tar and gravel roofs, they do not last as long because the sun cracks the roof surface. >> it was my understanding that the hot modified approach of roofing is similarly durable to the force applied, basically the same materials being used. i believe that with a hot glue method, it is the same method, just instead of a torch you are using the hot glue approach. i imagine that the durability would be the same as it is the same fundamental roofing material being used. >> i have one question. on the glue to be used, are there environmental issues associated with the type of glue be used? >> not that we have heard of or as far as we know. there is approved glue. >> is a water based? >> it has not raised any environmental or safety issues. >> any other public comments, commissioner? >> good morning, commissioners. i am a resident of 1161 hayes. in the constituent that brought this issue to the supervisor in the march of 2007. there roofers in the building next two hours on the square and the result of their using fortified roofing, the fire went into our suburb of, a predominately in my a

roof. it is also a competitive fairness issue. we have heard from local union 40 that they support this issue. because reputable movers do not use a torch-apply roofing on combustible moves. there are other alternatives. it is really sort of fly by night roofers undercutting the more responsible roofers. when you get one of these ro by nightofers -- fly by night roofers. so we feel that maybe this will eliminate this unfair competitive advantage that can be had by using this unsafe practice cheery lastly, i will bring up the point of the enforcement issue this. we have regulations that are applicable where you need a one hour fire watch after the fire is completed, which is hard to enforce at the end of the day. one person is supposed to stayed behind to watch, but it is hard to enforce. you do not know if they had a permit or it was hard to get a permit. the letter that you have from the associated contractor, looking for clarification about the definition of noncombustible roofs to specif

. >>> and, roof to table. at a manhattan restaurant, ingredients don't come from a farm, but from a cutting edge roof top garden. is this the latest food trend, or is it the future? >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, and terry moran in washington, this is "nightline," august 5th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we begin tonight with the case of the diamonds, the dictator and the supermodel. when abc news first confronted naomi campbell about a mysterious gift of diamonds, she denied the allegations. but today, on the witness stand, at the war crimes trial of former liberian dictator charles taylor, campbell told a very different story. now, she says, the dictator's henchmen paid her a late night visit, delivering a pouch of uncut, unpolished precious stones. but were they so-called blood diamonds? but were they so-called blood diamonds? the secret currency with which taylor funded his reign of terror? brian ross investigate

they have an add he'sive backing on and they can stick down on the roof without penetrating the roof. it's a very effective and cheap and safe installation process. thin film has a smaller, a lesser efficiency. half as efficient but it's about half the cost. so if you look at it, a small system 1.2 kilowatt systems, it produces 1.2 kill what's in full sun or 1,200 watts. in crystal lynn it could would take 500 panels. in thin film it would take this much space. they would produce the same and at current prices they cost close to the same. let's look at the typical system components here and i'll show you how they're laid out on the house in a minute. we know what the array is. they're hooked together. they're mounted to the roof by rails and mounts. they're hooked together with wires and switches and things like that we call that the balance of the system. it's a relatively minor component as far as price goes. so your array is mounted to the roof. it's wired to the inverter which is a simple device that changes d.c. current to a.c. current. that's all it does. it fits on the side of

you do a roof and your neighbor does a roof and you put a piece of flashing between the building and that keeps water out of that space between the buildings. water gets down there between the buildings and it's extremely difficult to repair dry rot inside that space. you have to take the inside wall out to get to it. we also see a couple of other things happening here. we see a down spout from a drain and those need to just be checked to make sure they're secure. they usually have lightweight connecters so you have to make sure they stay connected. here's a gutter at the top. people let their gutters fill up with debris. you need to clean a gutter out. how often? >> if you're near a pine tree, there's a lot of pines in san francisco, the needles can fill up, you -- probably twice, at least twice a year. it depends on where -- how many trees are near your house and what kind of leaves they have. >> so if the gutter fills up or even just enough to block that little down spout there, that's enough to have the water overflow into some location where you don't want it to be. either under

we had a new roof done by the same people who did the city hall roof. they said it was fabulous of there. i looked at them. they said that they could fix it so that we could have a deck sunday. mr. atkinson sent you a copy of the e-mail back to me where she said she did not object to the top roof but she did object to the one off of the bedroom. i told her that i wanted to continue having the one off of the bedroom. one of the things that we did was removed the stairs from the house. we had a great deal into their yard or their house. a much better view than we have had from the deck. since we removed the stairs, we no longer have access to our fire escape except from the bedroom deck. thank you. there's something on the screen. >> we undertook this project to stay within the envelope of the existing buildings. when we went to the planning department, we were told given the rear yards and the adjacentt the section 188 interpretation would require permission of the five contiguous property owners or 10-day notice, per the zoning administrator interpretat

