usf law professor says his celebrity status could work against him. >> barry bonds' health and power could subject him to criticism. if he was somebody off the street they mile get jail time. >> the judge sentenced others to probation and house arrest. those could serve as guidelines. >>> a police officer shot and killed a man in san jose overnight after a man threatened officers. this happened at east san jose near seaview drive and bermuda way. police say during the contact the manmade a threatening move and at least one officer fired his gun in self defense. >> it's been more than eight months since san francisco giants fan bryan stow was beaten and severely injured outside of dodgers stadium. now we're hearing for him for the first time in an exclusive interview with nancy snyderman. >> hi, i'm nancy. how are you? >> fine. >> i've heard so much about you. >> how are you? >> i'm doing very well, thank you. >> that's good. >> you're just as handsome as your sister said you are. >> it's pretty amazing to see. he's able to carry on simple conversations. while his recovery has been re

i will never forget when you're around our table asking for donations for alumni of the usf and doing. i have never in politics or elsewhere, to this day, i cannot think of anyone more full of integrity, a more trustworthy and honest person that i've ever come across in my life. obviously it is going to be a great loss for you leaving our city. emigrate new sheriff coming to replace you but -- we have a great new share of coming to replace sheep. i think you were the first person i talked with about running for office. i'm going to miss you on a personal level. even the great friends to me and my family and i want to say thank you. i will miss you in city hall and i hope you enjoy every single minute of your retirement. >> thank you. [applause] supervisor campos: thank you very much, mr. president. let me begin by thanking you for being here. i was proud to cast my vote for you to be interim mayor and things work out a certain way, but let me say i think you would have done an amazing job for the city as you have all these years. one thing people need to know is that you are a distric

the san francisco chronicle reports usf researchers found 73% of voters ranked their choices for mayor 16% marked just one. supervisor avalos placed a strong second behind lee but appeared in fewer ballots overall than lee or city attorney herrera and chiu. >> san francisco 49ers are nfc west division champions for the first time in nine years clinching a playoff shot. joe montana was there for yesterday's game. current quarterback smith tossed a 56 yard touch down pass to william in the 4th quarter his longest of the season. 26-0 the final. >> you didn't duck the gatorade. >> raiders drop into a first place tie with the broncos after raiders lose to the dolphins, 34-14. >>> cardinals and bears both heading to bowl games. cardinal will take on oklahoma state in the fiesta bowl in arizona january 2nd. the bears will take on texas in the holiday bowl that game will take place in san diego on december 28th. >> i'm going to tell my kids that the holiday bowl is the best bell to get into. >> tell -- best bowl to get into. >> tell 'em. 4:51. >> let's talk about cool temperatures. you may hav

also us usf. fall at pepperdine and santa clara beats eastern michigan. that is the toyota sports report. >> excellent. that alamo bowl was fun. that's cool. >> wasn't tonight that's our report. "nightline"coming up next. for all of us here thanks so much for watching. appreciate your time. see you thanks so much for watching. appreciate your time. see you tomorrow. good night. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪

usf law process forrobert talbot says it's a serious charge. >> that's the basis of unruly law, people going into court saying what's true. otherwise, you really don't have anything. that's extremely important. >> judge susan ilston has lots to consider. federal guidelines suggest a prison term between 15 and 21 months. a court filing, prosecutors recommend 15 months behind bar, saying mr. bonds had a plan to mislead the grand injujury. but a federal probation officer is recommending no prison time. bonds legal team is arguing for nothing more than probation. the slugger's celebrity will also come into play. talbot says it could work against him. >> barry bonds' wealth and power could subject him to criticism rather than it was somebody off the street who had lied to the grand jury might get jail time. >> those sentences could serve as guidelines while the feds are about to determine bonds future, the court of public opinion is leaning toward a light sentence. >> i think community service would be good. >> honestly, i think that he's been punished enough in terms of he basically got bl

