remembers in a photo of mirror lake in mt. hood, part of the mt. hood wilderness within the mt. hood national forest in my home state of oregon. and mt. hood, madam president, is an oregon icon. ahave a and william wyden are twins, pictures vaibl pictures y iphone after this discussion. they ski this and they've already recognized at a very young age that mt. hood is an icon. and wilderness, there and across america, has been called "the gold standard of conservation." keeping areas under the strongest level of protection the law provides ensures that they remain wild for future generations to appreciate and enjoy. and by identifying what places deserve wilderness protection in an open, inclusive fashion, the country ensures full public debate, opportunities to bring people together, to build a consensus, sensitivity to rural traditions and local economic needs, with an end product being wilderness areas that all americans can be proud of. creating wilderness, madam president -- and perhaps now madam president -- creating wilderness is not just important for preservationists, it is also crucial for conservationists, outdoor enthusiasts everywhere, and for all those who make a recreation economy hum: the outfitters and the guides and the lodges and the mom and pop diners, and the fact is that that recreation economy supports hundreds of thousands of jobs -- hundreds of thousands of jobs in rural america and generates billions of dollars of economic activity across our country. that's also where the land and water conservation fund comes in because it helps to secure and maintain public access to the country's public lands and wilderness areas for recreation and enjoyment. now, also celebrating its 50th anniversary this month is the land and water conservation fund. this exceptionally important program is responsible for protecting areas in all 50 states and our territories. and this includes such special places, iconic places as the grand canyon national park, many of our storied civil war battlefields and numerous national wildness refuges. in hig my home state of oregon,e fund has placed the columbia river gorge, carte lake national park, the pacific crest trail, and the oregon dunes. equally important, the land and water conservation fund feeds state critical funds that help create and maintain the local parks, the trails, and the recreational facilities. now, every year the treasury collects billions of dollars of revenue from offshore oil drilling and other sources of energy production. out of that total, the land and water conservation fund is authorized to receive up to $900 million a year. it's, in my view, a balanced approach, it's a simple approach, it's a constructive approach to managing public lands with some of the money the country makes from extracting resources, taking that money and turning it around and reinvesting it in the country's unique open spaces. now, there are tremendous economic benefits to the investment the fund makes. nationwide, 98% of our counties contain land protected by the fund, and in these places, america's outdoor recreation economy generates $646 billion in consumer spending and supports more than six million jobs. few states, mr. president -- few states enjoy the outdoors more than oregonians. it's almost as if, mr. president, the outdoors is a part of our gene pool. we see ourselves as outdoors people, and outdoor recreation accounts for nearly $13 billion in consumer spending in our state, and it supports 141,000 oregon jobs. as i mentioned before, in addition to its federal role, the land and water conservation fund helps the states. it provides matching grants so that state and local governments can use those funds to build new parks that are going to help struggling cities or towns develop. in the alternative, they can maintain natural spaces that are critical to the quality of life in those local communities. but the bottom line is, those investments, mr. president -- federal, state, and local investments -- they lead to job creation. we know that recreation opportunities drive tourism, especially in our counties where there's a significant amount of protected land. those who are recreating, they go to the local restaurants, they go to the local shops, they stay in the hotels, often they look for outfitters and guides. economists note that job growth in rural western counties where there is a significant amount of protected land is four times faster than in areas where you do not have that measure of federal protection. now, these are just some of the many reasons why failing to give the land and water conservation fund the resources it needs, in my view, would be nothing short of legislative mal-pravmen malp. unfortunately, despite the fact that 80% of americans approve of the program's mission, it has been underutilized, underfunded fnlt as a result, job growth and protection needed, needed protection for these treasures is left behind. so, mr. president, i plan to introduce two bills this week that would help to secure the future of the land and water conservation fund. the first bill would provide a one-year extension of the land and water conservation fund and the second bill, mr. president, that i hope to be able to introduce here very shortly would make it permanent, because i believe that dedicated, stable funding will ensure our public lands continue to be preserved and accessible to support those recreationists of the future, the conservationists of the future, and the local economic leaders of the future that will prosper as a result of those investments. in closing, mr. president, i simply want to note that we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act and the land and water conservation fund as millions of families across the country return from summer vacations to the parks and wilderness areas that these great laws have helped to preserve and enrich. and children everywhere are sharing stories in their schools about how they went fishing and hiking and camping in their nation's backyards. if realized to their greatest potential, the wilderness act and the land and water conservation fund are sure-fire ways to help guarantee that the next generation of americans will continue to have access to beautiful recreation areas, captivating historic sites, and pristine wilderness, and strong, robust funding for the land and water conservation fund will