i want to call up jim wheeler and the team to make a brief presentation and show a short video highlighting some of the amazing activities we have done. >> good morning, commissioners and general manager. it's a pleasure to be with you. we have a short video to show you because we believe a picture is worth a thousand words. i would like to tell you briefly i'm blessed to have one of the most dynamic and hard-working staff within the new recreation model and you are going to see the fruits of all their labor. thank you. [applause] ♪ [inaudible] [applause] >> could you stand up for a second? we're blessed to have racks in our unit. i is want to say get out and play. >> because it is national parks and recreation month, we are going to show you not just one video today, but to. this is july in your parks. >> how long do you estimate you have been volunteering? >> about two years. >> what keeps you coming back? >> i just wanted it to come to fruition. >> are you volunteering right now? >> yes. >> how do you feel about volunteering? >> it's fun. >> it helps the community? right on. he makes it

for wheeler it is here it. gave. us the district to believe. that they could. three days after meeting sean i sit in on the clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is shown as a last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. like. steve preston shown his new lawyer is working day and night to prevent the execution. the five members of the jury selected by the state governor are to offer recommendations as to whether or not shown seller should be pardoned. in the end the governor makes the decision on his own. activists against the death penalty and friends of shown our president to ask but his life be spared. to me this day. signifies whether man. will grant mercy or deny mercy and then after that knowing sean. first long as i have for ten years. in all of my being he is one should be granted mercy and if he is denied mercy i feel it is an injustice or am i fear for our state yes decide that it's ok to murder a sixteen year old boy killed a person. or something for a crime they've committed. if i i fe

committee are kimberly from the volunteer program, and john miller, the gardener, supervisor, jim wheeler from aquatics, and the committee is chaired by sean mcfadden. this is a very fantastic result and we have talked about the responsibility in difficult times, to operate as efficiently as possible, and we have much more to come next month when we talk about the year in review. and we have received two additional fantastic grants. we had a $15,000 grant, and this is our summer camp for children of the autism spectrum, conducted in glen canyon. this is extra staff for children who need this, and they will be working with mainstream silver creativity's. we also received last friday, 1251 week camp scholarships from the children across the city. this year, and we will talk more about this next month, we have awarded a half million dollars in scholarships to children who need them fulfilling the commitment to make certain that all the children participate in all of the programs regardless of ability to pay. i was actually looking -- >> this is an event done by mercedes, and the 50th anniver

wuhan launched a bicycle share program two years ago with a flt of 3,000 two-wheelers. it now provides some 50,000 bikes making it one of the world's largest bike share systems. for cyclists' safety, there is a network of bike paths. it serves 180,000 users a day. >> translator: not only does it help cut gas exhaust emissions, bicycling helps me lose weight. it's good exercise too. >> translator: china used to be a kingdom of bicycles. when i ride a bike, i can stay in shape and i feel good. >> reporter: to get on a bike in wuhan is quite easy. all you need is an i.d. card issued from a bike rental station and you're free to ride. to ensure your fellow citizens can also enjoy the system, you have to return your bike within two hours of use. but there are more than 1100 rental stations throughout the city each within a five minute ride of another. users can pick up or return a bike to any station they like. a mechanic at each facility keeps the bikes maintained and the tires full of air. the system is funded by the advertisements brightly covering the bicycles and facili

as a result, side streets are now clogged with the three wheelers all going nowhere fast. >> translator: in addition to traffic jams, they started licensing rickshaw businesses. that's why the number of rickshaws continue to decline >> reporter: what's worse for painters is the emergence of mass production. this handles printed plates, not handmade ones. >> translator: printed plates have become mainstream because hand painted ones cannot be mass produced. printed plates can be made cheaply and on a large scale. >> reporter: fewer orders are not the only problem. this is a.k. das. the most respected rickshaw painter in bangladesh. his favorite subject is rural scenery. however, das says he can no longer paint the types of pictures he likes. tastes have changed in modernizing dhaka. movie stars are in. >> translator: rickshaw owners prefer movie scenes. i have no choice but to paint such to make a living. >> reporter: with orders vanishing and no creative incenti incentive, some painters have given up. ahmad hussein has now hung up his brush. he does souvenir plates for tourists. he pain

