when they put the ceiling, they may have to put another sprinkler system. if you were to put a ceiling in, you'd have to sprinkler above and below. but nobody knows the height of the ceiling. so the last thing you want to do is put a sprinkler head in pointing down which you really don't need because these heads will fully sprinkler. >> there's actually a lot of expense from taking a tenant space from one use, demoing it, and preparing it for the next time you're going to lease it out. you actually have an expense where you have to alter the sprinklers to be able to support the way the system is now. and then when the tenant comes in you've got another tenant improvement. to have the exit signs working, during the courts of demolition they wanted to make sure that the workers could get out in an emergency. there is a whole system to making sure that you keep the life safety codes in place while you're doing the de demolition. >> even if a house is mountain, shs. >> that light will remain on 24/7 and the smoke detectors are on. >> the one thing we didn't tal

just like the sprinkler systems. they are usually located along a fire escape ladder way, platform system. the fire department does use them to approach emergency situations in buildings. >> this is interesting on who's checking them. in san francisco for residential units and motels and hotels, the housing inspection division is required to check every 5 years to do an inspection of the buildings. and the procedures have changed to require they operate the fire escape when they do that inspection. have you gone to those where they require to operate the fire escape? >> absolutely. we got the call from a property owner saying they have been sited or requested by a housing inspector. we will inspect the fire escape before maintenance and do maintenance repairs. i feel confident that the fire escapes are safe. ask we will provide a certificate. that describes what we found and what we didn't. so far, that has been approved by the fire department >> all exterior balconies of wood have to be certified by an architect or

sprinklers are not intended to put out the fire.he sprik ler -- sprinklers are intended to keep the fire install enough for the firefighters to put the fire out. >> the high rise buildings able to be built, the thing that loud them to be built, you all know what that was, i hope. >> which was? >> 150 years ago, otis designed the first operating elevator with safety features so if the rope or cable broke wouldn't fall 14 floors. and that was in 1854. we just had the -- we all celebrated wildly the 150th anniversary of otis's invention of the elevator. and it was with that that we then could combine new methods of construction, steel construction and other construction, to build high rise buildings. >> because after about six floors you got kind of tired of walking to your office. there was an upper limit of how tall you could build the building, and get people to walk up to the top and rent space. >> there are super-tall buildings, how fast could you make an elevator accelerate and decelerate and make people comfortable. i'm lawrence

this is part of the sprinkler line.an you see two braces that is going to make sure this line is not going to move in an earthquake. the bath rooms are generally in the core. when they do ti buildouts, they remodel in the core. this may have been the women's bathroom and you'll see the men's bathrooms. if you're on this side you don't have to walk all the way around the entrance. they have a door on both sides. >> any time you want to do any work on high-rise buildings you have these issues, which include disabled access, energy, security -- i don't know what -- >> i think the hardest thing is probably the bathroom issue. it really is. you're looking at a space right here you've got the building core on that wall and you've got the building core on this

. >> prince george's county was the first in the country to require both sprinklers and fire alarms in newly structured residential homes and in three separate fires in just 20 hours this weekend sprinklers controlled them preventing more serious property damage and injuries. nowhere was that more critical than at spellman house apartments in college park. >> reporter: many of the residents of the spellman house apartments are elderly and use wheelchairs. evacuating them during an emergency can be challenging. to learn that the alarm failed to sound saturday during a fire on the sixth floor has upset more than a few. >> it's frightening because it's supposed to tell us that something is going on. >> reporter: disaster was averted partly because a prince of two prince george's county police officers who were the first responders on the scene flagged down by a neighbor. >> we immediately began to evacuate the surrounding rooms, took everybody out in case the fire grew. >> it was a lot of smoke and we just responded and did what we had to do. >> reporter: fortunately for these officers an

sprinklers needed to be added. in addition, the sprinklers was -- in addition, the feeling was that we would need a public walkway that goes to the east and and west end of the walking area. in order to do that, as a part of public access through the building, it meant that aprons needed to extend to that portion. you can see here that be built aprons on both sides. obviously, with concrete repair that needs to happen, which we mentioned earlier, there was a whole. on the second option, as reinhart mentioned, this combined office use an assembly space. generally speaking for those that do not understand, think about it as a bar, as an example, where there are a lot of people, more people, from a code standpoint, there is more of an occupant load in that space. on the first floor it looks much like the of the scheme. 12,300 square feet of office space, reconfigured no. stairs, as mentioned in any other scheme. in this case there is a southern external type about talk about in a moment about why we had to do that. on

