you have the same delivery philosophy as the actual postal service.hter) (cheers and applause) ben, jimmy, jenny, how about some songs? (cheers and applause) we'll be right back with a performance first time on television by the postal service. (cheers and applause) ex >> stephen: here with a song off their album "give up", ladies and gentlemen, the postal service. (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the freckles in our eyes aren't mir very images, i have to speculate ♪ god himself is made up into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay ♪ and true it may seem like a stretch but it starts like this is catch my trouble you're away when i am missing you ♪ and you were out there on the road for several weeks of shows and when you scan ♪ the radio i hope this song will guide you home ♪ they will see us waving from such great heights ♪ come down now they'll say, but everything looks perfect far away ♪ come down now but we'll stay ♪ i tried my best to leave this all on your machine ♪ but the persistent beat it sounded thin upon listening ♪ and fr

. >> represented polis, as postal , are theye calls treated the same abide the law when it comes to privacy? >> postal mail is a different category. physical parcels have in fact the most severe penalties for temperate. continuum, telephonic conversations which typically require a warrant to listen into under the patriot act with issues, thathave is putting it aside. when two americans are talking, that will be the most part taken. a lot of the digital communication whether e-mail or skype currently fall somewhere in the middle. what i argue it should be more similar to telephone conversations and the level of protection we have. what has be a reasonable due lawess around any enforcement interception. >> did you introduce this legislation in response to some of the revelations about the nsa? >> yes. it is a different issue. the nsa issue is not around listening to conversations. it is about phone records. phone records of americans talking to foreign nationals. it is permitted under the patriot act. i opposed the patriot act in part because i knew this sort of violation of privacy was allow

that you will be on your feet. >> reporter: the level of recruitment is turning heads, especially as the postal service has struggled to stay afloat. they've closed post offices and proposed cutting saturday deliveries as the digital age has cut into business. >> we still are looking for ways to cut costs, but while we are looking for ways to cut costs, we still need to survive. we still need to stay in business. and our letter carriers help us day in business. >> reporter: so the postal service is making its best pitch, hoping to recruit more than a few good carriers. >> this is a very nice company to work for. we've been around for 237 years. we've never laid a single employee off in the history. united states postal service. >> reporter: a pretty impressive statistic. you can find details on our website, nbc bay area.com. the starting rate is $15 an hour for those jobs. but they could put people on track for a full time position. >>> okay. thank you. we also have breaking news we're following now in san francisco. our nbc chopper is over the scene. rescue teams are out near the marina green.

postal service is hiring here in the bay area. jodi hernandez has more. >> reporter: they're known as the public face of the u.s. postal service.etter carriers who deliver mail to your doorstep each day. >> a nice job, a good job. it keeps you healthy. you're out in the fresh air. the hourly wage is decent. >> reporter: for the first time in two decades, the postal service is doing a mass recruitment. the bay area region needs 500 letter carrier assistants. temporary positions that could lead to a full-time job. >> we're looking for somebody who can, is fit, healthy, who can carry a workload of 70 pounds. so the physical requirements is you'll be on your feet most of the day. >> the postal service will be holding a job fare on monday to walk darr through the application process. but that level of recruitment is turning heads. especially as the postal service has struggled to stay afloat. they've closed post offices and have proposed cutting saturday deliveries as the digital age has cut into business. >> the fiscal problems remain. no doubt about it. we still have, we're looking for ways to cut costs. but while we're looking fo

as he sped off. she was hit in the leg but she was not seriously hurt. >>> despite cut backs, the u.s. postal service is hiring. how you can get a job in the bay area. that's coming up next. plus -- >> his arms are tired. i'm sure they are. >> that's a long way down. >> it is a very long way down. we will show you the death-defying stunt near the grand canyon and how a bay area company helped this tight roper make some history. >> another mess on the market. i do have some good news. gas prices look like they'll get lower and lower. i'll explain why coming up. >>> and now a special programming note. a change in our evening lineup. nbc bay area will air local news at 4:00 this afternoon. that's followed by nightly news with brian williams and then at 5:00 it's game six of the stanley cup finals between the blackhawks and the bruins. our local news will air after that game. enough about the book, i want to hear about your date. well, he showed up in a van. [ women ] oh-awww. [ voices in background ] [ female announcer ] swapportunity. the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a delicio

