>> plywood and to and studs. at the top, those were poured yesterday. we will take them apart. >> it has formed release material so the concrete is not stick to it. >> correct, it is a special plywood with a finnish sauna that lets it strip easier and then we also spree with oil. >> than a pop these apart and reuse the panel's. >> we will change the plan would usually one time through the 12 story building is because the plywood starts to get worn. >> howdy keep everything perfectly lined up? -- how do you keep everything perfectly lined up? >> we have control lines and we have crude lines -- and a grid lines with the surveyors. we plumb everything up. >> about how close, what is the tolerance? >> before it is tension, within a 16th of an inch. as the building gets attention, it begins to shrink. -- as the building gets tensioned, it begins to shrink. >> what is the allowable tolerance for the design? can you move things around a quarter inch or so to get things to fit together? >> amkor bridge would be a lot. 1/8 of an inch is typical. -- a quarter inc

wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. and the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. on top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west hal

. >> it's a type of plywood, so this one in particular -- yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> in the language it's called dulo. >> (speaking spanish). >> yes? >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (laughter). >> yes. >> (inaudible). >> in the 16th century, about 1500. yeah. >> (inaudible). >> no. no, no, just you have to leave this room thinking we did not kill anybody for that. yes, you had a question? >> (inaudible). >> yeah. well, yes, there are -- in cities like the northern part and lima there are certain districts like -- certain ones and the capital and to the south of lima the district there and to the south almost border to chile there is a community that is unknown that we are doing research right now on it. yes, the value there and with chile and all of that area. yes? >> (inaudible). >> no -- you know what it is. it's a rubber stamp of the tube that is heating it. you can -- >> (inaudible). >> no it's a tube. somebody had a question. i don't know if we are running out of time or we have to go or -- >> (

it's plywood . >> yes, it's some kind of plywood but they painted over it, and it looks better than ity is. >> jimmy rafael and his family were among the first to come to karai three months after the earthquake. aid agencies encouraged thousands to abandon their tent cities for safer, better and eventually permanent housing. this is what they ended up with. >> so this is your mother's house? >> tell me a little bit about it. >> okay, yes, this is mom's house. when you come in you see it very small. you look up and you see the roof is metal. the sun is hot. the house is boiling hot. you come here and you see your bedroom where she sleeps. when it rains the water comes rushing down from the mountains flooding. it's not good. >> it's not good for the 40,000 haitians who have been living here for three years and not good for the estimated 100,000 squatters who found refuge in the neighboring hills. all lured by the promise of a new haiti. that would spring from the 9 billions tons of republic. when the earthquake hit jimmy was working as a bell boy at one of haiti's most exclusive hotels.

and we can use a modern term i put all three together and created the first 4-foot by 5-foot plywood board game called the world peace team. it was about africa. >> so we divided these students out into the teams. the objective was to solve the problems and make it more interesting. to actually prove all of the countries to each other at the same time. but we rose to the challenge, these ninth graders day. we have been playing the game ever since 1978. later on i started to use fictional countries because i found out that they were bogging down and not winning the game after a few years. and i didn't know why. and i question them and it finally came to light. >> today the 4-foot by 5-foot plywood on the floor, is a 4-foot by 4-foot plexiglass that towers over most of my fourth graders. and this power emulates our earth. there are four layers. there are four of four spooler sheet of plexiglass in can arrange, one of them that we can make it house based in between each layer horizontal. on each way we have hundreds of game pieces from hobby shops and toy stores and i collected them ove

. >> i have seen the same thing with 2 sheets of plywood. i want to mention, typical san francisco buildings. we have a huge variety. we have things in the middle of the midblock held up by adjoining buildings. it's held up. it can't fall down. >> so if you live in the midblock, we have corners and have almost all agreed. wood framed soft story buildings, poses substantial hazards. they have few interior partitions. this is a serious hazard. now only do we potentially lose a believe, but the neighborhood serving grocery store. these have potential for enormous impact. how do we reduce that. here's another example. we have these huge variety buildings. this thing is held up with toothpicks. how does it stay up with wind loads? we have things with marginal maintenance and i think a chimney is a significant hazard. think about how to brace your chimney. we don't want to have people being in there's earthquake shacks. we don't have plans. we don't have a plan what we're going to do for housing. >> we know we don't want to be in formaldehyde trai

