they need us to tell them. that is why we are here today. that has got to be a part of the mission. so i support everything johnson said, but there is another the to keep in mind. this is the jury pool. the jury pool is constantly affected and infected by nancy grace, law-and-order. it is constantly being polluted -- i truly believe this -- by the media. it sounds silly but it is not. i really believe in the power of media to influence people. that is why i got in it. so we have to use it to our advantage. you have got to be in it to win it. if we are not controlling our image, someone else is. so you have got to start thinking about the way that the image of the public defender is going to be portrayed, either in dramatic television -- over which you will have a lot less control. or certainly, in news media. years ago, i got a phone call from a public defender in san francisco. he had a case receiving a lot of media attention, and he wanted me to come to cover the case for 20/20. some of his colleagues thought he was not to. what are you bringing a barbara walters in to cover a cas

about us? tell them to come here and complain to our faces. no. no. wait! i understand. they're just jealous. we're here having a good time and they're all alone, right? that's it. they're just jealous. maybe so but actually it's not just an ordinary person that complains. what do you mean not an ordinary person? someone with three heads, six legs? a ghost? very funny, sir, but actually it's a samurai. samurai? next door? why didn't you tell us. we don't like samurais? sometimes they just kill people by mistakes. sorry about that. samurai? okay. okay. we understand and we'll be quiet. okay. ladies sorry. parties over. see you next time. sorry. we will go to bed now. shall i bring out the futons. yes but don't put them in a row. put the heads together so we can talk in bed. is it okay for us to talk in bed. that's no problem talk as much as you like. okay. thank you. samurai next door told us to shut up. that's okay. i don't mind. these things happen when you travel. any way it's a good story to tell our friends back home. i remember that night when the samurai told us to

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to get them. to. tell us that i was a god sized sandy fonzo seventeen year old son edward was a budding student and sportsman when he was arrested at an under-age party judge ciavarella locked him out for six months shortly after he got out edward committed suicide erik's the feinstein was twelve when judge ciavarella sent him to jail for two years for scratching his mom's car while joy writing for this young man was a teenager was locked up for months for throwing a piece of steak it is mom's boyfriend so i really cannot believe that being accused of something like through a steak was all that was a need to be put away the case of the two pennsylvania judges in bed with local private prisons could be just the tip of the iceberg a recent report revealed america's largest prison corporations poor hundreds of thousands into the campaigns of governors state legislators and judges in the hope of advancing their agenda and it seems to be working the number of private prisons in the us is growing rapidly oh

tell us as we get them. but one of the week's news there aren't colonel gadhafi it's. major blow at the g. eight summit in france as russia joined the voices of nato allies calling on him to quit they declared his rule illegitimate discussed ways to broker peace a struggling euro currency was also on a critical list for the world's richest countries authorities and he said no it was . new world new ideas host france put that concept on the g eight table at a time when it looks like old ways aren't working a war in libya on the front line with the euro crisis in the background leads to questions like this will sarkozy now say tens of thousands of civilians and garcia will he be known as the man who brought promise to economic ruin in a never ending war in libya he must go g eight leaders agreed bert for word in their declaration about the daffy saying he has lost all legitimacy though it's understood behind closed doors there was harsh debate on the sidelines russia was asked to step in and broker a cease fir

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to have them tell us about the works of their school was important. it represents african-american artists to during the 20's and 30's used an incredible body of work. it is one of the most incredible works of art in the city, bar none. it is a huge mural of incredible works. >> the san francisco civic arts collection has been in existence since the turn of the century. it consists of everything from monument to golden gate park to market street, other works in the collection, from the wpa era, the quite tower, the works from the george washington high school. we have the contemporary education, where they depict some of the vocational arts that were taught at george washington high school. what is interesting is the artist's and corp. of some of the -- incorporation of some of the architectural elements. they used the speaker from the p a system as part of the design. on the opposite side of the library, we have a large fresco which depicts the academic subjects that were taught at the time. it serves as a foil to the other fresco in the library, we

