outside the flagler beach police are racing into position. >> down, down! thinking he's going to run, the police come down hard. >> down! get on the ground. give me your arm. >> come on out, sir, step out of the vehicle. >> i didn't do anything. >> step out of the vehicle. >> at the police station, abdullah seems a little uncooperative at first. >> mohammed, mohammed, listen to me. >> okay, i'm sorry. >> we don't want you to make any sudden moves like that. >> officers find a large amount of cash. >> there's 100, 200, 9, 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, $1,400. >> inside the interrogation room after he's read his rights, abdullah doesn't want to speak to the police. >> i need my attorney. >> okay. >> detective liz williams of the flagler beach police department thinks abdullah's excuses were creative. >> his self-assurance was impressive. >> except for one thing, remember those pictures of the naked man? >> the images that show the genitalia, the head was cropped off. >> and that unique necklace he wore? >> it was obviously handcrafted. and that evening when he was at our s

meet the teen at the beach. ar-old male actor on the boardwalk across the street from our undercover house. soon fine shows up, walks down the beach and starts walking toward the decoy. >> are you lance? hey, i'm derek. it's derek. are you lance? no? okay. >> but fine clearly suspects something and begins to head back towards his car. >> he's walking back towards the other pier. he's not answering my call. >> so i decide to head him off and try to speak with him. >> what's going on? >> just out riding around. >> hey, is that you right there? >> that is me. >> so then you would be the one who had this chat online, then? >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> "can i lick your blank? sure, if you want i'll lick it clean." and how old is the boy that you came to see today? >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> 14, male, flagler. >> must have been somebody on my computer. >> must have been somebody on your computer, huh? so somebody was on your computer who made plans to meet right down here, and magica

so it was good because i got on the beach. i was the first cameraman to get on the beach at terawa, motion picturewise. i met up with a still man who was opie new com. who was a corporal. and the two of us stayed together as a team through the whole operation. and terawa was important for this reason. because of an order that churchill gave during world war i to make a landing that was very, very poorly done. the british, new zealanders and the australians were really annihilated. this was at tripoli. and so -- no, it wasn't tripoli. i'm think of it a minute. talipoli. and he almost lost his job because of that. he was the secretary of the navy for the british. and ever since that day, none of the military, army, air force, anybody thought that landing against a heavily fortified beach head would be successful so therefore they didn't train for it. but we did train for beach landings. and you've heard of holland m. smith. they call him holler now because he could yell. but he believed in the concept. so he trained, and that's w

however, what it did have is a steamtrain line that ran out lincoln way to the beach. it was basically built to bring picnicers, who wanted to get away for the weekend, to go to the beach for a sunday. right here at the end of the sunset district, at the northwest corner, is where carville gets its start, on a little strip of land, a little block that the mayor at the time owned. and that's where colonel daley put up his little coffee sal yoon -- saloon, using that old car. that's where carville takes off. so who's responsible for carville? we said the mayor of san francisco at the time. very wealthy land owner. owned at one point i think they say 1/12 of san francisco in land. most of it was in the west side of the city. robert fitzgerald was called the king of carville. he was an early settler to carville. jacob heyman that realtor, started being called the father of carville. we'll see why in a second. and this guy on the left, colonel daley, was often called the pioneer father of carville. he really gets a lot of the credit. here's colonel daley in his little shed.

first one is how the building looks and how it reacts on beach street. this one actually is on hide. you see the outlines of the buildings on hyde street on the lower portion, and how our building reacts with those. you can see our stepdown portion in the rear of the building and that we in fact are lower than the majority of those buildings. the upper image shows our building with relationship to north point street. the north point street buildings vary in height anywhere from a couple low ones, but some of them as high as 56 feet. our building is two feet high relative or three feet high relative to that facade. so we've tried to be a good neighbor and take into account context, height bulk, no variances. would be happy to answer any other questions if you have any. we do have a 3-d model of the entire neighborhood. with our building dropped into it that we use to study the neighborhood and how our building fits in. so there you sort of see it in context. commission, the project sponsors are the owners of the blagse saddles bike rental project and it's

