you can create a playground without opening the floodgates. families and youth are missing from the neighborhood, and we need them to have a vibrant community. regarding developments in the area and opening the floodgates, the playground is not the same as a building. a playground might be the best defense against proposed future appropriate uses. there no playgrounds in easy walking distance. by the time we walk to the closest one, we are exhausted. it is difficult to raise a child in san francisco due to the high cost of living and education. families are being forced out. sample, opposition to this site included an amending the ordinance and proper use of the legislation process. the location seems unsafe given the traffic on nearby streets. changing the legislation would open the floodgate to other uses. the bocci ball courts are a better location for a playground. and the master plan included a number of proposed playgrounds, and this one was not suggested. the following organizations or representing thousands of area represent -- busines

we'll go in-depth and how the penn state cases are opening floodgates at scandals at other colleges and universities. >>> news out of another university campus. this is just tragic. this is out of oklahoma state. they are saying they have lost two "incredible life forces." that is how they are describing the loss of the oklahoma state women's basketball coach, kurt budke, and assistant coach miranda serna. both of them died yesterday in a plane crash in arkansas. they had been on a recruiting trip there. the oak state president came out a little bit earlier and talked to reporters. >> it's our worst nightmare. the entire osu family is very close, very close indeed, and to lose anyone, and especially these two individuals who were incredible life forces in our fami family, is beyond words. >> now this comes after oklahoma state just marked the ten-year anniversary of another tragic plane crash. that was back in 2001 when ten people died in that plane crash. they went down in a colorado snowstorm. all ten of those people who died were affiliated with the oklahoma state men's basketball pr

an attempt to divert floodwaters away from the homes with or he's had to station police to god floodgates to prevent more damage. to independence activists attempted to hold a protest outside chinese embassy in new delhi they ran towards its heavily guarded ghouls waiting to flags and chanting slogans and blocked the way and detained some of the young protest as activists say they're trying to draw attention to twenty leaders to human rights violations in tibet head of this summit in camp. officials flew over a cargo ship that's been stranded on a reef in nearly a month now to assess its condition following reports that it was about to break apart crews have been in a race to remove oil from the vessel to avoid more environmental damage of a thousand tons of world was removed before the halt efforts on sunday the vessel was already spilled more than three hundred fifty tons into the sea effectively devastating the region's wildlife. to bring to think for the moment i'll be back with a recap of our top stories very shortly stay with us live here in moscow this is r.t. . to . compose who ar

people seeking social security and disability benefits to the doctors with claims cappella the floodgatesave opened. >> the general public should be concerned about what? >> they may not be getting a fair shake when it comes to disability. >> coming up tonight, what officials have to say this time. >> and now, your 11 insta- weather plus forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> we have had what weather in the middle atlantic all day long and it will have it tonight and into tomorrow morning. but then changes come in that should open the door to a nice holiday weekend. it will last through the entire weekend beginning tomorrow afternoon. it is starting to dry out in far southern maryland, but even those locations may pick up a thunderstorm. the thunderstorms near atlanta are tracking east/northeast. they may hit southern maryland and eastern shore late tomorrow morning. -- late tonight and into tomorrow morning. this may be crossing through the mid-atlantic and heading off to war the east. rainfall totals on the almanac- looking at the almanac today, you can see rainfall totals

from people seeking social security benefits to the doctors who had been reviewing claims, the floodgates of reaction had opened. >> the general public should care for one reason -- for what reason? >> they may not be getting a fair shake when they apply for disability. >> tonight at 11:00, we put the process under the microscope again. >> coming up, you have heard of abandoned cars, but what about abandoned airplanes? find out what was inside that police desperately trying to find the pilot. and carrie engel from valley view farms is here to answer your plant and gardening questions. >> authorities are still trying to figure out what caused an explosion at an ohio jet engine plant. general electric aviation officials confirmed to the blast at the cincinnati plant sparked a fire yesterday afternoon. the flames were put out quickly, and there were no injuries reported texas officials are looking for the pilot of an airplane filled with marijuana found at an airport. the twin engine airplane skidded off or runway at the houston- airport monday evening after the nose gear collapsed. official

