we asked richard allen from the seismological department to come. just to give us an overview. dr. allen. >> can i stand up? >> we need you talk -- >> thank you. >> thank you for the invitation to come and talk to you. develop methodologies to try to get warnings out to people before they start to kneel the shaking in an earthquake. when i say warnings, we're talking about a few seconds tofu 10s of seconds warning. that's not a lot of time. i'm going to argue the amount of time that could put to great use and show you examples of how we can do that. my nature is rich allen. i'm a professor at berkeley and the size moll hodge cal department. i'm here with peggy hellwig who is operations manager. first of all, what is earthquake early warning? what is earthquake early warning? this is animation running in realtime. it is going to show a magnitude eight earthquake. it is the same as the 1906 earthquake that we heard about. the distances this this earthquake is starting at the top of the an san andreas fault and is going to rupture its way down to stran. that's what the gray -- this la

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richard -- ricardo rather. investigators believe he's connected to the death of alen and smart who were found in this house last week. allen's husband was arrested in that house living with the bodies of the two women. police also found a large amount of explosives in the home. now police believe that. they may continue to search this landfill for the next few days if they don't find anything today. reporting live in pittsburg, abc 7 news. >> thomas, thank you very much. it's 6:03 now. a livermore man is in jail this morning after police say he stabbed his 14-year-old son 11 times. alameda county sheriff deputies and say 40-year-old gary gomez was fishing with his wife, son and his son's two friends at the bethany resevoir over the weekend. 2:00 in the morning gomez got into a fight with his son. police say when the father started losing the fight, he pulled out a fishing knife and began stabbing his son. the teen's injuries were treated at a local hospital and despite being stabbed nearly a dozen times, he's expected to survive. this morning vallejo police are on the hunt for two suspects who they say took thousands of doll

allen, the playbook. he actually singles out a column coming out in a couple of days in "the washington post" by richard cohen who talks about the president, president obama in terms of the incredible shrinking presidency. you remember that in the '90s, there was that famous "time" magazine cover. of bill clinton. he said the folks who ran a smart presidential campaign in '08 have left the defining of the obama presidency to people on the edge of insanity. but then he goes on to talk about his oval office address this week, about iraq, about turns to afghanistan and the economy. he said, it was only his second oval office address. so great importance was attached to it. he should have had something momentous to say. is that fair? >> i think it is. one of the criticisms certainly have i had and many others have had, there's been no narrative to this administration. i think to me, barack obama was elected for one thing. i don't know if he's ever fully understood that. to do nation building at home, to do nation building in america. that was the central tent pole. under that, health care, jobs, invasion, educati

october 9, 2009, i received a letter from richard shelby requesting a comprehensive investigation of the handling of the sec investigation and examination into robert allen stanford's. very shortly thereafter on october 13, we opened our investigation. as a part of this effort, we made numerous requests for the e-mails of current and former employees. the office of information technology provided e-mail's for employees from 1997 to 2009. researched over 2.7 million e- mails in the course of our investigation. we send comprehensive document requests specifying the documents and records we required for the investigation. we sought documents concerning communications between its predecessor and the sec concerning robert allen stanford's. we also conducted 51 testimonies and interviews of 48 individuals with knowledge of facts and circumstances surrounding the investigation. i personally led the questioning in the testimony interviews. on march 31, 2010, we issue to the chairman of the sec and comprehensive report of our investigation of the matter, containing over a hedge a 50 pages of analysis. our investigation determined that the sec for worth office was

allen and others. that is live on c-span3. tonight, a medal of honor ceremony at the white house for chief master sergeant richard etchberger.he log cabin republicans. in a house hearing on immigrant farm workers, including testimony from stephen colbert.