i don't agree with the people who had just spoken that our revisions are unsubstantial. yes, the building was lowered 14 inches, but it also was reduced in the back and i'll show you the side of the building here so we can take a look at the reductions that have happened. so the building was pushed back completely all one foot and then most importantly on the third and fourth floors, the fourth floor was reduced another 3'6". the other was reduced 2-6. the corners of the building were clipped to reduce further the mass to the north neighborhood. overall, the entire project since this session has been reduced by 25% in square footage. since when it was submitted to the building department or for the planning review, we have removed about 703 square feet from the building project. the lower flat is currently 1,900 square feet, 1,950 square feet and the upper unit is 1,750 square feet. they are not incredibly large units. lowering the building further is not an option due to the need to project the adjacent large monterey cypress that was one of the d.r. requesters main con

on somebody else aviation experts echo this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side unsubstantial some of your claims concerning the airport or controllers they have nothing to do with the crash i've been a pilot for over thirty years and i know a simple rule if you don't see the runway or it's like of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial rush unload investigation was greeted by a novel launch of criticism from some movements in poland they expressed doubts about. the reliability of the report often based on anti russian sentiment and some experts say it is not pure emotion driving this but well thought tactics you purport if you can hear i think we're now witnessing some political games to shift the blame from the polish side of i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn to the crew was chosen immediately before the flight such a poor preparation for such a high profile flight publication of this report had been delayed for several months and was very much anticipated in poland

it's all off the rumors that are unsubstantiated. >> we are seeing wild swings. is there a trend we can grab on to? >> probably not. it started yesterday. in 2008 we saw a lot of volatility, and today we're up 600 points and up and down by 240 and back and forth, and until we know what is going on, wall street loves certainty, and hates uncertainty. and any given day, there is eb and flow. you see a lot of volatility, and people backing up right now. >> we are seeing more participants in the market? >> yeah, more program traders, that's for sure, and a lot of par participants, and that's moving the market. we have seen a lot of buying lately. >> thank you for talking with us. it's a market, randi, where you have to have a strong stomach for to say the least, randi. back to you. >> no doubt. alison, appreciate it. thank you. >>> ray lahood was begging them to come back and act, and they have. [ waves crashing ] [ martin luther king jr. ] i still have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners wil

the attack on biden for an unsubstantiated quote isn't the only game in town. the king of no spin is accusing me and other liberals of unfairly equating the debate over the debt ceiling bill to a hostage taking operation by the republican party. mr. o'reilly took offense to my analogy on his program last night. >> they tried to brand the tea party racists, but that attempt failed as the election last november indicated. now the uber left are at it again, trying to say the party is like terrorists. >> these tea party guys are wearing dynamite in times square at the height of rush hour. you tell me how those kind of stand-offs happen. >> once having been successful at blindfolding the american public, putting a gun to the president's head, forcing him to read into law or to sign into law this extraordinary act of i think unpatriotic and irrational frenzy, i think that they're emboldened. >> any faction in america, that would put a gun to the head of 310 million people and say if you don't do it our way, we will blow your dreams away, we will blow a hole in the am

selloffs these days is not the real reason behind it but it's such a nervous market that rumor and unsubstantiated rumor caused the sell-off. the banks make us think about 2008 and times gone by when banks get into trouble and we get a lending freeze. we don't have that situation right now. what we have is a very nervous market that had a big reaction to something that wasn't substantiated but right now people don't want be caught holding bag if there are major selloffs and are taking money out to be safe, they are encouraging these selloffs. i should tell you that gold is another record high touching $1,800 an ounce and the ten-year note which is how our bonds, our mortgages are priced is down again. it cost the u.s. less money to borrow than it did on monday and less than it did on friday before the downgrade. >> david gergen, as you look at this from a political perspective, what do you see? >> well, anderson, i do think that it's not just the rumor in europe. there's a deeper feeling there that the germans who are paying for bailouts don't have the money nor the will to go the full route and t