if you are going to open up the flood klebs -- floodgates to everyone -- you cannot do this to everybody. there is a a group of people i chased out there. it will come back and say what about us? rightly so. you have to be fair about this. i am sorry i did not bring the picture of the landscape. 202 is surrounded by trees and dumber roc rocks that take up s it is not 5000 square feet of space available. that is altogether misleading. let's get real. there is really the place. reaching -- there is really. -- there is really no space. we need to protect the open space. and the plaza south is still my preferred location, and it is not unsafe due to the railway. i travel there every day when i come back from lunch. we have to not give in to political interests. that has to stop, because it is ruining the city. political stuff has to go. we have to listen to the people that live there. there are 1000 people going to golden gate. that is a small group of people. i represent the majority. they did not want anything on that park. the reason why plaid the south is good, is it -- it is because it

in the east of the city, residents ordered the opening of a floodgate.fficials warned that such a release could inundate parts of the city. >> downtown bangkok, dry and sunny. the center of the city is seemingly scared. the water is now encircling the nation's capital. suburbs in the north have been flooded four days. locals have set up their own floating transport systems. some are leaving for a second time. >> [speaking foreign language] >> the water was decreasing around october 20, so we came back. today, rising again. already, 1 meter high in our house. >> others are adapting to their new aquatic life. anything that floats will do. this district is to the west of bangkok, not far from the center. the side of the defensive barriers. resentment is growing -- a sense that the suburbs of bangkok have been sacrificed to protect the center. the floods has taken its toll. this may not be the last district lost to the dilution. >> just want to show you the pictures coming in now from bangkok. unfortunately, a sign again that the water shows no sign of abati

city governor says floodgates are not work as meant to. more than 500 people died now as a result of three months of flooding across the country. >>> and a new law will allow pregnant women in brif they wan paid c-section or natural birth. before a c-section was only alloyd for a medical reason or emergency many some women prefer it because they are less painful and -- painful and mothers can have control over delivery dates. but critics say it's too costly and the procedure is risky. >>> an australian man who knows the recipe for good health and a long life. check this out, 106 years old. he lives at home and cooks most of his own meals. he walks to shops once a week and loves to knit. his secret he says is always stay active. >> what you did yesterday you should be able to do today. if you don't, you will forget how to do it. >> all right. so the best advice on top of stay active is don't gel dwell on the past but think about what you can do for the hope of -- hope of a better future. >>> how this would have gone unnoticed and unreported

obama administration actually wrote the legislation in ninety nine two thousand that opened the floodgates for the banks to do this criminal enterprise called asset backed securitization that they didn't hoots with the insurance companies like g.e. the credit rating agencies so that's got to be rolled back. and we have to get back to. the basic focus on the real economy. we can leave it at that i know you have a sore throat today totally understandable when. winter is coming i guess you could say william angle joining us. here. so much appreciate having you all right let's talk now about the thousand and twelve election and about the g.o.p. candidates they are realizing very fast that the world is getting smaller and that understanding the relationship between the u.s. and other countries like china and iran and yes herman cain even can stand is important and there are new questions about what has been done regarding the national national security and foreign policy and also what should be done in the future eight candidates where it off last night just down the street from our studios her

. >> from people seeking disability social security benefits, the floodgates of reaction have opened.> the general public should care for what reason? >> they made a beginning a fair shake when applying for disability. >> the ic puts the social security disability process under the microscope again. i'm deborah weiner for the 11 news i team. >> very interesting. 49 degrees on tv hill. much more ahead. >> an independent investigation into a scandal into the fire into a scandal into the fire >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. . i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. are we going to dry out before thanksgiving? >> do you want to say hi to some folks? >> they love you guys. taylor, thank you for coming down to visit the station. i said to names on the air -- i said your names on the air. >> we have some rain. just drizzle around baltimore. you can see some darker shades of green around annapolis. off and on like rain showers. we will make it up to 55. the rain w

that opened the floodgates for the banks to do this criminal enterprise called. decision that they didn't do with the insurance companies like g.e. the credit rating agencies so that's going to be rolled back. and we have to get back to. basics focus on the real economy. we can leave it at that i know you have a sore throat today totally understandable with the. winter is coming i guess you could say william angle joining us. here. thanks so much appreciate having you so that is going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered the dot com slash usa check out our you tube page you got our to america you can also follow me on twitter at christine the big picture with tom hartman is coming up at the half hour and tonight he'll have a panel of liberal and conservative commentators breaking down last night's g.o.p. debate. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you.

