capital city clean up brings cities together to create safe, clean inviting xhueplts and neighborhoods. our motto is a clean and safe edmonton is a shared responsibility and we work on the premise that we can't do it alone, that we need to work as partners with the community to create solutions to graffiti vandalism and litter enforcement. just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask. when did capital city clean up start? it was launched in 2005 as a pilot program focused on litter reduction in the downtown of edmonton. basically businesses were asked to adopt a block in their area and were responsible for litter clean up in that area and the program had such a huge success that they expanded the program in 2006 to include a residential component for litter pick-up. we now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each h

our logo is capital city clean up, wiping out graffiti. and the taggers are so angry with how we're doing, they've taken our logo and changed it to taking out creativity and they are stenciling it all over the city. i'm happy they know who we are and we are annoying them. this is just our sponsors, capital city clean up is fortunate to have a vast array of corporate sponsors, especially media partner. any questions? >> you said that 19 percent of the incidents were on post boxes. do you guys make them pay for that? >> make the --. >> canadian --. >> canada post clean it up? we have a special relationship with canada post. it was a funny way how we got that relationship. they were arguing they couldn't keep up with cleaning them, so bylaw officers started sending notifications to the owner of the canada post boxes, who happens to be the post master general in ottawa. they take them over a week period and canada post has a contractor go out. we have two kinds of mailboxes in canada. one are the drop boxes that the mail carriers use, those are

and so the ottoman turks then established themselves in the capital city, renamed it istanbul, and it is known as such till this present day. now, it is important to understand that the decorative scheme that we see here in this particular church does reflect the very important and essential and fundamental principles which were established during this middle classical, middle byzantine phase, classical-- the classical decorative phase, because each image that you see in this particular church is not to be seen as an isolated phenomenon, as an isolated painting, but we need to keep in mind three very essential principles. the first of which is that the image or images that you see, in this cathedral you have 65, relate to one another. they must establish a relationship with one another. they must also establish a relationship with the beholder. and that is one of the most, i would say, essential principles that we would need to deal with. and thirdly, that the architectural structure must also establish a relationship with the decorative program, and they work together to create a syn

when did capital city clean up start? it was launched in 2005 as a pilot program focused on litter reduction in the downtown of edmonton. basically businesses were asked to adopt a block in their area and were responsible for litter clean up in that area and the program had such a huge success that they expanded the program in 2006 to include a residential component for litter pick-up. we now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each have crews of 4 to 5 thousand people so so we have four to five thousand people picking up litter. we link nonprofit organizations with businesses and the businesses pay the nonprofit organizations $650 per summer to have the nonprofits pick up litter in the blocks surrounding their business. the advantage to that is, again, community responsibility. they're not just picking up litter at the businesses, they are picking up litter in the surrounding blocks. we have a school litter reducti

amin and others have found refuge in the capital city of acoko.ach of them had stories of tragedy to tell. very sad stories, and they're in great need, especially for food and other supplies. workers with "operation blessing" are now on the ground in mali, providing these refugees beans and rice. they found shelter at some local churches, they still need nutritious meals. more than a quarter of a million malians are displaced. former muslim turned christian, abraham sissis says islamic militants would have killed him if he hadn't left timbuktu. he is thankful for cbn and caring americans. >> i am grateful for what you've done. we really appreciate it. thank you so much, "operation blessing." may god bless you. >> reporter: so as the struggle to liberate mali of armed militants continues, cbn and other christians are helping those who have fled the fighting, demonstrating the love of christ to malians, like little sarah here, who won't be returning home any time soon. gary lane, cbn news, amoko, mali. >> wendy: to learn how you can help "operation

so these are all the programs offered by the capital city clean up program. we started in 2005 as part of the waste management branch and this past year in 2012 we were moved to the community standards branch which is where we are housed now. so we have a very strong link with our programs between the programs that we offer and the community standards or community bylaw ordinances that we're operating under. the lation that we focus in on is 14614, that is the bylaw that governs litter pick up in the city. community standards 146400 is the graffiti standards bylaw. our bylaw is unique to other cities in that we don't focus on the definition of graffiti, we focus on whether or not graffiti is considered a nuisance on a property. so the bylaw is written such that it has to fall within the definition of community standards, the nuisance property and therefore we're not ever restricted by a definition and people arguing whether what's on there fits within a specific definition of graffiti, it all falls within whether what is on the building constitutes a nuisance

