thousands of tons wrung sonorous from the sky. where is god? black-eyed woman, the street dogs are running wild. will you save me? simple white ignorance, even the desert has gone into hiding. there is no more meaning here than the crested moon holds towards a dying grove of date trees. i am for the arabic, for the transcription of the arabic, zato dates over fire-baked bread. the twin rivers have already called for us a history. our poets have already explained to us the desert. by what right have you come? who have you have seen the rustic crane in the tree, no chimes but for its delicate wide beak, ushers an intemperate reprieve? 33 beads on a string, why pretend to know beyond the presence of click. thank you. please welcome gale sher >> the first one is why did she care? why did she care, she wondered, laying aside the book. a dim light could be seen possibly from a cabin reaching in not for the word, but for the space which a time. fat drops driven violently side ways. the man's mind into which she tossed herself becomes a bird. fly away,

night sky is. so when i go to mountaintops at the finest observing sites in the world, and i look up, the first thought is, "it reminds me of the hayden planetarium." it's embarrassing, but i've come to terms with it. >> hinojosa: so your dad was african american, and your mom was puerto rican. >> yes. well, my father's ancestry is... both through the caribbean, so... but yes. >> hinojosa: and what was going on in the bronx when you were growing up? >> da bronx. >> hinojosa: da bronx. were people saying, "look at this smart kid who wants to be a scientist"? >> oh, no, no. >> hinojosa: "how cools that"? >> oh, no. no, no. no one cared about your brains. could you jump high, could you run fast, could you shoot a basketball? >> hinojosa: all of your teachers, the community... >> oh, no. i'm talking about in the playgrounds where i grew up. no one... there was no intellectual conversation going on in the playground. and so to get respect of friends and of the community, you... athletics mattered. and i

why did 5,000 of them simply fall out of the sky? >>> and 80 years ago, the brightest minds of the time imagined life in 2011. were they right? ready sensei. it has the cold-fighting power of an effervescent packed in a liquid-gel for all over relief! hiyah! dude! a man can only try... and try...and try. [ male announcer ] honey nut cheerios tastes great and can help lower cholesterol. bee happy. bee healthy. ♪ >>> there is a full-blown csi investigation under way in a small arkansas town tonight. a town blanketed by 5,000 blackbirds appear to have fallen out of the sky on new year's eve. erin hayes is tracking this mystery. >> reporter: blackbirds, thousands of them, rained from the sky over this little town, crashing on to homes and cars and front lawns. >> thought the mayor was messing with me when he called me. he got me up at 4:00 in the morning, told me he had birds falling out of the sky. >> the police department, told them i was, like, not drunk, not on drugs, and she immediately said, oh, you're calling about the birds. i wa

biologists are baffled after thousands of birds fall out of the sky. it grills are started in the great in the bay area. those stories straight ahead on kron4 news. it's really delicious, mom. it's not too well done? nope. but it is a job well done. what are you reading, sweetie? her diary. when you're done, i'd love some feedback. sure. your mom and i read that thing cover-to-cover. loved it. thanks. would you mind if i cut the lawn this weekend? only if you let me talk to your mother on the phone for hours on end. done. [ male announcer ] u-verse brings peace to the family. at&t u-verse lets you record four shows at once from any room and play them back on any tv. now get up to $300 back in promotion cards. at&t. rethink possible. the new year has brought an unusual visitor to the county. a gray whale has been spotted in the bay kron4 is maring kelly has talked to people who see it up close. >> here you concede that well putting on a show, that shot and put up on you two. the mass of mammal has been seen off and on for three weeks. it is believed to

it was a beautiful sky this evening. now, we are looking at temperatures mainly in the 50s from the golden gate southward, and in the 40s eastward and then northward. it will get cool in some locations tonight, es -- especially in the inland valleys. mild afternoons on wednesday and thursday, and it will be turning cooler by the weekend. but not dramatically so. let's follow the forecast animation here, and you can see the fog will be spreading through the carcenas straight. and it is to some parts of the inland valleys. but most of us will not see dense fog. just a few locations. all of us will see a little bit of a chill or feel it overnight. the lows will drop to 36 in santa rosa and 37 in napa and livermore. 38 in antioch. 37 in fairfield. so pretty chilly conditions in the inland areas and 40s for most other locations. the satellite-radar shows a big, strong ridge of high pressure dominating our weather pattern for the next several days. that's going to keep us dry. mild conditions for a couple more days. so let's t

