but conceptually you can do this with a long weir. here's another example of a long weir structure. this is sort of south of monster park along the bay. on the lower left you can see sort of the weir arrangement as it currently exists. one of our concepts would be -- it's a little hard to see, but you can sort of wall off those existing weirs and put some sort of a duck bill type of back flow prevention in there. so we see this as a near term solution to a current problem we have, something we can start doing right away, and i think my engineers suggest that this would probably protect us i'd say for the next 30 to 50 years. if this is all we did, we could probably avoid serious problems with salt water intrusion. start looking at the longer term, i don't really know what you do other than install more pumps. will talked about this is a problem we have to stop. we might have to build seawalls around the city, we might have to firm up large areas, we're just going to have to pump a lot more. and i guess sort of a discussion point i have about more pumping is conceptually that's simpl

i'm bill weir and we are live with breaking news. the emergency landing of a southwest flight in yuma, arizona, after a gaping hole opened in the fuselage of the boeing 737 while the craft was at cruising altitude. you can imagine the horror the folks flying from phoenix to sacramento as cabin pressure dropped, air masks deployed and the plane plunged 25,000 feet. one passenger even texted a good-bye to his wife. with all the details, here's alexi starr. >> reporter: no hiding the joy as passengers from southwest flight 812 finally made it to their destination. made it to sacramento, california. hugs, kisses, tears. relatives overjoyed at seeing their loved ones. ashley mann couldn't contain herself. she'd been waiting for hours for her boyfriend. ever since receiving a frightening text message. >> he sent me a text when he was on the ground. and told me there was a hole in the ceiling of the plane. and that he was all right. he did assure me that. but i still don't believe him. >> reporter: the harrowing day began more than six hour

in new york city, this is "nightline," april 6th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. and after a late night meeting with congressional leaders at the white house, president obama emerged to announce still no deal tonight. so, the possibility of a government shutdown friday midnight still looms. the battle over america's fiscal health has raged from the capital to state houses across the nation, including new jersey, where chris christie for president has become a rallying cry for a number of conservatives. he hit the national stage by breathing fire at big government and aiming punch lines at the teacher'sdownon. aside from republican fans, his style has earned him one high profile enemy, named springsteen and constant questions about his white house ambitions. tonight, diane sawyer covers them all in this exclusive interview. >> hello, good morning. >> reporter: on this warm, spring morning, governor chris christie walks into a new jersey classroom. >> good morning, guys. >> reporter: a warm response for the governor who leapt into the national spotlight, attacking t

city and terry moran in libya, this is "nightline," april 7th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. they are known as flash sales. online bargains that disappear after only a day or two. they're good for sellers because they create a lot of hype and good for buyers because wassenly that designer suit or pair of coveted heels can go from unaffordable to merely pricey. tonight, vicki mabrey behind the scenes at the largest members only online retailer of luxury goods. >> reporter: blame it on the hollywood red carpet. the stars always look so luxe. and "sex and the city." who can really afford a lavish trip like this? >> oh, toto. i don't think we're in kansas anymore. >> reporter: $4,000 outfits, $1,000 for a pair of shoes? well, almost nobody could, of course, until there was gilt groupe. it's an online club, sort of gro groupom meets your designer outlet mall. where just plain folks can shop for deems on a few guilty pleasures, right alongside rich fashionistas. it's the ultimate in cut-rate luxury. and joining is free. and once inside, the lifestyle of the rich and famous, not jus

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran and bill weir in new york city and cynthia mcfadden in london, this is "nightline," april 26th, 2011. >> good evening all, i'm bill weir. and you know we live in interesting times when even the weather is a wedge issue. but in this political climate, few terms are more loaded than climate change. after months of epic droughts and floods, blizzards and heat waves, some are seeing proof of warnings past, while others refuse to believe that man could ever wreck god's planet. but neither side can deny that we are having one hellacious spring. >> this thing is right over my head. >> reporter: there is nothing unusual about tornadoes in april. but this many? this deadly? it is more than unusual. because it's not just happening in tornado alley, where midwesterners know all about spring twisters. no, funnel clouds have risen in sobering numbers from mississippi to maryland. >> there goes the roof off a house. >> reporter: if you average the past three years, april typically brings two killer tornadoes that take six lives.

