late rains and last year the weather was so unusual, i got no olives.the statewide crop, because of weather, was down by 60%. >> reporter: the program puts greater demands on formers. >> three years in a row makes it tough on producing reasonably priced crops. the weather conditions have not been conducive. >> it is an unusual year. >> reporter: ken invites the public to pick what is in season beginning memorial day weekend. >> in some years it could be 2 weeks before that and weather conditions can delay it up to 2 weeks beyond that. >> reporter: if the weather stays cool, his crops will be late. >> the bees can fly. >> it will delay the crops. it will create bad conditions for the crops to grow on and so you will have less. >>> the farmers are not about to blame three odd years on climate change. >> there is no such thing as normal. every year is different. >> reporter: for now, imported -- actually, warmers climates is your best source. consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> ktvu's chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking thunder and

he states, there is no extraordinary or unusual circumstance. he fails to meet the criteria by stating there is no circumstance but would merit a variant. there have been 10 major remodels on belgrave. one required a zoning variance. we have never ended up in front of a zoning hearing over variances in the street, because they were all in keeping with the character of the neighborhood. ours was so we could build an addition within the existing lot lines of the property. we ask you deny the variance and uphold the character of the neighborhood. thank you 3 much. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. sanchez, for taking time to listen to us. i would like to continue in our rebuttal of the requirements. my rebuttal to requirement #5, granting were non is warranted will undermine the general plan and rules and regulations. owners should be able to depend on regular to where they have invested savings and lives. permitting non-conforming variances solely to profit an investor is unacceptable. the proposed development fails to meet the three priorities stat

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this past to be one of the most unusual police stops. police in maryland pulled over that man or at least a guy in a batman costume driving the bat mobile. this problem was not having its license plate properly displayed. he goes to hospitals to visit sick children and after proving he had a license and legal registration, he posed for pictures with the officers and was free to go. we will be right back >> the hunger games remains at the top of the box office this weekend. in its second week ended may 20th $7 million more than the runner-up. it earns more than $61 million and the wrath of the titans earned 34 million which is far below its predecessor made on its opening weekend two years ago. it was a sweep for jack and jill at the razzies awards which recognize the worst movies of the year. it won all 10 words for which it was nominated. adam sandler one has worst actor and worst actress for his dual role in jack and jill. just last night adams and the one a favorite actor award for jack and jill at the kids choice awards. step aside t

have posted red flag fire warnings, extremely unusual on the east coast. with fires as far north on massachusetts. traffic on i-285 south had to crawl through dense smoke. jacksonville issued an air pollution alert with dozens of fires burning statewide. >> once it got a good seat, it began to run in that area. it had a lot of fuel with it, given the wind conditions we've seen, that type of fire is not unusual. >> reporter: humidity problems are unusually low. >> we haven't seen any rainstorms or snowstorms, and all the vegetation that zbru up rapidly from last winter's rainfall is dry and ready to burn. >> reporter: an early start to a season, and already busy on the fire line. fire commanders say it is so dry, so windy, and there's so much dry fuel out there, it only takes a cigarette or a downed power line to get a fire that's going and out of control. they're asking everyone in the affected states to use extreme caution. brian? >> tom costello just outside washington, d.c., tom, thanks. >>> on wall street today, fresh worries over debt in europe made f

it's an unusual situation. i can't remember conditions like this ever. >> it's taken more than a record warm march to create this problem. officials at the u.s. drought monitor blame back to back la nina events starting in 2010. unusually cool pacific waters bringing drier than normal conditions to the southern u.s. >> we're not sure, 100% sure where we're going from here. we're hoping it's not going to get much worse. in fact, with the demise of la nina, we hope this is about the end of it. >> u.s. drought officials say it's way too early to talk about water restrictions but the area that are vulnerable are georgia and florida in the east. and in the west, the states that depend on snow pack for water resources such as california, colorado, new mexico, and utah. brian. >> in the midwest, too much of it tonight. anne thompson, thanks. >>> now, to new england and tragedy in a small new hampshire town where a police chief just about to retire lost his life in a standoff that came to a deadly end. this is the late

