best described as a organized crime is not a state in any way shape or form just because the us state department says it is a doesn't mean it is. the hague's opinion on kossovo sparked reaction from two other states seeking world wide recognition and south a second to say the court's decision confirms the double standards of western countries over their right to independence of qazi as prime minister sergei shamba says that to a publics have more of a right to their own sovereignty than kossovo. a little work but the president confirms a people's right to determine their own identity at the same time giving their arguments more weight on the other hand it's all politicized and we can be sure that if we went to the hague we would get a similar ruling we probably wouldn't in spite of the fact that we have more historical legal and moral grounds to demand independence than costs about double standards do exist it's not a secret to anyone in any case people who object to our independence will now find it difficult to openly claim that we don't have the right to determine our own standing. here with

described as a organized crime it is not a state in any way shape or form just because the us state department says it is a doesn't mean it is a case of course it was just a naked land grab and if it's allowed to stand and serbia itself may actually soon fall apart and disappear serbia as a country cannot afford to simply let this slide for the past twenty years there have been wars and conflicts in the balkans stemming from the collapse of yugoslavia and each time there was any sort of dispute the serbs turned out to be on the losing end and the principles that the so-called international community adopted along the way varied according to the needs of the moment there's no principle here really that can consistently apply over the past twenty years except the serbs always lose and that's clearly not a principle you can build a policy on well meanwhile foreign affairs editor at serbian state television the boy in the book it says the next step is for the grades to bring the issue of course for up at the un general assembly. it will be the decision of the general assembly that will change more

us. state department seems to agree with that statement he is here of his own volition and he has chosen to return to iran of his own volition that is how we do things here in the united states we didn't we didn't seize him and bring him here they were not preventing him from returning to iran this building is the pakistani embassies office representing iranian interests the old iranian embassy in washington sits empty because there's no longer a diplomatic relationship between the united states and iran according to reports coming out of iran for amiri arrived here monday night he told those inside he was quote brought here by his captors and demanded an immediate return to iran but i was told that if i would confess they could swap me for three american spies who had been detained at the iran iraq border they said that this was a common process between countries intelligence agencies and that i wouldn't have any problems as media outlets waited outside for a glimpse of something those at the state department press briefing bickered about what this all means of other than knowledge that

us in. the state health department today recommended women of child bearing years and seniors get the whooping cough vaccine. >>> dead fish and clams are washing ashore at an antioch reservoir and no one is sure what's killing them. fishermen at the contra loemo reservoir began noticing the dead fish earlier this month. the situation is cause for concern because the reservoir provides drinking water for local residents. the contra costa county water district hasn't found anything toxic in the water. a spokesperson says numerous tests show the reservoir poses no threat to the water supply or to marine life. >>> this is really fascinating. historians are now calling it a wowee moment. new documents that have been uncovered in sacramento show a direct link between president abraham lincoln and that ill-fated donner party. >> down this hallway, locked away in room 205 in a temperature-controlled vault now sits documents so treasured the state's principal librarian describes them as -- >> glory, gold, they'll last forever. >> these date back to the 1832 blackhawk war, rolls carried by the donner pa

this is a state department and this is support for multi use -- we are required by law if you do not have a dish washer that you have alternate methods to clean your dishes. soap with -- detergent with hot water, this is going to be a sanitizer with hot water, a 30-second bath in the sanitizer then you dry it up. this is an example of the process. nothing here is ready to eat. there is nothing here that we have to carry away. separate area. this preparation is what we're looking for. >> we are upstairs here at town hall restaurant in the kitchen for what preparation? production. >> party. >> there's pastry, you do desserts and stuff here as well, right? we are here, one of the interesting things about commercial kitchens, they have a lot of special requirements for removing the waste products of cooking. so we have steam, we have heat, we have grease-laden vapor and all those things result in materials that have to be evacuated through the hood and duct system. here we have a type 1, all welded, and it has inside it these things heading down, these are heads for the system called an

state function is in respective of the funding source that is used to provide services. as a health maintenance organization -- california is the only state that has an organization such as the department of managed health care. it reviews every health plan, their respective of whether it is state dollars, local dollars, or private funding. that is its responsibility. in terms of the oversight of the san francisco community health authority, it is a 19 member board. 14 of its members are appointed by the board of supervisors. it goes through that process on an annual basis. the additional five members of the board are designated positions. there is someone from the health commission, the department of public health, ucss, the department of mental health, and the board of supervisors. so there is significant oversight in terms of the actual appointment of the governing body of the san francisco health plan, which is responsible for ensuring the financial stability, fiduciary role, oversight of the organization to insure it not only meets its financial obligations but it's a service obligations. chairperson avalos: may be a question to the controller's office about the recommendation fro

