. >> reporter: lonnie dike is a plant manager for drywall manufacturer, usg.he company that owns empire. >> there were a lot of emotional outbursts when it happened. you know, it's a frustrating thing not only to lose your job, but you're going to lose your home, too. >> reporter: he says the plant and town were too costly to operate given demand for drywall was cut in half when construction dried up after the housing bubble burst. a company town since its founding in 1923, usg built most of its 200 homes after it bought empire in 1948. recently leasing those homes to employees and their families for under $200 a month. >> hard to think about it closing completely. all my friends grew up here. and my kids grew up here. >> reporter: in december, the residents were given five months of free rent and were told they needed to leave by june. without children to teach, its elementary school closed, its two churches are empty, and no one plays its nine-hole golf course. even its zip code, 89405, is no more. discontinued when the post office shut down. now any mail is

. 7.2 now the upgrade magnitude of the earthquake from the usgs. rafael abrew just speaking with updated us on. that 7.2. not quite as powerful as initially reported but significant event off the aleutian islands in alaska triggering a tsunami warning. update you as need be. >> moving on. bay area school district asked to pay a huge price for not adequately protecting the stawnlts. parents say they made a cash settlement with union city school after 14-year-old student was shot to death 5 years ago. the district says final details are still being worked out. more on this tonight from l thomas. >> he is actually been diagnosed with ptsd. >>reporter: her son was a witness to the 2007 shooting death of 14-year-old student that happened at the school in new haven union sfid school district and says her son and other boys present at the time are sharing the same symptoms. >> emotionally an mentally l he's not himself. he didn't graduate from high school this year. he has been to 4 high schools in the last 4 years and so it's drastically affected his edu

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. >>> right now, getting breaking news out of chile, where the usgs is reporting a 6.4-magnitude earthquakeit's hit off the west coast. that is major. reports it's felt as far away as the capital of santiago. 329 miles from the epicenter. no immediate word on damage or injuries. we'll continue to monitor the story and bring more as we get it. >>> crew of the chase shuttle "endeavor" is back on earth and wrap up the final mission. >> a spectacular sight to see. "endeavor" touched down after 11:30 our time following a 16-day mission. it's the next to last mission in nasa 30-year space shuttle program. atlantis is on the launch pad this morning scheduled to launch the final shuttle mission on july 8. >>> welcome back, astronauts. >>> we can welcome a little more rain in the forecast and more interesting activity as well. >> thunderstorm information june. rare, but they happen. today is one of the days. we what ror rainfall. as we head deeper in the forecast we could try again on friday and saturday. today, mainly dry. the big deal is lurking offshore in the form of the area of low pressure her

>> first of all, i'd like to see the methodology where he is and was developed by the usgs agreed to kick out and has been used by agencies for many years. but this is a uniquely scientists came up with recently. it is however not being used as part of this have to process. epa has acknowledged the value in using these devices. since everyone is talking about sending, it's difficult to obtain funding, either from bpa or noaa or other organizations that were in a position that would have limited data which will be much to kate at insignificant. what is current they been used in this have to process and very significant and attempting to quantify chronic damages in the fault. but again, very limited on what we can do because of lack of funding. >> senator sessions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity and i don't think i have another round of questions. i believe it was an excellent panel. it is indeed an excellent panel. we are beginning to have a congressional response to the damage the gold at 15. we work our way through that, hopefully sooner rather than later i

. >>> the usgs released this spectacular video. this is the volcano in hawaii. orange images of rock, you can imagine what is throwing into what the experts call a lava lake. there is a concern now, the volcano may overflow as the lava rises towards the rim of the crater. now, the temperature can reach 1 -- well, 1800 degrees. >>> there is a new law in parts of australia that has cat lovers pretty upset. a suburb of sydney is imposing curfews on cats. they have to stay indoors from dusk to dawn. now, local officials -- local -- local officials say there have been00 reports of cats attacking possums. >>> a city in ohio is testing some high-tech trash cans that can tell the city crews when they need to be dumped. dayton public works departments has installed ten trash cans with stole ar powered compacters that allows them to send more -- allow them to be more full. then they are full, a message goes to the website. >> this is full. yellow, you need to schedule this. half gray green, are good to go. >> the only drawback is the $4,000 price tag. >>> this year's ebay

>> first of all, i'd like to see the methodology where he is and was developed by the usgs agreed tokick out and has been used by agencies for many years. but this is a uniquely scientists came up with recently. it is however not being used as part of this have to process. epa has acknowledged the value in using these devices. since everyone is talking about sending, it's difficult to obtain funding, either from bpa or noaa or other organizations that were in a position that would have limited data which will be much to kate at insignificant. what is current they been used in this have to process and very significant and attempting to quantify chronic damages in the fault. but again, very limited on what we can do because of lack of funding. >> senator sessions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity and i don't think i have another round of questions. i believe it was an excellent panel. it is indeed an excellent panel. we are beginning to have a congressional response to the damage the gold at 15. we work our way through that, hopefully sooner rather than later in

usaid has been supporting overall usg efforts in iraq since 2003.primary object is then was to restore essential infrastructure and services. beginning in 2007, u.s.a. shifted much of its resources to a stabilization program to complement the military and civilian surge began at that time. this program focused on community stabilization in administering quakers unspun to the civil military provincial reconstruction teams. you said is aligned with the framework agreement which outlined the political economic and purity cooperation between the united states and iraq. the agreement focuses on sustainable development programs in several sectors and is characterized by increasing levels of country ownership of the cost of these programs. mr. chairman, the key challenge but iraqi government will be security. agile services come economic growth and strengthening of institutions of democratic governance. now is the time for iraq to transition from the legacy of foreign insurgency to one of economic opportunity and good governance. usaid governance programs

>> well, first of all i'd like to say that the methodology that we are using was developed by the usgs way over a decade ago and has been used by federal agencies for many years. so this isn't just something a few scientists came up with recently. it is however not being used in the gulf as part of the nrda process which is a shame. epa has acknowledged the value in using these devices, but since everyone was talking about funding, it's difficult to obtain that funding either from epa or from noaa or other organization. we're in a position now where we will have limited data which is going to be more sophisticated, and significant, more sophisticated than what is currently being used in the nrda process and very significant and attempting to quantify chronic damages in the gulf, but again we are very limited on what we can do because of lack of funding. >> senator sessions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate this opportunity, and i don't think i have another round of questions. i believe it's an excellent panel. it is indeed an excellent panel. we are beginning to have a congress