i'm deborah feyerick in for t.j. holmes. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. for the first time ever, the u.s. loses its prized aaa credit rating. we'll tell you how washington is reacting to the s&p downgrade and what it means for your finances. >>> dozens of u.s. troops are killed in afghanistan after their helicopter crashes in an area rife with insurgent activity. a live report from kabul is just seconds away. >>> and polygamous sect leader warren jeffs heads into court at this hour as a jury prepares to decide whether to sentence him to life in prison. >>> well, in afghanistan, what may be the deadliest day for coalition forces since the war started. afghan president hamid karzai says 31 u.s. troops and seven afghans died in a helicopter crash in wardak province in the eastern part of the country. a u.s. military official says more than two dozen americans are believed to have died. many, if not all of them, special operations forces. cnn's david ariosto is in kabul. and david, the taliban

i just want to recognize deborah johnson. she has been invaluable to connecting our program to muni operations, helping us in countless ways, big and small. she is currently the acting executive director and ceo of the mta. happy to call her a friend and colleague. thank you, deborah. also here today is the external affairs director for at&t. at&t provides the cell phones and services provided for emergency calls by the ambassadors. we could not exist without the help of deputy city administrator linda young. she is also the cfo. she makes sure we have all our resources. so this concludes our press conference. media kits are in the front of the room. thank you very much, everyone. [applause] >> alright. good morning. it is a beautiful sunny day here in the bayview, right in the heart of the baby. is a great day to be here. we of great things we are talking about today. i am the director of public works for at least a little bit longer. happy to be here with this great group of folks behind me. i am going to introduce the folk

i just want to recognize deborah johnson. she has been invaluable to connecting our program to muni operations, helping us in countless ways, big and small. she is currently the acting executive director and ceo of the mta. happy to call her a friend and colleague. thank you, deborah. also here today is the external affairs director for at&t. at&t provides the cell phones and services provided for emergency calls by the ambassadors. we could not exist without the help of deputy city administrator linda young. she is also the cfo. she makes sure we have all our resources. so this concludes our press conference. media kits are in the front of the room. thank you very much, everyone. [applause]

i just want to recognize deborah johnson. she has been invaluable to connecting our program to muni operations, helping us in countless ways, big and small. she is currently the acting executive director and ceo of the mta. happy to call her a friend and colleague. thank you, deborah. also here today is the external affairs director for at&t. at&t provides the cel

i just want to recognize deborah johnson. she has been invaluable to connecting our program to muni operations, helping us in countless ways, big and small. she is currently the acting executive director and ceo of the mta. happy to call her a friend and colleague. thank you, deborah. also here today is the external affairs director for at&t. at&t provides the cell phones and services provided for emergency calls by the ambassadors. we could not exist without the help of deputy city administrator linda young. she is also the cfo. she makes sure we have all our resources. so this concludes our press conference. media kits are in the front of the room. thank you very much, everyone. [applause] of the san francisco municipal transportation authority board of directors. roll call, please. >> director heinicke will be here today, shortly. [roll call] you have a quorum. please be advised that the ringing of venice and telephone or any sound producing devices prohibited. any person responsible for one going off might be asked to lea

i just want to recognize deborah johnson. she has been invaluable to connecting our program to muni operations, helping us in countless ways, big and small. she is currently the acting executive director and ceo of the mta. happy to call her a friend and colleague. thank you, deborah. also here today is the external affairs director for at&t. at&t provides the cell phones and services provided for emergency calls by the ambassadors. we could not exist without the help of deputy city administrator linda young. she is also the cfo. she makes sure we have all our resources. so this concludes our press conference. media kits are in the front of the room. thank you very much, everyone. [applause] >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer

they had this deal in writing saying, quote, as you see, in the interest of justice, deborah should be released. but before her attorneys could put that deal in front of the court and get the court to act on it, the district attorney's office said, you know what, we're actually not going to honor that. we're withdrawing. they sent a second letter saying we formally withdraw. >> why do you think they cared so much? why did they try to keep her in prison? >> it would appear that it has more to do with kind of internal politics and possibly external politics. how will this look setting, a quote/unquote, murderer free? we certainly heard that within the district attorney's office certain people felt they had been -- their toes had been stepped on or someone had gone over their head and that sort of thing. so there was a reorientation within the district attorney's office. >> we've seen previous governors take a very hard line on parole of domestic violence survivors and many others. does jerry brown seem to be taking the same tack? or is it different? >> he's definitely demonstrating a shi

