bookcases, you want to secure those; right? this is what's going it happen. if you as nerts you went in there and got a report that there may be people trapped, where would you start looking for them? upper floors and void spaces. again, we talked about glass. are these people a little too close, do you think? did they give you a rule of thumb how far away to stay from buildings. well, actually 1 1/2 times the height of the building. so if you are in a 30-foot building -- you already did the math -- you want to be 45 feet away. glass falls out, too, do you think it just falls straight down? no, it kites its way around. it can kite up to two blocks away. be aware of that, got your helmet on. types of hazard, you have above ground, ground and below ground. what's an above ground hazard? glass, wires, falling objects. some of the ground level hazards are glass. what's bad about uneven surfaces that are slippery? we already talked about that. you fall, you're going to hurt yourself. is water a bad thing to have? water seeks its own level, there's a hole, covering

he builds a floor to ceiling bookcases for a living room with only one arm which was just amazing. he was a professor of history. >> where did he teach? >> he taught at wesleyan in connecticut and lived a very long, full, happy and vigorous life. >> what were the last couple years of his life like? >> when he was 79 he had a devastating stroke but he did not die until he was 85. at a time when his death would have been a mercy and blessing because he was given a pacemaker a year after this devastating stroke and the result was frankly that his heart kept going while he descended into dementia and near blindness in missouri. and actually said to my mother i am living -- so those last five years of his life were frankly terrible. >> when the pacemaker was put in at age 80, what was the families thought about that? >> i think was the combination of ignorance and denial. there was no real conversation with a doctor about whether or not to do it or what the long-term implications of doing this would be or the moral implications or what my fathers choices were. essentially the a doctor j

and i'm going to take these stock bookcases and turn them into a wall of custom shelves. thank you so much, tommy. these look amazing. kevin: that's next on "ask this old house."

have moved down to about 8% and this is true i think for a number of reasons that i discuss in the bookcase and one of them is the lack of equipment equipment, the competitiveness that exist to the kids your younker when we were kids we had no adults supervision or uniforms are umpires but of course, that is unheard of now. for all of these things cost money and when i was in washington there were no batting cages there were no baseball fields. that is an important factor that i talk about also how colleges are the avenue for more than 50% of those going into professional ranks and colleges only give a small number of scholarships for baseball as opposed to do football or basketball they will say that the blacks are not interested but they are in football and basketball. but 80 scholarships for football in the kids to get the complete free ride in the pork kid who is more likely to be black or have the athletic ability will choose that sport a and not baseball because there are not full scholarships because they don't have comparable brevity's and that we have to overcome wear women's sport

>> why is berkley law professor who's written enough literature on the death penalty to fill a bookcase -- consider the fact texas executed 500 people since 1976. we've executed 13. so what's the difference? why aren't our numbers higher? he would tell you it's a number of factors. a governor who vehemently opposing capital punishment in the state, jerry brown, a legal system that has spent years defending state protocol of legal injection in court. a public lukewarm about capital punishment to begin with and oh, yes, very exfebruary pensive high quality legal defense to defendants. >> we give them good appellate lawyers. and good appellate lawyers fight the system to a draw. >> i remain excited about the future. >> he says other more active death row states like texas haven't afforded prisoners the same resources, clearing the way for more executions. but even if california wants to continue its own comparatively lower execution rate with a new single drug formula, there's also logistical hurdles that have to be cleared. the aclu tells us once california holds new regulations it has to

he builds a floor to ceiling bookcases for a living room with only one arm which was just amazing. he was a professor of history. >> where did he teach? >> he taught at wesleyan in connecticut and lived a very

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young lawyer, you had to connect with a big firm that had just mountains and mown tabs of books, in bookcases. you've got west law. you just go onlike, it's cheap, boom, you don't need that. you can rent out an office. you can share -- i mean, the information revelation has hit lawyers as much as anybody, hasn't it? >> yeah, it's the information revolution and the outsourcing revolution. i tell a story in the piece about a young associate working in a washington firm who just kept noticing people in suits going in and out of an office for several weeks in an office down the hall from her. finally, three or four weeks later, someone told her, these were contract attorneys. they made a third of the bay pa a young lawyer at the firm and they do a lot of the cut woscut. less money for peep wople who m the big bucks. >> an ivory tower that exist where smart people get to go do elevated things. it's just like the rest of the global economy now. you have the same sort of relebtless competition. it's created a completely different culture. >> joe. >> it's unbelievable. you have inflation in every par

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