mercury starts out almost the same shape as venus, though mercury appears much smaller.e next, and at first, mercury doesn't change much either. but once mercury starts turning into a crescent, it grows rapidly taller and thinner. it ends up almost as long, cusp to cusp, as venus is, but much thinner and darker. both planets start out on the far side of the sun from earth, but mercury is moving much faster. by the time the planets line up with earth again next week, mercury will be much closer to earth, but its lit side will be facing away from us, so we'll see just a thin crescent. so paradoxically, mercury is brightest when it's farthest from earth, with its lit-up side facing toward us, and dimmest when it's closest, with its lit-up side facing away from us. next week, we'll see the largest full moon of the year. until then, this is tony flanders from sky & telescope magazine, wishing you clear skies and great views. download our free "skyweek" app for more information. - welcome to travel with kids: bahamas! in this episode, we snorkel... kayak... - do you see him si

so then we come to find out, he almost died from the mercury!e had so much mercury in his system. >> reporter: oh, my gosh. >> that taught me a lesson. you should have known before that. should have listened to me and everyone else. >> reporter: researchers want state regulators to listen to this study and develop a plan to lessen the impact of mercury on the fish and those who may be tempted to eat them. in antioch, john ramos, kpix 5. >> mercury is blamed for fertility and memory problems in adults, even low doses of it can cause learning disabilities in children. >>> a bay area online gaming company is not exactly having fun right now. zynga the creator of games like words with friends and farmville will cut about 520 employees, or 18% of the company's staff, to save money. the san francisco-based company will also close various offices to save another $70 million. since going public, zynga has struggled with strategic blunders, disappointing new games, and a tough time breaking into the mobile market. >>> well, a big-name hotel chain has dro

saddam hussein was a victim of a red mercury hoax. we know that al qaeda was probably a victim of a red mercury hoax. but if we really put together all this material, not to explore whether or not red mercury really provides an easy way of fabricating nuclear weapons, but, rather, look at it from the point of the expectations of the buyers. and what does that tell us about those who might become potential purchasers in the future. i think -- and this is an idea i want to explore further -- thus far the route to nuclear weapons has been through an replication of a manhattan project that as one acquires the stills, one acquires the capacity to enrich uranium, to mick make the product, and one acquires knowledge, and that's a fairly traditional route. with we get into a proliferation environment where a number of nations want to have a shortcut to nuclear weapons that do not have that technological base, that scientific base, that have ample funds, can this be acquired through unconventional means? can we see proliferation of nuclear wea

state water officials say they found high-levels of mercury and three types of bass. mercury is unsafe for frequent consumption for children and women of child-baring age. >>> a reminder to give yourself a little extra time if you are traveling the richmond bridge tomorrow. cal trans, closed interstate 580 approach to the bridge this morning, westbound lanes are shifted to the median to share the eastbound lanes. now, the traffic shift is located on interstate 580 east of the toll plaza. they are doing this so crews can replace the westbound approach to the bridge. caltrans says the job can take three months. >>> all right, you can buy all sorts of things on ebay how about lunch? with a billionaire? how the money helps a bay area charity. and >>> getting through the fight against aids. how the cyclists are spreading awareness across the state. >>> gear up for hotter weather. good evening, everybody. from the kpix weather center, sure a cool down now but i will pinpoint the day topping off 100 degrees as the news continues right here on kpix-5 well... someone >>> how m

meanwhile, venus appears a little higher each evening and mercury a little lower. mercury is easy to see on monday, but by the end of the week, it's considerably fainter and getting tricky to spot. this is tony flanders from sky & telescope magazine, wishing you clear skies and great views. >> brought to you by meade instruments corporation, manufacturers of telescopes and binoculars. >> "california's gold" is produced in association with kcet los angeles and is seen statewide on california public television. this series is endorsed by the california teachers association, the california school boards association, and the california library association. [bells ringing] their glory days were from the early 1870s to about 1910, and they literally revolutionized firefighting. they were mobile and fast and came in all shapes and sizes. they were drawn by horses and their water pumps powered by steam. in fact, they were called "steamers." the firefighters loved them, because they did a much better job putting out fires than the o

