>> yes, your honor. >> i was the highest in my welding class. i was there more than any of the other kids. >> so you learned something while you were in placement? >> yes, i did. >> you said that while you were out after you didn't go back in may of 2008, to quote you, you caught a charge in illinois. >> yes, i did. >> what does that mean you caught a charge? >> i committed another crime. >> okay. and what was that crime? >> unlawful use of a weapon. >> what kind of weapon? >> it was a handgun. >> so you were charged as an adult -- >> as an adult, yes. >> -- because in illinois at age 17 you're considered an adult, is that right? >> yes, ma'am. >> so you were there and three months in the cook county jail. >> yes, ma'am. >> how did that work for you? >> it wasn't nice. i woke up. >> welcome to adulthood, right? >> yep. >> did you learn anything from that experience? >> yes, i did. >> what did you learn? >> i don't ever want to go back to prison again. >> so what are you going to do to make that doesn't happen? >> hopefully when i -- if i do get r

we have a huge range of equipment in the tech shop, everything from milling machines to lathes, to welding and sheet cutting equipment. >> how long would it take to do something like that? >> that probably was maybe a five-minute cut. the other thing that's great about tech shop is that we have our dream consultants on staff all the time. they'll cook right ov-- come rit over and help you out and make sure you feel confident about it. >> i lost my job about a year ago, and i was really kind of worried about the skills i didn't have. i felt i was only capable of sitting in front of a computer and typing e-mails. so i came to tech shop with this big goal of reskilling myself. my name is david lang. i'm with a group called open rv. we created an underwater robot. basically, you plug this thing into your computer and you can drop it into a pond or an ocean and control it and see what it sees. so we launch aid kickstarter product a month ago, and we raised $110,000 from people all over the world. so we are so busy building robots right now. >> the way we do our classes at tech shop is, if you c

and all the state you know the welds i mean if you live in syria today well there's not a happy place a toll that we have a wonderful organization called the elders that are trying to help. resolve a complex attack lakhdar brahimi who's one of the elders you to be seeing people rushing to try to get agreement as quickly as possible so that we can square the. people of syria. i think if we can get russia or russia or old gordon or barack or old board we. the syrian government on board hopefully we can get to get that problem is all about the site actually work well the elders are actually i don't deny station the twelve people that nelson mandela sets up. and they. have people like president. nelson mandela. people with high bar of authority they work as a as a as a as a group to tied a result called. and then somehow the individual elders i would like to be here has been asked by the united nations to try to. work with the various countries involved with syria to try to to try to get this problem result and. so since you asked am i happy with the world obviously syria is a miserable p

district attorneys are holding firm that until the last day it is illegal, they will prosecute and the weldnty d.a. for example is issuing a statement saying accordingly wee will not be dismissing existing marijuana possession cases but, more importantly, our office prosecutes low level possession cases to get drug users help with their addictions. that practice will continue until state law changes and state law changes mid december. shep? >> shepard: isn't it just a matter of driving to where it's legal? >> it is, actually. and because of that, the bolder d.a. and the denver d.a. are saying they don't want to spend time and money on something that's going to be legal in a matter weeks. but even before amendment 64 passed, in denver, you really had to work hard to get arrested for pot because city voters had already made marijuana a low level offense a few years ago. >> the only way you could go to jail under the old law was if you didn't come to court. so if you smoked too much of the stuff and forgot that you had to go to court, then you would get arrested. >> law enforcement is concerne

the steel plate inscribed with a welded goodbye from the ordinary people who fell in love. jessica had six operations one of them removed the little toe from her right foot so people were not surprised to see her riding in a wagon. they were surprised to see this. >> the parents want to say once again, thanks to everyone. we want to wish you a happy thanksgiving because we know we will have one. thanks to the graciousness of some brave men and the grace of god, we have our baby back. >> she lost part of her right foot and has undergone 15 surgeries as a result of the time in that pipe. she has no firsthand memories of what happened. in 2006 she married a man 13 years her senior and is now jessica morales. the couple lives just two miles from the the site where jessica was stuck in that well. they have two children. $800,000 in donations were put into a trust fund that jessica could access when she turned 25 years old. jessica mcclure morales has said she plans to use that money for her children's college education. >>> still to come on a second look, remembering the sofas.

