eric butler lived it. and five years later he still keeps the only things that survived, his mardi gras beads and photos. he was stuck on a roof top with 17 family members until the water receded. they evacuated to oakland where butler works as youth counselor. estimates are in the days after katrina, a few thousand survivors landed here in the bay area. butler says it was extremely traumatic but always felt welcomed in the bay area. >> probably the worst thing in my life to happen, for me to realize that america is mostly good. >> now, the worst part, he says, of course is that his uncle was killed in the form and now the rest of his family has returned home. we wanted to mention we are here at the square because if you recall this is where many survivors ended up at the jack london inn. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> we want to update you on breaking news out of santa clara county. live pictures of fire crews, a lot of them at the scene of a two alarm house fire at andre

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kelly butler: i noticed changes right away, um... just was not as open, he was always the one that made you laugh, the one that would tell the jokes, everybody loved being around him for that reason, and there was no more of that, robert: my wife would tell you i didn't laugh, i didn't smile, i wasn't interested in doing things that we used to do together, going out, you know, just in a shell, i was at the store with her, and she said, hey, why don't you go grab some toilet paper, and i said, sure thing and i went over there, and there's like a hundred kinds of toilet paper and i found i was so overwhelmed, i couldn't make a decision on what kind of toilet paper to get, you know, she walked over there and she was like, hey, are you going to get some toilet paper and i was almost in tears because like,i couldn't make a simple decision. coyote: but seeking help was not an easy decision. avoidance is one of the main difficulties in getting patients to deal with their ptsd. robert butler: the last thing you want to do is talk about what

butler? >> is not often that i am here with the permit. i am here usually arguing against the permit. mr. atkinson is usually on the other side. i think in this case, i have an idea that would solve the problem. even if you will grant and uphold our permit to put either and open metal rail or a glass rail that is clear, which are permit allows us to do, if you will uphold that permit, i will put translucent glass in the elevations of the debt that face the appellants property so that all the west side glass would be glazed with translucent glass. you cannot see through it, but light goes through it. if no one appeals the use of that translucent glass, we are done. if someone appeals it, we will come back to you and you can ask me to notice the translucent glass. but if we walk out of here tonight without the ability to move forward on the web -- on a permit that has been a year in the making, through no fault of our own, i think we already severe disadvantage. after we have gone through a process that was carefully researched, that was car

his name is eric butler. he fled louisiana with 11 family members. they had never been to oakland before, never been to california, but found a rescue group here and this was really the only place they could go. he said he likes oakland, but adjusting to life here over the past five years since hurricane katrina certainly has not been easy for him. the rest of his family members have decided to return back home to the south. he says people here are quite warm and friendly and still are. he says his family members, though, miss louisiana and decided to return home. so now it's just him and his two kids. a third daughter who graduated from high school here in oakland is on a plane back down south where she will attend college. now, butler's family was among hundreds of thousands of people stranded on the roof tops after the leiv levees. he was stranded there for 13 days. we'll tell you his story of how he survived up there for 13 days, but first he will describe how it was when the waters started to rise. >> but the water started rising really, really

butler was drunk at the time and had not taken his psychiatric medication.he first time that taser international had settled a product liability case. the company did not admit to any wrongdoing for the injury that butler sustained >>> in news of the world tonight, in china, the flooding from heavy rain just keeps getting worse in the northwestern part of the country. the force of the flood water was cleared as a dredging barge smashed into a bridge. at least 1,000 people have died and others are missing. at least whole villages have been wiped out by landslide. several more inches of rain have been wiped out by a flash flood. >>> in germany, the government announced that the economy grew by 2%. german is the world's second largest exporters after china. the growth far outpaces the rest of europe >>> in jerusalem, thousands of muslim worshipers gathered out one of islam's holiest sites on the first day of slims believe prophet muhammad ascendd to heaven from that sign. israel beefed up security. >>> at a ramadan dinner at the white house, president obama mad

. >>> this is eric butler.e has held on to everything that he had left after katrina, and that is just a little bit of mardi gras beads and a childhood photo. butler has come a very long way. he is now a youth counselor in oakland, but when the levees broke, his family was among those stranded on rooftops for three days, trying to avoid the floodwaters. five years ago, butler was desperate and hungry. and with no sign of help coming, he jumped into the water, and swam to a store to find food for his family. >> as we're swimming, there's people on roofs, and i can see people that i know or that i have seen before. some of them elderly, and they're begging for help. >> reporter: butler does have three children of his own, but while he remains here in the bay area, the rest of his family has returned to the south. though his family says it's just not the same. for him, oakland and the bay area will be home, he tells us. >>> brian williams is hosting a special edition of "meet the press" from new orleans coming up

