in guns germs and steel we were just talking about this this dimension of guns germs and steel and how those things have. brought about the collapse of societies and that this triad gave your asians. an advantage is there are there other examples of the same thing in other human societies around the world asian societies for example south american societies yet free os showing up at european shona. they were examples all around the world on the one hand of europeans defeating european peoples but there were also examples of non european peoples defeating european peoples for example fall is that that. most of the people saw their couture real africa today. african black farmers speaking bantu languages two thousand years ago that wasn't the case just as two thousand years ago everybody in north america was a native american two thousand years ago everybody in africa south of the equator was either a pygmy or belonged to the course on people and then two thousand eight hundred years ago farmers black farmers speaking bantu languages would be crops and livestock and still you weapons mov

steel. it fell more than 8%. finally, last night's big disappointment was net-flix, with a disappointing outlook. shares fell more than 5%. technical analyst michael kahn puts this on his chart on our website, n.b.r. on pbs.org. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: another day without a debt deal and another record high for the yellow metal. that brings us to tonight's "word on the street," "gold." alix steele is a reporter at thestreet.com. it's always nice to see you. $1600 and counting, a record high for at least two sessions in row. how do you describe this recent rally in gold? is there much volume behind it? >> well no, it's the summer season so there's light volume. this is real a save haven play. it's a great barometer suggesting how scared investors really are over the possibility of the u.s. default come august 2nd. >> tom: with that in mind, how scared are they? are they concerned or terrified. >> concerned not terrified. the reason i say that we are seeing record highs like you said. if we wer

so what really happened in allentown pa is the american steel manufacturing industry collapsing. slate columnist dave weigel explore the issue in a column published yesterday and she gave one of the reasons why allentown networks shuttered stores while wrote the owners of allentown metal works of expected to get more business from stimulus spending on construction etc it didn't happen allentown metal works only chance for survival was an infusion of capital from the government into local projects something the romney opposed its collapse was classic creative destruction there simply wasn't business for the plant to do any more as to why there wasn't any business for the plant anymore allentown business columnist edward carter offered an explanation at the beginning of the year writing that the closing of the plant represents a bygone era of when manufacturing was king of the economy in the lehigh valley and around the country unfortunately the manufacturing cycle has seen its boom in america and want not necessarily in the bust phase of the cycle the landscape has changed drastic

a dying industry in our nation today those mangled sheet beams and steel beams sticking out of a pile of rubble that used to be the world trade center were made right here in america at a one hundred year old steel plant in allentown pennsylvania known as the allentown metal works today though ten years after nine eleven that steel plant is the poster child of an america in decline it was there that back in two thousand and nine president obama used the plan to tout his economic stimulus program the plant was supposed to be a symbol of the american economy will already be back unfortunately one year later allentown metal works shut down and now it's being used as a symbol of the failure of president obama's policies but one of the lead republican candidates for president mitt romney take a look at the startlingly effective campaign ad was just now hitting the airwaves good to be back on. allentown works at a chance to visit with workers there. the allentown battle work is set to close its doors on friday this was hailed as a symbol of hope by president barack obama last year when he p

pacific steel says that is news to the company. >> does pacific steel, has pacific steel hired undocumented immigrants? >> not knowingly. no. they won't do that. but we're in the same position as hundreds of employers all over the country. >> ice would not comment on pat civic steel case but said in a statement the goal of the audits is to ensure employers are following the law. and in fact, there has been a crack down under the obama administration. more audits in the last nine months than during the entire previous year and more recently than in the final years of the bush administration. >> which is why we call it a silent raid. >> this city councilman represents pacific steel union workers like annie, who could be fired. >> we aren't doing anything illegal, just workers at the plant. we're working as hard as we can. >> and now, pacific steel says it has no idea why it's targeted by ice. some believe it could be a number of a large population of latino workers here. and city leaders here in berkeley say if hundreds of workers from pacific steel are fired it's going to impact the entire r