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>> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," april 13th, 2011. >> good evening. an early happy tax day, everybody. that's sarcasm, of course, because despite the recent efforts of the irs to be more customer friendly, it's hard to fine anyone who really enjoyed their last audit the complications of paying your national dues have spawned a cottage industry of sorts. some make promises, but all too often add another layer of misery. tonight, brian ross investigates one firm you may know from tv. >> reporter: in a kitchen in suburban minneapolis, charlene lee, the mother of two young children, learned she was going to owe more to the irs than she could pay, $42,000, after the sale of some family property. >> i thought, oh, my goodness, i'm going to owe this money to the irs. they're going to take my house, i can't handle this by myself, because i never had to do that. >> i'm patrick cox. >> reporter: charlene thought she found her answer on cnn. >> we'll solve your tax problems. >> reporter: t

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city this is "nightline," april 8th, 2011. >> good evening. we begin with breaking news, and within minutes of the first wartime government shutdown in american history, democrats and republicans announced a last minute deal on this year's federal budget which must bring great relief to the 800,000 federal workers and millions of military families around the world whose paychecks were hanging in the balance. the two sides reportedly agreed on a $38.5 billion spending cut for the rest of this year. but still, a tiny sliver of the total budget. it was a day of fraught negotiation, with plenty of blame flinging thrown in. but in the end, a stop gap measure was passed before midnight deadline and we heard this from the key players in this fight. >> i'm pleased that senator reid and i and the white house have been able to come to an agreement that will, in fact, cut spending and keep our government open. and i expect that the house will vote tonight on a short-term continuing r

we don't know how judge weir will feel about this. he'll have to judge a fellow judge and might be tough to say that he had that conflict. >> i was going to ask that. how are the courts likely to look on this? it seems there's an institutional bias on the part of the court, not to overrule another judge on whether or not he thinks he that he has a conflict. >> that's right. i think the odds are against a judge saying anything like that, but that said perhaps this is aimed at the big bench in washington where it's ultimately headed. it's in the ninth circuit on the merits of judge walker's ruling and it could be they're trying to lobby the supreme court in advance that besides everything else in the case we had a biased judge. they've already overruled judge walker on the question of televising the trial. this could just be intended to send a message. >> belva: let's just say judge walker ended up in that position because of the lottery effect. >> which he did. >> belva: on a computer. now we have judge james weir who's an african-amer

i'm bill weir. yesterday was thursday. thursday, today is friday, friday. we, we, so excited.f that blazingly obvious leer rick doesn't bring a smile, you know it's a girl on youtube. but rebecca black may have the last laugh. it's a lesson in modern fame. >> reporter: it's a really good friday for 13-year-old rebecca black. the last day of the week, just set a record. reaching the 100 million mark on youtube. 63 days after his review. and beating out justin bieber whose video took 76 days to hit there. this california eighth grader's rise to fame started after her paints shelled out money for a music camp. they made a video, tweaked her voice and posted it on youtube. music founder patrice wilson appeared in the video. >> i had a good feeling about it. and before you knew it, hey, friday is forever. >> reporter: rebecca became a viral star. >> people look and say, why this girl? why did she make it? and she is cute. voot was just silly enough. it seemed she could be in the joke herself. >> it was when a comedy central blogger made fun of the song that it took off. when did yo

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. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," april 21st, 2011. >> good evening. we begin tonight with energy policy. today, a natural gas company halted its use of a controversial mining technique call eed fracking, after a blowt spewed thousands eed fluid int. in arkansas, some geologists think the disposal of waste water from fracking may be leading in an uptick of earthquakes, more than 1100 since september. here's chris bury. >> reporter: at this arkansas school, anger is in the air. >> you need to start hounding your government. >> reporter: the residents gathered here are worried. >> how would we know? >> reporter: about the gas wells sprouting up around them. >> i just know my house started shaking. >> reporter: and whether drilling is to blame for the earth moving under their feet. >> the house shoot, all the dogs started barking and going off. something happened. >> reporter: what's happening? earthquakes. more than 1100 since september. most of them tiny, two or three on the richt