if you bought something in the last two years, some are doing i don't have money to do a new roof. i am sweating my job with the recession. this man heard. let's talk about things you can do. try to make your home a defensible space meaning -- we talked to a lot of fire people and asked exactly that. how do you start? because one of the problems we realized is people, you throw up your hands going i can't do it. there is so much to do. i can't afford it. the first thing you need to do is clean out your eaves and clean off your roof from any pine needles and debris because you have embers flying from the fire and if they land on that, that is the most dangerous situation possible. then after that, you can make some relatively easy changes to your garden and we devised in our article kind of the ideal garden plan. >> we wrote them down. first you say you clear the brush and dry vegitation. the grasses have to be about ten feet away. my husband and i live in a townhouse complex and they are pretty good about it. they get right on it and clear it. sometimes it seems even more so. if so

we have firefighters on the roof putting out the fires.oks like they're done with that the recovery and investigation gets underway. in regards to the aircraft it was a serious aircraft. we will bring george a certified pilot himself. >> high-performance aircraft. some local have a built-in safety features they have issued debt in the event of a problem with the air frame or the power it can actually be send gracefully under the issue. the only problem is if it happened on approach to a landing or departure which is likely the case. because of happen here the airport. even if so equipped it probably would not have been enough time. for the same reason you could not eject from a fighter plane. so close to the ground. >> some reports earlier may of been a student coming in from a landing but something went wrong here. would it be an aircraft somebody might use force a locally, could the person be in by themselves? >> it could of been an owner operator a lot of time private pilot somebody buys a new plane and takes training in that aircraft.

were stranded on a roof for days with no sign of help? that's what one man in the bay area went through after hurricane katrina. relief workers face another hurdle as they rush to reach more pakistan flood victims. >> a live look at 101, we have slowing in the east bay. >> 6:00 on friday morning. thank goodness it is friday. the heat is off. the rain is turned on. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm scott mcgrew. we want to get right to rob with the forecast. heading towards the weekend, we will show you the forecast first hour-by-hour. cool and breezy. 70s in san jose. 60s for san francisco. >> such an interesting change. thank you very much. >> it's been five years since hurricane katrina pummelled the gulf coast. the devastation still lingers in places like new orleans leaving deep scars that have not fully healed. >> we have reminders of what the wind and water left behind. out of all the ninth ward residents who were there, only 20% made it home. new orleans is at 78% of its prekatrina population. christie smith joins us live from oaklan

roof instead of a roof that has a pitch. >> i have a sketch. i think i can see this. the one to make sure what i see is what will end up. >> this was lowered to two feet. the folding building height was lowered two feet. >> thank you. >> this is an unusual pattern. you have the next floor and then the spaces on top. you only have so much space. i would rather see two homes. i think this is probably not enough for us to agree. >> the motion is to not approve the project as proposed. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> thank you, commissioners. you are now a general public comment. >> is there any general public comment on items on the agenda? if not, the general public comment is closed and this hearing is finished. . >> forgot no. 2. silver is nothing. there is no having made it and so we beat foreman. i love the competition. . >> american made has really taken it on themselves to green american cities. >> we have a new organizer for the city and county of san francisco. oh, mayor as well. yeah, that's part of the job des

. >> there is the required dog and the reason this is in there it has a green roof. this is a little shed that somebody built it's under the 100 square feet requirement and below no permit is required and they built this artist studio with a green roof isn't that odd? gorgeous studio an. >> these are earthquake refugee shacks and they replaced the tent cities put up in parks and house the ten's of thousand's of refugees and wurn winter was approaching and decided they decided a more permanent way to house these people and they built these cottages in city parks and presidio park and of this amount there are 23, 24 that are certified to still be standing although we assume there are many more hidden in people's backyards or suburbs and that type of thing and when the camps closed people could take the shacks with them and start a new life and many were together to form larger residences of three or four shacks together and our organization is trying to stay four of them we have moved to the zoo and we trying to get one of them on display for next year. >> and these ar

i hate leaking roofs. my clients take them even more. we would be inclined to put translucent glass there, but a couple are permit and let us finish our job. thank you very much for your time and consideration. commissioner garcia: would you address defense request? >> under a separate permit? i don't know what my client thinks of a taller fence, but i am also sitting back there, the architect, always thinking and drawing, this is the appellant's property, this is our property. this is the fence that is about eight, 10 feet. if they built the trellis, when we are on our third floor back, we would look down on the trellis, but we would not see anybody on the trellis -- we would not see any body underneath the trellis. there's a lot of things the property owner can do, the appellate can do to enhance their privacy. i showed in my brief what they had. when when they walk up that stair, and stand on a landing 6 feet from my clients bathtub. that is a privacy issue. being 30 feet away from somebody out doors, that is not a privacy issue. if i

