see this styrofoam? how many say, "that ain't styrofoam." well, i can spread it out and pop it up and now it is. but it has the same weight, doesn't it? i put the styrofoam in. oh, that's strange. it sinks lower. let me ask you a question. if you see a ship loaded with five tons of lead, is that gonna float lower in the water? yeah. how about you have the same ship loaded with five tons of styrofoam crumbed in there, is that gonna float lower in the water? yeah. guess which is heavier, five tons of lead or five tons of styrofoam? [laughter] so they're both gonna push the ship down by the same amount. so the answer is the ship loaded with anything that has any weight is gonna float lower than a ship loaded with nothing. did we kinda get that, gang? sure. here's the part where people get mixed up. what if you took that styrofoam and you attached it to the outside of the ship? what would happen then? it's gonna float higher. increase the volume. see, on the outside, you'd increase the volume. yeah. let's try something like this. here's a block

oh, i really can't make the volume bigger like styrofoam is all puffed up. but what i can do is i could shape it into the shape of a bowl and make out of it of guess what? begin with a b. - boats. - end with oat. okay? a boat. if you told people few centuries ago that you were gonna make a boat made out of iron, honey, they would look at you like you were bonkers, because iron doesn't float. people made boats out of wood. well, here's this clay. it has the same weight. watch this. oh, yeah. [laughter] yeah, look at it now, gang. [laughter] isn't that nice? now, it's being held up by what? - your fingers. - your hands. my fingers. you get the idea. more about his next time. but what i wanna ask you next time for homework is this. i wanna ask you, if you have a ship that's loaded with styrofoam, will that ship float higher, lower or the same as if the ship were empty? so a ship loaded with a cargo of styrofoam will float higher in the water, the same level in the water, or lower in the water than the same ship with no cargo? that's your question for homework f

two styrofoam balls with the googly eyes on top and just two styrofoam balls with the eyes on top and antennas. another $8 costume. >> really awesome. >> next up is little mckenzie. daughter of our producer. >> hi, mckenzie. >> mckenzie is obviously an adorable cupcake. so cute. so easy, too. just two big sheets of pink felt. you cut it out with a scalloped edge, glue on different colored pom-poms. a little lace around the neck. little head band. she has more sprinkles on top. the cupcake wrapper is just a piece of poster board and glued up the back. >> let's bring out mckenzie's brother, brady. >> looks like frank gifford to me. >> he's the heisman trophy. he could put a little aviator cap on you find at any costume store. then you take an old sweatshirt and sweat pants and just spray paint it gold. >> so he's a little heisman. >> that's right. you have to teach him the pose.. >> let's bring out michael and emily. thank you, sweetie. >> and this is another costume great for all ages. >> come on out, kids. >> little legos so easy and so inexpensive. good for girls and boys. this is ba

." >> juju read this -- i don't like the styrofoam container. >> reporter: he was always thinking aboutgrowing up outside minneapolis sharing eye room with his brother. as a young child arranged and rearranged the room. >> i shared the room with my brotheren a ruined his life. he was like a normal child who didn't want to put his laundry awayen a would stage fits and have like breakdowns and finally just clean up after my brother every day, too. >> best job i ever saw. >> reporter: berkus became famous helping oprah transform homes on her talk show for ten years. >> he isn't here. although that is a really hard thing for me. >> reporter: but the infamous tsunami that struck the coast of sri lanka that changed his life forever. nate was on vacation with boyfriend when the wave hit. >> we felt the water surge again and he looked at me and said it's not over. and i felt his hand slip away. a and-sorry. >> reporter: nate reached deep into his psyche to find the heart of a survivor. you lost the love of your life. >> that implies i'll never have another. the term survive means to not only ha

