>> i love hawaii and lanai is interesting project.ere what we will do is turn lanai in to a model for sustainable enterprise. we are going to convert sea water in to fresh water, and then have drip irrigation where we with will have organic farms all over the island. hopefully export produce, really the best organic produce to japan and elsewhere and the hawaiian islands. we will support the local people and help them to start these businesses. we will help electric cars. it will be a little, if you will, laboratory for sustainability. >> what happens now? . hundred billion plus. you have an enormous amount of personal wealth. do you pinch yourself? when you look back at your modest beginning it is extraordinary. >> it is extraordinary. steve and i used to talk about this a lot. both of us agreed, you know, every once in a while you stop and think of it, but 99.9% of the time you get on with the miracle of life, just being alive every day and going out and doing your job and enjoying being alive. >> my thanks to larry ellison. up next

ellison bought a lot of lanai in june from billionaire david murdoch. idea of more electric cars to get rid of regular cars. i think a lot of people don't want cars there, period. >> very true. >> next, how amtrak hopes to get you onboard by slashing fares. >> race against the clock to complete new western span of the bay bridge. >>> plus, important warning about supplements for weight loss and health. why the feds want to get the it's time to change the way we clean. it's time to free ourselves from the smell and harshness of bleach. and free ourselves from worrying about the ones we love. new lysol power & free has more cleaning power than bleach. how? the secret is the hydrogen peroxide formula. it attacks tough stains and kills 99.9% of germs. new lysol power & free. powerful cleaning that's family friendly. another step forward in our mission for health. >>> welcome back. happy hump day. still hot east bay valleys, low to mid 90s. 70s around the bay, 60s to 70s coast. the key to the forecast at the coast, going to be warm this morning, cooler durin

he wants to experiment with more environmentally sound weighs to -- sound ways to live on lanai.more electric cars. he bought most of the lanai in june from billionaire david murdoch. >>> as we get ready to hand things off to "good morning america," here are five things to know before you go. number one, fire destroyed duplex in berkeley this morning leaving five homeless shortly after midnight near ashby avenue itch police officers wept into the burning building and rescued a woman in a keel chair. >> number two, winner take division for the a's today as they play the rangers for the american league west title. a's tied up the race last night by beating rangers 3-1. >> number three, alum rock park in san jose closed for second straight day because of extreme fire danger. the park often closes during hot weather spells most recently in june. >> number four, stage is being set in denver, colorado for the first presidential debate tonight, 50 million are expected to tune in when president obama and mitt romney face off to discuss domestic issues. >>> number five, retired us airways

he bought 98% of lanai in june. is where he revealed those plans. >>> next, pilots for american airlines go back to the bargaining table. bloomberg business report is next. >>> race to complete new western span of the bay bridge. >>> important warning this morning about supplements for weight loss and health. why the feds want to get the skin if i any >>> welcome back. if you are staying at home, clouds increase along the coast this afternoon, highs this morning dropping into the 60s during the afternoon. 70s, 80s around the bay, 80s, 90s inland, 90s taking over east bay valleys. bone dry, high pressure dominating most areas starting to cool about everywhere mid to upper 90s central valley. no more record highs tahoe, 76 there. 79 san diego, palm springs 105. >>> 5:49. if you are counting down the days to completion of the new bay bridge, 334 to go now until the first cars are allowed to use it. the new bay bridge continues to take shape with the opening set for labor day weekend next year the tricky oakland touchdo

thank you, supervisor chiu, we have been following -- mary long, lanai backet. we have been talking to amy chen about this legislation and we're happy with the legislation except we feel there is a little bit of a hole that doesn't solve the problem that we have experienced, which is that we live in an apartment building that was mixed income, mixed ages, mixed household type and everything. an old building on nob hill. and they managed to empty half of the apartments to start a new business, which was this suites business, the first brand as city suites and late on when the building went into receivership, the receiver started another business, an urban suites collection, which mr. hammond from the golden gateway was talking about the hotelization and that is what has gone on with half the units in the building. we have half regular tenants and half corporate suites. those apartments -- as along as this business model is profitable for these owners, those apartments will never be available to regular middle-class renters to live in the neighborhood that we real

larry ellison will turn the island of lanai into a laboratory of green living.will convert ocean water into fresh water. he will use more electric cars on the island and will also increase the exports of fruit. he bought 98% of lanai including its two resorts. >>> occupy protesters will be outside of chevron's refinery in richmond. protesters want safety improvements after that big fire in august. and they want reduced emissions. they plan to march there this afternoon at 3:00. >>> the russian mission control center plans to move the station into a different orbit. the station is moved any time there is a -- there is greater than a 1 in 100,000 chance of space debris nearby and being hit. >>> the man accused of snatching a 9-year-old girl from that restroom of the school in san mateo last month is facing some new charges. investigators have tied the 25- year-old to an incident that happened in march. police say he photographed a group of 9 why girls from beneath a school restroom stall in daly city. he's being held now on felony kidnapping and child molestation

if i told you, for example, my lanai had a 200-pound rock, would that be a big deal? not a big deal. a lot of people got 200-pound rock out in the rock garden, yeah. let's suppose a 200-pound rock, gang, is that big. ooh, that is a big deal. you don't be seeing rocks like that, okay? that is a very, very compactly, composed rock of high density. okay? a lot of weight and a little volume. so density is the ratio of those two, okay? it turns out like the density of water is one gram for every one cubic centimeter. cubic centimeter, about the size of the tip of your thumb, one gram per cc. sometimes people call cubic centimeter cc, especially medical types, cc, okay? or one kilogram per liter. thousand kilogram per liter. you know, liter's like a milk carton. okay? okay, one kilogram per liter or one gram per cc, that's the density of water. how about the density of a whole lot of water? one. i could ask you guys a question like this: which has the greater density, a teaspoonful of water or a lake full of water? and you guys would say... same, same. you say same. some wi

