another problem you have a wrench that doesn't quite work. we like to leave the wrenches next to the shut off. tie is off with a wire. we will cover it again. when you shut off the gas. if the build's's collapsed good idea to shut it off there are probably pipes broken and you can have a gas leak. if you smell gas, leave the /tkaors open, don't operate electric switches that will cause a spark. don't use your cell phone. use the cell phone outside or a neighbor's phone to call 911. get everyone out of the building, close the gas valve and forget it. don't open it up again. there is probably a leak and you will have troubles wait for pg and e to test it. what's the most important thing in an emergency? everyday, water. somewhere in front of the house you will see these. san francisco water department. how do you get in here? easy. a long screwdriver or pry bar. pull it this way and the whole thing will lift out. even if it's crusty you can get it out. that's what it looks like. that's brass covered water meter. there it is. how would you tell

at my house, i have one of these wrenches i bought at like a garage sale. the scenario begins now. . >> got a victim here, you are medical, you are medical. i need a trimer. get that board off of him. . >> we want to make sure she's alive. yes, she's alive. she is breathing. >> i need a person to operate the lever. the only thing you can't move is what i'm standing on. everything else is free game. >> use this to be the fulcrum. >> u se this to be the fulcrum. >> u se this to be the fulcrum. . >> have the lever person stand here. you medical people stand by. let's bring it up high. bring it up high, bring it up high. secure the fulcrum. levers, put the blocks on the opposite side. a couple other pieces, a little higher. okay, somebody is securing that fulcrum when the weight comes down. let's lower it and see what happens. lower the lever. okay, we bring the victim out. medical people, take care of the victim. . >> i lost a medical person. >> that's your safe place. . >> thanks for coming. we appreciate your being here. we know we are relying so much on you

at my house, i have one of these wrenches i bought at like a garage sale. the scenario begins now. . >> got a victim here, you are

into this -- next year, and there are some things that have thrown a wrench into this. that budget that has been passed is very questionable, and people have been speaking about this up and down the state, and i am sure that our union is well aware of that conversation. we're going to be having a new governor. we had a lame duck a governor who passed this budget. that budget, as soon as january, is, we will see whether it really materializes. what we are going to do, what my recommendation has been to the board as we move forward is that we are going to look at in january how big of a hol.e we will have next year. we do have that money, but the idea is for the following year, that money can be used over two years. that money might be the money that would save this district to keep people from being laid off next year, and that is why right now, until we have more information, we really do not recommend spending that money, but we will be sure to give the board the information. it is easy to spend that money, and then next year -- you remember what we went through last y

. >>> when our broadcast continues in just a moment, women making a wrenching medical decision. to try to save their own lives. >>> and later, a best-selling author goes home to afghanistan to try to find homes for so many displaced by years of war. has changed. >>> we have a story here tonight about a wrenching decision that more women are making regarding their own health. ever since a gene mutation tied to ovarian and breast cancer was discovered, women who have found they have it must consider whether to have their own breasts removed, even with no sign of cancer present. researchers say preventative mastectomy can reduce the chance of developing cancer to less than 1%. our chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman has this report. >> reporter: in august of 2008, 21-year-old claudia gilmore got the call from a genetic counselor that dramatically change her life. >> i could tell by the tone of her voice it wasn't going to be good news. >> reporter: tests showed that she had inherited a genetic mutation call brac-1 believed to affect one in 800 people. the gene and a related pe

. >> it's a gut wrenching look. barry's life totally changed when his wife, at a young age, was diagnosed with alzheimer's. he's written a book. there's a lot of folks dealing with this. it's not just a senior problem. the book's called jan's story. barry peterson will talk about it at 6:45 as the morning it at 6:45 as the morning edition continues i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. buried in his website - a promise to replace the tax code with a 23% sales tax and eliminate the mortgage interest deduction. a bush tax panel said families would pay $6,000 more a year. a reagan tax advisor calls it a very dumb idea. but that's not his only bad idea. harris was the only senator to vote against expanding the child care tax credit and against the state's cancer treatment program. eaks to send jobs over seas. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college. so i worked for a $2,500 tax credit to help pay for college. fought to get pell grants expanded and insisted that college loans go

it has been lifted by the wrench, you see it right there, it looks just like a sewer, that is the shaft that will take the phoenix capsule down into the ground a half mile deep. i want to bring lawrence into the conversation here. maybe we can split the screen, because i want to show how this played out, and this is a sense of how they drilled this, they were up on the surface of course, and they started to drill three shafts down, you'll see the middle one keep going, plan b if you will that had the most success. they cored deep to where the miners were trapped underneath. and this is how it's supposed to unfold this evening. it comes down, once a miner gets in, they establish communication with the top and then the miner gets in and up the shaft it will go. they can do this rather quickly, or they can do it slowly based on the health, the conversations with the miner on the way up to the surface. and this is where they will get immediate medical attention. the distress of these workers under ground, these 69 days, that is a remarkable stretch. but they have been together, they have be