. >> reporter: they are strapped and padded with mattresses and placed on styrofoam beds to prevent disqualifyingacks on the side. this year, there was an extra prize for breaking the record. >> over 2,000 pounds, we're gonna give the winning grower $25,000. that's pretty enticing to give people down here today. >> reporter: even though none of them reached that mark, they were monseerous enough to -- monsterous enough to delight the crowd. back to you. >>> 90 minutes ago, coalition of community groups called for a boycott at the san jose grocery chain mi pueblo. [ cheers ] >> activists are calling on mi pueblo to stand up for their employees and rescind the rescission to cooperate. the federal program checks the immigration status of workers. last week, the company said it joined after officials launched and audit of its existing workers. activists say that currently mi pueblo is in the mid of a labor dispute -- midst of a labor dispute. >>> the 2012 nobel prize in medicine this morning was announced this morning. john gurden and the man from japan were awarded the prize for stem cell discoverie

it had two huge styrofoam griffins at the doorway. it was very festive. [laughter] let's hear from the other entrepreneurs. how old are your services rubbing up against laws -- how are your services rubbing up against loss in san francisco? >> we are lucky in san francisco that the city does not have regulations as far as licenses and certification is required for tour guides. it is already very open. it is different from the regulations in new york city. that is another market we're in. we're looking forward to allowing san francisco to lead the way by showing the impact our platform can have. we are also really concerned with the tax issue as well. so far, the tax code is really segmented largely for personal and business taxes. the sharing economy presents a nuanced situation. individuals are not businesses but are enjoying a new stream of income. we are interested in having that conversation in a way where we can use the new economy to benefit the city as well as individuals who are proactively taking all entrepreneurship in their own hands to leverag

on the roads with the crazy traffic and narrow lane sdmrs the giant gors are packed and placed on styrofoam beds for the bumpy drive to prevent disqualifying cracks in the side. this year there was an extra prize offered for any pumpkin weighing more than a ton and break tg record. >> over 2,000 pounds we're going to give the winning grower $2,500 so that's pretty enticing. >> even though none of the pumpkins here reached that 2,000-pound mark they will monstrous enough and it will be on display at the festival this weekend. in half-moon bay, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a brawl between two wegd party social security cause ago sensation today on you tube. the fight broke out early sunday morning at the society hill hotel and mae involved about 100 people. according to some reports, one man was arrested for assaulting a police officer, two others for disorderly conduct. one man at the hotel die affidavit the melee but it's not clear if he was part of either wedding party or took part in the fighting. >>> a match seemingly made in sit come heaven has suddenly drawn to a close. a spokesman for hol

. >> looks like styrofoam. it's dusty, don't inhale. >> it's used in square foot gardening and in mixing with heavy soil. it drains extraordinarily well because it takes water in slowly. >> takes air gaps so it's lightweight and doesn't pack down. people tend to overwater so this is healthy. >> we have big house plants that have been outside all summer but it's getting chilly in the morning especially. >> i have a lot of these outside, palm trees, a banana. i'm scouting them for insects and trying to determine where they can go in the house with bright light and how do i provide humidity for them. >> they'll go through a culture change? >> it is, so you want to acclimate them and take them from highlight down to lower light over a couple of weeks but get them inside before we get 40 degree nights pause that makes it harder to bring inside a 70-degree house. >> if you look at the back of the leaf, cottony things there and damage on the leaf. what do we have? >> these are mealy bugs and they're sticky. that's wha

. >> jimmy: was there a crevice and they had you-zblsh they built this massive styrofoam mounten. >> harness me up for like every day a month. >> jimmy: what became of little al? you said you were on the show for a year. >> i left after a year. in three years he became a 40-year-old doctor from like, who just came back from backpacking in sweden. it was like the most bizarre -- >> jimmy: little a l turnl turno dr. al? do you know who came back as big al, the actor? >> it was a bizarre. there was a likeness. i was like look in the mirror 40 years from now. >> jimmy: interesting to compare photographs now that yier older and see if there is any real resemblance. >> i'll to that tonight. >> jimmy: you should write letters back to the prisoners. that will be nice. you're a child actor, your parents are probably used to you -- are they excited? did they come to the premiere? >> my father, brother and girlfriend, we were in new york and had a sensational time. it was so great. >> jimmy: weird to hear a guy say sensational and he has a girlfriend in the same sentence. >> i'm breaking the mo

