where the wood breathes better. so, wood gets -- water gets behind stucco. the worst dry rot is always behind a brick or a stucco facade. >> brick has a special problem and a special reason for you to make sure that it is waterproof and that's because it has metal fasteners that keep the brick attached to the building. if the fasteners rust, the brick is just sitting there and in an earthquake the whole brick can fall off. >> you should always have a six-inch separation between the lowest shingle or piece of siding and ground contact. and that should be a concrete foundation there. >> so it's probably -- there probably is a foundation but they figured out a way to extend those all the way down to the ground which is a problem. so the reason you want to have it up from the ground is that we have a lot of water splash in heavy rain and they're going to get wet and also that what happens is water through capillary action and other methods will actually get sucked up through -- behind those shakes and shingles, if they can go all the way down to the ground. dan

those are wood stairs in a wood structure. much better solution. they're also protected because they're inside. so they're not going to have as much of a problem. they still have a joint there which is a leak problem that has to be caulked. this is sort of an interesting exercise.

old growth red wood and this has about 60, 65 growth rings to the ifrj. weighs as much as i pieceef green douglas fir. it's dense. and quite hard. this is something of a quality that you just will not go buy in any lumbar yard today. >> it's a piece of timber. you see the rings and by looking at the rings imagine how big the tree was. okay. see how tight they are. the tree was quite large. if you look at this one, it's hard to perceive where the circle of the tree rings actually were. imagine this tree, it was huge. >> that's douglas fir. it's funny today we have modern engineered lumber this is natures perfect natural lumber. this is the spencer house, this is a section of an old capital on the top of the column holding the center span being in the basement. everything in that house all the framing is of this quality. we would make molding out of it or stair treads today. as a result that house after 106 years of earthquakes is still plum and level and you know in amazing shape because -- >> if you look this is a modern 2 by 4 you see the rings. this one

those are wood stairs in a wood structure. much better solution. they're also protected because they're inside. so they're not going to have as much of a problem. they still have a joint there which is a leak problem that has to be caulked. this is sort of an interesting exercise. as you walk down the street i want to you look at the buildings carefully and see if you can see the space between the buildings in san francisco. and here we have a space that's about 3 fourth of an inch or an inch or something like that -- 3/4 of an -- 3 fourth of an inch or an -- 3/ of an inch or an inch, or something like that. you do a roof and your neighbor does a roof and you put a piece of flashing between the building and that keeps water out of that space between the buildings. water gets down there between the buildings and it's extremely difficult to repair dry rot inside that space. you have to take the inside wall out to get to it. we also see a couple of other things happening here. we see a down spout from a drain and those need to just be checked to make

i never went into the woods. i just saw it from the outside of the veil of the trees. >> the area on august 11th that you went into the woods, was it dry or -- the ground, was it dry or under water? >> it was dry. >> at the time that you were in those woods on that occasion, sir, were you aware of there being a reward offer -- offered for finding of caylee? >> i believe so. >> pardon? >> i believe so. >> did you believe that award to be -- reward to be $255,000? >> something like that, sir, yes. >> and on that date of august the 11th, as you described it, you saw something and have described it as you have to this jury, were you aware that right around the corner on hopespring was a whole lot of media trucks? >> yes, sir. >> and people? >> yes, sir. >> and did you go and tell anybody that you had found what looked like a skull and bag of bones? >> no, sir. >> anything like that to anybody? other than mr. dean? >> i never said i found a bag of bones, sir. i never said that. >> did you tell anybody that, sir, you f

most of my neighbors have vinyl or wood windows. i had aluminum ugly windows, so i figured i would match all of the neighbors. commissioner hwang: okay, so the window replacement was because she needed them to be replaced. it was not because there were damaged or broken or anything like that? i am just curious about the store. >>> welcome all of the above. commissioner hwang: okay, got it. thank you. vice president garcia: was the appellant's time up? if you have anything to add, please go ahead. >> that is all. i want to comply, but i cannot afford. i am unemployed and i have a daughter who is a senior. i cannot afford it right now. or if i could have -- well, i cannot. so to reduce from nine times to two times, that would be great. i understand the violation. i just want to -- commissioner fung: thank you. >> thank you. mr. duffy? >> i suppose the first question i was going to ask, is it ok to appeal the probably on the filed a permit? i was thought any should permit that we appeal to pummel the on. but we don't have a permit yet.

