top and bottom third and bolted against a stud not just dry wall it has to hit the stud. this is what to look for. the top of the shelves. yeah. when the earthquake hit it moves side sways. a lot of the time filing cabinets, they open the shelf, if you do that it will fall lo it or balance the weight out. computers. notice this new computer, here. [laughter]. >> save yourself a lot of money by strapping it down. putting velcro on it so it doesn't fall off. tip it over all the stuff will fall off. to be properly say it should be 50 feet away from the window. how many people have 30 foot bedrooms? the best thing to do [inaudible] it will break like a car windshield it shatters and staying together. or close the drapes so if it breaks it will shatter on the drapes and it will fall to the ground. multiple pair of slippers under your bed. most of us get out of bed at night time and close our eyes, you know where it is. in a disaster you might have glass on the carpet or floor. if you get out any start walking you will get cut. how about this? kitchen. the most dangerous place

see how these studs are starting to fold on each other? if this whole thing fell over, the studs would be connected to each other. this is an example of the racking. obvious example of racking here; right? if you walk into this building, you are going to say this is heavily damaged. easy. large cracks. again, you want to look around the doors and the foundation. here right at the doors because, remember, the soft structure is the bottom structure. that's going to move the most. then right around the doors are structural members of the house. that's where you are going to find a lot of the damage. this one -- but look at all the doorways again. this building, again, here in the marina. somebody wrote something on there. if you look really close it says, search. somebody wrote that there because maybe they thought somebody was inside, they went inside. we use a different method now. it's in your book if you did your homework. otherwise i'll show you later in the lecture. paint lines are another indicator of how damaged buildings are. if you

top and bottom third and bolted against a stud not just dry wall it has to hit the stud. this is what to look for. the top of the shelves. yeah. when the earthquake hit it moves side sways. a lot of the time filing cabinets, they open the shelf, if you do that it will fall over. lock it or balance the weight out. computers. notice this new computer, here. [laughter]. >> save yourself a lot of money by strapping it down. putting velcro on it so it doesn't fall off. tip it over all the stuff will fall off. to be properly say it should be 50 feet away from the window. how many people have 30 foot bedrooms? the best thing to do [inaudible] it will break like a car windshield it shatters and staying together. or close the drapes so f

president obama played host to chinese president hu jintao at a star-studded state dinner last night. throughout the day talks between the two nations touched on everything between human rights to chinese currency and on a less controversial note china's decision to extend its loan of two giant pandas to the washington national zoo for another five years. nbc's kristen dahlgren reports. >> reporter: at the state dinner honoring chinese president hu jintao the white house was full of fanfare. >> to our people, the citizens of the people's republic of china and the united states of america. >> reporter: the chinese leader honored by president obama in a room flush with star power from former presidents to celebrities like barbra streisand and jackie chan. >> i take a photo. >> reporter: but the state visit was also a delicate dance between two nations who don't always agree. earlier in the day, president obama pushed president hu on human rights. >> we have some core views as americans about the universality of certain rights. >> reporter: the chinese leader was candid. >> reporter: the

in sports, last night a star-studded crowd in new york may have come to see the heat's lebron james,but as an added bonus, they got to see the knicks win. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. on wednesday, amare stoudamire told reporters that no one is afraid of the miami heat, and last night, the knicks proved it. to madison square garden. dwyane wade wore glasses to help with his recent migraines. miami upped the entire game until the fourth. galanari caught fire down the stretch in a pair of three-pointers to give the heat the lead. mario chalmers for the tie and that's not going to get it done. knicks rally to beat the heat, 93-88. >>> golf tiger woods made a debut at the pine. if this shot on 12 is any indication of how tiger will fare this season, he's going to do pretty well. he's dropped the approach a couple of feet from the pin. tapped in for bird and finished with a round of 69. tielg tiger is out five of the lead. >>> in the aussie open, federer lost to novak djokovic. it's the herred time since 2003 that federer eliz