pacific steel says that is news to the company. >> does pacific steel or has pacific steel ever hired any undocumented immigrants? >> not knowingly, no. they wouldn't do that. but, you know, we are in the same position as hundreds of employers all over the country. >> reporter: ice would not the comment on the pacific steel case but said in a statement the goal of these audits is to ensure employers are following the law. this fact, this has been a crackdown on illegal works under the obama administration with more employer audits in the last nine months than during the entire previous year and more recently than during the the final years of the bush administration. >> we call is silent raids really. >> an oakland city councilman represents pacific steel union workers. workers who could be fired. >> we aren't doing anything illegal. we are workers at this plant and working as hard as we can. >> reporter: pacific steel says it has no idea why it was tathed as i.c.e. some believe it could be as simple as the large population of latino workers here. half of the work force is latino. cit

oakland take pkg la intranquilidad llego a esta fabrica de fundicion de acero en berkeley, pacific steelcasting..han sido notificados por inmigracion que estan investigando el estatus legal de sus empleados. 19:59 nerviosos, algunos afligidos, angustiados 20:02 23:24 ya a muchos les dieron cartas de que estan bajo una auditoria 23:52 27:58 todos los companeros de aqui de trabajo estamos todos asustados porque nos va a afectar a toda nuestra familia 28:04 segun elizabeth jewel, vocera de la compania que emplea a mas de 600 personas, estos son momentos muy dificiles para ellos y no es algo que querian que pasara, pero tienen que cumplir o enfrentaran multas. la auditoria es de los formularios i-9 que certifica que un empleado tiene permiso para trabajar. 28:19 de aqui saco para darle de comer a mis hijos,entonces si me corren de aqui me va afectar a mis hijos, a mi esposa y yo, no va a quedar otra no mas que pedirle dinero al gobierno 28:31 estas mismas auditorias generaron el despido de 500 trabajadores de la limpieza en san francisco en el ultimo mes, segun el sindicato que los reune..en

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. >>> steel from the world trade center is being used in memorials all over the country. so far, more than 1,000 cities, nonprofit, military bases, airports and museums have been granted a piece of the steel. anyone interested had to be prove it would be used in a public display. the cost for the steel is free but organizes have to pay for its transportation costs. >>> ahead -- what is the definition of a hot dog? we'll tell you who wants 20 know. and a few more details about the royal couple of's upcoming visit to california including why they will be going to skid row. san mateo >>> the gains on the stocks were modest. the dow is up 51. the nasdaq is up 4. s&p is flat. >>> we are now hearing more about the plan for prince william and his wife catherine during their u.s. visit. the royal couple is scheduled to arrive in southern california on friday. they will meet with hollywood celebrities but they will also visit skid row in downtown los angeles. that's where they will go to inner city arts that provides lower income children with free classes in visual and performing

pacific steel says that is news to the company. >> does pacific steel ever hired any undocumented immigrants? >> not knowingly. no. they won't do that. but we're in the same position as hundreds of employers all over the country. >> ice could not comment in this case but said in a statement the goal is to ensure employers are following the law. in fact there has been a crack down on illegal workers under the obama administration. with more employer audits in nine months than during the entire previous year, and more recently than in the final years of the bush administration. >> we call a silent raid. >> oakland city councilman represents pacific steel union workers. workers may face being fired or possibly deported. >> the fact of the matter is that these people are employees and work and pay taxes. they support their families. >> and the berkeley city council recently passed a resolution deannouncing the audit here. today, many locals and their staff as agreed to send letters of opposition to the obama administration after that meeting this afternoon in oakland. but the reality is that the

