. >> it's a little unusual but she's unusual. it helps me look at it and continue this joyous feeling and knowing she and shane are going to get married. >> reporter: then reality sets in because no one knows when that will be. josh pattal and shane bouer are still in iran. >> she sounded so good. i mean i really didn't expect her to sound that good. but she also said that she doesn't -- really feel completely free because shane and josh were still there. she feels incomplete that was her word until they get out. >> reporter: sandis kept tempering her unbridled joy with caution. yes sarah will be returning to the united states soon, yes sarah has seen a doctor. then the aunt returns to the shine she began a year ago. >> the three of them are a unit, so the candles are going to stay burning all three of them until shane and josh are released. >> reporter: now the family still hopes iran's president will bring the other two americans with them when he comes to the united nations to speak next week. reporting live, rita williams, kt

>> i don't think it's unusual at all.arry summers allegedly is leaving because he doesn't want to give up his tenure at harvard. he will serve through the end of the year. we are getting closer to the midpoint of the president's first term in office and this is what you see happen. people leave and quite frankly, the president needs people like larry summers to leave. he has been terribly unpopular as eleanor said. the american public, whether we are talking about small businesses, big business, the middle class, or people who live in underserved communities are very, very unhappy with the state of the economy. many people blame that on larry summers. many people believe it on the president being tone deaf. this is a time if you are going to clean house, do it now and do it before disaster strikes in november. >> you think unemployment was around 6%, these people would be leaving? in other words, do we have an economy that would justify them staying from that point of view? >> larry summers advocated a much larger stimulo

[singing] ♪ it is an unusual beginning.e moments when you start feeling that out of nothing something great can come. ♪ >> the film works on several different levels, always returning to the documentary style when the focus is on the day to day life of the musicians. it gives insight into private lives of orchestra members -- different personalities, different circumstances, a different family lives. ♪ >> it developed into a personal relationship, and that is a nice thing, i think. it helps you lose your fear of the camera, or what you might call stage fright. it all happens on a personal level. that adds extra and helps the project come alive. >> the film climaxes with the beethoven festival in obhn in september -- bohn in september 2009. the film crew and all nine symphonies. this is not our first foray into classical formats. >> we started with the german symphony orchestra, and then moved on to the similar boulevard youth orchestra of venezuela. -- to the simon volivabolivar orchestra of venezuela. ["ode to joy," beetho

[singing] ♪ it is an unusual beginning.e moments when you start feeling that out of nothing something great can come. ♪ >> the film works on several different levels, always returning to the documentary style when the focus is on the day to day life of the musicians. it gives insight into private lives of orchestra members -- different personalities, different circumstances, a different family lives. ♪ >> it developed into a personal relationship, and that is a nice thing, i think. it helps you lose your fear of the camera, or what you might call stage fright. it all happens on a personal level. that adds extra and helps e ojeccome alive. >> the film climaxes with the beethoven festival in obhn in september -- bohn in september 2009. the film crew and all nine symphonies. this is not our first foray into classical formats. >> we started with the german symphony orchestra, and then moved on to the similar boulevard youth orchestra of venezuela. -- to the simon volivabolivar orchestra of venezuela. ["ode to joy," beethoven] >

there are two constants amidst the chaos that are a firefighter's nightmare -- the fire is burning unusually hot -- >> we're trying to get close. we have extreme heat. >> we've got major heat. we're starting to move people out of these homes right now. >> reporter: and all of the hydrants are dry. >> we have no water in this hydrant. we think we've got a broken water main down here. >> it's a sinking feeling. if there was ever a time when you needed the water, it was there. >> reporter: captain bill forester was one of the first to arrive. the fire was so big even commercial airline pilots were calling it in. >> it was like you tipped a rocket upside down at the blastoff. probably 100-foot flame lengths. it sounded kind of like a jet engine. a high pitched screaming sound. >> reporter: some of the firefighters first thought it was a terrorist attack. most thought it was a plane crash. it would be a full 45 minutes before they realized exactly what was going on. >> it does not appear that this is an aircraft down. it appears this is some sort of natural gas explosion. >> reporter: chapel hill