i'm deborah feyerick in for t.j. holmes. a special good morning to our service men and women watching on the american forces network. well, they are considered among the nation's elite warriors, navy s.e.a.l.s. this morning, the families and friends of 22 u.s. s.e.a.l.s and 8 other service members are mourning their loss. >>> and violence in london, what led people to torch buildings and a tour bus. >>> an expert that says you can retire. >>> it is the single deadliest loss of u.s. forces in afghanistan since the war began a decade ago. we're beginning to learn the names of those killed and how their families are remembering them. the father of a 2-year-old son and a 2-month-old girl t. was aaron's birthday. in june he turned 30. and i told him to be careful. and he said, granny, don't worry about me, he said i'm not afraid. i know where i'm going if something happens to me. aaron was a christian and he stood firm in his faith. >> now, the chopper went down in war war wardak province. they were on a ch-47 chinook. most were

i am deborah mackenzie. a month after the norway attacks, relatives of the victims visit the scene of the killings for the first time. late kickoff, a player strike over unpaid wages delays the start of the spanish football season. intense fighting has been taking place in libya as rebels advancing towards tripoli. to the east of the capital, rebels or claiming a significant victory. they say they have now taken control of one city. to the west, the rebels have been fighting a fierce battles. the latest on the eastern front with our correspondent, but person this report from inside. >> this afternoon the assault began. high on adrenaline, the rebels accelerated, each shot taken them a step closer to tripoli. up to now have been using small arms, but now they have blown up an old russian tank and they are firing down on the city into the square where about the's forces are still holding out. -- where gaddafi's forces are still holding out. the problem for the rebels and for us are snipers. we have taken up in

welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in

it is august 6th, good morning, i'm deborah feyerick in for t.j. holmes. it has been one of the deadliest days yet in the long afghan war. more than two dozen members of the u.s. special forces have been killed in the downing of a chinook helicopter. we're going to get a live report from kabul. >>> also, another blow to the u.s. economy. in a move last night, the country's credit rating was downgraded by standard & poor's. no longer do we have superior aaa status. we'll explain how the move impacts you. >>> we begin with what could be the deadliest day yet for u.s. troops in afghanistan. the u.s. military says more than two dozen u.s. troops are believed to have died in a helicopter crash in wardak province in eastern afghanistan. afghan president hamid karzai issued a statement saying as many as 31 u.s. special forces and seven afghan troops were killed. cnn's david arios joins us from kabul. david, what other details are you learning? >> reporter: it appears this helicopter was traveling from wardak province into the central eastern part of the country.

these two grarnld mothers are first-time sellers, so is deborah collins. >> with the price of gold we probably would melt this. >> she brought in her family jewelry. >> what prompted you to do this? >> well, i needed some money, you know. times is hard. and, you know, i had it. >> reporter: wheel people like deborah are cashing in on record gold prices, others are buying gold. >> we've seen that since the lehman brothers collapsed and the madoff scandal, that i've talked to so many people who have lost faith in paper investments and institutional integrity. >> michael is president of a gold depository which stores everything from coins to gold bars. he estimates his business has increaseded from 20 and 30% in recent weeks and not just from individual customers. >> this is something new probably in the last year or two that we've seen where corporations are investing their -- some of their retained earnings into physical precious metals. >> reporter: with gold shining in the spotlight he has lots of questions. he doesn't advise clients to buy physical gold. he instead suggests they tra

i just want to recognize deborah johnson. she has been invaluable to connecting our program to muni operations, helping us in countless ways, big and small. she is currently the acting

deborah roberts has their story. >> reporter: a cash reward for slimming down? >> it's a great motivation. >> that's s great incentive. >> reporter: these florida coworkers are happy to take the bribe. losing weight with hopes of gaining a $10,000 prize. a state-wide contest to get people serious about better health. but paying out cash? one study shows that dieters who got paid were nearly four times more likely to lose weight. workplaces everywhere are now offering all kinds of incentives, like in-house gyms and healthy cafeterias. and group challenges like the one at mission produce in oxnard, california, seem to pay off too. 35-year-old sales associate tommy padilla teamed up with coworkers and dropped 30 pounds in his first two months on the job. companies are reaping a benefit, too. some report a drop in workers compensation claims, health insurance filings, and sick days. one corporation, johnson & johnson, recorded a $250 million savings on health care costs over a decade. incentives make sense, experts say. but some worry that financial rewards may not

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we asked abc's deborah roberts to find out more. >> reporter: who would you rather hire? who would you date? like it or not, youth and beauty win out nearly every time. april samuelsen toyed with the idea of a facelift for years, then finally took the plunge. >> i started standing in the mirror and pulling my face back a little bit and saying, gee, this would be wonderful if i could do this, and i decided i'm doing this. >> reporter: at 66 years old, she's now part of a surprising new trend -- aging baby boomers undergoing body rejuvenation, like facelifts, breast lifts and eyelid work. in fact, the number of cosmetic surgery patients over 65 has soared. >> the way i felt inside i wanted to look outside. >> reporter: cosmetic surgeons say they're seeing lots of new patients. men and women in their 70s and 80s too. >> they're living longer. they're living healthier. they have fewer underlying medical problems. >> reporter: 73-year-old jane fonda recently shared her beauty secrets with "nightline's" cynthia mcfadden. >>>>ondas have bags under their eyes, fat up here, so i h

