and it's not good having a soft steel column. >> steel loses its strength. >> it loses its strength ines. so this is to protect that. with the fire suppression system, so that the firemen have four hours to get here here. >> we have a teem column. this stuff is sprayed -- steel column. this stuff is blue, this particular building owner uses blue to show this is noncontaminated fire protection without asbestos. one of the big costs of retrofitting high rise buildings when you have to open it up like this is you have possible asbestos contamination and it's a big area to put the area into containment and to mitigate. >> they paint it blue because they really want to make sure everybody knows, this is not asbestos. >> okay. there's another way to do field fire protection. there's a kind of paint. and it's been used for the last 50 year or more. you can paint on steel, it's quite excessive -- expensive, it is fire proof paint. you have to protect all of the industrial elements except for those which are only for earthquakes. the presumption is, you're not having an earthquake at the same t

. >>> people are proud to be steel workers and working in the steel business, and we see it all around us. >> but will they ever get back to making obstacles ahead to hundreds of long-time steel workers tonight. >>> and the fallen officer in the last hour about the 33-year-old from kg county. >> if i can get the same for less than half the money, i'm going for it. >>> prepaid isn't what it used to be. abc 2 viewers ways to save money and keep your data plan. >>> we begin with breaking news tonight a navy seal from edge water among those killed in a helicopter crash in afghanistan. theal ban says they shot it down last week. >> seven service members were killed including 28-year-old special patrick feet. born in california, raised in edge water, when he was assigned to a west coast base naval special war fair unit. he's got numerous awards and decorations. he spoke with his father who said it was too soon to talk about the son he had lost. he is survived by father thomas, mother virginia, and wife emily. he is the eighth service member from maryland to die in this war. >> and flags are

steel mill... and their jobs..... jobs..... tonight in delaware a bankruptcy judge approved the sale to liquidators.........and while that doesn't rule oot a portion of the mills reopening workers are bracing for the wo. worse..... (6:53)48 years central maintenance.....mechanical.... bob barrett says he has put in decades of hard work at the sparrows point steel mill...only to be let down..... (8:41)if i can't make it its tough.... barrett is one of nearly 2000 workers at rg steel.... waiting to hear word on the fate of their jobs... the company.... once one of baltimore county's largest private employers....filed for bankruptcy last may.....(7:24) they weren't doing a thing positive to make the mill profitable... to make matters worse.....a clause in the contract between the united steelwwrkers and rg steel will terminate once sparrows point is sold.....the new owners can stop paying wages and benefits to the existing employees and terminate workers at their discretion.....(13:17)the union is rying everything they can do....

the prospects for steel making don't look so good. the mill was auctioned off last week for $72 million as part of rg steel's bankruptcy. plan s to find a new buyer. the judge handling the bankruptcy must approve the

you can't be moral in a steel mill. doesn't have anything to do with the bible. >> host: in "i am john galt" you draw parallels between hand written and bill gates. why? >> host: >> guest: he created a new kind of metals that was lighter than aluminum but stronger than steel. that product was so competitive and disruptive to the status quo that the unholy alliance of corrupt businessman and corrupt officials conspired to put him out of business the same way people could compete with microsoft windows conspired to put bill gates out of business in the 1990s. don't tell yourself that was just some do-gooder action by some holier than thou bureaucratic washington. they were paid off by people in silicon valley. >> host: there is a little taste of donald luskin's "i am john galt," building the world as villainous parasites destroy it. this is booktv on c-span2. >> recently at freedom fest in las vegas booktv interviewed john goodman author of priceless. in the book the author argues we need to open up the health-care system

the future of italy's and europe's biggest steel works remains unclear.ast month, an italian court shut down the country's biggest steel mill, which is located in the south of italy, saying it has knowingly poisoned the local population with cancer-causing pollution. >> the shutdown has left the livelihood of 12,000 employees in limbo and dealt a severe blow to italy's already struggling economy. it is also a classic conflict of interest. >> the demonstrators who turned out to greet the delegation were a mix of environmental activists and steel workers who want to get back to work. the instances of cancer in the region have been high for years. a court-ordered study shows that life expectancy is lower here than anywhere else in italy. the likely cause is toxins produced by the steel works. >> it is a big dilemma between employment and help. finding a job is a problem you can solve, but dying is not a problem you can solve. >> it is unclear how the problem can be resolved. italy is in the midst of recession, and the plant produces the majority of the count