not so unusual and can you look at the damage here.that dallas gets hit because what you know in 60 years, there have been 172 tornados in dallas or in tarrant county and yesterday's tornados, one had winds of 150. two others had wins of 130 and the damage today is extensive. the funnel cloud, the tornados were enormous and dropped a lot of hail. there were 110 planes damaged, too, at dallas-fort worth airport that had a near miss with this thing and tremendous damage in the neighborhoods of lancaster and arlington and that ef-3 and ef-2 have been raided at fort worth and i am happy to tell you there were no reports of tornados today, and most of those storms are actually in the gulf of mexico new. and we have had a pretty easy day out of it as well. we have had a lot of cloud cover around and late this afternoon, the frontal system went pushing on thro have had sunshine. d.c. is at 75; quantico and fredericksburg at 78 and some mild air. that is a few more hours as the frontal system slips to the the south. richmond, 84 degrees and th

it would be unusual. i think you would have to admit that it would be unusual. >> you know why it would be unusual, bill? because when black people a accused of shooting people? they get arrested. they get charged. they don't get to watch seinfeld that night. >> bill: not really. >> that's usually the case, bill. i think that's the issue here. this is such an unusual case. that's why we are getting so muched me attention. the other thing is i have been with reverend sharpton. i have been with reverend jackson in numerous cities where we have talked about the problem with black-on-black violence. the problem with black-on-black crime. one time i went to a jail with jesse jackson and a room full of black guys all there for drug offenses. he said why don't you help me shut this prison down. he said what do we do? he said don't come back no more. he didn't talk about the white man and unequal drug. he said you be responsible. that's the key. black leaders do talk about responsibility. right now there is a dea

is unusual is the magnitude of the wave >> many of those on board had a lot of training but not much we had lovely weather and then we had a few injuries but the last three weeks have all been down wind but we got up to 55 knots was the highest so it was quite windy >> this is the not prior to starting the race. it's healthy but shaken crewmembers remain on board for their trip to san francisco using a back up steering system. the two most seriously injured crew members are still on board the cutter and we expect it will be arriving sometime tomorrow. it is not over yet but it looks like a successful mission and i'm sure the people on board that cotter are happy to be there. >> a passenger plane carrying dozens of people crashed shortly after taking off from russia. it happened in siberia, 32 of the 43 people on board died. 11 survivors were flown to the hospital by a helicopter. the cause is unclear. so far investigators have not determined what caused a house fire in pacifica. more than one dozen people live there and this morning two of them died. >> it is just unbelievable. >> th

so i wouldn't say we were unusually burdened down. it was probably more than we were used to carrying. >> what was the terrain like? >> for the first part of it, it was fairly clear. because the initial walk out was -- again, part of lz xray but as we move further -- get my directions, move further north, the elephant grass became more prevalent so that became an issue in terms of visibility. but other than that, relatively flat. i think when we went back in '93 and looked at it it looked more like north georgia woods than we imagined. with the elephant grass. >> right. >> added. so the visibility was really limited and at least a portion of the way and then of course closer we got to albany there were these -- and terrain feature that sticks out in everybody's mind is enormous ant hills. >> right. >> which still don't know how, why, where, whatever. but they became part of the terrain. but again, i would imagine that visibility probably no more than 100 meters in either to the right to the left or the front of the formation. >> okay.

so it's really not very unusual. down on the end here we have an oil haverstack, an oil cloth haverstack, it has an oil cloth book in here from 1857 that we believe belonged to edward shaw, and another thing is we're going through the inventory and catalog was this piece right here. it's labeled as a sack when in reality if you see the button holes up here and compare the sizes, this is a haversack liner that was commonly used during the civil war so it would have been -- wouldn't have been very unusual at all to find something like this up in the attic. i can't say that it belonged to that havesack but it's quite possible that it did. the one last intriguing item is this item right here. this here is a military bayonet, and it was also found in the attic, and several people had asked me why, why would clara barton who was an angel of the battlefield be carrying a bayonet around with her? i don't think she used it for protection. these were actually something of a leathermen of the 19th century, an all-purpose tool,

earlier report by the new york times that identified that he hadn't been question and that's very unusual usually if you look at the other cases they question the leading people in the company right away the siloam and to not question the principle officers of a company where fraud was alleged from the start is just beyond belief to me what do you think is going on. well i tend to think these are political decisions and right now we're in an environment where if this can be swept under the rug it's going to be swept under the rug and you know if that happens you know i really think we're going to take a hit in the united states in the in the financial services industry i was speaking with a hedge fund manager from korea the other day and he was telling me all about how they're protecting investors over there now korea had their bout with scandal and they learned from it so if you look at how korea for instance is setting up their alternative investment space it's very interesting i think the u.s. we want to be the investor protection haven not necessarily the place where people are afraid

