i was flatout in the mud. i woke up in the mud. that was cool.raditional tough mudder beer in hand, we toasted ourselves, and the toughest mud. a bunch of muddy, freezing but satisfied customers. i should have gone to miami. for "nightline," i'm matt gutman, in phoenix, arizona. >> way to go, matt. thanks for doing that for us. >>> just ahead, actress tilda swinton sets the record straight about those open relationship swinton sets the record straight about those open relationship rumors. ourney continues across the golden state, swinton sets the record straight about those open relationship rumors. where everyone has been unbelievably nice. mornin'. i guess i'm helping them save hundreds on car insurance. it probably also doesn't hurt that i'm a world-famous advertising icon. cheers! i mean, who wouldn't want a piece of that? geico. ah... fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent oh dear... or more on car insurance. [ male announcer ] red lobster's four course seafood feast is back. get soup, salad, cheddar bay biscuits, dessert and choose

the street and we had to dig our steps out of the mud.t's nothing big, but still, like i say, it's a matter of time. >> reporter: i also have calls into east bay mud about the slide and what they know about it. haven't heard back yet. oakland public works drepartmen, they're telling me neighbors are best eyes and ears to trim trees and take care of mud problems. also suggesting to go on their website and let them know if you see any problemses. reporting live in oakland, christie smith. back to you guys in san jose. >> great job out there. thank you very much. >>> are the rainy conditions going to stick around? let's check in with christina loren in the nbc bay area weather center. good morning. >> good morning. looks like rain showers are starting to subside. live to our doppler radar. you can see where showers are coming down, widely scattered and very, very light. we have a little bit of activity here in south bay. but overall, showers are clearing out nicely. as we head throughout 4:00 p.m., we'll continue to see it isolated activity

it pulled them into the mud. into an expansion and spread of the mud and that is what the voters are registering. this is politics. >> if you had the money run by the campaign, instead of the super pacs, you would get a better quality of candidate as well. the candidate wants to be in control of his own message. >> now they have the deniability. and it is phony but -- hey, i had nothing do with that. and the people running it are their former aides. >> and it is obviously ridiculous and congress ought to lift though limits. >> limits on these campaign limits, colin in a way reduced political accountability? >> oh, they have, for sure, but lesson number 2, you know, people talk about this as they are driving some sort of loophole here but the real reality is that the loophole is the first amendment, and, the machinations you are seeing remain the result of the restriction on campaign finance, not the new freedoms we are seeing. >> okay. thank you, still ahead, the first big labor fight of the year is taking shape

>> reporter: i had a -- i had to move a piece of mud. that's why we had difficulty.n the middle of o.co. sho sho shoveling in 500 truck loads of dirt. that is a -- these guys can come out here tomorrow and compete in the monster energy ama supercross. chad reed won the event last weekend in l.a., congratulations to you. >> thank you. >> i look at this, i look to me as layperson, this is terrifying to be out here. i look at how much hang time on the big jumps. you're not afraid. is there anything you're afraid? >> we're all afraid at some extent. we're all professionals have we've been doing this since we've been little kids. it's like walking. you know how to make a step, you know how to do a jump. >> i watched one of the colleagues do a jump you're getting two seconds of hang time. is that enough for a smoke break, able to think about the deeper meaning of life? >> i wish we had a water bottle. i mean it's a blast out here. we're having fun. today's no stress at all. we can play around a little bit. today, you're seeing us in our element. >> what's the defense betwe

>>reporter: east bay mud took more than an hour to cap the flow. business owners here had lots of questions about repai repairs. >> how long is this going to take because people bringing in artwork to be framed or picking it up is seriously hampered because of parking and just even getting in my front door. >>reporter: right now right in front of that man's frame and art store here on the corner, they are using pump to get out the water. vacuum to suck out the dirt and sand as they try to get to where that break in the pipe is. there is some water damage in some of the businesses as you heard along here. it appears to be minor at this point and again, traffic is flowing freely but east bay mud says they still have no idea yet what caused the break in the first place. downtown berkeley, leslie, abc 7 news. >> thank you leslie gentleman in oakland tonight police releasing new information about the somewhating death of gabriel martinez. the 5-year-old boy was gunned down last friday while helping his dad outside the family taco stand. the gunman had j