you can tell the fins are welded on. that was russ plenkin. an american bip ldiplomate is f maine senator george mitchell. he was senator from 2009 to 2011. he served as peace negotiations. i spoke to him about the difficulties that lie ahead. how optimistic are you that this cease fire can hold? well, it is a big step formed because the violence has ended. on the other hand, past experience tells us it will be difficult to have an enforce ab abletruce that takes place over a long period of time. >> both sides interest can be served by stopping the violence on the issues on both. >> in terms of the larger peace agreement, how complicated does it become? and also involvement of other groups. >> very complicated. by far and away the most complicated situation that i have been involved in. it makes it difficult. in fact both societies are divided. and, the arab spring has created a new dynamic in the region. which can be harnessed for the benefit in moving forward which could provide some obstacles. it is the most complicated situation imaginable.

today crews from the utility commission welded a manhole shut. it was the same hole that burst. >> we want to make sure we don't pass the problem on to another manhole so we've checked those out and made sure that they are secure and we're feeling confident about that. and then we also have made sure that our system is drained and ready to accept all the storm water and sewage coming into it with this next storm. >> the beach was scheduled to open this week but the opening is now delayed because of the upcoming storms. >>> and we've got some storms to talk about. they're headed our way. we've been talking about them since yesterday, actually since last week. right now what's coming into effect are wind warning, it's a short window. around the coast that red area that represents wind warning. it is going to be extremely windy along the coast with winds gusts to 60 miles per hour. the rest of us a wind advisory. let's take a look at the storm as it sits. it's sitting offer shore. you can see there's a couple of parts to it. i'm going to move it up h

you can tell, the fins are welded on in a rudimentary way. >> before the cease-fire, he and his crew,d to take cover a number of times. one american diplomat who understand the difficulty what it took to negotiate the cease-fire and what it's going to take to maintain it, former senator george mitchell. special envoy to the middle east from 2009 to 2011. mitchell held the post of senate majority leader, schooled in the art of negotiating. and in 1990s, he served as chair of peace negotiations in northern ireland that led to the successful good friday peace agreement. i spoke to him about the difficulties that lie ahead. how optimistic are that you this cease-fire can hold, and what would the next steps be? assuming it does hold? >> it's a big step forward, the violence has ended, and that's critically important, the longer it goes on with more fighting and dying, the hard ter er it i solve any problem. it will be difficult to have a really enforceable truce over a long period of time. there may be a recognition here that both side's interests can be served by stopping this kind of vio

poppy harlow brings us the story of an industrial gas and welding business in brooklyn that took generatorsnerations to build and is now downing with debt. >> reporter: the streets were outside liberty industrial gas and welding. >> in less than ten minutes. >> reporter: this is nightfall as the waters begin to rise. at this point i think it's gone. >> sandwiched between two bodies of water. >> so this is the canal coming up with the harbor, and liberty is right here. we really had quite a surgery because of the river and the guanas merging. >> reporter: ashley murray's family business devastated. >> this is very hard for you personally? >> yeah. >> reporter: i can see it in your eyes. >> yeah. yeah. it's just we're devastate. it's just been a devastating process, and there needs to be a little bit more help. >> reporter: do you feel forgotten? >> a little bit, yeah, yeah. so this was once a really nice showroom. >> reporter: 80% of her inventory gone. >> essentially we have moved everything into our stockroom so that we can work from the sidewalk, so now this is where we are functioning fr

rollover i think we're seeing it now we've got economic crisis in every country around the world whether or not you think welding jubilees sounds like a good idea the bottom line is their only mission is to help the common good not wall street profits which to me is always a movement to get behind. already and often i was telling my colleague bill daughters here and all the interest in malton and bringing this. wealthy british scientists on some time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. resistance is not our politics but our culture. is couldn't speak against. some of it so. cultures of resistance on our team. brass are they sure see stairs. i miss it's him he's a nanny take care of my daddy. a lot of those indians there's a famous phrase benson claim is oh my save. my money ransom business. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar a night concludes the longest and while this campaign in our history covers and

