up where the clouds are five behind mare behind me or trouble mislike lemon drops high above the chimney that is where you'll find me ♪ >> thank you so much to the cultural procession community. we are glad that we got together yesterday to reverse this. at this time, with like to invite the mayor and the first lady to the stage. [applause] we will ask you to stand center stage. mayor lee. mayor lee, we have a surprise for you. and i'm going to ask you to lead us. >> ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday, mayor lee happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ [applause] >> we would like to thank -- ed, please make a wish in blowout the candles -- and blow out the candles. [laughter] [applause] we would like to thank peter of the california culinary academy, a person here to say a few words about this beautiful cake. >> thank the. mr. mayor, on behalf of the california culinary academy, where like to wish you a happy birthday. this

it was coming from the chimney of a vacant home. the emergency crews discovered a man trapped inside the chimney where he was for nearly 10 hours. he was dehydrated and in pain. he was rushed to the hospital. >> tried to gain access to the patient to put a harness on him. we communicated with him and instructed him on how to do that for himself. >> he was trying to hide in the chimney when they were conducting a search for squatters in the neighborhood. >>> federal investigators say a corroded pipe might be to blame for massive oil refinery fire in california. the pipe is more than 30 years old and independent late last year. chevron replaced the pipe connected to it and last monday, a vapor cloud ignited in one of the one of the refinery fires in recent history. thousands sought medical help for -- and more than a dozen workers managed to escape. >>> overseas, two earthquakes struck northern iran killing dozens and injuring hundreds. according to the knew main news channel, at least 87 people are dead and 600 others hurt. four vill

think about how to brace your chimney. we don't want to have people being in there's earthquake shacks. we don't have plans. we don't have a plan what we're going to do for housing. >> we know we don't want to be in formaldehyde trailers. >> i want to use the word plan. i will say, i think one of the things we do in our life. we plan for retirement. you think about social security. your children who might take care of you. any 401 k. you have to look at earthquakes and make a plan. you need to think about the things to have access. backing up your hard drive. have been your family on the east coast have copies of valuable documents so they are not lost and also this issue of risk. how much risk do you want to retain? don't invest in retrofitting if you financially don't need that. if you don't have investment in that structure. it might not be significant for you.

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. >> watch out for the chimney. >> it looked like he was getting really close to the chimney.ng out to him. the machine itself is really loud. i just had an inkling or some kind of feeling that something might happen. >> peter's right. something will happen, but it's not the pool hitting the chimney. the crane operator maneuvers it safely past that obstacle, but as he starts to lower the pool into the yard, look out. >> holy -- i heard a loud pop, then i heard the crane operator scream and i knew to run at that point. there really wasn't much else to do. then the crane operator starts screaming, it's time to clear out. >> when peter turns to look at the crane, it's an amazing sight. >> the back of it is probably like, i don't know, 15, 20 feet, it was up in the air, a pretty substantial vehicle that completely up-ended. >> the crane operator is stuck in the cab screaming in frustration. >> he's just really upset and kind of sounds like homer simpson, like really mad, ah! i can't believe what happened. >> peter turns off the camera to help. >> he was laying forward on the contr

a raccoon mother set up house with her four babies in this chimney in july.umane wildlife services easily rescued the mother and two of the babies but two others got trapped after falling down in the furnace area. they hadn't nursed after four days. after being rehydrated they were placed in a box with their siblings. the hidden camera showed the mama raccoon returned for her babies and hopefully moved all of them to a safer location. >> like raccoons, puppies are known to eat just about anything in sight, but one picky pooch should probably be in paula deen's house with his reaction to a low-fat treat. take a look at this. >> don't you want the jerky, man? >> not having any of it. the guy who owns this 6-month-old lab says his dog eats everything, but you can clearly see it has no interest in some low-fat lamb jerky. the dog runs away, even tries to swat it out of his owner's hands. after a day on youtube, it's already been viewed half a million times. he just wants it battered and fried. >> get that thing out of my face. >> tha >> announcer: it's "the tonig

but not long ago i was up at a place called chimney rock in southwest colorado. and it's over 8,000 feet. and you are up at the southern end ftd rocky mountains and there is this scarp of rock that rises up probably about a thousand feet out of a valley floor and right at the tip of this scarp there are two twin towers of rock. if you get to a certain place on top of this very narrow butte, you can see between these twin towers and there happens to be a great house built between these two towers and every 18.6 years when the moon goes into its northernmost point on the horizon, it rises between those two towers. i was there at the beginning of the last 18.6 year cycle and we stood up there, probably 20 of us, researchers, forest service people, all gathered at the same spot with cameras and huddled -- it was late december at 8,000 feet and we were all watching this gap. and somebody had done very intricate work to figure out exactly where you need to stand to see the light at exactly the right time. and as we were all gathered up there, i remember this older arch

