it is not necessarily focused on steel. steel is not the problem. if it is coded correctly and corrosion is mitigated properly, there are not too many issues with steel. we do not focus necessarily on changing steel out with plastic, but we focus on those pipeline that need to be replaced on the distribution side and modernizing those. oftentimes, we end up replacing them with plastic. supervisor mirkarimi: we understand the san bruno 5 was 50 years old. my understanding is on a steel piping, the life span durability might be about 50 years or so? >> if i had to estimate the life span of a pipeline, i would say it depends on the control of the environment in. i have dug up many pieces of pipeline that are 70 years old and a brand new. if they are properly maintained, if they are in a good environment, if the coatings were installed correctly from the manufacturer, they can last a very long time. 70 years to 80 years is not unheard of. the pipelines' we're putting today in the ground, people expect them to last over 100 years. supervisor mirkarimi: w

one of steele's top aides resigned today and leaked his four-page resignation letter that calls steele incompetent, blames him for mismanaging everything from get out the vote efforts to fund-raising and leaving the rnc $15 million in debt. this weekend, tea party republican senator from south carolina jim demint said steele must go. >> i appreciate michael steele's service, but i'm looking for some alternatives right now. i haven't decided who i would support. but we need a strong national republican organization to help organize the energy of the tea parties and the other citizen activism that we're seeing out there right now. we need to make sure we have a lot of boots on the ground. >> former michigan republican chairman calls michael steele a friend, but he's also running to take michael steele's job as head of the republican national committee. thank you for joining me tonight. >> glad to be with you, i think. >> yeah. well, you can decide afterwards how glad you are. the republican dictionary, could you please read for me what it says beside the word "friend" in the republican d

some in the leadership are unhappy with chairman steele. they brought the first official challenge to steele's challenge. >> thank you for helping us to pull this elephant across the line. >> fresh off historic election for republicans, michael steele had competition for chairman. steele insiders say he hasn't decided if he will run for a second term, but new chairman of the michigan republican party came in third to steele in the elections in 2009. says the republican national committee needs to shift. >> we need to change wow we concentrate on raising money and getting a ground game together and spend less time giving speeches and being on television. have a different direction. >> steele bristled at the selection he's not been a strong fundraiser. >> do you know how much we've raised in the last few months? $175 million. 1-7-5, a lot of zeros after it. you know why and how? $47 is the average donation. we have added over a million donors. >> still, in a letter to republican national committee members today that in the mid-term elections

martha: we've been telling you this morning that there will be a challenger toll michael steele, the head of the rnc, and it is michigan republican saul anuzis. chris wallace, good morning to you. >> reporter: morning, martha. martha: what's your reaction? >> reporter: i'm not surprised. dissatisfaction within the republican party at the performance of michael steele, there was a feeling that he wasn't running a tight ship at the rnc and that he had turned off a lot of big donors. one of the reasons you saw karl rove and ed gillespie step in and help form this american cross roads organization is a lot of big donors weren't confident that if they gave money to the rnc, it was going to be spent prop properly. some of the state chairmen are concerned if michael steele has another two years in the office that these outside groups might become a kind of way around

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i'm here at the north star bluescopes steel mill.e me out here. bob is a true believer. >> it's a beautiful process. >> reporter: an intense one, too. bob works 12-hour shifts, overnight hours. all of which can make things tough for his wife and daughter at home. >> they call us north starred by dose. he works long hours. >> reporter: that's when times are good. two years ago, the recession hit north star hard. bob's hours were cut. overtime and bonuses disappeared. >> we almost lost the house. that was really scary. >> things are pretty rough right now. we're going paycheck-to-paycheck. >> reporter: even during the hard times, it's clear how much bob loves his work. he says every day brings a new challenge. so, i came to see for myself. what did you want us to see in particular? >> i wanted you to see everybody that we work with. i mean, to me, the team is everything. >> reporter: you carry that philosophy of teamwork through everything that you do. even during the tough times. you got hit pretty hard in 2008. and all of you decided

the molten steel goes into a ladle. you can really feel it.rning a volcano upside down. and as the ribbons of steel come zipping through the finishing mill, they can be going 30 miles an hour. whoa. it's moving fast. >> it's moving pretty good. >> reporter: finally, we head on down to bob's area, where the steel is spooled into massive coils. >> you look at this camera here, it just exited the mill. now it's going to be here about now. >> reporter: there you go. >> would you like to send this one home? >> reporter: sure. >> hit the reverse button, just slightly. it will take the tail against that side. and it's a fully released coil. it's coming in to the walk here. >> reporter: tell me about the kind of day you go home and say, you won't believe what happened today. it was a rough one. >> yes, we have those days. my wife is very good at helping me decompress. a lot of days, i'm very exhausted when i get home. >> reporter: dozens of coils a day, thousands of tons a week. the last part of the job is making sure they're perfect. i help cut off a