meanwhile, venus appears a little higher each evening and mercury a little lower. mercury is easy to see on monday, but by the end of the week, it's considerably fainter and getting tricky to spot. this is tony flanders from sky & telescope magazine, wishing you clear skies and great views. >> brought to you by meade instruments corporation, manufacturers of telescopes and binoculars. >>> hello and welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm ross mihara in tokyo with the stories at this hour. >>> ballot counting is under way in iran after millions of people voted for the new president. they're picking a successor to outgoing leader mahmoud ahmadinejad who's been in office eight years. so many people showed up they extended the voting. they include the mayor and the country's top nuclear

it's all the work of joe rodriguez with the mercury news. over here with corinna martinez who was a columnist for the mosaic last year. let's talk about this sense of entitlement. i hear this younger generation, there isn't the urgency to check all the facts and get everything right. do you get any sense of that? >> yes. we get some of the best journalism students in the valley. we've learned that they have not been trained in the basics. i think it's because of the training in high school. some of high schools don't have newspapers. i think a lot of students are used to just writing everything off the top of their heads and it skates rite into their campus newspaper. i think that's the problem. >> you and i are professionals. when we are kids we exaggerate the truth and ad lib a bit. we want to tell everybody whats first. the only difference is you have to have be right and fair. you said you wrote something about the sense of entitlement. tell us about that. >> i wrote a story about how a lot of girls complain about their classes and the h

jensen/abogado defensor 3:29:21 jeff rosen has been getting a lot of criticism from the san jose mercuryes, his timing is good. el abogado insinu que el fiscal est manejando este caso para distraer al pblico sobre las crticas del diario mercury news en su contra. s.o.t. carmen betancourt/amiga de detenida 6:22:12 encuentro muy injustamente porque hay veces que incriminan a personas inocentes por cosas que ni han hecho simplemente por juntarse uno con una persona que realmente sí sea afiliado a las gangas.. familiares de los acusados critican que estn juzgndolos en grupo. s.o.t. debra zavala/madre de charrie rivera 5:03:26 this is rediculous, they're just trying to find something to put in these kids. esta madre de una de las acusadas dice que el proceso es ridculo y simplemente quieren achacarle cualquier cargo. la fiscala no quiso hacer comentarios sobre la audiencia de hoy. blanca ---una mujer ciclista de san jose sufre una horrorosa muerte al ser aplastada por un camion que cargaba bebidas... take map ---alrededor de las 9 de la maÑana, en la esquina de las avenidas lincoln y auzerais

but venus and mercury soar high.nd you might see a super-thin crescent moon below them shortly after sunset on sunday. this is the best week in 2013 to view mercury, the elusive innermost planet, which few people have knowingly seen. it's still well above the horizon an hour after sunset in the constellation gemini, and it's easily located upper left of dazzling venus. this is tony flanders from sky & telescope magazine, wishing you clear skies and great views. >> brought to you by woodland hills camera & telescopes. serving stargazers since 1952. >> california's gold is seen statewide on california public television. this series is endorsed by the california teachers association, the california school boards association and the california library association. >> california's gold is brought to you by ford, with a world of new ideas that make being out on the road more fun and more economical, like sync, the hands-free communication and entertainment system from microsoft. it lets you order up practically anything yo

now, red mercury did not exist. these were stamps. but the people who were buying did not know that. and so what i wanted to do was to go back into the area of, okay, what was the population of buyers? what were the terms of the deals? what were their expectations? in some cases we know that from nuclear -- you know, aspiring states such as saddam hussein was a victim of the red mercury hoax. we know that certain terrorist groups were probably the victims of a red mercury hoax. but if we really put together all of this material, not to explore whether or not it really provides an easy way of fabricating nuclear-weapons, but rather look at it from the point of the expectations of the buyers and what that tells us about those who might become potential purchasers in the future. i think -- and this is an idea i want to explore further. thus far the amount of nuclear weapons has been through, and a sense to my replication of the manhattan project. that is, one requires the skills , one acquires the capacity to enrich uranium, to make fiss

