i think steel frame buildings are resistant, it is the composite action of the steel frame and otherments that are together with the frame that help make them support; is that right? >> yes. that includes the walls, the floor diaphragms. but the fire was really bad. this is what they were trying to do here is a fire break here. in addition to the heroic fire break that stopped the fire on van ness. >> dynamited around here. not just earthquake or fire damage, it was dynamite damage. >> one of the interesting stories is the amount of dynamiting they were doing in some cases was so excessive it was damaging buildings that survived the earthquake and fire because they were blowing up the building 2 blocks away. the classic story is on the post office. it survived the earthquake and fire fine, but didn't survive the dynamiting of the next-door neighbor's building. >> they threw up flaming shards. and set the buildings alight. >> for an old steel frame, you see the beam and column and you can see the frame is shown there. on the side of the building, it is more solid with brick. the older

it survived a fire as most steel framed buildings -- i'm sorry. survived the earthquake as most steel-framed buildings did. here is the chronicle building. it also survived the earthquake. the chronicle building is made up of two buildings in front. at the time of the '06 earthquake they were building the rear annex, which was the tallest building west of the mississippi. this building survived until the fire came. the fire did a lot of damage here. there is the examiner building. it also survived the earthquake, and the fire came. >> really interestingly, steel-framed buildings were a newish thing in the turn of the century. how many do we have in the city? >> from that vintage, that are actually still here, we probably have 30 or 40. but what was interesting is, the robeling steel institute sent a team out here. there is a document where they went through the buildings. all the buildings they reported on went through the earthquake just fine. >> one didn't. the williams building. >> interestingly enough, the williams building was not in the book

i'm better at bootsy collins than i am at michael steele.t started as that and then just kind of evolved into this hing where i think, you know, the first time i did it then i think everrbody became happy with bibbles and, and so then it -- it just sort of came back and came back. >> and if anything i really have a lot of respect for the people who really do muppet stuff. like because itts not, it's not easyy like because they park you behind the desk and they're3 like alright,,do this thing. but you're usually like upú like this and you're looking down at a monitor here and3 your eck is craned and your arm's up. and, and the puppet, it's not like they make it easy to do that. like your thumbs get really tired. and but it was -- it was -- it was fun and i'm glad that people eejoyed it. >> and you got to, to do it in front of him. >> i did, yes. >> in the end he came on the program and he essentially debated himself or talked to himself in, in puppet form. >> he talked to himsell and iiwwll give, i will give michael steele a lot of credit. on

most of the bay area's steel factories are gone. there are fewer than a dozen left around the region. the bay area regional air traffic control district is now quietly proposing new rules the steel factories say could shut down these last few foundrieses. >> we're not looking at major changes, we're looking at improving the way air pollution is reduced at these facilities. >> reporter: victor douglas says the air board's controversial proposals. >> what we're trying to do is to reduce the impact of these industrys to the local communities where people are living near by. >> reporter: what's more, the over all air quality of the bay area though much improved in the last generation does not meet the new stricter quality standards. air officials says that one of the reasons it is looking to tighten rules for the factory. but carefully crafted rules are already in place. >> we believe they are definitely sufficient. >> reporter: allen representing the surviving air foundries. the stack behind him is emitting steam. >> you have millions

michael steele, the under paid off.the under pays off, we'll get the party breakdown as soon as we have it to see how bipartisan was it. was it more democrats or republicans that be voted for it. >> there were 34 nos from the tea party supported members to the house bill. 22 black caucus members voted no. 12 hispanic caucus and 58 so-called progressive caucus members voted no. you had more opposition from the left than from the right. >> martin frost, i've been watching one of the things and an drea knows this when you have the white house beat suddenly you see people come in. you don't see who the president meets with all the time. you see flows of people coming in. activists. and they have been doing some already some prewiring conversations. i'm not saying it's it's the president meeting with them. clearly some advisors are. clearly they have a lot of healing to do with the base of the party. >> the key for him is turn out. he's going the get the black vote. he's going to get the hispanic vote. but what's the%age goi

