crete is recreated in the theater in san jose. it is the most ambitious of a mozart classic. don sanchez shows us what it takes put on the epic. >>reporter: that wall weighs 12,000. they are a replications of real places in crete for the mozart. >> it tested the limits in every possible direction . >> 180 costumes and 127 wigs and an enormous set. it is big. >> it is spectacular looking and the first dramatic master piece. he wrote two versions television. they will do both with two separate casts. ♪ [ singing ] >>reporter: aaron blake and soprano play the same role, the king's song. ♪ >> i have a strong belief that emotions and passion aren't connected to one sex or another. >> we are going about the stage, we show that process as well >>reporter: the production costs 3 million and opera san jose couldn't have done it with david packer who hired archaeologist to help. ear rins to temple facades. everything went to the panel for authtensity and if they say it didn't pass muster and had to be redesigned. >> this is abc 7 news. >> looks like fun. we'll go to weather and talk mo

i also believe and know their are a lot of crete, hard- working, -- great, hard-working, dedicated men and women in mta to have exceptional transit expertise and knowledge they are bringing to bear every day for the people of san francisco. putting all those things together, i see no reason why we cannot have a world-class transportation system. it is incredibly exciting. i am incredibly excited about the opportunity to contribute to making that happen. i think it is infinitely possible. i think it is what's san franciscans deserve. i do want to a acknowledge both mayors lee and newsom for giving me the opportunity to come to the government on in the first place. it has been tremendously rewarding for me. i want to particularly thank the npw family, many of whom are here today. is tumbling and honoring to see you -- it is humbling and honoring to see you here today. it is incredibly motivated, confident, passionate group of men and women that come to work every day to try to make san francisco a better place. and if i was successful as the director of public works, it is because of the

at first there was a decree known as the cap to crete relating to rewards for operations of national importance. in life in other words troop members were given significant sums of money if they shot individuals who were thought to be guerillas . what the country wasn't told is that the when the decree was her vote a secret directive was issued that kept the same rewards for every enemy shot. the soldiers have to achieve results their careers are sest according to performance if they've got nothing to show and they have to be created. by repeating the government's spermwhale to achieve a country without guerillas about paramilitaries or drug trafficking or corruption . you know the norm. in the you. to. me i think gave me john just a number of the josh was doing with the case and i contacted him but it was already late so i called him the following morning we arranged to meet the next day in the human rights office she was going to meet the representative and invited me to the meeting i said all right i went to i gave my evidence and asked to see the photos she asked me why i wanted

the foreign journalists are staying there is no water and listen to her day water free day here in crete there so this is very complicated and people are struggling. well middle east expert dan goings nato is using the rebels to make libya a failed state. this war is fundamentally a war to maintain africa in a subordinate position in the global economy in twenty ten get their feet made a proposal to the african union that was adopted that no african country would allow us based on its soil since that time the us has been desperate to get rid of gadhafi when we talk about the rebels as this is a very disparate group of people really who's calling the shots is nato few leaders that we hear about my commute jabril abdul julio these are people who have stablished links with western financial institutions going back over several years so really when when we hear from these people mouthpieces that nato will replace the libyan state with the same as what's replaced the state in iraq afghanistan which is a dysfunctional government complete lack of security gang warfare and civil war and this is

be against wales on september eleventh before facing maybe a fiji in samoa and hopes new zealand in crete which is that tough pool according to smith. who you know with well so. it's probably going to. go to some groups and not to do much about. but i'm. going to be going to move. very. few to. sort of where you can sort of one of the most appealing and you don't want to create good produce so finally to a sport that's been played for thousands of years polo but over the last century it has all but faded out completely in russia although it's now being revived with the help from the sport's a story powerhouse argentina daniel has. story. horses count among the most trusted friends of mankind in wildlife but this is why paul is one of the most popular sports this game was first played in persia more than two thousand years ago and has only slightly changed since then. it still takes the same skills to score goals with a long handled maillard on the field that's twice as big as a football pitch. the most important thing in polo is probably the so-called chemistry between the man and the hor

back to the originating villages, finance their agricultural development, and try to do things to crete a better life for their children. at the same time running into traps involving gang warfare, crime, and deprivation, and so one that results from barriers placed in a way of success of these neighborhoods. bureaucratic barriers, physical barriers involving transportation and difficulties, citizenship barriers. tavis: you spent some time and they have been in the news. give me the egyptian example. >> when things exploded in cairo on july 20 -- january 25, the first neighborhood to send people who dared to go into the square in the center of cairo and faced the guns and tanks was a neighborhood which was formed by people who migrated in from northern egypt, the agricultural someges there to squawkesquat d of their self the old neighborhood on the edge of central cairo. it has been a dense and busy and troubled neighborhood. people who made a success with the slump, who started small businesses that succeeded and wanted to get their kids into university ran against the regime controlle

