people who live and work in san francisco also shop at local restaurants, so shop at the local retail stores. it is a huge economic impact in san francisco. in my opinion, it is getting our costs under control but also promoting economic development so we have a financial engine that will continue to promote us year after year. >> what are your ideas on dealing with the issue of homelessness in san francisco? >> i am one that thinks mayor newsom did a great job thinking proactively about what we need to do in san francisco. when he started care not cash -- but enacted so many things past that. project award down, when he ended up making sure there were family members on the receiving end, giving people bus tickets to go back home to where they are from -- project homeward bound. unfortunately, the project does not have a silver bullet ending. we deal with our homeless problem, and a lot of it, we need to make sure that the homeless population -- a lot of them have mental health issues where it is just not solvable to lock them up. we need to help them, and i think we have that in our

shop owner's personal vehicle. they're always the last to get done, so i'm going to push ahead with it and shoot over to the engine shop. i'm here with john from express engines, and we're just kind of checking up to see how alan's motor's doing for the nova. why don't you tell me a bit about that? obviously, this isn't alan's motor, this is a 440 six-pack engine, but this is what we build-- high-performance street engines-- and we are gonna go through with you today some of the machining operations on how to properly build your first engine. we've now torqued our main bearing caps back in place. now we're going to take the dial-bore gauge which we have set to the housing bore size that we're looking for. and i'm gonna come through here and see that we've got the same amount off of all five caps. and what i'm seeing so far is we have roughly three-thousandths. they're reading the same for all of 'em? for all of 'em. we want to have the same amount to hone out for all five main bearing caps. if one was more than the others by a significant amount, we would go and recut the caps, or if some were a little too small, w

to do so. shops and a lot of people buying in bulk of. that's in short supply as well in the worst hit area especially here and as for fuel as well we passed a petrol station most of them actually have been closed but there's one open and there's a queue of cars about a kilometer long we're stuck thirty minutes and everyone's queuing out because their fear of shortages of fuel and so they're only actually. being rationed the amount of fuel i can get just twenty liters each at the coast which we have going to get that's still about an hour's drive and the roads blocked off and hearing damage there is absolute destruction here a building that still standing but the damage is is otherwise and people. i'm actually now at a relief center there's plenty of these dotted all around the city and on the floor the floor is covered with people lying on cardboard bedding down with blankets many spending the night here because they aren't able to go home or in sendai when the earthquake happened and so and they live quite far out makes it we can't get

shop. it was funny. last time i'm going to do the same thing tonight. i will give the noodle man so many compliments and use that where is the noodle man and shop, and there's a poor little noodle man for me. noodle man, noodle man? what are you doing? i was taking a nap. a nap? i'm a customer of your hot noodle. oh, it's very cold. it's warm tonight. that's true. by the way, how is business? not so good. is it. pretty good. a little different from last night. that's okay. it happens bad time wills follow good times in business. if something bad is going to happen to you soon. wait. i made mistakes. any way you will get the business. don't worry. don't worry. what's the name of your shop? bingo. don go. i'm going to see after this maybe i should not go. so, i have to tell you the noodle should be ready. not yet. you are slow. the water was not boiling. i have a short temple when the noodle man is slow - oh, is it ready. that's okay. my temper is not that short. chopsticks. chopsticks usually they provide all the chopsticks and no one is good. who knows if they're clean or not. your

so looking at the future, we recognize the development of the program workshops, and odor will always be an issue in my shop, so you adopted a level of service. commissioner: you mean in your facilities, not your shop. >> exactly, all of our facilities. we are going to be able to achieve that through a series of methods, a variety of them, long-term engineering solutions. maybe we can get more flow to get to the treatment plants. flushing options. the auxiliary water supply system. that may be something we can do, use in our sewers. the one question that kept coming up, are we dumping pollution into the bay? absolutely not. "thou shalt not dumped into the bay any residual -- dump into the bay any residual or any bleach." we must dechlorinate it, and we also treat it with something else. teh -- the fish have to be able to live in the effluent in what we are putting in the water for 24 hours, and a certain parts per million is a violation in the insights -- in the mine of the -- in the opinion of teh e -- the epa. gaseous chlorine, we moved away from that. safety for the residents near there, safety for our e

we don't even have enough for our rescue teams or to deliver food to the shops. so the last thing this place now needs is another disaster. the consequences could be unthinkable. >> let's get some reaction to the latest developments at fukushima power plant. we can speak to james brown, an australian who lives in japan with his wife. he actually lives in the town of fukushima 80 kilometers northwest of the stricken plant. james, just give us your reactions to these latest developments. >> um, well, it is pretty tough and concerning sort of situation as you can imagine. you don't know whether to sit and stay and ride it out or take the bolt immediately. >> now you're 80 kilometers northwest of this plant. you're well away from the exclusion zone and also the 10 kilometers where they were asking people to stay indoors. are you confident about the information that you're getting? >> um, i'm confident that you know, i will be minimally affects but the city council here has detected radio activity in the air here just as it has been detected south of us in tokyo, which i

why are people shopping so much here in danville? what's the cull cheer here? >> you know, danville is first of all a little more expensive of a place to live. there's the stigma of everybody wanting to look their best. >> it's not just danville. other cities rounded out the top shoppers list. los altos third, and santa clara came in eighth. proving dressing well is not just a trend, it's a way of life. >> we like to start trends, too. a lot of what we wear, gets put off in other areas. it doesn't surprise me at all. >> in danville, elizabeth cook, cbs 5. >>> a kayaker got up close and personal with one of the largest sharks. this basking shark was found feeding near a pier. the fish swam nearby a kayaker, but the sharks are not dangerous. they only see it on tv. >> that thing is huge. it's the second largest shark in the world. it appeared to be longer than the kayak. >> hard attack. were you feeling lucky today? time to check out your megamillions lottery did you remembers, 22, 24, 3 #, 52, 54. and the meganumber is 4. jackpot is estimated at $312 million. an

