starting with ak steel. shares of the ohio based steel manufacturer tumble today after the company warned of a first quarter loss as shipments fell 14%. why? a flood of steel imports. in january, imports were 33% higher than a year ago according to the american iron and steel institute and finished steel products from south korea, turkey japan, and brazil grew the most. analysts say imports soar to record levels adding to a supply glut in the domestic market. >> if we look at finished steel imports as a percentage of supply last year, that number was about 28%. that number in 2013 was about 23% which is normal. we look at a range of 20% to 25% as something we typically would see because we are still short in this country but what's alarming year-to-date that percentage has gone to 30% to 35%. a thousand basis stronger gain. >> reporter: made imports look cheaper in turn pushing u.s. prices lower with the midwestern hot coal oil index jumped since the start of 2015. that means ak steel isn't alone. two other

structural steel fabrication continues. one of the important pieces is the light column we will be getting closer as the erection goes across first street and there are the cast nodes being welded together up in vallejo. as of the end of last week we were shipped 275 and so just a very few left to ship. they all have been cast. they're receiving the final machining and there is a picture of one of the largest cast nodes on the project getting ready to ship. those are 20 tons. on the bus ramp the work is we're above the ground on the viaduct poring the first column and getting ready to first the first stage of the pylon for the cable state bridge and you will see steel going across first street. we will see more columns pored on the bus ramps and the standard walls and rebracing, much of what you have seen previously going forward for the next 90 days. we will see the start of the [inaudible] trades and with the structural steel as they follow that area. great numbers in addition to what paul brought up is good participation

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. i was at the emergency room. it took several blood tests and i remember picking up the blood result and i looked for hiv, 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 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 answer that same question? >> so you're denying this whole thing ever took place? >> i'm denying i had anything to do with it. >> was this d.a. stabbed? >> according to court documents and papers. >> what w

by the year 1900 we were a nation of steel.t deposits of iron and coal fed the furnaces of pittsburgh. immigrants poured in from europe to work in the steel mills part of an industrial miracle that was creating a better life. rapid productivity growth led to an improving standard of living. the miracle was not confined to the steel industry. american workers were the most productive in the world. what caused this phenomenal explosion of productivity? economist edward denison singles out one factor paramount. thmost important is advances in knowledge of how to produce at low cost. this includes technological knowledge and what you'd call managerial knowledge how to run a business and organize it. actually, over a long period like 1929-1982 this accounts for almost 2/3 of the total increase. in agriculture advances in knowledge led to new seeds machinery, and chemicals and more crops from fewer workers. displaced farm workers migrated to the cities to more productive jobs in factories and steel mills of industrial america. throug

so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,. >> it sfgov ready? sfgovtv we're starting the meeting in a couple of minutes

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here is the structural steel activity. if you drive by you will notice there is a big change from grid line 10-15 and we are welding it everyday now directing towards first street. it's a pretty good graphic there on the on going structural activities. the eastern zone is all about concrete still. you can see some activity here. a lot of activity with form work with concrete and rebar. that will continue on like we said right through the second quarter to get all the concrete work done here in the eastern end of the frame box. here is a fabrication shot visit we did last week and you can see some of the size of the cast nodes that we are building here. this is the actual light column. here is a statistics on the cast nodes, 104 are shipped a lot are being erected. we are at 84 percent and continuing on everyday with the casting effectively done. now it's machining and processing. the bus ramp status here, we've done a lot of underground work since we began last fall. we are actually for this period we now have 12 of the be

you see those stainless steel vertical risers?they are slept over the joints so you don't see the corners of the limestone. the spandrels, it spans the building from the top of the window to the ultimate of the window above. -- to the bottom of the window above. the spandrels are made of prefabricated aluminum simply slapped into place. the window frames cover up other areas, such as the bottom and tops of spandrels, and these windows are flush with the building, which is a hallmark of modernism. they did not do it because they were modernists. they did it because it was economic, cheap. they also avoided the waffle iron look, which they didn't want. the architects were modernists not in that they believe so much in what bauhaus was preaching, they were trained at the beaux art. if the beaux art preached anything, it was that more is not enough. they liked decoration. they thought it was important. they slapped decoration on willy-nilly. only, it is very subtly done. stainless steel mullions have to end somewhere. fan-like motifs.

