english language arts, a trend that was noticed was that for grades two, three and four, there was a flattening. we didn't see significant improvement, but we did in grade five at the elementary level. in math, at all grade levels there was significance growth. math was much more distinct. the largest gain we saw was again at grade six. we've never seen a 6% inc

flatten your code and has pledged the 1200 homes destroyed will be rebuilt and even in the areas awaym the flames thick heavy smoke has been blanketing neighborhoods in making people miserable. while fires of would doubt russian chorus villages and military base. scientists are excited about this tiny little fossil found in the philippines they say it might be from one of the earliest human inhabitants in the asia-pacific region. it's believed to be 67,000 years old pier the boy is being sent to australia for more testing and say it could lead to rewriting the history of human evolution is in spain tonight she and her nine year-old daughter sasha of arrived at a resort today for summer vacation. she's missing the president's 49th birthday he stayed home with their other daughter. he will eventually pay an official visit to and queen sofia at their summer home on the island of majorca. >> a live look in san francisco's castro district for celebrations are underway rally and march in san francisco city hall will be getting underway shortly will have full coverage on that. course of cele

most of the indicators we see point to very severe flattening out of the growth profile. >> tom: douglas when you take a look at earnings in the second half of this year and into next year, with interest rates as low as they are, and the federal reserve promising to keep interest rate lows, doesn't that continue to argue for stocks over bonds? >> well, it argues for certain stocks over bonds. and when we try to make that calculation, we we're sort of relentlessly guided to are those equity securities that pay significant dividend yield. yields that are actually now comfortably over the 10-year treasury yield. >> tom: that's not saying much with the treasury yield 3% at this point. beginning with intel, this stock has caught wind of the selloff this week, below $20 a share. what makes you like technology as a dividend play, a surprisingly dividend play. >> semiconductors are our favorite area of the market. one very important reason for that is the very high percentage of u.s.-based semiconductors and their sales outside the u.s. in the case of intel, intel has 65% of its sales going to a

english language arts, a trend that was noticed was that for grades two, three and four, there was a flattening. we didn't see significant improvement, but we did in grade five at the elementary level. in math, at all grade levels there was significance growth. math was much more distinct. the largest gain we saw was again at grade six. we've never seen a 6% increase in grade six. one of the reasons that could be infered if those gains is that this was the first group of kids that had everyday math in the elementary and were now moving on to sixth grade. so the preparation level could be a component. how do we compare to the state? how does the san francisco unified school district scores compared to the state? at every level we match or exceed the state level in english language arts and math. how do we compare to other urban districts in the state of california? we are higher than the other urban districts, though san diego has matched us in english language arts. in math we are still definitely the highest as compared to the state. so as we feel the pride over these results, we must also alw

probably will continue to flatten out compared to these projections, the growth rates going ahead if there's any growth at all, now if i could go to the next chart, we'll show you the war funding on top of that which is coming down, as all of you know we are on our way out of iraq now which is going to have some reduction in costs. we've had this year. the surge is now being completed in afghanistan. afghanistan is a much more expensive place to operate than in iraq. it's much more dot get things in there. so as you draw down in iraq and afghanistan even though we're drawing down in iraq and building up in afghanistan, the cost ratio is not really going to cut down on a one-for-one basis because the operateing in afghanistan is more than iraq where we have a more established logistic chain and progress with which to work. so this is the sides of the budget. now let me talk a little bit about what's inside it. pretty much as all the martha stewartal agencies have done since the start of the administration, we have had a defense review in our case, which is panned dated by law, but all

