here's a guyana doing tile work in the garage there.have a contractor, you have to open the wall up. do a little earthquake work,ái every project you do. here we have a building for lease, one of the issues we see commonly, i get a lot of questions how safe is my building. is it safe? no one knows when they lease an apartment or home or whatever they're leasing, how safe it is ask your landlord or homeowner. ask your engineer, how safe is my bill something they assume i the building department let's i be occupied it has to be safe. i want to point out a few other things we have on the table tha you should be taking a look at. there's this wonderful guide book called putting down roots in earthquake country and it wa publish fwid united states geological survey. it was in the paper the other day and it looks like an ad and it was in with a lot of ads, so people tossed them. i would pick one of these up. we have a lot of information here in the building department you need any help, call our number at 558-6205. we can give you information

one of the men had been a cargo handler at j.f.k., and the other was a politician in guyana. an informant recorded them discussing the plot. both could face life in prison. the fire department here in new york city is one of the most respected in the world and second only to tokyo in size. the company has well over 11,000 officers and firefighters and their heroism is legendary but as jim axelrod reports a federal judge said something is missing in their ranks: diversity. >> reporter: new york city fire captain paul washington has a big problem with his department. >> this fire department has been all white, lily white, for almost 150 years now. i mean it has to end. >> reporter: eight years ago the fire department was 92% white and only 2.8% black. in a city that was 24% black. a disparity that remains largely unchanged. a group of african-american firefighters sued. >> the fire department in new york on the one hand is tremendously heroic and the whole world knows about its heroism. on the other hand, we have this singular embarrassment. >> reporter: last january a federal

the other is former member of guyana's parliament. they face life in prison and plan to appeal. prosecutors say the pair wanted to kill thousands of people outdoing the 9/11 attacks to avenge what they perceive as the u.s. oppression of muslims. >>> violence erupted in pakistan this morning. gunmen shot to death at least 37 people in karachi. this follows yesterday's assassination of a popular lawmaker. karachi has a long history of ethnic and religious violence. >>> meanwhile there is more rain and new flood warnings in pakistan this morning. at least 1200 people have died so far in some of the worst flooding the country has seen in decades. now one of the country's biggest dams is threatened and nearby residents have been asked to evacuate. >>> on the cbs "moneywatch," stocks in asia edged up this morning. ashley morrison is here in new york with the latest on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. well, asian markets rose following big gains on wall street monday. the nikkei added more than 1% while the hang seng also edged up. >>> today wall street gets the ve