>>california! where better to talk diversity! >>♪music. >>there's more than just a diversity of faces in california. this is our most bio-diverse state - ridiculously so! there are over 5,860 different types of plants here, 2,153 of them are endemic - they are found nowhere else. add to this over 540 birds, 214 mammals, 77 reptiles, 47 amphibians, 83 fish...and, well, you get the picture! why? the state is big - it's huge! but there are small places here where diversity is really high. it's more than size. to begin to answer the question we travel to one of these diverse corners, torrey pines state reserve, just outside of san diego. so here are some really local statistics. right here in san diego county we have three million people. that makes it the fifth most populated county in the united states. in fact, three million people makes it larger than the population of 20 out of the 50 states. all these people share this place, these 2.7 million acres that make up san diego county with 2,300 species of plants. 2,300 species that makes san

to the state of california and the citizens of california, to represent the state of california along -- >> who would appoint him? the same governor that didn't want to defend the plebiscite? >> well, that happens all the time. as you recall in the case of -- well, let's not spend too much time on independent counsel provisions, but -- [laughter] >> the governor -- the government of the state of california frequently appoints an attorney where there's a perceived conflict of interest >> i suppose -- >> and that person would have a responsibility for the state and might have responsibility for the attorneys' fees. >> i suppose there might be people out there with their own personal standing, someone who performs marriages and would like that to remain open to everyone but would prefer not to perform same-sex marriages, or other people. we seem to be addressing the case as if the only options are the proponents here or the state. i'm not sure there aren't other people out there with individual personalized injury that would satisfy article iii. >> there might well be in a different case

from farm to feast--stay tuned for more of the tempting tastes of california. >> welcome back to "california country." >> joanne neft didn't start out a few years ago yearning to become a food rock star, but now, in placer county, her swirl of bright gray hair turns heads everywhere she goes. >> 20 years ago, i started the farmers' markets in placer county. and i thought to myself, what could we do that would help people understand that there's something wonderful to eat in placer county every day of the year? i had a friend, susan dupre, who came for lunch in december, and we had what i had picked up at the farmers' market on saturday. and so we finished our little lunch, and she pushed her chair back from the table, and she said, "why don't you just write a cookbook?" >> so along with professional chef laura kenny, joanne decided to show her friend and the rest of us just how it's done. >> so we started two weeks after we decided we were going to, and we had dinner, just the 4 of us, on january 5, and it was awesome. so we decided we should invite some more people to come with us. >> joann

and california does have the goal of 33% renewable energy. we have the goal of a million solar rooftops. we already have over 130,000 installations on homes and small businesses. so, we're looking at utility, scale, installation of solar, we're looking at individual homes, and businesses. so, wherever we can, we are encouraging it. we're number oned in the country. we're going to keep on going. it's very critical. now, i know from the idea to the execution to the secure realization, it takes a long time. and we have to have patience. we have to have staying power. so, that's the dilemma. we look at most of the countries. germany certainly an exception, but most are not stepping up to the plate. there is a complete disproportion between the knowledge and the magnitude of the knowledge about and the magnitude of climate change and what it's going to do to the way -- to our way of life and our response. the response is feeble compared to the challenge, and we've got to wake up to that fact. (applause) >> the challenge -- one of the challenges is

i was had a kid in california sort of fdr style, big state big ambition era of california. the freeways were built and universities were built. he gone to the jesuit seminary and he was seen as governor moon beam. people thought he was so odd. while he was successful in winning two terms, and started the environmental initiative that made california the environmental leader. he ran for the senate and didn't win, he ran for the presidency and didn't win. coming back in 2010 to the governorship, it's a whole different stage of his life. host: those events and especially his political career changed him as a politician? guest: yes, many people say -- i asked him about this, for a while i was resisting to talking about jerry brown. he did say that when he was younger just things he didn't know about people and about emotional quotations or things people will take. also how much they want to hear from their politician. people don't really want to hear from me that much. the other thing that's really different about california in his second coming as governor california has been

