i felt like at meridian, it could do some good.even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea, which is why there is text all over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around

now, this is near meridian avenue. now, there is evidence of gas leaking into the air and pg&e crews have been called to make repairs. you can see quite a large police presence on scene, and also fire. it's not clear what caused the accident at this point, but police and several fire trucks, as mentioned, are on scene. a few homes around the accident have been evacuated as a precaution. of course, we will continue to follow this. again, this is curtner avenue, near meridian and san jose. >> now to decision 2012 and the race for the white house. just hours after clinching enough delegates to win his party's nomination, mitt romney hitting the bay area atm. he'll be in hillsborough tonight, hosting a fund-raiser at the historic carolyn chateau. at 65,000 square feet, it's one of the largest mansions in the country and a california landmark. christie smith is outside the chateau with a look at romney's visit. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, john. it really doesn't get much more grand than this. 93 rooms in this.

protesters were gathered at the meridian hill park in march to the white house. -march- and the white house. jordan zimmerman will pitch at 7:00 05. tickets are certainly still available. back to you. >> that is not only big sporting event going on in town. >> not at all. the caps play tonight and are in team spirit. >> alex giving washington the go-ahead goal with a little more than seven minutes left in the game. the caps clinched home ice advantage and will drop the puck to marmite at home at the verizon cente minuter. past 6:00. we -- seven minutes past 6:00. high life >> from the once-in-a- lifetime game. take >> there is another one deep to left. he has the trifecta. >> he hit three home runs and three consecutive act batts. s. not bad. >> i am bound. we just have an accident and 95 northbound. northbound at mile marker 143. police said to look for a crash upstream. we could slow from woodbridge now to springfield. it is open to the 14th street bridge. 66 will slow eastbound in manassas 3 centerville with an accident on the shoulder. then again at the beltw

maker avenue, meridian, bird, highway 87, north fiske street, 7th street and 11th street.280 will also get metering lights sometime this fall. >> new technology will help make buildings safer during quakes. we will tell you where in san francisco its being installed and how it works neck. . >> coming up later in the forecast can tim get it right? the a's are headed south. also the golden state warriors, how high is the draft pick. later in the broadcast. . >>> decision 2012, romney is in the bay area, he was the guest of honor at a high end fundraising event. >> reporter: i'm outside the gates where the fundraiser is taking place for romney. guests are paying as much as $50,000 each for face time with the former massachusetts governor. a small group of obama supporters were also on hand to challenge romney's policies earlier in the day and romney's z9[k the price tag just a thousand dollars a head. >> the president made a friendly phone call to the gop presidential candidate today. he said that it he looked forward to an important and healthy debate about america's future

and we actually saw that a warrant popped up under na name, bobby co-ly, and it said, first degree meridian. >> the murder happened at the whexburg apartment complex. his wife was reported missing. they had information that it was a murder-for-hire. now montgomery is looking into all the records. >>> police hope surveillance video will lead them to the thieves who broke into 11 stores. all the burglaries happening tuesday night into wednesday morning. >> police hope this surveillance video will help them track down an armed robber in prince george's county. a man used a brick to bust out the window at mcdonald's on branch avenue in temple hill. that was on tuesday. police say he used a metal cup holder to threat chben a worker demangd money. >>> maryland lawmakers may soon be working on legislation. a task force is studying the effect os testify recent ruling that found pit bulls are an inherently dangerous breed. that means when a pit bull attack as person, the they no longer have to prove they're dangerous. the task force could demand legislation stemming from that ruling. >>> students in

. >>> it was wax museum day at meridian ranch school in colora. we found this story on krdo. students were assigned a historical character they had to dress up like. sean king is a second grader, assigned martin luther king jr. sean king chose to show up as martin luther king, including h his pace painted black. before he could even make it to the classroom he was asked by the principal to wash his face. but sean didn't understand why it was offending anybody. they were sent to the principal's office and they eventually ended up leave hadding the school. >> when other students are offended by something it's really the principal's role to make sure the educational environment is safe for all the students. >> this has become a controversy. a lot of people have a lot of very different opinions about this. >> i liked it. >> i don't think kids understand the history of blackface. >> this kid had no intentions of being racist or demeaning. >> they thought was inappropriate and it would be disrespectful to black people. but i say that it's not. i like black people. i don't want to b

