however, after hearing his specific itemization of at least four changes that are certainly not housekeeping, i mean, really, and even miss sullivan told you that the zoning administrator, your predecessor, wanted to eliminate a requirement for enforcing noncompliance because nobody was observing it anyway, i mean, that's not housekeeping . that's a sub stantive change. for you to -- substantive change. for you to to vote on all of the code changes to send to the board of supervisors is really kind of shocking. it would have been quite easy, i think, for you to delete articles 10 and 11, i was present at historic preservation commission. commissioner martinez said it would take eight hours to review them. the public -- to review them in public. and they only had an hour, their meetings are limited in a way that yours are not. i understand that this issue has been probably settled as of last night, about 9:00 in the evening, of the new director of heritage has come to an understanding that you'll have a chance to consider articles 10 and 11 in conjunction with the historic preservation commis

good housekeeping strongly recommends you not buy inexpensive jewelry for children. i'm michael finney, "7 on your side." >> coming up a sour song. the new scam that could have i-tune users singing the blues. plus... >> i've just been hit by an individual! >> a very literal run-in with the law. >> i've just been hit by an individual! 1050! >> dash cam videos showing you a scary moment for the utah highway patrol. a drunk driver driving the wrong way slammed right into the officer's cruiser. fortunately neither driver involved in the crash was seriously hurt. the wrong-way driver was arrested. >> this morning a new warning of an online scam involving i-tunes and paypal. scammers have apparently found a way to buy thousands of dollars in i-tune songs and charge it to other users' paypal accounts. one racked up $4700 on an unexpecting user's account. >> 6:26. still ahead at 6:30, the new rules thousands of richmond high schoolers can expect to face as they head back to school today. >> plus the mystery of the vanishing 600 pound bell. that lady talking about the incredi

for a good backpack for the kids. 7 on your side's michael finney has the results of the good housekeepingkpack stress test. >> more than just size and material differentiates a good backpack. you also want durability. >> we know kids use and abuse backpacks by pulling them and pushing them off the school bulls, dragging them on the sidewalk and stuffing them into the locker. >> good housekeeping looked at storage capacity and compartment for cellphones, pens, pencils, even water bottles. the magazine evaluated 32 backpacks from 17 different manufacturers. >> while many of the bags performed well, the best value for the younger children was the lands end lightweight 200 and for the older children it was the high sierra fat boy. >> one other tip before making your purchase. consider your child's needs. the backpack you alcoholic beverages should fit properly by resting on a child's lower back and not up on the shoulders. i'm michael finney, "7 on your side." >> good to go. 6:21. coming up, the breakfast food getting its own memorial of sorts in new york's time square. >> the video that's su

our biggest challenge -- carrying forward old amendments and finding places is a housekeeping matter. it takes time and effort, committees have to reach amendments and make sure that they go to the appropriate place. but the big thing is figuring out how to integrate them into san francisco's code. i want to talk about these changes, the calgreen code. as you know, san francisco adopted its own green building ordinance a couple of years back. we were way ahead of the state with regard to buildings. the state this year has adopted a california green building code and included language that said any local jurisdiction with their own code, they can continue their authority with local requirements, as long as they are at least pass strict as state requirements. what that required us to do is to take this state building code and look at our own, and for each provision, is this as strict as the state? if not, we need to bring it forward. in order to do that, we need to do a complete matrix for each provision. the city cannot have any code that are less restrictive than the state. either equ

las vegas where workers from the city's best hotels put their skills to the test at this year's housekeeping olympics. guest room attendants and porters showed off their stuff, everything from fastest bed-making to mop competition. bragging rights weren't the only thing in line. first-place winners receive a brand-new queensize bed and sheets, second took home a new vacuum, and third-place finisher got free dinner or a show. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. >>> students in japan are certainly reaching for the stars. the competition between budding engineers from around the world may lead to the world's first space elevator. teams attach mechanical climbers to travel up cables suspended 900 feet in the air. the hope is that technology would eventually lead to transporting people and goods into space at a drastically lower cost. >>> well, one environmentalist has taken melting ice caps into his own hands. a german physicist is creating an artificial glacier in the swiss alps. using a sprinkler system and water from nearby st

she was a housekeeper in a casino. i tried to figure out why wasn't this case prosecute. i talked to the victim and the perpetrator's family and i talked to the police officer and i talked to the investigator and i couldn't fitting out. why? why? why? what is wrong with that case? why didn't this case go anywhere? i went to miss wiggs. i said why didn't this case go anywhere? she said let me look back and see when was the last time a domestic violence case was prosecuted? it turns out this prosecutor hasn't prosecuted a domestic violence case in 20 years. there are these patterns that we can't see or know because under the guise of discretion and they don't have to make it public, and if you lived in the county, all right, you might know, i know somebody who was beaten up but the case didn't go anywhere, nobody put together these patterns. that's one of the great meanings of ordinary justice. >> john, do you know miss wiggs? >> new york city but i wish i did. -- no, but i wish i did. i remember reading somewhere a few years ago that a prosecutor had never been disbarred.