butler was drunk at the time and had not taken his psychiatric medication. this is the first time that taser international had settled a product liability case. the company did not admit to any wrongdoing for the injury that butler sustained >>> in news of the world tonight, in china, the flooding from heavy rain just keeps getting worse in the northwestern part of the country. the force of the flood water was cleared as a dredging barge smashed into a bridge. at least 1,000 people have died and others are missing. at least whole villages have been wiped out by landslide. several more inches of rain have been wiped out by a flash flood. >>> in germany, the government announced that the economy grew by 2%. german is the world's second largest exporters after china. the growth far outpaces the rest of europe >>> in jerusalem, thousands of muslim worshipers gathered out one of islam's holiest sites on the first day of ramadan. muslims believe that the prophet muhammad ascendd to heaven from that sign. israel beefed up security. >>> at a ramadan dinner at the wh

we have had the butler committee. we now have this one. >> of course the butler committee said some very important things on this and i have thought about this. i wasn't really part of the jic at the stage where that dossier was being put together but obviously i was aware of it and my recollection -- i have two points, i think. the first is that we were asked to put in some low-grade, small intelligence to it and we refused because we didn't think it was reliable. but because of the nature of what we do, we had very little anyway. the second one really is the degree to which, if you are not an expert in the jic, you need -- your options for challenge are, to a degree, limited. the people who knew about iraq and wmd were foreign office, ministry of defense, sis, dis, not my service. i have obviously thought whether my predecessor or i should have challenged more and i know that a degree of that intelligence on which too much reliance was put has been withdrawn as anyway unreliable. i think that -- and i think that in

butler will take it from there, and i will rounded out. -- round it out. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is when kaplan, and it is a pleasure to be here today. -- gwen kaplan. note i am a two-term past president of this commission, and i was present when the small business commission went to being a full commission in 1998, so i am proud to see the good work that you have continued to do for smoak -- so many small businesses. my business itself is a direct marketing company on 16th street, ace mailing, walking distance from here, and i am pleased to be joined on the team from the buttner enterprise group, who is with us today, and randy, from an industrial company, who is not with us, but he is a native-american-owned business, and another who is very active in the asian american business community. .that person is on our team, as well as rick from a disabled veteran enterprise, an engineering company, so together, we really do form the rainbow correlation bringing our best to

it's hard to come from nothing and back to where you are used to being. >> reporter: butler has come a long way. now a youth counselor in oakland. when the levees broke, his family was among those stranded on a roof top for three days with neighbors. >> we had gangsters on the roof petrified. >> reporter: desperate and hungry, he jumped into the murky water and swam 1/4 to a store with food. >> there are people on roofs. i can see people i know or that i've seen before. some of them elderly. they're begging for help. >> reporter: he did help. made it out and 11 family members were offered shelter in oakland, a place they had never been. >> the people were so warm. i think we were probably the first family to arrive in oakland. >> reporter: he has three kids. the rest of his family returned south. even there, it's not the same. >> my uncle passed away in the storm. that's like the hardest thing for me every day. >> reporter: now he says oakland is home forever, but you'll find a taste of new orleans in the kitchen. gumbo pots are reddy. he would rather cook than watch the anniversary

butler, do you understand? commissioner garcia: do we need to sayu81s minimum height? president peterson: is that what the current plans reflect? the only change to the plans would be the glass on the west side, the first floor deck? and i would based on the finding that the variance is not required? commissioner fung: the interpretation. president peterson: the design administrators interpretation. when you are ready to call that. >> to clarify, i believe the motion is from the president to uphold the permit on condition that the western wall of the first floor deck be made of translucent glass? president peterson: of the lightest grade. >> the lightest grade of translucent glass. commissioner fung: the lightest density. commissioner garcia: before you take the vote, if i may, and this is in no way prejudicial, there was a poem referred to called "the bridge builder." it is a pretty good read. i would recommend it to anybody who is interested in what we do here. >> i agree. >> ok. again, the motion is from president peterson to uphold the permit, on condition that the

butler. >> i will leave the clock. >> thank you. >> we are here, we are ready to go. we don't see why this needs to be strung out any longer. we noticed the appellant, the intentions with respect to the deck. the planning department noticed in 2010 for 10 days consistent with the interpretation of the planning code. this process -- this has to do with the plans which we did not get until today. >> this is the tail feathers of a larger project. this goes through the process and mr. atkinson has reached out and plucked one for other and from that one featherhead he would like to begin the process on the whole project because the client did not have 30 days. >> would you address why we did not get plans until today? >> i did not know the plans were required by the board, i was here for other projects. i was unaware that plans were required. i did not get them to you because i was not here physically to do that. >> i suggest the continuance. >> with no objection, we will go ahead. >> i don't see any continuance but it is up to the majority. >> we feel prejudiced about the

