. >>> now hannah continues her series on green chimneys.t's a school that takes an unusual approach to help kids overcome their personal problems. ♪ >> reporter: most of the animals and kids that come to green chimneys have something in common. they need special attention. the kids are here because they have social or learning issues that make it difficult for them to attend regular school. many of the animals here were rescued from bad situations. at green chimneys they help each other through what's called animal-assisted therapy. >> when you work with animals or you work in gardens, you work within nature. these are normalizing kinds of activities for anyone. and they're relaxing. and they put kids who are probably under a lot of stress in a position where they can learn and they can achieve much better results. >> reporter: in the school's wildlife program students learn how to care for injured birds, like this owl with a bad eye. >> the difference between a hawk and a falcon and an owl is that owls are nocturnal. they come out at night

what did the big chimney say to the little chimney? what? you're too young to smoke. that's terrible. it's a kids joke. i'm not doing that joke. all right. don't do a joke, just talk, all right? you don't got to start with anything. she knows you. you're grandpa. she's familiar with your work. all right. come with me. no. what are you so scared of? you were in a war! that was different. they gave me a rifle. just glad they took it back. ally: i'm gonna get you! hey, kids, what, are you playing here? hey, come on, boys, go inside. your dad's got candy and chocolate fudgey balls for you. go on inside. ally, can i talk to you for a second? okay. can we, uh, sit somewhere? ( metal buckling ) okay, uh... so, ally, what did the mexican fire chief name his two sons? jose and hose "b." that was one of your father's jokes. so, uh, listen, ally, i, uh... i understand you were mad or something about what happened at the supermarket. but what you don't understand is-- you took that stuff, and then you yelled at that man. it was scary. hey, listen... ( metal buckling ) you don't e

if you do find a critter in your chimney, it is best to call a professional chimney sweep to make sure you clear out all the remnants of it. orou can hire my dog which chases them all down. >> all the way up a chimney? >> well, he would scar them off. >>> the latest on the don't ask don't tell policy of the military. >>> and new technology may soon do away with the need to do away with the need to restrict liquids on flight bob ehrlh says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... d a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay f them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust. >>> welcome back. a major security presence at the d.c. department of public wos. new security measures were put into place ts morning of a a gunman shot two workers killing a 24-year veteran. 51-year-old larry hutchins

if you have a leak in your chimney, that can be a really costly leak.you can put a weather sealant on it, a water sealant. and you can do it yourself, believe it or not, you probably don't even need a ladder to do it. it's about $75 an hour to have a professional do it. you just want it on the wood as you would paint a wall. >> we have candles here not just to set the mood, but for a reason. >> candles are to see if you have a draft. a really good trick is to light a candle. take it over to your window or door and if it thickers that means you have a draft. in order to deal with a draft, let's go over to our window. what you're going to want to do is caulk along the edges. this is just an acrylic latex caulk and you can even still open your window, come springtime if you want to take it out, you can just take a razor blade and take it out. if your windows are like mine, a breeze is constantly coming in. you can save a lot of money on your heating just by doing that. >> a lot of people are intimidated by the gun. >> it's easy, just just go along the edge

>> >> hear you and see up close one of the properties crews are cleaning out to that used to be a chimneywere destroyed beyond repair in this fire and as i walk over here you can see the crew is also have this machine set up well they do their work. it's an air quality monitoring station because they don't know exactly what's in this debris they're afraid it may have toxic chemicals. as we take a look if you could see the remains of a burned out car all of this will be cleared out. this is the before picture and this is the after picture. here you can see one of the cleared the properties this sign shows they've done an asbestos survey and the removal is complete. as you take a look of the property you can see little yellow flags like this one right here. it that's were they've done soil samples that want to make sure they're giving residents back a clean piece of property that's ready to be rebuilt on. here you can see the progress there are only about 12 properties left the need to be cleared out. if all goes as planned crews hope to be done with the debris removal by next monday. that