i was the first cameraman to get on the beach there. i met up with a still man who was a corporal and the two of us stayed together as a team through the whole operation and he was important for this reason. because of an order that churchill gave during world war i to make a landing that was very, very poorly done, the british, the new zealanders and the australians were niannihilad at tripoli. that is what it was. and he almost lost his job because of that. he was the equivalent of the secretary of the navy for the british. none of the milt, army or air force planned on it being successful so they didn't train for it. but we did train for it. you have heard of smith. he could yell. but, he believed in the concept so he trained and that is why we landed. when we landed, we landed against the beach head and it was said that it couldn't be done and we took that island in 76 hours. it was no larger or the island was no larger than a third thek. and a little over 1,000 people wounded. fortunately, of the killed, a little over 4,000 were jap

elena and i had the opportunity to buy the 721 beach property in 2010. we have been looking at the property for several years as the rear of the lot abuts our building on hyde street. we saw that this would allow us to expand our business and continue our growth. it will provide us with adequate back office staging space, office space and staging space for the company and give us the opportunity to move back full time to the neighborhood we'd love and have invested in for decades. i was present at the 2008 planning commission hearing on the previous project at 721 beach and i listened to the neighborhood's concerns. our first step in moving forward with this project was to meet with the same planning department staff that worked on the 2008 project to determine what additional concerns the neighborhood had and what changes we needed to make in order to get this project approved. we lowered the height, reduced the unit count to one, provided a parking space for our dwelling unit, and redesigned the facade in response to neighborhood and planning commission

usually it runs out to the ocean but the wet weather pushed it toward the beach. we have video to show you exactly what's going on. the water is washed away, a wooden staircase at the boardwalk here and if the water seeps under the boardwalk's retaining wall it could cause a lot of damage. a spokesperson said that the water had never come this close to the park. the park spent a good part of the day yesterday using earth movers to build up sand on the beach trying to block that water. so far the river has only caused a few thousand dollars in damage but with more storms in the forecast, everyone here in santa cruz certainly is keeping their eyes on the forecast and on the river. now we're going to be moving around here a little bit more trying to get a view of that. the maintenance worker i spoke with said you actually can't see where the river has turned right and moved it's way up to the boardwalk and you can't see it now because the park isn't open and because it's private property you can't get to where the damage is. we'll get as close as we can and we'll try

he comes down to the beach the next day and they're still laying on the beach. he's furious. he goes into the surf waist deep, trying to direct people, a ship overturns, they have to take dead bodies out of the water. he handed his camera to enriquez. he liked this photograph so much. this is one of the first ones he sends home to beatrice. he said this picture of me is so good, we should make it a magazine cover. here he is with a whole 24 hours of battle under his belt, and here he got his picture on the cover of "life" magazine. the battle lasts three days. he takes morocco on november 11th. he said this is a great birthday present for me. the french surrender before the attack commences. patton goes from a western task force commander to sort of a civilian military district manager. he's in charge of the whole western side of north africa. he's making sure everybody's trained, deals with a lot of drunken soldiers that get in his face and yells at them and he makes sure they go right off to jail. he said it was mostly air force guys that were complaining. the infantry guys

a 38 foot catta marchan just pulled off the beach here. and wound up on the beach. up the river in the town of felton there is concern. residents of river road have, as you can see, most homes on street have been raised up because of flooding. karen and her grand daughter were checking on the san lor yenzo river this afternoon. >> what do you do to prepare? >> make sure everything that can float away is nailed down or put up out of the way. it's hard to predict. sometimes, you can think nudging is going happen but if if it's raining upriver from us it can still happen, here. >> and right now, the river is down from where it was just yesterday. and the rain has not hit yet and whit does, it swril to come down hard and for some time to raise that river up, it's down about 20 feet from what it looks to be flood stage. let me bring you back to the each now there. is a 38 foot catta marchan on the beach. and it's broke loose from moorings about 1:00 just moments ago able to pull it off. and yanked it out off the beach. i was told by onlookers that this is often inexpensi