wuhan launched a bicycle share program two years ago with a fleet of 3,000 two-wheelers. it now provides some 50,000 bikes making it one of the world's largest bike share systems. for cyclists' safety, there is a network of bike paths. it serves 180,000 users a day. >> translator: not only does it help cut gas exhaust emissions, bicycling helps me lose weight. it's good exercise too. >> translator: china used to be a kingdom of bicycles. when i ride a bike, i can stay in shape and i feel good. >> reporter: to get on a bike in wuhan is quite easy. all you need is an i.d. card issued from a bike rental station and you're free to ride. to ensure your fellow citizens can also enjoy the system, you have to return your bike within two hours of use. but there are more than 1100 rental stations throughout the city each within a five minute ride of another. users can pick up or return a bike to any station they like. a mechanic at each facility keeps the bikes maintained and the tires full of air. the system is funded by the advertisements brightly covering the bicycles and facili

jim wheeler said a picture is worth a thousand words and there were lots of pictures worth several thousand words. a little taste of all that happy enjoys in our parks. that concludes my report. >> commissioner harrison? >> a couple of months ago, i was curious and brought up our outreach policy and i was wondering when that -- where that is and what we're going to get a report on that? >> we did bring it to you several months ago for discussion and it is alive and well and being implemented all the time. >> i would like to see it. >> sure. >> our capital report was in april. this is july. do we have an updated version? >> we do our capital reports -- do you want to speak to that? >> commissioner, that's a good point. we will have an updated july report in about two weeks. we have had a shortage of staffing in financing. one of our members responsibility -- one of our members responsible for that has left and we have been struggling to keep up with that in her absence. we are looking to replace that position, so this should be a short-term laps. we look to have both the july monthly report

as a result, side streets are now clogged with the three wheelers all going nowhere fast. >> translator: in addition to traffic jams, they started licensing rickshaw businesses. that's why the number of rickshaws continue to decline >> reporter: what's worse for painters is the emergence of mass production. this handles printed plates, not handmade ones. >> translator: printed plates have become mainstream because hand painted ones cannot be mass produced. printed plates can be made cheaply and on a large scale. >> reporter: fewer orders are not the only problem. this is a.k. das. the most respected rickshaw painter in bangladesh. his favorite subject is rural scenery. however, das says he can no longer paint the types of pictures he likes. tastes have changed in modernizing dhaka. movie stars are in. >> translator: rickshaw owners prefer movie scenes. i have no choice but to paint such to make a living. >> reporter: with orders vanishing and no creative incenti incentive, some painters have given up. ahmad hussein has now hung up his brush. he does souvenir plates for tourists. he pain

as a result side streets are now clogged with the three wheelers all going nowhere fast. >> translator: in addition to traffic jams, the authorities stopped licensing rickshaw businesses. that's why the number of rickshaws continues to decline. >> reporter: what's worse for painters is the emergence of mass production. this rickshaw goods shop features printed plates, not handmade ones. >> translator: hand painted ones cannot be mass produced. printed can be made on a large scale. >> reporter: fewer orders are not the only problem. this is r.k. das. his favorite subject is rural scenery. however, das says he can no longer paint the types of pictures he likes. tastes have changed in modernizing dhaka. movie stars are in. >> translator: rickshaw owners prefer movie scenes. i have no choice but to paint such pictures to make a living. >> reporter: with orders vanishing and no creative incentive, some painters have given up. ahmad hossain is one who has hung up his rickshaw brush. he now does souvenir plates for tourists. he painted portraits of people against a background of bangladesh sc

officials were left scratching their head after an 18-wheeler's trailer smashed into an overhead sign. no one was injured in the unusual smashup. and the cause is being investigated. >>> it was like a scene out of a movie for three fishermen stranded off the coast of martha's vineyard. the fishermen had to abandon ship after their boat sank. with only life jackets and a camera, the men were able to survive and provided a pretty good director's cut of their own rescue. they were picked up by a fishing boat captain who overheard their distress call. >>> it's that time of year when the hogs take over the black hills of south dakota. the sturgis festival is going on. celebrities, custom made bikes and hundreds of riders take part in the 55-mile wild ride. >>> we turn to nbc's bill karins, with your forecast. good morning, bill. >> have you ever owned a motorcycle? >> do i look like a biker chick? >> i don't think you've ridden on a motorcycle. >> i have ridden on a little vespa action. don't judge, bill. come on. >> i picture you on your honeymoon. let's talk about the weather forecast ar