>>reporter: east bay mud took more than an hour to cap the flow. business owners here had lots of questions about repai repairs. >> how long is this going to take because people bringing in artwork to be framed or picking it up is seriously hampered because of parking and just even getting in my front door. >>reporter: right now right in front of that man's frame and art store here on the corner, they are using pump to get out the water. vacuum to suck out the dirt and sand as they try to get to where that break in the pipe is. there is some water damage in some of the businesses as you heard along here. it appears to be minor at this point and again, traffic is flowing freely but east bay mud says they still have no idea yet what caused the break in the first place. downtown berkeley, leslie, abc 7 news. >> thank you leslie gentleman in oakland tonight police releasing new information about the somewhating death of gabriel martinez. the 5-year-old boy was gunned down last friday while helping his dad outside the family taco stand. the gunman had j

>> i'm done. >> a little bit of mud but a real tough mudder licks the mud off his legs. >> licks? >> there you go. >> yes, you pay to do this. >> do you have to pay to do this, or does someone pay you. people would have to pay me. >> people thought they could run through the wires but grown men were getting zapped and dropped to the ground. tell us a little more what it felt like to get through the entire 12 1/2 miles. >> i wanted a challenge. it would be a good way to accomplish fitness goals. >> is one of your fitness goals to get shocked 21 times. >> i was lucky and probably only got shocked eight times. >> only. >> i can say i made it through standing up. >> what other things do you have to go through during this competition. >> they like to make you uncomfortable. about a mile, mile and a half into it you're wet, muddy, then you get hit with the first ice bath. >> tell us what you get at the end of this. >> this is it. the glory. you get a mudder head band, which is pretty sweet and i'm happy to have. >> at number seven, a tough sport with an opponent of glass and steel. >> y

>> analysts are worried the mud slinging is doing more hard than good to the family. melanie alnwick has more on where the candidates stand. >> reporter: a new nbc poll out sunday morning showed mitt romney regaining his momentum in florida. still, gingrich said it will be close. >> two polls showed santorum and i collectively are bigger than romney. but romney beats me if we split the vote. >> reporter: appears the performances are making a difference. candidates have taken the stage 19 times already, with three more debates ahead of super tuesday. senator john mccain, thinks it's time for a curtain call. >> we have to stop the debates. enough with the debates. they are driving up our candidates, all of them, unfavorabilities. >> reporter: on fox news sunday -- >> yeah, it's the heat of battle and saying things they probably shouldn't be saying. what matters at the end of the day, we're running against president obama, not each other. >> reporter: and the president's guy, sees a protracted republican race helping the democrats. >> when we had a long primary process w

it attracts mud and dirt like a magnet. >> the mud outside.ur families got down and dirty. all in the name of testing, of course. then they got stepping. >> i can still see mud. >> for karen, it was no different than any other mat. >> mom disappointed. >> all of the fibers have completely fallen off of the rug. >> and deidre didn't like the mess that it left in her washing machine. that's pretty disgusting. >> look at that mud. >> reporter: but beth and her family did get a clean step from their mat. >> not one bit of mud off the rug itself. it seems like it worked. >> reporter: she decided to the clean step mat mom approved. finally, after all this testing, our moms worked up an appetite. what better to test than the express, redi set go cooker. >> fry and bake and grill with just one appliance. it was steak night at karen's house. >> yummy. >> deidre went for dessert. >> pineapple outside-in cake. we'll see how it looks when it comes out. >> and beth got the whole family involved. >> is it fun? >> yeah. >> for beth, the product wasn't expres

the east bay mud in cooperation with the city of hayward agreed to connect our respective water supply systems by jointly contracting -- constructing and operating a pumping system and lrelated water pipelines. the project was completed in 2007. after the commencement of construction, they applied for and won a grant in the amount of $2.5 million. the share of the 2.5 million was received in 2011, and is 1.1 million. this resolution retroactively authorizes the spfpcu to except and authorize the money from the san francisco department of public health from the east bay intertype project. the resolution also wait the requirement of indirect costs, because the grant requirements do not permit it. finally, the grant required matching funds, which came up from the water system improvement program. the work done in the project was weak reconstructed the station in the city of hayward. installed pipelines to connect the station to east bay mud and installed other pipeline improvements. the reason why this item is retroactive is because the grant was applied for and accepted and funded after