coming up next on tonight's "cbs evening news," could the 3-d movie trend be in flattening ou? >> mitchell: the movie ""toy story 3"" is a story itself now, becoming the highest grossing animated film of all time. it's taken in more than $920 million worldwide. "toy story 3" was made in 3-d, a format that some say may be losing some of its luster. priya david clemens has more. >> reporter: from dance showdowns to a battle between man and fish, hollywood is serving up more in-your-face entertainment. than ever before. >> every time i've gone it's been a fun, interactive experience i guess. >> reporter: six of this year's top-ten grossing films are in 3-d. total take: $1.6 billion. yet for some a-list filmmakers, 3-d fatigue is setting in. >> lately it's becoming decidedly uncool to like 3-d movies. >> reporter: among leading scope tiblgs, star trek director a.j. abrams. >> when you put the glasses on, everything gets dim, dull and muted. >> reporter: and the man behind "ironman." >> i'm an actor, 2d. a lot of these great filmmakers are saying, i don't need 3-d. i don't need this

we are trying to compress everything and flatten it out a little bit. the officers understand that and want to be involved, especially in front of that school. it has gotten better. we are not at a 4.0, but we are about a 3.5. are we getting an a? i would like to see it. a lot of people said -- i have not won many games yet. we are doing the best we can. we will stretch resources as best we can. >> we appreciate it. thank you to the men and women of your station who work hard. it will take a lot of skilled players to get the job done. thank you. i appreciate what the officers do. >> i have a question related to the district. has it been a year yet now? >> it is a little over a year. it feels about 10 years under water without a breathing apparatus. >> you were targeting this district with extra enforcement. i wondered how that went for the district. how did it go for you? does it continue? could you give us an update on that? that is something you wanted, a targeted district, especially with the drug markets here. >> we spent a great deal of resources i

two villages were flattened by an avalanche of mud and rocks after the river burst its banks in whatas been described as the worst flooding in china in decades. michael says 337 people have now been confirmed dead. >> that news broke overnight here, dramatically raising the death toll. there are still more than 1,100 people unaccounted for. it is not clear at the moment whether those people are just out of contact, because these landslides disrupted communication facilities, or indeed if they have been caught up in this disaster. what is clear is that this is a major, major disaster here in china, which has been suffering from particularly heavy rainfall and floods this summer . i have seen the tv pictures of a river of mud around five kilometers long and several hundred meters wide which just swept down a mountainside, clearing everything in its past. this landslide happened after a torrential rain after a couple of months of drought, which loosened the earth and made it subacceptible to landslides. >> we are seeing pictures of the aftermath of the landslides you have mentioned ther

started to lessen and lessen and we came into positive territory and tipped into positive and now flattening out again. and that's a problem for the administration. >> at least they're not dipping again, though. >> alan greenspan said we're in a pause in a recovery and that's not what the country can afford so for obama it's really tricky. >> a deeper question about the people behind these numbers. does it really reflect some people who have been out of work for a very long time and who are -- who just are no longer looking for jobs and aren't being counted and isn't that group now swelling? >> well, that's right. and that's why the unemployment rate, even though we lost 131,000 jobs, the unemployment rate stayed fixed at 9.5%. the only reason that's possible is because so many people actually gave up looking for work. they're not counted in the unemployment numbers that we count statistically. so they're out of the work force altogether. but they're going to be voting in the fall. so those people are experiencing a lot of pain right now. gwen: we saw an interesting thing happen in the senat

>>webb: of all the land that's been flattened in west virginia, only about 3% has had any reclamation. it's not being used for anything. they're not improving it in any way. >>reporter: in fact, environmentalists say mountaintop mining is nothing more than a cheap way to access coal...by blowing the tops off mountains, and filling in adjoining valleys with leftover wastethat chokes off streams, pollutes rivers and tarnishes water supplies. >>raney: first of all it's not waste. it's the natural rock and dirt that is out in the ground above the coal. it's not waste at all and you know i take offence to people using that term because it'scompletely inaccurate. >>sebok: it turns everything orange, like rust. the only thing i could clean it off my bathtub and commodes and things was an acid cleaner, an acid based cleaner. >>raney: every drop of water that leaves the site has to be treated in a system of some sort to be sure that we meet water quality standards. >>webb: for them to say they're putting out clean water is just a ridiculous statement. >>reporter: whatever effect it's having on

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very soon tonight the american manmade environmental catastrophe that is destroying mountains and flattening communities that is on the way in a few moments here on r.t. i'm kevin i'm in thanks for being with us here in moscow tonight.