and so my father knew this and got her that for her birthday - he took a square of plywood and paint a suit and put a little handwriting on the top and said good for one suit so i hope we find the citizen i like it a lot. when i was little just what his profession was confused me. he referred to himself as a painter but he also painted houses occasionally. additionally he tailgate paints. the fathers of my friends didn't have paint under their fingernails and explaining this father of mine who was definitely not he'll carding was tough. those next 23 photos were taken for the open museum they hired him to do a study a document of my parents' house just before they moved to los angeles. the way our varies houses looked inside was different the furniture wasn't conventional. he particle liked old wooden desk chairs. my parents and i resisted curtains and drapes because of the resulting loss of light. so the couch in our living room and i don't mean soft if a usually had our dog valentine sleeping on that. our dishes didn't match but this is the 50s. in an era where everything was to be

using high quality plywood, they created henches shaped like a bird wings that double as musical instruments. serving as a backdrop is a mural featuring images of local birds and san francisco's famous skyline. >> in the line between that is so natural, you can see birds and be in complete wilderness. i really like that about this. you could maybe get a little snapshot of what they are expecting. >> it is an interactive, keck sculpture that is interacted with by the visitor. >> they are a lot about and they fall down the belt. it moves the belt up, and if you turn that faster, the butterflies fall in the move of words. >> the art reflect the commission's commitment to acquiring the best work from the bay area and beyond. in addition to the five new commissions, 20 artworks that were already in the airport collection were reinstalled. some of which were historically cited in the terminal. it includes major sculptures by the international artists. as a collection, these art works tell the story of the vibrant arts scene in the early 1960's through the mid-1980s's. the illustrate san francisco'

it was under plywood and carpeting for about 30 years.this was amazingly preserved underneath all of that when it pulled up. >> how to the ventilate this? are these operable? h[ph>> they are not. we have a cool air intake from the bay. because of the atrium, it would be nearly impossible for any air conditioning, so we have cool air intake on the bayside. that cools the building down. when i first artwork in here, i was fascinated with all the arches, the repetitive arches. the original architect used it as a symbol of the talks in rome, a symbol of how important the water and the waterways are to us city. -- to the city. it looks like an aqueduct structure. >> what are the uses of this floor and above? >> we have about 10 it office spaces, private businesses, law firm, financial management, lobbying firms. there are all local businesses. -- they are all local businesses, very supportive of the marketplace. >> i know that some part of this building, the water goes underneath, the bay water is under there? >> yes. >> is it under the whole

(laughter) some dogs are not meant to be caged bandit was intent on scaling the plywood covering thee kitchen and the next room. nat sound of legs scrabbling god bless his heart nat sound more scrabbling legs even more intense that's pretty genius for a dog with a two year brain bandit went over the top like a marine on an obstacle course. are you impressed? i really am some were less impressed with the owner..."that's terrible dog ownership 101 right there, buddy." "would making this video been worth it had your dog hung itself? almost happened." but no one we talked to thought he'd done anything wrong. talk about an escape artist. the dog's owner escaped us. we couldn't get hold of him. bandit now joins the ranks... of canine escape artists... like kiwi the yorkie, whose owners set her feat to the theme of mission impossible. waldo's owners choose the music of superman... as he used his cage to get to the fence....and after a long stretch...made his move. waldo finally gathered the nerve ... to jump. and then there's junior the chihuahua...who stuck out his neck and shook his fence

the shapes and colours are incorporated into the plywood at the front of the house. >> the building is a perfect place to bring colours to. it's the opposite. you wouldn't thing that you have designs and colour or something. it's dismal. >> toeffer says of 750 buildings he's worked on 90% have been saved from demolition. it may seem like putting lipstick on a pig, but it appears to work. >> and that will do it for this edition of alice springs: -- al jazeera, thank you for watching. the white house will go public with a series of one on one interviews. the president will address the nation tuesday night. and we, like everyone else, will bring you that address live on al jazeera. you can always check us out

a tractor trailer carrying a load of plywood set off a chain reaction. 7 people were taken to the hospital. all are going to make it just fine. >>> a driver lost control of his car and hit eight north western high school students. they were practicing drill with the naval junior rotc when they were hit. none of their injuries are life-threatening. the cause appears to be sun glare. the 19-year-old driver is charged with negligent driving. >>> the family of a woman killed in a horrible car crash is speaking out. yesterday the commissioner anthony batts made his first comments on the crash that killed angela chiwengo. he said it was tragic an disturbing. members of chiwengo's family said an apology would have been nice or a a visit, a hug or even a handshake. >> i understand that there's an investigation going on. i think it shows a bit of humanity when you show some type of compassion towards the innocent victims involved. >> right now the family is in the process of hiring an attorney. the officer involved in the crash have that right as well. that's why department investigators have not s