. >> reporter: fortunately for these officers and the residents, the apartment had a working sprinklerr requiring sprinklers and smoke alarms in residential homes in the county has been on the book for years. >> since 1992, we have not had a fire fatality in any residential sprinklered home. >> reporter: in three separate fires in just 20 hours this weekend, prince george's county fire and ems spokesman mark brady says sprinklers made all the difference. >> they are limiting the amount of property damage. they are providing the occupants an opportunity to get out of that home safe had because of these. >> reporter: brady is so convinced about the effectiveness of sprinklers, he thinks residents of older hems should put them in too. >> it is well worth the cost of that because it does save lives. >> that was audrey barnes reporting. the other common denominator, no injuries were reported. >>> coming up next on fox 5 morning news, police invade occupy d.c. camps over the weekend and we'll get an update on the situation in a live report. >>> the caps continue to struggle on the ice. highl

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yes, you need 2 exits or no you don't need 2 exits and yes, you need fire sprinklers it's good to have a preapplication meeting with fire. if you are far enough along in your space and architect and designers so you know what the questions will be. this is not a general discussion. here are the issues we would like to address. we're happy to do that and 586139 is the number to call. >> there is a cost. preapplication meetings, you know how much? >> 300. 350 dollars? something like that a few hundred dollars. >> tip 6. work with a real estate attorney and contractor when negotiating the lees or purchasing a business much this is part of developing a team. we had a talk with real estate gp development people doing the not very nice way of saying it, flipping buildings in san francisco. purchasing buildings, improving them and selling them. some ask, why does it take me 8 months and they do it in 3 months? what's the difference? the difference it turned out on lengthy discussion is they have a team, they know what they are doing. they know how to get a permit. they got the plans prepared

fire sprinkler permits get reviewed by fire departments. signs have a separate requirement under the planning and building code. although they are usually included with the building perm permit. if someone wants a restaurant design the sign acknowledges part of the over all permit otherwise

the firefighters said that the good part about this story was that there were indoor sprinklers that helped put out the fire. " who the bad news is soft fire sprinklers went off through the entire building. firefighters say they do not know what caused the fire and no one was inside or injured during a fire. >>erica: good morning. you will see some light cycles north of santa rosa, a little bit just reaching the coast line. a couple of people waking up to scattered showers this morning. those scattered showers become more widespread as we had throughout the day. future cast 46 by the 10:00 a.m. hour we will continue to see scattered showers north of the golden gate. santa rosa, petaluma, san rafael and about looks to be the case as we headed to the early afternoon. thoughts a band of light green is making its way closer to the coastline. we could see more widespread shower activity as we head into the evening hours. in terms of temperatures, it looks like downtown san francisco is coming in at 56 degrees. by the afternoon upper 50s and 60s. your 7 day around the bay forecast does sho

. >> to destroy the sprinkler systems so you could get paid for repairing them? >> never. >> ridell says now that stevenson has been caught he's just making up a story to cover his tracks. >> you know you are under arrest, right? >> so why would gary stevenson say all this? >> because the guy is a crazy nut. >> he's a crazy nut? >> yeah. he got himself in a bunch of trouble. so he lies about everybody else. that's what. >> but ridell says he never beat or threatened stevenson, in fact, he says he helped him. >> took care of him. lived there. >> we also asked him about allegations that he's a white supremacist, and that's when he decided to end the interview. >> what does that have to do with anything? i'm done. are you charging me with something? >> i'm not charging you, i'm a correspondent for a television news show. >> oh, okay. >> hey, one other question before you go. anything else you want people to know about this case? >> it's bull [ bleep ]. i mean, come on. the dude went to jail for [ bleep ] stealing to make money for himself. he got caught. he started

and the sprinklers in the building helped them, as well.said they are going to need to survey the smoke and water damage but overall, things are well. back to you. >> thank you. >>> this morning "occupy" tents are back up at sproul plaza where police removed the tents three months ago from uc-berkeley. this time they have asked "occupiers" to take them down. protestors say they are not violating rules since they say no one is inside the tents. they say the university hasn't addressed their demands about stopping increases in tuition but it's been very peaceful so far. >> big changes today. 60s and 70s. clouds again, showers outside right now. most of that so far in the north bay. but that swinging further to the south. so chance of showers elsewhere around the bay area today, some much cooler temperatures. the weekend looks dry maybe rain sunday night into monday, elizabeth. >> you can definitely tell that it's friday so far on the roads. we were following that one accident in petaluma on southbound 101 near petaluma boulevard south. now cl