you can tell because the fins are welded on in a rudimentary way. >> that was cnn's fred pleitgen. and his crew were forced to take cover a number of times. one american diplomat who understand the difficulty what it took to negotiate the cease-fire and what it's going to take to maintain it, former senator george mitchell. he was president obama's special envoy to the middle east from 2009 to 2011. mitchell held the post of senate majority leader, schooled in the art of negotiating. and in 1990s, he served as chair of peace negotiations in northern ireland that led to the successful good friday peace agreement. i spoke to him earlier about today's developments in the middle east and the difficulties that definitely lie ahead. senator mitchell, how optimistic are you that this cease-fire can hold and what would the next steps be, assuming it does hold? >> well, it's a big step forward because the violence has ended. that's critically important. the longer it goes on with more fighting and dying, the harder it is to solve any problem. on the other hand, past experience tells us it wi

civil injuries are saying basically we should prepare for more natural catastrophes here in the bay area. poor welds and lack of inspecial caused the explosion an incineration of a san bruno neighborhood years ago. putting off maintenance is not an option but they can't afford to do it. we are told more aging pipes could be in the area. injuries didn't look favorably on the infrastructure. the grade they gave for urban stormwater and flood control was a low d. in order to keep up, the bay area needs to spend nearly $3 billion. lawmakers say raising taxes is controversial but it's the best option. they voted in berkeley to pay higher property taxes to fix roads and other problems in the infrastructure. so engineers say at this point it could be a cautionary tale. pay up now or pay more down the road. cate caugiran, cbs 5. >> thank you. >> go to cbssf.com/weather to see hi-def doppler in your own neighborhood. >>> 5:06. let's check the roads. >> it's dry for now. yesterday we had so many accidents with the rain and wind. for right now the camera holding steady. 880 through oakland no major wind adviso

the owner says they plan to weld it back together. a lot of pieces though. >>> a newborn monkey that arrived during the giants post- season run now has a name. it was named after a player. the guy with the orange head right there. the san francisco zoo named the female monkey romo after giants closer sergio romo. the zoo said that was the overwhelming favorite name and fits with the baby monkey's playful personality. he can throw a baseball, too. other popular choices were posey and scutaro but that's a romo. >> he has the hair but does he have the dimples? >> i don't know. but he has the name. that's all that matters. >> sure. >>> was it a hurricane or super storm? the important distinction that could cost storm victims a lot of money. >> he hit the jackpot. what george lucas plans to do with his new $4 billion disney fortune? >> a good luck story, a lottery winner nearly misses out on millions. how she found her ticket right in the nick of time. >> right now live pictures from the kennedy space center in florida. check it out. space

the owner plans to weld thomas back together. >>> for years now we have told you about the rash of metal thefts just like that one and how much it ends up costing bay area cities utilities people. but there is dna-like technology that can catch a metal thief redhanded. cbs 5 reporter elizabeth cook shows us how it works and asks, why isn't anyone using it here? >> reporter: thieves crashed a truck through a fence to get to copper wire in this pg&e yard. >> we have had almost $5.2 million in copper theft over the last six years. >> reporter: in vallejo, criminals strip wiring from the electrical grid. >> over the last 18 months, we have had over 97 different locations where thieves have taken the electrical cables that power our streetlights. >> reporter: that's on top of 300 places where they have stolen brass components from the water system. and across the bay area, they take metal from cemeteries. storm drains and automobiles. [ non-english language ] >> reporter: it's a problem that's not foreign to europe, either, where thieves have hit heart at infrastructure like germany's rail s

the phoenix. along with countless volunteer citizens. he's a few statistic, all-welded construction. oximately six feet and bow 10 feet. stern, five feet. maximum speed, 15 knots. the phoenix is equipped with radar, radio and is in contact with san francisco fire department and the coast guard. the coast guard and firefighting equipment may it please the court on privately owned craft and available when requested by the san francisco fire department. the crew is a pilot, two marine engineers, ladies and gentlemen, the fire boat phoenix. long may she serve san francisco. next is line is the u.s. navy guided missile destroyer, the u.s.s. rebel. equipped with the aegis combat system. it was commissioned in 2002 and deployed last year from san diego as part of the ronald reagan strike group. it was one of first ships to provide humanitarian assistance following the earthquake and tsunami in japan. the first responder, the rebel embarked navy helicopters surveyed the coast line to provide an aerial perspective for the damage to other ships for relief efforts. after hearing first hand from