pristine looking sky outside. you realize how great you have it when the rest of the country is dealing with this. this is a live picture out of manhattan, kansas. the little apple. i'm guessing that's a parking lot around cane state university. my mom watches this every day. guess where she went to college. >> that's the other -- >> that's my school! >> take a look at dangerous icy roads. going out of control, down the hill before crashing. there you see it starts all over again with another car. there was a parade of cars coming down the hill that were playing pinball and bumper karl even though they didn't want to. thankfully no one was injured. what ice will do for you. >> here at home beautiful conditions. look at that! from sutro this -- excuse me, mount tamalpais. not as windy up in the bay areas. some of those winds still howling through the valleys. a stout northerly wind about 10 to 15 mph. watch out for those breezes to make it down around the bay also. let's take a look at the temperatures. some of the

after glochlt beautiful sky it was. beautiful sky tomorrow. little fog around early in the morning but by midday we see the fog burning away temperatures climbing well into the 60's in most locations. and by late afternoon we see high pressures at record level again in some locations upper 60's to low 70's around the warmest spots in the bay area. here's accu-weather 7 day forecast 2 more daisy of this unusual warmth. tomorrow and thursday. then on friday temperatures moderate a bit but under sunny skies and cooler over the weaned with few cloud around. no rain expect. high pressure though even with the cool conditions will reach 62 degrees mildest location and early next week we start with another warm-up monday or tuesday and temperatures climb well into the wichbilityd your complaint box must be empty. >> no complaint at the moment. about. >> thanks very much. >> larry is here with sports and man who is fired with with than a an f. >> 3 is. not physical. i also have a gaze of a worker being abused by his boss. which i'm sure. >> personal co

it is coming from the sky, the ocean, the surging floodwaters coming from further upstream. the water levels are expected to rise to meters within the next 24 hours. this was supposed to be the week when queensland moved into recovery mode. but they still have a way to go. >> we are probably about 20 meters or 30 meters from the peninsula. we could hear the river. we took a few pictures of that. the next day, it started to rise. the ferry normally provides public transport. a couple of hours later, it was still rising and still continues to rise. >> talk with us about what is happening personage you. i understand your -- what is happening personally to you. i understand your wife is pregnant. >> yes. we are on the third floor. we will not fill the waters appear. -- we will not feel the waters up here. my wife is pregnant and we are getting ready to go to her parents' place on the other side of town, on a hill where there is not likely to be a risk of flooding. but we wanted to make sure to move the car from the garage so that we were able to get out. on the other end of the

they kind of -- what is it called, sky writing or whatever.r pilots, or what have you, they literally get in the air and they're sky writing. isn't that what it's called? >> sounds good to me. >> they write different messages here. holy smoke as you can imagine is a religious message. they started it years ago when they lived in boca raton. crop dusters called holy smoke. they write things like trust jesus, god forgives you, you plus god, things like that. they're taking the religious message to the skies over florida here to inspire us all. >> is that self-funded or do they have some sort of church? >> i didn't read that far but i'll get back to you on that, thank you. >> sorry, >> it's all right. >> you're about to be jealous. if you have these horror stories like a lot of adults do of showering in gym class after the class. >> yeah. >> apparently they're doing away with it. a lot of kids these days are now saying, you can see there from "the orlando sentinel," i don't like doing it, it makes me uncomfortable. of course now we're saying, the

sky who wrote the diary adored theater would the trouble was that in the soviet one nine hundred thirty s. theaters could not touch her heavy themes. yeah ten years. why. why. did they give me ten years. the agreement is without appeal. i've done nothing wrong nothing wrong. real soviet people were supposed to be full of joy cheerful place desley parades an impressive demonstrations all of which were designed to inspire people with enthusiasm. i was just what i understand one said life has become better life has become merrier life for people in his inner circle may indeed have become better and more cheerful but listen to what you know wrote when she was thirteen moscow is not happy people killing for basic necessities are angry and worn out they curse their government and their miserable existence i. after classes we were sent into the streets to march there there was no telling how angry i was what made things even worse was that i felt quite helpless. i decided not to join the demonstration. often visits the state archives and came across the name is diary quite accidentally she'd b