. >> the firefighters were underneath of the sprinkler system, water had gotten in the remote speaker mic from the sprinkler system and they tried to communicate twice what they had in the apartment and as the incident commander i had sko ask them to leave the apartment and do a face-to-face. >> a spokesman says the company is aware of montgomery county's actions and that 900 of the company's latest model more water- water-resistant speakers are being held. >> firefighters have to use hand-held radios until the new parts are delivered. we checked with other agencies, they have not reported any similar problems. jackie benson, news 4. >>> breaking news on the highway right now several lanes of interstate 95 and interstate 895 are shut down near the fort mchenry tunnel in baltimore. chopper 4 over the scene a tractor-trailer crashed on 95, lost the load, spilling ink on i-895, right below. clean-up is underway could take hours and could also affect the morning commute. the driver taken in custody under suspicion of drunk driving. >>> health scare in the district, norovirus hit students

to suddenly suggest that we could no longer put sprinklers in four-story wood frame buildings because we do not like it or think it is onerous or need a financial hardship exemption -- no one is proposing that. it is ludicrous. let's not put ceqa through the same torturous process that we have been engaged in here for so long. please forward the hpc's provisions. and let's move on. >> i have renovated a number of buildings in san francisco. i also range the monthly meeting places for the victoria alliance where we meet every month in a different architecturally interesting space. one thing that i think is fairly obvious to everybody is that definitions of what is attractive in terms of architecture do change. hates victorian. i happen to like victorians very much, and i would say that most of my friends who have renovated victorians -- my friends and myself being over the age of 50 -- when we work on our buildings, we wanted to do the right thing. we wanted to make sure that what we were doing was appropriate for the building. what i'm saying these days is with people who are "renovat

. >>> firefighters credit a sprinkler system with helping them contain a two alarm fire early this morning at a lumberyard in san rafael. as paul chambers reports things could have been worse if the fire had been in a different part of the facility. >> reporter: the store is boarded up after an early morning fire roared through part of the store. fire crews got the call for the fire around 2:45 this morning. once on scene crews say flames were jumping 30 to 40 feet in the air. >> they encountered a lot of flame and fire moving quickly, so they made an aggressive attack. >> it took 55 35 firefighters to get things under control. the center is used for contractors to pick up items like doors and lumber. had the fire spread a different direction things could have turned out differently. >> it could have been a lot worse, it could have been or dry shed or something like that, that would not have been able to put that out too quick. >> why is that? >> dry timber in there, quite a bit of it too. >> they were able to maintain the bulk of the fire to the service center, crews had it under control

thanks to a sprinkler system and quick thinking, prince georges county police officers, it wasn't. fox 5's audrey barnes is in the newsroom tonight with these exclusive details. audrey. >> a neighbor saw smoke billowing from the apartments and alerted three prince georges county police officers who were at the business next door. without hesitating, they rushed into that seven story building and started evacuating people before the fire department arrived. the three officers could see smoke coming from the sixth floor of the apartment building. after calling the fire department, that's where they headed. >> we ended up having to kick the door in because it was locked. >> there was a sprinkler inside that six floor unit battling the blaze. officers concentrated on getting residents out until the fire department could get there. >> banged on all the doors. there were some elderly citizens that live there. some have special needs. so we just ran through the hallways trying to evacuate as much as possible. >> most of the elderly residents had no idea the building was on fire. >> did yo

. >> reporter: a combination of the interior sprinkler system and firefighters working together the fire was quickly knocked down. there is mainly smoke and water damage inside the interior. there was no one inside the building. live in san rafael i'm paul chambers. >>> happening now occupy protestors at uc berkeley are camping out on campus. about six tents are in place. this is the same spot where they tore down a previous tent in the fall. it's unclear how long they plan to stay in the plaza. but they wanted to stay at least through the night. coming up at 5:30 we will go live to tara moriarty who is out there. at the encampment. she'll have an update for us. >>> two ohm land hotels that authorities say are a magnet for prostitution and criminal activity could be forced to shut down. ktvu claudine wong joins us now with push today by oakland city attorneys office. claudine. >> reporter: we are along international boulevard. this is an area known as the track because it's an area that is known for being probably mat -- problematic with prostitution. this is one of the hotels being look

