when they dumped the rock into the bay mud, it was like dumping rock into jello. it went down into the mud so that they could build off of that. it then took the angle of repose. it is stable. san francisco came and built piers on piles over the top into the water. >> the piers are built up over the water. >> refusal is when you cannot advance the pile anymore. this is under the bay mud over there. they meet refusal. they gain support and bearing on top. saltwater attacks concrete. in the old days, they did not understand the effects of salt water, chloride on concrete and steel. a lot of these piles may have started out 24 inches in diameter. they may only be eight or 10 inches in diameter now. whatever steel was in there is long gone all along the waterfront. >> wonderful buildings. at the double dog and a beer. >> this is wonderful. it is right on the waterfront. it is due piles. >> that is the location of what is now the san francisco port authority? >> yeah, port offices. and there is a new office there and slip. this is one of the few places where they recent

the rock under here is franciscan. it is sandstone. it is probably the hardest rock in san francisco at this location. we have just recently completed an investigation for the expansion of cathedral school, and they chose to go down 20 feet below the surface of the street, and it was incredibly hard. it was harder than the concrete that was placed as a foundation. the rock beneath the concrete was 10 times stronger than the concrete that is used to support the building. >> okay, moving to another part of the city, this is the eastern side. >> this is on army street? >> yes, this is army st., se. look at all that stuff. it is an active city. >> a lot of the old industrial, the american can co., goodman lumber. all that good stuff. >> wow. >> and this building is one of the examples of remaining 1906 earthquake damage. it has been repaired above, and that is where they repaired the damage. what did they found these buildings on, back in the early days? >> those days, remember i mentioned early on, it would use of redwood grillage and they

the first version of the rocks. the second. the national gallery has brought to the other works from around the world to tell the story of leonardo da vinci, of his 15 surviving paintings, nine that are here. years of diplomacy and negotiation have gone into bringing together the paintings and drawings. this is the "virgin of the rocks" that hangs in the national gallery. you get to see the inspiration's of the painting as well as the original version that hangs in paris. it is something that probably not even leonardo saw. we have twovirgins of the rocks" and one row. will this happen in tenor 20 is? >> this is really a once in a lifetime opportunity. >> we will never get this together ever again? >> i did not think ever again. this is the first time in 500 years and perhaps we should wait another 500 years before i say never again. >> what explains his fame as a painter is of course of the skill. compare this hand by leonardo to one by his pupil. but it is a faces that really excites the experts. when you do get nose-to-nose,

the rock crab bringing up some of the first rock we encountered. some of the shafts have gone deeper than originally planned, but the originally planned death was pretty much an average overall the 207 piles -- the originally planned depth. concord operation for one of the buttress installations. finally, the utility installations. we completed so were work on et al. last month and repaved and passed that sidewalk, completed natoma street. some restoration work at howard that was left to be done got finished this month. as many of you are aware and some of you attended, we had a special event on site to commemorate the completion of the demolition and starting of the shoring wall and buttress work. appreciate everybody who was able to make that. and there are the hours to date with local labor running right around 70%. total labor being worked on in the transit center. happy to take any questions. thank you very much. >> just a few questions. this is a great report and looks like it is making good progress. how are we doing specifically relative to

and university in texas competing for the biggest rock wall and trying to attract students based on the rock wall. cut them off until they change their approaches to luring students to the educational facilities. >> steve final word. >> vouchers would work. parents and kids would contribute and look. where to getet fattest education and best. and how about three years a lot of parents and kids would sign up for that. >> more cities evicting occupying wall street protestors, is it a victory for capitalism? at bank of america, we're lending and investing in communities across the country, from helping to revitalize a neighborhood in brooklyn to financing industries that are creating jobs in boston or providing funding for the expansion of a local business serving a diverse seattle community and supporting training programs for tomorrow's workforce in los angeles. because the more we can do in local neighborhoods and communities, the more we can help make opportunity possible. >> all over america. occupy wall street protestors . stores o >> no more squatting. occupy wall street protestors

the first thing i did when i got there was touch the rocks. is incredible. i said, maybe it's just me. >> what's the difference? >> picture a day, a perfect day here in atlanta at 72 degrees and then another day at roughly 40. that difference in temperature, you can feel it on the rocks and that's what is making the difference in this project. >> so how long, how long will they have to do this before ultimately i guess the goal is to cover it entirely with ice? >> i guess the question is not necessarily how long but how much. >> how much. >> right now they only have a space of about three football fields, which is very, very small to be able to say that the theory actually works. so he needs to cover much more ground to say, hey, it actually works. it's an experiment, but at least it works. we're not standing by and watching these glaciers disappear. >> it's so fascinating all at once. so jealous by your peruvian trip, by the way. >> thank you. >>> and, now, big developments in the syracuse child sex abuse allegations. the syracuse department