very few places in the city you can park 16 wheeler's. it is really more of a correction in pier 80. the average tenants are about $1.25 per square foot. that is a matter of controlling the lot. we believe if you are paying $1.25 per square foot, $185 for a parking space may be part of it is to keep that business in the city. we think $40 is more in line with the market. whereas, by way of example, pier 9 we have a high occupancy rate and we charge $360. >> so pier 80, the use requires you to arrive in your vehicle? >> no public trash -- no public transportation. >> pier 9 is covered office space, right at your front door, premium parking. >> i think the rate should go higher. >> next year. did that answer your question, commissioner? >> is there any public comment on this item? ok, thank you. >> item 10 a., request authorization for award of a contract for professional services for master planning and preliminary design of the proposed pier 70 crane cove park project in an amount not to exceed $708,835, funded through the 2008 propositio

century after howard coiment married lily hitchcock, my father moved here with huts wife, barbara wheeler, from dallas to san francisco. like his great-uncle, my father also was drown bit promise of business opportunity here. my parents nurtured the family's links to this great landmark, becoming mascots of sorts to the telegraph hill dwellers, attending the coit 50th anniversary in 1983 and the rededication of pioneer park in 2001. my father would be here talking to you today but he passed away four years ago. he was very proud of our family's link to this but very humbled as well. coit tower's 75th anniversary is important because it returns attention to this art deco landmark, a symbol for a progressive city then and now. from lily hitchcock coit's bequest to the muralists who covered coit tower's interior with diverse impressions of the city's politics and people, coit tower reflects a civic-minded people prone to bold action and provocative viewpoints. coit tower is a place for great architecture, art, and a place to meet the world. thank you. >> i'd now like to introduce one of the

officials were left scratching their head after an 18-wheeler's trailer separated from the driver's cab and smashed into an overhead sign. no one was injured in the unusual smash-up, and the cause is still being investigated. >>> it was a movie-like ending for three fishermen stranded off the coast of martha's vineyard. the fishermen had to abandon ship after their boat sprung a leak and quickly sank. with only life jackets and a camera, the men were not only able to survive, but they provided a director's cut of their own rescue. they were picked up by a fishing boat captain who heard their distress call. >>> and, finally, it's that time of year when the hogs take over the black hills of south dakota. the sturgis motorcycle rally is in full swing two days after its official kickoff. it's the 71st year of the event that boasts celebrities, custom-made bikes and hundreds of riders who take part in the week-long 55-mile ride. now for a look at your national and regional weather. here's nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning to you. >> good mornin

very few places in the city you can park 16 wheeler's. it is really more of a correction in pier 80. the average tenants are about $1.25 per square foot. that is a matter of controlling the lot. we believe if you are paying $1.25 per square foot, $185 for a parking space may be part of it is to keep that business in the city. we think $40 is more in line with the market. whereas, by way of example, pier 9

i want to call up jim wheeler and the team to make a brief presentation and show a short video highlighting some of the amazing activities we have done. >> good morning, commissioners and general manager. it's a pleasure to be with you. we have a short video to show you because we believe a picture is worth a thousand words. i would like to tell you briefly i'm blessed to have one of the most dynamic and hard-working staff within the new recreation model and you are going to see the fruits of all their labor. thank you. [applause] ♪ [inaudible]

. >> wait until a nice big 18- wheeler comes down the road. [ laughter ] >> ruins that little floaty trip. >> creates too much of a wake. >> also about 58 degrees there so you can do that. here you would be frozen in the middle of winter trying to do that. >> in the middle of summer. >> i know. no kidding, huh? it's been gloomy especially at the coast. we are working on the sun today. is looks like it's clearing even at the coast. we are starting to squeeze a little bit of sunshine. still have some fog. how about this for a nice shot. they like it. okay. >> coit tower? we haven't seen that in weeks. >> it disappears in the morning but it's back now. we have more sunshine in the afternoon and it looks like it's going to stick around. out toward the coast, yeah, a little touch and go with the low clouds and fog. but we are going to squeeze in a little sunshine out toward the beaches, as well. but it will come and go throughout the afternoon. and then the fog is going to start to race onshore once again tonight. but that fog really kind of a thin marine layer today being squashed by a s