they did get that fire under control within an hour thanks in part to the buildings sprinkler system. >>> our time is 6:02. three months after a controversial police raid an occupy encampment is back at uc berkeley. ktvu tara moriarty is there right now to tell us about a show of support the protestors are getting. tara. >> reporter: that is right. there are about 20uc berkeley students here. but there are other protestors that are here from occupy oakland and they have come out to show their support. they are not sure how long they will stay here. but they have been here since about 1:00 yesterday afternoon. they pitched a handful of tents and police did ask them to leave. they said they're not occupying the tents. the police backed off. and demonstrators thought it was important to remind people that they and their message hasn't gone anywhere. >> this is the three month anniversary. we occupy anthropology library. >> reporter: now again this comings about three -- comes about three month office a police raid on occupy cal. when police clashed with students. students say they are ag

a lot of people tart ing to turn their sprinklers back -- starting to turn their sprinklers back on.u may need to hold off. light breeze in some areas all over the place from northerly wind at santa rosa five southwest at three novato east at eight and napa north three at oakland you get the rest of us calm this morning no weather worries during the morning commute just increasing high clouds and mild temperatures mainly in the 40s to near 50 around san francisco as we head towards noon clouds increase rapidly mid to upper 50s in many areas palo alto, fremont south low to mid 60s then with the thicker clouds coming in the afternoon we'll cap our highs in the low to mid 60s. pretty comfortable to be outside. you can see by 4:00 the rain just starting to get close to the coast the entire system still out here you can see the waves of showers that are -- waves of clouds that is throwing at us. rain will be heavy from about 7:00 until 2:00, 3:00 in the morning ponding on the roads tomorrow morning and then drier conditions tuesday afternoon for the rest of the forecast. definitely rain o

we have to make sure it is properly sprinklered. if there is a garbage chute or anything like that -- is all the types of things that are on the list given to the property owner as part of a routine inspection program, to tie -- try to minimize those problems happening in the city. this program has existed for the past 25 years. we will continue to work with a property owner, but if he is of a different philosophy, we will consult with the city attorney to gain access. commissioner murphy: the picture that was taken of the pipe, where was that taken from? >> when we had the routine inspection, he did not show up, the next day, we were at the adjacent property. commissioner murphy: is that the policy of the department? >> if we can see it in plain view, which the inspector was, in the adjacent property, that is ripe for writing a notice of violation. especially because of the particular history. commissioner murphy: isn't that trespassing if we go into somebody else's property? >> we were lawfully on the adjacent property. we were do

their work indoors sprinklers that did damage inside of the main building.es not look like it will open up any time soon. fiske >>jackie: 101 is in this area, when the crews got here there were flames that were 30-35 ft. high. first >>darya: we want to get enough data on the weather. >>erica: it looks like we're picking up scattered showers around the bay area. most of the wet weather activity is to we did to the north. we will continue to see scattered showers in the north bay. as the advanced the clock closer to the afternoon we are still seeing scattered showers in the north bay. by 4:00 p.m. it does have the potential to become more widespread. york temperatures are not too bad. >>erica: for the afternoon we will see an even split between '50s and '60s. i will bring down these numbers never a bad neighborhood and to show you the 7 day forecast in my next report. >>george: here's a quick look at the bridges. there is no congestion or delays. but, of mahwah drive time is 22 minutes from novato to the golden gate. hell will xi >>will: of this is one of the

we have a few sprinklers around baltimore. it will be windy and mild. over 40 could gust miles today. upper 60's and low 70's. we will come back and talk about the big change over the weekend. >> thank you. 46 degrees on tv hill. the u.s. postal service announced it will close more than 200 processing centers. >> the same-sex marriage bill passes in the senate. >> michigan is a big state with big consequences. a look at the primaries that are coming up. >> we will let you know if there's anything to watch for as there's anything to watch for as you head [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. happy friday. i'm mindy basara. >> and i'm stan stovall. thank you for joining us this morning. >> some rain overnight. >> i

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. >> reporter: the building had sprinklers and that helped. right now they are engaging in a salvage operation to try to minimize the smoke and water damage there. they're also making sure the building is secure because they had to break in to fight the fire initially. investigators are on scene to find the cause of the fire. >> thank you, anne makovec. >>> san jose police would like to know who dropped off a stabbing victim at the hospital and took off. police got a call around 7 p.m. from the staff at kaiser in south san jose. the man died by the time officers arrived. investigatedders don't know who brought the man to the hospital or what the motive may have been. this is the city's fourth homicide this year. >>> new this morning, campus police have just released a sketch of a suspect in a sexual assault at stanford university. someone entered a female's dorm room on february 5 and police say, she was sleeping when the suspect tried to take her clothes off. she managed to get out of the room. witnesses say the man was in his 20s and stood a

