. >> tom: still ahead, the second costliest natural disaster came ashore here in homestead, florida 20 years ago. we'll take a look at this community and how it rebuilt even as it was hit by the financial storm of the housing collapse. >> susie: gold has been shining all week up 3%-- its best weekly performance since early june. erika miller takes a closer look at what's behind the rally. >> reporter: gold is not just beautiful to look at. the yellow metal is also becoming more attractive as an investment. gold is now trading near its highest level in more than four months on hopes for new economic stimulus measures around the globe. earlier this week, the federal reserve sent its strongest signal yet that it may launch another massive bond buying program to help the economy. and that possibility of so- called quantitative easing is sparking fears of a weaker dollar and higher inflation. >> the idea is that when we have quantitative easing, investors look to gold as a hedge against inflation as a store of wealth. gold did really well after the second round of quantitative easing, so pe

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i am fifteen aeration my great great grandfather homesteaded here. let's go let's go to gates that way was killed but he won't go a mile. sarah wants to board. we have three hundred head of al and come down on the high country there in current of libya. i'm a fourth generation rancher when i was little dad would let me have two cows out of the herd so i could have known her. my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds choose the honey honey the red winged blackbirds are back you know. this has been my favorite place i've ever lived in my life i say representatives is the one your you have called into plain every regulatory house the senate house the legislation today directing president bush's witnesses represent the oil companies that create order thirty six billion dollars in profit on the twenty dollars a barrel now was number two in for two months. and there she is. we call it our new neighbor neighbor nine o seven. we are in. a state situation where we on the surface and someone else on some mineral rights and what happens in colorado and i

what fires burned and oklahoma sunday evacuees returned to where the homestead at the outbreak friday practically wiped out home the city of luther, oklahoma. two dozen homes burned. residents returned finding nothing but smoldering ashes they're given minutes to evacuate. >>> you cannot get everything in 30 minutes, you practice fire drills at school but not at home you don't know what to get. >>> more than 60 homes burned in fires across the state police said in a fire that destroyed homes in luther may have been deliberately set. reports that someone deliberately tossed burning newspapers from a pickup truck during >>> a beautiful day in the bay area skies blue, the beach might be a good destination inland especially by wednesday and thursday. >>> i know least one part in the east bay was part people enjoyed cool temperatures. it was lovely it is about to change. >>> it may change for the better, if you're in the mood for warmer weather. right now it is pleasant is we go out side it is 76 in concord 68 in concord. 66 at sfo. santa rosa and 72 per eye and take away. visibility has i

saved my family. >> we have a physical therapist. >> veteran homestead built with the privately raisedleslie light foot, am forearmy med nick the vietnam war, with three kids of her own who served multiple tours in iraq and afghanistan. she says she started the non-profit organization because she has seen first hand vets can't return home and expect to just pick up where they left off. >> what inspired you to do this in the first place? >> it needed to be done. >> that simple? >> that simple. every time there is a hole in the net, the safety net, you develop something to plug that gap. >> her five other facilities are the veteran victory farm in new hampshire, former service members with severe emotional or psycholog call issues or addiction getting ary cultural therapy, caring for animals and crops while rebuilding their lives. >> how long can you keep doing this? >> as long as it takes. >> they described it ooze environment that nurtures success. she hopes to extent it nationwide. >> bret: rick, thank you. inspiring story. some very bad numbers on the economy today. what they will me

you couldn't get through the roads. >> reporter: at harris field in homestead where kids now come to play is where 20 years ago thousands would line up for food, water and ice. >> it was a great lot of people that helped out a lot in that situation. >> reporter: people opening up their hearts to strangers and their homes to neighbors. >> we had 12 people in our house the first night after the storm because the neighbors had broken windows and roofs missing. >> reporter: then emergency manager kate hale criticized the slow government response to the disaster. today she said it was heart that pulled us through. >> the generosity, selflessness and sacrifice of our neighbors. >> reporter: 20 years later florida international university debuting a simulator capable of producing andrew strength winds to improve how we build so that this much devastation continues to be a thing of the past. >> it was pretty devastating, but hey, we made it. >> when hurricane andrew hit, forecasters relied on observations from a single satellite. now there are many more satellites plus devices that are dropp

