she -- we found several of these in the attic, adhesive boxes. she also, of course, collected a lot of things to use in the field. one of the really bags that i like is the salt bag from the period. salt was very, very important to the diet. many of the foods were preserved in salt. of course, people liked to use salt as a spice, so salt was really a premium during the war. a little more socially we found up there in the attic one of these carpet slippers. actually, we found more than one of them, but we just have one out here. believe it or not, this is a carpet slipper that you would lounge around with in the house, probably belonged to edward shaw. men at that time wore very fancy things, especially when they were at home, smoking jackets and smoking caps and carpet slippers, that kind of thing. so it's really not very unusual. down on the end here we have an oil haverstack, an oil cloth haverstack, it has an oil cloth book in here from 1857 that we believe belonged to edward shaw, and another thing is we're going through the inventory and cat

we have lvl's running to the exterior walls and they just move from the roof to the attic. the ceiling instead of on the roof. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. today i met with -- i have the contractor come into dbi with the approved plans, he looked at the details, he spoke to the design engineer for the project on the phone. it went over the calculations. the span of the ldl's are per approved plans. that is on the revision permits. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer them. >> the revision permit is also appealable? >> there is a special conditions permit that gets issued after the board makes a decision. that is not appealable. >> that is the permit we're talking about that has the structural elements that have changed. >> what happened is the removed the roof deck. if it did get issued. that showed that is where the roof will be framed with the revised permit and if there is any other special conditions permit. >> there was just the board's notice of decision without special conditions permit. the board struck the scope of work that was under

>> i do not think so. >> to convert an existing empty attic into a storage attic? that does not sound like you are converting it into the living area. the a sensible addition would be converting it into a living area. >> it is usually by a letter that pulls down. a staircase would have to be deliverable area with a valid staircase. >> thank you. >> adding a bathroom, adding a ron shipp is a sensible. we see a lot of people putting elevators as our population, including us, ages. >> or houses are getting more vertical. >> that is right. no permit is required for a tool shed that is less than 100 square feet of area looking down, bird's eye view. less than 100 square feet, no permit is required. without a permit, there is no trigger for an assessment. >> you could go up two stories? >> no, actually. the planning department has a height limit of i think 10 feet in the required the rear yard area. eight or 10 feet. [laughter] keep your hot tub in your toolshed. >> in this market, if you bought your house recently and you are thinking about doing one of these that you t

i would next rain can you get in the attic where that space is. >> no attic. >> when you do the repairs are you taking it down and refix it? >> the repairs are not bad enough to warrant doing any. >> i recommend you make them bad enough if it's something you are concerned there is moisture getting to that part of the ceiling before you repaint and do all that you may want to put a hole there and get at the next rain and see if there is moisture coming down unless there is another way to get in that void to see it. you could have someone look from top. being cold not a problem. if it's moist that's telling me there is a leak. >> access to a moisture detector. ? a tool. >> yeah. it will give you a reading of moisture. if the meter goes, whoof, you have a problem. >> take one of my cards, give me a ring use one of the city moisture meters. it has 2 probes to stick in there. i was going to ask the way to handle dutch guterce. >> dutch gutters. in san francisco we have a particular problem. houses are all next to each other you can't drain our house to the side because there is somebody's ho

more and more snow is coming from the eaves of the attic and out of the events of the attic. -- moreing from the eaves of the attic and out of the events of the attic. -- vents of the attic. >> in tonight's consumer alert, wegmans has been ranked the nation's favorite supermarket changain. rounding out the top five were trader joe's, fairways, and cosco. there was still a common complaint regarding eight shortage of checkout lines. the future is brighter for this year's college grads. they can expect more job opportunities and fatter paychecks. the top five -- five fields that are hiring include engineering, business majors, accounting, computer science, and economics. the average salary for those fields is $40,000 a year, with engineers making the most with a starting salary of a little more than it $58,000 a year. producing more goods and services than before the economic slump, but here's the catch. we're doing that with 6 million fewer workers. according to the labor department, the nation's workers are keeping up with that by doing more work. and for example, banking transaction