using fake information. a report by the center for public integrity says the state department failed to pick up basic red flags like taking the name of a dead applicant and using a fake driver's license. an investigator will give that information to congress today. >>> usually the biggest security issue at a wedding is making sure the groom doesn't catch a sneak peek at the bride. but in chelsea clinton's case means security keeping the global media out of sight. the faa will actually try to attempt to temporarily ban flights below 2,000 feet this weekend in the area of astor courts estate in new york reportedly where clinton will exchange marriage vows on saturday. the secret service requested that flight ban. the high-profile wedding isn't just stopping air traffic. roads around the estate will actually close starting tomorrow. >>> thanks for joining us this morning. the "today" show coming up next. we'll have an update for you in half an hour.

the state health department pushes for certain people to get vaccinated for us. >> a victim turns out he's in the bay area for an interview with google. >> it kooged off today. the trend is going to take us into... >> and continues in one minute. )ñ)ñ)ñ)ñ)ñ)ñ@ú@ú t t tgsatataxax >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> hopefully crime stoppers are offering a $20,000 reward in the case of a man shot to death last night while visiting the bay area. the shooting happened around 11:30 last night in oakland. the victim, a 45-year-old was a father of three from fairfax, virginia. had just returned to his rental car after getting teeth cleaned when approached by two men who robbed him, then shot him to death. so far police have not released the description of the suspects. >> there is a man pretending to be a woman attacked a musician with pepper spray in a concert. the 61-year-old was arrested for sunday's attack on musician. police say tung posed as a woman approached the stage as if he's going to give a flower, then sprayed pepper spray. he's a well known anticommuni

be a protest move across the country we could see it there's eleven states looking at it so you know what come after us to department of justice but usually that means everyone backs off for a little bit and the fight continues on in court but is this really about states' rights our is this more about civil liberties and our people missing the main point of debate here as to why this law really is wrong what i mean there's a civil liberties issue which is very important but another issue that's rarely talked about is the business rights issue where nobody talks about it as between seventy arizona law the majority of it is about punishing businesses it's about punishing businesses in the middle of a recession which is something that's very quite frankly unwise and disturbing and for a lot of free market advocates to be on the side of another part of the law which is also disturbing is that this creates a huge subsidy for trial lawyers any resident of arizona will be able any legal resident now to sue the state if they think that it's not going to fall. there with immigration law and i don't see how that is in any way

us. >> reporter: the state is facing a $19 billion deficit. the furloughs won't last forever. but longer than any affected state worker would like. >> as soon as the department finances that budget is going to enable us to pay the bills for the rest of the year the furloughs go away. >> reporter: in sacramento, ron jones for cbs 5. >>> more bad news for the state budget. but good news for public health. cigarette sales are down. last year sales dropped by 8% and that's the largest year to year decline since 2000. last year though the state received about $840 million in cigarette tax revenue but that's down from the more than $910 million it collected the previous year. state officials say higher taxes drove more people to kick the habit. >>> i'm simon perez live on treasure island. coming up after the break, i'll tell you what it takes to lift up something that weighs 2.3 million pounds. >>> just started gaining speed and losing control. i fell and just crashed my head into the side wall. >> a popular bay area water ride drawing a crowd of people who say it left them injured. >>> i am pro-wind and pro-solar both. but i don't think that this kind of a thing

use medical marijuana. the department of veteran affairs says the treatment will be allowed in v.a. hospitals and clinics in states where medical marijuana is legal. that includes california. veterans grounds complain that patients could be denied benefits and treatment if they were caught using medical marijuana. but v.a. doctors still cannot prescribe it because the drug is illegal under federal law. >>> next, why a south bay lake is off limits to swimming this weekend. plus, what started a deadly stampede at a famous german music festival. and why the struggle to seal the b.p. oil well has become a cat and mouse game. >> leigh: a pleasant day across the bay area today. some cooling is expected in the next few days. the forecast is coming up. acknowledge acknowledge 18 >> alan: 18 people were killed and 30 more hurt in a stampede at the love parade festival. the police tried to block thousands of people from entering the parade grounds. the festival continued in order to prevent another stampede. >>> tropical storm bonny fizzled out and efforts to plug the b.p. oil leak are back on track. engineers are hoping th