. >> reporter: that boom, according to emergency crews, were two tires blowing out and flattening and then catching fire. >> we happened to be sitting in the back near the tires and we noticed they were on fire almost immediately. >> reporter: that is when once this plane stopped passengers say they heard a, quote, unquote, code word and flight attendants then jumped. >> one of the flanlts was yelling, get out, get out, get out. >> reporter: the airplane's emergency chutes were deployed, all 87 passengers and five crewmen were evacuated via the emergency slide. >> when people started going down, they said there was a fire drill. >> reporter: with the fire out and four people sent to the hospital, firefighters are saying -- >> i was happy to see nobody was seriously injured. >> reporter: and back here live, crews still looking at this aircraft trying to figure out how to tow it. again, those tires, they remain the focus of what went wrong here. again, preliminarily, jetblue said the pilot, they reported the problems with the brakes on the plane so that is what they're looking at right

basically you have three seconds to flatten your teammate head to head in a confined space. >> that's the nutcracker. >> yes. use your imagination. this is an old drill. the toughest do survive. now it's a mike singletary staple. >> when you say nutcracker, people start talking oh, man they're just going to beat each other to death. no it's not that. what we're trying to do is be a fundamentally sound, technically sound team because that team is the team that's going to win those tight games, the close games. >> notice the hp background there for the 49ers camp. it's been a painful seven years around here on both sides of the bay. no playoffs for the 49ers or the raiders. the niners' key to breaking through this drought? alex smith. this guy has nine lives. >> reporter: if you're seeing a different alex smith quarterbacking the niners at this year's training camp it is somewhat by design. if he is not more vocal he is at least much more assertive. >> i just kind of take whatever i want out there. i'm going to get. if i want to take a rep or jump here or there i just do it. >> reporter

. >> reporter: loaded down with flattened cardboard boxes it looked like a recycling run in progress but this downtown san jose restaurant worker dumped his cargo into a bin, cardboard mixing in with garbage bags where they will all be taken to a landfill, one example of how far san jose businesses have to go when it comes to recycling. >> we think the business in san jose are diverting between 10 and 20% and we really would -- we need that number to come up. >> reporter: michelle young says businesses are far behind residential recycling which is now at 65%. >> the commercial sector had collects approximately 65% of our solid waste so we'll have a hard time meeting our target unless the numbers come up. >> reporter: this medium sized green dumpster was waiting for pickup on trash day in san jose. let's see exactly what's inside. okay, there are several things that could be recycled such as paper. there's a lot of cardboard in here. and at least one big plastic jug that definitely could be recycled. >> because it is business, it will take more time out of the day. >> pat of the san j

home prices as best we can judge have really flattened out in the last year. and while it is true that most economists expect a small dip from here largely as a consequence of the ending of the tax credit, the data doesn't show that at this particular stage. in home prices stay stable, then i think we will skirt the worst of the housing problem. but right under this current price level, maybe 5% to 8% below is a very large block of mortgages which are under water so to speak or could be under water. and that would induce a major increase in foreclosures. foreclosures would feed on the weakness in prices and it would create a problem so that it is touch and go. >> governor rendell, one of the things that secretary geithner said on this programÑi last wee is that we reached a point as he said where we need to make a transition to a recovery led by private investment. led by the private sector. government has to take its foot off the accelerator when it comes to stimulus. here's the reaction we're talking about in so many states where on the local level, state le

