narrator: oceans cover 75% of the earth's surface and impact life on our planet in profound ways. the tropical pacific spanning almost half the earth's circumference triggers el niÑo events affecting storm tracks rainfall and temperatures across the globe. on a quieter but no less important scale, the tropical oceans are teeming with what may be the smallest and most abundant organisms on earth. microscopic phytoplankton are the base of the food chain on which much ocean life depends. both processes are only partially understood, yet they each have far-reaching effects on ocean systems and ultimately on the habitability of our planet for human life. fertilized by the upwelling of a cold, nutrient-rich current, the coastal waters of peru and ecuador bring an abundant and dependable harvest to the fishermen of south america. but, mysteriously, every few years, this cold current is replaced by warm waters severely depleting the fish population. this warmer current appearing usually around christmas time became known as el niÑo, or the christ child. but what the fishermen didn't know was that the local ph

and in fact i see a photograph today taken from the air well recently in which the water in the pacific ocean is actually appearing to boil well it's not boiling but you can certainly see that it's hot steam is coming off the surface there's a fog condensing over the area of the of the ocean close to the reactors which means that hot water is getting into the pacific that means something is fissioning very close to the pacific and it's not inside the reactors it must be outside of the reactors in my opinion but short of the international nuclear industry should it come to help well before this shouldn't it yes they should not i'm not this is this is not a local affair this is this is an international affair i couldn't say why it hasn't i mean that i think they're all hoping that nothing will happen no ping it will all go away and keeping their fingers crossed but from the beginning it was quite clear that it was very serious and there was no way in which it was not going to get very bad and now it seems to have suddenly got very bad i think they should start considering if that graph i see is

>>> some of the water may have made its way to the pacific ocean. they began dismantling the tank this week. they discovered five bolts holding steel plates together at the bottom of the tank were loose. they say that probably caused the leak. still, they plan to check rusty plates and deformed resins in case the water also escaped there. fukushima daiichi has more than. 300 tanks all holding radioactive water. but they say they can't check or re-enforce them or replace them all at the same sometime. the governor of to goy is not so sure everything is under control. >> translator: prime minister abe said that the this situation is under control but that's not necessarily the case. the important thing is that the prime minister expressed his determination to deal with the problems. >> governor says the prime minister's assessment helped allay concerns about the leaks and he said he expects the abe administration to do all it can to solve the problem. >>> government officials have highlighted yet another concern about fukushima daiichi and other nucle

all four engines temporarily stopped when it was over the pacific ocean. defense ministry officials say a sudden slow-down in speed lowers fuel intake and leads to unsteady combustion. they say engineers will modify the software controlling the engines to maintain a steady fuel supply. they hope to resume flights in october after conducting tests on the ground. >>> in italy, cabinet ministers from the center right party led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi have resigned amid deepening rifts between the coalition parties. a spokesperson for deputy prime minister angelino alfano said saturday all the five cabinet ministers from berlusconi's people of freedom party are resigning. parliamentary debate begins soon on whether to remove berlusconi from his legislative seat. he was convicted of tax evasion. his party has asked its coalition partner, the center left democratic party, to expose expulsion of the former prime minister from parliament but the democrats are unwilling to do so. the two parties have also been at odds over an increase in value-ad

some of it has reached the pacific ocean and there are continued toafortsz try to keep the made -- erchts t efforts too keep the main body of water, international are experts says tetco's current solution is untenable. >> there is a main challenge for disposition of that water. in my view it's unsustainable to indefinitely for a decade long multidecade long process to basically continue to hold that water in tanks. >> so tepco and the japanese government must do something to relieve the pressure on these storage tanks. international knowledge association says they should allow the pressure to be released. joanna blundell, al jazeera,. >>> protests against july coup, about a dozen others were injured when fights broke out between protesters and residents. >> ross shimabuku is here with sports and history making day on the golf course. >> friday the 13th? i don't think so, lucky day by jim furyk, he tied a pga record by shooting a 59. 11 birdies and an eagle to become the sixth player to ever shoot that magical 59. furyk is sitting pretty at 11 under par and tied with the leader, brant sned

