yeah, you could say i did it a lot, sure. >> larry: janice dickinson, the very honest janice dickinsonmore of texting while driving right after this. hey. just got off the phone with a sweet gal. fender-bender. i think i got her to a good place. oh, then you'll love this. online repair monitoring. after an accident, esurance customers can get daily updates with photos of their car repairs in progress. oh that's great. [ chuckles ] thank you. [ chuckles ] that's really great. thanks. i mean, really, great. chad i don't want to talk about feelings. sure you do. [ male announcer ] go to esurance.com or call today. >> larry: okay. we're talking about the dangers of texting and tweeting while driving. joining us is vance ramirez with the california highway patrol, jennifer smith, president and founding director of focusdriven. it's an advocacy group for victims of motor vehicle accidents including drivers using cell phones. her mother was killed in an accident involving a driver using a cell phone. and shelly forney is with us, founding director of focusdriven. her 9-year-old daughter died

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we're back with janice dickinson, and officer ramirez, and jennifer forney.ou think that those pledges work? >> absolutely. we also at focusdriven.org has a pledge of our own. and we have seen so many people take this pledge and say that it has changed their lives. we absolutely are -- are all over getting people to take the pledge and share it with their neighbors, with their children, with their best friends, because this is becoming an epidemic. >> larry: is there any indication, officer ramirez, that talking hands free, cell phones while driving, is safer? >> there's no indication of that. >> larry: it should be safer? >> well, one of the reasons is because you're still not paying attention, 100% of your attention should be on what you're doing, the task at hand, driving. and, you know, that can be construed as a distraction as well, you're not thinking about what you're doing, and if there's an incident in front of you, you may not react appropriately and you may be involved in a collision or something of the sort. >> larry: jennifer, does focusdriven en

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-- janice. janice, thank you. another poet laureate. thank you. wonderful. and in closing, our appreciation. we owe you a great debt of gratitude. we look for to the inaugural event with diane diprima. thank you very much, and have a great day. >> good afternoon and welcome to the department of building inspection's brown bag lunch. we depo this every third thursday here at the department of building inspection. we have an interesting topic today about preventative home maintenance. and we'll talk about what that means a little bit. i have two great guests, extremely knowledgeable folks, anthony wong who is a contractor here in the city, thanks for joining us, anthony. and dan, also a contractor and both of these gentlemen do a lot of small, medium and some, i guess you do some large size jobs as well. but also have maintenance and home prevention, damage prevention and maintenance issues built into the work they do. in fact, i know dan brought along a list of maintenance check lists that they actually use in their business to help people. so what do you use

. >> it's been a long ordeal from janice. >> i'm just tired. i'm just tired.d. >> she first notice aid problem receiving this bill in january and this is for $255 nearly three times more than the previous month. >> so when i saw that, i thought, oh, my gosh. >> she made several calls. and it seems pg&e had underbilled her prior month and added under billed amount on to the next bill. >> i said this is bill is not correct. >> she was right. and putting both there was a higher-paying tier. pg&e adjusted the bill. >> we wanted to as we've done with this customer arks poll jiz. >> this is is one of many apology autos we weren't as responsive as we should have been. it's unacceptable wex apologize. >> so we've reached out and apologized to them. >> we do want to apologize to customer autos this business professor says pg&e gets good marks for mastering art after polling. >> there is something lovable to consumers about an apology. >> however, she says apologies only go so far. and that company needs to get its act together. >> so if a company makes a mistake over a

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all blacks can make that happen on saturday against south africa both teams have been training in janice berg ahead of the big clash new zealand are coming off a thirteen game winning streak including their latest hard earned victory over st while the springboks in contrast have suffered three straight losses and cannot successfully defend their title with two teams to go sunday's match whatever will see eight hundred thousand mainly south african crowd attempt to see if the hosts can at least regain a semblance of pride. over to the hardwood where things are going to plan so far for team usa head of the twenty ten feet world championships in turkey the americans annihilating france in an exhibition game in new york with a century the u.s. is d.t.b. asserting their status of early favorites the americans missing the n.b.a.'s top stars for this one with more young talent filling in one of the mean young talents of the game kevin durant's with the flush their team usa began to find the rhythm after a slow start to runs considered to be the go to guy in the u.s. team and had fourteen points

threat russian official you believe the daughter of the took all the role last month is going to janice you going to crucial says it's high time the war on drugs was linked to the fight against corruption. you should note that in his new capacity you'll be leading the way of the international community he gains the narco terrorist threat that comes from afghanistan the russian voice has been mostly neglected by i said nato and international community so now it pointman russia has a unique opportunity to rid invigorated and to jumpstart the international efforts to build up and raise the world and where it is the one and only threat a bit really is important significant and neglected in afghanistan and that is how to combat the most when they go back to and forgotten drug threat that directly keels ten times more civilian people in afghanistan and all across the world by general petraeus has already arrived applause with his written they derated effort against the widespread corruption in afghanistan he's anti-corruption efforts will be even more appreciated if he will also incorporate t

