geological survey or the usgs. everyone i knew had told me i would be declared certifiably insane to move from idyllic monterey bay to washington, d.c., to take a china pharma aype and salary -- to take it ginormous cut in salary to obtain an equally large increase in bureaucracy. save for one person. an old friend of mine who was a former science advisor, i saw it out his advice right after i met with the secretary of the interior to discuss the position. i told him that secretary salazar, who is also a warmer he, grad, was willing to meet all of my request for elevating the visibility and the prestige of the usgs in terms of its position in the u.s. government. this mentor that i met with told me, and i quote, in this case, he said, you cannot turned on the position. -- turned down the position. it is not about you anymore. it is what is in the best interests for the nation. if you turn down the position, there will not be another opportunity like this to help the usgs and the nation. so, i took the job. so, that

i'm an alumni of the usgs. and it's probably one of the greatest taxpayer returns on investment ever. i love the agency. it's done a lot of good work. about 35 years ago, their director at the time, vince mckelvy, sat down and pretty much pulled together on his own the idea of mineral resource classification. it really hadn't been put out there as succinctly as vince put it out as you see here posted behind me. he said, look, we have two classes of minerals, reserves and resources. the reserves i can identify, map them, drill them, core them, assay that and i can tell you, for example, their measured or inferred value. versus resources that i haven't discovered yet but they're hypothetical or maybe even speculative. he made that distinction and further divided resources into measured and indicated. in the upper left-hand corner you'll see the box reserve, and that's what reserves are. they're indicated -- they're actually bankable in the oil industry. you can book reserves, take to the bank, it's collateral. sa

>>it's mainly a question of dollars. >> reporter:keith knudsen is a geologist at the usgs.he says that they know how to build the warning system, the problem has been getting funding to complete the work. so far they've relied on federal funds and private grants. he says that an additional 10 million dollars from the state would go a long ways toward getting the system up and running. >>that's' great. that's a real influx of money to build out the network and do research into the messaging. >> reporter:but even if the shakealert system is completed, knudsen says it will take a steady flow of funding to keep it going. >>once we have the system in place and built out and all the messaging figured out, about 16 million per year. >> reporter:at this point, no one knows where that money will come from. the focus now is just on getting the system built. >> reporter: able to do limited roll out. >> reporter: in menlo park, charles clifford kron 4 news. >> pam:there are apparently about those 15 americans sailors taken hostage by iran earlier this year. >> steve:the daily mail onli

i retired from the usgs just a month ago now. right now i am working on a book. things that i have done in the last few decades. after that that's completed we are working at putting together a center to share these experiences, rezil generals, to take what we did with the city of los angeles to other cities. so it's furthering the implementation. moving beyond the research part that i did with the usgs to getting the revenued. >> i wish you much success with your retirement. and i know that even when that big one hits, people will still be searching out dr. lucy jones for advice and information. >> well, i think a big enough earthquake, i am not going to be able to stay away. >> dr. lucy jones, thank you for making time for being with us on "mornings on 2" and all the best to you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> time is 8:49. let's check back with sal on the commute once again. >> all right. dave, thank you very much. we still have a lot of slow traffic out there, including a look at some of these commutes here at the bay bridge. it has been the same, which mean

a geologist at the usgs says they know how to build warning system, the problem is getting funding. so far they have relied on federal funds and private grants. an additional $10 million would go a long way toward getting the system up and running. >> that is a great deal of influx of money to get into the messaging. r even if they finished building shake alert it will take a steady flow funding to keep it going. >> once the system is in place about $60 million per year. 4 no one knows where the money will come from at this point but the focus now is getting a bill. >> in a year or 2 we could maybe do limited rollouts. >>> in the east bay the body found in a concorde park has been identified. we broke that story yesterday at 5 am. police are looking for a man who's been named as a suspect. investigators would like to talk to this man, he is on your screen. he is a prime suspect. the woman's body was found floating in one of the duck ponds near the boxer boulevard entrance of the park. police determined she was a victim of murder. >> we thought was a dead animal. we looked and it was