help grow economies and create jobs in every state nationwide. now, mr. president, finally, let me note that until recently i had the honor of chairing the energy and natural resources committee, and as chair, i had the opportunity to work particularly with two colleagues that are on the floor now, the distinguished senator from colorado, senator udall, the distinguished senator from new mexico, senator heinrich, and it makes me feel very good that they are here because, as westerners, they see day in and day out that what we're talking about here with respect to the importance of this program and this extraordinary contribution it's made to the country, these two great western leaders with respect to natural resources understand it's not just about the past. it's not just about the wonderful half-century that i've taken the time to note. these are two leaders -- senator udall from colorado and senator heinrich from new mexico -- who i think are going to be part of the leadership, the leadership that works to protect these two great programs for years to come. so is i'm very grateful to have the opportunity to be on the floor with them. i had a chance particularly to see some of the treasures in colorado recently. i can see why senator udall feels so strongly about that. new mexico is one of the few states i have not been, so i hope i'll be able to wangle an invitation to join senator heinrich. but i want to leave the floor knowing that, as we make this commitment to doing all we can to make the protection of our extraordinary outdoor spaces part of the legacy we leave for our children and grandchildren, the case for these two programs and advocating for them is in very good hands with senator udall and senator heinrich. and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. udall: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado is recognized. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. let me just start by thanking the senator from oregon. he's been a true leader here in the senate for many years, and i know the senator from new mexico joins me in thanking you for your leadership and for your partnership. and i rise today, as senator wyden has, to celebrate the public lands in oregon -- he rose to celebrate the public lands in his state, and i rise to celebrate the public lands in colorado. and i want to make the point, right out of the gate, that our public lands support thousands of jobs across colorado, and they strengthen our special way of life. and this month marks the 50th anniversary of the land and water conservation fund and the wilderness act. both of these incredibly successful laws have been instrumental in protecting our public lands for future generations, growing our outdoor recreation economy, and ensuring access to public lands in colorado and all across our country. in sum, what i'm saying, these landmark laws have touched every corner of colorado over the past 50 years. so i'm very pleased in that spirit to join senator wyden and senator sessions today in introducing a resolution honoring the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. from the snowcapped peaks of the eagle wilderness to james peak, which i worked hard to establish, the wilderness act has protected more than 3.6 million acres in colorado alone. these places have inspired generations of coloradans and remind us that we don't inherit the earth from our parents. we borrow it from our children. mr. president, let me turn to the land and water conservation fund. in 1964, some 50 years ago, president lyndon johnson worked with the congress to establish lwcf -- the acronym for the land and water conservation fund. as we develop our oil and gas resources, we will also conserve other special places throughout our country for the next generations. as we mark 50 years of the program, we can tangibly see and feel and breathe its success. in the 3 million acres lwcf has helped us preserve is a part of 40,000 park and recreation development projects across all 50 states as well as over four million acres of public lands managed by the federal government. and in colorado, we've seen firsthand how lwcf dollars have helped protect access to the public lands to define us as a state. mr. president, from my position as chairman of the national parks subcommittee, i've seen how these funds have been particularly useful to our parks. after all, there is no better example than the creation of great sand dunes national park in colorado. this magnificent place was protected by lwcf appropriations that were obtained with very strong local support. great sand dunes national park protects one of our nation's great landmarks. it's also a critical source of tourist dollars for the surrounding rural communities. and this economic boost is something we've seen all across our state and our nation. it's noteworthy that for every dollar coming out of the lwcf fund, we see created four times that much in economic value. $1 equals $4 in economic value. and this investment through the lwcf program is part of the reason we've seen strong growth in america's outdoor recreation industry. when i say outdoor recreation industry, that's activities like hunting, fishing, camping, skiing, biking, you name it. and those activities have generated over $13 billion that support over 14,000 jobs -- 124,000 jobs in california alone. in another vein, mr. president, lwcf resources have helped states like ours become more resilient when it comes to national disasters. i was last weekend in lyons, colorado, one of the town's hardest hit by colorado's historic 2013 floods. this picture is an exeasm of what we -- example of what we faced a year ago. trout unlimited shared a story of how lwcf funds were used to help recover from a similar flood in the big thompson canyon 30 years ago. back in 1976, local officials had the foresight to make an lwcf purchase of 80 flooded properties and to replace the damaged homes with new parkland which then provided fishing access to the community in critical floodplain protection. why do i bray -- bring that up now? that development in 1976 helped families who lost their homes then and avoided an estimated $16 million in property damages in 2013 that would have happened without those preservation efforts. the big thompson canyon flooded in a similar fashion last year as it did in 1976, but because of the lwcf phones and the