. >> i decided that the ground floor should be the bunker and i only had enough plywood to cover up allnd windows for the ground floor. >> tony's neighbor beth rushes over with her husband, children and pets to ride out the storm. >> the first thing in my mind was to protect as many of my belongings as i could, thinking that i was going to lose most everything, and get my family to what i considered a safe house. and that was tony's house. >> they felt that it was safer up in the highlands where we lived rather than being down on the coastal area where you would have large waves, possible tsunami. >> tony and his friends hunkered down and to prepare for the worst. >> it clouded over and then the wind started. once the wind started, you needed to be inside or in some type of shelter. it was quite the roar. the wind was blowing horizontal, the rain pelting the entire house. >> tony's brother-in-law films the wrath of hurricane iniki from a house across the street through a crack in the plywood protecting his window, tony monitors the strengthening storm. >> every time i looked out this li

the shapes and colors are incorporated into the plywood at the front of the house. >> abandoned building is a perfect place to bring color to because it's like the opposite. but you wouldn't think that you would have designs and color on something that's just so dismal. >> toepfer says of the 750 buildings he has worked on around the country, 90% have been saved from demolition. it may seem a little bit like putting lipstick on a pig, but it appears to work. usher quereshi, al jazeera chicago. >> something to think about. tink machines small enough to put into a water bubble sounds like science fiction. it's not. the science of little things has become big business. al jazeera christian saloomey puts nanotechnology under the microscope. >> these scientists may look ready to walk on the moon. but they are exploring another frontier at the atomic level. the university of albany's college of nano scale science and engineering is at the forefront of nanotechnology research and development, a science that's not just about exploring nature, but, also, changing it. >> once you make matter small

revelation courtesy of edward snowden is that the national security agency has been trolling through plywood financial transaction both foreign and domestic. and it's a very good morning to you if you just joined us here on our t.v. you're with me to bum once a full this week's main topic news. i did later on monday the united nations will present the results of its probe into last month's alleged deadly chemical attack in syria the findings are not expected to assign blame but could shed light on the region of the toxins which reportedly killed hundreds of civilians this comes as the u.n. security council prepares to hammer out a resolution to enforce a deal on syria reached by russia and the united states the plan requires the syrian government to disclose full details on its chemical weapons within a week and allow the stockpiles to be destroyed by the middle of next year but u.s. military forces remain in position to strike syria if damascus fails to comply with france of backing up washington's threat and attack would bring huge wrists but also stellar profits for u.s. arms firms as lin

there was the original pressed tin ceiling that they had ripped out so i guess it's plywood under here. the original floor is under here. they had told us it's just dirt but actually it's an old redwood floor under here. but it would cost about $100,000 because the way it was retrofited they would have had to pick it up and raise it. >> a lot of times when buildings become restaurants, they trigger all sorts of code requirements for upgrades. if you change from office space it a restaurant, you trigger all sorts of additional requirements because there's an increased hazard in the building code for restaurants. you have special exiting requirements, you have problems with preserving life safety for high numbers of people. a restaurant like this, how many seats do you have in here? . >> 85. >> we don't count seats in the building department, we look at square footage. typically for a restaurant we say 15 square feet per person will tell us -- we can figure it out how many people would be in the restaurant. based on that number, we can figure out how many exits are required but it's a lo

it was acting like plywood. big surprise. the tempered caught right at the frames and it was the tempered clearly that was keeping everything together. the building was going this way, and the glass was acting almost like a sheer wall. other times it totally collaps collapsed. seismically, ooh, that's a laurence question. >> they have limits on what both the transient drift and permanent drift is allowed to be, how far they are allowed to sway and how far they're allowed to be out of plumb. what they calculate it to be they come up with a resilient system of setting the glazing so that at the levels of drift there should be no pressure placed against the glazing. so that's the design. we will wait for a big earthquake and see how it plays out. but should be okay. the drift issues are things that we've been talking about for these high rise buildings. what are appropriate drift limits, and how much can a 600 foot building be permanently displaced and still be an acceptable building. how long can we expect the glazing in one of

revelation courtesy of edward snowden is that the national security agency has been trolling through plywood financial transaction both foreign and domestic.