bay mud pipe broke which cause the hill to slide.e hashing out who is going to pay for the repair, there could be further erosion which could affect my house. >>pam: the department of public works say engineers are still trying to the trouble caused the landslide. >>jaqueline: plenty of moisture on the grounds. we will see temperatures in the 30's in a few places. into the afternoon, temperatures are warming up nicely. upper 50s and los '60s around the bay area. >> officials determined it was too dangerous for people to be on the pier. signs were posted to warn people of the possibility of waves crashing over the railing. crashed after crash and/after/, the ocean swells reached the stores. what makes the waves even more remarkable is that this is low tide. look tired or not, the waves were moving in for the show. it was a fantastic shelling of the power of the oceans purify the spectacle of nature was in full force on monday and even brought this helicon to the pier. >>stanley: coming up, i will show you what washed downstream after

. >>> wmbs news in myrtle beach, south carolina, mud slinging doesn't involve mud but sand. a hundred women from a local democrat group showed up yesterday to tear down a giant sand castle featuring the likeness of republican presidential candidates. they used pink shovels and a bulldozer to obliterate the artwork. republicans who paid for this sculpture are not amused but organizers say it was all meant in good fun. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. we're starting out with some low clouds and fog. this will clear up by this afternoon. it will be murky this morning. everybody is above the freezing point. clearing and mild with a high temperature around 52 degrees. that is almost 10 degrees above average. the seven forecast in just a few minutes. >> 42 degrees on tv hill. a controversial supreme court ruling about how law-enforcement does their job. >> the state of the union. the speech is tonight. a preview. >> governor martin o'malley releases

. >> how did this man and up stuck in mud up to his waist? see the rescue. >> are you buy in girl scout cookies this year? >> a 14-year-old girl is calling on other girl scouts to boycott selling cookies. she is obsessed with the girl scouts for allowing a transgendered child into the group. people have some strong reactions to this story. the-a bear it is in the newsroom. >> it is a big issue -- natasha barrett is in the newsroom. >> it is a big issue. local mothers of girls dolls are speaking out. >> in october of 2011 -- >> the girl scouts are turning 100 years old this year. >> girl scouts admitted they allowed transgendered boy. >> this california teenager is calling for a boycott of crosscut cookies because the girl scouts admitted a seven- year-old transgendered child to a colorado trip in november. we talked to a mother of a girl scout in alexandria. per daughter is about to start selling cookies. >> these transgendered individuals, they are not trying to hurt anybody. they just want to develop as their own individual. they should be

. >>> wmbs news in myrtle beach, south carolina, mud slinging doesn't involve mud but sand. a hundred women from a local democrat group showed up yesterday to tear down a giant sand castle featuring the likeness of republican presidential candidates. they used pink shovels and a bulldozer to obliterate the artwork. republicans who paid for this sculpture are not amused but organizers say it was all meant in good fun. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >>> 4:28 and 44 degrees. warmer than it has been, but you can still see the haze and fog. low hanging clouds on this 24th day of january. good morning you to, i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this tuesday, january 24, 2012. today, d.c. police chief kathy lanier will testify before a house subcommittee about the occupy d.c. encampment in mcpherson square. congressman darrell issa who chairs the government reform she and holding the meeting. in the past he's said he wanted protesters removed from federal lands because of concern about rats and damage

installed pipelines to connect the station to east bay mud and installed other pipeline improvements. the reason why this item is retroactive is because the grant was applied for and accepted and funded after the construction was approved. supervisor chiu: just to clarify, there are no new positions being created and the 1 million matching amount is in the fiscal year 2012 budget? >> that is correct. supervisor chiu: we do not have a budget analyst comment. i want to open this up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a motion by supervisor avalos to send a recommendation forward with recommendations. item two. >> resolution authorizing the recreation and parks department to retroactively except and extend a gift in place valued at up to $480,250 from the trust for public land for the glen canyon park improvement plan and other related art reached process. in >>> good morning, supervisor my name is karen at their recreation and parks department. today before you is a grant that you'd add over $480,000 from trust for public land, which assisted in the glen p