you will only find mention of the local people if something unusual happened.he librarian tells me. i read the newspaper so i know that unusual is the polite word for murdered or murderer. why else would a poor person's name apeer in the news? why do i think the newspapers then report differently from today's news? i'm here in ireland reading every paper just in case. i will move ahead. the lacies lived in cottage and palace. in 1848 dozens of families left cottage and the adjoining towns of pad ox, dogs town and palace. i find no mentions of evictions in the newspaper. 731 reported people the largest eviction of a town land in one day happened not 20 miles from cottage and palace in april of 1849. the story had one short paragraph about it in the paper. could it be that most evictions did not make it to the newspaper unless someone died? in the news of january 19th 1848, judith was ejected off a small farm by the landlords james and john parker. she wandered in want without shelter and entered her former abode on the 18th of august last. for this forceable pos

. >> it's unusual. >> yes it is unusual. not unprecedented. >> okay. >> we have actually seen upper 90s on the first day of fall. warm stuff, we get a hotter day tomorrow. really unusual. reality check next week. it will come back for us. >> seasonable temperatures. >> yes. just save that pumpkin pie recipe for another couple days and get it going and have not have a problem. first day of fall kelly, i wanted to announce our two-day weather winner with fall stuff. even though it doesn't feel like it. theresa greiss hopper out of forest hill, congratulations, you get a 2 tree winner umbrella from abc 2 storm umbrella, give us your name at abc2.com. click the weather page and click our 2 cree contest and gets you in the running for all of this. right now not much of a wind going there, old glory hanging in the very minimal breeze. southeast at 7 now, humidity 55%, our weather net camera downtown, eh a hazy sky through the day today. sunshine throughout but a little hazy at times. even a little bit of smog will be developing th

the unusual link between the two. join us for more, after dr. phil. >> and stay with us, the five- day forecast is up next. ,,,,,, mmmm. you don't love me anymore do you billy? what? i didn't buy this cereal to sweet talk your taste buds it's for my heart health. so i can't have any? if you can deprive me of what can help lower my cholesterol... and live with yourself. right. mmm, i worry about your mother. cry herself to sleep every night over my arteries, but have yourself a bowl. good speech dad. [ whimper ] [ male announcer ] honey nut cheerios tastes great and its whole grain oats can help lower cholesterol. bee happy. bee healthy. ♪ >> >> this is the forecast, tonight, we'll drop to 50- degree and then, things start to change. wednesday's the first day of fall and we'll get to 88 degrees and there's a chance of a late day thunderstorm. then, a front comes through and knocks it down into the weekend. >>> looks good. >> it's hot. >> yeah, it's a big night on cbs with the start of premiere week and tune in for the much talked about rebirth of

it's one of the campaign season's most unusual political ads. >> wall street bailouts. >>> efforts to permanently seal bp's blown-out well are in the final stage after drilling resumed this week on a relief well. what happened to the more than 4 million barrels of oil which gushed into the gulf? what if? what if a lot of that oil is now lying on the bottom? brian todd is looking into that. >> wolf, the scientists have been showing us samples of this oil from the sea floor in the gulf. evidence they say much of the oil from the deepwater horizon spill may not have been dispersed, and may pose a long-term threat. a deepwater csi in the gulf. a potentially ominous finding. researchers discover what they say is a substantial layer of oil in areas near the deepwater horizon spill. the team, led by a university of georgia marine science professor, canvassed an area as close as two miles from the wellhead and as far away as about 80 miles. in several samples from the sea floor, they found concentrations of oil seeping as much as two inches into the setment. >> we're going to talk to dr. joy

