it took me months to whittle down the list to two spots. my goal was to find spots where i could provide food service to people where few other options currently existed. i did not want to be in direct competition with any other businesses. there were only three written objections to both of my proposed locations, and this past april, there were no public objections, due in no small part to a lack of objections, the dpw permiting us to serve at 60 spear street and 400 howard street. it was almost immediately contested by a group of restaurants located in rincon center. it serves the same food as rincon grill. my map is pretty much the same map that you just saw. the difference is, if you walk into the center from spear street, rincon grill is not inside the door. it is literally across the mall on the opposite side of the food court, so i am not sure if mr. ryan has not been to the rincon center, but it is not next to the door, and they also agree, and another reason why do not think they were notified is because they were outside of the 30

whittled it down to the top 48. each week we have 12 to 48. last night we had the first 12. i think there were four clear -- this is a guy i love. >> oh, my gosh. >> i love him though. >> he's amazing. his story, his passion. he's homeless. his life is about to change. it has changed forever. >> what will he do with that skill? >> well, he's a dancer and he's got so much passion in dance. i though if y-- i think if you produce a show around him, there could be a vegas show. >> he's a dancer. >> he's a dancer and that's a style of dancing. it's unbelievable. it looks like there aren't any bones. i call him gumby. >> usually a singer wins this competition. >> because i think that america gloms on -- it become as a popularity contest. if you have a good personality, they end up voting for you. i hope this year it's not the same as in the past and they see the acts for what they are. there are some great acts, great variety acts. >> do you have a personal favorite yet? or you don't want to say? >> i have a couple personal favorites. i don't know who is going to win. there are a

for everybody until 8:00u i do suspect a lot of that, especially the northern areas,he will get whittledfore if is complete. again, we would like to remind you, especially on severe weather days, we have the fox a weather wrap, this a freefree download, go to the app store, put it on your iphone, ipad, put it on your android, it's free, right now, i'm showing you radar and i anded the severe thunderstormsth watching in pennsylvania,p maryland, virginia, and north carolina. we can shift this to the south, lots of active warnings down in north carolina. and it's not just a regional weather app, it goes across the country. you can travel with this, if you want, and you can always be up to date. current conditions for dc, alld, that is changeable, all that is customized. it's a handy thing to have on t your ipod, or ipad and iphone in your pocket. >> thank you very much. >>> coming up, find out who is y trying to put the brakes on a plan to ine bring tolls to bettr state 95.. >>> there's a plan to get the u.s. national flavoring museum out of debt.debt but nobody is on board with that plan.

. >> reporter: by sunday night the group of 15 women will be whittled down to a team of five. the president of usa gymnastics says the talent this year is phenomenal. there are high expectations for the chosen team members to take london by storm and bring home the gold. we talked to some former olympians today today and through the week who told us of the competitors biggest challenge tonight will be to get some sleep. by this time tomorrow we will know the ten people who will represent the u.s. when it comes to gymnastics in the london summer games. >> i like the jacket, kimberly, as well. thank you. very nice. today we also caught up with gymnast paul han. he was hoping to compete at the trials for a shot at this year's games but injuries forced him to retire a few months ago. >> i don't feel like i'm that disappointed. i understand that my body can only take so much pounding before it's going to quit on me. i got to the point where my career needed to be over and i made that decision. >> last year he ended up with some trouble with the law. he was arrested for refusing to

but mitt romney is in no position of whittling the debt down when he's advocating a gigantic tax cut for the wealthy that he is not going to pay for. he has not shown how he is going to close the loopholes to whatever he's going to close. it's both a dishonest and hypocrite call message. i think democrats aught to be standing up to it and saying, that is dishonest and hypocrite call and not blaming him. >> i see feeding that narrative, whether fact or fiction we can discuss, but if it is fiction the supreme court decision having been upheld constitutionally as taxing authority of the congress. i can answer the phone for a living. i host a radio program if where i hear from people that say, see that? i knew i was going to get whacked for a tax to pay for obama care. largely the people calling asserting that have health insurance and won't be subjected to a penalty. >> i heard the same thing from a friend of my sister's. look, at this point, you really need to do an information campaign. and just like bob was saying, it's not that we should have a discussion about whether it is fact or

