street. >> welcome to assignment 7. today on our program, going retro, one of california's last remaining drive-ins. >> if it's not one or two hospitals, it's designed for hundreds of hospitals. >> a form transplant patient develops software that could save many lives. >> and a new band sweeping the nation and a east bay crew that started it all. we begin on the state's water crisis, californians could soon be asked to use less water. here is a report.

>> about two-thirds of californians rely on the delta for drinking water but a new report finds that residents need to cut back to use in order for the delta fish to survive. >> it's going to take more water to restore the ecosystem of the delta. >> diverting water for decades has been blamed for changing the delta and flow. to restore, it's based on water flow alone, sending water supplies downstream to southern california could be reduceed by one this third. north of the delta deliveries could be slashed 70%. >> cutbacks are already happening to deal with the three-year drought and to save the endangered smelt. where else can they get water? >> water agencies there is nowhere else to get water and

the report isn't meant to be implemented on its own, pointing out that he don't have any regulatory clout. >> we have to find something that works to balance the water supply and ecosystem. >> still, they warn the findings can't be dismissed because water flow is a major part of the problem. >> flow is one part of the ecosystem that we have affected the most. we have changed the flows more than we have polluted it and about as much as we destroyed habitat. >> the report will be forwarded to the council and they have a tough job to find solutions that considers nature and people's needs. there is some comfort living close to a fire station but how about living near the busiest one in san francisco? >> in a arrangement between city and the museum of modern art they plan to acquire it's neighbors, busy fire station

number one, that will triple space, an expansion that will house an art collection. >> we begin to look at adjacent sites. we look to the east and we look elsewhere but we settled on the firehouse. >> it was built in the early 1900s around would take millions to upgrade. now, if they agree they will take over the land on howard street and in exchange built a new state of the art firehouse on folsom about four and a half blocks away at no cost to city tax pairs. mayor calls eight win-win situation. >> it's a great idea. >> the proposed location is in a mixed use area with businesses like a carwash and hardware store. there are also homeowners in the growing neighborhood. station number one responded to 13,000 calls last year. >> it's going to be a big issue

for a lot of people around for anybody who wants to get some rest. >> if you have an emergency, you'll be blessed if you have a station nearby. >> plans are for them to open in 2012 and the expansion in 2015 at the earliest. when is the last time went to a drive-in movie? for the younger ones have you heard of one? most of them disappeared but wayne freedman found one with a sign that says still open. >> surround sound let's not underestimate of going tretro. the so lano theater here in concord. >> we came hear and the projector still works, what the

heck, let's play it again. >> no experience like a drive-in. you get hooked. >> fits retro in looks, it's really retro in staff. >> linda went her first date here and then her husband proposed here. >> did anything else happen here that you want to talk about? >> no. >> yes, it's true she went into labor while watching a movie here and now the little girl has grown up to be the manager. >> drive-in movies peaked in 1960s and back there was 27 in california alone. now only 18 remain. this a revival? drive-in movies came after the

war, a time of tech any color dreams but then was then. >> what happened to them? >> they pretty much turned into a cemetery, trailer park or wal-mart at this point. >> go to a drive-in and you'll find a screen blasting in the breeze and the rest waiting for bulldozer. remember the island drive in alameda. same with one in petaluma that used to flood anyway. >> it's a driving range right now. >> an nbl victim of evolution. not only did he built it, 35 years later he sold it and put the money into mule mul at this plex. >> drive-ins can't compete with regular theaters. >> with 15 acres and one screen.

>> which makes the solano theater's resurrection all the more remarkable. on a summer night, the place swells that pay 6.75 a head. they load occupy the gourmet section the evening demands and then they settle in. >> at a drive-in these days, forget the window speakers, now it arrives by the car radio, curl up and relax. so what goes around really does sometimes come back around. vintage, time warn, primordial, enduring, or maybe the lure of a driver-in is embedded in our collective dna. whatever. >> what we were doing before you got here? >> the drive-in, not dead and

still flickering. wayne freedman, "abc 7 news". >> the government office that revives short on cash. what you need to put all those little pieces back together. >> mommy i want that. >> they help

when you shred a lot of paper, you might not notice that something important is in there. that is what happened to one man that accidentally put money through the shredded. michael finney helped him to find a solution. >> you remember brandon whitney? he accidentally put four 100 bills in a paper shreder and in seconds it was a worthless pile of confettied.