. >> i was riding it out in la larks then we heard about flattened commune after community, and in aay we heard levees had been breached and another tragedy unfolded. in new orleans, along the gulf coast, people are remembering what of lost and where they were five years ago. we're going to devote a good deal of the first half-hour to katrina and its continuing impact. i saw that impact when i spent time in the gulf this past week, both in louisiana and mississippi. catching up with some of the people i met five years ago and getting a firsthand look at how the region is doing. >>> we're also going to talk with brian williams this morning. five years ago he rode out the storm in the superdome and stayed on to bring us so many stories from new orleans. later today he has an exclusive interview with president obama, who's making his way down to the city this morning. >>> plus, there's some big current storms we're watching in the atlantic right now, causing a fair amount of concern because they've led to dangerous and potentially deadly riptides along the east coast. hundreds of people

that chase ended just after 7 this morning, the pair surrendered after a spike strip flattened the tirese truck. >>> new information about this disastrous off track racing accident in california's mohave desert. hundreds of stunned fa watched in horror at this. this ended with 8 people being killed during an off road truck race. chp says 7 of the victims were from los angeles area, one froms will sagas. it happened saturday night during the call -- from las vegas. it happened saturday night. it had no guardrails or anything else to keep that crowd back. >>> electronic arts of redwood city coming under fire for its latest edition of medal of honor it is set in afghanistan and allows gamers to play as members of the taliban and kill american troops. gold star mothers an organization of promise who have lost sondaughters in the -- of moms who have lost sons and daughters in the war. >>> we are looking at bridges, the bay bridge has a big back up, backed up beyond 8 0, first day of -- 880, first day of school may have something to do with that. 8:26 a.m. here is steve. >> sal thank you. can'

it's claimed to everything from boost your sex drive to flatten your belly, but the only true benefit >> very expensive. this is about $22. >> just for a package. >> for 28 packs it's $60. this is in the purest form. if you want something a little cheaper and a little more palatable, go for a yus blend. >> this is a blend. i can taste this? >> go ahead, please. >> is this safe. >> you'll get the earthy, chocolatey flavor but diluted with other fruit. >> that's pretty good. on is this using the frozen stuff to make a smoothie? >> we used one packet to make our sunrise moothy parfait. it is delicious if you blend it with other things. and it does give you a good antioxidant boost. >> that's crazy nutty. i -- i didn't know what to expect. >> is that a yes or no? >> i'm still deciding. let me try it again. i think it's a yes. it's so different. >> it's different. >> right. what is this, then? >> this is my own little concoction, my acai vinaigrette. just like you would make a vinaigrette and put orange juice in it, you can use acai juice. >> spinach never tasted so good. and i can feel th

the flattening in trimming structures will eliminate organizations that perform duplicative functions or outlived their purpose. the office of the secretary of defense was set up in 2003 when the policy oversight and advocacy functions for command control and communications was little from intelligence. the resulting arrangement that includes a similar function of the joint stuff, has since become redundant, costly and cumbersome. therefore, i have directed the elimination of nii and j6 operations. this will be assigned to other organizations and will transfer. we will stand up and refashion the chief information officer and the responsibility of the early operations will be assigned to the defense agency for it -- defense agency. since its creation,, bta has shifted more of its focus to day-to-day oversight of individual acquisition program started this has largely been legislatively assigned to other elements of the department. therefore, i have eliminated the agency and shifted his responsibility to the deputy chief management office. finally, the joint forces command was originall

the city of hiroshima was flattened. these videos were so controversial for the army when they persalts them. the original footage was in black and white and taken by a japanese film crew. when the army discovered there was such footage, they confiscated it. then they decided they should have the record of it. the devastation, the housing that is completely collapsed. most of the buildings -- see a few of their standing in the distance -- were made of concrete. many were made of wooden -- many were wooden structures. they were not very substantial. the blast created when sub 1,000 miles per hour. that swept through without -- swept through with a force. it knocks things down. general macarthur, who was in charge of the occupation of japan immediately after the war, he commissioned the army's film crew. you have probably seen "victory at sea." they had quality, hollywood- caliber documentary filmmakers to help the war try to capture the history. the 11 of them, two of them were civilian filmmakers, were recruited to go to