did a nice job evading victor butler.hill's got one he's going to remember for a while. >> al: they're lining up to kick an extra point. >> cris: at this point, it may >> cris: at this point, it may be more important for them to see dave rayner kick than to try and win the game. >> al: i can't believe. i think he's seen enough of dave rayner kick. he barely makes the extra point. the bengals, with the timeouts to save time. >> cris: i think marvin feels the same way about overtime that you do. >> al: he may, in preseason especially. i never understood overtime in preseason. two weeks, we have one more preseason game. a lot of storylines around this one. we go to san francisco in two weeks where the 49ers, under mike singletary, an emerging team, play the vikings. by that time, a fortfight from now, we'll know more about the brett favre situation. his name may come up. >> cris: i would think. that's move day. if he's going to come back and play in the opener that's about the time he'll have to wander in. i don't think he'l

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butler was drunk and was awarded $2.8 million.ut under the settlement taser international admitted no liability. someone is cutting down eucalyptus trees illegally. there's suspicion it's to improve the view from an exclusive subdivision nearby. park rangers say eight trees were hacked off at the beach park. they discovered the damage 11 days ago. >> we had several trees pruned and one cut in half done illegally without a permit on county property. >> rangers suspect homeowners living above the beach to blame since it's their vista that directly benefits. they're stripped clean of limbs. there are spikes and special climbs shoes and ropes. president obama delivers a strong statement about a proposal to build a mosque near ground zero. and a five year sold boy trying to [ female announcer ] introducing pillsbury sweet moments bite-sized brownies layers of brownie and caramel, dipped in chocolate ready to eat sweet moments new from pillsbury. in the refrigerated section [ female announcer ] within every pillsbury package is the per

steven butler suffered brain damage after being tasered by a watsonville cop when he refused to get offus. he was drunk and off his psychiatric medication at the time, we were told. he was awarded $2.8 million. but under the settlement, taser international admit no liability. >>> and a wild story from marin. someone is cutting down eucalyptus trees in san rafael. and there is suspicion that it is being done to improve the view from an exclusive subdivision nearby. park rangers say eight trees were hacked off at the park. they discovered the damage ten days ago. >> we had several trees pruned and one cut in half here at mcnair's beach and done illegally at county property. >> rangers suspect homeowners from above. they directly benefit from the view. they say the tree trunks were stripped clean of limbs. and who ever did this left evidence behind of spikes from special climbing shoes and ropes. >>> month are to bring you this friday night. the government decides the gulf oil leak is not properly plugged. we'll have the latest on that. and president obama delivers a strong statement about

he hopes to change the governor mind but for miss butler the impact is definite stating. teacher and her daughter is in the after school program. >> i won't have a summer job. won't have a place to go to work at and then i won't have child care for my daughter during the year. this is really bad. really need to get this budget passed. >>reporter: state bunch it conference committee voted to save child care. recommendation could go before the assembly as early as next week. in berkeley, abc 7 news. >>> in washington there is word that might help save some of those jobs. u.s. senate cleared the way for millions of dollars in emergency money to keep people at work. 26 billion dollar gives dollars directly to schools. san francisco unified school district expects to rehire some of the 300 laid off teachers and employees. but first it will cancel 4 planned furlough day. >> first we want to bring back those 4 days that had been cut means having the funding to reinstate the pay for all of those teachers who have had to take 4 furlough days. >> bill also provides 16 billion dolla

problem is, says marina owner bill butler, most of them have grown spoiled by big b.p.aydays. >> i just put that money in the cookie jar and put it in the ground, you know, and save it for a rainy day, because you're going to need it. >> reporter: new government estimates say one-fourth the total spill-- 52 million gallons-- is still out there somewhere. that's roughly five times the size of the exxon "valdez" disaster. along the gulf, people want their coastline and their futures cleared up. >> and you feel that in that it's horrible, it's terrible. and that's why we've got to be here for the long-term. >> don't tell me, show me. show me. trust has to be built and earned, and they haven't shown that in the least yet. >> reporter: the new high anxiety in the gulf, with the spill now over, will people here be forgotten? >> we've got a commitment to be there. b.p. is responsible. we're going to hold them accountable. >> reporter: b.p. has about 100 feet down left to drill on its main relief well and could be ready to intercept the broken well, the bottom kill, by next wee