chairman steele, i will go to you first on this regarding paul ryan. how much of it is -- we've seen a lot of happy assessments regarding paul ryan's performance last night. what do you make of the fact there were a number of distortions about the truth? >> well, you know, distortion is in the eye of the beholder. in that room you're not going to sit there and get into the details of a specific policy. you're laying out broad themes. and so obviously from the left and from the obama administration, particularly the campaign, they want to go back and say, but you didn't say this, you didn't talk about that. that's not what last night was about. just as we'll see next week. there'ses going to be a whole lot of detail and specific facts left out of obama's narrative about what he's done over the last four years. so last night was about broad themes. last night was about setting up tonight for mitt romney and bringing down the hammer at some of the headlines have said this morning on the obama administration. so i thought for paul ryan it was a wonderful c

we make steel, been making steel for over 100 years.people want to work and we put out a good product. we just needda good ow" owner."and they need one fast. workers learned last night that their health benefits will be ending at the end of the month. they were given information oo cobra plans and government assistance to help out just in case.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. in southwest baltimore... police are investigating a fatal shooting along walbrook avenue near north ellamont street.a man was found shot in the head inside an apartment about 9 o'clock , monday night. homicide detectives are pnterviewing neighbors to figure out what happened.no word on a suspect or motive at this time. you can track criminal activity in your neighborhood with 'spotcrime.' get email alerts when crime happens. log onto fox baltimore dot com and click on spotcrime in the hot topics section. missouri congressman todd akin is vowing not to quit his campaign for the u-s senate after his controversial comments about rape and pregnan. pregnancy.ak

the reason why iron ore is coming down because of steel demand is not there, yet steel over capacitys still ramped. you have to look at them. the other thing i would point out is that if you take a look at the coal stocks today, the steel related coal stocks, the ones that produce met cal are lower today whereas the steam coal stocks such as aci, anr are higher. so that further ratifies in my view that you want to be selling steel, not buying it here. >> well, i tell you what, i looked -- take a look at big steel. take a look at u.s. steel and tell me if that's not a stock that has held its lows for the past several months, hasn't made a new low. starting to move up in the moving averages. i think the market understands that quite well and refused, big steel refused to make a new low, steve. i'll take the other side to say i'd much rather be a buyer. >> i had a great short and talked about it very often and haven't been short for a few weeks. my bet is they touch the lows, not yet but in the fourth quarter of this year. >> you're on. >> all right. grasso, i know you probably have som

it's steel and concrete >> there's a difference between structural steel and rebarb. >> it's steel columns. thank you goodness. >> 19 stories and i live across the street in a building that was built i believe in 1920 and i brought my staff here because we want to, as a team, be prepared with our building and the owners who live there. >> so her question is, how can someone find out what they should be prepared for? >> the first thing is to see if the there are original plans for their building >> should they hire someone >> someone need to verify if you are structural steel frame. there's a high likelihood there's a plan. if you are a concrete frame, you have a set of concerns. >> the first thing, i recommend everybody do this. get a complete set of documents for your building from accessor's office and other office in a city and put them in a notebook and you have all your documents. here, you can ask to get all the permits, plans, job cards, sign off sheets. special inspection. get everything. there's no reason why the city should be a source of this. then, if you ever want to be a buil

the prospects for steel making at sparrows point don't look so good.mill was auctioned off last week for 72 million dollars as part of ag steel's bankruptcy. right now, plan a is to find a new buyer. the judge handling the bankruptcy still must approve the sale to new owners. meanwhile, former employees don't believe 10 executives should receive their huge bonus because they didn't make a deal to keep the plant up and running. now once again, those former employees will be out here from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. to protest. reporting live in sparrows point, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> a protest outside the statehouse in annapolis urging law makers to focus on jobs. leaders from coalition leader and representatives from minority owned businesses in pg county want to encourage lawmakers to approve a plan to let voters decide on expandedgambling and will discuss the jobs economic development and tax revenues lost if legislation is not approved during the special session. this is going to happen at 10 this morning. >>> and today the full statehouse of delegates