steele. have good manners. >> you missed point of the answer. >> we're not arguing tonight. >> there is no truce here. >> now, mr. chairman. the specifics, as he said, where are we going to get the money, that's the problem. revenue, we need to get money. we are going to have to start doing things that mr. steele's party won't do. and even when you're in a reasonable way ask them what to do and have you a reasonable answer, for mr. -- from mr. steele, there's got to be balance, when you come to how we pay for it, we seem to go into an imbalance. take care of the rich and don't take care of the poor. >> right. there's no question that's been the big problem. but i think what president has to do to get this package passed, is he's got to do a comprehensive plan. he is talking that way, reverend. that's good news. he's got to do significant debt reduction. he has to tell the super committee, i want to do more than $1.5 trillion and there are no sacred cows. everything is on the table including s

brendan steele is trying to brendan steele is trying to steal his first major title on ♪ ♪ free accessase atm's wherever you are. that's a step forward. chase customers can avoid atm fees with over 16,000 nationwide. take a step forward and chase what matters. >> mike: the beauty of tiger woods' dem moose on the golf course has been the rise of several young stars. several new faces atop the leaderboard for the 93rd pga championship. the atlanta athletic club has been one tough cookie to crack. great day for david toms. nothing about net. a 65 today 2-under. the young buckses making is no, including keegan bradley. a bogey on seven has him one back. brendan steele, a double-obogey on the par-3, the 28-year-old, 4-under; in the hunt, 47-year-old scott verplank. never won a man. birdie on 17. are you kidding me? got it. two back with a 69. how about 34-year-old jason dufner. birdies 15 and then rolls in this on 16. out of auburn, alabama, files a 68. brendan steele is tied with dufner, who has never won a pga event. sunday should be a good one. >> a's hosting the rangers. and trevor cahi

not dufner, steele, bradley and points... it looks like we may another guy pi >>> when you talk major championships, names come to mind. not bradley and points. looks like we may see another guy picking up his first major win. rory mcilroy and clark did it this year. keegan bradley began the day tied for the lead and could have had a total meltdown. finished with a 69. so way to recover leaving him just one shot back. like bradley, brendan steele is playing in his first major and he vaulted to the top of the leader board. bend that one in. double bogeyed 15 and 18 after putting the ball in the water. ladies, don't do that when you start playing. don't do that one. >> he is six shots back. jason duffner never won a p.g.a. event but he would not have known through 54 holes. he got to seven under and is tied with steele heading into the final round. so it is the three young guys, steele duffner and bradley plus a couple of old guys. steve stricker. all with a chance to win their first major. >>> don't forget -- >> guys like tige

the and that steel curtain in front of the suspects window.f you were to fire towards the freeway, no one would be injured. >> officers had communication with him. we have a rotating team of hostage negotiators working with him. >> is he making any demands? >> i cannot characterize or talk about what was contained in the conversations but we are in conversation with him. >> at this point are not releasing his name or saying if he is from the bay area. reportedly another person is a with him in his room although they're not saying it is an accomplice. a hostage. he has told authorities that it is his girlfriend. the have not been able to get a girlfriend on the phone. they say that they have time on their side. it looks like things will come to a quick end. >> what our live on the scene providing the very latest on what is happening in san rafael. we have a picture of the suspect. he stabbed a store clerk during a shoplifting event. that is what led to the hour-long back up that we have been talking about that lasted more than 14 hours. for the

steele.ans voted against the bill that was largely favorable to what ryan says was in their interests. why couldn't boehner keep the caucus together? >> for the same reasons that 95 democrats voted for the bill. >> well, i know why 95 voted for the bill. because they were told that unlike what was asked by mr. boehner that now it's put over until 2013, not this christmas. you have large cuts in the pentagon. the largest since the '90s. we have social security off the table, medicare and medicaid, other than providers. so some of them probably thought that was better than what they were told. >> all that is going to be back on the table with this committee coming in the fall. >> we'll see where it goes. the bush tax cuts will expire. why couldn't you all keep it together? >> maybe, maybe not. we don't know. we'll see what the recommendations are once we get past this point. the more significant thing to note here is that as much as folks would like to keep a lot of victory with the tea party a

