the wright building is 68 feet in height. this is the basement floor plan. of above, it shows parking for 22 cars, a single ramp down to the parking level, as well as some storage areas, things of that nature, and mechanical stations. on the ground floor, we located commercial retail space facing both -- all three streets. 16th street, the plaza, and eighth street, as well as erwin street. we want as many activities as we can on the street level. we hope to have outdoor dining. we hope to have the access cafe return back when the project is completed. this is the upper floors. again, the left is the pdr units. they range in size from 500 square feet to 1000 square feet. each unit will have a small bathroom and a mezzanine floor with 16-foot ceiling heights. the residential side has, on each floor, there is a 3-bedroom unit, two-bedroom unit, and two 1-bedroom units, except for the upper for changes a little bit. in terms of the exterior design for the building, we wanted to provide emphasis at the corner. it is not a traditional 90 degree corner that we're u

the drill involves a special building set up to fall down. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: it's a brand new building constructed for one purpose -- to make it fall apart. >> four, three, two, one. >> reporter: by simulating a massive earthquake. this is what californians fear most. the 1994 northridge earthquake which killed 60 people in southern california. or 1989, loma prieta which caused a portion of the bay bridge to collapse. california has earthquakes every day. every dot on this map is a quake in just the past week. >> but all of these are small. this is a typical, quiet week for california. >> reporter: this five-story tower at uc san diego is built to function like a small hospital.

today there was an experiment designed to save buildings and lives. here's david wright. >>reporter: it's a brand new building constructed for one purpose. to make it fall apart. by simulating massive earthquake today. st this is what californians fear most. 1994 north ridge earthquake that killed 60 people in southern california. 1989 l a portion of the san francisco bay bridge collapsed. california has earthquake every day. every dot on the map is a quake and just past week. >> but all of these are small. this is a typical quiet week for california. >>reporter: this 5 story tower at uc san diego is built to function like a small hospital. inside hundreds of sensors and cameras to record the damage in relevant time. in the event of catastrophic earthquake the concern for hospital isn't just building might collapse. it also still has to function as a hospital. >> we want to make sure that after an earthquake our hostile works because lots of other things won't. >>reporter: today they put it through shaking equivalent to north ridge. 6.7 in magnitude. big one is only a matt

. >> reporter: christopher wright, a real estate developer, lived in the same loft building as e bianca's friend. they met at a party. >> reporter: one night and you knew. >> yeah. yeah. >> she was so lovely and kind of quirky, and i think she brought that playfulness out in chris. >> he was a positive guy before. he was ecstatic after. >> reporter: though it was true, blind, passionate love that drove bianca to give up everything she knew and loved back in london to move here to utah to be with chris. from the moment they first laid eyes on each other, they were married. >> he made me feel very safe. >> reporter: her protector and in curable romantic. >> this is a man who cries all the way through romantic movies. like "the notebook" he cries like a baby from start to finish of that movie. and i'm like, really? are you serious? >> reporter: it didn't take long for bianca to become firmly entrenched in loft living. >> so the lofts were full of incredibly crazy people. >> academics, airline pilots, physicians, documentary filmmaker, olympic speed skater, mortgage broker, socialites. >> don

the drill involves a special building set up to fall down. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: it's a brand new building constructed for one purpose. to make it fall apart. >> four, three, two, one. >> reporter: by simulating a massive earthquake. this is what californians fear most. the 1994 northridge quake which killed 60 people in southern california. or 1989, loma spis prieta which cause caused a portion of the bay bridge to collapse. earthquakes happen every day. >> but all of these are small. this is a typical, quiet week for california. >> reporter: this five-story tower at uc san diego is built to function like a small hospital. inside, hundreds of sensors and cameras to record the damage in realtime. >> in the event of a catastrophic earthquake, the concern for hospitals isn't just that a building might collapse. it also still has to function as a hospital. >> we want to make sure that after an earthquake, our hospitals still work because lots of other things won't. >> reporter: they put it through shaking equivalent to northridge, 6.7 in magnitude. seis

building a fire. >> around christmas time, not the end of april. >> i'm sure julie wright missed it as well.'ll tell us all about it. >> she is winding up already. i can see it coming. >> it was cool yesterday. our daytime highs were only in the 40s to about 50 so today we'll be a little warmer than that. it is step by step this week. >> it is hot in here though. >> wondering what is going on over there, sarah. 50 at reagan national. these are the highs from yesterday. on the cool side. about 20 degrees below normal yesterday. 44 in washington. 37 in gaithersburg. still for the a lot of 30s off to the north and west. 39 in manassas and out at dulles. cool day on tap as our highs will be in the upper 50s to about 60. it will be 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. we are headed in the right direction here if you want the spring weather back in the forecast. some cloud cover moving through at the moment and our area of low pressure that was pressing just to the north yesterday has now pushed up into canada. it starts to lose its influence over the mid-atlantic, our conditions will gradually impro

building. the south bay, we're look at shoreline boulevard the closure between wright avenue before central andentral expressway itself. overnight deadly accident being investigated there. the scene still active and there will be an issue. 101 and shoreline heading over to google and the main campuses there are fine as far as that goes, it's further south on the roadway that is the concerned. the rest of the south bay moves slowly. commutes a little adjustment for 17. just a blip. don't worry, i'll check it out, coming up. >>> it's 5:17 right now. a san jose man who promised investors he was creating the next google faces federal charges. benedict van is accused of collecting $7 million for web-based start-ups he founded. he told investors he was taking the companies public but he was using the cash to keep the companies afloat and shut them down within a year. most of the investors are from sacramento and stockton. >>> almost hard to believe but it's true, apple stock could skyrocket to another record level. this apple stock is definitely going to keep the doctor away, for that and the rest of

