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it gives me a greater appreciation for being a us citizen, a patriot and a vietnam veteran. >> i am happy to be a part of this country. >> reporter: she couldn't think of a better day to do this. >> this is the best 4th of july you can think of. it really is great. >> reporter: jeff may have had the easiest path. he is from canada. learning for -- learning the exam for citizenship was a breeze. >> i knew all of that digging down to my middlal school days. >> reporter: for most of us july 4th means independence day in 1776 but for these people july 4th means their independence day, 2011. i'm don harrison for abc 2 news. >>> right from there they tween the curve to see the parades. people celebrating the 4th in grand style l. are parades all over town. the annual parade celebrated the tradition of the men and the women who sacrificed their lives. >> they had the planes fly over showing the strength of america. and knowing that what a great country it is. we are the only country where people come from everywhere here. the melting pot. >> absolutely. we have the celebration like this. here we

. >> reporter: it's easy now for all of us citizen scientists to collect and share a vast amount of invaluable about the health of thousands of redwoods everywhere they grow, year after year, to help the experts understand where and how to care for our beloved trees as the climate shifts. >> and the fact that the pictures they're taking and sending immediately becomes usable for planning immediately i think is going to make a huge difference to a lot of people. >> reporter: doug mcconnell, nbc bay area news. >> seeing a giant redwood in person is amazing. >> it really is. so huge and enormous. >> jeff joins us now with a look at the weekend. >> we're going to have warm weather, a little fog mixing in, good for the redwood trees. let's look out towards the coastline. santa cruz at one of the oldest surviving theme parks in california, opening in 1907. jim foster heading out there and getting us these pictures from today. it's open each and every day and they even do movies right there at the theme park every wednesday. let's bring it on out to our temperatures today. we did have still some warm

aid flotilla rate are due to be released israel fuses to apologize to turkey for killing nine of us citizens on. random hooligans are putting passengers on the russian risk by blinding pilots with powerful beams of light and more than fifty cases of lasers being shown and have been reported this if you. want to argue those were the headlines now let's get into your world of sport in a busy time in the football transfer market yeah that's right roy. will stay at spurs according to his agent that came out a few moments ago charlie adam looks set to sign for liverpool later today plus a busy time on the pitch to weave action from the cup america and the women's will . tell you watching the sport and these are the headlines. south korea celebrates and promises a winter olympics to remember after being chosen to host the twenty eighteen. plus argentina remain when this is the copper america offered polish draw against colombia. russia's water skis talk of home advantage of the country stage the world championships for the first time. now south korea is promising to create an amazing winter games

it that we continue to make those demands if we don't offer citizens of other countries those exact same protections while they're here in the us it's called hypocrisy so yes this man's crimes are heinous no one is disputing that particular bit of biting by international law the law that we cite constantly when our citizens are arrested in foreign countries is giving a man sympathy and that simply wrong it's giving a foreign citizen the same rights that we expect americans to have abroad plain and simple not to mention that in most other countries the death penalty has long been abolished or that something to us citizens don't have to fear if they ever get convicted abroad and i want to respond to a viewer who commented on my tool time with michele bachmann for signing a pledge that involves banning porn in all its forms one of our viewers to bachmann support of this pledge and came up with a pretty ridiculous conclusion you're e l x seventeen it's that on you tube this is why girls can't be empowered. now obviously i think michele bachmann is crazy and her pledge to ban all forms of pornography is absurd but i'm not sure what

kind of not treated properly i talked about this in my book operation dark heart we were all of us citizen and we treated them completely different than foreign nationals we treated them we separated them we gave him his own room and i think you need to consider even if you don't like it if a u.s. citizen is he was a citizen you know treat him like he was a citizen you get even better everything they would have if they you know if if they look like you or me and that's part of the problem i think a lot of these guys may look like arabs and i think that's part of the brutal truth that they just got to get thrown in with the other folks now that this is war you could have a low level of of brutality but with that said once you identify what someone is you are serious and you've got to consider that and jeremy is doing i think a good job he's got to expose what process and the failings of the process for what they are. i def i agree with you there thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. for coming up on this wednesday evening we have a he said it i read it and i respond to comments a

may not have one next friday if the country is in default we'll show you a prime example of why us citizens are angry with congress plus i can't leave home but. he looks too much like hitler no one will adopt i'm back in just a minute. if you're. going to take three. or three arrangements three. three. three. three brown video for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. welcome to the. big splash in the world of high tech business what turns it science into products they don't understand. these he's got he followed russian leaders to e.g. bidders abroad and their big breakthrough back. light on still want to update here on. the future covered. all right it is time for tonight's tool time award and it goes to you michele bachmann the minnesota congresswoman and two thousand and twelve presidential candidate is still refusing to answer questions about her husband's medical practice a few weeks ago you may recall it was exposed that marcus bachmann clinic uses what's called repairer to therapy use it on some patients it's a technique where the therapist tells patients they can quote pray