protesters plan to march from meridian hill park down 14th street to the white house, look pore more on that demonstration coming up in a half hour. >>> new today, a hazmat situation forced emergency crews to evacuate the bank of america this morning in the 10,400 block of old georgetown road in bemts d bethesda. trying to determine what strong odor sickened people inside the building, montgomery fire and ems crews are on the scene. >>> the montgomery county school superintendant is blasting reports that he says imply a cheating scandal in the county. highland elementary in silver spring is one of 27 schools nationwide cited by the recent atlanta "journal-constitution" investigation into possible cheating. the school made a significant turn-around in recent years, even earning a blue ribbon award in 2009, the highest honor from the u.s. department of education. the atlanta newspaper questions the success in part because of the students come from poor households that don't speak english. >> we have experts who looked at the swings in the school scores and said, they are highly, highly

august 19th, 1981, i ran away from the meridian home for girls just outside philadelphia to the streetsf the fort lauderdale strip. i was 14. june 11th, 2011, 30 years later with 5 years sober, i started walking home. with my walk, walking up the east coast, i would walk about 10 miles in the morning, and then in the afternoons i would visit homeless shelters, treatment centers, battered women shelters. i'd go back into the alleys, under the bridges, and tell my story and share hope. i started sandraswalk.org to spread little mustard seeds of hope in places that there were none. and there's a lot of fantastic things going on in the recovery community, and i think the stigma of coming into recovery and the fellowships, and you can't do this and you can't do that, kind of wards people off. it scares people off from coming into recovery, because they think they're going to be sentenced to a church basement and a coffee pot. (music playing.) we have recovery concerts. we have sober comedy events. we have the 12-step music fest in the keys. and there's a lot of fantastic things going on in t

will hold a festival and rally at meridian park at 3:30 this afternoon. the group will march from the park down 14th street to the white house at 6:30 tonight. right now police say they have no plans to shut down lanes of traffic to accommodate that march. >>> while things are expected to be pretty peaceful here, the may day protests could cause big problems elsewhere. in new york, occupiers will march from union skbquare to wa street. there are reports that protesters could block major tunnels. wells fargo shut down five branches after receiving envelopes with suspicious white powder. two other envelopes were sent to jpmorgan chase hoerks and the mayor's office. they were harmless. one of the letters had the message "welcome to may 1." occupy organizers hope the nationwide protest will re-energize the movement that started last september. >>> this morning a new report says the u.s. military is not telling us everything that happens in afghanistan. according to the associated press, coalition forces led by the u.s. are underreporting the number of times a

demonstrators held a rally and festival at meridian hill park to mark may day. 99%. the occupy protesters met up with union groups who marched to the white house. d.c. council member jack evans wants future demonstrators to give notice and obtain a permit before marching through the streets. he tells the "washington post" unregulated demonstrations put a strain on d.c. police resources, and that's why he says he introduced the legislation. it's also partly in response to occupy d.c. protesters marching through the streets without telling police. >>> new this morning, pro-democracy icon aung san suu kyi is now a member of myanmar's parliament. she was sworn in earlier today, taking public office for the first time in almost 25 years. she was under house arrest for the past two decades for pushing for democracy in that military-run country. >>> a task force will review florida's controversial stand your ground law today. it's come under fire since the trayvon martin shooting. the law grants immunities from prosecution to those who use deadly force in response to w

celebrations some are here in our area, occupy protestors in union are gathering at malcolm x park, meridian hill park in northwest, 3:30 p.m. so it coincides with hundreds of demonstrations around the world today in new york, occupy protestors are planning to block subways tunnels and the stock exchange and rallies are planned in chicago, houston and los angeles, huge protests started in the philippines overnight mass protests are gettingened way in greece, france and spain all pushing for workers rights. >>> report issued today by uk lawmakers says executives of news corp. mislead parliament over the phone hacking scandal this comes a few months after news corp. chairman rupert murdoch and his son james murdoch testified before a particle meantry committee, the findings say -- particle meantry parliamentary committee, findings say they ignored evidence, covered up wrong doing it also says rupert murdoch is unfit to lead a major global company. news corp. is the parent company of fox 5. >> traffic alert to bring you now with information just in, to fox 5, there are some back ups happening,

will hold a festival and rally at meridian hill park. that starts at 3:30 this afternoon.he group will march from the park down 14th street to the white house at 6:30 tonight. right now police say they have no plans to shut down lanes of traffic to accommodate the protesters. >>> and some pretty incredible video now of tv producers crashed a 727 in the same of science. the discovery channel says it's part of a new documentary series called "curiosity." the jet was deliberately crashed in the mexican desert. it was packed with crash test dummies. the cameras recorded the crash from inside the plane, on the ground, from other planes, and from the ejecting pilot's helmet. no damages or injuries occurred. this is causing a controversy, though, and that's up next on the "today" show. >>> 11 before the hour now. if you owned your own gas station, you wouldn't have to pay as much to fill up your car, that's the idea behind delta's latest purchase. jackie deangelis has the interesting story. jackie? >> reporter: good morning, aaron. delta airlines getting into the oil business, bu

