on the road again? much with just that in my mind. it was an easy song to write. >> larry: once you hear it, it never gets out of your head. it's one of those songs. as president of farm aid, you wrote to barack obama, offering to help him put together a new u.s. food and farm policy. any word back? >> i did talk to the secretary of agriculture and i got some very encouraging reports from him. and i'm looking forward to talking to him again and seeing what we can do to help the farmer. >> larry: what is your basic idea? >> to get the farmer more money for what he does. get the dairy farmers more money for what they do. they are in bad condition right now. they're not getting enough money, and the dairy cows are -- are not worth what they should be worth. and this is really bad for not only the farmers, bad for america. it's bad for all of us. >> larry: how did you get involved and interested in the farming thing? >> i was doing some shows at the illinois state fair. and i was on the bus talking to big ji

and they make the road disapeer to the national park. >> and the road is about 20 feet lower, normally midday, you go through it in two minutes. looking back from the golden gate bridge to presidio, you are more aware of the park land and less of the roads. and the viaduct will parallel the existing one and to the south and can be built while the existing one remains in operation. and the two bridges there with open space between them and your views constantly change and not aware of the traffic in the opposite direction and notice the views more. and the lanes of course are a foot wider than they are today. and they will be shoulders and if your car is disabled, you can pull off to the edge. and the next area, the tunnel portal will have a view centered on the palace of fine arts and as you come out, you can see alkatrez island and bay. and the next area is about 1,000 feet long. and when you come into one, you can see through the other end. it's almost like driving through a building than through a tunnel. and noise from the roadway will be sheltered. and the traffic will be out of v

he's on the road again, literally, with the on the road again tour. s newest album, "country music," will be released next tuesday from rounder records. always good to see him. last time you did this show, you were on the phone from your tour bus. you're touring again now, right? >> sure. >> tell me about it. >> we play anaheim tomorrow night. we were just in vegas for a bmi convention down there and a broadcasters convention. >> larry: how big is the tour? >> oh, i don't -- you know, i'm just starting. i don't know. just one long tour, you know. >> larry: they don't tell you beyond the next night? >> i don't want to know. >> larry: because we've shot some scenes in your bus. does your bus go everywhere? sometimes you have to fly, right? >> yeah, but i always hate it. i love it when i can just stay on the bus. you know, i don't even use hotels. i stay on the bus all the time. >> larry: why? >> i have everything i need there. shower, food, and i got a couple of people in there to wait on me hand and foot, so i get better service there than i get in the

c state route or a members put up road signs. at the association printed maps, whose main feature was roads. using these navigational tools and improved roads, motorists could visit all the spanish missions of california, provided that they carried enough spare tires. each new highway hoped up a new pastural vista. >> for the motorist, a spectacular seen along the spectacular 101 through majestic redwoods into california's wines. >> spectacular destination with tips on auto care and handy maps. there was the national club, the american automobile association, forever afterwards to be known as aaa. the california club issued a permit to drive in golden gate park and sponsored school traffic patrols. csaa joined aaa in 1916 and offered road service. first a couple of tow cars and then a whole fleet, offering on the spot repair and towing service to any member who could find their way to a telephone. conway, who worked his way up to vice president of the association, today, putters happily many his workshop in novato, but at 93, he remembe

he's on the road again, literally with the on the road again tour. west album country music will be released next tuesday. always good to see him. last time you did this show, you were on the phone from your tour bus. you're touring again now, right? >> we were just in vegas for b my. convention down there and the broadcasters convention. >> larry: how big is the tour? >> i don't, you know, i'm just starting. i don't know. just one long tour, you know. >> larry: they don't tell you beyond the next night? >> i don't want to know. >> larry: because we got some seeds in your bus. ! i stay on the bus all the time. >> larry: why? >> i have everything i need there. i got shower, i got food, a couple of people in there that wait on me hand and foot. i get better service there than i get in the hotel. so why go in there. >> larry: are there times you have to fly? >> yes. and i don't like to fly. i don't like all the hassles. never, you know, i don't like the luggage and all that stuff. >> larry: it is a hassle for you? >> no more than they hassle anybody else

