feels like a small town in a bigger city. residents actually call it a village and refer to the place as a village. it's the center of social life in the neighborhood. there are many shops and it's a vibrant, active area people love. it is primarily a pedestrian zone. it is a place for walking. contributing to that small-town feel is the human scale of the neighborhood. most of the buildings don't reach beyond three stories tall. there is a historic streetcar neighborhood pattern in that neighborhood, rating -- rising streets, small buildings and sidewalks. the other major piece of the neighborhood is its close proximity to glen canyon park, over 60 acres of open space. this is an amazing place -- there are coyotes and owls and a recreational facility and hiking trail. there is also a creek, the last one of the city's free flowing creeks that flows freely into glen canyon. in transportation options, to have such a great abundance of transportation options is special. there is a bart station, a number of bus lines and the j. c

home state of california, for example, yes, we have a bankrupt city called vallejo but we have bigger citieslirting with bankruptcy. whether or not they declare it is almost immaterial. they can't afford the services they need to provide. you have degrade dags of public life. you have them cutting police and fire departments by half, making the world less safe. i think people are feeling that. it's slow. i mean it's a difficult story to perceive moment-to-moment because the pace of change is glacial. >> it sounds like an extraordinary thing to contemplate. isn't america basically bust financially? >> well, america has been living beyond its means for a generation. so, bust is the point where greece is, right? that's the point where people decide you will never pay it back, so they won't lend you more. but, until it gets to that point, until the chinese, for example, won't buy our treasury bonds, we are not bust. we are living on borrowed time. to me, the unsettling thing, what is scary to contemplate is this isn't as some cast it, a sort of dysfunction at the top of society. dysfunction with

absences from city jobs to get the high paying union jobs allowed to use that absence to build a bigger citysion time crux of the letter said to paget pont executives one of which james capasso jr. himself caught double dipping on pensions getting to for basically one job got kicked out of the year get bored but remained executive director of the labor pension board for nearly 50 years anyway. and he got one of those letters tonight. statement from department of finance. we take any allegations of potential abuse seriously which is why we were asking for information more on this in the sun. chicago tribune. they come sticker shock for some chicago motorists a jump of $60 for next year's chicago vehicle sticker mayor rahm emmanuel defending the proposal larger suvs and minivans weigh 4,000 lbs. and what to pay $135 per sticker up until about of late applied to vehicles weighing 4,500 lbs. lauric the plateau to 4000 pubs will offset the damage had vehicles cause of the road. batt but good portion going to 160,000 or popples build this coming year a 40% increase over last year resources go exac

and then for the weekend, this is where we could see some snow mixed in for some of the bigger citiesyork. wouldn't expect to see any accumulations, but by the evening, you might see some of those snowflakes mixed in throughout portions of the evening and the nighttime. for sunday, we'll see the temperatures into the 50s. not as much activity. a letle rain in the northern plains around the great lakes, moving off into the ohio valley and portions of the appalachians, the northern portions there. catch "wake up with al" on the weather channel later this morning. i am running the ing new york city marathon. think you can beat my time? you better run fast. [ female announcer ] apolo's training with the subway turkey breast his way, with tomatoes, green peppers and jalapenos! subway. the official training restaurant of apolo ohno and athletes everywhere. with smooth caramel and chocolate. ♪ hmm twix. also available in peanut butter. >>> we're about to help you have a happy halloween today with some do-it-yourself projects. >> sarah gray miller, editor in chief of "country living" magazine

further, about 60 miles away in van, also a heavy hit area, a bigger city, and all along this route around this lake van area, this region that's close to the iranian border, you've got a lot of smaller villages with buildings that are mostly made of mud. so far, though, we have seen the destruction greatest in these cities. veronica? >> michelle franzen live for us in ercis, turkey, michelle, thank you. >>> president obama's message is changing from pass this bill to we can't wait, as he rolls out a new economic offensive today. his new campaign will include new rules for federally guaranteed mortgages, ease student loan repayment and future plans to help returning vets to small businesses. the president will announce a new plan to jump-start the troubled housing market in las vegas, ground zero of the housing bust. diana olick joins me now from cnbc. what do you hear about the housing plan? >> this was a refinance plan announced this morning by the fannie mae and freddie mac's regulator. it tweaks to an existing program that wasn't working and it's for underwater borrowers, that is peopl