>> well, it is not unusual for the white house's priorities to hit roadblocks, but it is unusual forhelle obama's signature issues healthy lunches for low-income children hitting the twist is by liberal democrats. they signed a letter saying they won't go for a child nutrition bill as it is written, and the kind of bill it is written on the senate bill, because the first lady's initiative is paid for in part by taking over $2 billion from food stamp programs from the poor. i spoke with massachusetts democrat jim mcgovern who sun with of the members who signed the letter, and he said, he will not let programs for the poor be used as quote an atm. >> look it, i want a robust child reauthorization bill, and i want to support first lady, but i don't want to rob peter to pay paul, and take some money to feed hungry people to feed other hungry people. the only offset is food stamps for this program. you will increase nutrition standards for children in school, but then you have to take it away from them at home. it does not make any sense to me. >> dana, how hard is the first lady pushing

but it isn't a completely unusual idea. we mentioned in the set-up piece, blackberry rimm, research in motion, and motorola. it's not annin creditably unusual idea. norvelths, and if you look at rimm as an idea that, has been very successful for many years now. so i think if your culture enjoys a balance of power, a sharing of skills, the key success factor is trust. >> the obvious analogy is marriage. >> yes, absolutely. and, you know, it's important that those two folks are aligned and the kids don't run the house. >> and split up the company. >> yes, exactly right. >> have you ever run into the situation where somebody had to be in charge? i mean, because that's the obvious question, when you have co anything, is well, yeah, but whose in charge? >> yeah, i like to think we're both in charge. and two is better than one. if one is in beijing and the other is in germany or the united states or even latin america, it's good to have two that are in charge simultaneously. and we are in charge. and we are real-time. and we are

it was unusual for india to whisper in his year.n event saying not to say anything. >> now we're going to shift toward the action was happening. tim offline again, what were your responsibilities at the white house? -- tim flanagan, what were you responsible step the white house -- responsibilities at the white house quest mark fritz and is just finishing up -- -- i literally thought to myself it was a terrible situation, what should i do? i headed to the situation room. i headed downstairs. you never run in the white house. but we were running at that point. i entered the situation room. i was immediately in a conference being shared with the deputy national security adviser at the time. the first question to me perhaps prompted by questions generated in florida was what the justice department knew about it and what the fbi had. that was kind of legal. that was my responsibility. i picked up and dialed immediately. i was put through to larry thompson, the deputy attorney general. i told larry that i needed information. people are s

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and the drill for us has been unusually cool. and just unusual. that is what we have going into this weekend. the mist and drizzle with us this morning along the coast. there is a live look outside from our roof camera. cloud cover and east bay communities are experiencing sunshine. and mild temperatures around the bay. this is due to moist flow from the southwest since overnight last night we're looking at 66 in oakland. numbers have not changed much throughout the morning hours. so there is plenty of cloud cover. the cold front remains off shore slated to come through tomorrow. with all of the cloud cover out there, visibility has been moving around and it's been poor throughout the north bay. we had airport delays and still do at sfo. this doesn't tell the whole story. hayward has been reporting light rain and precipitation here and there. it's due to that heavy mist and drizzle along the coast. it will spin out throughout the day today z we'll begin to see hazy sunshine today but remaining muggy. the cold front pushes through tomorrow mornings

. >> it was such an unusual revolution. in the past, anybody with him the central authorities were displeased, they would automatically resign. and he said he would not leave on his own accord, which was in itself a challenge. >> as moscow mayor, yuri luzhov loved grand projects. he rebuilt from scratch this destroyed from soviet times. he opened a multi main road. his greatest achievement were so many buildings for the same job. he had a choice -- he could either jumped or be pushed. the russian president sacked him when he would not be quite weak. by doing that, dmitry medvedev has established his authority and ended the career of one of the most powerful politicians in russia. bbc news, moscow. >> only a third of the people worldwide need life-saving hiv drugs actually get them. this is according to a new report by the world health organization and two other u.n. organizations. it warns four countries must -- poorer countries must watch what they spend on h.i.v.-related products. amnesty international says thousands of r