fall out of the sky dead. is tracking this mystery. >> thoughts reign from the sky new year's eve over this little town crashing on to home, cars and front lawn. >> i thought the mayor was messing with me when he called me. he got me up at 4:00 o'clock in the morning told me he had birds falling out of the sky. >> called the police department and told them i was like not drunk. not on drugs and she immediately said you are calling about the bird i was like yes. >> black swirl coming up over the house and ones not high enough were in the tree the house mailbox sun basketball goal everything. >> why did the bird go berserk. nobody is sure yet. state officials are investigating. they don't think the birds were poisoned. aside from that there are plenty of theories. >> everybody has a theory. main question is what were they doing in the air at that time of tonight something they were starlingted by fireworks that night. few think maybe the city was just trying to get rid of them. it was certainly unnatural behavio

and a girl says the sky today is lacking because the cypress is in pieces. and a young man says, no, the sky today is complete because the cypress is in pieces. and i say to myself, it's not obscure or clear. the cypress is in pieces. there is only this. the cypress is in pieces. . >> a poem i wrote shortly after 9-11. the terrorists for rachel cory and all those who were idealists and who actually believed that they could make an effect and social change. the terrorists who lives amongst us is not you, the terrorist who lurks in the shadows of our crowded city streets isn't me. he's not a demon with bulging eyes, a twisted mouth full of dirt, a crooked mouth, fangs driping blood. it's not the savage guner waiting for our school on their way to school. no, this heinous replica of satan doesn't look like a jew. dopt make a habit of supplying the motives of sin with colors of skin because it's skin deep. a student with dreams of statehood or a teenage girl driven by desperation and fear or a dentist or an apprentice of a dead soldier, who crouches in the wound

that's still to come for you but first when black birds started falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas the problem was blamed on festive follow works when bird started dying thousands of miles away in sweden and italy triggered some far fetched online speculation that nature itself was sick and most pessimistic suggested it could even be the harbinger of some bigger disaster well let's discuss this story with filmmaker and blog danny schechter danny thanks very much for joining us there from the u.s. now these animal deaths are really quite unusual aren't they what do you make of all of this. well you know i really know how unusual they are but certainly when one set of incidents happens followed by another set followed by a third set suddenly it becomes a trend then it becomes a much bigger story in the media but it's still sort of a mystery it may be that each example is actually specific to a particular local set of circumstances we don't know scientists say they're looking into it they're concerned they're there they're some of more worried than others but certain

in arkansas out thousands of black births fell from the sky on new year's day. arkansas game officials are trying to investigate the cause. they're not sure what to make of this phenomenon. >> i thought it was out of an alfred hitchcock movie, it was not a joke. >> i thought the mayor was messing with me when he called me, he got me up but 4:00 a.m. and said that he had parents calling out of the sky. >> this morning residents got an unwelcome surprise, thousands of dead birds covered the ground. >> jews what a way to start the new year, last year we start with less this year with birds. >> every yard in the area looks like this one dozens of birds, litter in the ground. the scary part is that no one knows how they got here. >> most of the animals are rednecks bought birds, and they're not just on lawns, we bomb on roads, it was difficult to drive without crushing them. we even saw some on rooftops. >> started it 7:00 picking up birds off the street njord's. it's just a mess. >> arkansas game and fish has collected some of the animals it will perform tests on mo