shooting early this morning after the moment in a gated -- at the home in a gated complex in the capital city. the a. p. is reporting when police arrived on the scene they found paramedics trying to revive the woman. that woman who according to some media outlets is pistorius' girlfriend died at the home. a number of news outlets are saying that pistorius may have mistaken the woman for a burglar and shot her. but police took the 26 gerald sprinter into custody -- 26- year-old sprinter into custody. he is -- he made history in the london games last year when he became the first double amputee runner to compete in the track and field section and now one of the most famous athletes in south africa. >>> police say that the shooting a football player at morgan state university and today keith robertson will appear before a judge. that suspect shedding back to court for an arraignment hearing. that man is facing a number of charges including first degree murder and assault. it happened on the campus at the end of last year and investigate to fors believe this incident was a targeted attack stemmin

the two boarded a bus for the capital city of lima and have not been heard from since.more. >> they're hoping the couple is in an area too remote for contact and last week decided to get the u.s. embassy involved in the hunt without a month hearing from them. jamie neil and garrett hann both 25 years old. kept in touch facebook, shots of travels through argentina and chile. january 25th headed from the historic town to the capital city of lima, then, everything went dark. the family has created a facebook page to help find the couple and says there's been no further phone, social media or financial activity since last month. the last time they were scene was exiting the bus in lima and getting into a taxi. >> what do you think could have happened since then, do you know? >> i hope that she's just having a blast. and they're doing what they went to do, you know? >> in mid february, the u.s. embassy in peru issued a warning to u.s. citizen posting on the agency's website the embassy received information that members of a criminal organization may be planning to kidnap u.s

in the capital city. and the diplomacy with them and real life with them. in substance of how they behave at the u.n. we don't think the u.n. is that important. we don't wind up forcing them to take account of our positions on things many of which matter us. at least in the general assembly. we don't think it's worth the price we have to pay and the real world relationship with them in their own country. and we don't -- it means there's a disconnect between how we and our allies behave at the u.n. versus what our frequently far better relationships are directly in the capital. >> host: who are the new liberal realists you talk about in your book? >> guest: the obama administration came in split between two quite different camps. in the foreign policy. on the one hand you had a waive of people that i would describe typical describe liberal international. people believe in the mission of the u.n. to not just be the kind of diplomatic table where everybody negotiates and argues and debates and let's their views be known. something which is supposed to take on

a packed commuter train smacked into a stationary one near the capital city.r was trapped in the wreckage for two hours before crews airlifted him safely. >>> italy, cops clashed with hundreds of soccer fans with the signing of star players. they gathered outside of the restaurants where strikers met with the team execs. one officer went to the hospital with a head injuries. >>> france, nine bronze bells headed to notre dame cathedral in paris. they will replace the old bell, which has fallen out of tune. it marks 850 years since construction began on notre dame! >> germany, a medical check for extremely rare white lion and tiger cubs. it's of the first time that the two sets of quadruplets were separated from their mothers. experts say that one set of quads only happen every 10,000 litters. that's around the world in 80 seconds. >> we reported here that a free style snowmobile operator crashed in the x games, and now he has died. the skis on the 450 snow machine caught the lip of the landing area and send it flying over the handlebars. it sent the snowmobile

he took command from a general john allen in the afghan capital city -- in the afghan city of kabul. >> today is not about change, it's about continuity. what has not changed is the will of this coalition. what has not changed is our commitment to accomplish the mission. more and courtly, what has not changed is the inevitability of our success. >> is facing some tough challenges, among them, republicans to question whether he's the right man for the job. >> with the u.s. looking forward to december, 2014 as the day u.s. combat forces are expected to leave afghanistan for good, a marine corps general is guarding his term as the last general to run the war in that country. >> i understand is much work to be dead and the challenges will be many. >> he lead a regiment of some 6000 troops into iraq in 2003 and spent much of his career at the pentagon, calling some to question his battlefield credentials. >> how much personal time have you had in afghanistan? >> senator, i have not served on assignment in afghanistan. >> in this high-profile position, he will have to manage the politics i