. >> one of them was a hole in the sand that was covered with plywood and sand packed on top of thatnd a tiny box on top of that to put my head. i piled old wood, paint cans, garbage of every sort. i was there for 24 hours while police were no more than five feet from my head. >> mcafee is wanted as a person of interest in a fatal shooting last year in belize. >>> microsoft has a deal for you. the company is offering owners of an apple iphone 5 or iphone 4s for a trade. trade them in for a minimum of $200 at microsoft stores. people are not thrilled with the fingerprint scanner and the operating system. >>> b.a.r.t. will meet with one of two employee unions in their ongoing labor dispute. negotiations will seiu representatives are set to begin shortly at 9:30 this morning. yesterday representatives from the transit union met with b.a.r.t. officials in oakland. one of the reps told nbc 7 news there is nothing new to report. b.a.r.t. says the two sides remain $112 million apart. >>> there are negotiating sessions scheduled every day through the end of the cooling off period. the dates

. >> he gave it a little more force, straightened out a couple more pieces of plywood and pedalled full throttle and went at it. >> it's not enough. >> he bounced his head off the tank, and down hit himself again. >> this time he doesn't jump to his feet. he's knocked himself out. >> he wasn't moving. he was hurt and hurt bad. that's what scared us. matt. matt. someone called the paramedics. >> matt has a concussion and is taken to the hospital, but he doesn't seem much worse for the wear. >> i wasn't in a coma or nothing. within the next week i probably hopped on my bike and just went riding. >> matt's fellow bmx riders didn't even realize he went to the hospital. >> i don't know if he went with the ambulance or not. i think he turned them down. i think he went and got some food. >> he probably just went to, like dunkin doughnuts an got a bunch of munchkins. >> or perhaps he went looking for nachos. after all bmxers are drawn to that flavor, spice, variety and let's not forget the crunch. >> you always laugh when your friends fall. what's playful is you're going to fall eventually. wha

where i'm going right now is lowe's to pick up some plywood. >> things didn't start getting bad untilim had an accident and fell 33 feet from a roof. >> she may be right about that. i was in a lot of pain for a long time. fractured my neck and shattered my hip. ever since then, my bones hurt a lot more than they used to. doing this kind of work, people think you're hurt, they think you can't do the work. so i try not to show that it bothers me that much. >> jim will chew pain pills and wash it down with a beer. he tells me he does it because it works faster and it takes the pain away. >> what's the best side? the wall, yeah. >> physically now, jim is in so much pain every day. outstanding work ethic. you don't find people like that every day. you just don't. >> i can't carry a pot like anybody else ordinarily would carry a pot. my thumb has separated from my hand, which technically makes a perfect little handle. there's no pressure on that joint. all the pressure lies right there. overcoming rheumatoid arthritis at work, it's a state of mind. you have to every day tell yourself silent

it gets them away from being sand board which we know as plywood and now it's got canada shipping toike that. lpx is for me. one more, let's go to randy in iowa. randy? >> caller: greetings from the hawkeye state, jim. i'd like your thoughts on kmp, kinder morgan energy partner. >> there's an outfit trying to get this thing down, they're calling it a house of cards, rich kinder, come on the show. i know they're going to do a massive hit job on you. i know the way the game is played. rich, if you want to talk to your story about kinder morgan, which is a stock i like, "mad money" welcomes you. make people millions, billions, and what do they say? oh, house of cards. i've got to tell you, i think that the people who say that are more card oriented than rich kinder. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the "lightning round." >> the "lightning round" is sponsored by td ameritrade. >>> coming up -- going for gotham, the big apple is about to elect a new mayor and with so much hanging in the balance, kramcramer's getting y inside the race. tonight billionaire candidate john

two shapes and colors are now being incorporated into the plywood at the front of the house. >> abandonlding is a perfect place to bring color because it is like -- it's the opposite. so you wouldn't think that you would have designs and color on something that is just so dismal. >> she says of the 750 buildings he has worked around, 90% have been saved from demolition. it may seem a little bit like putting lipstick on a pig, but it appears to work. al jazeera, chicago. >> and joining me now is christopher. you saw him in the package, he is the executive director and the artist behind the foundation. he helps clean up those buildings in chicago, by putting some paint on them, what did you think about that phrase lipstick on a pig? i guess in this case it may be true, but does it work? hi, thank you for having me. i don't particularly like that phrase. this is really a strategy that is an alternative to demolition, and really helps stabilize neighborhoods with vacant buildings. and it costs much less than demolition, and even less than conventional board up techniques. let me ask you thi