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but venus and mercury soar high. and you might see a super-thin crescent moon below them shortly after sunset on sunday. this is the best week in 2013 to view mercury, the elusive innermost planet, which few people have knowingly seen. it's still well above the horizon an hour after sunset in the constellation gemini, and it's easily located upper left of dazzling venus. this is tony flanders from sky & telescope magazine, wishing you clear skies and great views. >> brought to you by woodland hills camera & telescopes. serving stargazers since 1952. >> bill moyers: this week on "moyers and company --" >> richard wolff: our system capitalism, which we finally have to debate now that it's so dysfunctional. our system isn't working. it isn't producing for the mass of people. and an economic system that is only as acceptable, or should be, as its performance. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in t

a half-hour after sunset on monday, jupiter, venus, and mercury form a very tight triangle low in theorm a jagged line on tuesday, and the line gets longer each evening for the rest of the week, as jupiter sinks lower and mercury rises higher. jupiter and venus are just a finger width apart on monday and tuesday -- a splendid view through binoculars. and telescopes will show both planets' discs, as well as jupiter's moons. later on, as the sky grows fully dark, virgo, the maiden, is stage center in the south. its only truly bright star is spica, but this year spica has an even brighter companion -- the planet saturn. virgo's other prominent feature is the upraised arm ending at vindemiatrix, her second-brightest star. virgo is an agricultural constellation. "spica" means "spike of wheat," and "vindemiatrix" means "grape gatherer." to stargazers with telescopes, virgo is famous for the virgo cluster, a collection of roughly 1,000 galaxies between vindemiatrix and denebola, the tail of leo the lion. of course, the galaxies aren't literally between these stars. denebola is 36 light years

a contrast from the first mercury seven. nasa vehicle to carry them into space like the mercury astronauts. they ride with the russians to the space station and back. >>> we'll put a list of all of the models on our website, it's too long to read. gmc recalling over 200,000 mid-size suvs because of a fire risk that is serious enough to advise people not to park them in the garage, but outside instead until the problem can be corrected. many are under the chevy trailblazer and gmc envoy brand. >>> ford has been listening to consumer complaint and will bring back knobs and buttons to the dashboard. ford horn owners claim the touch screen is too hard to operate. sometimes what works already is best. bmws early drive mouse console left some drivers unable to turn the radio on. >>> a lot more about a new study that says bullying from siblings while growing up can be just as damaging as the bullying some kids face outside the home and in school. a lot of adults may hear this and say it's just part of growing up in close quarters,

. >>> new survey finds fish caught in the san joaquin delta have high levels of mercury. state water officials say they found the chemical in sacramento pike minnow and three types of bass. it is the highest concentration found in any fish caught in california. mercury is unsafe for frequent consumption especially for children and women of childbearing age. >>> the new head of the irs will face new questioning today on capitol hill. danny werfel was named acting commissioner after the previous one resigned in a scandal over flagging conservative groups looking for tax exemption. some accuse the white house of involvement. >> this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it. >> the president has condemned the agency's actions saying targeted conservative groups was inappropriate. >>> in another high-profile hearing on capitol hill, a senate committee is looking into the increasing number of sexual assaults in the military. the joint chiefs of staff chairman is slated to testify today as are top of

the mercury as jamie just said, take a look. soaring again today. this after death valley came within striking distance of the highest temperature ever recorded on planet earth. 134 degrees. what do we have in store today? chief meteorologist live in the fox extreme weather center. rick, it's unbelievable. 134 degrees. how can anyone even deal with that? >> yeah. and that was 100 years ago. yesterday got to around 124 in death valley. i think in the next couple days we'll see some 128s, 129s. incredibly hot. that one fatality you were talking about is an eltderly man who didn't have any air-conditioning. that's why we say check in on the elderly. a lot of people living on a fixed income and really don't want to or can't afford to turn on the air-conditioning. they need to right now. get them into your homes or get them to a cooling center. already this morning, so what? it's 7:00 in the morning in phoenix and it's 95 degrees, 93 in needles. 93 in vegas. the heat is just not cooling down at night. so the heat builds. and today phoenix getting to 116.

on our panel are paul rogers, "san jose mercury" news environment writer and michael cabanatuan, ""san francisco chronicle"" reporter. what a week at the supreme court. >> indeed. >> we had portng ibeen would be at least 25 days before marriages began in california. why do you think the ninth circuit acted so quickly? >> normally a lower court will wait for 25 days before implementing what the supreme court does to give the party that lost in the supreme court a chance to ask the u.s. supreme court to reconsider. but it's not mandatory for federal courts to do that. and the ninth circuit, i think, felt that marriage has been on hold for a long time since the plaintiffs sued and won in the trial court. let's be honest, the chances that the u.s. supreme court would consider a request to look at this again are very small. >> there was some question though the proponents of prop 8 were saying this was not a class action lawsuit. it only applied to these two couples. presumably they were going to test that in court. is that now moot? >> the problem with that is, they never would have the st

