some icons are religious. some are functional. like the icons on a computer screen. any way you look at it, an icon is an image or even a person that stands for something. >>> "icon" is the perfect word to help us introduce our next report. so here goes. when it comes to comic books, there's a man who's considered a living icon of the genre. nicole tells us why. >> reporter: the giant comic-con held every year in san diego is the world's largest. the convention center is packed with hundreds of exhibits and thousands of comics. among the most popular attractions is "artists alley." here you can meet people with true super powers. using just ink, pens, and brushes, they're able to bring a super hero or a super villain to life. one of the most sought after artists is this man. his name is al feldstein, and he's a legend. >> i guess i'm most known for introducing horror comics to the general public back in the '50s. >> al feldstein is one of the pioneers. he was involved in creating some of the greatest comic books ever published. >> i created "tales from the crypt," or

we -- we been this touch with icon. i know it has been on the radar for a little while. i -- i -- i spoke to commissioner meko. we do have their calendar of events. -- owner mitch, he has agreed to -- to -- this was his decision, to cancel the sunday events. because if -- it it, you know, the the crowds that are congregating in the area on that particular night and -- so i think that it was a good move on the owner's -- on the owner's part to to cancel these events. like i said, at the last commission hearing, anything we could do, if -- we're going to continue to work with icon and their security teams and -- the owners to insure that that the southern district is safe for everybody. that's our prime marry focus. whatever we could do to. it to help. help the people at the icon do this and accomplish this and this is what we strive to do. officer canyon, the closure of icon voluntarily on sunday has that improved the overall situation around in and around the neighborhood? it is yet to be seen. he just contacted me and those event that is were scheduled to sunday are now

as john donvan reports for our series "modern sex in america." >> reporter: icon. that overused word, but this one really qualifies. you know what it is and what it stands for. you know who created it, because he is as much an icon himself, as much the face of playboy enterprises as that flat rabbit he launched an incredible 57 years ago, which makes him as of this week, when we sat down together at the playboy mansion in los angeles, 84 years old, announcing his retirement -- not. why not let go? why not retire? >> because i think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. >> reporter: to the contrary. right now, hefner is on a mission to buy back all the shares of playboy enterprises still held by the public. >> the company, in this particular economic climate, is not being properly dealt with. it's worth a good deal more than what it's being traded for. >> reporter: details? he wasn't sharing. nor reacting to the fact that the company that owns "penthouse" is trying to buy "playboy" also. all he would say is -- >> the greatest success of the company wa

so we'll keep you posted throughout the morning as the new iconic bridge tower takes shape. john?hank you very much. i was also checking, there is a website called baybridgeinfo.org in that animation that we were showing, there is that animation on that website and it is pretty fascinating. >> reporter: yes. they also have other video and still pictures there, as well. so if you are interested in, you know, modern marvels such as this -- it really is, you know,. >> put up some bleachers and we could watch it. >> is bart ney still there? >> yes. >> is anybody documenting how they're building this? is there something like national geographic? >> reporter: i know they have already appeared on several national television shows. is anybody documenting this for history? >> yeah. we have a documentary team that's actually shooting all the operation and we provide video to -- well, to 60 minutes or to discovery channel, national geographic. we have work with just about every documentation team there is. >> good deal. >> reporter: a lot of engineering eyes on this you guys. >> thank you ve

this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of thesenitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of t

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churches in the country the interiors are impressive and grand it's decorated with frescoes mosaics and icons the highlight being several valuable religious masterpieces one of the most worshiped holy relics of the russian church is on display here the vladimir icon of the mother is going to. the fifteenth century frescoes by famous russian i come painter and they rubinoff also attract many admiring businesses to the religious sites. and if you think you've seen all the sights and blood in me and then to top wary as the town goes who soundly is also carlos by his peaceful lake in quaint village it's a time travelling journey to the past there's also a holiday center in the town offering you the experience of being closer to the region's nature to enjoy outer activities like hiking in the woods cycling and canoeing at the camp just don't forget to have your mosquito repellant and some cream with your. people for decades mistakenly translate to cusco stanley as crystal goose in english however new research suggests it comes from the word for the tree in old slavic language founded in seven hund