showers could reach bigger cities overnight.ies looks harmless on radar, that is going to head east. into central parts of the weekç and into tuesday, wednesday that system is going to pull in very cool air behind it. dallas could be looking at a big drop in temperatures by 20° midweek wednesday. right now across the south warm in the 80s across texas, 8 are -- 68 kansas city. cooler air from canada dipping downç many tomorrow 90 in dallas. we could be looking at a high of 70 wednesday in dallas. >> thank you. >>> u.s. hospitals getting help with an unlikely problem, interior design? why what is on these walls could help a patients' recovery time. >> heather: why america's high-tech industry isç having so much trouble hiring even with millions unemployed women >> gregg: one of america's most iconic state capitals, drowning in debt. we'll tell you about a bankruptcy court fight to the tune of 450 million dollars. ♪ [ male announcer ] hey, have you heard? it's bring your happiness to work day. ♪ campbell's microwavable soups, r

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units in the field that deal with, some of our areas of responsibility, however it is a bigger issue for the city and county. this brings realignment into play. one of the issues that we have in place right now is a strong relationship with the probation department, fostering that. something that would validate some one, this on a daily basis, but i cannot speak to how we would solve this problem. i do know that pokies it -- people are incarcerated, we do provide recovery services in which we tried to. i will continue that on my next one. [laughter] >> to you, yes. but would you do to try to stop the illegal drug dealing on the street? >> again, going back to my original comments about the elected sheriff of san francisco, and the chief of police, and the chief of adult probation, we'll need to be working together. not just to worry about his peace of the pie for the jails, but to stick with the city family. the big problem in our city, especially in certain areas of the tenderloin, where we know there is low level abuse, low levels constantly on the street in and out of jails. what are we doing

this has been one of the bigger projects in the city. it will be moving on from that site. we do not want the movement to get smaller. we are ready to take on new projects and see how this can change. thank you very much for considering this proposal. we are really excited that the largest land owner in the city is making some of this land available for this incredibly important movement. thank you. >> what is the cost of running that garden? >> that is a good question. right now, it is a certain type of model, which is all volunteer run, and right now, it is being run about $1,000 per month. we basically did everything for free, and the whole thing was built out of garbage, recycled materials, things that were diverted from the waste stream. we do not sell it. we give it away, so we do not have a lot of monetary inputs or outputs, at this point, but this is only one model. it does show that you can do something very cheaply that there is that much volunteer energy. there are other ways. >> that used to be a freeway? >> yes. lots of things he can do. president vietor: anoth

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it's about the economy, money troubles mean san jose is ignoring roads and pot holes are a bigger issue. the city has 277 million dollars in defered maintenance now and that problem is only getting worse. abc 7 has more. >> driving on san jose streets can be like navigating a land mine of pot holes. >> i hit a pot hole and it blew tire out and dented the wheel. caused damage. >> turns out money is an issue on both sides of the problem. san jose's director of transportation is warning city leaders that numbers just don't add up. >> we need to invest about $100 million a year to keep the roads in good condition. we have only $15 million a year. >> this is a city with nearly 2400 miles of paved streets w out maintenance, conditions are just getting worse. the transportation director tells us 900 mills are -- miles are considered in good condition. take a look at the rest of the list. a thousand miles rated in fair condition. another 330 miles are classified poor and more than 100 miles fall into very poor. the mayor blames dire budget realities. >> and and i'm not proud of the fact we'd have to layo

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beginning, the media got a lot of attention when there were protests in new york city of other cities biggerl street movement. do you understand that now? >> we understood that it was going to be very hard to have this message resonate with most media, most press in this country when we first started. that's why we created our own media system internally with twitter and facebook. and we were upset at first that media wasn't covering us but as we grew we realized we garnered more coverage and respect because we showed lasting power. >> got you. okay. mayor bloomberg says that occupy wall street is trying to keep people from working in the city. what do you say about that? >> he also said we need to not be criticizing the banks because the banks are hurting as well. it's hard to take him at his this point. the fact that there are thousands and thousands of us out on the street and he's not really recognizing that we're a movement. >> okay. >> and we should be heard by new york politicians. >> okay. just for the sake of time, i want to get to this. do you worry about other officials co-opting

