for example, in vancouver and really the vancouver graffiti management mural program is almost identical to what tyra is talking about doing here. it's similar to public art murals, but similar in scope. when we were doing our murals, almost 200 of them, there was no permit in place, but there was a selection process. and, so, if that was the heritage property, that had to go to heritage. and they had to decide whether or not that building had been painted and if a mural would go there. if so, did it work with the heritage esthetics, et cetera, et cetera. it also goes to the community group or the business group in that area. it goes through the graffiti department primarily because we do engage past graffiti vandals who are now legal and are doing artwork. so, in vancouver there is no active graffiti tag names, crew name used in our murals. we've come up with a fairly loose guideline which is being defined by a new graffiti programmer, program coordinator david over there. and they're coming up with some parameters so that the city can work with people that come from graffiti so that th

billion dollars that's more than ten times higher than that of the last one on one biggs games in vancouver canada our correspondent andrew farmer has all the details of the story. well with a year to go the work continues and so does the rising cost sochi will be the most expensive olympics in history with the final price tag thought to be around fifty billion dollars that is ten billion more than the summer games in beijing and ten times the amount of the last winter games in vancouver so begs the question why is it so expensive and the answer is quite simple pretty much everything has had to be built from scratch i'm standing in the. region which will host the sliding in skiing events there wasn't much here before the olympics came along and they've had to build the bobsled track for example the ski rams prepare the slopes and create the hotels and the cafes and it's a similar story down at the coast where there is the olympic park around half a dozen venues there they will host the skating and the ice hockey and on top of that you've got the impression just something like five hundred k

june 15th, 2011, vancouver british columbia.t's the nhl stanley cup finals where the hometown canucks face the visiting boston bruins in a critical game seven winner-take-all battle. richard lamb is a vancouver-based photographer who has shot the canuck's games for past decades. >> the canucks are huge. >> when the bruins win the game 4-0 and claim lord stanley's cup in the canuck's own backyard, the fans don't take the loss well. "vancouver sun" editor deen broughten witnesses the riot firsthand. >> i walked downtown and there were pillars of smoke coming out. you just knew it was a bad situation. they were throwing rocks at police officers and kicking in windows and it was a frightening experience. >> guys were coming out of the store like clowns in a mini car. just one after another. it looked like a mad black friday setup. as early evening turns to night, tensions escalate and there's no end in sight to the looting and vandalism. riot police take a stand, forming human walls and marching towards the rioters. local photograph

you haven't competed since vancouver. you, of course, won gold back then.e to defend the title. what do you think it will take to get back out there? a lot of skeptics are saying i don't think he can do it. >> i hope to follow in the footsteps of our good friend, dick button. hoping to carry on that tradition, back in full training. this is my goal for the next year. i'm going to live this goal. >> another name in the men, max aaron. >> love that name, max. >> it's a good one. >> max did something -- it's kind of like the next wave of what's going on in figure skating and that's the quad is everything. opened with two beautiful quads. an incredible jumper. could use a little work on the artistic side. he's an amazing jumper and just threw it down at nationals. >> we'll let evan get a chance to perform now, too, see if he can throw down on our rockefeller rink. evan lysacek, as you get into place, i'm going to say thank you, as always, to the lovely scott hamilton. come on over. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> evan lysacek, thank you. >>> coming up, more of our

which i'm sure will be spectacular two hundred dollars that you back for and if we compare it to vancouver as well the games that were criticized as being expensive the probably the biggest gain everyone's looking forward to is going to be the finals the ice ok so apparently that's going to set you back beginning at two hundred eight dollars for a ticket that's thirty percent cheaper than. that's very good news. right but i mean if we're trying to control the money here let's also talk about the weather because that was a big issue in vancouver can we control about or at least and to speak what's going to happen if it's not what we're expecting well i mean you just saw in the faces does that looks rather funny involved at the moment actually degrees i think it's doing is tiny bit of a can some but by all accounts it's a lot colder up in the mountains of course where the majority of the games will take place but it's weather you know we can't say here into a lot what's going to happen here. i do know there's a plan b. in action and that involves snow machine plan b. sounds like money more m