capital city care on north capitol street hopes to open in early april as a first medical unmarried -- medical marijuana dispensary in the district. >> our receptionist will double check your identification against their database. >> we get knocks at the door almost on a daily basis from cancer patients and aids patients. x. only d.c. residents with specific illnesses can buy the pot, and there is no smoking on the premises. besides raw marijuana, they will also sell pot in views cookies brownies, candy, and drinks. these grow lights are all that would show us because they don't want to tip of the competition. they will sell paraffin of the two, and offer counseling services. -- they will sell paraphernalia. all the way down to these biometric blocks that only let staffers enter. many worry that selling at a big drug invites big abuse. a california survey found the average marijuana user was actually a 32-year-old white male who started using pot before age 19. a colorado study found only 3% of medical pot users had cancer or hiv/aids. 94% said they had severe pain. >> with a few doll

the capital city recorded 5- inches of rain in just 5 hours. >>> hundreds are gathering and protesting in india, demanding the death penalty for the people who raped and murdered 3 young sisters. >> we want justice! we want justice! >> the victims in this case were just 6, 9, and 10 years old. police did not act on the investigation until protests began this week. the children's bodies were found two day after they disappeared from school. it comes two weeks after the horrific gang rape of a 23-year- old woman on a bus in india. >>> a pilot survived a crash landing in the harbor in florida. he had to choose between landing on a bridge or in the middle of the water. he chose tampa bay to avid hurting any drivers. he walked away with a couple of scrapes and bruises but otherwise was okay. >>> police are continuing to search for the person who made a false report of an armed man at m.i.t. police received an electronic message. m.i.t. was immediately notified, but they did not send an emergency alert to student until just after 8:50, more than an hour later. the report was ebbly deemed a h

restaurant week is coming to our capital city. we'll give you a sneak peek next. leann rimes sued her former dentist. >>> dr. jeffrey rossen thal is joining us. what are some of the treatments. >> we offer all the different treatments that could be needed for children with heart disease. that includes surgery, interventional cardiac catheterization and something called ablations, something we do for heart rhythm abnormalities. >> one or more things you may have to have done. >> often congenital heart disease is so complex that children require more than one procedure and they need to be followed throughout the course of their life even when they're adults because new things can come up. >> all right. dr. rossen thal is with us until 6:30. the number to call to get your questions answered is right there on the screen, 410-481-2222. >>> start off by looking at some of the beautiful conditions on this holiday, hope you had the day off. hardly a cloud in the sky. a few clouds coming in late in the day. havre de grace on the susquehanna river. not the wild winds we had

. >> capital city clean up is a city of edmonton program. it started in 2005 as a litter reduction program and when our bylaw changed in 2008 our city council was very thoughtful in determining they needed to put their mouths were. basically they were going to require the property owners clean their graffiti, then they needed to put some effort into cleaning their own graffiti as well as supporting property owners in those efforts. >> so you have steady funding? >> yes, i have steady funding for the audit and the clean up program. >> how often do you share your data with other departments? >> always. mark and i just finished finalizing it last week, but we will be holding a press conference basically when i get back, so we will be sharing the information with all the city departments as well as the city in general and going through that. we're very open about the results. the only information that we don't publish is we don't publish the tagger names. if you were in our other presentation, we're very careful about not giving them air time. w