the flattening in trimming structures will eliminate organizations that perform duplicative functions or outlived their purpose. the office of the secretary of defense was set up in 2003 when the policy oversight and advocacy functions for command control and communications was little from intelligence. the resulting arrangement that includes a similar function of the joint stuff, has since become redundant, costly and cumbersome. therefore, i have directed the elimination of nii and j6 operations. this will be assigned to other organizations and will transfer. we will stand up and refashion the chief information officer and the responsibility of the early operations will be assigned to the defense agency for it -- defense agency. since its creation,, bta has shifted more of its focus to day-to-day oversight of individual acquisition program started this has largely been legislatively assigned to other elements of the department. therefore, i have eliminated the agency and shifted his responsibility to the deputy chief management office. finally, the joint forces command was originall

the flattening in trimming structures, we also look to eliminate outright organizations that perform duplicative functions or outlived their original purpose. the office of the assistant secretary of defense and networks and information integration, was set up in 2003 for command, control, and communications split off from intelligence. the resulting arrangements for dealing with enterprise i.t. and hardware issues, has since become redundant and cumbersome. i have directed the elimination of nii. their operational functions will be assigned to other organizations and most of their acquisition functions will transfer. we will stand up and refashion and responsibility for daily operations will be assigned. the business transformation agency was established in 2006 to foster a deep modernization of this department's business practices. they have shifted more of its -- a function that can be confirmed by another -- a number of other organization. the mission has largely been legislatively assigned to other organizations. i directed the elimination of the bta. the joint forces commander

so far, this year i have managed to keep the interest rates flattens.hat is not just about balance sheets. >> there is a balance of risk on either side. making use slightly inclined toward some tightening. >> i think there are other factors that david pointed to which led a majority of committee members to make no change. we do not need to set policy in advance. >> do you think that the budget may be risk of a double digits -- a double dip recession more likely? >> the committee does not assess the impact of only one measure. i will save the economics of that for the committee. the aim of that was to try to deal with some of the downside risks that might have arisen had we not set out a medium-term plan to eliminate structural deficit. the biggest risk that we face are those coming from outside. the conditions are in place for a rebalancing of the u.k. economy, but we do need a prosperous euro area for the exchange rate of sterling to be able to lead to an increase. it made a significant difference to whether or not -- there has been a change in governm

that banks have been tightening terms throughout the recession, and really terms of just sort of flattened off. they're getting ready perhaps to loosen somewhat going forward as we move further into 2010. but that's not the only story with glee. we also see that the man on the right side has been week. for the same firms. in fact, the demand continues to weaken at the margins for those firms, according to the fed's survey. and so what's the cause of each of those? well, the experiencing of credit problems on the part of the lenders and the impairment of it -- we understand that. on the borrower side, the reluctance to lend toward a different depending on whether you are a large firm or a small firm. for the large firms, there have been many cases been able to go straight to the bond market and issue papers at historically low interest rates. and it does so in large volume, hundreds of millions of dollars, which has met their credit needs in this economy. for small firms, they have been reluctant to take on new debt because they are concerned about what they see as falling demand for the pr

they need to use these more open technologies and flatten the organization. the second question we talked about was authentication of data. i would call this, who do you trust? we should not assume that people are going to be sending us incorrect data. people who are closest to disasters are probably the least likely to be able to communicate. they do not have an incentive to try the -- tried to pull over other people's eyes. we should always have a level of trust about the information coming in. >> that is funny. i have the opposite point of view. >> don't start off thinking that people are lying. i thought that was good. >> i was the first person telling them about the chinese earthquake. i saw people in cities thousands of miles apart say they felt an earthquake. i knew something was up, but i did not know if it was a hoax. we just had another hoax incident this week where somebody quit a job and held up some placards. techcrunch reported on it. i watched the usgs website. they became the root of the discussion about what was going on. we beat sea and by 4