but conceptually you can do this with a long weir. here's another example of a long weir structure. this is sort of south of monster park along the bay. on the lower left you can see sort of the weir arrangement as it currently exists. one of our concepts would be -- it's a little hard to see, but you can sort of wall off those existing weirs and put some sort of a duck bill type of back flow prevention in there. so we see this as a near term solution to a current problem we have, something we can start doing right away, and i think my engineers suggest that this would probably protect us i'd say for the next 30 to 50 years. if this is all we did, we could probably avoid serious problems with salt water intrusion. start looking at the longer term, i don't really know what you

. >>> and bill weir goes home, where the guys making the hogs have an idea to keep jobs in america. >>> good evening. they call it save the dream, but what a nightmare for tens of thousands of people from across the country, converging on los angeles. they had been standing in line since the middle of last night, hoping to avoid foreclosure on their homes. for perspective, since the recession started in 2007, 2.3 million homes have been foreclosed. that spike is coming down, but still just last month, another 340,000 homes got foreclosure notices. david wright is in l.a., where people are hoping a last-ditch offer is the lifeline they need. >> reporter: the line started forming at noon yesterday. hundreds camped out overnight, like teenagers looking for concert tickets. but all of these people are at risk of losing their homes. what time did you come out? >> i got here at 6:10 a.m. >> reporter: 6:10 this morning? even at that hour, shirley mccoy was the 1,117th person in line. a widow, with cancer, on fixed income. she bought her home with more than 50% down. >> i'm never late. i do w

live from the san jose mine in chile, this is "nightline," october 13th, 2010. >> i'm bill weir, and welcome back to a frosty, yet jubilant northern chilean, where they are celebrating the final man out of the san jose mine. imagine if you are the man, if you're the last man to leave this place, say you're manual gonzalez, who happened to be the first rescuer to go down and start this process, 24 hours ago, how do you do it? how do you leave? well, you take a well deserved bow. because you and your team have accomplished something that few people ever imagined. as for the 33, how they will deal with the sudden fame and fortune, how they will manage the post-traumatic stress, all of that remains to be seen. but for tonight, they are free, and they are surrounded by pure human affection, both near and far, and we begin tonight with a look back at the last 24 miraculous hours. and it is the best kind of suspense tale, scary as hell, but everyone gets out alive. luis urzua was the last of the 33. deep underground, he hugged his rescuers good-bye before boarding the capsule that would tak

>> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weirnew york city, this is "nightline," october 6th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with religion and free speech and the explosive intersection of the two. the westboro baptist church is known for picketing the funerals of u.s. soldiers and marines in protest over what the church sees as the ills of american society. gays, in particular. today, their free speech case ended up before the supreme court, but we wanted to know more about who they are and what terry moran boarded the westboro van for our series, "faith matters." >> reporter: they're shocking. ♪ god showed his wrath to thee >> reporter: they're cruel and outrageous, and for most americans, simply beyond the pale. >> thank god for dead soldiers. >> reporter: should they be against the law? what the members of this church in kansas do at the funerals of fallen soldiers and marines seems to have violated an almost universal sense of basic human decency. and they know it. and they're proud of it. you seem to have crossed a

in new york city, this is "nightline," october 15th, 2010. >> good evening, everyone, i'm bill weir back inside after a thrilling week down at the chilean mine rescue. so many rich storylines down there. but the one that captured the most headlines in this country involved yonni barrios, his wife and his mistress. there is a lot more nuance to this love triangle than originally told. until about five years ago, divorce was illegal in chile. so, there are a lot more marriages in name only in that part of the world than in this one. and against that backdrop, jeffrey kofman feels in more details from chile. >> reporter: today, the miners came home to a hero's welcome. florencio avalos walked into his fous, followed by his brother renan who was trapped with him. and the foreman, miner number 33, doused with confetti by his family and friends. "i never want something like this to happen again," he said. "but i can tell you the flip we had will goover forever." only two miners remain at the hospital where they were all treated. doctors there told abc news that while they are mostly healt

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" >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 28th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with sex and social more rays, thanks in large part to the internet, pornography is more persuasive than ever before. but the vulgar version of sex that porn sells is being challenged by one new magazine headed by a husband and wife team. they say keeping it real is what's really sexy. my co-anchor bill weir has the story for our series "modern sex in america." >> here we go. >> reporter: this is a $60 hotel room just off the new jersey turnpike. there is no crew here, no stylist. just a husband and wife with an old camera, snapping photos of a naked teenager. but they say, this is not some sleazy corner of the porn industry, but rather, a rallying cry against it. >> that's beautiful right there. >> reporter: the way they see it, their upstart magazine called "jacques" is a slingshot of taste aimed at the spray tango lie yath that is the adult industrial complex. they believe america's hungry