is that unusual? what is the reaction in the pentagon? >> i think i would hav to agree.ve seen this movie bfore in other administrations. this is the first time that there has been this kind kiss and tell, however, in regard to the obama white hous and most of it surrounds a very critical decisions that president obama had to make in formulating a new strategy. and putting 30,000 additional troops into afghanistan in what is a surge-like operation as we saw in iraq. the usual back-biting and infighting and name calling. i think the white house has to be very pleased. because in this book, president obama himself comes across as being very decisive and deliberative, bringing order to the kind of chaos that you often see in policy making. the only rap perhaps against president obama in this book is when asked why he set a deadline to begin withdrawal ofroops from afghanistan, he said he had to say it that way. because he didn't want t lose the entire democratic party. making it appear that politics, rather than policy and strategy in afghanistan wasoremost in the president

coming from the same direction, whereas the architect said the sun moves around and it would not be unusual in our city. regarding the view blockage, that is disqualified for d.r., basically saying you are blocking my view of the transamerica building. i don't think that as a basis for d.r. regarding the privacy issue, he does not point out the same when does that he is concerned about us sitting 15 feet away are also visible directly out the front windows of the project site and it is a much more direct view then someone sitting on the roof. and we have a picture here, if you have questions. these are fairly small windows. from that angle, at most one would see a few feet into the window on the the best circumstances because of the steep angle, so there is no significant privacy issue and i don't think there ever will be across the street looking into windows that are also visible from other windows on that same street. therefore, we don't think there is any substantial case made for exceptional or extraordinary circumstances in this case and request the commission, and recognition of that

there is nothing suspicious or unusual about the slow accounting. >> when you have an election, it is not uncommon to not be at 100% within 24 hours. >> bernstein is leading jessamy by nearly 1300 votes. they are expecting to start counting the absentee ballots sometime this morning. jennifer franciotti, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the smoke has cleared in the race for baltimore county executive. county council member kevin kamenetz has emerged as the winner. he has called for unity with joe bartenfelder and his supporters. >> it is time we put our differences behind us. i reached out to everyone in baltimore county to heal our divisions and join together because i believe we will be democrats united. >> kamenetz will square off holt.an holken >> authorities say a security guard broke up a robbery in progress at the loch raven shopping center after the guard reportedly shot multiple shots. police then arrived on the scene. >> the suspect fled the scene. one was caught by baltimore city police officer who saw the suspect running. >> police recovered one weapon but believe the wanted suspect ma

there is something unusual. maybe it is a miss enough to return. that is the way i am leaning. -- vice president goh: commissioner hwang: i think commissioners fung and goh have nailed it for me. i lean to either go with a continuance or overturn the variance. i think there are so many problems with this. i am very troubled with not knowing with the questions of footprint. the variance is premised upon -- 16 inches or whatever it is may seem insignificant, but not when you're adding it on top of 7 feet, if that is really the case. that is significant overreaching, whether it was the fault of the department or misstatements. there are too many problems with this project. the other piece of it, the standard on the overturning the variance, i agree that the hardship -- it seems to me that on finding number two on the hardship that the hardship was borne by the permit holder. i think finding to was in error. that is where i fault. commissioner garcia: just to expand on what i feel the way i do, and not to attack any comments made by the commissioner, i

despite the unusual sight in mccall the gsa or the police.he warm pair were federal security officers with the livermore national laboratory's. >> it was a surprise and wherra >> there were not notified until the next day by the media up. >> and we've always said to our staff that if you see anything out of the ordinary? to notify us and this was catholic, out of the ordinary. >> the normal for procedure is for law enforcement to be notified if arenmed officials entered airport territory. also, they're looking at security cameras over the baggage claim that cost the activity. and notice the information but no tea as a call police officers this is a non- secure area no-t-s-h. and with heightened security this is a wake up call. pspst s a. >> we are on a or toes. >> christine connolly. >> and their trend has now perhaps this could be paying off for bay. travelers. >> the southwest colorful jets are a cufamiliar sight of an oakland, san jose, and as ethel. air tran, by contrast, has flights from san francisco to its hub cities of milwaukee, atla

