this is a box and a ring and here is another example of a small box called a device box intended for one device, one switch, or one plug. they're very limited in use, but there are applications for it. >> they have little knockouts, you can pup it out and connect your connector or cable to it. >> the nonmetallic boxes are used with nonme tellic cable. this is used in residential wood frame construction. bang on it with the hammer. bang a hole in the top and you shove your nonmetallic cable into the box. >> very fast to install. it's all ready to go. you can hold it right into position and a couple of taps, the whole thing is done. ok, great. and he sells hundreds of types of sizes and shapes and six, 10, one at a time all to hold anything. >> just hundreds and hundreds. the catalogs are full of them. he said he has over 22,000 items in his store, except for the inventory items. >> wow. we have on this side all sorts of trim. look at this gigantic trim plate. so within the boxes you just showed us, you would put one of these little devices and then -- ok. >> and example of a switch th

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however, boxing between louisiana prisons. >> hopefully the right people see me box, and they like whatuation i'm in. i'm not benefiting nothing from fighting up in here, so if somebody likes the way i fight, they're into promoting and willing to help me fight, i'm willing to fight for free for two years. i mean, i just want, just get me out of jail. >> derrick's nickname is the outlaw. he knows that winning his next fight is critical. >> i'm fighting the number one contender fight which if i win the next time i fight in september i get to fight for the belt, which is good. i'm going to win. because they haven't seen me in a while. i haven't fought this year. i fought last year, not this year. everybody, they know i can fight. >> as members of hunt's boxing team, derrick and curtis spar with one another, but never fight. >> we don't fight amongst the same people we be locked up with. so it ain't that bad. >> coming up -- >> what are we going to do tonight? >> we're going to smash something. >> derrick and curtis get their chance in the ring. ease of cooking is very important to me. perd

i come from a background of retail where have worked for big box stores. i have worked for both home depot and petsmart. one of the things that stood out in my memory is that at monthly store meetings, where we would hook up across the nation with other stores, one of the ways we closed each meeting was counting down how many mom-and- pop stores we close down each month. that has always stood out in my mind. while i have been living in san francisco and i took a job with jefferies, the one thing that was tantamount to my mind is that we were part of the community and we know most of our customers by name. we know their animals and we know their needs and we know each other. we are part of each other's community. that's something i would hate to see us lose by allowing the big boxes to command. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the owner of a natural pet food store in two locations and about to open a huge manufacturing facility in san francisco and i would like to encourage the legislation so we can keep our stores going and keep the small pe

plus i get two box tops for their school. totino's pizza rolls. the pizza way to snack. and safeway's 10% back to schools program, now there are two ways to earn cash for your kids school. from august tenth through september thirteenth look for products marked with the yellow bus and earn even more by signing up for e-box tops at 2ways2earn.com. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld >>> king juan carlos of spain greeted pope benedict xvi in madrid this morning. final day of catholic church youth festival has brought out one million pill pilgrims. he urged them to share their convictions with others. at the end of the mass, benedict announced that rio de janeiro will be the site of the next world youth day in 2013. >>> no, it was not a demonstration in berkeley that had people lined up along fourth street yesterday. it was the grand opening of an apple store. die-hard apple fans waited overnight to be the first inside. they gave away t-shirts to the first few hundred people before the doors opened. before this, the closest apple store was in emeryville

this new black box cuts it to less than a second. that's huge. the secret is a new porous material that could heat a larger sample and cool it at insane speeds. it can be powered by batteries and made small. >> the thought is labs could be used to identify hundreds of path owe generals in a few minutes with a device the size of a shoe box. >> when somebody goes into their doctor's office, if they have something that is threatening, they can be tested for it right away. >> the next step is to turn development over to a commercial partner to make the new device. with the next step in dna, richard hart, abc news. >>> americans love their mobile phones so much they can't seem to put them down. a new survey finds that less than one-third of mobile phone users take a break and turn them off. experts say multitasking with technology is more stressful than many of us think. they suggest unplugging for one hour a week can make a big difference. >> whether it is make the dinner table or a technology free zone. whether it is walk in the door and you will se

um, we actually run on cisco boxes in europe and samsung boxes in europe. um, we'll probably be running on other vendors' hardware in the u.s. in the near future. >> host: and tell me about what you're most excited with your technology, your software this year. what are you talking about in the business? >> well, what we're showing at the floor today, actually, ironically, is hardware that we're showing a multi four-tuner dvr that allows you to have one single cable card in your home and non-dvr devices in other rooms that can access from one central location in the room as well as internet content and other things that are all brought together in one user interface. >> host: in your role as general counsel, do you have a message for washington either policymakers or regulators who might be listening? >> guest: well, the one thing we're not seeing on the floor today is we're not really seeing any innovation in retail devices. we're not seeing, there's a samsung tv that gets a cable app, but we're not really seeing an opportunity for more and more devices to