tefrpz are not too bad in vancouver at 7 degrees on thursday.nwhile, about five degrees colder than average in winnipeg at minus 13 degrees and 3 for toronto and down toward the south, very hot in miami at 27 degrees. all right. finally, in europe a thick cloud mass is drifting over the british isles. underneath it heavy rain, heavy snow, and extremely strong winds. winds over 70 kilometers per hour have been reported with much higher gusts. but the good news is that the peak of severe weather is over. so conditions will gradually ease through your thursday. but a mixture of rain and snow will be moving into the western continent. meanwhile, severe weather is still erupting across the southeast. we are seeing heavy rain, hail, thunderstorms, and extremely strong winds. this while we're slowly moving toward the east, reaching western turkey. snow is also a big concern. western hungary, you could be seeing as much as 20 centimeters of snow. hoorz your highs on thursday. and i will leave you now with your extended forecast. ps ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> that's al

he moved from portland to vancouver after goulet was acquitted and released in 2008.e says he constantly searched the internet for information about him. his father said the incident engaged his son, souring him on the justice system. he calls the killing of the two sfsh officers unforgivable. he added, "my heart goes out to the families of those officers, but i'm grieving, too. we loved him." visit nbcbayarea.com to learn more about the officers including how to help their families. >>> 4:36. new details in a deadly shooting that happened on the campus of a san leandro elementary school. the san francisco chronicle repor reports tahir randall shot foster after foster refused to make good on a $5 bet. the two were reportedly playing a late-night dice game on the grounds of hillside elementary school on february 13th. randall is charged with murder and is being held without bail. investigators are still looking for two other men in connection with this case. >>> after public outcry from parents in brentwood, the school board last night fired its superintendent, merrill

lot of money and not all the winter olympic games are one profitable actually you know we saw a vancouver and making some money and before that there are precedents as well the summer games we saw salt lake city making more than one hundred million dollars i mean that's peanuts compared to fifty billion you're still going to make any money in sochi any well it's not a foul up though it really isn't about making money but i would say that the local businesses the cafes the restaurants the small businesses they will make money you know it's all about the multiplier effect people are going to bring money into the system and spend it like. and that's what it's all about particularly serious to wally this infrastructure these roads they're not just going to be for the games of course for the sports but they will be felt decades potentially centuries to come so it's really an investment here so you're basically talk of attracting tourists is what kind of tourists are we talking about here is it like domestic tourists from within russia because i really doubt that europeans considering the abund

vancouver olympics or a massive disappointment for russia the country's freestyle skier has failed to become a medal but a podium spot was never really expected from a squad lacking experience this poll consists of five separate disciplines for both men and women moguls aerial ski cross as well as home point and slope style which will both be making very big debuts in two thousand and fourteen and russia's head coach is quietly confident ahead of the song she games if they'll let us in the world we've made massive strides since the vancouver olympics in almost all the freestyle disciplines ten years ago we the struggling to get into the top ten in the team event is now were around the top three however we have a lot of work ahead of us freestyle is a very technical sport and there are a lot of moves that are hard to master but the most important thing is we're moving in the right direction and the results should follow your. moguls ariel's and ski cross or russia strength with the countries athletes already managing to battery time with the world's best on the freestyle circuits built

ahead of the song she games if they'll let us in the world we've made massive strides since the vancouver olympics in almost all the freestyle disciplines ten years ago we the struggling to get into the top ten in the team event is now were around the top three however we have a lot of work ahead of us freestyle is a very technical sport and there are a lot of the move to the hard to most but the most important thing is we're moving in the right direction and the results should follow your. mood goals ariel's and ski cross or russia strength with the countries athletes are ready managing to battle in time with the world's best on the freestyle circuits built in mid to late she has already achieved a podium finish in the men's aerials this season while you've got a cough has been very consistent of a men's ski cross and head coach concussion acuff is expecting at least two medals at the sochi games and he's impressed by the development of freestyle skiing in russia give you an image of the world there's been a boom in freestyle skiing within russia over the last few years but a new center

than paul think reports its hopes the country could make an impact on their home games in sochi vancouver olympics are a massive disappointment for russia the country's freestyle skier has failed to become a medal but a podium spot was never really expected from a squad lacking experience this pole consists of five separate disciplines for both men and women moguls aerial ski cross as well as home point and slope style which will both be making very big debuts in two thousand and fourteen and russia's head coach is quietly confident ahead of the song she games with much in the world we've made massive strides since the vancouver olympics in almost all the freestyle disciplines ten years ago we the struggling to get into the top ten in the team event is now were around the top three however we have a lot of work ahead of us freestyle is a very technical sport and there are a lot of move to the hard to most but the most important thing is we're moving in the right direction and the results should follow your. models aerials and ski cross or russia strength with the countries athletes alread