use medical marijuana. the department of veteran affairs says the treatment will be allowed in v.a. hospitals and clinics only in states where medical marijuana is legal. that includes california. veterans grounds complained that patients could be denied benefits and treatment if they were caught using medical marijuana. but v.a. doctors still cannot prescribe it because the drug is illegal under federal law. >> a close call at an air show in canada. and the fog moved out and the sun moved in, and leigh glaser will have your forecast. >> mike: the a's jack cust is heating up, two homers, and ben sheets is cooling down because of his elbow.ññññññññ7y7y7y7y@bu >> want to do cool stuff for half off? "half off!" is celebrating its first anniversary with a whole new lineup. whitewater rafting. thrill rides. dune buggies. and more. tune in to "half off!" this sunday right here on abc 7 or go shopping right now at halfoff.tv. >> alan: a pilot survived a fiery crash of a fighter jet while practicing for an air show in canada. take a look at this. the pilot ejects just seconds before his cf18 fighter hits the ground and bursts

also, we have this extraordinary interagency team set up in the state department and with your prior permission, we brought with us today representatives of six of the ten agencies we work with. the ones not here are the fbi, the agriculture department, the cia and the office of the secretary of defense. but i would with your permission would like to ask the team behind us just to stand as mention their names so that you know who they are. first a person who is not on our team but you all know very well our assistant secretary of state rich verma. next to m is one of my deputies, dan feldman, next to him our senior deputy frank ruggiero just returned from kandahar. i asked him to come here today with his boots full of dust but, unfortunately, he cleaned up for yobut i think most of you will visit him in kandahar. next to frank rami shai, our treasury representative who has done a phenomenal job, i hope we'll get a chance to address that. next to him is matt steglietz, department of justice and shannon darcy who has returned from afghanistan as one of r two aide representatives. next to shannon colonel rose one of

you think about the fact that many of these children are 6, 7 years old and sadly, as the state department tells us in this report that was just released, the majority of transnational trafficking, the majority of these victims are being trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. so that is the reality that the world faces today. now importantly, this resolution commends south africa for taking -- for the government taking some steps because it has tried to combat this problem, it has brought to justice, it successfully convicted its human traffickers here in a trial that has gotten some attention. so it is important to note such improvements. but at the same time it's important for us to realize how much remains to be done, how much the international community needs to work and come together, to go after these criminals syndicates that are involved in this kind of activity. and i only wish we could be celebrating the achievement of countries like vietnam, but unfortunately we've read the report. some countries are actually being downgraded in this report and in vietnam women and children are

but truly, we have agencies and departments that we can cut that would be better served at the state level. and we have the 10th amendment that our founders gave us a said, yes, you should have those things done at your state level, and i am talking about things like the department of education. ronald reagan knew this. [applause] and remember, ronald reagan had it right about our economy, and if he thought the department of education are one size fits all policy-making bureaucracy that fits no one, we have seen that with no child left behind. they send us unfunded are underfunded mandates to states, and then we cannot do what we do best, which is we want to keep that money right here in the state, and we want to put it into that class or more the parents, the teacher, and the tiles are the stakeholders. we want to do that ourselves and keep our money here. ronald reagan knew that we could do that, and it would be better served. there are other agencies and departments you can think of or we're spending several dollars that we do not need to be spending, and we need to start cutting back there. we then need to take back our economy, and we know h

the department of state is us to delop a plan and provide recommendations on how we can apply the lessons learned from the pepfar program to the domestic epidemic in equal employment opportunity commission and independent agency is being asked to develop a reporton how we can expand employment opportunities for people withiv and address employment related discrimination. so the strategy and implemention plan demonstrates the president is serious about tackling the epidemic in the presidential memorandum is a sign that he means business. a couple of days dr. colin i will trap gold to vienna austria to vertus bigamy national aids conference. because a the present obama's leadership the 19th international conference on aids conference will be held in washington d.c. and 2012. [applause] this is the first, we the first time the conference will have been held in the united states in 20 years and we think it will be an opportunity to spotlight her work and show the global community the united states is committed to the domestic epidemic and abroad. now let me introduce dr. howard koh. dr. koh.

use. host: individual states that are allowing medical marijuana use? would you want the justice departmentcrack down? guest: i think we do need to allow individual experimentation among the states, that is the system in our constitution, and from a guy from south carolina we talked a lot about states' rights. but, yes, i think it would make sense for states to have latitude. host: albany, new york. patrick, a republican line. caller: this is my first time calling the show. i wanted to mention a couple of things. i have been watching -- i am actually 40 years old, i live in albany, new york. we have a high unemployment rate. i have been taking care of an overly father. with mike unemployment being cut now, it has been so tough -- with my unemployment being cut now. i do not know why the senate floor it is discussing nomination of elena kagan the other day and all of these issues than i really pressing. the people cut from unemployment and not care about that. we want these benefits, just like they say. this is insurance. we pay into it. it is not welfare. it is not a handout. i look at my l