. >> especially where concrete or stone abuts wood ask they have different shrinkage rates. you will see a crack that needs to be addressed calked or flashed. >> spend money on the waterproofing details because if you spend that little investment in extra waterproofing and better flashing it's a gift that deep keeps on giving it's something you will not spend later. we took rotting pin flashings off the buildings. >> galvanizing lasts a long time but it will get old. we use copper and steel. the price is neg ot a big investment. >> reasonable maintenance spend the money on appropriate materials. and pay attention to panlt. all the expense in paints is in the prep and the application. it's not in the cost of the paint itself. don't look for cheap paint. we will save 5 bucks a gallon after you spend thouz annasands you get cheap paint. >> i have a brick chimney. i tried to raise the chimney back to the roof diaphragms. what experience you have on the brick chimneys? >> we have a couple of structural engineers that has done this brick work. >> i haven't but as a chair ever a co

wood? yeah, wood framed building. why is wood the safest building to be in, 4 stories or less? it flexes, yeah, it's flexible. what's the danger here? chimney, yeah, fireplace. be aware of the fact that just because it's a wood building and the event caused some sort of compromise of the structure of the building and the building is still standing doesn't necessarily mean there's not a danger there. so what could you as nert's do to make that situation better or at least keep it the same so no one else gets hurt? keep it off, yeah. keep people away. perfect. take out some of that yellow tape that you have, that yellow caution tape, and string it around around keep people back. in this particular case, what could you do to make that situation better? turn off the gas. where would you turn the gas off at? at the street, okay. that's a good place to do it. but you always want to do it at the safest location. so if the street is the safest location, that's where you would do it at. this house here fell over. doesn't have something called a sheer wall. so it's just a platform or a p

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what you can see is that doesn't really look like real live wood. and that's because it is not. it is, it is deadwood, that has grown, the tree has grown around, it wasn't able to fully heal from the wound. the other things we're seeing, i don't know if you can see, but it looks like the tree is almost flat, when you look at the sides here, instead of growing thrike this, where you have -- you have a brord base. this hasn't been producing any healthy wood on the side of the tree for some time, that's a structural problem, what it means is the tree is, has deadwood there and is not producing live wood, it is potentially, that's a really high, breaking point. where the tree would have -- potential for failure. and in addition, the poor tree has had a lot of problems over the years. it looks like there was probably a low branch here that got -- maybe pruned off, but there's another branch here that probably got ripped off, what you can see is, the tree has a much easier time trying to, for form wound wood which is how it compartmentalizes the wound. it is essentially forming a scab

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they've been pulling piles, the wood piles that executive director just spoke about. we're about 70% to 80% through with that and should be completed by the end of next week. as i also said, they're staging their fabrication of their structural steel for their shoring system, shoring wall systems in the central area, and started refabbing all that. and they're starting the pretrenching this month for the shoring wall, so they'll be going around the entire perimeter of the project, removing any obstructions prior to the installation of the shoring wall, which is scheduled to begin at the end of may. again, the demolition timeline, we are scheduled to complete the original demolition by the first week in june. on your agenda today is the approval of a change order for evans brothers to do some additional building demolition, and that will add some time to the final completion of their contract, but the original contract completion or substantial completion is still scheduled for the end of june for the original demolition. we completed all that ramp work ahead of schedu

open is coming up next week but don't look for tiger woods to play. he'll be at congressional near dc. woods announced today that he will not be in the field, he is out of the u.s. open. woods says doctors have advised him to continue his rest and rehab on the injuries to his left knee and his achilles. the injury caused him to pull out of the open a couple of weeks ago. woods says he hopes to be back in time for the at&t national in three weeks. news of serious injury and subsequent suspension, national hockey league. nathan horton suffered a severe concussion. hit by vancouvers aaron roman game three of the series last night. horton will miss the rest of the series and that did draw a major penalty. rome is going to be suspended for the rest of the series. the hit was deemed illegal because rome had already passed the puck when he hit horton. >>> in football news, terrell prior is the latest controversy. he announced he's going to skip his senior season this fall. prior faced a five day suspension for breaking ncaa rules. that violation led to the f