i should do the picture of the 1-way roads. the cost that it brought with it. underneath the existing sign, you had to make another sign on the other part of the road. the also had to indicate you are a car driver on a one-way road but you may have cyclists on the other side. we said, let's pass the message that it is like that, with or without the extra sign, but we could not because it was prohibited by european regulations. we do have some constraints there. >> in the netherlands, you have a separate bicycle path where you cannot turn right without having to encounter other bikes going straight ahead or going left. in a lot of cases, they have traffic lights and they say underneath, cyclists to the right may pass at the red light. in the netherlands, it is quite common that cyclists who are turning right may do so at a red traffic light. >> ok, we are a little after 1:00. before you leave, i would really like to thank the mpc and the german marshall fund. >> if anybody is interested in the presentation, there are some real interesting slides. we will be post

. >> we will report up to oregon or the oakland road. a lot of northbound construction zone going on. southbound 101 to 880, that connector ramp is closed in both directions. a lot of activity there as you and laura talk about in the mornings, thank you for those live reports, the construction zone from hellyer up to oakland road and possibly further north. a steady flow of trucks on the side doing the repaving work. right now they are just doing that work real, real heavy job going on there as they repave the entire freeway. >> a lot of equipment out there for commuters. good news is the road is so smooth ones it's fixed. >>> mixed reaction across the state to a judge's decision to overturn a ban on gay marriage. from san francisco to west hollywood, there were cheers for the ruling that came down yesterday. a berkeley couple was part of that lawsuit that led to the overturning of proposition 8. >> our family is just as loving, just as real, just as valid as everyone else's. >> chris perry and her partner are among the plaintiffs who fil

much of the road has been eaten away. the flood waters are still swirling around, spilling more damage, and along the length of pakistan, a village after village looks like this. it is believed 1 million homes have been damaged or destroyed. 650 million pounds worth of crops have been lost. reconstruction could cost up to 10 billion pounds, according to one official estimate. these are the sugar cane fields that should have sustained them through the winter. now they have come to fish in the floods, the same water that filled his home and furniture shop. he is hoping for help from abroad, but does not expect too much. >> the powerful will get aid first. we are the weaker ones and will get the help last. >> he is doing all he can for himself, a man who refuses to give up. but he says survival is in the hands of god. >>> south african police have fired rubber or bullets at workers striking in johannesburg, the second day of strike over pay and work conditions. the army has been brought in to protect hospitals, health workers

watching the road behind him as he goes. this poem is called big thicket. jasper, texas. >> to big thicket a crack is a buck shot, a stick broke, cracked headlights. crack, the big thicket we go 2 sticks. drink, drink, light, light. stagger in the road. statistic o statistic broke. the light, buck shot light. >> buck on stagger. what you looking at. the white stick. along the trees, along the trees. the buck staggering home. the crack. big thicket. what are you doing here? >> stick broke. white light. break for home. white homing. ha, ha, go, go, buck shot, kra e crack, crack, crack. hit lights. what you think you are. >> ha, ha, stick broke. in the brushes. in the rushes. put them back on. bufks head in the rushes. put them back on. to big thicket we go, hot we go to hit staggeringly along the frees. crack, a steak broke. we go, go, go, buck shot. we go, go, go. up the road. road kill. staggering bucks. head light rushes. pick up brushes. race broke, screeching. the big thicket we go, buck shot, crack. the road kills. crack e a broke stick. on we go on. [ap

just more cars on the road as we talked about. h around the schools, school zone is of prime importance this time of year. and the bay bridge, a nice, easy drive coming over from the east bay. and in through burkely and amityville. based on that traffic flow and the expected flow increasing this week. laura, back to you. >>> mexico city has bragging rights to a new guinness world report this morning. they created the largest number of sigh mull taken yulsly ee ruchting men toes geysers over the weekend. look at that. people of all ages. they wore a lot of rain gear, they had to, before dropping mentos into the bottles at the same time. they shot soda six feet into the air. the previous record holder was china. >> kind of cool. >>> saving money is not the only reason that you should brewtea.u sn owa.om o skeomf o those bottled versions and we'll show you why, coming up.

