you see this wood siding goes right down to the concrete sidewalk and it's rotting at the bottom. that rot is just going to run up through the wood and into the framing behind and once again -- now this is interesting. those are wood stairs in a wood structure. much better solution. they're also protected because they're inside. so they're not going to have as much of a problem. they still have a joint there which is a leak problem that has to be caulked. this is sort of an interesting exercise. as you walk down the street i want to you look at the buildings carefully and see if you can see the space between the buildings in san francisco. and here we have a space that's about 3 fourth of an inch or an inch or something like that -- 3/4 of an -- 3 fourth of an inch or an -- 3/ of an inch or an inch, or something like that. you do a roof and your neighbor does a roof and you put a piece of flashing between the building and that keeps water out of that space between the buildings. water gets down there between the buildings and it's extremely difficult to repair dry rot inside that s

here at the bottom, brick veneer is falling off, water will run in the cracks. if it were my house, i would explore what was happening here. all these openings, they are to read meters and so on and are big enough for racoons to get in. these are big holes. water intrusion is a serious problem. everything about this building is well-maintained, lighting in the front, t.v. cameras. this kind of lighting is no longer allowed. the energy code says you have to have lighting that is high- efficacy, meaning lots of lumens per watt. you can't just screw bulbs in any longer. it may not be done. i want to mention, it's not just the front of your building, it's your yard, too. the preventative maintainence would say, get some hot nails or screws or something designed for exterior use and screw them on. fix it before it breaks is the goal. everybody has a shed. the code says you can have a shed as long as it's not over 100 square feet of projected roof area. >> california code says 120 square feet. san francisco says 100. fire escapes need lots of maintainence. this requir

. >> i've never seen a regulation -- it just says 10 inches on the bottom. but i would think as a practical matter you could have it on the pull side. >> would it serve any function? . >> i can't imagine there's any benefit on having it smooth on the pull side. it's the push side, so you can push the door open with the foot plate. chair. here we are going in. now people are puting stuff in the way. very difficult to get in, there's stuff to trip on, for all of us. wheelchair or not, there's all sorts of stuff. here are wheelchair users going into a small store. these very small mom and pop corner stores are very difficult because of the need to have a lot of goods in there to make the business work. this is a real challenge. this is a store on mission street where they have actually figured it out. the aisles are nice and comfortable, minimum size but comfortable. she's going in, she can turn, she can get to the counter. it may not have the lowered transaction counter we're going to see in a counter here where someone who can't reach up to the full height of

>> no crust at the bottom. good. and he's got pie and ice cream. >> it's all coming up after your local news and weather. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. >> it looks like the rain will stick with us off and on through the evening. that will hold temperatures back. we might sneak into the low 70's. periods of rain for sure. we will be in the mid-to-upper- 70's on tuesday. tax on everything you buy? that's in andy harris' unfair tax plan. 23% sales tax. a 23% sales tax will cut my business in half. would be devastating. andy harris' 23% sales tax absolutely makes no sense. 23% sales tax would really make things unaffordable.

we are going to put that wax seal on the bottom of this, mount this down on the floor flanged and mount the toilet on to this. >> good. does not look like it takes a great deal of expertise to do it, but you have to have the right parts and equipment. terrific. i want to ask andre. tell us, from a design point of view, what is that people are looking for these days in toilets. >> when we look at toilets, first of all, are we doing a traditional or contemporary design? obviously, we picked a traditional design. traditional design for traditional patterns. contemporary toilet for contemporary bathroom. we look about the lines of the toilet and how easy they are to clean. some of these are very sleek and come down to the floor. that is good. they are very even and clean and very easy to clean. we also think about americans with disabilities act, about handicapped toilets. those tend to have the seats and a little bit higher, so they are easier to get in and out. >> i would like to continue that discussion when we talk about aging in place. as people get older in their homes, we need to acc