, all the way to the roof, and water came and just opened up. >> reporter: they raced to attics and roof tops to escape, pleading for help. >> my house broke in half. my mother house just disintegrated. >> stayed in this closet, hopefully saved him from dying. >> reporter: rescuers saved some of the desperate, but not all. hello? >> reporter: we found harry pryor and his neighbor, michael knight, paddling house to house, searching for their marooned neighbors. >> see where them holes are at in the rooftops? >> reporter: you cut them out of the roofs? >> we cut them out of there. some was jammed in there. >> reporter: knight was born and raised in the lower ninth ward. when everyone else left, he stayed, and saved more than 400 of their neighbors. >> a lot of people just died, brother. >> reporter: surviving on water and meals dropped down from coast guard helicopters, knight and a few friends lived on his rooftop. so we went looking for knight this week, not knowing where he'd be. we found him back in his neighborhood, where we met him five years ago. how does it feel to stand here in th

jake roof gut -- roof gutter. clubhouse is much beloved and very dangerous. it is grossly deteriorating, and it needs replacement, and that is a big public safety concern for us. bob dole of pool did make the list as well. -- balboa pool did make the laws as well. if i can keep the roots integrity, i can usually hold on to the other systems. goothose of you that have done e renovations probably know this. public utilities commission has been very helpful. they have done an updated energy system, and they were doing some light things work, and they found your air handling system is failing, and of course, the staff knows that as well, because they have had difficulties as well, and it did not come up in comment. union square is interesting in that it was recently renovated, but we had a great deal of problems with the lighting system. there are a lot of stairs, and the lights have failed because of a faulty design when they did renovation they did a puddle of water we need to get it working. it continues to fail. but as the worst of the processes we would need

the howling winds were peeling back parts of the roof. it began pouring inside.g underneath the massive metal roof, it was an incredible and frightening sight. >> i was hoping that it wouldn't collapse. >> reporter: like countless others, belrose took refuge here in the 11th hour sunday. she said she couldn't afford to take her blind father any pl >> soun seen ceiling, you could see the light from the outside coming in. and water was coming everywhere. it was raining just like it was raining outside. >> reporter: when the superdome was finished in 1975, authorities were convinced it was strong enough to withstand a category 5 hurricane, 200-mile-per-hour winds. but this was the first real test. cynthia and her husband packed what little they could, not sure if they'd have a home to return to. then this. >> definitely was frightening. at home when you hear that kind of noise you can move and get out of the way. here, the roof is so huge, so heavy. >> reporter: which is precisely what emergency workers were most concerned about. debris from the roof was falling ont

would consider car surfing which is more of a planned event to ride on the outside, the hood or the roof of a car. instead he said it appears the young man was outside of the car, about to go with acquaintances who pulled up and he decided to jump on the car for some reason, perhaps horseplay, trying to get in. that's when he fell from the car and was killed. police say it doesn't appear speed was a factor or that alcohol was a factor, at least with the driver. police are still interviewing people downtown at the police department. they are also asking witnesses who may have seen anything to please come forward. live in danville, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> a man is in the contra costa county jail this morning accused of planting pipebombs. police arrested 31-year-old timothy wilson saturday. they searched his house yesterday. investigators say they found materials used to make pipebombs in the house. >>> an autopsy is set today for the so-called craigslist killer, phillip markoff who was found dead in his boston jail cell. he was found unresponsive yesterday after an apparent