one of the most prominent isolationists were senator burton wheeler of montana who was otherwise onef fdr's closer supporters on -- and most southern democrats tended to be less interventionist and so on. so it wasn't, it was hardly a republican even though the republican party at that time was predominantly isolationist, it was a bipartisan sentiment and reflected in the neutrality acts which were a consequence of legislation in the mid 1930s that came out of, utterly, democratic-dominated senate which reflected that, that point of view, but also was once again reflected, i think, the predominant views of most americans on the subject, um, effectively tied fdr's hands from, in any sense, intervening and showing favortism in helping people that we liked in the hostile act against people of whom we disapproved. by 1937 i think franklin roosevelt was one of the few political leaders in the democratic world, small d democratic world, global democratic world who perceived the genuine threat that came from the fascists in europe. and in 1937 he went to chicago to the dedication of a bridg

original money lives public debt at more than fourteen point two trillion dollars and rising by four wheeler dollars that a massive iou to the next generation forty three cents for every dollar we spend this year we borrowed against the future of our children the compromise voided a u.s. government shutdown with agreement on the largest single spending cut in u.s. history but thirty eight billion dollars is small change against the slice of the debt and last month the war with largest volunteer aid or said it was all out of u.s. treasuries smiling trillion dollar deficits as far as i'm no scam some counter the world's largest economy has to go for growth and even that isn't possible can it handles that but monsoon criticism of the learned some strategy and spiraling prices for anything priced in the greenback on the line having confidence in the u.s. dollar and the global economy that on the that if you're going to show up for cross artsy. ok. and i do go to you first i'd like to read something to you the united states of america if we didn't have the dollar is the defacto reserve currency o

gosh it so how do you live probably more than fourteen point two trillion dollars and rising by four wheeler dollars thirty. iou the next generation forty three cinch every dollar we spend this year we borrowed against the future of our troops. boarded a us government shutdown with agreement on the largest single spending cut in u.s. history but thirty eight billion dollars more change against the size of the debt and last month the world's largest bond trader said it was all out of u.s. treasuries smile and trillion dollar deficits as far as i'm no skansen if some cons are those largest economy has to go for growth and even that isn't possible can it handle that but to criticism of the learns on strategy and spiraling prices for anything priced in the greenback on the line having confidence in the u.s. dollar and the global economy that is it that it should last for across the arts. ok mark let me go to you first i'd like to read something to you benighted states of america if we didn't have the dollar is the reserve currency of the world we'd be greece i mean we're broke bankrupt really ba

wheeler to rock the vote and it's mike huckabee as the candidates to send out i offer a big weekend huckabee will be on hand as well to lend his musical talents to the field. first huckabee will be jamming with gospel singer herman cain a duet that can discourage described as and is storage event then huckabee will go on stage with rick santorum later in the week for playing one last gig at an event for example and he's busy or the bottom number has a huckabee plans to release his i would g m's in an album soon titled the dark side of the g.o.p. jamming with those long haul folds and of course the mr rogers the republican party tim plenty. just fyi. it's the good the bad and the very crowed channel lee oddly good losing up yesterday in a single mother from st louis had a message for wall street you're all fired that's right when banks looked up at the sky yesterday in manhattan they saw a plane flying overhead with a banner thanks for the downgrade you should all be fired apparently now the first one to fly the plane over washington d.c. is a message to congress who couldn't do it because th

april greenway has children in wheeler's school district. >> usually, it's the people you think you can trust the most that you really can't trust. >> reporter: more than 600 people suspected of participating on dream board using enkristed files and phony names to hide their identities. some of the aliases including the following. a reference to dream board's goal featuring sexual exploitation of kids 12 and younger. rules were strict. only people who contributed child sex videos could participate and the most prolific porn producers were rewarded. >> membership status was upgraded for those who produced and shared their own child porn and videos. >> reporter: more than 500 suspected dream board users are still out there somewhere, but those in custody aren't going anywhere. nearly all are being held now without bail. at the same time, investigators are going for a huge amount of material. the xilveted we a equivalent of 16,000 dvds trying to identify who the young victims were. >> bob orr in washington, thank you. >>> the latest on the heat in the south. the deadly heat wave is threate