demonstrators held a rally and festival at meridian hill park to mark may day. they called for a "day without the 99%." the occupy protesters met up with union groups who then marched to the white house. >>> d.c. council member jack evans wants future demonstrators to give notice and obtain a permit before marching through the streets of d.c. he tells the "washington post" unregulated demonstrations put a strain on d.c. police resources. and that's why he says he introduced the legislation. it's also part flee response to occupy d.c. protesters marching through the streets without telling police. >>> so the possibility of a little bit of rain, not the possibility, we're already seeing rain in places around here this morning after we got a little yesterday. >> that's right. it's also feeling a little like summer, too. humid and warm. yeah. meteorologist tom kierein here with the latest on our forecast. tom, good morning. >>> good morning. we hit the low 80s yesterday. we may be a little hotter than that today. yes, this morning, need the umbrella. we have light r

may met up with union groups for a rally at meridian hill park this afternoon. they're calling for a day without the 99%. they want people to skip school and work and not take part in any sort of business to boycott all commerce. one protester spray painted the words "foreclosed" on a bank of america branch downtown. the may day group plans to march to the white house this evening. >>> may day marchers were not so tame in other cities. in chicago they blocked a bank. in oakland, california, protesters pounded on bank windows. police used tear gas and tasers to subdue the crowds. dozens of arrests were reported. up in new york city protesters confronted police in riot gear in front of the bank of america in manhattan. letters containing a white powder were sent to banks in new york. they included a note which said happy may day. this is a reminder that you are not in control. >>> what began as a night of celebration in the district ended in murder. the victim, 33-year-old dwayne brosbon. he was a medical technician out celebrating a recent promotion last night. w

will hold a festival and rally at meridian hill park. that starts at 3:30 this afternoon. the group will then march from the park down 14th street to the white house at 6:30 tonight. right now, police say they have no plans to shut down lanes of traffic to accommodate the protesters. >>> and while things are expected to be peaceful here, the may day protests could cause big problems elsewhere. in new york, occupiers will march from union square to wall street. there are reports protesters could block several major bridge and tunnels in manhattan. wells fargo shut down five branches after receiving envelopes containing a suspicious white powder. two other envelopes were sent to jpmorgan chase headquarters and mayor bloomberg's office. they were harmless. one of the letters had the message "welcome to may 1." occupiers hope today's nationwide protests will re-energize the movement that started last september. >>> for the first time, the obama administration is publicly acknowledging counter drone strikes. the president wants to be more open with the american public. brennan

may 6th is the meridian international children's festival down at the ronald reagan building. and next saturday, may 12th, is the eu open house. followed by the women's museum global market place on sunday. >> tell us about the children's event. >> the children's event is sunday. it will be at the ronald reagan building. a new location for them. mostly for children under the age of 12. beautiful stage with lots of entertainment and about 20-some embassies that will be doing children's interactive events. >> dell us about some of the interactive things they get to do. >> everything from playing games to getting face painting to understanding where the country is on the globe. but lots of activities. and i think what's happening is it's really all sort of geared at a low, a children's level. not only that the type of entertainment, but literally, at their level it's great fun watching storytellers sit on the floor and interacting with those children. >> about how much children do you expect to come? >> new location for them. so they've always had about 1500, and i think this yea

the group met at meridian park at 3:30. at 6:30 they plan to march on the white house. may day rallies took place in more than 20 cities in the u.s. and across the world. in new york crowds took the streets to protest against corporate america. organizers plan to block bridges and tunnels leading into and out of manhattan. out west in san francisco protesters planned on blocking the golden gate bridge but canceled that at the last minute. ferry workers there did march against the rising health care costs and for higher pay today. ferry service in the bay area, it was shut down for a while. >>> now to the weather. starting to feel a bit more like summer. but don't put away your umbrellas just yet. doug's tracking the latest conditions for us. doug? >> yeah, outside right now partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. temperatures of 83 degrees. it has been a little on the humid side. any time you get a dewpoint with temperatures above 80 around 60, it's a little humid. winds now out of the northeast at about three miles an hour. temperatures all around the region nice and war