i need a new roof.n good company. in 1978, kelly wrote that jacqueline kennedy owe nas sis had therapy for depression. in 1981 she wrote about elizabeth taylor's craving for constant care and attention ♪ you make me feel so young > just the idea of a kitty kelley tell-all sent frank sinatra to court. >> he immediately sued me before i had ever written a word. he kept the lawsuit going for quite some time. >> reporter: was that frightening? >> to be sued by one of the most powerful men in the country? yes. >> reporter: but sinatra droppeded the suit and kelly wrote her book, full of scandalous stories of sinatra's tumultuous relationships and ties to the mob. next the 1991 book about nancy reagan. and how did that go over? >> just in case the world needed another load of dirt on nancy reagan it's getting it this week in a new book. >> i'm so excited to read this trash. >> reporter: of the british royal family, kelly wrote, there's secrets of alcoholism, drug addiction, epilepsy, insanity, homosexuality,

pitched roof or concrete tile or whatever they might see. you get that full price. that's before rebate, before tax credit. then you take the system size in cec, california energy commission a.c. watts. that term is understood by the people in the industry. that means they use the c.e.c. ratings to determine the a.c. wattage. you get the per watt price. you divide this by this. you get the price per a.c. watt. you want to ask about permit fees as well. each city typically will charge fees. now those fees are coming down and we're working very hard to get them standardized and clear. there is some cost. sometimes the installers will pass that on to you. ask how they're dealing with it. you say, ok, what's my watt. let's see it was four d.c. but you'll have 18% less here, so that's the number you want, you divide this by that and you get that. so this would be 926 a watt. therefore, you can compare apples to apples. they have a standard calculator that they use on the web and they include that printout on your bid and they have to file that pr

some save themselves by climbing on to roofs. but if more water comes, all of us will die. >> the rain has stoped for the moment. but residents fear it is only a brief lull. millions are still waiting for aid, but it's unlikely to come soon. floods have washed away much of the infrastructure. a refugee camp set up by the army. but no sanitation is here, and no rescue workers, either. i am looking to see how we can manage with what little we have. >> that's something people here know all too well. cut off from official aid, many rely on themselves, but it is not enough. >> we're asking for help. thetr government, the world, anyone whoc an help us. water, something to eat, clothes a new home, cattle. we need everything. >> the only hope here is that the worst is over. after another day of rain, there are fears of new floods. there's not much pakistanis can do other than to wait and hope they can survive this disaster. >> many flood victims are pinning hopes on the military as the only instritution capable of helping them. survivors

also in an apartment and up on a roof. knock on wood, i think we have done a successful job here, and we think the residents, because there were windows that were open, and we pitcher feud with their quiet enjoyment, so we apologize. -- in we interfered with their quiet enjoyment. -- and we did. >> we did another test unknown to the club again later that night. unfortunately, i was hoping to have a report for you guys. i do not have it. talking on the telephone, he seemed very satisfied with both what the club has done as far as soundproofing and changing the sound system and also with talking to some of the residence. they seem pretty satisfied, as well, with the results. both on the roof and the side of the building. any kind of sound was well within legal and standard limits. so we are pretty happy with what we found. i do not see this becoming a problem. commissioner joseph: commissioner meko? commissioner meko: with regard to the letters or the emails that you just passed around, i am not exactly clear what your point

it was katrina hammering away at the roof, trying to get in. and then, this. the first break visible in the roof. that is daylight coming through. and the rain soon followed. as bad as it was that night, there was a sense, and in fact we said this on the air, that new orleans had dodged a bullet. then, that night, the levees failed. and by dawn, 80% of the city was under water. over 1800 souls lost their lives and millions of lives changed forever. today, the rebuilding continues, so much has changed here in five years' time. but some wounds have not healed. president obama came here today, to help mark this anniversary. he arrived here this afternoon with his family. flying direct from their vacation on martha's vineyard. speaking at xavier university, the president celebrated the resilience of the people of this region. in a short time ago, during this rainy afternoon here in new orleans, he sat down with us for an exclusive interview. just a block from here, you may not have known as you drove by houses with holes still in the roof where there had been live

water and swam 1/4 to a store with food. >> there are people on roofs. i can see people i know or that i've seen before. some of them elderly. they're begging for help. >> reporter: he did help. made it out and 11 family members were offered shelter in oakland, a place they had never been. >> the people were so warm. i think we were probably the first family to arrive in oakland. >> reporter: he has three kids. the rest of his family returned south. even there, it's not the same. >> my uncle passed away in the storm. that's like the hardest thing for me every day. >> reporter: now he says oakland is home forever, but you'll find a taste of new orleans in the kitchen. gumbo pots are reddy. he would rather cook than watch the anniversary coverage. he lived it. >> it woke me up to the good and bad of america. >> reporter: christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> the spirit of perseverance and survival. >> that storm changed so many lives. >> amazing. >> five years. all right. jeff ranieri is at it again. he's at london square tonight. >> at the eat real festiv

