hour fitness center an indoor and outdoor pool plus those who stay have access to the signature westfield fred couples golf club no doubt some important conversations will be had now in the hotel there's westfield's restaurant with the award winning sunday champagne brunch a pub for those needed night caps and of course starbucks coffee. well there's a forty thousand square foot conference center with award winning catering state of the audio visual services and wireless internet so that's a look at the location for this year's builder bird conference let's talk now about what may be going on inside alex jones is the host of the alex jones show and alex i know that you and your team are no stranger to this hotel and we'll talk about that in a bit let me first get your take on what you supposed might be discussed and decided behind closed doors there. well they had their meeting there four years ago and that's where they chose to have hillary step down and for obama to become the presumptive nominee for the democrats there in denver in the two thousand and eight d.n.c. meeting and for an e

state downtown campus at westfield. the one thing we are not going to be doing this year is a program previously called shop your neighborhood, which is where we partnered with local merchant associations and tried to market and what initially were sidewalk sales, but due to low involvement from the neighborhoods, we have scaled that back. i do believe you would have offered waivers for the merchant associations who made use of it, and the merchant associations that were successful at it, they build a community event on their own, and the investment away from some of the other programs we did for small business week. we have been quite successful this year. we have lost a few sponsors, and we have gained a few sponsors. i want to thank the commission for underwriting of part of our work, and without my visuals it is hard to go forward, but are there any questions? >> any questions from commissioners? >> i am co-chair this week, and adam, you do an awesome job with this. when it was at city hall you would get about 100 p

westfield says it will finish 30 million dollars in improvements including the addition of a target beforenow about the experience of exercise. new study finds it can reduce the risk of developing alzheimer's even in people who are over 80. researchers say the more intense the exercise the better. even washing dishes, cooking, cleaning, gardening or playing cards is better than just sitting and doing nothing. scientists say those who are the least physically active are more than twice as likely to develop alzheimer's than the most active. >>> 5:57. just ahead, back to court for san francisco's embattled sheriff. why it appears he will face a legal setback today in the fight to keep his job. >>> at long last, a groundbreaking for the 49ers stadium. we are live at the team's future home.

westfield says it will finish 30 million dollars in improvements, including the addition of a targetore the sale is final. >>> bay area mayor calling it quits. san carlos mayor andy klein has resigned from office effective immediately citing major setbacks in his personal life. he said he and his wife decided to dissolve their marriage. he said he has begun treatment to address his situation. he did not elaborate. >>> 50 students at berkeley high put computer skills to use this morning they are paying for it. when are an -- they are accused of hacking in the school's system change attendance records. >> reporter: 50 students are being suspended, as many as four might be expelled in connection with this high-tech hacking scheme. the students have not been named. administrators say those involved were changing attendance records dating back to december they were using their home and school computers, sometimes reportedly even during class in some cases they were deleting absences and tardies from their own records or those of their friends. in other scenarios it was a money-making sche

i am the caretaker of the historical landmark, westfield home. i live at the crest of three hills. you talk about how you listed the system and everything like that, that is b.s. you have not extended the olive branch. you are lying. this morning, you yelled at a guy for talking too loud. it is not only dangerous. there is a cement factory, cement trucks coming up the street. to supply albertson's. it is three times as high as you did it. these engines blow up. not to mention, when i'm trying to take a nap, watching the giants game. got a full belly. just closing my eyes. [unintelligible] >> don't need air contiditionin. eddie murphy owned my house. michael douglas owned my house. my house just sold for $20 million. there's a rich cultural history. joplin, laveigh, manson visited. they are cool guys. whoy not just calm down and do the business. just be a good neighbor to us. i love tourists. go right across the park. great. when a young lady got knocked down -- got her iphone stolen. tourist from dc, seven neighbors helped. we want you to be a good neighbor. >> i am erin morse. tha