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the second thing is, we've seen the capsule being worked on with hammers, with wrenches, by engineers for some time as well. it could be this could be the first sign of a hurd until what has up to now been a carefully choreographed, organized and successful plan. the rescue itself is likely to begin once the president of chile makes that announcement. he's been closely tied to this rescue operation since it began. he's seen his popularity rise. he's shaking hands with miners haoefpls associated himself with this operation, put a lot of money, a lot of government resources behind it. we talked to up. drillers who worked here, they said money has never been any object. whatever they needed, they . a real favorable response so far. what we are seeing is clearly a delay. we are seeing work on the capsule and a delay. how serious a problem it is? we can't tell at this point. greta, back to you. >> greta: steve, what are the dangers that this team of rescuers face? what are they worried about? >> reporter: i think they are worried about several things. first of all, the capsule path is one

former president bill clinton throws a wrench into florida's three-way race for u.s. senate. >>> smoking gun -- a new report finds disturbing details leading up to the gulf oil disaster. >>> and wake-up call, an australian man narrowly escapes death after a car crashes into his bedroom in the middle of the death after a car crashes into his bedroom in the middle of the nit. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> this is "early today" for friday, october 29th, 2010. >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with down the home stretch. with four days to go until election day, there have been some complications for both parties. for democrats, the florida senate race has take an twist courtesy of former president bill clinton. meanwhile republicans are trying to figure out what impact the tea party will have once the polls open. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. now president bill clinton has been a long-time de

saddy tried to wrench away but he picked frantically at her sleeve and the dark fury the new look that made him shiver that was not her sister came into her eyes. he didn't let go, this is no good don't worry. madison picked andtory the thread until it came loose and the blue fly witch could not tell what he had done. saddy went limp. she stared off toward the poppy mark had planted which stuck like finger bones out of the earth. thank you. >> hi. nice to be here. i came on the 14 mission bus. to spend 6 minutes with you. [laughter]. if there is time left over after my reading i will do knife tricks. [laughter]. short story from my collection, called love. thisi

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. >> it was heart-wrenching to me to feel that that was their only way of dealing with a situation, and that they didn't have any support. >> reporter: now his fellow students know how many people are really there for them. >> they're wearing a purple shirt today, that doesn't mean that if they take off that purple shirt, they're suddenly not a supporter. >> reporter: now, some of the students watched youtube videos today featuring gay and lesbian couples and celebrities delivering the message that while things might seem bad now, it gets better. they say people shouldn't wait for it to get better, they should take action now. traci grant, nbc bay area news. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton posted a message for gay teens on youtube. urging them to find help. >> i have a message for all the young people out there who are being bullied, or who feel alone and find it hard to imagine a better future. first of all, hang in there. and ask for help. your life is so important to your family, your friends, and to your country. >> clinton also says she's grateful for the work of lesbian, ga

on the gas shutoff issue, housing inspectors for years have been requiring the wrench be installed at the main shutoff of any r-2 building, three units and more. and there was always a diagram that was there to show them how to turn the lever. so they've been doing that for years. you know, you could amplify that if you wanted to and stuff. but they've been doing that for years. i just wanted to bring that up as a point. thank you. president murphy: thank you. any further comments?

petit endured wrenching testimony about the way his wife and daughters were tortured and murdered. it was july 23rd, 2007. two men broke into their home in connecticut, beating him with a baseball bat. they tied him unconscious and bleeding to a pole in the basement. they then turned their attention to his wife and daughters. they tied 17-year-old haley and 11-year-old my kayla to their beds. dr. petit's wife, jennifer, was forced to drive to the family bank and withdraw $15,000. a harrowing scene that was caught on surveillance video. the bank manager called 911. >> we have a lady who is in our bank right now who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. the people are in a car outside the bank, she is getting $15,000 to bring out to them. that if the police are told, they will kill her children and the husband. >> reporter: jennifer did as she was told, returning to her captor, stephen hayes, in the family's waiting vehicle, outside the bank. en route home, hayes stopped for gas and yet again surveillance video shows him buying canisters of fuel, fuel that