with a southerly wind, they might hit 73 on the beach tomorrow. day forecast, our wet weather will come through on the weekend. sunny and 80 tomorrow afternoon. 70 with storms on saturday. showers on sunday, 65. partly cloudy and breezy on monday. lots of sun on tuesday and then another chance of scattered storms on wednesday. >> we begin tonight consumer alert with another look at those gas prices which jumped again overnight. baltimore has now officially hit before dollar a gallon mark at certain locations. we join -- the $4 per gallon market certain occasions. we join nine other states in that regard. but the gas station giveaways starts about 10 minutes from now on ritchie highway. the shell gas station and all cost ministries are joining forces to offer $0.30 off per gallon. as you can see, the line started forming early. again, $0.30 off per gallon. today marks the 13th straight day that gas prices are up. if you have a child safety lock in your house, listen to this recall. the u.s. safety commission has received two hundred reports about ca

this left a toxic legacy on the beaches. back we go now to 1989. telling us it would only be short-term harm but the fishermen worried about that and the native people because we knew that the salmon and the hearing spawned in prince william sound that is to say right on these beaches and after the eggs hatch the young herring and salmon grow up and mature in visa with nursery bays and we wondered what the eggs and the young fish survive in 1989. we had to wait for a life cycle and wait to see if the fish survived, if they grew up, came back to reproduce. we didn't know. we found out in 1992 that was the year of the first pink salmon failure followed in 1993 by the second .7 failure and also the herring field and we figured this was because the fish hadn't survived were those that had couldn't reproduce. so what we did because the scientists were still saying you're going to anticipate short-term harm was we blockaded. this is the geographic bottleneck of prince william sound and to bring attention to the sound, it wasn't just the fish, the birds,

i own several businesses in the neighborhood of the proposed site, 721 beach street. i am in favor of the project. the structure that is there now is an eyesore. it looks like a tool shed. in this world class neighborhood, we have millions of tourists coming in to visit us and spend time down here, this project will look 10 times better than what it is now. i've been to several of the meetings that the sears have had to outreach with the neighborhood. they've been very sincere and have made changes to help try to get everybody in favor of the project. i think the few that are opposed are just worried about their views and i think it's a shame if we don't move forward with this project to better the neighborhood. thank you. vice president wu: thank you. >> are there other speakers for this item? >> just in support at this time? >> other speakers. >> ok. >> good afternoon, or good evening, commissioners. my name is scott embleg. i've been working with the neighbors who are very concerned about the scale of this project. these neighbors are reasonable people. this is not

the beach shall i -- chalet. i always find it ironic that these federal highway funds were used to refurbish this place for drivers to get a drink. terrific. [laughter] >> there were farms, and there were dairies, as these houses are starting to be built, and they are more conventional residents is, and they are still a farm. in the distance, you can see it is still sand dunes. >> and water once again from windmills and wells. >> there is a few small lakes. some of the lakes are natural lakes. they are not all man-made. >> it took a while to get the water lines out there. >> you can see the huge sand dune behind it. it was a challenge to get basic services. people would build houses, and instantly, a huge sand banks would blow in the night and basically close-up people's front doors. they had a lot of development that was needed before they could make a nice place to live. >> this was the park side real estate brochures from about 1913. >> 1908. >> there are pages you can read. inside it shows what you can do. it

so they put me on the beach, and i was bleeding internally and they started aspirating me with 20 cc needles, giving me a shot in the arm with it, but they were doing it the other way. putting it in closed, opening up and squirting the blood on the floor. and they took out almost a liter of blood i had lost that was in my belly cavity and then put me on a stretcher, took me to the beach and they put me aboard a p.c., a patrol craft. it's a very small craft, and it was leaving almost immediately to go back to guam. i really wasn't wounded enough to rate a hospital ship because i was stable and they had a corpsman on the ship, and two days later i landed in guam at the hospital, stayed there for a couple of weeks and they flew me to hawaii, and i stayed in the hospital there. then i did my duty for the -- they sent me back to my division in a different regiment, and i went on occupation on an island in the same island group, but this one, i guess, was made famous by george bush sr. he was ditched out of the water -- pulled out by a rescue helicopter, no, not a helicopter. didn't have th