this has been gone into -- into in -- butler. david owe oman talked about it in group think and the psychology of everybody seeing it going one way. i think the important thing about it is that it should never, its judgments, must always recognize and others must recognize that the judgments may be fallible. looking back to the reports, i think it was pretty good on the terrorist threat actually. much less good on iraq. i think that -- that -- the j.i.c. did try to get back and look at its past judgments and the -- be self-critical. we've seen papers on that. you have seen papers on the extent to which some of the -- some thought it should be more self-critical. i don't know what it is like today. it is always going to be an imperfect way of doing things. it is right to do it that way, the alternative is anarchy. >> the general question aridesing out of that which was looked at by the butler committee and we had evidence ourselves from a number of witnesses. that's the extent to which ministers who sometimes may be -- newly in of

problem is, says marina owner bill butler, most have grown spoiled by big bp paydays. >> i tell them to put their money in a cookie jar and put it in the ground and save it for a rainy day because you're going to need it. >> reporter: along the gulf, people want their coastline and their futures cleared up. >> and you feel that. that's horrible. it's terrible. that's why we've got to be here for the long term. >> don't tell me, show me. show me. trust has to be built and earned. and they haven't shown that in the least yet. >> reporter: the new high anxiety in the gulf, with the spill now over, will people here be forgotten? >> we have a commitment to be there. bp is responsible. we'll hold them accountable. >> reporter: bp has 100 feet down left to drill in the main relief well and could be ready to intercept the broken well for the so-called bottom kill by next weekend. mark strassmann, cbs news, grand isle, louisiana. >>> two military tribunals begin at guantanamo bay. they are the first military trials there during the obama administration. one suspect, an aid to osama bin laden,

i'm joined now by tabitha butler hurley. good morning. good morning, thanks for being here. >> we have a bomb threat made on campus score back on august 4th satisfying that today, a bomb would be detonated. i know you guys have school in session. how secure is the campus at this point? >> i think this is a very pure campus. we had police out here throughout the week and throughout the night and we had canine. >> reporter: police described this as an amateur scroll, on a door. you have some 400 kids going here. do you think that's a hoax. >> we think that's a hoax but, of course, we can never take it out of our mind. student safety is number 1. >> reporter: parents have been alerted. i know that the superintendent sent out a letter at the beginning of the week. what do you expect will happen? are thank you getting the i impression that parents will be bringing their children to school? >> we had calls. it's a 50-50 split. we feel like parents have enough information and others feel it's a better decision to keep them home. that's a family

but for paula butler the impact is devastating.'s a teacher and her daughter is in the afterschool program. >> i won't have a summer job. i won't have a place to go to work at and then i won't have child care for my daughter during the year. it's really bad. we really need to get this budget passed. >> the state's budget conference committee voted to save child care. their recommendations could go before the assembly as early as next week. in berkeley, lisa amin gulezian. >> word from washington might help save jobs of police firefighters and teachers. the u.s. senate has cleared the way for billions of dollars in emergency aid to local government. the $26 billion measure earmarks $10 billion to schools. san francisco unified school districts expects to use its share of the money to rehire some of its 300 laid off teachers and employees. but first it will cancel four planned furlough days. >> first we would want to bring back those four days half been cut which means having the funding to reinstate the pay for all of those teachers

the poll tirnians may say no but mitch butler and josh land it of the fast draw aren't so sure. >> americarepared for anything. >> but the truth is government doesn't prepare enough. and that's the way voters want it. >> voters don't reward preparedness spending at all. pretty much anyway you look at it. >> economics professor andrew healy and his team compared government spending on disaster preparations and national election results. >> here's what you found. when officials spent more money preparing for disasters nationwide the president's party got no extra votes. sqoo. >> but when the government spent money on relief after a disaster struck the president's party got a boost at the polls. leaders who only clean up afterwards might be more popular but they're also wasteful. >> a stitch in time saves more than nine. healy says on average relief costs tax payers 15 times more than preparation. >> this resistance to being proactive leaves us vulnerable to other catastrophes. >> like food poisoning outbreaks, flu pandemics and failing schools. healy says this mind set is holding america bac

still that's no reason to lose your cool or so say josh landis and mitch butler of the fast draw. >>rch. studies found that people who worked in air conditioned offices catch colds more often and go to the doctor more often than people who work outside. >> air conditioning can make you fatter. your body does burn more calories when it's fighting off that summer heat on its own. and you're not getting much exercise sitting there in your fancy comfortable cool. and when you're just sitting there in that cool air, you're more likely to eat more. >> there's evidence that children do better if you just let them sweat. their immune systems benefit from exposure to germs annaler generals while running around outside. doctors say keeping them cooped up in that processed air could increase their chances of developing allergies. why does it seem hotter in cities? not just all that concrete absorbing the sun's rays, there are thousands of acs removing heat from rooms and dumping it on to the streets. let's count the coolaling costs in cold, hard cash. quote, the 20% of america's electric bill g