my name is lawrence b. carp and i'm a geotechnical engineer. i have been involved with construction in san francisco since the 1950's. i was asked to look at this site from a feasibility standpoint as to whether this extraction could take place without damage to the adjacent buildings. based on the published and private consultants' geotechnic information, this site is mostly sand down to 40-45'. to bedrock. and it has a high water table, so the sand is saturated and loose and the current plan is building a box 40-60 or 50 or 70 piles that are drilled in place and they are intersecting and called secant piles. these are to be filled with concrete and steel beams every other one at least. and this is supposed to make it so water is only comes from inside the excavation. if water gets into the inside of the excavation -- so if that occurs, then it will be dewatering under the buildings, most of them over 100 years old. and they have brick -- they all have brick foundations, so the buildings will be damaged. there is no two ways about it. it's a c

. >> i don't want to out your boyfriend but his name starts with b and ends in rad. >> hit lawrence. >> he doesn't believe in flowers. >>> maybe the biggest thing since gangnam style. >> a bay area college student is making a name for himself with a new viral dance craze. it's all thanks to his 80-year- old grandmother's dance moves. take a look. ♪ [ music ]♪ >> it's the harlem shake. hank shot the video with his grandmothers a few days ago. now the video has more than 1 million hits on youtube. >> a little shock, unbelievable. i put it up on facebook for a few friends. and all of a sudden it's going viral. >> he says his grandmothers love the dance because it's totally freeform and that means there are no steps to learn so that might be good for you, frank. >> why is that, michelle? >> because you need some dancing lessons. [ laughter ] >> see? >> you know what? you're going to have it buy me flowers after you did this. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday february 14th, 2013.

flavor and it's made with 5% juice, vitamins b, c and caffeine totaling 92 milligrams of caffeine per can. it hits store shelves later this month. lawrence is doing this right now. >> i know. lawrence, i think he likes it. i don't know, coffee is fine for me. right? >> mountain dew, man, it's tough just in the afternoon. >> it is. >>> does finding your soulmate end with hearts in sync? according to some uc-davis researchers there is scientific proof that's the case. they studied 32 couples looking at heartbeats and other biofeedback and they found similarities in the heart and breathing rythyms of the couples. >> you don't have to be engaged in a conversation to have these links show up. you can just be looking at them and kind of like be around them. >> very sweet everybody isn't it? the scientists are going to continue their research and see if the couple's similar patterns can have any health benefits. so we'll see. >> find your mate. >>> 4:51. coming up how this baby grand wound up on the edge of a bay area cliff. >> and cover girl once again? how kate upton could help save the magazine industry. [ man ] it's big. quickly reconnects

b cbs 5. >>> again, we're live here in new orleans on a warm morning. it's a little cloudy out there. don't know how the bay area is looking lawrence, but you know, the weather out here is e reminding me of the bay area a little bit with the chilly breeze. >> it's been terrible out here. it's been raining cats and dogs, snow everywhere, what a mess, you are missing out being back there for the super bowl. around the area today, we are looking food again, high pressure dominating our weather. a little hazy outside, and patchy fog in the valleys, the temperatures right now in the 30s and also the 40s. and it looks like we are in for another afternoon, numbers running well above average. don't tell michelle. 50s and 60s normal highs. we're going to be well above that. 67 degrees the expected high in santa rosa and 66 degrees in san jose. that's the late fest here. back to you. >>> -- latest from here. back to you. >>> okay. let's go to michelle now. i thought we might sneak in traffic, but michelle with a couple days away, you've seen a lot of fans walk around and a couple football players because you have a hall of famer and a mighty

b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com and leave a comment there. we'll bring you results later on in the show. joining me tonight, colonel lawrence wilkerson, former staff -- chief of staff of the state department during colin powell's term and is currently a distinguished visiting professor of government and public policy at the college of william & mary. colonel, good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be here, ed. >> you bet. did chuck hagel deserve the treatment that he got from these senators today? was it out of line in any way? >> it's a pretty rough world, and i'm sure senator hagel, whom i've known for almost two decades, realized that, and knew because of his previous moderate positions within his party, moderate positions becoming as scarce as almost anything in the republican party, he was going to be taken to task. i want to say that the most encouraging remarks i heard from him were in his opening remarks. i didn't think that as a 31-year enlisted officer veteran of the united states army i'd ever hear a secretary of defense candidate say the kinds of things that he did. the eloquent things that he did in his o