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meanwhile -- >> yeah, the weather, the mercury is only going up. >>> that gives viewers an idea of what they can go on monday. inland, we are starting out this morning with numbers already in the 70s. 77 in concord and 78 in livermore. there is the fair this weekend, but if you are heading in that direction, it's going to be 102 degrees in pleasanton and it looks like the heat wave is going to be with us throughout week. >>> as brian said, it's going to be sunny today and warmer than usual for the pride parade. >> and being out in the heat can cause problems, especially when you combine alcohol, which i am sure a lot of people will do. paramedics will be standing by. they are bringing in a tanker full of drinking water. market street is going to be washed over in a sea of color in about an hour and a half for the pride parade. this year's celebrations are expected to be bigger than ever, attracting more than 1 million spectators. this is going to be a blow out celebration following the supreme court's ruling that allows same sex marriages to resume in california. this ends at 8th street

. >> fish caught in the delta show higher levels of mercury in their system than fish caught anywhere else in their system. the study found. it can affect motor skills and cause learning disanlts in children. >> the museum of modern art has just closed for 2.5 years of renovations. the expansion will more than double the gallery space and provide about six times as much public space as the current facility. one lady is just heartbroken. >> the family room, i take my three kids and they do a lot of projects and art activities. that's one thing that we will miss. >> many among the exhibits will be on display in the area including the contemporary art museum. officials say the rest of the art will be in a top secret storage location. >> thousands took part in the first ever million dog march in the bay area. >> proceeds from this event will be donated to friends. >> written, by the way. holds the world record. >> there are so many dogs and so many dog lovers. >> you know what? i agree. maybe they should call it the million paw mar ach and then yo would only need a quarter million. you ha

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eliminate toxic fuels like mercury and sulfur and arsenic in our air and water.ut power plants can still talk of limited amounts of carbon pollution into the air for free. that is not right, that is not safe, and it needs to stop. host: we will show you more from the senate side is to go through the morning. jason from california, democrat line. caller: how are you doing? host: well, thanks. caller: in general i am opposed to change to executive power, especially in the cases like national defense. necessary, given the absolute crucial nature of this issue. haveeople who think we done this automotive trajectory for years, we haven't. this has been for a little over 100 years. the auto culture has been great for america, economically. environmentally it has been a disaster. automobiles are a huge contributor to greenhouse gases. even worse.re as the president said, they are polluting our air for free. it is just ridiculous. we pay the marginal cost of that pollution through insurance, particularly health insurance, also trying to clean up superfund sites. to say t

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dozens treated for heat illness and mercury is expected to hit 128 in death valley, california. from the world record high 134 degrees. widespread protesting in egypt in the leadup to anti-government demonstrations tomorrow marking one year since mohammed morsi took office. they are warning americans to steer clear of the country. that is after the death of a 21-year-old college student kid killed yesterday by photographing protests there. now back to cavuto. i'm arthel nevil. >> neil: don't look now but they are looking at you and not just the nsa. new healthcare law is making a data hub of personal information from social security and size of paycheck that charlie plans to sell the number of books and size of your family. does this worry you? >> government knows too much about us already. this goes across all parts of government. they know too much about good people and bad people. they knew about the terrorists before 9/11. they through they were practicing flying lessons and not learning how to land the plane. they don't do enough for the bad people. >> neil: they are going

in death valley national park, the mercury hit 125 fahrenheit. service hasther issued heat warnings for much of the area. in san bernardino, california, the heat helped ignite wildfires , forcing evacuations. the heat waves are expected to continue until monday. that is all from us for now. we will be back with an update at the top of the hour. >> minesweeping in croatia, 20 years after the yugoslav wars. the tiny state is about to become a member of the european union. much of the country still looks like this. croatia will be the first eu country to have experienced a war in the lifetime of the you. the e.u. my journey begins in the croatian capital. it looks much like other european cities. in the 1990's, i often reported from here during the croatian struggle for independence in the yugoslav wars. , i want toears later find out how it has changed. a postwar generation has grown up. they are all around 19 years old and they're all musicians. their hard rock band is called, we create. by which, they mean their own reality. he thinks it is a goo