one of them is recently on this program, we had the iconic comedian carol burnett. she has a new minimum worry out as well. she said to me -- a new memoir out as well. she said she does not believe that a variety show like "the carol burnett show" back in the day could get off the ground today. she said she was so glad that she came along in that time to do what she did. she could continue to that now i ask you, to your point now, whether or not you think pam grier would be the pam grier that we though pam grier as if you had been situated in a different time if you hasn't been in that era, the blacksploitation and the afros. how much of that has to do with the era that you came up in? >> the timing was critical. the women's movement. loving the body. equal to the prowess of the male posturing and female posturing. there were quite a few films done before i had become very prominent in the film industry that have the same formula but were done by black males. pitches and hos. -- pimps and hos. it wasn't given that title or stigma or monokerr until i did it. i was a

it turned out the negatives were the work of iconic photographer ansel adams and could be worth more than $200 million. why doesn't that ever happen to us? >>> and now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc's meteorologist bill karins with your weather channel forecast. good morning, bill. >> with our luck, we would have been the ones selling them for $50. >> we can't get ahold of that guy. i think he's out looking for whoever bought those negatives, tracking them down. >> imagine that. maybe they won't find out. maybe they will never know. they will be better off. let's talk about the weather. it's been hot summer. there's no doubt about it. only areas of exception is the pacific northwest, yesterday cool in seattle at 78, san francisco 71. right along the coast, very cool. the weather pattern is changing in the days ahead. the eastern half will cool off a little bit while the heat will continue to build in the four-corners region, the rockies and interior valleys. yesterday was only 81 even in sacramento but 104 in vegas. salt lake city was hot along with bois

the rings featured various push icons books my fourteenth century on was the thing you have a problem reading more in piece because of its size take a look at this amazing handbook imagine this bedtime reading. on a trip to circuit percent there are other places of interest you should visit to. get me a small straight is visited by thousands of pilgrims empty. always tourists it started with a simple underground sound which is done here by month from moscow in the middle of the eight hundred forty s. now it's a whole underground church its main relics include an icon of our lady this is believed to have magical powers and also a spring with a bath house which many people this is hoping to have their diseases cured. the museum of toys is also a popular attraction to the open in moscow in one nine hundred eighty seven one hundred thirty one museum has a number become an exhibition that is home to more than thirty thousand toys around the world the rising as belonging to the children of the last person so it was the second including expensive french and german dolls a railway set. drives

elements of the poppies and the laurels intersecting and overlapping with these subtle patterns and icons. one thing -- i hope that you can see it in the printouts perhaps better is that i'm really playing with the shifting of color. so as people are walking across the space, there's really a sense of movement, and it's not a stagnant floor, but something that feels alive. much as a garden would. i think it's going to reflect in the city park above as like i mentioned before, the light coming through the space and activating the design as well. any questions? >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i'd also like to add that the staff and the architects were so taken with the design that they've asked julie to, as marie ya says, sprinkle her design throughout the building, so there will be elements of the design continued, whether through corridors or passenger waiting lobbies, perhaps a band of humming birds will show up in the restrooms. we will work -- that will be developed during design development. weir not at that stage yet, but there will be some sense of the grand concourse throu

also an icon of the in deal -- the new deal 75 years ago. new deal in difficult economic times. it was a legacy of art work and creativity and jobs across this country and this is the first example of the public works of art project and that was the first organization under the new deal and so we should celebrate that as we stand on the precipice of change on november 4. thank you and happy 75th. >> ok. as the mayor alluded to, he was referring to. flyshacker at the time in the 1930's who was involved in the decision making process for coit tower. today the president of the recreation and park commission is mr. larry martin. please welcome him. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. i'm honored, i'm so honored to be here with all uven today for such a special moment. to be here with all the great leaders and to be here with all the great workers that did all of this. this is a great, great historical situation and i'm happy and honored to see this and we're honored to be here with something that looks so fantastic. i am just happy to also, you