fact that -- lwcf moneys and the fact 80,000 properties were purchased, we saw the result. it was a way to rebuild smarter and better in 1976. and we're going to do that going forward from 2013's flood. as a part of that, i was really excited and plead to hear the town alliance received lwcf funding to repair and rebuild the spectacular saint grain river corridor trail. before that trail was destroyed last fall in the flood, it had been used as a regional connecter for anglers, mountain bikers and many others. and this project will now help restore a vital economic asset for that community, and it will ensure access to the river and the river corridor for many generations to come. that's a success story, pure and simple. mr. president, lwcf has helped in many other less obvious ways. as we fight to get our kids and ourselves to spend less time in front of the television, outdoor recreation is still the best way to stay physically fit and active and emotionally healthy. this past july i rafted the browns canyon wilderness study area of the arkansas river. as you can see here, what a spectacular place. what a unique place browns canyon is. i proposed to preserve it permanently as the browns canyon national monument and wilderness. along that rafght trip we had a group of veterans and several are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder or ptsd and told me how they use their time outdoors as a part of their healing. again a success story. how do we keep lwcf strong? even though lwcf has been successful by any measure while enjoying strong bipartisan support, the program's only been fully funded two times since its enacting law in 1964 promised $900 million in annual funding. that's right, only two times out of the last 50 years. lwcf is a victim of the uncertainty of the annual appropriations cycle which leaves a huge unmet need in colorado and across our country. and that's why i've been fighting, joined by many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for full permanent funding of the land and water conservation fund. and i'm very pleased to be working with senator wyden, senator heinrich and others on a fix that will fulfill the lwcf promise. this is a promise to our kids, our grandkids and all generations down the line. and we have an obligation to keep it. the good news is, mr. president, this potential fix would also reauthorize and fund two other programs that are critical to our rural communities. the payment in lieu of taxes program, which is also known as pilt, and secure rural schools. let me talk briefly about both of those programs. for decades the pilt program has provided critical funding to nearly 1,900 rural counties to make up for diminished tax revenues stemming from federal landownership within those county boundaries. pilt helps ensure rural communities have access to basic services such as law enforcement, education, and health services. let me share an example. ureek county in southwest iran iran -- southwestern colorado is still recovering. the county has already cut staff time significantly by reducing county operations to only four days a week. without pilt, that would drop to just three days a week. pilt also ensures that the county can hire a sheriff and students can get to school. unfortunately permanent funding for this program expired and pilt now experiences the uncertainty of short-term fixes, creating significant planning challenges for colorado and rural americans. i was proud to lead the effort last year to extend pilt funding through the farm bill which delivered $34.5 million to colorado communities. but here in the congress, we've got to do more. we've got to confront this annual uncertainty over the future of the pilt program. that's why i've championed a separate bill that will permanently fund pilt. this is also a bipartisan effort. and that's why i've worked with senator wyden to include such certainty in this comprehensive bill today. i mentioned the secure rural schools program, and the same could be said of it. rural colorado communities rely on the secure rural schools program to hire teachers and strengthen our education system. in 2013 alone, colorado communities were one teacher could make or break a school received $9.5 million through this vital program. so this important bill for our secure rural schools would ensure that the federal government keeps its commitment to our rural counties to help offset the cost of public education, roads, and other essential services. so we have a dynamic trio of very important programs. lwcf, pilt, and secure rural schools. they help support colorado's rural communities and our special way of life. mr. president, let me conclude with this theme. we are a nation of risk takers and explorers. we've already been searching for the next challenge to overcome or the next mountain to climb. and our public lands are a reminder of that heritage. and finding the right balance for how to use our public lands is the next challenge to overcome. as we tackle problems like growing our economy, disaster response and taking care of our wounded warriors, let's not forget the important role of our public lands and the opportunities they provide for outdoor recreation, our economy and our health. this year let's reflect on what president kennedy called intelligent use of natural resources. let's celebrate 50 years of the land and water conservation fund with bipartisan action for full and permanent funding for lwcf, pilt and secure rural schools. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico is recognized. mr. heinrich: let me start out by righting a wrong. i hadn't realized chairman wyden, our colleague from oregon, had not had a chance to visit the great state of new mexico. and i will fix that right now and make sure that he is not only invited but that we might seek to show him some of the incredible places that the two programs that we're talking about today have helped preserve and protect and make as assets to our local economy in the state of new mexico. as you heard from my colleague, senator udall, and our colleague, chairman wyden of oregon as well, this month we celebrate two really incredible milestones in our country's conservation history. we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act and the 50th anniversary of the land and water conservation fund. and both of these programs have been etched into the history of my home state by new mexico conservationists, with names like aldo leopold, senator clinton p. anderson and secretary of interior stuart udall. when senator anderson steered the passage of the wilderness act here on the floor of the u.s. senate, he said on august 20 of 1964, he said -- quote -- "in no area has this congress more decisively served the future well-being of the nation than in passing legislation to conserve natural resources and to provide the means by which our people could enjoy them. while we stretch out the highways, he said, to carry ever expanding traffic, while we build whole new communities to house a growing population, and while we consume more acreage for a burgeoning industry, we have set aside part of our land as it was when human eye first saw it, unscarred by man, primeval, a memorial to the creator who molded it." unquote. senator anderson was also unquestionably one of the principal architects of the land and water conservation fund. and that 88th congress where so much of this work was done was coined as the conservation congress. lwcf is the primary tool our nation uses to fund the protection of our natural and cultural heritage, and i have worked diligently with my colleagues, including senator udall, his cousin, senator udall of new mexico, senator wyden of oregon and others to secure full and permanent funding for this program. but even 40 years before the enactment of the wilderness act or lwcf, conservationist aldo leopold had the vision to help protect half a million acres of mountains, rivers and mesas in new mexico. in order to ensure roadless and back-country experience free of what leopold called floor dust for those hearty enough to hike into this wild country. with the passage of the wilderness act, it became the national forest system's very first designated wilderness area. new mexico is also where the idea of tribally administered wilderness became a reality when the blue lake was returned to at taos pueblo. jeff bingaman's leadership was invaluable for conserving public lands in new mexico such as the rio grande delnorto, designated national monuments within the last two years. with the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act and the land and water conservation fund is not just about the past as we heard from my colleagues. the future of public lands conservation will depend on continued collaborative efforts of our elected officials, our business owners, tribal leaders, sportsmen, conservation organizations, outdoor retailers and others who worked together to protect america's most treasured natural landscapes. in our effort to continue our proud bipartisan history, after all, it was representative john sailor, a republican from pennsylvania, who was the lead sponsor and champion in the house of representatives for the wilderness act. and it was former republican senator pete domenici of my home state who championed legislation to designate the sandia wilderness, a place i look at every time i go home to albuquerque who said at the time that the area -- quote -- "forms a beautiful natural backdrop for the city which all the residents can enjoy." in new mexico, hunters and campers, chili farmers and urban dwellers all have a deep connection to the outdoors and benefit from the recreation, wildlife and the water that wilderness provides. many of my own most formative moments, decisions, memories and turning points have occurred in these public wildlands. i remember a trip with my wife julie to the irish wilderness in missouri, a trip that we made as we were leaving our college days behind there in the midwest and heading back west to new mexico to start our new life together. and in 2001, shortly after 9/11, i backpacked through 53 miles of the hilo wilderness and decided on that trip to run for a seat on the albuquerque city council. i have many cherished memories from the trips my wife and i have made over the years, from the trips along the rockies, the titans, in places with names like jedediah smith and names like dark canyon, desolation canyon, gray, grand gulch, the goose necks, the san juan and of course the chalmer river canyon near my home. wilderness is in my blood, and i make no apologies for believing that some places are so very special, mr. president, that we will never improve upon them. these are the places worth fighting for. i am committed to carry on my state's rich conservation history, and in fact senator tom udall and i have introduced legislation to designate special places like the columbine honda in taos county, the san antonio river and ute mountain in del norte national monument as new wilderness areas. and it's clear that conservation and growing our economy are inextricably linked. protected wild places contribute to the new mexico economy in a robust and sustainable outdoor recreation community which generate $6.1 billion in consumer spending every year in the state, gives us 68,000 new mexico jobs and $1.7 billion in wages and salaries, according to the outdoor industry association. the new rio grande del norte national monument in northern new mexico has already yielded economic benefits since its designation. after less than one year since it was designated a national monument, the local community saw a 40% increase in visitors. as we look back on the last 50 years of the wilderness act and the land and water conservation fund both became law, let us also look to the future. my children love wild places as much as i do. my son carter will be backpack hunting for elk with me later this fall. my son micah will join me on b.l.m. land to chase mule deer. they have fished in the wilderness. it's up to all of us to ensure that their children have the same opportunities that we had and that we have shared with their generation. i'll close, mr. president, with a quote from aldo leopold's book. he said -- "when we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland is recognized. mr. cardin: i ask unanimous consent the floor privileges be granted to major david james wilson, a u.s. air force officer who is currently serving as a legislative defense fellow in my office for the duration of today's session of the senate. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. cardin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that i be recognized for up to seven minutes followed by senator cornyn for up to ten minutes and senator blumenthal for up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? so ordered. mr. cardin: mr. president, i take this time to talk about the president's strategy on combating the threat of isil or isis. i applaud the president's recognition that isil is a barbaric terrorist group. it beheaded americans. it murders, kidnaps, tortures civilian populations. it sells women into slavery. it has a stated purpose of attacking america and its allies. it poses a threat and it is -- the president is right to say that it calls on appropriate action by the international community. i support and congratulate the president on the selected military strikes that have been done with the request of the iraqi government against isil's advancements which has held them back and enabled them to regain territory that was held by isil, protecting civilian populations. i strongly support the president's commitment that there will be no combat ground troops interjected into this combat. and i think the president has done a good job in engaging the international community to work with us so that this is truly an international effort. but let me just comment for a moment if i might about military action and that it needs to be restricted. i oppose authorizing military use of force that is open-ended that could result in the use of ground troops or where we could be asked to have our military do what the countries where these terrorists groups are located should be doing with their own military. in iraq, it should be the iraqi security forces that take on the ground responsibilities. and let me just remind my colleagues when we went into iraq and it was done without my support, i voted against the authorization to go into iraq, we were told that that was going to be a short campaign, that the might of the military of the united states would make that a very quick operation. as we see years later, it took a long time and was still in iraq. it must be done with the help of the international community, particularly the countries that are in the region. i think we have a strong responsibility as members of the senate and members of congress to revisit the 2001 authorization that was passed by congress shortly after the attack on our country on september 11 and the 2002 authorization that was used for americans going into iraq. i don't think either one of those resolutions are relevant for additional military action today in either syria or iraq. and let me, mr. president, just read into the record the appropriate language that was included in the 2001 authorization. that the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attack that occurred on september 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons. it's a real stretch to say that that authority applies to actions against isil today. therefore, i think it's incumbent, i think we have a constitutional responsibility to act, and i think we must act and make it very clear that there will be no ground combat troops authorized in any action taken by congress. in regards to iraq, the iraq resolution was passed at a time where the information supply to congress was just not accurate. it's certainly not relevant to a fact that now there is an independent iraqi government. that authorization also needs to be revisited. and let me just remind you if this administration can use the authority of 2001 and 2002 for using aircraft and military operations by air, what is to say that the next administration -- because we know this is going to take a long time -- couldn't use that authorization for introducing ground troops in these countries? so i think it's important that we revisit these authorizations, eliminate the previous authorizations and make it relevant to the current need. in iraq, it's got to be limited to strategic air missions requested by the iraqi government, targeted at protecting civilian populations. in regards to syria, i have serious doubt about authorizing military operation. i think we need to have further clarification from the administration as to the clear objectives that they are accomplishing in syria and we have to be very careful about the authorization of the use of our military in a country where we are not invited. now, let me just talk one minute about timing. the president has article 2 powers. i don't deny that. if something were to happen, he has the right to defend our country and use our military to defend our country. as you know, he can do that for a period of 60 days. it so happens that 60 days from now, we will be soon to be returning for a lame duck session of congress. so i don't think there is any immediate rush for us to try to get an authorization bill done, but i think we should be working on an authorization bill so that we can take it up when congress reconvenes. if something happens in the interim, we are certainly available and should come back in and be ready to act. america is always stronger when congress and the administration work together on these issues, and i would hope that we could come together with the appropriate authorization that makes it clear that we will not allow authorization for combat ground troops and that we are very restricted on the use of our air power. let me lastly comment about the continuing resolution that we will be voting on tomorrow, as i understand it, that gives article ten power for the arming and equipping the syrian opposition. there is clear in that authorization that there is no authorization for use of u.s. military force. it is consistent with the action taken by the senate foreign relations committee that i serve on and the resolution that i supported that talked about arming and training the vetted syrian opposition. we did that over a year ago. it was for a different mission. it was for dealing with assad. this in a way is comparable to dealing with isil but it also deals with the capacities against assad. it's limited to expire on december 11, and i think it is consistent with our mission to deal with our policies in syria. as i said earlier, i voted against the iraq authorization in 2002. i see that you have got to be very careful that we do not allow authorization to exist that could be used for a long and costly involvement of the united states. it's also clear to me that we cannot win the campaign against isil by military action alone. we have to have diplomatic