. >> came up covered in mud, moss and funk. >> we saw this video.mpressed he was able to swim to the edge. he couldn't see anything with all that stuff over his face. like he was wearing an algae snuggy. the cherry on top is the toothless grin. >> i don't think he's toothless. i think that's mud. >> did he lose his teeth going head-first into six inches of water? he's trying to become the swamp thing. >> remember how i told you about g chelsea gill, she wrote a song for jason siegel to get a date. her song was seen by jason siegel. he said i'm really honored. let me think about it. guess what? >> what? >> they met. >> already? they already met? >> they've met. look at that p ipicture right there. that's jason siegel. one of those girls is chelsea. she has a twin. to tell us how this all went down via skype, we have chelsea at this minute. >> my gosh. okay. so his publicist contacted me saturday morning, actually, you know, saying, hey, we're in town. he wants to know if you want to go to the awards show. i'm like, no, let me just clear my schedule.

crews have been working but are quick to point out east bay mud's fast water pipeline covers more than 4200 miles and is decades old, and they're to be expected. >> replacing one mile of pipe is $5 million. >> charles hardy says that each year, east bay mud replaces six to eight miles of pipe and it's not until a pipe breaks that immediate problems are known and move to the front of the line. >> there is very small fraction so most goes into a quick response. >> there is a quick response that is necessary. you may be asking yourself who pays for these? the customers do. in berkeley abc 7 news. >> and several tons of card board blocked evening commute for people heading between south bay and san joaquin valley. this big rig flipped over. it happened on highway 152. it's about two miles east of gilroy. fuel apparently leaked from the truck. the driver escaped with just a hurt shoulder. and chp hopes to have it reopened shortly. >> one police officer suffered injuries in at least three others needed to get checked out after a suspected car jacker rammed several patrol cars. today's events

involve mud, but it does involve sand. 100 women from a local democrat group showed up yesterday toear down a giant sandcastle featuring the likeness of republican presidential candidates. they used pink shovels and a bulldozer to obliterate the work. republicans who paid for the sculpture leading up to the south carolina primary are not amused, but organizers said it was all meant in good fun. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> an art installation in london hopes to brighten up commuters' days. a large man made orange ball of light is helping with winter blues in trafalgar square. some are even taking a seat to soak in the rays. what's normally a dreary time of year, residents say the ball gives off heat that's welcomed in the dog days of winter. >>> well, christmas may be long over, but in astonia, there's one thing left to do. light all the christmas trees in fire. you can send your dried up decoration to this art project that's become something of a tradition. sculptors torched over a thousand trees. >>> finally,

and east bay mud has the lights on and settled in to work for the night. no evacuations have been ordered, but i talk to a few residents who tell me that they are without running water. noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in other parts the bay area certainly took a hit yesterday. where business owners had to take precautions against flooding. >>> it's an upset in south carolina as newt gingrich and craig boswell is live in charleston, south carolina and everyone wants to know, craig, how did gingrich pull this off? >> reporter: ken, good evening to you. who would have predicted in a week ago with mitt romney in a double-digit lead here in south carolina. a couple of things happened. no. 1, newt gingrich' performance in two debates, monday night and thursday night. he has been building his campaign on the debates. he had strong performance on monday night in myrtle beach and this past thursday night in south carolina, where he just absolutely knocked that first question out of the park. many people believed he not only won the debate with that answer t

the man sunk in the mud where a large lake had been drained. prince george's county collapse team rushed into the scene and laid down some boards and pulled the man to safety. >>> if you get a call saying you need to pay your pep cobill using a potential prepaid credit card. this is a cam. that's your arrange -- scam. that's your warning. pepco says nearly two dozen customers have received a call. they're told their electricity will be shut off unless they pay using a green dot visa card. customers are told to call another number where personal information is obtained and money take fran the card. pepco says you need to remember this, its agents will always be able to give you the name on the account, the address and the past due balance. the fbi and secret service are investigating this scam. >>> now here's a deal that is real. thousands of dollars worth of help to bring down the heating bill. prince george's county department of housing and community development is offering free assistance to eligible households. an energy autoforwill come to