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," april 22nd, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. we're going to begin with the price of gas. the average cost of gasoline is now at a two and a half year high, with talk of a possible $6 a gallon gas this summer. speaking in reno, nevada, yesterday, president obama warned that price gouging on gas sales would be punished. but the worst part about the high gas prices you see everywhere may be the prices you don't see, the hidden costs for things like shipping that increase what you pay for everything from flowers to food. here's neal karlinsky with that. >> reporter: in seattle today, there is something that could keep a cancer patient from getting chemo treatment. it's robbing the profit margin from this pizza before it is even made. and it's pushing commuters to ride to work with complete strangers. gas prices. you've heard the news. gas is expensive. but there is a hidden cost, too, and the impact is reverberating through a bigger slice of d

i'm bill weir. believe it or not, like it or not, the 2012 presidential campaign is under way.or proof, some republicans are pointing to the president's big deficit speech yesterday. but here's more definitive evidence tonight. president obama back in the friendly confines of chicago for his first major fund-raiser of this re-election cycle. who exactly he'll run against is anyone's guess. but a new cnn poll of republicans has mike huckabee tied with donald trump, atop the list of favorite nominees. before leaving for chicago, the president talked with george stephanopoulos exclusively to talk about, among other thing, the birther bombs that have, among other things, raised donald trump's profile. >> nobody ever come s forward. nobody knows who he is until later in his life. it's very strange. the whole thing is very strange. >> what do you make of that? >> i think that over the last 2 1/2 years, there's been a effort to go at me in a way that is politically ex-pe pee-petant short term for republicans but creates i think a problem for them when they want to actually run in the

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news with terry moran and bill weir in new york city, and cynthia mcfadden in london this is "nightline," april 27th, 2011. >> good evening, i'll bill weir. it was a storm that swallowed a city. and estimated mile-wide tornado made a direct hit this evening on tuscaloosa alabama, population 180,000. mass casualties are reported. the numbers still in flux. but storm fatalities also reported tonight in mississippi, georgia and tennessee. these twisters part of a storm system that began to sweep the south on monday. steve osunsami has been covering it and joins us now from lincoln, alabama with the latest. steve? >> reporter: bill, it was a fightening night. fist, it was the sound of the sirens. from city to city, that you could hear blaring through the night. then there was the sight of the funnel clouds racing across the sky, bringing high winds and tornadoes, hopscotching across the state. tearing down trees, bringing them over power lines. hundreds of thousands of people without power, causing a number of fatalities. we won't really kn

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran and bill weir in new york city, and cynthia mcfadden in london, this is "nightline," april 29th, 2011. >> good evening from london. here at westminster abbey, today, prince william wed his college sweetheart, catherine middleton. at 2 billion people arnold the world watched. no doubt somewhere their parties are still going on here in london. it was a flawless fairy tale of a day. the public mood, buoyant. but at the end, it was not just a public spectacle, but the most intimate of scenes. two young people, professing their love, whose whispers to each other today, some of which we can tell you tonight, reveal so much. in the beginning, it was all anticipation. it is possible that we may get a glimpse of the bride as she gets into the car. but since we weren't invited to the wedding, we wondered, where would be the perfect place to watch? with the people, of course. and so, we hit the streets. on motorbikes. our first stop, hyde park. where over 200,000 people gathered. do you mind that we crashed the party? >> woul

i'm bill weir. with apologies to the bard, all that glitters may not be gold. but these days you might want to have it appraised anyway. at around 1500 bucks an ounce, the precious metal has never been more precious. but before you go fishing through grandma's jewelry box or grandpa's skull, or put all of your nest egg in gold, john berman has a reality check for the modern prospector. >> reporter: the great american gold rush of 1849 looked like this. the sprint for the hills. the race for the riches. the great american gold rush of 2011 looks a little different. it looks like grandpa's old teeth. it's a little gross but -- >> it's a lot gross. >> not just a little bit. >> it's a lot gross. >> reporter: gross maybe but -- >> a couple of teeth, a crown as you can see. this is well over 500 bucks. >> i have some stuff. my gold. >> reporter: with gold at record prices up over $1500 an ounce, places like u.s. gold in new york are seeing record business. >> if you're looking to sell your gold this week, it's a great time to sell. >> reporter: up and down the julie