treated and what they are proposing. >> as it relates to that as well, of course you're aware the roof of the transit center, the design of our facility is going to reduce the storm water runoff from its current level so we are doing a significant amount both with the facility itself and then we'll try and also reflect that at the street scape level. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? if not, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i like the design because unlike the present situation, it lets a

how damaged was this roof in the end? >> 70% of the roof membrane was blown off. >> reporter: rebuilding would cost $250 million. naysayers included thornton's own wife denice. >> spend millions of dollars to rebuild a stadium when most of the people are homeless. it didn't make sense. >> reporter: but it did to city and state leaders. to jump start downtown business and inspire others to rebuild. 13 months after katrina, the superdome had a new roof, new field, new life. a huge success. >> it was like everything's going to be okay. and i think it was pretty special. >> reporter: emotional. >> yeah. >> reporter: even today. >> even today. >> reporter: but a half mile away, charity hospital represents how far new orleans still has to go. >> this whole medical district has been dead for five years. >> reporter: james moises, an emergency room doctor, used to work at charity. for generations, the safety net hospital for southeast louisiana. but today it's a ghost building. after katrina, louisiana state university, charity's

the holes punched through roof tops from people who were trapped inside. >> my house broke in half. my mother house just disintegrated. >> reporter: the lower ninth ward then -- and now. a new skyline fueled by brad pitt's make it right foundation. still, more than three quarters who lived there have never come back. and those levees? this is the picture now. and we wondered about the medical care. after that trip five years ago to charity hospital. one of the hospitals where patients have now been waiting five days for boats to come rescue them. this is third world medicine. >> this is worse than third world medicine. >> reporter: because of the rising water, patients in critical condition moved upstairs. an auditorium became the emergency room, a piano to calm nerves. five years later, charity hospital is closed, frozen in time. a lab chart from that day still hanging on the wall. but we also learned that of the more than 4,000 new orleans doctors displaced by katrina, more than 3,600 have returned. and that doctor we met at charity hospital, among them. >> the good news with that

this fanciful landscape attracts many rock climbers they can make their own roof among the rocks chains and mountain tops up to four thousand meters. in spring time the weather here can change several times in a day. is slowly coming to life. the first. of spring. grass. is the reserves and. only just beginning. to get to the rocky range. is situated along the tributary of the river nature reserve staff. existence by chance. for ten years when locals told us they said sheep being sheltered in the caves. came here we did see tracks left by sheep yes that's right i remember the first time i came here we did see tracks. for more than a kilometer several. chambers. covered. and . the north. the ground they represent the redbook species. more than two thousand bats gather here in the winter. in order to survive. in summer they fly to the foothills and return again in autumn they start preparing for migration in early spring when they split up into smaller groups. sometimes i find all of the bouts covered with jew. they look very nice like covered in tensile. ok visit closed ecosystem the hum

. >> we're on the roof of the moscone center of san francisco and we have 2500 panels that power the center. >> here we are using real energy, energy from the sun, free energy from the sun coming in right here. this converts directly into electricity. >> all these technologies cost money. they don't make economic sense. solar never made economic sense. bio fuels never made economic sense. it's when it was adopted that it started making sense. >> some of them have challenges, that take a long time to prove out, but there's no reason that the challenge of where we will get tomorrow's energy in the united states should not produce a very, very large. >> san francisco is unique in the united states because we serve our own power needs. >> the city of san francisco is well positioned in that we are perfectly located to take advantage of any renewable category. >> we tend to be the last one to figure it all out. it's real people that are saying, enough's enough. . >> the answer is going to be in renewable. the sooner we do something about it, the easier it will be it resolve. >> we're not

temperatures will be going down after roofing highs and lower 90s. with our numbers and the 50s, 54 concord and in the 50s. tomorrow with a westerly up to 20 miles per hour, upper 60s in half known bay. we should be in the low 90s out of the try valley. date tow in -- also in walnut creek. we all scream for ice cream, that is the 11th and root bear float date. it is a great fundraiser for juvenile diabetes. no clearing with sunshine in sonoma. sunshine goes down, check out the highs open in the upper 70s. the jp morgan this year nearly -- it is an amazing fundraiser for the ymc program. i will be there. how about this? >> here kitty kitty. >> she captured it as possible cat. we want to see your pictures. i can't believe she got that close to take a picture. >>> it started with a couple of kids dancing on an east bay street. they became a global february none -- global phenomena the story they want to move. popping? some of the most original dancing has started in the streets. 's . >>> hey, remember break dancing? some of the most original dancing is