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janice searle wallace and a bad business, as they continue to rebuild following the devastating jury earthquake. they also say not much trouble has been cleared and the product is low. a 61 and we'll do that with just a more in a few minutes. want to play about a programming change. we have a programming change this friday, the giants game 8:00 p.m. it will be followed up 10:00 p.m. wwe smackdown will move to saturday at 7:00 p.m. and dr.phil can be seen friday at 3:00 p.m. we will be right back. 64 a.m. and a look at the traffic here in livermore. it is 2 hour delay for commuters tried to get to tracy to dublin because of the accident on 580, look at all of the cars and the big red sox just caught up in this mess. but when he posted on this it is a developing story for sure. in the last five minutes we just got worse delays in the sfo going off to 15 minutes of arrival/departure delays because of the fog. they're running on time at the oakland airport. but the stock is not doing too much. boris washing share is apologizing after saying the enlarged several times live on the air. she

this morning we have the director of animal stewardship training, janice, she will tell us about thee going to spend their hard-earned dollars, do they have reason to be concerned about buying tickets to the circus? >> absolutely not. this is the 140th edition of ringling brothers barnum bailey's circus, we are commemorating p.t. bar nnum. i think people will love it. >> we have been telling both sides of the story. this morning we invited a representative of the group, centers for cruel-free entertainment. >> they are putting this flamboyant rehetoric over and over. >> let me play his statement. >> ringling uses elephants like a lot of circuses. to get an elephant to perform the circus tricks, these unnatural circus tricks, ringling uses an instrument like these, it's a weapon, caused to meant pain. the pain is meant to cause fear so the elephant will listen to the handler. >> you gave us a bit of what you think. you think it's a preposterous argument. >> the tools that he's holding up are several times larger than the guide that we use, which is a usda-accepted, time-tested tool. t

. >> and a school cook for 26 years janice adams has watched with alarms her institutes waistlines have expanded. now she wants to bring a sea change to her lunchroom. >> we have to be careful about what we are putting in our bodies and what the kids are getting in their bodies. these are the kids that are going to have to take care of us some day. and if we don't watch what we are putting into them, how can they take care of us. >> what is the difference between-- . >> reporter: shanon soloman who just lost over 100 pounds is also the mother of five children. and inspired after her week at boot camp. >> i feel very empowered. i want to bring my education to the kids. that is where my heart, where my passion is i want to bring the education, five star restaurants are great. and i love the chef learning i have right now. but impacting the living of our children an bringing that to our school district, it's the most important thing to me right now in my life . >> graduation day. each new chef left with a framed diploma and a whole new framework for school food. and now with the real prosp

were going to get an update on the phone with us from hellfire is jim crawford to give us the latest janicesll 100 a. fire? >> last report is about a hundred and 25 a.. give us a complete status update. hundred 25 a., which had air tankers, three helicopters a total of 200 personnel that are at the incident. >> jim as you might of the imagine the number of people live in contra costa counties in this huge cloud of smoke come over there committed the they're frightened what is the message you want to give them at this time? >> if there's going to be an evacuation order for actions the been notified through the system as well as the river system currently we don't have evacuation orders in place. as far as the smoke get to an area where it's clear the only road that i know. there are some there were some and are some structures in the area around the roadway of the fires now burning in to the homes. not near the communities of blackhawk. >> this point you can say you feel confident no homes and major structures are threatened? >> currently only the ones that are within the needed areas that we

janice thompson accused her former coach of sexual abusing her.hompson is now 28 years old. >> usa swimming does everything to protect its image and ignore the swimmers that become victims. >> they are involved in similar charges with another boy. >>> while an israeli general are admitting mistakes were made during a bloody controversy bound for gaza. when israeli troops staged a raid on those ships. in an investigation to whether the raid and israel's hamas conformed to law, the general testified that israel's mistake was not knowing enough about the resistance and having an adequate man power to secure that ship quickly without the violence. >>> a team of bay area doctors and nurses head to haiti today to offer help to victims still struggling in the wake of the earthquake. they're bringing with them a telepresence robot. a sophisticated version of skype. it relies on the internet and cameras to allow doctors to assist with surgeries in haiti. >> we can telestrait just like john madden does in football and can coach the surgeons on what they sho