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voice might no longer count for drew all these people onto the streets of washington and other cities in bigger why is the understanding that their government and their legislators represent the interests of the top one percent as they call them the very wealthy corporations that can afford influence in washington to skew the system in their favor. r. t. washington d.c. . just talk a little more about the situation here and we're joined now by right now retired u.s. army colonel also activists of occupy d.c. . thank you for joining us on the program today so do you agree washington and big business are in bed together or is it possible that his position has been over. i don't think it's been overplayed at all i think that what we're placing now in the united states is a critical. situation a dangerous situation where corporations are truly running the country they're buying off very blatantly our politicians and that's why we're out on the streets all over america to say no to this this. corruption and graft within the business community that it's over into the political situation ok so as you

this is just a local nonprofit house and the city is blowing it out of proportion bigger than needs to. >>reporter: the builders hope to rebuild on a location that the city approved of they think that they can have it done before halloween. >> hours are to the iphone for as went on sale there were thousands being offered for sale on ebay and correct list what is up with that? state to and i am gabe slate i have my tech report coming up. >>gabe: i searched craig's list for the iphone 4s and 596 listings popped up. there were people selling the iphone 4s that they just got marking it way up. this was $700 on the retail price and watch as i scroll through the posting a lot of them were listed for over $1,000. most of the listing to in the $900 to 1000 omnirange and this of the best that i found, a white one for $550 only $250 over the retail price. on ebay is the same thing, hundreds of iphone 4s on sale in the $700 range. keep in mind, if he did not get one on the day, you can get one in three weeks. with this whole debased secondary market thing that happens it is hard to tell the produ

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. >> occupied baltimore is getting bigger and bigger, but now the city >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. we should enjoy the dry weather while it lasts. >> we will have some rain movement later today and into tonight. most of the afternoon will be fine. we will start in the 50's and wind up in the 70's. clouds will thicken up and the rain will catch up to us sometime after 4:00 p.m. we will check the seven-day forecast in just a few minutes. >> it appears the occupied baltimore protesters have worn out their welcome in the eyes of city hall. >> will the protesters comply? jennifer franciotti is live with more on the story. good morning. >> they are not ready to comply yet. they are active this and have been there for the past three weeks and organize a small city of sorts. downtown baltimore's mckeldin plaza resembles a campground with dozens of protesters staging a live-in demonstration in support of occupy baltimore.

cities are getting bigger. many times the helpful units we have become accustomed to have been cut either by budget or by personnel. >> i think we can all speak to that one. one thing we have done in our county, many of our cities are struggling, especially with public safety. our share of its department has shared services. we're now operating san carlos, half moon ba. y we're sharing services so we can take -- so we can continue across the board. so far, it has done very well. we're counting with 20 cities. as it relates to public safety, we have taken evidence to the fact we do not need to have, you know, 20 separate departments. we can consolidate and share services. >> what about the city of san francisco, mayor lee? >> and those resources are dwindling and we have had to be creative. one area that we have been very creative in in the public- private partnership is getting private funds, helping to supplement our education programs in schools and never had associations. that has been extremely important fo

cities are getting bigger.many times the helpful units we have become accustomed to have been cut either by budget or by personnel. >> i think we can all speak to that one. one thing we have done in our county, many of our cities are struggling, especially with public safety. our share of its department has shared services. '

if you take a look at bigger cities, not too cold. se, once we move out of the city, into the suburbs, some of the temperatures drop a little bit more and there are thermometer readings across the eastern portion of the country, across portions of georgia, tennessee and across the interior pourings of the northeast where we're seeing some of the temperature dropping into the 30's this morning. currently 42 in chicago and on the cool side. current temperatures in the low 40's and as far as precipitation for weekend generally quiet weekend and today will be dry across parts of the northeast ap southeast. we do have a system moving through central portions of the country, but i want to focus in quickly across the pacific northwest. yesterday, a lot of heavy rain in seattle and the i-5 corridor, parts of washington and northern oregon, for today it's looking better, a lot of light shores and moisture moving further inland. across the south, east texas, louisiana and portions of arkansas, dealing with strong storms this morning and most sho

do you have a philosophy, do you have a working plan if these protests continue to get bigger in your city me say, i welcome democratic participation, both big "d" and little "d" democratic participation. it's what we do. we're the town square. lansing is the capital of michigan. we're across the street from the state capitol. the protests aren't new to us. we're used to helping protest, keeping order. we've reached out to the protesters and said, we want to work with you. they're occupying a park in the city of lansing. instead of spending no ining mo massive police shields and helmets, we put a couple po porta-potties down there. we're accommodating it. there's nobody in the park anyway. it's getting chilly. they set up tents which we usually don't allow overnight parking but we've given them a special permit. look, this is america. maybe in china, soviet russia, kind of still a soviet there, maybe you use batons and stuff. we're trying to accommodate public protest. it happens, of course, i agree with them, you know how i feel about wall street, but look, this is part of being in the to