world-class infrastructure, we have terrific transit networks, especially for a western city, but it can be and needs to be even better. what can we do to improve it? we can follow suggestions to provide more priority for transit, but we need to keep our overall network in a state of the repair. we know that deferred maintenance is a problem not only in terms of safety and operation, but it is also a big budget concern. so, these are going to be very important issues in terms of transportation and funding that is critical here in the city and with regional partners. how do we do this work? with the involvement of many people, including the board, neighborhood advocacy groups, travel, geographic markets, the work trip and the non-work trapped. we will be using technical tools and outreach to will saukvillole community involvement. technical out reaches tomorrow, as our citizens advisory committee kicked off on october 13. the first being the central freeway study from 12:00 to 2:00, an open house at our offices on the 26th floor. from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. we will have a presentation a

in bombings last week that targeted minority shia muslims in the eastern city of lahore and the western city of quetta. >>> north korea has announced that it will release a south korean fishing boat and crew members that it seized in the sea of japan last month. the transfer is to take place near the two countries' boarder in the sea of japan on tuesday evening. the announcement was made through the korean central news agency on monday. on august 8th, a north korean vessel towed a south korean squid boat with a crew of four south koreans and three chinese to a port on the northeast coast. the south called on the north to release the crew. the north said the decision to release the crew members was made from a humanitarian point of view after the crew admitted coming into the economic zone and promised never to do it again. monday's announcement is the north's first flexible response to the south since tensions soared over the sinking of an n. a commission concluded that the vessel was sunk by a north korean torpedo. >>> chinese president hu jintao said his government plans to improve the lif

major western cities like london engineer their way out of danger without sufficient regard for biodiversity and sustainability. >> this is the latest project in london. they are working on a seven- kilometer tunnel which will act as an overflow pipe to make sure that this does not get into the water system. >> projects like these are tackling only symptoms to the underlying threats to our fresh water. >> london is a growing city. it has tripled in size since it was originally built. we are going to stop these overflows from where they happened. >> engineering works like this have a long track record that have separated humans from their waste. millions of lives could be saved. they say that more attention must be paid to the problems that we are storing up. this is upstream and downstream. >> and this is ""bbc world news". these are the top stories. a state of emergency is declared in ecuador. rafael correa accuses the opposition leaders of a coup attempt. the religious site of ayodhya is to be divided among hindus and muslims. one of the last surviving stars of hollywood's golden age, tony

the acquisition is that major western cities like london engineered their way out of danger without sufficientegard for by our diversity and sustainability. this is the latest engineering project to safeguard human health in london. soon there will be starting work on a 7 kilometer title which will act as an overflow pipe, ensuring that human excrement does not fit into the water source. -- does not get into the water source. >> a london has a troubled in size since it was built. there is nothing that we can do -- we are going to the cause. we will stop the overflows from where they happen and build the tunnel. >> engineering works have a long track record in safely separated humans from the waste. if developing nations have the funds, millions of lives could be saved. the report says more attention it needs to be paid it to the problems we may be storing up upstream and down. >> this is "bbc world news." a state of emergency is declared in ecuador after the president, correa, accuses security forces of a coup. a court in india has ruled that a religious site will be divided between hindus and

hundreds of musicians are gathering in the western german city of obhn for the annual -- of bohn forhe annual beethoven festival. good the beethoven was born there in 1770. every year, the celebrate with concerts', exhibitions, films, and lectures. in the lead up to the festival, deutsche welle is preparing a new documentary, the beethoven project. it features one of germany's most unusual ensemble orchestras. last year, under the leadership of their artistic director, the orchestra took up the challenge of playing all of beethoven's nine symphonies in just four days. here is an exclusive inside look at the project. ♪ ♪ >> the orchestra and their conductor. musical allies on a mission to create a new beethoven. they want their version of the beethoven symphonies to suit the 21st century. they call it "the beethoven project." >> y another cycle? who needs another cycle? we will always need another cycle of beethoven symphonies. >> in summer 2009, dw tv follow the orchestra for two months. the result was the documentary film "the beethoven project." >> the film can only be as good as i