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," april 20th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. we're going to begin with the urgent search for a young woman gone missing. the tennessee sheriff's association has added $5,000 to the reward fund for holly bobo, the 20-year-old nursing student who reportedly was abducted from her home a week ago today. it brings the reward total to $80,000. investigators say the abductor is likely a local figure. no suspect yet, though. the small town of parsons, meanwhile, is hoping, praying, that any minute now, holly will be found safe. here's linsey davis. >> we're going to go and divide up into groups. >> reporter: time is of the essence. every hour that passes is crucial. any tip could be the key. >> y'all go ahead and spread out. >> reporter: that's why authorities are turning to the public in the disappearance of holly bobo, a beautiful 20-year-old nursing student who hasn't been seen in a week. just before 8:00 last wednesday morning, holly's 25-year

>> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," march 31st, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. we're going to begin with fears of radiation exposure in the united states that were stirred anew today. the fda reported higher than normal levels of radioactive iodine 131 in milk samples from california and washington. now, those levels, however, were tiny. far less than what we're exposed to naturally every day and they are still deemed safe. 5,000 times below the danger threshold, okay? but the come contamination around japan's stricken nuclear plant is the very dangerous indeed. radioactive iodine there is 10,000 times the permissible limit. here's david wright. >> reporter: today, more bad news from the reactor. radiation levels rose dramatically. rad radioactive iodine is now at 10,000 times the permissible limit. radioactive cesi mu, 5um, 500 t. it lingers for hundreds of years. this sign says off-limits, but there's not anybody here to object. 20 clom terms outside the plant, the radia

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city and terry moran in libya, this is "nightline," april 12th, 2011. >> good evening. i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with a scandal that shook the world of professional sports and cast a shadow over one woman's life she says she's still trying to get out from under. jenn sterger is her name, but far better known is the man who she says began to contact her out of the blue one day with calls and increasingly explicit texts. he is football superstar brett favre. she shares her story with george stephanopoulos for the first time. >> reporter: her name may always be linked with one of football's greats, but jenn sterger says she never wanted to be the favre girl. amazingly, she says she never even met the guy. what happened with brett favre? when is the first time you had any contact with him? >> george, i think the one thing that i want to make clear is that i don't know him. i've never met him. we've never met. there was no relationship. there was no affair. everyone out there

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city and terry moran in washington, this is "nightline," april 19th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. a plane carrying first lady michelle obama had to abort a landing yesterday evening because of an apparent mistake by air traffic controllers allowing that oar craft to get too close to a plane in front of it. this incident came after weeks of reports of sleeping controllers, metal fatigue in planes and overworked pilots. all of which raises serious questions about the state of american air travel. here is our report from lisa stark. >> reporter: the incident involving the first lady was just the icing on the cake. because it seems like every day, another controller at another very busy airport is caught sleeping, inattentive, failing to make the right calculation. sunday morning, cleveland. a controller caught watching a mov movie, "cleaner," on the job. caught because his microphone was mistakenly left open, piping the movie out to anyone in his air space. at the same time, l

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran and bill weir in new york city, and cynthia mcfadden in london, this is "nightline," april 28th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. here in london where it is 7:35 in the morning, and in just a few hours, prince william, the future king of england, will enter westminster abbey behind me here and marry the woman whom he has asked to be his queen, katherine middleton. it is the same place his mother's funeral was held 14 years ago. last night when the prince greeted well wishers packing the parade route it was so like his mother, princess diane nate was indeed poignant. as is always the case of course when a parent is missing at the wedding of a child. before we turn to the celebration about to take place here in london we turn to the tragic story unfolding across a great swath of america. as thousands there are mourning tonight for loved ones lost in the terrible tornado s that have brought unimaginable destruction over so much of the south. abc's jim avila is there in concord, alabama. >> reporter: a reco

>> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry more yaanmoran, cynthia m and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," april 5th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. the world, especially lately, seems a dangerous place. what with reports of earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear contamination. so, we wondered if disaster strikes, will we be ready? emergency supply retailers and military surplus stores nationwide have seen business boom as have extreme survivalist training camps. john donvan takes us there. >> reporter: when you've got most of what most of us seem to want, good looks, a good marriage, good kids, a good home and yet you still want to escape for that perfect romantic getaway, what better choice can there be but getting locked in the trunk of a car, only so that you can escape, which is how christine spent a weekend away the other day. she and her husband were actually paying for this lesson. 800 bucks each for a three-day course. because one thing very much on their minds these days is survival. >> ready? >> i'm not worried. i just want to be p

i am megan weir with the department of public health. we want to provide an overview of and response to the psac presentation. supervisor avalos: please pull the microphone closer to you. >> the current rules with respect to pedestrian safety efforts includes promoting knowledge, collecting and integrating safety data, analyzing the causes and consequences of injuries and fatalities, environmental assessment, agency planning, securing grants, and the care of injured and disabled pedestrians. when we look at the patterns of pedestrian injuries in san francisco, we see the injuries are highly concentrated in specific neighborhoods. this map depicts that 50% of the injuries occur in only 8% of the land area where approximately 20% of the residents live. these injuries are also concentrated in the lower income neighborhoods. there are real disparities in terms of where people are experiencing injuries. i will not go over the statistics again in terms of the numbers. we see that there is an annual rate in san francisco that is five times our

all you want to do is have your kids and only your kids be wealthier and be better off and happen weir and smarter and live in a country that is higher national income and higher per capita g.d.p. and more secure, then you want to have immigration of all sorts, too. that's the funny part and that's the final point. we know that cultural, but particularly economic development isn't so much about keeping the wrong people out of a country. it turns out that it is as much or maybe dominantly about letting the right people in to a country. and the right people, as it happens, is a very broad swath of people. it is not just outstanding researchers, it is this broad spectrum because there is no gene for the human spirit, but there is a little signal. one of the signals is someone who gives up so much to take such a huge risk and to come here despite our recent signals of not particularly welcoming them is someone who has something that we probably want. and if you give me three years, we'll have that quantified a little bit better. thank you. [applause]>>t. that was excellent. we do have head

weir watching the giants forecast. temperatures near game time pretty close 50. cool and breezy and that's the way the weekend will wrap up withlo

meghan weir and anna will be joining me to talk about the programmatic peace. it is important to say that this is not just a san francisco issue. we have a fairly horrendous performance of our transportation system in the country with regard to safety. 33,000 deaths last year, 2.2 million injuries, 200,000 hospitalizations, including 400 pedestrian deaths. $230 million a year in cost. our role in san francisco as the health department's is several. one is the promotion of knowledge, attitudes, behavior is for drivers and pedestrians and bicyclists. the collection and integration of pedestrian safety data. the analysis and cost and consequences of a fatality. environmental assessment of causes. leadership and participation in interagency planning. sharing data to make the data drive the solutions and where investments are made. finally, care of the injured and disabled pedestrians. as we heard, we have about 800 police-reported injury collisions a year, about 100 people killed or seriously injured, 25 deaths per year. this is five times the rate of injury -- thi

bill weir reports on his summer here in the states. >> reporter: it was the summer of '92. diana's crumbling marriage was under intense scrutiny in london. so, they arranged a secret vacation for william, slipping him out of england, to the e.r. bar tell dude ranch in montana. >> he was wearing a baseball cap, much like he saw his mother do. >> reporter: paul was a 21-year-old ranch hand on summer break from yale. >> i think quickly he got a sense that this was a safe place. this was a place where nobody was going to be chasing him or his family around. >> reporter: before long, an average, 10-year-old boy emerged, pretending to be a cowboy, bobbing for apples. and enjoying cucumber sandwiches. he goaded his new friend into executing a mild form of western justice. >> he decides to be a smartmouth. the right thing to do at the time was to hang him up in a tree by his shorts and spray him with a hose. >> reporter: did it occur to you at any moment that i'm spray sp the future king of england. >> it did occur to me. >> reporter: and he was loving every second. >> he was. all

