a pond used to produce salt is filled with bay waters. the hope the nesting will attract new migrating shore birds and act as a key to the survival of several endangered animals native to the marshes. >> this is not your parents' salt pond. it's to test, the first test, of a reconfigured pond. >> reporter: despite the name, this provides platforms for the public. senator dianne feinstein's initial push to buy this land seven years ago for a third of the $3 million price tag, set in motion a huge project, what she calls a good start for protecting the bay area. >> one, two, three! [ cheers ] >> this is a remarkable beginning. it is programs the most costly of all because of various things that had to be accomplished here and were accomplished. but now everybody must remain together. and we must find the most cost effective way to complete this job. >> reporter: the south bay salt pond restoration project encompasses more than 15,000 acres which includes trails. >> this is exactly what i had been working for since i came here. been here abo

but in 2003, the first of a series of salt ponds was bought by the u.s. government with the goal of restoring fish and bird happen at that time. >> habitat. >> we care about the wildlife that uses the bay. >> reporter: she says the first pond to be restored has 30 built-in islands for birds to nest as well as places for humans to walk, rest, learn and enjoy nature. >> i think it's a great time to be alive in san francisco bay. we're beyond the "heal the bay" mentality and really we're coming back and restoring it. >> reporter: making all this possible was a huge financial deal with the cargill salt company. the u.s. and state governments paid $100 million for 16,000 acres here in the south bay, which will eventually all be turned into what you see behind me. in the coming months, you will be able to see thousands of birds out here nesting and living and going back to nature as they once did. >> len ramirez, it looks great. and you know what? roberta, i'm surprised to see him wearing shirt sleeves but it's kind of cool and getting cooler. >> it has. you ca

lots of ponding of water this morning, so be aware.op, if you're going to be traving interstate 70 headed to baltimore heads up, accident at eastbound i-70 closed right before you get to the baltimore beltway. and again, i can't stress enough how dangerous it isut there. there's a lot of ponding of water, and conditions are not favorable so if you can postpone your travels, it's a good idea. construction areas, particularly tough along kennelworth avenue in through the district from eastn avenue on down. the jersey wall, the water has no place to drain so it's going to be very, very difficult there. 66 inside the beltway, broken down vehicle, tire changer on the shoulder, be very careful. busy morning. >> thanks very much, jerry. coming up, dozens of burglaries in one pt of virginia. could all be the work of a single criminal. a troubling one-man crime spree. >> and today might not be the best day to judgeut a new study claims that traffic in d.c. may not be as bad as you think [ male announcer ] the turn changes everything. ♪ the turn

there is a street called pond. it's not a coincidence. >> part of what we're going too try to do is update this map and give it historical data. there are more significant data. >> how do you know if your individual lot? >> one is these lines are very clearly defined as boundaries. they don't actually mean, this is the exact edge. you could be on one side or the other. it's not okay here and not okay 10 feet away. but, on the other hand, we have taken this map, which was published by

pond maintenance, still the time to enjoy the garden? >> the sunday gardiner. >> if you have questions, you can e-mail us on our website, wbaltv.com. there is much more news coming up, top stories including senator ben cardin being our q&a guest. >> bermuda is preparing for hurricane igor, downgraded but can still do considerable damage. >> we have a little bit of rain tax on everything you buy? that's in andy harris' unfair tax plan. 23% sales tax. a 23% sales tax will cut my business in half. would be devastating. andy harris' 23% sales tax absolutely makes no sense. 23% sales tax would really make things unaffordable. that's too high for the average american out here. i don't know how we would manage it really. don't like that idea. we can't afford andy harris' idea. i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. >> welcome back to 11 news sunday morning. >> first we want to take a look outside with tony. >> good morning, ladies. it has been a beautiful start this morning with some rain coming in tonight. everyone planning the tail en