chairman michael steele.ichael, what is the value of the straw poll? >> the value is to make money. let's break it right down. the state parties love this because this is a chance where you're going to galvanize the political world's attention on a state, in this case, iowa. and you're going to raise a lot of money from it which is great because you put dollars to use for organizing and getting your grassroots together and active and out there. come next year's election. i think beyond that not much in my view. you know, you see straw polls where, you know, the person with the least chance of even coming close to winning the top prize wins that straw poll. and the realty then shifts because people think there's some significance to that. there isn't. the fact is this is about being able to get a number of voters to turn out to vote for you. this is an open process, you're going to have democrats voting in this straw poll today. you have independents voting in the straw poll today. so in some sense it's not a

steele, even though you are a republican. you help this party when over 60 seats, you raise more money than any other chairman, they threw you into retirement from chairmanship. extremists have taken over the party, even michael steele can't share his point. come on, michael, i know you are a law of republican, but -- >> a couple of things there. i would love to come on and have a discussion on that point about my chairmanship. >> i would love to be the one have you it with. >> i would be happy to talk about my last two years of chairman of the national republican committee. >> you raised all that money and they said bye-bye. >> do a little obama and talk about what i inherited versus what i left behind. the other side of it though -- >> you sound just like barack obama, but go ahead, michael. >> the other side and i want to tauch with something that governor rendell said. i wouldn't put it into the context that it is pitiful or negative, but i think underlying that is that the same polls also show that people are really upse

it would be pouring it probably on a steel kind of thing. but at this point, the process changed largely during -- after world war ii. set up rebuilt belgium, rebuilt france, rebuilt -- so before all

they brought in the crane with the steel.ything is looking pretty good. >> an officer came up with the idea of hanging a steel plate. the company in san rafael came out with a crane and steel plate and suspended like a shade. right in front of the window. c.h.p. command was here. they looked at it and determined that it was safe to reopen the freeway. >> police are not identifying the gunman as i mentioned. he does say he has the girlfriend in the room with him and treating it as a hostage situation. they have not been able to speak with her. suspect wanted for going to san rafael market on sunday, shoplifting. caught by the employees and pulled a knife and cut two of them as he escaped. he got in a stolen car and took off. the police found out about him being over here yesterday morning. they responded about 8:30. a couple of hours later they tried to go in. that's when he opened fire. the concern for 580 is it's just across the frontage road from where the hotel is. they are concerned about the drivers over there. again, be

do we have any questions about building structure of a steel-framed blt? so the question is shouldn't all the fire protection ratings be uniform? >> the general concept is, you want to protect at a higher level, critical elements. the critical element is the column. >> holding the building up? >> holding the building up. that's why it has four hours of protection. i'm hoping that the fire department can get here faster than four hours. >> and the people leave. >> around the people leave, yeah, one of the biggest contents is not protecting the building and contents, but providing the people a sufficient amount of time for evacuation. in san francisco, on rincon hill and south market, under construction right now, we have a high-rise concrete core buildings where the buildings are not made of steel columns, they're made of essentially a very highly reinforced concrete core, unusual designs that need to be carefully reviewed by the building departments. we have other types of buildings. in fact the building code says you're allowed to build out of any materia

whatever steel was in there is long gone all along the waterfront. >> wonderful buildings. at the double dog and a beer. >> this is wonderful. it is right on the waterfront. it is due piles. >> that is the location of what is now the san francisco port authority? >> yeah, port offices. and there is a new office there and slip. this is one of the few places where they recently provided a small boat docking on the waterfront. there are very few places where you can stop on the waterfront, and have built a brand new public dock. so we're down near the waterfront. what do we have here? >> in many areas, it is shallow enough that working with the owners, we can convince the owner that maybe he could use some below grade parking, and we make the decision to go deep below the surface and put the building on a foundation. let me back up. there are several foundation types in san francisco. the one that was used in the 1800's was called a wood grillage. they would chop down trees and it would lay lincoln logs, same principle, make the excavation, and they would lay lincoln logs and