you can also see a blue tarp covering homesteader being renovated. the side of the explosion is covered with huge tarp in sandbags. the next picture is from june to about 11, you can now see that construction has begun on to new homes on the northern edge. there's also renovation under way on several damaged homes. also, noticed the young trees and brush that have popped up on what was a charred hillside. >>brian: of the wind is blowing and fog drifted into several clues ago. the fog will make its way into the rest of the bay by midnight, the eventually filling into the valleys. for tomorrow morning, a cloudy start. the clouds will slowly cleared through the morning starting around 8:00 a.m. eventually clearing san francisco and oakland by 11:00 a.m.. we are going to see a warming trend as we go to the entire week. the blues as readings in the '50s. that is where we will be in the morning. upper 80s and low 90s. we will have some eighties for the south bay and 70's by the bay. as we go to the rest of the week each and every day gets warmer. the real

center is a lightly populated area with nothing that sealed it trees to the north and south and homesteadaccording to authorities early friday morning when a more suspects have their way through the outer france and the eastern side of the facility. they then moved 100 ft. across the country second offense. the suspects then began trying to smash their way into the juvenile hall using a sledgehammer. they also broke a window in the process. >>catherine: one of the biggest music festivals is around. outside plants. jeff lewis joins us live near golden gate park. >> and neil young has just taken the stage. you can see the crowd is mesmerized by his performance. this has some incredible day of music. now this is video from earlier, this is the foo fighters. the foo fighters did not disappoint. everyone was having a good time. they played pretty much every song that you would hear on the report or have heard on the radio. neil young is on stage now doing his thing. this is going to be an amazing weekend of music with metallic said wrapping up with stevie wonder on sunday night. 65,000 people

many of these migrants homestead in anapra, while their bosses live comfortably in the campestre.he maquiladoras assemble goods just south of the u.s. border for shipment back to continental scale markets in north america-- such is the power of place. it almost worked for concha martinez, who, instead, faced catastrophe. bueno, mira, yo soy de tepic. translator: i co from tepic, about 800 miles to the south. i came to juarez three years ago on vacation with my family, but my husband ran off with another woman and left me alone with three children and one on the way. narrator: she had no money and no marketable skills. ...pues, es que en la desesperación de que no... translator: in my desperation at not being able to feed my children, i would have taken a job in a maquiladora or de whatever job was necessary. but, unfortunately, the maquila would not hire me because they did a urine analysis and discovered that i was pregnant, so they didn't give me a job. asi supieron que yo estaba embarasada, y no me dieron trabajo. narrator: with fewer options, a desperate mother is forced to th

. >> homestead, yeah.latest -- several years later it was upgraded to a category 5 there's still a lot of confusion about that. speaking of isaac it keeps drifting west now it is heading towards mobile, alabama which means it could sideswipe tampa and not have affect you don't want to jump the gun but you want to plan ahead. 4:51, clouds not hanging as low as questioned. they are not as moisture laden easier to get rid of, hopefully more sun today. doppler in search of wet weather for your morning commute, we have fog up in the north bay, quarter mile visibility now in santa rosa, 48°, the rest of us mid to upper 50s dress kids for mid 50s monterey bay inland with cloudy conditions. clouds having a hard time making night the south bay and east bay valleys the next couple of hours 10:00 out of the inland valleys by noon almost out of the bay more sunshine around the bay even a little developing along the coast maybe not as sunny as yesterday in the north bay beaches temperatures in the 50s there, 60s, 70s,

