here's bob orr. >> reporter: moving to blunt criticism of the latest controller lapse, the f.a.a. today ordered air traffic supervisors to monitor most flights carrying the vice president or first lady. the president's plane is always monitored. the f.a.a.'s action comes as the n.t.s.b. is pressing an investigation into a controller's mistake monday that allowed michelle obama's jet to get too close to a military transport plane. mrs. obama's boeing 737 came within three miles of a larger c-17 as the jets approached andrews air force base. f.a.a. rules require five miles separation in flight to avoid the danger of wake turbulence. in this f.a.a. flight test, you can see how a plane the same size as the one carrying the first lady can be buffeted by the wake of a larger jet flying just ahead. in monday's incident, the pilots of mrs. obama's plane, executive 1 fox trot, asked controllers for more space. >> reporter: after doing one go- around, mrs. obama's plane landed safely, but the incident has punctuated an awful spring for the f.a.a. in the past two months, nine air traffic con

he is nearly 2400 photos and put together the two minute time lapse video.ri lanka the awe we have a li. >> we are getting an unusual view of a walrus before it is even born. this is the latest ultrasound showing the walrus in its mother's womb. the 16-year-old mother is get to give birth this month. in the past 80 years only 11 walrus calves have been born in a north american zoo. >>> on to sports and specifically the giants. >> a long draining day for fans. but i had a free ticket second baseman' not complaining. it was awesome. the pomp and circumstance of the home opener is over. the world series banner flying high while on the field the drama is high. the torture continues with the ÑÑÑÑñswÑwÑót [ alarm blares ] [ female announcer ] important events can sneak up on you. oh, i am not ready. [ female announcer ] but in two weeks, you could feel ready. introducing yoplait light's two week tune up diet plan. you could lose 5 pounds 2 weeks when you replace breakfast and lunch with a fruit, grain, and yoplait light. betsy bets. you haven't changed a bit. oh..

this is what it says -- "while no apparent service lapses or voids have occurred, it does not appear that recology is contractually obligated to negotiate with san francisco or continue providing services." >> it is true we do not currently have a contract in place. that is true. but again, from our experience, we have not seen any lapses in services for any reason to be concerned about the service that recology is providing. if there was a lapse in service, we could quickly reassigned those permits to another entity to enter the service does not stop in san francisco. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. i agree with the overture with regard to recology. it does provide an excellent service, and it is a hallmark that it is employee-owned, and it is something that is unique to san francisco. in your remarks, i want to make sure we are clear about the uniqueness about recology and investing in san francisco and us and them. it is known that recology is looking into brisbane. with that on the horizon, but they could continue with their continuous operation to expand to about a 70-plus ac

embarrassed to confess that my certification at this point, although i am qualified, it has technically lapsed because mike continuing education has not been kept up. far and away, i can say -- supervisor kim: that's ok. >> i don't spend my day to day work as an arborist. i have to make that clear. supervisor kim: thank you. next is bonnie, applicant for seat one. i wanted to recognize that you were not able to be at the last committee meeting. i want to thank you for your service on the forestry council. >> i would love to be able to continue to use of. i am sorry i was not able to be here in the march meeting. i have worked in developing a link for a living library in chinatown to link with the san francisco's chinatown. i have over three decades of experience as an educator. planting and maintaining trees, [unintelligible] beginning in the mid-70s about an arts center that resulted in a new city park that transformed about 7 acres of their land -- derelict land into -- in those early days, we have and gardens in the middle of the 101 interchange. since then, by nonprofit, the farm was an ea