confident ahead of the song she games if they'll let you know we've made massive strides since the vancouver olympics in almost all the freestyle disciplines ten years ago we the struggling to get into the top ten in the team event is now were around the top three however we have a lot of work ahead of us freestyle is a very technical sport and there are a lot of moves that are hard to master but the most important thing is we're moving in the right direction and the results should follow your. goals aerials and ski cross or russia strength with the country's athletes already managing to battery time with the world's best on the freestyle circuits built to mid to leach has already achieved a podium finish in the men's aerials this season while you've got a cough has been very consistent of a men's ski cross and head coach concussion acuff is expecting at least two medals at the sochi games and he's impressed by the development of freestyle skiing in russia. there's been a boom in freestyle skiing within russia over the last few years but a new center is being built across the country and the

which i'm sure will be spectacular two hundred dollars that you back for and if we compare it to vancouver as well the games that which i would criticize are being expensive the probably the biggest game everyone's looking forward to is going to be the finals the ice ok so a party that's going to set you back beginning at two hundred thirty dollars for a ticket that's thirty percent cheaper than. that's very good news. right but i mean if we're trying to control the money here let's also talk about the weather because that was a big issue in vancouver can we control about or at least i'm to support what's going to happen if it's not what we're expecting well i mean you just saw in the faces just that looks for all the some involved at the moment degrees i think it's dean's that is tiny bit of a can some bought by all accounts it's a lot colder up in the mountains of course where the majority of the games will take place but it's whether you know we can't sit here and talk about what's going to happen here. i do know there's a plan b. in action and that involves snowmachine plan b. sounds l

billion dollars that's more than ten times higher them out of the last two and one pigs games in vancouver canada our correspondent andrew farmer has all the details of the story. well with a year to go the work continues and so does the rising cost sochi will be the most expensive olympics in history with the final price tag thought to be around fifty billion dollars that is ten billion more than the summer games in beijing and ten times the amount of the last winter games in vancouver so begs the question why is it so expensive and the answer is quite simple pretty much everything has had to be built from scratch i'm standing in the krasnaya polyana region which will host the sliding in skiing events that wasn't much here before the olympics came along and they've had to build the bobsled track for example the ski rams prepare the slopes and create the hotels and the cafes and it's a similar story down at the coast where there is the olympic park around half a dozen venues there they will host the skating and the ice hockey and on top of that you've got the impression just something like

vancouver at 7. chicago minus 1. apparently things are very cold. the wind chill values around central canada could be as much as 50 degrees. down toward the south it's very warm. moving over to the european continent we have the atlantic system across the uk. also about 20 centimeters of snow is likely. the gusts are going to be very strong there as well. towards the south looking fine and south. 17 degrees and 13 degrees we take a look at paris. 7 degrees from 12 today. here is the extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition ofnewsline i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for very much joining us. .

winter olympics in vancouver the torch was built by plane and train maker that year. the ninety five centimeter tall torch has been specially designed but the center of gravity. of the shape the body is made of aluminum and weighs a total of one point eight kilograms the flame is powered by propane tucked inside the system for which it was designed by a rocket engine maker machinist only plant given the stakes designers and engineers want to make sure everything works exactly as it should. first of all the torch has to stay late under any condition and it must like immediately it has to function. in temperatures lower than forty five degrees below zero it has to work properly whether there is wind blowing from the left. behind from the front. it has to work in the rain or any other whether. the torch has to function in. where there is low pressure which is important but in my limited number of torches it will be produced especially for this purpose. the torch can be used to light the cauldron in sochi next year it's got quite a busy travel schedule ahead of it it will

for the most recent winter olympics in vancouver the torch was built by plane and train maker this year. the ninety five centimeter tall torch has been specially designed with the low center of gravity for a more ergonomic the shape the body is made of aluminum. and a total of one point eight kilograms the flame is powered by propane tucked inside the system for which it was designed by rocket engine maker machinist trades only plant given the stakes designers and engineers want to make sure everything works exactly as it should. first of all the torch has to stay late under any condition and it must like immediately it has to function twelve minutes in temperatures lower than forty five degrees below zero it has to work properly whether there is wind blowing from the left. behind from the front. it has to work in the rain snow or any other whether. the torch has to function in a high mountain where there is low pressure which is important but in my limited number of torches it will be produced especially for this purpose. before the torch can be used to light the cauldron in sochi next

