people in vail took the lead on this. vail town council made a powerful statement against the rough buffalo proposal. the marketing director was one of the leading voices against the red buffalo proposal. his rational and also the vail town council's was that putting this interstate through would jeopardize lifestyle interests and vail businessowners' business interests. this combination of interests, really for a brief time potent alliance of recreational lifestyle and business interests, this was what launched colorado's environmental movement to political prominence by the early 1970s. again, i won't go into detail. but the movement would have smashing successes in the early 1970s. most famously, the state wide vote in 1972 to reject the 1976 winter olympics which had been granted to denver and when the committee then started spraying out venues around the state. this map i think -- this is a bit of the olympic organizing committee literature in which they show where the venues are going to be. as you can see, they wer

he set up a deal that would create what vail called "a natural monopoly."ner of at&t what was in the kingsbury commitment. the key part of it, of course, was the commitment to refrain from buying up any more independent telephone companies, that it would provide long distance connections to the independent, which means the non-bell companies, which then existed. mr. wagner, what do you think prompted theodore vail to give up the fight, so to speak, and decide to go into an agreement with the federal government? at&t got the government off its back. and with the kingsbury commitment, we were able to go ahead and set up the long distance network. and we were assured that the government was not going to come in and take away from us that long distance network. schoumacher: henry geller, former general counsel of the federal communications commissio was one of the government's key telephone policymakers. well, i can understand what was in it for the phone companies, buy why did the government buy this arrangement? the government bought it because what he promis

people in vail took the lead on this. vail town council made a powerful statement against the rough buffalo proposal. the marketing director was one of the leading voices against the red buffalo proposal. his rational and also the vail town council's was that putting this interstate through would jeopardize lifestyle interests and vail businessowners' business interests. this combination of interests, really for a brief time potent alliance of recreational lifestyle and business interests, this was what launched colorado's environmental movement to political prominence by the early 1970s. again, i won't go into detail. but the movement would have smashing successes in the early 1970s. most famously, the state wide vote in 1972 to reject the 1976 winter olympics which had been granted to denver and when the committee then started spraying out venues around the state. this map i think -- this is a bit of the olympic organizing committee literature in which they show where the venues are going to be. as you can see, they wer

but an amazing opening right here in vail with over 500 akers.penings we've had in long time. the lifts just starts behind me. >> what are the conditions like? >> fantastic. we're looking for more snow this week. it should set up for a fantasticing this. >> in this environment do you still artificially make the snow? does this make the task less difficult for you? >> no. we actually do both. when the temperatures are right, which right now they are across the country, we can make great snow. and that helps fill in some of the pockets when nur november. but we've got tremendous natural snow here and have had in the last couple weeks. and looking at more for the next week. and this is a big weekend for us. because the epic passes, this is the last weekend we'll be selling the epic pass. one of the best deals in skiing. so we're really excited as we get these incredible conditions. >> given that you collect so much money in advance through the pass, how much are you up on last year. what will the spend be across the country for the industry be you t

>> why the argument was you're taking away vail instead of adding value whatever they want to do. >> hi commissioners, i was listening there was discussion will an inspector going out there and tea the documents of the careers records will lead me to building their trying to do - we ask them to present united states with the water department sand born maps all we look at the building history and try to decide what's on the property i don't know if it didn't work for them this is something we'll do we had one appealed. >> the woman in the audience. >> i'm sorry you can't speak from the back of the room. >> the process is the whole process of all records from different cities and starting with the water department you've heard earlier the spring valley company has good records. >> i actually have that. >> you might want to speak. >> i'd be more comfortable if mr. duffy looked at it first. >> she actually accepted it and pulled the water department we didn't what was asked us inform do you actually have them we sent them back on the first time and the discretionary review they're in the

vail the operator acquired mountain city resort in september. the thing to keep in mind for investors. what about the outlook for snow bunnies? operators in most parts of the country are optimistic about the season largely because we have seen the cold snap and solid snowfall in places like the rockies. here the slopes just opened this morning and this is the first time we have seen that before thanksgiving in five years. so it's all about the weather when it comes to the ski stocks and all about the weather when it comes to the snow bunnies. back to you. >> thanks very much. bundle up. that will do it for "power lunch." >> "street signs" starts now. >>> and welcome to "street signs." we have a huge hour ahead and it all comes from overseas with love. china cuts interest rates, europe follows with asset purchases and the u.s. market loves it.

