republic mcintyre does provide a cheat sheet of texting short hand. phrases like i don't know. class were ready to use today. >> what is this? >> which is gr with the number 8. >> reporter: which btw, will save you two key strokes. an important speed tip, that has these seniors taking aim on the quick-typing whipper snanaers out there. >> we're going to do something, too. >> reporter: that's right. age is no barrier to being hip and cool. though, maybe hip isn't a word these folks like to hear. in downey, rob hayes, abc 7, eyewitness use. >>> your abc station will be brb. >> that's getting dorky. stay with us for "good morning america."

my name is mcintyre, and i give up a dinner with my granddaughter for this. i feel obligated to say something. i have been a resident of university terrace since 1979 and san francisco since 1963. as a citizen of san francisco, i endorsed this agreement and. sybil reached by the appellant and permit applicants -- i endorsed this agreement in principle reached by the palin and the permit applicants. with respect to the fences and the sidewalk encroachment. as i understand it, the role of the board of appeals is to adjudicate possible errors by the permit authority based on the law, and i am happy to say that in order to get to the full facts, you have had to continue this hearing twice. hopefully you'll be patient and continue one last time. until now, i have been somewhat critical because it seem very difficult for an appellate to get four votes out of five, but i hope and expect that the outcome will meet my goal of seeing the law applied equally to both parties. thank you for your patience and careful attention to the facts and law, which make this agreemen

pentagon correspondent jamie mcintyre says he has his detractors a lot of people see him as very ambitious very calculating playing the system telling the american people what they want to hear. and a lot of people also some critics also think that the success that the u.s. is tolerating in iraq is vastly overstated and despite his star power some in the military say petraeus is better at navigating the media and washington than a battlefield it's called the green zone hero. these are your senior officers who never actually saw any action who have never themselves been under direct or have never pulled the trigger and killed anyone in combat although president obama called him a quote lifelong consumer of intelligence others are skeptical that the trainers will fit in at the cia their evaluation of the regular evaluation of afghanistan have been generally diametrically opposed to what the troops has said his characterization of conditions on the ground in that country bears no resemblance to what people in the central intelligence agency to say general petraeus spent thirty seven years in

alastair mcintyre, the great philosophers said we live in a system where we have words for important things like virtue and honor and vice but don't have basic understanding of how they fit together. he said imagine we had a word like a neutron or gravity but didn't understand how physics works or how they fit together. that is where we are. i do think we have this amputation which blows us in a certain way and it blows us in the direction, this prevailing breeze that we are not always satisfied with. i went to high school in wayne bid -- pennsylvania. you see parents in many places around the country trapped into a certain style of raising their kids so you go to an elementary school and the third graders come out wearing these 80 pound backpacks. if the wind blows them over there like beetles stock on the ground because we want them to study and do homework and be ready for the harvard submission test. they get picked up by sobs and audis and volvos because it is socially acceptable to have a foreign car as long as it is from a country hostile to foreign policy. it is raised and pi

. >> my colleague mcintyre took technique from semi-conductor industry atomic layer deposition and put thin but uniform layer of titanium dioxide on surface. >> just a few atoms thick. the way that intel does on theed a vanced ---ed a vanced chips. that did the trick. more development is needed before it's commercialized. >> this is one piece of what would be a system for generating solar-based fuels. >> it appears we'll be able to pump solar energy to fuel tankses. isn't that a gas? with the next step in energy, richard hart, abc7 news. >>> 6:25. still ahead at 6:30 -- union city police investigate a crime hot spot in their city. last night's violence there makes three incidents in less than a year. >> and flooded north dakota city looks to recovery from unstoppable natural disaster. >> the u.s. supreme court will issue a decision today on who can buy violent video games. california state law says minors shouldn't be allowed to. but what about the first amendment? the issue straight ahead. >> a good news, bad news. bad news, flight arrival delays in sfo. good news, 20 minutes. that's

give me tim mcintyre with. the silica dust take off. eleven and left. tim has cited the sun comes up. it is the most beautiful sunrise beautifully clear. the most beautiful sunrise that keane has ever seen in his life. and in washington kissinger holds a press conference. he gets up at the same podium where two years before he announced peace in our time after the paris peace accord. the very same podium he now announces that all americans are out. when he said it wanted to get out, some reporters remained behind. henry kissinger sees in a. they was first in the we have a 11 marines and accounted for. what do you mean and accounted for? in the confusion what happened was when the ambassador went out at 3:48 a.m. his call sign, the tiger is out, the tiger is out of the state's buried in the original evacuation plan the investor was going to be the last relief. there were still working. the tiger is out of the stage. nobody left. so the 11th marine security guards, the dedicated kids are up on this roof. the barricade the door. dawn comes. small arms fire

we were walking into a reality show, if there were going to be like random -- i don't know, joey mcintyree, random celebrity central. >> jimmy: they'd be miking you when you walk in. >> signing clauses and release forms. but it was -- it was -- but we were the randoms. and it was family and friends and then me and my boyfriend. so weird. but like we walk in and the first thing she says to us, she goes, where's my gift. and so we had a bottle of wine for her, we thought we should bring something but the next one behind her, where's my gift. it was like an old family friend. >> jimmy: i see. >> i'm not kidding you, hors d'oeuvres of pigs in a blanket went by us. >> jimmy: what? >> i'm not kidding. from that moment i was like, oh. >> jimmy: very couture affair. >> very soft. and then we did the whole dinner thing and they described the bitter herbs and all this stuff but everything was beautifully presented. the egg was, like, gorgeously presented. it was like deviled egg with, like, paprika on it -- >> jimmy: very classy. >> very, very classy. >> jimmy: wow. >> i think normally you're lucky

. >> my colleague paul mcintyre took a technique used in semi-industry conductor and put ultra thin and uniform layer of titani titanium dioxide on the surface. >> a few atoms thick, the way intel does on theed a vanced trick. that did the trick. more development is needed before this is commercialized. >> this is just one piece of what would be a system for generating solar-based fuel. >> but it appears that we will be able to pump solar energy directly in to fuel tankses. isn't that a gas? with the next step in energy, richard hart, abc7 news. >> prototype aircraft powered sewly by the sun -- s oley by the sun made the air flight. it's on the wings that generate 40 horsepowers, the pow they're most scooters use. in the flight, it took five hours to travel from brussels to paris. another 11 hours circling over the airport waiting for wind conditions to settle down to safely land. >> i hope clouds don't come in. it could pose a problem. 40 horsepower, managed to fly that plane. >> i know. you were asking about souvenirs, take your pick. in different colors. >> wow! >> nice! >> how did w

mcintyre. -- dave mcintyre. he is very committed and actively involved with the military to address this problem of suicide. i am kind of in the stress relief business. i am in the morale boosting business. we've teamed up and we spent a lot of time with medal of honor recipients, going to basis, talking to these service members, reaching out to their families, trying to communicate to them that there are alternatives to taking your life. sometimes they do not think there are. that is a very, very serious problem. it is important the message we send out to our military folks that we've is is always -- duprey visit is always to reach out to someone that you recognize is in need. those signs are clear and we need to try to do a lot more. it is a very, very serious problem. there are a lot of people dedicated to this. we have to do a lot more. >> than there are the people who have passed away. just this week, it has been reported on a number of different fronts that the fbi is running an army inve