>> the middle school is a glaring example of one of those lapses that is now closed and will be torn down because of the serious seismic issues yet it was never on thitate list of vulnerable schools. >> it is a loose run organization. >> brian burns traveled from his home to sacramento to tell lawmakers what he happenings of the state's overseat of seismic upgrades in school. >> documents are missing and the school district is not reporting that they are doing jobs . in our school district nothing was reported to the state. >> they found structural work was done without the state's approval. abc senmedia partner california watch sifted through the documents. and found serious lapses like those in pascadero that put school children in danger in a major earthquake. 20,000 school renovation projects did not confirm with the seal back that requires all school projects be earthquake resistant. >> there are projects out there where districts have not known to come for review and certification and avoided >> that school never appeared on the list. another issue for district administrators,

tara lynn with the damage in north carolina. >> this time lapse video shows storm clouds tee sending on raleigh, part of the system that killed more than 20 people across the state. one of the hardest hit areas was in the tiny town of cold rain, where a couple hundred people live, tore houses from the foundations, through cars and left behind yards of destruction. >> i saw this twister coming i said twisting, we hit the bathroom, we hit the bathroom floor the roof flu. >> reporter: kim lafferty had prayers of her own when she couldn't reach her in-laws. >> i had a gut feeling when i couldn't get them on the phone and new how close it could hit. >> reporter: when she arrived at their home she found stairs leading to nothing, the door, the entire home were gone. the tornado killed her in-laws, roy and barbara lafferty and barbara's mother. the storm picked up the home and threw knit to the woods, barbara's mother lived next door an was visiting the couple who came home early from their lake house. it spawned off 62 tornadoes wisconsin destroyed this tire and demolished big-box stores l

and look at the time lapse i kp chured. wait for it. the sun setting. the fire orange ball behind the san francisco skyline at about 7:20. in a is magnificent. i posted on nbcbayarea.com. it's pretty cool. 54 in san jose. 50 in livermore. 49 in napa. and 52 in fair field. we'll see a few clouds coming our way. it will be wind in the hills. it will stay dry with more sunshine. here's the thing. the best weather we've had in weeks is headed our way as we head into this weekend. high pressure building from the south. we'll continue this more information weather. and slightly above average as we head into saturday and sunday. the only hitch in the forecast is by thursday and friday, for coastal communities, we could see fog developing. at 6:00 a.m., we look for mainly clear skies as we head into 11:00 a.m. we'll see cloud cover build offshore. by 5:00 p.m., a little cloud cover will push across. 44 in los gatos. 49 in redwood city. starting out with 44 in santa rosa. and mid 40s from fair field to livermore. 71 in morgan hills. 69 in gilroy. 70 in every gre

take a look. ♪ >> me and another photographer were saying it would be interesting to do a time lapse i thought i would give it a shot and see what happened. >> airport staff allowed me to bring the gear on the plane and total luck, i had the whole row to myself, the plane was not crowded. there was nobody in my area. i brought the stewardess over and asked in my super-limited french if it was okay, and head of staff came over and i said it was an art project, no commercial use. and she said it would be okay. then i just started shooting. i think it was 2,400. all still photos. i had no idea northern lights were going to occur. i was half asleep holding the time lapse controller in my hand, middle of the night, i looked up to check the exposure and one of those things where i had no idea what was going on. i scrolled back and i was excited. i was stoked. there is a photographer workshop in texas, i'll do a time lapse there, with 40 photographers around the world and i'll do another airline time lapse there and other people have contact me already just today to see if i would be intere

and there is a is our time lapse view looking eastward. you can see clouds streaming inland.louds did bring temperatures down a bit this afternoon no. rainfalling with those clouds today. there is this weak cold front but there is a change coming up with this air mass dropping down and that will bring us lower temperatures and precipitation. and here is our forecast starting at 5:00 tomorrow afternoon. and there are showers moving through. behind the front there is a start of rush hour, there will be wet spots. there are some mixed precipitation atop mount hamilton. then we'll see another area of precipitation developing and some more mixed precipitation and then, early evening hours, there is snow and then later in the evening thursday we'll see conditions drying out. temperatures cooler that be w we -- into low 40s and areas of the north bay z then, a pleasant, dry day, but cooling down some. and highs into mid-60s in most locations. low to mid-60s on the pin anyone sla. mid to upper 50s on the coast n and around san francisco, 61 degrees downtown. and mild going farther no