captain moves samples of stud up a planet wide controversy. he discovered the trash voted into. trash from the american continent is sucked into the trash for to exploit spidery mean currents of the mill specific joining the trench coming from asia. some of the islands and beaches of one are in the direct line of this massive plastic. don't compel a girl is the victim of throughways from all the countries the boat of the pacific . we began cleaning this this coastline here. in two thousand and three and since that time we've collected over ninety tons of trash just off this few miles of coastline. the trash drifts with a major conference spiraling round for at least ten years and finally ending up as a stagnant mass in a central whose sons is still unknown. charles mauls team has established an operating procedure. samples are brought back to land to be studied. expedition after expedition the extent of the problem is revealed more clearly. six hundred and seventy one fish that we collected of six different species over thirty five percent of them had at least one piece of plast

champions of fans speeding some of the current past european tour winners in the process star studded fields with winners of a number of tournaments from various years of participation casey though successfully navigating that colin montgomerie design course battling it out with peter hudson miguel and gail kim is until the end of playoffs seemed imminent but not for par in the giving man his eleventh career european trip to the single stroke around three hundred also out of to become. left the is on the right track meanwhile over at the torrey pines golf course phil mickelson sharing a one shot lead with fellow american bill haas after three rounds of play at the farmers insurance open tiger woods hasn't lost that this course in seven years but cementing that run will be problematic tiger pulling some eight strokes behind during the. bigots and played it somewhat safe on the date but his sixty eight was good enough to tie us in chop house and self healing pushing his one shot lead on the final hole to tie with lefty for the day bubba watson the hunter my closest challenger sitting a

there is also a very provocative stud they came out of texas that coal burning plants which spew out mercury latent pollution, if you did an overlay of where the plants and were where the prevalence or a spike in autism occurred, it was in proximity to those plants. it's provocative. it's suggestive, not conclusive but it raises the bar that there may be or red flags, a number of triggers. and mercury at predisposition, a gene problem, unborn children may have some early indicators that they are going to be autistic. so we need to be looking earlier with the hopes of mitigating the early onset or the manifest station of this developmental disorder and earliest prevention, vigorous early prevention using best practiceos teaching can help get that child to a higher functioning level and there is a tremendous amount of research going to there now. i have a bill that would focus more resources so that more parents could get their children to a higher functioning level quicker through early intervention. >> so that early intervention can stall or it can decrease the impact of the onset of

ithe stud-less portion of the shaq is what made it an earthquake shack. the heater access, pg&e has gone in there and lit the pilot, so i do not know why people keep saying the heater is not accessible. the greenest way is to keep the building as it is out -- as-is. the energy to keep a the way it is it is less than would be required to rebuild the building. thank you. president olague: thank you. product sponsor, two minutes. >> it was submitted to the planning department more than three months. regarding the tree, in the report its state it it was farmers insurance, and it was a condition of the house. that is part of the package that was submitted. if you guys would love to come down and check out the shack, we are more than happy to do that, not to mention there is mold, plumbing, electrical, you name it, all kinds of issues. so i hope that all the commissioners will review carefully, all the worke that te team did and the planning department did. bank. president olague: thank you. public hearing is closed. commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i wa

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make sure the shelf is screwed into the wall if it's screwed into a stud it will not tip over. when you go home look at your hazards. get everything in a box. there is no correct spot to put it. some people get a can and put it in their yard. it's up to you. there is no correct spot it's where everybody in your family knows where it is. if you are not home and a disaster hits who the find it. the whole family gets involved you, yourself, family members, kids, let them know where it is. if something happens they can help /thefplgz. themselves. if you can help yourself you take a load off of us. yourself, your neighbors a few hours after, we know that [inaudible] activated a few times for y 2 k after 911 we had people. the [inaudible] has not know tried yet if you go there after a disaster you will be by yourself. a few hours after, that's when people form and that's when they help out. >> this is the home work. you don't have to write it down it's in the manual. simple things for your home. hazardous conditions in our house. there is a course evaluation in the back of the book.