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so again, tiger woods out of the u.s. open. we'll have much more coming up in sports. >> thank you lindsay. >>> it will be another day before we learn the fate of a d.c. council member accused of spending more than $300,000 in city money for his personal use. >> i am not going to speak to it. >> your remarks earlier still appropriate? >> harry thomas jr. remained tight lipd as he left a closed door meet with other council members. a majority of the council is urging the ward five council member to step down from the leading the powerful economic development committee. until the allegations against him are resolved. council chair kwame brown said he would announce his decision about thomas tomorrow. if thomas doesn't step down voluntarily, the council could vote to remove him. on monday, d.c. attorney general irving nathan issued a scathing report on thomas' spending. the attorney general is filing a civil suit in an effort to collect those funds and damages that could total $1 million. >>> police investigating the death of a 12

if fox dashed towards the woods, not to worry, the hound dog knows who i am. i have been out running that old miserable mutt for years like i told you i am a fox. i know. i know. she turned toward ms. viola's with a basket of eggs. i rewrote it and sent it back and it was 7 pages long. that was the beginning of our relationship. we have done many picture books together. i did randy and brother wind which was one of jerry [inaudible] honor books. i have done my dearest apron. the latest one is [inaudible] the women of [inaudible] bend. these are about the women that made those wonderful quilts all over the world. alabama, the poorest county in the depression. the women made these quilts because they needed to keep her children warm and would stack them to make a mattress. they covered the tables with them, they used them for their children to crawl on when they would go outside and have picnics. they used the quilts for everything, small ones and large ones. now today, those quilts are going for 25,000 and more. it was my pleasure to go to g's bend and had the

open and close to tiger woods reveals he will miss the second major of the golf year at the u.s. open because of injury. the drive for five four time champion andy roddick progresses into the third stage of london's queen's club the traditional warm up for wimbledon. russia will enter a crucial euro two thousand and twelve qualifiers this also on the back of a troll with cameroon the sides feeling to find a net in salzburg on tuesday evening with because putting on its pretty inexperienced russian fits robert for a seat for this one. time to experiment just a brief look at the russian line up route bill dick advocates musser plan for the friendly against cameroon simple to give easy youngsters a chance to step lose themselves and gain national team experience. the results of and sparked us. both made their international debut it while russia's brightest star andrea shoving was left out of the school board meanwhile the chief of the indomitable lions at all let his team from the very start. however it was the russians who first showed their creativity. and. been through the camero

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tiger woods will miss the open first time since '94. woods has waited for knee and tendon to heal. he's listening to the doctors and in case you missed it last night. a thrilling within and two out it is and bottom of the 13th. freddie sanchez delivers . right for stewarts and giants with a walk off win. eighth of the season. they meet again tonight and just a reminder. pat rile yedoc rivers had no prevous coaching experience and they both champ chatches. >> you told me. thank you, larry. what is hailed as the bay area biggest concert about to get underway in oakland. fans are streamming in to the concert by rock ledge end u2. the band is in a middle of a tour that crossed 550 millionn and expected to top 700,million before it wraps up. u2 was forced chancel with bono injured his back. sold out show gets underway and lenny kravitz is the opening act. see you tomorrow. >> game four coming up.

out than i imagine, because at the moment tiger woods is just an average golfer. not even in the top ten. who cares about that. he will miss the open for the first time since high school. should fans care? give a hoot? plus the stun of a current national gets drafted himself tonight. and a redskins coach takes a well deserved swipe at big al. not even the lockout can stop this. 9 sports next the cw >>> it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> normally we wouldn't do a story about the 15th ranked player in the world pulling out of a golf tournament, but who would imagine two years ago tiger woods would be the 15th ranked player in the world. he has been stuck in the majors since 2008. tiger announcing today he will skip the tournament. woods has only played one round of golf since april and he had to quit that halfway through due to pain in the knee. i'm extremely disa pointed that i won't be playing in the u.s. open but it's time for me to listen to my doctors and focus on the future. i hope to be ready for the at&t nationals, the next

open the flap at the bottom to insert the wood chips. from lighting a flame to setting the wood chips, the process is quite simple. >> translator: put it through this opening and set it down. >> reporter: you can cook anything from fish cakes to eggs. first, remove food from the refrigerator and let it sit until it reaches room temperature. it should be cooked after an hou hour. >> the more you dry out the food, the longer it lasts. the longer it stays in the smoker, the better. >> very interesting. i think i may be starting a new hobby there. >>> time to check on some of the stories we've gathered from broadcasters aroun asia. we begin with this item sent by ddi india. india hosted the main events marking this year's world environment day in new delhi on sunday, pledging to play a constructive role in protecting the environment. this is the first time india has been the primary host since the united nations instituted the environment day in 1972. the theme this year was forests, nature at your service. india's environment minister said

out than i imagine, because at the moment tiger woods is just an average golfer. even in the top ten. who cares about that. he will miss the open for the first time since high school. should fans care? give a hoot? plus the stun of a current national gets drafted himself tonight. and a redskins coach takes a well deserved swipe at big al. not even the lockout can stop lysol knows when the weather is at its best allergy season is at its worst. inside your home allergens can be found on everyday hard surfaces. lysol disinfecting wipes remove more than 95% of allergens. and lysol disinfectant spray kills the source of mold allergens. so from pollen particles to pet dander... lysol does more to help your family during allergy season. lysol, the #1 pediatrician recommended brand. >>> it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> normally we wouldn't do a story about the 15th ranked player in the world pulling out of a golf tournament, but who would imagine two years ago tiger woods would be the 15th ranked player in the world. he has been stuck i