what i think haley barbour and steele critics are saying is that was not because of michael steele'sys to spite michael steele because of the financial issues. that they did not raise a whole lot of money compared to more recent years. and they did not fund the vote are turnout operations because of that lack of money in some key states. so the concern among folks like barbour is, they left some races on the table this year because of the lack of funds at the rnc and looking towards 2012, i think that there is this deep concern of not wanting to make the same mistakes financially next time around when they're going to need even more cash taking up president obama. >> john feehery, you can't beat somebody with nobody, if not steele, who? it is. >> a good question, michael. a couple of candidates, one is maria seno who is an operation's genius, probably one of the best people that we know to turn campaigns around and get funding. she has a wide experience in grassroots' organization. and nick aires who worked at the rga under haley barbour. took a lot of slack from the are nc because t

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michael steele is at the bottom of my list.p. >> would you like to see republicans in congress work against the president and sort of set him up for 2012? or do you think the people want to see people working together? >> joe biden called me when the election was over. the president made 12 visits in ohio to beat me. biden basically lived there and called me up to congratulate me. i said, look, joe, let's get beyond the election stuff let me tell you, you cannot raise taxes on dividends and cannot raise taxes on the capital gains and raise taxes on anybody because you're going to hurt the economy. i'm hopeful they are going to work that out. what i would like to have from congress and the white house is to have them set our people free so we can design our job training programs the way that worked for us and medicaid programs. you have to cut the strings and let each state fashion their own solution to the difficult problems and we have to begin to push aggressively for a national recovery. i hope we're going to get motion on m

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then a new opponent rose to challenge, michael steele, at the rnc. so the former republican chairman of michigan says he wants to take over the entire chairmanship of the republican national committee, and the battle is joined. and the fight within the gop has also gotten personal. cindy mccain takes a shot at her own husband in a new ad against bullying gay kids in school. >> our political and religious leaders tell lbgt youth they have no future. that they can't serve the government openly. our government treats the community like second-class citizens. >> oh, damn! who's a politician currently stopping gays from serving in the military? that would be her husband john mccain, who that has threatened to filibuster a repeal of don't ask, don't tell. ouch! wow! a former speech writer for the george w. bush administration and a republican stratd gis strategist. it's great to have you on. the earmark thing is the most serious. and that looks to be a real battle. mcconnell saying, yeah, i want earmarks. demint saying hell no. >> who do you think will win

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republican governors are meeting this week to put their stamp on the party and they want michael steeleout as rnc chair and let me finish tonight with what i need to see before i'm convinced the economy is on its way back. we start with the political fallout of the detainee. the former governor of new york and jonathan turley, professor, why was a key witness not permitted in this trial? >> the bush administration tortured him and while many people engage in language, water boarding is torture. it's been found to be torture in u.s. courts. what the judge said was i'm not going to allow in evidence der rooifed by torture and those people that want us to introduce evidence from torture,ç it's a perfectly midevil concept. >> lawyers would call this a fruit of a poisonous tree. >> that's right. this is a particularly poisonous tree because what it does is says that our country is fighting terrorism and the means used for terror, but we are willing to use torture. why? because it's useful or we're afraid. >> can anyone say that the outcome would have been different in a tribunal? >> i belie

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for wednesday, november 17, a lot going on including the walls closing around rnc chairman michael steele despite the fact his party just beat the tar out of democrats a couple weeks ago. >>> plus --. a kansas family traveling down a highway when it passes a car carry something suspicious in the back seat. by suspicious i mean horsey. we'll explain. >>> first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. president obama's post-election summit with congressional leaders that was scheduled for tomorrow has now been postponed until after thanksgiving on november 30. in a statement, the white house said republican senate minority leader mcconnell and his house counterpart john boehner requested the delay because of "scheduling conflicts." that means they had something bigger on their schedule than meeting with the president of the united states. however, republican aides tell politico that a distrust of president obama's invitations led to the sitdown being pushed back until after thanksgiving. the standoff reportedly dates back to a meeting in january where the p