steel manufacturing. kaiser supplied steel for its liberty ships built the most modern steel plant in the world out in california. at fontana, california, as part of this. they become involved in the process, they become part of that. again, do anything, build anything. and not only meet deadlines but bring it under deadline in the process. and then also the chemical companies. the big companies in particular, particularly bow and dupont but also many of the other rivals and other chemical companies become to get involved in a whole variety of production effort in order to make the arsenal what make this wartime production possible. and in the case of of dow, one of the most important contributions they make as i explain in the book is with again magnesium. it was herbert dow, founder of dow chemical to discover this chemical in office a byproduct of some of the chemical processes involved in the plant. nice, light metal gear, very flammable, but also very hard at the same time. and he said to himself, th

was not steel. it was aluminum. the upper deck, and decking was aluminum. so that allowed the ship to save a tremendous amount of weight. the engines were basically high-temperature, high-pressure turbines. and she was just an incredibly powerful vessel, built for speed. in many ways -- she combines the speed and maneuverability of a destroy with the luxury and space of an oceanliner, something that had never been done before. >> talk more about her speed, just in terms of sea trials and the fact that so much was classified, and why did that happen with this boat? >> well, when that ship -- kind of like steve jobs, and he was terrified of other people stealing his ideas and also, like jobs, very good project manager. a big-picture guy. i want a ship to look like this, i want it to be beautiful and have these specifications and then he would work with the engineers and pester them through the process to make sure they fulfilled his vision and the ship looked the way he wanted it to look. the ship was

the prospects for steel making don't look so good. the mill was auctioned off last week for $72 million as part of rg steel's bankruptcy. plan s to find a new buyer. the judge handling the bankruptcy must approve the sale to new owners. meanwhile, former employees don't believe 10 executives should receive their huge bonus because they didn't make a deal to keep the plant up and running. so once again, those former employees will be out here this morning from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. to make their voices heard. reporting live in sparrows point sherrie johnson abc2 news. >>> the familiar live christopher brown is not resting after he was pinned down by a baltimore county police officer and died asphyxiation. they staged a rally -- staged a rally last night asking for stiffer charges for police officer james laboard. back in june, brown was near a group of teens throwing rocks at front doors of a home and that's when the officer hit james laboard's dured and they said that witnesses -- door and witnesses said he got brown and held him down on t

we make steel, been making steel for over 1000 years. these people want to work and we put out a good product. we just need a good ow" owner."and they need ne fast. workers learned last night that their health benefits will be ending at the end of the month. they were given information on cobra plans and government assistance to help out just in case.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. a prince george's county police officer is killed during a police chase monday. monday. 23-year old adrian morris died when the cruiser he and his partner were in went off interstate 95 and into a ditch near beltsville. police say two officers were trying to pull-over a car ... believed to be involved in a theft.police say morris was an officer for two-and-a-half years... but had been involved with the department since high school. vasquez says: "and i thought he was ok. i thought he was breathing. i didn't know what his status was. he oved his head, i thought. i didn't know he didn't make it." it.""he was an explorer at dissrict six. that's why this

steel. it's looking to capture growing demand for building materials in southeast asia. nippon steel says it will make a groupwide investment of over $550 million to acquire a 50% stake in the new venture. bluescope has a construction materials business with a focus on the fast-growing southeast asian market. the japanesemaker will provide the new firm with steel produced at its domestic plants. the steel will then be processed into building materials that will be sold in southeast asia and other countries. >> we'll contribute our technical experpiece and unique products. down the road, we hope to capture market share in building materials and home appliances. >>> the japanese government is planning to ask experts to analyze public opinions it has received on the nation's future dependence on nuclear power. the national pols minister suggested on monday that a panel of experts on opinion polling will be convened this week to analyze the responses. >> translator: we will listen to the opinion

