here with wire trenches going out this way. and so they can come in and say, i want an electrical outlet right there where your foot is. and they can open up this plate, run a wire down a sleeve, drill a hole where you're standing, and pop utd a wire -- up a wire, and never go down to the tenant below. they're called monuments. well, here's one. here is a monument. here they are. when they're done and the tenant moves out, they fill these in. at one time, there was a power plug here. and this is where people want to have buildings with the ultimate flexibility. but there's a premium to that. >> there is, yes. >> and there's tradeoffs. you can either pay now or pay later. >> that's right. imagine drilling, going underneath a floor drilling a hole and bringing up a pipe for every single outlet. >> and it all has to be in conduit. you've got to pop the ceiling down and run this. >> whereas a beautiful space,. >> hard wood ceilings. >> how about the electronics, wiring? >> electronic and low voltage wiring and all the other. >> all

you might think you would have to be on a glacier or grand canner to fall into a trench 20 feet deep.>> that happened to a man this morning in gaithersburg. kristin fisher shows us how firefighters got him out. >> nearly 20 feet beneath the roadway at the bottom of a trench, a man seriously injured waited to be rescued. >> my understanding is that trench was for a construction site nearby and pretty much, more than likely attacking to a sewer system in the roadway. >> a construction worker was standing by the trench when a ride on bus struck one of these barrels knocking the man to the bottom of the hole. >> an adult man, described in his 40s. >> this trench is 16 feet deep. that's a long way down. >> it took two dozen firefighters in urban search and rescue specialist to get him out. >> we got a ladder truck to come in and a basket and rope system to remove him from the trench area. >> an hour later, he was free. >> after we got him out of the trench, continue to stabilize and keep him warm. his injuries are described as serious, but not life threatening. >> montgomery county police,

. >> its ultimate fate is to be carried down into the trench.nd carried deep down into the earth. >> it cannot avoid it? >> it cannot. once that is gone, there's another and it will be next. >> a close up the image of the volcano right on the edge about to be destroyed. remember, this is a mountain several miles high. >> this is the next one going down into the trench. you can see the way it is getting sliced up, these parallel fractures going yen, come may -- cutting up -- the way it was going in, cutting up this mountain like a loaf of bread. >> the great wave that hit japan last month was the result of an underwater earthquake. the more they are understood, the better the chance of an early warning for the next one. >> i'm aging images -- mountains sliced like a loaf of bread. mix the grand canyon look like a little ripple on a page. december 7th, 1941. it's a day feared in history and ceremonies will be held in hawaii to mark the 70th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. the japanese assault killed more than 2000 americans enter the co

. >>> a bus, a construction barrel and a trench rescue nearly 20 feet beneath the roadway. of this happening this morning in gaithersburg. montgomery county police say a man, possibly a construction worker, was standing by the trench when a ride on bus hit a barrel which then hit him knocking him down to the bottom of the hole. it took 24 firefighters and urban rescue folks just to get him out. that victim is now in the hospital with serious injuries. he is expected to survive. no word yet if any charges will be filed in the accident. >>> an update now on a story about waste full spending. the obama administration is stopping nearly all production of the presidential dollar coin saving taxpayers $50 million a year in production and storage. in 2005, congressman dated that the u.s. mint make these coins. but the white house says more than 40% of them are returned to the federal reserve because nobody wants to use them. >>> with only 18 days before a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits expire, the house approved republican legislation to keep them going. here is the problem,

mid-county highway in gaithersburg where there is a rescue going on trying to reach a person in a trenchn this incident investigators are not sure where the person knocked the -- whether the bus knocked the person into the trench or they jumped in to avoid the bus the person's injuries are serious but not life threatening, a trench rescue in gaithersburg if we get more information we will bring it to you. >>> according to world vision economical tough times or economic tough times are making americans more generous. a survey they commissioned found people are more likely to give a charitable gift as a holiday present. >> man do we have a gift idea for you. min diof world vision joins us to talk about the survey and gift giving options to help others. really help others good morning. >> happy holidays. >> we have to explain the goat i want to ask about world vision let's talk about gore true the goat. >>> she is a 4 -- gertrude. >> she is a 4-year-old goat world vision christmas catalogue has untraditional gifts in there these are some of the most life changing gifts you can buy during th