some of it has reached the pacific ocean.re continued efforts to try to keep the main body of contamination away from groundwater. but with hundreds of thousands of liters being used to cool the reactors every day. one international expert says the turned solution is untenable. >> there is a major challenge ahead for disposition of that water. in my view, it's unsustainable to indefinitely for a multi-decade long process to basically continue to hold that water in tanks. >> reporter: so the japanese government must do something to relieve the pressure on the storage tanks. international advisers have told them they should allow a controlled release of the water in to the ocean. joann, a ajoanna, al jazerra. >> gunfire can still be held in the philippines just hours after rebels agreed to a ceasefire. a 5-day standoff looks to be nearing an end on friday with a successful meeting between the leader of a muslim rebel group and the country's surprise vyce president but everybody after both partys agreed to a truth by saturday mo

scientists may a huge new discovery at the bottom of the pacific ocean. a volcano! we would tell you more about that. >> it is good to be on tv these days, will have the richest woman making money on a small screen. >> welcome back the time is 6:40 a.m.. scientists have discovered one of the largest and oldest volcanoes in the solar system. this is a digital image to show you the volcano, named tamu massif. researchers from texas a&m university and university of houston founded at the floor of the pacific ocean. it is about all the miles east of japan. did this, it covers $120 a square miles, an area about the size of new mexico. the volcano is also 145 l old but is no longer active. >> it pays to be on a hit tv comedy. for the second year in a row, sofia vergara tops forbes magazine's list of the highest paid tv actresses. she earned about $30 million last year. a big chunk comes from our role on " modern family ". but she also has several endorsement deals. >> kaley cuoco of the " the big bang theory " is tied for second place with " law and order: suv " mariska h

not the same out in the pacific ocean. a super typhoon -- this is super typhoon usagi. this was a category five typhoon. it will be a category one when it makes landfall somewhere near hong kong. usagi, which i think means "rabbit" in japanese. monday and tuesday, highs in the 70's. >> now 11 sports with steve goldberg. >> if the orioles match their play from the last series, i.e. the winning series, they will surely i'm themselves in a great spot. if not, if they lose against tampa, the playoffs almost certainly will go on without the orioles. so, big weekend. they tried to reverse the season-long fortunes against the rays. four-run -- to that that is one of those few bang your head against the wall moments this season. back-to-back series this season, and we will see tonight. jason price. the american league wildcard standards. the rays are in now. semester senior with enough credits to graduate, but o's, there they are. enshrinement for ray lewis as he gets the ring of honor for the game against the texans. questionable, but we know he is going to play though. week t

just south of here is some also rock where the san andreas fault goes into the pacific ocean. this is closest to the san andreas fault. many people believe that the closer you are to default, the greater the ground motion might be. that is a portion that is a south westerly portion of san francisco that has some special earthquake hazards. we are here to talk about the geology of this area. why don't you tell us about what is going on? >> there is a giant step here at the edge of the escarpment, the edge of the landslide. all the land to the west of us is part of a landslide that is upwards of 200 feet deep. it goes underneath the ocean. it causes damage and it was mapped by the earliest geologists'. there are many kinds of rocks here. there is a big sequence of merced formation. this is a base in deposit that was formed by the interaction at the end of the continental margin. >> this is just on top. this is the same material that we were looking at at the last site. you can see it is on our way to the last side. it is deposited here by wind. it is 40-50 feet thick. this acts

tijuana, mexico, on the border with the united states and close to the pacific ocean. it is one of the busiest border crossings in the world. every day, 50,000 cars and 25,000 pedestrians pass through here. around 300 iegal immigrants from various latin american countries cross daily dreaming of a better life in the u.s. migrantshe illegal deported back to mexico end up here on the riverbed of the canal. almost all have the same wish. >> i want to go back to the other side. nothing else. but you have to be careful they do not catch you when you cross. next time there is fog, i am gone. i will go back to my friends in san diego. >> the canal lies next to the border fence. it leaves a lasting impression on visitors to tijuana. people livedeported in holes in the ground or crude shelters, no more welcome here than they were across the border. she lived happily in the u.s. for years until authorities apprehended her. she was sent back to a country she hardly knew with no money or papers. me with a 20-ened year prison sentence if i tried to cross the border again. what am i

