at good win steel. if you look at the entire eastern span, we have most of the piles and the foundations, these massive footing boxes that the bridge sits in come from exotic places like vallejo, california, corpus christi, texas, and up in oregon and washington. so there are a number of different place that is contribute to providing different structural elements. if you are looking at steel in particular, there is more domestic steel in the entire eastern span than any other foreign steel component. if you look at the final bridge, a little over 75% of the steel for the eastern span is fabricated in some u.s. mill. >> is there some updated total for the price tag for this project? is it still $6 billion for the price tag? >> it is about that, $6.3. the toll bridge oversight committee, which consists, caltrans and others, and they put out reports that says how we are doing financialally. along with that, there is a $900 million contingency. that is all downloadable from the bay bridge site? >> are you

, heavy duty steel cars. but this week we have a special treat. we introduce a crusher from the 1800s that's really big for its size. >> this is a model 60 horse tractor that was made between the year of 1910 to 1924. the big tractor was used for mainly crashing grain and that type work back years ago. i made every part on this with the exceptions of two castings which was of the governor and the heat exchanger. everything else was made by bar stocks, and what by myself. i have two years and three months so far but i'm not quite done yet. the burling was made out of castings, the back is made out of welding rods and all the other stuff is made out of bar stock and stocked brass. everybody seemed to have a nice compliment. they seem to think it looks real neat. i will give it throttle. and i will make it work and i want to watch the governor. it just sounds like the old ones. >> what made you decide to do this? >> because i'm a farmer and i run piece tractors ever since i was a little boy. my father had the be

steel cable, steel or chicken wire mesh that the workers work on. we have wooden platforms on top of the mesh. you see this guy struggling a little bit to get in place. these guys had to do some different things than we had to do. but again you can see there the cat walk creates the geometry of the bridge. in the 1930's when those came out that is when bay area residents saw what the west bands looked like. that is what you are seeing right now. in the past few weeks away put our cat walk in place. you see a couple of film images of what you will see on site as they connect to the top of the tower. this is our back expand, the short expand that goes toward the island. also online we have a couple of quick methods of i think this is some of the electrical work that was done to put the lighting system in place as we get ready to place the main cable. here is a shot for scale that you can see. you see one person working there. the lights are the exact same fixtures that were used on the memorial bridge in 2002. american bridge procured them and is usin

during a lunch break, steele extracted a plastic shank from his anal cavity. when he returned to the courtroom, he attacked chief deputy district attorney a.j. salazar. >> i remember i was wearing a white shirt, my tie was off to the side, and i looked and there was a hole in my shirt and i was bleeding. >> the stab wound, itself, was not considered serious. the bigger problem was the risk of infection. >> i went to the hospital, i was at the emergency room, i went through a series of shots, they cleaned out the wound. it took several blood tests and i remember picking up the blood result and looked and looked for hiv. and hepatitis negative, hiv negative. so i was like, well, all right, i'll go ahead and take that. >> we asked steele for his version of the story. and in spite of all of the witnesses, he claimed absolute innocence. >> they're saying i stabbed him in court in front of judge, jury, and executioner. >> what are you saying? >> i'm saying i had nothing to do with it. >> were you there? >> nope. >> really? >> how many different ways you want me to a

appetite for steel. steel stocks also may have been helped by some take-over talk. investor carl icahn has offered to buy commercial metals for $15 per share, a $1.7 billion deal. shares of c-m-c shot up more than 20%, closing shy of icahn's offer. despite the strong holiday sales, retail stocks were a mixed bag. wal-mart's 0.6% gain was the weakest among dow stocks. macy's, though, saw almost a 5% jump in its stock price. sears saw a 1% drop to a six- week low. a settlement between citigroup and the securities and exchange commission over mortgage bonds was thrown out of court today. it was a $285 million settlement over allegations citi bet against a mortgage bond investment in which it also had a role in choosing what was included in the deal. the federal judge said he couldn't tell if the payment was fair or not. he criticized the commission for not forcing citi to admit to doing something wrong. the judge set a trial date for july 16. citi shares gained 5% in the broad market rally. it declined comm