and secondly, there goes the macho because it's a three-wheeler.sota. i had never been on the road in my life. >> jimmy: until sturgess? >> my first day there, i'm with a half million bikers and they're on things with two wheels. >> jimmy: and you're behind a rascal or something? >> it was awful. i had never driven a stick shift before. >> jimmy: is that a stick shift? >> well, all bikes are, aren't they? it's got a clutch. >> jimmy: you know this, right? >> every time we came to an intersection, i would stall. these guys are using the worst language. who the hell is that? get out of there! >> jimmy: you should have had tassels hanging from the ens of the -- why did you go here? >> my two best friends, we're all in our upper 60s. we got together and said, we're in our upper 60s. we thought this would be a macho guy thing to do. i agreed to take lessons. it sounds better than it was. we flew into sturgess, i rented the trike. and i went there the hotel, the holiday inn, into town. and then we went out to mt. rushmore. we were on the road. it was sca

a pop was heard before the crash, possibly a blown tire on the 18-wheeler.syn: we are awaiting test results on the body of celina cass. she vanished from her new hampshire home last week and monday divers pulled her body from a river less than a mile from her house. >> based on official observation of miss caaa' body in and out of the water we determined that death was suspicious and that's why we launched a criminal investigation and we continue to go forward with that investigation. i can't tell you at this juncture because this is a criminal investigation. alisyn: dr. cyril wecht is a forensic pathologist. when they saw celina's body in the lake and when they pulled it out they saw something that made them think the death was suspicious, meaning not an accident and they launched a criminal investigation. what might they have seen? >> it might well be related to the clothing, or the absence of clothing in as much as no determination as been made regarding the cause of death, i don't believe there is evidence of significant injuries. though there could poss

alisyn: here now is former homicide detective, rod wheeler. hi, rod.bout the statement that we just heard her father make there. because it struck me as peculiar, and i want to see if you feel the same way. he said, whenever you are ready to come home, daddy will be waiting for you. why is he talking as though he knows that she ran away, and not that -- wasn't abducted by a stranger? >> you know, that is interesting and actually, i picked up on that as well, but, let me remind you and the viewers, this is a biological father, now, talking, not the stepfather talking, and everyone has been wondering over the past week, where is the biological father, now. this guy apparently was in the hospital, for some reason that has not been disclosed, which i find interesting and he got out of the hospital and the first statement he makes is, says to his daughter, probably through the media, it is okay to come home now, daddy is okay, and you have to ask yourself and trust me, the police are also asking themselves, what was the relationship, alisyn, with the little

rod wheeler, thank you very much for your expertise.ill: going to take some time to get them, right? >> the fed is promising to keep interest rates steady for two years. what does that mean for the economy? what does that mean for your bottom line at home? >>> and she was riding her bike in front of her house and disappeared. we will talk to her father, who is desperate for his daughter to come home. >> people make mistakes, and i don't care where you drop her off, just make sure somebody can get ahold of her and bring her home. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have cess to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. if you open

the driver of that 18 wheeler is said to be stuck inside. we're told rescue crews expected there any moment right now. so we're watching this to see whether or not that man is brought to safety. that is one place you don't want to be, huh? >> martha: all right, well, there is a war of words that has gone nuclear between former vice president dick cheney and former secretary of state colin powell, tkha*eupby's -- cheney's tell all memoir is critical of powell's time in the white house and powell is not taking it sitting down, he is firing back, disputing specifically many of the claims in cheney's book. >> taking the same shots at condi, can a condescending tone, she tearfully did this and the same shots at jen tenet and he has in some ways indicated he didn't always approve of what president bush was deciding, and there's nothing wrong with saying you disagree but it's not not -- not necessary to take these kind of barbs and try to pump a book up by saying heads will be exploding. martha: that was some of the back and fourth weekend. joined

rod wheeler, thank you very much for coming on. bill: what a mystery that is. in minutes here, who does karl rove think won here last night? and bret baier had his hands full, trying to balance that microphone! >> are the jobs going to bam wack -- come back? >> you got to worry -- bill: they were, all eight of them, making a case to the commander in chief only hours ahead of perhaps the most pivotal gop event in the ballot for the white house, counting down to the weekend's iowa strow poll, it can be in some years a crystal ball on the presidential field, now candidates, gauging reaction to the performances in last night's debate. brand new hour for "america's newsroom", a lot to get to. like herding cats last night, wasn't it! i'm bill hemmer, good morning, nice to see you. good morning. alisyn: good morning, bill. as you're saying, everybody got in a zinger at some point. i'm alisyn camarota in for martha maccallum. they're all republicans but the only thing they agreed on is the opposition to president obama's polities. bill other than that it was partisan p