. >> east bay mud crews have been here all evening long, trying to repair a water main that broke as a result they say of the road collapsing. you can see here behind me the crews are still here at this late hour. i'm told at least 55 homes here are still without water service. crews worked late into the night trying to repair a four-inch water main that runs under oakdale drive. the water main broke when early saturday morning ooeps bay mud says heavy rain caused the ground to give way on this winding road. and at least 50 feet of pavement and a huge tree fell down a steep slope landing on the roadway below. >> we've got 4,200 miles of pipe under ground. and hillsides like this and flats and everywhere else are the other. >> reporter: resident mark spandorf took these photos. another looking up, another showing the trees and debris that came crashing down. as dramatic as the pictures are, people who live here say they're not surprised and something similar happened in the late '90s. they're just thankful no one was hurt. >> we have lived here for 17 years and it happened on snake, p

he is trying to restore its full mud glory with the kremlin king to reform the armed forces. those are the headlines here and up next it's the story of a catastrophic environmental disaster and the second part of our special report called tal creek you're watching us. we're right at the eight hundred foot elevation level right here and a lot of. mine discharges are coming. right at the foot. and you can tell that when the the red water mixes with the clear water that's the difference. although this looks clear it's still got a lot of metals in it because it's discharging out the chad. the sides of the mine that has the minerals in it are submerged beneath the water and it's isolated from oxygen oxygen is the key. back when they're first filling up there was a lot of oxygen available in the mines and that was causing oxidation of the mantle which in turn creates basically sulfur so here you have torque creek which starts up in kansas runs through the mining bill becomes contaminated down that which is just south of picher it then rooms on the east side of commerce runs through

we wants to run a campaign where he drowns me in mud with money he raises from people foreclosing floridians. i think he has a lot of gall to start raising the issue. i think we ought to find out, so how much money has he made over the years foreclosing on floridians. >> now aside from the personal attacks and i'm sure we'll hear enough of that in the debate, hasn't the president really changed the conversation? because now we have them talking about foreclosures. we have them talking about the economy. hasn't the president really began making them come back to what the american people are really concerned about? >> well, there's not a lot of times i'd say i'd agree with newt gingrich. mitt romney does have a lot of nerve talking about foreclosures. not only because he invested $500,000 in fannie and freddie, but because a few months ago, remember reverend al he said he didn't think we should do anything to help people remain in their homes. we should just let the housing crisis hit rock bottom and let investors come in and scoop up the properties and sell them for a profit. the other day he

. >>> coming up fox 5 morning news sunday a man trapped in mud for more than 3 days?we will tell you how students on a field trip came to his rescue. >>> plus, springsteen fans dying for tickets get a major dispointment again. now some are saying it is ticket masters fault. we will be right back with that story ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ...northrop grumman's security solutions are invisibly at work, protecting people's lives... [ soldier ] move out! [ male announcer ] ...without their even knowing it. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. >>> making headlines police are investigating the death of three people found in a home in me canticsville one victim is a 40-year-old man the other two, 3-year-old twin girls they are all related but they have not yet said how they died at this point the deaths have been deemed suspicious. >>> a man trapped in mud in new mexico is recovering after being trap first-degreer more than three days. a -- trapped for more than three days a

. >>> stuck in the mud.ed in clinton, maryland after getting trapped in a waist deep mud. this happened at the regional park. the lake there had been mostly drained and the worker somehow got stuck in the gooey mud. rescue crews laid down large pieces of plywood to reach the man. he was able to climb out with the help of a rescuer and a shovel. >>> health concerns for actress heather locklear. >> still ahead, an update on her condition after she was rushed to the hospital. we're checking more headlines coming up next.  >>> check be headlines this morning, actress heather locklear is in the hospital. emergency crews rushed to her home after receiving a 911 call. she was taken by ambulance to a california hospital where she spent the night. there has been no public release as to why the actress is there but reports suggest she may have mixed alcohol with prescription drugs. >>> more than six years after she went missing in aruba, a judge has finally declared natalee holloway legally dead. the 1

. >>> a troubling prediction from east bay mud.we should expect to see more water main breaks like the one that flooded a berkeley street this week. east bay mud's aging water distribution system covers more than 4200 miles with pipes this old, breaks are to be expected. this business owner's basement was nearly flooded monday night. >> all of the other drain pipes and the other things leading from the street, none of that has been done in years and years. i don't think it has ever been redone since it was built. >>> east bay mud spokesperson says utility replaces six to eight miles of pipe each other when one breaks it moves to the top of the list. the fix costs five million dollars to replace one mile of pipe. >> more water coming out of those water main breaks than the skies. >> minimal compared to where we should be and where we were last year. snow pack came in 19 to 20%. some figures that i saw varies depending on what region know it is very low so are our rain totals a fog around novato 3/4 mile visibility there. the rest of