high pressure, you can see it over the chimney of idaho with the clackwise flow.breeze keeping away the clouds, the free air conditioning. it will do so through the afternoon, the overnight hours and the better part tomorrow. but as it settles over utah, the flow will start to come up from the south. that southerly surge of clouds start to move in. that's when you know the cooling is here and you'll definitely feel it at the coast by tomorrow evening while the rest of us will be hot once again. temperatures today, a star next to where we could have a possible record which would be concord. the rest of your neighbors mid 90s. oakland 89. upper 80s to low 90s for everybody down in the south bay. san jose 93. rest of your neighbors low to mid-90s. low 90s on the peninsula today. low to mid-80s abeing lo the coast. upper 80s downtown south san francisco and sausalito. up in santa rosa, napa and san rafael low to mid-90s. possible records there. near 80 at your beaches and around the monterey bay. near 90 santa cruz and watsonville, gilroy 95 the possibility of a recor

. >> i was like there goes the chimney. goes the house. >> the whole street, just everyone came out of their house at the same time and rush to go see what they could do to help. >> a crane tripped right over and crashed into the customer's house. fortunately nobody hurt. but there is considerable damage as you can see. now, to remove this crane they are bringing in two more cranes. we are going to keep our fingers crossed. >>> did you ever take a class like rocks for jocks. that would be a basic geology class. oregon state has a class like that and it just earned playboy magazine's stamp of approval. it uses gary larson's teaching tools with bugs. playboy has labeled it the country's best college course. now, you should also note it earned praise from a newspaper from the chronicle of higher education. which do you think the professor actually cares about? >> of the two which would be the greater? >> no problem because chronicles is not read by student body. >> chronicle just got dissed. playboy liked it because it combine

dozens of tiny chimney swifts.first city workers thought they may have been killed by contamination by the facility. but it turns out the migrating birds were chasing bugs hit by cars. >> it was actually feeding on a lot of small bugs in this area. om what we can tell following the bugs was bringing them in the line of traffic flow. they were being hitby cars. >> three of the birds were taken to a lab just to double-check that nothing else is to blame. >> crews working to rescue 33 trapped in the mine in chilere working on an evacuation plan. the men will be evaluated for about an hour and be moved to a stabilization area by helicopter. the miners will all wear sunglasses since the eyes have not been exposed sunlight in two months. the mining minister say the drill could reach the men by tomorrow. it could take another 3 to 10 days to pull the miners out to safety. that would be great. >> hoping for a happy ending there. it is now 4:55. 55 degrees. coming up, a bathroom battle. why organizers of the marathon refuse

all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse ♪ ♪ stockings were hung by the chimneyheir beds while visions of sugar -- sugar plums danced in their head ♪ ♪ mom in her kerchief and i in my cap had just settled down for a long winter's nap ♪ ♪ when out -- away to the window i flew in a flash and on and on and on >> you guys are killing me. i love it. plus it has mary's last recording. >> tell me the story about how you guys got here when she was fading. she was -- >> to record this. >> she did not give up. >> until -- until the day before she died in 2009, she was performing with us. in a wheelchair and with oxygen and she said, you're going to make the book. i spoke to her and said, do you want to do a narrated version. she did. and when you hear her speak it, she's in the middle as she ordinarily is. and knows, would you like to -- >> why don't you read that poem by clemen to all of us. >> we'll sing along and play along. we recorded it. >> a little puff the magic dragon. >> then we could close it out -- okay. ♪ ♪ puff the magic dragon ♪ ♪ live by the sea ♪ autumn mi

