(greer) technology is the science of what if. i think of it as something that we can't do without because our minds are curious, and something that if we did without it, we'd still be starting fire with stones. and the human mind wants more than that. and we want to better ourselves. sometimes we better ourselves, and sometimes we miss. (wassar) the pads are a very critical part of the flute and have a major impact on the responsiveness and the acoustical qualities of the instrument. in the case of a piccolo, the pads traditionally are made of felt, and about seven to ten years ago, i came up with the idea to design a special silicone pad which actually has a hollow or baffle system inside. one of the advantages of using silicone is that it can truly seal the tone hole. what we discovered, however, is that the mechanical perfection of this pad was in conflict with the artist's desire to control his sound. what was happening was that a felt pad is, in some ways, so bad that when you open and close a pad, you don't get an "on/off,"

they say it happened at the intersection of greer and channing.the women, in their 80's say they were walking around 6:00 tuesday night when they were approached by the man. they say he took off after they threatened to call police. authorities say they don't think the incident is related to three other indecent exposure cases which happened in the same area back in october. extra security measures are being put in place for this sunday's game between the raiders.and the 49ers oakland mayor quan knows the rivalry is intense.but says.raiders fans are not the problem. however.raiders officials are beefing up security.big time.for the game against at the coliseum. this was the scene at candlestick the last times these two teams played. several fights in the stands. a brutal beating in the bathroom. and two people were shot in the parking lot. the mayor says she's confident that her raiders fans will not be a problem. open protests seem to be winding down we have told their than other arrests but we have no final numbers in sports. jim harbaugh defend

police say a man exposed himself to two women on channing avenue at greer road tuesday evening. the flasher ran away and the woman then called 911. similar incidents have occurred in palo alto earlier this year with no arrests. >>> a big change is coming to the west oakland bart station. bartsch's board of directors are finalizing plans trying to revitalize the area around the bart station currently occupied by parking lots. developers are being considered to build retail shops and offices. >>> san francisco is going off drivers who block intersections or double park. the mayor and police chief made the announcement yesterday. the goal is to ease congestion and make streets safer for pedestrians. the city will work to identify factors contributing to traffic jams such as traffic signals and walk signal timing. >> recommending a scrub for today. >> no 3, 2, 1 blastoff at cape canaveral today. the rocket is staying put because of a call from mission control. >> and talk about a bad drive. yesterday's storm leaves some california commuters with some unwanted cargo. how they were ab

it happened in the intersection of greer and embarcadero >> reporter: police and not yet released theentities of the elderly man this incident took place tuesday evening around 5:00 to women in their eighties a man came up to them and exposed himself and invited them to take a look the man then ran away and the police said that they were not notified of within the hour of the incident. and gonna go and talk to my kid's teacher testing of the managing you really want them to feel like a safe you wish you would not have these kind of conversations but we have to start talking but little more. >> reporter: authorities released two different sketches' back in october this is possibly all these cases are connected but they have yet to make an arrest. the man's description is different the can only describe him as a white man and that possibly it is late teens but tuesday they did not get a great look at the man they're not able to put out a sketch so far. >> catherine: police have not yet released the identity of an elderly man was killed by a truck in san leandro this morning these pictur

. >> two people were walking on greer avenue when a man approached them and exposed himself. the suspect ran away when within of the women said she was going to flash the police. >> health officials say california is experiencing its worst whooping cough epidemic in years and a vaccine here is to be blamed. according to the cdc, almost 10,000 cases have been reported so far this year. officials say parents were upset about the side effects of the old vaccine. so the new vaccine is more gentle but its effects wear off. >> nasa's orbit -- the unmanned orion. good morning nanette. >> reporter: good morning, sam. this is certainly an exciting time in american space eggs moration. the unmanned orion lifted off this morning it's about half wave through its flight and it started off at cape canaveral. >> five four, three, two, one. and liveoff at dawn! >> reporter: one nasa manager called today day within of the mars era. orion is expected to be able to take astronauts to that planet sometime after 2030. but there's lots to do and test before hand. today was only the first step. on

two women in their 80s were on a walk near the corner of greer road and channing avenue when a man approached them and exposed himself. this happened tuesday evening around 5:00. the suspect ran away when one of the women said she was going to call police. this follows three other flashing incidents in december. >>. >> policy instructs postal workers to call security first, not to call 911. vicky wynn is back after more employees step forward saying the policy has led to other critical safety failures. vicky? >> good morning. we told you about the postal service policy that tells thousands of employees to call security instead of calling 911. in oakland, 911 wasn't called for 53 minutes after a colleague found hmm lying on the ground bleeding. now employees are voicing concerns about the policy for years. these grievances were filed by postal workers here in the bay area. they document multiple instances where employees needed emergency medical care. in one case someone suffered a seizure at work and 911 wasn't called for 45 minutes. and yet the usps did nothing to chang its emergency medical

kelly hodge greer of felton is facing forgery. a man found that a couple was living in his home.olice say there are other unsuspecting renters out there. they are asking anyone that might be a victim to contact them. >>> a local congressman is asking the u.s. attorney's office to investigate a military impersonator. >> it should be up here. >> got me on that one, bud. >> they confronted the fake soldier at the oxford valley mall after noticing irregularities in his uniform insignias. the federal stolen valor act says you cannot impersonate a soldier. >>> there is a federal lawsuit brought on by tracy morgan. they did not disclose their safety practices. his friend was killed when a their limo bus. kevin ropers, the driver is facing criminal charges. the investigation continues on this accident. shortly before noon, an out-of-control car3úuhy smashedo a florist. it happened at sunset road in burlington. the 54-year-old driver was rushed to the hospital with cuts and lower body injuries. no one inside of the store was injured. >>> those that lost a loved one it can be difficult. th