. >> my role as a rescue was to help with the shoring and the trench.y job was also to be one of the diggers down at the bottom that actually dug from the trench over to the well where little jesse was. >> as the operation approaches its fifth hour, 17-month-old baby jesse seems to be hanging in there, but the question everyone is asking, how much longer can he last? >> my only thought was he's getting tired. i was worried about him maybe giving up, and i was talking to him, you know, comforting him as well myself. >> firefighter tim daneen is working with other rescuers in 15-minute intervals. they've made it down 20 feet safely and are cutting across when it's tim's turn to dig again. he's finally close enough to talk to the baby boy. >> oh, jesse, just, i'm sorry if i, you know, knocked any dirt in your face, and just give me a few more minutes, i'll have you out of here. we're all working together to get you out. hang in there, buddy. >> as he talks, he inches his way closer and closer. >> we knew we were really close, about three or four inches. an

. >>> firefighters crush unit construction worker who fell 16 feet into a trench this morning. it was at the intersection of mid county highway and washington grove road. he suffered non-life threatening injuries. >>> another day of sunshine before changes had our way. >> we are tracking it all here in the weather center. we have a bit of a fluctuation. a cold front will purchase later this week. then some potential energy will bring is a wintry mix. i will dive into those details coming up. first, let's focus on the beautiful day. total sunshine. a few isolated-) -- a few isolated high-thin clouds. this warming trend will continue, but not for long. i have the details coming up. >> >>> a harsh crackdown crack for youths performing mass robberies. >> crimes like this have initiated a crackdown on flash felt like this. >> they need to do something. if they could kick them out of the store when they come in. >> but geoffrey wolff's trecker plans to propose legislation that will increase penalties. each person caught responsible will be charged with everything that is stolen. it w

perplexed that knowing that my wife and i are among the most affected, the ones who have been in the trenches for all of these years, the new ownership never once approached us personally to try to explain what they are doing and try to hear our concerns. president newlin: ok. thank you. >> i am the other voice of opposition. i have lived there for 23 years. most of the problems we have started when the previous bar got its permit, and every year that they had a permit as it became more and more popular, the problems intensified. one of the concerns of the previous owner was that he could not control his patrons once they've left the bar, and we are not sure how the new applicants will be able to do that either, because nobody has the resources to police this once it closes and people are on the streets. the sfpd does not, and i do not think you do either. whenever on social activity goes on, it lands directly on our doorstep. we are right there. one of the major reasons the problems have lessened is because of our efforts. we managed after years to get the parking area closed off, and that i

had control over these crops that if they planted it planted corn transgenic corn in one field that trench any corn would not go anywhere else so our discovery that we were finding transgenic or maybe a thousand miles from the nearest legal transgenic corn field was a huge problem for them because he really showed very simply and with real evidence that they really did not have control so they lost the claim to having control over these over these materials and from that point on the start to talking about co-exists. cards. i'm going to disagree. with disappeared within your group. story himself is still. his research. on the look that we're going to be going through fox there's a death in that war. a lot but i worked to get there from nine hundred ninety continuously on the same project and even to get on the g.m. project as well the only reason that he sells to talk about it that he has been given permission by the holders of common the parliament and. the british parliament or the others in the group including me and you have talking gabble twenty people be very forbidden to talk about

. >>> plus, dozens of firefighters involved in a frantic trench rescue. how the victims fell in remains a mystery. moment and there is a new push to ban cell phones by all drivers nationwide. you will hear from the group leading that charge. gary? >>> thanks, shawn. love the sunshine today and the temperatures are comfortable out there. hope you enjoyed it, though. if we do have change coming, first look at the forecast coming up. stay with us.  >> it's the law in the district of columbia that everyone must recycle. are city inspectors going too far enforcing the law? we're learning about what rather smelly case from a district resident who was fined hundreds of dollars for not recycling shred newspaper that she puts in her cat's litter box. matt ackland has this for us. >> reporter: several times a week, she shreds old newspapers and junk mail to use as a replacement for store-bought cat litter. she believes that it's better for the environment. >> i'm trying to do something good for the environment by using the shredded paper in the ca