as abc's deborah roberts discovered, what was once considered a cheap and safe cure-all may not help at all. >> reporter: for millions of menopausal women, life is no picnic. >> i feel like i'm in a pizza oven. >> feeling like there was a very heavy cloud over me, pressing my shoulders down. >> reporter: soy offered hope to many suffering from those horrible symptoms but a new study says women may be wasting their money. >> soy is not estrogen. it's kind of a weak imitator. >> reporter: close to 200 women took largege doses of soy every day for two years. and it did nothing to improve bone density at all. some women actually had more hot flashes. we wondered what can help women and polled our panel of experts around the country. and they all agreed no one size fits all. hormone therapy may carry some risk of heart disease or cancer. but our panel says short term it does help most women. >> for most women who are under the age of 60 who have severe menopausal symptoms, the benefits of hormone therapy outweigh the risk. >> reporter: anti-depressants. turns out they stabilize a woman's

he discusses his theory with deborah tannen. >> host: one of the many impressive aspects of your book is the scope, that you cover so bo many very, very phenomenon. so let me just start with the broad question. so the title of your book is "more." the cover includes a picture of a pick. among the topics you cover our multiple births, pressure on the tito breast-feed and in. u neral the pressure fore topico intensive parenting devoted entirely to kids. to testing and the whole field of e education and how everything isf judged by this paper everything it stood by hyper testing. testing pressure gore expected to be devoted to the sort. the addiction metaphor and how people use the expression of the drug of choice. and with the obsession the indicting and beauchemin and of the city and anorexia. the obsession with home renovation which is another set of tv shows. my impression is maybe the threat to connecting all of these is the vanishing of scale. so tell us what you mean and how it can nec's all of these cultural phenomenons. >> what we see that connects all of those is the media appr

welcome, deborah shaddon. >> i have a presentation. thank you for inviting me to be on this panel today. i think i represent -- i am a typical volunteer member of volunteer technology community. i have a degree of understanding of i.t. issues being an enterprise architect for 20 years working for insurance company but i am one of many types of fallen tears in my community. there are other i.t. professionals, people who are academics, that like to research, there are folks that are students, that want to participate and we partner with to the extent we can members of the emergency response and humanitarian agency. i represent crisis commons, which if you go to the next page please, crisis commons just to introduce folks is a global network of volunteers in creative problem-solving and technology to help people and communities in times of crisis. we are a group that organizes crisis camps to use events to allow us to get together our communities from virtually online as well as in certain cities, new york for instance is posting a crisis

and as abc's deborah roberts reports, they may even bulk up your paycheck. >> reporter: a cash reward for slimming down? >> great motivation. >> that's a great incentive. >> reporter: these florida co-workers are happy to take the bribe. losing weight with hopes of gaining a $10,000 prize. a statewide contest to get people serious about better health. but paying out cash? one study shows that dieters who got paid were nearly four times more likely to lose weight. workplaces everywhere are now offering all kinds of incentives. like in-house gyms and healthy cafeterias. group challenges, like the one at mission produce in oxnard, california, seems to pay off, too. 35-year-old sales associate, tommy padilla, teamed up witith his co-workers and dropped 30 pounds his first 2 months on the job. companies are reaping a benefit, too. some reported drop in workers' comp claims, health insurance filings and sick days. one corporation, johnson & johnson recorded a $250 million savings on health care costs over a decade. incentives make sense, experts say. but some worry that financial rewards ma

elect most local officials by selecting a first choice candidate in the first column on the ballot and deborah second and third choice candidates in the second and third columns resect to do -- respectively. this makes it possible to elect local officials with the majority of votes. more than 50% without the need for a second runoff election. in san francisco, ranked choice of voting is for the election of members of the board of supervisors, the mayor, sharon, just -- district attorney, city attorney, treasurer, this is a recorder, and public defender. ranked joyce voting does not apply to elections for local school and community college board members. number the election of state or federal officials. ranked choice of voting does not affect the adoption ballot measures. when voters received their ballot, either at a polling place or an absentee ballot in the mail, it will consist of multiple cards. voters will receive cards with contests for federal and state offices, as well as for state propositions and local ballot measures. for ranked choice voting contest, voters will receive a separate

i'm deborah norville. thank you >>> live, this is kron 4 news at 11:00. >>> he rld and the man who crea one of the world's most revered companies. steve jobs is stepping down from apple. he will be replaced. kron 4's reggie kumar is here to talk about the major change. >> reporter: steve jobs submitted his resignation today. he said he can no longer handle the job. >> reporter: stunk stunk will still play an important role. while stepping down steve jobs suggested tim cook should be the new ceo and the board agreed. cook joined the company in 1998 and named chief operating officer in 2007. he served as ceo in 2004 and 2009. in a letter addressed to apple jobs said, quote, i have always said if there ever came a day when i could no longer meet my duties and expectations as ceo, i would be the first to let you know. unfortunately, that day has come the resignation appears to be related to the health problems he has dealt with over the past several years. in 2004 he battled cancer and lost a lot of weight and