carlton place san francisco california 94102. the mda executive committee meeting will be tuesday july 23rd, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. city hall room 421, 1 dr. carlton place, san francisco california 94102. the mdc disability preparedness committee friday, no meeting in july. the disability disaster committee now meets every other month. the mbc physical access committee will meet on friday august the 9th 2013 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. market street first floor san francisco california 94103. the mayor's disability council they will be no council meeting in august. instead we'll have a council leadership development session on monday august 26th 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. city hall room 34, 1 dr. carlton place san francisco california 94102. the mdc executive committee meeting will meet on tuesday august the 20th, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. city hall room 421, 1 dr. carlton place san francisco california 94102. and i think you can turn to -- on the internet for common/mdc upcoming meetings. >> thank you very

this is california department of corrections and rehabilitation spokesperson terry thorton. today, july 16, 2013, 2493 inmates in 15 state prisons are participating in a mass hunger strike, 200 one inmates in seven state prisons refuse to go to work today. >> the man's include a call for adequate and nutritious food and in and to group punishment. another key demand is a pushed in the long-term solitary in the state's high-security special housing units known as shus. more than 3000 prisoners are held in the isolation units with no human contact and no windows. some of them for more than a decade. prison spokesperson terry thornton told democracy now! those who continue to join the strike could face additional punishment. asthe inmates identified leading and perpetuating mass hunger strike, the work stoppage, this disturbance -- they can be subject to disciplinary action and it can include removal from general population housing and being placed in administrative segregation unit. that is pursuant to state law and the hunger strike policy. prisoners at pelican bay issued a n

, any person who's enrolled into covered california, they get 58 dollars, for every person you enroll, that's 58 dollars, so it could help support the enrollment. >> that sounds like the triple c bounty program, and again, i don't want to drop the ball on this because i would be really upset. if i get upset, i'm going to put a bug on campos's ear, and it will be contagious and you have a whole board of upset supervisors, so in your partnership with the mayor's office, loop us in, particularly those that are your partners that are working and representing the communities that are often left off the table. this is absolutely critical. thank you. >> yes. >> believe you me, it's a lot worse when you see supervisor cohen upset. i think the point though, one point that i will make and we talked earlier about the convening of the universal health care council which is a good thing, if it's so important, it's too bad that it's only happening three months before the implementation, and another point i think, it's like i wish we had had this discussion before adopting the budget of the departme

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(applause) >> well, thank you and welcome to california. it's a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, probably -- in fact, certainly in the western hemisphere, california is in the lead. and that's important. but being in the lead doesn't mean we've arrived at the goal. got a long way to go and i hope the work you do here, the conversations, the relationships that are formed can help advance the cause of solar energy and renewable energy or generally. back when i was governor the first time, that was a long time ago -- some of you folks weren't even born then -- not too many. i see a few gray hairs here who are hanging around. that was a long time ago, 38 years ago, as a matter of fact. very few people get to be governor 38 years after they first started. [laughter] >> with a 28-year hiatus. (applause) so, i guess i have to expiate my many political sins and i spent time in the wilderness. but i am back and i can reflect on how politics work, how it worked then,

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of california, but other states, a vision for what people really want. they want to be participants. they don't want to live in the shadows. and there's many parts of the immigration reform that we have to pay attention to. i happen to believe very strongly, and i think everybody in this room does, we can't lose family unification as part of it. we have to have a path for people who have been here, maybe on paper not legally, but they're americans like everybody else. it's just on paper they weren't. we've got to get them fully participating, not subject to some immigration judge's decision that because their paperwork of their parents weren't right that they have to be ousted from this country. i think there are so many parts of immigration that must be had and that's why we're advocating. and i am together with literally every elected leader in this city that san francisco is special. we know we're not the only voice in the country. so, we have to talk to other mayors in iowa, in indiana, in alabama and in florida, saying that there's a lot for immigra

high pressure that is over the desert southwest sort of noses into california a touch. it's not going to be dramatic. but we'll get a slight weekend warmup . the numbers tomorrow at livermore will be 90. if you are heading out of sfo tomorrow, saturday morning clouds and westerly winds by the afternoon to 25 miles an hour. thunderstorms for new york again and for denver. manhattan 82 and some thunderbolts in the sky. 28 partly cloudy -- 82 and partly cloudy in chicago. for us not bad, san francisco 66, fairfield 92, san jose 83. 81 redwood city. extended forecast is calling for pretty much the same, usual low clouds in the morning and sun in the afternoon. but a little bump in the temperatures just in time for the weekend and then we'll cool it off just in time for you to go back to work on monday. >> nice weekend, thank you. >>> a little update now as we can show you sfo and 747s sit there is waiting for take-off. we are told authorities are testing runway 28-left. they are testing it right now. they are set to open it at 7:00 tonight. that's the plan, this of course a

prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak with a reporter who survived solitary in iran, shane bauer, author of, "solitary in iran nearly broke me. then i went inside america's prisons." all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. national security agency whistleblower edward snowden is reportedly set to meet today with international human rights groups in the transit area of a moscow airport or he has been holed up for nearly three weeks. he has received asylum offers from venezuela, nicaragua, and bolivia. in an e-mail invitation purportedly sent by snow to the groups, he condemns -- the united states has been exerting heavy pressure on latin american countries not to help him. leaked by documents snowden reveal how microsoft collaborated with u.s. intelligence agencies to facilitate the interception of online communications. the guardian reports microsoft worked closely with the nsa, even helping its current the company's own encryption

the hunger strike of thirty thousand prison inmates in california has now reached its fourth day and spread to two thirds of the state's thirty three prisons the prisoners are protesting what they see as unfit prison conditions but the main focus of the strike is to call for an end to the practice of solitary confinement it's common practice to throw inmates into solitary as punishment and in california alone as many as forty five one hundred prisoners are kept in isolation cages at any given time while in a shocking choice the l.a. times reported that as a result of these protests quote corrections officials are threatening to search the hunger strikers cells seize their food stashes and possibly move them to solitary confinement if they continue their meals strike. that's right inmates protesting in solitary confinement may end up in solitary confinement if they continue to protest is it just me or is there something seriously wrong with this equation when my next guest is someone who represents federal prisoners who are victims of this practice get a better understanding of solita

that's going to help that fire in southern california but may continue our fire threat. more on when we could have lightning and thunder here across the bay area coming up in the full forecast. >>> still ahead at 5:00, full speed ahead. tessla is pushing forward the new expansion plans in the east day. also -- >> there are very few african-american men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. that includes me. >> he sees trayvon in himself. the president gets personal on a case that's prompted protest and discussions across the nation. >>> you want to improve your life? start with your job. the best places here in the bay area to have a work life balance. back in a moment. >>> it was perhaps the most candid day of his presidency. president obama walked into the white house briefing room, up announced, and addressed the killing of trayvon martin. >> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is, trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago.

we look forward to seeing marriage took place here in california. i want to point out we had a great ruling so this is a wonderful day for the marriage equality. we look forward to make sure that marriage marmgz is restored here in california we continue this battle. and that political debate that changes in the hearts and minds of people in the california ruling we're very, very glad. thanks so much >> (cheering). (clappin (clapping). >> thank you so much (clapping). >> wow. welcome to the people's house of san francisco. historic. historic day today for all of us for the struggles for many, many years i want to thank all of you for sharing this historic moment in san francisco, california. wow. it's been a long road. many years but gosh it feels good to have love triumph overcome ignorance to have equal it triumph over discrimination to have that diagrams end right here in san francisco. wonderful, wonderful. it's a great place to be today in this hall where so many marriages have taken place and so many people have loved each other. we're the ver

nice weather in southern california, too. both the bay area and southern california seeing calm conditions, high pressure basically in the desert southwest and monsoon moisture to the southeast, in southeastern california. nothing really in the sierra for today. in the bay area, you see the low clouds this morning and they're going to stick around on the coast all day long, except in santa cruz. you'll see sunshine on the south coast, but watch what happens. the low cloud cover gets intensive and heads into oakland by 7:00. by sunset tonight, we'll see the low clouds pushing across the bay. a chilly evening. tomorrow morning, a look at the low cloud cover getting into fairfield, into sacramento by monday morning. that's a sign of real cooling kicking in as we kick off the work week. low 80s around san jose and upper 70s for the north, up towards palo alto and mountain view. maybe briefly near 90 in morgan hill before the breeze. 80s to 90 degrees in trivalley. 70s to near 80 inland in the north bay and a cool 64 degrees and w