he will need to attend welding school. theocal chapter of aclu called it violation of first amendment. ed henry told us that earlier in year, president obama was unsure whether egypt is still an american ally. now his homeland secretary believes france is at the top of the list. janet napolitano disputed they hacked in the headquarters ahead of the election. we have no greater partner than france. yes, no ally like better than -- we have no greater ally than france. but canada is seen as the ally and then britain and israel are next. france is sixth. ♪ ♪ our top story at bottom of the hour, israel and hamas gaza agreed to cease-fire. it calls for both sides to end hos siltys and what are the chances for success. national security correspondent jennifer griffin lived and works in that region joineds us live from the pentagon. good evening. what do you think. would the deal have happened without the secretary of state hillary clinton's intervention? >> yes and no. it's interesting to note that hamas had agreed to this agre agree

the crews were out there today bolting and welding a manhole that has broke. >> with the coming rains that sort of impacts the cleaning effort of the sands here, we're going to wait to see what happens but we're going to come up with a plan to clean the stand and get this beach reopened. >> reporter: crash fishermen say they will not go out until the weather gets better which means there could be no delivery of crabs for at least a week. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> stay with ktvu channel 2 news we are monitoring conditions minute by minute with updates on air, online and through our mobile apps. >>> at 10:20, bill will be back with a more detailed look at tomorrow's forecast. plus at 10:45, the rush to prevent landslides in areas burned by wildfire last summer and bill's complete forecast with the latest computer models for the other storms that are lined up off the coast. >>> happening now, a student occupation of a building at uc berkeley has just come to an end. it started about 4:00 this afternoon when a half dozen protesters chained themselves inside a vacant campus building.

how much of a problem is it for democrats years from now to try to recreate the coalition? weld the sun belt and group have grown enough that it wouldn't matter? >> great question. i would say i thought a year ago i would have said you have a better chance getting the majority for the sun belt and the west about because he was running so poorly in the did run poorly among blue-collar whites. in the exit poll he lost even with paul ryan on the ticket for the medicare plan was deeply unpopular among seniors. 60% of white seniors voted for romney and over 60% of the non-call their whites voted for romney. so, i think that they are problematic for democrats and having said that the always from a little better among the blue collar voters in that region and elsewhere. few of them are evangelicals, that helps. look at north carolina to a i don't know if the exit polls -- i will tell you in north carolina or virginia, obama's number on the blue-collar whites are unbelievably low like in the high 20s or around 30 come some of them are even evangelicals. but in long run i do think that t

the crews were out there today bolting and welding a manhole that has broke. >> with the coming rains that sort of impacts the cleaning effort of the sands here, we're going to wait to see what happens but we're going to come up with a plan to clean the stand and get this beach reopened. >> reporter: crash fishermen say they will not go out until the weather gets better which means there could be no delivery of crabs for at least a week. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> stay with ktvu channel 2 news we are monitoring conditions minute by minute with updates on air, online and through our mobile apps. >>> at 10:20, bill will be back with a more detailed look at tomorrow's forecast. plus at 10:45, the rush to prevent landslides in areas burned by wildfire last summer and bill's complete forecast with the latest computer models for the other storms that are lined up off the coast. >>> happening now, a student occupation of a building at uc berkeley has just come to an end. it started about 4:00 this afternoon when a half dozen protesters chained themselves inside a vacant campus building.

joining us at the table now is former massachusetts governor bill weld. ma in 2008 but this time around he throws his support behind mitt romney. thanks for stopping by. the story from the last few days from the romney campaign's angle has been record crowds for romney at the rallies and lots of enthusiasm. republicans still think they can win this. if you look at the polls, they have moved in obama's direction in the last few days. i guess i wonder, you as somebody who has known mitt romney for his entire political career from the very beginning, he's spent five years at least running for president presiden. what does a guy like this do if he falls short? >> he's had a lot of accomplishment in his life. i do think he's a foreign executive and he's had achievement there both as governor and at the olympics and bain capital presiding over high intellect individuals and keeping them happy for years. i think this guy could hurt squirrels. he'll figure out something to do. he's not a person whose ego depends on success here. i really think he's doing it for th

