>>miriam: okay.nce those were fully secured and braced they moved on to the second floor, setting the trusses, the subfloor and the walls. >> ted: on a typical house you have one plane for all the trusses to bear on. here we have multiple planes so it's kind of unique. >>dean: it's what they call character i guess. at least it builds character to put something like this together. >> ted: you bet. >>miriam: they started on the roof after that putting up most of the trusses but they left things open over the great room. that was to leave some space for maneuvering in the decorative timber frame trusses which were very cool to see go in. >> ben miller: fortunately if we do our job right in the shop by the time we get here and if everything is labeled well it's just you know flip-flopping pegs into the holes. first we started off with taking our hammered posts connecting those to the collar tie and then we had our hammered beams. we were able to slide everything in with the king posts and struts and fina

miriam: and i want to see what the interior designer does for the first batch of selections.>dean: and we're going to need some of that stuff before you know it so we better get ready. >>miriam: yeah and we'd like some company so i hope you can stick around. ♪ >> man 1: what we need is some elbow grease. >> man 2: yeah, you can... oh, are you kidding me? >> man 3: gmc, proud to lend a helping hand to hometime. ♪ >>miriam: sometimes it can be tricky to remember all that we've done on a big project like this. that's why we like to look back at some clips to remind people where we've been and to introduce new viewers to the creekside home project. we're building the whole thing on an icf foundation. that means we had insulated forms filled with concrete. >>dean: do you tend to just go around the whole perimeter 3 to 4 times in different lifts? >> brad kvanbek: we'll do 3 or 4 lifts on walls this high, let the concrete set up a bit so as not to have too much pressure. >>dean: so if you did it all at once your concern is you'd get so much pressure you may blow out a wall or someth

>>miriam: okay. once those were fully secured and braced they moved on to the second floor, setting the trusses, the subfloor and the walls. >> ted: on a typical house you have one plane for all the trusses to bear on. here we have multiple planes so it's kind of unique. >>dean: it's what they call character i guess. at least it builds character to put something like this together. >> ted: you bet. >>miriam: they started on the roof after that putting up most of the trusses but they left things open over the great room. that was to leave some space for maneuvering in the decorative timber frame trusses which were very cool to see go in. >> ben miller: fortunately if we do our job right in the shop by the time we get here and if everything is labeled well it's just you know flip-flopping pegs into the holes. first we started off with taking our hammered posts connecting those to the collar tie and then we had our hammered beams. we were able to slide everything in with the king posts and struts and fi

i want to particularly acknowledge miriam and larry is back here. thank you so much for your wonderful support. thank you miriam. let's give them a big round of applause, folks. here they are. terrific. also in the neighborhood we had some returnis, folks that were branch managers and librarians. fanny young, terrific. thank you for all of your work. we are ready just for our big celebration. as with transaction we have a ribbon cutting and we have the lion dancer bless the building. we are going to have them bless the ceremony since it's the lunar new year. we are going to call the mayor to the front and malia. could i ask the mayor and malia to do the count down from 10 to 1 do a count down. >> the ribbon is coming. >> you are going to help us count from 10. we need help. >> all right, everybody. we are going to start at 10 and we are going down. ready? 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. all right. >> all right. let's hear it for the line dancer from the community center. when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your ne

miriam and i chose not to live behind the government battlements and whitehall. we live in the same home we have been in for some years. we try very hard to keep our family life private. we keep our children away from the cameras. we don't pretend we are a model family. we are who we are. we try to make sure that westminster doesn't take over our lives. know i won't be in politics forever. you all should be relieved. [laughter] just three or four more general elections to go. be is a father, a to all, a son, and uncle those i love in my family for good. just like anybody else. the longer i spend in this job, the more and more i cherish the human, the direct, on stuffy -- ffy way we liberal democrats do politics. speaking like human beings. we must never lose that. as i am always telling you to embrace government, i am forever looking waste -- looking for ways to get out of whitehall myself. trying to help my constituents out when they come to see me. going out on regional tours. doing things differently. that must always be part of our identity. i want us to stay

salinger was born in -- salinger was born in 1919 to miriam and sal, salinger, he was a mediocre student, ended up flunking out of the mcburney school in his sophomore year, apparently he had not read the sophomore book assignment mainly because he hadn't written it yet. from there, salinger went on to military school and was eventually drafted into world war ii. he was on utah beach on d-day, he fought in the battle of the bulge and liberate add concentration camp all the while writing short series the themes of alienation, depression and los of negligence. what an imagination! while in germany the half jewish salinger arrested a young nazi official named sylvia, who he then married and brought to america. the marriage lasted only eight months and according to salinger's daughter forever afterwards salinger referred to sylvia as saliva. which will go down in history as the kindest possible way to insult a nazi. in 1951, salinger released the catcher in the try, the story of an adolescent named holden caulfield who skipped out in school, heads to the big city, where he goes to a jazz bar