i should do the picture of the 1-way roads. the cost that it brought with it. underneath the existing sign, you had to make another sign on the other part of the road. the also had to indicate you are a car driver on a one-way road but you may have cyclists on the other side. we said, let's pass the message that it is like that, with or without the extra sign, but we could not because it was prohibited by european regulations. we do have some constraints there. >> in the netherlands, you have a separate bicycle path where you cannot turn right without having to encounter othe

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then it is out on the roads with an examiner. before mohammad gets his hands on one of these, he has a thing or two more to learn behind the wheel. >> that is our in-depth look at learning to drive in different parts of the world as the german government gives the go-ahead for the minimum driving age to be lowered to 17 starting next year. thanks for joining us. stay with us if you can. 9

golden gate, you can see just a couple cars on the road for a. es come easy ride 21 minutes from the bottom san francisco. wrapping up what they look across and traffic is the james lick, just a couple of nice and easy ride towards the city in mexico. >> 518 drivers demanding now have their own nature of the land starting today terraces i never foster will get a $10 toll credit use on the 680 for slate. almost so motorists will be required to pay that troll carpoolers, however vehicles with a valid sticker as well as motorcycles will be allowed to continue using the age of the land for free. the credits cannot be used towards bridge rosa keep the mind from our formation call 511. or visit safeway and costs over more formation. construction will start today at the was prone muni station to install new fare gates emergencies speaking dates as well as ticket vending machines in all in order to help access the subway quicker using that smart card as well. construction will take place in the westbound direction will only have one for gate opened in the

they were driving down the main road of iraq on their way to kuwait. they were driving about 45 miles per hour. spaced apart. and then very early in the -- before dawn hours, they crossed into kuwait. there were a few soldiers standing and saluting them. it feels like we reached a turning point. 50,000 american troops will remain in iraq to train the army and train the police but not on a specific combat mission. >> now, richard, this is the main highway. that means this is the main highway where a lot of u.s. servicemen have lost their lives. ieds, sniper fire. you have been on some of those missions along with them. how is this mood different as they were leaving and did they think that it was mission accomplished? >> it was a -- the phrase mission accomplice ekoccomplish so politically charged that people in uniform don't use it. yesterday there was not a single shot fired. there were no ieds, the strikers were loaded. they had their protective equipment on to prevent ieds, but it wasn't necessary. there were no threats at owl or incidents. what a di

>>> there are the roads you do not want to make a mistake on. the most dangerous intersections. tonight what we uncovered could save your life. >> no show at national night. the mayor is a no show. >> the butterflies have been going in the stomach, but we are optimistic. we put on a great case. >> tomorrow is decision day for the gay couple who took prop 8 to federal court. >> just in tonight, the plaintiffs behind the prop 8 lawsuit anxiously gear up to hear the court's ruling. will the court rule they have their constitutional right to marry stripped away? th ceouple talked about their fight and hope for tomorrow. >> it is painful to stand up for what we believe in. i'm hoping everyone can see what happened in the courtroom. >> the ruling won't be high drama in the court. the judge will issue its opinion through the court's electronic filing system. >> it is not just the plaintiffs waiting on that system. vicki wynn joins us with the heart of this ruling. >> this is an argument that centers on marriage. is it defined as a union as a right between a man and a woman. a stanford