it will connect singapore to malaysia's capital city in 19 minutes. competition to win orders for construction will be fierce. >> it's going to be a game changer. it will transform the way people interact, the intensity of our cooperation and the degree to which we become interdependent on each other and have stakes on each other's success. >> our two countries will look at each other differently and the opportunities are boundless between our two countries. >> singapore's prime minister and his counter part announced a plan on tuesday. japanese firms would likely step up efforts to win the contract but will have to compete against rivals from germany, south korea and china. that wraps up our bulletin. >>> home remains a dangerous place in afghanistan. nearly 3,000 civilians died last year because of armed conflict and terror attacks. there is a decrease of 377 from 2011. it marks the first decline since u.n. officials began to survey six years ago. they attribute the drop to few irsuicide bombings and a decline in aerial attacks. about 80% of victims

today, a shocking tragedy in syria as massive explosion ripped through the capital city of damascus early believed to have been ignited by a powerful car bomb. officials say at least 53 people were killed in the blast. hundreds more injured, adding to the staggering death toll of a brutal civil war that has raged on for two years. so we ask, what do you think? is it time for the united states to intervene as this increasingly violent conflict threatens to reignite a region already destabilized in the wake of the arab spring. you can weigh in on the "nightline" facebook page or tweet us or at cynthia mcfadden. "good morning america" will be right here in the morning. we're always online at abc news.com. good night, america. ♪ ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal --

very sketchy what i can tell you is that an explosion has taken place outside the american city in the capital turkish city now we understand that several people have been wounded ambulances as well as emergency services are on the way to the scene some of them have already arrived but it's not yet clear who was behind this attack we are hearing from eyewitnesses that there was a huge bang that shook everything and there is smoke that is coming out of the american embassy and as you say we continue to see these pictures but really at this stage the first details are still sketchy. the so-called all u.s. embassies have been of course frequent targets across north africa and the middle east can we just speculate a little as to what could be the cause of this anything linked with recent events in the region. because well we certainly have seen an increase in violence and anger that has been targeted against waste in embassies particularly the embassy of the united states it was just in september a couple of months ago when the most notorious attack on a american diplomatic mission in the libyan c

noong could make it if you tired these days, older tibetans who had paid to drive before the capital city stretched out in the summer. he was about to join the others on the farmer motion began towards the suitcase. getting he said unzipping the top. noong's jet blankly at the man the suitcase. hurry the farmer said before the police come and take us to jail. how long noong whispered? one night and one day. that was how long it would take to travel from the capital to the border, assuming they didn't get caught. the distance was much shorter, but the driver would be circumventing several chinese checkpoints along the way. they didn't have much time except for the current operation rising from the valley. soon the sun would rise, shining a spotlight and anyone who dared to sleep. noong got in. he imagined himself back in his grandma straight bed where he said his older brother and little cousins of a few weeks before. inside the cpc crunched his knees to his chest and rock to the side. for a brief moment he saw the farmers face like a field under a cloud. then there was a zipping sound and

very sketchy what i can tell you is that an explosion has taken place outside the american city in the capital turkish city of and who are now we understand that several people have been wounded ambulances as well as emergency services are on their way to the scene some of them have already arrived but it's not yet clear who was behind this attack we are hearing from eyewitnesses that there was a huge bang that shook everything and there is smoke that is coming out of the american embassy and as you say we continue to see these pictures but really at this stage the first details are still sketchy. paula u.s. embassies have been of course frequent targets across north africa and the middle east can we just speculate a little as to what could be the cause of this anything linked with recent events in the region. what we certainly have seen an increase in violence and anger that has been targeted against waste in embassies particularly the embassy of the united states it was just in september a couple of months ago when the most notorious attack on a american diplomatic mission in the libyan city

. >> washington, d.c., capital city of the country. ix blocks away, verizon center, alex ovechkin captain of the capitals. perhaps the spark will be facing sidney crosby captain of the pittsburgh penguins. no penguin has more points than he. that's normal. two feisty teams coming off wins. caps/pens after this update. >> doc, thanks so much. time to hit up saturday night's highlights. first two weeks of the nhl season have been shark weeks. san jose 7-0-0, the only perfect team left in the league taking on nashville. san jose trailing 1-0 on the power play. a scoreless overtime. go to the shootout. craig smith, the only goal in the shootout.

