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usgs scientists say they took the 2011 quake off japan and moved the epicenter to the gulf of alaska, where a 9.1 quake is plausible, triggering a tsunami. a big one occurs every few hundred years and is now overdue. the wave would hit our coast and funnel into the bay, flooding the oakland airport, highway 80, the bay bridge toll plaza, and bayfront homes. >> the economic losses would be 5 to $7 billion, but a lot of that can be mitigated. >> reporter: this physicist left the research. she says businesses should move emergency generators immediately to second floors, plan for transportation problems that could last weeks. there could be at least a two- hour warning, so move vessels or moar them more securely. >> it will be a disaster if we don't plan for it and if we're not prepared. there's a lot of people working on it, lot of dedicated emergency managers in the state working on it, and i think we can get prepared. >> reporter: and the big one could happen any time. john fowler, ktvu channel 2news. >>> high speed rail authority was given the power today to start the process of seiz

. >> melissa, as if they needed a boost, the great usg dp numbers are putting a bid back to the market for sectors, oil like you said, now the world's biggest economy expanded at a 4.1% annual rate. one of the places you see impact is in energy. both west texas intermediate and brent crude oil prices rose today. that helps the names in oil field services, among the best performers in the energy sector, halliburton, baker hughes, all up a percentage or more. look at those oil services stocks on the heels of the gdp report. >> thanks, dom. will oil service stocks catch up to the broader markets? let's call to the charts with the one and only carter braxton worth of oppenheimer. hi, carter. >> the setup is crude was quite weak from the end of the summer at 112. but crude has recovered back to almost 100. some of these oil service stocks are still down. we think they are to be played here on the long side for bounces. just to give you the backdrop. this is the oih, the etf which captures halliburton, weatherford and so forth. this is the entire energy sector as measured by the xle. you see

the usgs actually downgraded it from an initial 3.9. then there was a 2.5 in the same area about a half-hour later. some residents said, yeah, it woke them up. but so far there's no word of any damage or injuries. >>> the a-gender teen set on fire while aboard a bus last month may be back at school as early as this morning. the teenager was attacked four weeks ago while he was sleeping on an a.c. transit bus. the skirt sasha was wearing was set on fire. a 16-year-old boy who has admitted to setting him on fire is still in jail. >>> concerns about fights and bullying in west contra costa schools will be talked about at a meeting tonight. there was a fight between three girls and a transgender student. the bz transgender said he was being bullied before the fight. >>> we have new information about the man who was lit and killed by a car friday night near the dumbarton bridge toll plaza. he's 29-year-old louise angulo. police say he was walking on the southeast side of the -- on the east side of the bridge. police say alcohol was not a fac

so the way to play that is through usg and also through massco. >> what would you avoid? >> well, what we would avoid right now would be first-time home builders. there definitely is a lack of credit availability and household formation has been relatively depressed. and sos basically you want to favor the higher end home builders like toll as well as areas that see significant job growth like horton in texas and north dakota. >> sounds like you're ignoring some of the other high flying home builders then? >> we're being selective and in general you want to focus on those areas that are land constrained. the classic saying is that where you want to buy, there's limited supply and so if you focus on where the job growth is in the cities like toll brothers and also in southern california, kb homes, that's really the premier land locations roo it no. >> i'm glad you said the "s" word, supply is something we have not talked about nearly enough. when interest rates rose a little bit and signs of bumminess in housing all the negatives came out. the reality is you look at a town

the move to new york, the headquarters of the usgs and he was the first director. the second was john wesley powell. his personal life is what i want to mention briefly. i was astonished when i stumbled across it. help no one will hold this against and, but he was a sexually energetic in man, but he did not like white women. he loved native american women, and he loved black women. so one day in new york when he was well on in years, something like 60 indeed he saw coming toward him a black woman who he -- he thought, this is the creature of my dreams. what he should have done is to have gone up to her and said, good evening, madam, and plans king, director of the message she loved the survey, which you could have dinner. for some extra their reason he went after and said the current thinking very quickly to my good evening, madam. although i mean that quite i am in fact black and i am a supporter of the portland company, a job reserved for black people. no, she agreed. she was from misleading family in georgia. they had dinner, fell in love, married and had five c

on the phone with us, a usgs science adviser and, lucy, but gave a lecture entitled imagine america withoutdid you choose that title? >> well, the subtitle was natural disasters and the complexity of modern society. so we're not talking about killing everybody in los angeles. the life loss would probably be small. but our society's become increasingly complex and dependent upon the functioning of complex systems, electricity, water and now communication through the internet. and each time we make life better with modern society, we're increasing the vulnerability. and it has actually been 20 years since the last earthquake in the united states, north ridge, and -- [inaudible] worldwide web did not yet exist. and so think about everything about our economy that's dependent on that, and we really don't know how it's going to -- [inaudible] during a big earthquake. jenna: we're actually showing some amazing footage that we have from 1994. what is the scenario that you're projecting if an earthquake of this magnitude hit on the san andreas fault now? >> okay. so we're talking about the big san

according to the usgs, a 2.7 magnitude earthquake struck near san leandro. >>> harris has been sentencedy jail. he was convicted last night of misdemeanor domestic violence and assault charges. he needed facial surgery after a fight. they argued about the use of soy sauce during their meal. >>> this may be the last time the 49er fans can watch them play in candlestick part. the tickets are selling for about $250 a pop. seats closer to the field are going for more than $2,000 each. while these numbers sound expensive, it's a price fans are willing to pay. >> $1,000 or more that would be pretty bad, but i would probably still pay it. >> while it's a long shot, ticket price cost double if you want to get involved in the goodbye share, our farewell candlestick badge on facebook and tell us your favorite candlestick memory, tweet us your favorite memory. >>> stores nationwide are helping out shoppers by staying open for the next 87 hours straight. the toy stores are opened at 6:00 this morning. and guess what they'll keep them open until 9 p.m. on christmas eve. they can now benefit because t

also nice moves up in building product groups like usg. amasco up, 2, 3, 4%.le, semiconductor groups are piggy backing. ssd, this is a new 2 1/2 year high for the group, led by the broader names, broadcom, put up semiconductors here. this is piggy backing on apple story. sandis s sandisk, qualcomm. micron had a downgrade. micron's up over 200% for the year. so, that is not a statistically significant move down 4% on a downgrade for them. discussion about next year. i noted last week, a lot of the people i've talked to estimating stocks up mid single to mid double digits. 5 to 15% is a typical range i'm hearing. people have written saying how can you expect the market to go up again after up 27%? i don't know what the market's going to do in 2014. what i see going on, rising divide dividends, i see rising buy backs, modest economic expansion and mid single digit earnings growth, so far the estimate. put four together, i'd have a very hard time arguing that we should see some kind of drop in the market with those kinds of numbers, those facts, for 2014. so, i do