. >> unusual, okay, thank you. so why did you provide this preliminary information? >> i provided it to the administrator may 3rd, 2011 so gsa could take steps to prevent future waste. >> okay. and i'm reading from ms. johnson's written testimony that was submitted today. we finally received the -- excuse me. let me back up. you had written, ms. british shared these findings with four of us in may, 2011. and you name the four people who were in that meeting, and according to your testimony, you were part of that meeting. is that -- >> yes. what i'm referring to. >> in your line of questioning with the chairman, at the beginning of this hearing, you had stated, quote, i was aware of a powerpoint slide deck, but i did not see it. yet in your written testimony, and so maybe you want to clarify, you said ms. british shared these findings with the four of us in may, 2011. the sentence prior says i believe the inspector general subsequently briefed her with a powerpoint deck. yet you're saying you never saw the powerpoin

it's a very unusual kind of sign. this item that we found in the attic is the envelope for a stationery set, a military portfolio as it's called on here. clara used these as a fund-raising product while the civil war was going on. you can see how nice and fancy the engraving work that is done on this. it also lists what was -- what was in the kit to include 30 or 40 sheets of paper, a pin mib, a pen set, a blotting paper, pocket calendar, there's quite a few things in here. in fact, i'm not quite sure how all of that could possibly fit in one of these. but she had tied this together to hang up for when she was out trying to sell these. so, if she had a booth at the market and she could hang this up and people could come by where she was and take a look at what she had there. so, of course, she produced many, many of these, and some of the things that we found in the attic were the boxes and containers that she purchased to fill these portfolios up with. we found several of these in the attic adhesive boxes. she also,

. >> it is not unusual for this area for us to get snow in april. >> it may not be unusual to get a little bit of snow in april but this is really unusual. this is thick, thick, heavy snow. it is not really all that wet. it's cold out here. once again west of cumberland and frost per -- frostburg it is cold. 29 degrees here all day long. we have not seen any rain at all. it is a steady, heavy snow. i do not care what they say this is unusual. >> thank you, brad. as bad as it is there, it is worse in other places. power outages spread across parts of pennsylvania and new york. there are about 50,000 homes and businesses without power. some could see up to 16 inches of snow before the storm is over. schools were even close in some areas as the snow made for rather slippery roads. >> i like the pictures at a distance, don't you? >> yes. >> fortunately, we did not get any snow around here. but we are definitely getting colder temperatures. >> doug hill has the first deck of the forecast. >> i will give you one specific -- statistic. 43 degrees in arlington right now. according to climatology,

it would be unusual.hink you would have to admit that it would be unusual. >> you know why it would be unusual, bill? because when black people are accused of shooting people? they get arrested. they get charged. they don't get to watch seinfeld that night. >> bill: not really. >> that's usually the case, bill. i think that's the issue here. this is such an unusual case. that's why we are getting so muched me attention. the other thing is i have been with reverend sharpton. i have been with reverend jackson in numerous cities where we have talked about the problem with black-on-black violence. the problem with black-on-black crime. one time i went to a jail with jesse jackson and a room full of black guys all there for drug offenses. he said why don't you help me shut this prison down. he said what do we do? he said don't come back no more. he didn't talk about the white man and unequal drug. he said you be responsible. that's the key. black leaders do talk about responsibility. right now there is a dead

and that's what i think makes this case a little bit unusual. from the lawyer's perspective, one website is to keep scheduling information on there, to correct errors that the public may have. i think the lawyer did that out of self presentation because if he didn't, he would have to be paying one or two people and he said that he has had two interns working full-time on just responding to media questions. will eliminates the need to keep picking up the phone every 5 or ten minutes to answer the questions. >> it has brought us so many unique firsts. just watch to go sing to see if zimmerman would even be charged. great to see you. thank you. >>> coming up, the hunt not next osama bin laden. a year after the death of the terrorist leader, forces are set on his successor. plus the search for answers after an suv plunges off an overpass killing seven family members. a horrible story. we'll bring you the latest. [ male announcer ] considering all your mouth goes through, do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses

>>neil: these are not unusual events, and texans no how to handle them.: well it is national but a lot of the activity is north of the metro plex on the southern edge of tornado alley running through oklahoma and southwest missouri and parts of kansas and it is unusual to have this much activity over the metro plex, dallas-ft. worth, and as someone said earlier you run these things through, you know, through cattle and cotton and farm country it is a lot, the damage to exteriors is a lot less than we have seen here as it hit a highly urban area. >>neil: we have seen more images than recently. and now switching gears to the primaries in washington, dc, maryland, and wisconsin. many expect that romney could be on route to winning them all and have the lead. what do you think? >>guest: well, there are two outcomes. if he has a hat trick the race takes a dramatic direction one way. if he does not win the hat trick this presages another ... like that animal in pennsylvania, show another six weeks of tough campaign. when you begin to win you begin to win. when