" >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 7th, 2010. >> good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with the strange disappearance on the mexican border. tiffany hartley told police that pirates attacked her and her husband david while they were jet skiing on the mexican side of fall con lake and that they shot her husband to death as they tried to flee. but mexican officials and others up. tonight, ryan owens goes to answers. >> reporter: search crews spent a second day on the waters of fall con lake, looking for the body of david hartley. or for his jet ski. there is growing skepticism on border, and she knows it. >> i'm in a tough spot. i really am. but i can't do anything until we can get over there and find him. >> reporter: tiffany says she waters on their jet skis to partially submerged in the lake that straddles the border. why did you want to go? >> actually, my husband wanted to do the church. he loves history. >> reporter: people will say, come on, he was willing to risk

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 1st, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with every parent's nightmare. the heart-rending story of tyler cle clementi, who ended his life after his roommate allegedly broadcast a sexual encounter over the internet. tyler's parents says quote, we hope this will serve as a call for compassion, empathy and human dignity. and new details of cle men tip's online activity have emerged. linsey davis has the inside story. >> reporter: the last 48 hours of tyler clementi's life played out online. revealing the perils of living in a digital age. some might call it the death of privacy. yesterday, police identified the body of the 18-year-old rutgers university freshman and talented violinist who jumped off the george washington bridge to his death last week. jumping off the gw bridge. sorry. he posted these words to his facebook account reportedly 20 minutes before committing suicide. his wallet, laptop and cell phone found near the bridge. thi

>> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline" october 20th, 2010. >>> than-thanks for joining us tonight. we begin we state legislators. they may not enjoy as much limelight as those in washington, they do control more than $1 trillion in spending and have as much impact on your life as anyone in congress which is why you may find a surgery in bad behavior that ranges from koreany to criminal. here's brian ross with how far the decay has spread. >> reporter: in statehouses across the country, while few have been watching, a california lawmaker was caught on tape talking about his sexual conquests. texas legislators were seen casting votes for their absent colleagues. a new york state senator was seen assaulting his girlfriend. a massachusetts lawmaker was caught on fbi cameras stuffing a bribe into her bra. >> one, two, three, four, five -- >> reporter: and in one state after another, powerful state lawmakers, who control hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, have been sent to prison a

bill weir at the mine tonight. tell us what you've just seen. >> this is unbelievable, diane. this mine has been here over a century. it's produced a lot of copper, a little gold. today it produced men, living, breathing men, amazing efficiency as you just said. the 32nd rescue in 22 hours. well ahead of schedule. as for the men who are in the hospital today, even more astounding. one has pneumonia, two need dental surgery, some have eye problems. but they are in remarkable shape considering they spent two months in a 600 foot tomb half a mile below the earth. so many have been able to come out and express a new found freedom of fresh air and in such unique and endearing ways. >> among all of today's exits, the gestures of mr. rojas fell to his knees. it was an explosion of emotion, one tunnel light into the light. the shaft is a half mile long, the equivalent of a ride of two empire state buildings. the chilean navy designed it e fenix. the first man up, his crying son has become a favorite image of chileans chatting on message boards. the last rescue is yet to come. >> that

. >> reporter: the clerk steve weir said he thought this election might have a low turnout but now says voter registration is up by one percent and will only increase. as the new registrations the registrar said he is surprised by a number of things. first the increased number of new registrations and the makeup of those new registrations by party. >> the one thing we are noticing is that those are coming in more than 2-1 as republican registrations even though my base registration is 2-1 democratic. >> reporter: weir says in the 60 days priority the election, 57% of new voters have registered republican compared to 23 percent registered democrat. 20 percent declined to state. >> all of the indications seem to be that something is going on. folks are getting interested. >> reporter: and weir says he expects his election workers will be working overtime processing new registrations for those who meet the monday deadline. in martinez, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> in chile, all but two of the 33 rescued miners left the hospital today with the last two requiring more attention. cheers and tear