a lot of the properties that do have items on them just have semblances of homes at this point, chimneys, some cars. they are also working very hard on testing the air quality and the soil quality on all of those properties and looking forward to a brand-new neighborhood here in san bruno. and again, we are looking live here at this neighborhood where the people that live on the outskirts have been allowed in. we still see plenty of tags on their houses. we talked to some of those folks today about how it feels to live and here. good weather and a lack of wind have allowed crews to clear 27 of 37 properties destroyed by the san bruno explosion by the end of work today. >> the positive and negative. there are positives in making efforts to recovery but negative in that it's a constant reminder of what happened. >> reporter: this man lives just outside the blast zone where the clean-up has been under way since september 23rd. >> i haven't been paying that much attention because it kind of retraumatizes you. i just watched this house and felt so bad for all the stuff left that that he can't

though the experiments on capsule vehicle and chimney are all on going now and we feed those answersnalize the strategy. >> one of the debates right now on going is what happened to the expeditionary finding vehicle. the marine corp said it is core or suggested it could be canceled after the election. if the program goes away, what do you do and how do you address that capability and what is your thinking about the future capability of a vehicle that would be protected from ied which is another criticism? >> first of all the existing amphibious assault vehicle is approaching 40 years of service so we need a solution. key is we don't want to define what we are looking for by a specific program but a capability. we need a track vehicle that can do the transition from the sea to the land and immediately engage in land maneuver. that's hard technology. and we've been working on it for a number of years. it's currently in a technology or test demonstration phase to see if the reliability challenges have been solved. so there is no need about the question of the capability but will it meet

the final stages the united russia party has given its short list of contenders to presidents jimmy chimney to that of who now has ten days to decide who's to take charge at city hall in the russian capital fastest covering the story for us. the short list. for names that have been submitted by the united russia party t. president. on that list includes the deputy prime minister. now he's considered a strong from and a full of the position by many commentators so no surprise that he's been included in the list he's also considered a very close ally of prime minister putin having worked with him extensively during his presidency and now in his role as prime minister so he's certainly a very strong candidate but also on the list we have russia's transport and communications minister igor levitin and the governor of michigan of girls valerie have now here actually spent ten hours the former mellish called deputy up until two thousand and five and nine hundred ninety six when i. was running for that position and. was running for the position of vice was we did an assassination attempt against h

chimney, yeah, fireplace. be aware of the fact that just because it's a wood building and the event caused some sort of compromise of the structure of the building and the building is still standing doesn't necessarily mean there's not a danger there. so what could you as nert's do to make that situation better or at least keep it the same so no one else gets hurt? keep it off, yeah. keep people away. perfect. take out some of that yellow tape that you have, that yellow caution tape, and string it around around keep people back. in this particular case, what could you do to make that situation better? turn off the gas. where would you turn the gas off at? at the street, okay. that's a good place to do it. but you always want to do it at the safest location. so if the street is the safest location, that's where you would do it at. this house here fell over. doesn't have something called a sheer wall. so it's just a platform or a platform or a balloon, nothing that keeps the wall from racking, they call it. so y

to work safely and believe see you have to make generous donations to the ruling party or a large chimney to powerful entrepreneurs in georgia make voluntary donations by paying off the government in june the elections all of them pay no less than fifty five thousand u.s. dollars these are official sums we can only guess how much they have to pay on official rest of us do not. call feels betrayed by the government is still hoping to find justice for this man and many others who have seen for themselves so often president saakashvili his words differ from his deeds change can't come soon enough well georgian officials claim that they have created the groups in free to me to go also lost their businesses due to pressure from the state it's nothing but spin and even though only a few want to speak out it looks like the movement against such record tearing into police see is getting stronger does. the head of the international monetary fund is urging nations not to use their currencies as economic weapons of self defense dominique strauss kahn says the global financial crisis is not over with