and it has involved the usgs briefings on the hill. it's involved the national academy briefings. it's involved in mineral industry and environmental group congressional testimony, and also think tank he'll briefings and the like. and then all of a sudden, most of you have probably experienced these things, or some of them. but then something changed in 2010. that was simply the huge boost that the idea of a critical minerals received when china decided to embark critical minerals from the country of japan bringing their electronics industry virtually to its knees in very short order. and with that wakeup call people began to look again at critical minerals. and the media has reported pretty reasonably ongoing articles and stories and exposÉs. and all of those sort of culminated with another boost we received at the end of last year with the publication of the book entitled the elements of power, i david abraham. i wil believe this up here for s to look at. i don't know what it is, i asked mr. abram kabir and he wanted to be your buddy is on travel as well, so we will just go with

narrator: early reporting from unicecehas shown ththat when usg virtual reality, they've doubld the effectiveness of their fundraising efforts. man: the fact that virtual rereality is so real means thate have to think a lot more about the ethical aspects of what we do. narrator: tom kent is the standards editor at the associated press and is a professor at new york's columbia a university. kekent: there's s a psychologigl impact that vr has that's greater t than the impact of photos or video. it hits you at a more elemental level. when somebody's watching a video or someone''s looking at t a ot, they knowow that they are exterl to the scene and they're looking in at something. vr operates at a different level. it's putting you in the scene and working on your brain in n ways that i do't think is r really completely understood. arora: we got the blessing to do one on ebola. "waves of grace" is an ebola survivor who is basically--you get access to her prayer, and you feel like you have this intimate moment with her as she's praying to god. narrator: "waves of grace" was integrated into the u.n. sec

a seismologist with usgs the moment an earthquake hits, they would send out alerts fast. >> we could send you a warning. that is how fast radio waves and broadcast travels. >> nbc bay area news. >> the speed is what is so dangerous. >> hikers versus bikers. who should have access to a trail on a popular bay area mountain. we look at what happens when there is bad behavior. they don't feel safe. >> i hear this loud crash. so loud. it threw me. i went flying off the trailer. >> for rocked their world. a surprise jolt that sounded alarms in a nearby school. >> good evening. we are tracking another chance of rain tomorrow. we will have the hour by hour forecast. which day of the weekend will be the best. that's in a few minutes. is known for beautiful views. but it's also home to an ugly battle between hikers and mountain bikers. =raj/2-shot= the bikers want more access to the trails, but hikers say that would endanger their safety. senior inv reporter vicki ngyuen iw/ >> the bikers want more access to the trails, but the hikers say that would endanger their safety. the senior investigat

i want to respond a little bit to the gentlelady from california's concerns about usgs studies. a lot of these studies are more than 10 years old. they do not reflect the current status of pesticide conditions and regulations today. many of the detections were what we call legacy pollution stemming from many years ago. many of the detections where pesticides have not been used in the united states for many years and the vast majority of low have found a very concentration with levels well below what they consider human health benchmark. for example, approximately 99% of the monitored wells, water wells, and greater than 90% of the monitored stream sites were below health benchmark -- human health benchmark levels. between 2002 and 2011, so before this court decision took effect, was in place, the usgs only found one stream where human health benchmarks exceeded levels of danger. that's just one stream in the entire united states. because of this, the data does not reflect the improvements made by the e.p.a. under fifra over the past 10 years. this program has back more rigorous

usgs and academic researchers are developing the system which would trigger when a fault runnures . the early -- ruptures. the early warning system to save lives and the system could be running in 2018. >>> new numbers show the california landscape disappearing. according to conservation science partners at the disappearing web, every 2.5 minutes, the west coast loses a football field worth of land to human development. it could be seen right here on this map. the dark red shows developed land add the light yellow shows untouched earth. pretty amazing, roberta. >> it is. you know, you want to tell them stop it. you could build in barstow, okay? >> in barstow? not much there. >> love my state of california. good morning -- good afternoon now, everybody. let's head out. this is our live weather camera looking out towards the golden gate bridge. i love this view from sutro tower looking in order. it's hard to imagine in the city by the bay we're surrounded by mountains. currently in san francisco at 78 degrees. but just due east it's 10 degrees cooler in oakland. redwood city in the lo

