i went to undergrad at duke university. i went to law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here in 1997. i have been here for the last 14 years. i have always lived in the castro. i am an attorney. i started out in private practice. i settle private law firm during complex commercial litigation. in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came o

he's now paying students who drop out of college, is surprising for a guy who went to stanford for undergrad and law school. but maybe it's his own story that helped lead him to this conclusion. he was a derives trader before cofounding paypal at 31. so, how did you come up with the idea? >> we were trying to come up -- we were looking at all the new payment companies that people were trying to start and we realized you had to do something with real money and you had to do something where you could get people involved who weren't signed up yet. the brainstorm, the main insight was to link money and e-mail together. >> reporter: to say that combination turned out to be a winning one is an understatement. ebay bought paypal in 2002 for $1.5 billion, earning thiel $55 million. some of which he used to invest in promising startups. most famously, facebook. his $500,000 investment is now worth $1.5 billion. has it exceeded your expectations, the success? >> absolutely. >> reporter: his status as the company's first silicon valley investor earned him the full hollywood treatment. >> sean, he'll be

so i pursued public policy both at occidental college, where i went to school as an undergrad, and also you see-berkeley where i pursued public policy -- also you see -- also uc-berkeley. that was really what shape my interest in public policy. >> where you place yourself on the local political spectrum? the left or right? supervisor chu: i know a lot of folks want to put a person in the position where they call you left, progressive, moderate, whatever category that might be, and i think it really depends on the issue. generally, i am a very practical legislator. i like to look at what the impacts of legislation would be before voting on it, so i think, depending on the issue, you could move around, and i think that should be the way that most people think, which is, "let's consider the facts of legislation before you actually consider it, irrespective of what spectrum it comes from." >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? supervisor chu: it is hard. i learned that my shoes were out pretty quickly -- wore out pretty quickly. i learned to be more practical about the type

zuckerberg is sued by some fellow harvard undergrads who say they invented facebook. >> they have a rightgive it a try but not a requirement i enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. you have the minimum amount of my attention. the rest of my attention is back at the office of facebook where my colleagues and i are doing things that no one, including and especially your clients who are intellectually incapable of doing. >> you can tell zuckerberg doesn't put a high value on college. when we come back we're not all geniuses but solve the zuckerberg question. what good is college? what does college prepare you for? is it worth the huge cost? scoops and predictctions right out of the notebooks of t chris: welcome back. i gave the commencement address at templeton university in philadelphia where 9,000 were awarded their degrees and howard, speak being at his alma mater, colgate university, 1.5 million four-year students will graduate and they receive their diplomas and their parents get a huge raise in income. that's because the average annual cost of a private college was $32,000 a year

. -- undergrads. it mount diablo school board is voting to lay off teachers. 111 teachers will receive pink slips. they will go into effect for the 2012 school year. the deficit could increase or decrease depending on whether or not the government makes more cuts to education this month. >>darya: the espionage trial for the three uc students and i ran has been postponed. they were not brought into court as planned. iranian officials gave no implication of what is the lawn. they have dealt since july of 2009. they said they crossed into iran accidentally. did not do it in purpose. a federal judge will allow a $50 million lawsuit to pursue against bart police officers involved in a 2009 shooting death of oscar grant's. the judge ruled that they should be heard in a trial. johannes of should beabe indicted on criminal charges as he was. he was sentenced to two years in prison. >>mark: a full check on the weather. >>james: good morning mark. the sun is up and so far so good. let us to look at what things

basic tuition for uc undergrads who are california residents is scheduled to increase to just over $11,000 this fall. now, that additional 32% hike would bring tuition to almost $15,000. >>> a big public debut this morning for linkedin. this is the day the mountain view-based startup has its ipo, initial public offering. it is considered one of the biggest tech ipos since google. linkedin will be trading on the new york stock exchange. shares are starting at $45 giving it a valuation of about $4 billion. linkedin a business oriented social networking site. our kiet do will have a live report in our next half hour. >>> okay. move over, oprah winfrey. >> yeah. lady gaga ousted the talk show queen for the number one spot on forbes' list of powerful celebrities. social media fans helped her rise to the top. the pop star now has more than 10 million followers on twitter -- what a getup. >> every getup is what a getup. >> look at that. >> more than any other person. >> and she only did it in just a few years. look at justin bieber. i just watched his movie. have you seen it? >> never say never.

hundred youths but after a forty four year old weak man was reportedly robbed and stabbed to death undergrads tuesday the sense of being there for protesters chased foreigners through the streets and underlies their buildings. fresh clashes have taken place between muslims and christians and the second largest city on. the father's violence in the capital cairo. left twelve people dead and sort used to long term arrested the rest often and so was the rooms torched churches pollute reports that it was to point to islam. after killing osama bin laden the u.s. shouldn't rush to exit afghanistan that's the view of senate foreign relations committee chairman john kerry people of elle's cross-talk debate show in about ten minutes from now we discuss american strategy in the war torn country is a pretty. long as al qaeda is operating in that region as long as the taliban is operating in that region i think the united states has an interest in preventing future harm to america and our friends and allies ok to go back to you buy into that. no it was. my you. know for a long time well u.s. foreign poli