gaining dollars and wealth off of these products have an extended producer responsibility to inform us as citizens to buy the product and who come to use the products in good faith effort, we believe that there is a need for those that sell us the product to extend information on how to use them in the best way and in the safest way. thank you very much. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker please. i will call a few more names. [reading names] >> i am a recent graduate of the university of san francisco. i studied media studies and journalism. what started to realize when i started to look at this issue is that i am just getting started compared to most people in this room. i spoke and professors at stanford, berkeley, ucla, usc -- all specialists within neurology, and while all of them might not agree that cell phones caused cancer, every one of them has agreed that precaution needs to be paid. there is a lot that can be done in terms of our government was -- laws, things we can do. at least 1 people, especially children. i spoke with a 10-year-old girl the other day about her first cell ph

passing of the law yesterday which basically has never been explained sufficiently israeli citizens are using the boycotts as a matter of fact on a wide variety of issues as citizens in any other democratic country. on environmental issues on consumer issues and on political issues using boycotts is a well recognized none violence democratic legitimate form of protest since yesterday's laws when passed. all of these issues the citizens could continue using boycotts if you don't want to buy a different product certain product if you're angry with a certain company issue that is your nonviolent way for instance if you so choose to express your protest on all of these issues this will remain legal issue this is now become illegal. settlement goods on protesting the occupation it's interesting you mention israeli citizens there why would these many government targets people like this just in a public. i think that is gradually seen here as a process in which norms from beyond the green line from the occupied territories where living there are constant gross human rights violations are gradually t

now, is it wrong for us as citizens to look at your jury system, to look at cases, to discuss them to, to care? the day that it is unethical to care about the murder of a 2-year-old little girl who ends up duct taped and thrown into a swamp is the day that i, too, will retire and rue the justice system. >> nancy grace, passionate, as always. thank you for being with us. >>> and up next, the scene outside the courthouse here was one of shock. people angry, really, at this verdict. we'll tell you about that next. depression is a serious medical condition. i feel like i have to wiwi myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the lack of energy. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor about pristiq®, a prescription medicine proven to treat depression. pristiq is thought to work by affecting the levels of two chemicals in the brain, serotonin and norepinephrine. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children, teens and young adult

. >> in the end, it is us ordinary citizens that put the bill. >> we cannot do anything about it. we have no control over the situation. >> across the atlantic, the closing bell brought more bad news. u.s. markets also down, partly on worries about the euro. much depends on them. europe's leaders are due to meet later this week to discuss problems in the eurozone. this crisis will not pass quickly. if the continent's leaders cannot agree on a solution, it is likely to get much worse. >> the south china sea is an area with potentially rich reserves of oil and gas. it also has some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. it is no surprise that china, the philippines, and asia all have conflicting territorial claims. there is a meeting in bali to see if they we can be found to resolve this dispute. i asked how confident the work that there could be agreement on the code of conduct in the south china sea. >> there is an urgency in southeast asia and china that we will have to send a positive signal to the world that china and asia can manage effectively the differences between som

in the end it's us ordinary citizens who end up footing the bill. we can't do anything about it. we have no control over the situation. across the atlantic, the closing bell brought more bad news. u.s. markets also down partly on worries about the uero. much now depends on them, europe's leaders. they will meet later this week to discuss the problems in the euro zone. this crisis won't pass quickly. if the continent's leaders can't agree on a solution, it's likely to get much worse. >> now the american secretary of state hillary clinton is on a two-day trip to india. it's her second visit to delhi as secretary of state. she is hoping to strengthen the political and economic relationship between india and the united states. our state department correspondent has more from washington. >> when hillary clinton sits down with indian officials, pakistan and afghanistan will be on everybody's mind. delhi is worried about security this is a subject that those two countries have never comprehensively addressed with each other. unless they can reach some accommodation on their conflicting

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use it. under the circumstances, citizen sprinted of stairs to the phone and called her father. and then things began to get really confused great president nixon told jerry that he wanted to speak to both of us. he asked my husband to have me pick up the extension. that is the non existent extension. attempting to remain in control, he explained the problem. can you call back, giving him our phone number? [laughter] then he hung up. [laughter] he came back down downstairs and said, president nixon was going to call back. he also wants to have you on the phone when he speaks to me. we waited for what seemed to be an eternity. i wonder what we had to have done if the other phone -- i often wondered what what had happened. that called not only changed my life from being a typical suburban wife of a member of congress into the vice- president's wife designee. within half an hour, i was supposed to be ready to be at the white house to appear on national television with my husband. guess what. i had nothing to wear. [laughter] i went upstairs and we went through my closet and i threw

cheney mason giving that chart of the reasonable doubt scale, i think people and all of us as citizens have to accept this, convicting someone for a crime under our constitution in this united states, these united states, beyond a reasonable doubt is a virtual impossibility. when that jury knowing the scrutiny they were under because of the media coverage, i think they were so careful -- >> debra, forgive me. i need to interrupt. i just got news in my ear that members of the jury will be speaking. they're not -- >> i knew it. >> we need to respect their privacy. the alternates are on their way here and i will speak with them in less than five minutes. they have not been asked. i am going to ask them, and we will talk to them about that, and as soon as i speak with them i will come back in and let you know if the alternates are interested in speaking to you. the alternates did not have television for the last few days -- nobody had television for the last few days. we pulled all television stations recently because of cross extra promotional issues going on the networks. >> have they be