the steel industry was very big and ohio at that time. it was something he felt he could deliver for his constituents. it also suited him personally. as a student, he was a hard worker than he was bright, i think. he was a bright guy, no doubt, but what he really brought to the party was just a willingness to really get down to it. going over these link the tables was something that really appeal to him. there was a tremendous amount of negotiating over tariff tables and what all the industries wanted. there was lots of horsetrading and dealmaking and this really appealed to mckinley, and was something he excelled at. >> given what you know about william mckinley, and if he were here today, where he fit in the party? >> that is a really good question. i don't think so, because his personality was such that he was a very modest guy who liked to work behind the scenes. i don't think the body can produce a tantalizing mckinley quote. there was no great wordsmith thing. he liked to work behind the scenes and pull the strings of the different

it would be pouring it probably on a steel kind of thing. but at this point, the process changed largely during -- after world war ii. set up rebuilt belgium, rebuilt france, rebuilt -- so before all our glass was domestic and after world war ii it became foreign. they had all the new factories and we had the old ones. so they set up a product, and they would pour it and polish it automatically, so it was perfectly flat. and that was the origin of the polished plate. then, subsequently a process came up called float glass. and that was just revolutionized the industry because they poured glass out on a bed of hot tin, voluntary-in tin. why this -- vol tin tin. how they came up with that -- they just poured it on the bed and it was self-leveling and they made it so fast, cooled it down -- i mean you go to the factory in stockton and it's just like making cellophane or whatever. this comes in, comes out, bam. and it's now, you know, inexpensive and quick. and so the word -- technically it's not polished but it's just plate. it works. and so th

and the corrosion that you see in those, the structural steel corrosion you see on those, i've worked on one on golf street. we had to store shore it up. there's 10,000 pounds of concrete with no visible means of support because the steel had totally rusted out. so when you have big ones like that, you really want to pay attention to those because they are massively heavy. >> and on the left, the same kind of thing where we have the concrete rail probably precast pieces fit together with steel reinforcements. that well could be rusted. who knows? before we started to talk, dave and i were looking at some of these slides and we're talking about the stairs. they're not just wood. but they may be made of concrete, for example, the gray stairs here are probably concrete at the bottom. often there's brick underneath that's holding up the stair itself and then there's wood for some of the members. in an earthquake, all these things move at different speeds. they all expand and contract with the change of the weather and seasons at different speeds. and it means that it's very hard to flash

whatever steel was in there is long gone all along the waterfront. >> wonderful buildings. at the double dog and a beer. >> this is wonderful. it is right on the waterfront. it is due piles. >> that is the location of what is now the san francisco port authority? >> yeah, port offices. and there is a new office there and slip. this is one of the few places where they recently provided a small boat docking on the waterfront. there are very few places where you can stop on the waterfront, and have built a brand new public dock. so we're down near the waterfront. what do we have here? >> in many areas, it is shallow enough that working with the owners, we can convince the owner that maybe he could use some below grade parking, and we make the decision to go deep below the surface and put the building on a foundation. let me back up. there are several foundation types in san francisco. the one that was used in the 1800's was called a wood grillage. they would chop down trees and it would lay lincoln logs, same principle, make the excavation, and they would lay lincoln logs and

so let's switch on over to our sister station, the steel network and get ready for the "steel networkout"! [ cheers and applause ] >> it's the steel network sports freakout! >> jimmy: whoa! >> steve: welcome to steel network sports freakout! i'm your host, fred donovan! >> jimmy: and i'm corey van punt and i'm totally freakin' out, man! what in the h-e double hockey sticks is going down in the world of sports? >> steve: oh my gosh! summertime's baseball time and the question on everybody's mind. will the san francisco giants repeat as world champions? corey? >> jimmy: who gives a frick? let's play "check out this dude." >> check out this dude! [ laser blast ] >> jimmy: check out this dude. [ laughter ] he looks like -- he looks like an evil zach galifianakis. [ laughter ] >> steve: looks [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: i can't tell if he grew the beard or the beard grew him. [ laughter ] >> steve: i bet if you turned his head upside down, you couldn't tell the difference. let's check out this dude! [ laser blast ] >> jimmy: he looks like he just saw boobs for the first time. [ laughter ]

