipei so slightly warmer here. and over towards the americas. lots of activity continues in the caribbean. a lot of cloud development here. we have a pretty active system to continue to bring in locally heavy rain and gusty conditions to areas like southern mexico through parts of cuba and even thousand in towards sections of southern florida. now, this system is headed northward and will start bringing in precipitation to the deep south. also, coupled with this system that's going to be heading eastward, the eastern half, the southeastern corner here of the u.s. looking pretty wet as we head in to tonight and tuesday. some areas looking at heavier amounts of rain, mostly across georgia and the carolinas. for eastern canada, active system in place and starting to lose steam. it looks like t

great southern author from memphis, tennessee we asked the same question about being a southern writer and what is it that makes a writer southern? and he said when he was a child and he got into a fist fight, the fights that you lose are the fights the remember. of course, the south was on the losing end and that is the one we remember. you write about those to create tension and the south was wrong with that war but it did not think that it was. so we have they built in kind of attention already. most of the southerners, that generation that we interviewed interviewed, recall -- we call readily this double boiler having a good grandparents are great grandparents that they could recall had either met or talked to or her door in shelby's case, even interviewed the civil war veterans. it is the presence of minder the connection to the land of the people or the history to create this tension in the south and we tend to write about that. >> there is the funny anecdotes about shelby drove -- striving to memphis from knoxville and he lived in a house t

reports of violence between troops and muslim rebels and the southern philippines. will get analysis. >> by the fate of italy may prove crucial in the deal to rescue the euro zone. communities in mexico's yucatan peninsula are bracing themselves for the arrival of a hurricane. it is supposed to make land fall later this week. more than 100 people were killed in large parts of the region. >> after a days of rain, they're struggling to cope. massive flooding had affected by around 300,000 people, leaving thousands of families homeless and stranded. the people in the region are preparing for the worst. hurricane rena has turned into a category 2 storm. the government in believes -- belize are bracing themselves. in central america, more than 100 have been killed in recent floods and mudslides. regional leaders gathered in a salvador to discuss greater cooperation. the reconstruction efforts in this country alone might cost as much as $1.5 billion. >> it is the industrialized countries which are responsible for climate change. it is a vulnerable countries that deal with

meanwhile, a rain band is from new england down toward the southern plains. thunderstorms are erupting across texas and a mix of rain and snow by tonight. those conditions should gradually ease as the system moves eastward. out toward the west, another round of coastal rain and snow are going to affect british columbia. temperatures are shaping up like this. it's dropping down to 18 degrees in houston which is about ten degrees lower than yesterday but still warm in los angeles with 28 degrees. finally, let's go over to europe then. a series of low pressure systems continues to bring wet and windy conditions across the northern british isles and scandinavian peninsula. some of the rain will move northward and turn to snow across norway in the mountain areas. down toward the south, another system is bringing heavy rain as well as gusty winds across southern france as well as eastern spain. the wet conditions will likely continue into saturday. temperatures are shaping up like this. we expect only eight degrees in van, turkey, that was hit by a major earthquake

when we interviewed the great southern writer from memphis we asked the same question about being a southern writer and what is it about the self that makes a writer southern? shelby said when he was a child and he got into a fist fight or something he said the fight you lose are the ones you remember. and of course the south was on the losing end of the late unpleasantness, the war between the states or the civil war and that is the one we remember. it creates tension. the south was wrong in that war but it didn't think it was and so we have a built in concept of tension already in our lives. most of these others my age, that generation we interviewed recall readily the civil war. they had grandparents or great-grandparents' who could recall having either met or talked to or heard or in shelby's case even interviewed some of the civil war veterans when he was a youngster. it is that presence of mind, that connection to the land, the people, our history that creates this tension in this golf or it did or does. we tend to write about that. >> of sunni anecdote about shelby. we drove to memphi

the real bad areas obviously are from southern kansas down to the mexican border. those areas just continue to basically have a horrible situation and unless we get a change in the weather pattern which we don't expect, you know it's real yes just going to turn into a disaster into next year. we can always hope. here is the jet stream into monday. pretty good cut off though this one won't sit there to long. ridge builds into the plains and the great lakes and that will give you a nice warm up for several days the way it looks, this does start to develop and move into the northern plains. that will start to cool things down and bring a little moisture into those areas as well. we see a weak cool front in to the northern plain states, probably stalling out. i don't see a lot coming to far south. it'll continue to warm up, be mild across the great lakes even on monday. kind of chilly where it's raining in new england. scattered showers and thunderstorms, south florida but that's because the cold front hit and miss afternoon variety, the thunderstorms in the southwest

we had toerpd watches in effect across the southern parts of the florida peninsula.he stormy conditions move northward and reach the northeast states in the next 24 hours. meanwhile, light showers are lingering across ontario and quebec but that should ease wednesday. it is mostly dry and settled in the central and western parts of the u.s. and canada. british columbia will see rain due to a low pressure system and that will move inland wednesday. temperatures looking like this. hot conditions eased in l.a., 24 degrees and 22 in houston, 17 in oklahoma city. the northeastern states are on the mild side. 19 degrees in new york and 12 in d.c., dropping to 13 degrees in atlanta. finally let's go to europe. a couple of low pressure systems are dropping heavy rain across much of scandinavian peninsula. wet conditions will likely continue throughout the day on wednesday. and the associated front is stretching from the baltic states through germany and into france. you're seeing wet and windy conditions along the front. rain will move southward and reach this area, and toda