understand that the trustee needs to sell the building as part of you know his obligations to get vail and thees state it is not necessarily our purview to help you maximize that value you have the property as it exists sell it to someone that will definitely buy it and leave it that's not within our purview when we look at the building permit as a project we don't care i'm sure you'll be able to sell to somebody look at the building paratransit there are no outstanding violations on the existing unit it's been there for decades it sounds like it's been elevated as two separate unions one legal and not not for that reason i don't see a particular reason to support the demolishing of a non-conforming structure turn it into a residential unit not a conforming structure with noted outstanding structures again, i totally understand the trustees position the hearings are in upper your schard that this obligation but not our job to get involved as a trustee and not get involved if any sort of rent board or tenant lymph gland. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'm concerned the dr requester didn't

approval so again, the major items the replacement of tim could and the revised billboard the mid cap vail and growth fund it was still an opposite to get those funds and review and update the implementation. >> sorry someone cell phone is here it's an apple i wanted to public comment that a member contracted me and deferred a second most important benefit that a lot retirees rely on especially early residencies an member contacted me and indicated a representative from capital was trying to get the capitalizes from our defendant's next in order account to a best estimate professionalism criminal e credential plan when that individual indicated concerns about the performance those are the kinds of things that are disturbing because that impacts the ban planning and if that's some kind of ongoing practice known or unknown it could impact the fund and there's only one that came forward but that greatly disturbs me because basically trying to undermine your compensation so i thought i'd bring that up to have someone a lot into that thank you. >> first of all, thank you for your presentation i

and you go on to vail, i-70 at vail both sections were closed off. back this minnesota, the official there's saying they had to pull some 700 vehicles off the side of the road. that's how bad it was across that portion of minneapolis on into the state of minnesota. but we'll put the maps in motion for you. this is casper, wyoming. 47 fahrenheit. dropping down to 6 from this time yesterday. 47 to 6 at this hour. it's kind of like taking a 13 above celsius bringing it down to 13 below. that the trend i've seen across portions of the united states. and everyone seeing a general cooling trend. and believe it or not, you factor in the wind, considerably colder. 8 below zero across portions of rapid city. believe it or not, it is going to get colder for some folks across this region. snowfall totals pretty impressive for the month of november. upwards of 16 1/2 inches that is 41 centimeters for the national viewer there's coming down across portions just outside of minneapolis. and a lot of talk about this potentially being one of the coldest spells of wea

good numbers in terms of surveys we've come up with a number you'll be impressed with in terms of the vail to the city that those events provide individually and as a whole so again literally thousands of these we're going to try to scope it down to something reasonable but there's millions and millions offer people that come here to spend money 2, 3, 4 san francisco for the purpose of attending those outdoor events. >> does this include the nike marathon. >> absolutely does that include over and over can world. >> probably not we're coming around to the end of and making policy decisions we had that discussion this morning that's a decision the officials will make. >> okay. cool. >> so that's coming along well, i think i'm done i'm going to turn it over to unless you have questions for me, you don't have a microphone so - >> sorry. >> thank you director good afternoon, commissioners a couple of quick notes a bunch of larger events those past couple of weeks this weekend the treasurer nike events that last year was the first year we have any complaints to speak of both events were monitore

the president outlined his plan in lass vail gas today. says it will protect 5 million undocumented imgrants from deportation and give them work per myths. mr. obama says he can't wait any longer for congress to pass an immigration bill. but republicans are slamming the changes. they say it will only encourage more people to come here illegally, putting their lives at riszing. >> a celebration of influential e shl latinos in the delaware valley tonight. 50 people were honored hosted by the influential latino's foundation >>> telemundo's 62's serving the emcees there. >> record cold to near record highs as temperatures climb for your weekend. but it won't last long. next, the chance for rain and snow for your holiday travels. >> then, pipes bursting inside homes at the jersey shore. what you can do now to make sure it doesn't happen to you. we're back in 60 seconds. blank blaeng >>> bill cosby received a standing o vax tonight. no one disrupted the show and only one protester showed up outside. >> he needs to come out publicly and address i