federal, state, local, or private foundation funding sources for programs for early childhood education service, and look at the city departments that are applying for these funds and how they are using this funding sources. we would also look at any potential overlaps or gaps in providing funding for these various early childhood education and care programs, and look at the department's oversight of the funds and the providers. we would not actually look at the nonprofit providers of these services, but look at it only from the city's perspective in providing that oversight. in terms of consistent criteria for evaluating the program performance, the use of the program evaluation and making program funding decisions. we will also evaluate the city's early childhood education care coordinate with child health programs. this could be a potential problem. we would also identify opportunities for improved coordination and consolidation of the department's early childhood care and education program. we estimate that this audit or study would require approximately 1000 hours of our staff time and that we could complete it by the end of october. again, as i indicated from the earlier audit,

use in his career. attorney general holder was right in terms of acting swiftly, in terms of throwing out that condition. he also stated that the department of justice's office of professional responsibility would investigate the actions of the two officers, yet a year after that, we still have heard nothing out of office regarding their conduct. the department of justice has publicly talked about how they increased training in terms of discovery obligations, and they have issued memos in terms of what they are supposed to be doing, yet they have yet to do anything regarding the behavior of those prosecutors. contrast that to the case that occurred a couple years ago, that boasts -- that of the prosecutor in north carolina, where six months after the charges were brought against the lacrosse students, and they were charged with rape, the defense attorneys uncovered evidence in the files, and north carolina is open, but they found evidence in the files showing their clients were innocent. the state attorney general immediately dismissed the charges against those individuals, and a few months after that, he was disbarred for withholding evi

the department of veterans affairs this week is sending out new guidelines to hospitalsed a clinics in 14 states where medical marijuana uselegal, including here in california. the new policy says that veterans can use marijuana for medical treatment, though it cannot be prescribed by the va. in addition, patients who use it will not be denied other pain medication which has been the policy. the veterans group say that's forced patients to choose between medical marijuana and va benefits. >>> sully sullenberger is about to take off on a 35-mile charity bike ride. today the captain and his wife hosted a hike and picnic lunch to raise money for a nonprofit that builds friendships, employment and leadership opportunities for people with develop mental disabilities. they say their work with charities benefiting the disabled started years ago after their oldest daughter invited over a friend with down syndrome for a playdate. >> one of the things we've always done is get our kids involved in organizations because i didn't want them to have that stigma and feel like they could not invite a friend like that over the house. >>> lo

state department and other federal agencies. 10% had been spent. we also found the state department did not have a good set of measures to determine whether or not the aid would be effectively used. host: what kind of measures did they have? guest:they changed guest: --gu: they changed the rules. more of the focus is focused on the border and in the larger or origination spots. host: what kind of measures are you recommending? guest: the kinds of things we would like to see relate to whether or not the level of other to is going down, for example, whether or not you see homicides declining. effective policing in mexico. whether we see the law enforcement activities and cooperation with u.s. authorities. those are the things i we think they need to consider. host: in yesterday's's "washington post" -- what has been the impact of not getting this assistance? guest: the sooner they can get the equipment in place, the sooner they can expand their operations in terms of fighting drug trafficking. some of this equipment takes years to acquire, build the equipment. it is not dead -- uncommon for big-ticket items for big items to be procured. in other cases, it is just waiting to be put

use force. he has turned in his badge and gun as the department investigates. >>> state prosecutors are decidinghether to prosecute a former san francisco crime lab technician. they say they have a report from san francisco police on the case, but police are still waiting on outside crime labs to complete work on some pieces of evidence before they're done with the case. all this started after debora m admitted to taking cocaine that would have otherwise been thrown out. >>> a proposed housing project at a navy base in alameda is in limbo this morning. the city council was expected to sever i relationship with theio developer, sun cal, last night er concernsve orff traic and t how ny jobs it could tehoeacr.ea cle "chronicle" says more than 20 ppeleopdaclet tkeha petg and a decision was notac reache. now, the project w touldngri br 4,800 homes, a 60-acre sports complex, offices with and schools to thatre anare an area training during world war ii. it's possible park visitors and staff could be exposed to chemicals in hidden dummy bombs left there. soil testing could be costly, but the tests could

preferred the use of [unintelligible] >> i think that was released for the state department. there was not a preference. the preference enunciated in the letter, the preference enunciated in the present in boxing call to prime minister brown, the preference enunciated by john brennan and others was that he should not be released. we think that was the right decision. we think the decision not to release him, we agree with that today. that is what we publicly stated prior to the release. the letter says in the event the scots make a decision we do not think they should break, what ever you do do not let him travel to leave. do not let him have a hero's welcome coming home. we also -- and i think the letter clearly states this, we asked for an independent medical examination to ensure that the medical records that having only three months to live was indeed supported independently. the preference enunciated by every level of this government was for him to continue to serve the sentence that he was serving until he died. >> could you tell me what effort the white house has made