steel. >> because china continues to dump essentially dump steel on to the american market because ofurrency. >> khooen chinese insist they raise the value of the currency against the dollar 30 percent since 2005. congressman miller says it's still 30 percent lower than it ought to be and congress needs to pass a law that will hold china accountable. >> fact of the matter is manipulation is hurting europe. hurting asian a.hurting latin america. it's hurting united states. it has to stop. >>reporter: bay area resident need look no further than the bay bridge to see chinese steel. chinese able to underbid u.s. manufacturer by 400 million dollars. cal-trans took the china bid becauses 7 billion plus the span is already most expensive of its kind in the world. there are fear that adding tariff to force the chinese into raising the currency could result in a trade war. >> i don't think that would be an issue, president of the steel plant tells me china can't afford to damage the u.s. economy and currency manipulation is actually hurting china 8. stifling your own quality and own service an

you see the enormous steel frame. it's such a little building. across the street is the self storage. you see the fire escape in front and it has to pass that awning. >> what are the regulations about attaching thing to a fire escape? it says available. >> nothing is allowed on the fire escape. >> i know a lot of people like to put their potted plants and turn them into a balcony. >> bbqs are a no no. it's supposed to be for fire response. many, many violations for that. >> one of the things, people always say, this is a hazard. you've don't you do something. how many of you have had to exit a fire escape in an emergency? it's rarely used and we have very few incidences. therefore, based on our history, epidemiologically. we don't have reason to believe they're not functioning. there's no reason. these are working just federal fine. >> it always works at least to get you out of the second floor. the last floor is easy. thank you for coming. our brown bag lunches continue and we invite you to join us. thanks a lot. >> the next time you take a muni

but looking very much like a broken man. >> we visited steele several weeks later. to speak with us about the incident we had filmed earlier. both he and prison medical staff also gave us permission to air the footage we had shot of him. >> that day i saw you up here with your things packed ready to go home, did you believe in your heart you were going to go home? >> yes. >> and what about now? >> i don't think so. >> so what do you think, do you think you're going to have to stay in this housing unit? >> i hope not. >> what do you want? >> i want to be released from prison. >> prison psychologist reggie matias hopes steele will eventually be well enough to transition to a less restrictive unit. >> we have a program in the chronic care unit where they work in general population, they do that for a week or so, maybe two. if it looks like it's going well, then they'll move them up to a dorm and they can go to work from there. essentially they would be discharged from the chronic care unit. >> i heard you've been doing much, much better these days. >> i'm trying to. >>

our pipe shops and steel mills in the bigger cities. to understand why you would work in a place that kept apart of you you acquit and i'm commune i do understand that these are folks who don't want to go anywhere else. they don't want to move. -- you know, a lot of folks were not detroit bumpers on cadillacs. it was important to these people to live in the mountains of their fathers. it was important to them that they live in a place where deer jump across the rows in front of their cars, but they lived in a place where their grandmothers pacelli up in the window so. it was important that when they decide nobody sent their body home monitoring. >> when did they know close? >> it closed after 100 years. i think it was 2001. >> and what did i do to jacksonville, alabama? >> it would be a romantic story tuesday the economy bottomed out, but that's not true. the mill became a lesser force than the economy although still a force. jacksonville state university, a college became the economic force in town. it wasn't that there was a whole lot

we'll hear from former rnc chairman michael steele.s weighing in on the latest explosive allegations against herman cain. stay tuned. this is "the ed show" live from columbus, ohio. wriac" 's ysta io dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center recommends the custom-fit orthotic that's best for your tired feet. foot-care scientists are behind it. you'll get all-day relief. for your tired achy feet. for locations, see drscholls.com. thank you... >>> welcome back to "the ed show." on the night of an overwhelming defeat of issue 2 and a huge victory for workers' rights, it doesn't get any better than this. when it comes to the middle class workers. joining me now, larry handily, international president of the transit unit and jack reall, president of firefighters union local 67. congratulations. i know you put your heart and soul into this. a big victory and momentum for organized labor. no question. larry, your thoughts on what happened here tonight. >> first, ed, i obviously want to thank my members and all the members of all the unions for