but siltation from hydraulic gold mining, diking to create salt ponds and duck hunting clubs, garbage dumps along the shore of the bay and frankly land fill operations to create real estate reduced the size of the bay by about a third between 1849 and 1960. that's when the united states army corps of engineers produced this map. it was intended to show that it was economically feasible and, in fact, desirable to fill another 60 percent of the bay. that was their intention. instead, when this map was published it alarmed the public and it motivated them to take action to prevent the bay from becoming little more than a broad river. they didn't like what the corps had predicted. the science fiction writer ray bradbury says the purpose of science fiction isn't to predict the future, it's to prevent the future that's described. i don't think the corps of engineers intended this report to fall into the category of great science fikds, but that's what happened. the present day bay looks more like this. bcdc was created to stop the uncontrolled filling of the bay and we've done that. in fact

you must get it done in the next 20 or so years. [ laughter ] >> more than 15,000 acres of the salt pondswill be returned. >> that's it for tonight. thanks for watching.

that pond was filled in, that's a potential liquify site. so we have to look at the soil. >> there are area that is are fascinating. westportal, there was a creek that flowed all the way down to pig lake. i think that's what the spanish called it. there was a deep ravine. they filled it in with the tunnel muck and they filled in the ravine and built houses. the other area is really interesting, down 18th street. there

we're joined by the executive director for the pond and the general manager. we are excited by the fiscal spots appear and we will activate -- fiscal spot. we will use our business skills to bring in a community-based ice getting the ice skating rink, to provide affordable family fun for all of the san francisco community. >> thank you very much. >> and is there any other public comment on this item? public comment is closed. commissioner lee: this is the first time that we have done the ice rink at the civic center. why do we have this five-year lease? what about the three-year lease? why should you lock us into this lease? this is on something that is new? >> the capital investment that is required for the range of a half million dollars, in order to have the capital investment, they need at least five years or else that would be losing money. >> and other any other questions? this has been moved. of those in favor. this is unanimous. thank you very much. >> >> and is there a time restriction on 12? we have to do this? can we get to no. 12, quickly? >> this

we're joined by the executive director for the pond and the general manager. we are excited by the fiscal spots appear

but that chevron's contractor pumped the pond dry killing the fish.ish and game investigators say illegally killing fish is a misdemeanor and they are asking for the public's help in this criminal investigation. reporting live, john fowler, ktvu news. >>> california is now on the verge of having the most overdue budget in state history. lawmakers are quick to point fingers at each other and the governor to avoid blame for the budget stalemate. but some lawmakers remain optimistic that they will be able to reach an agreement. >> my view is that we're getting closer and closer. makes no sense that not just to divide it two, come up with an answer and give it to the public. >> the late when a budget was ever passed was september 16th. >>> it appears that jennifer lopez is the next american idol, judge that is. both tmz and people magazine are reporting that jennifer lopez has signed a $12 million one year deal. lopez has been a rumored front runner along with aero smith's lead singer tyler. simon cowel and ellen degeneres both left last season. >>> and c

even where we don't have the creeks and streams flowing across roads we've got the ponding of water, and could be driving along at speed on the interstate going 50, 60 miles an hour, and all of a sudden you coulhit a pocket of water that can swing your vehicle and spin it out of control. so slow down, and if you don't have to go out, just stay inside, stay with nbc 4, we'll be keeping you fully informed about what's going on. right now the radar is showing these pocke of heavy rain, where you see the area of yellow and orange. right now the heaviest rins are east of washington in anne arundel, calvert and st. mary's counties in the eastern part of theorthern neck. northern montgomery county, southern loudoun, into prince william county, and that is continui to move south to north, as well. another area ofsome very heavy rain right near fredericksburg and just about to come in to stafford count that's going to be advancing to the north and moveight into prince william county over the next, perhaps half hour or so. and the radar shows another broad area of rain tha is to our south. so