decisions that the obama administration actually rape the legislation in two thousand the open the floodgates for the banks to do this criminal enterprise called. securitization that didn't coots with the insurance companies like g.e. . the credit rating agencies so that's going to be rolled back. and we have to get back to. basics focus on the real economy. we can leave it at that i know you have a sore throat today totally understandable with the winter is coming i guess you could say william angle joining us. here. thanks so much appreciate having you all right not going to do it for now but for more on the stories we cover. you to. america you can also follow me on twitter christine. see you back here.

since the supreme court decision citizens united was handed down in this and many believe opens the floodgates to unlimited corporate contributions saying that corporations are people so in your view what effect do you think that will have on the democratic process it has a huge effect lauren and i'm sad to say this i come from over three hundred years of americans my favorite part of american revolution a very very loyal america. but if you really have to question whether we're truly living in a democracy anymore if you have a country where you get corporations and have the rights of individuals with no responsibilities you know they have almost unfettered realty to finance campaigns or talk with your shows and at the same time we've got a population that really doesn't understand a lot about what's going on in our financial institutions or our foreign policy the things that talk about in my books about the way we deal with other countries and then you really have to question is this truly a democracy because a democracy is dependent on having human form electorate and an electorate that has

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the city's governor says 14 floodgates are not working properly in the western neighborhoods. the central business district has largely been spared, remains dry for now. other parts of bangkok are under water. authorities say at least 506 people have died in three months of flooding across thailand. >>> some of the country's most popular tourist destinations like bangkok's main shopping areas and the country's beach resorts have remained dry. tell that to the tourists staying away from thailand in drove, cancelling hotel bookings and airline flights. i'm joined by the chief executive officer of the hotel group ducet international. tell me, how has your business been affected, not in terms of numbers but whether your facilities are open? >> well, they are all in operation and open. we have lost a lot of foreign tourist because of the news about the flood. actually, the hotel dusit is not too bad. we have hotel in bangkok doing quite well, mostly with thai guests and the hotel in the beach area of thailand are still doing very well with foreigners because they know they can go t

overnight to the east that keeps the ridge closer to us and dominant through at least tomorrow then the floodgatesy colder and wetter air mass. 5:00 thursday everything quiet then friday morning look at the rain move in during the morning commute into the north bay spread south across our neighborhoods throughout the afternoon tapering in the evening through saturday morning into the better part of saturday afternoon looks like it will be dry once the sunsets saturday evening rain rolls in colder of the storms comes through snow levels 3500 feet. stay in the 60s through thursday with extra clouds cooling then, friday, saturday, sunday and monday when we'll have temperatures in the mid 50s with those ever so cold chances of rain. beautiful picture, we are going to see a couple more of these take pictures are around the bay area and send them in like richard did this is an oakland hills sunset, beautiful. you can send those in by uploading or e-mail. >>> breaking news just seconds ago live shot of sky 7 hd over a coast guard rescue that is happening as we speak in the berkeley marina. three folks tr

floodgates set loose. getting to the beltway and then on 395 through landmark. maryland beltway, no current accidents. i-495 west. the heavier volume getting past georgia avenue. delays begin back near the interchange. heads up frederick, county, maryland. right near the exit for 85, 355 market street. that will block the westbound through lanes for now. we'll keep you updated on that. next timesaver traffic at 6:25. andrea? >> thank you, beverly. next in sports, college basketball gets underway. we'll check in with maryland and gw. >> right now, a check on the question of the morning is what we want to do. the average homeowner will spend three full days each year doing one of these things. is it a, waiting for a repairman. b, cleaning the garage or c, raking leaves? >> facebook friend jenny guesses a from experience. some homeowners don't have garages but all of us have sat for hours waiting for someone who is supposed to show up within their designated window of time which is almost a joke. i agree. almost, jenny. >> keep the guesses coming. we'll reveal the