when we already have other companies making steel?t are they doing that is new and efficient. >> they are sitting in washington, looking at the data. they think hey, this company has an idea we like. it doesn't matter that it is headed by some russian guy and we don't know if he is honest or not but this is the best idea we going to invest in that. >> judge jeanine: so we are going to invest in something that will add jobs but maybe take away jobs from another company making steel, an american company making steel that is hog wash john and you know it. >> in this studio was t. boone pickens that i broke some class to make the point that creates jobs for a glassmaker. the unseen part what you were going to do with that money you are now not going do and that takes away jobs some where else. >> judge jeanine: the department of energy, what have they done other than change light bulbs, what have they done? >> managed the nuclear stockpile. the billions of dollars on making bad bets. they do have some stuff to show for it. >> judge jeanin

also, michael steele is on his way. stay with us. >>> i believe i have a good sense for where you cross the line relative to sexual harassment. >> live free or die. victory or death. bring it. >> if more allegations come, i assure you people will simply make them up. >> today has been awesome, girl! this has really been a great day. >> the only other allegations will be trumped-up allegations. there's nothing else. >> i love herman. is he the best? i mean, i get -- i have fun with him. he is a great, interesting guy. and thank you, herman, for helping pay for the event tonight. >> it's amazing. it gets better and better. joining us now is the former chairman of the republican party, michael steele. he is now an msnbc contributor. mr. steele, it's great to see you again. >> good to see you. >> for all the things that parties do not do well, one thing that parties do is they vet candidates. they keep people out of the running who are going to embarrass themselves and the party if they get too far. right? isn't that part o

i fell in love with the sound of the steel string guitar.here are a lot of idiomatic thing that it does well. i studied classic guitar a bit, but the steel string, for example, we do something called a hammer on and pull off, which is -- >> you get three note for the price of one. >> you plug the string but you get four notes. i always think of that town at the the prototypical steel string guitar sound. british isles, a caltech music. i learned all the paul simon songs. as i got older -- >> he is a hell of a guitarist. people do not realize. he is not flashy, but if you try to learn his tunes, they are really hard. >> he is a brilliant guitar player. i eventually got interested in jazz, world music, everything. maybe that is one of the reasons. i enjoyed so many kinds of music, i did not have a preference. i did not want to be anything in particular. i just wanted to play guitar and get that sound that i was hearing in my head. >> is there a particular song of yours that you can trace back to and influence, sound that you were trying to get

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she's out on bond and will be in court on december 8. >> steele told police the baby was stillborn. the autopsy was inconclusive. live from manassas, andrea mccarren, 9news now. >> very sad story. thank you. derek. >> well, he is not dropping out, at least not quite yet. herman cain told staffers he is re assessing. he will decide whether or not to go on, after a 13 year affair with the former republican front runner. bruce leshan is here with the latest. could this be the end for the pizza man or does it matter? >> it could be the end and it's a spectacular flameout. cain has another campaign speech. his numbers are collapsing. it seems irrelevant whether he drops out or not. >> herman cain leaving a hotel after telling staffers on the phone that there may now be such a cloud over his candidacy that he'll lose any remaining support. he admitted knowing ginger white and helping her financially, but unequivocally denied a sexual relationship. >> was this an affair? >> no, it was not. >> there was no sex? >> no. >> ginger white says she expected that response. >> i can't imagine him a

. >> is it like a fine steel wool? >> this is a fine steel wool. quadruple zero steel wool.ay. what it does is it revitalizes the finish but it doesn't refinish the whole table. so if people are nervous, i don't want to worry the stain. >> it's a neutral color. >> there are also some with color if you want to do that as well. and it really does a terrific job of brightening that table back up so when your mother-in-law is looking, boy, your table is really scratched. what's going on? very easy to do. >> okay. people come in and want to examine your cook wear. >> your cook wear or your stainless steel. whatever it may be. what i love about this product, this company employs people with disabilities to make the product, package the product. $10. it's basically a set of very fine sand papers that you can use to work back and forth whether on the cook wear. you're actually sanding the stainless. use this on the grates inside the oven. the kitchen sink if you have a stainless sink. >> oh, yeah. >> those have lots of scratches. it works wonderfully well there. >> all right. people

