a controversial memorial for the jones town massacre was unvailed in oakland.ys tribute to 918 people who died including jim jones who ordered his followers to commit suicide, 1978. a relative for some victims filed suit to keep his name off the memorial but a judge rejected it. >> he for gave them years ago that contributed to my healing. i had to forgive him. you cannot heal if there is no forgiveness. >> but the woman who filed the lawsuit said she plans to file another one to erase his name from the memorial his son by the way, donated $20,000 to help enstaal the monument. >>> city of walnut creek will honor a woman who showed decades of commitment to a person she never knew. when she was 12 years old she put on a bracelet for a war veteran never found. she awore it for 38 years until he was found she will be honored today. >>> joel brown has more on who is about to jump into the presidential race and who is taking a wait and see approach. >> reporter: palin made a roaring start to an east coast tour, fueling speculation she is preparing to run for the repu

a controversial memorial for victims of the jones town massacre was officially unvailed in oakland thiseekend. it pays tribute to 918 people who died including the cult leader, jim jones who ordered his followers to commit suicide in 1978 a relative of some of the victims filed suit to keep his name off that memorial but a judge rejected it. >> i for gave him years ago that is what contributed to my healing i had to forgive him. you can't heal if there is no forgiveness. >> but the woman who filed the lawsuit plans to file another to erase his name off the memorial jone's son donated $20,000 to help install the monument. >>> memorial day observances planned around the bay area today among them the annual parade and ceremony at the presidio san francisco parade will begin 10:30. the ceremony scheduled 11:00 a.m. this morning. >>> government holiday for alwayses, banks, schools, and post offices and most local transit systems running on a transit schedule. parking meters not being enforced san jose and oakland but they are here in san francisco. feed the meter here in the city. >>> presid

. >>> a controversial memorial for victims of the jones town massacre, has been officially unvailed inakland. it pays tribute to 918 people who died including the cult leader, jim jones who ordered his followers to commit suicide in 1978. a relative of some of the victims filed suit the keep his name off the memorial but a judge rejected it. >> i for gave him years ago that contributed to my healing i had to forgive him you can't heal if there is no forgiveness. >>> the woman who filed the lawsuit says she plans to file another one toker race his name from -- to erase his name from that memorial jones son donated $20,000 to help install the monument. >>> space shuttle endeavour on the way home. the special send off here from mother earth. >>> good and bad news for the giants latest on buster posey's injuries. >>> headed out of town your travel forecast. cleared for take off sfo breezy, partly cloudy skies, 60 degrees. across the country looking good as you head towards chicago, you should see a whole lot of sunshine there getting on the hot side, 92, mostly sunny skies, things change i

. >>> california republican lawmakers have unvailed their plan to balance the budget.a gimmick. the proposal would maintain education funding that includes no new taxes but it also relies on major cuts for the disabled, mentally ill, and early childhood development. the owner of a local child care center says she is worried. >> it also is a big concern because they are laying a good foundation to help make them successful in the school. >> the republicans budget plan also calls for a 10% pay cut for state workers and contains optimistic revenue assumption. >>> bay area commuters that use bart you may notice a quieter, cleaner ride. new cleaners for its trains and replacing all of the wool fabric seat covers. and new maintenance to help soften the grinding noise you hear. bart says the state could take away some of the money it needs to make those improvements. >>> text message could soon be all it takes to report troubles or problems on bart. bart's board president wants to set up a special phone line where passengers can report unruly passengers. the messages would be

it is in the vietnamese cultural enclave near story road san jose unvailed following a four year fight with the city. in 2007 city council voted to name the area, saigon business district but the community pressed for little saigon. >> saigon is our former capital we want to leave that name for them as a formal capital. >> it is our homeland now we want to have in our memory a little saigon. >> the compromise involved having the community pay for the monument they raised $10,000 from individuals and businesses, absent from yesterday's ceremony vietnamese council woman madson ngyen who proposed the little saigon name. >>> grand opening of the harvey milk call center. >> now a suicide crisis center opening at the site of his campaign headquarters here in san francisco. today's event will be a former union of his inner circle and the screen writer of his movie will be there. he would have been 81 years old. >> 28,000 pounds of prescription drugs turned in during national prescription drug day last month that is just northern california the campaign was launched to eliminate access and imp

. >>> california republican lawmakers have unvailed their plan to balance the budget. but the governors administration calls ate gimmick. it would maintain education funding and would include no new taxes. but it relies on mayor cuts for the disabled, mentally dibbled, and early childhood. >> it also is a big concern because they are laying a good foundation to help make them successful in school. a lot of the children would lose that opportunity as well. >> it also calls for a 10% pay cut for state workers. >>> tomorrow is the day that you can help your local food banks without having to leave your home. the annual stamp out hunger drive starts tomorrow morning in the bay area and across the country. you can help by just putting out canned goods and nonperishable goods by your mailbox. mail carriers will pick them up and drive them to the food bank. >>> new reaction this morning on a food fight controversy in the east bay. we first reported last night on the 10:00 news about 30 seniors at hayward leadership high school took part in the food fight organized on facebook

. >>> california lawmakers unvailed their plan to balance the budge but the governors office calls itimmick. it also re lies on major cuts for the disabled the mentally ill, and early childhood development. there is no need extend taxes. >> when you don't tax people, they have the opportunity to grow more and spend more. so the pathway we are providing without taxes we think will stimulate the economy even more. >> both democrats and labor unions are really criticizing that plan. they plan to launch an advertising campaign targeting certain republican lawmakers. >>> the nation's largest single day food drive starts tomorrow across the country including here in the bay area. it's called stamp out hunger. you can help by putting out canned goods and nonperishable foods out by your mailbox. the mail carriers will pick them up tomorrow and deliver them to the local food banks. >>> the bay to breakers race officially starts today. the new race sponsor dazzle holds a special luncheon at noontime with the elite runners. this sunday's event will be the 100 runner of the bay to breakers. there