he's now a most unusual star.e inn. ♪ everything you need to stay balanced on long trips. residence inn. >>> jack's back with the cafferty file. >> the question this hour is how will record levels of poverty in the united states impact the elections? virginia write, depends on how smart or stupid people are. if they're smart, the increase in poverty levels will create a corresponding increase of votes for the democrats. why anyone poor would vote republican is beyond me. missy writes it doesn't matter if democrats are at fault or not, they're the party in power. the nation looks to them for solutions. when they fail to address the very real problems this country has they deserve all the blame that is heaped upon them. joe writes, hard to say how it will affect the elections. it does indicate how effective the emfa service preventing the transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor has been. the rich are assuccumulating al the wealth. mike writes, the only group people can turn to if they are fed up with the status

but the sound was very unusual. it was so loud.here is a plane flying overhead right now. >> say again, i'm sorry? >> there is a plane flying overhead right now. >> and -- >> and then -- >> it sounds different than this one did? >> sounds distant. i have my patio window closed. and it sounds normal. nothing out of the ordinary. but the other one like i said the car alarms went off. >> and now your power is out in the area? >> yes, it's been out for about two minutes now. >> all right. we have just gotten information that highway 280 at 35 is closed to traffic. clearly, they are trying to keep people out of the area and keep it free so they can have access with firefighting equipment. >> and there we can see chp has closed that exit there directly into the neighborhood of san bruno. and as we saw from chopper 5 a moment ago, pretty much looked like a staging area for the emergency personnel and if they are evacuating neighbors, they are probably -- there it is. that is the staging area i was talking about, asking people to gather th

isn't that unusual? >> it is somewhat unusual. statistics say about 80% of acid attacks are male.otivation will be quite similar. >> so, as a profiler, what would motivate somebody to do something like this? it's such a cruel act. you're not going to kill somebody, you're just going to leave them in pain and disfigurement for the rest of their lives. >> and i think that goes to the point, rage, power and anger are the primary motivators. the perpetrator wants to not only exact revenge, but they want the person to suffer for the rest of their lives. i mean it's -- it goes to -- these crimes are actually evil. >> correct me if i'm wrong. but my understanding is a majority of these acid attacks usually take place in religious, orthodox countries, especially in the middle east. and they're often honor crimes. you're punishing a woman that who has allegedly brought dishonor on the family or committed adultery in some way? >> yes. but the motivations are similar. they are all about something that a person has done that someone else does not like. many of those crimes are driven by sex,

and that is quite unusual weather for new york city. mean, they had to go out and say we confirm this. >> that's absolutely right. wild there yesterday and today we're going to have some unusual weather. not wild but talking about it all week long and that's the chance of rain coming our way not only for the north bay overnight tonight but we could see a couple hundredths in the east bay and maybe a few drops in the south bay. a live look outside, our roof camera, cloudy skies and with all the clouds temperatures quite mild. we're in the 60s but we do have not only dense fog at you're coast but mist and drizzle. you need the wipers if you're headed out this morning around san francisco. so very damp out there. this will translate into light rain by this time tomorrow. look at that, 66 oakland. 62 in antioch with 65 concord. so 60s pretty much everywhere. we are looking at the 24-hour change with temperatures much more mild. in fact, on the muggy side with 4 degrees warmer this morning in san francisco. and napa. with 2 degrees warmer in

concerns that it's cruel and unusual punishment. if the first of three drugs administered doesn't work properly, the inmate could suffer extreme pain from the third drug which stops the heart. the family of brown's victim just wants it over with. here's her brother speaking about what it was like after his 15-year-old sister disappeared. >> i remember getting in the truck with my father and... [ crying ] >> ... driving up and down the... uhm....... driving up and down the streets, you know, callingherr name. >> reporter: the stay of execution is being appealed to the state court of appeals and can also go to the u.s. supreme court. but the time is running out because at midnight thursday night technically friday morning, one of the state's drugs expires and likely won't be restocked until next year. now, michael morales and mitchell sims, they are two other inmates here at san quentin that also have some appeals going through. and they have until thursday for those. those are also going to the california supreme court. same argument