i had just come out of usf out of the center and the smoke was spread up to the panhandle. you couldn't miss t oh, gosh, okay, big flames on the western -- the western side of the building. it's still really, really burning on the back side on the -- i guess that's the northwest side of the building. a lot of flames coming out of what looks like the second floor and burning clear up to the roof. i don't know. i think this thing is -- >> it definitely looks out of control from our vantage point and it looks like there are two buildings that may be on fire. >> reporter: there's a smaller building on the corner of pierce and i would imagine that's been affected at some point but the worst of the flames -- i'm on the west side of the building now. the entire back. building and the west side of the building are just pretty much a wall of flame from where i can see. the front of it not quite as bad. but i think the fire department has its work cut out for them here. >> they definitely do. wilson, whenever you go to these scenes, you normally see residents who are in the area. do

also us usf. fall at pepperdine and santa clara beats eastern michigan. that is the toyota sports report. >> excellent. that alamo bowl was fun. that's cool. >> wasn't tonight that's our report. "nightline"coming up next. for all of us here thanks so much for watching. appreciate your time. see you thanks so much for watching. appreciate your time. see you tomorrow. good night. hills soon. that's how he gets his daily exercise. finally, he said if he had to go over the edge again to rescue his dog he would do it. clayton sandell, abc news, los angeles. >> anybody who has a dog understands. understands. apparently we'll hear much more about the rescue and from the young man later this morning on "gma." we'll get a chance to hear more from him. >> lot of thankful people out there for that one. >>> now to the presidential race, and republican voters have put mitt romney back on top in the latest national poll. romney has a four-point lead over newt gingrich and the first time since early november that the national poll shows romney ahead of gingrich. ron pau

as the fcc considers reforming the usf can i can buy new -- can i count on you to bring fairness andance to make it jersey contributes $5 for every dollar gets in services. can i ask you each to respond to this? will you insist upon looking at the equity here? >> sorry. >> senator, as i mentioned a response to your earlier question the commission did indeed tea at the contribution side of the universal service fund for consideration next year . if i'm fortunate to be confirmed that would dig into the record very carefully and make sure that the appropriate reforms were taken to the universal service fund of the contribution side. >> i agree with my colleague. the universal service system needs to be a fair one. >> very few bl let's are focused first and foremost a new jersey. the state alone -- state on television station recently went through a demand a change and is now operating by a company from new york. once again. as steve, are you -- can i get your commitment to watch the new situation closely to make sure that it lives up to the obligations for the people in our state? which

just like usf is one of them in the telephone space, the biggest one in the media space is broadcasting. the premise that the country made a social compact with the commercial broadcasting industry, that it would provide free over-the-air video services with serving the public interest needs of the local community and that in exchange for this they would get free spectrum and other -- and must-carry rights and all kinds of other government-conferred benefits as a consequence of that social compact. i've always been cynical of social compact. i think it proves more theoretical than real, and i think a lot of horse trading goes on as to whether there are real burdens associate with the that or not. but that's another story. you have major entertainment companies that have come out and then have added cable programming and studios, and now they're very substantial, well, you know, well-funded, effective media companies who, by the way, provide phenomenally good programming and want to come into the market and negotiate for fees based on their value just as cable programmers do. but, of cou

beautiful picture of usf this morning gorgeous,.uck to the -- temperatures outside, we are running around in the 42 range in santa rosa and fremont, 47 half moon bay and antioch mid 40s oakland and concord 30s mountain through 35°37 redwood city los gatos 37 also 37 santa cruz 29 gilroy 41 monterey. sunny and mild those are our temperatures for today we'll have low humidity if your lips are chapped they are going to stay that way same with your hands and everything else that is dry out there walk by someone zaps you, a lot of static electricity. clear and cool tonight, frosty in valleys possible another seven days without rain we talked about it was going to be a long time before we saw rain sure enough it continues low 60s east bay valleys most of the east bay shore fremont 63 low to mid 60s south bay. low to mid 60s peninsula, 63 palo alto south bay mountain view los altos 6460 south san francisco upper 50s for the north bay beaches low to mid 60s and breezy in your valleys today 59 carmel. tonight 20s in livermore, fairfield, san