the law if you have some pot on you. if i was standing north of denver in weld county, the district attorney says i have an ounce of marijuanad up and prosecuted. says accordingly we will not be dismissing existing marijuana possession cases but more importantly our office gives low-level possession cases to get drug users help with their addictions. that practice will continue until state law changes. so let's say i come back to denver for a head to boulder with often don't of pot with me. i am 25 years or older and have not committed any other crimes, i will not get prosecuted even though it is not the law yet. not just a case in denver or boulder. depending on the jurisdiction: they have dismissed pending cases as well. colorado one of two states where voters decided marijuana can be used recreationally if folks are 21 years or older. his office delegated to prosecute authority for marijuana cases this became a budgetary thing. >> i made an economical decision basically don't waste your resources, don't prosecute any more of these cases as special district attorney. >> this does not mean anybody who has been busted can ju

i got coming and there is nothing to live for and they're not going to let me out of the hole they would have to weld my door shut forever. >> though he's an intimidating presence, bright maintains he's really nothing to worry about. >> the littlest guy here is not scared of me. i don't intimidate anybody. i'm like a gummy bear. what was that? oh, a marshmallow. >> you're a marshmallow? >> a marshmallow. i'm a combat marshmallow, but i'm a marshmallow. >>> coming up on "lockup: raw -- everpresent danger." >> the ghastly results when inmates unleash their rage on correctional staff. >> i broke my tv, made a couple shanks, and assaulted him. [ male announcer ] it's that time of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi pric

. >> water kept backing up to this manhole where the pressure got built up so well it popped through and started pour out and this was secured with welds so it was lot of pressure coming through that manhole. >> the water burst through a manhole there balboa street yesterday that flooded that way and spilled into the and and the ocean, the beach will remain closed until crews get clean advertise results. >>> some people in the east bay got exercise and supported a good cause before enjoying their thanksgiving meals today. >>> the 11th annual turkey swim took place this morning at the hayward plunge. proceeds go the event go to the karen gordon scholarship fund. she was a life guard at the pool and an intern here at ktvu. she was killed by a drunk driver on her 19th birthday. each year the money raised to provide scholarships to two young people who work as lifeguards. >> it helps you know the good kids that are out there with their education needs by helping them along with the money to put towards their college education. >> the money also helps the hayward plunge offer free swim lessons to low income families. >>> thousands of people

the 1960s to last 40 years suddenly collapses in 2007. 100 cars fell into the mississippi river. 13 people dead. poor pipeline welds and lack of inspections by pg&e caused the diddley explosion and incineration of -- deadly explosion and incineration of a san bruno neighborhood two years ago. aging pipes and storm drains, pushed past their limits sometimes by relentless storms. the american society of civil engineers says putting off maintenance work is not an option. >> pipelines that were designed to be in the ground for 30 years are now in the ground for 100 years. we are expecting the materials that were supposed to last 30 years to last 120 years. it's because we're not replacing these systems. >> reporter: engineers grade the bay area's roadways urban stormwater and flood control a desperately low "d." the bay area needs to spend nearly $3 billion a year to maintain infrastructure. engineers say we can't keep delaying the work. otherwise things we take for granted like -- [ sound picture ] >> reporter: -- drinking clean water, driving down the street without potholes, or just living on a street that won't flo

i got coming and there is nothing to live for and they're not going to let me out of the hole they would have to weld my door shut forever. >> though he is an intimidating presence, bright maintains he is really nothing to worry about. >> the littlest guy here is not scared of me. i don't intimidate anybody. i'm like a gummy bear. what was that? a marshmallow. >> you are a marshmallow. >> marshmallow. i'm a combat marshmallow but i'm a marshmallow. >>> coming up on "lockup raw: ever present danger." >> cracked his rib, jaw. broke his collarbone, too. the ghastly results when inmates unleash their rage on correctional staff. >> i broke my tv, made a couple shanks and assaulted him. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a passat. that's the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing, $0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit

weld. john: it is illegal for the kid to come on if he is good? >> three? [laughter] yes.um-wage. 2/3 specializes with economics say that it does kill jobs. >> more of the public should be the employer to understand providing jobs. $8 per hour after taxes you have to pay $14. you push inflation john: and yourself negative. [laughter] you should share. >> i keep my business running and make sure i can pay people. show up on time. if your shoes are not tied. i do not want to talk to you john: other stories coming up next about first jobs. [applause] >> short order cook. >> i became an aerobics instructor. >>p@ [applause] what was your first job? i was struck how many delivered newspapers. >> delivery boys. >> newspapers. >> delivering papers. john: allot of people said restaurant. >> clean up the parking lot. >> washing dishes. >> working in the bakery scraping the floors. child labor. i did not get paid with my dad. >> working at my family's restaurant starting eight years old that promoted to hostess, waitress, i would work shift after shift and i would get to so angry.

missing and several others are badly injured after an oil platform in the gulf of mexico oil exploded this morning, they were weldingipe when fire ignited 11 workers or injured and four suffered severe burns and were airlifted to new orleans the coast guard said there appeared to be little risk of any major oils billings like the one that ruptured the bp well in 2008. this oil platform was operated by black elk energy. president barack obama in the republican and democratic lawmakers expressed confidence they can avoid the so-called fiscal cliff this worst-case scenario means that tax hikes would automatically go into effect by the end of the year of the deal isn't reached the party leaders met at the white house for about one hour, president barack obama and house speaker john painter didn't try to work out their differences over taxes bigger wants to keep the rates the same for all income brackets while the president wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and there wasn't a detailed discussion on cutting entitlement programs. >> i el 1 de framework of the deals with reforming our tax code and reforming our spending.

. >> reporter: right before superstorm sandy, the streets were quiet outside liberty industrial gas and weldingten minutes. this is nightfall as the waters begin to rise. at this point, i think it's gone. an industrial park in red hook, brooklyn, sandwiched between two bodies of water. so this is the canal coming into the harbor, which is going to meet up with the river. and liberty is right here. we really had quite a surge because of the canal and the river essentially meeting in this area and flooding these streets. >> reporter: ashley murray's family business, devastated. this is very hard for you personally. >> yeah. it's just, we're devastated. it's been a devastating process and there needs to be a little bit more help. >> reporter: do you feel forgotten? >> a little bit, yeah, yeah. so this was once a really nice showroom. >> reporter: 80% of her inventory gone. >> essentially we have moved everything into our stock room so that we can work from the sidewalk. so now this is where we are functioning our store from. we have one functioning computer, one printer and we have people coming i

. >> reporter: right before superstorm sandy the streets were quiet outside liberty industrial gas and weldinghat's less than ten minutes. >> reporter: this is night fall as the waters begin to rise. >> to this point i think it's gone. >> reporter: an industrial park in red hook, brooklyn, sandwiched between two bodies of water. >> this is the gwanus canal and liberty is right here. we really had quite a surge because of the gowanus. >> reporter: this very hard for you personally. i can see it in your eyes. >> yeah. we're devastated. it's been a devastating process and there needs to be a little bit more help. >> reporter: do you feel forgotten >> a little bit. yeah. this was once our really nice showroom. >> reporter: 80% of her inventory gone. >> essentially we have moved everything into our stock room so we can work from the sidewalk. so now this is where we are functioning our store from. we have one functioning computer. one printer. and we have people coming in from the roll down door. >> reporter: before sandy you didn't have any debt. now? >> now we're probably looking at $700,000 to $

it was made in a workshop in gaza because the fins were welded on in a rudimentary way. >> a look at ose towns over the years and the rockets keep coming. the cease-fire two hours old. officials saying there have been a number of rockets continued to be fired into israeli from gaza. some have been intercepted. when i spoke to israel's ambassador michael oren he said that's not surprising, it often happens. something they'll watch closely in hopes that will taper off and finally come to a stop so the cease-fire does hold and more negotiations begin some 24 hours from now or i should say some 22 hours from now. our coverage is going to continue all evening long. wolf blitzer's coming up in "the situation room" after a short break. i'll be back on the air at 8:00 for an edition of "ac 360." stay tuned for wolf blitzer. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping

weld. john: it is illegal for the kid to come on if he is good? >> three? [laughter] yes. the public support this minimum-wage. 2/3 specializes with economics say that it does kill jobs. >> more of the public should be the employer to understand providing jobs. $8 per hour after taxes you have to pay $14. you push inflation. john: and yourself negative. [laughter] you should share. >> i keep my business running and make sure i can pay people. show up on time. if your shoes are not tied. i do not want to talk to you john: other stories coming up next about first jobs. [applause] >> short order cook. >> i became an aerobics instructor. >> copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a da

the studio doesn't like you. let's welcome our guests. she's so hot she is mistaken for a welding iron. here with brooke goldstein the children's rights institute and director of the law fare object. good for you. and he is so ripped he once cut himself on his abs. it is chris baron with an amateur november mustache. and in november he is considered a snowball, it is bill schulz. and if hilarity was a speed limit i would violate him on a highway. sitting next to me, gavin mcbegin tee. he is writing for talking mag.com. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> i guess i didn't get done with the intros fast enough. if you voted for the one, your shopping days are done. he took out a full page ad telling obama voters to stay away from his shop. cope reynolds, if that is his real name placed the ad in the white mountain independent. it reads, "if you voted for barack obama your business is not welcome at shout west shooting authority. you have broofn -- proven you are not responsible enough to own a firearm. reynolds tells the phoenix times that this is more of a political statement

this is made in a workshop in gaza and you can tell the fins are welded on in a very rudimentary way.se they often have to take cover themselves when cover themselves when rockets come flying in. >> even these guys have to go inside when there is a rocket alarm. we're going to go in here, and i guess they're probably going to go out and try to find remnants of the rockets. >> reporter: even with the possible end of hostilities between israel and hamas, rockets remain a threat to israeli civilians. it seems this will never come to an end. >> and wolf, just to give you an idea how hard the work is these guys are doing, they have been going nonstop since the conflict began about a week ago, and just in the time that we were with them, which was just a few hours, they had to go into bomb shelters six times, and then afterwards, they had to move out to various sites to clear up the debris of rockets that had rained down. so certainly the guys from that unit will be hoping that the cease fire really holds. wolf? >> have you lost count, fred, how many times you've heard the sirens going off

that's been the problem in ohio and it's happened in franklin county as happened in cuyahoga county were suddenly people who registered are not being found that they've been error and weld it's actually it's deeper than that is that the way they search for names and the way they searched for data to find so my only registration rolls is incomplete and they're doing a poor job of it and it's turned out that many people who they have told are not registered are in fact registered so they have been found to go back behind the scene and give those people absentee ballots and give them v.s.s. to the ballot but it just so huge that we need in this country serious electoral reform in order to provide for the opportunity for every voter to be able to vote and have that full count here we have saluted barbara could you briefly tell us what your organization yes the lawyers committee for civil rights under law is a fifty year old civil rights leader organization will be celebrating our fiftieth anniversary in two thirteen we were founded by president john f. kennedy to make sure that the private bar of private lawyers gave their pro bono resources to promote civil rights and raci

voters need to trust that they can follow them down the right path even if they don't have a road map. in 1932, weldirty beat walter wittman said of the art was without any important qualifications would very much like to be president of the united states. in 1945 just a few days before roosevelt died, she said the roosevelt estimate of the national interest had been accurate and farsighted. "he served as interests with audacity and patient with miscalculation and he has what to do this country out of the greatest peril that it's ever been to the highest kind of its security influence and respect which it has ever obtained. let's help the candidates in this year's election can measure up to that assessment at the end of their administration. thank you very much. [applause] we do have time for questions. a microphone is going to be handed out. >> these days we are inundated with polls. i know there was at least one national poll for the literary digest but were their others and what do they predict about that election? >> it didn't start until 36. it was in the distance at that point. the literary di

after and during the rain and flooding has some in debt. >> reporter: the streets were quiet outside liberty industrial gas and welding. >> this is nightfall, as the waters begin to rise. >> so at this point, i think it's gone. >> reporter: industrial park in red hook, brooklyn, sandwiched between two bodies of water. this is the guanis canal coming into the harbor, which is going to meet up with the river, and liberty is right here. we really had quite a surge because of the guanis and the river essentially meeting in this area. and flooding these streets. >> reporter: ashley murray's family business devastated. >> this is very hard for you personally? >> yeah. >> reporter: i can see it in your eyes. >> yeah. it's just -- we're devastated. it's just been a devastating process and there needs to be a little bit more help. >> reporter: do you feel forgotten? >> a little bit, yeah. yeah. so this was once a really nice showroom. >> reporter: 80% of her inventory, gone. >> essentially, we have moved everything into our stockroom so that we can work from the sidewalk. so now this is where we are functioning our store from.