tony has been the bell-selling authors of confederates in the attic, voyages long and strange as well as the chronicle of captain cook's navigation of the globe three times, which he did personally as well. >> not three times. >> not three times. and, of course, his newest midnight rising, which is about john brown and the events that changed the course of american history forever. tony's also a pulitzer prizewinning journalist. he worked for the "wall street journal" and "new york times." he's a very, very dear friend. one of the things about tony is he really and truly has a notion that we at the journey like to say that we put people in the boots of those who went before us in order for them to know as david mccullough toll us years ago, those people who lived long ago didn't know they were living long ago. tony one-ups it. not only do our programs try to put students and visitors and teachers into the boots of those long ago, tony, as he writes here, wants to get not into their boots but into their minds. he's done that with every book he's written, and it transports us to times a

for "confederates in the attic," i really have to tell you. you trooped around more battlefields with more bloated bodies to get into the mind of the re-enactors and those. with john brown, given all that you've done and know about this man, what was the most profoundly riveting thing, once you get into his mind, that you found compelled him to this lifelong ambition of ridding slavery from this country? and with his preparation to die for it. >> right. yeah. i mean, the wonder with this story is, yeah, i went to the places where the history happened and walked in his footsteps in kansas and harper's ferry and other places, but we also have his letters and we have his writing and the letters of all of his family. these were wonderfully literate people, and brown, though not a well-educated man, had a wonderful writing style. thank god his handwriting is legible, which i learned is not the case. there's one character in the story where you just simply can't -- you can turn it upside-down, you try all those tricks. you open your eyes and close t

i give you two hours in the attic. will poke around together if we find anything to with it, if you don't find anything come to your paper is due in 10 days. [laughter] go find something else for your topic. okay, okay it's a deal. so we came back saturday morning, start routing around and actually the very first thing we found was an incredibly x-rated poem from the 18 tens, which could be my student was worrying because it didn't phase him at all. but basically the second thing that we pulled out of this attic and i was rooting around i find this big, big bundle of 19th century document tied up in a yellow silk ribbon that clearly hadn't been undone in a very long time. on the outside of this bundle was the rapper with the words, major amorous letters regarding the resignation from the united states army spring 1861. [laughter] i took a deep breath, looked at it again to make sure it's with what i thought i seen and handed it to my student and i said chen, one thing you should know, it's not always this easy. but on

some of the really, really interesting finds that we got in the attic were socks. we got -- we found many, many, many socks, and -- and sock tops and tock bottoms that were separated as well as lots of rags and pieces of cloth. what i love about these is that the soldier's footprints are still in these socks, and you can see this one, it looks like quite a bit of blood on that sock. clara would have taken these from the hospitals and collected them because socks were at a premium, and they would have wanted to reuse as much material as possible, and back in the 19th century, the way you did that, was you could separate the top of the sock from the bottom because you can see the bottom is where most of the wear takes place. you've got holes in the heels and toes, that kind of thing. you can reuse the top and throw away the bottom part so she would have gathered up as much of those as possible so that she could join new sock tops or old sock tops to new sock bottoms, and then those some could be used again. very conservative way to look at things, and i suspect what

flames spread quickly from the ground floor the attic. >> a common attic and aggressive firefighterringto keep the thing from going left and right. the number two unit is the only one lost. >> alan: the fear department got assistance from san jose, and the red cross is assisting people. >> ama: in southern california a flightening fire. >> i thought it was bomb, heap forbid. it was bad. it was -- yeah, the flames were shooting up. >> ama: check out those pictures. happened yesterday in coachella. a truck carrying two propain tanks couldn't handle the desert heed, and the truck started to leak. >> when the driver tried to secure the leave, the static electricity charge was completed by him touching the valve. >> ama: the driver was the only person injured with minor burns. three other people in the truck got out safely. >> alan: astronomers say a loud explode was likely caused by a meteor. people called in about a loud boom and shaking. residents reported seeing a bright meteor streaking across the sky just before 8:00 this morning. about the same time the meteor shower was peaking and s