they open a nine-game homestead against the angels. anaheim with a 2 1/2 game lead over detroit.urry for mike scioscia. they're going to get under the skin and a.j. pierzynski. two-run shot. sox led 9-1 in the first. angels were able to take the lead. driving in the run for third. l.a. would take a 6-9 lead. in the seventh, the sox came back. a clutch hit from alejandro derosa. this one a ground rule double making it 6-6. kept the angels at bay. alex rios gets the high pick and drives it to center. two-run shot to win the game. second of the night for alex. the sox stay 2 1/2 up over the tigers. alex rios has been here all year long. underestimated, undervalued for a lot of people. solid for anybody in the league. he played great for us. a big win. it happened to the right guy. >> always wild in southern california. not for the cubs tonight. led 1-0 in the fifth. the shot down the line by valbuena. the game was tied. l.a. pulled away. a.j. homered the second. the cubs go down 6-1. jeff samardzijan gets the loss. brian urlacher and a sore knee as the bears came down for a one-day

me on san bruno and homestead road. they wrapped up their investigation around 4:00 a.m. and they aren't looking for two people that took off in a white ford door carpet after they fired at two men around 10:00 yesterday. this place is very close to this the tasted valley, where three men had been shot over the past few days. the man on monday wa that was killed was also identified as a member of ta gang member. >>> two teenagers were arrested in connection of a string of cellphone deathon bart. >>> on july 80 and the two suspects were arrested by sf pd for grabbing and i phone per day per person saw what was happening and called police. once they found a victim, basic milk be tethered, they would grab the phone and ran. they used pepper spray on anyone that would resist them. never lend your phone to strangers. >>> the uc-davis campus cop that progress grade students lost ball has now lost his job. the university will only confirm that he no longer works there. he had been on paid leave since he's used the pepper spray on protesters. >>> i think he should of been gone a

approximately three years ago, our nation commemorating the 10th anniversary of the homestead decision. in this time, president obama launched the community living initiative on june 22, does a 9 to reaffirm the administration's commitment -- 2009 and to reaffirm the administration's commitment for americans with disabilities and ensuring the full inclusion of all people in our nation. on the very same day, secretary sebelius set up an interagency coordinating council led by assistant secretary cathy green lake, as well as the director of the office of disability, henry klebold, to look at solutions that address various community living. and to give people more control over their lives and the support they need. now talking about this new agency, we are bringing together the administration on aging, which you may be very familiar with, the office of disability, as well as the administration on the developmental disabilities into one single agency. this support is growing crosscutting initiatives as well as efforts focused on the unique needs of individual groups such as seniors with de

homesteaded time magazine editor for reid's a cardio apologizes for plagiarism this isn't enough to allow him back on air by now i'd call. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. all right sixty minutes past the hour here in moscow more of the world's news now a senior libyan defense ministry official has been killed in the eastern city of benghazi general hadia was one of the military officers to deflect during the uprising that toppled mark felt he was shot dead from a car by gunmen friday prayers happen a series of murders of military officers and. u.s. presidential candidate mitt romney is set to announce his running mate which is expected to be house budget chairman paul ryan he's best known for trying to lower america's budget spend by over five trillion dollars and his ambition to make the nation debt free from his choice for his number two could prove crucial to his chances of winning the white house in november from barack obama also for the birds ahead in the poll

something to be said about being smart being able to identify those threats and being able to secure the homestead that's absolutely a valid point how ever the very big issue is what i've seen and talked about with other people here in this office and you know that i've interviewed before and the problem is what to what extent are you giving up. your privacy in order to be safe so that is a meaning that's the million dollar question that exactly what i dreamed i want to get to something else you talked about in your package and that is truck wire. wire is something that we kind of laid out the groundwork for kind of explains to our viewers just a few days ago we were the first ones to i mean if you go online right now not to sort of have. shall we i mean room first ones to really cover that in. this is a program that was really sort of released in some documents on wiki leaks. talk a little bit about trap wire for those people who don't know and the concept also of sort of outsourcing this activity i mean it's pretty much what we know for certain is that it's it's a private company that has its ow