. >> reporter: the blast sent smoke and debris into the streets of turkey's capital city. police sealed off the area and are examining security camera footage. an official said they've identified two people who could be suspects. state department officials are calling the explosion a terrorist act and say they are working with turkish police on the investigation. so far there has been no claim of responsibility. investigators are looking at whether kurdish rebels or islamic militants livinged to al qaeda may be behind the attack. the blast comes as the state department reviews some embassy security procedures following a deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. the u.s. embassy in ankara is a heavily protected building near several other embassies and just a few blocks from the turkish parliament. tara mergener for cbs news, the state department. >> the state department is advising u.s. citizens traveling or living in turkey to be on alert for potential violence and to avoid demonstrations in large gatherings. >>> big changes in the obama administration toda

capitalize on the length of the plan. we've got ideas about how to move there. the city's capital planning committee has indicated they were willing and interested to have a more holistic approach and we're looking forward to that. and the army of engineers have a plan. our sources starting off with our need. 2.2 bloidz was our estimated need last year. and i called your attention how we're revooigdz the way we're looking our seismic costs. i'll come back to this first slide. just to talk for a second about what is need is and what on enhancement is. the need is how we and the city defines by capital planning what you need to take care of and moipt our existing facilities. and if you're required by lay to do that. say we have to upgrade a structu structure. if we've added something new like some of the structures are split and so we counted this as good repair because it enhanced the facility. the way that the city does it's capital there is never a code driven need. piers are different animal. so the key is that we don't really know until we have a plan for repair of an i

it does cause quite a troublesome picture to appear in the capital city, so we'll be seeing that. thursday we'll look a lot clearer, but you will be seeing a big drop in the temperatures. also into thursday and friday, i should mention yet another system coming across, brewing over the sea of japan. it will be heading up to northern japan, hokkaido a. let's take a look at these next three days in some key cities in the east of asia. 4 degrees in tokyo but recovering quite well toward the end of the work week. seoul dropping down to minus 8 for thursday, minus 8 6 on friday. as for beijing, dropping down to subzero low on thursday. and the same goes for you on friday, too. so, very much time to bundle up against that bitter cold. as we head into the americas, we'll see significant snow for the cass kasd, maybe about 30 centimeters. a system offshore sending those fronts in. toward the great lakes you'll see 5 centimeters of snow. a swift-moving system. shouldn't cause too much damage there. down toward the south, widespread showers monday along the gulf coast. that will clear up fo

and its capital city is also the namesake of a world-renowned beverage. nhk world's rina nakano reports from sapporo. >> reporter: tourists from around the world visit sapporo for its famous snow festival. once they soak in the sights and sounds, many make their way here to this restaurant to get a taste. we're at a beer garden about a ten-minute drive from the city center. but it's not your usual beer hall. well, it's just about lunchtime here in japan. and many people are already sipping on some ice cold beer while munching on a very special plate of barbecue. i'm sure when many people think of sapporo, they either think of the 1972 winter olympics or the beer. here's why. back a century ago, some resourceful people found a very key ingredient of beer growing right here in hokkaido. well, in the late 19th century, the japanese government attracted westerners to hokkaido to help modernize the island. and in 1872, the visitors discovered wild hops growing right here. they believed the plant would be used to create a homemade product to help build the regi

your capital city clean up program offers $1500 to private property owners to abate on heritage properties. what are the technical requirements to abate graffiti from heritage properties? >> i actually am not an expert in terms of the types of chemicals. so, i really captain answer that question. basically like i said before, we have our contractor on staff who is fully qualified, who is responsible for getting a letter approval through heritage for his chemical. they have to do a test with them to ensure that the products are safe for use on all heritage buildings. and so that's how we've been able to handle our heritage buildings. >> i think most of my experience here in the states is it has more to do with the qualifications -- if it's designated listed historic property, then it tends to shift over to the qualifications have to be somebody that has a certain degree and conservation or that kind of thing. so, it's probably similar. it's some qualification type program. >> alrighty, thank you. i have a question over here. somebody get back here, if i could get you to stand up. your name