vancouver will see heavy rain showers. temperatures will be quite seasonal at 7 degrees on thursday. very chilly minus 13 in winnipeg. that's about 5 degrees cooler than where it should be this time of year. 4 degrees in chicago and very hot down toward the south. 27 i miami. plenty of sunshine for you in los angeles at 24 degrees. finally in europe a massive cloud mass is moving across the british isles. winds of over 70 kilometers have been reported in some locations. the good news is that the severe weather is tapering off. conditions will improve on your thursday. some of the precipitation will move into the western continent. severe weather is still with you affecting the southeast. you can see the system slowly make its way toward the east. l italy is getting drier. western turkey will see stormy conditions on thursday. temperatures are as follows, very warm for this time of year. london at 10 degrees. that's about 7 degrees warmer than what we saw yesterday. meanwhile staying in the double digits across the mediterr

on its way to portland and vancouver it hit a rock in crescent city and went down. only 19 of the 244 on board survived. in 1993 a mini sub located the wreckage and after a legal battle over ownership, the operators were able to auction off the gold coins they had recovered. >>> still to come tonight on a second look, the hostage crisis in iraq, as it unfolded and the movie it inspired. >>> plus what it was like to go after osama bin laden as in the movie zero dark 40. m, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios ♪ the one and only, cheerios >>> tonight on a second look we're looking at the real life events that inspired some of this year's oscar nominated movies. one of those is argo which tells the story of a secret operation to rescue six americans from iran. the crisis began on november 4, 1979 when iranian students overran the u.s. embassy. they would take 52 americans hostage and hold them for 444 days. the students acted under the direct

. >>> a peewee hockey coach in vancouver, canada, was caught on video tripping two players during a post-game handshake. the coach has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for assault. >>> at an lpga golf tournament in thailand, a 17-year-old hit a hole in one in her first professional tornado. the tee shot by ariya jutanugarn landed softly on the green, slowly in the cup. she didn't realize what happened. quite a start to her career. >> announcer: "early today" sports is brought to you by touch of gray. get rid of some gray, never all. >>> just ahead, audrey hepburn returns to a tv near you. >>> and an australian billionaire wants to build a "titanic 2" a state of the art ship. based on the original next. >>> welcome back. let me take you through our end of february forecast. as we go throughout the next two days look at a quiet weather day today. clouds on the increase. most of your day should be dry. temperatures not bad for this time of year, 50s in the northwest getting into the 60s in northern california, southern cal few spots having a chance of getting into up the 70s low 80s. thursday c

video 2 --en vancouver washington, un incendio de 3 alarmas destruyo una escuela primaria ayer por lamberos de portland oregon, tambien ayudaron a contener las llamas contra las que lucharon por varias horas --las clases fueron suspendidas hoy y se investiga las causas del siniestro, no hubo heridos. video 3 --en moscu, rusia...conozc a el primer hotel que en lugar de cuartos cuenta con capsulas para dormir. --si usted es aventurero y no es claustrofobic o, puede rentar una de estas caja-habitacion por menos de 100 la noche. --cada una de ellas cuenta con una pequeÑa cama, una lampara, pequeÑo closet pero no tiene baÑo, ese lo tiene que compartir con otros huespedes al final del pasillo. cesar ---recuerde que continuamoab

the tourist from vancouver, canada, arrived in los angeles on january 26th.eillance video shows her acting oddly inside the hotel elevator, as if she's hiding from someone. but katie orphan he has lamb didn't seem odd at all when they met. >> she was very joinioutgoing, lively, for vendly. >> reporter: orphan is the owner of a bookstore around the corner called the last bookstore, one of the last places lamb was seen by anyone, as she bought presents for her parents and sister. >> talking about what books she was getting and whether or not what she was getting would be too heavy to travel around as she traveled or took home with her. >> reporter: that was january 31st. the young woman planned to see more of california, say police. her parents flew down to los angeles to plead for the city to help find their daughter. outside the family's restaurant near vancouver, a memorial for a young life lost too soon in an unforgettable manner. >> it kind of feels like the beginning of a noir novel. like this is the beginning of a raymond chandler story and phillip marlo