larry ellison says he wants to turn lanai into, quote, a little laboratory.says he's going to convert seawater into fresh water on organic farms that he hopes will be exporting organic produce to japan. side note, also telling cnbc he would love to own the l.a. lakers one day. the lakers happen to be his favorite basketball team. >> scott ellison could afford the lakers. >> he's a very rich man. ellison in addition took out a $4 billion -- that's billion dollar -- credit, line of credit recently from the bank using stock. which means he could anytime he wanted to write a check for $4 billion. i'm sure that would be plenty to buy the lakers. meanwhile, other news. a woman suing venture capital firm kleiner perkins for sexual harassment says this morning she's been fired. the firm says she wasn't. she says she was terminated, told to clean out her office on monday. she's in the middle of that lawsuit against the firm. in a statement this moring, kleiner perkinses says the woman's still an employee but is being, quote, transitioned from the company. you can say

. >> i want to know who ounce the 2% of lanai he doesn't own. would you like to be that person?'m 2 percenter. >> he ounce 98% of the island and just acquired a new home in malibu. here is guy who living -- is living large but let's not forget who this person s he came from very -- >> came from nothing. nothing. >> built this company from the ground up. so good for him he can spend his money the way he wants to. >> very inspirational person. thank you very much for that, maria, looking forward to hearing all the details. the meantime, yahoo!'s new ceo is channeling her web dna to name her new baby and also going back to the future with the datsun starting at $3,000. but you will not believe the catch here, it doesn't have a flux capacitor. doc! you made it! welcome to the experiment >> doc. >> mart tichy. you made it. cl which can withstand over three and a half tons. small in size. big on safety. which can withstand over three and a half tons. boproductivity up, costs down, thtime to market reduced... those are good things. upstairs, they will see fantasy. not fantasy... logist

it turns out, if i jump off the lanai like this, i'll step off like this. i'll step off like that. i'll hit at the same time in all places. over here, i'll be going faster, because i have a bigger speed like this. and that arrow is gonna be bigger than this and this. i'd be faster, but i've gone a further distance. - right. - okay. and later on we'll talk about a neat, neat concept that'll tell you that down here, the--wait a minute, i will not be going faster. erase the tape. lionel, that's wrong. it turns i'll have the same speed here, here and here. no, i won't either. no, i won't either. now, lionel, the tape's okay. leave it going. sorry. [laughter] i get a little mixed up. do you guys get mixed up with this stuff? i mean, all the time, i get mixed up with elementary physics. so if you guys get mixed up, don't feel bad. i'm with you, all right? with this clip, i'm gonna fasten the point to here. now, i'm gonna crank this again, okay? if you see a lightning bolt from here to here, if you see that, scouts honor, "a" in the course. if you don't see that, then you got to do your e

really a nice autumn day with 76 morgan hill, and 71 in saw lanai's, and the accuweather seven-day forecastwer 70s around the bay to the mid-70 he is and then tomorrow much of a six degree increase in our inland increase. mid-80s until monday and midweek we are talking near 90. of course, we have the 49ers game and that brings us to our contest. $49,000. not too late to win it from abc7. and these people are taking the chance. marie rose of belmont, dana b of san jose and tom h of san francisco have all entered through our facebook page, and the winner will be announced right after the 49ers game here on abc7 october 18th. you still can enter too. go to facebook.com/abc7 news and click on the $49,000 button that will take you to the online form where you can enter your details. it is just around the corner. >> and the contest is free and it's easy. and the odds are much better than winning the lottery. there's no excuse not to sign up. >> right, right. >> thanks, lisa. well, speaking of sports, this afternoon 17th-ranked stanford travels to south bend indiana. and cal state plays at washing

and oracle ceo larry ellison recently laid out half a billion dollars to buy the hawaiian island of lanai with $40 billion left to burn. the country's third richest man has its eye on sports and entertainment giant a e.g. owner of the l 8 kings, partial owner of the lakers and the barkley center in new york city among other properties. the option only just started and the chief is said to be looking for $10 million to begin and the allure is the possibility of bringing an nfl franchise back to los angeles. [talking over each other] >> let's go back to nicole. stocks every 15 minutes. took me since the last report. what is apple doing today? >> we saw apple come under pressure but we're watching it closely. watch out amazon, watch out google. we are hearing more about the apple ipad mini canada and now we are learning october 23rd made a be the day we may learn more about the apple i can add many. we heard from analysts and experts in asia and seen millions of displays under production that are smaller than the ipad and it feels mysterious and we know these tablets are increasingly popular

i do think there was a recognition that with race to the top and it seems getting past in favor of lanaihat time was needed. but for the second half there was tremendous effort. congress was not able. there were significant division and conference. there were heroic efforts to try to get those done. there were some republicans were trying to work together on it and i think finally after the significant effort to get past had not succeeded, arne duncan said we need to give states relief from some aspects of no child left behind, and they do think what i heard last that from the culture, not only review but the reversal of the wafers to go back to no child left behind, is really a move backwards in time when many to move forward. >> so, given that most polls even suggest shape of congress will look a lot like f. election like it does today, is there any reason to expect that an obama administration would be able to move reauthorization in the next four years? >> so, i think that there are people in this city who know better than i do what the intra- congressional politics will look like. i