normally when you click on an unusual google logo, you get an explanation, not this time.s usually like an artist's birthday or something. though, it is arguably google's birthday. all this week you can celebrate goi google's birthday. >> we don't normally talk about the box office on tuesday, but the theaters got an extra day over the weekend. the american with george clooney was number one. word of mouth on the film was tepid. many thought the long movie was slow-paced. one comment on twitter, george clooney dropped into a european film. slow-moving. if you think you are seeing an action-packed movie, will you be very disappointed. >> about the google thing there are so many search boxes built in, i never go to the google home page. i would never know it was there unless you told me. >> i never see those cute little logos. >> thanks. >> so, we are talking flu shots this morning. might seem early to you, but doctors say this is the right time to roll up your sleeves. we have a pediatrician joining us this morning. dr. hal, you say kids need a little extra time for that va

he not win his argument today on the bigger issue, whether the drugs the state uses is cruel and unusual punishment and whether making brown choose how he wants to die is constitutional. attorneys for albert greenwood brown argued his execution should be put on hold. first offering him a choice between one drug and a three-drug method violated state regulations. >> this is not proper. >> and second that the method might still cause him pain, considered cruel and unusual punishment though it's just been updated to eliminate that argument. the state argued brown was given a choice by order of a judge and lawyers failed to show evidence of possible pain from the three-drug method. >> the judge refused to block the execution based on arguments. >> he has not demonstrated he's likely to prevail at this time. applications will restraint order is denied. >> brown convicted in 1982 for the 1980 rape and murder of a riverside teenager, susan jordan. if it goes as scheduled it would be the first california execution since being put on hold in 2006 over a concern about flaws in the injection proced

. >> plus, and accused animal -- accused animal abuser ordered to volunteer in a most unusual places. >> the ravens are concerned going into the game on sunday. here which cleveland browns player has the on full alert. >> strong the thunderstorm is living through the area. we will track those and see how long the hot weather sticks around. you did to the warm sunshine in baltimore. 88 degrees at the airport. >> the maryland spca says it was appalled to learn a man charged with animal abuse was ordered to volunteer the shelter. the man was accused of beating a miniature pinscher with a pipe in early august. the dog was severely injured and had to be the nicest. he face four counts of them will be used but prosecutors said they would drop the case if he stayed out of trouble and perform 50 hours of community service at the spca. the executive director said his application was a media leigh denied. >> -- was immediately denied. >> this would not have happened if this happened to a child in the discharge of working for children for his rehabilitation. >> the spca was never consulted about

that is the unusual nature of the latest attempt to break this blockade. >> we will leave it there. thank you very much for that. still to come, what is the pick of the crop? apple's facing competition from blackberries, rivaling the ipad. the new leader of british opposition will address the later -- labor party conference today, seeking to inspire a united party ahead of his elder brother, david. >> smile though your heart is aching, that seems to be the model of david middleman. admits the disappointments he is urging the labor party to rally around his young brother. >> today i say, no more factions, no more split its common no more soap opera. one united labor party taking on one divided government. >> questions still remain about what he will do now for a living, but today the spotlight is back on edward it as his first big speech is coming. difficult though the fight with his brother has been, that might prove to be the easy part. now he has to broaden the gap to embraces public. and with an opportunity for labor, the coalition government plans to outline huge public spending

that's an unusual first pitch. with a start like that, you can only get better. at one point, he struck out seven straight. he finished with nine ks. blue jays put up five in the third. 31st of the season. yanks missed a chance to win a playoff spot. toronto won it 7-5. >>> speaking of clenching, phils had the champagne on ice. popping the cork. a towering shot, philadelphia led it, 1-0. that's all they need because roy halladay was dealing. gave up just two hits. struck out danny espinosa. the phils win their fourth straight n.l. east crown with an 8-0 win over washington. >>> rays and marlins, needed extra innings. ended with a walk-off single in the 11th. braves won, 2-1, now a half game up in the n.l. wild card race. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> the latest lindsay lohan lunacy, your early morning entertainment headlines straight ahead. >>> plus, washed away from flooding. a treasured american landmark make as comeback. >>> you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist domenica davis. the heat is

it is an unusual compelling object.ink it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just litera