the years, so -- to bus lines, like along the outer richmond district area that have led many seniors without a bus route to get up the hill or to get down the hill to go either grocery shopping -- so we are looking at how the system might not be closely enough based on the needs of people like, especially seniors, or disabled people. there's also some bustlines that are less used in the richmond district that we are now working with the muni system to think about continuing but maybe reduce its frequency, but continue its access for many people that live in isolated parts of the city. i strongly support stronger youth discount passes and supporting the bus system so that younger people have strong access. we are trying to work with the school district right now and city agencies to ensure that young people get more support. we want them to be lifelong transit riders as well, so we are trying to look at different issues of transit equity for younger people in our population as well. >> what is happening with crime in your district, and how do you think our police department is doing? supervisor mar: we are extremely lucky to have a great police captain with great officers wit

what do you think makes -- why are people shopping so much here in danville? what's kind of the culture here? >> you know, i think danville is -- first of all, it's a little bit more of expensive place to live, but i think there's also the whole stigma of everybody wanting to look their best. >> reporter: it's not just danville. four other bay area cities rounded out the top shoppers list. dressing well is not just a trend, it's a way of life. >> we like to start trends, too, so a lot of what we wear sets off in other areas. so it doesn't surprise me at all actually. >> reporter: in danville, elizabeth cook, cbs 5. >> you're a guy, jim, so i won't ask. you're probably not a shopaholic. >> fashionable rain gear. >> that is the key! i feel like i've been wearing the same old rain coat forever! >> variety of rain gear, otherwise it's boring out there. >> yeah. >> we continue to have lots of rain across the bay, but it's winding down. so there's a break on tap here. hang in there. light rainfall today. much less than what we saw last week, and we'll look for it to

that was at a time when the middle layer was a repair shop, so there was parking on the third level and parking on the first level, but there was no parking on the second. we now have 58 parking spaces. on two occasions in the past two years, when i parked at the valencia, i witnessed to the wheeler drivers to happen to be blocking my driveway, and asked the attendant if there were available monthly parking spaces. they were told that there were no available space is -- spaces. commissioner olague: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i have lived with my husband at the corner of hide and greene streets for more than 30 years. i'm here today to specifically address the ability of middle- class families on russian hill -- middle income families on russian hill like ours who do not own a the raj, who depend on on-street or sometimes off street parking to thrive in this community. i believe as the commissioners, it is your responsibility to help us maintain this kind of diversity in our neighborhood. so i'm here speaking for some of the merchants in the neighborhood as well as peop

so shop at retailer that has a good history, that has a good reputation.rance program where they're it actually teisting th gold themselves before they sell it. and also inspect that gold. so the minnie mouse charm, for example, if take you a look at it and you flip it over on the bark, there is no markings, nothing that says disney, no 10 carat stamp. so a clear example of bad gold. >> a piece like that should on the back then say again this is 10 carats? >> and we also bought a steelers logo charm. it was 14 carat gold. on the back you see that it's stamped nfl, it was also stamped 14 carat and it turned out to be legitimate, it was 14 carat. >> so good for you the steeledesteelers pan. >> that's right. >> we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. ÷ ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, start earing... in >>> it is 8:25. time for news headlines from cbs 5, i'm sydnie kohara. >>> today is the start of a federal hearing into the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. right now, top pg&e executives are being grilled on capitol hill. federal investigators called

make products and deliver to the shop so. if prices continue to stay high that will have significant inflation pressures. on europe. and the world finally if a civil war breaks out in libya with the country breaking apart geo political implications for the region and for the world cannot be underestimated the major peril now is coming is that islamists radical islamists interpol one all over the region you know these revolutions in egypt and syria in tunisia all of the arab steeds they have been here you can see a million radical islamist parties have been suppressed by previous regimes like the brotherhood in egypt for instance. in libya you know very strong in libya and the libyan people and it is one of the strongest of the world maybe the second strongest after the protest but you know one of the greatest dangers is that. i just. tried to get into the city so they're highly volatile situation in this northern african region really bears significance not just really big egypt in algeria but really for the rest of the world

to make products and deliver them to the shop so. if prices continue to stay. that will have significant inflation pressures. on europe. and the world finally if a civil war breaks out on libya with the country breaking apart geopolitical implications for the region and for the world cannot be underestimated the major peril now is coming is the islamists are radical islam is going to pile on all over the region you know these revolutions in egypt and syria in tunisia all of the arab states they have been yet you can see a million radical islamist parties who have been suppressed by previous regimes the muslim brotherhood in egypt for instance. in libya you know he's very strong in libya actually libyan department is one of the strongest of the world maybe the second strongest after the previous spiny one one of the greatest dangers is that al qaida. tried to get use of it so they're highly volatile situation in this northern african region really bears significance not just really big but really for the rest of the world. coming up in just a couple of moments e

to make products and deliver to shop so. if prices continue to stay high that will have significant inflation pressures. on europe and the world finally if a civil war breaks out in libya with the country breaking apart geo political implications for the region and for the world cannot be underestimated the major peril now is coming is the islamists are radical islamists interpol won all over the region you know these revolutions in egypt and syria in tunisia a lot of arab steeds have been islamic if you'll see thirty million radical islamist parties that have been suppressed by previous regimes muslim brotherhood in egypt for instance. in libya you know al qaeda is there is strong in libya through the libyan department of acquired is one of the strongest of the rule maybe of the circle strongest after the pakistani one one of the greatest dangers is that . you could use their tools to try to get use of the situation so they're highly volatile situation in this northern african region really bears significance not just proba