. >>> you are looking live at rg steel where workers are going to protest today. what is at stake for the historic baltimore county metal. >>> and expanding gambling in maryland a big vote hours away at the statehouse. >> and you may donate that old junk but hang on a second, anbc2 news investigation shows you a -- abc2 news investigation shows you a quick scan and the soreies are ahead on this tuesday morning. thanks for joining us i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. let's get to the forecast for lynette charles. you are look at a lot of things this morning. >> exactly. we have a lot of things to look at. we have patchy fog out there. and we have rain to talk about. you can see that on maryland's most powerful radar. and look off towards the west it's sliding to the north and east right now. and the heaviest rainfall is falling around frederick county also carroll county this morning and we slide into some areas barnsville as we slide into montgomery county we see wet weather across the area. and this is sliding off around i-270 so we are going to be wor

that being said, we're united with our steel workers. we don't think this is over yet. >> reporter: now at this point it is a waiting game. rg steel was sold to one near pittsburgh and another near wheeling, west virginia. >> where did everyone go to the point for vacation. they went to ocean city. here we are on the -- as the boats are starting to come back. this is the third day. we'll check the results for the 11:00 news. here's wyatt now. >>> the radar right now, maryland's most powerful radar showing a couple showers mainly east but not enough to impact the big open at the beaches. cloud cover has been abundant and widespread from baltimore eastward and has been down here toward the yucatan peninsula of mexico. ernesto moving back over the waters and the southern gulf of mexico at the bay of campeche, could strengthen back into a lurk. yomp night we're talking 70s into the upper 80s. we'll talk about how things develop straight ahead. >>> how about this. we have an angry store owner. masked men armed with knives rushed into the conv

it requires that the stadium be built with 100% american steel, and the steel must be confined to northern minnesota. and if all goes well they will win a super bowl. revitalizing american manufacturing should be an urgent national priority. 55,000 factories have closed, which results in six money and jobs lost. factories don't often read open after capacity as they were but we do have hope. the u.s. now relies on force a partial everything from steel to batteries and critical high-tech components but to everyday medical supplies such as antibiotics and penicillin. the resilient risk would not have access to needed products. delayed delivery times and poor quality. i urged the democratic platform committee to examine a report titled preparing for the 21st century risks, revitalizing american manufacturing, respond and recover. i want to thank you for taking the time to listen to us today, and please do everything you can to bring the manufacturing base back to the united states instead of shipping everything overseas. >> bob, thank you so much and we appreciate the emphasis on manufacturin

they want to change it to steel.you have a steel penny instead, we're off the gold, silver and copper and now we're on zink and we can't afford zink penny so now they want to make them out of steel. by the time you pay for labor, it cost more to make a steel penny. this was a headline that came out that said, can we save the penny? i got to thinking, they don't understand monetary policy or they wouldn't be talking that way. the biggest question we will be forced to face is can we save the dollar? [applause]. bill passed not too long ago, you can guess i voted against it. that's that dodd-frank bill. in that bill, they gave more power to the federal reserve and they created a board of consumer financial protection bureau to protect all the consumers. they were given a task here a couple months ago. it was designed to make things more efficient. that's why this story will tell you why efficiency is not the answer to our problems. we don't want more efficient government, we want to get the government out of the busines

as hundreds of laid off steel workers from our area... packed into this bingo hall with a lot on theer mind... 1.16.50 "are we coming back to work? hopefully, we will be. and when..." when..."inside... they learned their health benefits will expire at the end of this month.they were given cobra options and government assistance programs.but there's one big question still up in the air... will the liquidator that bought sparrows point last week find another steel company to buy it... and put these ppople back to work. joe rosel, union president: 1.42.30 "i'll be happy to help them flip it and make some money, but to the right buyer." brock wilson: 1.26.58 "we're just in limbo. people got bills to pastill has to get them. he still needs them"y. my son's goong to get braces in two days and my insurance ends at the end of the month. he -3 the right buyer would be getting a plant with one of tte best blast furnaces in the country... according to the local steelworkers union. coming up next half hour... how they plan to use that to their benefi