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until noon and organizers say customers can look forward to some market opening on may 6th at the westfield annapolis mall. we have to check that out. >>> he was one of the pie they ares and tonight we -- pioneers and tonight we will take a look back on his 60 year career. >>> and this is sure to catch your eye, find out how many plastic eggs it took to send this way over the top. . >>> award-winning mike wallace has died. he has done television journalism for years. he had a career that made him a household name. richard has a look back. >> i am mike wallace... >> reporter: and everybody knew it, for as long as there has been television, there has been mike wallace. he turned it into his personal best. his intense questioning revoked wrenching honesty. he was closest to those in dallas. >> just a little bit quicker, i guess... >> i'll take that to my grave. >> reporter: to malcolm x, not long before he was assassinated and this is pre-watergate richard nixon. wallace held his own with presidents and rubbed elbows with everyone. sometimes they rubbed back. he was born in 1918 in brooklyn ma

the sfo post office on westfield road will be open until midnight. >> the final trip of the shuttle discoveryngs tears and cheers from those who witnessed its ride into history !ñ!e >>> >>> biologists in marin county want to know why an unusual number of under nourished baby seals are being brought there? amy hollyfield is live at the center. >> reporter: you know that problem we have in the human world where adult children aren't ready to leave the nest so they are living with mom and dad? that's kind of what is happening here. mom moved on and these pups weren't ready for the real world. trudy is having trouble learning how to eat. he separated from his mother a bit too soon and didn't get the hang of. he has fish-eating class this afternoon where several loving volunteers will try to take the place of his mother and teach him. >> it is just like when your child goes from nursing or a to their first solid food, mostly it going out instead of down. and it is the same process. you see the same lightbulbs go off in the ice. >> reporter: -- finish the eyes. >> reporter: it is the number of othe

among your choices, we've got westfield at oakton and boys lacrosse.lton on the diamond, go to dc.highschoolsports.net. and the nationals open up a six- game road trip out west tonight in san diego. geo gonzalez on the mound. at 12-4, the nats are tied for the best record in the national league. the attitude is in full force. >> got to love that. >> some people don't like that, but that's the feeling the fans have gotten. >> he embraces this. >> and thursday, big night. the nfl draft. so full coverage. derek will be in new york, i'll be at redskins park. >> that's all for 9news now at 6:00, stay with wusa9. of course, derek, topper back at 7:00 with our area's only local newscast and you can always find our morning team, andrea, mike, howard, and monica at such an early hour, 4:25 a.m. and we are always on at wusa9.com. i'm anita brikman. see you later, everybody.

erin peterson fund has donated more than $80,000 for scholarships and a club for at-risk boys at westfield high school. this weekend's gospel concert benefit will take place at mount olive baptist church in centreville. >>> now here is a look at what's happening right now. republican presidential candidate mitt romney filing for an extension for his 2011 tax return. his preliminary version estimates his incumbent $21 million with a tax rate of about 15%. president obama and first lady releasing their incomeax returns today. they earned about $790,000 and pay taxes at a rate of about 20%. >>> fbi agents raided all three a.c.t. college campuses today. news 4 was the only station on the scene as agents hauled away boxes full of evidence. this comes after the school was abruptly shut down after financial trouble with the u.s. department of education. >>> a teenager listening to music on ear phones hit by a freight train in gaithersburg this morning. investigators say the 17-year-old boy walking next to the tracks near the washington grove station failed to hear the csx train approaching from b

erin peterson and rima samaha from westfield high, mary reed from annandale high school, leslie sherman from west springfield high school, maxine turner from james madison high school in vienna and daniel cueva from hilton high in woodbridge. a remembrance began at midnight with the lighting of the ceremonial candle at the april 16th memorial on campus which will remain lit for 24 hours and just over 20 minutes virginia governor bob mcdonnell will be attending a commemoration and candlelight vigil at the memorial. our peggy fox is live in blacksburg tonight for what's been a very solemn day on this campus. >> reporter: yeah, it certainly is, derek. everybody is getting ready for the vigil at 7:30. i've got my kendall. look at these students here. they're -- candle. look at these students here unwrapping these candles. they were donated five years ago anonymously 50,000 candles. so they're using these leftovers today. this donation is just one piece of how the country and surrounded, put their arms around virginia tech in this outpouring of support after the tragedy five years ago today.