lock your kids in the attic. that's the kind of town you're dealing with. as we're seeing this through the idse of scout, a child, we have -- through the eyes of scout, a child, we have to dig into it ourselves to see what's going on and once you do you realize that atticus doesn't have a chance. there's nobody to appeal to. he's going to lose. and the moral of "to kill a mockingbird" isn't that atticus finch is a great lawyer or the lawyer that we should follow. the moral of the book and the movie is that the republican lawyer won't work any more. we need a new kind of lawyer. the only way to clean up a town like this is to bring in the federales. you know, everybody's got to go to jail. i mean, these -- you know, if you think about it, who is the real hero of "to kill a mockingbird"? who's the one who sees clearly? it's not atticus finch. he's not even a very intelligent father. i love him. i love him. but who lets your kids out in the middle of the night wearing -- dressed as farm animals and fruit when there's a craze killer who's vowed to get them? you

lock your kids in the attic. that's the kind of town you're dealing with. as we're seeing this through the idse of scout, a child, we have -- through the eyes of scout, a child, we have to dig into it ourselves to see what's going on and once you do you realize that atticus doesn't have a chance. there's nobody to appeal to. he's going to lose. and the moral of "to kil

they are focused in the attic portion of this home on barneson. should know a little more as the morning continues. sue thompson, abc7 news. >>> in pacifica, fire investigators will return to the scene of a deadly house fire that claimed the lives of a child and his great-grandfather. 13 were in the house when the fire started, 11 were able to get out, some from a second floor window. a middle school aged boy and his great-grandfather were not able to escape. >> some who were able to evacuate did report there were possibly two people still inside. >> the cause of this fire yesterday morning has not been determined. neighbors say the great-grandfather had only moved to the bay area from mexico three months ago >> rescue of several injured sailors continues this morning. they are expected to arrive in san francisco bay later today. they were competing in an around the world race when a large wave over took their yacht. >> reporter: keep in mind these are amateurs they pay to race with a professional captain. the ocean doesn't care who you are, that'

one is the location of the water heater and one is the skylight. >> he just said it is in the attic. the original was supposed to be on the roof. the revised permit is not on the roof but in a different location inside the unit. commissioner hillis: we could revise the original permit to remove the roof deck, put the hot water heater in the unit, and make no rivet -- and take out any revisions. >> that is what my thought was. >> how would we address his desire to have skylights? >> that would require an application for a revised permit. >> mr. duffy. >> on the revision permit, i did not see the skylights. there was an existing skylight on the original permit and it was to be made bigger on the original permit. they did have an existing skylight before this all started, just to point it out. it is really unfortunate that we do not have the revision permits or plans in front of lust. i do not know why they are not here. i have not a clue that was approved. we are talking about something without seeing a plan. that is difficult for everybody. commissioner fung: in your opinion, the rele

we were digging through some papers in the attic. there were all these peach baskets and bushels and boxes stuffed with family papers, about 30,000 pages of family papers it would eventually turn out. one of my students became very interested in a particular member of this family. we've been told by decedents through the oral history that there was a man in the family who in 1861 had to face a very difficult choice over which side he was going to go with, as many marylanders did. this student of mine, a guy named jim, became very interested in this story. jim is a marine interested in military history and said he wanted to get to the bottom of this dilemma faced in early 1861. he said he wanted to write his term paper using the papers up in the attic of this house. and i said, gosh, jim, you know, there are 13 generations of papers. there is no guarantee you're going to find anything from 1861 about this guy, but he persisted. we went back. we started looking for the papers. one of the first things i pulled out of a box was a bundle