see this styrofoam cup? you guys can all see this. see this little bb right here, little bb in my hand. i got a whole bunch up in there, see them, i spill them on the table. see those little bbs, you guys can't see those bbs, 'cause you're too far away from them, okay? but can you picture this? can you picture the styrofoam cup on the table and all these bbs, all moving around haphazardly, chaotically and every once in a while the bbs and more bbs hit one side of the cup than the other, what will the cup do? wouldn't the cup start to jiggle? and you guys can see the cup, but you can't see what's making the cup jiggle. you know there's something smaller than you can see is making the cup jiggle. and that's what robert brown saw in his microscope. he saw little particles, big enough to see, jiggle. why jiggling? small enough, there could be more atoms on one side than the other. little bit more neck force on one side of the atom... that thing will jiggle around. so in response to the jiggling atoms, boom, the visible observation: micros

most of the things that keep you very, very warm in a cold climate like that which insulates like styrofoam, yeah? or spun glass or things like that. they're all what? they are things that hold air. see these thermal underwear they have now? the thermal underwear-- you look at a thermal underwear, and there's like a net, like fishnet. and you put that on and that's gonna keep you warm? but over that fishnet underwear, you put a regular t-shirt. and now what's trapped between your skin and that t-shirt? air. it begins with a "a." air. all right. it ends with r. air. air. okay. and can that air circulate? now if the air warmed up and just went away, then you get cold again, see? but it's all held there by these little netting. that's what it is. when that stuff first came out, i looked at that and said, "what?" 'cause, you know, "this is gonna keep warm, honey." and they show you something with all these holes. [laughter] all these holes? that doesn't sound right. but i--wait a minute, wait a minute. i said, "i know what that is." it begins th a p. i mean, begins with an f." what is it? physi

a lot of democrats say things but he's the reason that we have styrofoam cups in the house. >> it's allolitics that is really, really -- >> and most likely than not, he's the most vulnerable redistricting republican. another race we've been talking about ohio, folks think that's going to come back around. >> let's say democrats sweep all four of these races, hold the two that they are trying to hold with mcintyre, they are still going to come up short but this set the table for 2014, does it not? >> it sets the table for 2014. you still have labor and leadership numbers and outside super pacs but more importantly i think it shows you which seats they consider still valuable after this redistricting process. so they are going to compete in pennsylvania for a long time. >> that's right. but if republicans are able to win in a presidential year in places like this, ohio and pennsylvania, they may be off the map. >> you never know. >> for a midterm. >> you never know. >> luke russert, thank you. we've got to talk about michele bachmann but that's for another segment. >>> three weeks to go.

and he's so cute, and what's neat is you put it around a styrofoam ball and the trick with it is andt you can do is take a chenille stem or a pipe cleaner and you stick it in part way and what that does is that helps it twist. >>reporter: it's almost like wired ribbon. >> exactly. so then what you do is hot glue it around and you just keep turning it. now you don't have to worry about this stem pause it'll be in place and you just keep wrapping it and wrapping it. >>reporter: so the chenille stem is just for the beginning. >> just for the beginning and you do it on the end and we have a whole lot more things you can do with it. >>reporter: may i say that this is the only time a spider would be cute. >> i'm right there with you. we have this book halloween deco mesh, it's only $1, it's got instructions, patterns and things. so, you know, everybody can do things for around the house. >>reporter: you know i say this all the time, but what is so great about this is, you know, here's the product, but this helps you envision what you can actually do with it. and then this can maybe inspire