and then an iconic alice had that sparked it. best time from the global hiv vaccine enterprise and you down a doctor who questions definitional age. and nobody could give me the paper. he is isolated in the way scientists. are asking for it since the seventy years since the seventy's the other thing is that there exist doesn't exist any paper. shows if a chevy is existing how it is doing a it's in the spatial situation use their data is a fairly different thing is in the western countries so called western countries and the so-called developing cost in countries in africa. south america and so on so it is it doesn't fit in the norm of virus diseases because viruses only can make a very few things they are not so intelligent to do so many things it doesn't fit in a viral cause ok let's. what's your reaction to the. well a couple of points the first point to raise the has never been isolated well that's simply not true the virus has been isolated it's been molecularly cloned using d.n.a. cloning technologies it's been sequenced lit

it's the beginning of an icon being formed. >> reporter: and these are some shots we took from chopper 5 last night partially for historical purposes because this area of the bay will never look the same. the new span has been in the works since 1997. the old bridge was damaged in the loma prieta earthquake. the project should be finished by 2013. and it could be open to traffic in late 2013 or 2014. i'm going to be joined live by the spokesman for the bay bridge coming up in the next half hour. so if you have any questions that you would like plea to ask him, you can go ahead and email those to mornings@cbs5.com. >> that's a good idea. we were just -- sydnie and i were commenting, anne, that you need to -- they have been working on this for 20-some years, you know? >> we were around but anne wasn't. [ laughter ] >> so -- >> reporter: well, the actual plan started forming in 1997 and hopefully it's going to be fished by 2013 but a lot has changed about the plan in the years from the actual design to the price tag which has raised significantly. now it's $6.3 billion. >> they were even

he's a total icon. tales of the city. his book that was made do a city. he's here on his book tour. thank you very much. well, i would not have missed this evening for anything. you and i both know these things can be boring. not tonight. i like to read, since i'm back home from a tour. i would like to read the chapter that my editor wanted me to remove. i have to set it up for you. michael toliver is 55 years old. they have gone to florida because his mother has died. and they have been out to the rest home, to the bear bar in orlando. they meet a black bear, that is a husky african-american guy and the guy basically propositions them. proposes a three way. they decided he seems like a great guy. they tell him about their b and b. the innamong the flowers. it doesn't mean anything because it was camouflage night at the full moon saloon. we felt compelled to tidy up. and reaging toilet. you force him to shower. we stashed it in the closet. he grabbed a razor and headed for the stall. you better be faithful about it. it's down right inhospitable. he was dressed in a while, v-neck tee

and the san francisco icon and door man of the francis drake hotel fore the last 800 years. it's only been really 32. pillar from the newspaper, david from uncle vito's pizza, maggie baxter from abc channel 7. i must turn the page. deputy chief antonio para, san francisco police department, lynn bruney, director of consumer marketting for the san francisco convention and visitors bureau and wes tyler, general manager, chancellor hotel on union square and president of the union square association. let's hear it for all those judges, ladies and gentlemen. now, these judges have a very, very difficult job. they have to rate the competitors. each bell ringer will be judged on rhythm, originality, and style. today we're going to find out who has the it factor and before the amateur competition stuff starts, i'd like to bring up a former bell-ringing champion, mr. carl payne, ladies and gentlemen. not one, not two, not three, 10-time bell-ringing champion. the only bell-ringing champion who is even close to this would be mr. byron cobb, who has five wins. and buddy, my second husb