he placed the body into a steel drum from work. to make sure it would sink to the bottom of the ocean, he weighted it with plastic pellets. but he miscalculated the weight of the drum after he sealed it. at 350 pounds, it was much too heavy to carry onto his boat. his only alternative was to push it into a crawl space in his home, and there it remained undisturbed through numerous owners for 34 years. and if trash collectors hadn't refused to pick up the drum, the secret of howard elkins and reyna angelica marroquin might never have been discovered. oscar corral covered the story for "news day." he flew down to el salvador to try to find reyna's family. in san martin, a small village, outside san salvador, he found reyna's 95-year-old mother. >> she came out to the front of the house where there's a porch. i said to her, i'm a reporter from "news day" new york. i told her police had discovered a woman who had been murdered 30 years ago. and when she saw her daughter's picture, she almost fainted. she had to lean on someone who was

so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, test. >> planning commission regular hearing for hearing for march 5, 2015, i'd like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. devices. and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do

it is a skeleton of steel. in the mid-19th century structures started going up that were proto-skyscrapers. this was the fire watchtower in not morris park. imagine if you put bricks around this structure. you'd have a building. and the bricks would not have to be supporting the floors. when you look in the construction of the top of the empire state building. you will notice a great similarity between it and the fire watch tyra and morris park -- watchtower in morris park. if you had not put brick but glass, you'd have gotten the crystal palace. the original was in london. a glass framed building. here we are at the 1850's on 6th avenue. with the crystal palace. if you ghahad taken the same notion and put huge windows you'd have gotten the building on broadway in broome street. the facade is doing nothing to support the structure of the building, it is just sitting there. the advantage of cast iron buildings was the great expenses of windows which allowed natural light to enter workspaces. i keep pressing butt

steel and ak steel. those to weaker prices coming out of our big steel producers, like china and russia, and you get a lot of that weakness tyler, for that not so favorable outlook. steel certainly a focus for a lot of investors. >> all right. thank you very much. >>> it is the fastest growing smartphone market in asia, and that means every telecom player is trying to get in. our seema is live in barcelona, spain. take it away seema. >> tyler, consider this. there are roughly two billion people around the world that own a smartphone. that number is expected to double. micromax is dominating the player, and we spoke to the ceo, excuse me, the chairman about the growth out there saying their big focus is the millenials and their love for indian film stars and cricket. listen in. >> we found three honors. bollywood, music, sports. we've invested relentlessly behind these three. >> now, bollywood and cricket, if anyone knows india, will have a massive appeal to india's younger audience, and micromax from day

so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,. >> hi i'm brandon the mist at sfpuc my role to support the employees between our yosemite location to san francisco and the typical things we deal with are puc recommended and network relate an telecom i like my role it varies day to day it is a unique challenge from providing in that user conclusions i solutions on their computer or a the president on a task they're trying to complete the training is very important there are many things to stay up to date my manager has helped me making sure any skills are up to date with the skilled in my field

so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, (clapping.) >> well, everyone this is a great time today to raise our rich flag in celebration i want to say thank you to the consul general granite for not only being here but part of the great celebration between san francisco and ireland i obviously am thrilled to have our core sister city and remember the floeshz time i had being or being think grand mary in the city that's where i met the people wonderful people and again, thank you to mark naerl for his leadership in being the rock on our board of supervisors so with that, i'll be ready to ra

so they don't exist in the steel plant is closed we have good news coming in a parking lot where the gm plant used to be now is a distributorship. it is terrific but maybe they will pay one half for one-third of the general motors plant so not with the benefits were the paper that could support some of the all-time factory jobs usually they're not here or ashley is the amazon to it, economy. so wasn't that we had no jobs could pose a are largely gone. i apologize for that i got it misstep but does it change when it comes to economic matters or community matters? >> change is inevitable. we cannot go back to the factory era and we shouldn't. we need to produce more efficiently. but what you do with a large group of people who used to take those jobs and we would support a family life? i am not too nostalgic but somoza family louis-based but nothing is still. we don't have a way to do what we use to do. so lets not try to go back to the past but how do we integrate then for those that cannot fit the way they used to. unless we can solve that we will have a lot of people that just canno

so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, a - >> first of all, let me begin by saying what a wonderful city i'm so luke for the mayor of a great city like san francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another internal revenue magnify this great city if we're ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the commu