the protection if they reopen we feel the intangible heritage can move to another location we see vail in the original historic place as well and that's the ideal somewhere we love for marcus book store to stay in the original building it's beyond that but has a rich history that answers our question for the second question in terms of what to do to help businesses to reopen the legacy is ann an important first step it can be built on overtime the transfer fax rebate wlb will be a benefit that marcus books could take advantage of where they purchased a new this or entered into a new lease the owner of the building will quality for the rebate, however, we're pushing the planning department and supervisor office to look at the existing incentives like the property tax abatement and for those of you who are not familiar where the 10 years they agree to maintain air historic property we want to see in the kinds of like twin peaks a city landmark could quality for the property tax benefits a legitimate term of the contract could be continued occupancy by the historic business so and then yo

millville, right now we are holding on to the 50s and temperatures are in the and showing really well this vail of clouds, that is the leading edge of the cold air moving in and for the most part it will be sticking around here for about the next two weeks. future tracker showing tomorrow morning wake up with a good amounts of sunshine and a few clouds and as we head through the day it clouds up by 3:00 the clouds are in place and then in the evening it's moisture arrives and at 8:30, mainly showers along i-95, some of that snow in the north and west suburbs and later thursday night around midnight we'll see snow, again light snow showers reaching philadelphia but all out of here by friday morning for the commute. a chilly breeze and high pressure builds in on friday and a good amount of sunshine, you factor in the breeze and windchills only in the mid-30s, you need to find the winter coat. falling temperatures tonight, generally a light breeze, 38 degrees for center city and the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, we start with sunshine and it clouds up tomorrow, the high is 49 degrees,

saratoga. 67 for sunny vail. and along the peninsula, 65 for you. mid-60s in san francisco and low 60s expected right along the coastline. the extended forecast here for the bay area weekend always in view. we'll wake up with the morning fog, the low clouds, the patchy dense fog may be an issue. if you have an early morning drive be aware of that and plan for it. temperature-wise, a lot like today. a tad bit of warming on saturday. and then sunday and dry conditions continue and a bit of an offshore breeze is expected to develop on sunday. monday, tuesday now look dry. and tuesday night to wednesday will be the next possibility of rain. >> okay. so it's push back a little bit and still -- >> still there. >> thank you very much. >>> a pioneer in the surfing world dorian paskowitz has died. he abandoned a career in medicine to follow the waves. he was a devout jew and moved to israel and is credited for pioneering surfing there. he and his third wife packed nine children into a camper and for years traveled around visiting america's beaches. the 2007

great start for moving forward with the consolidation and the simplification i'd like to undermine the vail of unintended consequences being reviewed in the at the end of a year or so thank you very much for your support for the community. >> thank you gadget planning commission members i'm jeff wood i'm just go back to repeat same compliments from the other speakers we very much appreciate the extension you gave the neighborhoods and public to make comments and understand better the changes that were proposed in the amendment and it's been very productive i know i want to thank mr. star and his staff it's a pretty daunting task they did a pretty great job and looking forward to working with them in the future. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the chair of the neighborhood housing committee first of all, i want to thank the commission for scheduling or having scheduled this meeting but the neighbors and the planning staff that goes gives us more confidence you folks are listening to us and it was a very productive meeting so i'm glad some of the terminology was changed mos

. >> there was also a day of the dead festival yesterday across the bay in oakland's fruit vail district. >>> immediate yap rights groups are raising questions about a new fly zone over ferguson, missouri. their requests to restrict the air space over the city was because of safety reasons. the no fly zone was enforced for 12 days in august following the shooting death of michael brown and effected more than 30 square miles of air space. recordings of phone calls obtained under the freedom of information act revealed police and federal aviation authorities discussing the real purpose was to restrict news coverage. >>> the funeral for tom ma knee know will be held today. >>> google is giving $3 million to san francisco clinic that is focusing on a length between poor health and the traumatic experiences of low income children. it has earned international fame for its work. 10% of the children she sees has dealt with four or more issues including neglect, abuse, and violence. toxic stress effects people of all ages, income levels, and racial backgrounds. you may be able to skip checking in