>> than gave% but his mom contacted 7 on your side and we found and amazing solution. >> there is an increase. >> this is the u.s. bureau of engraving and printing in washington, d.c. here examiners work all day turning piles of mutilated cash into spendable money. its free service of the u.s. government. >> we see everything. >> and shredding cases, too. a lot of us end up with mangled money. every year the bureau tackles 20,000 cases with a success rate of 90% returning $40 million to consumers. these ashes used to be a sack of 20 bills. they were burned in a bank fire. but even this can be saved.

>> it rises off the currency when it's burned, you can still see the engraving. >> hundreds of cases involved money damaged during 9/11. there are also plenty of bills from natural disasters, too. shear case from hurricane katrina. >> these moldy lumps used to be somebody's life savings. it's about to remember deemed for cash. how is it possible? all the examiners have to do is verify that these scraps really were cold, hard cash at one time. if the examiner can identify 51 of the bill, the treasury will replace it. that brings us back to brandon, four 100 bills. will they be replaced. >> it doesn't have to be a continuous 51%.

>> this used to be $523 until it accidentally went into a shredder. they are making good progress on this giving brandon hope. >> there is a chance. pretty cool. >> we'll be following his case as it winds its way through the process. it can take up to six months to repair and redeem damaged money. if you would like to find out how to get your own cash repaired, i posted a link at www.abc7.com. >> a local nonprofit group is pursuing the vision that every young person will find a pathway to prosperity. teresa garcia reports. >> 17-year-old crystal of san jose is quite dedicated to making and baking these little cake balls for the newly launched business called sweet

tooth bites. >> somebody may feel guilty about eating a whole one, this way you can eat three or four. >> this teen entrepreneur has put a lot of thought and planning into crafting the sweet business. she just won first prize at a competition. he is first took the judges with a 30 second pitch. >> then you need to go into how you are going to market this product. then you go into the numbers, how much you are going to sell it for, and how much you are going to make per year.al lea ce a plan through an education program at her silver creek high from blood types to the immune system. >> in a three way pairing, this case, 200 people, that is 3.2 million possibilities. >> that is why they partnered

with a former transplant patient. he developed a computer program called matchmaker to help them match people up. >> this person is extremely hard to match. in this case, he actually has many matches. >> and now the program we first profiled in 2007 is about to get substantially more powerful. this month jacob is rolling out a system that is on cloud performing platform that gives hundreds of servers at a time. >> it's defined for hundreds of hospitals. so the notion that it will be able to tackle the national problem, if not the global problem. >> they quickly can perform pairing that has used to take months. director of the kidney transplant program program. >> when we started we were matching 20% of the incompatible pairs that come our way.

it's accelerated quite a bit and you we feel we can match 50 to 60% of our incompatible pairs. >> back in the operating room, the kidney is about to be put on ice and rushed next door where it be transplanted, exactly what they were hoping for. >> carolyn johnson, "abc 7 news." >> maggie went home a day after and a half donating rd any. ♪ >> up next, anchúiúiúiúiúiúiúiút

in the bay area's toughest neighborhoods it's no surprised to see young men hanging out, but if you see that at 90th and macarthur in oakland....

>> at a corner, police and young black men, but don't let preconceived notions get in the way. you are watching a dance phenomenon. taking off on the street. ♪ ♪ >> rainy day parliament honored his brother who was killed in a traffic accident on this corner. the dance has become his life. >> it will up lift your spirit and get you away from trouble. >> the dance was self-taught. it originated in oakland, it innings movement from hip-hop to ballet. >> you have to find a way for you to do it. >> this video was shot by joe

savion, he added music and put it on the web. it's gone viral in the past two weeks. recording thousands of hits worldwide. >> i was looking at languages i don't even understand. >> it's been special for years on the streets in oakland where they consider it's their lab. >> it's choosing something positive. >> if you see these guys hanging out on the streets. they are not loitering, they are chirping. now with the internet they are influencing the global dance culture. >> when you are able to break it down and show the raw creative expression, that is when the truth comes out. that is what people are responding to. >> the dance group hopes their

notoriety goes to a whole new level. if you would like more information on the stories on the program today, go to our website at www.abc7.com and look under the news links on the left side for assignment 7. that is all for this edition of assignment 7. i'm eric thomas. thanks for joining us. we'll see you next time.