and for mitt or anyone else to say that there are unsubstantial similarities or not essentially the samelan, it just is incredible. >> i think i like tim's answer the last debate better. >> things actually got more heated for romney earlier in the day when he talk down a democratic protester at the iowa state fair. >> hang on a second -- >> and you-doctor. >> hold on a second. i'm not going to raise taxes. that's my answer. i'm not going to raise taxes. and if you want someone that can raise taxes you can vote for barack obama. >> how good does romney campaign feel about that moment? they're now e-mailing it around in a fund-raising e-mail calling it their "iowa moment." it did show, you heard republicans say behind the scenes, the first time he has shown some fire. shown some fight. it is what a lot of republican primary voters are looking for. finally, because of time constraints, some of the other lively exchanges have ended up on the cutting room floor, but not here. we'll call it the page a4 story. ron paul proving he can knock his party off message like nobody else and newt gingric

the day was going to be great and before you knew it the dow was plunging 244 points down on unsubstantiated worries that standard & poor's would downgrade the u.s. credit rating after the closing bell. we called s&p, they had no comment on that. but then we got positive news out of europe and we saw the dow rise another 118 points after that. after the ebp said it's ready to buy up italian and spanish debt. there had been worries that no one would buy its bonds, so what you saw was a market clearly still on edge. the fear is still there. we saw that in a wild swings that we saw today on wall street, john? >> as you wrap up the week, as you look around the world and we need to realize this is a global economy at the moment, stock values down in asia, down in europe. where are we heading here? >> yeah, i mean, you talk about the global view here, you know, 10, 15 years ago all you had to worry about was our own economies, but we're so interconnected. we had our own debt problems. that was spooking the markets overseas and now we're hearing more worries about greece coming up again and more pa

morgan calls mills claims unsubstantiated and saying he never hacked phones or told anybody else to but his claim he never knowingly published this story obtained through hacking is looking less convincing to some british lawmakers. >> he has to answer. i always obey the law. he really has to give an explanation for that. >> reporter: now there have not been any formal requests for piers morgan to appear before lawmakers and many are wondering where heather mills is waiting until now she is a victim of hacking more than ten years ago. >> cbs' charlie d'agata in london for us, thanks. >> each day. >>> still ahead this morning, happy birthday bash for the president. barack obama turns 50 today and, boy, it is not easy. when you are aging as a president, you can chalk a lot that up to the sfres and a few other things. we will tell you what. >>> baseball investigating alex rodriguez in poker game. we will show you what is in the cards coming up for a-rod coming up here on cbs. lots of sun, some rain and that's how they ge thet this big and beautiful. our fruit has to be perfectly ripe becau

we're getting news about unsubstantiated worries that standard & poor's one of the big rating agenciesr closing today. they don't have a comment at this point. that's why you are seeing stocks fall again, and you see the vix, and that's the fear index, and that is spiking over 23% right now. that worry is weighing on the markets and that causes a cascade of events, and most note blow it would raise borrowing costs for companies and people like you and me, and that's weighing on the markets right now. >> alison and christine, thank you so much for that right now. >>> and here are stories we're covering over the next hour. what to do or not to do to stop the 401(k) fears, and then more on the deadly heat fallout, and then the eruption on hawaii's big island, and lots of big companies are sitting on cash. we'll tell you who they are and why they are not spending. and michael holmes takes us to the frontlines in libya. >> the rememberle commander says if we drive down that road we will be seen by gadhafi forces and they will open fire. mine was earned over the south pacific in 1943. vietna

the dow plunged on unsubstantiated worry. standard and poor's would downgrade. credit rating.hat was flying around the floor and made stocks tank and then we saw stocks shoot up again. 118 points on good news out of europe. the ecb is our version of the fed. the ecb? bonds that were worries that the debt would not have been bought up. this put wall street in a better mood and end to the upside. this is clearly a market on edge. there is clearly fear on wall street about the state of the economy. >> the big fear is what? there could be a double dip recession. >> with the good jobs report, it pulled people away from the ledge a little bit. it's still on the table and the worries about a possible new global recession is still a worry. you can see the debt problems happening in europe and we have our own debt problems. we got a good jobs number, but it's not enough to really make a dent in the 14 million people who were out of work. it will take years to make up for that. not to mention our weak economic growth. remember it is figure of .4%. >> anemic indeed. president obama seize