hundreds of musicians are gathering in the western german city of obhn for the annual -- of bohn forhe annual beethoven festival. good the beethoven was born there in 1770. every year, the celebrate with coert', exhibitions, films, and lectures. in the lead up to the festival, deutsche welle is preparing a new documentary, the beethoven project. it features one of germany's most unusual ensemble orchestras. last year, under the leadership of their artistic director, the orchestra took up the challenge of playing all of beethoven's nine symphonies in just four days. here is an exclusive inside look at the project. ♪ ♪ >> the orchestra and their conductor. musical allies on a mission to create a new beethoven. they want their version of the beethoven symphonies to suit the 21st century. they call it "the beethoven project." >> y another cycle? who needs other cycle? we will always need another cycle of beethoven symphonies. >> in summer 2009, dw tv follow the orchestra for two months. the result was the documentary film "the beethoven project." >> the film can only be as good as its ma

city hall today. fall by the western high school dance team -- followed by the western high school dance team. all to support healthy city days. >> we live in a city with the best health institution in the world. we should have the healthiest citizens in the world. we will make that happen. >> those in attendance got some exercise, taking a walk from city hall down to the science center at the inner harbor. donna hamilton and her daughter were here for the walk. >> i think the rates of diabetes in the city is disgraceful. we have to do something about this. the journey starts with one step. it is time for baltimore to take that one step. >> on pratt street, deanna cook and her daughter were making healthy smoothies. >> these will keep you going all day and help you lose weight and make your skin great. asteor those taking the test test. >> it tastes pretty good. >> it is better than i thought. >> i do not like it. i tried the banana barry. it is a little better. >> there are healthy activities every day this week. >> for more healthy city days events, including a chance to work out later today

and i've about got to say to you, right now i'm in the western city of harat.rly safer proirchs, especially when you compare it to the south and east of the country, and i've been very impressed with the people here, especially the young people who we talked with in the last couple of days, many of them saying they will go out and vote, no matter the threat because they want to stay in their country's future. at this point we've seen at least a thousand men come to vote. a polling station nearby for women. there were lines of women as well. even though the taliban has even threatens the haratys themselves, a few blocks away a bomb detonated. no one was killed but at least two people were injured. >> atia, can you give us some perspective as well? there have been essentially national elections. do people get a sense that their vote is making a difference? the significance here of these selections? >> reporter: for the most part -- t.j., for most of the country, no. they don't feel that their vote is making a difference. there was this enthusiasm back in 2004 dur

the heaviest rain at the moment is in western harford county, the southern half of the city, down into northern anne arundel county, and a little slug or rain here as well. i want to take the radar of the

there was an early-morning power outage in the city's western addition where at one point more than 6,000 customers were without power. they were hoping to restore service in that area by 6:00 this morning. but yeah, so it's kind of a drizzly morning. we have had several hot spots in the road including this one in livermore. still really causing major delays on westbound 580 approaching airway boulevard. this is an accident involving a big rig and one lane is blocked. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's tracy. >> hey, thanks, elizabeth. forecast for this morning, it includes some drizzle out there. so you have wet roads to deal with. conditions later on today, we are expecting some sunshine but look at the temperatures. they are cooler. lower 70s in fairfield today. 70 in concord. 66 in livermore. frontal system passing through cooled down our temperatures. mid-60s in oakland. 60 in san jose. fair amount of clouds at the coast with a high of 59 in pacifica. 60 degrees in san francisco. the upper 60s in napa. 70 santa rosa. that's a look at today's cooler temperatures. will tho

in san francisco pg&e says right now more than 6200 customers are without power mostly in the city's westerndition and laurel heights neighborhoods. at least three transformers have blown in various parts of the city and crews are working to repair them. however, they don't know when the lights will be back on. we'll continue to bring you updates on the outage as we get them. in just a few hours, the state supreme court will meet in san francisco to consider whether governor schwarzenegger has the power to order state worker furlough days. three lawsuits were filed by about 114,000 workers after the governor ordered them to take unpaid days off in the first round of furloughs. the lawsuits claim the governor lacks the authority to order furloughs for workers covered by union contracts. state law also sets the work week at 40 hours but the governor's office argues the constitution gives him the authority to manage the budget crisis. a lower court ruled in favor of the governor in all three cases. >> sunnyvale authorities are warning residents about a serial arsonist becoming more dangerous. t

so up until the teens the city kept those as separate surveys and theres the different surveys in the outside lands which is sort of the western part of the city. >> the uninhabitable part of san francisco. >> they were different surveys and blocks in those. mission block 38 and then in the 19 teens or 20s everything was consolidated into the big block and lot list. so mission block 32 became block 3927 or something like that. >> this is a good time to put a plug in on the san francisco public library history room. on page 38 you will find a document how to research your san francisco building. they have lots of references to other agencies but quite frankly the san francisco history room in the san francisco library is a fantastic resource and people there are extraordinarily knowledgeable. and page 14 talks about when the photo collection is open. you have to wear white gloves and can look at a couple at a time and they will often have photos of your block or neighborhood or the ones that are fascinating and part of your collection as well. >> my experience with that resource has been really excellent over the years. they re

western suburbs. right around baltimore city, there is a few sprinkles.