against wales on september eleventh before facing maybe a fiji in samoa and haitian new zealand in crete which is that tough haul according to smith. you're in. charge and. you know with well so it's it's probably a. lot of company because we'll get some rest and not through too much about namibia but i mean the team are going to be going to pose for moveable challenge so . it's history you. can sort of one of the most appealing in the don't want to create good for you so far into the sport is being played for thousands of years polo but over the last century it has all but faded out completely in russia although it's now being revived for the help from the sports story powerhouse argentina robert downey and has the story. or says count among the most trusted friends of mankind in wildlife and this is why paul is one of the most popular sports this game was first played in persia more than two thousand years ago and has only slightly changed since then. it still takes the same skills to score goals with a long handled him out on the field it's twice as big as a football pitch like the mo

where a lot of people had pots and pans they were bringing, they had some pots and pans but they had crete's and it was education and being literate, being aware of the world around you was something bubbles important. >> will you be doing a book tour with "here comes trouble"? >> yes. i'm going to do a book tour this fall actually to kind of clear the decks for the fall, and i am going to travel the country, and do what i think will be an interesting book tour. the last 1i did was a lot of larger readers, and we had -- it was an amazing tour. but people in i remember the university of florida there in gainesville like 14,000 people showed up to hear me speak, and it's very humbling on some level. but i -- i'm going to do a little bit of that but i want to go to some towns the normally don't get offers. i might just get a camper or something and some kind of a minibus a little bit off the beaten path i like going to places that are not the typical ann arbor, madison, berkeley where there is an eco chamber. i like going -- i like going places down south to military towns. i like talking to pe

of talk a lot of grandstanding over the last few days about this a job well done there is no use in crete with the examiner with no mission creep going on it was only because they didn't have any idea of what they're trying to achieve in the first place and it's no surprise that now gadhafi is gone they're still hanging around because they're still unsure it's still unclear they want to get some brownie points from this you know and have made some short term political gains as a result spirits. we spoke to british labor m.p. barry gardner who opposed the allied intervention in libya so the interview is available on our website for you at r.t. dot com here's a look at what he had to say. it was very clear in the original un resolution it was very clear for our prime minister spoke in parliament here that there would be no occupation force one of the things that troubled me all and some was this being unreasonable and so as to whether there should be troops on the ground as the rebels were going into tripoli we heard go left go left go left these instructions being yelled out by what were o

meeting with all the political parties representatives and the southern city of sochi on the side of the crete setting be election day of the fourth of december of this year you also want the parties against adopting dirty tactics like nationalistic extremist slogans in their campaigning also want especially our various internal policy issues including the appointment of a new st petersburg governor and reform of russia's education system. now the e.u. has called for the. siddons of the european central bank among other officials to stand before a special financial committee as the death plague sweeping the block threatens its very unity all talks which are which are underway focus on halting the spread of contagion as fresh panic would revelations even such economic giants as germany are not immune and other priority is addressing investor concerns finland's demands for collateral could be real a second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece patrick young executive director of the investment firm devi advisors believes the rift between the e.u. nations make it impossible to watch f

the foreign journalists are staying there is no water and this is a third day water free day here in crete there so this situation is very complicated and people are struggling. well dr franklin lamb from the americans for middle east peace is currently in tripoli as well and he believes nato will not leave the country anytime soon i think nato is now part of the libya. warm. until there's a new stronger leadership here that's not beholden to it. and who becomes arguably more nationalistic on the street boston ma the checkpoint not a lot of fighting that we're aware of i was out this morning going around the streets lots of checkpoints rounding up our old adoptee people for example an institutional shape was bundled into our. own it's our last night again last the government. officials popping in and out of the hotel yesterday they searched all the rooms looking for khadafy supporters. well the u.k. has gone beyond the u.n. resolution on libya says british m.p. barry gardiner he's from the opposition labor party and voted against the intervention you can watch the full interview later this

where most of the foreign journalists are staying there is no water and this is day three day here in crete this so this region is very complicated and people are struggling. that was maria the notion in libya now as everyone tries to assess what is next for the country the united nations reportedly has already drafted a plan it was leaked to my next guest matthew leave inner city press you broke the story now the report proposes two hundred military observers for libya to begin with a multinational force of two one hundred ninety you when police and also outlines plans for elections within nine months and an interim government before that but under what mandate and i think really is here to tell us tell us what gives that you thanks for being with us so first off what mandate is the u.n. operating under with this proposal for what a post conflict libya would look like. yes sure thanks a lot to i mean right now they really don't have a mandate that's what was found so surprising when i was able to get this document i mean when when the resolution one thousand nine hundred eighty three was p