. >>> a judge cleared the way for unvailing of the victims of jones town massacre.decades whether it should include the name jim jones he was the cult leader who ordered the mass suicide murder in guyana in 1978 the judge denied a lawsuit that aimed to block his name. >>> a look at traffic and weather in just a moment. stay with us ,,,,,,,,,,,, [ sea gull squawking ] [ waves crashing ] [ gasps ] brrrr! [ giggles ] [ sea gull squawking ] >>> looking great on this friday morning before a long holiday. live, 880 traffic through oakland. slow in northbound lanes as you pass the coliseum your drive time 17 minutes from 238 up towards the mcarthur maze. at the bay bridge toll plaza they never turned the metering lights on. quick trip san francisco if you do have to head to work and same south bay, northbound traffic 280, out of downtown san jose that is your traffic for your forecast lawrence. >> elizabeth light sprinkles, high-def doppler picking up some of that right now. light showers, towards santa rosa, not a whole lot of moisture but could see some of that scrape on

as we know in two months, president obama will unvail his strategy for drawing down our forces so that afghans can assume a greater responsibility for their country and their future. our military is making significant end roads. clearing the south, particularly, of insurgents. we are trying to regain some of the areas this spring. we also know insurgents are spreading into other areas in afghanistan, as we drive them from their bases in the south. clearly the challenge is not only on the battle field. despite the grill of our troops, the military and civilian leaders have repeated the mantra, there is no military victory to be had in afghanistan. that is true then we accept that it is, we need to fashion the political resolution. out of these hearings i hope that we can achieve a discussion with our partners about how this war ends, what an acceptable end state looks like, and what steps we need to take to get there. with the death of bin laden, some people are sure to ask why don't we just pack up and leave afghanistan. so it's even more compelling that we examine carefully what is at

as we know in two months, president obama will unvail his strategy for drawing down our forces so that afghans can assume a greater responsibility for their country and their future. our military is making significant end roads. clearing the south, particularly, of insurgents. we are trying to regain some of the areas this spring. we also know insurgents are spreading into other areas in afghanistan, as we drive them from their bases in the south. clearly the challenge is not only on the battle field. despite the grill of our troops, the military and civilian leaders have repeated the mantra, there is no military victory to be had in afghanistan. that is true then we accept that it is, we need to fashion the political resolution. out of these hearings i hope that we can achieve a discussion with our partners about how this war ends, what an acceptable end state looks like, and what steps we need to take to get there. with the death of bin laden, some people are sure to ask why don't we just pack up and leave afghanistan. so it's even more compelling that we examine carefully what is at

offer that from my personal perspective, the main incentive for drawing me here is the opportunity to unvail myself of the wisdom and insight of three people with richie and sheila whose wisdom i seek and so my purpose as chair will be to sit at the end of the table and taking notes furiously and copiously as they offer their thoughts, so with that, i'll turn things over to duke and mitch for their presentation and she'll ya for -- sheila for her comments to follow. thank you. >> thanks very much, mike, and great to be here. i want to thank henry and deepa, and g-dub for organizing this process and to be engaged in ways that we're delighted to report out to you. there is -- can you hear in the back now because you were having trouble earlier. it's okay? yeah, it may seem odd. it struck me it may seem odd to some folks that we're including japan on a project on rising powers. i mean, this is not the 1920s. [laughter] it's -- last time i checked. [laughter] it's not the 1980s when we were all agoing on japan becoming a rising power. potentially japan is a great power. it has many of the pieces

accommodated those options in context for a hearing room, we are here to have the former chairman unvailing of a picture in the main committee room. that's an accommodate. number two, we accommodated her schedule. that's why it's on this date. furthermore, i'm skipping this vote, as you are, to have this debate, rather than simply allow for a few additional minutes. >> i'm going to get my vote in. but the only thing i'm saying is that at the rate we are going, it looks like she'll be here what until about 20 of. and -- >> actually, i anticipate the two members will have five minutes a piece. as the gentleman knows, i kept folks to the five minutes time frame today. so with that, i'm not trying to cause you problems, ms. warren, we are trying to accommodate folks. if i wanted to stick around, we're going to have two more members with questions and we'll see you off. >> congressman, you are causing problems. we had an agreement for a later hearing. your staffed asked us to move around so that we had to change everything on my schedule to try to accommodate your time. >> i appreciate that. the

as we know in two months, president obama will unvail his strategy for drawing down our forces so that afghans can assume a greater responsibility for their country and their future. our military is making significant end roads. clearing the south, particularly, of insurgents. we are trying to regain some of the areas this spring. we also know insurgents are spreading into other areas in afghanistan, as we drive them from their bases in the south. clearly the challenge is not only on the battle field. despite the grill of our troops, the military and civilian leaders have repeated the mantra, there is no military victory to be had in afghanistan. that is true then we accept that it is, we need to fashion the political resolution. out of these hearings i hope that we can achieve a discussion with our partners about how this war ends, what an acceptable end state looks like, and what steps we need to take to get there. with the death of bin laden, some people are sure to ask why don't we just pack up and leave afghanistan. so it's even more compelling that we examine carefully what is at