we have received a lot of information from people across san francisco and even across california that we are an approving a shell contract today and that is not the case. we are here to approve a rate for clean for sf program. it's well within the ability to negotiate a contract for our clean four sf program. what we have here today is well within the parameters of the program. it's very significant that that vote that we had in september wast by the majority of the supervisors and the concern of people in san francisco. not everyone in san francisco, 27 roll -- we have the roll out of the program. not everyone will stay with the program. we don't expect that we'll have necessarily unanimous support from anybody to approve parts of the program. but we do know that there are san franciscans who welcome the ability to have clean power that is generated publically whether it's a combination of bundled power and recs. and the people that sign onto the program because we believe that moving forward on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal to do and important thing to do fo

the hunger strike of thirty thousand prison inmates in california has now reached its fourth day and spread to two thirds of the state's thirty three prisons the prisoners are protesting what they see as unfit prison conditions but the main focus of the strike is to call for an end to the practice of solitary confinement it's common practice to throw inmates into solitary as punishment and in california alone as many as forty five one hundred prisoners are kept in isolation cages at any given time. well in a shocking twist the l.a. times reported that as a result of these protests corrections officials are threatening to search the hunger strikers cells seize their food stash is and possibly move them to solitary confinement if they continue their meals strike that's right inmates protesting in solitary confinement may end up in solitary confinement if they continue to protest so just me or is there something seriously wrong with this equation and my next guest is someone who represents federal prisoners who are victims of this practice to help me get a better understanding of solita

california has never passed a stand your ground law. but the same principal has been on the books in california. put there decades ago through various rulings. in self-defense cases jurors are required to be read: a person can defend himself and pursue an assailant even if safety could have been achieve by retreating. >> you have that right. that interpretation became a part of the law. >> reporter: one big difference between the way they handle the cases is proceduressal. florida allow as judge to decide whether it was justified. california require as trial and a jury to make that decision. >> although the nation was watching florida there are cases in florida and all across the nation of self-defense, maybe not every day, but it is a typical defense. >> reporter: two months after the george zimmerman case started a similar case happened in sacramento. he was shot and killed by a man who claimed self-defense. the man was detained but prosecutors never filed charges. >> it is very difficult in some cases of self-defense for the prosecut

our exchange is called cover california, cover california is an online marketplace where individuals can purchase health insurance. individuals who have incomes that are above the medi cal threshold and californians can buy health insurance on this stage. there are four standard tiers that will be offered, they're called bronze, silver, gold and platinum, the difference is their percentage of annual cost that is the health plan covers, bronze covers 60% of cost, silver, 70, gold, 80 and platinum, 90, there's a catastrophic plan that also will be available. there are sliding scale subsidies available to low-income individuals on covered california up to 400 % of poverty which is about 46 thousand dollars a year for a single adult. half of the individuals expected to get health insurance through covered california [inaudible] currently five health plans are approved for offering in san francisco under undercover california, they are anthem blue cross, blue shield, the chinese community health plan, health net and kaiser. technically, there is no mandate on employers to provide health i

however, none of those jobs are expected to be available here in california. >>> one thing california does have, great weather. >> we are spoiled, right christina? >> especially here. can't count southern california into that equation this morning. it's going to be hot down there. for us though, we'll get spoiled, the envy of the entire nation, starting up in the upper 50s. oakland, 59 degreeses. 57 in san francisco. a lot of people in town for that beautiful weather over the course of the weekend. if you're sticking around today, the spoiling continues. we do have wind out of the west. look at all these cities reporting onshore flow this morning. that's going to be the case for today even though we'll have a full deck of clouds overhead clearing by about noon. that cool ocean air will continue to move onshore all day long, making it feel very comfortable. go ahead and open up the windows in your home. you can give your ac a break, even all the way out in the extreme east bay. you see where you're picking up the yellows? that's where the winds will be the strongest. our highs come in

right now all of california is in a severe drought. so we may actually have some water restrictions here as we continue throughout the summer. >> okay. thank you very much. >>> still ahead here at 6:00, drop in dementia rates. >>> also google is taking it back to 1999. how the tech giant is returning to its roots. we're back in two minutes. >>> slow growth isn't enough to cover investor enthusiasm about yahoo. myers said that despite falling further behind google and facebook when it come does online revenue, she remains optimistic about yahoo in the mobile world. >>> also go daddy continues to go, go, go, the company say it is will soon open a new office in sunnyvale. it says it needs an extra space to aaccommodate all the workers it's been hiring. >>> speaking of expansion, mountain based google continues to expand. google announced plans to build on about 15 acres of land in palo alto where the company was originally based. the new facility will house about 5,000 employees. >>> still ahead at 6:00, a deadly combination. the autopsy