boy, everybody is talking about just how brightly lit the nighttime sky is. and with the lack of cloud cover tonight, it's going to get much colder than it was last night dropping down to near freezing in santa rosa, otherwise 30s and 40s across the bay. low 40s, delta. winds are now beginning to dial back. 42 overnight low in santa clara. your morning commute, bundle up, you will be able to see that sunup officially at 7:22. high pressure, it's a big dome that continues to strengthen over the western states. as it does so, is returning us to an off store flow. we have a short wave trough. this served a very important role. it's scrubbed out the low clouds and the fog. we are certainly into a dry weather pattern but we're doing okay. percentage of normal totals range from 80% in san jose to 124% north of the golden gate bridge. tomorrow, a dry day. dry air mass with those north easterly winds becoming pretty breezy late day. otherwise, 70 degrees in santa rosa. low 60s in san jose. 61 in san francisco. here's the extended forecast. we're talking no rain drops

in europe the look of sky it is called the russian and frank the jewish girl who exposed naziism in a war time diary. on a died in a concentration camp of typhoid. survived the ordeal of the gulag. culture is the same i understand my family and i just always will my son looked me in the fires in the last one year around the catastrophic earthquake haiti remains in ruins and prospects not bleak what has gone so wrong for this and poppers. in russia would be so much brighter if you knew more about song from finest impressions. moves for a new start on t.v. dot com. in this history lesson the teacher is quoting examples from the background of his own family rather than a textbook he's recounting the story of his grandmother who like nina was arrested . a good idea when my grandmother was first question by an investigator she did not realize what she was in for all women there east but there are signs laughing at what she said when she returned to the cell she remarked the lead investigator has no manners he didn't even ask me to take a seat. this is going to stop all. bought their dogs.

the truth that drove me sky of the prison camp in the autumn of one nine hundred thirty seven took a road built by other inmates many of them died during the construction of old quarter we have come to visit a prison count for women. women serve their terms here between the one nine hundred thirty nine hundred fifty and the. cattle i'm grew vegetables. menas ambition was to be a painter and a musician but most of all she wanted to be a celebrated author however the easel the piano and the pen were now things of her past here she be forced to use tools of another trait. visited what was left of prison camps to collect oil lamps aluminum mugs picks and spades. here is a new exit for a museum they used to mine gold with it she set up a museum dedicated to the gulag and sometimes visits the camps with relatives of former inmates. more than there was a cemetery for children around here among the bushes in the one nine hundred forty s. . i think the child of one of the in medicine she was buried in this small coffin and . the graves were shallow at that time bare must have dug it up. i fou

will go sky is survived five years of imprisonment before being exiled to the city of monkey done to work as a graphic designer at the local theater her job was to paint soviet style stars and write slogans on red banners it was during her stupidity of her that she met her future husband also an artist and acts in me. she was the carriage throughout the rest of her life whenever her husband was going to tell somebody about to live she did like this and that she wouldn't let him say anything she was afraid as time went by nina realised one of her ambitions she was acclaimed as an artist but never again were her thoughts recorded in a diary as emotional and sincere as they had been in her childhood but she still steered clear of public demonstrations and never used red colors in her paintings and italy kuvin an artist was her friend in the final years of her life there of the she was more daring in her work than many other artists her paintings were not given due recognition it was not until she was sixty years old that she was admitted to the artists union nina's quiet and modest life

britain's sky news is reporting that police were told to cancel their days off today. extra police at the airports and train stations were put on high alert. sky news also reports london's merge services were briefed on how to respond to attacks like the one in mumbai, india. >>> today the households the first prurl vote. a final vote is scheduled for next week. an analysis by the nonpartisan congressional budget office predicts repealing the law would increase the deficit by $20 billion over ten years and that 32 million more people would be uninsured. republicans were quick to reject the cbo analysis. that led to political jealousy. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: democrats were quick to charge the new majority with hypocrisy. >> they are breaking their first promise in their first week. >> reporter: republicans countered that the health care law drafted by democrats was filled with fiscal gimmicks and released their own report estimating that the law would actually cost the country $2.6 trillion. >> i don't think anybody in this town believes that repealing obama ca

from the sky. around the world. as dismissiveness just. go through water to protect the country. a special forces train. in the fight against terror. and sporting highlights. good to have you with us this is sports today i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. bottle of moscow sports secure the capital bragging rights early in twenty eleven after an eight ball thriller with the. top of the pile khimki continue their impressive form on the v.t. the lead hardwood with a closely all we know are the three new. supreme in sydney and then dominate against australia once again to wrap up the ashes on a three. but we began with ice hockey where we didn't have to wait too long for the first big darby of twenty eleven in the kontinental hockey league sports consigning moscow. to their sixty at the feet constantine to top off reports. after a tough weaning a wisconsin bitters move spike hosted bitter rivals who despite a host of problems including injury ravaged manch set second in the conference in the opening period both sides were careful not to give away too