what if a lot of that oil is now lying on the bottom? brian todd is looking into that. >> wolf, the scientists have been showing us samples of this oil from the sea floor in the gulf. evidence they say much of the oil from the deepwater horizon spill may not have been dispersed, and may pose a long-term threat. a deepwater csi in the gulf. a potentially ominous finding. researchers discover what they say is a substantial layer of oil in areas near the deepwater horizon spill. the team, led by a university of georgia marine science professor, canvassed an area as close as two miles from the wellhead and as far away as about 80 miles. in several samples from the sea floor, they found concentrations of oil seeping as much as two inches into the setment. >> we're going to talk to dr. joy on a research vessel, ten miles south, 25 nautical miles east of the wellhead. she's on the research vessel. we're going to call that now. i asked joy about other scientists who question her findings, including those who say so much oil seeps into the gulf na

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 want to look at the paint lines on this building, it's kind of hard to tell until you get up close. remember, this building is kind of a grayish tannish color, i guess. when you get a little bit closer, this side of the building should be the same color as this side of the building. what happened was this building moved away from the building next door and that's how far it moved. separation be

. >> all i did was screamed oh god from the time i figured this out to the bottom of this hill. the top of my lungs, that's all i could say. i mean there was nothing else i could do. >> the force of the impact was so strong the dump truck swallowed the back half of this honda accord. the driver of the honda walked away. the back seat? empty. >> miracle nobody is in the back seat. >> oh, well yeah, because the truck is well in the interior of the car. >> a domino effect followed as a dozen cars were smashed around. 5 people went to the hospital. ruby white, bus driver, saw the whole thing doctor i was sitting at the red light and i saw this dump truck come zooming down the ramp and i said to myself "is he gonna stop," i said to myself am i ever gonna see anything like that in my life,. >> reporter: she was driving special needs children when she saw it. >> he hit the honda, the honda hit me, turned the different way to hit the bmw and it hit the side of my door and then these cars start banging each other. >> oakland police say they will not likely charge the dump truck driver. h

the problem primarily is if the bottom -- if that seal -- if the bottom part of the glass, if your weep holes get gummed up and the glass finds itself sitting in water, not draining quite right, water and that sealant is dynamite so that makes it fail sooner. so the first thing you want to do is go home tonight and clean out your weep holes and make sure that everything is draining through your windows. but it's only going to last at this point, technology-wise until they come up with a better product and better sealants. 25 years is a wonderful thing for laminated glass. >> in the building department i see people coming in and replacing windows that they have replaced already, they replace with double glaze -- well 10 years ago, 15 years ago, and the seals have improved. but i see many people replacing them again and we will see them being replaced again if they can last another 20, 25 years. whereas the windows in my house might be a hundred years old but they're not double glazing. i think the state is in their push to have energy efficiency, requiring dual glazing, or other similar

flowing into the big transport structures that exist around the city, probably flowing right at the bottom of these very large structures. they are on the order of dozens of feet wide and dozens and dozens of feet deep and they have little sloped bottoms and q nets at the bottom where most of the dry weather sewage flows all the time. that waste water is transported to the treatment plant. on a rainy day, those transport storage structures, the large structure represented in the center of the picture, start to fill and they fill dramatically. it always amazes me to watch a flow gauge or a level gauge on one of these structures. just to give you an idea of their size, if any of you are familiar with the great highway out by ocean beach, there's one of these structures that runs under the great highway that's about two miles long, about 40 feet wide and about 40 or 50 feet deep and it can hold 50 million gallons of runoff. i can watch the level gauge on our monitoring stations just creep up when the rains start to get hard. so the amount of water that we handle in a storm is absolutely treme

you know, it's good for the top. bottom is protected. so that's primarily where most wire glass has gone. >> just a comment about skylights in the building code. skylights of glass can be located at any distance from that property line protection that i mentioned earlier. typically in san francisco when you're on a property line you have to have a one hour wall. olderbles don't have it but after the 60s they do. this can be right up to the edge of the roof. however, a plastic sky light may not be. a plastic sky light has to be kept back how far from the edge of the roof, one of you building inspectors? three feet from the edge of the roof. i'm not sure why but that's specifically regulated. >> partly because the plastic is flammable. the plastic heats up -- the bad part about plastic is that it will burn and melt. at one point in time, lexan was the cure-all for everything. you can't do this, you can't do that, it's indestructible. a major jewelry store put it in their windows, and they were home-safe, it's perfect. till a enterprising bu