cathy cash of north carolina suffered a shoulder injury in 2004 while she was on her job as a postalrier. since she was injured, she wasn't able to load mail on to her truck so she's been receiving worker's compensation. the problem is while she was injured, she went on the price is right and got lucky enough to spin the big wheel. someone was watching. a september 2012 indictment filed against her worker's compensation claim stated cashwell raised her left arm above her harm gripped the handle and spinned the wheel again where she raise both arms above her head gripped the same handle and spun it very hard. sot if you are going to claim worker's compensation. >> bill: maybe you don't go on national television. exactly. >>> we touched on this briefly today. this story as grown and grown and grown and grown and i think it's a very troubling one. i would love to get your take on it. we are talking about the big government spying program. first reported in the guardian. it's interesting that no united states -- no u.s. newspaper knew about this program. it's been around since 2007. it s

. >> interesting too as far as the boxes, the can canadian postal service has come up with a very busy deco design that is really, it looks very, very nice but if you put a tag on it you can't see the tag. that's been extremely effective. those boxes get tagged i would say 1 in 10 compared to the older ones that have a nice gray surface. so that's been a very effective program and edmonton serves notice on the postal service to clean those boxes up and the telephone companies and the utility companies and they clean them up. >> question in the back? >> hi, you indicated that while conducting one of your surveys you found 90 percent of the graffiti was text only. >> yes. >> approximately how many pieces of graffiti was that 90 percent? i mean was it 50 --. >> in the 2012 audit, the graffiti that was found over that two-week period, 1,116 pieces of graffiti that were found. so 90 percent of that was text only. >> is that the same trend the other two years as well? >> that's a nice number, thanks. i had a second question. earlier in your presentation you mentioned, you made a comment abou

thankfully, a group of postal workers saw her and as you can see from this video look at that caught her as she fell. she is one lucky little girl. >> look at that. that is the most amazing video. >> i can't watch it. >> she was up and walking around, too. some of the workers were hurt as you said. but she is okay. >> that is incredible. >> my question to you, lawrence, is your stomach okay? [ laughter ] >> yes, kind of. [ laughter ] >> all morning long you were eating fried food at the alameda county fair. >> it was delicious! but yeah, i don't think i want any more fried food for a while. it was great out there. >>> we're kicking off summer with a lot of sunshine. looking good as we head in toward the afternoon. sunny skies over the bay. the temperatures now warming up in a hurry. 78 degrees in concord. 81 degrees in santa rosa. 73 in san jose. 70 in san francisco. the winds beginning to king breezy at sfo, 21 miles per hour. 12 in san francisco. 11 in san ramon. looking toward the north bay still got winds filtering in through the delta to 11 miles per hour antioch and 9 in vallej

they're known as the public face of the u.s. postal service. letter carriers who deliver mail to your doorstep each day. >> it's a nice job. it's a good job. it keeps you healthy. you're out in the fresh air. and the hourly rage is decent. >> reporter: and the post office is doing a mass recruitment. they need 500 letter carrier assistants. temporary positions that could lead to a full time job. >> we're looking for somebody who can, who is fit, is healthy, who can carey a work load of 70 pounds. some of the physical require. s