towards the northwest, 11 in seattle. 7 in vancouver. not too bad here. getting up to 14 in denver.e have the low 20s in los angeles as well as houston, miami and mexico city. on into europe, now there is going to be a pretty powerful storm system affecting western and central portions for the next several days. here is the big low sitting towards the north of the british aisles. you can see how windy the system is going to be. it's going to be bringing snow. we get that wind buffeting around the snow. and it will be definitely impacting travel, seespecially you're caught in the cross winds. i expect flights to be delayed if not canceled. already that's pushing through central europe. we see as the system descends, it pushes through the british ais isles. all right, here are your temperatures for your tuesday. already seeing temperatures fall towards the west by 5 degrees in london between monday and tuesday down to 4 degrees here. meanwhile, 5 in berlin. towards the east, minus 3 for you in moscow. still not too bad here in the mid teens for athens. here's your extended forecast. >

my nephew just sent me a video from vancouver having a skype conversation with his cousins in england. and as our last lesson, we want to help each other. i want to reinforce this. a part of the reluctance is this fear that people are going to say no. the recent community vitality report says that three-quarters of us extend to a family, friends, and neighbors. this man's name is charles, 86 years old. he has an early stage of dementia. he starts the network, he invites the sisters. why in sydney and one in singapore. he also invites the neighbors. they refer to it as the neighbor lady. she says, thank goodness that you ask. i have been worried about charles. and creating that meaningful exchange. let me share a new idea or a new term that i am using thinking about this idea of staying connected and having a good life. this is an idea that i am calling -- this is a little picture of dale, somebody that has a f and hisuture -- that has done his future-proofing. this is what has happened to him when he went into the hospital. his daughter of everyone with one message. there was emergenc

the most expensive in the intake history they cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six families all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this bar hockey arena is persisting in i'm ready for geese will stage the under eighteen world championships in april going to keep does an international event that will test the olympic venue people the games begin the cycle for stocks in twenty fourteen is hot cool your thought because they don't think park is them by the blacks in case they're on call because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was here before but the loss of couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of points the biathlon and cross-country

remember vancouver?clothing we owned. it is a nice touch. obviously the olympic team has not yet been, you know, chosen for. what would it mean to each of you to make that team? >> i don't know. it would just be a dream come true. as kids we never really dreamed of being in the olympics, just because our sport is not -- has never had an opportunity. so, yeah, dream come true. and it would be amazing. >> keri? >> i agree. it has really become a dream and just to support america and represent our country is going to be such a cool feeling. wearing that red, white and blue. >> i'll get out of the smoke draft. >> same as tom and keri said, representing our country, growing up watching the winter olympics. an opportunity to make the team, looking forward to it. >> are you looking forward to meeting all these different athletes from all over the world once you get over there? >> definitely. so many different sports that we've never seen or been close to. so really cool to see what everyone else does, you know,

, was saved the fraser declaration date for the city of vancouver.ry brave because my government, the canadian government, has been calling me an environmental extremist, a radical, and an enemy of canada. all i want and my people want is to protect this land, the water, and all that is sacred. [applause] this water we're talking about has no color. this water we're talking about is not just water for my own people. it is water for my neighbor ranchers, my neighbor farmers that live next door to me. it is a human issue and that impact everyone. we are all connected. [applause] the alliance has brought our communities together in canada because we have had oil spills. if you have had on oil spills in this country. oil will spill. it's just a matter of when. it spilled in kalamazoo, which i hear cannot be cleaned up. they spilled in alberta, in the territories of the cree, in the northwest territories and the brothers and sisters that i know of from the northwest territories. who can forget exxon valdez? in most recent memory, we had the bp spill on th

a lot of money and not all the winter olympic games one profitable actually you know we saw the vancouver of making some money and before that there are precedents as well the summer games we saw salt lake city making more than one hundred million dollars i mean that's peanuts compared to fifty billion you're still going to make any money in sochi any well it's not a foul up though it really isn't about making money but i would say that the local businesses the cafes the restaurants the small businesses they will make money you know it's all about the multiplier effect people are going to bring money into the system and spend it likely. and that's what it's all about particularly serious to wally this infrastructure these roads they're not just going to be for the games of course for the sports but they will be felt decades potentially centuries to come so it's really an investment here so you're basically talk of attracting tourists is what kind of tourists are we talking about here is it like domestic tourists from within russia because i really doubt that europeans considering the abun