there are reports, suzanne, of human rights violations by the gadhafi forces and now there are unsubstantiatedbel army may have engaged in killings. we will look at that very carefully before they rush to the government. >> is there anything the u.s. or natuo can do? >> you heard repeated calls on the rebel forces and their leadership not to engage in retribution and summary executions. there is no question that the majority majority of the people in the rebel council don't want to see that happen. but there's a not army fighting gadhafi. >> nicholas, thank you. good to see you. >> thank you, suzanne. >>> it's the only hospital along north carolina's out wur banks. we're going to talk to them about what they are doing to prepare for hurricane irene. you'll feel satisfied. [ female announcer ] yoplait greek. it is so good. oh, and there's a smile. >>> one big concernis how hurricane irene is going to affect hospitals along the ghosghos coast. hospitals are also taking precautions. ronny sloan is the president of the outer banks hospital. he joins us via skype, and i understand you are the only

but before we knew it, we were down on unsubstantiated worries that standard & poor's, that's a creditrating after the closing bell. the s&p had no comment on that. then we had positive news out of the europe. the ecb said it's ready to buy up italian and spanish debt. then we saw stocks spike 118 points because there were all these worries that no one would buy these italian bonds, these spanish bonds. and italy cam out and said you know what, we're going to take steps to take care of our huge debt problems. >> you talked about italy and today berlusconi called a meeting and talks of a balanced budget amendment because of that. and sarkozy of france on the phone with angel merkel of germany today. >> just like we have our own debt problems that could spread around the globe, the big worry is that those countries with their big debt problems can spread right here and hurt businesses. and wind up hurting consumers. because we're all interconnected. when europe gets a cold, we start sneezing over here. it catches really fast. we're all interconnected in many, many ways. brooke? >> we've

those reports are unsubstantiated at this time and we have this just coming to us from the associated press, the spokesman for moammar qaddafi, telling the a.p. that qaddafi is safe, healthy, his morale is high, he is indeed leading the battle for our freedom, and independence every day. so one consistencey in the story seems to be the inconsistencies of reports coming out from inside libya. we have a live report from our very own steve harrigan, straight ahead. >>> first a fox news weather alert and brand new information coming in on the track of hurricane irene. it's one of our big stories this week. we're so glad you're with us, i'm jenna lee. rick: i'm rick folbaum in for jon: jon scott and irene isa category three, growing stronger by the minute as the monster storm puts the entire east coast on alert, battering the bahamas after roaring through the carribean and now massive storm threats are underway here from evacuations in north carolina to the u.s. navy issuing a code alpha and ordering ships to leave the norfolk navy station. plus all along the seaboard emergency rues gettin

i will stand and wait any debt limit increased demand by anlosg unsubstantiated treasury determined that line. mr. president, in closing i wanr to be clear. i cannot support the outcome ofo iati opposition is not going to the failure of conservatives or the republican leadership in thesidy house and senate treated as to what is clearly amounting to the field presidency of president obama. to he and his allies archaeologically committed to ae more spending. fortunately, the american people will help the final verdict on 2012. mr.atch: mr. president, i ask myth fulle. remarks be included in the record at this point. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you and i yield the floor. >> mr. president. some of the senator from oregon is recognized.he >> i ask consent that might be a lot of privileges to the floor for the balance of the pending u legislation. >> without objection, so ordered.mr merkley: >> mr. president, i rise to address the obama boehner debtni deal, and i must say it is an to issue that i have just beenr nao immersed in rustling tohe the impact on investment that will st

beyond just an unsubstantiated personal opinion. so all that is somewhat encouraging. does it mean that happiness research is certainly true? no. but that's not the relevant question. the relevant question is whether the findings of happiness researchers stack up reasonably well with the other kinds of evidence that policymakers customarily use in making decisions in washington and in your state capitals. and here i would say with some confidence that it does, that i think if you, for example, politicians today rely very heavily on opinion polls and focus groups about what people think will make them happier in the future in terms of public policy. and dan here to my right wrote a whole book about the numerous fallacies in people's thinking about what their predictions about what will or will not make them happy or unhappy. so i would certainly feel that happiness research is going to provide a more reliable indication of what the effects will be than just asking people what they think what kinds of policies will make them happier. and also if you look at other things