how about this time lapse view from high definition sutro camera looking toward the east-northeast, bigs of clouds that went over at&t park. there was few sprinkles during the game but not enough to interfere with the game. satellite shows the cold upper-level low that brought us all this wacky weather the last couple of days. it's sort of with us. it's moving to the south and tomorrow it will push inland to our southeast. that will leave us with a calmer weather picture mainly sunnier and milder for the weekend. chilly conditions, low temperatures dropping to the low to mid 30s in parts of north bay valleys. over in the inland east bay, lows to mid to upper 60s and 30s to 40s around the bay. it will be chilly area wide. then tomorrow, much anticipated warmup. high temperatures will generate in the mid-60s inland areas up to about 67 in santa rosa. 65 in concord. 63 in livermore and low to mid-60s around the bay. on the coast we'll see he highs n mid to upper 50s. monterey bay, low 60s around the bay and low 60s inland. seven-day forecast, mild weather all the way through the forecast p

time lapse from yesterday, absolutely beautiful. we had a little bit of instability moving through the area, low track to the east produced the cumulus clouds but the atmosphere was capped to develop into thunderstorms. satellite and radar in motion showing high pressure developing around the west coast. that low continues to push to the east. that means dry conditions the next couple of days right through tomorrow afternoon and evening but by monday morning. this weak system begins to move on through. maybe a few sprinkles up in the north bay but really that is about it. out to lake tahoe, 30s and 40s today with some light winds for the most part. again, to chain controls in effect throughout the not areas. highs today across the area. we'll see plenty of 60s out toward cupertino. campbell, 63 same for san jose. still kind of cool along the coast with 56 degrees. redwood city, 63, as well. it will be chilly downtown, break out that jacket, light sweater, you'll need it. it will be breezy, only 59 degrees. a little warmer as we head

i did not really understand the terms section, the 50 days and 70 days lapse. is that based on some experience? what was magical about those numbers? >> the purpose for limiting the length of banner placements to 50 days, and that could be a different number. it could be 70. it could be 40 or whatever -- is to maintain a freshness to the waterfront. banners are something that are up there. they are signs. they move in the wind a bit. and to create a lively freshness to the waterfront every time a visitor comes for every so often, these change, and the appearance changes. we have been testing this better criteria for the past three years and then using that number, so it has been a model that has been working. it certainly could be a different number, and the same intent of after 50 days, you have to be off for a while, and you can bring that back, and it would appear fresh again. >> ok. so 50 seems to work, and 70 just seems like a nice, intermittent time. ok. i was also confused about the placement on the blocks. you describe it one way, and i am reading it an

i will put the time lapse in motion. you can still see a few breaks in the cloud cover over the district. you can see the sunshine a little bit better here. for the rest of the day, we will have a few holes in the clouds periodically but it is just the. that was a pretty shaky camera shot. it is a gusty, gusting up to 30 miles per hour. we had a little bit of morning rain and even some snow. that was legitimate. we had a little bit of light snow in montgomery county and northward up in pennsylvania. a coastal low pressure system bringing snow into parts of new england, especially the higher elevations. mostly cloudy today. we have a little disturbance that is going to push over had tonight and early tomorrow which could give us an isolated showers late tonight and early tomorrow morning. the high temperatures back into the mid and upper 50's tomorrow. sunday will be the best day for the weekend. look at that next week. >> finally. >> 70's by monday and tuesday. >> it feels good to see that on the seven-day forecast. >>>

take a look at the time lapse. the sung started to punch through the clouds and we enjoyed a lot of sun and watch the time lapse. fog is forming right near the golden gate bridge as it scoops down across the north bay. meanwhile, 59 in los gatos and 71 for the high. one of the warmest spots on the map, 76. 71 in livermore and 67 for the high in santa rosa today. temperatures going down currently but still holding on to warmth. currently, 69 in livermore. let's get a look right now. we have clouds offshore. it's a sign of the changes coming our way with showers offshore as we zoom out. you're going to notice the compact storm system. it's going to move towards the north but we'll still get the bottom edge of it for tomorrow and that will bring a chance of showers on wednesday. low 50s to start. a mild start. and then we'll pop up into low 60s by 11:00 a.m. on your wednesday forecast. not looking for a lot of rainfall, anywhere from a trace to right around a tenth of an inch from the north bay down to the south bay.