rent a green box is an ecofriendly moving company. >> we rent boxes made from recycled plastic trash and we sell the packing material to the moving industry. >> it's made from trash. >> he's invented 11 products for the company and has president ents on them. he came up with the idea when he was moving offices. >> i spent $800 on cardboard. why are we spending this? i saw the plastic bottles at the landfill, why don't we take this plastic and reinvent a better box. >> he developed a process to turn household detergent bottles into box. as soon as he came up with a design, he started the patent process. >> you can't patent a box. you can patent an atrarkt. so what we did is we pat ended the plastic that the box is made from. >> brown said it's not easy. patenting something takes a lot of time and money. >> it was a tremendous alt of work. >> you need an expert? >> absolutely. at this level, you have to have a patent attorney who is excellent in their field. i would recommend going to three to five and interviewing them. >> the patent office estimates 38 month for the the average issue

fire box red for the fire boxes. our brown for the pg and e poles. >> we are not painters we do our best. >> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the p

this type of boxes. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were sit over these big boxes and play over them. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the blacks these type of instruments were not allowed to be played because they were too loud and for the church they will provoke movement that was not appropriate. >> (speaking spanish). >> they could also work as a form of communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was what was going on in africa. >> (speaking spanish). >> and from some of the sounds they used to play that we almost lost all of them we still have some that he remembers. >> (speaking spanish). >> for instance -- >> (speaking spanish). >> this means "attention be alert. something is going to happen". >> (speaking spanish). >> wake up. wake up. >> wake up, wake up. (speaking spanish). >> and this are some of the drumming patterns that have been rescued by the cultural association. >> (speaking spanish). >> the african and review itse s size. >> (speaking spanish). >> to the actual size that he has. >> (speaking spanish). >> the reason why this drum was r

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the help clean up the box office. the best seller turned movie came in and # one beating out for new releases. last weekend's winner, a planet of the ames dropped to no. 2. newly released spike kids are rounded out the top three. >> was all the fog out there, this was the perfect weekend for catching the movie. >> sun shines more afternoon during a much better day than today. oakland will be in the '70s. six seasons in san francisco. even in normal for tuesday. >> that will allow for us. tonight everyone's.

every cereal box counts.afeway's 10% back to schools program, now there are two ways to earn cash for your kids school. from august tenth through september thirteenth look for products marked with the yellow bus and earn even more by signing up for e-box tops >>> you're watching cbs 5 eyewitness news in high definition. >>> in 35 years, i've never seen such a thing. >> debt fears spreading as the dow suffers yet another disastrous day. what it means for you and your 401(k). >>> a long night for bart passengers. the worst computer shutdown in five years brings trains to a standstill. >>> he's in the race for mayor but not everyone is happy. the spirited response to ed lee's decision to run for mayor. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> and i'm dana king. after another nose-dive on wall street today, markets across asia are taking a big hit in tuesday trading. >> steep declines prompted trading to stop briefly in south korea, and the benchmark lost nearly 5%. hong kong saw a 6% drop. japan's is down 2.3% overnigh

back in his box reality is that between the original unscom inspections and the unmovic inspections you destroyed with those inspections ninety two probably ninety five percent of the iraqi arsenal the first gulf war destroyed almost nothing. and you know post-war u.s. power damage assessments confirm the weapons inspectors were effective for saddam to get rid of the stuff. they had that country under control by nine hundred ninety eight at the latest those inspectors had discovered most of the weapons of mass destruction and the iraqi programs at that point were essentially at an end before the war in iraq the united nations inspectors told us. that that i was saying. did not have nuclear weapons capability ironically the major effect of the invasion of iraq and terms of weapons of mass destruction as the president to show that the inspectors were right all along the inspection regime worked. it was the most intrusive inspection regime in history and it worked at the end the day that's another reason why we went to war from the. these maniacs the courage of our enemies weakening our tr

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. >> my chief threw this box on my desk. he said, this is an old file, they want you to solve it. >> he promised me, he says, i will not give up until we find cindy. >> i took that file home with me almost every single night and just kept rereading it. there was more to it, you could see that. >> there's the seeker card, and he said, you must be the seeker. the person of interest at this time was art riehm. >> i'm not going to lie to you, but i'm not going to tell you what you want to know. >> when he wouldn't answer, we when he wouldn't e lab rate, we knew we were on to something. >> we weren't supposed to find her that day, but i'll tell you, she was calling to us. ♪ >> do you remember making mixed tape cassettes for your friends? all these years later, that's something a best friend recalls about cindy. >> dance music, she loved to dance. >> maybe the soundtrack to your life in the middle '80s was like cindy zarzycki's. cyndi lauper, motley crue, and especially hometown favorite, madonna. ♪ the older sister she swapped cl