i know my friend michael steele was -- i didn't know he was a filibustering senator. we weren't talking about any of what he answered. >> oh, my gosh. >> when cantor was asked about extending unemployment insurance, he did not say, let's take that money and put it into other priorities. prs fr. >> creating jobs, al. creating jobs. >> will you address about extending 99ers. >> the problem here is that apparently, the private sector isn't short money. to get these unemployment people into jobs, can you cut their benefits tomorrow. they want a job. the question is, are you prepared to cut them off and give them no benefits and say, you're on your own here. while these companies figure out whether or not they can hire. michael steele talked about investments but the investments in this case is about cutting spending in government. cutting spending in the public sengtor. that means losing 37,000 jobs in today's statistics while the private sector was ramping up jobs, prior at sector was cutting back jobs. >> people are losing their jobs and benefits. another no way to stim

michael steele. we'll be right back.

>>> the large sheet of steel is the latest measure to isolate an armed fugitive holed up in the san rafael hotel for a second day. he fired a shot across the freeway, which resulted in the closure of the richmo richmond-san rafael bridge and kept traffic gridlocked for hours. i'm kristen sze. >> i'm cheryl jennings. they have continued to try to get the man to surrender peacefully, and he has barricaded himself with a woman inside so they are treating this as a hostage situation. terry mcsweeney has more. >> 24 hours and counting in the hostage standoff. the gunman is holed up in the second floor room on the front of the hotel. as he mentioned, he has a woman with him. that's his girlfriend. police consider her a hostage. 580 has reopened, thanks to the quick thinking of a san rafael police officer and a big piece of metal. 80 police officers and sheriff deputies are outside and inside the hotel. and have been since shortly after the hostage standoff began at 10:30 yesterday morning. that's when the man whose name police are not releasing to the public fired a shot from the second floor ho

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the majority of them are steel. the building i'm in it has been evaluated and it has compared well with -- >> is it a coul concrete buildi? >> it is right there. >> the concrete building on the west coast is third street, built just a couple of years back. >> modern concrete buildings we think are very good. but the buildings that were built before the mid 70s, when the codes changed, the buildings that are built out of concrete are a hazard maybe. >> 1920 to 1970, there is a class of buildings we're struggling with. in 1971 they built a hospital out of this. and a week before the hospital opened, they had the san fernando earthquake and the building collapsed. now, trust me, when you have a hogs collapse, you've got a lot of attention. and they banded in the next code cycle. >> so there is a class of high rise buildings that it's a potential hazard. it's not the downtown office buildings. it's these tall concrete high rise buildings and they have a problem in mexico city with that. >> when the when they do the ba,

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, the california kid also wins one this year, to make another birdie on 14, brendan steele, 4- under-, share the lead with 34-year-old jason dufner, drills a birdie, drills another on 16, to shoot a 2-under-68, sharing a lead with brendan steele. and tim lincecum leading. we'll have highlights again. >> we'll see you. >> coming up tonight on the 10:00 news, more on the wildfire in napa county, north of the lake, here is a live look at the situation from news chopper 2. we just learned it is up to 300 acres, we'll have more on the conditions and when firefighters could get handle on the flames tonight on the 10:00 news. >> that is our report, thank you for joining us

it would be pouring it probably on a steel kind of thing. but at this point, the process changed largely during -- after world war ii. set up rebuilt belgium, rebuilt france, rebuilt -- so before all our glass was domestic and after world war ii it became foreign. they had all the new factories and we had the old ones. so they set up a product, and they would pour it and polish it automatically, so it was perfectly flat. and that was the origin of the polished plate. then, subsequently a process came up called float glass. and that was just revolutionized the industry because they poured glass out on a bed of hot tin, voluntary-in tin. why this -- vol tin tin. how they came up with that -- they just poured it on the bed and it was self-leveling and they made it so fast, cooled it down -- i mean you go to the factory in stockton and it's just like making cellophane or whatever. this comes in, comes out, bam. and it's now, you know, inexpensive and quick. and so the word -- technically it's not polished but it's just plate. it works. and so th