if you are going to be out and about, we have tonight a moonlit sky a full moon. and we will have plenty of clear conditions inland bayside to the immediate seashore. tonight overnight, number-wise it will be much cooler than it has been in the past couple of nights. 44 in oakland, low 40s common across the peninsula and offshore win 10 to 20. 30s around concord, clayton, walnut creek, livermore at 35. this is the trough to the north of us. it's a trough of low pressure and many of these clouds are spilling over into the northwestern quadrant of the state of california. that's where we just saw those high clouds from as we looked out from mount vaca. now, meanwhile, this area of low pressure served a purpose because it scrubbed away the stratus in the form of low clouds and patchy fog along the immediate seashore and also, with that offshore push, it actually moved out that tule fog from our inland areas but now we have a series of storms out over the pacific. the storms will not affect us as far as precipitation is concerned. but it will affect us as far as surfa

that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful. when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipate the project to be something that opens a dialogue to public interest in these ideas.

our weather could cause five thousand black birds to be liquefied inside what could pull out of the sky dead fish oil washed ashore around the world we look at whether it's an apocalypse in the making or just costs and. these young recruits go through fire and water to protect their country rushers a special forces in training gets an exclusive look at. your source your twenty four hour source for global news this is a lie from moscow millions of sudanese are preparing to vote in a referendum could see one of africa's poorest and most troubled nations split into two countries in the vote that takes place on sunday the christian dominated south is widely expected to choose independence from the mainly muslim north the week long ballot is being held as part of a peace deal which ended decades of civil war in two thousand and five the conflict claimed two million lives and displaced about four million people thousands of those refuge in israel a place considered an enemy state by the sudanese government. that some of the refugees found their hopes for the upcoming his. but. the road to fre

and, imagine the scene of this in the sky. two sons. as scientists says it could happen temporarily. >> a live look out side from san jose. was a very nice day today. clear and cool overnight. there's not much chance of fog. high clouds streaming bay area and breezy conditions. a live look out side or we have war it will not try air into the north. storms are in seattle and portland and continue to roll over the top of the warm dry air. i clubs and breezy. it will turn hour winds and onshore analyst's picks up the surf. 3:00 in the morning on saturday. very large waves. dangers conditions. you might just want to avoid it even though it will be they said there this weekend. the beaches will be packed. chilly conditions yet again. 39 in livermore, the fog and the central valley is going to reform. it could crash into our but it is clear to stay in the clear tomorrow. the into sunday morning we will see the fog return. high temperatures with a 73 degrees in san rosa, 64 in san francisco. 70 in los gatos. to of look at your kron4 news and s

never point a laser pointer at a sky at a person at an airplane, never. >> reporter: but they are not just pointing them at airplanes. santa clara county sheriff's deputies say people often shine them at their helicopter during night patrols and last year, they made five arrests. this is one of the confiscated devices. it's actually four lasers taped together for maximum effect. sergeant jim helms was in the cockpit when it happened. >> the initial point of the laser very small but when it gets to be four to five miles away, the size of the actual beam is quite larger and -- >> four at the same time? >> basically what happens is the aircraft, the fuselage is curved. none of the windshields are flat. they are curved. so when the beam hits the windshield it acts like a prison and illuminates the cockpit. it's not one little beam coming through. and it can temporarily blind or permanently cause damage to eyes. >> reporter: other law enforcement agencies are starting to take these incidents very seriously. in fact, pointing a laser at a commercial airliner is a federal offense and the fbi