i'll bim weir. thank you for joining us for what is really an undescribable spectacle, the sort of live television event not seen in recent memory. for the last few hours, we have been watching men, one after the other, load into a small rescue pod and lifted from nearly a half mile below the earth's crust. these are men, thanks to cameras way down there, these are men we've been watching who were feared dead for more than two weeks, rising back into the world of the living. their will to survive launched an unprecedented feat of engineering that included engineers from nasa and drilling experts from pennsylvania and the collective goodwill of an entire nation, even an entire continent. families now are gathered, celebrating, more families are waiting for their loved ones to emerge. others are being taken to the hospital. really a state of the art clinic that's been built in the middle of nowhere to tend to the medical needs of these men, but so far, we haven't seen any signs of ill stress. the firs

from the global esources of abc news with cynthia cynthia mcfadden and terry moran and bill nd bill weir live from the san jose mine in jose mine in chile. this is "nightline," october 12, 2010. >>> good even >>> good evening, i'm bill weir, welcome to a welcome to a most amazing scene out here. out here. it has the feel almost of a soccer party or a festival, but there is still a lot of anxiety in the air because the drama has just begun. fso farun. but fso far it seems triumphant or the first 17 of the 68 days the men the men were trapped in the bowels of the earth, bowels of the earth, they were tosumed dead. their will to survive launch aid feat of engineering including sigh y scientists, collective good will of a nation and continent, really. desert is just but this anxious party in the desert is just beginning. not including the rescuers going down in the escape pod there are still 32, sick, stressed men spirits are th. but at the moment, spirits are lifted with the proof that what seemed impossible can be done. [ applause ] [ applause ] or locals in the desert and supporters suppo

. >> reporter: the clerk steve weir said he thought this election might have a low turnout but now says voter registration is up by one percent and will only increase. as the new registrations the registrar said he is surprised by a number of things. first the increased number of new registrations and the makeup of those new registrations by party. >> the one thing we are noticing is that those are coming in more than 2-1 as republican registrations even though my base registration is 2-1 democratic. >> reporter: weir says in the 60 days priority the election, 57% of new voters have registered republican compared to 23 percent registered democrat. 20 percent declined to state. >> all of the indications seem to be that something is going on. folks are getting interested. >> reporter: and weir says he expects his election workers will be working overtime processing new registrations for those who meet the monday deadline. in martinez, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> in chile, all but two of the 33 rescued miners left the hospital today with the last two requiring more attention. cheers and tear

weir continuing to see waves now. so we continue to see waves tonight in our south bay locations. the chances of those have come and gone. sunny and cool, once the storm pushes out, warmer weather. perfect timing for fleet week. >>> anger in oakland after a request by the attorney for johannes mehserle to start the trial all over again. kron 4's dan shows us the response from supporters of the victim of oscar grant. >> supporters gathered wednesday to protest the call for a new trial. >> this is another attempt to push out the sentencing and elongate the community. our numbers continue to grow. >> reporter: attorneys for johannes mehserle filed a motion friday asking a judge to set aside the verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter and order a new trial. the attorney sited several reasons. first, new evidence. a similar case where an officer thought he was pulling his taser when he pulled his revolve. and the judge made errors in his jury instructions, among them, allowing the jury to consider a gun enhancement if they believe he used a -- intentionally used the gun. it could

bill weir has this amazing story of survival. >> steps through t mine, the 33 were taken to this triageenter. the 23-year-old arrives from 2,000 feet deep. tells abc news how it was like. water, but not pure water, mine oil. we hado drink it because there was no food half of th plastic bottle cap, salmon, tuna, was all we my insides were eating themselves away. we weren't waiting anymore. we were skinny. i lost 25 pounds. we had a boss. every day he would tell us we had to b strong. we didn't have hope. strength comes from internal energy and prayer. i never used to pray. here i learned to pray. i got closer to god. it was organization. be well organized. have good conversation. whoever had a problem we spoke about. and now a new life is on the way. just a few days his wife will give birth to thei first child. >> i was scared of not getting to know my son. that's what i wanted the most. it was huge happiness. it was a beautiful experience. we sang the national anthem once the capsu came be close to god. he also described the scene during th initial cave-in way back in august. he said so