it requires a steel frame. for a balcony, what you would expect to see is half inch tempered glass. and that's really not very expensive. and but the thing there is, you're going to have to probably do it in pieces so that, in case one of those pieces broke, you'd still have that handrail that goes across the top of that, keeping you back so that you aren't falling over with the broken glass. >> right. and the code talks about other types of protection. you can't just have a single piece of glass, without some other type of protection, and it's in this handout that you have here. >> that code may change with the advent of special materials. eventually, we will come and say -- and it's been supplied in different cities, where we take a century -- it's called century guard, whereas there is this piece of plastic in between a couple of pieces of one eneeled, and one heat treated and the other tempered, so that even if it broke it stays together and stays rigid. so there really isn't reason then for that top handrail. >> the building code in san francisco says that we can approve produc

still ahead, this illinois steel maker says business is good but it could be better. what he and other manufacturers need to grow and hire. >> suzanne: congress may have solved the debt deal, but it hasn't managed to end a partial shutdown at the federal aviation administration. that shutdown has uncle sam losing an estimated $29 million a day in airfare taxes. you may think the battle at the f.a.a. is about those taxes. after all, they have expired and have to be renewed. but in fact, the fight in congress is over organized labor. tonight, darren gersh explains why that is. >> reporter: for 75 years, unions trying to organize airline workers have had to win support from a majority of all the employees who would be joining that union. workers who don't turn out to vote were effectively counted as no votes. but regulators appointed by president obama recently changed those rules. now airline workers trying to organize non-union companies like delta airlines will be able to form a union if they win a majority of the votes cast in a union certification election. william

door glass is shattered and the steel frame bent and twisted. this is the result of what police call a smash and grab. this is surveillance video from cameras inside the bingo hall. at 3:00 a.m. on wednesday, a blue pick-up truck speeds in

steele frame, i presume. >> i believe so, or wood. there are quite a few of these down here.his one is world war 1. it's been used for a lot of different purposes. i think most recently used as an artist's shop. >> keep off room. >> good advice. >> and of course, you need a place to store stuff. [laughter] >> what better to store. >> and showing the deterioration of many of these docks. once they deteriorate to a certain point -- ccdc development commission addresses the use of the bay and the fill of the bay. will they let you rebuild these things after they fall apart? >> well, if there is a viable use. you know, if we have an illinois bridge, for example, that's a pile supported structure over water and so we were able to get a permit for that.

to create actually the deck that the motorist will drive on and that's comprised of 5,000 tons of steel. so as you can magical transconsiders this to be a pretty precious cargo delivery. >> these elements of the bridge have been fabricated in shanghai china by zpmc. we have been fabricating over there for the last four years. >> reporter: now, once those sections of the deck arrive, all of the elements that are needed to finish the bridge will be here in san francisco. in fact, in the next few weeks crews will start lifting up the bridge cables and putting those into place. if everything goes according to plan with today's delivery construction will be six months ahead of the most recent construction schedule. and what that means is that the new bridge will be ready in time for america's cup races that are in september 2013. but you don't have to wait until september to get an impressive view of the bridge. tonight caltrans at 7:45 is going to switch on those lights on the catwalk at the bridge and if you are here at treasure island and where we are right now you can actually get an imp

it's actually seized in copper, a steel round rod with a copper coating. you have to drive it into the ground so that eight feet is in contact with the earth. >> one of the allowed methods of grounding. is that correct? >> for a single family residence that tiply is made only out of wood and has one water bite, you are required to supplement that water bipe a ground rod. >> how about if you use these other methods? >> if you have a concrete encased etec trode, pouring a footing and you have the opportunity to put the wire in the footing, you do not need the ground rod. >> so the code has a number of different ways you can provide grounding to a building. this is one. this is probably the most common method, except for new buildings where they actually bury the copper ground into the footing, into the concrete footing and attach it to the steel reinforcing part. this is one of the most common. but there are a lot of different ways that you can solve these problems. and the codes, not just the electrical codes but all the codes. give us different ways to dea