decorate. renovate. invigorate. home with lisa quinn starts now. hey everybody, welcome home. i'm lisa quinn. we got a great show for your today. especially you moms out there, it's all about kids and play dates. we're going to show how to keep those kids sharing and playing nice. some fun snacks to have for your kids on their play days and we're going to show you to give those kids to clean up when the play day is over. as moms we know that the best thing we can do with our kids is try to get them to quit fighting and one of the biggest reason kids fight is because they can't share. so we got some great advice with kindergarten teacher nick kasey, welcome to the show. thank you for having me. i know that you deal with this everyday. how long have you been teaching kindergarten? six years in kindergarten. oh that's great. they're such a great age. they are, it's really fun. so what's the best part about it? i think the best part is they're always so excited about everything that they do. right, and they're really excited you everyday and at five years old. they always love their teacher, right right.

and then what's the most challenging part? probably we have a big wide spread, of kids that know so much coming into kindergarten. and then those that think they're going ot learn their basic abc's and name writing. so kind of catering to all of them. alright so i'm sure you have to deal with sharing or the lack thereof on a daily basis. what are some things that we can learn about maybe avoiding it to begin with? or how to deal with it once it's become a problem? right. well the first thing i think that we need to remember is that, developmentally at ages two or three kids don't know how to share. and they need to be shown how to do it. so you know, you've taken a toy and i would say, lisa here's my favorite dog. and you come play with it, now you're going to give it back to me. i have to give it back, you have to give it back. and then they'll know that they're going to get it back because it's such a personal thing for them and they feel like, i'm never going to get this back. it's a part of me i'm giving away to you.

so that's a nice thing to do with your parents too, because obviously it's a little safer than another kid, to start. exactly just model that. and then as they hit four or five, kindergarten age it becomes really important that they learn how to share and then developmentally they're ready for that. you know i know in my class they share their crayons, they share their pencils. so if you don't know how to share when you get to kindergarten, you're going to learn quickly. right, you're going to learn that trial by fire, exactly.hat's so what's the next tip? um, for lay day. i know we're talking about play dates today. so you really want to encourage your child not to bring their own toy if they're going to a play day. because that's going to cause a huge conflict and i guarantee you as soon as they get there, that other child's going to want your child's toy only. so leave it in the car, leave it at home. assure them that they'll be coming back to get that toy. and that they're going to have plenty of fun, when they get there they don't need a toy. and then on a foot side if you're hosting a play day, ask your child to put away their favorite toy. anything they don't want to share or anything they'd really get sad about if it got broken.

yes sometimes with the play days, they get really territorial. and it's understandable but it can lead to a lot of problems. and they're really pervasive and they would fight over a dish rag just to win. right. my kids do that all the time. so what's the next tip? another thing i believe in is not to hover over your kids. don't be that hover parent. you know working out your own problems is a skill we do. you and i do it, we do it in our relationships, in work. everything like that. so, kind of observe them. see what language they're working. see if they're working out a compromise. in the classroom what i like to do is that they can't solve the problem, then you step in. and that's going to happen, they're not always going to sole their own problems. of course but you can't coddle them because then they're going to grow up and not going to know how to deal with life. exactly. so what i like to do is i'll take the toy away from the kids and the toy goes on time out, versus the child. oh that's a great idea. yeah, because when you start trying to discipline your child, during a play

day, it's chaos because they want to prove to their friend that you're not the boss of me. and then it becomes a huge problem. and then they kind of cast that negative vibe on that play day. so take the toy and tell them this toy's going on time out now guys because you weren't able to share. so in five minutes you can try again. and i guarantee you they're going to work it out, otherwise they're going to lose their toys. they're alone. yeah, and another good thing to remember is especially with the younger kids, is to separate the toys into two separate piles. so here's your pile and here's my pile. and kind of go over the ground rule. so i'm not going to grab them from you, lisa i can't do that. these are all mind. and set a timer. and with little kids you don't want to do more than four, five minutes. but during that time this is their pile, this is my pile, this is your pile, this is all you can play with. and then when the timer goes off you can switch. and you can keep doing that back and forth for as long as they're entertained.

so as far as you reinforce good behavior, what's the way to go about that? well everybody likes to be complimented and be talked to positively. so positive reinforcement is a big thing. and it's funny, you know in the classroom if i tell one kid, oh i like the way you're sitting suzy, you'll see all 24 of them cross their legs and sit with their hands in their laps. and that works the same way on play day. i like the way you're sharing your favorite toy lisa, that's so nice of you. and then the other kid's going to want to share too. nick you always have such great ideas and i appreciate you showing these today. i think it's going ot help parents out a lot for lay day. for more information on what you just saw or anything else on the show, please visit our website and livewellhd.com. coming up next we got some fun recipes for snacks for your next play day. and a little bit later, really great activities for your kids to keep them busy and out of your hands.

