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Per hour. Winds could gust over 50 miles an hour. Theres a wind advisory until midnight tonight. Future windchills, teens and low 20s for future windchills. Windchills back down to perhaps even the Single Digits across the shenandoah valley. Getting out early on your thanksgiving morning, prepare for windchills in the teens. The wind will relax ha little bit during the day tomorrow. But it will stay chilly with highs in the 30 s. And a light breeze keeps the windchills down to the 30s mark. Yeah...

Which side are you on, boy which side are you on jennifer lets start tonight with one of californias most significant contributions to the world. Blue jeans during the gold rush, bavarian immigrant began making durable cotton pants for miners seeking their fortune in the california hills. That man was levi strauss. Now, 140 years later 450 million pairs of jeans are sold every year in the u. S. Alone. Now, you would think with that volume, the manufacturing process would be totally mechanized bu...

Do with fire escapes in San Francisco. We have tens of thousands of fire escapes in San Francisco. Its sort of like utility wires, until you start looking for them. You dont even see them. Today were going to look at them and for them and talk a little bit about what they are there for and how they should be maintained. What our standards are. So we are right here in front of Building Services office at 1660 mission street. We have one of many buildings served by fire escapes. They are typically...

You dont usually think about them when you look around the city unless you are looking at our fire escape repair people probably see. I hungry man sees nothing but restaurants. This particular building has residential uses and i think an apolistry shop. They would require a 5year certification and they also need their annual maintenance. Their fire escapes use this accordion ladder. Is that what you call it . Occasionally, we see problems where it comes down and theres something obstructing it o...

Creates a gap. Thats why speaker not understood failed dramatically. speaker not understood . Push on the wall again and leans over. This is the technical issue of strained versus unrestrained walls. The fact the wall is leaning over its trying to move away from the soil to unload itself. This is a buttress wall and the buttresses come down in the spaces between each of the garages. An interesting, unusual design, but we see it around the city. Heres another one, gigantic buttress retaining wall...

Comments on washington journal. Today the discussion of European Security and the challenges facing the transatlantic relationship after the crisis in ukraine. Well have that live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. On wednesday, f. B. I. Director told the house judiciary retire committee that the f. B. I. Returned a database of taxpayer information mistakenly received from the i. R. S. He acknowledged that the f. B. I. Had the database for four years but said investigators did not exam it. The f...

Also mixed in, that heckler. We have Team Coverage of president obamas bay area visit. We begin with chase. Reporter you read through the president s itinerary over the last 24 hours, it read like something out of Something Like lifestyles of the rich and famous. Emphasis on rich. This morning beverly hills, then la jolla near san diego then here to los altos before ending up at the fair mont in san jose. It was all about the money. But that trip hasnt gone off without a hitch or two. Not even i...

Also environmental issues. Reporting live in san jose, marian fargo, nbc bay area news. The president is just arriving in los altos where he is attending a round table discussion there. In about 90 minutes, he will ahead to the san Jose Fairmont and traffic do make the evening commute pretty messy. Looks pretty good on 280, thats the route we speexpect him to t. The onramps will be closed as his motorcade travels by. So be aware the president may be traveling 280 around 6 30 tonight. So heads up...

Conditions. Dan . The red flag warning you are referring to was issued for the north bay and east bay hills, but really all over the bay area. We have extremely dry conditions and extremely windy conditions so gusts will get up to around 40 mph and will last through thursday and perhaps even longer than that. You dont have to be at the high elevations to have high fire dangers, and we have highs in the 70s, so its all playing into this, and were coming off the driest year on record. This is a li...

Never grew larger than this but on columbine where crews are mapping the origin. A few miles away, investigators were on their hands and knees. Some fires were set minutes of each other. As firefighters were responding to one, they rolled up on another one that hadnt been reported yet. Reporter it may have been sparked by a number of conditions, the hot, dry weather an or pi or pictures. No one ever arrested for the fires in 2012. Its a worry. This is a very scary situation. Reporter arson inves...