accountability to the bottom to the top. but not the whole story. >> be specific then, michelle. in washington, d.c., you closed schools, you fired teachers. a lot of controversy around that. randi, do you believe in accountability, what happened in washington, michelle, you start, when you did fire teachers and close down schools that weren't performing? >> we got a tremendous amount of pushback. i think the superintendent bobb knows this as well.

this is just at the bottom of the screen here.ane center indicating 80% chance of a tropical cyclone developing next name on the list would be nicole. forecast models take this quickly up the coast thursday into friday. we could be dealing with tropical storm nicole of some fashion rolling up the east coast. check our forecast model which does follow heavy rain. after we get this batch out and pushing across to the eastern shore by this afternoon. we follow in this frontal boundary stalled to the south. this is tomorrow morning. watch tomorrow night and watch thursday. heavy rain from whatever that low pressure is, named or not named, could bring us flooding thursday into friday. we'll continue to watch it from the storm center with updates on-line at abc2news.com. check this out though, 79 today, after the morning rain and isolated thunderstorm but otherwise we turn partly sunny. we dry out tonight, dropping back down into the 50s. tomorrow 72. the clouds come back with rain at night. watch that heavy rain, potential flooding thu

attendance has been at or near the bottom as well. yet, internal team documents leaked to the media last month showed some clubs, like the marlins, are hitting home runs on their profit-and-loss statements. the marlins earned $39 million in operating income in 2008. the pittsburgh pirates reported $22 million, despite 18 losing seasons in a row. the profits were helped in large part by what's called revenue sharing. that's where all major league teams kick cash into a central fund that's divvied up and distributed back to the teams. the lion's share goes to small -market teams. revenue sharing, says j.p. morgan's rich walden, is supposed to make financial equals of teams as diverse as, say, the new york yankees, and the kansas city royals. >> there were serious concerns whether 30 teams could survive in the major leagues. so, it's really done quite well for major league baseball. >> reporter: revenue sharing money is supposed to be used to sign up better on-field talent, and result in a league where any team could be in contention for

zoom you out here i want to show you the overall weather pattern and the bottom line is this is good. this is a great set up for the last weekend of summer 2010. can you believe it. it's here. and the weather looks fantastic as that front pushes south high pressure rolls in for saturday and sunday. going to mean sunshine for the swim sunday morning. let's take you back down show you the models. you can see things are definitely looking nice and clear overnight tonight. these clouds kind of break up get out of here. we should see more sun tomorrow and a lot of sunshine as we go forward into sunday. we have to bring it back out to the tropics real quick here. such an unusual situation. category 3 hurricane igor as of this afternoon pushing up into bermuda this weekend it's going to be a rough time out there. we've also got carl down there in the caribbean sea. so the bottom line is as we give you the forecast here things are looking clear tonight and into the weekend looking for better weather tomorrow right into saturday night and the 7-day forecast also showing some very, very good we

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lawmakers are trying to get to the bottom of the outbreak and prevent it from ever happening again. joel brown reports now from washington. >>> reporter: the owner of one iowa company at the center of this summer's massive egg recall told congress and the public he is sorry. >> we apologize to everyone who may have been sickened by eating our eggs. >> reporter: jack has been called before the house package looking into the recall of a half building eggs. sarah lewis was among those who got sick. she had a clear message for lawmakers. >> i wish i could say this would never happen again. please consider changing your fda policies to more closely monitor the egg industry. >> reporter: the fda investigation hasn't turned up a specific cause for the outbreak but agency experts found evidence that the salmonella strain that made thousands sick was present at hillandale and wright county eggs a company that supplies hillandale. decoster is no stranger to battles with the government. records show he paid millions in state and federal fines over 20 years for health, safety, immigration, and