the sfo post office on westfield road will be open until midnight. >>> curtain closes on another traditionby technology. -- caused by technology. time for a look at weather. >>> warming trend that is going to take a setback today. yesterday mild in the afternoon today winds are going to blow in cold front rolled through last night really quiet and kicked up a few clouds that you are seeing now down the 'emable to the ferry building to the -- down the embarcadero, to the ferry building to the bay bridge. those winds will take a bite out of yesterday's temperatures and make it cooler this afternoon check out what we are dealing with now mild outside a lot of low to mid 50s antioch 57 on the other end napa, santa rosa and los gatos mid to upper 50s. 50 watsonville everybody else monterey bay inland mid to upper 40s mainly cloudy by the afternoon increasing sun partly cloudy that cooling breeze out of the west-northwest 10 to 20 miles per hour warming trend resumes tomorrow and hangs out through the better bart of the weekend some of us could see our first 80° temperatures friday, saturday and

. >> let go to anna gopher, westfield state uni. >> thank you for being here first of all. i'm going to go back to the beginning a little bit. you start interning in d.c. and worked your way up to chief of staff and then eventually vice president. do you feel your internship was vital to that process, and what kind of lessons did you learn there that you couldn't have learned anywhere else? >> well, the internships were vital. i had -- i did an internship in the wyoming state senate, but they only met 40 days every other year so it wasn't like it was an extensive career, which is, by the way, the way congress ought to meet 40 days every other year, but that was my first political experience. and when i entered that, i was sort of non-partisan. i was a graduate student. then i worked for the governor of wisconsin for a year. and both of those were republican state senator, republican governor, and out of that then i got the -- the summons, if you will, the opportunity to go to washington as a congressional fellow which was a year-long proposition and also paid. i had to feed

let's get a question from anna i don't haver, westfield state university. >> my question was on the reports. who are the donors who contribute to candidates, why is it important that you put out personal information such as addresses? >> so the reports that are filed with the fec are filed by the candidates, their committees, political parties or political committees themselves. they file those reports with us. that is -- those items are items that are identified in the statute and regulations as what is needed to satisfy the reporting requirements. so that's not something that i personally have control over. and we have -- recall that all these requirements went into place before the internet. and the internet has changed all of our lives. and i certainly -- there has been some criticism about the idea of putting addresses on, because one of the things that happens with our data, not necessarily what we do with it. we put on -- when you look at reports on the website, but also other institutions, other organizations, have access to that data in a raw form. and so they may pull that data, a

the sfo post office on westfield road will be open until midnight. >> a state wide campaign offering parents programs to keep kids active physically and mentally over the summer, educators trying to help parents combat so called summer range rain. >> if you say that nicely. showing those kids who do nothing over the summer. lose about two months worth of learning. the state summer matters campaign can help parents find summer learning programs for their kids. >> studies show children that don't participate in enrichment programs fall behind academically. more so in math than reading. >> when they don't reenforce skills, they start next year behind. >> this true for low income children. >> because of the budget cuts it's not there where it used to be. >> and the state and most cities don't have money to fund programs but foundations and corporations do. >> this is a future work force. it's important to us. >> 75 corporations are helping to fight programs like stepping up to al ge bra. for a month in the summer a thousand under served kids will get help with their math skills. in san f

there is the sfo post office on r on westfield road is the only one staying open until midnight if you have to cut it close. >> and water supply for many is better protected against earthquakes than it's ever been. the san francisco public utilities commission commission marks completion of a project that maximizes capacity to provide water to the counties under almost any circumstances. >> with these improvements we can assure the public if there is an event water service because of the improvements, with our p.u.c. can be restored within 24 hours. >> the p.u.c. upgraded key pipelines and now has a system it says will survive earthquakes along the hayward and san andreas fault. >> well, let's talk about the weather forecast. it's butteful and going to get hot. >> yes. summer like. >> there this is very summer like. we keep revising the forecast going along. there are indications temperatures goring to get high skbrer higher. there is a live view right now from our mount tam camera. there is ocean beach, you can see there are low clouds at the coast. and there are thin clouds as well.

the hotel sits next to the westfield mall and has been sold for $30 million. and it's a sizeable bet on the city economy and the new owners point out that revenue in san francisco rose by 20% per room last year, more than any other big city in the country. >> there is a delayed reaction to friday's jobs report. the downtown down 130 points today and dropping below a 50 day average. there is about 1% of the values. news reports from japan indicate that sony is about to cut more than 10,000 jobs in the coming year and it's sales have been weak. the company had a $2 billion loss. shares of aol shot up when the company said it would sell 800 patents for $100 cash. and at and t decided to sell a majority stake in the yellow pages. ad revenue has strength and people turned way from internet. >> and bicycle riders unhappy about plans to install rumble strips. caltrans wants to put strips along 10 miles of highway one to reduce car accidents. there have been 10 fatalities here. santa cruz named one of the world's top cycling destinations and bike riders convinced this