. >> the tree is not mere the chimney anymore. >> that is good for the entire neighborhood. >> keeps leaves off the roof. keeps limbs from overgrowing on to their fireplaces. we try to do the whole thing. and we prep test neighbor properties, too soon ls. >> so far, it's been a quiet fire season in oakland and around the bay area. firefighters are hoping that the cool damp summer will keep it that way and today's high fire danger warning will be just that. a warning. >> and we're not telling people not to barbecue. we're saying be aware of barbecuing. >> and a visit from the fire department made this family cognizant of the fact the woods so close to home is a fire danger they tested their luck once in 1991. >> there is one burned one not. >> his home survived. thankfully oakland firefighters say the conditions today temperatures a, humidity and winds are nowhere near where they were in 1991 for that fire. but this red flag warning does remain in effect until 6:00 wednesday morning. >> and thank you very much. >> and sandhya patel is monitoring the weather situation. >> she is and ha

three years ago no way i didn't know that they forgot to pay the fee forgot to pay the fee they had a chimney fire the firefighters came they put out the fire and the family paid the fee the next day. so i think it's not that surprising to suddenly discover that they forgot to pay that here you have absolutely no mercy for these people. you know i think that it's a question of of free riders it's you know we're used to the firefighters being so that's paid for in our taxes. but when they're not there are all kinds of incentives for people to wait and hope they can get away with it later on this is an example of why that's not a great strategy but that's laziness and i actually like this was one of the most absurd things i've ever heard in my life this argument. i can't believe anybody actually believes that i don't believe that you actually believe that i believe the reason you're seeing that is so that you say hey let's have privatized fire services so that we becomes your say let's not have social security let's not have these other things because then not having the firefighters come and m

. >> i just had my chimney cleaned out. so, yeah, i'm getting ready. >> time to glenn out the gutters? >> yeah. all of that stuff. >> reporter: if a seasonal spigot is now open, wind can't be far behind. north of santa rosa fire crews had a 50-foot tree toppled. and rain came down in sheets as sonoma county got the heaviest drenching. >> this is a bad part right here. >> reporter: with sunday's punch expected to be even stronger the police want you to make sure your tires have tread and the windshield wipers work. and taking extra caution now. >> i am driving with two hands on the wheel. look pretty far ahead of you to make sure you are able to react if something happens. >> reporter: fortunately with the uptick in crashes around the bay area no serious injuries were reported. now, remember if you do hit standing water the chp says do not slam on your brakes. just try to steer through it. that's the picture here live. let's go to mark tamayo now in the weather center to see what's in store for tomorrow. mark? >> deborah, we

our high pressure started in the chimney of idaho. now moving into the eastern or western sections of colorado. because we have the jet stream running parallel to the cold front things around moving very quickly. that's why we call is slow cooling. but when it gets here this weekend you'll notice a difference. the highs for today in the south bay, low to mid-80s until you get to saratoga, campbell and los gatos, upper 80s for you. san jose and cupertino 85 or 86. upper 70s millbrae, san mateo. looking for fog to return to half moon bay, pacifica and as far north as half moon bay. sausalito mid to upper 70s, san rafael 80. northward we're looking at mid to upper 80s, possibly 90 calistoga. richmond, berkeley, mid to upper 70s with oakland. and then low to mid-80s for the rest of the east bay shore. upper 80s to low 90s. 88 a record high for today. pretty easily attainable compared to the last couple days. morgan hill 89. fog around the monterey bay. tonight north bay valley, upper 40s for you. your seven-day, with that chance of rain t

dozens of tiny chimney swifts were found in southwest washington. at first city workers thought they may have been kild by contamination by the facility. but it turns out the migrating birds were chasing bugs hit by cars. three of the birds were taken to a lab just to double-check that nothing else is to blame. >>> breaking news. find out who just won the nobel peace prize. >>> and a man found dead inside a home in fairfax county and now police are on the look jute for his stolen vehicle. >>> it looks like we are in store for a picture perfect weekend. can't wait. weather and traffic together on the ones are next. stay with us. >>> a man is found dead. >>> walking for a cure. right now thousands are gathering at nationals park the start of a three-day walk to fight breast cancer. >> hope they have their walng shoes on and plentyf gatorade and water. >> going to be a nice watday. >> it is friday, october 8th, 120. a live look outside. 6:30 is your time. 57 degrees. a great weekend ahead. wee excited about the beautiful weather. veronica johnson is he