>>reporter: this break is most recent in a string of emergency repair forest bay mud. on december 17 a water main break in san pablo on the 27th a water main break in downtown walnut creek caused daniel to crate and barrel store. on the 28th a break in san leandro. on new year's day this water main break near the hercules rodeo border shut off service to 2 large industrial plants. crew have been working to repair the daniel but quick to point out that he is bay mud distribution pipeline covers more than 4200 miles. it is decades old and breaking pipeline are to be expected. >> to replace 1 mile of pipe is 5 million dollars. >>reporter: he's spokesman forest bay mud and says each year they replace 6 to 8 males of pipe and it's not until a pipe breaks that immediate problems are known and move to the front of the repair priority line. >> 6 to 8 miles of pipe out of 4200 miles of pipe is very small fraction. so most of our effort there's go into quick response. >>reporter: quick rae response is necessary because the goal is to reduced a national damage to the pipeline. ma

mud paid for with special interest money, mud paid for by lobbyists in washington, and a candidate who was willing to say anything and do anything, because he's so desperate to be president, he doesn't think the truth matters. we're not going to beat barack obama with some guy who has swiss bank accounts, cayman island accounts, owns shares of goldman sachs, while forecloses on florida, and is, himself, a stockholder in fannie mae and freddie mac while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together to understand what this is all about. >> wow. newt gingrich may have the whole republican establishment lined up against him, but here's the thing. he doesn't need their money and republican voters may be in an anti-establishment kind of mood, thank you very much. republican voters are not in love with mitt romney, no matter how much the establishment is. and frankly, what newt gingrich is saying there about mitt romney, mitt romney maybe not being such a safe bet for republicans, maybe not being a good guy to put up against barack obama, newt gingrich kind of has a

dug into a hillside when a wall of mud slacollapsed.s tells us that no one should have been in the trench to begin with. last wednesday building department issue add stop work notice because of rains and the lack of shoring that made the hillside dangerous. but the city said that the contractor out of fremont ignored that order. we have not heard back from the ownerment we understand he might be out of the country. cal osha will begin an investigation that they tell us will take four to six months. >> bob, thanks. san francisco city leaders are suing two markets. they say the stores are havens for drug dealers and shoplifters who resell stolen goods from a walgreen's. the suit claims drug dealers are ayou lowed to conduct business inside and outside of the two markets. a worker at one denies these claims. >> police are looking into a rare home invasion in a bay area neighborhood. an armed robber stole more than $300,000 of watches and jewelry from an atherton road on friday night. the owners were home but unheard after recording $100 in

a man stuck in the mud of the rio grande river in new mexico has been rescued. students on a field trip heard him moaning for help. he was checked out by paramedics and -- listen to this -- taken into custody by police for an outstanding warrant. >> what is worse? to be stuck to their or arrested? the ground was still soft. we are almost out of january. >> i keep checking the calendar. >> and guess what? >> you have that look. what's more warm temperatures in the forecast this week, but right now would is typical. 44 at >> your insta-weather + forecast. >> we are seeing a trend here. nice and mild on friday. 10 degrees colder saturday. 10 degrees colder today. will we stay down there? i do not know. this sets the stage for the next weather disturbance coming in. the air is really, really dry on this side of the mountains. this is moving along at a good clip. even at this was all snow, it would not have a chance to accumulate much. a lot of us will be eaten up by the dry air across the mountains. it will not look as impressive as it comes through during the eveni

stomp a mud hole apparently that's a term that means kicking somebody until they can't get up so now you know a little bit more about this man's character let's go back to the bill is there any violations would be handled by issuing a monetary fine and the enforcers would rely on the person's birth certificate to make sure the bathroom users were born the sex that they claim to be so does floyd want to put a papers check in place in public bathrooms to ensure that people are of the proper sex and using those facilities i mean how the hell do you plan to enforce something like that a skirt check match your birth certificate and our they're not going to be policing the bathrooms to make sure that no transgender individuals actually try to break those laws it's truly insane and if the bills passed there are people going to start carrying their birth certificates as well as their driver's license just because they need to use a bathroom read enough is enough with tennessee is literally piling up with legislation on l g b t is disgusting but thankfully we have a little bit of good news to