. >> reporter: mitchell had also enjoyed mowing homestead. she calls it the holy hills of home. but everything changed. mitchell says she had mowed the family cemetery, a path for her golf cart around the property, was going up the hill when her riding lawn mowers started malfunctioning. >> i turned around to back out, and it just fell over the top of me. >> reporter: her leg was pinned, then she says things went from bad to worse. >> the tractor was smoking. i was sure it was going to burst into flames any minute. i said, god, i don't want to die look like this. >> reporter: that's when the copd patient tried to yell for help. >> the voice just spoke to me and said, martha, no one's going to come, no one's going to come for you to help. >> reporter: since she couldn't move the 600-pound mower, she decided to dig a trench to get her leg out. >> i kept digging, digging, digging, five hours i was there. >> reporter: now she's recovering with bruised organs, a hip broken in two places, a crushed pelvis, about you not a broken faith. >> i've had so many miracles in my life s. but th

northbound 85 slowed to cupertino through soup soup from de anza towards homestead -- homestead becausewelcome back. livermore one degree cooler redwood city nine same with san francisco and san jose eight and seven. sun inland 70s and 80s by ♪ >>> the crowd here in times square. great crowd. we have so much going on this morning, including the cookoff. the great food truck race is here. keeping an eye on schnitzel and the milk truck. the trophy here. is that trending on twitter right now? >> the show launched on sunday. we're really excited about it. it was the number one trend topic on twitter. i think we're going to have a fantastic season. sunday nights at 9:00, on the food network. the third season of "the great food truck race." you were with us last year, right? >> i was. and the food, just incredible. >> i just got back from vacation. a week at the beach. i lost my razor. the one you're looking at, is a trend that has taken over coast-to-coast. this is where the real talent is emerging from young chefs across the country. >> this is amazing. >> we have our own competition. you m

when he moved from the area near where she grew up, and moved back to another homestead of the obama clan, around the bay of lake victoria, she had had enough. he had a new younger wife with him then so she ran away. she left the family when barack obama, the president's father, who was also named barack brachn obama. >> host: his parents died in 2006. did president obama ever meet them? >> guest: no. he never met his grandparents. he not there in the 1980s after his grandfather died. he only met -- aside from the very, very early days of his birth, opposite in his life, but he didn't get back to kenya until both of his grandparents were gone, and he lived with his white grandparents so it was a dramatic difference in that part of the story. >> for barack obama the story, how many interviews did you do over the course of the last four years? >> guest: i would say that almost 400. and i had a wonderful assistant, gabrielle banks, who helped with later interviews and specific parts of the story, but i traveled all around the world, and so -- everybody i could find, and every part of th

. >> a wildfire in central washington state that has destroyed homestead% contained. it has destroyed 40 square miles on the east side of the cascade mountains in washington. no injuries reported. it's one of the deadliest years on record. 11 people have been killed this year and a line of duty. >> firefighting is inherently dangerous. we have many eyes looking around to keep everybody's safe. >> along the nevada-oregon state line there's a wildfire that is 675 square miles. a man accidentally fired a weapon inside a nevada creator. he told police the gun fell from his pocket as he made himself comfortable in the seat. in discharged, hitting him in the buttocks. the man has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, but they are sending it to the local district attorney for possible charges. theaters have been on alert since the massacre recently. and a doctor accused of waterboarding is 11-year-old stepdaughter. he said that he may have been experimenting on the girl research and near death experiences. the girl's mother witnessed some of the incidents and failed to stop

. >> the neighborhood has been rebuilding and so far victims are back in their rebuild homestead but all work has stopped until the city, fire officials, and pg&e, investigate how the contractor got so close to a gas line. >> it was clearly marked. and the contractor at this point appears to be utilizing a tobacco when it is always a safe technique to use hand digging procedures in the area of where there may be a gas line, or any underground facility. >> tonight pgd accuses the contractor of being on safe, the utility says it will charge the company for all the repair work as well as all of the crew's time. there's nothing that you could pay for for all the frayed nerves that are out here tonight. >> in that neighborhood that is understandable, thank you. >> in other headlines, police put a santa clara neighborhood on lockdown for nearly five hours today as they search for wanted parolee. they were looking for joshua benson in connection with a pre- dawn domestic violence incidents, they thought he might be honored. eventually tracked him down at a friend's home where he surrendered