he got back to his office to find extensive damage to the castle's chimney. the building has been secured but not repaired. >> the castle was built in 1855 out of red sandstone. again, a large stone building with a lot of tall chimneys and decorative in pediments that are not meant to move. the cracks all of the seismic energy just went upper -- up and caused cracks at the top of the monument. >> these are reminders of how much the earthquake did and how much work must be done. >> it is a beautiful beautiful cathedral. >> the past year has been spent raising money and assessing damage on all three buildings. it will take $20 million to restore the cathedral and that could take anywhere between 5 to 10 years before the work is completed. the work on the monument will begin in a couple of weeks. that's should be finished within a year. at the smithsonian castle, the work there is supposed to start within the next few weeks. >> thank you. >> it is pleasant outside. it is starting to feel a little cool out there. >> it is. it is only in the 80's. knile 90's in ou

a white honky who slides down a black chimney and comes out white! >> that last remark was interesting. white honky who slides down a black chimney comes out white. >> there's a lot of rhetoric. there's a lot of playing on words and very emotional. >> did it work? >> that was not part of the snick they knew. >> what happened? >> something -- something went wrong. snick came to that point where, in my estimation, it was forced to die a natural death. we were conceived in this whole idea of the building of a truly interracial democracy. there were black students and white students working together, building together. suffering together. you cannot forget that in 1964, one year after i became chair, during the mississippi summer project that we recruited all these young people, blacks and whites, primarily students, but doctors and lawyers and priests and nuns came to work in mississippi during the voter registration drive. it had a black voter population of more than 436,000 but only about 16,000 were registered to vote. these black people and people n

a mother raccoon and her four babies decided to move into a chimney. that wasn't a good idea. the family got trapped and two babies fell down into the furnace. it took two days for humane wildlife services to rescue the little ones. fortunately rescuers were able to reunite the family of five. >>> elsewhere in our area, a much more unwelcomed animal invasion. bats in a montgomery county neighborhood attacked a woman out walking her dogs. we have more on the frightening encounter. >> reporter: that woman was walking on this gaithersburg street when she said bats that had been flying like the ones behind me swooped down and caused her anguish. >> was like instant pain. >> reporter: dina is still shaken after a bat attack. did you see it? let's see it in slow motion as they fly around. >> it's kind of surreal. >> reporter: she tells me she and her husband george were walking their four dogs on garfield drive. they looked up. what did you see? >> we saw a group of bats swarming around us. >> reporter: suddenly two aggressive bats circled around dina's head. >> i was nervous, espec

also, reunited, a mother raccoon finds her babies after the family is rescued from a chimney.ww. >> so cute. >> you know? they are cute. but they're -- >> they have those things going on. >> yeah. you don't want to miss the video. first, let's check in with holly. are you improving your basketball skills? >> reporter: i'm improving my watching good basketball skills. i know when i'm outplayed. sole i'm handled the court over. we are live at the practice courts of the mystics, where an amazing opportunity is going on. you're seeing some young players and some professional players all working together because it's part of what the mystics organization is all b we're going to talk about their youth summer leagues live later on "fox 5 morning news" stay with us. i'm officially riding the bench now. [ malele announcer ] the choice on debt... mitt romney's plan: huge tax cuts for millionaires, tax breaks for oil companies and corporations that ship jobs overseas, adding trillions to the deficit. president obama's plan: a balanced approach that asks the wealthy to pay a little more,

sometimes when doors close shut, a window mysteriously opens or a chimney flue flies open.n this case, the man with the only name left on that seat, the man who became suddenly relevant after thaddeus mccotter self-destructed was this guy who came down the chimney, santa claus impersonator. he's a reindeer herder, failed senate candidate, he's on the ballot and no other republican is. he's also on the interweb machine at his very own website, oldfashionedsanta.org. the caption on this shirtless picture here is, "owner kerry ventivolio scratches reindeer ear on a warm spring day." once everybody figured out he was going to be the only republican on the ballot, it was interesting. the political right decided that santa would be their guy. he got endorsed by freedomworks, the koch brother-funded group. he got not only endorsed, but he also got over $300,000 from a pac with ties to ron paul. i mean establishment republicans are still trying to get around the santa reindeer guy. they are waging, in fact, a write-in campaign for nancy kasise. if it works, she would be only the fo

the chimney sweep times pick union says with frends like ese oo, needs enemas is. not sure that makes sense and from london's famed what's all this gazette, oh, all right, a little on the nosement for god's sakes, romney, how do you screw this up. how do you screw this up. (applause) how do you screw up a trip to england. all you got to do when you go there, look to your right when are you crossing the street and keep your naked balls out of people's tea it is to the like you are in papua new guinea where they explain when you shake that guy's hand t means you want to [bleep] that guy's wichlt don't do that you have britain's prime minister to insult euro limb pick experience back. >> we are holding an olympic games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. of course it's easier if you hold the olympic games in the middle of nowhere. (cheers and applause) >> jon: no, no, no you did not. the middle of-- no, no, you know what. when it am coulds to foreigners attacking the states there is no utah. there is only we-tah. don't worry romn