peter greste, mohammed fahmy, and baher mohamed were vail jailed on charges of helping the outlaws muslimerhood. they deny the charges and are appealing their cases. >>> armed troops and officers watched on in ferguson, missouri. it's a much calmer scene than previous nights after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer for shooting an unarmed black teenager. as al jazeera's daniel lak reports there's another side of ferguson we haven't seen as much, where people are coming together to help each other. >> reporter: anger, and mayhem on monday night. after a grand jury doesn't indict the white policeman who shot dead michael brown. >> leave this alone! leave this alone! not kathy's! not kathy eat! >> a cell phone video shows locals stopping vandals from attacking a much cherished soul food restaurant. not only did her business escape serious damage, when she got to work she found volunteers helping to clean up. >> i can't count how many came out to help me board up those windows. i'm thankful for what the community has done to show the love and support we all have. >> rep

he's accused of renting out vail kant homes on craig's list. his mother is councilwoman judy ward. she told nbc 10 earlier this week that she supports her son and does not believe the charges the e to be true because of his sbeg ri ity. >>> open enrollment begins tomorrow. some people may see their premiums rise this year. in delaware, there will now be 23 plans to choose from instead of 19. and the average cost of an individual policy will go up about 4 pnt. in the meantime, the average small business health option plan in delaware will go up about 3.6%. >>> temperatures still falling, making this the coldest night of the season. i'm tracking how long this early winter blast will hold on. plus, our next shot at rain, even snow. >> then it took 48 days to capture eric frein. now we're counting how many millions of dollars the man hunt will cost tax dollars. >> and take a look at vandals trashing a park in manyunk. the thousands of dollars they'll have to pay back when they're caught. we're back in 60 seconds. 6 ♪i want it all! ♪and i want it now! your toys want more. they need more

degrees inside that apartment and we reached out to property management for comment with with no a vail. reporting live on capitol hill, wusa 9. >> if you need to know your rights, head to wusa 9 news app. the city does have help for renters guide that we've added under the you heard it on with you is is a 9 section of our app. >>> well tonight senator mary landrew is vowing to press for ward with the keystone pipeline. the nearly 1200-mile pipeline is key to business in louisiana. that's where landrw is in a run- off election holding on to her seat. she pushed for senate passage of the proposal. >> its been on my agenda and it's staying on my agenda and i'll do everything i can to help america become energy independent, and to use the assets and the resources that we have and most importantly, be a partner with our best allies which is canada. >> well a lot of landrew's fellow democrats oppose the pipeline. they call it a threat to the environment and even if it passed through the senate president obama threatened to vote othe republicans vow to bring the bill up for vote when the new

. >> and i don't know if you were taking a a vailed shot at john kasich, but it is that you were critical of him taking the money which is going to make it more difficult for him to balance the budget, and giving hill health insurance to a lot of people above the poverty line and you don't want to do that, but do you have second thoughts? >> no, from our standpoint with we did something unique from any other state in the country. for the first time in the country, not a person is on a waiting list for poverty. we have access to health care and with we don't put the taxpayers at risk. states who have taken the medicaid expansion are betting on the fact that the congress and the president who can't deal with the $17 trillion debt are going to come up with the money, and they haven't come up with the money as we speak. >> so you think that governor kasich came up with a mistake? >> well, again, every state is different and i won't criticize individual governors, but in our case, i won't bank on the the federal government to bank on something, because they have shorted other states across the

at 880 and 237, westbound, so far still all in the green head into sunny vail and northbound and southbound 101 in the area looks good around the peninsula. if you want to ride mass transit, bart is problem free. same thing for the ferries and caltrans. that is the latest from here. let's get a check of the forecast. >>> starting today there is a lot of sunshine out there, maybe low 70s. we will be seeing plenty of sun through the next few days and probably right through thanksgiving looking good. clear skies but a chilly start. temperatures dropping off in the 30s and 40s in the valleys. hazy sunshine expected by this afternoon, nice weather with a possibility of rain returning and maybe a series of storms as we head into toward next weekend. right now the ridge is too strong. any chance of rain is staying well to the north. maybe they pick up showers toward eureka today but it is as close as it will get. we are seeing patchy fog in parts of the southern san joaquin so if you are traveling in that direction down i-5 be very, very careful. weak offshore winds will keep the skies mostly clea

