usa griffith and she and her mother are also homeless and in today's show the unemployed since the saks fifth avenue store that she works at is closing earlier i spoke to blair she told me what comes next as she struggles to get back on her feet. it actually in the process of applying for unemployment and currently been submitting my resume to different places just trying to find a new job you seem like a smart girl you went to college what do you think it says i know that your case has certainly gotten a lot more attention because of your crown as miss colorado but what do you think it says that people just like you with who are smart with degrees are finding themselves in situations like this crashing on couches staying at friends. it's just goes to show i'm not alone if i actually after the attention that my story had received through the news i've gotten so many e-mails from people across the country who have said they're in the same exact situation and it's very unfortunate that there's many people who have the talent and have that drive to be successful or they can't get themselve

oh, yes, she was very sexy, beautiful lady and she invited me into the back room and served me sak . go on! go on! well i stayed there all afternoon. talking and drinking saki and suddenly she looked at me and said, mr. kimono man, come closer. closer. and she looked me right in the eyes and said, i think i'm falling in love with you. i am! i love you. i want you. i need you. then she started taking off her kimono. she started to take off her - what happened next! calm down. i can't. i'm just so jealous. wow you must have had a wonderful night together. you think so? yeah. actually, no. no. just because right as i was kissing her. samurais brother suddenly came home. diver suddenly came home. what happened? well, when he saw us he was so angry and he puld out his sword and was going to kill me. oh! how exciting. it was not exciting. what happens. as he ran towards me, he slipped on the shiney floor and dropped his sword. so, i picked it up and i cut him down! you killed? that's right. at that point the wife took out 100 yellow gold coins and said, come on, let's run away together. no

if saks is selling out of a top, i can recut it and have it back in their stores in 10 days to two weeks. >> reporter: the garment district is still the center of fashion manufacturing in the united states, but it's not what it used to be. over the past 50 years, many designers have shifted production overseas where operating costs are lower. lepore says that's understandable for cheap clothing with thin profit margins. but she argues it is still cost- effective to produce high-end fashions domestically. >> when we have done cost comparisons on certain garments, we will take something and we will price it in n.y. and we will price it in china. we will do that often to sort of see where we are better off. generally, with the cost of bringing it here and importing, it comes out to very close to the same. >> reporter: new york's garment district is about a square mile wide and home to many of the city's 9,000 fashion-related firms. but there are only 16,000 apparel manufacturing jobs now, half the number six years ago. upscale boutique chain leggiadro moved its manufacturing here from italy

my jamaica is jackie saks. i am not only a member of the citizens advisely authority, but i helped prop b and re-authorize prop k years later. the 3rd straight light rail was part of problem b. i have been working on this since day one, and i have gone to all their meetings and their workshops. there is no -- like michael said at the plans and programs meeting, there is no reason to stop now. let it go forward. let the project be completed, because this is what the money is there for. this is what it is allocated for, and i see no reason why you should not oppose it. please vote for it. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> howard wong with save muni.com. the central subway, as we all know, started as a politically inspired project, not a transportation project. over the years, growing opposition in the neighborhoods and even many of our elected officials privately and our top transit leadership privately have acknowledged that this is a very poor transit project that disconnect

twenty's who graduated magna cum laude from the art institute of colorado has got a job working at saks fifth avenue in a store that's about to close and is also colorado usa where griffith and her mother are also homeless here's blair story. my mom and i were evicted from our home last november and everything and it's been going back and or. friends crashing on their couches because we can't find a place of our own this can't financially or lines and on top of that my position at that avenue you know is going to be terminated on march nineteenth because unfortunately our store is closing so it's been there that in two days from now you have you know you're going to do. i'm. sorry right now i got only i'm in the process of applying for unemployment and i currently have been submitting my resume to different places just trying to find a new job you seem like a smart girl you went to college what do you think it says i know that your case has certainly gotten a lot more attention because of your crown as miss colorado but what do you think it says that the people just like you with with w

you know let's talk about it on wrong people who proposed this problem bank of america would go to saks . and when i talk about winding them down user you know shore journal instance you shouldn't is that exploded that i was you. think that riveted the column. we should be unwinding to have. various well yeah i mean why aren't we unwinding then you have someone like bradley manning who got in trouble for leaking secrets and is now you know facing potential death penalty who is now spending twenty three hours of the twenty four hours in a day in solitary confinement and i have not seen a single washy thing not a single u.s. official behind bars for essentially running the economy into the ground and how do you reconcile that well i mean you know it's one giant mafia racket now wall street who can't gain finances taking control of both the democratic and republican parties it's legalized political rivalry just like you know legalize rico racket in the housing or it will be the criminals that so you know and if there are obviously it will look the criminals that they have if the criminals

the eighth floor of saks fifth avenue in new york city is the largest shoe department in the u.s.istered with the postal service. if all the shoeboxes at macy's were laid end to end, they would stretch from new york city to albuquerque, new mexico. >> is there such a thing as having too many pairs of shoes? >> no. >> i have a closet dedicated to shoes. >> peep toe. >> wejz. >> i appreciate them almost like artwork. >> sandles. >> boots. >> bootsies. >> my husband has called me emelda before. >> if you find a pair of shoes that you just absolutely love but maybe they hurt just a little bit, is it worth it? >> yes. >> absolutely. >> even when they hurt us, 60% of women say they're willing to tolerate pain for the perfect pair. so just why are women so head over heels about shoes? >> when you purchase shoes, it stimulates a part of your brain, and it's the same rush that like a stamp collector gets when they find a cool stamp. >> a pretty shoe makes you feel good. >> they can make or break an outfit. >> if you have a fat day, shoes always fit. >> from fairy tale to that first pair of

do you have any sense for what happened to the boats there and are you seeing the same kind of saks thatal flows coming in and out is basically draining the harbor from a water and increasing the water back in and pressure putting on the boats and docks is causing the boats and docking to fail. >> we see -- this could go on for several hours. what's your game plan up there as you try to protect the people of crescent city? >> we're keeping the people notified of the conditions that it's not overwith and we're expected for it to go several hours. and we're advising people to stay out of the low level areas, reduce your travel as much as possible. pay attention to the news channels on what's going on. and if you don't need to go someplace, now is a good time to stay home and take care of some other issues. >> thank you. >> sounds like they are in a real similar situation there. thank you for joining us. > right now we want to go live: to oregon. to see what they are experiencing there. they have a spokesperson. >> to give the all clear, as the governor said we're looking at around noon tod