-las autoridades dicen que 2 mujeres de aproximadamente 80 aÑos, caminaban cerca de la esquina de "greersnudo. take vo --luego, el sujeto se echo a correr cuando una de las mujeres le grito que llamaria a la policia. --3 incidentes como estos se registraron en octubre en la misma ciudad. blanca ---- pronto terminar el periodo de monitoreo del doctor de san francisco que regreso de liberia despues de entrenar a personal sobre cmo prevenir el bola. take vo --- va skype desde su casa...el doctor "fuc lay" dijo que esta revisando constantemente su temperatura y pendiente de no padecer sntomas de la enfermedad. --- afirm que slo tuvo contacto con un paciente que padeca bola...por eso se le pidi estar en cuarentena por 21 dias. blanca ---pasamos con gabriela dellan con las condiciones actuales del tiempo... gabriela... take pkg amigos tengan todos muy buenas tardes y sean cordialmente bienvenidos a noticiero telemundo 48 . enseguida les comparto la informacion meteorologica del dia de hoy. como usted ve en su pantalla aqui tenemos las siguientes condiciones climatologicas: continua la lluvia i

more than 6 million seats were recalled earlier this greer.co could face a multimillion-dollar fine if federal officials find the company delayed notifying regulators about faulty seat buckles. rene marsh has more. >> good morning, carol, they could face a $35 million fine. the investigation is into the timeliness of essentially reporting the defects in the harness buckles for certain car seats. federal regulators routinely investigate defects but it's really rare for them to investigate the company's timeliness of reporting the problem. so here's what the problem is. there's a difficulty in unlashing the harness buckle. you're looking at them there. parents complained they've had to in some cases cut their children out of the car seat or remove the entire car seat all together. the question now, did graeco know about the defect sooner but turned a blind eye to perhaps avoid a costly and extremely large recall? from the beginning, graco said the complaints about the sticking buckles do not pose a reasonable risk of safety to their users. they

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annette march greer learned this at a young age.ssing their children, and children unable to process how their world had been shattered to pieces. those sights and sounds made her want to do more than just follow in her family's footsteps. she opened roberta's house, to comfort those in need, and offers guidance to children. troubled teens, mothers who have lost a child and workshops in public schools. since 2008, more than 2,300 people, half of them children, have learned that no one has to mourn alone. that grief, when we embrace it, share it and talk about it, can transform us. show us how to live. and even help a city heal. >> i love my city, i have lived here all of my life. but i believe that the violence in this city and grief are directly connected. i saw how it was impacting children and we were not talking about how they cope with their losses. >> nuggets, french fries, and a milk shake, my daddy ordered the same thing as me. my dad gone. he got killed. >> my son's father, he was murdered. it was just a bond that a lot of

. >> we now know 15 greer old girl. >> looks like hit by car and killed.it happened. steve? >> well there you saw the school buses, bob kelly, you guys were talking about this, and that comes into play, not in the accident itself, but this 15 year old girl may have been getting, going to get on the bus, the bus was stopped with it lights flashing, that's the most serious violation you can do, pass a school bus with its lights flashing, and the reason that's such a eight-point violation, i know of, in certain states, i've lived in, is because something like this can happen. so many blind spots for both the driver of any vehicles passing and kids who run the but it is running late or run offer of busses to get home. what happens was you see bronco two, with that camo kind of paint job on it, has lights on the top of it, male driver driving that stopped obviously as you shy there, likely, to face charges in this case, and pass the school bus with the lights flashing for loading and unloading kids. >> like lick kids on the bus if they didn't witness the accide

police as recently released information and to place to stay the clock. 621 and weighs in as section of greerexposed himself invited them to take a look and let that man did runaway and were notified to more than an hour. this plot so for incidents of indecent exposure appearance in this neighborhood plan take action this morning >> : but much as teachers see how they're managing and and how we can educate arcades and discussing happen around them >> : one of two sketches released but stories by the october 1st called the police have three news exposure cases also a place in the month possibly all those cases connected yet to make an arrest. and the monopoly tuesday's case mess description was different as a club called please describe them as a white man as late teens and because the victims case denied a good at what the guest is like those in alecto replace the sporting tell me at this point that will put out a sketch. glenn and bay area authorities arrested six of them discovered a man in said total daughter's bedroom. 29 year-old san jose this and tell us station burglary charges registe

. >>> palo alto, the scene of another flashing incident, this near the gorner of greer road.nnel going to be closed tonight starting at 10:00. caltrans conducting an energy response drill, so both are expected closed between 4:00 tomorrow morning. >>> let's check the weather. >> showers and thunderstorms off the coastline right now. off the coast, there are lightning strikes being detected from our radar, quite a few actually over the past hour or so. the heavy rain won't actually get here until about 3:00 this afternoon. and then it's going to move through fairly quickly. by 6:00 and 7:00 we'll start to dry out. rain will arrive and come down quick. at times, flooding on some of the roadways and even some gusty winds. temperatures cool today, though, back into the 60s. let's check the drive with mike. >> break helping out the traffic also friday is a lighter flow. nothing dramatic, still a little traffic headed downtown. past the airport, we do have a crash that moved to the shoulder, but still slow right here. rest of the bay looking really nice. look at the bay bridge toll