consumer correspondent and reader's digest contributor janice lieberman with more. >> trendy is whatids are most interested in. what if your kids didn't see the labels? would they be just as happy? we decided to do a little experiment with four fashion forward teams. retailers are all vying for your dollars, and if your teens have any say in it, they want the latest and greatest fashion trends, and that's no different from these four teens. alma, olivia, nicole, and hannah. where do you like to shop? >> i like to shop at hollister. it can be pricey but it's so cute. >> i like to shop at forever 21. it's a huge department store, and they have really great dresses. >> i also like to shop at forever 21. it has a lot of stuff for cheap prices. >> i love to shop at bloomingdale's. it's fun because you can get everything there. you can get good stuff for not that much. >> all four say they love to get a good bargain, they have never shopped for clothes at discount mega stores like walmart or kmart. only one had ever checked out fashions at target. do you check out labels? >> not so much, b

>> this is janice. and this is my cousin, amanda. >> and what are you guys doing? >> a broadway actors camp, right? >> we sing. we dance. we act. and we see a broadway show. >> if i put you on tv, what do you get? >> you get a free ticket to every show we're ever in. >> they become broadway stars, i get free tickets to shows. open disclosure, i'm swinging deals. okay. let's get to the boards. one or two things we want you to know about this morning. it's washington, d.c., our live shot. they are just as soupy as we are right here. heat, humidity. thunderstorms are brewing and popping today in all of this. just keep an eye to the sky. and an eye to your local abc station. it is much nicer on the west coast. maybe we should be there. give me the really good smile again. the really big smile. try now. that's it. that's it. the big one? all right. more weather from times square in the next half hour. robin? >> they are adorable. thank you, sam. >>> you know erin andrews from our partner network, espn. and, of course, from the ballroom floor on "dancing with the stars."

janice, democrats line. the tv volume is up to high. hit the mute and go ahead.aller: i don't think we expect enough from our politicians. they come before us with all this glory about what the air going to do. once they get there, it is more important to support their party instead of the people. here in georgia does governor that is about to be bolted out, in the beginning -- this governor that is about to being voted out, in the beginning of the last election he bought a bunch of land in florida. all through his term he thought for water rights from georgia, alabama, and florida. this area is full of farmers and all of this kind of stuff, is getting tons of money from the government's in subsidies. everybody is talking about taking some less from the government but they are not revealing how much they are taking from the government. if they can get a way to reveal just how many tax breaks,, any farm subsidies, all the money that day themselves are taking from the government in sales -- which is spending too much money. host: brenda, you are going to be the las

i mean, it was anyone from heidi montag to janice dickinson, to gene simmons and shannon tweed, to adrian vince neil. >> reporter: this morning dr. frank ryan is being remembered as a nice guy who died way too early at age 50. on her twitter account, montag said she was devastated by ryan's death, calling him an angel who, quote, changed my life and the lives of everyone around him. he met. matt? >> all right, george lewis in malibu this morning. george, thanks very much. >>> still to come, the bed bug invasion. it is spreading nationwide. now, they're even showing up in movie theaters. but up next, the bag of chips that is good to the environment, but bad for your ears. [ male announcer ] over a century ago, gottlieb daimler wrote four words that were a promise to himself and to the world. a promise to invent the first automobile... and to keep reinventing it. to build the type of cars that define true "performance"... while never sacrificing their true "beauty." and to introduce innovations that help save lives and the planet. four simple words mercedes-benz lives by to this day. "the b

janice lieberman will try out a couple of them, see if they're worth the money. your weekend off, on saturday some plenty of good weather from new england all the way into the mid-atlantic states. show a risk of strong storms through the upper ohio river valley. sunday sunny skies, mild conditions in the northeast. mild in the pacific northwest. showers from the central great lakes, back into the southwest and also around the gulf coast. >>> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thanks. natalie, you're doing something special for the muscular dystrophy association, right? >> all part of their new ad campaign. it's called make a muscle and make a difference. and you can see i'm joining the ranks of a lot of other people, really talented people, who are hoping to make a difference for muscular dystrophy to raise awareness, pump awareness up on neuromuscular diseases and more importantly is this young lady here, abbey, who is joining us. she's the association's national goodwill ambassador. so nice to have you here. >> it's nice to be here. >> you're 11 years old,