any community anywhere ever again >>> dedication of a memorial plaque with some consolation for santayana of who survive the explosion that killed her mother two years ago >>> along two years a struggle seeing my mom's name on the plaque i appreciate that thank you. >>> eight people killed and 50 injured an explosion that killed 38 homes it left lingering questions about the safety of pg&e gas lines. home rebuilding has gone well eight homes and now stand, the mayor says it is taken longer for the psychological repair of the community. she said she is recovering >>> it has been a long road at that lots of operations this year i am walking i was in last year >>> after the gas line exploded investigators tried to determine the cause and focused on pg&e and its over pressurization of gas lines this assemblyman says there are 500 spots in the system that have conditions similar to those of the san bruno explosion. >>> thousands of miles of pipe that need to be inspected this is a plastic pipe out there that cause the explosion in cupertino and roseville that pipe needs to be inspected and rep

they were informed by their professors -- dewey and santayana and other university people, harvard people who preached a reform movement as necessary to solving problems of the american city, which was in many cases near anarchy. so they were united by this face. science became their religion. -- by this faith. science became their religion. they understood that they could make the world anew, one of the reasons they joined with wilson in going to paris in 1919, to remake in effect europe. >> none of which actually worked out in the end. >> it was a good first effort. that is my take on it. it could never have succeeded. >> i am going to take a little station break here, and i want you to know how we were informed by science today. i want to know where our passion for building comes from this belief in scientific answers to artistic questions. for the benefit of our radio listeners, on sirius-xm radio, can be heard on saturdays. we are very glad to have those listeners, and i'm talking with james srodes, the author of "one dupont circle: franklin and eleanor roosevelt and the progressives