levis strauss born 185 years ago today the company announced it's grant supporting causes that strausssupported. edgewood center for children and families. the historian says it's a charity with a long history. >> in 1854 a year after 11 eyes strauss arrived in san francisco he gave his first donations to a local charity. $five to san francisco orphan asylum. today that institute is the edgewood center for children and families. >> they plan to give to a charity or cause important to the founder >> good for them. >> yes. >> still head tonight here on abc7 news at 6:00 our storm watch continue was a live report from the peninsula you're getting hit by rain along with everybody else. >> spencer will be here to show what's happening on live doppler seven hd. a lot of yellow tonight as you can see. >> and michael finney reports on at rest of the operators of an east bay food truck. [ sports announcer ] here's another one, alyson dudek. hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she does! [ male announcer ] with the u-verse wireless receiver, your

levis strauss born 185 years ago today the company announced it's grant supporting causes that straussrted. edgewood center for children and families. the historian says it's a charity with a long history. >> in 1854 a year after 11 eyes strauss arrived in san francisco he gave his first donations to a local charity. $five to san francisco orphan asylum. today that institute is the edgewood center for children and families. >> they plan to give to a charity or cause important to the founder >> good for them. >> yes. >> still head tonight here on abc7 news at 6:00 our storm watch continue was a live report from the peninsula you're getting hit by rain along with everybody else. >> spencer will be here to show what's happening on live doppler seven hd. a lot of yellow tonight as you can see. >> and michael finney reports on at rest of the operators of an east bay food truck. hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she does! [ male announcer ] with the u-verse wireless receiver, your tv goes where you take it, allowing inspiration to follow.

back in 1854, levi strauss donated $5,000 to the orphan asylum society.ildren and family. caring for children in need was a cause close to levi strauss' heart. >> it was his first donation as far as we know, certainly one of the earliest right after his arrival here in san francisco. it's really wonderfully symbolic because here we are on levi's birthday replicating one of his, if not his very first donation. >> tomorrow, the company plans to make a $15,000 donation to the edgewood center. >>> now at 6:00, caltrans admits the new bay bridge had its problems. the promise it is making to the public about the bridge in spite of that. >>> in a split second, she went from a healthy teenager to being confined to a wheelchair. the reason she refuses to call hearst a victim of bay area street violence. >>> and well-rehearsed and elaborate lies. thooefs are struck three times in one month. the story burglars are telling to gain access to bay area homes. >>> complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. >>> caltrans admits t

msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. at 6294 together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time a

msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all.tring orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are.♪ >> got had a choice this is the weeks event and i hope your rode for fun so get a pen and paper this is the weekly buzz. not sure what the side open valentine's day how about february 14th treat that special respond to a classical music just across from the square there will be free of charge for p

. >> jamie strauss, whose restrict -- whose district includes lengthy, said that they are taking it hard. >> our hearts go out to the families. we want to help the families and the school. >> some in the community say aat this should serve as wake-up call for the school in terms of how students treat each other. one mother says that despite the great reputation here, there are probably a surface. have twothat when you students die in two days, you have a problem. live at langley high school, abc 7 news. >> thank you. we got a message from d.c. fire chief kenneth l -- 10 ellerbe tonight. i man had a heart attack and died steps away from a fire house. the family is preparing a possible lawsuit. no one tried to save his life. they asked for help. there is a new development in the story. is still nothief talking about the specifics of the case. now that the initial reports have been turned in and they had interviewed everyone involved, he is finally about to break his silence. 10 days in a case made national headlines. the d.c. fire chief has been mia until now. he tells us that he did not w