and the fact that either they knew and didn't tell us or we know couldn't trust them enough to even tell them we were going in for this raid? >> well, we don't know the answers to those questions. but those are very real and important questions and they will be asked by members of congress with increasing intensity. >> what do you want to know, senator? what is your reaction to this? is it possible that this facility could have been within a mile and a half of their west point and all these neighbors and not know? >> it's a very perplexing question. and i think we're at a point here where the burden of proof, you might say, is on the pakistanis to convince us that they really did not know. it is possible that they did not know. and i suppose that would raise other questions about the skill of their intelligence operation. but, you know, we have had a very complicated relationship with pakistan. on the one hand, they have provided us, i know, with some very important counterterrorism intelligence and assistance. on the other hand, we have reason to believe that some elements of their inte

because the students were telling us that we have failed them to a large extent. why? because many of us went to college perhaps or high-school too long ago. i was at uc berkeley in the 1960's as an undergraduate. so i had to look at that and ask how confused i was. when i look back on it, as everyone on this stage will tell you, their first stage was -- their first year was confusing, maddening. we were experimenting. we were experimenting perhaps with a lot more than you will be experimenting with. [laughter] nevertheless, we are here now. what is the common thread that connects all of us? college education. [applause] do not be fooled. do not let anyone tell you that without a college education, everything is fine. we are in america now. we are in international scene now that without a college education, you are nowhere in this society and going further down. i know you do not want to hear that because people think that other people did it. high-school would be fine -- high school would be fine. it would not be ok. the ok route is what we have to tell you about

valerie is here to tell us why your contacts are crucial and how to use them all the time. >> absolutely. especially the last couple years. some people have gone into overdrive with making new connections. >> sometimes you can wear out the welcome. >> do it as a part of your overall network and building connections. >> you have to figure out your purpose here. why are you doing this and what do you want out of it. >> exactly. understand your why. why is it i'm trying to build my network. it might be a career transition into a different field. they want to build connections. some it's they are looking for a job. others they would like to be doing something different. understand your why so you can narrow activities and focus. >> know you are a target audience. >> who are you trying to reach. who am i trying to connection with and where do they congrega congregate. don't do activities where you are not going to find people in your target audience. look at professional activities and sporting activities. ways to connect in a real way. >> don't go to places you can't benefit from. >> then yo

. >> i do believe that statistics tell us a good deal and offers us an opportunity to react to them but to take that long term. >> brick computers will integrate that with realtime data like shot spotter and information from 911 calls as they come in. for example, following a series of armed robberies in several neighborhoods, brick's computers will map out any previous pattern of robberies there. a description of the car and suspect and their trail to see if a pattern emerges. >> we can get that information out to the other nine districts so everybody is on the samepage. page.>> reporter: eventually thl is to integrate neighboring police departments into this operation to truly make this into a regional crime fighting center. >> kristen: new green technology is beings used in grocery shioys richard hart reports on drive to discover a better way to fight food spoilage. >> green tag says new way to fight food spoilage. it's so difficult to monitor the shelf-life of produce. a temperature variation of two degrees can cut four days off the life of berries and bananas. current technology mo

. >> reporter: caftan kevin moss' platoon was penned down 50 yards to the right of us. >> hey, tell them we want a gun run from [ bleep ] running up the spur here. >> reporter: the no slack battalion was assigned perhaps the toughest area of afghanistan. kunar province, known as the heart of darkness. for several months, our cameras were with them as they fought on snow-covered mountaintops and in treacherous mountain valleys. >> he's still too low! >> reporter: they fought hard. and played hard. ♪ >> reporter: this little escapade was orchestrated by one of 3rd platoons most popular leaders. the younger men adored him. the older leaders respected him. everyone thought of him as a soldier's soldier. same with the platoon leader. captain kevin mott. his boys, 3rd platoon, would walk into fire for him. last june, mott was shot in the head and tumbled hundreds of feet down a mountain. he should have died but recovered. and like bankston, he too fought to return to afghanistan to lead his men. all of them had less than a month before going home. their objective, find a way to get home aliv