plastic bottles, bags and styrofoam food containers. of this stuff washes ashore after the first big rainstorm. berkeley beach is where a plastic bottles are plentiful. i also found a container of what once this partial canister up for a breeze that is the land and sky cent. the most toxic of what washed ashore is cigarette butts. there is a law where all the cities will have to rachel and sam have a house. now they want a home. a home where everything feels like it's designed just for them. where the styles they love fit into the wallet they have. big or small they want furniture that makes life better. that's why they visit us. we're more than a home improvement store. we're ikea, the life improvement store. change our bad habits. and the east bay, stanley roberts kron4 news. >> it will be a big come week for tech companies such as microsoft and apple. tech lovers are buzzing this week about apples or marty been to unveil its many ipad this week. industry ended the all we know for sure is that the company is holding an event in califo

plastic bottles, plastic bags and styrofoam food containers in emeryville, more of the same record allthis is washing ashore after the big rain storm. the shoreline will take the brunt for this crash at berkeley beach. plastic bottles are plentiful. i also found this container with this partial container of febreeze and the most toxic are cigarette butts. >> that looks pretty bad. >> cities will have to prevent this trash by 2022. until then it is up to us until we have to change our bad habits. in the east bay, stanley roberts, kron 4 news. >> after a difficult day on wall street rob, this monster day? it was a difficult day with too much caffeine. the fda is looking into it with stocks getting hit. this girl from a maryland drink two large of monster beverages.... it killed a girl. >> the toyota it is the no. 1 selling car. prius have several choices. it is outpacing ford & gm and you can imagine that california would lead the way with a green but they also like what is the plural of puius? [laughter] of precious pri... home values it jumping 1.3% it is the biggest gain since 2006 ac

we've got lots of junk i'm calling it river junk collecting here, bottles, styrofoam. i want to show you here at the water's edge just how close we are to this jump in thing the bank. literally it is right here. if you swirl it around the debris is so. >> in 16 years, we still have a long time to go until high tide. 9:30 is when this is going to hit its peak, we're likely to see this, river jump the bank within the hour and we're doing to continue to watch the situation. the worst of it could still be tonight or it could be wednesday, thursday, or even as far as friday because of the massive amount of water that has been dumped on the east coast as far away as pennsylvania and it's making its way towards us hitting the river the potomac is the situation here. georgetown is considered to be particularly vulnerable but we're buttoned uptight at this point. we're going to continue to watch the water rising very quickly for you here. matt, i'll send it back to you in the studio. >> thank you we'll check back in in a few minutes. the atlanta seaboard was battled by sandy. f

this is around a styrofoam ball and it's something you're making you can keep in your home and see, this for the monster scales called tubing and it's really fun to work with. you can make bows. we've done the garland in the front and so again, a lot of this can carry into thanksgiving so it goes through there. another quick thing i wanted to tell about is for those -- because the warm weather, knitting and crocheting, at our white marsh store on the avenue at white marsh, we are having a new store opening today with goody bags. it starts at 9:30 and goes until 2:00. that's today at our white marsh stores and to sustain you you want the treats. candy melts in the microwave or in the candy melter. we wanted to show for football, we have football helmet and football pops so you can make them with your favorite colors. >> you're just buying the chocolate or the candy and you have a mold. >> all you do is pour it in and use the pops. you can do these, put them in the refrigerator and they firm up in 15 minutes and you're good to go and we have all different colors so you can get them ravens

and then the head is of course just two styrofoam balls with the eyes on top and two pipe cleaners asittle lays around the neck. and the wrapper is just a piece of poster board and glued up the back. >>et's bring out mckenzie's brother, brady. >> looks like frank gifford to me. p. >> he's the heisman trophy. take an old sweat shirt and sweat pants and just spray paint it. >> so he's a little heisman. >> that's right. you have to teach him the pose.. >> let's bring out michael and emily. thank you, sweetie. >> and this is another costume great for all ages. >> little legos so easy and so inexpensive. good for girls and boys. this is basically just a box. you use a plate to cut a hole for the head. keep the bottom open. glue on someboxes and paint it red or blue. >> so great. a live performance of singing monks. but first this is "today" on nbc. maryland schools are number one in america because we invest in them. but we can do even more. every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty million dollars at casinos in other states. question 7 keeps that maryland money in maryland throu