>>> bernadette woods will join us with the first warning weather forecast in a few minutes. first, here are today's midday stocks. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a nice place to be is on the wear -- water. we have comfortable temperatures. we're at 81 in baltimore and the dew points are in the 50s. it's comfortable outside. this is going to change. enjoy the numbers now. 76 in westminster and 81 in columbia. the winds are light out there. they're generally around to the north east. they'll change throughout the day. tomorrow, they'll turn down to the south and this is where the air is coming from. it's in the 90s in memphis and 80s in kansas city. these are the record highs this afternoon and we have a lot of moisture and the dew points will be highier and there's a lot of humidity where this is coming from. this is all moving in our direction. we have a few thunderstorms around yesterday. they got out of here and out to the west, there's a warm front. now, it's the warm front that's ushering in the next round of air. it passes by tomorrow with clouds. we'll see some clouds from i

i'm erica hill back with chris wragge. >>> also, tiger woods can't catch a break.. now he's taken himself out of this u.s. open because of medical problems, the first open he's missed in 17 years and we'll have the latest on his condition and whether he'll ever be number one again. i think he'd settle for top ten. we'll check on that with armen keteyian in a minute. jeff glor has the news first. >>> the huge wildfire is still growing, driven by hot, dry winds. the fire blackened nearly 500 square miles. yesterday an additional 4,000 people were forced to evacuate in arizona. >>> an eight alarm fire destroyed an historic rubber plant in rhode island, this >>> now that congressman anthony weiner apologized for online sexting his political career is on life support, even fellow democrats are giving him the cold shoulder as he insists he will not give up his house house. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: chris, good morning. there have been a few calls for weiner to resign, all of the calls coming from repub

woods says he has lingering pain in his left leg. this is the first time woods has missed the u.s. open since 1994 which was held just days after he graduated high school. >>> dirk nowitzki will be 33 later this month. he went into last night's game for the nba finals coughing and wheezing with a fever of over 100. he played three quarters of pretty bad basketball then apparently he turned it on in the fourth quarter, the mavericks forward scored 10 points in the final quarter leading dallas on a 29-9 run. mavs beat the heat 86-83. series now tied at two games apiece. game five tomorrow night in dallas. >>> a lot of nba hopefuls leave college westerly hopes of making millions in the big time but it doesn't work out that way. maryland's jordan williams is trying to avoid that fate. dave owens caught up with him as he auditioned for the wizards. >> reporter: jordan williams was not planning on turning pro. >> i was going to go work out and work hard and come back and play for maryland. >> then things changed. he decided to get an agent and forgo his final two seasons of eligibility.

woods twittered, short term frustration for a long term game.e admitted injuries to achilles tendon and knee have not recovered. this is back in april when he hurt himself during the third round of the masters. he hits from underneath a tree. you can see that that's where he tar tweaked his knee and akill yez. he didn't play for a month. holes-pfvoielf. Ùze then, tal his game. tonight fred funk who will play in the u.s. open talked about why it doesn't necessarily make a difference. >> even if tiger was 100% right now and was the tiger of old, i don't think tiger is as intimidating as he used to be to the other players. just because everybody sees him as beatable now. the quality of golf and the amount of guys that were in contention coming down the stretch at augusta was a sign. you know, tiger made a great run on the front nine, couldn't keep it going on the back. mcelroy faded. all the scenarios and stories were great but all those guys were playing unbelievable golf coming down. they're doing it every week now. you get a tiger woods on the

ok let's talk on tiger woods will stay sidelined for the u.s.open this week as the three time champion continues to struggle with multiple injuries even sikorsky previews the one hundred eleventh edition of the major now which tees off maryland's congressional golf club later today. there hasn't been an outright dominant force in golf since the steady decline of former world number one tiger woods over the past two years several players did get to try on the crown with martin kaymer along those taken a turn as the highest scoring goal for a good number to leave westwood had to separate runs as the world's best for luke donald took over the top spot in me westwards best finish of the us open came in two thousand and eight when he placed third behind woods and rocco mediate the spotlight shining brightest on world number one donald but the englishman is still aware of the potential pitfalls of overconfidence it's dangerous to go in and expect too much and come to a toy expecting to win but i expect to do i know i can do and obviously goal is alway