. >>> new at 6:00, what was once a pond, is now a fish cemetery. hundreds of fish turned up dead. the one thing investigators say is to blame. >>> a night out on the town can already break the bank. now a new tax on alcohol can make it worse. we're monitoring a tax that may have you paying more. >>> what some might consider a surprising endorsement today for gubernatorial candidate jerry brown. former president bill clinton is backing jerry brown just two days after a video clip showed brown questioning clinton's honesty. brown apologized. brown was responding to an ad by republican rival meg whitman which used footage from a presidential debate in which clinton questioned brown's ethics. >>> brown's camp also released two new ad's today. one features whitman's nose growing. these are the first negative ads that brown's campaign has come out with. campaign manager steven glacier say they amount to political self-defense. and whitman's campaign has something to say about it. in a statement e-mailed to us here at ktvu. whitman's camp says, brown is doing exactly what a 40 year polit

. >> reporter: a pond which used to produce salt is today filled with bay waters.he hope that 30 nesting islands built will attract birds. >> this is not your parents salt pond. it's the first of a series of ambitious efforts to test. >> reporter: despite its nonfancy name of sf2 this project's first phase provides platforms for the viewing public but still officers protection for nesting migratory birds. >> okay, they are very small. >> reporter: and this is an effort by senator boxer to protecting the area. >> this is a remarkable beginning, it is perhaps if most costly of all because of various things that had to be accomplished here and were accomplished. but now everybody must remain together. and we must find the most cost effective way to complete this job. >> reporter: the south bay salt pond restoration project includes trails. >> this is exactly what i've been working for since i came here. i've been here about five years and this is just exactly what i wanted to see. >> reporter: what he and driving across the bridge is the largest project in the west co

we have ponding on the roadways. check this out. look at the bottom of the screen. into midnight, 1.8 inches of rain. i'm talking about another additional 14 to 20 hours of rainfall, there's no doubt there's going to be rainfall amounts in maryland that top the 5 inch mark. that's going to be a hard push for a lot of the storm drain systems and levees and dams to handle. we have a potential severe flooding situation, in addition to the severe weather of the possible tornados. more on the forecast coming up, right now, a traffic issue out there. here's kim with the latest. >> sherrie johnson gave out good advice, make sure you have a lot of braking room between you and the vehicle in front of you. if somebody hits a plane of standing water and hydroplanes or if someone decides they can't continue on driving, be sure you're not going to be caught up in that. let's look at our cameras and maps, we have several incidents working, i-70 eastbound closed between the patapsco river bridge and the columbia pike. route 29 because of an accident and tractor-trailer. i will cer

like i said, just keep your speeds down because you could see ponding oor standing water.d make for a hydroplaning situation so be careful. back to you. >>> i only see movies made with starring roles or casts for michael douglas, robert de niro, maybe denzel, maybe travolta. maybe. >> when was the last time you saw a movie? >> leslie nielsen. >>> wall street, money never sleeps, topped the box office, with $19 million. "legend of the guardians" number two, bringing in over $16 million. who is in that? >> that owl. >> oh. >>> if you're celebrating a birthday day, happy birthday! her husband sent in this picture of julie and their dog. they've been married for 37 years. not only congratulations on that but i hope your birthday is wonderful. she celebrated yesterday, was born in baltimore, lived here all her life, seven grandchildren ranging from 5 to 25. do something nice for grandma today. happy birthday. >>> if you're having a birthday let us know at wmar.com. we'll blow out the candles for you on "good morning maryland." >>> it's 5:23. tensz moments from -- tense moments

ponding of water, as ell. we have a tornado watch in effect until 1:00 this afternoon for most of the region, and we'll have this rain from time to time in waves, heavy at times, allhe way in to early this evening, tapeng off and ending by midnight tonight. and then a blustery wind tomorrow as we dry out. cooling down for the weekend. erry, how is the traffic now? >> we continue to llow breaking news on the capital beltway, in maryland, with a jackknifed tractor trailer. virtually blocking the entire inr loop of t beltway, just after t exit of the i-270 spur. but before you get to old georgetown road. right now, authorities are on the scene trying to get the tractor trailer squared away. in the meantime the beltway is delayed coming up from river road, growing very, very quickly. if you're planning on heading thatdirection, don't. second option take the 270 spur and circumvent the delays that way. right now very little traffic geing by on the inner loop. let's head on over speaking of 270. southbound traffic p