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plus i get two box tops for their school. totino's pizza rolls. the pizza way to snack. >>> we can back. did you know that organ and tissue donation can involve many parts of the human body. donations of skin cart lanlt and intestines and nerves are few examples that life savings gifts our bodies can provide. earlier in this year, a medical miracle was unveiled at uc davis. a team of doctors performed an larynx transplant and it restored a woman's ability to speak. >> for more than a decade, brenda couldn't use her voice. >> now the 52-year-old modesto woman is a chatterbox. >> i'm still working on it but it's improving every day. >> she is second person ever that received a larynx trance plant. it's a complex surgery. a team of surgeons from uc davis practiced for two years before performing the delicate operation. >> it's somewhat complex. >> they took the liarjs and thyroid gland from a donor whose family okayed the procedure. 13 days later the patient was able to speak. the vocal cords were paralyze whd a vewt liags tube in her throat accident

plus i get two box tops for their school. totino's pizza rolls. the pizza way to snack. safeway's 10% back to schools program, now there are two ways to earn cash for your kids school. from august tenth through september thirteenth look for products marked with the yellow bus and earn even more by signing up for e-box tops at 2ways2earn.com. hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >> it's 17 after six on this overcast saturday morning. overcast throughout the area and on over to oakland, a you can see. we will have some sun later on but no real warming for a couple of days. jeff is going to be along shortly to tell but that. but first, another storm, massive storm, dust storm hitting arizona thursday evening. take a look. a wall of dust 1,000 feet high. was it taller than that, jeff? >> i heard 5,000. >> i'm going with 5,000. do i hear 6,000? it got into phoenix and finally dissipated there. it was the third haboob of the monsoon season. that's what they call it. they say the area is experie

the boxes would house cable tv, high speed internet. critics say that the boxes are an eyesore. >> the campus at uc berkeley is adding classes. despite the budget short fall of 60 million-dollar, uc berkeley has enough money in reserve to cover that shortfall for two years so it has added hundreds of classes. >> i wanted to take a real estate class here. i think it's usually open to only base students. i was on the wait list for probably a few months and then they just said i got in. i don't know why. >> uc berkeley officials say that the money is coming from a number of sources, including efficiency measures that cut 150 jobs last year, an increase of out-of-state students who pay triple the tuition. >>> once again this year, ktvu and our parent company, cox exhibit prices have sought out peoplededicating themselves to pre -- cox entreprises have sought out people dedicating themselves to better outdoor. bill martin has the story of this man who has dedicated his life to making his neighborhood a better place. >> reporter: the sign say

former city minister has called on the government to launch a focused inquiry into so-called black box computerized trading in the wake of extreme volatility in the u.k.'s biggest companies so he alleges that the three hundred billion pounds knocked off the footsie in london is due to high frequency trading it is so with the downgrade of u.s. treasury to create volatility to make it easier for high frequency trading and black box trading to extract more wealth from the exchanges that's why they put the servers next to the. changes themselves to siphon the cash more quickly and more efficiently and this is without a doubt and instance alluding. to banks in the city they're looting hundred million dollars a day by some one estimate and they get no punishment whatsoever then you go to london riots and somebody is caught stealing a pack of gum and they get six months in the clinker again i asked david cameron about this i mean i mean it's not a stupid man but when he fails to see the problem here one has to ask oneself is c. in fact all moron well look at this fifty percent of trading in l

if we turn the module around, up in here, this is called a junction box. and this junction box is completely sealed and water tight and feeds a couple of leads, these are already wired and they have quick connectors so you can just plug the modules into one another. >> how many of these does british motor cars as part of their install? >> cut. we actually have about 1,500 panels here between the two buildings of british motors. cut. [laughter] >> wow. so, carl, i get that all of the modules get connected through these -- >> connectors. >> connectors. but once they're all connected what happens? i mean, where does it go? >> ok. it's great that we're out here at british motors because we can actually show you that. the fact that we have a carport and it's elevated, we can see the underside and see what the underside of the installation looks like. this is a huge consideration, you want it to look good especially on something this exposed. >> where are the junction boxes? >> if you come out to the outside here, you can see the junction boxes on the individual