we lost the tropical heat and humidity and replaced it with typical pacific ocean cool sea breeze moving afternoon, we see the sea breeze strengthen around 2:00, 3:00. helping that a weather system passing by to north that's going to give us a bit of a brief cooldown, a stronger sea breeze over the next two days. as the sea breeze starts to shut down, warmer air settle into the valleys. well into the 90s. starting friday, and likely peaking at saturday with upper 90s inland. 70 and 80s comfortably mile near the beaches. turning breezy, south bay, northwest wins picking up around 4:00. 83 santa cruz. tri-valley see the warmest temperatures, mid-80s around pleasanton and sunol, towards fairfield. 68 in san francisco. 70s around oakland. gorgeous baseball weather with the a's game at 12:35. mild temperatures through thursday. friday, numbers jump up. they're jumping up big time for the weekend. mid to upper 90s. late summer heat wave, 70s near the coast and cooling next week. by then we'll be hoping for the fog to come back in and cool us off. >> by then. i'm hoping for it now to cool off.

. >> let's move across the pacific ocean, it greg autry an entrepreneur, writing and educator focusing on china and is the senior economist for the american jobs alliance is an economist with the coalition for a prosperous america. he co-wrote with the movie death by china it has contributed to another book the china wars and will talk today on death by china -- "death by china" confrnting the dragon - a global call to action." [applause] >> thank-you. coming to the university of california in orange california i will be a usc this fall. and i rarely get a chance to look out for those who don't think i am crazy net case. also with the ideology ironclad to hear you -- to have you here. of with like to stay and it for just a moment if i could we will do something absolutely crazy we will say the pledge of allegiance. are you ready? i pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the united states of america. to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, under liberty for liberty and justice of all. did you say that in elementary school? it does matter. i don't agree 100 percent of wha

long run the only option is to filter the radiation out of the water and dump it into the nearby pacific ocean. >> you are watching bbc world news america. to to come from cuba florida with no shark cage making her journey one for the recordbooks. month ago the president of tanzania ordered the deportation of what he calls illegal immigrants in his country, many though lived their entire lives there. >> this is a scene fought hard to avoid. they were forced to leave their homes over the past month. nearly 10,000 have fled here or to neighboring uganda. they have never set food in rwanda. born to refugees, tanzania is all she has known. >> we were told if you were born there and have a birth certificate it is enough to onfirm that you are a citizen. >> it is a story repeated by many. they say they have lived there all of their life and have the paperwork to prove that. but those without an actual citizenship card were forced to leave. the government has been quick to provide services for people at this camp. there is a clinic. there is food. there is water. but the challenge is long-term, provi

some of it may have flowed into the pacific ocean. >>> official with ptepco say they began taking apartn tuesday. >>> about 350 similar tanks are installed on the ground of the plant. fishermen who work near the plant are also concerned about the leaks. members at one cooperative had planned to start catching small amounts of young fish to test for consumer interest and safety. now they say they postpone their trial to the coast. about 40 fishermen from the city agreed to delay the catch until next spring at the earliest. they say it will be too hard to convince consumers to buy the fish. they blame tepco officials for the way they've handled the leak. >> it's only natural that every fisherman is angry about the situation. >> they detected no radiation. it contained low levels of radioactive substances. they'll go ahead with trial kachlz further off shore starting later this month. >> thousands of residents are still waiting to go home. vast tracks of land are still waiting to be restored, and more than half of the fishing ports must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face c

300 tons of highly radioactive water may have leaked out and some of it may have flowed into the pacific ocean. >>> officials with tokyo electric power company say they began taking apart the tank to find out what's wrong with it. they say they'll examine the tank to identify where the leak occurred. they say the work could take several days. about 350 similar tanks are installed on the grounds of the plant. >> executives of a japanese railway company have unveiled final plans for their next generation super-speed train. the maglev will travel up to 500 kilometers per hour. central japan railway president yoshiomi yamada disclosed the route and stations. both terminals will be built under ground and there will be four stations between the cities. workers will dig new tunnels through the the mountains. the maglev service will link the cities in 40 minutes. that's about one hour less than the bullet train. the railway executives plan to extent the route to the biggest city in western japan. they hope to begin construction sometime next year and start the service in 2027. >>> top officials at the