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thousands of laid off steel workers looked for answers tonight about their future. future.paul gessler is streaming live from sparrows point, where r-g steel sold the mill to a liquidator.paul? a liquidator that union leaders, jenn, hope can sell the mill to another steel company.two thousand workers lost theii jobs here this summer. tonight, at a union meeting-- they learned their health benefits will expire at the end of the month.they were given cobra options and governmmnt assistance programs. hundreds of workkrs llned up around the block to get into the meeting.the next hope is: the furnace can be fired up soon-- and people can get back to work. joe rosel, union president: 1.37.48 "we're tough. we're in a tough business and we're tough people. we know how to survive. and, we'll survive this."brock wilson: 1.26.58 "we're just in limbo. people got bills to pay. my son's days and my insurance ends at the end of the month. he still has to get them. he still needs them" union president joe rosel says the blast furnace here at sparrows point is one of the top three i

is wrong with the oven building steel you will die. that has nothing to do with the bible. >> host: it you draw parallels between bill gates >> because henry reared been who created a new kind of metal was so competitive and disruptive the unholy alliance conspired to put him out of business the same way people could not compete with microsoft windows conspired to put to him out of business. do not tell yourself that was from a bureaucrat. they were paid off from silicon valley who could not compete. >> host: that is all list old taste of "i am john galt" today's heroic innovators building the world and the villianous parasites destroying it" >> this is the cover of toulon's newest book called price list. carrying the health care crisis. we are at freedomfest and dr. good men joins us now. talk about the recent supreme court decision what is your view? >> a wish the court had thrown out obamacare now we have to deal with the law as it is. even the supporters will want to make major changes. >> host: what do you want to see as rational

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steele's insightful analysis has been here tonight, mr. shrum, president obama isn't just painting this as bad for the middle class. he's showing how this is completely unserious as a means of deficit reduction, and he's doing a pretty effective job, no? >> i understand why michael isn't into the details of this. because i think if he got into the details of the romney plan, it would probably be as vulnerable and difficult as the details that are obviously hidden in those tax returns. secondly, there's a mythology here, by the way, which is if you cut taxes, capital gains taxes, marginal tax rates for the wealthy, how or another that's the marginal job creation. this is a lie, calling the wealthiest people in the country the job creators. under bill clinton, we had a slightly higher capital gains tax rate and we created 22 million jobs. the largest number of jobs creating in any eight-year period in american history. so why don't we go back to some kind of fundamental tax fairness, also try to raise some revenue by making the wealthy pay t

the majority of them are steel. the building i'm in it has been evaluated and it has compared well with -- >> is it a coul concrete buildi? >> it is right there. >> the concrete building on the west coast is third street, built just a couple of years back. >> modern concrete buildings we think are very good. but the buildings that were built before the mid 70s, when the codes changed, the buildings that are built out of concrete are a hazard maybe. >> 1920 to 1970, there is a class of buildings we're struggling with. in 1971 they built a hospital out of this. and a week before the hospital opened, they had the san fernando earthquake and the building collapsed. now, trust me, when you have a hogs collapse, you've got a lot of attention. and they banded in the next code cycle. >> so there is a class of high rise buildings that it's a potential hazard. it's not the downtown office buildings. it's these tall concrete high rise buildings and they have a problem in mexico city with that. >> when the when they do the ba,

the prospects for steel making here at spareso point dote look so good. mill was auctioned off for for $72 million. right now plan a is to find a new buyer and the judge handling rg steel's bankruptcy must approve the sale to new owners. meanwhile, former employees don't believe ten executives should receive their huge bonus because they didn't make a deal to keep the plant up and running. so once again, the former employees will be out here in just a few minutes from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. to make their voices heard reporting live in sparrows point sherrie johnson abc2 news. >>> another warning shot is fired at penn state university. the middle states commission on higher education put the university on warning and this is based on both the free report -- freeh report and penalties hand out by the school by the ncaa. the commission says it's rare to give division i school a warning. that doesn't jeopardize a school accreditation which it needs to maintain to receive federal funds. and be an ncaa member. the school need to submit a report to the commission by t