. >> coming from vail and snowstorm and multiple accidents all over the place. >> nearly 5,000 flights delayed, up to six hours on wednesday. and over 700 cancellations at some of the nation's busiest airports. >> we were notified that the flight was canceled so we're sitting here in the airport, waiting for the next flight out. >> many airlines are waiving rebooking fees, but many find it hard to rebook on a day where most flights are already full. >> it's tough to sit and wait and not know what's going to happen, but we're hope fell. >> for some of the roughly 41 million people expected to drive during this holiday, it's even worse. >> visibility is getting really bad. >> in the northeast, a wintry mix slowing travel from d.c. to new york. while further inland, heavier snow causing multiple tie-ups and accidents. >> this day of all days is pretty frustrating, but i have a reunion of 30 family members i'm trying to get to tomorrow in pennsylvania so nothing is going to stop me. >> a train ride was the solution home for many americans at new york's penn station, but they, too, faced de

but now, america's sweetheart is back and we traveled here to her hometown of vail to see where she isentally and physically. how excited are you to be back in the race and competing? >> i am extremely excited. to be back in the race again, skiing is what i love. it is my passion, i love competing going 90 miles an hour. it is just in my blood. >> and after everything you have been through, are you willing now to risk as much on the mountain as you used to? >> yeah, i'm definitely ready to risk it all. i mean, it is what i do best. the one thing that i have learned is that i need to save that risk for racing. you know, i'm willing to risk everything in races but not in training anymore. >> after the disappointment of sitting out the olympic games in sochi, vonn has committed herself to staying there in 2015. >> there is definitely the world cup, overall record that is kind of weighing on my mind. i'm three shy of tieing. and four shy of beating it. but the olympics is something bigger. and i just hope for another chance to be able to get another medal. >> would you say you handle press

people could spark it and people are angry at what they believe is him being murdered by vails. >> give us a little more detail about the conditions under which he was found. we know he was found hanged inside his own bus. is that right? >> that's right. he was going to work, and he didn't really show up, so his colleague--well, he did show up for work but he did not get off his bus. his colleagues found him hanged inside his bus. there are pictures circulating of pictures of his hanging. there is a thin mark around his neck. some people believe that was a wire that was used for him to be hung. there is light bruising and it's difficult, there are rumors circulating about these picture pictures. thcoroner said that there are no evidence of foul . but people say there seems to be bruising on the body. there was a palestinian doctor president. we have not heard from him. his phone is off. it's an unusual circumstance. when these sort of revenge killings have happened, they haven't really taken on this dynamic of finding a man hung in a bus. people are requesting this. it's a very complica

roof inn has 30% off rooms nationwide and destination resorts has 30% to 40% off rooms in tahoe and vailpliances, we expect sears to discount heavily. tools, home depot has historically had big cyber monday sales. cyber monday is far from dead. it's now the action-packed catch all final sale of the black friday season. we have links to all of the deals that i mentioned and more on our website, "gma" on yahoo.com. >> thank you, beckley. thank you, becky. >> all your holiday shopping done yet? >> i have an audience of one. her name is bianca harris and it's already done. >> whoa. >> wow. >> yes, of course. >> you have two -- >> well, just pretty much one. let's get the weather now from -- rob, yes, two, two. paula, as well, my work wife. >> giving her a baby doesn't count. >> hey, guy, we have some changes on the way weatherwise. look at this. seattle snow, we don't see this typically but we had it yesterday. there's the space needle. sent to us by our friends at komo. they call it the emerald city because it is so green but yesterday a little bit of coating of white and it is cold right n