but at the bottom of this, david, and michelle? we changed the contract to make it more transparent and cohesive, to give michelle and the district more tools on teacher quality. we gave the teachers more tools. we gave the district more tools. the issue in terms of us is to make sure that teachers get the

at the bottom or near the bottom on all the ratings lists of how schools in the state and the country are doing. so i have a bit of a personal interest. i want to watch this process unfold and you have the filmmaker who really has started the nation talking about what has been a long neglected issue, public school education. kimberly, take it away kimberly thanks, geraldo. with me one of the producers of the critically acclaimed "waiting for superman." what was one of the biggest surprises you found when filming the documentary? >> a lot of the problems people were telling me were too big and too complex come down to common sense. and one of the biggest things that you think we would remember here in america is that teachers rewarding supporting and grooming teachers are one of the most important things we do and we have a cultural kind of prestige deficit in america and we don't truly value our teachers. if we are going to say our children are our future we need to put the most talented person in the classroom to teach them kimberly seems to make sense. the film has received a tremen

you check up to the minute delays or cancellations by going to the abc 7 flight tracker at the bottom of our home page, abc7news.com. mike is ahead with the forecast. >> let's take a look outside and see what is lurking at the coast. i didn't think that was the shot we were getting. sorry. (laughter) >> thought it was going to show the fog and the cooler air coming our way with the fog. we'll talk about how that will change from today's heat and poor air quality. >> surprise, surprise, surprise. a family pet stolen seven years ago is finally found but a certain rule is stopping the owner from a happy reunion with her pet. and the video that sparked

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the reason for the blast the governor said that is still yet to be determined but he will get to the bottom of this. he understands so if the frustration was not been able to get answers about what happened and what went wrong. there's a lot of bureaucratic red tape a lot of agency spatter overlapping of the answers should be forthcoming quickly. >> you're only allowed to talk to the investigators, believe me within the next few days you have the information because of back now want it to drill down and get the information because he was a community have the right to know that is the bottom line. >> one of the things that's interesting to note that most of the blast scene has been left as it is likely to show you right here in the front lawn of someone's house. they have left these large slabs of concrete the burned out cars everything has been left exactly where it was since the blast happened on thursday. kron 4 maureen kelly has a firsthand look at more of the neighborhood. is very little left. right here is the brick walk way that used to lead to the front door. the hand rail that used

it works on the bottom line. it is one of the reasons it is such a complicated problem to solve. it is one of the reasons both political parties are split on this issue. while the republicans tend to be very aggressive, wanting more enforcement, there is a piece of the republican party that understands the chamber of commerce point of view, which is the status quo has served us pretty well. host: if you want to hear more about it, go to their web site. there is an interactive map there for each state. thank you for being with us. that does it for today's "washington journal". we are back tomorrow and 7:00 a.m. eastern time. we have a show, we will take your telephone calls. we will talk with an assistant professor of economics at george washington university. she will break down the labor market for you. at 8:30, we will have brigadier general jeffrey smith joining us from kabul to talk about security transition in afghanistan. then we will turn our attention to the housing market. the "time" magazine front page cover story was re-thinking home ownership, why owning a home may no

after that work will start on the bottom kill. that involves pumping thick mud and cement into the well, and that could be completed by this weekend. that would take care of sealing the well, but cleaning up from the mess, of course, it created will like take much, much longer. meanwhile, the seafood industry insists shrimp, fish andysters from the gulf are safe to eat. >>> 66 degrees right now. ahead on "news 4 today," a popul diet drug gets a closer look. >> why the fda is so concerned this morning. plus the november elections are finally set after the primaries. we'll get a preview of the new political landscape, including the tea pty movement.