works its way around the pacific ocean. why does this matter to you? because some of that will move down to the bay area by monday. so, a typhoon will be the source of the moisture that will be the rain at your house coming up on monday morning. what to expect? sunny, warm tomorrow. just like today, except it's the weekend. clouds will increase late in the day on sunday, setting the stage for showers. it's not going to be too heavy, but showers will be around monday. tomorrow, beautiful. san jose 81. a couple degrees warmer than today. redwood city, 81. low 80s. mid 80s for pittsburgh, san ramon, and pleasant hill. another day in the 70s. today 75. tomorrow 71. petaluma, 81. same story. cool, cloudier on sunday. two nice weekend days to get outside. monday, a little bit of rain. thank you. on tuesday, we have sunshine returning because pabook is leaving. wednesday, thursday, and friday, more sunshine. the one day with rain is monday. it's how weather works, a tropical system 4,000 miles away, give it a week and a half, that moisture can make it to the

would note that a paperxample, gave a very interesting the surfaceof how water temperatures in the pacific ocean could easily lead ld variation.e-o we feel confident in the trends. that is like the president has put forward a very strong plan to respond. first majorntly the step was revealed, the revised proposal for a new power plant, curbing controls on new power plants. as you know, a lot to the discussion on this has been around whether it has been demonstrated and whether it is feasible. when the proposal was unveiled recently, the epa highlighted , two in thelants u.s. and one in canada. all of the power plants have hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding even the one in canada. how do we go forward with this without federal subsidies? it seems you need money. you talk to these builders and they are sent without this we are not going to do it. how is this feasible without a huge investment on the part of the u.s. and taxpayers? >> i think we should emphasize this was a proposed rule for new power plants. they would come online and have 40-50 year lifetimes. this is saying that n

. >> the panama canal has connected the pacific ocean with the atlantic ocean via the carribean. >> it has been a key maritime shipping lane. the 48-mile long water way transits nearly 5% of the world's trade. >> the u.s.'s so-called canal zone up until 1999, 14 years ago used. >> panama being the only canal may change. >> the government just inked a deal to build a new canal that the connect the two major oceans, this time a chinese company would build it and then administer it, a hong kong based company called hk and d. and the ceo wang jing, a chinese telecommunications billionaire. >> the nicaragua canal will be 82 miles longer than the panama canal. at least 130 miles long and cost an estimated $40 billion to build. this map shows the likely cost and how it will be bigger than the canal. >> wong jing wants to given construction, 2015 and complete is 2019, an oddationous goal. >> let's assume the us restricts china, then china has a nicaraguian for easy access for the navy and to the atlantic and eastern seaboard of the u.s. so is the building of the nicaragua canal an issue of nat

. >> tijuana, mexico, on the border with the united states, close to the pacific ocean. busiest bordere crossings in the world. day, 50,000 cars and 25,000 pedestrians pass through here. in addition, around 300 illegal immigrants from various latin american countries crossed the border daily, dreaming of a better life in the u.s. migrantshe illegal deported back to mexico and up here, on the rubbish strewn riverbed of the rio tijuana can now. almost all have the same wish. to thent to go back other side, says this man. nothing else. but you have to be careful they don't catch you when you cross. there is fault, i'm gone. is fault, i'mhere gone. i will go back to my friends in san diego. the canal lies next to the border fence. it leaves a lasting impression on visitors to tijuana. around 2000 deported people live in holes in the ground or crude shelters, no more welcome here then across the border. this person lived happily in the u.s. for years, until the authorities apprehended her. she was sent back to a country she hardly knew, with no money and no identity papers. t

we have the deep monsoonal moisture surging in from the pacific ocean. already seeing flash flooding reported here. it still looks like throughout the rest of the week, about 100 millimeters could be falling into new mexico, out towards colorado here, as that flow continues to push in. remember, this is very dry soil. so that heavy rainfall on that is going to go straight into the dry river beds, that creates that risk of flash flooding. not just the risk there, also looking off towards the north. we have the low pressure area pushing across the great lakes now. strong thunderstorms across portions of ontario. what this is doing is bringing the weather here even farther towards the west. see this warm air flowing in from the south around the high pressure area here, that is making for extremely warm temperatures. that is also fueling up the rough weather there into the great lakes. but behind it, we have even colder air diving in behind our next cold front. what we have here is a pretty big change in temperatures throughout the rest of the week. chicago,

