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. >> two german, frederic and dominick. they wakeboard through the forest of marble columns.le. check it out. they set up one of those high-speed tow lines, and wait for -- this basement below the palace. >> wiping out would be a little painful in only two feet of water. >> you see them. it doesn't go very far beneath the water and he said, yeah. that one hurt. >> that was the best shot, because i thought i had broken something, because it was a hard crash. >> i wonder what that request looked like to the people at the palace. hey, we'd like to wakeboard in the cistern. do you mind? >> i wonder what it looked like in the doctor's office. how did this happen? we in the basement of the basilica wakeboarding. >> had e did not break any bones. came out it with a few simple scratches on his elbow. i thought it was cool to put the new sport of wakeboarding with this 1,500-year-old palet. >>> that's it for "right this minute." thve a great rest our day. my name is debi. [ wheezing ] this may be my last chance to warn you... about the dangers of smoking. gradually, tobacco took not j

frederic dozier, jr. was in court charged with raping, beating and robbing women between june and december of last year. the trial is expected to last two weeks. >>> pg&e reportedly says some of its pipelines in the bay area are safe but they don't have proof they were actually tested. the "san francisco chronicle" reports pipes in martinez, newark, fremont, san jose, concord and the bay point areas are at elevated risk of failure from internal corrosion. pg&e told regulators the pipes written respected as required but now the utility says they don't have records of the testing. pg&e says that problem does not exist elsewhere in the system. >>> a transit bus crashed closing down hollywood boulevard in l.a. this morning. the crash happened around 8 a.m. when the bus was t-boned by a car. the bus crushed another car in another lane. 20 passengers on board the bus, not known if any were injured. >>> on i-5 in l.a. nine big rigs crashed by a jackknifed big rig. one trucker is in the hospital after firefighter

del rio's reports were published in 1822 with illustrations by jean-frederic waldeck, who also documented the ancient maya ruins at palenque. he made watercolor drawings of the architecture, landscape, and sculpted reliefs. in trying to make sense of the puzzling details, in o inse inserting waecelepnts in ae he- hierogphicanel. in the lat anher ir of travelers began to wrestle with the riddle of the ancient maya. the englishman erick cathwo, through his drings, icoh, to wrestle with the riddle roh s in,cient maya. captured the attention of the general public in the 1840s with their studies of ancient mexico and central america. (john stephens) we lived in the ruined palace of their kings, we went up to their desolate temples and fallen altars, and wherever we moved we saw the evidences of their taste, their skill in arts, their wealth, and power. in the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest and fancied every building perfect, with its sculptured and painted ornaments, lofty and imposing. (narrator) the late 19th century brought new visito

erica gonzalez is in frederic fredericksburg, virginia with a story you'll only see here on news 4. >> hey, easy, guys. >> craig gibson has his hands full. while working at his computer, his kids pointed something out to their dad. something besides their artwork. >> you saw a what? >> a bull et. a gun. >> gibson got to looking and noticed this. >> there's the actual patch. >> a few feet from his bed where his wife and two-year-old usually sleep, a chest of drawers with a bullet hole in it. big enough for cheyanne to put her finger in it. >> if you open up a drawer, there's the hole where the bullet came out of. >> before it was patched. all the sheet rock was pushed out this side. >> gibson says he never heard anything. fredericksburg police arrested ferguson for unlawful handling of a firearm and unlawful discharge of that firearm. the next thing he knew, this fredericksburg dad says he saw neighbors waltzing out with guns. >> there were totes that came out. you could see the ammunition sticking out. >> we tried contacting ferguson, but all we found was a door with an eviction notic

del rio's reports were published in 1822 with illustrations by jean-frederic waldeck, who also documented the ancient maya ruins at palenque. he made watercolor drawings of the architecture, landscape, and sculpted reliefs. in trying to make sense of the puzzling details, in o inse sertg waeceps an made non ofhehieroglyic panel. in theat anher pair of travelers began to wrestle with the riddle of the ancient maya. the englishman erick cathod, roh s inugh his drings, captured the attention of the general public in the 1840s with their studies of ancient mexico and central america. (john stephens) we lived in the ruined palace of their kings, we went up to their desolate temples and fallen altars, and wherever we moved we saw the evidences of their taste, their skill in arts, their wealth, and power. in the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest and fancied every building perfect, with its sculptured and painted ornaments, lofty and imposing. (narrator) the late 19th century brought new visitors with new technologies to palenque. the british

eugene robinson, jim frederic, michael smirconish and jonathan calagio. thank you very much. eugene, i want to start with the last moment of the night, the 47% came up and michael steele was on earlier saying that was an error on romney's part to go in and give the president this big moment. let's play what went down, the very last moment of the debate. >> i care about 100% of the american people. >> when he said behind closed doors that 47% of the country considered themselves victims, who refuse personal responsibility, think about who he was talking about. >> so you gene, i help hashtagging duh, duh, duh. that was the last impression and very different than last two weeks ago. >> i don't know why romney went there. i can understand him coming in to the debate figuring that the 47% thing would be raised and therefore he would be prepared to answer it as he's answered it in the nondebate setting. but to bring it up himself at the end where he doesn't get to respond, he opened the door and so president obama went right through it. >> michael, what if the president had forgott

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as of 7:00 this morning, mema will activate level one activation phase, all hands on deck at camp fredered for hurricane sandy. >> millions along the atlantic coast are faced with a difficult decision today, whether to ride out hurricane sandy or move to higher ground. >> jay gray has the latest on conditions and preparations from one of the cities in the potential strike zone. >> time is quickly running out for communities along the eastern as a board preparing for hurricane sandy. >> it gets pretty bad. >> heavy equipment has been called in along the jersey shore which could see the worst of this storm. >> at this point in time, it will likely make landfall late monday evening bringing it accumulated rain, high winds and significant beach erosion. >> sailors are on a 24-hour watch at the navel -- naval station in norfolk, virginia. >> getting out of the way of the hurricane. >> in new york, preparations have started and officials are considering closing the city's bridges, tunnels and subways. >> i encourage all new yorkers to try to be home or where you need to be by 7:00 because there'