support. we have to deal with cutting off their financial aid. we have to deal with cutting off their political support. in iraq, we have a representative government, the seeds have been planted. that's what we need to do. that cuts off the type of support that isil will need for long-term survival. the international community needs to stay resolved and the united states needs to stay in the leadership. with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from texas is recognized. mr. cornyn: mr. president, more than a decade since i first came to this chamber, the united states senate, it has become unrecognizable. what had traditionally been a forum for thoughtful debate, amendments and discussion based frequently on different perspectives that we come to based on our experience or the parts of the country we represent. unfortunately, this chamber has devolved into one where not much gets done and when there are folks, they are frequently showboats with the election clearly in mind. so -- they are frequently show votes with the election clearly in mind. so look closely at our september agenda. amid high unemployment, stagnant wages, widespread frustration over the consequences of obamacare and genuine humanitarian and security crises abroad and here at home, our colleagues who control the agenda in the chamber decided the most urgent order of business was to amend the bill of rights to the united states constitution and gut the first amendment. well, as i have said at the time, when i went home during the august he recess to talk to my -- august recess to talk to my constituents, not a one of them said i want you to go back to congress and i want you to gut the first amendment guarantee of freedom of speech. this is clearly not at the top of the american people's agenda. so despite all the challenges facing our country, the majority leader who controls the agenda on the senate floor continues to prioritize election year votes, show boats, overseers legislating. back in march when our democratic friends decided to promote their so-called fair shot agenda, "the new york times" noted that the exercise was completely political in nature. as "the new york times" hardly hostile to our democratic friends and their policy agenda, but as the "times" put it -- quote -- "democrats concede that making new laws is really not the point." rather, they are trying to force republicans to vote against them." close quote. so meanwhile, the majority leader has prevented millions and millions of americans from having a real voice in this chamber. since he became the majority leader, he's blocked legislation more than twice as often as the majority majority leader bill frist, tom daschle, trent lott, bob dole and george mitchell did -- or i should add robert byrd, more than all of them did combined. but he hasn't just blocked republican amendments, not just those in the minority. he's blocked amendments from the majority party, his own party. since july of last year, we have had roll call votes on only 14 republican amendments and only eight democrat amendments. i have to tell you, if my party was in the majority and we ended up getting less votes than the party in the minority, i'd be pretty hot about it and i'd have some explaining to do to my constituents. indeed, the majority leader has allowed so few amendments that one of his fellow senate democrats, the junior senator from connecticut, recently told "politico" he said, i got more substance on the floor of the house of representatives in the minority than i have as a member of the senate majority. our colleagues in the house have sent over scores and scores of bills relating to job creation, taxes, health care, immigration and other issues only to have senator reid declare them dead on arrival. no wonder congress has a 14% approval rating. when people see the dysfunction here primarily in the united states senate since the house is passing legislation but it dies here because the majority leader refuses to take it up, it's understandable what they are frustrated -- that they are frustrated as we are frustrated. and i know it's not just those of us in the minority. many of our democratic colleagues privately express their own frustration at the senate becoming so dysfunctional. but if the majority leader was serious about solving the problems that confront our country, they wouldn't need to look far beyond positive pro-growth ideas to address our nation's most pressing challenges. they would see that senate republicans have joined our house colleagues in offering a bevy of thoughtful proposals. first and foremost, we've long stressed the need to pass pro-growth, fiscally responsible budget. you know, the united states senate under democratic control hasn't passed a budget since 2009. that's malpractice. we should leave the next generation more economic opportunity, not more debt. and somebody's going to have to pay that money back. maybe these young folks sitting in the row -- upfront row here, the pages, unfortunately they and their children are going to have to end up paying the money back. americans and small businesses across the country budget responsibly every month and so should their government. in addition, we pushed since i believe pro-growth energy policies that are responsible for -- that enjoy bipartisan support, like approving the keystone x.l. pipeline and boosting u.s. exports of liquified natural gas. we need energy policies that enhance our energy security, reduce prices and encourage investment and jobs right here at home. we also need a regulatory system that fosters economic growth and prosperity not one that furthers washington's overreach. republicans believe we must continue aggressive oversight of the obama administration's out-of-control regulatory agenda which is hurting hardworking americans and their wages while empowering federal bureaucrats. senate republicans also believe that the president's health care law was absolutely the wrong way to extend affordable, accessible, quality health care to more americans. we believe that families and patients should be free to purchase whatever kind of insurance they prefer without having to worry about the government meddling. we believe that future reforms should guarantee that health care decisions will be made by patients and their doctors, not by washington. we believe that those reforms should make quality