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this is, of course, video from a practice earlier in the week, like the men, a field of 15 will be whittled down to five, with two to three alternates. we will know who will be on that women's team right after tonight's main event right outside the hp pavilion. more fanfest from around the country, celebrate gymnastics. and of course, the road to london. live in san jose, kimberly tere, nbc 5 news. >>> there are 25 days left until the start of the summer games. keep it right here on nbc bay area for our exclusive coverage and nbcbayarea.com. you can also sign up for news alerts for bay area athletes and to the torch for the most talked-about olympic stories. just go to our news tab on nbcbayarea.com and then you click on olympics. >>> coming up next at 6:00, a look at the massive cleanup after friday's deadly storm in the east. >>> plus, the bay area has some considerable brain power, especially when it comes to new tech gadgets, right? now san jose has landed a major deal that includes new jobs. >>> we'll also show you an uphill battle many bay area artists had to fight to sell their art o

a field of 15 whittled down to five with three alternates. today, after usa gymnastics announce who had made that team, we got a chance to meet them. many say they got very little sleep last night, of course stressed out over whether their name would be on the roster today. >> i think if anything, it's kind of like a sigh of relief. like, okay, we made it. now we have to really go in and do what we need to do as a team. >> it's really a dream come true right now. it's not over. we still got a lot of work to do and head out to london and do our job. right now just really shooakingn the experience and enjoying it. >> we're a very tight-knit group of guys. i believe in this team. i think we, you know, hopefully great things can happen for us. >> reporter: this is video from earlier in the week during the women's practice inside the hp. they're preparing for tonight's finals, something that could make or break their individual dreams of making it to the olympic games. now, this is the main event so many people have been waiting for. tonight we wi

the severe thunderstorm watch has been whittled down to a few counties including prince george's county, anne arundel and up into baltimore city and harford. i bet that's going to get dropped. overnight because of the batch coming out of west virginia another chance for scattered storms, warm and humid overnight, 79 degrees. tomorrow won't be as hot as today, but showers and storms are still expected in the afternoon and we'll keep an eye on that line. at 8:00 83, by noon 93 degrees, a storm possible west of d.c., another line probably moving through the region at 5:00. watch those friday evening plans. we are outlooked by the storm prediction have to have strong to possibly severe storms and notice how pennsylvania is out of it now. that's because the frontal boundary will slip right through our area during the day tomorrow. so here's your futurecast. at 8 a.m. maybe we still have a little bit of stuff coming through the northern and western suburbs. at 3:00 already seeing a line developing around hagerstown down to harrisonburg. that swings through by 5:00 and over to the eastern shor

it was that initial promise to help whittle things down and see something they care about.ched a local experiences platform because we saw all of the deal sit cropping up. we realized our audience did not care about $15 of domino's pizza for $8. they wanted to deal with other things. they wanted experiences more than deals or discounts. >> this makes me think, maria, if you start something pretty focused, you start a companyç d you launch that and you have a brand around this thing and you extend to offer other services and other products, how does that work? it seems to have worked with you. do many people then have to kind of jigger their brand? >> i work with a lot of clients that do that. you can come at it from two ways. they are serving the same target audience and offering the products and services, sometimes you may continue to offer a value, but targeting a different audience. you have to evolve your brand and messaging and identity to speak to that audience and communicate that to a new group of people. it depends on a new audience or giving away new products and

and early two thousand the former workforce of more than ten thousand has been whittled down to between two and three thousand. years the factories fortunes have been on the way up arrived as a new shareholder the company is leaning on the plant centuries of experience to produce the very latest models. they mostly produce locomotives but not for passengers or freight instead for hauling carriages or machinery around the station facility for that reason it should come as no surprise that it counts more than just the nation's railway operator amongst its biggest clients. our partners our russian real were nice which accounts for about thirty percent of what we manufacture. gasper i'm affiliated companies which purchase about twenty percent of the do so locomotives and we make the restore our output goes to metal manufacturers coal mines and other smaller industrial enterprises. because the help of grants from russia is high tech promoting spoke of the fund sonora has built a brand new sim innovative development out here in. this interest engineers have been able to work out the mechanica

but beyond that, mitt romney is in absolutely no position to talk about whittling the debt down when he's advocating a gigantic tax cut for the wealthy that is not going to even pay for. he has not shown how he is going to close whatever loopholes he said he's going to close. so it's a both dishonest and hypocritical message. i think democrats ought to be standing up to it and saying it is dishonest and hypocritical and blaming romney for not having a single new idea for bringing jobs back. not a single idea. >> mr. bernstein what i see feeding that narrative, whether it's fact or fiction we can discuss, but even if it is fiction is the supreme court deskigs having been up yesterday constitutionally as a taxing authority of the congress i can tell you, i answered phone, i host a radio program where i hear from people who say, see that, i knew i was going to get whacked with a tax to pay for obama care. largely the people calling asserting that have health insurance and won't be subjected to a penalty. >> i heard the same thing from a friend of my sister's. look, at this point, you re

it was sort of an extension of that initial promise to help whittle things down and curette the internet and filter it into something that they cared about. about a year ago we launched sort of a local experiences platform for about the same reason because we saw all of these deal sites popping up and we realized our audience didn't care about $15 worth of domino's pizza for $8. they wanted to deal with other things. they wanted experiences more than deals or discounts. >> this makes me think, maria, if you start something pretty focused, you start a company and you are laser focused on whatever that is and you launch that and you have a brand around this thing. >> right. >> and then you extend to offer other services, and other products, how does that work? it seems to have worked with you. do many people then have to kind of jigger their brand? and how do they do that? >> absolutely. i work with a lot of clients that do that. you can come at it from two ways. they are serving the same target audience but offering them different products or services, sometimes you may continue to offer