another actor but when -- like, i was doing this -- i was riding with harrison and we were in a four wheelery, you've been on the indiana jones ride at disney? i was like, it's good. and he goes, that's indiana jones. i was like, oh, my gosh, indy! so, i was -- >> jimmy: that seems like an annoying thing for the makeup artist to say around harrison ford. all right, already. powder me, will you? give me my acting pills. you have two teenage sons, i understand. >> yeah, two boys, 13 and 15. >> jimmy: : e they psyched that dad is in this movie? >> dude, they're psyched because they get to meet all these people. >> jimmy: oh, they came to work with you? >> yeah. >> jimmy: nice. >> yeah, but we were on set and they met harrison ford and harrison was doing a scene where he's pulling out his son, paul, out of the stagecoach, but there's this wire, so harrison runs up and he trips on a wire and he says [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. and he's about to swear more and my sons were looking at him, shocked, and he was like -- i apologize for that. all right, let's do it again, guys. >> jimmy: were the boys around

an 18-wheeler in texas stopped traffic in, the trailer dangles from the sign.as hurt, but they're still trying to figure out how that truck got up there. >>> here's good news. a soldier just back from his third tour in afghanistan kneeling and his wife and daughter race to meet him during a baseball game in washington state. the reunion stopped the minor league game and brought the crowd to a standing ovation. >>> this kid from argentina is shocking the sports world reportedly signing with real madrid, and he's 7. he starts training next month, gets paid next year, but he can't officially take the field until he's 16. >>> apparently a big problem in california prisons -- inmates using their phones to check facebook. the phones are contraband, but they're getting smuggled in. somehow it's gotten so bad the state of california is asking facebook to shut down prisoner profiles if they're lock logging on while they're locked up. >>> as part of the social experiment jonathan stark let people buy coffee on his starbucks card. all he asked in exchange was for people t

news is still fresh, the rating is fresh, but we were just here talking to the sales manager ron wheelert week when there were jitters about a debt ceiling deal and a massive default. that didn't happen, but now this worry, the downgraded credit rating. this must be an emotional roller coaster for you when you have to think about sales and keeping this business afloat. >> you know, sandra, we've been in business almost 100 years, and i don't think -- i think it's been pretty close to 100 years since the last time the united states has had such a low credit rating, and you know, we are just tired of the politicians in washington playing chicken with our credit, with our livelihood which affects millions of people and every time they bat an eye in washington it just reverberates down to us and it has an effect on everything we do. >> reporter: so far we haven't seen the effect and it's still too fresh to know what will happen to interest rates, but it could possibly really affect sales here and what would it do and mean for business? >> you know, that's the unnerving part about it. this mo

rod wheeler, fox news contributor and former d.c. homicide detective.od, you can understand the father of this man saying he's a good person, his children love him, you know, don't believe what you're hearing about him, and he may well be right. we don't know what happened on that island that day. but the leaks continue, and the latest is this comment that he said she might be dead now hours after he reported her disappearing and that witnesses are now saying they saw a cut on his throat and that there was blood on the beach nearby where they saw him. and he, apparently, said, no, that's my girlfriend. i wouldn't kill her. what would that tell you as a merchandise detective? >> you know, here's the thing, megyn. there's an old saying where there's smoke, there's fire. and i can tell you with this story there's a whole lot of smoke, and somewhere there's a fire, that fire being robyn gardner's body, probably out in the water. it just didn't stop with the fact that he made the statement minutes -- not hours after this woman went missing, he made that stat

this is a trailer on the 18-wheeler. it started rising, we are told, as it was going down the road.d the overhead sign and ended up in that position. >>> 48 minutes past the hour now. we continue to keep a close eye on the markets. where is my number now? 2 245 down. we were talking to clyde anderson a moment ago how mortgage rates are going down. good time to buy and refinance possibly. tell me what we are seeing and good to give perspective to people as many turn on the tv, ah! we are down 300 points almost instantly. help people understand what we are seeing right now and what we could see throughout the day. >> i think a lot of people are wondering like the 18-wheeler. i think they don't know what hit them right now. we are on a roller coaster ride and we knew it was coming. this whole week, we have seen it. markets down and up. again, investors are looking, they are sitting back and relaxing. it's not time to react to the market. sit back and watch, enjoy the ride. i'm enjoying riding this. this is exciting. this is reality tv at its best because, again, this is the market. if