the expected storm drainage. just last week a small downpour forced sewer water out of a manhole that was welded shut sending raw sewage on to ocean beach. could that happen agai? >> we hope not. we have cleared the system to deal with the onslaught of water. >> reporter: that unexpected leak of untreated water happened before six years ago. separately there are occasional discharges into the ocean part of the combined system that combines sewage with rain runoff running through the same pipes. in those release, the water is treated making sure no solids escape into the ocean. >> the beauty of a combined system is that we protect the bay and ocean because we treat the water. in san francisco we treat it and that's good. but it has a downside and when we have these heavy rains that fall in a short period of time, our system reaches capacity and we do these discharges. >> reporter: you can see the sign is still up which means the city is still advising people not to get in the water and given the storm conditions that are on the way, would you have to be crazy to get out there, which means we will be bringing you p

the phoenix. along with countless volunteer citizens. he's a few statistic, all-welded construction.roximately six feet and bow 10 feet. stern, five feet. maximum speed, 15 knots.

for john mccain, john mccain's votes in the red here and this beige color up here. weldy up here at the top of the state, a pivotal base of conservative support typically. president obama did especially well right here in denver, and i just obscured it with my circling, but up there in boulder county. also pueblo county, he is expected to do well. but the rest of the state, well, what are you seeing in terms of support for mitt romney this time around? >> well, mitt romney's doing really well. you know, last week he had a rally at red rocks where he got, you know, 10,000 people, and then they were turning people away. tried to go see him and paul ryan. this saturday he's got another rally at a big sort of concert arena that holds 18,000 people. the campaign says they're hoping to fill that, they think they're going to fill that. but, you know, last night president obama was in boulder which is a blue area of the state simply trying to get out the vote at this point. i don't think anyone thinks there's that many undecided voters, so they need every single young voter they

. >>> new video tonight of the aftermath of a fire in south san francisco. started about 6:00 at a welding supply business inside a larger warehouse on san m ateo avenue. they called for three alarms because of the danger to the entire building. crews kept the flames from spreading to other businesses in the warehouse. >>> jim harbaugh missed practice afterundergoing what they called a minor procedure. doctors discovered the irregular heartbeat. today niner players expressed support for their coach and say they expect him back soon. >> it unfortunate that something like that happened to a guy like that. i know he's a strong person and he will overcome all of that. we will see him tomorrow. >> he's going to be all right. we know he will. >>> and later in sports, giant's catcher buster posey on the mvp award he is adding now to his trophy case. and the elite group he joins. >>> protesters joined to the streets as fighting escalates in the middle east. tonight's protest and counter protest come as pelestinians in gaza are firing rockets and the military is answering with attacks. >> reporter:

on the forbes like celebrity power list, number 20, because you are a writer, a director, an actor, a producer, a playwright. it sounds like you haven't found your thing yet. what is next? spot welding? why so many things? >> i am just trained myself early on, i didn't have much money so i learned how to do all the jobs myself and i don't know how to let goyette. >> colbert: really? but where do you find the time for the writer, director, playwright and author, right? >> yes. >> colbert: probably most famous for playing medea. thank you for playing that role, there are far too many good roles for old black women. elderly african-american actresses have it too easy. by the way, who employs more african-american actors? you or everyone else in hollywood? >> i have got them beat, it is all me. >> colbert: really? >> it is all me. >> colbert: you have got a new movie coming out called alex cross. it is a little bit of a departure. >> yes. a little bit of a departure. >> colbert: let's depart. >> let me see your hands. let me see your hands. butt down the gun. put down the weapon now, do it now! >> is this what you want to die doing? drop the gun? put your hands behind your back now, sir