let the floodgates loose for everyone here in germantown. no other obstacles to work around on 270.eltway, outer loop, you know the drill into silver spring. that's still a slow roll. virginia drivers, deal with the slow stuff toward out of stafford stretches toward quantico leaving dale city into springfield. not much break between lor torn and here in springfield getting on to the beltway. heavy volume to get up past landmark and leading the pentagon. the gw parkway is now open each way between the key bridge and 395. the earlier wreck southbound, the teddy roosevelt bridge has been cleared. one note, too, for marc rail commuters, brunswick train 872, about a 20-minute delay there. your next check at 6:58. back to you. >>> black friday, you may have heard this. it seems to be slowly morphing into black thursday. during thanksgiving! stores are encouraging people to sort of ditch thanksgiving dessert and head out and shop. >> before it will be black halloween. workers at those stores had to leave their families and go to work but one worker is fighting back. >> indeed. he works at

then the floodgates opened. right wing hate machine merchant ann coulter instantly jumped to herman cain's defense. >> it's outrageous the way liberals tweet a black conservative. this is another high-tech lynching. >> the words of clarence thomas, supreme court justice. >> that's right. there's nothing liberals fear more than a black conservative. >> this morning, herman cain's smoking campaign adviser mark block read a carefully worded response on this network. >> herman cain has never sexually harassed anybody, period, end of story. every negative word and accusation in the article is sourced to a series of unnamed or anonymous sources, and this is questionable at best. >> so the fun starts. moments later, herman cain showed up on fox and gave a more forceful denial. >> i've never sexually harassed anyone, and, yes, i was falsely accused while i was at the national restaurant association and i say falsely because it turned out after the investigation to be baseless. the people close -- the people mentioned in

seven democratic senators taking aim at the supreme court citizens united ruling which opened the floodgates of secret cash by saying corporate political spending is free speech protected by the first amendment. and we start with senator tom udall, democrat from new mexico, who introduced the amendment this week. and senator, educate us, what is that it you are working on? >> well, what we're trying to do is exactly what you were talking about, dylan. citizens united has unleashed a flood of special interests money, of corporate money. the decision itself allows corporate treasuries to now be a part of the campaign system. take, for example, exxon, with a corporate treasury of $80 billion. they can go out and flood the electoral system with that money. and what we're saying and we've had enough of that. we need a constitutional amendment so that congress can take back the authority to legislate on campaign finance reform. the supreme court has taken it away from us, they've taken it away from states, they've taken it away from cities. we want it back and we want to put some reasonable limits

officials warn things could get even worse because floodgates are malfunctioning. >>> at the top of theabout the sex abuse trial against former penn state coach sandusky. jason carroll joins us now by phone on his way to the news conference. what do we expect to hear from the attorney general? >> reporter: i think many of those in the community are hoping to hear more details about the case. as you know, there's already that very graphic 23-page grand jury report which lays out in much detail how sandusky allegedly treated these eight boys ranging in ages from 8 to 14. there are questions that we haven't been able to get answers to, hopefully we can get more information this afternoon when that press conference gets under way at just about 1:00. >> let's hope your signal hold out because i want to ask you a question. these molestation accusations have been out there since at least 2002. why has it taken so long for prosecutors to bring this case? >> that's a good point, don. i think prosecutors would argue, because of the sensitive nature of the allegations, that's why sometimes it take

in singapore, their lesson of economic policy, open the floodgates for brain power. in utah, we can stay ahead of the competition. we have to make sure our competitive in parliament is conducive to attracting the elements that an economy needs for success. this is totally applicable because we need to infuse a sense of confidence into this economy. there is capital, but there are great ideas, we have the most innovative created class the world has ever seen. they want to be set free. they want to get after it. there is not a level of confidence today that is compelling companies to unleash capital expenditures into the marketplace. it is not inspiring folks to hire. we must create an environment that speaks to 21st century competitiveness. it is not going to be easy and you cannot do it overnight. attracting capital, attracting brain power. why is this important? i think we have an opening in terms of rebuilding our manufacturing muscle. a lot of people said, those days are gone. i was born in 1960. we exported $3 for every $2 we imported. 25% of our gdp was manufact

if that is true, it opens the floodgates. i will not pay driver's insurance anymore.uest: an important point that we talked about earlier. the question is, do you have a fundamental right to not carry health insurance as much as you have the fundamental right to freedom of religion, rather it is a structural question about which arm of the government's forces you to carry insurance. it is not a federal requirement to carry auto insurance, it is a state requirement. the state is not bound by article 1, section 8 of the constitution. that is the issue here before the court. i wanted to answer a couple of questions brought up by the collar. peter s. about emergency rooms, maintaining that it was not fair for him to have to pay extra for the uninsured people in the emergency rooms. peter pretty much expressed the view of the u.s. government and courts that have already considered this. one of them dismissed the challenge as premature. two sided with the government and agreed that the issue is not forcing an individual to buy insurance, so much, as the government's judgmen