. >> this is where cooler heads will pre-vail because it's easy for somebody to smbing the hood of a car. make somebody mad or roll down a window and say something that agitates protes protesttors and next thing you know things escalate. so let's hope everyone stays calm. >> right. this is the walgreens that i believe we saw yesterday off 5:80. some of the glass now smashed there. you can see people in front of it. there's also a trader joe, same one, right next door to it as well. both of them closed yesterday because really had no choice. so many people protesting rate in front and sfm i saw something get tossed on to the the sidewalk there. >> well, by contrast we'll talk about it more in a few minutes but there was pro necessary san francisco today. again and by the mission station. police station. >> right there. >> see that. >> there were in problems. people just march with the scenes and just march through the streets. made their point but no violence no vandalism. not the case here again tonight in oakland. >> could see the person had some sort of basket trying to toss it at

and along vail, colorado, i-70 had to be shut down in both directions because the conditions absolutelymal. you see visibility come down to near zero. about 200 flights delayed out of denver's airport. it was 62 in denver at 9:00. it was 22 by lunch time. we show you what we're dealing with. at this time yesterday in casper, wyoming it was 60 degrees. at this point, it is 13 below zero celsius, so from 57 to 8 fahrenheit. billings, bismarck, similar cooling trend. the wind chill is bone chilling. 6 below zero when you factor in the wind. how long is it going to last? denver goes from 26 down to 12 come wednesday. look at chicago, from the 50s down to the 30s. atlanta, one of the places you're going to feel it. the 70s still in place, and it goes down to the 40s by friday. here are the total accumulations. over 16 inches of snow came down, 41 centimeters. the temperatures will be mild in atlanta come tuesday afternoon, but that is setting up some fog in the area. so dough delay the already being reported before the storm arrives. onnotice the snowfall beginning to exit the united states,

san francisco, sunny vail, and santa rosa are among the cities in the bay area to get this sunday's service. this will help them handle the up to 470 million packages it's expecting to deliver over this holiday season. we have a list of the cities included in the sunday holiday delivery service on our website, abc7news.com. >>> alexander wang, who grew up in san francisco, is the latest high end designer to launch his collection at h&m. shoppers couldn't wait to get their hands on his designs at a more affordable price today. the line grew outside the san francisco store on powell street. the line started forming last night. the collection cost about $13 for accessories and goes up to about $400 for jackets. shoppers snatched up the merchandise. >> you know, you get a very limited edition item for fashion lovers. it's a high end designer, and he's designing for low end prices. >> at 8:00 p.m., and i slept in a lawn chair. it was well worth it. >> spent $60 on a crew neck shirt, and she spent more than $600. wang's line created such a buzz it crashed h&m's website. some items are already lis

authorities of using violence and intimidation to suppress the mcclellan vote but he overlooked counter vail something evidence that lincoln supporters in the state had come under similar threats from democrats. meanwhile, from the left end of the political spectrum came an altogether different sort of critique. in union occupied new orleans, african-american leaders such as john baptiste and others through the newspaper the new orleans tribune accused lincoln of not being radical enough. they condemned his reconstruction plan as too lenient. they pushed for african-american suffrage highlighting the heroism of black military service and they made the case that congress, not the president, should direct the course of reconstruction. similar rgments were advanced by a small but vocal cadre of white radicals from border states. men such as maryland's henry winter davis who rejected lincoln's amnesty policy and worried that lynn cop might be willing after the election to accept some sort of compromised peace. for radical republicans then lincoln was the lesser of two evils. this choice between

understanding that the assumption for disclosure, it should be and is difficult to get behind the vailsecrecy of a grand jury and with good purpose. >> quickly, sunny i got to get to a break but go ahead. >> you know, we now know the grand jurors have been released. we should make it clear the grand jurors themselves their identities will remain secret absent a witnesses may come forward. witnesses aren't really protected by the secrecy rules. if they want to talk, they can. but we shouldn't be hearing from the grand jurors unless a judge says it's okay. >> everyone, stand by. we've gotten official word from the st. louis county prosecutor's office that there will be an announcement, that they have come to a decision. they'll make an announcement later on this evening. so far, we have not heard from the officer nor his representatives, officer darren wilson in this case. but we have heard from michael brown's family. on the other side of this break, we're going to hear a message from michael brown sr. celebrate what's new, the bigger, better menu at red lobster! with more of what you l