the plan is to reconfigure this road and move it 30 ft. he east to get for their way from the water. this is a section of the plot adjacent to the high with the crumbled during the storms earlier this year. some 70 ft. of these clubs have been washed away in the last 10 years pure the road is been close from slow boulevard if passed as do all the way to skyline boulevard. the detour is caused traffic backups during the evening during the southbound commute. the part of public works expects the road to reopen by an october 15th. in addition to the work they just completed a report that will help determine how they will be permanently shoring up the bus along that area as well. the work that was done earlier this year is temporary although it could last for years. the working with other agencies to figure the best possible way to the erosion of the loss to a minimum. >> prices at the pump are on the decline the national averages at $2.71 a gallon. that is down about poor cents from last week. the price is still about 8¢ more than this time la

he's on the road again, literally with his "on the road again" tour.ewest album, "country music" will be released next tuesday from rounder records. always good to see you. last time you did this show, you were on the phone from your tour bus. touring again now, right? >> sure. we play anaheim tomorrow night. >> sure. >> tell me about it. >> we play anaheim tomorrow night. we were just in vegas for a bmi convention down there and a broadcasters convention. >> larry: how big is the tour? >> oh, i don't -- you know, i'm just starting. i don't know. just one long tour, you know. >> larry: they don't tell you beyond the next night?

he says the barricades were not blocking the road and he thought the cement was dry. adding insult to injury, he's only had the car for about eight months. >>> and after a year of hard work, engineers at the university of utah have developed a robot that can climb rough surfaces. it uses two claws, a motor, and a tail that swings like a pendulum. eventually its developer hopes to use the robot to inspect tall buildings, bridges, and dams, but for the short term he says it works as a teaching tool or a a really cool toy. >>> well, now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc's meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. good morning, bill. >>> have you done any wall climbing yourself, rock climbing? >> i have before. >> that surprises me. >> my high school had a rock climbing wall. >> excuse me. high school. >> it was very exciting. there you go. that's your fun fact. >> i'll leave it right there. let's move onto the forecast. good morning, everyone. as we head towards the weekend, it's going to be more of the same. yesterday the he

the plan is to reconfigure the road and about 30 ft. east to get for their way for the water. this is a section of the block adjacent to the high with the crumbled during the storms earlier this year. some 70 ft. of these cliffs up and washed away in the last 10 years the road is in close from slow boulevard past as you all the way to skyline boulevard the detour cause traffic backed up during the evening turned the southbound commute. the department of public works expects a row to be reopen by october 15th. in addition to the work public- works has completed a report that will help determine how it will be permanently shoring up the bluffs along that area as well. the work that was done earlier this were your is temporary although it could last for years. the work with other agencies to figure out the best possible way to the erosion of the bluffs to a minimum. in san francisco kron 4 >> news> i live look outside from ocean beach look all these people at the beach in joining the nice warm weather. at least it's nice close to the coast

we caught up with rob in southern california to chat about life on the road, from the crazy schedule.roit, and people are, what the heck? >> well, i have gone on stage and not known exactly where i was, and i am like, hey, you guys. >> reporter: to the crucial backstage comforts. why are musicians so picky about the exact foods they have to have in their rooms or did you commission this specific food? >> don't touch my fritos. you frito-nabber. >> reporter: i opened up the bag and got one, and i got yelled at because i touched rob thomas' frit fritos. moving on, the day starts a full ten hours before the show. the crew preps the stage, and lights and sound and most importantly rob's piano and guitars. >> that new car smell. >> reporter: five hours later, rob gives them a go at the all-important sound check where we got our own private performance. ♪ i don't want to be ♪ lonely no more ♪ i don't want to have ♪ to pay for this >> reporter: as amazed as i was at the musical tall leapt on stage, i was impressed by the quit wit that i saw off staige. >> i feel bad, because we we are referr