and the attic was used for nothing in lincoln's time. i mean, it was a barn of a house. the only known picture of the east room as lincoln knew it is this one. this came from a flea market in ellicott city, maryland. but you had to piece it together. the ceiling was painted in franklin pierce's time. the chandeliers came in under andrew jackson and were made into gas by polk in 1847. and the furniture is all from various times. the mantelpiece is from franklin pierce. but it was changed very quickly by andrew johnson because it was so worn out. and this is the lincoln east room. this is where it was as -- more or less as finished by andrew jackson in 1829-30. it was completely remodeled by general grant. and all the parts in '73 for his daughter's wedding. and all the ports vanished. nobody knows where those light fixtures and things were. but some of the furniture has surfaced and is back at the white house. when lincoln dined in the state dining room, they used the plateau which james monroe had bought in the era of good feelings in france, had his agents buy. it's rar

he was having sex with his students come he was making pornography up in his attic and in the university he was engaged in some any business or finton stodieck chollet brought about what massive damage to his florida and other regions because he was so abusive to himself, so he isn't a normal guy that is the major proponent of the idea that children are sexual from birth and they can be unharmed by sex with adults. >> given that this happened in 1948 to the kinsey studies? >> absolutely huge. i had no idea when i start on this things. i just study dolph with the school finance are being done a lot of these children's and calling them organisms are o'clock. i thought, okay, i will go do something else, they will take care of it. but there was 1980, so they didn't take care of it and it took me years to find out why and it turned out that yes, the research began the foundation for major changes, every major change and have gone through to today globally. i just came back from a global tour. can see is everywhere, in which hannah ike believe and in serbia and switzerland and sweden and holl

he was having sex with students, making pornography in his attic and in the university, he was engaged in so many bizarre things, including things that actually brought about damage to his lower nether regions because he was so abusive to himself. so this is not a normal guy. and he certainly was the major, major proponent of the idea that children are sexual from birth and they can be unharmed by sex with adults. >> host: given that's happened in 1948, are there lasting effects to the kinsey studies? >> guest: huge. absolutely huge. i had no idea when i start on this thing. i really didn't. i just copied off his charts and graphs with this little two-month-old baby and with this little five-year-old and all these things were being done to these children and calling them orgasms around the clock? i just copied them off and i september it to my -- sent it to my colleague in the ethical field of science, and i thought, okay, i'm going to do something else. they'll take care of it. that what in 1980. they didn't take care of it. and it took me years to figure out why, and it turned out th

the flames spread from the ground floor to the attic. >> the common attic and a lot of a uh tbres sigh fire fighting went on. you can seat number two unit was the only one lost. >> they got some help from the san jose fire department. the red cross is assisting several people who were displaced by that fire. >>> the sheriff will face a commission who will look at how to proceed with the case. the commission will then submit a recommendation to the board of supervisors who will take a vote on whether to remove him from office. he will be charged on unofficial charges. >> former presidential candidate john edwards goes on trial tomorrow for a high profile scandal to derail the personal and political life. he is accused of using illegal campaign funds to cover an affair. bob woodruff has more. >> how are you feeling? >> the case is sure to be one of the most scandalous political trials in years. on the witness list, the candidate's mistress, rielle hunter, the mother of edwards' four-year-old daughter. and also set to testify kate edwards. kate has been standing by her father since he was

attic, definitely a busy morning this was a two-alarm fire.l keep you posted. sue thompson, abc7 news. >>> 5:22. >>> we are going to shift gears, fame face we know and love returns to morning tv, this morning right here on abc7, next. >>> blockbuster movie weekend. can any of the new films take on "the hunger games?" the m consider this -- a mouthwash with maximum fluoride, strong enough to rebuild tooth enamel, yet gentle enough for sore mouths. new act sensitiv strong teeth, fresh breath. in a sensitive formula. >>> moviegoers are still hungering for the hunger game the first installment based on the popular book trilogy earned 61 million dollars to take the top spot for a second weekend in a row. the it has earned 250 one million dollars in the u.s. alone in just 10 days. that's well ahead of the number two movie, wrath of the titans. titans pulled in 34 million dollars in its debut weekend. wrath is the sequel to clash of the titans. mirror mirror third, followed by 21 jump street. dr. seuss' the lorax rounds out the top five. >>> nice to