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. >> the painting, the drawing that inspired it, the first "virgin of the rocks." and the second year of the national gallery has brought together works from around the world to tell the story of leonardo da vinci, of his 15 surviving paintings, nine of them are here. years of diplomacy and organization have works to bring together the paintings and drawings. this is the picture hangs in the national gallery. you get to see all the drawings, the inspiration for the paintings, as well as the original version that hangs in paris. it is something that probably not even leonardo saw. nine paintings of his in one exhibition. two "virgin of the rocks" in one room. >> this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. >> we will never see these all together again? >> this is the first time in 500 years. perhaps we should wait another five wounded years before i say never again. >> ticket sales have broken records. what would explain his fame as a painter? compare this hand by the leonardo and one by his pupil. it is the face is that really excites the experts. when you do get close

mike strike, as the patco members jokingly called him. yet when mike rock opened the safehouse door, maher's confidence was not inspired by the sight of his friend. rock looked worried. this was unlike him. in past battles with the government, rock had exuded a cocky confidence. on this day maher found his friend uncharacteristically subdued. thinking that rock might only be tired and hoping to pick up his pal's spirits, maher recounted the news he had gleaned at the union's headquarters the night before including the rumor about potential mediators. isn't it is -- the silliest damn thing, this asshole swearing me to secrecy, maher chuckled? but rock could not share the laugh. instead, he delivered his own grim diagnosis. reagan was determined to break the strike, rock said, and when a president stakes a stand -- takes a stand like that, no union could force him to back down. then turning to the man who had helped him found patco rock said, well, jackie, we got to the end of the road. it's all over now. maher was ip credulous -- incredulous. mike strike rea

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steals the rock. diving on the ground. and finds kidd-gilchrest. kentucky wins, 97-53. >>> i'm don bell. that is your espn news update. >>> coming up next, "the pulse." and a live tv lottery drawing with a really surprise ending. >>> plus, the story that won't go away. kim kardashian in australia gets grilled on live tv. >>> all right. welcome back, everybody. time to check out "the pulse," the stories you will be talking about today. >> if you're not already. we begin with kim kardashian, making her first on-camera comments since she filed for divorce on monday. >> kim appeared on the australian show "sunrise." and she was grilled on what she did to save her 72-day marriage. >> how hard did you work to keep it together? >> i think when you know so deep in your heart that you just have to listen to your intuition and follow your heart, there's no right or wrong thing to do. >> kim and sister khloe are down under to promote their new handbag line. kim's mom, kris, will be on "good morning america" later this morning. this will be sure to come up. >>

. >> stephen: calls him the rock. the rock between the ears pete. >> some have told me it's playful pun on his character, rocky basically. he calls two of the disciples jake and john sun sons of and thunderment exactly it's a critique about them being loudmouths or their mother earlier on said will my sons be at your right hand. some scholars say it may be a playful way of talking about they are mother. there's his sense of humor. we miss it. i'm trying to recover it in the book. >> stephen: there's one point i thought he did laugh when the apostles are out in the boat on the sea and the big storm comes up and they are worried and they see jesus walking toward them on the water. and calming the waters around him. and peter says to himself, hey, if i've got faith, i should be able to do this, too. he steps out, takes a couple of steps. he sees his stormy, loses his faith and falls in. >> jesus says come on out, go ahead. i can see him smiling a little bit. >> stephen: he takes a couple of steps. he falls in. after a co

there was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. y seemed off to chiafi. way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. if a person falls off a cliff, usually they're going to go south or they're going to go right down. should have been right down where i got off the ropes. that's where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stephen's behavior while the search was under way. officer walter ciere was surprised stephen was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for jody. did he give any indication, i don't want to leave, my wife could still be alive down there? >> no, none at all. >> ciery says he couldn't believe how willingly stephen scharf got into his patrol car. >> i tell you, if it was my wife, girlfriend, whoever, they would have to pry me away from that scene if i was still at the top of the cliffs. >> but he willingly got into your patrol car. >> without a word said. >> stranger still was how calm the husban

a man trips and falls to the ground as the rock crawler runs right over him. b rolls on top of another vehicle. finally putting an end to his wild ride. >> at that point, the lights came back on, so to speak, and i was sitting up on top of another vehicle, looking at the crowd, which was very strange to me, seeing as how 60 seconds before that, the crowd had been behind me. >> bob is shaken but only suffers minor injuries as a result of the crash. shockingly, no one else is hurt, not even the man that was run over. bob meets the lucky spectator after the competition. >> he had a tire tread across the front of his t-shirt at an angle. and he said, yeah, he goes, right here's your tread mark. i'm never washing this shirt again. i'm going home and putting it on the wall. >> even though no one is seriously hurt in the crash, bob knows that he and those around his out of control rock crawler are lucky to be alive. >> to see that, it was kind of scary because you're actually totally out of control. there's nothing you can do about it. it's just a different scene bein