health insurance and quality care more accessible for more people. here is the greatest irony of obamacare, is that instead of making health care more affordable, it made it more expensive; thus, limiting access to care. on tax reform, we believe that our overriding goal should be to lower -- lower tax rates for all taxpayers, broaden the base and simplify the entire system in order to restore america's global competitiveness. we also favor ending to too-big-to-fail, thereby ending the explicit government backstop and subsidy currently enjoyed by some of the america's largest banks. there are a number of ways to achieve that goal but we all agree that dodd frank did not solve that -- dodd-frank did not solve that problem. immigration continues to be among the most pressing issues we face, especially given this year's record surge of children unaccompanied coming from central america pouring across our southwest border. we understand that one of america's top priorities is to make sure that our laws are being enforced and our border is secure. we share that priority and we will keep advocating the necessary reforms along with other reforms to fix our broken immigration system. so as you can see, mr. preside mr. president, we believe that there are a lot of good ideas and they are not the purview of either political party. in fact, we've been sent here by our constituents to work in a bipartisan way to try to solve some of america's most pressing challenges. and we view our intellectual diversity as a sign of strength. but we remain united on the core principles and ideas that define our party. we've had an experiment in big government over the last six years, and you know what? it hasn't worked it very well. unemployment rates remain high. the labor participation rate's at a 30-year low. and people have simply given up. the economy should be bounding back rather than knocking along the bottom. so we remain committed to sack ling our nation's biggest -- tackling our nation's biggest problems and promoting prosperity for all americans. and we do that with growing the economy and creating jobs and letting people work hard, as they always have in america, and pursue their dreams. but proposals like the ones i've mentioned, many of which enjoy bipartisan support -- certainly they have in the house of representatives -- have never seen the light of day here as long as the majority leader continues to operate this chamber like an incumbent protection program. the american people sent us here to take tough votes and solve problems. indeed, i don't know why anyone would want to be a united states senator if we're not allowed to vote and to solve problems. and the american people certainly deserve a senate that operates that way. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. blumenthal: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from connecticut is recognized. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. in these past weeks, the nation has been shocked and horrified by a video showing ray rice, a professional football player, punching and knocking out his then-fiancee, now wife, jamay rice, and then dragging her like a sack of potatoes out of an elevator as it almost closed on her. the nation was shocked by the callous indifference and disregard for the issue of domestic violence not only by ray rice but by the nfl itself which has fumbled and failed in its reaction from the very beginning. and, indeed, i wrote to the nfl asking for stronger measures after it suspended ray rice for a mere two games. it now received the now infamous and notorious video and he was suspended indefinitely. but ray rice is only one of 85 players since the year 2000 who have been charged or cited for domestic violence and many, many more were arrested for sexual assault, drunk violence and other crimes. this poster shows how an entire lineup with active nfl players who have been arrested for domestic violence could be fielded. some of them may have retired but most are active. and there are others not shown here. ray rice is on the field even though he may be suspended indefinitely and has appealed it. these incidents and literally thousands of others are the ugly, brutal, bloody face of domestic violence in this nation. it is not only bigger and broader, more painful and serious than ray and janay rice but it affects our entire society. its victims are throughout the country and what they need most desperately is more services to bolster their courage and strength to come forward and break the cycle. i know about domestic violence as an issue in connecticut because i worked to fight child abuse and neglect and related kinds of domestic violence when i served as attorney general. i worked in courts but also in schools to speak to young men and women. and i worked with shelters like interval house, the largest shelter in connecticut, helping to form and found an organization called men against domestic violence, men make a difference, composed of men as role models. coaches, former athletes, successful business people, law enforcement types, broadcasters who would provide role models and take a stand and speak out against this scourge. i know the brutal and terrible toll taken by domestic violence in connecticut and in this country. the economic consequences run into the billions. and the seering pain, savage emotional harm and physical wounds are incalculable. tentacles of domestic violence reach into every aspect of american life -- homes, work places, hospitals and athletic fields. in connecticut, the demand for victims services has steadily increased over the years, and in connecticut and around the country, the need for services has spiked as a result of that ray rice video because more women and men have gained the courage and strength to come forward as a result of the national conversation that that video has spurred. as i've continued my work in congress as a member of the senate, i've been deeply troubled, in fact outraged on occasion, that we've authorized what is merely a pittance that is necessary to deal with this problem and support those services that are so vital to providing counseling, support, advocacy. just in the past couple of days, i've learned that 30% of calls to the national domestic violence hotline go unanswered. congress bears a share, a major part of the responsibility. there are heroes in this fight