at the last second, it veered south and hit homestead, catching people off guard.member i was living in miami at the time. it also strengthened, amazingly quickly. on friday it was nothing. by the weekend, it was a monster. reporter: absolutely. it went from a tropical storm one day to category four within 36 hours. it is amazing with rapid development. a lot of it contributed by weather conditions, allowing this to happen. a storm surge peaking at 17 feet, causing widespread flooding, of course, massive power outages and, of course, 46 people directly killed and up to 35 and directly killed in total. those that did not evacuate did not heed the warning of the state and the federal government at the time. they stayed and wrote this hurricane out. the horror stories are just amazing. the survival stories are amazing. even to this day, 20 years later. many people emerging from their homes like zombies. the upside, if there is an upside to hurricane andrew, it was a great wake-up call. building codes are now much stronger than they were back then. in fact, miami-dade

i wouldn't say they're upbeat but they have a homesteader attitude out there.i lost $3,000 but another slot machine. people just are more ready to start over there. i think because they are newer, you know, residents of the state. the rate itself isn't necessarily determinant. it's just how people feel about the economy. that's pretty much set by labor day. this year it might be set earlier. >> shannon: charles, we can get to topic three. >> the rate itself is not the key. it's the rate of change. it's going in the wrong direction. it rose. that is what i think hurts obama. the chief economist of credit suisse said to the "new york times" today this is the worst recovery ever, including during the great depression. he said if you aren't scared by that, you don't know what is going on. pretty heavy, as we used to say. >> shannon: it's always nice to have someone who is fluent in french on a panel as well. time topic, the gsa scandal -- it was very nice. rolls off the tongue. the gsa scandal and the fact there may be 77 additional event conferences that they will

. >> reporter: when the sun came up the next day, most of homestead was gone. survivors endured desperation. ice a prized commodity. and what andrew didn't steal -- >> people looting stores left and right. >> reporter: looters tried to take. >> all looters will be shot on sight. >> and that's a real gun in your hand? >> yeah. >> a real shot gone. >> this is real bullets. >> reporter: michael minor remembers that day. he was in his bed when he heard a loud boom. >> the entire roof just lifts up over the bedroom. we look up and all we could see was the stars and the rain and the wind and it was just unbelievable. >> reporter: to try to build structures to withstand a category 5 hurricane, municipal building codes have changed along the east and gulf coasts but putting new products to the test has been a problem, until now. >> wall of wind n. >> reporter: here with the wall of wind at the international hurricane research center, products can be placed in winds exceeding 150 miles per hour. some tests more dramatic than others. 60 to 70% of the homes in the hurrica

we'll see you at old homestead, mark. >> cutting to the core of what makes america great.t could mean your tax refund will be delayed. no wonder the approval level for congress is at an all-time low. and michael bloomberg would be proud. boston market is taking salt off of the tables. [ male announcer ] trading's like a high-speed train. and you don't want to miss it with thinkorswim by td ameritrade. you get knock-your-socks-off tools, simple one-click orders, real-time paper trading to hone your skills, plus anytime you need it support. ♪ stocks, options, futures, and forex. get your trading on track. thinkorswim by td ameritrade. trade commission free for 60 days, plus get up to $600 when you open an account. >>> the fact that congress just hit a new approval rating low should be no surprise. 82% is how many americans i did approve with congress right now according to the late es "wall street journal" results. billions in tax refunds could be delayed in 2013 which could be catastrophic for the economy. this should be a wake up call for washington, but andrew fieldhouse