they sifted through documents and found serious lapse that could put your children this danger during a major earthquake. dan reports. >>reporter: in the small coastal town he tried to track down answers. >> i have never done investigation work. >>reporter: to find out whether his son's school would be safe in an earthquake. >> i knew something wasn't right. >>reporter: under a state law known as the field act all school construction project must be earthquake resistant. the act was put into place after the devastating 1933 long beach earthquake. 70 schools collapsed and 120 people died. yet burns and fellow resident jeff found structural work at the school had been done without the state approval. >> that's when the light bulb went on. we began to realize that there are potentially thousands and thousands of other projects. >>reporter: it turns out they are rate. year long california watch investigation findthousanl construction project completed state wide don't comply with the field alaska. california division of state architect or dsa the agency in charge of enforcing the law has

back to expense we are the full forecast. >> start with the time lapse view from the high definition sutro camera north cloud manufacturing through the sky that cooled us down a bit. tomorrow morning 8:00 o'clock relatively cool. see low mid 60's by midday and not much milder than that in afternoon and readings in the upper 60's. over in tahoe next three days rook for clear and dry day tomorrow. high at 51 but snow starts on thursday kin continue noose friday morning and temperatures drop rapidly. here's the 7 day forecast we have showers starting tomorrow night continue go through the day on thursday. chilly day on thursday. temperatures will warm-up again over the weekend in the mid 60's. >> this you go. >> thank you spencer very much. >> baseball season is of course now officially under way and so too is an exhibition by nationally nond artist at san francisco gallery. show has become much tradition as the game itself around here. arts entertainment reporter with the story tonight of how the artist captured the boys of summer. >> this is about artist interpretation of game steeped

. >>> investigators suspect a manufacturing lapse at a boeing factory 15 years ago could be to blame for a hole that tore open of a fuselage of a southwest airlines jet earlier this month. >>> finally, when england's prince william marries kate middleton on friday, it's expected to cost his father, prince charles, $5 million, however, security for the royal affair could set taxpayers back about $30 million. >>> for the first time, the nashville predators get a playoff series win. plus the black hawks pull off the improbable and force a game seven against the canucks. your early morning sports medlines are straight head. >>> a new storm for the west coast. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." and in sports, knicks fans are packing away their carmelo anthony jerseys for the season after a sweep by the celtics. here's nbc's bill seward with an early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning to you. when the knicks traded for carmelo anthony, fans were talking about the prospect of being in the nba finals. you can'

hilland does not qualify for seat three, since his certification has lapsed. >> thanks, supervisor kim. i think, once again, we have a lot of great applicants here. for both seats. it seems to me that megan is the only one qualified for seat three, so i think that is, at least in my opinion, an easy one. the first one is obviously much tougher. two people who are currently assigned and one person who couldn't be here the last time. that means that in the future we'd love to find a way to get bonnie back on. but right now i find it difficult, and mr. hilland is a strong candidate to continue to serve and so would support him continuing in seat one and then megan for seat three. supervisor kim: so we have a motion to move forward. mr. hilland for seat one and ms. suts land for seat three, with recommendation to the full board. i see no objection. i just really want to add, again, this is the tough part of being on rules committee is how qualified our applicants are and continue every week at the level of expertise and enthusiasm for the folks that come on for a variety of activities and