they said that there will be a lot of dignitaries out there as a commemorate construction on the iconic it will be in new landmark for california. >> not a terrible day for a cooler temperatures but at least we will get signed earlier like we did yesterday. this is oakland the camera is bouncing a bet we could be seen when out there. >> the sea breeze is help pushing the fog. here's our shot at the san mateo low cloud cover although it looks like we will lift a bit quicker than we did yesterday. sam taylor 57 by noon 67, your high today 72. here's a lookit current temperatures elsewhere 55 san francisco getting up to 60 in mountain view and down in to los gatos 56. by 9:00 hour '50s and '60s the minute all the yellow shows '70s so we will see a mixture of '60s and '70s by then warming it up more than that. you will see where the where temperatures are through the central valley been further inland the warmer it will be. we could get a warm up to date in places like livermore and antioch. for the most part wishes to temperatures staying in the '60s and '70s 72 is an russophiles down in t

although patel revered the comic book heroes of american popular culture, his relationship with the icons of his parents' hindu faith was more complicated. >> indian culture in my life -- i don't know -- growing up, i hated it. i hated it, i hated it. my parents were raising me in a sort of bubble of their own culture inside southern california. i wasn't exposed to the stories of the hindu mythology or hindu faith at all. what i was exposed to was the iconography and imagery. >> reporter: but it's his perspective as an outsider that allows patel to reclaim the i n iconography of his parents' culture and reimagine it for a contemporary audience. patel is in the midst of creating a new book based on the story of the hindu deity ganesha. in patel's version of the tale, he plays off of the elephant god ganesha's famous love of sweets. >> this is a kind of a fun little moment, actually. this is after ganesha actually tries biting down on the jumbo jawbreaker ladu, and sure enough, he breaks his tusk. and i'm trying to figure out what would be most fun way to like figure out how ganesh might re

and it is such a san francisco icon and very few have been inside it. >> unlike a conventional theatre which is where most of your dancers and perform eers apply their craft, here you had to prepare them to use this unusual spa space. what special training or effort did that require? >> we spent a lot of time on softening the joints because the surfaces are very hard and we had built some dance floors in certain rooms where there is very athletic dancing that will happen because we couldn't do it on the marble or cement floors. but there are still many surfaces that are the way the architecture is and they are very hard. so it is really about learning to move through the joints in a very soft way and know that you have got an hour and a half of being on that surface and kind of pacing yourself. >> as the audience moves from one part of the space to another and sees the different performances, there are kind of mini stories that are told. >> yes. >> what role did you have in shaping those stories? >> i had a pretty big role in that. i sat in these rooms and i imagined lives that had bee

it would be huge, iconic, and it was adopted last week in one of the subcommittees. that fire wall that was discussed will cost $1.1 million. the building is going to be costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million. under the building where beat -- will be a very powerful wind generation power station between the lighting and the generator. there will probably be additional installations in the lobby that will be waters statements by the same international artist. they will be fairly expensive with art throughout the building as that is the requirement. >> we have no say? >> what i found last week at the art commission was that all of the motions say with consent and approval of whatever we are calling ourselves, the performing department. they have approve this piece of artwork. they tried to work with us on the artwork. but the final say in terms of some of it is with the commission. after joe was here we started working on the policy. we are trying to corral the money we are spending to report to you on a more regular basis. updates? >> good afternoon, com

she left us her portrait, her iconic portrait. she wrote her will in' 46, she died the next year. the first painting by picasso, we acquired prints in the 1920s. there had been works shown here in 1921 but the curator wasn't interested in picasso's work and we became notoriously resistant in the 20s to avant-garde modernism. but because of that resistance ... >> rose: why was there resistance? >> actually, it can be traced to one curator, bryson boroughs, himself a painter from cincinnati, ohio, had been hired by roger frye to be his assistance. frye couldn't stand it here, he locked horns with j. pierpont morgan which was not the right thing to do and morgan was morgan and at the height of his career he was the most important trustee here and frye dared to contradict him. so frye was out, borough -z was left. he studyied in france. he revered... what he liked about picasso was his sweet neo-class schism but he despised his cubism and people like alfred stieglitz or lily bliss or john quinn, these great titans of modernest collecting here in america were very frustrated by borough