let's move on to sandy from new american media. how have these problems facing the mainstream set affected the ethnic media community and the jobs for ethnic journalists? >> ethnic media has been tremendously affected by the drop in advertising. it is embedded in the audience that service. -- that it serves. as mainstream media went into retreat, it had to expand. more people are looking to it for information and news. the audience has grown by 16% over the past five years. it is in the same situation of having to do more with less. the remarkable fact, i think that journalists and news is about what can access. to access to each other. something that gives us a sense of where we are in society. debbiwe in the media had a veryd time keeping up with the changes in society. how you keep up with the changes of san francisco if you are just one outlet. if a woman that lives in an alley starts off of the city lights in columbus, 91 years old, her building is sold into a tenant conversion into will be evicted after six years and her 48-y

this time, it was cheryl hughes, sandi's close friend. and once again, wild bill said he had bought her land. >> that was her dream home. she would never, ever sell that property. >> reporter: and did you hear that wild bill had gotten that? >> yeah, and when i heard that, i knew that something was terribly wrong. she just would not have sold that property, ever. >> reporter: five missing people with one common denominator. bill cortez. >> this man was my neighbor. i knew them for two and a half years. wild bill and his wife. >> reporter: cher and keith lived together on their piece of paradise. their own private island, just across the water from where wild bill and jane settled in. and cheryl was really happy? >> unbelievably happy. got that little island, we said, yeah, we can die here. we can spend the rest of our days here. >> reporter: their marriage went south, and they separated. but even after, they remained in contact, until late march. >> the last three, four texts i got were just a little strange. they weren't what cher would

coast and appperformer is dark, sandy shallow waters. >> and the initial observations of farms were released today, there were one half-million eggs recalled, the salomon u salmoned illnesses were linked to both of these northern iowa farms. >> and more information about the sewage and the redwood city lagoon. when an underground pipe ruptured is expected to be much larger than are rigidly anticipated. >> behind me, this raw sewage a leaked into a lagoon and the original estimate was 5,000 gal. and now we could be much more. for the most part, the repair has been done on the low ruptured pipe. and this area has been take off. but is still affecting not only these lagoon of these five garage, they been cleaned out, and they been able to use these again but there is still just how much sewage is in

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sandy is here now with the latest the. >>reporter: thaevrment first i'll show the new record today san rafael 97 degrees. previous record was 94. set back in 1974. you lack at oakland airport and it shattered its previous record of 88. 95 degrees today. sfo 92. san jose 95. moffitt field up to 93 degrees and salinasçó was 89 today with heat like this ground level ozone pollution obviously a problem tomorrow so another spare the air for tuesday. for air quality in the inland east bay and santa clara valley and moderate air quality for the rest of the bay area. heat advisory are up for most inland communities and also for the bayshore line as you will notice here from noon through 8:00 p.m. mid 90's bayshore line up to 106 degrees inland. if a particularly sensitive to heat you weren't to take precautions. today was not the hottest day by far. we are lacking at even hotter conditions as we head that tomorrow putting tomorrow as the hottest day of the summer season.i'll be back with the temperatures coming right up. >> than

what are the special problems and issues where the soil is sandy? >> you can do one thing. look at a soil book here that's available that will tell you what the soil conditions are in your neighborhood. generally out there the biggest issue you're going to find is dense i fiation. it was only 15 seconds. that's the shortest magnitude 7 we've had. most are 30 seconds long. as the sand settles your building will settle. you're get dense ification and your building will settle. that's the largest problem you'll get and the fire that follows it. >> one of the points made earlier exactly where your building is located is important. there's a my grow zonation issue. where your building affects ho the building will respond. thank you for coming today. appreciate it. hope to see you a month from today. thank you. >> coming up on "california country": think this sweet treat just cab't get any better? think again. >> oh, my! it's ready. >> it's ready? >> it's ready. >> then find out why this meal was 52 weeks in the making. >> i would like you to know that this morning at the farmers

sandy, bo and richard. if you could come forward, please. >> former president of the united states golf association. i've been playing golf for 85 years. i am acutely conscious of what golf can do for people who get involved in it. acutely conscious of what harding can do for this city. i'm acutely conscious of what the pga tour's involvement now has done for sure, but now will do in commission with taking on the management responsibilities for operations and indeed for marketing. and i want to say that i think it's the best of all possible worlds. and i can't imagine that there could possibly be any organization that could take on the problems and there are very serious problems with the management of this golf course, to take on the problems that this golf course poses and solve them in a way that would maximize the asset values that are there. it's worth some emphasis very briefly that the asset values are two-fold. one that is a priceless recreational resource. 85 years of exposure of playing the game,

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sandy here with that. >>reporter: the hurricane is a dangerous category 4 storm. heard that at the top of the broadcast. if you look at the atlantic tropical storm if i own a with wind at 40 miles an hour still well out in the atlantic. hurricane earl is the one we are watching so carefully. it is a dangerous storm with maximum sustained wind of 135 miles an hour. it is tracking to the west northwest at 14. look at this storm here. eye on the storm very well defined. it did pound the lae ward island earlier in the day. they had low lying flooding. power outage but no major damage with the storm. it is moving north of port wreck as you lack at live doppler 7 hd. you see the rain band manufacturing away from the extradition. it is expected to possibly pose a threat to the u.s. main land of course the east coast by thursday and into friday it will be skiering the caroline coast line and then obviously towards the new england area. at this point the aboutest threat could be dangerous rip currents. high surf. but if this hurricane veers just a little mr. to the west th