legally treated the same as u.s. postal mail?st: no, and that is one of the problems we have in terms of how we protect americans policy. there are walls decade old that determine what and what you cannot do with the mail. 20 years ago who would using e- mail? technology has gotten way out in front of the law. we need to say we live in a world that was unimaginable 30 years ago. no one had conceived of google or facebook or even email. one of the things we need to do is go back and make the laws linesore clear along the twitter.ebook and host: gene makes the comment big business does not give a stock option of business -- privacy only the illusion. next call is from eddie, independent and mission, texas. i am no constitutional expert, but i do believe the fourth amendment was designed .or innocent people they do not want them to face under scrutiny. i also have a question. congressman, do you feel foreigners who happen to be american citizens may face extra scrutiny because they may have family in the middle east or africa and ma

the reaction to susan rice's appointment as national se >>> a news4 exclusive. a postalorker speaks out after being sexually assaulted at knife point. what the suspect said just before he let her go. >>> welcome back to news4 at 4:00. i'm barbara harrison in for jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. an investigation into two violent home invasions in northeast. police say two suspects broke into a house on 2nd and channing street and stole money and personal items before trying to sexually assault the female homeowner. police are investigating to try to determine if this incident is connected to an attempted home invasion an hour earlier a few blocks away. >>> rescue teams say they will work through the night until they know that everyone has been pulled out of the rubble of a four-story building in philadelphia. that building collapsed onto another building around 10:30 this morning. one person has died, 13 others have been rescued, most with minor injuries. the building was under construction but they still don't know what caused it to collapse. >>> and some good news fo

and the nationals sending a big name player to the dl, as news4 at 6:00 continues. >>> a postal worker is breaking her silence for the first time since a disturbing attack. that woman was sexually assaulted during her lunch break last month in silver spring. tonight a man has been arrested, but the victim says her life will never be the same. pat collins has the report. >> reporter: this man, arrested and charged in the post office rape case. 47-year-old dennis nathan carpenter picked up in the district. law enforcement sources say he was identified through dna, that he had a rape conviction in prince george's county back in the '90s, that on the day of the sex assault, he escaped from a d.c. halfway house where he was doing time for an attempted robbery. all this as the victim speaks out. today i talked to the clerk who was raped behind this post office in woodmore. we call her lily. for obvious reasons, we're concealing her identity. >> did you think he might kill you? >> yeah. he said he was. >> what did he say? >> he was going to cut me up and put me in a dumpster. >> reporter: it

i'm sure as i do with everybody i smiled at him as he walked by and he smiled back. >> in fact postal worker bill papas saw the man sitting on the curb with his coworker near the back entrance to the post office. >> she was sitting at the curb with a fellow with his arm around her and i thought they were boyfriend and girlfriend and it didn't occur to me that anything was wrong but when i came back i saw two policemen and a supervisor there. >> at the boast office the supervisor on duty declined a comment -- at the post office. the victim was doing kay but had not returned to work -- doing okay. >> carpenter is locked up in the district and was scheduled to go before the judge this afternoon. why was he under the supervision of federal bureau of prisons and still able to leave his d.n.a. at an crime scene? in the fox 5 newsroom i'm paul wagoner. >> a wanted man maybe regretting posting a message on facebook. police had been looking for him since september. gilliam responded to a recent post from queens -- queen anne's bridge. >> up next first lady confronts a heckler at an event plus

as, quote, a pack of animals. they work in numbers and that's where they get their strength from, unquote. live in san jose, damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >>> if you want a job, the postalnd recruiting in a big way in san jose. it's one of the agency's most aggressive recruiting campaigns in decades. candidates, as you see, lined up this morning. despite the slumping numbers of mail service, the post office needs more letter carriers, 500 open positions, 15 bucks an hour to deliver the mail. >> we've lost 25% of our mail volume. whether it's one piece or whether it's seven pieces, it still needs to be delivered and needs a person to deliver it. >> it's a temporary job that could lead to full-time work. if you missed today's sessions, you can still apply online. >>> an interesting move by niemaeiman marcus. let's bring in scott budman with today's headlines. >> we'll start with stocks. last week they tumbled because of concerns that the federal reserve would stop injecting money into our economy even though the end of those money injections would come because of strength in our economy. wall street doesn't like uncertainty and it got more this morning when the shanghai c