for most of the year, this potential shipping lane, cuts through canada from the atlantic to the pacific ocean. for the first time in history the passage recently became ice free during the summer months. if it stays that way, the distance ships have to travel from europe to parts of asia, could be cut by thousands of kilometers. billions of dollars in transportation costs could be saved. but canada has repeatedly resisted claims that the passage is part of international waters. >> as the ice melts, as the technology improves, as the international regime evolves, whats happening is the arctic ocean is becoming an ocean like any other. the challenge for the arctic states, are countries like china, japan, south korea, the european union, are saying this is becoming an iternational space...we want to participate. currently in 2012, there is push back to that idea. the us and canada similarly. have agreed to disagree about the status of the nothwest passage. the united states and other countries see the northwest passage as a stait used for inernational navigation, all vessels have a right to tran

we've lost the tropical humidity, replaced it with cooler pacific ocean or marine layer humanity that swept inland with the sea breeze and patchy, low clouds. there you see the temperature change, cooler than yesterday. the weather short term is mild, a weather system here passing by to the north. will not bring us showers but it's going it reinforce the sea breeze through tomorrow. the weekend and friday, temperatures climb up. through 8:00, 50s and 60s. lunchtime temperatures in the 0s. we'll manage 70s and 80s innland. things turning breezy by 4:00. we will see that on shore wind. keep us mile through thursday. friday and the weekend, numbers in the valleys, midst to upper 90s for the bay area for our valleys and 70s and 80s closer to the coast. >> maybe we'll be closer to the coast perhaps. >>> water's edge, i told you i'd show you a clear view of the san mateo bridge, here it is. wasn't it worth waiting for? good stuff. almost 4:40. look at that, smooth flow of traffic. san mateo bridge less popular now that the bay bridge opened without indianapolcident. hayward, smooth transiti

he was responding to concerns that some of the water of fukushima daiichi reached the pacific ocean. meanwhile, experts from the nuclear regulators are looking for active faults beneath other power plants. they're currently visiting the plant in northern japan to conduct a second on-site survey. the officials are examining distortions in the earth near faults that run underneath the compound. they believe two of them may still be active. plant operator, tohoku power company, says it has new data to prove they're not and is calling for a debate on the matter. the regulator bans power companies from operating nuclear power companies on active faults. the plant is one of four nuclear facilities where its officials are carrying out on-site surveys. they've already ruled that a reactor at another plant in central japan sits on an active fault. they also say there are no active faults at the ohi plant in the same prefecture. >>> u.s. president barack obama is trying to rally lawmakers in washington to support a military strike on syria. while he faces opposition from some members of his ow

. >>> a british woman has completed a 7,000-kilometer solo trip across the pacific ocean in a rowboatved in the u.s. state of alaska after a five-month trip that started in japan. it was sarah's second attempt to cross the pacific. she failed last year when her boat was wrecked off the coast of miyagi prefecture. the japanese coast guard rescued her. she has been trying to travel around the world riding human-powered vehicles including bicycles and kay axe. the 28-year-old adventurer left the coast in chiba prefecture on april 27th. she arrived in the alaskan city of addict on monday. high winds and strong winds caused her rowboat to capsize five times during the five-month trip and she nearly collided with a cargo trip. she suffered from burn without, but described the experience as the most intense and memorable five months of her life. >>> there is a tropical storm off the coast of japan and our meteorologist is standing by. do we in tokyo have something to worry about? very well could be expected from the tropical storm as it pulls off toward the north and the brunt of the storm s

comes amid concerns over radioactive water in the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant leaking into the pacific ocean. the head of the saenuri party, hwang woo-yea, requested the government to take further measures to protect food imports from japan. he said government officials should consider banning imports of japanese products until their safety is confirmed. south korean officials have asked japan to provide information about contaminated water leaks. fish dealers in south korea are testing imports for radioactive contamination. >>> territorial tensions between the philippines and china are heating up. philippine officials have accused china of building structures on the disputed scarborough shoal in the south china sea. but china's foreign ministry spokesperson said on wednesday that there's nothing to be sorry about. >> translator: china has a legitimate right to operate its vessels in the waters to protect its sovereignty and order. china has done nothing that warrants blame. t scarborough shoal is located about 200 kilometer west of the philippine island of luzon. philippine officials said t

peter mclagen says it's time to drop our straw into the pacific ocean. >> the problem is we have two-thirds of the rainfall in the northern part of the state and two-thirds of the population in the southern part. the disconnect between supply and demand. desalinization has become affordable. >> an 8% rate hike, the san diego water authority which last agreed to buy po poseidon's product. >> large desalinization plants are operating in the middle east but the west is slow reluctant to adopt the technology. with some water policy experts saying on the surface desalination, there are a number of unresolved issues that must be addressed before we can say "pass the salt." >> we would consider it an option of last resort when you've exhausted all the preferable alternatives. >> joe geder is with the marine life association. >> degradation of marine habitat, enormous energy demand, so expensive it crowds out other alternatives. conservation, storm water capture, recycle waste water. >> basically we're looking at it as an investment in an insurance policy. this is one supply that is truly drought p