from 1999 to 2003, bain capital made profit from gst steel. bain lost mog but joe lost his job and insurance. his wife had a job but lost it a few years later along with her insurance. we have no idea if joe's wife would be alive if he kept his job at gst steel. but we do know this. we know how he feels. joe soptok is not stepping down from his opinion. he told cnn today, that's the way i feel. mitt romney is a very rich man. i don't think he has any concept as to how when you close a big company how it affects people, how it affects families and communities. you know, it affects everyone. we are not going to deny this worker, this american worker, joe soptok's opinion. voters should be able to make their own decision about mitt romney's business activities and what they mean if he becomes president of the united states. i believe mitt romney's business history cuts right to the heart of what he brings to the table economically to this country if he's president. the soptoks got stuck in the backwash of an economic model where the rich benefit

at the latest when it comes to the sale of the spare is point steel mill. will it go to a liquidator? >> we are watching this stuff out west. out west. there's a lot of >> up out of bankruptcy judge approved the sale of the sparrows point steel mill to a liquidator. it was sold for $72 million to help co industrials. the location was put up for auction in new york after the owner, r j steele, filed for bankruptcy in june. around 2000 employees were working for the plant when it shut down in may. big-name retailers like wal- mart, target, and best by teaming up to give customers away to pay with their smartphones. they created a company called merchant customer exchange, which is developing a mobile application that will be available for nearly any smartphone. it would compete with the google wallet payment app and other mobile applications. >> now your forecast with meteorologist john collins. >> nothing here. lingering rain over new england. approaching indianapolis now, thunderstorm activity. the site it is moving and a good rate, we have this big area of

. >>> and the future of about 2,000 laid off steel workers is being decided right now at the steel workers hall on dundalk avenue. because of rg steel selling out, there's a chance these 2,000 worker also not have health ben -- workers will not have health benefits in 11 days. bwi thur good marshal is closing one of its runways. it has been closed for most of the summer. the other major commercial run way will stay open. if you drove through downtown, all you had to do was put a smile on your face. light street is back open. two water mains were repaired and things are flowing again. back in july more than a 100-year-old water main was broke. the new pipes will reduce the future of water main breaks in the hart of baltimore. >>> from light street, let's go to ritchie highway where gino's will reopen. memories are already being served up. how about we vote the scammers out of office. why you need to be careful in this election year. >> i'm meteorologist mike masco. we'll talk about three systems that bears watching in the atlantic. we'll have more details coming up on abc2 news at 6:00. >>>

steel is the nation's fourth largest steel manufacturer, but saw bankruptcy protection in may. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with ava marie. >> good afternoon. we're looking at pleasant temperatures right now. has not hit 80 degrees yet in catonsville. randallstown and cockeysville are 77. 82 downtown at the inner harbor. the dew points and making all the difference. drier air is coming in from the north and west. dew points all the way down into the upper 60s downtown their mid-50s as we get into the lower the number, the drier the air. it will be comfortable enough to open the windows. mostly clear skies tonight, low humidity. down into the 60s downtown. a few of the suburbs may get 55 degrees. you may not need your air conditioner tonight. tomorrow we will see warm conditions. mid-80's with the afternoon. again, humidity stays low. was the sunny skies. -- mostly sunny skies. just a few puffy clouds out there. this is essentially the case all across the northeast. the cold front is pushing down into the carolinas. what a different story as we get into the gulf of mexic