. >> we heard him mention the chimney on the clubhouse which is a little left of the flagstick. >> lined good. wants it down. >> that will head to the back left corner. will it stay on? >> a little edge there. it is long. i tell what you, neither is a guaranteed two putt, mark. going to be two tough putts. >> we have seen some remarkable putting the last hour. this steven fox for birdie down the hill very quick. it looks here like it mate be short. it just drips into the right side. and the putt that michael weaver hit at 16, it didn't go in quite as slowly. >> it did not. it rattled the back of the cup but into the bottom. and then at the par 5 17th, when he most needed it, steven fox up the hill gets better. so three holes in a row, 15, 16, 17 clutch putts. and now who will hit the clutch putt here at 18? it may not be a putt you have to hole. these are, as gary said, tough two putts. >> we want to see the reaction of the two players as they get up to the green. i'm sure that michael weaver has no idea what his ball is that deep into the green. >> of course, it was not a missed hole. m

. >> we heard him mention the chimney on the clubhouse which is a little left of the flagstick. >> lined good. wants it down. >> that will head to the back left corner. will it stay on? >> a little edge there. it is long. i tell what you, neither is a guaranteed two putt, mark. going to be two tough putts. >> we have seen some remarkable putting the last hour. this steven fox for birdie down the hill very quick. it looks here like it mate be short. it just drips into the right side. and the putt that michael weaver hit at 16, it didn't go in quite as slowly. >> it did not. it rattled the back of the cup but into the bottom. and then at the par 5 17th, when he most needed it, steven fox up the hill gets better. so three holes in a row, 15, 16, 17 clutch putts. and now who will hit the clutch putt here at 18? it may not be a putt you have to hole. these are, as gary said, tough two putts. >> we want to see the reaction of the two players as they get up to the green. i'm sure that michael weaver has no idea what his ball is that deep into the green. >> of course, it was not a missed hole. m

it was tied to this chimney. >> it was dangerous hell of a lot of fun. >> reporter: now, fun comes in form of nerf gun battles. and forcing guests to try on this ironman helmet. ironman is their unofficial mascot. but these men don't need metal suits to do the impossible. they just need a really good place to eat, sleep and write code. >> getting so much work done, as protocchetive as we were. that has something to do with the windows or the architecture. or maybe it just is the facebook karma. >> reporter: but the ironmen only have the bad for a few weeks. they're subletting it for the summer, from a group of stanford grad students that need to move back in at the end of september.

finding the next route it take you from ledge to ledge to ledge, down through cracks and narrows, chimneys leading down step by step. until you get to this arch. it's a small arch, it's only about this tall. the photograph is a little -- well, size, scale dimension, they all kind of leave out there. right inside of this arch way there is a bunch of broken pottery so you know this was a used route a thousand years ago. and the arch leads down into a canyon that opens up and you go up a side canyon into this little alcove where a piece of the ceiling has fallen just slightly. and i found this place. the first time i found this was on the 27th day of a back pack and i got up to this spot and i took my hat off and i stuck my head in the crack, which is something that i do frequently out there, because i know every once in a while you're going it see something back inside one of these cracks. and back in this crack there was a basket about 1500 years old that had been turned upside down so it wouldn't collect anything and it was way back down in the crack so that no light or wind would touch it

a raccoon mother set up house with four babies in this chimney in a home in arlington in july. humane wildlife services rescued them two got trapped after falling down into a furnace area. they were stuck for four days and had a nurse, they were able to rehydrate them and they were placed in the box with the siblings. then the reunion. hidden camera shows the mom returning for her babies and hopefully moving them to a safer location. >> all is well that ends well. >> that is right. >>> stay with us. "news4 today" continues now at 5:00 a.m. >>> after a busy night for lawmakers, the issue over whether to expand gambling in maryland will soon be in your hands. good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this august 15, 2012. 71 degrees today. we had some storms overnight. and are we in the clear? that is the question this morning. >> veronica johnson is in for tom with some answers this morning. what is that? >> this means no. >> buzzer. >> buzzer, right. >> we're going to get one of snows. >> that would be fun. we would use it all the time. >>