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which with a nine-inch-thick steel wall, right. but those 1,400 shells, and those dozen steel bottles, the first of which they destroyed today, those are only a tiny proportion of what we've got on hand. and what they have to destroy at pueblo. there are 780,000 mustard bombs at pueblo, colorado, that we have got to destroy. 780,000. and other than those 1,400, all the rest will be destroyed by something else that you own as a u.s. taxpayer. it cost about $5 billion to build it. $5 billion of your dollars. it is basically a massive automated robotic anti-factory. some humans will have to be involved in the operation of this thing. but mostly, it's going to be robots in a $5 billion super complicated isolated machine that we have built to take these 50-year-old chemical experiment, decaying horror show chemical weapon bombs, take them apart very delicately one by one, remove the mustard agent, mix it with water, and then take the toxic mustard agent goo, seed it, literally seed it to the world's most terrifying bacteria. which like

steel blamed, quote, unfairly traded imports meaning a flood of imported steel from china. used to be cheap steel from japan, now china. a.k. steel expects a 14% drop in shipments for the quarter. >>> is the faa softening stance on commercial drone use? federal regulators have given amazon the green light to begin testing delivery drones. the company has a laundry list of rules they must obey and will be years, if ever, before we see drones landing on the front stoop like this guy's or in the driveway. but it is a step in the right direction if you're amazon, a company facing way bigger charges than amazon is one that allows you to operate drones using your brainpower. well, the company has not received faa approval, it is charging ahead nonetheless. ricardo mendes co-owner and ceo of tekever is willing to make it happen. the first question is why trust one's brain over a traditional hands-on joystick approach? >> essentially, you'll be dealing directly with the technology. so we are just removing all the complex interfaces that usually you have between yourself and the mac

ak steel and u.s. steel are cut to neutral. they are no longer buys.ll be altered because of the strong u.s. dollar. you've got lower freight rates and lower raw material prices. those are down 1% in the early going. we are awaiting economic data in about five minutes. we are looking for numbers at 9:45 a.m. >> the top three are shaking off freezing temperatures last month. it crushed sales. chrysler, ford, gm reported the misses. sergio marchionne is still confident sales will climb even if the fed raise rates in the coming months. this is what he said. the environment is strong enough that i think it will withstand even a rate hike. it's like dreamland. we are joined i keith not in in detroit. is this some wishful thinking? >> we are headed for another good year of auto sales. there was a heck up last month. it was weather related. it was tough in the northeast in particular, a tough weather month with record low temperatures and record snowfall. that hurt auto sales. >> i thought these were going to be easy this month. >> we had a horrible winter la

steel business.re's the etf that tracks steel stocks down 10% so far this year while the dollar surged 8%. >>> morgan brennan is here with more on the state of the steel stocks. >> i think that chart says it all when you talk about american steel companies. really on the front lines of the so-called currency war. so to see what i'm talking about look at another chart. this is shares of ak steel to see what i mean. that stock's down about 6% so far today after the company warned of a bigger than expected first quarter loss. that's really thanks to a big drop in shipments. why? well a flood of steel imports. in january, imports were 33% higher than a year ago. record levels. that's according to the american iron and steel institute with south korea, turkey japan and brazil all posting the biggest increases for finished products. see it there. aks isn't alone. that's an two other u.s. steelmakers also guided lower this week. new core and steel dynamics blaming imports leading to a supply glut wushs u.s.