when we go talk to the families a lot of them tell us we're unemployed. industries and businesses have been leaving the city. it's hard for us to find a job. without training and jobs that can -- that we can for without a lot of english, community organizations always tell us that we need to learn english in order to have a job, but what about making a living before i learned english? what can i do? so the jobs now will program in the past doesn't really help people without a lot of english. we're hoping -- we're asking the city that next round of job now's, please have a plan and have some money to help people who doesn't speak a lot of english. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for your presence in chinatown, district 3. the thing i want to say definitely it's about concentrating on the youth inávd district 3, because many youth in district 3 are monolingual speakers, and don't have places to hang out. there's the parks and rec in chinatown, but because it's under construction, they have limited sp

for all of them on a mission to tell people the back. have you heard the awesome news watch watch watch one the world is ending death destruction that's all you can see. nine months ago and he and jessica ramos hit the road to tell people just that but we mean the way forward that this was the best way. to do what we're supposed to do according to what the bible was telling us to warn the people their three daughters travel with them i homeschooled they were in school for a little bit and now that it's towards the end we decided to support our kids much as possible yes we can abby aren't alone there is just one of four caravans roaming the country preaching the apocalypse they believe the world of the ending may twenty first and that it's their duty to warn the people here old camping the eighty nine year old founder of family radio used a series of biblical calculations to arrive at may twenty first two thousand and eleven camping did predict the end once before and september one thousand nine hundred four campaigns prediction has since

they tell them went to charge and retreat. taps would tell soldiers it was safe and secure to sleep. >> musicians used to be prolific. all of the boy scouts troops had their own buglers and infantry had their own and calvary had their own. >> now a military funeral is lucky to get a real bugler at all. >> the sergeant considers that to be a shame. with the goal of keeping taches alive. he teaches it. >> if you can't play the instrument well you can't play taps as it is meant to be rendered. ♪ >> every family deserves the same honor whether it is the metal of honor or a general or lowly private. >> sergeant said he has played taps but it is never the same. with so many world war ii veterans dying. he does play up and down the state. 50 symbolic seconds of the last rite . friends of george miller, closure. >> he would have loved this. from the sacramento valley national cemetery in dixon, wayne freedman abc 7 news.ñ/ñ/ñw you can see >> a bay area power couple is helping teens be nicer to each other. >> a look at how a famil

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do you have anything to say about it? can you tell me where you get them from? >> do you want to talk to my attorney? >> reporter: he wouldn't tell us but in the past it has been an inside job. a police sting last summer led to the arrest of a muni mechanic edmond king who worked out of the maintenance yard. he claims he got them from the garbage but muni says he obtained them by virtue of his employment and made tens of thousands of dollars selling them. >> one of the officers spotted him with these late night transfers that he had folded into a newspaper. >> reporter: this police lieutenant says despite that arrest the problem is still rampant. >> this has been going on unfortunately for years. >> reporter: we showed him the tickets that we got. >> they look to be legitimate transfers to me. >> reporter: he says some of the illegal transfers are real while others may be counterfeit like these two with the same serial number. >> maybe they are being told for muni and being copied? >> that could be a possibility. >> reporter: so what is muni doing about it? >> w

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christie smith is there live to tell us about them. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. if you remember two things, the important things are with the detour, there's no full bridge closure and the speed limit is going to stay the same as it is. but, something you need to know, if you are on the bay bridge and coming from san francisco toward oakland eastbound, what you are going to see over memorial day weekend is a slight shift in the lanes. some of the lanes will actually be closed overnight from 8 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. westbound lanes into the city won't be affected at all, at least for now. what does this do? it allows construction crews to work between the existing bridge and the new bridge to complete the eastbound lanes. it's right in the path of construction. what they need to do is get cars out of the way. the other part of this, if you want to follow along with the construction, the changes going on, cal trans is revealing a new app to down load for free. it puts you in the driver's seat and lets you cruise along. it will allow the bridge to open six months ahead o

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