>> it would be extremely unusual.learly that is an important piece of circumstantial evidence that this man was not so badly injured, that he had been fighting for his life just minutes earlier. it is clear from everything i have seen in this case, even if we take the enhanced pictures from abc news that shows injuries to the back of the head that it's clearly an extreme exaggeration that he was fighting for his life, the fact that an ambulance is cancelleded, that he's not even brought to the hospital and examined. if he was near being unconscious that would indicate that he potentially had some type of brain injury. nothing like that occurs in this case. 30 minutes later he's brought to the police station. that's an important piece of circumstantial evidence that blows out of the water the consistent claim we hear from mr. zimmerman's family that he was fighting for his life. the evidence doesn't seem to support that. >> now, joe, if you look at the fact that officer timothy smith wrote in the police report from the

some shoving and things that are not unusual for a wrestling match. didn't raise to the level of penalizing. more of just a verbal warning to keep it clean type of thing. >> at one point, 17-year-old chad hillenbrand appears to gouge the eyes of his competi r competitor. >> i didn't see it, so i couldn't penalize for it. after viewing the tape, it was pretty obvious. it was an aggressive match. >> the aggressive behavior of chad is about to escalate. >> we were in the third period and hillenbrant was on his back and i'm looking to see both shoulder blades are down for a two-second count. >> when referee bob west sees the pin he slaps the floor to end the round. he is not happy with the call. >> he jumps up, throws his shoulder against his opponent trying to intimidate him and i step in between the two and put a finger up and tell him, back off. that's enough, that just cost you a team point and as i turn to the coach to notify him that he was penalized a team point, he head butted me in the left tempal a temple and it was lights out. >> west is knocke

the regulatory commission is trying to determine why tubing is eroding at an unusual rate. it is located on the coast halfway between los angeles and san diego. >>> arnold schwarzenegger is working on his autobiography and needs your help. he's asking twitter followers and facebook fans to tell him what they want to read about in the book. he has received 2,000 responses. topics include, body building, movies, politics and sex. it a year since he came clean about fathering a child with his housekeeper. the book is titled "total recall my unbelievably true life story." >>> let's check in with meteorologist lisa argen for tracking that storm. >>> violent weather to the south of us, a lot of thunderstorms along the central coast potential of rotating cells with winds shifting with height what that means is we could see severe weather south of the bay area now. we are not out of the woods yet. here's a look at san luis obispo. take a look at all these thunderstorms these continue to push to the northeast at 30 miles an hour. if you are traveling anywhere south and east of the b

but it was a very strange, unusual, sometimes very comforting experience for the crew, sometimes extremely discomforting experience for the crew. keeler said you would look up and you would imagine the total weight of that water being sufficient to bury us forever. presciently of course, because that's what it did eventually. if you go into the museum display and look at the beautiful reproduction they've done of the officers' ward room, there was a skylight that would be on the deck up above. and keeler would describe lying in his bed looking up at the skylight. and the water would roll in and then roll out. and there would be fish swimming around in the skylight. it reminds you of something from jules vern's 20,000 leagues underneath the sea. it mentions the monitor in its first page. so very much a model for what later becomes a modern vision of a submarine home. again, the turret is of course the iconic picture of what the monitor was all about. there are many other interesting novel design features worthy of note and worthy of study. but the turret, as you see again on the refrigerato

>> it's pretty unusual.s in an unusual spot when you have the centerpiece of your entire agenda threatened with being struck down 5-4. so he i think was trying to have it both ways in a sense and that is he'd love to see a victory in the supreme court and if he loses i think he's seriously thinking about running against the supreme court. so he's raising the stakes. >> jon: so you think the supreme court could be the republican nominee? (laughter) >> he may make the supreme court the republican nominee. >> is it the type of thing... we're hearing now the president saying this judicial activism where they strike down a law that the congress has duly passed. is that just a phrase that everyone uses when it suits them like an umbrella in the rain on both sides? >> absolutely. i think that nobody is really consistent about this. republicans would love to see more campaign finance laws struck down and the liberals would love to see more abortion restrictions struck down. the constitution is a wonderful thing unle

