thompson. >> and then barth. >> and then barth. [laughter] >> i'll wait for 'em. >> dr. thompson -- [inaudible] >> dr. thompson is in the lab. so that's the voice of george bond, as you might have guessed, who's in the control van which is up on the surface on a kind of barge acting like a kind of mission control. and you can kind of hear a little bit the camaraderie that goes on with bond there, i mean, a very serious enterprise underway, but they're kind of joking around, you can hear the guys can't help laughing in the background at the helium voice even though they've heard it before, and informality in that there's no particular order. these are the first guys, who's next? i don't know, i think manning and thompson and wart, and then it turns out dr. thompson turns up next. so he's the second one in the lab. at the beginning we heard george bond with, believe that is robert a. barth. no, it's anderson. oh, anderson. whoever, it's all good. so that's the early days of sealab. it was successful enough that it, the navy was buying into this more, the budget was getting

barth is onboard. he refers me to mezzoni, and he seems to be onboard. and then about a less than a month after i had this nice meeting with barth in florida, i call him up because i've got this question about a report i found that suggested that one of the key pieces of diving gear they were using in much of the early sealab experiments called the mark 6 had some problems. and i wanted to understand what those were because that was part of the total picture of the challenges that these guys faced in addition to being in the water and being cold and breathing strange mixtures of gas and the rest of it. but this report clearly indicated that something was up, and i kind of knew that this was maybe early on in my relationship with bob to be asking about things like this, but i was still just getting to know people. so i went to him and, um, and here's part of our conversation. >> was it your experience and did you guys have -- i read some reports here that talked about quite a few problems or potential problems with the equipment, minor/major malfunctions

and -- barth refers -- and dr. bond refers the question,. >> barth has been with the program longer than any other man in it. bob, would you care to pass on a word? why you're here? >> i got started with the program working with dr. bond in new london. i don't really recall when i volunteered. i don't believe i have yet. [laughter] >> we just work at an organization out there that started the work on the idea of man living under pressure for a long time, with captain bond myself and a few of us sitting around, and win from genesis on to sealab i and sealab ii, and just had a permanent job. like i said, i don't remember volunteering. >> are you now volunteering? >> oh, yeah. >> i'd say that's a very good question. go on to the next question. >> so again, you can hear the camaraderie, and bond, very modest, and this was -- in some funny ways another challenge for me was, hey, you were the first person to do some high-risk pioneering stuff here, tell me about it you get the answer like, genesis, two gabs in the lab an

wind advisory sign for the san mateo bridge westbound traffic barth the toll live shot.o accidents now to slow you down around the bay area it is looking good. a live shot of the bay bridge delay-free in and out of san francisco at this point, we'll also check out the south bay 280 and 17 interchange headlights northbound 280 out of the downtown area this is highway 17 heading northbound out of the santa cruz mountains. there's some roadwork going on and quite a3k bit on the 680 stretch through san ramon valley area between san ramon and through danville, both directions lanes blocked until 6:00 this morning. even eastbound 24 as you head through lafayette lanes could be blocked as late as 7:00 this morning. still, not much slowing out there. >>> 4:40. >>> he says it was for a good cause the a bart station agent's generosity may cost him his job. >>> plus, spectator attack. what drove this grown man to charge the court and punch a local high school basketball player in the face? >>> for george lucas no kiss and make-up. the bay area community now ready to roll out the re

we have really quiet benign weather once we get barth today.day a little -- once we get past today. today a little retro, cooler breezes, we'll drop the temperatures, more than yesterday afternoon. ferry building there and the bay bridge we'll talk to see in a minute how your traffic is going. how to does when you step out? how about mid to upper 40s still around santa rosa, napa, los gatos everybody else low to mid 50s, half mile visibility around santa rosa because of the fog, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy around the monterey bay inland mid to upper 40s. here's what i think is going to happen, partly cloudy, cooling breeze from the west to northwest around 10 to 20 miles per hour that will stop tomorrow the warming trend will resume and will hang around through the end of the weekend, some of us could see our first 80° temperatures this year friday, saturday and sunday afternoon. if you have a doubleheader either day or plan to be outside it is going to be a warm one upper 50s along the coast today you can see clouds most stubborn there, 60

so i want to go on the phone, we have aaron barth.ome through as you are in the ft. worth area? >> we did. we did. we saw it approximately 1:10, 1:15 local triem. we saw brief tornadic activity just east of the airport, probably two to three miles. it was coming away from the airport, going approximately north-northeast. an we saw the rotation and it just slowly descended, touched down for maybe 10 seconds or so and then gradually just listed and went back up. but, you know, the rotation was still there as it moved away from the airport to the north-northeast. >> how big is the spinx airport and was there any damage at all? >> the airport is not very large when you consider commercial-sized airports like dfw, things like that nature. our airport has 180, 190 based aircraft, most of which are smaller-type airplanes where you go to flight training or recreati recreational-type flying. >> any damage? >> no damage here. no damage here. i can't speak to the folks that had the tornado fall right on top of them. but no damage here. plenty of