welcome back to the show. you know the key to any good party is good food and that goes double for a play day. which is exactly why i got my friend jen frank here, welcohi, thank you. show. we're going to be talking about play day snacks. what've you brought to the table. yeah so we got a play date going on here, we got our kids here, we got some older kids. so this is a great idea to do whenever you want to get your older kids together and have some activities to do, because kids love food. ♪ and this is a great way that kids can bond. after school projects, you know if they want to meet new friends. birthday parties, would be a fun thing too. i love the fact that this is an assembly process because frankly in my opinion, the key to a good

play date is not really great food but to keep occupied. occupied and busy. and so there's multiple stages to the food that we're going ot make, which is why pizza's are so popular. kids love pizza, there's lots of stages. they can choose what they want to put on it, as well as us as parents can put some nutritional things in there. well let's talk about the ingredients we get. for the crust, what are we using here? so a great idea for crust is to you know give a couple of options. i think traditionally we've always done the english muffins and we kind of grew up with the english muffins. but then now we got these sandwich spins here and that's a really great idea if the kids aren't so excited about the bread. it just gives another opportunity. they're a little bit bigger so it just gives them more to play with. and it's a thin crust as opposed to the big doughy ones too, some kids prefer that. yes so this can be your thick crust pizza and this can be your thin crust. and as far as ingredients, these are pretty basic. like you said we snuck a couple nutritious things in there. we'll see how that flies, we won't tell them.

we got some veggies and obviously the cheese, these are cute, these are those little tiny pepperonis. and then for a hawaiian one, we got a n. here we go, i'm going to try to grab some veggies and see how that goes. yeah let's see if we can do that. you guys want to load up with pizza sauce? pizza sauce first. so hold on there with the cheese. you want orange cheese, i can do that. good job. just be super careful, obviously. so what are some other good snack ideas. and i got to be honest with you. usually when i have a play date i feel like i'm providing the parents free baby sitting. so i can serve whatever i want but what are some other choices? well it's true. you know it is kind of like baby sitting that's why we try to keep track, when's the last time i had a play date and when's you know they going to have

a play date? and so besides you know, knowing what the other child's coming over has food allergies, which are out there, and we need to be aware of. making sandwiches is another great idea. again you can use different kinds of breads. you can use different kind of cheeses and different middles. and different meats, absolutely. what's your favorite meat? turkey, chicken? chicken. what about you penny? ham, turkey? peanut butter? is that your favorite? no. so yes so sandwiches are a great way again. because you can have a variety. you can have different types of bread, you can have the different types of things. again what we're looking for is multiple ways and keeping the activity long, so it's not something short. and giving them sort of some empowerment of being able to make their own choices. because i know sometimes when other people's kids come over to your house, they're not used to what you're cooking. another idea is which i've done with my kids for play dates, is making french fries. this is another fun thing.

you can get everything from sweet potatoes to regular potatoes to red potatoes, again a variety. and the kids can be, you can have a nice safe knife that the kids can cut with. and i suggest that you boil the potatoes first because it makes them a little bit easier so that they're not cutting a raw potato. but it's but it's great. it teaches them techniques of washing their hands, and washing the potatoes. and you know of course you can pit them into the oven and bake. but at the end you have these really fun different variety of french fries, and who doesn't love french fries? speaking of junk food too, we brought dessert for you guys as well. if you eat your pizza, and that is one of the ideas i use all the time which is a sundae bar. so we're going to let you guys finish these up and we're going to pop them in the toaster, and then maybe, maybe after great play date idea.

what's popular right are the yogurt bar where the kids can go in with their cups, and get the yogurt. and then they have this whole huge bar that they can do the fruit and similar to this set-up here, which frankly is a huge scam. because we've gone to those things and it comes out to being $14 for four pounds., so , absolutely, so again, to count it would be on a more economical scale here, we can mimic at home. ♪ alright we got to eat more pizzas, we're all enjoying our sundaes and when we come back from the commercial break, we're going to be with jen again. we're going to be talking about some fun play day activities that you can do with your kids. and even later in the show, how to get your kids to clean their room. welcome back to the show.

welcome back to the show. we got the kids playing which brings us to our next conversation. jen, we're going to talk about activities that you can play with your kids. or better yet get your kid