all three drifted 50 yards from the beach. >> what happens, since the beach is steep, it f they lose footing then they start floating and get carried out. >> reporter: officials tell us that one save in a day can be typical but three is unusual and rare. the three victims appear to be suffering from hypothermia. reporting live, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. >> you can watch more of the rescue video on www.ktvu.com. >>> a little girl sleeping in her bedroom in northern california was killed after a tree fell on her home. she was in her bed when a 100- foot tall tree toppled over yesterday morning. the tree was up rooted by creek and pinned the child on her bed. crews had to maneuver through snow to get heavy equipment to the hope to lift the tree. by then, though it was too late. >>> investigators are combing through a teen's cell phone and laptop for clues about her disappearance. sierra lamar's family released these images today. the high school sophomore hasn't been heard from since friday morning. today the sheriff's office talked with students and staff members at her form

the place. they used to bury people in north beach. they would go up there and very bodies. >> there were removed from many of these cemeteries. there is a slogan that is -- anybody know? "it is great to be alive." >> beats the alternative. >> i was wondering if gary boulevard had always been a major thoroughfare. >> it used to have streetcars on it. they are thinking of bringing them back. the b line and the a line where there until the mid-1950's. we are taking the street cars away, but bart will come out here and everything will be fine. >> downtown, gary ave. >> when you get past it, it becomes gary boulevard. >> they wanted streets to be large, they should have vegetation and trees, they should be ornamental. gary strieker was the main road from the 1850's. -- gary street was the main road from the 18th of the's. >> it was planned as a major thoroughfare. >> it was a toll road originally. we make people pay to get on the road and we make them pay when they get to the clubhouse. it was a toll road. >> i think that does it for today.

that program -- actually i was part of the original authorization of the beach grants and the re-authorization. it was funded at only $10 million last year, but these grants have resulted in a number of monitored beaches tripling nationwide since the program started. and states utilized the funds to monitor water quality, notify the public when the coastal waters are not safe. i'm afraid that without the grants the trend will reverse itself and many states would just choose to stop monitoring many of their beaches. so i wanted to ask you if you think the epa beach grants have been successful over the years in expanding the numbers of beaches tested and keeping swimmers out of contaminated waters. comment on the program, if you would. >> yes, sir. as i said, i knew some of my colleagues would be -- >> i would have asked it anyway if you hadn't brought it up. >> i know. beach grants have been successful, sir. this is one of the tough choices but it's mindful of the past success and thanks to your leadership the grants hoped -- helped to monitor the systems and the teams of people now do this wor

same scenario down at the beach, temperatures in the 60's. bit cooler and wetter both saturday and sunday. we actually could use the rain so it's not all bad news. cool day tuesday. morning temperatures in the 30's and tuesday's high just 58. >>> in tonight's consumer alert, cell phone carrier h-mobile plans to reduce some 1,900 jobs in efforts to reduce costs and remain competitive. the fourth largest cell provider is rapidly losing customers and is investing millions to try to catch up with rivals' technology. workers whose jobs are eliminated whether have a chance to transfer to the remaining call centers but those who choose not to transfer will be offered trancion packages. the new ipad has only been out for a little over a week. it's setting new sales records but has got a couple of problems. some include the battery life and excessive heat. some say the best solutioning is a cover you can buy from apple. apparently the standard charger doesn't hold a charge belong. the biggest concern? which fi connection issues. -- wifi connection iss

really making the tough to see out there at the beaches, yeah, absolutely, the further east today the more you dealt with the fog and i think that will be the story through the week. when we get a southeast wind that will change it. 54 at the beach, the fog never lifted but central maryland. that's a solid ten degrees above average. have you to remember that for this part of the year. this is unusual. even to see temperatures in the low 06's and across the area we are in the low 50s. 48 at dover. places like hagerstown on 60 degrees on a light south wind that's going calm and with the calm wind and the higher humidity levels we do anticipate more fog to develop over night. the skies clear but that fog likely to develop at the surface and you have a calm wind and humidity at 100%, 94% in frederick now, that is in fact a recipe for fog and the dew point numbers fairly impressive over 50. fairly moist air, it'll help create fog toward day brek. this disturbance in ohio likely to slowly drift east and if it keeps it's -- intensity we could see some shower around here by early afternoon to