kobe steel launched a special in-house unit for multimaterials last year. it's studying how to weld steel and aluminum by adjusting the temperature and length of welding time. researchers hope to make a product available next year. it's after quality and safety checks in april. a kobe steel official says the company wants to advance its technology to create the lighter vehicles demanded by carmakers. >>> well the internet has made it possible to live and work just about anywhere. people in rural japan are using crowd sourcing to run successful businesses. >> reporter: takizawa city is 500 kilometers north of tokyo. this man has returned to the city after working for a big i.t. company in tokyo. ito set up his own i.t. firm last year. the company develops software such as applications for smartphones. with this app, the user can scan a product's bar code and instantly compare prices between different online stores. ito wins projects like this from companies in tokyo and elsewhere through crowd sourcing. here's how it works. a company that needs a job done pu

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if you're producing steel, think about where that steel goes. cars, trucks. okay?ll of those companies they pay less for that steel they have expanding gross margins. in the end though when the dollar stops going higher and it will you'll see estimate raises across the board from the big corporate consumers of the commodities, meaning just about every single manufacturer out there. kimberly-clark proctor and gamble and coca-cola, and how do you think this commodity collapse makes the fed feel? you can say that janet yellen is soft on inflation. i heard that all day after she didn't raise rates yesterday. i mean target just started paying its workers an astounding $9 an hour. but most of my investing life the fed has had to raise rates to the kind of commodity inflation i described. so what's the point of a rate hike if commodities are cooling down on their own? so yes, i am telling you don't sweat the commodity program. don't worry about the declining commodity prices. in fact, my bottom line is that the lower commodities go, the better the profits for all who buy

michael steele with us here on the program. stay with us. >>> hillary clinton, the other story dominating the headlines. she stands by the fact she hasn't broken any laws. the state department is reviewing over 55,000 e-mails from hillary clinton. there could be a problem here. a state department source told "the washington post" clinton using personal e-mail did not break the rules but the review could show personal e-mails that should be on a secure system. there's a lot to unpack here. there's no way to know if clinton broke any rules until this review is complete. this is what makes it a story. the state department has to cover themselves on this. regardless of all this stuff that's going on the republicans are in the attack mode. they immediately came down with that nasty case of benghazi fever. >> despite some attacks, the revelation secretary clinton uses personal e-mail accounts lays that claim bare. >> house republicans are issued subpoenas subpoenas. republican presidential hopefuls are throwing stones out of a glass

all things first round of the tournament going to take place behind me in the steel city. don't have a ticket? no problem. stay tuned. [ female announcer ] business travel isn't just about the going. it's also about the going home. and being connected all along the way. whether you're working or recharging do business travel on your terms. acela. take off. >>> it's one of the most action-packed days on the sports calendar. >> yes, it is. it's tournament time. the ncaa men's basketball tournament gets underway with a full slate of games. but the match-up people in our area will be focusing on involves two teams from our region. nbc 10's keith jones is live for us in pittsburgh with more. good morning, keith. >> good morning, guys. it's a pennsylvania battle. we're talking villanova from the main line in philadelphia. and lafayette, it's going to go downright behind me here. this is the consol energy center. it's usually reserved for the pittsburgh penguins. we don't care very much for them, but tens of thousands of fans apparently do care about this match-up and the steel c

washington which is south of the steel city.s originally used by steel workers to get to and from work. and once the steel industry fell apart decades ago, the includes have remained in motions a tourist attraction. one of the many things fans are doing. villanova fans, lafayette fans. behind the scenes path continues at about 6:35 hotels here are almost booked up and as you alluded to it's attracting many fans from the delaware valley. and apparently even if you're a st. joe's or temple owl fan. we've seen them all so far in pittsburgh. nbc 10 news. >> you mentioned st. joe's and all of the other schools. a great basketball history here. the head coach at lafayette, he's good friends with jay wright, the villanova coach. he's a villanova alum. that relationship is going to make it i think, tough with these guys to face-off against each other tonight. >> reporter: no question about it. i talked to some of the villanova coaches yesterday. they mentioned that jay wright tested the coach from lafayette who was a former villanova ba