ed ren den and former rnc chair michael steele. good evening to both. >> good evening, rev. >> today president obama outlined a balanced approach. take a look at this, mr. chairman. >> i believe we need a balanced approach. we need to take on spending in programs, in defense programs, in entitlement programs, and we need to take on spending in the tax code, spending on certain tax breaks, and deductions for the wealthiest americans. >> but chairman steele, is this really balanced if it's trillions of cuts? >> i think so. when you know the real driver here is spending we didn't get here because the government want collecting enough revenue. at some point along the way, we got out of line and started taking more out of economy. i think the president is right. the question for republicans is, okay, let's get specific in the details of what exactly you mean. >> that's always is the problems, the details. >> reverend, you know that. >> there's some giving on each side. it seems there's an enflexibility on her side. >> first, if i might,

thank you dana milbank and michael steele. thank you very much for joining me. >>> ahead, russia's latest target. those infamous liberal weathermen. you won't believe the hot air he is blowing now. >>> take a look, folks. that's rick perry in cowboy mode. chaps and all. but is the real texan ready for prime time? we're taking a hard look at his record in the lone star state. stick around. >> announcer: this past year alone there's been a 67% spike in companies embracing the cloud-- big clouds, small ones, public, private, even hybrid. your data and apps must move easily and securely to reach many clouds, not just one. that's why the network that connects, protects, and lets your data move fearlessly through the clouds means more than ever. >> rush limbaugh thinks the heat index is a conspiracy cooked up by the left. that's our con job of the day. a heat wave is baking big parts of the country. that has a lot of people talking about the humidity. now the heat index tells people what it feels like when heat and humidity are adde

and the boys of steel in russia's solve youth ice hockey club a steel boxes are put through their paces ahead of their big trip to north america . first russia completed the clean sweep of gold medals in the synchronised swimming event said that quite a championships in shanghai the unofficial queen of the pool. leading the team to their seventh gold out of possible seven the free routine combination of was the closing event and was once again won by the russian girls in some style assholes china trailed by more than six points to take their six the straw and gave the all conquering sixteen world gold apart a loss for his career while earlier on saturday also had also captured a silver in the twenty five kilometer open water swim. and let's continue with football there rw claimed bronze of that's once eleven call america for one drubbing of venezuela now appear rude brawl the deadlock just three minutes before the break after a problem guerrero scored on its own pass because i don't want nothing advantage venezuela were left with ten men after hamburg midfielder thomas rink on was given

the world and rupert murdoch showed his steel there and made it clear he's not going anywhere. >> michael isikoff thank you so much for keeping tabs on the hearing todd and for your insight. now let's bring in richard wolf who's been following this as well. before we get to the testimony can we talk about that pie in the face so to speak, the plate full of shaving cream that got flung. apparently it did spatter rupert murdoch a little bit which is why we're told he took off his jacket for the end of the hearing and wrap up of questioning. tell me about the tradition here and what we've learned about who this protesters was and what happened in this session? >> again, this started off on british tv many the '70s and has become a way of protest, it is what the mp called it, it was an assault on this person on rupert murdoch. thank goodness his wife stepped in the way she did. at least there was some

statement from boehner's spokesman from michael steel just coming in right now. quote, we're here to change washington, no more smoke and mirrors, no more phantom cuts. we promise that we will cut spending more than we increase the debt limit with no tax hikes and we will keep that promise. as we speak, congressional staff are looking at options to rewrite the legislation to meet our pledge. thises what can happen when you have an actual plan and submit it for independent review, which the democrats who run washington have refused to do. he's referencing there, the cbo, congressional budget office, came up with late tonight a scoring on the boehner bill and put that up, if we could. cbo estimates the legislation would reduce budget deficits by about 1.1 trillion between 2012 and 2021. that's the first section of the boehner proposal. the second part, which would be done by a joint committee, charles, couldn't be scored because, obviously, you have to kind of hammer out what you're going to cut on entitlements. >> the boehner proposal is a