a sheriff helicopter pulled a man, his 11-year-old son and a good samaritan from the water at rice beach. the 11-year-old was boogy boarding with a friend when the two got caught in the rip tide. one boy made it back but the other didn't. a woman jumped in as well and was pulled in by the strong waves. >> they come in quickly and unpredictable. >> all three were taken to the hospital with symptoms of hypothermia. >>> five are home safe after being rescued from cash creek. the group expected the creek to be running high due to recent rain. lack of dam releases upstream leftie the creek so low their raft ran aground. the crew spent the night in the valley better being rescued at noon today. >>> a teenage girl went missing on her way to school last week. we report on the free mont connection and how the missing girl's friends are helping to gyte the word out. >> reporter: fordays have passed and still no sign of this teenager born and raised in free mont. >> we're getting really worried. we know she didn't run away. she's not the kind of person to do that. >> reporter: family members releas

march is that typically the time to break out to the beach here sean lewis joins us today to soak up some of the sun. along chicago's lakefront, the dog days of summer weather were shining through. >> a lot of people were at the beach today. five days in a row this time. it's not a common thing this time of year. >> it's so nice that this person was at harbor catching some rain. thinking about what late chicago winters are usually like. kinda weird start to the year here but i'm not going to complain because it's warm. not even this siberian husky seemed to mind to the near 80 degrees despite her pedigree for cold. >> i am flabbergasted at the whole thing. >> there doesn't seem to be any sign that the warmth will stop. >> it looks like for the next three days at least we will be near record if not at record high temperature levels but we may have some rain to deal with but we will have to talk about that a bit later on. chicago public schools want to add extra days to the school year, why that's not sitting well with the residence in the city's polish and italian community. the cook c

i spoke to a patrol officer at the beach today. he said this weren't any problems, he said mostly because few people wanted to brave the cold water. live in san francisco, kimberly tere, nbc bay area news. >> the newlyweds were very brave. thank you. >>> we showed you the wind and surf and now we want to bring in anthony slaughter with a look at what is going on with the weather. >> things are quiet as far as the radar goes. not seeing as much rain as earlier in theou dayhe a few isolated thunderstorms popped up through the day. look at this rainfall map. this is all of the rain that the bay area received this past week. in fact, some areas in the north bay, north of santa rosa picked up more than six inches of rain. that's just this week d alone. even in san rafeal, point ray. ten inches of rain. san francisco three to five and same for pacifica and the hills of dublin and this is the most impressive part. you notice just west of san jose those mountains, they received over 15 inches of rain. that includes places like big basin, re

on the beach from the chilly ocean temperatures will keep the beaches crueler. cox will be going forward on sunday one hour. 61 sunday. 64. high-temperature staying in the mid it 60's through next week. >> from the susquehanna banks sports center, this is 11 sports. >> the good feeling is momentum generated from maryland's last game of the year did not carry very far. earlier today, marilyn never recovered from the mistakes. a major break down early. tyler with the slam. carolina up early in the way they went. 11 more points today. it big numbers with the the acc leading scorer, but just could not keep the troops close enough. -- terps close enough. terps with 13 turnovers. cashing in on the n.i.t. bid as carolina beat them in the acc tournament. a big weekend ahead for the retrievers. one away from the trip to the women the n.c.a.a. tournament. they pulled up off-campus and having to albany from the finals. upsetting top-seeded boston university to advance to the conference finals. he won coach of the year honors and now he wants winner of the year. >> people ha