this is just the southwest right now, mercury already reaching into the high 90s.ay's highs could go higher. temperatures will soar way into the 110s, and coming up early next week, 120s across the region. >>> we have some new details on the condition of a very ill ten-year-old lung transplant recipient we've been telling you about. the parents of sarah murnaghan are revealing she's now had two lung transplants. her first set of lungs started failing just hours after her surgery. three days later she got a second set of lungs that became available, but they were infected with pneumonia. her parents hold out hope. i'm jamie cole. we'll be back in 30 minutes. here's james caruto. >>> the new health care law is creating a data hub of the number of books that charlie plans to sell. even the size of your family. ben stein, this worry you? >> the government knows entirely too much about us already. this goes across the whole breadth and width of the government. they know too much about good people and bad people. they knew about the terrorists before 9/11. they knew they

by lar laer to blood pressure monitoring has been found five milliliters meters of mercury and 15 minuteshalf an hour throughout dated. this is a really waited to go. 1500 of these in united states. mostly used by hypertension specialists. we need more of these. they are about $1500 each but they cut down costs. if it's diagnosed inaccurately it's a problem. >> jamie: what do you have to add on this? >> i think the technology measuring blood pressure is outdated. the blood pressure cuff that we use it's coming from 1800 over a century old. we need to come up with better ways to measure blood pressure. you go to the doctor you run up the stairs and blood pressure will be high. out of 67 million americans that are diagnosed with high blood pressure 13 million are overdiagnosed and with all these medications without any need for it. one of the newest things and i think this is going to be future is the measurement of central blood pressure as opposed to peripheral. right now they put a cuff and that is called peripheral. i think central blood pressure that measures the pressure in the aorta

the study says that women who were exposed to the highest levels of diesel or mercury in the air werece as likely to have a child with autism than women who lived in the cleanest parts of the sample. that's a huge disparity. if it's not the air pollution, could it be that people who live in those areas are more prone to be poor or low income? what do you think is causing this? >> well, that's a very interesting question. the main thing we were concerned about is if it wasn't air pollution, it was income or education levels because actually people who are wealthy or more highly educate ready more likely to have their child diagnosed with autism if they have autism whereas people with lower education or poorer people are less likely to get their autistic child diagnosed. and since wealthier more highly educated people tend to live in the cities which are more polluted, we thought this could be a cause of the association, but we were able to adjust for these factors and we didn't -- they didn't explain our results. >> i guess the bottom line i would ask you is what can expecting mothers

one man was absent according to the mercury news. a big crowd showed up and all but two people opposed the proposed ordinance. some people say if we crackdown on car camping where else will they live but they need tools to crack down which can create litter and unsanitary conditions. the ordinance rather would be complaint driven and only apply to public areas, so church organizations which are okay with camping and there are a few in town that support it, they would still be allowed to have those people there camping overnight however it did pass committee and the next step is on for full council for a vote. katie hugh. >> 2300 voted on whether to authorize a walkout. a strike could start as early as monday morning stranding 300,000 bart riders and they have not worked out a new deal like salary pensions and benefits and there is still time to reach a new deal before sunday night's dead line. it is part of a perfect storm, mass transit in the bay area an ac transit workers have authorized their own strike. your contract ends sunday,

it contains concentrations of mercury, arsenic, lead, and other toxic materials. and as lesley stahl first reported in 2009, when coal ash is dumped into wet ponds--and there are more than 500 of those across the country-- the result can have an enormous health risk on the people living in nearby communities. >> we get about 48%, nearly half of the electricity in this country from coal. >> jim roewer is one of the top lobbyists for the power industry. >> coal is going to be around for a long time. >> and we really can't get rid of coal. >> we shouldn't get rid of coal. >> well, should or shouldn't, we can't, and coal makes waste. would you say that the industry has done a good job of disposing of the coal ash waste? >> we can do better. >> does that mean no? >> well, we had a kingston spill. >> that's kingston, tennessee, where, in december 2008, a giant retention pool of coal ash buckled under the weight of five decades of waste. >> all the power lines have been knocked out. >> a billion gallons of muck shot into the emory river like a black tsunami... >> one per