right now we don't have any flood warnings but certainly there's some ponding of water on all of the roads, all around most of the entire region. this rain stretches not only from across our metro area but all the way to our west into the mountains of west virginia, and the foothills of the blue ridge are getting very heavy ins there. likely many of the creeks and streams around the foothills of the blue ridge will begin to overflow their banks, perhaps over the next half hour or so. meanwhile, closer to washington right now, we've got a little bit of a lull. there's some lighter rain falling here in washington. now here's the wider view. this is all just an enormous conveyor belt of moisturehat's sweeping in off the atlantic, ahead of circulation. it's associated with the remnants of tropical storm nicole. it is a very strong tropical low right now, that the main circulation is moving in to eastern north carolina, and so out on te eastern de of this, the circulation is a lot of tropical moisture coming all the way up from the caribbean, and continuing to flow all the way in to easte

is that where you are seeing some ponding of water?> we are mainly seeing it on our secondary routes. you have lane reductions near montgomery street. for you heading out and you are used to having two or three travel lanes, you may see water on the shoulder. be prepared for lane reductions and always prepare for a signal outage. we are expecting a lot of rain throughout the course of the day. our crews will be out where we need to be. we want you to stay alert for any downed trees. >> your crews have been on alert since yesterday afternoon with that terrible bus crash along 270 and knowing that this storm was going to be approaching. >> yes. we were getting ready and making sure we have everything available to be responsible for clearing trees and drains. we wanted to prepare for the storm. we will be out today as well. >> any other good advice for drivers who are preparing to leave their homes going to school or work? >> plan extra time. >> thank you, kelly. 9 news coverage of the weather continues. howard has another update for us.

but in 2003, the first of a series of salt ponds was bought by the u.s.overnment with the goal of restoring fish and bird habitat. >> i feel like we have this watery welcome mat. come land here. we really do care about the wildlife that uses the bay. >> reporter: she says the first pond to be restored has 30 built-in islands for birds to nest as well as places for humans to walk, rest, learn and enjoy nature. >> i think it's a great time to be alive in san francisco bay. we're beyond the "heal the bay" mentality and really we're coming back and restoring it. >> reporter: making all this possible was a huge financial deal with the cargill salt company. the u.s. and state governments paid $100 million for 16,000 acres here in the south bay, which will eventually all be turned into what you see behind me. the modern price of turning back the clock and going back to nature. on san francisco bay, len learn, cbs 5. >>> back to nature, back to fall weather. how about that. >> we transition from summer to autumn in less than 24 hours. it was as if as soon as labo

>>reporter: 2 37 acre site opened today restoration pond sf 2. the located on the south edge of the dumb barton bridge and part of the 16,000 acre the state bought from car gill in 2003. porch was collaborative effort between government and private businesses. obama administration praises the project as a benefit to nature and mankind. >> we see this all around the country that healthy natural resources are important for a healthy economy. >> millions of people are depend interest upon this not just for recreation and for the kind of intangible attribute but for things like improving water quality through capture of storm water. >> bit end of the year another 4000 acres extending north to napa will be restored. the area today also includes walking trails and overlook. perfect viewing for what will be flying in. this is abc 7 news. >> more to bring you here tonight as we continue. difficult diagnosis. coming up. tough to tell if a cough is something serious as whooping turns deadly it's doctors get the blame. >> i'm in sacramento state budget now

you have surface mining that has these enormous tailing ponds much the tailing ponds, you know, are notthing the environment, but there's fairly strong scientific evidence from a -- from the stud cuffs to dr. david shipped letter and other scientist i talked to when i was up here that the toxins, which are carcinogenic are getting into the water supply, getting into the watershed. some of it is probably airborne. some is coming directly out of the smokestacks of the refineries, you know what they call the upgrader facilities here. and, you know, right now, they are only at 2% of what can be developed here over the next several decades, store, is a gold rush of a scale that we haven't seen in north america since 1849. and, you know, i think it is time to put the brakes on and consider what the impacts are to the first nations community. they are the one on the ground affected by this the most, at least regionally, right around the development. >> and do you think that there is a happy medium that can be reached that live with those concerns, the environmental concerns but also vet real p