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. >> one of the worst songs. >> did you call this classic rockjust older. >> send in your question. we'll try to answer it for you. you calls upload your video. we'll upload your question. you know what to do. >> we just want the music to stop. >> let's check in with julie wright and find out what is happening out there in traffic. >> she got me when she said this is classic rock? >> it is not. >> it can't be. i couldn't believe it. there is no way. right, julie? >> no, i would not consider jefferson starship classic rock. >> me either,. >> phil mccartney. >> that is classic rock. >> chuck lennon, all of those guys. >> all right. let's say hell tote crew in sky fox. continuing eastbound on 66, your lanes are open as you work your way from fair oaks to the capital beltway. we'll take you back inside. lanes are open. no incidents to report as you work your way in from fair oaks headed towards 123. there is a brief delay at the beltway. here we are live outer loop as you work your way past colesville road headed around towards georgia avenue. no inc

. ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card.n points you can use for travel on any airline, with no blackout dates. >> bay area scientist try to figure out what killed a young orca. 18 foot male juvenile washed up north of a stretch of coast line part of the point raze national sea shovrment lil i don't know has the story. >> this has the skin blubbler and muscle. >>reporter: scientist at the california academy of scientist in san francisco is taking a look at the piece she cut from the dead orca. video provided by the academy shows the killer whale at the national sea shore soon after passerby spotted it thanksgiving day. orca typically travel far away prosecute shore so to have one turn up on the beach is rare. >> the only other orca i ve ever worked on was a calf. we see orca calf ever once in awhile. very young animal. so to see a larger animal 18 feet long it was he was beautiful. >>reporter: she's now trying to figure out what caused the orca's death. killer whale a juvenile was healthy and had a good layer of blubbler. bu

when they took or the rock out of the ground within that rock there are all of the minerals that are really for leds and cadmium and everything else and they would crush it break it smelt it to get the minerals out to get the metals out and then the little chips of rock that are left we call it chapped well it's tail is it's the tail winds from the mines what's left over from the stuff they didn't use their real inviting and you have to admit myself as an adult and when i first saw it i just i just could imagine how it would be the funniest thing in the world to kidnap there and roll down them slide down them four wheel down them anything as a child can just imagine looking at something that looks like a gigantic sand pile and be told no you can't go up there i can imagine that were used also played on in the wintertime when the snow and ice was on we used to . go to a local salvage yard and get a car hood and you never have a good time to you come off one of these wells were small when i was with the. in a car hood expressway with two or three aboard picher a car that's where most o

the little rock club. no jus or blacks allowed. he researcher was allowed in there because he was guest of the people but he could never have joined as a jew. the world these people describe -- i say in the book it's something like -- all of these people are now dead, and it's like spoon river anthology for those of you who remember. voices from the dead talking about little rock in 1957. and it was really a pretty bleak place, and racially it was in the knee neanderthal stage, and you don't have to be pally anna to know about the strides that have been made since then. these are superficial things maybe but the first thing you see when you fly into little rock is the little rock airport commission. the photographs of five or six people, and there are two blocks and four whites or whatever, or maybe it's three and three, and you're reminded right off the bat of how much different things are here. at least on the surface. and so -- i mean, i think all of the -- so much of the antagonism toward obama is racially oriented, and their re

welcome to rock school! the frederick rock school. 125 students, all of them share a passion for music and the desire to perfect their ability to play. >> you don't know what's coming next and the whole song get screwed up. reporter: what makes this school even more unique, students form their own bands and new bonds. >> it gives an opportunity to like have a variety of people to hang out with outside of like school. reporter: route 21 is the name of this band, five students now good friends. 11-year-old mason, 14-year-old kayla, 12-year-old shane, 15-year-old dillan, , 9-year-old aidan all performing their hearts out. aidan also happens to be the son of the man who started the school, but no added pressure. he remains very much a kid. >> you can come here and you can like do your homework here and you can play games here. >> let's go. let's go. reporter: scott marseron is a music industry veteran who started playing bass in local bands. the 36-year-old eventually transitioned behind the scenes working in management with artists like