usg invokana® with a sulfonylurea or insulin imagine life with a lower a1c.re you loving your numbers? there's only one invokana®. ask your doctor about it by name. ♪ doug: the next few days, today, sunny and warm, no rain, dry come 86, tonight, statistics, there is dan bright, probably sunny, warm and humid, a private 80's with a chance of a few afternoon thunderstorms. melanie: no complaints, thank you >> hey, everybody. i hope you're ready for some drama because with $1 million on the line, things around here can get real exciting real fast. this is "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic music] ♪ hey, everybody! i'm chris harrison. welcome to the show. are you guys ready to play a little "millionaire" today? [cheers and applause] good. because our first contestant has been making money off of trivia since she was seven years old. from phoenix, arizona, please welcome jennifer goldberg. [cheers and applause] hey, jennifer. >> hi! nice to meet you. >> welcome. how you doing? >> thank you. i'm so good. [applause] hi. >> how does o

volcano's national park service headquarters, another indication how hot volcanos are, they have a usgs guy standing -- not standing there. his suit and the suit is just charred because he got too close to a volcano and just the heat from the seared his uniform and you go, god, he survived that. and so, yes, ladies and gentlemen, lava is hot. i know you tune in to find these things out. hi-def doppler radar is not news. there is a chance of a few showers around but they failed to materialize so that right now there's not a drop on the radar. as we look toward the embarcadero we have nothing but sunshine. concord now 72. oakland 69. livermore 71. san francisco 65. and san jose 72 degrees. high atop the west coast low pressure powers into the northwest. the rain is confined to the northern border where there's been thunderstorms but not south to the bay area. died on the vine. so the low leaves, sunday will warm up. this is kind of cool. futurecast looked at in profile looking towards san francisco for tomorrow. we see low clouds being whisked away by the northerly flow. so after the low

i remember when i was with the usgs. we did all of the work out of the usgs conservation division.ll the mine plan permitted and approvals. review of the drilling plan, environmental plan, mine plan. everything. it was done promptly, usually got out the door in time. we had a pretty good relationship with industry. things got done, environmental law. we were underneath the law. everything was handled. but as that was taken way and the bureau of mines was dissolved and the land management agencies don't have enough geologists to staff up, they get further and further behind despite their best efforts. the gao report main graphic is this one. and it shows during a four-year period of 2010 to 2014, they looked at about 60 mine plan permits submitted between the service and blm. here's the alkaslocation of the approvals in terms of time it took to do the approval. two things about the chart. number one, it ends all the way to the right by saying more than 48 months. all right, that's four years, and you don't see all the way up to the six, ten, and 20-year figures i gave you earlier. s

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the usgs says it happened at 12:30 along the cavaliers fault. that fault has had several quakes recently. >>> coming up, a people dead and dozens hurt after a bus crash in texas. what we are learning about what happened. >>> new developments in a fight to keep a child declared dead on life support. >>> there are eight people dead and more than 40 others injured when a bus rolled over in texas. it happened just before noon on u. s. route 8345 miles north of laredo. the bus was traveling to a casino west of san antonio. no other vehicles were involved. the driver survived that there is no word about the cause of the accident. >>> a woman was injured in a hot air balloon accident. it happened at the yolo county airport. a strong gust of wind bright the balloon 100 yards as people were getting into the passenger basket. the woman suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment. >>> the feds are getting involved after a plane carrying a group of sign derek -- skydivers crashed into a vineyard. investigators say there were as many as 1

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and so far the usgs budget have increased about $8 million.halfway there and order to operate the system. >> reporter: and when you heard about that napa quake and the 10 second warning, did that surprise you ?>> i cannot say it surprised me, it's part of the system we are all talking about. this is being developed by university of washington, caltech and many players. the system that reported in napa is the shake alert system i am describing. i was gratified that it went well for that event. >> reporter: it looked like it was a success. thank you so much for joining us today. and we hope it is an exciting week down in long beach. we will be back in a few minutes with your full forecast. interesting information coming out with the early earthquake system. and we are interested in that because we know that a big quake could happen at any time. >>> california woman is taking her employer to court. she said she was fired hours after telling her boss that she is pregnant. we will hear from her when 4on2 continues. m$ >>> we are expecting to see mo

usgs. an alumni of the here are the introductory remarks right now. >> has done a lot of good work. 35 years ago, their director at the time sat down and he pretty pulled together on his own the resource eral classification. he said, look, we have two classes of minerals, reserves and resources. the reserves, i can identify, map them, drill them and i can tell you, for example, they're versus or inferd value resources that i haven't discovered yet or hypothetical or speculative. he made that distincton and further divided resources into measured and indicated. in the upperland corner, you will see the box reserve, and that's what reserves are. they are bankable in the oil industry. you can book reserves and take it to the bank. it's collateral. same in the mining industry. so there is a difference now between reserves and resources. the media sometimes will mix them up but we need to keep them straight in our mind. if i tell you we need more critical resources, ok, there aren't any more. th