this is an unusual thing to request a letter like this. is it out of line?n't think so if the department of justice felt it was out of line, they would have asked for relief from a higher court but clearly it didn't. they felt it deserved merit and sfond -- responded. they did not write it 100 times on the chalkboards. very much -- i have to make a point and disagree with the two intelligent colleagues that you have with you. >> he's about to slam you guys. >> no. but what i'm saying is that this -- the president clearly misspoke. with all due respect to where the debate is laid out, it's become a very dangerous debate in the sense that it's trying to intimidate, it sounds as if the president was trying to intimidate the supreme court. we can look at a long line through history of presidents that tried to politicize a very revered institution. we have coequal government and branches of the government and i think there's a dangerous precedence being set there. and the supreme court has overturned cases 363 times and that's not unusual to to do so. there's a p

we have an unusual weather pattern right now. violent thunderstorms with numerous lightening strik strike. heavy did you know pour of rain. strong gusty wind and even some hail stones falling as you can sea life doppler 7 hd storms move in a line and have been moving in a line like this through san francisco over to the east bay last couple hours. close in a little bit. give you another view of all these thunderstorms that are quite turbulent right now and moving across the east bay. we had a lot of heavy rain in the north bay earlier and just suddenly dissipated and all the energy shifted down lieu this line of thunderstorms again moving offshore across peninsula over to east bay berkeley hayward san ramone all the location getting activity rate now likely to continue for awhile. we have stormy pattern even if the thunderstorms dissipate we have a stormy pattern overnight right through the rush hour tomorrow morning which means if you are commuting tomorrow morning you may need to give yourself a little extra time. 7 day forecas

so far, our supreme court has found that the death penalty does not meet cruel and unusual punishmenthave been instances where certain methods of executions have been challenged. we have moved forward in terms of it being unconstitutional to execute juveniles. it is unconstitutional to execute people or mentally retarded. in the past decade or so, the supreme court has moved in that direction. there is a narrow class of punishments that should not be available to people of mental retardation. all people of mental retardation have limitations. >> let's take a look at the second question -- is the death penalty racist? >> the constitution says most states will not deprive a person of life, liberty or due process without benefit l ofaw. >> the problem with the death penalty in america and anywhere in the world is that we are a system of human beings. there is absolutely no way to be sure that we are always right and who we identify as the perpetrator of crimes. there is no way to apply the death penalty at least in a system we have currently employed. >> most people get executed in texas

two thirds are children of color. >> we contend it's cruel and unusual punishment. brian stevenson appeared for the u.s. supreme court last month to argue that even in murder cases. sentencing kids that young to die in prison is cruel and unusual punishment. >> we can't hide from the problems. >> it's a leadership necessity in my view. >> reporter: u.s. senator, jim webb, ex-marine and vietnam war hero couldn't be called soft on crime. >> if you are a violent career criminal, you deserve incarceration. >> reporter: the democrat from virginia tryed and failed to get congress to address the comprehensive reform he's convinced can't wait. >> we can be much more adaptive in areas much non-violent crime, lengths of sentences and particularly in what we do with people when they begin to re-enter society. >> reporter: in a bad economy, just the expense of incarceration is creating converts among state legislators faced with disastrous budget problems. in 201115 states passed sentencing reform legislation. democrats and republicans uniteed in their determination to cut pris

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i guess it's not that unusual -- >> it is odd not to wear a coat on a morning like this. >> it is unusualally someone who's usually so prepared. you look so smart, aaron. >> it's wednesday. >> very, very unusual, aaron, indeed this morning. you need your winter coat. it is down to the 30s around the region. look at this scene -- i took this picture here in northwest washington -- >> gorgeous. >> nice. >> it looks like spring. >> the azaleas out. >> doesn't feel like it much. the azale

this is unusual. >> it is. although he is asking more about the question whether they can rule, he said i want this letter to detail your response to the president's remarks so he is putting it in specific context. he is putting them on the spot. now they have to answer to what the president has said. coming from the justice department. coming from the attorney general's office. it puts them in a very uncomfortable spot in some ways. >> greta: i imagine the discussion tonight at the justice department, i would be having this discussion. it really is beyond what is necessary. it has nothing to do with the case. the lawyer asked to take this up. i'm not sure that the department of justice has to comply with this. >> it's interesting to see how they supply. they reached out today and said no comment. we called the judge's chamber and got no comment from them as well. told by the folks involved in the case if the letter is issued thursday we'll get a copy. >> greta: imagine this lucky lawyer. imagine that. she is c