karina torres nos habla de los prÓximos dÍas. >> dÍa nueve, siete mÁquinas trabajan, los expertos han y esperanza entre los familiares de los 23 mineros atrapados. >> ellos estÁn allÍ, esperando con ansias... >> el tiempo se convierte en enemigo, el supuesto contacto para este fin de semana se trasladÓ para el lunes. la paciencia sigue siendo fundamental al igual que las alternativas. >> la idea es llegar al nivel 268 donde se generÓ el bloqueo >> estas maquinarias llegan esta madrugada. >> el presidente piÑera visitÓ la mira para reunirse con las familias. >> tenemos razones fundadas para estimar que en el lugar donde se presume estÁn los 33 compatriotas existe ventilaciÓn y agua, y por lo tanto, con esos dos elementos bÁsicos existe la posibilidad de resistir y sobrevivir que nos permite tener el tiempo necesario para el rescate. >> el tiempo pasa, mientras en los familiares se mantiene la esperanza, de que todo concluya de forma positiva. >> se pide que se investiga una lista de indocumentados en hiuta. >> tenemos >> el presidente oh mamÁ dijo que - obama dijo que los musulmanes ti

karina torres tiene lo mÁs reciente. >> la mÁquina más avanzada llega 535 m.444 m trabajarÁ por ahora. no se pretende parar. >> las mÁquinas están sujetas a fallas que pueden detenerse. tienen que cambiar cabezales que toma varias horas. >> los equipos fueron trasladados hasta copiapÓ. >> una vez terminada esta tarea se pretende reforzar la perforaciÓn. >> la autoridad pidiÓ prudencia por las familias. >> no hay ninguna informaciÓn que se estÉ ocultandom sea bueno o malo. >> mientras continÚan los trabajos para lograr el objetivo de alcanzar el nivel 268, lugar donde el sÁbado pasado se produjo un segundo derrumbe. >> en pleno mediodÍa un ladrÓn en colombia protagonizÓ una persecuciÓn. le disparó a un profesor para robarle $ 1000. rodeado, intercambiÓ disparos con las autoridades y fue capturado y llevado a un hospital. >> la luna de miel de santos y chÁvez podrÍa durar tanto como se necesiten. >> cinco dÍas despuÉs de la reuniÓn sigan repercusiones positivas. la canciller contÓ que clinton la felicitÓ por el logro. >> vamos a tener una reuniÓn bilateral. >> s

in san jose, karina rusk, abc 7 news. >> as you probably know, parts of san francisco's market street sketchy. in fact, as far back as the 1960s, city officials and others have worried about how to transform the boulevard. now pits mayor newsom's turn. >> san francisco's market street is a tale of two corridors from the embarcadero to the cable car turn-around, there are shops and crowds of tourists. but tourists are warned about continuing down market past 5th street. >> interesting. a little bit sad to see so many shops closed. >> that could be even dangerous but the mayor has a revitalzation plan. >> i drive by her every day. i see exactly what san franciscans see where they roll their eyes. i get it. but understand it's a new moment in time. >> this ribbon cutting symbolizes the new plan. art materials will serve as an anchor for what's hoped to be a thriving arts and entertainment district. >> if you look at art areas around the country, they're always developing areas. that's what artists are all about. >> a grant from the national endowment for the arts has been warded and mill

karina rusk look at how they grow and how they're changing lives. >> reporter: andy knows in business what is beautiful is not always profitable. in 1997, he cut flowers from -- cheap cut flowers from south america flooded the market. he need to do sowew seeds. his solution? potted orchids. >> i saw this is the one. >> reporter: he wanted this once excluse bloom to be affordable for all. he hired a doctor to help create what is now the largest orchid nursery in the united states. the science of mass orch production literally begins in a bottle. >> we have auger water, mineral and we have table sugar in there. you ha to get the concentration right, otherwise the orchids will either not grow or grow slowly, which makes them more expensive. >> reporter: it can take twoo three years to move the plants from sprouts to store shelfs. at any one ti, the nursery has 10 million potted orids in production. the nursery stands 75-aes. the orchids are shipped from washington state to washington, d.c sharon ching is a frequent buyer and sells them at pin nursery in san francisco's flower market. the

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and karina. >> evening. i'm dr. jason and i'm a small business operator here. i don't operate a bar or restaurant. i operate an addiction treatment program, i encourage you to support this measure. there's harm done by alcohol. we treat most lilo income and indigent folks, folks who have been strung out on opiate for the many years. they come into treatment with us. we're able to turn their lives around for the most part, they start using opiates. the grain irony of course is whether these folks end up dying of live related disease or liver cancer, because -- they have been drinking and are unable to stock drinking. i know it is scary for small businesses. i'm a small business owner to think about new fees like this. but i hope there's room among the body to consider the perspective of nonbar, nonrestaurant small businesss. i think it is important that we think about -- recognize the science, the moyer ren institute of science, it is good and powerful. it is -- it is, rare that -- that we get a chance to consider a proposal like this, where the fee is so closel

and the anniversary of karina in just three days. this week, we've been finding some of the people from those iconic photos five years ago. and tonight, bob woodruff, who was there when the water overtook the city, went in search of the people who were racing into their attics, gasping for a pocket of air, and a man who helped. >> reporter: the floodwaters trapped people in their homes. >> we got up to the roof, all the way to the roof, and water came and just opened up. >> reporter: they raced to attics and roof tops to escape, pleading for help. >> my house broke in half. my mother house just disintegrated. >> stayed in this closet, hopefully saved him from dying. >> reporter: rescuers saved some of the desperate, but not all. hello? >> reporter: we found harry pryor and his neighbor, michael knight, paddling house to house, searching for their marooned neighbors. >> see where them holes are at in the rooftops? >> reporter: you cut them out of the roofs? >> we cut them out of there. some was jammed in there. >> reporter: knight was

are good karina hard working people who make sacrifices to work in the v.a. you take pay cuts to work in the v.a. but they are part of an underfunded. controlling oppressive bureaucracy that just like any other government bureaucracy treats veterans like treats people like they own them rather than serve now i have to tell me this because today vice president joe biden spoke at the annual convention of the veterans of foreign wars do you think that i mean he's a politician he should know that or do you think that it's right for him to stand there and talk about the success that they want to cause a success in iraq and yet ignore not even bring up you know the some of the hard the hardships that are ins are facing. well i think it was touched on but that wasn't the point of the speech i remember it was traditional for the president the united states to give this speech to daniel v.f.w. convention this year they got vice president joe biden i think one of the reasons obama didn't go this year is because last year he made the promise i will only send you into ha

abc 7's karina rusk reports from san jose. >>> qwan wynne is trying to sell hills custom built home inan jose. after just two weeks, he lowered his asking price to $899,000 to lure a buyer. >> if you put for sale, the house for sale, you want to sell it. but kind of frustrating. >> qwan is not alone. the home sale numbers from dataquick are brutal. in july 6,773 homes sold in the nine county bay area region. that's dramatic 19% drop from the month before. >> real estate agents say some of the pullback can be blamed on the federal tax credit expiring but many say the bigger issue, a lack of money and confidence. >> it's the economy, the job market. hard to feel hopeful when you're not sure you're gonna have a paycheck. >> not even record low mortgage rates hovers near 4% entice buyers. the ceo of the loan source says that may in fact have temporarily stalled activity. >> i think you've just had a drop in rates. when rates drop, people tend to sit on the fence until they think they've stopped dropping. >> what is fairly stable are home prices. the median bay area home sold for $402,000.