the cone hits the worker, him into a 16-foot trench. the worker is expected to recover. get the latest on the forecast. >> reporter: i would like a trip to hawaii and i would love a vacation to maybe someplace romantic. no? okay. i'll tell you what. coming up over the next couple days, we'll see a little warm-up. >> it is not quite that much. nothing what this guy is dealing with at the north poll. the temperature around the region at 45 in philly. 43 in state college. to the south, 55 in roanoke and 52 in richmond. we are going to see numbers more in the 50s. that could come with some rain. we'll talk more about that chance of rain coming up in a couple minutes. by the way, we are going to the back of the house. >> all right. i can't wait for that. thanks, doug. >>> a d.c. lawyer said she was shocked. she was told to stop nursing her baby while she was inside a d.c. building. security guards told her she was breaking the law by nursing in public. it turns out the guards got it all wrong. chris gordon is in our newsroom to explain this. chris? >> reporter: the nursing mo

a trench spanning more than a mile was dug along a beach in one resort town allowing families to lightandles and pay their respects. i was in indonesia a few months after and literally, a mile in had been wiped clean. >> still dealing with rebuilding. a lot of beach towns. >>> the good thing for us right now is we have not seen any severe weather this holiday season. it's been really good. we're thankful for that. looking at the post christmas forecast and looking furled -- forward to the new year's eve forecast. we did see clouds and a storm system slowly approaching the mid-atlantic. it has been fairly quiet, so we're very blessed. you look in the deep south. dropping rain and heavy rain in some locations. this is coming up our way. i think tomorrow morning's commute should generally be okay. but we've got high pressure in control right now. as we move offshore, already, you can see some clouds moving in. but we're going to see partly cloudy conditions tonight. and it will be a fairly quiet night before things get a little more active for tomorrow. right now temperatures in arlington

construction worker is in the hospital this afternoon with serious injuries after falling into a trench. it happened at a work site near the intersection of washington grove lane and mid county highway in gaithersburg. when firefighters arrived, they had to use a system to remove the man from a 16-foot deep hole. police say a bus traveling through work zone may have caused the man to fall. >> when a bus came through the work area, at some point this worker did fall into the trench. it is unclear as to whether he did this to avoid or was actually struck by the bus. >> the man suffered severe injuries but firefighters say he is expected to be okay. >> it's been a nice december day. can we speck a nice december evening? >> veronica johnson joins us live with more. >> of course you can. if that's what you guys want, whatever you want, you get. it is going to be a nice december evening for all of us, in fact. and as far as today goes, today we saw our highest temperature since last friday. we're up around 50 degrees. most neighborhoods, take a look at the satellite radar animation over the l

i'm hoping to go down to the puerto rican trench which is 28,000 foot down, so that's going to be, you technological challenge. we've got to withstand 1500 times the pressure on an airplane. but if we can pull it off, scientists are frothing at the mouth about what they can discover down there. >> what's harder technologically, to get virgin galactic up to space? >> i think it's harder to go to the bottom of the ocean than it is to go to space. >> that's amazing. >> we've just finished a very important rocket test yesterday for virgin galactic. you know, the mothership is finished, the spaceship is finished. the space port in new mexico is finished. so we hope by next christmas we'll be up, up and away with virgin galactic. >> how does that work with the virgin galactic spaceship? six passengers twice a day for $200,000. which i imagine that's a relative bargain from your perspective. >> to go up in a russian spaceship is $6 million. the initial 500 people going up will be pioneers. and they will enable us over the years to be able to bring the price down. and so i think your children

. >>> in gaithersburg, a person was injured after falling into a trench. it happened today. a ride-on bus hit a large traffic cone and that cone hit a worker and knocked him into the trench. the victim is still in the hospital tonight. he is expected to recover, we're told. the ox occupational safety and health administration is looking into it. >>> there is new information about the man shoofs shot and killed by d.c. police. investigators say 20-year-old michael epps was lie on pcp and randomly was firing shots into homes in the 5300 block of clay terrace last night. police say they opened fire after the suspect refused to drop his weapon. pat collins has our report. >> reporter: the man who died in a shoot-out with police identified today as 20-year-old michael ezekel epps. court to court records, he just got out of jail after doing time for a gun and drug conviction. today i talked to his grandfather. what are your feelings about what happened? >> a little flum. a little numb right now. he is a kid. i know he is 20 years old but he is still a kid in my mind. just sorry th

