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 whi a time. fat drops driven violently side ways. the man's mind into which she tossed herself becomes a bird. fly away, b

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

the sky -- opened. closed it's door. the sky -- opens, closes it's door. the sky -- hunger seems the only master. no, we both understand something like love. good doggie, good doggie what i do now. [applause] >> now you can feed pigeons and they know to go there to get food. sharks follow the ships because if you have humans packed and one gets sick you have to get rid of the sick one so it doesn't get the others sick you 3 them over board and the sharks follow. slim chance for [inaudible] it samples parliament, little mermaid. ts eljot and robert haden. >> never learned to swim. but we sure can dive. over million ships -- over million ship. iowa woo. let your fish bones live old man. let your fish bones before man. make a wish the black fish there is company coming, coming. hammer heads ham or head until hammer fed company knocking. great white shark. great white georgia no, no. they company dining, dining. [inaudible] can't remember, can't remember. there is company [inaudible]. and all know was a dark room cloud and gullets filled with [inaudible]. catt

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in the sky game is regarded as a source of great skill. crazy . every pilot would be of the name is expected to take over from and she can invest kuria least once this is the last launch point for members of the paraglider expedition the pilots go to it on food dispy the most difficult to send in three days the weather is getting worse strong winds and drizzle leg say is ready for the flight but first of all if he decides to monitor a nicolaas takeoff it will be nicholas first unassisted flight from this mountain in extreme weather conditions that there is not that you were racing big larger easier number one objective you are on tour develop and takeoff on the way i'll be instructing you by radio. i'm always jittery when i take or. who only not terror twenty such takeoffs. try my best ordinance. i wish to ask god to grant me a smooth flight so prejudiced the lord forgive me and have mercy on the sailor. for you member everything i taught you to do be careful with the brakes go through the procedure twice or three times i already don't worry. if y

beat the sound of the aggregate score and the feeling that sky was making a boarder at a. simulated workout he just had it was in the traditional format of i think you'd agree to listen very realistic but to recently we have been testing our system in three d. we can try it out right now with the help of these stereo whistles. oh man the real thing in the railway station the after this i can't wait to. well i'm enjoying my newfound snowboarding skills it's easy to forget that not all the winter games are going to be on the slopes innovations are also popping up in preparation for other events on the black sea coast less than fifty kilometers from because nobody on this mountain cluster the future olympic village park stadiums and arenas are rising up in the city of sochi itself technology of the first covered the state of the earth construction and it's really stages back in the late summer two thousand and nine and while the best laid plans were already breaking ground they've come a long way in the year and a half from foundations and frames the future venues have begun

that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky.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. so the work is really made to be seen in this environment. it's been show in museum, in gallery, but never in a public setting. and it's kind of ideal for both myself and the works to have this real dialogue with the public not only in san francisco but people coming from all over the world. >> since the dawn of electricity, that light is something that people feel connected to and inspired by. personally, there is space to keep that alive, just finding balance. the key is to find some balance. there is really, only one boy... one girl... one tree... one forest... one ocean.

sky 7 hd overhead. paramedic took the employee who opened the envelope to the hospital after he reported feeling nauseous. we understand he's just fine. fbi is now analyzing the substance and is expected to announce what it was some time tomorrow. >> bart has sworn in 4 new chaplain. they will offer spiritual guidance to transit police officers as well as victims of crime. chaplain will not be paid. within the hour emergency crew are expected to free a barge that is the captain used quick thinking to avoid an environmental mess and we have the story. >> at the yacht club they were any visiting vessel is a curiosity but none like this. the dredging barge, just off the green. it is leaked small amount of oil as well. >> there is some light oil on top of the water. >>reporter: where does it come from. >> hydraulic oil. >>reporter: apparently vented from the barge when it beached from sky 7 this morning that spill looked significant but it appears to have had minimal impact to protect the boom that they dep

sky. the main effect here in russia. you name. the station. they're. planning in building mel tillis for ski areas is no overnight study engineering it calls for painstaking geographical and topographical analysis scotto handles the full cycle from site inspection design and planning proposal until the coals are up and the chairs are full of snow seeking sixty years to get there they spend weeks in the field making sure the right group is be selected the task is a careful balance between cost effectiveness and ease of engineering not every lift can be laid along the shortest line from point a to point b. often ski lodges and base areas are located in easy proximity to access roads and parking facilities leaving scotto slips a lot of work to get you to the slopes as practice in the sochi twenty fourteen olympic skier has shown they're up to the task. when the international olympic committee visited across and i had to decide with a saw she was eligible to play host to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games of the aerialist set up by a company where th