. >> contributing sports writer for the "new york times" ben strauss was there for that media sessionw. you know what? put some of this video up. we all watched this. he seemed very relaxed, cracked a few jokes. seemed ready for this moment. you were there. what was that room like? >> i think you're spot on. he was cool. he was confident. he was relaxed. somebody that was, you know, evidently very comfortable in his own skin, very comfortable with his decision to, you know, reveal his sexual orientation, and maybe the room wasn't as cool as he was, you know. this was sort of the marquise event of the nfl combine this weekend and he had, you know, banks of tv cameras and reporters, six and seven deep trying to jostle and get access to michael sam. with the media circus around him he was very cool. >> list of let's listen to one more thing. >> everyone can be normal around me if they wanted to. we joke around that's because it's a brotherhood, it's a family, so we can say things to each other, no harm. we don't draw blood. all fun and games. i didn't have doubts. i wanted to get my stor

"usa today" small business columnist steve strauss advises employees today like freedom, interestingk, and the ability to learn and hone new skills. give them that. and oklahoma retailer and rancher becky mccray says no matter how small your town you can grow a big business. >>> the number of potential customers accessing your site from their phones is growing. is your business making a good first impression? if you're not sure, check out our website of the week. businessapps.com helps small companies like you design and customize your own app and include features like gps, sharing options, and reservations. even without any technology it's a quick click and drag to customize the items you want. thanks so much for joining me today. if you want to learn more about any of our segments, just visit our website. openforum.com/yourbusiness. you'll also find some web exclusive pieces with a lot more advice to help your small business grow. you can also follow us on twitter. it's @msnbc yourbis. next week we introduce a bridal search engine that uses interns as are more than just affordable

levi strauss worked with farmers to come up with new, less-water sbernsive ways to get the cotton make their denim. caring, which owns gucci they're working on sustainable ways to bring the product to market and working with the suppliers to get the actual supplies in the clothing to make it more sustainable. whether it's going crazy or normal, they can deal with it and make the product and not be up in the air. are doing the same thing.ing the same >> what's the single most important thing business and government and all of us can do together? >> first of all, talk about it, and then really look at the opportunities presented to us to use energy smarter, to grow our food smarter, to treat our water resources with great care and converse. across the board, come together and stop treating it like a partisan issue. it isn't. work on. >> thank you very much. up next, the roundtable takes on the week's politics, frothe strike to the papers and the collapse of the syrian peace talks. and kevin spacey is here live. we're back in just two minutes. [ male announcer ] we all think about life in

strauss is nothing special about that today got nothing to do with the warming the frozen relationship between songs and a long time between the command to cuisine although the ducks. it helps to speed up investigations can be secured to two tries its people has as the pair has been at utar on a console for as long as it didn't strike has ended. it just as it has been fulfilled both the countries which i mentioned the son of former one last question for before and we would let you go last week it was in the news the words of the trial of fraud. read on carriage each of the boston certainly retain his age. and they were is a lot of trees are occasions when the former bosnian serb general draco mladic was cross examined by carriage each. it really proved to let down for a lot of those were following a path that trial. do you fear when you start a trial like this one. if it could be a letdown that we won't get the truth the idea out of this trial. as a severe depression. well concealed be easier to answer that once the trial is over in six or eight weeks to know we we will have another ex

example, on her own and so mastered the language that she actually translated -- i think it was either strauss or feuerbach or perhaps both of them who were very, very difficult german theologians and philosophers of the 19th century. she had views about a very great many things, and she had a very interesting life. she was very much an english moralist, for example, but she happened to live a life that was rather unconventional from any victorian point of view. she lived with a man with whom she was not married, for example. she wasn't married to him for the very simple reason that he could not get married -- he couldn't get divorced from his wife and some modern feminists regard this as a great blow for women's liberation, this woman who dared flout the conventions of her time and so on, but that's not the way it was at all. she didn't want to flout those conventions. she had no choice. she would have dearly loved to have been married to george lewes but she couldn't, and so she reproduced in her life the kind of domesticity, a kind of fidelity and loyalty and so on that she would have had,