a star-studded who and how of thinning down. this year, we went behind the scenes as it all came together. here's chris connelly. >> reporter: it's not only star-crossed romance that holds the attention of celebrity-minded magazines. on a parallel track, the ups and downs of celebrity bodies and diets keep readers enthralled, too. in the celebrity weight loss world, there are the big success stories, like valerie bertinelli. the sitcom sweetheart who used jenny craig to lose 40 pounds and rocked this bikini. >> i've been given an opportunity to, i guess, be the poster child for getting your [ bleep ] together. maybe? >> reporter: but putting on a few, or maybe more than a few, gets everyone talking. it even gets celebrities talking back. celebrity diet and fitness sagas pull their weight at the news stand. that's why editors at "us weekly" offer a 23-page package in their january 10th issue. why is the first of the year a good time to do an issue like that? >> new year's resolutions. this is the time of the year when everyone's

there is also a very provocative stud they came out of texas that coal burning plants which spew out mercury latent pollution, if you did an overlay of where the plants and were where the prevalence or a spike in autism occurred, it was in proximity to those plants. it's provocative. it's suggestive, not conclusive but it raises the bar that there may be or red flags, a number of predisposition, a gene problem, unborn children may have some early indicators that they are going to be autistic. so we need to be looking earlier with the hopes of mitigating the early onset or the manifest station of this developmental disorder and earliest prevention, vigorous early prevention using best practiceos teaching can help get that child to a higher functioning level and there is a tremendous amount of research going to thereow. i have a bill that would focus more resources so that more parents could get their children to a higher functioning level quicker through early intervention. >> so that early intervention can stall or it can decrease the impact of the onset of autism itself? >> and you

event in bahrain and beating some of the current and posterior to win us in the pros says a star studded filled with winners of a number of prestige estimates from various here is grounds of participation he says though successfully navigating the call in mumbai. designed boris battling it out with peter haren son and miguel on how he managed until the very end well seemed eminence bought a point for bar on the eighteenth there on his eleventh intertidal by just a single stroke around three hundred thousand euros also added to this was back. now for also have won the world handball championships edging out downmarket overtime in the final frenchman what pushed all the way throughout the final by their opponents allowing them to level not as it seems want to please with only a few seconds remaining in normal time but the reigning european world and olympic champions lived up to that billing posting a thirty seven to thirty five victory to clinch another trophy. and finally russia have won the world vandy championships and they held favorites easily seeing all surprised by the trend london

this is a connection between the plate, stud and the bottom plate. tie it all together. unreinforced masonry building. safe building or not such a safe building? not safe at all. you have deep set windows, arched windows, metal plate, then we can work. weak morter, what is that? brick on top of brick on top of brick. there's an ample of the header row, you see how they are turned perpendicular to each other, you can see the header rows in this one, see the brick going the other way about every 5 or 7 rows. deep set windows. here's a close up of one of those plates. a parapet wall is a clue that this building is an unreinforced building. which direction can that building go? right back out. this building, brick or wood? what are some of the clues? okay, what are the windows? they are deep set. there's a clue right there. deep set. deep set window, unreinforced masonry. can you see the metal plates? there is a metal plate right over there in the corner, there's another one over there. hard to see. also has a parapet on it. deep set windows. even though it has stucco on it,

gathering the quantity table there is celebrating and after christmas two weeks of the so-called christmas stud all scout good follows and this is a period between kenya with the seventh russian christmas and epiphany on january the nineteenth but always of course the house and tonight people are celebrating not only in russia but also in serbia and montenegro in macedonia all other christians are celebrating this holy day the birth of jesus and it's certainly a magical christmas setting where you are and of course snow here in the russian capital thanks very much for the moment more from you a little later and of course will be bringing you live coverage of the vigil not only on the screen here on our team but also on our web site too dot com will be joining country to move across to say we can see from moscow thanks very much a very of. a decision by authorities in the west bank city of ramallah to name the streets off the prominent palestinians is proving controversial as poorness new reports some streets have been named off to people who use red accuses of planning suicide bombings bought t