and for inspiring us to be better citizens and activists. and a special thanks and recognition to tobin for overseeing the awards committee and to all the committee members for their time and hard work. out come the best part of all. we have been waiting for this fabulous reception in the greenroom, being catered by chefs and their restaurants to offer the best asian-pacific cuisine in the bay area. without this support, this event would not be such a success. at this time, please welcome them. great restaurants, although you are going to see for yourself. >> how is it going, everybody? who is hungry now? better yet, who wants free food? anyway, i just want to say, i'm from the san francisco street grid, and i'm speaking here representing all the chefs tonight. peter makes delicious dim sum. and thomas, with great singapore food. we just want to thank you so much for letting us be part of this awards show. and we are so proud to be here. after the show, please come upstairs, do the green room, and had a taste of all the delicious foods that

thing in the united states forty percent of americans use marijuana in the netherlands twenty percent of the citizens here use marijuana according to polls that we've heard even less as five percent as record as ritual users twenty percent it's just like recreational and like from time to time it's one of the lowest rates and you're not the lowest but amongst the lowest local government do in response to this national law and saddam city council have completely against introduction of the ban of tourists and it seems that the shops will be no use to tourists is the news we had on friday we'd like to pass this on to the world because for us this is tremendous news and for us it's a step in the right direction and we have beaten the continent from this point to do it's not over yet we're fighting it every single day and the fact that they push it back by five years much as it is a celebration i have a lot of colleagues that were celebrating didn't make me smile much because all in all it's just a good way for people start forgetting another loss to come into effect. it's not really a step forwards at a

i think that this should be respected for us, not just as citizens or private property owners but for every citizen in the city for the due process and respect for the rights. thank you. >> thank you. >> at this time we have special orders at 3:30. we can come back to this hearing with any member of the public wishes to comment with any prospective that you have on this issue will have that opportunity. >> actually, accommodation is being done by myself. if we could aske pedro to come forward. we have a number of residents of this neighborhood who are involved around public safety issues, so let me briefly tell you why we have asked him to be here. some of you may have read about this incident that happened, and the examiner reported about this. recently, an undercover police officer was being attacked by someone who was not paying their fair. lo and behold, this happened outside of a martial arts academy, where he worked and actually teaches brazilian jujitsu to many of the kids in the neighborhood. not surprising to many of the people, he came to the rescue of this individual who wa

fortunately all of us average citizens can get directly involved in monitoring the health and well-being of these huge and ancient trees and have a lot of fun in the pros s p. >> you need an iphone or ipad or camera with gps locater. snap pictures of redwoods and life in the surrounding forest and add an observation and then upload it all to inaturalist.orgs. the time of the shot and specific locations of every tree and critical information will be recorded and studied by scientists and made assessable to everyone. >> excited that our visitors will have a tool to directly help the redwoods. >> we need to know where the redwood trees are. >> it's easy for us a to collect and share a vast amount of invaluable information about the health of thousands of redwoods everywhere they grow year after year to help the experts understand where and how to care for our beloved trees as the climate shifts. >> the fact that the pictures they're taking and sending immediately becomes usable for planning immediately will make a huge difference to a lot of people. >> doug mcconnell, nbc bay area news. >>

to solve and the situation outside of israel is also related to what happened here between us between our citizens. a correspondent in israel policy who heard from their arms of dating is for the night on developments in tel aviv you can keep updated as well on twitter at r.t. underscore corbett she's posted the latest comments you saying that thousands are carrying signs saying gave her babies go home the view of course starting with that young prime minister of israel you can keep up to date with the latest and plenty of tweets and other news stories as well for us at our team underscore. the latest eleventh hour attempt to avert a u.s. default has failed with republicans rejecting a cuts built by democrats washington remains in deep deadlock them with a decision needed now by choose date to extend the nation's debt ceiling and allow the government to borrow more to keep going economist mark fred wolf says all the proposals on the table are simply putting off the worst outcome. less than two business days away from the worst self-imposed crisis of america's standing in the world and america's cr

to solve and the situation outside of israel is also related to what happened here between us between our citizens there's later in the program first among equals more than a year since the indian government cables to the right for free education the social divide still remains we had that if i know why. the sky high plans flying your own plane your is russia gets easier as new legislation tree is the runway for just a. little journalism a lot of p.r. the frequent findings of recent media surveys in the u.s. there's newspapers across the country close the p.r. machine is rushing in to fill the vacuum out is christine for finding out what that made me society. it is. the first of all of this you know teacher newspapers like the seattle post intelligencer the rocky mountain news and hundreds more have now become relics from the past. slash budgets have stops the presses at newsrooms nationwide. and mass layoffs throughout media have meant far fewer journalists to investigate policy and procedure who are losing their sense of accountability in government and business in all our. life lives if we lose