brief scramble the pilot studies the wing and saws into the sky. do you think this is typical of summer time earlier this year a pilot covered one hundred kilometers in area. he took off from here first healing girty in a dynamic current waiting for the arrival of thermal and then it lifted him to an altitude of want kilometer or even more and then from that point he embarked on the route. alexei radios another member of the expedition to tell him he is cleared to take off when. him and both pilots begin soaring. all right now we start soaring. every now and then we go up or down with the wind we fielded beauty and comfort of the flight there is a little turbulence because of the smoke see that's what i'm talking about. let's go to the right it's safer there. meanwhile a third member of the expedition on the ground has been desperately trying to raise the wing stabilize it and take off but all of his. attempts have been in vain the instructor decides to touch down and fly with nicholai in tandem. flying is it different why it's a life of a bird whe

we have sky 7 hd flying to the scene to bring us live pictures of the crash.'s get a check right now of drive times heading through this thursday morning commute from highway 85 to 101, 13 minutes. right now you're looking at 20 minutes to make your way westbound 4 from antioch to the concord area and almost a half hour to make your way through the altamont pass westbound 580 to 205, 680. the east shore freeway, those headlights moving westbound on interstate 80. the drive time from the carquinez bridge to the maze about 21 minutes. it's starting to get a little crowded there. once you reach the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights not on yet. no problem making your way through the tolls and heading into san francisco. for the latest traffic updates go to our website abc7news.com and click on the traffic link. eric, kristen? >> megan, thank you very much. it's 6:21 now. >> have you ever had a pet rock? >> no. >> me neither but a lot of people have and we'll show you what that and the california honey bee all have in common. >> the new tablet computer coming

sky 7 hd hovering over mount hamilton this morning.of this morning the road up there was still closed. must find some other area to visit the snow if you didn't make it to tahoe this holiday weekend. another perspective of the bay. actually gorgeous on newly fallen snow. mount sutro to mount tamalpais, you can see just underneath the clouds. let's talk about the clouds and what they are dropping. around us we have scattered showers over the ocean, even a few over land and those have since disappeared, focusing up what's happening to our northwest, you notice those are staying out over the ocean. that may be the case this afternoon but we'll keep a scattered showers in the forecast. if you're stepping out, mainly upper 40s to near 50. cooler santa rosa and san rafael. around the monterey bay and inland, mid to upper 40s to even 61 around monterey. so the scattered showers, i'll keep them in the forecast for the north bay and along the coast. but you can see just how scattered they are, clearing and cold tonight, even colder than this mo

sky 7 hd hovering over mount hamilton this morning. as of this morning the road up there was still closed. must find some other area to visit the snow if you didn't make it to tahoe this holiday weekend. another perspective of the bay. actually gorgeous on newly fallen snow. mount sutro to mount tamalpais, you can see just underneath the clouds. let's talk about the clouds and what they are dropping. around us we have scattered showers over the ocean, even a few over land and those have since disappeared, focusing up what's happening to our northwest, you notice those are staying out over the ocean. that may be the case this afternoon but we'll keep a scattered showers in the forecast. if you're stepping out, mainly upper 40s to near 50. cooler santa rosa and san rafael. around the monterey bay and inland, mid to upper 40s to even 61 around monterey. so the scattered showers, i'll keep them in the forecast for the north bay and along the coast. but you can see just how scattered they are, clearing and cold tonight, even colder than thi

a long time, a lonely time since we had a movie here and i ain't lying recused me while i kiss the skyeen a long time, been a long time been a long, long time since we had the movie sure would be filed -- would be fine dig my words. sure glad to be heard it is good to be foreign have some of chris daly's wine and i ain't lying recuse me recuse me while i kiss the sky good luck to you been a long time been a long, long, lonely city time since we've had a budget time recuse me while i kiss the sky ♪ president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i do not know how to follow that up. i was not expecting to speak today. i thought the resolution for kusf would have happened in the first hour and a half, but since it wasn't, i took this moment to again address the board of supervisors. a lot has been said regarding kusf, all of which would agree on. i support supervisors mar and mirkarimi with their decision to go forth with this. i know this decision is going to be voted on just after public comment, since we are next in line. i cannot urge you enough to vote in favor of supporting kusf. the on

sky today. good afternoon, i'm sydnie >>> a powerful blast and a huge fireball blazes into the bay area sky today. >>> good afternoon, everyone. i'm sydnie kohara. >> i'm allen martin. thank goodness nobody was hurt but this morning's explosion at a utility station in contra costa county certainly jolted nerves. also, shut down roads. christen ayres is in walnut creek to tell us what happened. >> reporter: well, neighbors say it sounded like bombs were dropping when the switch gear at this substation exploded around about 7:00 this morning. and it all happened just a few hundred feet from where residents and their children were sleeping. home video shows the explosion ripping through a walnut creek substation with a deafening roar. >> it sounded like something was blowing up. i mean it sounded like bombs to me. >> reporter: an explosive fireball with a visible electric current. >> it was just like light fling going on after the clouds shot up in the sky. >> reporter: panicked neighbors grabbed w