bill weir is at the rescue site. bill? >> what a moment of exuberance, not just for the families there, knut the engineers at nasa who helped design the escape pod, the drilling experts in pennsylvan pennsylvania. but there's still so much that could go wrong. still 32 men down in the mine. it's going to be a long night. >> it's going to bow a long night, but such, such great joy to see the first miner coming up, and in fact, we watched his wife taking moving pictures as the capsule emerged. those are some home movies. want everyone to know you have a special hour of nightline coming up. bill will stay tuned for that, and of course, we'll all be back here tomorrow. one rescue done. 32 to go, as bill said. the miners are returning in chile. >> tumor of looking at a live picture coming in from chile. seeing the first miner who has been the first of the 33 who was been pulled. you can see him being taken off and then examined by officials. >> it is the first of 33 miners to be rescued. officials expect this to take another 36

bill weir has this amazing story of survival. >> steps through the mine, the 33 were taken to this triageenter. the 23-year-old arrives from 2,000 feet deep. tells abc news how it was like. water, but not pure water, mine oil. we had to drink it because there was no food. half of this plastic bottle cap, salmon, tuna, was all we ate. my insides were eating themselves away. we weren't waiting anymore. we were skinny. i lost 25 pounds. we had a boss. every day he would tell us we had to be strong. we didn't have hope. strength comes from internal energy and prayer. i never used to pray. here i learned to pray. i got closer to god. it was organization. be well organized. have good conversation. whoever had a problem we spoke about. and now a new life is on the way. just a few days his wife will give birth to their first child. >> i was scared of not getting to know my son. that's what i wanted the most. it was huge happiness. it was a beautiful experience. we sang the national anthem once the capsule came. be close to god. he also described the scene during the initial cave-in way back in au

." >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city this is "nightline," october 27th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with a question of justice. 35 years ago, bill macumber went to prison for the double murder of two young adults in arizona. all the evidence in the crime even fingerprints pointed to him. but then shocking new evidence emerged indicating that macumber may have been framed by his own wife while they were locked in an ugly divorce. now, the couple's son wants his ailing father freed. dan harris followed the case all the way to the governor's office. "nightline" investigates. >> i want her to know who i am. i want her to know i'm bill macumber's son. >> reporter: ron kempfert is a son engaged in a desperate battle with two forceful women. the governor of arizona and his own mother. this is a fight over the fate of ron's father bill macumber imprisoned for 35 years. >> this is the house i grew up in. first seven years of my life here. >> reporter: ron spent most of his life b

." >>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," september 30th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with a look at the safety and quality of consumer products. spurred by yet another product recall. giant toy manufacturer fisher price today took millions of kids toys deemed unsafe by the government off the shelves. so, are there ways for consumers to tell the difference between a bargain and a lemon, before they buy? one nonprofit group works overtime, using and abusing products to sort it all out. tonight, brian rooney visits the incredible laboratories of consumer reports. >> reporter: this machine is known around the laboratory as johnny walker. all johnny does is pound a treadmill, hour after hour, day after day. down the hall, a technician slathers hundreds of dishes with food. lets them dry to a crust, then runs them through a battery of dishwashers. >> some machines come out totally spotless and others will come out even worse than this. >> reporter: these are the laboratories of consumers

. >>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 18th, 2010. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran. we're going to begin tonight with the subject of sex on american campuses and how, in this age of instant information oversharing, stories meant for a few can become stories read by the world. the latest example is a detailed presentation a graduate of duke university wrote about her sex life that proceeded to go viral on the internet, embarrassing the author and those she named. so what's going on here? is it that social norms are changing? or does the change have more to do with social media? vicki mabrey reports for our series "modern sex in america." >> reporter: that one wild college night can live on forever in viral videos, raunchy blogs, even in a power point presentation. a few weeks ago, karen owen, a recent duke university graduate, came to embody the perils of the "too much information" age. >> a recent duke university graduate has a lot of explaining to do. >> reporter: when she catalog

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 19th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with the hunt for a missing child in north carolina. 10-year-old zahra parker, who at such a young age had already lost of left leg to cancer. was last seen by someone outside her family in september. her step-mother, lisa baker. she faces felony obstruction of justice charges in relation to this case. but that is only one of many complications facing north carolina authorities. tonight, yunji de nies has our report. >> reporter: it began the way these stories sadly so often do. a missing little girl, her smiling face sent in amber alerts and a father's desperate plea for help. >> i just hope i can get my dau daughter back. i miss her so much. >> reporter: but from the beginning, something different add up. and this husband seemed to implicate his wife. do you think your wife was any way involved in your daughter's disappearance? >> i'm not sure. i'd like to th