the hotel on market next to the westfield mall has been sold for 30 million dollars. the buyers plan to spend 10 million to renovate. sizeable bet on the city's economy. the new owners point out hotel revenue in san francisco rose 20% per room last year more than any other big city in the country. >>> one of san jose's most popular families is growing, clara the falcon found a home atop city hall has given birth to four baby chicks. three born on easter sunday appropriately and the fourth broke through its egg yesterday. this is the sixth year that clara has had offspring at city hall. they've become international internet sensations. a dna test will be done to confirm who the father was. >>> 5:25. forcing to you pay more at the pump. you see how i just moved along? why a judge is ordering the company to stop selling some of the cheapest gas. >>> tribute being paid today to the victims of the oikos university shooting rampage in oakland. >>> the new deal that could go a long way to convince thieves to leave your cell phone an -- alone. >>> heading out of town, good id

the sfo post office on westfield road is open until midnight. >> the folks who take advantage of thee normally stay in their cars. the postal service folks have to stand outside in whatever the weather is going to be. >> they are there into the late evening, 40s, mainly 50s. not as cool as it was yesterday because of the cloud cover. beautiful sunrise, moon still hanging around and cool blues of the nighttime sky with warm oranges and yellow of the sun about to pop upcoming in as we look from sutro tower back towards the west. here's what i mean, all of us in the low to mid 50s except mid 40s santa rosa, napa and los gatos, fog in santa rosa to half mile visibility fog along the coast and drizzle that could be a little bummer for your morning commute. monterey bay partly to mostly cloudy, temperatures still holding in the mid to upper 40s. today, partly cloudy, cooling breeze but it is just for today. enjoy the warming trend sunday and monday, we have more wednesday through the weekend and some of us could see our first 80° temperatures this year that could happen friday, saturday an

just west of boston, in westfield, mass. it was 93. that was the nation's high this afternoon.degrees. philadelphia, 87. west of us, beginning to cool down. and look at this. surrounded by the cold atlantic ocean. nantucket, a chilly 54 degrees. 90, 56 today. average is 65. 43. and the record today, and back in 2002, 90 degrees. 30, the record low, 1962. southerly winds. and still kind of strong and breezy again tomorrow. but they will be shifting. this front to the west of us. this is the same front that caused all of the tornadoes. but this afternoon, only activity is on the gulf coast. and our part of the world, just about nothing left except a few clouds. that's wawe'll see late tonight. along with a wind shift, it the begin to cool down tomorrow. even more wednesday. but wednesday, some of that southern rain may get to our region. we hoped we'd get some of that rain. obviously we need it. but looks like we'll be just on the northern fringe of it. north winds and northwest winds, picking up. yes, it will be breezy. as you see. a small craft advisory through the afternoon. b

from westfield capital again, this is one of the picks up and 10%. thing we have been on for quite sometime in terms of playing the derivatives on housing. we have to have a break, but we will continue to cover the story of warren buffett being diagnosed with stage one prostate cancer. much more on the story straight ahead. # >>>> more information about survivability. what warren buffett has been diagnosed with. the correspond ept with nbc news. this looks like and seems like it is a survivable cancer? >> indeed. the odds are overwhelming that he will live to die of some other cause. most men his age and that shows an emergency to it. a lot of men in their late or mid 70s do not getrostate cancer. it's slow growing in stage one. they will take a long, long time. they will threaten a man's life. 20 or 30 years and most people 75 or 76 years old. >> for an yao 82-year-old man in good health, what's the life expectancy? >> the general expectancy for a man is 79 so he exceeded that. a lot of people live to much longer these days. we have the exceptions b

erin peterson and rima samaha from westfield high school in centreville, mary reed from unanimous dale high school and leslie sherman from west springfield high school, maxine turner from vienna and daniel kueva from woodbridge. our bruce leshan is live with how their families are living with the pain of loss. >> erin peterson's mom says losing a child is a bit like a really, really bad physical injury. it starts to heal and then a day like today comes along and the wound is broken open again. celeste peterson says the silence still troubles her. silence in the centreville home once filled with the joy and laughter of her daughter erin. >> when we lost erin, our world was crushed. >> reporter: erin had gone to the same high school as the tormented student who chained the doors at virginia tech's norris hall and opened fire, but while seung-hui cho was descending into madness, erin was celebrating her freshman life at virginia tech and dreaming her international studies degree would give her a chance to make the world a better place. >> her gregarious nature, huge smile, 6' 1. her frien