a cut in sandy's case, she had an open wound from her c-section and iv lines. any compromise in your skin integrity. contaminated items is another factor, sporting equipment, things at health club, razor blades, do not share those things, sanitize them. lastly, lack of cleanliness. in a hospital we see a lot of this. it's also seen a lot in the community. >> it can look like on your skin, a spider bite or raised bumps. >> it can. the key area, it's red, pink, inflamed, hot to the touch and it spreads rapidly. when you start to get fever, low blood pressure that's an indication it's systemic through your body. sandy was in shock from the hospital. >> we know wash your hands, one of the most important things to do. >> absolutely. >> sandy, two and a half years after that started, you're here, healthy. at one point you had an open cavity in your abdomen. did you ever think you'd be here to celebrate your son's birthday. >> i didn't. i know when i first looked at it, it was very hard. knowing what i had seen in the emergency room, i thought, you know, i can't live

caller: good morning, sandy. i'm calling from chicago. i am very concerned about medicare for seniors regarding the health care given to them when they go for pap smears. we are told that is every two years. here i am at 78, perfectly healthy, and i just do not understand why they do not get pap smears every year. i think is very, very important. i think you. guest: thank you for the call. the new health care reform along does include many preventive services that have included over -- in the previous programs including an annual physical. i'm not sure whether the goes -- whether the papps mayor goes from two years down to one. -- i am not sure whether the pap smear those from two years down to one. those copays have been dropped. i know there are some additional benefits from a prevention standpoint. i'm guessing that the pap smear would be one where the benefit will be more generous. host: our next call from west point, nebraska. you are on the washington journal. caller: good morning, sandy. [unintelligible] t

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. >> let's get sandy, we have a big line of audience members. >> talking with a number of people about looking at a cub talented that out for it the children that live in this state are going to be in poverty this year. 43% of women have babies now as single mothers. that is an historic shift. something is happening in gender relations. i saw a brilliant review on sunday, the text without context. the idea of physical reality is under assault as we move to a faster, edgier, noisier and more opinionated media landscape. what if all of the ethnic media, legacy media, decided to take back data that children in poverty had grown from 18% to 35%, doing it from the standpoint most relevant to their audience. you might begin to get an impact on sacramento, on the public. public awareness might begin to grow. media keeps propelling news, but it is consumed with a public state. partially because it is not very diverse and the society that it reflects is so complicated, so fragmented, in some ways i believe that investigative journalism is easier. we might know what went down with chauncey baile

it's patterns after what sandy a go had been doing by the time those bills were passed. we're very lucky in that we're unique in our region we have a regional water agency and a regional planning agency and that's been much'ier than in some areas of california that may have had multiple planning and water agencies dealing with issues and also has helped us enormously as we move forward in integrated plan again with the county of san die ago and the water authority and so forth. our integrated plan effort has actually gone relatively smoothly and flood control and waist control and water supply and we're with the agencies in our region. >> question on this side of the room? >> thanks. environmental defense. question for wally and less tear your water guys and delta guys. do you think there's development going on in the delta in flood prone areas that should not be prevented and if so what do you plan to do about it? >> most of it's going on in my water district. >> absolutely the issue of local development i don't believe can be dealt with locally. i think there's no way

. >> kris perry and sandy stier are from berkeley, paul katami and jeffrey 15 zarrillo filed the suit. what's next? anne makovec is at san francisco city hall with a look at the next step in the case. ann, there are a few. >> reporter: it's clear that banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. while the ban sun constitutional, it's still in -- is unconstitutional, it's still in place this morning. here's what's going on now and what's expected to happen next. the judge will rule on that as soon as tomorrow so in theory weddings could resume, there is a small chance of it, at least this weekend. the temporary stay that maintains the ban on same-sex marriage while the judge considers whether to suspend his ruling during the appeals process by friday, tomorrow, both sides submitting written statements to the judge so he can decide. the first appeal will happen in the ninth u.s. circuit court of appeals in san francisco. the losing side must file a merits appeal asking the court to decide if judge walker's ruling was proper. both sides want that quickly. beyond that it is expected tha

. >> for so long sandy night and our family have been regarded as less than, on equal, not worthy of liberty and the pursuit of happiness under the law. but this decision says that we are americans to. we to should be treated equally. our family is just as loving, just as real and just as valid as everyone else's. >> the lawyers for the plaintiff pointing out today that the supreme court has ruled multiple times in the past that marriage is a fundamental right to and the lawyers had to say that property to was the majority going to the ballot box and voting against to the minority. they said they were really try to speed up the appeals process as quickly as they can. they wouldn't put any time and not to say will try to move this legal system as quickly as possible >> one of the political pioneers of gay marriage broke out at san francisco city hall today mayor gavin newsom newsome said he favored the decision and reiterated the city a san francisco will honor whatever future decisions the court can make. >> when the courts say start and stop in the past we started and was stopped. w

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next to him, sandy close, the director of new american media. she is also my executive editor and i get to hold the microphone up to her. let's begin the discussion. >> thank you. let's start with a question that is on many people's mind. with cutbacks and technology shifts, what has that done to the quality of news, barry parr? >> when i worked at the "mercury news" back in the 1990's, we were trying to compete with the paper. i am here to stay mission accomplished. it has been a tough 10, 20 years. i have to tell you, some of the greatest innovation and highest quality work is coming from the ground up. if you look back over the last year, one of the most crucial issues that has concerned in this country, health care reform, we really have to say the traditional media let the country down. it has been a significant problem in the country. in many ways, it is not perfect, it is never going to be perfect, but on the other hand, we have a lot of small innovators out there that are thinking -- changing the way that we think about information. i ha