in fact, steel is preferred for a lot of uses because it can be recycled and reused. especially really good redwood and stuff that used to be used for exterior decks is almost unavailable but it's extremely political lynn i correct to use this clear redwood. now there's other materials including metal and other kinds of fabricated lumber that's kind of glued up. and you lee a lot of it. >> it's different types of pressure treated. >> so what used to be used almost exclusively is redwood in our area. and you still see huge amounts of old redwood. >> and that was all first growth 300-year-old trees that they just cut it down and the wood was perfect. that doesn't exist anymore. >> that's right. so one of the requirements for the use of wood in the outside is it really needs to be decay resistant or as they say in the building code, wood was a natural resistance to decay is the correct word. so here, i brought a few samples just to talk for a second. here. tell me what this is, you guys. >> that's crappy dug fir. two-by-four. >> if you use this outside, what happens? >>

he is also expected of steeling $6,000 worth of wine. the security guard recognized his photo in a newspaper. >> friday he came back. and three weeks later he was in the store and one of the employees spotted him. >> he will appear in court tomorrow in connection with the san francisco theft. >>> forecast, cool and foggy weather but a >>> in national news tonight a close call at an airport when two planes bumped into one another. a delta was taxiing and its wing clipped the tail of a commuter jet. passengers felt the bump. >>> in grand rapids, michigan, betty ford has been laid to rest. he was buried next to her husband on what would have been his 98 birthday. she was 93 years old. >>> karma gedden. a 10-mile stretch of highway 405 in los angeles is being closed this weekend for a bridge demolition. officials are bracing for heavy grid lock. half a million drivers are expected to be effected by the closure. in seattle a dramatic experience for a window washer. police say the man slipped, he was dangling from 65 meet in the air. a firefig

here's a hinge which is solid stainless steel. so stainless steel or brass or bronze or, you know, other similar materials which are designed to be exposed to weather are what you have to use for exterior. if you use anything that has galvanized or other it will -- unless -- thank you, unless it's hot dipped galvanize it will rust. people say it's galvanized but it's what they call electroplated galvanized. maybe it lasts for -- yeah. so, for exterior use, it's almost always wort the extra cost to use, you know, stainless steel bronze, brass or certainly hot tipped ga have a niesed at the lowest -- galvanized at the lowest cost and don't use an interior hardware on the outside of a building. it won't last at all. you'll be back there. and the cost -- people say, i'm going to save some money by using cheap paint or cheap hardware or cheap something. the cost is not in the material. the cost is not in the paint. the cost is not in the hardware. the cost is in the time, the prep, the installation and all that work. so, i always say,

specializes in high technology steel used in car production that is lighter safer than conventional metal. so the markets now while prices are actually recovering flats however after a three day high as investors but that freezing u.s. crude supplies and debt crisis in europe may hold a man or woman cereals for flights we brant. just ten cents a different from what they were yesterday at the close across asia markets are positive after they've showed that china's g.d.p. expanded faster than expected pace on comparably stops gainers results so with china overseas land investment adding almost six percent at one point financials are also heading higher with china construction bank again around two hundred percent japanese stocks are also on the rise however the strong yen is there anything sentiment chip related so seiji lower exporters are gaining on broken home thing image chart for the previous day. here in moscow the my six will open within a matter of minutes the r.t.s. is up however point three percent is driven by energy shares. russian stocks supposed to moderate games on the

workers in a steel plant are worried. >> and an immigration crack down is underway there.y workers are living in fear of what they call silent raids. today some spoke for the first time. abc 7 is live for us in berkeley with the story. >> it turns out pacific steel is far from the only place where these so called silent raids are taking place. they're happening around the country. and while the company says it's not knowingly hired undocumented workers, reality is that hundreds of people here at the third-largest steel foundry in the united states are in this country illegally.