. >> and try for a three-year undergrad.but if you're going to go on to be a doctor or law school or go on to some extended degree, try to get your undergrad in three years. in my book, i've got a lot of different schools that do do it. and they'll let you model your own three-year program. >> let me get this straight. college is not supposed to be a four-year party with some learning in between. >> no, not anymore. for generations it was. sorry, guys, we got to do that, but you don't get do it. >> if you're going to be in school seven or eight years, you can't afford to have a fourth year of undergrad. >> at some point, you burn out. >> of these kids, four years, they're also working. you're waiting tables, trying to study. >> that's true. but that shows a level of seriousness about a student that i think employers also like to hear. they like to hear, i worked my way through college. we're the only country in the world where college is not some place to find yourself. the rest of the world is going to college so they can e

in my situation i went straight from undergrad to medical school without any sort of deviation. >> thank you. >> are welcome. [applause] we have the last two questions. >> did you ever feel obligated to be a doctor because your father was telling you to do it or did you try to do something else or look into another field? >> that is a good question. not me but my other sister jeanette. and my father wanted us to be physicians because he felt by being a physician you are financially secure and you are safe. i have always wanted to be an obstetrician so there was a confluence of what my father wanted ie being a doctor and what i personally wanted which was being an obstetrician. at doctor who delivers babies was an obstetrician so i was the first one in my family to become a doctor. i aspired my younger sisters. i motivated my older sister so that we all could go forward and do the best that we could do. [applause] and there is one more. >> my name is shirley evans and my question is out of the 5000 children you delivered is very specific memory that stands out to you the most? >> that is

basic tuition for uc undergrads who are california residents is scheduled to increase to just over $11,000 this fall. but then you add on that 32% hike, it would bring tuition to almost $15,000. wow. >> i hate to tell you what i paid back in the late '70s, early '80s. less than $1,000. >> i know. >> a year. >> going to be really tough. >> a year! >> kids and parents will have to make tough decisions. >>> tonight, katie couric signs off from the cbs evening news. >> yeah. she finishes her five-year post as the network's top anchor. scott pelley as now a long-time correspondent for "60 minutes" will take over on june 6. so what's next for katie couric? nothing official just yet but there's a lot of talk that she has been looking at a daytime show. >> i can imagine on the oprah winfrey network and there were also rumors she was talking to matt lauer. his contract is going to be up in a year. >> she was on the today show hawking her book and the chemistry is still there, no doubt about that. i think she will land on her feet. she was making $15 million a year. she's okay. >> good luck to her b

shortly after it was announced 150 of the 600 soon to be graduating undergrads signed a petition saying they did not want her as their speaker. they felt that she was coming as mrs. george bush instead of barbara bush. she had not had any really significant accomplishments on her own, and that they had been taught to do something quite the opposite. mrs. bush reacted with, really, you know, very good humor. she said, well, even i was 21 once. they are looking at things a certain way, and i am looking at them another. there are some historians to feel that maybe this reaction cal flies to irritation, but i did not get that sense at all when i interviewed mrs. bush. mrs. bush also said to me, when this whole above occurred there were many wealthy graduates who said they would never again give money to the college. she said weaver hundreds of letters saying please tell stop giving. this is just the opinion of some. in fact, over time as the issue was discussed things began to turn. i just want to quickly share with you a "from paramount bought back from that time who wrote a very serious,

itd be raised by 32% to trim bridge the gap, total tuition for undergrads would go to $6,450 tax increases to expire in july 1st. >> mark: espionage trial from the uc-berkeley grass the were arrested their trial has been postponed again. there have been behind bars for two years awaiting trial. there's been no explanation for the trial. she was released last year due to a medical condition she said she has no plans to return. >> james: will kick off the weather by looking through the san mateo bridge. this morning patchy coastal fog, chile and breezy out there this morning. cooler than yesterday but still we will have bricks of sunshine, this evening the coastal fog will return. right now temperatures are cool in in san francisco 50 right now you dropped a degree in the past half hour. 50 in san rosa and fairfield, 50 livermore in san jose we starting at 52. cool start of expect temperatures to drop a couple as we go. there has been talk about winds, primarily out of the east bay. we have the strong the sustained winds and that's where we see the stronger gas. breezy heading out the door.