areas on the eastern and northern quadrants of the city are the areas where the soil conditions are liquid action jones. what we're showing on the western part are the city are the tsunami zones and in the hill shaped portions are where we have deep slope conditions back for a result of land slidse in an earthquake. this has a lot going on and this are emergency critical response facilities there that have been shown with icons and firehouses and hospitals and shelter locations and -- emergency staging areas. thank you. now our second map is building on the base from our first. and what we done is we have added two layers. and in this map, we have used a orange dot to represent the locations of the approximately 500 single room occupancy hotels in the city. and we have used a yellow dot to show the housing authority locations. and approximately 50. and now it is in the as clear from the powerpoint screen as it may be if you look at the hard copy maps that i posted up over here behind me and you could look at them later. but what you could see when you have some clarity to it is there is includesering. there's includesering of the vulner

in herat, a large city in western afghanistan was under control until not too long ago by the taliban. but in recent weeks, the taliban have stepped up anti-election activities. local authorities are holding the taliban and supporters responsible for the action, saying that they are calling for an election boycott and protesting woman's participation in politics. candidates and campaigners have been attacked in many parts of the nation. in herat, six people were killed during the campaigning period in august. >> translator: my father was devoting himself to the people. i don't understand why he had to be killed. >> reporter: as security conditions continue to deteriorate, candidates must risk their lives to canvas support. this man is seeking re-election. armed guards have been following him everywhere he goes during the campaign. he makes most of his speeches indoors. on this day, he is speaking to supporters at the gathering of the mosque and the head of security. >> translator: under the current security situation, we cannot expect a free and fair election. >> reporter: president k

let me just say one thing -- with the city coming to my community, western addition is unacceptable. investigation of how the city and county, the mayor's office spent $150,000 coming into my community, bringing all this crap into our community, blocking streets and churches. i wake up a 7:30 in the morning, and i see everyone in our community walking around on bicycles. but they did not include us. whatever but they have on that database, it was a racist button because i am appalled. i do not have time to talk here, but i see you guys wasting government time. i am here to ask the president to give me two more minutes to talk about crucial issues in our community, which is district 5. you could do it. it is in the charter. if you cannot do that, how will you decide who will be our next mayor? do not play with me right now. i need two minutes. let me continue on. the city and county which passes your money on to redevelopment work support. that is in my community, and you have a director that is about to be resigned, but that office does not do anything for our community. i have a mil

western edition. as of november of last year the program was organized. it seeks to bring community based organizations. cities and residents to talk about how to best serve the community and how we can work all together. we meet every other week in the western addition to discuss

pg&e reported more than 6200 customers lost electricity after 4:00 this morning in the city's mission, westerndition and laurel heights neighborhoods. all the power was restored an hour later. officials stay at least three transformers have blown and pg&e crews are working to repair them. >> still ahead, google officially took the wraps off its new instant search feature this morning promising to reduce your search time and sending a two-day doodle mystery. oil giant b. p. releases its own report who's to blame for the massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico. >> top u.s. and afghan officials >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> in colorado authorities are searching for eight people who did not leave their homes as a massive wildfire railed to the foothills near boulder. the 71 hundred acre fire destroyed 92 structures so far. it's not clear the missing people were in the homes of that been destroyed. nearly 3500 people were forced to run for their lives when that fire started monday. authorities are investigating reports the fire started when a car ran into a propane

pg&e reported more than 6200 customers lost electricity ter 4:00 this morning in the city's mission, westerndition and laurel heights neighborhoods. all the power was restored an hour later. officials stay at least three tranormers have blown and pg&e crews are working to repair them. >> still ahead, google officially took the wraps off its new instant search feature this morning promising reduce your search time and sending a two-day doodle mysry. oil giant b. p. releases it own report who's to blam for the massive oil spill in the gu of mexico. >> top u.s. and afghan officials on the florida church's plans to burn the holy bobo ♪ [ female announcer ] introding tv... you can take with you. u-verse now lets you download, watch hit tv shows and schedule recordings on your mobile phone. order u-verse tv today. plans stting at just $29 a montfor six months, with dvr included. us upgrade to u-verse u300 and get the u-verse mobile app free. take the u-vse tv experience with you. and record up to four shows at once fromny room on a sine dvr and play them back on any tv in your house. ♪ order u-ver