. >> the resort did have a sprinkler system but investigators say the fire was just too big and the arcticinds just kept fanning it bigger. >> a big day on capitol hill as lawmakers get their first look at the president's new budget proposal. it cuts $4 trillion from the deficit over the next decade and is calling for more spending in some areas to boost the economy. republicans are already criticize in the proposal saying it calls for too much spend in and raises taxes on the wealthy. >> after a big come back from vocal chord surgery adele was the big winner at the grammies last night. [ singing ] >> her performance was her first public 1 since her procedure and took home six grammies. it was also a big night for other music legends despite the deeping shadow of alzheimer's, glen campbell sang rhinestone cowboy and received a lifetime achievement grammy, the beach boys also ru enighted for a 50 anniversary performance. >> still ahead, things are just starting to warm up a little after a very cold weekend. we will have your complete weather forecast in two and a half minutes. >> first let'

with all of these major projects, especially the high rises, or the scale and the fire review and sprinklers, along with elevators, are we getting the adequate personnel that are going to pay close attention to these categories? because life safety issues have all been paramount on any category of major project. >> ok, we're always safety number one. we always review safety. we do not give up the code. however, people push you to take the job out. but we do have sufficient staff. that is why we want to also get back the retiree as part time. money is not the concern. we tried to talk to him. he agreed a little bit to come back as part time. once you go out the door, you do not want to go back to full time now. we're always working with the fire department to go through each item. and to make sure all the high rise buildings comply with the latest codes. in some projects, we go through a peer review process. commissioner hechanova: thank you. i just wanted to make clear that we do our job, or within the department, the category of other departments that could impact the continuity of the revi

a lot of places have the sprinklers if you shut off the main in the street you shut off the fire systems. so, if you have a choice of shutting off the water in somebody's house go for the one that coming between the foundation, usually it's in the garage or basement. you turn it to the right. right to tighten, left to loosen. this is easier to turn on and off if you is get in the garage. if you can't use the one in the street. do it only if it's say safe to do so. if it's dangerous, leave it. >> this is a basic electric system. a switch and the screw in fuses. there are not many of these anymore. most have the breakers. okay. to show you what they look like. on, off. this is a safety box you can't get it open until you turn it off. a couple of screw in fuses. this is a cartridge and screw in fuses. here it says on and off. pull it out stick it upside down and stick it back in. circuit break /-rs this is what most have. you have the meter. that's how pg and e /khrarpblgs us. you have the big main. usually there are 60 or a hundred or 50. the little guys are 20-15-30. if you want to shut o

maybe we'll be able to turn our sprinklers off for one week if it materializes wednesday. mainly clear sky frost forming around santa rosa, napa everybody in the 30s until you get to antioch, livermore, san jose, oakland, redwood city, san francisco and half moon bay low to mid 40s. monterey bay inland temperatures in the low to mid 40s. going to be cool and breezy today with an isolated shower. clear tonight with frosty spots. healthy rain will roll in and showers wednesday before that all happens temperatures over the weekend cooled off it felt like winter especially in the morning hours saturday morning with that breeze and temperature drop it was pretty brutal today anywhere from eight to nine degrees cooler in san francisco and oakland compared to average to 10 in livermore, inform redwood city, san jose and napa, 12 to -- for teen cooler than average clear lake 49 higher elevations up there could get some snow, snow level today will be 3500 feet. most of news the low to mid 40s. monterey bay and inland low to mid 50s here it looks like the fastest breezes will be ove

still an outside chance of a sprinkler to -- near oakland in garrett county. still an outside chance of a sprinkle or two. 46 is normal for the 21st day of february, so we are a little above that. it will not be that rule tomorrow morning, a blanket of cloudiness over the area is keeping us that 50 right now in downtown baltimore. mid 40's over toward rock wall. northern carol and frederick counties, 46 degrees. but to leap 38 at frostburg, and that looks like the cold spot -- of chilly 38 at frostburg. maybe some mid-30's in the couture suburbs. the sun comes up at 10 minutes before seven in the morning. --re's not much of a temper of a temperature contrast on either side of the front coming through here. little or no temperature contrast on either side of the front, just an area of low pressure moving through and maybe a passing sprinkle. a couple of weather systems lining up to the northwest near the canadian border. it could bring a slight chance for a shower a couple of days, wednesday, thursday, and friday, there are a few showers in the forecast. mary g