it's inching closer to the concrete retaining wall that separates the beach and the boardwalk.e a live report at the top of the hour. >>> we're hearing that twitter removed several accounts that were using the name of the president of syria after complaints from his office. an aid writes to twitter saying that 11 accounts claiming to be the president and first lady were fraudulent. twitter says it's policy is to get rid of those accounts. >> david cameron wraps up his trip to the u.s. way visit to the september 11th memorial in new york city. last night he was the guest of honor at a state dinner at the white house. in their toast to each other president obama and prime minister cameron spoke warmly of the close relationship between britain and the u.s. he said president obama reminds him otolaryngology another u.s. president. >> the first president i studied was theodore residence as the result. he talked about speaking calmly and carrying a big set. that is barrack's approach. he pressed the reset button on the morale authority of the entire free world. >> among those invited

as we get ready to kick off the weekend, spectacular conditions, beach weather again. going to go from the very frigid start to a fantastic finish with 70-degree meetings. hook how warm we're going to be. by noon up to 68. so well above our highs afternoon for this time of year at noon. climbing into the 70s by 4:00 p.m. a little cooler by the bay. still in the 70s. 68 degrees by the coast. great beach day. things change for the weekend. a cold front starts to move in. it's not only going to cool your temperatures, it's going to take that brilliant sunshine. sunday for the second half of the day we've got rain on the way. and the wet pattern stays with us all the way through next week. we'll talk about that when i get to my seven-day forecast. if you are trying to make plans for this weekend wur going to get much better conditions on saturday than sunday. let's get to your traffic. on 580, in richmond, 580 westbound at canal boulevard this is reported hi on the off ramp but involving an overturned big rig. give yourself extra time. we have reports now that it is startin

>> reporter: we are taking you on the beach to show you what is going on. right here, 10-15 feet, we had that additional sa, that has now fell into the ocean. that is where they are working to dig a canal to reroute the river. >> reporter: the battle to save the santa cruz beach boardwalk came down to man and machine versus mother nature. >> we felt a sand berm, put sand up so the river would find its way to the sea. >> reporter: it appears to be working. look for yourself. as the pounding of the river eats away, chunks headed to the ocean. >> the power of the storms is incredible. every year the bigger the storm the more fascinating it is to watch. >> that sand is not cooperative. >> reporter: all day long crews begin digging a canal to reroute the river. if it wasn't for the crews the management fears the water could have done more damage. >> early on we lost stairs. but the water isn't going under the boardwalk. it is looking good. we are pleased. >> reporter: i want you to look. see where they are standing, if it continues that rate it has been, that are

the shark was spotted near wadel beach near davenport. patty lee is in the city of santa crews that is to explain how this resent storms are tied into it. >> reporter: you can see the waves kicked up are a draw for surfers even though they've been warned to keep a watch out for great whites. surfers were out in first in santa cruise today despite word of mouth and an official warning for state shark rangers about a shark attack. >> reporter: there is currently a sizable population of elephant slipups. >> they tend to follow a lot of the salmon, salmon runs. it does tend to be around this time when we're trying to -- when we get some rain. >> reporter: great white shark activity spiked in the bay area around march. in september mark service workers say they've seen the end results of shark attacks. >> i've walked the beach, you know, it's been bitten in the abdomen. park rangers will keep the warnings up through the weekend, but the conditions that attract great whites may persist longer. >> and in the past hour ranchers told me that there

instead of taking the n judah line there will be bus shuttles in place between ocean beach and churchyou are at the church station you can hop on the underground and catch one of the other lines. mass transit reporting no delays. if you want to take muni, it is looking good as well as bart and ace. live shot of the golden gate bridge, bridge crews once again on the scene changing the lane configuration. we should see more lanes heading southbound traffic good out of marin into san francisco. this is our most crowded live camera shot i-80 berkeley westbound still moving close to the limit towards the bay bridge toll where there are no delays. >>> it is 5:39. >>> next, pat robertson's surprising take on marijuana. why he says the government should legalize it. >>> local doomsdayer harold camping has a new message. >> we want him captured and alive for the trial. >> viral video setting out to change the world. fast growing internet campaign to bring an african warlord >>> good friday morning. 5:42. beautiful live picture of the bay from our east bay camera looking across with the moonlig