you couldn't break through the stainless steel grids. but it was essentially a screen that came down over the exterior. >> there is a wonderful example of that in san francisco. when you go to the area where the new giants ballpark is, the old san francisco fire department pump station, which is at the corner of second and townsend streets, which is now converted to the fire department headquarters. they used to have gigantic steam pumps and pumped it into the high water pressure system, which is all over the city, the big hydrants with the colored tops. now they have small diesel pumps so the rest of the building is used for the headquarters. if you look at that building you will see, above the windows, are large metal cases that hold rolldown shutters, that were intended so that they could separate the building from another 1906-style configuration, and continue to pump water out of the bay to this separate water system for -- so that they can -- and it was put in place after the '06 earthquake, when of course all of the water supplies

. >>> steele from the -- steel from the world trade center is being used all over the nation from the world trade center. airports, museums, they've been granted at least a piece of that steel. now, anyone that's interested in having a steel they had to prove first it would be used in a public display. the cost of that steel, believe it or not, free. however, organizers -- organizations have to pay for the cost. >>> the court gave the government until the end of today to show that the drugs are absolutely necessary for jared loughner likely to make him economy tent to stand trial. [ applause ] >>> in the meantime, look at this -- this is one of congresswoman giffords' aides. he was wounded on that day. made an emotional return back to work. he's gonna try to work part time. 65 years old. you see he's still limping there. he has limited feeling in his leg but he's back. and he looks really happy to be back. 7:20. there's a new jury trend in the works and men are the target audience. >>> also, you better not be locked out. well, as opposed to being locked up. it's better that way. domin

former rnc chief michael steele is here. and the rupert-murdoch news corporate scandal is blowing up bigger than ever. tonight on weather murdoch's phone hacking scandal could ever come to america. good to have you with us tonight, folks. president obama has democrats shocked, stunned and flat out furious after the "washington post" reported that he put social security and medicare cuts on the table. now, in d.c. tonight, i spoke to at least a dozen lawmakers. they say that the president went behind closed doors with leadership of both parties to discuss a solution to the debt hostage crisis republicans are waging on the american people. president obama addressed the media after the meeting but didn't take any questions. here's what he had to say. >> i just completed a meeting with all the congressional leaders from both chambers, from both parties, and i have to say that i thought it was a very constructive meeting. everybody acknowledged that there is going to be pain involved politically on all sides, but our biggest obli

us steel fell 8% after warning earnings could fall this quarter. ak steel tumbled most on the s & p over concern of higher raw material costs. after hours amazon zoomed higher on a better than expected revenue jump of 51%. in data, june's prices for new single family homes rose to a five-month high but sales slipped. june's consumer confidence rose slightly but remains relatively low. clorox rejected as inadequate investor carl icahn's almost $11 billion deal. a lesbian couple wants changes at the tennessee theme park dolly wood after an employee asked one of the women to turn her marriage is so gay t-shirt inside out to avoid offending people. >>> a running roundtripper, a world championship wardrobe problem, and an ump blows a very big call. plus, a major league insession agent in the nation's capital. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. . >>> the heat invaded the middle of the country. that's not going anywhere either. another heat wave is building. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning.

engineering and materials science provided a higher quality of steel to build with, and having passenger elevators meant it was the necessary anymore to climb a long flight of stairs to get to the top of the building. the elevator made the upper floors of the building more attractive than they were before. >> here we were at the historic st. francis hotel, which was actually a representation of the evolution of elevators. can you tell us more about san francisco history here at the st. francis? >> sure. st. francis demonstrates well the evolution of elevated technology. and substantially damaged the 1906 earthquake and rebuilt in 1907 or 1908, and extend it again in 1913. then a new tower was added in 1932, so there is all sorts of elevator technology you can see at the st. francis that very much represents the building history of san francisco. >> i understand there is a really old elevator still operating here. >> that is right, the elevator installed in the 1913 expansion. we can go look at that. >> let's go take a look. here we are in a spectacular st. francis lobby. here is the cloc