build showing up for a traffic tuesday at about this time. but the rain may make it more of a factor. north shoreline was closed at wright avenue overnight and it sounds like a deadly overnight accident was gloing on there. bob redell is at the scene, what's the latest that you have? >> reporter: mountain view police was hoping to have this reopened around 6:00 but it looks like it will be a little bit longer. it's hard to estimate. it could be another half hour. it could be less than that. basically we're here at north shoreline at wright avenue, just off of central expressway if you are using central expressway to commute through mountain view, this will impact your drive in to work this morning. this happened before 9:00 last night when the driver of a black pickup truck accidently hit and killed the pedestrian. don't know the circumstances surrounding the accident, whether the pedestrian was walking alongside the road or trying to cross the street or something else. that person died here on the scene in front of someone's driveway. he was an adult man carrying no identification so one of the challenges this morning f

wright and studs terkel work for the project. we know of the art project that exist on public buildings around the country in the schools and hospitals and other public buildings and this not only connects us with the arch of the early 20th century, but the extent to which the wpa was willing to - people who couldn't build roads and bridges and the like and the artists included jackson pollock and william triet music projects range from a symphony orchestras to dance and entertained hundreds of thousands of people. the fever project is perhaps best known in new york and it employed people well. the project put on circus's. a one performer was a young acrobat whose name was burt lancaster. sidney was a child actor working for the speaker of the the project and so was joseph coffin, an actor. but the best known of the fielder projects was done by orson welles and john houseman he treated the negro theater as one of the future arms here in new york from and wells and housing together collaborated on some interesting projects, the opera, the runway opera but probably the best known thing they did is the so-called voodoo macbeth his wife

wright is standing by. >> good morning. right now, accident activity northbound along i-95 already pulled to the shoulder at the prince william parkway. the lanes are open and traffic volume buildings you work out of woodbridge. nice, ease you drive coming in out of hyattstown headed out towards the scales. you will find yourself at speed continuing out of gaithersburg headed through rockville. the beltway running smoothly between college park and bethesda. here along 395, no problems to report leaving duke street continuing up to the 14th street bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic. >> thank you. >>> new this morning, d.c. police investigate two late night shootings including one that claimed a man's life. that happened on 14th place southeast just before midnight. the victim had been shot in the head. about 10 minutes earlier, another man was shot on 53rd street southeast. he was conscious and breathing when police arrived. >>> we are monitoring metro this morning. the transit agency has pulled nearly 100 bussed off the streets. this after two fires in less than a week. fox 5's melanie alnwicking live at the bus tea proin friendship heights to explain

building over charges medicare is wasting $8 billion a year on a new program that investigators say gives pro vierds bonuse -- providers bonuses for mediocre care. they urged a program be canceled. >> kelly wrighthank you. just in time for our retirement. keep on working. >> coming up, an overly talkative family member puts the treasury secretary tim geithner in a tough spot revealing a secret at the white house. >> caught on camera a suspect's girlfriend. look at them he tries to make it out of a speeding car in hot pursuit. show you what happens next. 13 bhins aftminutes after the h. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually se arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammatio plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. a celebrex is not a narcotic. when it comes to relieving your arthritis pain,

mcpherson, wright and central kansas because the national weather service confirmed that rate now a large and extremely dangerous tornado is on the ground and they are talking about major house building damage likely complete destruction of vehicle as well and kansas really seek shelter medley. go to basement or try to just stay away from window on the lowest level of the home. not safe to be in a car when tornado strikes an area. here's a look at the tornado watches currently stretching from oklahoma up into nebraska and also have a new one issued out until midnight central time for southern parts of iowa and also northwest missouri so large area that we are looking at for the possibility for tornado to touch down and also a number of tornado warnings. all of those in red is what we have tornado on the ground. look at the west of wichita. so mike over there needs to stay alert as well and seek shelter when the warnings do basically move into areas lake wichita because we are expecting them to continue to generally head eastward. here's a look at the risk today. from texas all the way up into southern parts of minnesota and tomorrow risk stretches from largely area as well from wisco

building a lot. the "new york times" article points to edwardo castro wright, who went on to become vice chairman ofd to retire in july. walmart says they're deeply concerned about the allegations, they are conducting an internal investigation and there are two stocks to watch when the market opens at 9:30 eastern time, the mexico city market opens at exactly the same time, 8:30 local time here, only a one-hour difference, watch walmart in the united states and wal-mex which reports here in mexico city. they're going to do a conference call this afternoon. we'll be listening to that for sure. >> thank you, michelle. let's go to scott, who is on set. you know everything about the foreign corrupt practices act. >> this is serious stuff. the payment in question amounts to about two hours of sales. we are talking about serious crimes. the foreign corrupt practices act, with limited exception it makes it illegal for any company, officer, director, agent or stockholder to pay or offer anything of value to any foreign official for the purpose of influencing any act or decision in that official's official c

who have been overseeing the opening of the 1940 census and the building of the web site, especially our cio, mike wash, tom key, pam wright and lisa weber. hillary parkinson and our strategy and communications office who have been helping us spread the word about the 1940 census through social and traditional media, and our partner, archives.com, which has worked with us to build and host the 1940s census web site. when the digital files are finally opened, we'll have the tools to form a more detailed picture of the united states during the great depression and the new deal era. several questions new to the 1940s census ask about migration, employment and education. on the individual scale, many of us will be discovering relatives and older family members that we didn't know we had, picking up on threats of information that we thought -- threads of information that we thought were lost and opening a window into the past that until now has been on secured. but -- obscured. we now have access to a street-level view of the country on the brink of global war. to find those family members, we'll need to do a little work at fir