to table. >> roof to table?> reporter: this is where the lettuce came from and the strawberries. >> i like to tell people that they're so perfect, they look fake. >> may i? >> yes, please do. >> reporter: look at what else he's growing here. >> i can smell the mint from here. right over there. >> the mint is great. this is broccoli rabe. summer squash. have you ever seen a fresh chickpea? garbanzo beans? >> reporter: his new restaurant, bell, book and candle, will be the first in the u.s. to grow its own food on a rooftop, enough to serve an 80-seat restaurant every night for ten months out of the year. >> tomatoes? >> tomatoes, yes. >> shaving 25% off the growing time? >> i can harvest in four weeks. >> amazing. >> reporter: that's the key to what mooney is doing here and the point he wants to make. the technology to make this possible is called hydroponics and it not only keeps this restaurant supplied with food he grows himself here above the city, but in the bigger picture he thinks it could become a model f

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he said they got off the roof eventually when the water receded. they never did get anyone to come out and help them. butler says going to louisiana is not easy for him to see the devastation, sometimes he does return but he plans to stay in oakland for good. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> amazing. thank you very much. >>> it is gadget friday. we love that around here. >> i have it right here. look at this. >> oh. it's rather large. >> it is. >> this part of it is. this is the gadget? >> it's called -- >> it looks like you were woodworking. >> the peep hole viewer, it's an lcd panel, helpful for the elderly. so you pretend it's the door. you can actually see through the peephole. we have a little video of what it looks like here. that's a regular peep hole. you put the viewer over the top, about 100 bucks, and you can see who's at the door. who is at the door? i don't know. he looks suspicious. it seems fairly ridiculous to put a tv set on your door, but the company says when it comes to things like the elderly who

it is unclear that anything that happened under nelson mandela's roof that night announced to solid evidence. bbc news, in the hague. >> linking it charles taylor to illegal diamonds is key to the prosecution's case. he denies responsibility for destroying, raping, naming, and mutilating more than 1 million africans in west africa. >> he faces 11 separate charges over his alleged role in the brutal civil war in neighboring sierra leone. he is accused of backing rebels were responsible for widespread atrocities. the charges include looting, burning, collective punishment, murder that announced to extermination, which is a crime against humanity, mutilation, and constricting children under 13 years old into rebel militias and forcing them to fight. sierra leone's civil war was largely driven by rebels brutalizing towns and villages. the prosecution was encouraged and organized by charles taylor in neighboring liberia, the prosecution alleges. charles taylor is also accused of supplying weapons to the rebels, in exchange for so- called blood diamonds. making the link between taylor and the diam

and 75 in san roof tile 71 of santa rosa. tomorrow bit cooler of the today's temperatures will struggle to get into the upper '70's in our inland spots, 64 along the bay shore, 59 along the coast dense fog will reach our inland that lead to. sunday it's going to start to warm ... that it will lead to a warming trend into next week. your not believe how warm it's gunna get your extended forecast coming up. >> a look at the friday traffic this is in san francisco the james link it still the same as we shall see in a friday the top of your screen traffic to the lower deck of the bay bridge barely living at all. the lower part of your screen southbound 101 traffic also a crawl. we'll be back there's a lot more news ahead. r ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay, they had 30 people and an idea. meg's job was to make it happen. it took leadership. focus. and the ability to bring people together. meg whitman delivered. named one of america's best ceo's by harvard business review, she grew ebay 15,000 strong and made small business drea

maybe holding to the roof rail. there was enough witnesses that we need to interview all of them and find out based on their accounts what happened. >> police say it appears to be a tragic accident. no arrest have been made. so far there is no evidence the vehicle was speeding and it's too early to tell if alcohol may have been involved. >> a concord man faces several felony charges after police say he left three pipe bombs in a city park last month. timothy david wilson is in the contra costa jail charged with possession of destructive devices and bomb making materials. they initially arrested him on a drug charge as he left his concord home on saturday. a total of three pipe bombs were found in new hall park on two separate days in july. the bomb squad detonated all the devices. police say they could have easily injured or killed somebody. when police served a search warrant they discovered a pipe bomb faculty inside. >> they recovered materials to make a pipe bomb. pvc piping, gun powder and partially made pipe b