cousins grew up in the bay area and played college ball at usf said he was never trying to hurt buster but as cousins told the mlb network he knew right away this this injury was pretty serious. >> i kind of signaled for some people to come out and check on him and i neilled down and i said buster, are you all right, man and he just kind of groaned in pain and that is when i knew something was wrong. >> if the gm of the giants the guy you wanted to play for, brian sabian coming out and saying that you tried to be a hero he. >> it hurt. i'm not going lie. this is my hometown. the giants were the team that i grew up watching and wanted to play for. people sometimes in the heat of the moment say things that they forget. >> boxer floyd may weather, jr. plead guilty to -- sentenced to 90 days in jail. admitted to striking his girlfriend back in september of 2010. he will begin serving the sentence and further tee lays a possible fight with manny pachio. >> thank you for watching. we appreciate your t

a new usf study found it confusing and complicated. last month they were asked to rank their top three choices. researchers found only about one-third filled out all three choices in all three races. that is despite the city's $300,000 campaign to educate voters about the rank choice system. >>> the family of the prominent san francisco attorney killed in a hit and run accident is hoping a new reward will lead to the capture of the driver responsible. he was killed back in august during his eve land run. now the press reports cast per's family is increasing an award in the case to $50,000. they are asking for help to involve the case of a woman town dead along interstate 680. it was discovered in contra costa county on november 12th. they believe she was hit while walking along the freeway. they are hoping someone may have seen whole hit the mother of two. >>> your time now 5:17. a runway expansion for a marin county airport is a bit closer to reality. last week it was determined that a plan for a field would not effect the environment

usf shot just 16 percent beyond the arc they take one on the chin of pepperdine 77-61.astern michigan. broncos lead in the second half. brandon is refused to as the senior citizen quarterback at 28 he's older than half the starting quarterback in the nfl including super bowl champ rodgers. he's poised he was heismann trophy candidate much of the year and number ways it's on par with luck the past 2 seasons. of course oklahoma state monday in the fiesta bow bowl. david shaw knows very well about this. >> hard to emulate a guy that has that much experience and gets the ball very quickly. doesn't take a lot of hit and don't make bad decision. it's hard to emulate him but some will try it. >>reporter: sports bell played early tonight. notre dame florida state. third quarter. best my of the bowl season so far. look at this bobble bobble bobble finally catches it. taking the punishment score sex. notre dame unable to protect the 14 point lead. pinpoint precision to green 1 15-14 seminole. irish late in the fourth quarter. end zone for the lead. picked. that would end it. 18-f

the esm, the mechanism that should replace the usf will be ready in 2012. when we do that, all member states will have to pay in capital for that mechanism. all member states, not only the aaa member states, will have to put money in the esm. this is the big difference with the esf. capital will not be available. this increases the credibility. the amount will be about 500 billion euros. the imf will have a fund that will be increased with bilateral contributions from member states. it will be about 200 billion. other members of the international computer -- international community have also been invited to contribute. they will be managed with all of the conditionality is and the stricter rules and regulations of the imf. the german government has decided yesterday about the modalities of how we are going to contribute. since the private sector will also contribute, we are going to stick to the practice of the imf in terms of private sector contributions to the sovereign debt. the same clauses are going to be applied. on the one hand, we will have greece.

and ultimately and economically sound usf is going to create fairness and certainty in a competitive marketplace. and i don't mr. pai, you're from kansas, ms. rosenworcel you are a thing from connecticut, is that right? so you probably have some experience in your states with some of the more rural areas, but i certainly would welcome you to travel to south dakota as well to gain perspective on how these issues play in rural areas in the country. so i would like to extend the invitation to you today. another important topic in my state, the issue of telecom mergers, i'm concerned about the effect of the best teachers on rural states like south dakota has had. and i would also ask you, if confirmed, to look into the issue to make sure that those packages are truly preserving competition and not negatively impacting certain regions of the country. and to the point, and i phrase that was mr. pai, we had in my state of south dakota, back in 2009, the justice department permitted emerge to go forward on the condition that divestiture take place and ultimately allowed at&t to take over the