according to the complaint filed today in the southern district of new york, abab siar orchestrated an assassination plot with golan shakori, a member of the force and other iranian coconspirators. the force is a member of the iranian revolutionary guard -- guard corps and is suspected of coalitions forces in iraq and was designated by the department of treasury in 2007 for providing material support to the taliban and other terrorist organizations. the conspiracy was conceived, sponsored and was directed from iran, which constitutes a flagrant violation of u.s. and international law, including a convention that explicitly protects diplomats from being harmed. in addition to holding these individuals and conspirators accountable for their alleged role in this plot, the united states is committed to holding iran accountable for its actions. abar-siar and shakari are charged with plotted to murd an official, use weapons of mass destruction and commit international terrorism, among other charges. abab-siar has been in custody since september 29th, 2011, sakori, based in iran, remains at

in 1964, the southern freeway was constructed. you can see everything is glistening. here is the glen park area. it is just on the edge. this freeway infrastructure has been encroaching into the neighborhood. it creates really strong barriers with these major infrastructure projects, it's hard to have connectivity between the neighborhood south. it introduces regional traffic into the area. while these infrastructure projects have improved convenient access in the neighborhood, they've also had side effects. the plan is really looking at ways to compensate for some of the transportation planning that has happened in the last 60 years. then, the final issue that is of concern are the development concerns. glen park is a pretty built out neighborhood and there are a lot -- there are not a lot of opportunities for growth. there is a lot of concern about some of the few sites in the neighborhood and what will happen to them in terms of scale and compatibility and contributing to the village character that is so loved in that area. one of the big concerns is the bart parkin

areas like taiwan and the southern islands of japan have been experiencing heavy falls. and that is looking to continue again today. now to the north of that, we've got high pressure dominating much of japan and all the way in towards northern china. largely dry. however, for japan, we'll see showers coming on in from the south and things will be looking a little bit wetter into the afternoon. mostly evening hours. and then it will look a lot wetter across the country on wednesday. >>> for today's highs, 21 expected in tokyo. and 20 degrees in seoul. and then looking at 22 degrees for shanghai. head over toward the americas. lots of clouds moving into the western end of north america. there will be plenty of precipitation already impacting the coastline. that will spread further into the intermountain west. a lot of cold air coming in. we'll see chances of snow for those upper elevations. now towards the east, looking a little drier but still some moisture coming into the new england states and parts of nova scotia. so some more rain for you here. tuesday's highs, 19 for

in the southern part of san francisco, including my district, district 10, to some extent, district 4, we have high rates of foreclosures. last week i saw a map for a look at the number of foreclosures and it was densely populated in the southern part of the city. that was something that alarmed me. when we say all these defaults and foreclosures, these are household that are losing wealth. especially for working-class and middle-class families, our wealth is in our property. we have property that we are not able to maintain, we are seeing a loss of our diversity. we talk about african-american out-migration. a lot of that is due to housing costs and the foreclosures occurring in the community. as well, in the hispanic and chinese and asian communities as well. the purpose of today's hearing is to explore how we can use our local dollars to get greater accountability from the banks. across california, we have a foreclosure crisis that continues. in san francisco, 4210 foreclosures alone in our city. that is an astronomical number. in california, $200 billion worth of property that are

according to a study by the southern poverty law center, american student knowledge of the civil rightsteriorated to a startling degree, which is why it's so incredibly important that we in the media get the story right when we have the opportunity to cover the lives of shuttlesworth and other heroes like him. here's hoping that next time when faced with a choice, we will. >> so the only pushback that i will give you on that, and it's not in any way a -- to look at shuttlesworth and jobs as their lives, obviously, totally different contributions and any one's life contribution is never -- can't be compared, i don't think, to another. they are their own events. but there is an aspect of bad luck in these things. in other words, there are lots of people -- somebody died recently, and if you die on the wrong day of somebody else more famous than you dies, you don't get covered. and it really is as simple as that. it's not

snow storm is moving through the rockies toward the southern plains. ered showers will work their way into the northeast. and the northwest, that coast could see -- maybe will see showers by the end of the day today. are in sports this morning texas rangers are on the verge of winning their first-ever world series championship. cardinals manager tony la russa is taking responsibility for losing game five on monday night. in the eighth inning when the rangers scored twice, he says a phone mix-up with the bull pen cost his team dearly. >> when there's stuff that went on in that inning with the bull pen and who is up and who is not, that is miscommunication. and in the end, that comes totally on the coach or the manager. what i wanted to have happen wasn't happen, it didn't happen. again, it's my fault. >> game six of the world series is between the rangers and the cardinals tonight in st. louis. >>> chicago cubs are hoping theo epstein will help break the curse. the drought for the cubs is longer. they have been since 1908. >>> in college football a big o

that is the one that southerners write a lot about. when we interviewed betsy cannot betsy, but they to los the students today have a different sound of their writing about. not carolina. right stores every seven. yet their places are and a great stretch malls and the cities that have changed dramatically since i was born and says those authors were born that we read about in this book. they grow seven. but it's still a 17. the tensions of there. i think shelby was really right about this overall picture of how seveners to pay very close attention to the history or very close to the families. families bay, as is extended family. have a newspaper friend uses the are all causes in the south anyway. i think to a certain extent that this kind of true. we may be looking back, but our writers for the most part, you can read william faulkner today and be just as stunned by what he is saying today as they were in the 30's when he was writing these novels about the south of the past, the south of his grandfather's which was the civil war. you ca