but in my situation i went straight from undergrad to medical school without any sort of deviations.u. >> you're welcome. [applause] okay. we have the last two questions. >> um, did you ever feel obligated to be a doctor because your father was, like, telling you to do it? did you ever, like, try to do something else or, like, look into another field this. >> well, that's a good question. not me, but my other sister, jeanette. my father feldt -- felt like being a physician you're financially secure and you're safe. i've always wanted to be an obstetrician, so there was a confluence of what by father wanted and what i personally wanted. so a doctor who delivers babies was an obstetrician, so i was the first one in my family to become a doctor. i inspired my younger sisters, i motivated my older sisters so that we all could go forward and do the best that we could do. [applause] >> thank you. oh, and there's one more. >> hi. my question wuss out of the -- was out of the 5,000 children that you delivered, is there, like, a specific memory that stand out the most? >> that is an excellent

gillespie, a geography professor at ucla, his research partner, john agnew and five undergraduates -- undergrads, they used a scientific theory, distance decay, used to locate endangered species, it basically says that creatures stick to what they know, they figured the further bin laden moved away from tora bora the more likely we'd find himself in an area of different religion, different politics, he's more likely to stand out and be discovered, then they studied his life characteristics and came up with a list of requirements, he's 6-foot, four, he needs a tall building, he would need electricity to run a dialysis machine for his reported kidney disease, even though they never found a dialysis machine inside that compound. he'd need small rooms for his bodyguards and big walls for privacy. then they used satellite images like google earth and came up with several buildings that kind of matched those requirements. and they came up with this city, parach -- parachinar, pakistan, 130 miles from where bin laden actually was in abbottabad. the mother of one of the students was so convinced by this

under the planned tuition for full- time undergrads would go up 32% on top of the 10% increase already an additionalan additional $1,5 >> will: in means tuition will be twice as much as 2007 school year. many students that also means the clock is ticking on them. >> i want it done as soon as possible and a double major i'm thinking about cutting back and doing one thing i just wanna get out of school. >> if tuition goes up we have to pay for the box, materials, parking, it's really a big expense. >> will: there's a chance to avoid the measures but it depends on whether republicans and tax bears agree to give the extension in place, if not expires next month. it will raise $14 billion each year for california. will tran kron 4 news. >> mark: we will be right back as the news continues until 11:00 a.m. alive look right now is the low clouds and fog pushing and around the bay. >> mark: the latest of mississippi flood. they are getting the water to go into lake pontchartrain. these flood waters washing away crops, of memphis seeing the water peak 48 ft., the damage alone in memphis will be

was actually doing, they gave me the intro which was, by the way, for columbia, of columbia and undergrads. so i was absolutely just devastating the minds of an entire generation of youth who are now our leaders. so i had to give a talk. the faculty. so my main focus, primary research faugh, most of this is what we call synthetic meaning that i use other people's research and make my own argument. the civil rights stuff is what i have been working on. so i gave that talk. yes. half the faculty love did in half the faculty said he must go. and the people who did not like it happened to be very famous professors. i was let go. the good news is that i then sold the book. i could actually leave academia for a while. yes. so people -- and i love it. what are your politics? who are you? and it is obviously completely into a conservative. i mean, the book anyway. so true conservatives, i mean, i have no interest in them and they have no interest in me. let's agree and move on. it is really actually a critique of what is called progressivism, in particular progressive academic thought. and you wil

he decided not to fund a varsity football program to give scholarships to math undergrads and fund a i have mixed feelings about that. i played football and ecology and i do not play chess, but yes i did a graduate with a degree in applied mathematics and i can relate to school where the athletes are cool. there has been a lot of changes i have seen and that, i'm an official member of the family and have even been to the roof with freeman and lived to tell the story. we share your business -- your vision of acquiring the best talent from the world. we have been recruiting year for 12 years and participate in your corporate visibility days since their inception we have recruiter graduates to many of our leadership programs. we are committed to developing a diverse work force in science and technology. your alumni work in most of our businesses and our credit to our company. a few are here today. i would ask them all to stand, but that i would have to tell them to get back to work. imagination, not knowledge, einstein said is the true sign of knowledge. this is something we understand

and when i was in undergrad, i majored in communications but not in journalism. but my children's teachers kept asking me to go into journalism and i kept refusing. so i've never in essence so myself a as a right of but i sem riding as my means to have an impact. if i could sing, i could go, oh, man, i wouldn't be standing here. but given, you know, my talent is literacy so that's what i do. but that's my dream. and then there's basically not anytime when i haven't been writing, even though i've had many, many other kind of professions. yeah? >> how about barack obama wife, she -- [inaudible] >> i think the image of michelle obama and barack obama and the two girls is as powerful image anywhere in the world. because everyone knows they're basically -- that their integrity, their love of the family, they're kind of body, just kind of jumps off the screen at you. right, and that i think is an embedded image that this country is needed for decades. that's the way in which the black family has been demonized throughout american history, the way black women have been