follow the our wake-up window at the bottom of the screen. we will have an extended outlook in a few minutes. right now kim brown has a look at the traffic. >>> good morning. traffic looking really good so far this morning. i'm guessing a lot of people are going to sleep in because they stayed up late watching the game. we don't have accidents. as you look at one of the usual slow spots on the west side of the beltway at liberty road, really not so slow. just speeds down slightly because of volume but very minor delays as you make your way through the outer loop stretch this morning on the west side. as we look at the drive times, we're looking pretty good there as well. no problems up and down the harrisburg expressway, it's going to, six minutes between shawan and the beltway. on the very top side between 83 and the jfx no problems there. and on the jfx only four minutes southbound between the beltway and northern parkway. a good morning to get to work and school early. back to you. >>> 6:18. 58 degrees. for many teens and 'tweens fashion i

bp can now proceed with the bottom kill. that's the process where they're going to dump that heavy drilling mud and cement from the new well into the bottom part of the original well permanently sealing it. officials expect that to be completed by sunday. >>> well, the mother of missing teenager natalee holloway reportedly sneakednto a prison cell in peru to have a face-to-face encounter with joran van der sloot. be the meeting reportedly lasting five minutes before prison authorities removed her. the peruvian news reporter said he would not answer any questions about natalee hollow y holloway's disappearance in which he's been a prime suspect in aruba back in 2005. >>> a new book. did she say life in the white house was "hell?" the first lady of france's new book. 10 minutes after the hour. (announcer) everything you need to stretch out on long trips. residence inn. i know who works differently than many other allergy medications. hoo? omnaris. [ men ] omnaris -- to the nose! [ man ] did you know nasal symptoms like congesti

the u.s. dollar index bottomed out in 2008 and 2009. are you still holding on to uup and what is your forecast for it? very little uup right now but we will own more of it in the future. what happens is deleveraging. the government is actually trying to stimulate the economy. the problem is it's deleveraging faster than the government can put money into the economy. it sounds crazy but that means there are fewer dollars. so you are not bullish at all on the dollar index? i am but not as much as before. we are looking as there is a retraction in the market to purchase more. let's go over some new ideas now. number one the federated prudent bear fund it is bear x. right now it is around $5. do you have an exit price on that? no i have really what is an entry price first. i want to explain how the tool works but we really do not have enough time. it is a hedge for people who are active investors and unfortunately it is expensive to purchase but it moves very very quickly. you should look into it and own at least a portion of it so you can o

we'll have the forecast in a few minutes >>> the school systems will be crawling across the bottom of the screen, will you be crawling through the commute? >> no delays, but we have fog warnings. 95 at the memorial bridge and a warning at route 97 and at nickadimis road, there's a cow in the road and there's fog at old fort and key bridge, that's looking better and a look at 95, south of the beltway. and remember, wjz-13 is always on, go to wjz.com for more. don, back to you. >>> this is a scene that many of us will remember, a tractor trailer in the water of the bay after plunging off of the bay bridge. now, two years later, the family of the driver who drowned settled a lawsuit. good morning, once again. >>> good morning, once again don and everyone. the final settlement isn't exactly what the family had originally hoped for, it brings closier to the tragedy. >> reporter: it was more than two years ago that the 57-year- old truck driver was killed in this terrifying crash. his tractor trailer plunged off of the bay bridge when he swerved to avoid an on coming camaro driven by a 19-y

and the bottom ninth inning, luke scott, the first home run in a month. that is the second hit he has ever had of of where mayor appeared bases were loaded for lance burke. he gets to the double play by a whisker. that was used as we get to the bottom of the 11th. luke scott, doubles after getting the home run. and then wigginton. please stay with us. >> these are the nice days. >> falwell refresh -- will officially begin on wednesday. we may be greeted with a sprinkle on monday and tuesday. we will have cool and comfortable mornings. then we may have a chance for a thunderstorm. there may be a lingering and thunderstorm threat into thursday and friday. >> it is still looking pretty good. thank you for joining us. we will see you back here tonight after the game. everyone knows a fee is a tax. you raised some taxes during that period, particularly the property tax as well as a lot of fee increases. as you know, there's a big difference between fees and taxes. but...they're the same. it's a tax. it's a tax. it's a tax. it's a tax. there's a big difference