on the day that congress resolve the did creteing, the markets fell again. the eighth down day in a row for the dow jones/industrials average. the longest losing streak since october of 2008. on continuing concerns the u.s. economy is slowing. government report released this morning showed consumer spending dropped for the first time in two years. that along with a stream of recent lackluster and poor economic reports have led the markets downward this summer. it appears that investors are looking beyond the debt debate to key jobs reports tomorrow, thursday and friday. analysts expect report to show weak hiring and more evidence of a sluggish economy. >> bret: rich, focus on the credit rating possibility of a downgrade. moody's has just come out with a pretty detailed writeup. what do we know about it? >> it has. the top rating agency moody's in the last 15 minutes confirmed the u.s. will keep the top-notch triple-a rating for now. however, the company downgraded the u.s. outlook, warning for government to reduce deficit in the future. this afternoon, fitch

the markets are reacting to news of an agreement to raise the debt creting. >> ankious to get going. has more on all of that live from the new york stock exchange. and she is wearing red. >> hello. good morning, eric, kristen. i have should be wearing green the way the markets are reacting today. right out of the gate, we were higher. we are recovering last week's losses. we have an apparent agreement over the debt ceiling. the house is planning a vote today after weekend of negotiation cap a long struggle. very public one. over the raising of a $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. it takes a lot of uncertainty off the table. investors have been nervous about the defaulting. we have pared the gains here interestingly with the dow up more than 100 to start things off. now a gain of 72 points or so. everything is still trading higher. the silicon valley index also, it's higher than more than 1%. doing better than the broader market. all of that facebooking and tweeting may not be so bad for the kid. children using computers regularly may be at an advantage. researchers at alabama, clem of scie

the latest from walnut creek, a developing story, a vehicle crash caused a power outage in one of crete. it is going to take some time to fix. it is going to affect traffic. this is on a big nuncio valley road near the hospital. craig skalar is live. >> this truck, as you see, is still sitting there. the powerful is still askew. pg&e was pulling up as we spoke with you a half an hour ago. the drug into the polls are still in the same position. but this city is using battery packs to run traffic light and the nearby hospital is run it on regenerator. you can see the skid marks here, the truck drove off road and into that covert. the truck is really wedged in there. they are working on electricity first. it could be a real mess out there. >> where should we go this afternoon besides taking this road. >> we will likely have more pressure on interstate 680 in the northbound direction. for the morning commute on there has been no impact on the westbound ride since most of the traffic is heavy in from of eastern contra costa county and heading towards walnut creek. starting at about 3:00 p.m.

it was his crete. he was a determinist. he didn't believe in free will or good and evil or choice. there were no moral absolutes or truth, no justice whether there was only mercy. we are all poor blind creatures, he said, bound hand and foot by the invisible chains of heredity and environment to be pretty much what we have to do in a barbarous and cruel world and that is about all this. she had no faith in god or churches and he won notoriety in the jazz age as the country's most prominent and outspoken atheist. he built an entire moral code for a life's pointlessness and the comfort and tolerance human beings can offer to their doomed fellow travelers. he was a practicing defense attorney, trial lawyer and in his time represented gangsters, psychopaths, gamblers, bank robbers, rumrunners, yellow journalists, union goons, crooked politicians a corporation's, and many scorned women like msm some the socialite who smuggled a handgun into court, shot her philandering husband in the midst of the divorce proceedings. you killed him, said the clerk. i hope so, said emma. [laughter] but h

out in the country, to tasteore ingredients and to understand more about certain curls, like the cretes, or the french diet. still everyone says the french diet is still one of the-- not long ago we did a bank wet. i think it was a law firm. but we had people from paris, london, and new york. in my test kitchen. when the kitchen is open-- it's for foodies. we cofunctions where they can see everything made. i could hear them talking and i started thinking some of these guys are better cooks than me. but i heard them talking about what was happening in england and france, where they had a style of lecture about me novels and they were talking, the english, saying we created the pyramid, scientific diet. wenow we maden error, and the americans followed us. and the french said, we never really-- that wasn't something for us. but over the series went on, and how they closed it. at the end of each end of my stove were english folks and french folks and new yorkers were standing there and they were going back and forth and i'm in the middle cook and they were saying, "if you remember how it cl