i think the press reluctantly but after the drug to report an open the floodgates, the press were all over the bill clinton scandals. because it was good copy, and good for business. i believe that the press did not do as good job of adding barack obama as they should have. i will say that culturally -- it is not in the form of overt bias, but the press by and large seems to be literally biased culturally. i believe we live in a new era where cable news has become a great equalizer. host: houston, texas, mark on the democrats' line. caller: good morning to you guys. i want to say that it is crazy dead their dwelling on this. this is old news. all of this is old stuff. those women are now coming forward because this guy is a front runner. i believe that they are probably paying these women to come forward. just to keep came from winning the republican nomination. i really believe that this country is still racist and that the majority is still racist. the last thing they want to see is two black man running for president. [unintelligible] one of them would be president, to knocky're tr

mitt romney jumping on that saying that reagan decision opened up a floodgates of other people to comethe border. they saw it as an invitation. >> a magnet, that's their argument. >> we have to increase security at the border. >> right. but at the end of the day, the real question is how does this resonate in iowa right now? if you read "the wall street journal" this morning, it's resonating in, perhaps, a harmful way for newt gingrich there and even some conservative blogers in that state saying this could be the defining issue and the moment that really hurts newt gingrich. >> we shall see. >> we want to hear from you. let us know what you think about all this. will this hurt newt coming up? >> all righty. >> talk about this. black friday shoppers are out in full this morning. juliet almost didn't come to work. she wanted to be out there. let's go to fox business network's sandra smith. she's live. we send her out into the shopping. this is her home turf in chicago at the premium outlets in illinois. nice to see you. >> you, too. juliet, you tell me what deal you want and i'll seek i

serving on the economic board in the 1990's, the lesson of economic development which opened the floodgates for brain power. lower the tariffs for barriers. give them something to do to level the playing field and try to bring them ahead of the economic competition which they have always been able to do. we have to make sure our environment, our competitive environment is conducive to attracting the elements that an economy needs for success. so i say this is totally applicable nationally because we need to infuse a sense of confidence into this economy. there is capital. there are great ideas. we have the most innovative entrepreneurial creative class the world has ever seen. they are still here. they want to be set free. they want to get after it. there is not a level of confidence today that is compelling companies to unleash expenditures into the marketplace that is not inspiring folks to hire. to bring people on which gets to joblessness. i say we must in this country create an environment that speaks to 21st century competitiveness. it is not going to be easy. you can't do it overnigh

economic development board in the 1990's, there lesson of economic development, which was to open the floodgates for brainpower. level the playing field and tried to stay a step or two ahead of the competition. we just have to make sure our competitive environment is conducive to attracting the elements that an economy needs for success. this is truly applicable nationally. we need to infuse a sense of confidence into this economy. there is capital. we have great ideas. we have the most innovative, entrepreneurial, created across the world has ever seen. they are still here. they want to be set free. but there is not a level of confidence today that is compelling companies to unleash a expenditures into the marketplace. we must, in this country, create an environment that speaks to 20% to competitiveness. which always carries a -- an element of political instability and that investment always will be looking for alternatives. we would be stupid if we do not address the alternative. we will address these deficiencies and we will win that investment here. it also assumes you have a president who c

economic development board in the 1990's, there lesson of economic development, which was to open the floodgates for brainpower. level the playing field and tried to stay a step or two ahead of the competition. we just have to make sure our competitive environment is conducive to attracting the elements that an economy needs for success. this is truly applicable nationally. we need to infuse a sense of confidence into this economy. there is capital. we have great ideas. we have the most innovative, entrepreneurial, created across the world has ever seen. they are still here. they want to be set free. but there is not a level of confidence today that is compelling companies to unleash a expenditures into the marketplace. we must, in this country, create an environment that speaks to 20% to competitiveness. attracting capital, brainpower. why is this important? a think we have an opening in terms of rebuilding manufacturing muscle. a lot of people say those days are done. wanna was born in 1960 we exported we owned 36% of gdp. we have an opening here. why? china pointed gdp is going from 8%, 9%, 1