dozens of tiny chimney swifts were found in southwest washington.ty workers thought they may have been killed by contamination by the facility. but it turns out the migrating birds were chasing bugs hit by cars. >> it was actually feeding on a lot of small bugs in this area. from what we can tell following the bugs was bringing them in the line of traffic flow. they were being hit by cars. >> three of the birds were taken to a lab just to doue-check that nothing else is to blame. plans are under way to improve security around the jefferson memorial, which we see at the center of our screen. the planning commissiois considering three options according to the "washington post." now, all three include putting up new barriers around that memorial. however, none of the three is seen as environmentally friendly. each would require more an 50 trees to be cut down and removed. >>> marine corps. marathon may be throwing money down the toilet, literally. they ordered 750 port-a-potties for the month, a day after jon stewart and stephen colbert's rallies. they

this will prevent the crumbling of the walls, of the chimney, and also it will make the capsule be able to slide up and down much better. as you can see, there's a lot of work to do. they are not claiming victory yet. and, of course, here, everybody's hoping for the best. now back to you. >> all right. certainly, thank you so much, angie sandoval. we are hoping for the best. we're going to talk to a psychologist from west point about what kind of impact that has had on the miners and how hard it is to going to be to adjust to life above ground. that's coming up. >>> an 11-day-long blockade is now over. it is a crucial supply route for nato supply tankers. it shut down after a helicopter strike killed two pakistani soldiers. more than 150 trucks were destroyed. just yesterday gunmen armed with rockets torched 29 nato oil tankers. please say at least ten militants were involved in that attack. two police officers were injured. >>> in chicago a bus crash left dozens of passengers injured after it veered off the road. 70 people were onboard that commuter truck when it smashed into a row of

dozens of tiny chimney swifts were found outside of the blue plains water treatment facility on overlooknue in southwest washington. at first city workers thought they may have been killed by a containment from the facility or a contaminant. it turns tout migrating birds were chasing bugs d were actually hit by ars. three of the birds were taken to a lab just to double check but nothing else is to blame for their deaths. >>> we'll check the midday traffic now. steve hirschhorn joinss now. >> we'll go back to tha terrible accident on grgia avenue northbound blocked before you get to aspen hill. nortound traffic success diverted away from aspen hill road. on the far right-hand side of your screen is the southbound side of georgia avenue which is open, you can get by southbound on georgia avenueear aspen hill road. northbound side still being diverted way from the scene. springfield, despite the fact that we have hov lanes open southbound still very sow leaving springfield to get past the work zone in newington that is in the right lane and add that to the columbus day weekend early getaway

the chimney swifts were found just outside the large bl plains water treatment facility. at first, district officials thought they may have been kill by a contaminant from the facility. it turns out, the might go rating birds were chasing-the migrating birds were chasing bugs and hit by vehicle. and humans can get sick from their pet's food if it has been recalled or contaminated. some pet food contains additive that's increases the chance of salmonella or e. coli. health officials recommend keeping pet food and pet food dishes away from your kitchen and you should wash your hands often when handling pet food. >>> a great day out there. plenty of sunshine. we've been waiting for the sunshine and fnally we have it outside. take a look at this. a beautiful shot of the city right now looking right across the area. plenty of that sunshine. temperature up to around 75 today under mostly sunny skies and wind out of the northwest about 12 miles per hour. all because of this area of high pressure. yesterday it wasow pressure dominating the area. now it is hgh pressure trying to m

line the rescue shaft with 316 feet of metal tubing, that is to reinforce the walls of this rescue chimney. after that they will start putting together the mechanism that will lower the rescue capsule to the men. >> well, that's exciting. so if this rescue process begins on wednesday, angie, how does that play out? is it literally as simple as just lowering down a capsule, but putting a man in it and bringing them back out, or is there more to it? >> reporter: no, there's nothing simple about it. the men will be winched up one by one. the process will taken an hour. it's very risky. has never been done in this country. this is not a straight drop. you know, there's like little turns. so they're afraid that the capsule might get stuck. so really people here are hoping for the best. >> indeed. how about family members? friends? how are they reacting today now that they're a few days from seeing their loved ones again on the surface? >> alex, i was having some hot tea, south american hot tea with them this morning and we were sharing stories and actually they're very happy but also very nervo