it will remain towards southern california or the sierras. with this increased humidity just a slight chance. isolated. and the same on tuesday. temperatures for monday the fog clearing and the son of could be blocked from time to time with 80s and 90s and 70's and '60's by the bay. another cool day for san francisco. your kron 4 7 day around the bay those high clouds for tomorrow and on tuesday and for the rest of the week typical summer. with morning fog and it showed clear with warmer temperatures '70s and '80s and '90s inland. >> in dubai, a norwegian woman accused a man of rape and now finds herself behind bars. 24 year old marti del-elv is a convicted criminal in the united arab emirates. after reporting to police she had been raped by a colleague in a dubai hotel during a business trip in march. she was charged with having unlawful sex. sex outside of marriage is banned in the u-a-e. she was sentenced to 12 months for that crime. she says she was advised to say the sex was voluntary in order to get the charges dropped but when she did,

[laughter] unsurprisingly, california's governor was not very happy about this. >> california governor jerry brown immediately dismissed the spot and the media. >> take a little radio ad and all you guys run like lap dogs to report it. it's nowhere. it's not a burp. it's barely a fart. [laughter] >> and trust me, if there's anything a man jerry brown's age knows, it's the difference between a burden of proof -- burp and a fart. but this is great. and the best part is rick perry has so many crappy states to choose from -- arizona, alaska, arkansas, and that's just the "as." >> first it was california and illinois. this week texas governor rick perry took his lone star swagger to new york. >> wait. what? you talking to us? well, i don't see any other new york here. go ahead, perry, take your best shot. >> if you just took the book of rules and regulations in new york state, it's 49,000 pages, and it's one of the reasons small business owners tell us new york is such hard place to do business. >> main street is not looking good. >> if you're tired of the same old recipe of overtaxation, o

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bbc news, california. >> california's latest gold rush. you're watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, a doping scandal send a jolt through the world of track and field with some of the world's top sprinters caught in the middle of it all. >> officials in northern india say nearly 6,000 people are still missing after devastating floods last week and are now presumed to be dead. the disaster hit large parts of the state. >> all that remains of what was , a stop ustling town for thousands on a pilgrimage. men, women and children driven by fate to the holy town less than 20 kilometers away. today there's a deadly silence. broken only by the sound of the river. the river and it's now cut off beyond this point. when the flash floods came, the river waters gushed in carrying with them stones and boulders, devastating towns in their path and killing thousands of people. days of heavy rain burst a glacial lake and waters surged with unstoppable force. swallowing everything that got n the way. nearby, 54 men have died. all of them worked in the temple town si

>>the california sea otter. though they appear cute and cuddly, these 4-5 foot long creatures are actually voracious predators, they need to eat nearly continually to support their extremely high metabolism. they eat a wide variety of sea life much of which comes in shells - they use tools, stones to crack open tough shellfish. they spend almost all their time in the water - they even sleep there wrapped up in kelp. when they do leave the water they're extremely clumsy - those feet are made for swimming. unlike other sea mammals they lack blubber and it's their fur and the air trapped in their fur that keeps them warm and afloat. that's critical, because the pacific is cold! well our good friends here at point lobos have some pelts out here that they use for education purposes and it gets us a chance to see up close how dense the hair is on a sea otter. not only how dense but how soft. take a look at that! a single square inch of that otter's fur may contain 400,000 hairs. i've heard up to a million hairs per sq

waxman of california. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 315, the gentleman from california, mr. waxman and the a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: madam chair mitigating circumstance colleagues, anyone listening to this debate. under this bill if d.o.e. determines that a rule by the environmental protection agency would cause any significant adverse effects to the economy, e.p.a. would be permanently blocked from finalizing that rule. that's a pretty broad assault on the rules that e.p.a. might issue because e.p.a. rules are to protect public health and the environment. so if this bill became law, a lot of clean air, clean water protections would be at risk. and the terms in the bill are so expansive and vague that nearly every major public health proposed rule could be delayed and would be affected. because d.o.e. is not going do -- is not going to do this extensive analysis. my amendment is straightforward. it eliminates t