seventeen twenty full time many in the russian elite pushed by the technological and empty city cheeseman of western europe as time progressed scientific research battle against censorship control. in eight hundred forty eight for example the government made it illegal to attend western universities in such a scientific training to bolshevik government two in nineteen seventeen introduced the censorship should not of the sorest era and throughout the soviet times from close to seventy cities to the space race has salto among the world leaders in scientific discovery in the cold war everything we going to subject of research has kept top secret aside over the centuries the periodic table of elements the monorail and the for example have been invented by russian scientists the closed world it once was now russia is working with dozens of countries around the world on. scientific projects which brings us back to the cademy of sciences there are several conference calls this some of this building here on the risky prospect of various presidents and scientific debate. this. is the state of the art with s

the merchant's notion of this sort of business that they do, you know, on geary and the western part of the cityand i didn't have a good answer for that, if it's ok, 11th avenue, maybe it has to be ok all the way out. i think that there are -- it will create police problems there, people that hit the 2:00 a.m. mark at the bars will go there to get a bite to eat. and 49, clearly they're talking about handrailing outside and security and people cued up in front. i can't predict the future but i know now it concerns me and i think the neighbor's concerns and merchant's concerns are well placed. >> and what is your feeling on the extended hour of just one hour and that on weekends an holidays? >> you know, in discussion, i see my role as to work with business and see if we can't put something together. the resistance to staying open at all is tremendous in the community. if i get 14 emails in response to our weekly newsletter, i usually get one, and that's telling and only half the emails went out today that we usually send out. >> i was concerned about your personal feeling about the hour. >> perso

pg&e says right now more than 4,000 customers don't have power mostly in the city's western edition and laurel heights neighborhoods. officials say at least three transformers have blown in various parts of the city and crews are working to repair them right now. they hope to have the lights back on for everyone before 6 a.m.. we will continue to bring you updates on the outage as we get them. >> there's a new development in the corporate battle over former h. p. ceo mark hurd. oracle plans to pay him $950,000 a year to be its co-president. in a filing with the securities and exchange commission this morning. the company says the former h. p. chief is eligible for fiscal 2011 bonus of $5 million. but the biggest part of hurd's pay package will be the 10 million in stock that oracle plans to give them. h. p. said they're suing hurd to keep him from taking that oracle job. he was fired after an investigation turned up violations of the company's code of business conduct. >> today the santa clara planning commission is expected to review and approve plans for the new 49ers stadium. $937 mi

also, local to western edition in the city, we told you about that power outage. we're watching for that, but right now that's just a surface street issue. the cities binto the freeway moving all right. >> mike, thank you very much. >>> for more than 500 students in windsor ontario, the new school year offers the chance to be a part of something unique. susan pedler reports on the state of the art school aiming to instill some eco-friendly habits. >> reporter: a forest is nothing unusual in southern ontario -- but in a library? it's one of the final touches at canada's greenest school. dr. david suzuki public school is the first in the country to get a platinum rating from the u.s.-based green building certification program known as l.e.a.d. julianna is the chief engineer on the project. she loves the gym with its massive windows, sun pipes, and reflective surfaces. >> we actually have a sensor that monitors light levels and will actually dim the electric lights. >> reporter: the school's solar panels and windmills generate electricity and the rooftop gardens help

no acceptable bids have been made yet for slots in baltimore city or western maryland. >>> if you're betting on whether we'll get more rain, bob says you may win. >> rain everywhere. the only place that hasn't seen rain is along the beach. ocean city had a trace. here's 77, southeast winds at 13067 the barometer is holding steady. when we come back we'll take a look at the radar and some prospects for sun later tomorrow. [ female announcer ] remember this promise? [ man ] martin o'malley -- taking on bg&e to stop the rate hikes. [ female announcer ] never happened -- your bill went up 72%. and o'malley gave the bureaucrat who approved the rate hike a huge raise. now martin o'malley promises we're moving forward. the fact of the matter is our economy is doing much better now. [ female announcer ] really? nearly 7,000 marylanders lost their jobs last month. four years ago, martin o'malley misled us. now he's just making stuff up. bob ehrlich. we can do better. >>> let's take a lock at radar. only two places are not seeing rain, along the beaches, well to the east of us, along the ocean