. >> deborah: and that >>> live, this is kron 4 news at 11:00. >> camp a woman did to a 14-year-old boy and how his parents found out. how congress' inability to approve legislation is effecting million dollars bay area projects. the giants and diamondbacks go head to head for the top stop, we tell you who pulled out victory. >> a camp counselor is accused of having a text with a 14-year- old boy. katrina herrador. kron 4's reggie kumar says police are trying to figure out if there are more victims out there. >> reporter: katrina herrador became a counselor for the city in may. officials wouldn't give us the camp location but we found an advertisement for it. it's called teen x-treme summer camp. that's where katrina herrador became acquainted with a 14- year-old boy and authorities allege katrina herrador had sex with a teen at her home. residents didn't want to go on camera. they said katrina herrador lived there but moved out. police say the boy's parents discovered suspicious tex messages and called authorities. she says when they interviewed katrina herrador she confessed to the cr

. >> here is deborah kostroun with the after the bell report. >> stocks starting out the week slightly higher on speculation the federal reserve will act to stimulate the economy. they've done it twice in the past. the dow, s and p is nasdaq seen slight gains. new rules to protect airline passenger goesing into affect tomorrow. usa today saying the transport department's new rules will raise compensation for passengers getting bumped and require airlines do a better job of revealing fees for things like baggage and food on web sites z facebook kicked off the largest streaming movie venture, and has teamed up with miramax to launch an apf -- app and users can rent films through any pc or google t skpr. integrate into user profiles in news feeds. the 20 films are available including "pulp fiction and "kill bill". that is the bloomberg stock exchange. i'm deborah kostroun. >> and we have crews in place looking for signs of protests in the wake of a new threat. >> and update on what's happening underground and how it could affect the commute coming up next. what is that? oh, we call it the

and here is deborah kostroun with a after the bell report. >> and it was a good day for the economy, take a look. not only did hurricane irene fail to shut down financial markets but there is renewed optimism as the economy will recover. and averages reacted positively. prices of television sets are coming down so much that a research firm says that apple ipads will soon cost more than a average 42 inch, lcdtv by the end of the year. and compare that to the price of ipads in the u.s., those tablets with range from $499 up to $829 z before you know it, it will be hunting season. now your little ones can dress the part, too. kimberly clark is offering these limited edition camo diapers at walmart stores. for every pack, huggies will don donate diapers to service members in need. i'm deborah kostroun with the bloomberg after the bell report. >> san francisco continues to grow on the hunt for technology. auto disc, makers of 3 d design software announced it's expanding offices by 36,000 square feet z adding 200 jobs. the mayor says the current is about that. and gas is -- gap is set to o

. >> deborah: that's "inside edition" for today. thanks for watching. >>> live, this is kron 4 news at 11:00. >>> bart police move in as protesters try to disrupt the evening commute. >> police brew tally. going on folks. >> we have new details on the protest, including reaction from police about the arrests. kron 4's reggie kumar joins us live from san francisco with a look that protest today. >> reporter: san francisco police arrested all of the protesters. this is where they had them lined up. each one taken into custody. 45 demonstrators were arrested by the san francisco police department and bart police. this is how it looked today. they forced the closure of civic center bart station at 5:00 p.m. tonight. and forced the closure of powell street bart station for a short time and then they marched to the ferry building where police prevented them from getting in. many wore the "v" for vendetta mask. they walked back to civic center bart station. at 8:30 tonight police began arresting the demonstrators. officers forced them to s

here is bloomberg's deborah kostroun with this after the bell report. >> traders calling today a choppy, sloppy market with ups and downs. and by closing bell we ended higher, gold is has been riding high but today had a big drop after reaching a record yesterday, wells fargo said rising demand pushed market into a bubble. today, gold plunged $104 an ounce, deere and company telling regulateors a proposed wireless service would cost farmers up to $30 billion a year, saying it would disrupt farm equipment guided by gps. and saying that that reflects fear mongering and the federal communications commission is considering whether to grant clearance after it gave preliminary approval in january. that is business at the new york stock exchange, i'm deborah kostroun with the bloomberg after the bell report. >> united airlines is giving pilots ipads to replace their paper flight manuals. united plans to distribute the tab bs lets to all 11,000 pilots by the end of the year, including navigation charts and united says it will save 16 million sheets of paper and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel. alas