i'm hoping to go down to the puerto rican trench which is 28,000 foot down, so that's going to be, you technological challenge. we've got to withstand 1500 times the pressure on an airplane. but if we can pull it off, scientists are frothing at the mouth about what they can discover down there. >> what's harder technologically, to get virgin galactic up to space? >> i think it's harder to go to the bottom of the ocean than it is to go to space. >> that's amazing. >> we've just finished a very important rocket test yesterday for virgin galactic. you know, the mothership is finished, the spaceship is finished. the space port in new mexico is finished. so we hope by next christmas we'll be up, up and away with virgin galactic. >> how does that work with the virgin galactic spaceship? six passengers twice a day for $200,000. which i imagine that's a relative bargain from your perspective. >> to go up in a russian spaceship is $6 million. the initial 500 people going up will be pioneers. and they will enable us over the years to be able to bring the price down. and so i think your children

the residents have endured with little complaint, having to work around dirt, pot holes, trenches, without a little complaining, and we were able to get through this whole thing. thank you. now we are going to learn how to take care of it. you will not see cigarette butts in the planters. no litter on the ground. thank you caughto everybody. i want to introduce juan fuentes now who will talk about the things that you do not see. >> i am a resident here. my wife and kids have been here, over 25 years. i am an artist. one of the things that the model block has done, we talked about how it has put us closer together as a family. it has empowered us, as a community, to rebuild our block. i have been bargaining with ann -- our houses are side-by-side, so i have been doing a vegetable garden in her garden. i started out with 1 barrel that mardina gave me, from the puc, they gave me a 55-gallon drum. i now have over a dozen drums, 250-gallon drums. i collect over 1,000 gallons of water that i harvest from the rain. this summer, i watered my whole garden with the water from the rain harvest. that

. >>> montgomery county rescue crews are on the scene of a trench rescue. authorities say that a ride on bus hit a construction barrel and knocked a worker into a 16- foot ditch. this happened a short while ago, a mid county highway and washington grove lane in redland, maryland. authorities say the man suffered serious but nonlife- threatening injuries. >>> the virginia woman carjacked at gunpoint by ross ashley, the day before thursday's deadly shooting at virginia tech is now speaking out. joyce bennett rented an apartment to ross ashley. she said that he was never a problem until he walked into her office last wednesday, armed with a gun and demanded her car keys. >> he comes up to my desk right here and he says he wants my keys and i said you gotta be kidding me and then he pulls this gun out and held it in my face. >> a car is nothing compared to what could have happened in this office. we could have been both killed because he didn't have gloves on. he didn't have a mask on. >> bennett's car was found on a road near virginia tech's campus on thursday

because again, many of us have been in the trenches for 25 or 30 years. the fight is not over. and it is the next generation that has got to continue to take action, to get involved, to improve and to better not only the community, but the lives of the individuals that make it up. we will also today continue in the restorative effort in this space, not only restoring the life, hope and passion of those that come here, that work here and that are remembered here, but also of the physical space. because today we will complete a project that has been in the works for the better part of the last 12 months, and we will again turn the healing properties of water to the grove. the falls that will be restored today were built over 110 years. we are honored to have with us, connie, one of the family members, who also so furiously advocated for the city to give us this space. so i hope all of you today will remember back who we have lost, but also remember where we have come to. because that is what it is about. we need to continue to move forward. >> i would like to introduce the senior

pre-trenching is fairly well along. completed this past week a final section on natoma. cdsm, we will show you pictures of that as well. the west end of the project, everything west of first street is completely surrounded by shoring wall, at this point. zone 3, about two-thirds of the way down with the cdsm there. we will have all the shoring wall complete by the end of the week with the exception of street crossings, which rely on utility relocations. director ortiz: could you refresh my memory on the cdsm. >> cement deep shoring wall. we use that to create the perimeter around the project. zone 4. we continue to buttress work. that has made good progress. we are just over 2.5 shafts per week, which is the goal to get to to complete our work on project. this week, having to report we will complete three full shafts. on the screen now you can see we have completed the sea dsm -- cdsm on the west end of the project. we mobilized to the south side and will complete that were before the end of the month. east end of the project from freemont through beale street has been c