a live look at one of crete. we will be right back. to take ... >> and, and statue is on display, this culture of the famous times or a kiss between interest in an unassailable. it will be on display today and tomorrow at pure 45 at fisherman's wharf. inspired by the eye, was taken back on august 14th 1945. that was a president truman announced that world war two was over. >> overcast skies in san francisco. jacqueline bennett is joining us with the forecast for the weekend. >> the frog has been dominating our forecast. today is no exception. fog tracker 4 this backtracking a little bit to see her sense of the fall was. from the north bay to the south bay. i did mention that the fall will be slower to push back. when the fog is a lingering over the peninsula. oaklands, the north bay and into vallejo, finally getting back to san francisco and the coastline. temperatures will continue to be cool. we will seek additional cooling things to the lingering fall. the winds are also thinking of the 5:00 p.m. hour breezy conditions with winds in

this morning we have a vehicle into a power poll in contra costa county on walnut crete. i think that pole may be broken. it may be a lengthy fix. the crews will get power on before it's too long. they're taking pictures of it. it will be a little investigation but some people are without powmpletz there's ig nasa valley on the left. that is open. 7:09. let's go back to steve. >> thank you, sal. it does look warmer away from the coast as we cut that sea breeze in half. that's not the case so far today. some thick fog, maybe a little mist or drizzle. overall the low cloud deck will burn off. today we're waiting for that system. it's a tweener day. a little warmer as the high hangs around for the day but it's back off to the east. a cooling trend starts tomorrow. today is a bump up so a little delay, a rather strong system coming into the pacific northwest,. high clouds. 54 in livermore. 50 in santa rosa. 55 oakland and san francisco, redwood city and san jose. temperatures a little warmer as well. some of the higher elevations, 1500, 2,000 feet. that system right there is

of fog in lands as far as one of crete.tly cloudy skies are what we are forecasting for much of the bay area. the fog will push back in by 5:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. and then go bay area wide by 11:00 p.m.. right after rogers are mild. as we look at this afternoon, this is how the temperature chart will look. '70s and '80s for most of the bay. hawker into the delta, the livermore valley and morgan hill, temperatures will be right around the mid to potential of for eighties. those will be the warmer areas. 90 degree weather will stay out of the central valley. your 7 day forecast will stay mild and continue on with drizzle in the morning and fall in the morning. today, tomorrow and sunday. on monday, some slight warming on tap beginning. nonetheless, a great with the weather ahead as we work our way through august. let's get a check on traffic. >> we have been enjoying a good ride around the bay area. we have not tracked in the hot spots so far this morning. at the bay bridge toll plaza, the metering lights which reactivated at

he was hogtied down, tasered, smashed against the can crete, his head smashed with a flashlig flashlight injuries five days later. activists calling for the police officers involved and many others, including fullerton's mayor jones to be fired. the six officers allegedly involved in the beating have been placed on paid administrative leave while they're being investigated. police chief michael sellers put on medical leave wednesday and kevin hamilton is now the interim chief there. hamilton was talking about the investigation. >> meanwhile the fullerton police department is coming under more fire according to los angeles times. department supervisors allowed the officers involved in the alleged beating watch a video that captures the incident before writing their own reports about it. many police departments don't allow that in serious use of force cases. >>> checking top stories. the sister in a trio of alleged sibling bandits says "she deserved to get shot. investigators say dougherty was shot in the leg after she pointed her automatic pistol at a colorado cop. dougherty and her two b

he was of man who spoke to all races, nations, genders, and crete, and to every generation. the world's -- words that once filled the baptist church and proclaimed from the steps of the lincoln memorial have not lost any of their power. the message that ultimately prevailed over enormous odds in birmingham montgomery is vital wherever people your and to live together in dignity, freedom, and peace. dr. king was, as we all know, a dreamer. this does not mean that he was nighties. in his career he was beaten, thrown into jail, spied on and threatened. while still in seminary, he wrote about the viciousness of racism, and it made him out the essential goodness of man. a month before his untimely death, he preached in atlanta that life is a continual story of a shattered dream. he spoke often from the pulpit about the war, the rages within each of us between our nobler inclinations and the temptations of people. dr. king has seen too much of like to believe in the finality of any victory or in the moral purity of any nation or people. his knowledge of human character and realism

again as it has been, 2.1 million jobs, more private sector jobs created in that period than were creteed in the net, the eight years of the previous presidency, and then keep pressing forward to do that. everything we do related to the economy is related to economic growth and job creation. what the president is saying now and what he will be saying is that you, the american citizen, have heard a lot of talk in washington about debt ceilings and deficits, and while those are important issues, very important, and they have -- they are important in relation to our economy and are important in our relation to jobs if addressed appropriately, there are other things we can do directly that affect jobs and economic growth. that's what he is saying. pivot is not an appropriate word. it's refocusing, it's continuing to focus on what we have and not allowing to focus more intently now that we reached the compromise that was reached with congress a couple days ago. >> announced giving the united states a negative outlook. what's the white house's reaction to that? >> again, we focus on the things