. >> we had the advantage of the sprinkler system and the firefighters working on the inside of the building. there was some extension into the building but that was controlled for the most part. that is limited to smoke and water damage. >> reporter: there wasn't anyone inside the building and no firefighters were injured as of right now. they are move into the investigation phase to figure out what caused this fire. live in san rafael i'm paul chambers. >>> occupy protestors at uc berkeley are once again camps out this morning. ktvu tara moriarty tells us this encampment comes months after a raid by campus police. >> reporter: yeah. three months ago that happened and now we have the tents back up here. they are right on the temps of sprawl hall. about two dozen demonstrators pitched the tents around 1:00 yesterday afternoon. protestors said we're not in any violation of campus policy. they were not occupying the tents. so officers backed off then they began to watch the protestors from the balcony. it's not clear how long the protestors plan to stay out here on the plaza. this is the same

turn that sprinkler off. we're going to get rain.ome cities might pick up a whole inch of rain or more. i'm talking about you up in the north bay. you can see from this live picture of san francisco, winds already picking up as the storm system approaches the california coastline. looks like it's going to impact the coast and sidle down as we head throughout the day tomorrow. for us today, we're going to get one more spectacular day with temps ending up in the mid-60s. 50 in san mateo, at 44 in sunnyvale and 38 degrees up in santa rosa. throughout day your daypart forecast shows you we'll be in the 50s, a low of 60s inland by noon. then 4:00 p.m., 65 degrees as you make your way home. this is what we're tracking. as we wake up tomorrow the rain will have started. by about 8:00 tonight we're going to see our first showers. they will continue overnight. as we wake up tomorrow we'll have slick conditions, still showers on the radar so tune in tomorrow morning. mike and i will be all over this. bring that umbrella to work if you don't ge

what they say really was on their side was an automatic sprinkler system that worked. here is the fire chief. >> there was a considerable amount of lumber and materials that were burning on the outside of the structure and the fire had started to move to the inside. as you can imagine, great concern about a lumberyard and the amount of combustible materials. >> reporter: right now they are doing overhaul and trying to ventilate the roof where there was some damage. they are trying to make sure that everything is out and let the heat out of the building. took about an hour to knock down. investigators are here now working on a cause and a damage estimate. reporting live in san rafael, christie smith. jon and laura, back to you. >> thank you very much. it's 4:33. san jose police are looking for suspects in the fourth homicide of the year. a man was dropped off at the medical center last night with stab wounds. he died. police are investigating where he was stabbed and why. >> the city of oakland trying to shut down a pair of hotels popular with prostitutes. tocourt day i

water got into the remote from the sprinkler system and they tried to communicate between what they had inside the apartment and as the incident commander i had to ask them to leave the compartment and do a face to face. >> motorola has sent out new water-resis tamt remotes. until then firefighters will use hand-held two-way radios. >> meteorologist tom kierein joining us. rain in the region. is that going to last all day? >> pretty much. have an umbrella handing and take it with you as we've had light rain moving in over the last hour. much of it is passing north and east. much of the pavement has just got a bit of moisture on it from the sprinkles. right now there's the monument. it's cloudy at reagan national with a calm wind and the radar is showing some areas of rain that are moderate, that are just now coming into the mountains of west virginia out of the ohio valley, and as they move off to the east, they are breaking up a little bit. closer to washington, we are getting just a few sprinkles right now just to the north and east of washington. we have a few sprinkles in northern p

we've been called to you know broken sprinkler system the lawn to a dog and you the chimney you know second of all and what is all different types of calls are gone which makes it all fun at the same time it's like. where do you draw the line yeah you're always going to have the percentage of people who actually know the system with jury people is not with him but you know they don't i won't because we truly need somebody to tell him what to do because this is their first room sort of had to deal worked out we have a transportation policy on the farm and that we offer transportation to everybody on this it's a minor extremity injury since we've had that system which is the name of the last five years because lawsuits down to nothing it's paid for itself. at the expense. to the taxpayers of the expense of the individual who wants to write the expense of the ripple effect of killing. little beds. with non-critical patients. i know gas prices are high but. i know i can get to the local emergency room for a lot cheaper in my own personal vehicle if i have the flu and the insurance compan