entertainment complex bought as part of a larger $1.1 billion deal between star wood and metreon owner westfieldit opened back in 1999. well, these are good times if you're a silicon valley startup and not just if you make photo sharing apps. we found a company bringing the watch back in style with a big boost from your smartphone and an army of investors. inside a palo alto apartment, startup history is being made one wrist and one donation at a time. >> this is an accessory for your smartphone. >> the team at pavel technology making this watch which connects via blue tooth to your smartphone giving you data on the go. >> giving them a hands-free message of data, in the middle of a sporting activity, running, skiing, biking. >> and now the watch is being funded by the millions by people these guys don't even know. the startup was initial ly rejected by venture capitalists so they turned to kick starters an online way to raise funds. >> we expected to raise 100 k. >> what did you make? >> $4.4 million so far. >> that's amazing. >> it's pretty amazing. >> reporter: as the numbers rise by the minu

. >> westfield state university. >> thank you so much for being here. i want to go back to the beginning a little bit. you start off as an intern in washington, d.c. and work your way up to chief of staff and vice president. the feel that your internship was vital to that process, and what kind of lessons did you learn there that you cannot have learned anywhere else? >> well, i did an internship in the wyoming state senate, but they only get 40 days every other year, so it was not like it was an extent, which is, by the way, the way congress should meet. when i entered that, i was sort of nonpartisan. i was a graduate student. then i work for the government of wisconsin for a year. both of those were with republican state senator and republican governor. out of that, then i got the summons, if you welcome the opportunity to go to washington as a congressional fellow, which was a yearlong proposition and also paid. i had to feed my family. the predominant impact of those experiences -- i really thought i wanted to be a political science professor. i wor

. >> westfield state university. >> thank you so much for being here. i want to go back to the beginning a little bit. you start off as an intern in washington, d.c. and work your way up to chief of staff and vice president. the feel that your internship -- do you feel that your internship was vital to that process, and what kind of lessons did you learn there that you cannot have learned anywhere else? >> well, i did an internship in the wyoming state senate, but they only get 40 days every other year, so it was not like it was an extent, which is, by the way, the way congress should meet. when i entered that, i was sort of nonpartisan. i was a graduate student. then i work for the government of wisconsin for a year. both of those were with republican state senator and republican governor. out of that, then i got the summons, if you welcome the -- if you will, the opportunity to go to washington as a congressional fellow, which was a yearlong proposition and also paid. i had to feed my family. the predominant impact of those experiences -- i really tho

we have westfield insurance:>> ok, they have about 100 open positions right now.ty operators, they're in 21 states. they've got about -- they're in 21 states for insurance and in 31 states overall. they also have a banking arm. and that's going to be i.t. claims, hospitality operations dealing with their customers. >> all right. people look forward to this segment every week. thank you. see you on the fox business network. >> please e-mail us, by the way, if you're a company that is looking to hire. >> friends at foxnews.com. >> uh-huh. >> coming up on "fox & friends", imagine being able to bypass morning rush hour on the highways. how could you do that? what about that thing out there? your dream could come true with this flying car. stick around, we're testing it on the plaza next. on this day in history in 1989 "the look" apparently was the number one song. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5.

. >> of westfield state university. >> thank you so much for being here. i want to go back to the beginning a little bit. you start off as an intern in washington, d.c. and work your way up to chief of staff and vice president. the feel that your internship was vital to that process, and what kind of lessons did you learn there that you cannot have learned anywhere else? >> well, i did an internship in the wyoming state senate, but they only get 40 days every other year, so it was not like it was an extent, which is why the -- which is by the way the way congress should meet. when i entered that, i was sort of nonpartisan. i was a graduate student. then i work for the government of wisconsin for a year. both of those were with republican state senator and republican governor. out of that, then i got the summons, if you welcome the opportunity to go to washington as a congressional fellow, which was a yearlong proposition and also paid. i had to feed my family. the predominant impact of those experiences -- i really thought i wanted to be a political scienc