or as the dogs call it, national bite the humans harder week. it's something the postal p. they released a list where mail carriers are most actively attacked by dogs. the number one city is los angeles, california. i don't know why you would applaud that. there were 69 afax on postal carriers in l.a. last year. although, to be fair, some of those came from gary bucci. so they're asking residents, please keep your dogs zipped up in your purses at mail delivery time. thank you. i have what i hope is my final update on the justin bieber monkey crisis. at the end of march, justin bieber attempted to bring his pet monkey malli to germany. he didn't have the necessary paperwork to bring a monkey into the country. so authorities have confiscated the animal and put him into quarantine. they want to make sure the monkey isn't carrying bieber fever or anything like that. all he had to do was fill out a form and pay a fine. but he didn't. the germans gave him an ultimatum. if he didn't claim the monkey by midnight tonight or we're going to keep it for good. you better take this monke

postal carriers who walk the streets everyday. they know who lives in every house and they get a close up look as they deliver the mail. the police say it is an invaluable tool for fighting crimes like residential and vehicle burglary. >> it is a huge resource multiplier for us. these are people who are actively engaged in the community and are activity participating in making antioch a safer community. >> the workers are not supposed to try to stop a crime, only to report what they see. they can be a kind of traveling neighborhood watch when many people are away at work. it is a community taking responsibility for its own security in a time of dwindling government resources. in antioch, john ramos, kpix 5. >> antioch is a city of about 105,000 people, but we have learned there can be as few as five patrols spread across the city at a given time. >>> groups of people holding signs wearing hoodies in oakland this afternoon in support of trayvon par tin. >> we are all trayvon martin. >> the 17-year-old martin was wearing a hoodie and was unarmed when he was fatality shot by former neighborhood watchman george zimmerman l

as you said. losing 25 million per day. $30 billion over last three years. the postal is in real trouble because people are moving away from male. first class mail has declined 37% of the last decade. and so we have to have a new model. one thing the postal service does really well is deliver the mail. we need the forces of competition and innovation of the private sector. gerri: all right. well, that is exactly where i was going next commissar for interrupting. your idea is really all about that last mile. so you would leave that for the u.s. ps to do. then the rest of the job would be done by the private sector. how would you get those two groups tortilla the? >> well, the way we do it right now, the postal service delivers around 20 percent of fedex packages. they basically just charge fedex of the command is cheaper for them to have postal carriers deliver the fedex package. that would be the model for the entire male system where private carriers -- it works for them to get into the marketplace. they could display the postal service to deliver last mile. gerri: th

as a mentioned before, we will talk about father's day and the minutes. right now it is nice. 66 downtown. [ male announcer ] with free package pickup from the united states postal service a small design firm can ship like a big business. just go online to pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. we'll do the rest. ♪ >> it is almost father's day, but one community decided to celebrate it a day early. they were treated to braatz and great food at the recreation center. they played some games and even some team sports. the workshops we had today were centered on advancing fatherhood, seen what they can do in their community and in their families, as well as financial things to help with employment. >> the men's ministries played a key role in today's father's day event. >> now your 11 news weather plus forecast with john collins. >> it was nice today. there is some rain getting close to us out in western pennsylvania, getting up into the mountains. this is not the ring we are talking about four tomorrow. the stuff is going to shoot east. but there are some clouds associated with it. we will begin to see cloudiness overnight tonight. it is just an indi

