experience maui, molokai and lanai explore maui, molokai and lanai at visitmaui.com at the 2012 xterra usa championship, just outside of ogden, utah, race-leader ben allen is tearing up a piece of single track known as the east fork trail, part of the uinta-wasatch-cache national forest. not far behind, at the exit of wheeler canyon, are branden rakita and conrad stoltz. as usual, stoltz is putting his stamp on this race. and with a quick burst he moves into second. in fourth is the man who placed third here last year. colorado resident josiah middaugh. if he can avoid the mechanical problems that have plagued him in the past, middaugh is a serious contender. on the women's side, chris jeffrey continues in first, but her lead is dwindling. in second is american suzie snyder, who enters this race fitter than she's ever been. and just behind her is the four-time defending champion, melanie mcquaid, who has great affinity for this course. i love this bike course. i... i love just crushing myself uphill. um, i love the grade of this bike course. i think this racecourse really suits my stre

. >>> so we're in maui, the north shore.se i design my life virtually, i am able to work from anywhere. so when it is freezing cold in new york, i am able to come here for two or three months and work from here. it is a fantastic setup. i will get up, have some breakfast, meditate and start working at 7:00 or something in the morning, put in a really good day, very concentrated. no one is dropping by the office. no meetings that i have to go to. towards the end of the day, i'll go out and get on the water for an hour or two. so i bought this little piece of land. i'm slowly thinking about what i can do with it. most of the time, when humans come along and do something with the land, they make it worse for the plants, animals and humans overall. i am trying to think of what sort of positive contribution i can make with this land. my vision is to try to create a fully off-brid, luxurious sustainable way of living that doesn't cost too much and try to get friends and maybe even make it a bed and breakfast and have people come t

. >>> it definitely feels like maui, it is muggy. >> i am working on it, lows are a little cooler thisinland temperatures will be warming up in the 90s but 60s and 70s there, here is sal. >> traffic is doing well on 808, also -- 880, highway 4 is doing better up to the willow pass grade. let's go back to the desk. >>> topping our news, the historic decision on gay marriages and san francisco city is still cleaning up the castro district and in fact it is the biggest street party in years. katie hugh is in the district now with thousands of people

>> maui. insert joke. >> no pot in maui. >> no pot in maui. >> how is it going?orado and washington state, of course, i hope you owe bade the law in both states i owe bade the law in that i finally nearly 50 years old in my life tried my first legal marijuana. it doesn't get you higher, bill. >> bill: really? >> even a mile high in denver i wasn't higher. i want to make it clear to the prohibitionists, legal marijuana doesn't get you higher. >> bill: i remember, peter, you remember we went to denver for the convention. we were on our way in from the airport to downtown and the cab driver said i want to warn you guys, this is mile high. so if you have a drink, it's going to get you considerably higher. >> uh-huh. >> than it would back in washington, d.c. so he said you have to be careful. >> you are saying it's not true of pot? >> how is it working in those states? in colorado and washington? >> once the voters voted for the law back in november attorney general's, city prosecutors immediately stopped arresting people and anybody that had a minor marijuana possess

we even went as far as evacuating patients to maui the busses down there are the state of hawaii's bus evacuation system which are also used in evacuation. so this convenient tue, this vignette of hadr disaster exercise for hawaii also allowed us the opportunity for testing technology for that information sharing and interoperatability. apm was an online collaboration where we were able to share information and learn how to communicate with each other. one of the things that we realized is we have a problem with interchange of information where we actually are able to share that. and that was one opportunity that we were able to do that. quick net also participated with us, allowed us to be able to have civil social interaction with the military and have us be able to interchange with them and knowing what type of response we had. intelligence carry on program and deployable joint command and control are two of the systems that were used by the military to collect information and organize it appropriately so that we were able to respond and interact with the civilian agencies. so for t

he is heading out to maui today, is he going to be grounded by the fog at all? >> it depends on when he is taking off, between 7:00 and 9:00, there is that chance. we'll let you no know right her. temperatures are going to be really comfortable. better here than in hawaii. when you consider 72 degrees is room temperature, that's what we are expecting in oakland. a nice, cool breeze. you can open up the windows in your home. forget about the a.c. today. 5:56. let's check that drive. a lot more company. traffic tuesday, building up quickly. san jose, the live view. things are moving smoothly up to the scene with the arrow. a crash north 101. at the bottom of your screen at taylor, another crash reported. the bay bridge, of course, we have a backup there. no metering lights yet. back to you. >>> 5:57. a large rock slide closes lanes on a major highway into san francisco. one driver ran into this mess. what she says happened next. for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created... a wide range of new choices. dev

my wife and i, as paul said, and late 2007, my wife and i were vacationing on maui. and at that time she was reading a book about the civil war, a fascinating book, blood, tears, and lori by the author james griffin who also is herm ohio. actually, the first book -- first title was blood, tears, and glory and how ohio won the civil war. my wife and i were talking about that looking at the photographs in the book. and at that time we knew that these sesquicentennial was not too far advanced. we talked a little bit about photos. i say, gee, wouldn't it be great to see a book of color and civil war photographs. be careful what you wish for. well, when we return from holiday, i did a little bit of research on the availability of black-and-white photographs. i found numerous sites. the gold standard of sites is library of congress. they have such a collection of the best work of timothy o'sullivan brady, alexander gardner, and others. i mean, just phenomenal. in addition to that they have scanned this material at infinitely, incredibly high resolution. these scans are ava