francisco general, the doctors, nurses, administrators, officials, social workers, pharmacists, housekeepers, is workers, everyone -- there is just so many of you. i cannot say the mall. i want you to stand up, and we should applaud you for all the great work you do. [applause] stand up, please. they really do an amazing job. and we are all so excited because in this new building, we are even going to be able to do a better job. remember, we are not just here simply to celebrate a new building. we are really celebrating the health-care services that we are going to be able to provide to all san franciscans. as the only trauma center in the city, we will continue to bring life-saving trauma and emergency care. we will also deliver the best geriatric care and award winning maternal child care and so much more. the new building is going to be filled with original art for the entire community to enjoy. we are really trying to create an asset to the neighborhood and be a center for well this and -- wellness and be a healing environment for the patients, staff, and visitors. as we celebrate the be

. >> this is the housekeeper. >> reporter: this guy. >> what goes on?porter: jerry trainer who plays carly's older brother spencer with a body like a rubber band. >> i can't control it. >> reporter: and the comic speed a robin williams. he is bound to break out of the tv kid's universe sooner than later, snow he's not complaining where he is. >> i really believe this show would be funny if nickelodeon didn't exist and this were on abc at like 7:30, 8:00, you know, on a thursday night. i think the family could sit down and enjoy it. >> reporter: he is, in fact, one of the only adult characters on the show but is arguably the least mature of any of them. and that's by design. >> i don't want to be the token adult on the kid's show where it's like, i'm telling you to eat your vegetables and that's the moral of the story. woops, i slipped on a banana peel. >> reporter: here's a question, 12 million viewers, there have to have been a lot of grown-ups in that group. when does "i carly" stop being a kid show? >> i don't think of it as a kid show. think of it a

good housekeeping compiled a list of gifts for their wedding registry or about to buy a gift.hael finney reports. >> the list of gifts compiled by good housekeeping has something to fit every lifestyle. for those shopping on a budget the magazine suggests the all-clad stainless steel cookware j. k. adams cutting board and votive classes. >> the double walls, beautiful to look at, hold. >> said to keep things both hot and cold without burning or freezing the hand. if you want to chip in for a gift with friends, the kitchen aide stand mixer make mixing a whole lot easier. >> that's the one thing everyone wants. >> more information on the gifts you saw in this report all of that at abc7news.com. i'm michael finney "7 on your side." >> all right. 6:19. are they in the glee club or what? surprised by the discovery that little whales have perfect pitch. that in the must reads. >> the world's biggest glee club. something grand happening in richmond. coming up the city's historic public pool is about t [ man ] i was deciding wt to do with my citi thankyou points when it happened... [

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but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeeping, people are putting a lot of pollutants on the street and the streets are the openings to our stormwater sewer system. in an average year, 4,000 to 5,000 tons of trash ends up in long beach. man: we've created a system to deal with flooding but inadvertently created a pathway for pollution to get into our waterways. narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon the environment. on the front lines of protecting the beaches, are the crews that clean out the stormwater system. man: this big vactor truck works on the same principle as your vacuum cleaner in your house, only this thing sucks up the whole house. some of the storm drains collect a lot of trash. i started cleaning drains in '93. they were horrible because they hadn't been maintained so much. now this is a priority. you have trash, animal waste, and it ends up on our beaches. that is a health risk. that is one of the main reasons why we have to close the beaches after heavy rain. narrator: but even when it's not

i preferred the housekeeping angle myself. one more thing.t, time for our weekly tribute to the fcc where we bleep and blur things whether they need it or not. it is "this week in unnecessary censorship." enjoy. >> work my hardest and try my best to fulfill these commitments and to [ bleep ] this [ bleep ] i love. >> the airline trying to maintain some sense of humor about the whole you can't make this [ bleep ] up. >> i was 13 and i was [ bleep ] a 28-year-old. >> oh. >> i've never [ bleep ] anybody in my life this is my first time. >> life in general in the last nine months has been very difficult. but just like my dad always says, just keep [ bleep ]. >> oh! pull! pull! pull! >> probably one of the hottest bodies in the house. here's the deal. if you hook up with her, you probably have to worry about her chopping your [ bleep ] much in the middle of the night. >> probably, i have a tendency to [ bleep ] her face every now and then. >> it's the age-old question. is love blind? these people are about to find out by [ bleep ] in the dark. >>