the pond will provide wetlands for migrating birds, which should start to open up in the next few months. this is part of a restoration plan for the bay. this project was restored at a cost of more than $9.2 million. more than 7.5 million was in federal funding. >>> japan is confirming the first discovery of super resistant bacteria because of the gene known as mdm1 was found in a japanese man who had medical treatment in independent dena last -- india last year. this has some people worried since many people travel there for plastic surgery. >>> most pro athletes know there's always a chance of injuries when they play. but two san francisco giants feel especially bad about injuries about yesterday's game against arizona. >>> a wild police chase through hayward while talking on a cell phone while driving not one man more than just a ticket. >>> we do have very slow traffic in many areas. we'll tell you where and how you can get around some of these problems coming up. >>> a man is in jail following a police chase and crash in oakland. this happened around 12:30 this morning after police

the construction of the pond is based on abalone house construction. at the bottom of the form, it is woven into a rope which transforms into a manufactured rope. that is a reference to the cordish company, a big industry at the waterfront that went along with the shipbuilding industry. other examples of art work in libraries that you might be interested in seeing it is dana zed's glass shatters in front of a library. there are a wall sculptures in the lobby of the glen park branch library. and then there is an illuminated book on the wall of the mission bay library. >> "ocean current." we are on ocean avenue, so there is a connection to that. that is what this is about. culmination of all lot of dialogue, processing over a five-year period. that is longer than most art projects take, but i really feel like the product was enriched from that. making the sculpture involves forging and fabricating steel. we used to deal to create this flowing, central sculptor, heating, bending, grinding, painting, bending, and adding a patina to it. layers and layers of

maybe some isolated flooding and ponding of water through noon time.drying out this afternoon with highs around 70, rather 80 degrees. then overnight tonight, partly cloudy, near 60 tomorrow. sun tomorow morning. highs into the low and mid-70s. and some rain is likely to move in late wednesday ranch, wednesday night. moderate to heavy rain is likely on thursday. highs in the 70s. then drying out just in time for the end of the weekend. nowlet's check traffic on this tuesday morning. how is it looki, jerry? >> so far so good over on the capital beltway, braddockroad. outer loop, far right side the issue be loop. springfield and i-66, moving along pretty well. let's see how wre doing on the maryland side. for those you traveling towards the bdge, outer loop from river road doing okay. once you get on route 7, word of an aident involving a truck. i believe it's over on the shoulder. they may need to take a travel lane. we'll watch that very, very carefully. we'll update you. doing okay. metro and vre. 401, 8 minutes behind schedule. eun? >> jerry, thank y

commissioner: this does what a sewage pond does, right?>> there is the opportunity that if we make it work here, this is where i really see it happening. president crowley: 80, tom. thank you, ms. campbell. -- thank you, tom. secretary housh: next up is the closure of the pr -- potrero power play. >> and we're going to continue to call a a closure, because that is our plan. the team was going back to develop a plan. they have made the effort, and the project is now in a new testing period. meanwhile, as the clock runs, we are at the time of year when the california independent system operator considers its needs for reliability to obligate this within its control area to continue to run. the iso staff recommended on september 9 to their board of governors, last thursday, to continue to obligate the potrero plant to operate. the iso board

there was this, a pond to a rookie who knows how to run. -- a punt. 7-3, dallas. .the bears, are on top, look at this. he snags this one with one hand, and that puts the bears on top, 17-14. in the fourth quarter right now, j. cutler. an easy touchdown. 27-20. the eagles and the lions, second quarter action. hill. he finds the hole and explodes through it. a 75-yard touchdown, the lions are up. to the fourth quarter, the eagles looking for a chance to extend their lead, because they came back. he gets it, and he is gone. 46 yards, a touchdown eagles, and the eagles came back, the eagles win, 35-32. the ravens in a battle this afternoon with the cincinnati bengals, the bengels up, and joe flacco on the sidelines, that is a touchdown. they were holding the bengals to five field goals, but joe flacco was ticks off several times. baltimore loses korea and the steelers still with doug ben roethlisberger wrote -- baltimore loses. and the steelers still without ben roethlisberger. in baseball, a great afternoon for the phillies. they win in the bottom of the ninth. right here, jayson werth, an

