it relates more back to this sort of idea of the portage. so we developed architect there that we felt was more reminiscent of this. it's an oval building where the lobby and main lobby to the building and the building itself is wrapped in this kind perferrated metal skin that acts as a double buffer. also because there is is a lot of noise on 3rd street and make sure that the residents were setback a little more from the street. you can see the site plan with the main lobby with the amenity spaces at corner of mid-block alley way to make sure we get as much activity there and retail anchoring the other corner. as you turn to 23rd street we felted this area was more transitional and on the other side it's pdr. it's a lot less developed and a lot less housing and thought we could introduce more mixed-use and anchor with retail space. then have a building where we have a very glassy corner; a lot of units facing the street to be able to animate the street and cut up the building into different parts to be able to breakdown the scale and try to

. >> reporter: in portage, indiana, a hail and windstorm downed trees and power lines. crews raced to help those stuck in the dark. >> we're concerned because my husband and i have a lot of meat and stuff in the freezer. >> reporter: overnight in ohio, a torrential downpour caused widespread flooding. >> really got ugly out there. >> reporter: this is a parking lot of a mall, looking more like a river. some people had to be rescued. but no one was hurt. nearly a dozen cars were submerged. in the west, up to three feet of snow in parts of the colorado rockies. denver's coors field is littered with snow. in california, a different extreme. residents are gearing up for high winds and a heat wave. los angeles is expecting triple digits for thursday. >> i think it's too early to have this hot and this season. >> reporter: red flag warnings are in effect throughout southern california, through at least wednesday because of fire danger. tahman bradley, abc news, washington. >>> as tahman mentioned, a torrid day in southern california. it will feel like summer all along the wes

and as we come up over the rise entering portage county, the sky was lit up.now if it was downtown kent on fire. i mean, it was severe. it told me that the wags was much more serious than i had originally anticipated . >> it just seemed like it was overkill. you just couldn't turn around without bumping into another national guardsmen. >> i didn't object to that initially. i thought maybe this will help calm things down. my feeling was that they were there to kind of protect students, too. my name's doug fuller. i was a student at kent state in 1970. i was a sophomore at that time. i wasn't radical by any means. i wasn't downtown doing things i shouldn't have been doing. >> about 800 guardsmen went on to the campus. 400 more into the city. a total of about 1200 national guardsmen with jeeps, trucks and these armored vehicles that looked like tanks. so it was really like a military takeover of our campus and the city. >> governor rhodes was in the primary election for the nomination for senate on tuesday, may 5th. so so many of us felt that this was just a poli

police found a three-year-old child living in a filthy mobile home in portage. the girl's mother, ashley neiswinger, and two men ... robert sappington and brandon merry face felony child neglect charges. authorities say the home smelled like a combination of urine and marijuana... and that the entire home was filled with garbage and bugs. the child was released to her father. today on a new state budget. the budget bill that cleared the state house earlier this week, allows governor quinn's temporary state income tax hikes to expire in january. quinn is still lobbying to either extend them or make the higher tax rates permanent. the l.a. clippers may soon have a new owner. the former microsoft ceo steve ballmer may $2 million may pay $2 billion. price ever... almost four times the price paid for the milwaukee bucks last week. but sterling's lawyer says, with racism accusations against sterling still lingering, his client wants more than just the money. his lawyer says with the accusations his client wants more than just the money. >> he is not going to consent u

last year, for instance, in portage county, community of streets borough lost jobs after commercial turf products shut its doors. but under the act the city could access financing to bring manufacturing businesses back to streets borough. for those who lops their benefits, the hctc needs to be extended. it preserves a program that ohioans like delphi salaried employees who worked hard and played by the rules, they know they understand, they trust, extending the tax credit for two years is fiscally responsible, we should improve the hctc, we should make it permanent as i've proposed in legislation that i've introduced with senators rockefeller and stabenow and hirono and donnelly. we should at the very least renew this critical tax credit. earlier this year i traveled across ohio and met with homeowners like hattie wilkins from youngstown, ohio. she was laid off, fell behind her mortgage, began the foreclosure process, her bank because it was in their interest forgave her $35,000 that she still owed but hattie and thousands of homeowners across the country face higher taxes if don't want