my name is miriam [inaudible]. i'm a member and staff at the arab organizing resource center and we provide immigration services, largely for the arab community. although our work load convinces us otherwise we serve only a small percentage of the immigration communities immigrated into the city. with that said the number of cases we do receive that are complicated with s-com shows the larger systemic problem at hand and cases are interrupted with traffic violations and sentences are extended and deportation could be to a country the united states doesn't recognize or maybe doing drone strikes. this is product of work done on the grass roots and legal and representative levels and it's our responsibilities as advocates of direct democracy in

he was very sweet and he told me to give my love to brother edward and sister miriam and he said i want to tell you something. do not ever let the strange black man into your house. tavis: even if he is wearing a three-piece black suit. >> very funny. tavis: i thought that was a funny story. with her book "looking for palestine." great cover photo. that is our show for tonight. thanks for watching. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a abrahms.ion with j.j. the man charged with rebooting "star trek" and "star wars." that is next time. we will see you then.♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs.

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. >>> still with me,, joining me now is miriam elder.russian proposal? does vladimir putin have the diplomatic way out, or is this a way of jerking around the americans, of delaying cover for assad? putin earlier today said that in order to get any chemical weapons agreement, the u.s. must renounce strikes. this will only mean anything if they tell us they are giving up their plan to use force against syria. can't really ask any other country to disarm all military action is being contemplated. what do you think his plan is here? >> i think that the ultimate goal of the russians hasn't changed. it's still stands in contrast of what they want to see. they want to see them stay. nothing has changed that. that remains the case. i think russia is in a way stalling for time. they do want to put off a u.s. military strike. it seems they have seized upon the perfect moment. obama doesn't really want to deal with this. congress doesn't want to deal with this. everybody is passing the buck to the russians. one of the goals of the putin regime is

. ♪ >>> still with me,, joining me now is miriam elder.russian proposal? does vladimir putin have the diplomatic way out, or is this a way of jerking around the americans, of delaying cover for assad? putin earlier today said that in order to get any chemical weapons agreement, the u.s. must renounce strikes. this will only mean anything if they tell us they are giving up their plan to use force against syria. can't really ask any other country to disarm all military action is being contemplated. what do you think his plan is here? >> i think that the ultimate goal of the russians hasn't changed. it's still stands in contrast of what they want to see. they want to see them stay. nothing has changed that. that remains the case. i think russia is in a way stalling for time. they do want to put off a u.s. military strike. it seems they have seized upon the perfect moment. obama doesn't really want to deal with this. congress doesn't want to deal with this. everybody is passing the buck to the russians. one of the goals of the putin regime is

this is miriam hernandez reporting for abc news. >>> a financial headline, the plunge prices at the gas national average is 3 340i7b $9 a ganl, that dropped five cents in the last week. drivers are paying 33 cents less than last year and analysts predict the trend will continue as fears of the middle east and syria appear to be easing. >>> anyone who knows anything about abc's "dancing with the stars" knows the former nfl players have done well on the show. >> very true. but ladies and gentlemen, that was not the case this season. no, no, no. last night was latin night on the show and the dancing was done it was going to be either keyshawn johnson or bill engvall and their partners who would be sent home. >> you guessed it. it was johnson who was sent packing. he is thanking his partner and called ate pleasure to be on the show. yes, i will say for the record we were like guessing. we had no intelligence. we had not seen anything yet but we picked our favorites beginning of the season and i said i bet keyshawn can really move. >> because of the history of nfl players on the show. >> her

miriam hernandez reports from los angeles. >> reporter: michael jackson's hopes for a series of comeback of testimony, a jury received instructions about determining potential civil liability for the star's death. >> i think we put on the best evidence we could put on. i think we put on an extremely compelling case. >> reporter: attorneys for katherine jackson claimed aeg contracted conrad murray, the doctor who supplied an illegal dose of propofol to his patient. the defense -- >> it didn't happen. >> reporter: with the instructions, the jury has a legal roadmap to lead to a verdict. the first question could end the case entirely. did aeg hire dr. conrad murray? a no and the case is over. the jury has three other choices including an option that aeg and michael jackson both hired the doctor. aeg says its motive was to facilitate jackson's wishes, providing payment for the doctor until the cash-strapped pop idol was making money again. >> there's no way we can fire michael jackson's doctor. just we can't do that. we couldn't hire him. we couldn't fire him. that's for him to do. >> report