it was sort of an extension of that initial promise to help whittle things down and curate the internet into something they care about. a year ago we launched a local experiences platform for a lot of the same reason because we saw all the deal sites popping up and realized our audience didn't care about $15 worth of domino's pizza for $8. these were 28-year-old guys who wanted other things and wanted exclusive experiences more than dealing with discounts. >> so this makes me think, maria, if you start something focused and start a company and are laser focused on whatever that is, you have a brand around this thing. >> right. >> then you extend to offer other services and other products, how does that work? it seems to have worked with you guys, but do many people then have to kind of jigger their brand? and how do they do that? >> you can come at it from two ways. whereas they are still serving the same target audience but offering different products or services. sometimes you may continue to offer what you offer of value but you might be targeted a different audience. in that case, y

put this together with the conversation we had several weeks ago with three totally credible nsa whittlelowers who said that the nsa had been recording literally millions of phone calls without any legal authorization. every key stroke, twitter message and facebook post is stored and accessible, not just to law enforcement but often to private parties. we have left behind the old word of private--old world of privacy and we've crossed into a new frontier of spying. we need to figure out when government can get authorization, i'm not much for commissions and special reports. usually that's a hard way to punt on a horde decision but this is not an easy balancing act. sometimes law enforcement needs information immediately to save a life or catch a terrorist. that's why the president should appoint wise thoughtful folks to look at this issue and provide crisp rules so that we don't have to worry about big brother listening, taking notes of who our friends are. we go to the know what t and how they know it. that's my view. >> eliot: in a famous literary conference a critic is alleged to have

you'll be so happy and everyone will say the garment center whittling and ready and able to help you., we are going to contact them next. >> good. >> thank you. >> the next stop was the much anticipated meeting with ayesha sayed and her manufacturing contact, king. >> i brought some buyers to meet you. >> hi, nice to meet you. >> nice the meet you, stephen. >> this is where the best selling linda dress was made in the garment district for $46 less than it was made at the factory in turkey. the brothers brought two more dresses for her to look at, evaluate and price for manufacturing in new york. >> we also do stuff like this. >> okay. >> the brothers then rushed back to their office to meet jamie hamel, a social media expert from denise's s3 agency. he gave them pointers on how to use pinterest to spread their unique brand through the power of picture. >> i'm going to show you pinterest, the new hot network. network alone is bigger than youtube, which is amazing. >> the last stop was meeting with me one last time to talk through their homework assignment and get some answers to the bi

if we can start eat away at the edges in places we can start whittling it down. let's hope. let's check out the situation then. as far as the jet stream as we -- the ridge is still strongest in the eastern rockies and the western plains. you probably know that. we have had little pieces of energy and troughs in the great lakes, same in the park northwest. through the week this has been persistent on the computer -month-olds. that shows a good trough at the end of the weekend for the great lakes and the northeast. that could be a good cooldown. what that could do -- southward late next week and actually cause rain farther south into the sprout start eating things away. that's something we have to watch. let's look at the maps as we head day by day. we are looking at a low pressure system. we start the week cold front scattered showers and thunderstorms, that will stall out though. that isn't coming quickly. another cold front -- hit and miss, monsoonal thunderstorm, all of this green here from the ohio valley southward is just hit and miss. spotty thunderstorms, and each afte

it will whittle your waist right down. >> all the lights you can play in the evening. >> i like that.ood bars, for kids, the classic hot dog but you set it up on a great station. >> working with what we have. everyone will have hot dogs. why not make it cooler, a hot dog bar. condiments, get crazy. things kids want to eat. it's interesting to them. >> never put sauerkraut or jalapenos on. >> shot glasses, ketchup and fries. also presentation, radio flyer wagon, used it to house old-fashioned pop. >> very retro. >> everything looks good, easy to execute. all about having fun. >> robin moreno, i love your ideas. >> feeling sleep deprived, aren't we all? how to unwind and get the best night's sleep ever but first these messages. stay in the moment sanya focus lolo, focus let's do this i am from baltimore south carolina... bloomington, california... austin, texas... we are all here to represent the country we love this is for everyone back home it's go time. across america, we're all committed to team usa. hey, becky. hey....uncle steve. for life's bleachable moments. it's your teenager's