. >> to see those bees die and the colonies empty, no bees in there, it's -- it is, it is a gut-wrenching >> reporter: in each of the past four years, about one-third of america's two and a half million honeybee colonies has been wiped out. university of montana researcher jerry bromenshank has searched for the killer. >> i feel like a bit of a wimp with this on when you're out uncovered here. >> well, you don't have years of bee stings and immunity. >> reporter: now all those stings have paid off. after screening bees for 30,000 disease markers, a group of scientists led by bromenshank say they have found a probable cause. >> out of the data suddenly emerged a parasite and a virus. and a very unique virus, indeed. >> reporter: the kind of virus they discovered is common in other insects but very rarely seen in bees. the virus seems to kill only when the bees are, also, infected with a parasite, a type of fungus. >> what it looks like is that the bees can tolerate either one alone but, when you combine the two, that tends to be lethal in a hurry. >> reporter: that combination may help bee

well that depends on how handy you are with an allen wrench. erika miller, "nightly business report," conshohocken pennsylvania. >> tom: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: we'll get another look at housing, with the august s&p case shiller home price index. our word on the street is "online." james rogers from thestreet.com will be here with some under- the-radar internet stocks. and as ford reports quarterly results, we'll talk to c.e.o. alan mulally about those numbers, plans for hiring and going global. >> susie: the head of insurance giant a.i.g. has cancer. late today, c.e.o. robert benmosche said he feels fine and plans to continue to work a normal schedule. a.i.g. said he's undergoing aggressive chemotherapy. but it did not disclose what type of cancer he has. the bailed-out insurer credits benmosche with helping stabilize the company. benmosche also re-affirmed his commitment to staying with a.i.g. until it emerges from government control. >> tom: americans are still passing on the paper, but the drop in newspaper circulation is s

it was a heart-wrenching time. my family was ravaged. thousands and thousands died.n one day -- and then one day there was hope. before vaccines, there were few ways to help protect against deadly illnesses. without vaccines, they can re-emerge. get your kids vaccinated and keep them on schedule. i never want my grandchildren to see what i saw. >>> there's something new in doctors' waiting rooms, a light-weight computer that asks some heavy-duty questions. when it comes to issues like sex, drugs, and emotional health, teenage patients like lara are finding it easier to talk to a computer. >> i don't think if a physician would have asked me those questions, i would have been as comfortable answering them as i was with the keypad touch screen. >> reporter: it's called a health e-touch pad, developed by nationwide children's hospital in ohio. lara is part of a group of teens who are testing the new device. each teen is asked to respond to a series of questions on the e-touch. then it's given to the doctor, who can see what kind of help the teen might need. >> so the cli

if you have to displace existing licensees, there are some wrenching decisions that have to be made about how you compensate them and whether they will be in business in a different band. i do not think it is clear at all were members will come down on any of those sorts of issues. but i think there's a real impetus to address that issue. >> you always have to start with the premise that nothing in this policy arena is ever universally supported. the notion of incentive options as a top line as a support in the broadcast committee and has support of the wireless community. but there are a lot of questions. howard raise some of the important ones, very quickly see fishers starting to develop between the parties or among the industry's very quickly. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. >> the issue of privacy, online privacy, has gone a lot of press attention in the last six months or so. how do you see that playing out? >> that is always the wild card. i would reserve that. and every congress, when it has begun, the chairman has said that this is the year that we will pass pri

many of his fellow koalas here at the australian wildlife hospital, where every day, they see the wrenchingassault on this country's signature species. >> we see over 600 koalas each year come into our hospital alone. of which probably only a third make it back out into the wild, so, you know, it's -- it's a fairly dramatic loss. >> reporter: this is the icu. the signs on the cages here in the intentionive care unit are dominated by dig know sis like "dog attack" and something called "hbc." >> what is that? >> hit by car. >> reporter: and that's common? >> yes, very. >> reporter: as australians increasingly build out the sort of suburban sprawl that we have here in the u.s., they are biting directly into the koala's habitat. so, this is an example of what kills koalas right here. >> totally. >> reporter: they're going to cross this road. >> yes, and there's food sources over there, so, they go, i'm going to go and eat other there, crossing. it's just amazing how often they do it and still survive and then one day they get killed. >> reporter: they now have a very vocal advocate in the form