this is unusual that we're this cool. it's unusual that we've had such few fires this year.s been a cool summer and tomorrow will be good for firefighters. it's a higher humidity. lower temperature day. as we head through time here. we'll notice higher humidity and offshore winds. definitely a mild day tomorrow. patchy fog, nothing like we had today. warmer on thursday. >> that's a great looking weekend too. >> thank you, bill. >>> the san jose police department has made significant cut backs in its support for the police athletic league. it takes five officers and an administrative person to fully staff the program but as of yesterday, three of those officers were returned to patrol duty because of the city's budget crunch. san jose pal serves about 700 children. our real national pastime? saving money. and like baseball people love their stats. i started bringing my lunch to work -- 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one: state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i saved because i'm accident-free. of course, with so many ways

. >> is unusual in that you have the health care costs and even more substantial costs to the society. a growing problem in the developing world as well. >> real-life james bond, dusting off old files, having taken up the unusual step of opening up the past. >> test torpedo boats created by 1909, secret agents would be smuggled behind enemy lines. for the first time today, mi has opened up its archives to tell the stories of its early years. it was an exciting opportunity. >> i was like a child in a sweet shop. what they do is they tell the secret story of this most secretive of british organizations. >> this was the headquarters of the british secret service. its existence was denied by government and it was here at the secrets were kept. >> like this woman used to pass information to her lover during world war ii. >> she worked in the british liaison office, able to provide to him what he thought was genuine information, things pulled out of waste paper bins. >> the history also recounts the individual facts of bravery. but stories stopped abruptly in 1949, just as the cold war is b

but this unusual weather continues as we move into next week.rrow, it's going to be like a completely different month. >> we had a good run. >> we had a good run. especially on a holiday weekend, it's nice to have nice weather. >>> he's 11 years old and doctors saved his life. now he's found a way to give back. it's called mikey's meals. you inhale, they inhale. millions of children continue to be exposed to secondhand smoke. secondhand smoke causes asthma, a disease that cannot be cured. protect your loved ones. >>> the assassination drama with george clooney, the american took first place. takers was second, machete dropped to third. >>> an 11-year-old boy who just two years ago received a liver transplant is now paying it forward if you will in a very big way. >> i just wanted to give back because of what the donor gave to me, the gift of life. >> the nonprofit group mikey's meals put on a free bar-b-q. it's all the brain child of mikey jr. michael or mikey decided that he wanted to help feed the less fortunate. his mother is the director of

this is unusual that we're this cool. it's unusual that we've had such few fires this year.n a cool summer and tomorrow will be good for firefighters. it's a higher humidity. lower temperature day. as we head through time here. we'll notice higher humidity and offshore winds. definitely a mild day tomorrow. patchy fog, nothing like we had today. warmer on thursday. >> that's a great looking weekend too. >> thank you, bill. >>> the san jose police department has made significant cut backs in its support for the police athletic league. it takes five officers and an administrative person to fully staff the program but as of yesterday, three of those officers were returned to patrol duty because of the city's budget crunch. san jose pal serves about 700 children. there's no word yet on how the cut backs will affect the program. >>> up next, the battle for the play offs both the giants and the padres were in action tonight. >>> mark joins us now with sports. the pressure is on. only four more games. >> hard to believe. aubrey huff, pat burrell, jose guin but his best pick up is p

it's not unusual here in the bay area to have something like this. we just had one, although in this case muni is very clear that if anybody does pull it they are going to be coming back at them. so wait to see exactly what happens. >> all right. phil matier in san francisco, thank you. >>> a hunger strike at a northern california jail is now in its eighth day but the prisoners aren't protesting any of the ordinary issues. mike sugerman shows us this hunger strike centers around soap. >>> reporter: it's a true soap opera at the monterey county jail. 120 inmates behind bars aren't taking food because they want more bars of soap. >> last week the inmates were limited to the number of soap they could purchase from the jail commissary. previously they were allowed to purchase four --up to four bath sized bars of soap a week from the jail commissary. our staff thought that was rather excessive and changed the policy to limit them to one bar of soap. >> reporter: do you really need more than one bar of soap a week? commander michael richards says jail offi