listen to strauss, they have a billion dollars in cash. people say they have very little cash.think companies are doing well and badly, very hard right here. in particular, we need more data from the united states that we can trust. i think we'll not get that till friday. >> jim, i agree with you. the numbers we've seen to this point, the ism number yesterday, a lot of that did have weather in it. if the january jobs number on friday is a weak number, though, will the markets be willing to give it a pass for weather or are all bets off at this point? >> i don't think so. if you have two bad numbers, the history of the employment number in the last seven years and two bad numbers are a definitive slowdown. that would be another leg down if we did have a bad number. >> the question becomes beyond that friday jobs number what are the other important data points we should be watching and waiting for? >> look it. we'll have a big storm tonight and this weekend. the february data's going to be skewed, too. >> a mess, too. >> if you listen to mike jackson and you see the inventories g

this is the 185th anniversary of the birth of levi strauss. found fame as the maker of blue jeans. every year to celebrate his birth, the company opens up its arkyes -- archives so they can see how far it's come for making clothes for miners. >>> a bay bridge mini makeover. the surprising twist of how one tree about to be cut down that's raking in a lot of cash. >>> a major airlines has plans to award its customers in a brand-new way. the change coming to delta airlines. >>> it is going to be a little slower out there. we haven't had a lot of crashes. but we've had a lot he of slow traffic. this is a look at the richmond/san rafael approach. >>> pretty good line forming from union city, hayward, fremont south towards the san jose/santa clara valley. also offshore there's good development. might lead to thunderstorms later. >>> 8:15. new this morning, the u.s. recovered $4 billion last year through healthcare fraud prevention. that's according to a new report released this morning. the report says the department of justice together with the hea

these factories closed up, the ones that make towels and levi strauss.ose down and went to mexico and it's a conservative estimate of 700,000 great i think it is more in the millions of jobs that were lost. about thesear a lot manufacturing towns that were impacted by nafta. guest: they were impacted. if you go back to the industrial revolution, there were a lot of people who were spinners of cloth and the judgment to textile mills. ins is how you get progress any country, you increase productivity and put the production where costs are lowest and so forth. i don't disagree with what the caller is saying. what i do think he does not reflect our the jobs the other sectors which are created and it's not just manufacturing jobs. the talk is manufacturing, manufacturing, manufacturing. we are a service economy. there are a lot of high paid, well paid service jobs that people don't think about but are created and supported by trade agreements. those are researchers in places like north carolina. you can go up to microsoft. they sell their stuff around the wor

>> well, the problem with the nfl is that it's kind of -- it's grabbing at strauss.ield and this is what i mean. we're focused on richy incognito caught on tape using the nrn word. the nfl is predominantly african-american and it's the african-american players using the word on field. how will you use that nuance. >> that's a strong point. >> i was going to say also the issue of the comfort level of the referees. how comfortable would a white referee be in punishing a black player for using the n-word. how comfortable will black referees. >> you have your color politics. this could decide a game a game that's all about intimidation and they say the ugly things all day long. they manufacture them to get an effect. the question comes down is this pc run amuck where we're focused on what you say as opposed to do. we won't change culture we'll just change you for lip service. >> it is political correctness. sometimes that means don't be a racist. i think it's fine -- >> thank you. >> most of the guys in the league are black. are they racist. >> it's a fraught issue. they

. >> strauss said we got a billion in cash, that's half the market cap, but he did not guide aggressivelyfore, everybody hates him. >> furx. >> there's an irritable bowel syndrome drug and this is a terrible disease and they apparently have good news this is a little bit too speculative for me, like the pop stocks i'm studying. you go to be a little careful. >> you were doing a lot of home work on that last night. >> i have to because the pot stocks are up every day. i'm not a penny stock guy, but companies are 400, 500, $600 billion that are interesting. >> tonight? >> sandy cutler, let's find out. i know the tax rate was lower and people were disappointed, it will still earn five bucks a share. you get it to 60 $? i don't think so. the ag forward guidance i didn't care for, very inexpensive stock. this is a company that is going to do blackberry, i mean, snapchat that you can't maintain if you are at the justice department, you need legislation to stop them. >> we'll see you tonight, 6:00 and 11:00. >> and at barnes & noble. >> that's right. capital to make it happen? without the thinki