i'm fred roggin. >>> can the apes hang in there at the box office? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, it's an animal we all take for granted until one falls into a 15 foot well. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this friday morning to "early today." a look at your weekend forecast. the interior west will be warmer than the last couple of days. 96 in boise, 95 salt lake city. vegas and phoenix your typical summer heat. we still have morning clouds to deal with. as you look at saturday, clouds will increase a little bit in the northwest. a little system trying to move in, a little frontal system. temperatures will continue to be on the mild side in the interior. coastal areas still cool. best i can do for you in san fran, 62. if you're watching us in seattle, washington, in nearby tacoma, eegyptian artifacts at the search for the essential mummy at the washington state historical society. that's your event of the day. >>> sounds good. >>> now here's an early look at headlines in entertainment. a cl

every cereal box counts. and safeway's 10% back to schools program, now there are two ways to earn cash for your kids school. from august tenth through september thirteenth look for products marked with the yellow bus and earn even more by signing up for e-box tops girl who officers say was abducted by her father. >>> still no trace of a sacramento girl who officers say was abducted by her own father. an amber alert was issued yesterday for 2-year-old madelin fay. her father never returned the girl to her mother after a visit last weekend. this is some surveillance video from a sacramento grocery store on saturday showing the father and his daughter. that same day he learn that he had lost joint custody. and since then he has not used his cell phone or credit cards and the fbi is afraid for the girl's safety. >>> a b.a.r.t. board member said she is shocked that b.a.r.t. officials decided to cut cell phone service to thwart a planned protest. b.a.r.t. does admit turning off power to antennas thursday evening i

residents reported seeing the two menre near the utility box. police found the box open and about 300 feet of fiberoptic cable missing. they later found it in nearby bushes. >> there used to be a box right here, it came up about this high, about that wide. i noticed it was all tore apart, so i called the police. >> the police found the two men hiding nearby and arrested them on suspicion of theft and vandalism. it caused about $100,000 in damage. >>> coming up next at 5:00, hundreds of women protest in san francisco over something that happened in canada. take a look at this, because polo itself just seems too easy, so we have bike polo. it might be too big for at least one city to handle. >>> buster posey takes a major step toward recovery today, we'll hear from the giant's catcher. >>> tracking a few isolatedme thunderstorms in northern california. the fog sitting tough at the coast. will we ever warm things up? >>> hundreds of people took to the streets of san francisco late this afternoon in support of rape victims across the globe. the name

he had a black box with him and forced the box against her throat and looped a device similar to a bike chain around her neck. he also attached a document to the contraption. he then instructed her to count to 200 and then left the room. after a few minutes, maddie yelled out for the man, but heard nothing. terrified, she texted her mother to call police. at that time, she read a portion of the document, saw the word "explosive" and immediately assumed the man placed a bomb around her neck. for nearly ten excruciating hours, that black box was strapped to her neck until authorities were able to x-ray it and determine there was no explosive. >> these past two weeks have been a very difficult time for us and we are hopeful that this development marks the beginning of the end of thiss traumatic ordeal for our family. >> reporter: maddie's father is one of the wealthiest men in australia and police say the note peters attached to the box was an attempt to extort money. if this all sounds like a novel, well, there might be a good reason for that. peters allegedly signed the letter "dirk stra

as expected "the help" cleaned up at the box office this weekend.ng upja9mq2uáh new releases. positive word of mouth helped catapult the 1960's civil rights drama into the top spot in its second weekend with $20.5 million. at number two, "rise of the planet of the apes" pulled in $16.3 million in its third weekend. and as for the rest of the box office results, unfortunately, they weren't pretty. "spy kids: all the time in the world in 4d" debuted in third Ñi place with just $12 million.xd far below the $33 million the last spy kids film made at its opening. and in fourth, "conan the barbarian" took in only $10 million. just a fraction of the $90 million it reportedly cost to make.(ix that's got to hurt. and in fifth, "fright night" starring colin farrell scared up a meager $8.3 million even with decent reviews. and the weekend's fourth new release, the romantic drama "one day" starring anne hathaway t$ñ floundered in ninth place with just $5.2 million. >> the way tickets are, that's embarrassing. >> maybe it's that nice weather going on in the paci

every cereal box counts. and safeway's 10% back to schools program, now there are two ways to earn cash for your kids school. from august tenth through september thirteenth look for products marked with the yellow bus and earn even more by signing up for e-box tops at 2ways2earn.com. >>> good tuesday morning. so far, no flight delays locally. the storms, well, they are in the nation's midsection heading up toward the northeast. maybe an inch of rain in upstate new york later today. once again, oklahoma and texas, heat near 100 and 110 degrees. day 39 of temperatures over 100 degrees. more local weather coming up. check out our flight tracker on the website. abc7news.com. >> thank you. >>> 4:49. there will be no more friending for california prison inmates. the department of corrections is cracking down on the prisoners using social network from the cells and facebook is going to help remove account. they actively update the facebook account from behind bars using the smart phones that might have been smuggled

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