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

the they're taking the plywood and l putting it on to the windows onn the lower end of the hardware store that is basically gutted. i imagine they will be doingwile that on the upper levels as as well. the owner says he is going to be rebuilding and he is going to be taking care of his 65-plus employees. >> four alarms meant 200 me firefighters with multiple trucks and engines pouring wateo on a $1,920 structure with allui sorts of flammables inside.de. a place beloved by resident on the hill. as the embers stopped burning, people turned out by the dozense to see their store reduced to sut and broken glass. fire investigators begannvestiga entering the build to anything n that might lead them to a good cause.ause. they concentrated in the area ar off of 11th street. the owner is working on a plan a to continue to pay the 60-plus employees. good news for a woman 16 yearsn1 on the job. >> oh, it means everything, my livelihood. i bought my house with it, everything and, yeah. ye this means a lot to me, and i'mm just feeling just amazed, but w, will be back. >> we can buy everything here. .

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'

. >> 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

. >> 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

that is plywood all piled up against the utility pole there. it overflowed this morning, flooding the parking lot and many of the lower level roads at the days inn. nearly 7 inch of rain fell in a 12-hour period with nowhere to go. crews worked to rescue 30 people from the swiftly moving water. one of the highest numbers of such rescues in the history of the county. officials say the flooding left half a dozen families without homes. some found the water had risen up to the windows of their cars. many are expected to be a total loss. the good news, no injuries were reported. at least three roads were washed out, fortunately, those are secondary roads, but it is expected to be some time before those roads are passable again. this system has been sitting over us for several hours. the sun was out a moment ago, but we think it's passed here. one record book though. this is going to turn out to be the third wettest calendar day in paducah history. >> thanks. where is this system headed and who should be on alert? the weather channel's julie martin

on existing homes there,'s the garage door basing your water heaters, adding anchor bolts, plywoodingouse like this with this clipping, what can do, what i've done for probably less than $5,000 get a reasonable comfort level, your house will be damaged but sleeping there at night. >> we can reduce the impact of earthquake so get back to so-called normal life as quickly as we can. one of the elements is having people be able to stay in their homes. >> instead of on the street. >> one of our serious goals. we'll move on to other interesting areas of the city. welcome to the mission. >> yes. >> this is frank's home. >> i grew up in the mission. in fact i grew up a couple blocks up the street, forest and 18th. >> we were talking ability issues of earthquake safety have to do with a number of things. the soil you're on, how strong or vulnerable your building is and of course, they have to do with what the earthquake is whether it's a little shakera big one on hayward or san andreas fault. >> remember at the beach we talked about the hazards associated with earthquake, the liquid faction, l

. >> plywood. >> i like it. >>> men's wear shouse talking about why it actually fired founder george zimmer this morning. >> scott mcgrurk the fremont company found its boss a little too bossy. >> yes, right, good morning. zimmer was chairman of the board but acted much more like a ceo, which he was not and hadn't been for several years. so, men's warehouse demoted him from his ex-ertive chairmanship and, of course, zimmer quit all together. men's warehouse this morning said zimmer "had difficulty accepting the fact that men's warehouse is a publicly traded company with an independent board of directors and he has not been chief executive officer for two years." other news, barnes & noble is killing its nook. it thought it protected itself, doing the e-book reader but during its quarterly financial reports said the plan did not work. now, if you still have a nook, it will still work and you will still be able to buy e-book -- e-books for your nook. barnes & noble will allow other companies to develop their own version of nook as well but starting later this year, will no longer manuf

i put very thick plywood on the roof. >> how thick to support a story falling?(laughter). >> thanks for helping me out. (laughter). >> the rialto building. this is interesting building that survived the '06 quake. >> it did. in some of the reports it is reported it had undergone earthquake damage. if you look more into the building. in the 1907, they basically explain the damage is dynamiting. this is a building they tried dynamite apart to create a fire break, and the building wouldn't do it. it said no because it is a steel framed building. and as a class steel frame buildings are very resistant to both earthquakes and dynamite. >> am i right? i think steel frame buildings are resistant, it is the composite action of the steel frame and other elements that are together with the frame that help make them support; is that right? >> yes. that includes the walls, the floor diaphragms. but the fire was really bad. this is what they were trying to do here is a fire break here. in addition to the heroic fire break that stopped the fire on van ness. >> dynamited aroun

intelligence confirms it's collecting the plywood messages of internet users but defense the marines claiming the mass of aliens was targeting only nine u.s. persons outside the country earlier british and american papers reported that the u.s. was tapping directly into the service of leading american internet companies are getting access to personal e-mails soto's and to documents lead to court order has become the first to hard evidence of washington's a sweeping data collection program artie's unless the see it should has more. after eye popping news that america's national security agency has been collecting information on millions of customers of one of the country's biggest telecommunications providers of arisan further information of the extensive surveillance conducted by u.s. officials has leaked out nine major internet companies they include google of facebook yahoo microsoft you tube apple a.o.l. and pal talk have been used by the f.b.i. and the national security agency to monitor photos videos e-mails audio and all other sorts of information tracking a sweeping scope of i

yes, there are shingles off and plywood. this is not moore.his is not what we saw in moore, anywhere across the city yet. and we're not getting anymore more scanner reports of massive damage. right now, it's been trying to get around without getting caught in the floodwaters. >> i just got this e-mail from cnn weather center. 23 tornadoes struck over missouri, kansas, iowa and illinois. we see the video from one of those storm chasers now. i'd like to go back, if we can, to those live pictures. if you can tell whomever is holding that camera with you, to pan down. are we looking at a vehicle upside down? in front of a house. describe this for us. >> that's a pickup top on its top, with no place left for an occupant if anyone was in it. this is the reason we don't want people in vehicles when a large tornado strikes. they will smash the vehicle. the roof has no chance to stay up. and no place left for you in the car when the tornado's done. those are the wheels pointing up. white pickup pointing down. that was in the parking lot when this torna

. >> inmates spend years living in cells with floor space about the size of a piece of plywood, 4' x 8'. yet in this tiny space they manage to hide weapons and contraband not allowed in folsom prison. that's why there's the investigative services unit. sort of a police department within a police department. officer juan berrago and his team investigate prison gang activity, inmate squabbles and homicides. and to keep all those things from getting out of hand, he's constantly looking for signs of trouble. >> they'll use toothpaste. they'll use any type of ceramic putty or cement, anything that's in the institution to conceal things or sometimes even hidden compartments. >> when inmates are released to the exercise yard, they never know if officer berrago was looking in their cell. when they return, there will be no doubt he was there. nothing is overlooked. >> tubes of toothpaste. try to see the integrity has not been broken. a lot of times they'll stick stuff down in and retrieve it later. you got these speed sticks, stuff like that. usually what we'll have to do is go all the way th