spokesman for the union told cbs 5, take a look at the finances from the top house not at the housekeeperseady overworked trying to keep the hospital clean. >> we all feel for the people that are being laid off. some nurses are supporting husbands who have been laid off. >> reporter: so while patients will keep getting free on- demand movies on their 42" flat screen tvs, staff members will be getting pink slips. in mountain view, thuy vu, cbs 5. >>> coming up after the break, a best friend for anyone who can't keep track of their cell phone. now who you are. -- you know who you are. to find drugs, bombs, and even bodies. now, as checkey ford shows u >>> they use them to find drugs, bombings, even bodies. now as checkey beckford shows us, they are trying to find smuggled phones into california prisons. >> reporter: for this dog, finding her chew toy seems like a game. >> find it, yes! >> reporter: these dogs sniff and sniff. >> find it find it. >> reporter: until she finds her target. >> oh, you got it! good girl! you got it. >> reporter: but for sybil and her buddy mongo, this is day two o

. >> good housekeeping researchers found catchup, mustard and grass stains top the list of hard to cleantains. >> when you get grass stain it's most likely ground into the fabric and it's protein. you want a laundry detergent that contain enzymes. >> those are good because it gets deep down. >> for condo meant stains, you don't want to rub them into the fabric. at the barbecue scrape off as much excess as you can. dip a paper towel or a cloth if you have one in cool water and dab the stain. >> as soon as you get home, put a little glycerine on any mustard stains. for catchup stains flush it from the back of the fabric with cold wart. then use a soft toothbrush and use your hottest temperature setting and a bleach that's safe for your fabric. >> 6:20. coming up a new health battle for a very popular hollywood actor. and the fake on face back. why security experts are warning you >>> in today's tech bytes, a new scam is making the rounds on facebook.com. this one tries to trick members in downloading a dislike button. it's being spread in status updates with messages like get the official

. >>> editor and chief of "good housekeeping" magazine, rosemary ellis is here about it. >> we want to september issue -- ragweed season begins in augment and that's the worst. we did a lot of testing in the "good housekeeping" research institute to look at products specifically designed to help allergy and asthma sufferers. so you can get this stuff out of your house. >> it's going to always be in your house to some degree. the three biggies are mold, dust mites and pet hair. that's what triggers a lot of asthma and allergies. it's never going to totally go away. but the best tool to fight it to begin with is a hepa vacuum. we tested 38 of these vacuums. this where a test where a very high-end vacuum did the best, it's a mele, $899. so if you have a whole family of allergy sufferers, you may want to invest. but this eureka, $160, it did almost as well. what these hepa vacuums do, unlike regular vacuums, they hold the allergens that you can't be being released out of the back vent, they keep them in the vacuum. >> did you test the rainbow? >> we tested 38. we tested -- >> i'll talk to

week than men do, but men are realizing if their wife comes home and plays the role of mom and housekeeperwork for all couples? >> the idea of pitching in should work. the danger is you can't -- a guy can't assume i'm going to go watch some additions and now i'm expecting some nookie. . it doesn't work that way. we're talking about taking the concept of foreplay out of bedroom and really beginning outside of the bedroom with the activities that help create a foundation for inside the bedroom. i've met plenty of guys who have written to me who say i do everything around the house, i do all the dishes i take care of the kids and it still doesn't lead it sex. so i don't think it's -- >> who are those guys? it's not a magic but let, but it's true when i come home at night and the house clean and everything looks great, i'm like, oh i can sit down have a glass of red wine and i look at my husband and it really does enable a woman to relax and say, okay now i'm in the mood to be sexy. but if i come home and the house is a mess then -- >> so what i'm hearing is it's basically freeg up time. is th

i had some housekeeping items that needed to be taken care of. i needed the starboard crane that had been changed out during routine maintenance, and i had gone up to reset the limits as part of my job scope. the electrical limits for the boom after they changed up the cable. we stayed for approximately an hour. i took the chief mechanic with me, who was new to his position to familiarize him with the operation and give him an idea of what i do verses what his responsibilities on that same job would be. we went up to visitith the crane operator. we went through the limits. we stayed for approximately an hour and conducted some tests and made sure that the boom could all the way down and all the way back up. we tested the limits. i proceeded back to my shopo take care of the rms requirement for that job. i eded to go put notes in the system and what my man-hours -- and lock my man hours -- log my man-hours. >> was anything that indicated there was a problem going on? >> i was on the phone with my wife. i have a paga rack. there is one forward and