with me is alix steel and sam grobart.citing, but not as exciting i feel, as a normal apple product in production. sam: we already knew about this. matt: i just saw that it will cost between $349 and $10,000. alix steel: i did note would be $10,000. sam: high estimate. matt: using almost 31,000 worth of gold, that is still the price. sam: because it is professional athletes. alix: and the chinese. metrolink i heard you tell -- matt: i heard you tell someone that 31 grams of gold will go -- will go into the watch. alix: no, one ounce of gold. either way, you are looking at about 33 tons if you produce let's say, a million a month. that is not that much gold in the scheme of things. matt: $10,000, it's unlikely that someone is going to -- sam: it is a big status purchase and i think they are only exact -- expecting a few people to go after that. but the range of prices from $350 up to $10,000, i cannot think of another product that has such a wide range of msrp. matt: on drugs, maybe. alix: when i was scouring the world abou

. >> representative victoria steele, who is a state representative in arizona, told her own story but then she wrote in "cosmopolitan" that women shouldn't have to tell their deeply personally stories. we should not be made to bare that part of our lives in a public way to be able to access legal, medical care. for me dr. parker this is what i am wondering in how it may actually impact the relationship between clinicians and their patients in those moments. if there is a stigma around a medical procedure, it might actually make it more difficult for women to even be honest with their physicians in private spaces about what's happening. >> absolutely. the shame and marginalization has proven to be a far more effective tool than the legislation. so there are multiple planes on which we have to address -- a striking parallel would be if the issue is about health and safety when it comes to a

amy: earlier this month, another lawmaker in arizona, state representative victoria steele disclosed her experience with child sexual abuse during a debate over another anti-choice

widow of a train engineer says she never expected anything like this to happen. 62-year-old glen steele died yesterday several days after he was injured in a train crash in ventura county. investigators say it appears steele did everything he could to prevent the metrolink train from crashing in ventura county >> he was a good dad, a real hard worker. anytime they needed anybody extra he always worked for 'em. >> the driver of the pickup could face more serious charges now that steele has died. >>> oakland police searching for a suspect in the shooting death of a man outside his home. 21-year-old marcus west was on his way to work when he was shot yesterday morning near nolan park. >> i saw his body, covered him up with a blanket and put a towel over his head and saw him take his last breath. i prayed with him. >> despite the mur, new maybe libby schaaf says she is certain that a program called "cease-fire" will work in oakland an outreach andy version program that she says has shown consistent results in other cities. >>> san franciscans are happy with th state of the city but feel the

widow of a train engineer says she never expected any anything like this to happen. 62-year-old glen steele died yesterday after being injured in a train crash. it appears he did everything he could to prevent the metrolink commuter train from striking a pickup on the tracks. >> he's a good dad, real hard worker. anytime they needed anybody extra, he always worked for 'em. >> the driver of the pickup could face more serious charges now that steele has died. >>> 72 passengers have reached settlements with asiana airlines after that flight that crashed at sfo in 2013 in the summer. they sued the airline boeing on personal injury claims. the amount of money they are getting isn't released. dozens of cases are pending. three people died and 200 were injured when the boeing 777 crashed at sfo in 2013. >>> high school teachers in the san francisco diocese are taking a stand against the archbishop. 80% of teachers and staff from the schools have signed a statement rejecting the new additions to the teacher handbook. archbishop salvatore cordileone is adding clauses telling staff to reject adultery

amy: earlier this month, another lawmaker in arizona, state representative victoria steele disclosed her experience with child sexual abuse during a debate over another anti-choice bill. the arizona bill passed and is in the hands of republican governor doug ducey. it bans abortion coverage in health plans purchased through the obamacare exchange, and requires doctors to tell women they can potentially reverse a drug-induced abortion, despite a lack of evidence this is possible. monsanto has agreed to pay a fine for failing to report hundreds of uncontrolled releases of toxic chemicals at a plant in idaho. monsanto will pay $600,000, a tiny fraction of the more than $240 million in profits from the last quarter alone. meanwhile, footage has emerged of a lobbyist claiming monsanto's roundup weedkiller is safe to drink, but then refusing to drink it. pat moore, a former greenpeace activist turned corporate lobbyist, made the remarks in an interview for a documentary on french tv.