an 18-wheeler stuck on an overhead sign.e's yet sure how the trailer get separated from the cab and got hung up on that sign. nobody got hurt. as you might imagine in houston this caused a traffic nightmare. >>> important health news if you're thinking of having a baby. researchers report a simple blood test has been proven highly accurate in determining the sex of an unborn babe at just seven weeks. that's earlier than ever. an old fashioned ultrasound you can expect at maybe if you're lucky 15 or 16 weeks, 20 weeks normal. >>> man's best friend is lending a paw in the courtroom. it's something now that ten states are using. nbc's ann thompson shows us how it works. >> in the criminal justice system the people are helped by four paws. these are their stories. ely is an unlikely fix amateur in seattle's king county courthouse. today the lab bra dor retriever works with the special assault unit. not to sniff out trouble, but help those in it. >> good girl. >> just looking at these dogs allows people to feel more of a sense of

lifted the bed up while the 18-wheeler was trucking it down the freeway.r had no idea it was happening until the thing hit that cross bar, the big rig's crab separating from the load. thankfully, nobody hurt. cops calling in cowboys for backup during a high speed chase with a bull it happened in washington state over the weekend. the dash cam rolled on it all. >> there is a bull under -- you might want to run. it's coming this way, partner. run! [siren] >> look out. folks spotted the beast tearing through the streets and called the 911. police eventually caught up but they needed help. enter of the cow poke. there is one of them, lals so he in hand on the hood of a cop car. another guy took aim and snagged the bull from inside a second there he goes. took 30 minutes but the strategicry worked. no humans hurt, nor was the bull. never reporting your daughter missing, while partying and writing bad checks may not be the best way to win over the american public. guess who is the most hated person in our nation. a lot of times, things are right underneath our f

and in texas, a houston highway was closed overnight after an 18-wheeler's cab separated from the trailer in a free way sign. luckily no one was hurt. >>> an overwhelming show of police force seemed to quiet rioters in london last night. the violence has spread for a fourth straight night. police across the country have made more than 1 00 arrests since the violence began over the weekend. michelle is joining us live from london. it's been hard to figure out how this started. i know it was triggered bier one arrest, a controversial arrest. it does seem like much deeper roots to this violence. anger that's been building up for quite some time. >> reporter: wherever something like this happens everyone wants to discuss it and try to find some underlying cause. tends to be really complex. it seems like no one can really come up with an answer that's satisfactory or solvable at least not in the short-term. we've heard a lot from the government and police saying that they felt like any initial cause or, you know, soes longical feeling that sort of sprang up after the shooting of a man by polic

a congressman from new york, william wheeler, questioned this line. he said, you know, the only reason you put this line here is because it continues from the line separating colorado and utah so that you get this nifty little four corner thing going on. watts disagreed with that, and the first thing he pointed out was that it created almost exactly equal territories out of new mexico and arizona. but he also spoke to the issue of race, and that's, that's where it really gets interesting to me. let me explain who this man at the bottom is, francisco perea. he came from one of the old and wealthy families, mexican families in what had been the mexican province of new mexico. as the united states was approaching the civil war, francisco went up and down the rio grande valley which is where virtually all of that hispanic population was centered urging them to remain loyal to the union. when the civil war broke out, in fact, arizona did become a state, but it became a confederate state. and it didn't divide itself along this vertical line, it divided alon

story from the mid-'90s, where -- i think it's the customs agent in san diego was inspecting an 18-wheeler coming from tijuana for propane and found several empty false chambers felled with tons of powder cocaine, went to talk to the driver, and the driver was gone, disappeared, and that case ended up getting entirely buried. the propane company, opened by a very powerful and political family in juarez, and now -- i can't remember -- the customs agent ended up getting run out of his job, and i -- it was the right wing -- the rightish paper, the washington times, that did a largest expo say on this during the clinton administration, and you can look it up. but you get little blipsed and what is consistent is the money is connected to huge, large financial entities. the national banks, transnational correspond. it's not just the idea of cash getting snuck into mexico in backpackspacks and satchels on e backs of miles. that doesn't describe the penetration in the global economy, the drug trait. >> i'm aware of the response in the united states to the world drug council report but i have no id