the fire began in a pile of flammable items in the entry way and spread to the attic. >> the company made specialized cut to prevent the fire from entering the second duplex and were successful on that. >> the second unit only suffered flight damage. the fire started around 9:00 this rning. the rain has passed and the soggy ground is causing problem in the bay area. this morning a tree tipped over and damaged the home in oakland. part of the tree is also leanning on a power pole and the oakland fire department tells us that a wire came down in the front yard. pg&e said it is not affecting the service in the area. ground is saturated from the rain and sent an entire hill side slide bringing a big tree and power lines down with it. a stretch of the road between red rock and oakland was closed last night. it is expected to reopen. severe weather is poised to hit a large portion of the u.s.. >> oh, god, it is coming. >> it is coming on the heels of a tornado in oklahoma. a super sized storm system is moving in the midwest right now. 5.5 million americans is falling under the threat of th

people are on the top of what would normally be the attic. the roof was ripped off. amazingly, no serious injuries. these are captured by the abc affiliate in dallas and it shows the power of a tornado ripping through. this midafternoon twister put these tractor-trailers' skyward. >> look at that. unbelievable. i've never seen anything like this, lifting up these huge trailers and slanging them around like they are nothing. >> the carnage was breathtaking. trailer's stacked on top of each other. across the road, this trailer sliced in two. reports of two tornadoes touching down multiple times unleashing destruction on buildings and neighborhoods. you can see the first responders and citizens searching for victims, in this case checking in a main gold and recognizable -- mangled rv. >> they stopped to look at the extraordinary sight of a tornado. in other cases -- they sought shelter under the cover of a gas station. >> it looks to me about golf ball-sized hail. >> the unpredictable nature of a twister never ceases to amaze. the root of this home is gone, positions ru

this one had been built so no one would see it, like an attic accessed through a hidden floor. the structure was rectangular, like a cupboard. i touched its face with probing, diagnostic fingers, measuring it my eyes. 3 feet tall, 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep. i got up on my haunches and lightly dusted off the granaries roof which was undamaged. for 3,000 years not a breeze had entered this chamber, not an inkling of light. what tightly woven baskets were here, what woven textiles, what stockpile of cob

both the roof and the attic severely damaged there. luckily nobody home at the time. nobody still knows exactly what caused that blaze. >>> and investigators are trying to find the cause of another house fire. this left a d.c. firefighter injured. the flames swept through the second floor and the attic of a home in southeast this morning. a firefighter suffered minor injuries, nobody else was hurt. >>> taxi cab fares could be going up. the head of the taxi cab commission says a new fare system could be in place by april 21 if the commission goes along. the new fares would be $2.16 a mile. instead of the current $1.50. the washington examiner reports that it could take until may for all of the cabs to have their meters recalibrated. >>> a new report this everyoning outlines the most pressing transportation project needed in maryland. a d.c. based think tank put it together. a topnotch transportation system is vital to the state's success. >> we found the state's transportation system remains the backbone of the state's economy and that the state looks into the future,

of the pike township fire department tried to stop the fire, but when they realized that the entire attic and roof were on fire, they realized this is going to collapse. they all evacuated the home. the whole thing burned down. it was total loss of this home. >> the homes that were beside this home, were they damaged? >> two homes were next to the fire, they didn't catch fire but the molding closest to this house melted. >> was anybody injured? >> everybody in the home was able to leave in time and none of the firefighters were hurt either. >> it looks like the entire block is on fire. >> i feel like i can feel the heat of it. take a look at some of the aftermath of the fire. >> does insurance cover this? >> flood is an act of god, but if you have flood specific insurance, they should have be protected. so if they have fire insurance they should be protected. >> there's a raccoon in this car. when the guy goes to get it out, what happens? >> it flies at him. very nervous. >> see how it ends. >>> and look at this video. he pops the question and it looks like a dang movie. >> you set a new