. >> you can get a chimney cap and make sure you have secure screens. shomari stone, news4. >>> a united airlines flight landed safely after colliding with a bird this morning as the plane approached denver international airport. once the plane landed passengers posted pictures of the damage online. >>> a 12-year-old boy is in critical condition after the rest of his family was killed in a murder-suicide. police say the boy's father, frank hayward jr. shot and killed his wife and two-year-old daughter and set the home on fire before turning the gun on himself. court records show that his wife filed for a protective order in 2007. >>> a new clue in the search for a man who kidnapped cal ripken's mother at gunpoint. police have released a composite sketch. he snatched violet from her home in baltimore last week. she was tide up, blindfolded and driven around before being released unharmed. no word on a motive. >>> a simulation from the national transportation safety board demonstrates the horror as a bus filled with tourists flipped over. four people were

>>i like using that chimney to heat the charcoal ... you don't need charcoal lighter fluid in my opinion is it perhaps the flavor gets a little corrupted ... i leave these on for 15 minutes on one side 10 more minutes on the other side when i turn them ... your friends your neighbors will be envious because it smells so wonderful ... if you soak your skewers and the water it will keep everything intact and not burn to a crisp ... i use the high five barbecue sauce ... that's available at the supermarket with these products as well ... >>oh my goodness ... cilantro and it's a nice flavor.. >>corn on the comet is great on the grill as well we leave the husk on if you want to create some more sickness it keeps it from getting charred moisture it prevents charring... your mother and your grandmother worked at the peabody hotel in memphis ... >>they had a tremendous impact on my career in cooking ... mychael bonner, thanks so much for joining us. oink" products, check out: moo-oink .com for a recipe, or to watch the wgntv.com/midday. wi ques

they were living in a chimney and a home in arlington when did not know there were in there. rehydrated them and m with their mother. way, these babies may be cute, but if you encounter officialst wildlife getting themrk of from your home. >> they are wild animals and do carry rabies, too. >> a happy ending. little shower activity, but -- not much today. clearing skies. the big story is the cool weekend.res this you hear the numbers for saturday and sunday. a timethe starting with lapse out of delaware. a let's get you started with lapse of delaware. blew through ocean city as well. through the indian river area. a life of viewto have brightened considerably. weekend thata good the beaches. almost a half inch of rain in harrisonburg. 66 -- that is a chilly mid august temperature with the rain. 75 in since city and madison. s -- ocean city and madison. one cluster moving off over the bay. the next. the west. the wording has just expired -- thunderstorm warning has just expired. still have a flash -flood warning. the cold front line up and is of us now. most unstable air is to

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

. >> there is nothing left of this house, there is a chimney. the house has been blown over a couple of hundred yards, the debris is everywhere. it is in the road, it is in the woods. >> now the explosion site has been blocked off. the fire department is trying to keep people away for fears of all types of things that may be blowing in the area. >>> gas and electric has not been restored after a natural gas leak. it happened between marin street and nasa boulevard. they are asking them to stay inside and traffic was diverted around the area. pg&e shut off the gas of that leaking pipe and it was fixed a few hours later. >>> now new this morning, the republican national convention wraps up with the main event, mitt romney's acceptance speech as a national nominee. here are the changes being made to the stage to prepare for mitt romney's speech. >> yeah, they are busy, i just take a look and they are putting the finishing touches. i found out what kind of changes they will be working on today and he said the main thing is extenting the stage so whe

a man squatting in a vacant home got stuck in the chimney. he was trapped 10 hours until neighbors heard him call for help. he was take tonight hospital for dehydration . it is time to get scrambled up. amesley ear heart here to help us out. >> it is the state of wisconsin. wiscsin. >> i like how you say that. >> have a great show today. i watched from the beginning. excellent. >> thank you, you have a great show.

the house now completely destroyed except for the chimney.he homeowner's wife and children were not at home at the time. >> swearing, lying and smoking on campus no longer grounds for detention? school officials easing up on disciplinary guidelines. stew didn'ts -- students can le campus and gamble on campus without detention. >>> a convicted murderer escaped a jail cell using a popsicle stick. this happened in hobbs, new mexico. the president said he attached a small razor attached to the pop sti sickle stick and chipped away until it finally popped open. he used a bed sheet to propel down two stories. after all of that he had a change of heart so he turned himself in. prison officials say he never would have made it past the gates. >> they thought they were winners of the balancing after school. >> daddy. >> he surprised his two young kids. he was gone for 8 months in kwut t qutar. his family couldn't be any happier. >> i am so excited for my kids. it has been a long time. >> the school is sending them to the colorado rocky's game. that's y