we're trying to reduce the number of cars on the road. back to you guys. >> yeah. pretty look out. >> it is going to be a spare the air day. high pressure is holding things in for a couple of days. >> yeah. of course, we're lined by mountains to the southeast and north. we don't have much of a sea breeze to keep things stirred up. air quality usually gets poorer around the bay area. right now, 59 in san jose. 57 in oakland, san francisco, 57 and just a trickle of a sea breeze this morning. we have some air quality unhealthy and it's our first spare the air day this summer and we'll see round two tomorrow and round three coming up on wednesday. inland, 90s around san jose. should be places like fairfield and morgan hill, upper 90s and low 90s around petaluma tomorrow. an excessive bay area around for tuesday and temperatures cool off as we approach the weekend. back to you. >> we'll be getting ready for it. thanks, rob. >>> getting friendly on facebook, the little known secret about their latest application that could send out your location to more than just those yo

the curry fire is breaking out near curry canyon road yesterday afternoon. the fire has threatened one home but it was saved. fire crews got relief last night when the winds died down and the humidity went up. >> we had aircraft working throughout the day. we have had fire engines and hand crews, crews that put in hose lines in to mitigate this. >> the first challenge firefighters faced yesterday was a downed power line. they had to wait for pg&e crews before they could get past it and attack the fire. investigators are trying to determine if that power line started the fire. we have a reporter on the scene, and we'll have a live report as soon as possible. >>> it's going to be warm today. not quite as hot as yesterday. record high temperatures all over the bay area. triple digits common in the east bay, heat may have kept some people away from the farmer's market in concord that the farmers say it's good for their crops. nobody could keep cool at waterworld because the park is only open on the weekends, that's after school opens for the season. it was a bann

righted it happened at head of air way boulevard on 580 big red tip over dumping 20 t of fertilizer on the road that has blocked all but the far right lane. chp funneling everybody threw their. traffic, showing you what that has done to the drive times all the red on the sensors speeds less than 25 mi. an hour in front of the airway boulevard all the way back all the way to that to 05. if you're headed out that way in that direction use 580 use an extra hour to commute time because of this accident. let's bring in this live shot. i wanna talk to yoli she has been there half an hour watching the scene as it develops. >> they are trying to get this up right did they will try to duet with the sacks of fertilizers at tax catch to the bed appeared they will stop traffic when they tried to up ternate. people coming in expected to go slow but it will be stop and go as well. >> it looks like a dramatic crash any word on the driver? >> he seems to be okay according to chp he said he had a blowout he was in the far right lane and he bounced off of the side wall and they not across the four lanes on its s

the government is setting up a road trial and which will be financed by raising the duty on petrol. we've made a decision in principle to make road construction a priority part on budget spending the volume of the federal road trying to reach more than twelve billion dollars next year which is three billion dollars more than what we are spending. on road construction this year and the amount of money available will continue to grow it industry analysts say russia already allocates plan to offer money for roads the problem is that it's not spam to fish only which makes the cost of construction in russia one of the highest in the world despite the often poor quality of the driving sara face that's generally call of business our team and that's all the business you now but i'll be back with more of you in about an hour's time and of course you can find the stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business. come to the future. from middlemarch the one car what makes a mechanical engineer and automotive pioneer open a book in recent years most innovative to use the checkered flag

the country's road network is not torah patch and the developed. country needs to build about thirty percent more roads and reconstruct the old ones. in russia or at least the speed of cargo transport would rise one and a half times if the park tools are fixed it would rise to a half times but alone could not approve three percent to russia's g.d.p. the government is setting up a road trial and which will be financed by raising the duty on petrol. we've made a decision in principle to make road construction a priority part on budget spending the volume of the federal road farms will reach more than twelve billion dollars next year which is three billion dollars more than what we're spending on road construction this year and the amount of money available will continue to grow it industry analysts say russia already allocates plant it off money for roads the problem is that it's not spam to fish only which makes the cost of construction in russia one of the highest in the world despite the often poor quality of the driving surface that's an absolute