the songs could be as esoteric as the troubled start, andy kaufman. it is was alternative rock. do say this same of the causes that they championed. -- you could say the same. they fought for environmental, feminist, and human rights causes. are they for real or just celebrity liberals? >> they were lumped in with the charity rock aristocracy, they kept to an esoteric agenda as well because you had michael stipe supporting any number of causes and he genuinely believed them. his heart was in rather more than stain, shall we say. than sting, jal we say. to take this kind of music and fill stadiums with it is no easy feat. >> the in idiosyncratic michael stipe marked their breakup with a new video. did they throw in the towel after david cameron picked one of their tracks? >> did you decide it was just over? >> it was a long moment. we took a while to figure out that we wanted to call it a day. >> why? you could come back a bit. you could do like the rolling stones. >> it was an opportunity for us to walk away on our own terms. this is something that very few bands have had their p

three take a tour of the stream or broke cold would you like a road the way the rock to make its way under it. and comes out from the other side as a full fledged stream after merging with other soldier rainy and streams. we do we know it has enough water to feed into the so called blue lake but. it's a monument of natural beauty so. there diverse can go down to a depth of more than eighty meters and that will be. it pains the scientists to see a cave with the unique microclimate and rock graffiti slowly decaying under the impact droves of tourists. where the disease you're going can see the enormous entrance to the cave that the people look like small insects against it of course the wind heat and moisture get into every corner of the enormous caverns ruining the ancient creations we're faced with the gigantic task of saving them i mean while the group of tourists has taken a catamaran see the full mounting who says one small they were rough down the be a river all the way to cap of the case. the billion is best carry is lot just a most important was way. i. come on now all together.

the national park service is doing work to stabilize the rocks just past the key bridge. that means that left most lane that comes from the onramp to the key bridge and to exit on to the spout run parkway just up ahead that, will be closed and the work will last through december. are you ready for this? the spot, of course, remains jammed during morning and afternoon rush hours. but the entire road northbound parkway from spout run to route 123 will be closed this weekend. that closure saturday morning begins at 6:00 a.m. and will go through sunday night. they're definitely suggest you use right 50. i looked at maps for you. i think canal road will work. maybe 66 will work and route 29. you remember what happened on canal road awhile ago where the rocks came down on to the road because of the rains. we definitely don't want that to happen. >> no. we don't want an accident on the parkway when the rocks have come down. you want them to stabilize. you wish it wasn't the weekend you needed to travel. >> but then when winter comes along, you'll be happy they did it. >> an aste

the scientists are looking for. here take a look. man may have come here to chip at this rock we assume that it was some sort of ritual. recently the traces of an ancient people under several layers of cash while they were deciding on another tourist route. to skulls and skull fragments make it clear that the young girls were of an ethnic group that inhabited the urals. it is not entirely certain but we think that the girls may have been killed and then buried here. to see the most important discoveries of the cap of a cave there is the so-called graffiti at the top of the cave only research as are allowed to visit it. here we can see the first graffiti ever found on the territory of the urals that was back in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine they were discovered two thousand kilometers from the western european center of paleolithic art the discovery sparked a lively response. to. the graffiti picturing mehmet who says fifteen thousand years is a unique example of prehistoric such graffiti had been found only in caves in the south and for. scientists to still unclear abou

the speed of the water combined with the mud and rocks made it impossible for some residents to get out. >> it took some time to get my grandparents ready. we put them in wheelchairs and had them cross the streets. >> we had to open the backdoors to the garage to allow it to flow back down the steps. >> the gushing watery seem belled a guyser spewing in two directions. >> i thought it was raining. and then i looked down and saw all of this water gushing down from the hill. it is like a little san bruno. thank goodness it is water and not gas. >> the pipe that broke was a 12-inch feeder line that was connected to a larger 5-foot main. >> so these are two lines that actually bring the regional water into the 26 wholesalers that get water from us. and they deliver here on the peninsula in the east bay. >> both lines had been recently replaced by the san francisco puc. the water had to be diverted before shutting it off. sky 7hd shows the moment they finally did, three and a half hours later. the massive amount of water undermined an empty lot directly behind the pipeline, sending mud and r

they analyzed them and found out that the moon rocks had magnetic properties. they're like what? ling them all of this time because the moon doesn't have a magnetic field. the earth has a magnetic field. here's why. they i've got this avocado. it helps explain the structure of the earth. we have our solid inner core. the meat is the hot magma of the earth. wa we've got our outer crust. because the earth spins, that creates motions and creates a magnetic field. the moon is one big chunk, one big hunk of rock basically and it doesn't spin. it's too cold to have some of these properties so they're like, why is it then that there could be magnetic properties in these rocks. they've got a theory now as to why this happened. basically, they're saying a huge on the the size of mars crashed into the earth and a big chunk of it came off and they think the moon used to be much closer to the earth than it is now. in fact, maybe twice as close as it used to be. it cooled over time. you can see how it could have the magma in it originally but it has to do with the tides. they think the pull be