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they want to see sort of a natural american aversion to taking a handout whittle down and people aren'tss that's the word they would use, to take aid. now, the conservative view is if your destitute, if you are really in bad shape. if you are too old to work or too young to psychiatric or just the worst luck in a world of course society has an obligation to help you. that's the safety net mentality. the idea is to free as much enterprise money energy in the free enterprise system so people can sustain themselves and those who can't you help. but the liberal idea is much more like the european social democratic idea that the role of government is to sustain you, sustain as many people as you can. to make sure there are no risks in life. all the rough edges are smooth out and that's why you get the growth of these kind of programs. >> bill: there is a difference between largess, government largess on the liberal end and really sincerely wanting to help people and a cynical calculation that the more people we hook on government perks the more people who will vote for us. it's not the same

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thousands of projects from all over the world were whittled down to these and likely some of the smartest kids in the planet. >> martin and josh lee, 14 year- old from pennsylvania that have harnessed their knowledge and love of video games to make one that helps kids learn more in class. >> we have seen progress on the level of science paper and some projects that solve a practical problem by adopting an existing idea. we have quite the spectrum. >> scientific american editor is among the judges trying to pick the best of the best. the winner gets $50,000 and a trip to the galapagos islands. the winners will be announced later tonight. >> breaking news out of east oakland where police are searching for two suspects that may have shot at a california highway patrol car this weekend. joe vasquez is here with the perimeter police have just set up. what can you tell us? >> behind me you can see the perimeter right behind me, you can see the police officer with the police issued rifle, that is the scene throughout this neighborhood in the 2300 block of east 23rd looking for two men that they

. >> i have looked at those 59 steps and they are very good, very -- but i would have whittled them toe issues and pounded the heck out of them but he's not done that. maybe his advisors will, but when? what do you think he should do to focus on this? >> well, i mean, neil, realistically i agree with you. as a fundraiser, am i going to sit down with a donor and go through 59 points? he needs to bullet point it, make it more simple and hard hitting. and i agree with you on that and i think the fact that he's not doing that, we don't have a lot of time. we need to get this out and get this out now. but then again, that is mitt romney. 59 point plan, the detail where it's less government, lower taxes, less regulation, he says if you like these things i'm your guy. if you want more government, more taxes, barack is your guy. i agree he needs to get it out and out now and simplify it. >> simplify it. you're right. thank you, always good seeing you. >>> ed henry traveling with the president in pennsylvania. the president's argument is very simple. trust me, don't trust the other guy because

talk that is out there, but you have been whittled down to a shorter list, and, apparently because you considered at least by the romney, and we could be wrong, we are told you are "safe, reliable, steady as she goes, nothing too flashy." dare i say "dull," and i caution, governor, i have if problem with dull, i built a career on it, but, that is the saving virtue for you. the rap against that kind talk are those would might see you as a good pick get in the way of it, that gets in the way, what do you think of that? >>guest: if you goad me i will shows my "tat." >>neil: well, i will leave that. how would you defend yourself, that criticism that maybe romney need as flashy running mate? >>guest: well, i would say this: we have a lot of people who are entertaining who can light their hair on fire or do whatever, but the bottom line is, these are serious times and we need sonned experience people who get the job done and my record in minnesota, in terms of cutting taxes and reducing spending --. >>neil: who lights thai hair on fire, who are you talking about? >>guest: we don't need we en

and wall street created, but beyond that, mitt romney is an absolutely no position to talk about whittling the debt down when he's advocating a gigantic tax cut for the wealthy that he's not going to even pay for. so it's a both dishonest and hypocritical message. and blaming romney for having not a single new idea for bringing jobs back. not a single idea. >> what i see feeding that narrative, whether it's fact or fiction, we can discuss, is the supreme court's decision having been upheld as a taxes authority of the congress. i can tell you, i can answer the phone for a living. i host a radio program where i hear from people who say see that, i knew i was going to get whacked with a tax to pay for obamacare and largely, the people asserting that have health insurance and won't be subjected to a penalty. >> i heard the same thing from a friend of my sister's. at this point, you need to do an information campaign and just like bob was saying, it's not that we should have a discussion about whether it's fact or fiction. it is fiction. the fact this, the congressional budget office very clear

. >> reporter: by sunday night the group of 15 women will be whittled down to a group of five.he president of the usa gym nasna says the talent is familiar. kimberly terry, "today in the bay". >>> by tonight we should know the ten people who will represent the u.s. when it comes to gymnastics in the summer games. >>> the countdown for london continues. there are just 25 days left until the start of the summer games. keep it here on nbc bay area for our exclusive coverage and online at nbcbayarea.com. >>> we'll tell you where these tall ships from around the world are on display this weekend. >>> and this morning we're waking up to a foggy start in san francisco. hang on. sunshine is expected as we head through the day and temperatures are going to be comfortable, considering the rest of the country's dealing with triple digit heat. we'll explain after this. >>> time is 7:14. sunday morning. looking life at oakland this morning. a little overcast but rumor has it things will clear today. for the facts, let's check in with anthony slaughter and our sunday forecast. >> i like how