if your friend michael steele decided not to run, would you go for the chair? >> the chairman has to decide what he will do. i will say with humility that if the opportunity were there to help my party, i would help the party. part of that is to raise a significant amount of money. part of it is to interact with the senate for committees and the house committee. part of it is to understand the roles and coordination and that they are out there. i could do all those things. but that is a hypothetical. the chairman has to decide what he is going to do. i have always been willing to serve my party. i am not out there actively campaigning for anything right now. >> said last summer word leaked out that you plan to go to the rnc summer meeting in kansas city with the purpose of signaling your intention of challenging michael steele. there was a backlash among rnc members and you did not go to kansas city. were you thinking of running then and challenging him? >> i was planning on going to that meeting, not for the purposes of challenging. my intent is never been to

i think michael steele made that case to the committee. i ran against him on a nuts and bolts strategy, and he ended up winning. this time around, i think we've elected a majority in the house. we're clearly going to have a speaker of the house that represents our voice, senate and house that's representing our voice. >> michael steele, how you does it net out, has he -- how does it net out, has he helped our hurt the party? >> he's been a net help overall. clearly he's got a number of successes but has it big bumps in the road, as well. >> don't miss "the last word" weeknights at 10:00 p.m. on nbc. the place for politics. >>> for the first time since the vietnam war a living soldier has received the nation's highest military award. army staff sergeant salvagetor giunta was presented with the medal of honor yesterday. more on his inspiring story. >> reporter: even with the medal of honorround his neck, army staff sergeant salvatore giunta insists he didn't win the award alone. >> i know a lot of people greater than me. i'm mediocre at best

do you think that michael steele is doing the job?uest: well, it is not a function of doing the job. the circumstances have changed. in 2010 when we hired michael steele the party came out of the worst election psyche -- cycles and we needed a spokesman for the party, a face and voice of the party. and he made the case. i ran against him at the time and one of the strongest things he did was said i am recognizable and i can represent the party instantly. that was a reason people bought into it. this time we have speaker of the house, more governors, senators, not to mention presidential candidates. so we will have plenty of people representing us in a public manner and we have to get back to the fundamentals, someone would will make sure the trains run on time, raise the money and put out the boast -- best get out the vote program. >>neil: but he has done all that. and helped oversee the election of the governors, the take over of the house of representatives, the big inroads you made last year, in states like virginia, and scott brow

>> it is called ritual of baptism by steel you have a steel vessel and add water and you add some sugar into it. the sugar symbolizes the sweetness that you have to bring to your personality and the steel symbolizes the strength that you have to bear. so that is ... >> one baptized in equality. >> yeah. >> why do sikhs wear turbans. >> this is part of what the guru wanted us to do. there are five things we are supposed to do one is wear a turban the other is wear a khollah a steel bangle we have a comb to keep the hair clean and so on. >> fascinating. >> yep. >> and that is part of the belief that -- these are my words here is how god created me and -- >> which is probably true look at all the profits in the world they all had beards. >> that's a wonderful thing. i think this is probably a good place for us to break a little bit and when we come back this is a fascinating conversation on sikh's and sikh's in the bay area i am hugh burrows, stay with us ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> we are talking about sikh's and sikh's in the bay area. before we get to more about the bay area, tell us a little bit about y

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my intent has never been to challenge chairman steel. one of my concerns that came up. on the left, folks were looking for fighting among republicans, when the real story, the economy of 9.5% unemployment. people were upset about government take over healthcare. i think all that discussion was a way to get off what were the issues at hand, which by the way, were the issues of the election. i'm not out there look to go engage in battles with our chairman. here's a friend. i don't think he's gotten credit for what he has done. there's no question about that. that will sort itself out. but my focus was not to feed into those stories. the real story was the question, the failure of the administration and to focus on the economy and rather get involved in big spending. big taxes and healthcare, which the american public soundly rejected on november 2nd. >> senator, you mentioned a moment ago. if you were a candidate. you would bring an understanding of the third party groups. can you tell us about how you see the third party groups functioning and if you would, respond to so

and steel in over five thousand detailed pieces were forged together according to soviet sculptor veto motion is designed after its turn in the french capital it was reassembled outside moscow's main soviet era exhibition complex where it aged under the stress of over half a century sparse client. taken apart piece by piece for restoration in late two thousand and three the worker and his collective farm companion stay disassembled in a moscow warehouse for years amidst discussion of how best to preserve it and display it for the indefinite future. the most visible loss of luster was clearly the stainless steel outer shell this was cleaned in covered with a special solution but the internal heist. overall seventy five times as well as the whole installation structural integrity. special protective coating russian company. choice for the. project. ways to improve their micro spray techniques with a twist. with. our attempts to improve the characteristics of micro structured protective coating. structured powders. to apply the protective coating. torch. system for feeding in solution. to