also, going to keep track of steel makers here, bearing a brunt on the stronger yen, where all the steel production is priced in dollars in asia, making it very much tougher for japanese steel makers compared to south korean and chinese competitors. but as i said, markets here in japan will be closed tomorrow, but also data out of the u.s. on tuesday and wednesday, so the market reaction, we'll see that in japan on thursday, with a second reading of third quarter gdp numbers out of the u.s. for now, nikkei and topix trading lower. back to you. >> thanks for that, ramin mellegard from the tokyo stock exchange. let's look at other market figures. >> that's the latest in business. >>> tokyo prosecutors are expected to launch an investigation into a former chairman he's accused of borrowing tens of millions of dollars and then gambling it away. he took personal loans adding up to over $110 million. the company filed a criminal complaint on monday accusing ikawa of damages after borrowing about $113 million from seven subsidiaries from last year to this year. daio paper said it instructed sen

msnbc analyst, michael steele. thanks for your time tonight.ad, do you have one more comment? >> i agree with that. that's the correct analysis here. we have to get beyond it. the discipline has been broken. the party has a problem if this goes on. >> all right. micha michael, thanks for your time tonight. i appreciate it. >>> the latest results here in ohio. over 450,000 votes have been counted. yes on issue 2 is at 36%. no on issue 2 is at 64%. senate bill 5 has made john kasich one of the most unpopular governors in the united states. and he still has three more years to go. state senator nina taylor will weigh in on kasich's future, next. >>> and we have a great crowd of middle classers here in columbus, ohio. they get the final say tonight. stay tuned. we're right back. ♪ sen♪ co-signed her credit card - "buy books, not beer!" ♪ ♪ut the second at she shut the door ♪ ♪ girl started blowing up their credit score ♪ ♪ she bought a pizza party for the whole dorm floor ♪ ♪ hundred pounds of makeup at the makeup store ♪ ♪ and a ticket down to spr

materials, led by steel stocks. a.k. steel and u.s. steel each fell 9%, while allegheny technology ended off 7.5%. this sector has been under pressure lately and blames it on china's currency policies. over in the tech sector, yahoo slid 5.5%. the company said it's considering selling its asian assets rather than finding a buyer for all of yahoo. it would redistribute that money to shareholders. two japanese auto giants got caught up in the selling. honda plans to stall production at its north american plants by 50% due to parts shortages caused by flooding in thailand. that flooding also affected toyota, which may cut overtime for production in north america through the end of this week. and that's tonight's "market focus." it's one of the most golden of golden parachutes. oil driller nabors industries is giving outgoing c.e.o. eugene isenberg a $100 million payout. the "wall street journal reported that 81-year-old isenberg is getting the rich payout even though he's staying on as chairman of the company. a clause in his contract sti

is a special strength steel that is produced at u.s.vately held and publicly held businesses, steel making facilities so we don't understand why they need the loan in the first place. >>neil: i am sure the administration is arguing, we have not heard this, jobs are jobs, securing more in michigan is well worth it. what do you say? >>guest: well, these are part of the facts we want to understand. we think it ought to go to an american corporation. the other question is, if we have a surplus there, why do they need a loan? why can't the energy, why can't we just provide this steel that is already available in the stockpile rather than give them a loan so they can produce steel which is available elsewhere? there is a cost issue here, also. and, frankly, it sniffs of political favoritism. when government is in the business of picking winners and losers, usually the taxpayers are the losers. we saw that with solyndra. >>neil: and chuck schumer is a loser in the super committee thing, and they are not going to come to an agreement. what do y

steel. >> because china can dump steel on the market. >> and chinese insist they've raised value of the rur kenzie 30% since 2005. and the congressman miller says it's 30% lower than it ought to be and congress needs to pass a law. >> this is hurting europe and asia and hurting latin america and the united states. and and it's not to stop. >> and the chip yeez able to under bid u.s. manufacturers by $400 kblinl. caltrans took the bid because it's $7 billion, it's the most expensive in the world. and there are fears adding tariffs could result in a trade war. >> the president of the pittsburgh steel plant tells me china can't afford to damage the u.s. economy and it is hurting china. >> this is stifling your own service and productivity by relying on a crutch called currency manipulation. >> the speaker john boehner won't bring it up for a vote. a spokesman told abc 7 the speaker is committed to a level playing field and hike president obama does not believe it's a responsible response. >> for him to take shelter behind the president is not fair. >> nancy pelosi knows the president hasn'