senior managing partner at meridian equity partners joins us now. the table, or is this your buying signal? >> you know, it's kind of a combination of both. and it depends who you are. if you look at the markets now, i think this is good for what we need. this market needs a little bit of a shake-up. we haven't seen something like this in a while and the market is currently trading at the lows of the day. that's showing me there's serious pressure on this market. investors are taking short-term profits off the table. we haven't had any real shake-up headlines coming out of europe in the past few days. i think we're all waiting for another headline to come out soon. risk is coming off the table. but i think what's going to happen is we're going to find the bottom, find a range here. and there might be opportunities coming up in the next week or so to pick some spots on some certain stocks or sectors. >> like what? which sectors? which stocks? >> i think you have to look in the technology sector. clearly with what's happening with facebook out there a

meridian yell lowe wants the sunnyvale company to fire scott thompson and is threatening a lawsuit. yahoo called the mistake on the resume an error and a filing with the sec yahoo stated thompson received a science degree from stonehill college but he never did. >>> the defense team in the john edwards trial will cross- examine a key prosecution witness on monday. he is the lawyer of a went under it-year-old wealthy donor who secretly gave $725,000 to edwards' presidential campaign in 2008. the witness testified edwards knew about the money and used it to hide the affair with his pregnant mistress, rielle hunter. >> the prosecution is attempting to influence this jury by proving that john edwards is an unethical fellow had is caring with this woman. >> edwards has bleed not guilty to six counts relating to campaign violations. if convicted he faces up to 30 years in prison. >>> there's a new rape allegation against the former head of the international monetary fund. dominique strauss-kahn is calm up in a prostitution scandal in france. that investigation has now led police to anothe

i still wouldn't be allowed to meridian's country club. my parents would say look at those big houses. you keep working hard and do well in jurschool, you can live one of those houses. i promise you being a doctor or a lawyer in 1971, '72 when any dad was unemployed and we were driving by that, that was about as far removed from my existence as being premier of china. you know? my parents were like, work hard and do it. you can live there. >> when joe biden gets it going in a setting like that, you talk about political athletes. purely political, he's throwing his arms around gis auys and whispering. >> it's genuine, though. >> he really pulls it off. >> it's a connector. >> if we agree that a small group of swing voters maybe in ohio or florida will decide who the next president of the united states is, that's protect effective right there. >> two more stories to get to. the senate is coming off a busy day of arguing budget. >> what's the facebook news? did someone click on an ad? >> i'd like to talk to cramer about it. we'll get to that

now president of the meridian national center. ambassador, good to see you.what do you think the presence of al-qaeda and her over militants in syria portends for that country? >> it's bad for syria but also bad for the regional balance between shea and sunni forces that is very precarious. what you see in syria is so-called copycat group which is a sunni jihadist faction that has been fighting for some years really against the assad regime which is a small shea minority. even if it is not al-qaeda in the way we know it directly, it shares the aims of al-qaeda and linked to al-qaeda in terms of damage it can do. >> the administration's policy thus far seems to be twofold calling for assad to resign plus sanctions that have done damage to the syrian economy but has not stopped the killing. is this in your judgment not a serious policy but rather than the absence of a policy? >> i think it's clearly not enough. obviously the administration is juggling a lot of priorities in the region. many have called for a more forceful arming the rebels. that should be looke

also, in the south bay northbound 280 through san jose heavy from meridian towards highway 17. >>> when back, matter mike nicco will have the bay . >>> check out some of the multi-layer cloud cover causing nearly 80 minute flight arrival delays into sfo we'll lose most of the clouds during the afternoon right now low to mid 50s. upper 50s toly 60s along the coast in -- san francisco inland sun everywhere by 2:00 this afternoon, warmer weather this afternoon, warmer weather on the hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. this afternoon, warmer weather on the oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier? at chase we're pioneering innovations that make banking simple. deposit a check with a photo. pay someone with an email. and bank seamlessly with our award-winning mobile app. take a step forward... and chase what matte >>> he is the star of "terminator 3" right there with arnold. and now, is the center of a baffling hollywood mystery. what's behind his vanishing without a trace in we're going to go inside that case this morning. >> it is baffling right

his class at meridian ranch elementary had to dress up as historical figures. to wash that color off his face. >> they thought it was inappropriate and would be disrespectful to black people. i say it's not. i like black people. i don't want to be mean to them. it's just a costume. i don't want to insult anybody. >> his parents decided to pull sean out of that school. the naacp has come out supporting the principal's decision in this debate. >>> a condo fire in portland, oregon. watch the firefighters on the burning roof. whoa. suddenly one of them falling right through. two others make their way over to check on him. then they give the thumbs up to let everybody know he's okay. thank god. the firefighter was not hurt but two others were taken to the hospital and had to be treated for burned knees and heat exhaustion. >>> we are keeping an eye on wall street for you. as the closing bell gets closer on facebook's first big day on the market, the stock is coming in at about $40 a share at this point. in the next hour and a half it will be key what develops. le we