according to the usgs, the -- the earthquakes may be after -- aftershocks of an earthquake last month that killed 661 people. >>> a community struggling with dealing with the death of a football player. >>> i don't even know what to say. i couldn't even sleep less that. >> what the 15-year-old was doing moments before he collapsed. >>> a cool down today. mark tamayo will be here for the detail -- details. >>> police are looking at the homicide investigation of a san francisco mother and a search for her two-year-old daughter. >>> m$ police are expected to announce rule word information in the homicide investigation of nicole fits and the two-year- old daughter search -- search for the two-year-old daughter. friends say she was struggling financially so she left her two- year-old daughter in the care of her friend. we then gave a -- arianna to her sister, and her husband who lives -- lived in oakland. furthermore as he tried to talk to them, but they refuse. >>> and a copy for second about the arianna fits and nicole fits? were the last seen in your apartment? do you know want talking

nasa and usgs created this map of76 the closest planet to the sun. more than 100,000 pictures taken from nassau messenger spacecraft. this reveals mercury highest an lowest point. area with high elevation colored brown yellow red. lower elevation are blue and purple. while we are talking about space the milky way got a lot more crowdd with planet. this illustration from nasa nishingts they announce the space telescope has validated 12 84 worlds orbiting stars outsideáó our solar system. 9 appear to orbit in a zone so-called golde lock zone. scientist say this is important step in the in determining whether we areit indeed alone in the universe. >> next on 7 news at 9:00 injured by an exploding e-cigarette. e-cigarette. >> near a man who says it >> brazilian world cup winner is telling tourist to stay away from the olympic in rio because of the city violence. post add warning on the instagram account with this picture of a 17-year-old woman who was killed on saturday in a shoot out. he says it's ugly there every day and revice everyone to go to the ol

you're looking at the usgs site. after shocks are expected but not a tsunami warning. they are saying that it. but keep in mind this is the same area that was hit really hard by a devastating quake just a month ago. more than 650 people died in that earthquake including one american. i'm angie goff at the live desk. >>> 5:13 right now. new details and new pictures in the shooting investigation in montgomery county. there's a $10,000 reward and you can help police identify this man. they say he shot at someone in wheaton last week. it started with an argument off georgia avenue. you can see the man holding a silver handgun in his left hand here. he was also wearing a tank top that said ocean city on it. >>> two special police officers who tried to stop a man from leaving the d.c. hospital before being discharged are facing involuntary manslaughter. clifton montgomery brown pulled james mcbride to the ground and he died from blunt force injuries to his neck. >>> it's worse than what people feared and it's happening in washington at an alarming rate. it's called virtual k

usgs and academic researchers are developing the system which would sound an alert when a fault ruptureslimited warnings could begin by 2018. the governor has supported a creation of the system but previously argued that funding should come from only private and federal sources. he now wants $10 million in state money. >> you haven't felt an earthquake yet since you have been here. >> not yet but when i was in college in california i did. i woke up and went right back to bet. >> is that northridge. i believe it was. i was in westwood at the time. but i went right back to bed and the next morning i watched some college football and then they said, yeah, earthquake in california this morning in l.a. >> okay. >> i think i have experienced -- reported all the big ones here in the bay area. something to take very seriously and always be prepared. this morning you want to be prepared for the hottest day of the workweek. good morning, everybody. our live weather camera is looking out from sutro tower looking out towards the marin headlands. mount tam is out there somewhere but look at the golde

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i remember when i was with the usgs, we did all of the work out of the usgs conservation division. all mine plan permitting, approvals, review of the drilling plan, environmental plan, mine plan, everything. it was done promptly, usually got out the door on time. we had pretty good relationship with industry. things got done, environmental law, we were underneath the law, everything was handled. but as that was taken away and bureau of mines was dissolved, and the land management agencies don't have enough geologists to staff up, they get further and further behind despite their best efforts. the gao report main graphic is this one and it shows, during a four-year period of 2010 to 2014 they looked at about 60 mine plan permits submitted between forest service and blm. here is the allocation of those mine plan approvals, in terms of the time it took to do the approval. two things about this chart. number one, it ends all the way to the right by saying, more than 48 months. all right, that is four years and you don't he see all the way up to the six, 10 and 20 figures that i gave yo