when he moved to the area near where she grew up, moved back to another homestead of the obama clan around lake victoria. a new younger wife, and she ran away. she left the family when barack obama the president's father whose name was also barack hussain obama. >> host: his grandparents in kenya died in 2006. did president obama ever meet them? >> no. he never met his kenya and grandparents. he got there after his grandfather died. on the side of the early days, he didn't get back to kenya, and dramatic difference in that. >> host: barack obamathe story, how many interviews did you do? >> almost 400. i have a wonderful assistant, in specific parts of the story. traveled all around the world. everybody i could find in every part of the life of president obama and his parents and grandparents. >> host: barack obama sr. was born in 1936. what was his childhood like? >> from a fairly early age was dealing with western culture. he was a very smart kid. his father was difficult to get along with and not often there. mostly in nairobi and barack was growing up -- he was lucky in the sense that h

yesterday they stopped in the homestead of paul ryan in wisconsin, he is best known for crafting a republicanudget plan that would shift medicare into a program that provides vouchers for senior citizens to get their own health insurance. >> we need to preserve their benefits because government promises them that they will have a retirement. >> congressman ryan is a decent man, a family man, he is an articulate spokesman for gov. mitt romney's vision. but, it is a vision that i fundamentally disagree with. >> president obama and ryan will both attend campaign events and i was today we'll mitt romney will be in florida. the republicans previous vice- presidential candidate says that she will not be a speaker at the republican national convention. former alaskan gov. sarah palin released a statement saying that she supports mitt romney and paul line and will focus on grass roots efforts to help get them elected. the convention begins in tampa two weeks from today. >> many egyptian some support for their new president and his decision to fire the army's top leaders. crowds gathered to get behind

there were homestead acts that said you can go farm 160 acres, just go find it. you'd be fully employed for the rest of your life and your kids' life trying to carve a farm out of the countryside, and there was a lot of land available, but there was a new mover and shaker in the harding administration, somebody they had to keep an eye on, and that was herbert hoover. he's chosen to be the secretary of commerce, and he convinced harding to strike a unemployment commission, brought together a lot of people to show that the federal government was interested in what was happening in the economy. that was the first evidence although there was large financial crisis in 1907, but that was the first presence of the federal government showing any interest in large scale unemployment as a federal problem. i usually considered it local, municipal, or state issue. there are hints about what's going on today with the early 1920s, and that recession, that large recession of the country went into post-war, something we kind of miss with all of the roaring twenties, flappers, sp

mark the anniversary of hurricane -- marks the anniversary of hurricane andrew when went ashore in homestead, florida, in 1992. it was a category 4 hurricane with winds 145 sustained and gusts to 175 and then after the damage was surveyed 100,000 roofs in dade county alone were either destroyed or damaged. that's the kind of damage andrew did. at the time it was the costliest hurricane to hit the u.s. now it's no. 3, of course, behind katrina. since they actually looked at the damage and said oh, this was a category 5 storm. it ended up being classified as a category 5 with winds 155 sustained or higher as it hit south florida 20 years ago today. also have a black on it on our website www.wusa9.com. let's go back -- a blog on it on our website www.wusa9.com. let's go back to our computer. there will be an update at 11:00. right now live look brought to you by michael and son, 84, dew point in the low 60s, winds southeasterly at 6, pressure 30.13 inches of mercury. if you're headed out tonight, you'll probably need an umbrella unless you're in by 9:00. satellite and radar combined, this is an

like homestead gardens which is out central avenue west, they have 30% off of all of their pottery.o if you wanted to get some pots that you can use next season, check them out. >> let's be honest, it's pricy out there. >> well, the pottery is really expensive, too. but, you know, the plants are the real deal. like suppose you have something coming up and these marigolds, they were giving these away at 50 cents a plant at local nurseries and the big box stores clearing stuff out at 50 to 60% off. plants you can reuse right now. say if you have some entertaining coming up, that's a good thing to do. your grasses, things like loriape, they are 50% off. and one of our favorite places ed's plant world has everything 50, 60, 70% off this weekend. and if you go in and mention that you're part of the fox 5 family, they are actually giving you a free tropical plant for indoors. >> fox 5 family, does that mean us? >> yes. [ laughter ] >> this is an annual grass. this will probably last until november and then it will be done. but this plant i found in a local nursery for 60% off. so it's som