. >>> and tonight on "nightline," bill weir will have his full interview with that pastor. >>> also in afghanistan, six american soldiers have been killed in a vicious battle along the pakistan border there. abc's mike boettcher, the only journalist there, caught in the middle of it, describes it as the toughest fire fight he has seen in 30 years of reporting from war zones. the troops came under fire from three sides. the soldiers who died were from the 101st airborne division in ft. campbell, kentucky. and mike is working to safely get the story to us. we'll have his reporting for you next week. >>> now, to libya. it has been two weeks since the u.s. and allies started pounding gadhafi targets, while rebel forces tried to advance. but there's a growing sense tonight that even though the rebels cannot possibly defeat gadhafi, his inner circle may be close to cracking. to weigh in now for us, alex marquardt, who is in benghazi, libya, and jake tapper at the white house. >> reporte so, jake, what does the white house think end game is at this point, if there is an end game in sight? >>

bill weir explains. >> reporter: will you get a load of that face.f cuteness is an orangutan at 1 month old. who could possibly resist those eager eyes? that natural curiosity? sadly, her own mother. shortly after being born at the houston zoo, this newborn was rejected by her mother. a tragedy, considering most orangutans are devoted parents. and that rejection in the wild usually means imminent death. but fortunately for this little girl, in place of the one who left, are 50 surrogate mothers. zoo workers, pitching in, playing with the other one, each taking a shift 24 hours a day. >> we're using a surrogate orangutan doll in some cases, as well as just having the baby on us, for body heat and for comfort. >> reporter: this might be the last generation of the species born to the wild. the front line in this battle is on the indonesian island of borneo, where 90% of the world's remaining orangutans live. in the local language, the word orangutan means forest people. but the forests are disappearing too fast. some 5,000 square miles will soon be gone

. >> i'm bill weir. coming up next on nightline, a 13-year-old pop star wannabe gets a hundred million you tube hits. we have the rich tale of rebecca black. hey! you want that? you want a warm, super-delicious strawberry toaster strudel yeah but now i have nothing to eat sureou do. hey! you can have the pop tart! pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat there's nothing we love more than listening to our favorite songs. there's nothing we love more than listening to our favorite songs. but our favorite thing is eating totino's pizza rolls. but our favorite thing is eating totino's pizza rolls. ♪ we're the kids in america ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> a bold burglary was caught on security cameras. the thieves got away with $50,000 worth of human hair. the owner posted the video on you tube in hopes that someone will turn the thieves in.

that will be done later on this weir. it will bring the self-anchor suspension to 580 feet. it's set to be done by 2013. this is done in an effort to make the bay bridge seismically safe. >> kimberly, thank you. 5:32 now. >>> cell phones and video cameras are everywhere. a new controversy is brewing over what you can record. if you take video of a crime, you could end up locked up and could violate your first amendment rights. video of a man taken ended up in handcuffs because he used his cell phone to record an arrest outside of his home. >> i'm going to take your phone. it's going to be evidence. >> civil liberties attorney jeff king says the 1980 privacy prosecution acts protects information gathered to share with the public. >> they have recognized a first amendment right to not be interfered with by police because you are documenting police activity. >> in the vallejo case, the man behind the camera got a criation. they would not go on camera but they have seen the video and are investigating. >>> a public memorial for a swim coach who died earlier this week. students a

. >> back to education because you pointed out that was near the top or at the top, and now weir 31, down around 20. . we spend, per pupil more than any other country. it's not a matter of resources. what's wrong with our education system? >> guest: this is exactly the point. it's not quantity of money, but the quality of education delivered, and i have to say spending time reading up about the american education system and listening to experts who focus on the education system, it really reminds me a lot of the aid industry in africa. one, people are being rewarded for poor performance. you know, it's quite clear if american education funds are going down and you have these last in, first out policies, getting rid of teachers regardless of performance, but because they are last, to me, that seems to be a dislocation there. the other thing is that we are as a society essentially being held hostage by up vested -- invested interests and trade unions. it's problematic we sacrifice our children's education and performance and their ability to compete internationally and the ability for