firefighters say the fire spread into the attic of the storage unit but didn't reach any apartments. witnesses saw someone light something on fire and throw it into the storage unit. >>> san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi asked a judge to rumove the city's attorney's office against the case against him. they have a conflict of interest because they are representing mayor ed lee in the proceedings. a hearing is set for april 19. >>> the california supreme court ruled employers do not have to make workers take breaks. a group of workers sued saying abuses are widespread. but the court sided with the businesses, saying requiring companies is unmanageable. >> we are pleased with the decision. we believe it is a common sense ruling to the issue. >> california is one of a few states that impose as penality for not providing breaks. >>> they scrapped a plan for initial public offering last night. bright source energy blamed the move on adverse market conditions. the cancellation is sparked concern other solar companies will have a difficult time going public. regulator issued a manning la

mit asell t yo money in a shoebox in the attic. roger asks, "the question for millions of americans find ways what, if anything, is the next president going to do for me?" >> mitt romney said in a speech recently that if you work hard and take some risks -- a word president, never uses -- there will be the opportunity for a better life in america. no guarantees, take risks, work hard, no governnt safety net, whicis what present obama promises. we will free the free enterprise system to work for you. forget about the government working for you. free enterprise will take care of you. >> president obama -- what is he going to do it for the person with money in the shoebox? >> he will try to keep the economy moving ahead so that the next person can survive to the next paycheck, and a robust recovery. a steady-as-you-no, we will move out of it together collectively, safety net for those who fall beneath. that is not bold. that is perhaps reassuring, but who is asking the question, what are you going to do for me? the mitt romney prescri

. >> i am an ex attics -- adict. i won the employee of the month award, and one day i was let go. my job was everything to me. but was the structure i had to learn in the program, because i did a program for 15 months. i am now the proud, law-abiding taxpaying citizen who lost my job. now i am unemployed, and it is devastating, so today i am doing things to better my future. next month i am going to try to get a certificate of rehabilitation. i am in america, and this is the land of opportunity. people from other countries come here, and they get a chance to make their lives and right, and i want the chance to make my life right. from the mistakes i made in the past. >> i am going to call the next five. [list of names] >> commissioners, first, i would like to thank you for calling this an important hearing on the war on drugs. san francisco will have to cause a war on the government to get justice. i have recommendations. one of the recommendations is we need a coalition of counties in california. we need a coalition of cities and politicians and people of like minds, and educator

another broke out and spread to the attic. the mercury news is reporting it started from flammable items in the entry way of one of the duplexes. it's been four weeks since the disappearance of sierra lamar. many showed up in morgan hill in hopes of finding any clues. volunteers searched near her home in morgan hill placing pink ribbons on anything of interest. divers searched the water of two nearby reservoirs saying they found nothing linked to the case. family members say they are not giving up hope. each day brings more pain. >> it's getting tougher. we are really anxious to find out something and to -- it's been almost a month now. still -- still not any strong lead or anything, yet. yeah, we are starting to get anxious. >> so far, police spent more than 9,000 hours on the case. the 15-year-old girl was last seen on march 16th. >>> the lightning storm that hit the bay area provided unforgotable images. tonight, we are learning about unforgettable images. two brothers struck by lightning and survived to tell the story. we

the flames spread the ground floor to the attic. within unit was gutted.the red cross was -- one unit was gutted. the red cross was called to help those displaced. >>> meteor smashing into the sierra yesterday morning people record a sonic boom that rattled windows across several counties. scientists say the meteor probably came from a debris cloud. >> my dogs jumped. >> it was just a bright green flash with a tail on it. it looked metallic, sort of reflective-like as it shot across the sky. >> meteor shower produced by the comet is peaking and most visible in the northern hemisphere. >>> a very special soccer ball will board with a flight from alaska to japan next machine after floating 5,000 miles across the pacific following last year's tsunami one of the first pieces of debris washed ashore in alaska from the tsunami. it blockedded to a 16-year-old boy who lost -- lost his home and possessions. the ball was found by an alaska man while he was beach combing he plans to personally fly the ball back to the teen in may. >>> [ unintelligible ] >> it was lik