they said about 200 chimney swifts. they look like that. were found dead on the highway last night. when they think happen is that atmospheric conditions may have forced the birds to fly low to the ground where they were struck by passing cars. >>> we want to remind you about a major commuter alert for metro riders. track work along the blue and orange lines will close the fair west and the square station. it won't be any blue or service at metro service either. that work is scheduled to run from 10:00 tomorrow night until the system will open again on tuesday morning. >>> still ahead, for the first time ever, the government says that every american should get a flu shot. weather is looking pretty nice out there. >> it's beautiful right now. not a cloud in the sky. if you could hear through my microphone, maybe a tad breezy through this weekend. we'll have that with the complete forecast. >>> america's longest war, entering the tenth year. i'm joel joel at the white house. coming up. >>> the situation is getting more complicated. >> the war in afghanistan is injuring their -- enteri

he conceded remains of the chimney here to taking away 500 t of debris from the fires on each day.l they did this working concede they have air quality monitoring stations like this one set of internal toxins are flying up into the air. the assemblers machine set up in the neighborhood and the health department said no toxins have been detected so far. the work here is expected to be complete by next monday a week ahead of schedule. >> while the work was on local officials want to make sure emergency money is freed up to keep ahead of schedule that's why they're going to be declared a local state of emergency here this meeting tonight and one of the reasons are also going to consider giving the federal government to declare if the federal emergency as well. live in san bruno kron 4 news. >> a look at our extended forecast a chance of showers continues into tomorrow so does the cooler weather and the winds. warmer weather and to the weekend will talk all about a winds. warmer weather and to the weekend will talk all about a coming up a bit. [ male announcer ] barbara boxer. she foug

shouldn't they all be in one room for a week or until smoke comes out of the chimney and you actually have a solution? >> absolutely. he has dropped the ball. i need an audit. once we complete it, we will see the facts and bring the stakeholders to the table. it takes leadership and someone who is willing to stand up for the people, not just the special interests. here is an example. we did this in a bipartisan way when it came to mccormick place. it was standing to lose billions of dollars in investment. we sat down and came up with a solution, only to have it vetoed by mr. quinn. as governor, i will work with all the stakeholders to bring about new resolutions to the crisis illinois is facing. >> i have taken on special interest of all my life. senator brady is on their campaign payroll. we have taken on others. he voted against a bill that would have let a new mother's station hospital for more than 24 hours. he wanted to kick him out of a hospital after one day of stay just like the insurance companies. i understand the importance of jobs. that is why we have had in illinois decli

evacuation plan appeared in one lecture at the time you stay away from certain things like falling chimneysst. in oakland kron 4 news. >> for more information how to upgrade your home had to our web site you'll also find information on the giants as we continue to track their progress. they had to fill late today excited fans already thinking about the world series state positive and optimistic potential for gains the could play here christine shows us where you can start to buy tickets already for the world series. >> giants fever this hitting stub halt. when top search is the giants and world series record of over 15,000 tickets available for the four home games in the average price is $750 a that is up $100 from last week appeared to give you an idea last week year's world series were going for $900. there are ways to save you can see if you buy standing room tickets they are $300 single seeks you can save 10% if you just buy a single seat. remember these prices are in flux. if the game does not happen stub up will return on money and a guarantee tickets as well. there are different site