tepco officials admitted in july that some of the toxic water is leaking into the pacific ocean. >> translatorwe sincerely apologize for causing concern to so many people particularly those who live in fukushima. >> reporter: tepco officials estimate that every day 800 tons of groundwater coming from nearby mountains land under the nuclear complex. some of it becomes contaminated and reaches the sea. a portion of the groundwater flows into the basements of the damaged buildings. there, it mixes with water used to cool the reactor cores. workers have to pump out 400 pounds of highly toxic liquid every day and store it on site. tepco workers have so far built 1,000 tanks to store the excess water, but some of the containers have been leaking. in august, 300 tons of highly contaminated water escaped from the tank. workers have identified several other leaks since then. the scale of the problem led prime minister shinzo abe to decide on government intervention. >> translator: the government will work in a coordinated way as the world is closely watching whether japan can successfully solve the pro

we have a tropical storm in the pacific ocean moving to the north, and we are getting rain from the second hurricane ingrid. ingrid will cause problems. rain fall and gusty winds - we'll have problems with flooding, potential mud slides and we'll monitor this because this storm will move onsure through the course of morning hours into the day ahead. that storm system is also swinging up showers and thunder storms into southern texas. now we have a potential flood advisory. this is being issued for the texas coastline from corpus christy bay. we have concerns about high surf the the rain will go to laredo and it will be heavy, and some of the thunder storms head up into townsville. >> showers will pop up in the afternoon. any one of the thunder storms could be heavy. they are not appearing to have as much moisture as they did last week. however, due to moderate conditions, we can have it any time flash flood watches are issued. >> the man's oldest man died, a former musician and coal miner was 112 years owl. he was born in 1901, in a village in spain and moved to the u.s. in 1920. he had tw

japan's nuclear watchdog is considering dumping radioactive water from the fukushima plant into the pacific oceane chief regulator said today the contamination in the water would first be removed. the developments are being monitored from tokyo. >> japan's nuclear regulation authority said there is no evidence of new leaks at the plant. the radiation readings were higher over the weekend than compared to two weeks ago because the company in charge of the power plant has been using more sophisticated machines to detect radiation levels. the previous machines could only read up to 100 an hour, now 10,000 an hour. this latest embarrassing revelation has forced the government to come in and take a more direct approach handling this crisis. >> we have decided to take charge of the issue, not just leaving it to the company. we will deal with this so as not to repeat such an incident. >> the prime minister is due to chair another session of the nuclear emergency response meeting on tuesday. there is speculation that details of his plan could be revealed on tuesday. we don't know what it will include, bu

says along the side of the map, high sand hills between the pacific ocean and the like. by the way, this had actually opened directly into the ocean. >> lake merced had a high water level. since we paid over much of the city, the water levels have dropped, but at one time, the late actually trade out into the ocean approximately where the dog diner is that now. somewhere in the 1870's, they saw the damage at the water in the late so it did not exit out uncontrolled, and for 10 years, people were drinking lake merced water as drinking water. it is much bigger, too. if you go to san francisco state, the practice will appeal this part of the lake. i do daily city, that was part of the lake. it was huge. >> the southern area [inaudible] but there is a different area. >> there was a creek that came down basically through west portal and said that particular lake. >> that was filled in when they develop west portal, and they had the brilliant idea when they dug but,, they needed a place to put it, so they build the creek in with the tunnel muck. >> you can see in 1910, we are