. >> now here is stanley roberts to pond people behaving badly. >> it is and 60 days since this new pricesgone into effect. >> drivers are still stopping to pay their tolls. the driver of this silbert said turned not only stopped, but started to back up. and sits there, after and as i tried to reposition, the driver just goes to tollbooth of vermont. >> this time, nobody was brave enough to get out of the car and paper their toll except for one passenger who already passed the plaza. >> keep watching. >> the driver of this decides to sideswipe the booth. so he does an inspection. right in the middle of a highway. i kidded not. this is one of the scariest moments of my career. watching the middle of this man, doing damage assessment. very dangerous. for the record, to not stop in lanes of traffic and the nonstop in the fastrak lanes even if you are from utah! you talk! >> and i cannot leave you with of this obligatory driving over the delineators. the bay bridge toll plaza, stanley roberts. >> a few of a comet or a story? e-mail us at: peoplebehavingbadly@kron4.com. >> many of us will never

there is a street called pond. it's not a coincidence. >> part of what we're going too try to do is update this map and give it historical data. there are more significant data. >> how do you know if your individual lot? >> one is these lines are very clearly defined as boundaries. they don't actually mean, this is the exact edge. you could be on one side or the other. it's not okay here and not okay 10 feet away. but, on the other hand, we have taken this map, which was published by the state and digitized it so if any portion lies within these zones. if you tell me your address, i can tell you whether you lie it in. >> there's a book. >> 558-6205 and the clerk or me will take the book and look it up and say, yes, you lie within a particular zone >> i am the manager of a large condo minnium project. it was built in 1963. it's steel and concrete >> there's a difference between structural steel and rebarb. >> it's steel columns. thank you goodness. >> 19 stories and i live across the street in a building that was bu

we could have heavy rain, enough to cause flooding by this time tomorrow morning and the ponding of water. we'll have temperatures this afternoon before any rain arrives. once the rain commences it will drop back into the 60s. and some of the rain, again, as i mentioned could cause flooding is time tomorrow morning through midday thursday. we could get three or four inches out of this. drying out and cooling down as we get into the weekend. jerry, how is the traffic? >> doing pretty well. that's a good start. 395. no worries. everything looking good. let's head over and check out i-270. at the moment, everything moving along nicely. frederick to clarksburg, south toward the capital beltway. looking good between college park and silver spring. >> jerry, thanks thech very much. as we told you, we're following breaking news where crws are battling a fire in an eight-story apartment building. good morning, tracy. >> reporter: good morning, joe. we are told seven people have been transported, at least one critically injured. somebody aprently set some trash on fire in stairwell on the fifth fl

lots of ponding throughout this morning. >> that can be so dangerous.e cruising along, too fast in some cases, and your car gets into that skid. just be careful out there. >> the rain come down pretty hard in some places. >> yeah, it is. we'll see heavy rain throughout the course of this morning in particular, possibly into the afternoon. first, let me just mention the special marine warning that of a been mentioning has been canceled. that was for portions of the the chesapeake bay. we were talking about the possibility of a waterspout. that marine warning has been canceled. but we have a whole glut of other warnings and watches. we'll go it our graphics and start with the flash flood warning in effect until 10: 45 this morning. it is for nearly all of the area. i want to go to the graphics, max 2. there we are. the counties in brown including the district of columbia, flash flood warning in effect until 10:45 this morning with the heavy rain coming across the area in low-lying areas. anyplace where drainage is not good. flash flooding could occur at n