you can see the remains of a chimney here. they're taking around 500 t of debris each day.ir quality monitoring stations are set up making sure neurotoxins are flying into the air. similar machines through the neighborhood and health department says no toxins has been distracted so far. it will be complete by monday a week ahead of schedule. kron 4 news. >> there is a second lawsuit that alleges negligence led to the blast that killed eight people. that suit was filed by a man who suffered injuries in the explosion. this lawsuit is similar to the first one several weeks ago was filed. new details on a story kron 4 brokers last week. several playgrounds closed due to children's injuries. meeting was held last night to find out what to do about the playgrounds. >> somebody called kron news and showed up. and then we close the playgrounds structures. i think that's reactive not proactive. >> parents came to the meeting to find out what schools plan to do. here you concede the playground crawling with children last wednesday. that morning kron 4 ask questions about possible pro

because again, just like the chimney, there's 20% of the warmth out of your house. >> finally the furnacetime. >> all right, still to come, staying connected with friends and family, we're going to give you five reasons why it's important for better he. bthal but first, these messages. the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pattie. get the sensation. challenge the need for such heavy measures with olay. new regenerist micro-sculpting serum for firmer skin in 5 days. pretty heavy lifting for such a lightweight. [ female announcer ] olay regenerist. >>> millions of veterans in medicare cases now have online access to their medical records and very soon you may be able to do the same thing. >> we have got dr. carol diamond here, the manager of a nonprofit organization that works on improving health by technology. >> how will people be able to have access to their medical records? >> it's really pretty simple. if you're a medicare health provider or a -- you're able to view parts of your medical records and some of your claims information. >> will these be secure? i

we're not talking about maybe a chimney blown over.nt damage with a swirling manages mass -- swirling mass of tornado, not just a straight line wind. that other video is cued up. if you haven't seen it -- >> listen to it. >> i'm going to be quiet. >> we're in the tornado! in the tornado! we are in the tornado! we are in the tornado! >> i watched "twister," the movie, like everybody else did. when people ask, is it really like that, i go, no, it's not like that, you'd never get that close. you don't want to be that close, it's dangerous. and literally, this is why it is so dangerous. do you see these things flying across the roadway? they're landing in the ditch on the other side of this car. it was -- people were trapped in cars for quite a while until they could get out. look at the pieces just in the air. and it's that debris -- you know, people worry about getting sucked up in a tornado like the "wizard of oz." that -- that doesn't happen very often. people are injured and killed because they get hit boy stuff. they go out and want

certainly, we are looking for the smoke signals coming out of the chimney, but i think we have succeeded our system to technocrats. we are relying on a face that we will have a maestro that can save the day. this boom-bust cycle that you rightly point to, which was goosed by the fed, especially after september 11, the .com bubble bursting, get a lot more attention, and it can only lead to better outcomes if we know who made the shots. host: bob from wisconsin. independent line. caller: good morning. everybody talks about social security. if the government would quit taking money from social security and use it for everything else, i think social security would be all right. they bury money that they steal from social security in a bill. we need that money but everybody jumps on that bandwagon and signs that bill. guest: i do not know the exact numbers. you are right, they have been rating from the trust fund for years. they did not put on al gore cost lockbox, like they said. if you remove the idea that we are reading this trust fund, look at basic solvency, demographics, -- it is moving

. ♪ santa baby hurry down the chimney tonight ♪ >> and a lady goes take off that coat.cigar guy. >> very funny. >> oh, my. oh, my gosh! >> oh! wow! od>> >> hoda is a new york times best-seller. >> look what you made. >> yes, she is. >> this is the best party ever. cheers. >> cheers. and congratulations. [ female announcer ] the independence to fix our schools? meg whitman. cut administrative overhead. put more money in the classroom. more charter schools. jerry brown? his union backers want to make it nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher. they oppose reform. oppose charter schools. oppose change. jerry brown: no changes in education. meg whitman: more money in the classroom. more charter schools. a chance for change. he worked his whole life, served his country defending our freedoms, and depends on social security. so, who would want to privatize it? corporate lawyer david harmer. harmer's social security privatization plan would cut guaranteed benefits and gamble with social security on wall street. while we worry, harmer's wall street friends would make billions i