. >> reporter: the charity, stand up to cancer, which has aired star-studded telethons -- >> at some point in time cancer has touched someone in our lives. >> reporter: -- considers this effort one of its main priorities. >> reporter: today, pharmaceutical giant johnson&johnson, which owns the technology, announced it is sponsoring a research center to try to advance it quickly. >> now a large company is willing to develop the next generation of technology and bring it to the point where it can become a commercial product and start impacting patients everywhere. >> reporter: the key word is could. it will likely take several years to know if the technology can help patients. in a statement today, the american cancer society said today's news is an impressive step. but added our real hope is that the excitement we feel today translates into genuine impact and success in cancer treatment tomorrow. and brian, i think that sums it up. >> we always say we'll take our hope where we can get it. bob bazell, thanks as always. >>> president obama is counting down the final hours of his family

here is a look at his argreeted and michelle obama at a s tar- studded state dinner. some of the other guests included -- included michelle quan, vera wang. and here is ed lee arriving for the din he. we talked to mayor quan about what it meant to her to be invited. >> i had not realized there were so few state dinners. >> there were actually a number of people from the bay area at the dinner, including john chen, nancy pelosi and intel e xecutive. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> 7:16. well, state senator leland yee is insulting rush limbaugh insulting the president of china and the chinese community. yesterday, on his show, lush rhumba complained about the lag in -- rush limbaugh complained about the lag in words from the president. >>> a new report says u.s. officials have determined e xactly who executed wall street journal report daniel pearl. according to the report by a team of american journalists and students, u.s. officials using vain matching technology identified the hand of the u nseen man who kill

from "gossip girl," our buddy chace crawford is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] he's a stud.reat new music from two door cinema club, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] gonna be a good show. ladies and gentlemen, if i can have your complete silence. it's time to take a look at the stories making headlines today. and weight the good with the bad in a segment we call "pros and cons." here we go, you guys! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: tonight's topic, "american idol," season ten. >> hit it! [ laughter ] what was his name? dj e-z rock? >> rob base. >> jimmy: rob base. yeah, yeah. anyway -- >> hit it! >> jimmy: there you go. [ light laughter ] here we go. this is the "american idol" season ten. everyone is excited about that. tomorrow is the big premiere. people are freaking out. people are waiting in line here for some reason. [ laughter ] >> steve: you should tell them. >> jimmy: yeah, i should tell them it's not here. but let's take a look at the "pros and cons" of "american idol" season ten. here we go. pro, this promises to be a season filled wit

. >> this is a diamond studded necklace with pearls. >> you got it. >> where did you get that ring?ichard. richard gave it to me. >> it's a perfect ring. i thought how poetic that would be if a nice little jewish girl like me ended up with it. >> i make you nervous. >> she was an amazing, amazing star on the american horizon for years. amazing actress. >> we'll have such wonderful times together, just the two of us. >> i consider her a friend. i like her very much. that's another person, once you ask, you get answers. ♪ >> hello, larry king. >> hello priscilla, dear. >> thank you for having us. >> welcome to graceland. >> that's the most expensive "larry king live" i've ever done. the amount of crew sent there, graceland, renting the cadillac. >> if somebody asked me this morning what i missed about memphis. and it's everything. >> you feel his spirit. everyone that has ever come here says the same thing. ♪ look away dixieland." >> i was amazed at graceland, how well they keep it. how incredible the crowds are that turn out there. >> you still love him? >> of course. he was a hard p

jimmy: maybe if you're lucky i'll choke on something during the show and you'll be zipping around the studyou do for the holidays? >>> went back to newton,m massachusetts. >> jimmy: i've been there. nits little town. it's like the safest town in america, is it? >> is it? well, there's no go carts there. >> jimmy: that's right. it's go cart-free. >> went to my mom's house, i brought my daughter, she's 6. >> jimmy: does your mom spoil her? >> yeah. yeah, my mom's funny. when my daughter was born, she said, okay, don't ever come visit me unless you bring her. you're not welcome without her. you have to bring her. so, if i, like, go there without her, can't get in. >> jimmy: you stand outside. >> and freeze. >> jimmy: really? don't ever visit me without her. and you do visit with her, right? >> yeah, well, yeah. >> jimmy: you have to. >> only way to get in. >> jimmy: what happens when you show up with her? does your mom pay any attention to you at all? >> it's funny, we live so far apart, i live in california. when we do get together, they are like joined at the hip, this great bond between th