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program to make baltimore city resident health care. -- healthier. >> at city hall today, they started with aerobics. followed by the western high school dance team. ♪ all to support healthy city of days. >> people -- we live in the cities with the bath help decisions in the world. -- with the healthiest cities in the world. >> after the speeches were over, though scudder little exercise, taking a walk from city hall down to the science center at the and harbor. donna hamilton and her daughter were here for the wall. >> i think the rate of the obesity and diabetes in the city are just disgraceful. we have to do something about its as individuals. i think it is time for baltimore to take that one step. >> overrun pratt street, they were making some help these movies for people to sample. >> to start your day, it will keep you going all day and help you lose weight. >> for those taking the taste test -- >> pretty good. it is pretty good. >> it taste better than i thought it would. >> i will try the banana buried. -- berry. >> the event is a week long. >> for more information, go to our website, wbaltv.com. >> there are lots o

and the 15 most infested states are new york, chicago, and los angeles, but medium sides mid-western cities, indianapolis and louisville and others from boston to denver. >> we are in the heart of america. there bed bugs here just like the big cities. >> many of the chemical pesticides have been banned. here a demonstration of what experts say is one sure way to kill bed bugs. several hours of more than 120 degree heat. >> it is hot in here. what's the temperature about? >> the air is about 128. if you look at bed bugs on the table, they have been here about 90 minutes and you have roasted bed bugs. >> an effective pesticide could be 10 years away. until then? >> we will have to develop this consciousness that anywhere we go, whatever we do, bed bugs might be there. >> the battle against bed bugs has taken to the skies and they are treating commercial airliners. >> john, thank you, i think. >> coming up, meredith goes back to her first job as a tap instructor after your local news. because we're big on sha. our pens... our snacks... everything... and one of the best ways to protect yourself

were transferred to the city along with the western addition muni substation. at today's value, which is depressed, at say $20 a foot, that would be $3 million to $4 million of public benefits coming directly from beacon and the rincon center. it continues to be owned by beacon, the residential piece was sold years ago, a few years ago. the o.p.a., owner participation agreement, continues to contractly required that all of the preservation, maintenance be continued to be performed by beacon or any subsequent owner. the center is in pristine condition. because the center is in the unique position of being in a redevelopment project area, the creation of the existing t.d.r. required the same findings that are proposed in this ordinance. the redevelopment commission additionally required that the center provide what turns out to be millions of dollar worth of value to the public benefit. the provisions in the new ordinance, the sections that the others have spoken to, should not apply to the rincon center. i kind of agree with the suggestion that maybe we sever th

in the city, at this point, we have this batch, it's on the western side and we have this off to the of the city. and we have heavy rain coming in and mount airy has picked up. that's as we go towards frederick, heavy rain. we'll see more waves of it into tomorrow. for more on that, we'll go to marty. >>> we have an inch of rain since it began last night. we had steady and heavy rain. figure we'll be straddling the line here, we'll leave this area into the two to four inch rain. it's because of a deep area of low pressure that's, once again, it's yet to be fell in the region. we want to break this down, it's low to the north and south. the southern energy is moving our way. it will be steamy and wet. it's going to feel tropical. we'll have a tough rush hour coming home from work and school and tomorrow's is going to be damp, not as damp as this day's start, but it will be a problem again tomorrow. again, a wet weather pattern early this week. do we have watches and warnings? bernadette woods has the five day during the first warning weather segment. >>> thank you, marty, wjz-13 is al

and that was the first ad a project of its kind a city within a city down to the western as well as domestic architects built on that idea later in the twentieth century. construction got underway on an aisle in the moscow river facing the kremlin that was in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight minister alexander was to be one of the first tenants but he didn't live long enough to see the end of construction so died of a heart attack in that same year. however his family was allowed to move into the house on the embankment. thirty two my family moved out of the kremlin and into a five room apartment just like this one girl in one thousand nine hundred forty eight i was brought there from the maternity home. my three uncles and a sister and grandmother was very happy to see me that. one hundred twenty square meters was a huge amount of floor space in those days even so it was not enough for a large and growing family but compared to the tiny flat the family had lived in before the apartment was like a palace stoves instead of and hot water on tap were seen as marvels of engineering . the a