> reporter: stanley's family said he had a life insurance policy worth $5,000 through aarp but it lapsed in the three-week period when he was on his death bed in the hospital. the retired veteran lived alone. no one knew the bill had come due tucked in his mailbox. >> he took the respirator out and couldn't breathe. fluid was building on his lungses. that's how he died. >> reporter: his daughter said she is relieved that she could honor his last week. >> a nice service. he would have did it for me and anybody else. >> reporter: in talbot county, reporting. >> she was assured the company will pay and will appeal to the insurance company. >>> a 14-year-old waverly boy is charged withen -- as an adult after the beating of his grandmother. hassanhii garrett became angry with his grandmother. when she fell asleep, he hit her in the head with a hammer. the family tells us she remains in critical condition while the teen sits on central -- in central booking and is facing adult charges. the whole family is in shock tonight. >> we spend weekends at my house. on sunday's he's at church. >> report

the time lapse visible loop showing the low cloud deck from which we squeezed out a little light rain. it wasn't much. you can see on the doppler radar there is a few scattered showers. this doesn't pick up low level moisture so not picking up that drizzle. it's around and will be around for the next few hours. not a big deal tonight. might add another 100th of an inch. start out with some fog around santa rosa. cool enough to convert the moisture into some fog, some ground fog. everybody else will warm up tomorrow as high pressure finally moves into the bay area, things will warm up and dry out. not in a big hurry. sun in the east bay and the temperatures will get back to where they should be at this time of year. for instance in concord 71. and 71 at fairfield and down in san jose it will be 70 degrees tomorrow. for a forecast high. as we look aled -- ahead an on again, off again week. sunshine tomorrow. wednesday and thursday another chance of light showers like we had today. easter weekend right now looks okay. but dana, allan, stay tuned. >> an update in about 20 minutes. >> all

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. >>> these time lapse videos shows clouds descending on raleigh, part of a storm system that spun off more than 240 tornadoes across 14 states. that's a record number in the u.s. for a single storm system. >> all i could do is pray. >> she and her husband live in the worst hit area. tornadoes tore houses from their foundations and left behind yards filled with destruction. >> i when i looked -- when i looked out the front window, i seen this twister coming. i said hit the bathroom. then the whole roof just flew. >>> a tornado killed at least 11 people, a huge toll since only a couple hundred people live there. kim couldn't reach other inlaws right after the storm hit. >> i just had a gut feeling when i couldn't get them on the phone. i knew how close it had hit. >> reporter: that feelings proved tragically correct. the tornado tossed the house into nearby woods killing her inlaws roy and barbara, and barbara's mother. the damage extended to the state a he capital. -- state's capital. this house right here is destroyed. in all, the storms spawned more than five dozen tornadoes across t

areas over the north bay seeing scattered showers from time to time and time lapse is three hours. over the course of the three hours we've watched it move through. at this point east bay valley locations scattered showers but tapers off the last half hour or so maybe liver more more a few scattered showers. and some of this not everyone hitting the ground. overall picture of what's going on. you can see just how weak it is. scattered showers over northern california. sierra perhaps seeing some good light rain. snow levels will be dropping over the course of the day between 6,000 and 6500 feet by tonight and the valley seeing light rain from time to time. the rest of us mainly dry at least at the moment. satellite view 24 hour lapse yesterday we continued to watch this little ridge right there continue to be pushed off broken down into the east. now we have this zonal flow and this is going to be in tact for the week ahead leaving unsettled weather in our forecast. so 54 degrees right now in oakland, 52 san francisco. mild to relatively mild i'll say. mountain view 57. 57 san jose.

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. >>> and some amazing time lapse video of the milky way is available on youtube. it was recorded by a norwegian photographer from spain's highest mountain earlier this month. around 32 seconds into the video, a sandstorm kicks up and partially blocks the sky. the photographer thought it would ruin the video but said you can see the milky way shining through. it looks like sparkling, golden clouds. >>> coming up on ktu vurkz up at 5:00 -- ktvu at 5:00, fighting sexual exploitation of children. how children are at risk and what is being done to help them. >>> plus president obama will land at sfo in 30 minutes. ktvu will have the arrival live. more coming up shortly on ktvu channel 2. thank you for watching. have a good day.