just enough thin high clouds in the sky to allow color and texture to the sun set there.e today got up to 60 degrees at santa cruz. most other location high in the 50's but plea anti-and sunny mailed day all across the bay area. tomorrow morning 8:00 o'clock quite chilly with many reading still in the 30's at that hour but my noon we see temperatures climb into the upper 40's to low 50's and by late afternoon it will be pretty mild everywhere except part of the inland east bay antioch livermore and high of only 49 most other locates will be in the 50 and as you mav farther south see upper 50's. here the alaska weather 7 day forecast, 7 day of mainly sunny sky now we'll see at bit of an increase in clouds on friday and sat. not expecting a storm just maybe additional clouds morning fog and frost will be with us wednesday thursday and friday so we still have chilly overnight periods coming our way but the daytime weather is looking great next 7 days. >> good enough thanks spencer. >> well giant fans enjoyed an opportunity late this afternoon to spend a few moment with a cov

few high clouds over the bay area but mainly a blue sky or sunny sky.tonight under mainly clear skies. crop down to 36 at napa. 37 at santa rosa and fairfield. 39 at concord and morgan hill. 36 at livermore so pretty chilly in the inland areas but mild again tomorrow. satellite radar composite picture shows the little cold front that brought us to the little bit of cloud. breaking up. hurry delevoping behind the frontal system and forecast animation calls for the high to reestablish itself tomorrow and bring us yet another day of warmth maybe even a record warmth. very good chance we see high pressure climb to record level and stay in several location so let's get rate to the high. start in the south bay where skies will be sunny and high up to above 70 degrees in several locates and san jose if it hits 70 will seat new record high for the date tomorrow. we'll see upper 60's to about 70 on the peninsula and low to mid 60's on the coast in and around san francisco 66 degrees downtown 64 in the sun set district. north bay high climbing into the 70's as we

birds falling out of the sky, the result of some sort of trauma.h found dead in the water, thousands of them in separate incidents in the same state. we get our report tonight from nbc's janet shamlian. >> reporter: they rained down on a small arkansas town like a scene from a horror movie. thousands of dead black birds. on front lawns, and so many in the street, drivers could barely avoid them. >> i went out to get the paper and i looked and i said, wait a minute, what is this? we probably had 14 or 15 just in the front yard. >> reporter: as many as 5,000 bird carcasses littered across a one-mile radius after dropping from the sky on new year's eve. you had them just about everywhere? >> oh, my goodness, they were all over the place. >> reporter: what could have caused it? as a state veterinarian examined the birds today, theories have run the gamete. from their being hit by lightning or hail, to being spooked to death by new year's eve fireworks. >> they do have a lot of trauma. i mean, they were -- like they were hit by something. >> reporter: b

five thousand black birds to have a liquefied insides and then what could cause bugs pulled out of the sky dead fish show washed ashore around the world would look at whether it's an apocalypse in the making all just fuss and feathers. and these young recruits go through fire and water to protect their country rushers a special forces in training he gets an exclusive look. a very warm welcome to you this is aussie life from moscow millions of sudanese are preparing to vote in a referendum could see one of africa's poorest and most. troubled nations split into two countries in the vote starts on sunday the christian dominated south is widely expected to choose independence from the mainly muslim north the weeklong ballot is being held as part of a peace deal which i did decades of civil war in two thousand and five but tension remains in the region with just on saturday four people killed in an attack on south sudanese soldiers a civil conflict claimed two million lives and displaced around four million people thousands of those sort refuge in israel a place considered an enemy state by the

this is video from sky 7 overhead at the time.northbound connect or ramp from 8 80 to 101 was also closed for several hours while crew cleared the roadway. you can see that it caused a back up for drivers making their way home. >>> san jose man recovering from a dog attack tonight. left him with 10 stitches and multiple bite wawndz to the head and arm. 78-year-old bob ferguson says he was walking his dog when he saw a neighbor boxer and labrador charging toward him last wednesday. they bit the hip and arm knocking him to the ground. >> the white dog bit me at the top of the head. then the boxer started working it way down the side of my head to my ear and trying to get my throat. >>reporter: animal control took one of the 2 dogs into custody and are investigating its wound. attack has been categorized dangerous. comparing to a mauling last month is being categorized as vicious attack not dangerous as this attack was. now the one that is described as vicious involving the pit bull could lead to those dog being euthanized. >> jerry