your neck of the woods.onica. >>> coming up next, for some children, girl scout cookies are a recipe for disaster. they can't eat the sweet treats they sell. we're going to hear about one scout mom's effort to remake america's favorite cookies. >>> plus, a view from space from that spectacular volcano. >>> lots coming up tonight on nbc washington nonstop. at 7:00, it's me and craig melvin for "daily connection." at 9:00, nonstop foodies d.c., we're going to take a trip to citronella. chef michelle richard will be making a special dish. >>> at 9:30, nonstop scene d.c., an animal invasion. a wild time with baby monkeys, baby kangaroos. it all starts at 7: >>> we're getting a new view of chile's vol kacanic eruption fr space. a plume of ash billowing from the andes mountains on saturday. the plume soared more than six miles into the sky darkening neighboring argentina. around 3500 people were evacuated as a precaution. officials say the volcano was spewing molten rock but there was no visible flow of lava. the

. >>> the tough times continue for tiger woods.coleing up next, what he will not be doing for the first time in 17 years and it has a pretty big impact on our area. >>> the dallas mavs look for even things up in the nba finals. we're taking a look at your sports headlines coming up next. ke3q take the finish challenge. i'm robin sue joss and my website is big red kitchen. i do believe in standards. cascade was a disappointment because you have dried on food stains. but when i took the finish challenge i realized, i don't need to settle. i like to make roast beef and it leaves a lot of baked on grease. so i threw it in the dishwasher, i did not pre-rinse. but when i open the dishwasher, everything was very shiny and no more gunk left on my dishes. i used to use cascade now i use finish quantum. take the finish challenge for yourself. if you don't see a difference, it's free. >>> game four of the nba finals between the heat and the mavericks. this one would stay close into the fourth quarter. miami would eventually get a seven-point

open close tiger woods reveals he will miss the second major of the golf year the u.s. open because of injury. and another bite out of the big apple in the battle of baseball's biggest rivals boston make it six wins from seven over new york this. russia will go into the crucial euro two thousand and twelve qualifiers and the salt on on the back of a troll with cameroon the sides feeling to find the nets and souls program choose they would take out the capital guys a relatively inexperienced russian same robert for a seat for this one. well time to experiment just a brief look at the russian lineup route will dig advocates musser plan for the friendly against cameroon simply to give is youngsters just establish themselves and gain national team experience. alexander results of and sport's alex on the ship both made their international debit while russia's brightest star on video shall be in was lift out of the sport meanwhile the chief of the in dumbest of alliance scenario at all let he steam from the very start. however it was the russians were first showed their prett

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the last time tiger woods missed's u.s. open, he graduated from a high school in california. the year was 1994 and that is going to happen again. woods treating that injuries to his left leg will prevent him from playing in next week's open on the same blue course at congressional in bethesda. the last tiger on the course siting was may 12th at the players. because of the 42 on the front line before withdrawing. and left me an achilles injury. the same injuries are forcing him to miss next week's open and that is the first time that he doesn't play in our national championship since '04. since '94. woods has 14 majors, success only to jack nicholass 18. >>> and -- jack nichlas' 18. >>> and declared early for the nba draft and focused on what he called eating smarter. he's lost 19 points and making him become more of a perimeter player. after the workout, he discussed the decision to leave the terms and -- terps and head to the nba. and it was huge, you know, that was like -- and took me, hard for me to get up and if and to wake up one day and there that is a long process of w

. >>> if you were hoping for a tiger woods sighting when the u.s. open comes to town, you're out of luck. he announced via twitter he will not play at the open at congressional next week. this is the shot where tiger actually hurt himself at april during the third round of the masters. he tweaked his achilles tendon. there he made it only nine holes before dropping out of that. woods voiced frustration but admitted his injuries have not healed enough to play. >> finds wade. wade lost the ball. back put. gets it to miller. miller puts it up. air ball. and that's it. the mavericks have evened the series. >> the mavericks played the comeback kids once again in the nba finals. dallas overcame a high fever that plagued dirk nowitski to win over the miami heat. dwyane wade led the heat in scoring with 32 points. the mavs will try to get one more at home thursday before heading back to south beach. >>> a massive solar flair peaked the interest of nasa scientists and now they released a picture of it. you may have heard the thunder. the actual flair extende