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postal service®, no business too small. >> greta: what does senator mccain think of ambassador susan rice named as national security advisor what about appointment of ambassador rice? >> the president gets to choose his national security advisor. i -- i think that what she told the american people on every sunday morning show in america, including fox was false. she should have known better and sthe not only depicted the act itself as a spontaneous demonstration caused by a hateful video but went on to say al qaeda is d decimated and the party line is that everything was fine in the world because we got bin laden soit wasn't just her -- depiction of what happened at the consulate in benghazi it was the entire schtick she gave. but the president has the right to appoint people he wants. elections have consequences and i don't agree with her, i'm strong disagreement. i won't have picked her to say the least. but now, she's been selected, we have a syria problem, al qaeda problem. we have extremists all over the middle east. we have iran moving towards nuclear weapons a china continues to hack. we have a -- a more difficult a

postal service that they were selected as the sole award eee of that solicitation.ou in competition. there were a lot of analysts wondering if they would offer reduced rates, it says that it does provide reduced rates but that's a question on the conference call is what the margins are now now that they reduced the rates. >> i don't see -- i don't see an estimate for the year. i see the estimate at 713 but i don't see what the forecast is. for next year. because this was the final quarter of the fiscal year. and the stock now is -- >> it was up. >> it's 99.50 bid. >> brett smith is a remarkable guy. an unusual combination of entrepreneur and operator. he had the vision to start the company. when he got -- by the way the same paper he wrote he got a c-minus. he had the idea and the execution has been spectacular. how he's embraced technology. great company and a great guy, by the way. a great american. >> 7 to 13% on the earnings per share. increase. also assumes the current market outlook for fuel prices, assumes that u.s. gdp grows. what's the number for this year?

postal carriers who walk the streets everyday. they know who lives in every house and they get a close up look as they deliver the mail. the police say it is an invaluable tool for fighting crimes. >> it is huge resource multiplier for us. these are people who are actively engaged in the community and participating to make antioch a greater community. >> the workers are only to report what they see. they can be traveling the neighborhood watch when many people are away at work. it is a community taking this control of their resources. >> antioch is a city of about 105,000 people as few as five patrols can be spread across that city at any given time. >>> the u.s. supreme court weighed in today. kpix 5's mike sugerman on how the popular food snack has touched off a legal fight. >> news from the u.s. supreme court raising a stink. >> spring it on us, red. >> tell us what's cookin. >> the high court has said raisin farmers can challenge allowed depression era law to force farmers to give up some of their crops so prices can be controlled by keeping the number of raisins on the market constant. raising and lowering the num

postal service®, no business too small. lou: breaking news. tropical storm andrea making land fall in florida's big bend area as you see there. a stor the atest update showing the first named storm of the atntic season. winds are rising to 6 # 5 miles per hour. government forecasters now say andrea should weak after having made land fall. in what remains of the stor continues to move up the east coast,moving north tomorrow and saturday and the northeast will be feelng the results. turning back to the irsscandal, next guest says freedoms of religion, assembly, petitionat risk because of the growing powers and buses of the internal revenue svice. here to talk about as well what happened to his organization for the first time ever, tony pkins. he's going to be revealing for the fir time ever what happened. toe -- ty, i'm delighted to say, a frequent guest of the broadcast. >> good to see you. i did't know you do the weather. lou: i do whatever is news, and that is news. that storm, as ewe saw that was quite -- is quite something. wegot a storm bewing as ell when christian organizations, evangelical organizatio like your own are,

postal inspection service are working several different and dangerous cases trying to track the dangerous poison ricin to numerous public officials as you mentioned president obama. let's start in texas. federal law enforcement officials have confirmed to fox news that a new person has been questioned in connection with three letters, to the president and mayor bloomberg and the another person. they tested positive for ricin but at very low concentration. the man has not been charged but officials confirmed they were acting from a tip from the man's wife alleging suspicion pictures activity. five different letters were sent and three contained rici. they were mailed to the president, a judge and air force base and to the central intelligence agency. letter addressed to the c.i.a. has yet to be located. this man, matthew ryan beckett. 38 years old has been charged by a grand jury indictment for mailing threatening communications. he has been arrested in the past and convicted of a sex crime in the late '90s. they are actively searched for the letter addressed to the c.i.a. and these two investigations follow the arrest of a mississip

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