check out this time lapse. today we had quite a bit of cloud cover holding the temperatures down this afternoon. as the sun was setting, the clouds started to break up. a little too late to warm us up. we had clouds gathering once again, and you can see on live dopler 7hd, a few drops developing off the coastline here around ukiah. we may have seen the possibility of a couple of sprinkles. overnight tonight and tomorrow, the temperatures are in the 40s and the 50s. look for sprinkles possibly tonight. a slight chance of showers on saturday, and we are looking at partly cloudy conditions sunday afternoon. here is the satellite and the radar. this disturbance went through and a few sprinkles reported, and we basically saw some snow developing in the higher elevations earlier this evening with the disturbance. this system here is riding in on the jet stream. the moist flow continues across california. with this in mind there is a real clear cut forecast. we will see a few clouds, and tomorrow quite a bit of cloud

to mention is i was in the military for 12 years and if i had allowed any of my qualifications to lapse, my nuclear power plant supervisor -- i would be up before the captain or be charged with dare lix of duty you see -- dereliction of duty because i failed to do the things required by my job to perform my duties and if i had gone the extra step and still went out, i would be in court-martial. i can take a chance, a one out of three chance with someone who isn't qualified to use that weapon they have at their side. i know where that goes on. and also, the contract chal arrangement. every citizen of this city who contracted with them for protection did so understanding they would follow all the rules. they have been not been doing that and as a result what liability have they placed not only on the city but those people who were involved with them who rely on the city to enforce the rules and unfortunately haven't been doing it and that raises a whole bunch of other issues. now on the o.c.c. director's court, i will be honest with you. i looked at this and i don't see much different tha

here is a time lapse from the high definition south beach camera. you can see the city skyline in san francisco and the setting sun. absolutely clear at the time the sunset at 7:58. tonight no clouds in sight, no fog in sight, and that's the way it is going to remain all weekend long. temperatures right now in the 50s. another cheer and chilly night. warming trend for the weekend and we are looking at mild conditions into next week. we definitely have a stretch of spring weather coming your way here. this afternoon higher pressure over the pacific started to move toward the coast here. and this basically provided us with a northwesterly wind. this is really a clearing wind, dry, clear wind kept skies on the sunny side this afternoon. what's going to happen is this area of high pressure is going to move closer and closer to the coast. on saturday we will start to see the wind flow becoming more northerly, and that will actually help to warm us up even more. eventually by sunday the ridge moves inland. we start to see occasional offshore winds, and th

jobs for the teachers it was modest but in the old days they just closed schools down and that was lapse. the fact that the russian was elected mayor of the latvian capital in the summer of two thousand and nine surprise many politicians analysts put it down into the economic crisis. those who had felt it. so via impact we're not taking as much notice of the nationality of a politician as they used to. use to move if in the early one nine hundred ninety s. they had not made the mistake of dividing the people into citizens of unknown citizens who were the politicians would have been compelled to talk about the economy social issues and structural reforms instead of harping on the theme of latvians and russians every two or four years were much we would have been able to deal with pressing issues much earlier and much more efficiently or we still have to contend with economic issues corruption and many other things and we're going to. despite its small size there was schools of major industrial plants and soviet latvia. three of them which employ between ten and fifteen thousand workers ea

here's time lapse from our high definition im riville camera. thinks one that is unforgettable. look at the clouds coming in on multi-levels there. sunset at 7:44 and screws turned out to be a beautiful evening. nice milder day today. we are heading up again tomorrow. temperatures right now running warmer than where they were 24 hours ago with the clouds around. 40's and 50's. a little warmer next few days. slight chance of showers in the north bay friday and saturday and we certainly have a chance of showers in all areas sunday night heading into monday. so here's the satellite radar you see a lot of clouds spilling over the top of this ridge here. chance of rain coming in with this system here and then system will just brush the north bay.so watch our computer animation. see what will happen. a lot of clouds around tonight. by tomorrow morning we see a little bit of green showing up right down into the north bay as the warm front moves across that part of the bay area at 9:00 o'clock in the morning. that front lifts up to the north and front moves out of here but we still have