" >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 8th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with online commerce. on a day when the latest jobs numbers paint a depressing picture of a struggling economy. but for some people, there's one avenue at least that still seems to intersect with easy street. and that's the auction website ebay. the site has moved far beyond its early incarnation as something of a sprawling online rummage sale and it's become a slick 8$8.7 billion market. outlook for sellers who built their own businesses, one mouse click at a time. john donvan has our report. >> all of this is listed as on the ebay site right now, all for sale. we moved from 5,000 square foot space to now 12,000. >> reporter: and so it was that a one-time lawyer turned stay at home mother named linda lightman came to be running in pennsylvania a full-time consignment clothing operation. >> this is the photo room. i used to go outside, because when i started i d

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, sit ya mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 29th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with terrorism in the news today that the white house and global security agencies spent the night racing to get ahead of a plot they were told was already literally in the air. the threat, numerous packages, it was unclear at that point how many, containing artfully concealed explosives on cargo planes headed for the u.s. this afternoon, the president called the plot a, quote, credible terrorist threat. brian ross is with us live tonight from washington with the latest. brian? >> reporter: cynthia, it appears tonight that al qaeda has built two printer bombs to be exploded at synagogues in chicago, perhaps as early as this evening. authorities tell us the toner cartridges were hollowed out to hold explosives and a detonator virtually undetectable. but u.s. officials say late last night the saudi intelligence service provided the credible report that has many as 13 packages had been sent to th

" >> announcer: from the global resourtss of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weiryork city, this is "nightline," october 22nd, 2010. >> good evening. we're going to begin tonight with one of those colorful corners of american culture that can be mysterious to outsiders, but all consuming to those who participate. child beauty pageants. little girls as young as 3 compete for beauty crowns, all with the encouragement of their parents. but now, it's not just the moms, it's the dads, who are playing the role of head coach and cheerleader for their daughters. and tonight, andrea canning introduces us to pageant dads. >> reporter: they're a sideline staple on the pageant circuit. extreme stage moms accused of living through their daughters. >> our next contestant is going to be ava perez. >> reporter: but now, there's a new and unexpected face emerging in the world of glitz and glamour. the pageant dad. >> shaky shaky. >> i don't know. i didn't see -- >> she did a back flip. >> reporter: on the hit show "toddlers and ttiaras," david per perez wants to take his daughter t

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 14th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin again tonight with the extraordinary story of the chilean miners. news this evening that three of the rescued men left the hospital by the back door as the media swarmed in front. they are the first of the 33 to be given a clean bill of health. what life will be like for the men once they return to their homes remains to be seen. for one of them, surviving in the mine may have been the easy part, as his mistress, not his wife, greeted him above ground. neal karlinsky has the details. >> reporter: when they descended into the mine a little more than two months ago, they were simple men with simple lives. they were victor mario and yonni. but they've come back transformed. today, in chile, they are the entertainer, the writer and the lover. three miners who came out of the tunnel and straight into the limelight. the lover was yonni bare yoesrios, the 21st miner to come up the only one with medical exper

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 5th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with a terrible crime and a step toward justice. three years ago, dr. william petit was asleep when intruders broke into his connecticut home, beat him and bound him then the intruders turned viciously on dr. petit's wife and two daughters. today, the doctor passed a milestone in his ordeal. one of the intruders was convicted on murder. tonight, dr. petit talks about how the nightmare unfolded. ashleigh banfield reports. >> reporter: on the steps of a connecticut courthouse, dr. william petit emerges stoic, but relieveded. >> we did our best to keep our faith in god that justice would be served. >> reporter: a guilty verdict for stephen hayes. he's the first of two men to be tried of an unimaginable crime against dr. petit's family three years ago. >> there is some relief, but my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had.

anchor bill weir was there as each of the men were lifted into the light. >> reporter: luis ursula was33 as they're known. deep underground, he hugged his rescuers good-bye before boarding the capsule that would take him to freedom. above ground they could hardly wait to see his face. one last cheer for the men and their country. >> chi-le! chi-chi-chi-! le-le-le! los mineros de chile! then sirens screaming he arrived. and the world was waiting for him. to the world it will be remembered as a rescue executed on a grand scale. but to the families on the ground here it was an infinity of little hours. waiting for the moment when their miner would emerge from underground. christina nunez proposed to her long-time boyfriend, carlos illanes while he was underground. he said yes. next out was mario gomez who dropped to his knees as a prayerful silence fell over the crowd. his wife pulled him to his feet for a hug. and also waiting, was the eldest of six brothers, renaldo. the emotion with him, he says was endless. he said he thought he would never see me again. victor samora hugged his son.