. >> let's move across the pacific ocean ocean and talk about china for a bed. greg autry is an entrepreneur, writer and educator who focuses on china. .. ira get a chance to look at a lot of young people who don't thank i am a crazy nutcase. i just spent all semester convincing them that their different ways to think other than the dominant level ideology. ii know how edge it gets so i would like you all to stand for just a moment if i could. we are going to do something completely crazy that i never get to do. we are going to say the pledge of allegiance. are you ready? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. thank you. >> it's nice they knew the words. >> how many of you said that when you were in gradeschool? did you mean it lacks raise your hand if you meant it. i want you to think about that. the united states actually does matter. i don't agree with 100% of the things the previous speaker said and they will not agree 100% of

a passenger reported this video of the plane dumping some of its fuel over the pacific ocean as it returned to sfo. the passenger says this happened about an hour into united flight 869. he says the pilot and flight attendants kept everyone calm but there were problems after the plane landed back at sfo with more than 350 passengers. >> you could see the masses right around the gate. everyone was like looking at each other and everyone was trying to talk to the gate agents saying you know, where exactly someone made an announcement -- you could hardly understand it and someone said it in chinese. so they were all -- it was really -- just chaotic. >> reporter: passengers were given hotel and food vouchers and just minutes ago, we received a statement from united. they say a maintenance team is inspecting the aircraft and they will book all customers on an alternate aircraft. >>> it looks like president obama will not launch an attack on syria this week. cbs reporter marly hall reports the president is seeking congressional support for the attack and that could take a while. >> after careful

>> these droplets of water in the air, clear air comes across the pacific ocean, and just before it hitsold water that every san francisco driver knows about. when you chill moist air, it condenses into droplets, and we see it as fog. >> i didn't know there were things called fog bows. if aaron looks into the fog, it will be from aaron's point of view. this is different than a rainbow how? >> if you look at it, it's actually an ark of light like a rainbow, but it's lacking color. it's a white rainbow. that's because fog droplets are so tiny they can't make the colors that those big fat rain drops do. >> it's more like a pastel. >> pastel or white. >> do you get a sense small the raindrops are or the fog drops. let's grab this. couldn't find it there. >> can you fog a mirror? i have beautiful clear mirror looking at the sky. if i put the mirror over in the fog -- >> it gives you a good sense of how tiny the droplets are. >> you look at the tiny sparkling droplets like dust. these are really tiny drops. >> okay. bh people come out on saturday, noon to 5:00 for fog fest says, where will the

just telling me, the horned puffin is a bird found in the islands and the waters in the north pacific ocean. >> right, because i know all about aquarium animals. that's for sure. it is 4:56. the new pilot program that launches this morning to try to make sure contra costa county is safer. >>> new details this morning about a violent home invasion robbery on the peninsula. what we're now learning about the gun battle that killed one person and sent two others to the hospital. >>> a mother out at the park with her baby in san francisco allegedly killed by a parks and rec worker. why witnesses say they're not surprised. >>> plus new work this weekend on the b.a.r.t. extension into san jose. the major road that will soon be a lot busier. >>> we're checking the major freeways through fremont because one of them has unusual slowing, and coming into the area a crash. we'll give you updates on both coming up. >>> with just two weeks of the season left, summer will sizzle this weekend. it's going to be a hot one. i'll show you the places to cool off with your family if you don't have an air conditio

it's going in to the sea and in the pacific ocean and the only people that have suffered are the fisherman because the level of contaminated fish last week has risen. if there is another earthquake a serious one, 6, 7, 8, or 9 that's 1060 tanks that will rattle the damaged korsd and fuel or structures have already weakened, yes, that's a potential very, very serious threat if another strong earthquake hits the same area again. >>> >> still ahead in the program, we call it the torture chamber because here is where you got your mind the right. >> more than 50 bodice discovered from the reform school in the u.s. as the tales of torture emerged. >>> dramatic pictures of a landslide in taiwan. third. and you can kiss that puppyy, w have it. the sound byte everyone is missing, is when the president said i am going to seek authorization fromges and everyone's mouth fell open. have you seen the e-mail when we have the statement from speaker boehner? do you have that? reporter: i do. this is a statement not only from speaker boehner but from the unified republican house leadership including eric >>

all along it could never be controlled and in fact i see a photograph in which the water in the pacific ocean is actually appearing to boil well it's not boiling but you can certainly see that it's hot steam is coming off the surface there's a fog condensing over the area of the of the ocean close to the reactors which means that hot water is getting into the pacific that means something is fissioning very close to the pacific and if that graph i see is true they should now be evacuating people outside the hundred kilometers up to the hundred kilometer zone. and you can find more live updates on the emergency on our website as well and here's what else online team has few there it had been for your anus was all alone but now astronomers have spotted a lump of rock an ice they've named trojan orbiting the planet over two billion further from the sun than typical asteroids you can go online to check out why it's being given the greek name in particular. plus the latest from whistleblower edward snowden shows america conducted hundreds of cyber operations in one year alone with iran russia and c