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uc berkeley, the usgs and other groups are testing the system, seven of the $10 million would go towardardware. the other 3 million would be used for education and training. developers say the money is worth it and that a quick warning system can save lives. >> a couple extra seconds to have things put in place, to help you sell slowing down trains, opening fire house bay doors, stopping elevators at the nearest floor. >> funding request is part of next state budget. >>> let's check some of the highs from today. we saw highs today a good five degrees warmer than yesterday, warmer tomorrow with numbers going back into the 90s in some places. these were the highs from today, those will be eclipsed tomorrow, so it will be the warmest day of the week on your tuesday. wednesday is nothing to sneeze at. tomorrow, tuesday, warmest day although today, looking at 87 fairfield, 86 antioch. the live camera shot, patchy fog trying to format the coast but that is the story here. fog is not happening so we're not seeing that big night, morning push of fog with the north winds. that's going to allow u

. >> reporter: usgs in years is long the west coast and then we getting it earthquake warning system.ould send a one- minute messages a few sectors are perhaps a minute before the quake hits in a. ac not allowed * but it may give you time to cover. the public version is still a year more a way. >>: is really a question of dollars. >> reporter: the promise of getting funding so far they need other grants to side with the beginning from federal funds. the chef who did >>: it would help us to build two get the research. >> reporter: it would take a steady funding flowing to keep going. >>: process and $60 million a year. >>: did not know where the money would come from. they want to lease to the belt. >> mark: major development of last year's deadly amtrak derailment. we'll talk about the cause a crash coming up. >> reporter: when ya don a free white fought five years of the issue to attack yourself. i'll have more information we come back introducing the completely redesigned mercedes-benz c-coupe, with its athletic prowess and sleek new body. it doesn't just raise the bar... ...it comp

and growth sglvp the companies that make the stuff that goes into the homes, the eagle materials, the usg, the treks, masonites, they have done far better than the home building stocks themself. you would think they would trade the same. why is there a difference? >> big production costs, as you ramp volume you get massive market expansion and we're seeing this with market leaders lie masako, mohawk, fortune. the big three strong horses selling into home depot. massive demand and strong consumer mixed shift of higher-priced products and getting the benefits of the tailwinds. look for this to continue in the back half. year and looking for other names to invest whirl spool an extremely well-managed company and another name which would benefit from similar trends, along with masonite. so there's still a lot of opportunity remaining after the big riots. bob, appreciate your time. thank you very much, brother. tyler? >> tudor investments will trim its fees on at least some of the funds in its stable to help keep investors on board and happy. kate kelly is with us from new york. what is my fel

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scientist at the usgs say there is no need to worry and no sign that volcano will abrupt soon. seismologists say similar earthquakes recorded in that area in 2013 and 2014 and that is a sign that the volcano is still active. i remember when that ash came down, i have family in portland. their cars had 3 inches on it. >> when it starts shaking they are scared. it is like earthquakes here. >>> 7:47 am. we are thinking about the changing weather. if you don't like what is in the air, wait a second.>>> spring showers have been nice but it has been a few days since we've seen this -- seen the sunshine. partly cloudy skies for mother's day. a warming trend as we get into the business week. here is a look over oakland with the overcast skies. we are all waking up mostly cloudy but for the most part the rain has moved on and had overnight hours in the last 24 hours. santa rosa picked up tents. concorde 13/100 of an inch. san francisco, livermore, oakland, less than that. over the last few days, we got quarter inch to half-inch of rain. mostly cloudy now but dry. the system that has bee

bush, left usge with a deficit and his son was a total disaster.or a republican, i will go to see a psychiatrist. --t: on twitter pam in georgia. republican line. caller: hello. not obligation and a duty as a citizen of this country to vote. i did not realize that until later years in my life. in taking a government class, i realized that the primaries is where you choose your government. that is where you get your final candidate. if you do not like who is write somebody in. host: as far as this election, are you planning on participating? caller: you betcha. say. my privilege not to host: you say you came to this idea of voting later on. was this because of the class or other things involved? caller: it was not ever taught ,n school, nor by my parents that we have an obligation. we cannot complain about government if we are not voting. you do not vote, you cannot complain. you need to study the folks running for office, what they are voting for. if i do not vote come i cannot put good people in government. people -- only 2% of the population actu