with regard to the recent usf order dealing with competitive wireless, a number of people feel that wireless was unfairly and illogically targeted in this order. what do you say to that and what affect do you think the order will have on broadband competition, particularly in rural areas such as alaska, west virginia and so on? >> i think the recent order is an attempt to ascertain where service is and is not. i think if is an effort to take scarce resources and direct them to places where service is not today. i think the agency will need to continually evaluate how the funds are spent to make sure that we do reach underserved areas in mississippi, alaska, west virginia, and any other state across the country. >> i would add kansas to that tally. having grown up in rural kansas, i am keenly concerned about rural areas. i have not had the opportunity to dig into all of the particulars, but i do know that the commission is going to be actively considering these issues in the next year and if confirmed, i certainly would take these issues to heart. >> i appreciate that and i do hope so. let me

a new usf study concludes most found the system confusing and complicated. last month city voters were asked to rank their top three choices for mayor, sheriff, and district attorney. researchers found only about a third filled out all three choices in all three races. that is despite the city's $300,000 campaign to educate voters about the rank choice system. >>> a runway expansion for a marin county airport is close to taking off. earlier this week, it was determined the plan for knocks field airport would not significantly impact the environment. the 11 million-dollar expansion plan would lengthening the runway by 1100 feet. the supervisors say this will make the airport safer for pilots and bring in more business. >>> san francisco international airport's terminal two is now lead gold certified in sustainability. the first airport facility in the u.s. to achieve this ranking. the award ranks buildings according to energy efficiency, water conservation, and environmentally beneficial details like lots of windows to reduce the use of whiting. sfo's termina

>> if the asset our usf, yes, i could imagine doing another version of the telf. if they are european-based assets, it is hard for me to imagine that. ofi'm just asking because the range of options of what we saw the fed do in the last crisis. enter dr. sanders point, the question about whether it was $7 trillion or $1 trillion or $1.50 trillion, the average -- the point that the average american citizen has is, what is the fed doing? the lack ofnformation means that many americans will simply fill in the blanks on what happens in that black box. to mr. rosner's point, as the stock holder of a bank, it is hard to tell if a bank is doing great or awfully, or what the range in between is. the lack of information, that is at least what i want to have some scenarios. so that we are not completely surprised by the fed. >> in the short term, it does not seem like the fed is going to have to take a lot more action than they have done with the swap line, in part because again, in an attempt to kick the can down the road we have seen the european central bank offer 1% mone

>> if the asset our usf, yes, i could imagine doing another version of the telf. if they are european-based assets, it is hard for me to imagine that. ofi'm just asking because the range of options of what we saw the fed do in the last crisis. enter dr. sanders point, the question about whether it was $7 trillion or $1 trillion or $1.50 trillion, the average -- the point that the average american citizen has is, what is the fed doing? the lack of information means that many americans will simply fill in the blanks on what happens in that black box. to mr. rosner's point, as the stock holder of a bank, it is hard to tell if a bank is doing great or awfully, or what the range in between is. the lack of information, that is at least what i want to have some scenarios. so that we are not completely surprised by the fed. >> in the short term, it does not seem like the fed is going to have to take a lot more action than they have done with the swap line, in part because again, in an attempt to kick the can down the road we have seen the european central bank offer 1% mo

fia he's responsible for oversight of stability and redeployment operation as usf i completely transfer streaming and pricing functions in iraq by the end of the year. at this time i'll turn the microphone to general helmick for his opening statement and then we'll come back to washington to take your questions. but that general, over to you. >> well, good morning from baghdad, iraq. i'd like to thank the media today and i appreciate this opportunity to update the american people about our men and women in uniform, bravely serving in support of operation new dawn. with less than one month remaining, we are poised to complete our mission to successfully honor the terms of the two deaths in a security agreement between our government and government of iraq. the significance of this day, december 7 and is not escape you. for today marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. that infamous day in the attacks on 9/11 calvinist or nation. while world war ii was credited for responding to the greatest generation, i believe over the course of the operation iraqi freedom and operati