she had a steel whole, a very well may steal all made of steel right here in pennsylvania. and the superstructure was not steal aluminum, the largest use aluminum up to that time. everything about the promise not, the decking of top was aluminum. so that allowed the ships to a gain a tremendous amount of weight. the engines were basically high-temperature, high-pressure turbines which were later used from the forestall class aircraft carrier. she was an incredibly powerful vessel built for speed. in many ways, the way i like to summer up is she combined the speed and maneuverability of a destroyer with the luxury and space of an ocean liner, something that had never been done before. >> the prestige. the fact that so much was declassified and why caught. >> well, kind of like steve jobs. terrified of other people stealing his ideas. he was also a very good project manager. the big picture guy. i want a ship to look like this. i wanted to be beautiful, have these expectations. then he was going to work with his engineers and basically tested and all the way to make sure they

a lot of apartment buildings. >> those are mostly steel framed buildings. in the 50's and 60's, they wanted to create open floor spaces and they went to concrete spaces and thought it was great until the san fernando earthquake and the earthquake came and the building disappeared. they said, oops and changed the code immediately. >> we look at it and say, it didn't do what we thought. the codes are rarely perspective. how can we make that happen? they wait for a catastrophe and then change it >> just to clarify. we don't have instrumentation to record the shaking and to do a computer simulation is difficult to do without the data. we only learn through events. not all the records we have are indicative of how every earthquake shaking event will be like. >> we have recently amended the code to have instruments in them so we can record and how much the earth has moved. that's terrific. not many existing buildings are instrumented. one the things we will look at, at the caps program is to retrofit them. we can look at other after earthquakes. it had similar ty

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in 1993, bain capital became the majority shareholder of gst steel. by 1995, bain added more than $100 million in debt to the company. mitt romney left to run the olympics in 1999 but remained ceo and chairman of bain. by 2001, gst steel declared bankruptcy. its plant in kansas city was closed. from 1993 to 2001, bain capital made at least $9 million in profit from gst steel. bain lost nothing. but joe lost his job and his insurance. joe's wife had a job, but she lost it a couple years later along with her insurance. now, we have no idea if joe's wife would be alive if joe had kept his job at gst steel. but we do know this. we know how joe feels. and joe is not backing down from his opinion. despite the criticism from the right wing. he told cnn today, that's the way i feel. mitt romney is a very rich man. i don't think he has any concept as to how when you close a big company, how it affects people. how it affects families and communities. you know, it affects everyone. we're not going to deny this worker, this american worker, joe, his opinion. vote

everyone knew that the rg steel plant was up for sale. now people are worried about the buyer. he paid $72 million for a plant that was close to a billion dollars. hillco specializes in acquisitions and dispositions. simple terms, a liquidatetor. >> that's not what we were looking for but we have

do you know mitt romney's bain capital did not go bankrupt along with gst steel.not even lose any money. they only put in $8 million. they got their $8 million back and they made $12 million profit on top and then made $4.5 million in consulting fees. they more than doubled their money, and they got their tax advantage all throughout when they had gst steel and the company goes under and they laugh, ha, ha, ha, too bad suckers at gst. we got paid. somebody else pays the taxes. we got paid and you got laid off. and when joe soptic has the nerve to complain about it and his wife got ill and he had no insurance, she decide of cancer. this is his business model. not just for marriott, not just when he was on the board but it's personnel life, switzerland switzerland, cayman islands, bermuda. this is what this guy does. he hides his money. cayman islands is not an aberration. it's how mitt romney does business. that's how he amassed all this wealth. people keep asking why did it do it? he was running for president golly gee. that's all he knows how to do. i'll bring in

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

bob shrum and michael steele weigh in on that next.nd president obama stressed the importance of education in las vegas. he did that today with another excellent speech. former nfl star warren sap discusses the impact of public education in his new book, and he will join me later in the show. what did it mean to him? share your thoughts on facebook and on twitter using #edshow. we're coming right back. - one serving of cheese is the size of four dice. one serving of cereal, a baseball. and one serving of fruit, a tennis ball. - you know, both parties agree. our kids can be healthier... the more you know. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." congressman todd akin should be the hero of the republican party. but they're pretending that he isn't. at least until the election is over in november. look, there is no doubt his fellow republicans will warmly embrace this guy if he wins. and he may be taking friendly fire right now, but he's just the kind of staunch conservative right-wing zealots are looking for. they want to guy who is not going