the third item was the ocean beach master plan and his concern about the temporary fix that would protect the tunnel. and whether that is impractical and ineffective in practice. we are still working on that. we believe that there are some ways that can protect the town of and the oceanside treatment plant that would be environmentally friendly. it really talks about getting rid of part of a highway out there and it calls for closing the great highway at float. traffic would be routed on and rearrange at the front of the zoo, going around the back of the treatment plant. there were only be a one lane road going in and out for access. it would take the entire area for the great highway and have a rolling, sloping, larger rocks with standard that would catch any wave action. that is the idea. it still has to be proven, but if that is the case we would hope that that would take care of it for quite a ways. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i thought it was important to make sure that that was clear. thank you. >> can i ask a question on the planning process? what is the time line? i know that

you can see it running right there against the retaining wall on the backside of the beach boardwalk and that is what is causing the problems out here. usually that river runs directly out to the ocean but now, since we've had all the rain over the last couple of days, it actually pushed the river out of it's regular channel a little bit to the west and is running along the backside of the park. it has already washed away one wooden stairway. i spoke with a maintenance worker when he first arrived here and he told me you can see the staircase out in the baby daylight. if that water continues to run along the retaining wall it could undermine that wall and cause a lot of damage. now the boardwalk spokesperson said that the water has never come this close to the park. coming out to our live picture, you might just be able to make out one of the earth movers there. now the personnel here at the park have been using the earth movers, trying to push sand out into the channel, trying to redirect the river. that work seems to be working there but you can see that the water is up here along t

now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and tha

and concern in santa cruz where a surging river threatens to flood the santa cruz beach boardwalk. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. the wet weather has left its mark across the bay area. we have team coverage. leslie brinkley is in lafayette. alan wang is in sonoma. but we begin with ama dates in santa cruz where the san lorenzo river is now threatening the boardwalk there. >> reporter: carolyn, if you look behind me, everything looks great as it normally does. it is what is on the other side of the sign that is causing all of the problems. the san lorenzo river normally goes right by the boardwalk and straight into the ocean. but now it has taken a right turn right behind the boardwalk and on to the beach area, and then it snakes out to the ocean. now, fortunately there is a large retaining wall on this side of the boardwalk, so it is a good situation here. here is where the problem is. this is where the retaining wall ends. what they have done is they have taken a lot of sand and they have built it up and pushed it up against where the retaining wall ends and it uses the sa

and concern in santa cruz where a surging river threatens to flood the santa cruz beach boardwalk. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. the wet weather has left its mark across the bay area. we have team coverage. leslie brinkley is in lafayette. alan wang is in sonoma. but we begin with ama dates in santa cruz where the san lorenzo river is now threatening the boardwalk there. >> reporter: carolyn, if you look behind me, everything looks great as it normally does. it is what is on the other side of the sign that is causing all of the problems. the san lorenzo river normally goes right by the boardwalk and straight into the ocean. but now it has taken a right turn right behind the boardwalk and on to the beach area, and then it snakes out to the ocean. now, fortunately there is a large retaining wall on this side of the boardwalk, so it is a good situation here. here is where the problem is. this is where the retaining wall ends. what they have done is they have taken a lot of sand and they have built it up and pushed it up against where the retaining wall ends and it uses the sa

which of the nation's beaches made the cut for the best sand and sun? >>> and feeding frenzy a school of sharks spotted uncomfortably >>> and feeding frenzy a school of sharks spotted uncomfortably close to an australian shore. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with the south having its say. folks are going to head to the poll today in mississippi and alabama where republican presidential candidates have been campaigning hard to convince conservative voters they share their southern values. caucuses will be held today in hawaii. tracie potts joins us from washington with the details. tracie, good morning. >> hi, lynn. good morning. this southern vote, bible belt vote will be a real test for mitt romney, the conservative base of the party has not been his strong suit. the polls seem to indicate that beginning rich is running strong in these states, although romney is within striking distance. this is sort of a must win for newt gingrich. he's from the state next door when it comes