they employed this advantage in an all-out attempt to secure absolute domination of the entire pacific oceanbehind eastward-moving storms, they dispatched two invasion fleets against two widely separated objectives, midway island and dutch harbor, an operation designed to break the american line of sea defense upon which the security of the pacific coast depends. [engines humming] >> narrator: at midway, america dealt the japanese navy a devastating blow in the greatest naval air battle in history. [propellers buzzing] [engines humming] the japanese navy would never recover, losing threof four aircraft carriers along with their planes and pilots. [explosion] [siren blaring] but in alaska, japanese dive bombers badly damaged the navy base at dutch harbor. and to the westward, japanese marines landed on attu and kiska islands. they built fortifications and prepared to hold the islands. almost a year later, in may 1943, a cold and wet american invasion force landed on attu to oust the japanese forces who had entrenched themselves in the cloud-shrouded mountains. [guns firing] [wind howling] it

radioactive water is leaking into the pacific ocean. the japanese government is going to try to stop it with a massive wall of ice. it's a $320 million emergency plan that will literally freeze the contaminated water in its place. >>> and thousands of firefighters in california, now, are gaining more control of the huge wildfire that's scorching the edge of yosemite national park. 370-square miles have gone up in flames so far. but the fire is 80% contained this morning. the smoke, however, is forcing schools to cancel football practices and other sporting events. the local fire chief says the fire may have started in an illegal marijuana grove. >>> thousands turning out in key west to honor endurance swimmer diana nyad. this parade, featuring nyad riding in a convertible, carrying her support team. >> key west is where nyad came ashore after her historymaking swim from cuba. the feat took 52 hours and 54 minutes. >> she looks a little better there or the car than she did when she stumbled out of the water, right? >> but her message rem

city's wastewater and stormwater making it safe enough to discharge into the san francisco bay and pacific ocean in 2006 the puc was planning a record number of projects. >> the public utilities commission is a very infrastructure-rich organization. we're out there rebuilding the water system. we've budget working on power generation in the country. we've been doing sewer for the city. we're looking at a brand-new rebuild of all watt systems in san francisco and we haven't had a home that's been other than mental. >> they staff over 900 people. the puc is in two office locations. >> you know, this is such a great place for a building. if the puc owned that building and we could make that the icon i can sustainable building puc represents, wouldn't be a dramatic idea? >> so, one of the major decisions we made was we wanted to make a statement with this building. we wanted this building to be a lead platinum building which is very few buildings in san francisco that achieved this mark. >> leadership and energy environmental design, it takes a look at the way we think about the places where we live

a passenger reported this video of the plane dumping some of its fuel over the pacific ocean as it returnedsfo. the passenger says it happened about an hour in united flight 869. the pilot and flight attendants kept all 366 passengers calm while flying, but there were problems after the plane landed back at sfo. >> you could see the masses right around the gate. everyone wushgsz like, looking at each other. everyone was trying to talk to the gate ajent saying where exactly. someone made an announcement. you could hardly understand it. it was really just chaotic. >> that passenger says he was given a voucher for hotel near the airport as was vouchers for dinner and breakfast. united says its maintenance team is inspecting the aircraft and booking passengers on other flights. >> it now looks like president obama will not launch an attack on syria this week. cbs reporter marly hal reports the president is seeking congressional support for the attack, and that could take awhile. >> i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets. >> president obam

it's a lot of moisture working its way all the way around the pacific ocean and now it's hitting the northwest and notice the last few frames here working its way south now of the oregon and california border down towery coo some showers now. it will make it to the north baby tomorrow evening and make it likely to your backyard by monday morning at the latest. the tropical moisture slowly working its way south. i'm here to tell you though all the half rain is staying to the north. some rainfall will get here sunday night when you wake up on monday. and likely even stretching into monday afternoon. we will have some showers around. for the top of the week will be so much different than today. because rain's moving in. futurecast how much rainfall? by this time tomorrow night? well we're seeing a little bit of rain for santa rosa. even some rain as far south as the city of san francisco. by this time tomorrow. but it's not much. but we will have showers around and it will impact the commute to work on monday. so might want to plan on leaving 10, 15 minutes earlier because a little bit