michael steele, i want to play a sound bite.ank. take a listen. >> i think it's perfectly reasonable for people to be angry. let's be clear who put the fix in. the fix is put in by the federal government. and if you want to put people in jail, you ought to start with barney frank and chris dodd and let's look at the politicians who created the environment, the politicians who profited from the environment, and the politicians who put this country in trouble. >> clearly you're not saying they should go to jail? >> well, in chris dodd's case, go back and look at the countryside deals, barney frank's case, look at the lobbyists who close to freddie mac. all i'm saying -- everybody in the media who wants to go after the business community ought to start by going after the politicians who have been at the heart of the sickness. >> michael steele, i'm going to ask you to do something that might be difficult, but maybe not. when he talks specifically about barney frank and freddie mac and says maybe he should go to jail, how is that a

joining me today former rnc chairman, michael steele, melissa harris-perry, a columnist for "the nation" and also an msnbc contributor, former d.c. mayor, adrian fenty is on set with us and meghan mccain, the newest msnbc contributor. welcome, meghan, there will be a commemorative tote bag when you leave today. luke russert always is with us. welcome to the show. >> always a pressure. >> david axlerod is a fan of the phrase kabuki theater as a description for the political maneuverings in washington. is this something we can use to describe what's been happening on the super committee for the last two weeks? was anybody serious about cutting a deal? >> when the whole process started, i spoke to members on both sides of the aisle, there

we'll hear from former rnc chairman michael steele.e's weighing in on the latest explosive allegations against herman cain. stay tuned. this is "the ed show" live from lumb b columbus, ohio. ♪ mama said there'd be days like this ♪ ♪ "there'll be days like this," mama said ♪ [ male announcer ] the toughest job on the planet just got a little easier. with one touch technology and even an air scrubber. the nissan quest. innovation for family. innovation for all. get up to $3,050 total savings on the 2011 nissan quest. ♪ try bayer advanced aspirin. it's not the bayer aspirin you know. it's different. first, it's been re-engineered with micro-particles. second, it enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. the best part? it's proven to relieve pain twice as fast as before. bayer advanced aspirin. test how fast it works for you. love it, or get your money back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." on the night of an overwhelming defeat of issue 2 and a huge victory for workers' rights, it doesn't get any bet

>> i learned that michael steele said be a cutter. >> what did you like?atever you say. congratulations. >> i learned that the lsu oregon championship game will be one for the ages. >> what are you talking about? >> it will be great. >> if oregon gets slapped over the field, get ready, we are going to new orleans and it will be y

he isn't really competing on the issues. >> but michael steele is mitt romney? the least amount of time. the guy that has spept the most is rick santorum. he's at the end of the polls doing it the old way, the way you're supposed to supposedly do iowa. >> mitt is strong in iowa because he's organized, awesome on the ground. he's got some holdover from the last campaign. cain is strong in iowa because of everything we just talked about. >> josh green, you get out there and talk to some of these voters, why aren't they responding to romney yet? >> it is the same old things. he does have a segment pretty firm in polls. he got 25-26% of the vote in the caucuses in '08. he's at about 25% now. doesn't seem to be able to break beyond that. for some people because of health care. for some, because of his religion. others just don't trust him as a conservative. >> i want to play a sound bite from ron paul because he was asked a question which has been floating out there which is this idea he may not support the republican nominee and may actually go the next step. >> can

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

particularly, notice the large area of steel is getting smaller and smaller as we go to october. those beams code to the shourd wall. them minyas street operation was complete. the fence line will be moved just to the outside of the steel beams you see sticking up that represent the edge of the shoring wall. ministry will be reopened for the remainder of the project. i think it actually happened last week. there is a shoring wall at the law west and -- the west end. we crossed fremont street the weekend before last, earlier in the month of october, completed across first-rate. these crossings are halfway across which allows us to move utilities one more time back over into the zone that the shoring wall has been completed in. then during the remainder half of the street. the infrastructure of the work has already begun on first street. here is a progress update on the buttresses being completed. the green ones are completed and poured out. the two yellow ones will be completed tomorrow, with the one on the left side being poured story to it tomorrow morning -- starting tomorrow m