against domestic violence. some of the advocates and service providers. people like karen jarma, who is c.e.o. of the connecticut coalition against domestic violence, and kim gandy, who's president and c.e.o. of the national network to end domestic violence. and most important, the survivors and victims who have come forward who are telling their stories, who are speaking truth to the power and brutality that they faced and confronted and conquered. in fact, one of the challenges in this issue has always been the secrecy that surrounds it. the video of ray rice assaulting and knocking out his wife is an exception, the exception that proves the rule. it's the exception because most instances of domestic violence occur behind closed doors, in secrecy, often at night and they go unreported. because in most instances of domestic violence, women are disbelieved, embarrassed, shamed and stigmatized when they come forward. and so the ray rice video is the exception that proves the rule. it's the exception of this brutality being shown. but it is the rule that the response almost always is slow and inadequate for months and even after ray rice was indict indicted, third-degree assault, janay virtually apologized for her role in a stage-managed press conference orchestrated by the team, the ravens, for whom ray rice played. only after the second video was circulated did the league even approach real action and the prosecutor in this instance said that he would not treat ray rice more leniently or harshly simply because of his celebrity. which is understandable. the routine in most courts in america today is failure to treat domestic violence as seriously and severely as the crime it is and provide the punishment it deserves. the ray rice case was routine, and it was done routinely, but that doesn't make it right. and so the courts bear a measure of responsibility, along with the congress. the nfl is not alone here. but the nfl has a special position of trust. it is one of the most massively influential organizations in america, it employs players who have massive impact on the attitudes and feelings of young men and women, in fact, americans of all ages. it is a culture creator, a former of our attitudes and our view. so the nfl has a position of public trust because of its prominence and power, but it also has a position of public trust because of the special benefits that it is accorded under the law and it is like the nba, the mlb, the nhl, all which receive tremendous assistance in putting their brands and messages before the american people and so it is our responsibility to call on these ligues to en-- leagues to ensure that their messages, that they can spread so widely because of the benefits they are according accorded under our law, and require them to keep faith with their public trust and public obligation. the public assistance these leagues receive takes a number of very exceptional forms. tax benefits, public subsidies and local assistance, but chief among them is the antitrust exemption enjoyed by the four major sports leagues. although large corporations and similar organizations that have the potential to come nature a particular marketplace are generally prevented from coordinating their activities under our antitrust laws, congress permits this kind of coordination by professional sports teams, particularly in the area of pooling their broadcast rights and television contracts, the very means that enable them to spread their message and create that public image. teams in smaller market -- smaller media markets are able to remain competitive with their larger counterparts because of those benefits, and the fact that the governing can evenly distribute resources, again through combinations that would violate practices that are sanctioned under the law for any other corporation. this exemption was the product of significant debate and analysis in congress, around the country when it was granted. it was first established in 1961, and the judiciary committee noted even then that it was not intended to be absolute, and that it was not to be used for unfair competition, and that there was a public trust and obligation. in 1976, the house of representatives convened what it called -- quote -- "a select committee on professional sports" which prepared detailed reports on -- quote --"the large number of off-the-field problems that affected all four of the professional sports, including both violence that involves participants in the sports as well as violence involving spectators in the sports." we know that the problems no these leagues include not only domestic violence but also the failure to address injuries like concussions, drug abuse, other problems that have been reported. if anything, in the more than 50 years since the exception was first granted, the prominence of the four professional sporting leagues in the american media landscape has only increased. the leagues have a tremendous effect. again, reaching into every aspect of american life on programming, pricing, advertising and more. a lot has changed over the past 50 years, not least our understanding the harms domestic violence can occur, the importance of workplace policies that protect women, minorities, and other vulnerable members of society, and yet the nfl's response to the ray rice incident came right out of the 1950's. out of an episode of "madmen." our laws and our practices and our culture must change. most leagues and most athletes and most managers and most teams play by the rules on and off the field, but, unfortunately, news of these deep-seated problems is not new. this special status can no longer be a blank check. it can no longer be granted permanently. it must be reviewable, and the teams and the league held accountable. the era of the blank check for sports teams must end, the special benefits must be dependent on the leagues' fulfilling their positions of trust and special responsibility. i have proposed legislation to sunset the league's special treatment, ending the antitrust exemption and making it renewable every five years. the exemption should depend on the leagues acting consistently with their public trust and complying with ethical and legal standards that protect and oversee players and keep the teams accountable to their fans. their fans deserve better. to ensure that congress has accurate information, hijacks will -- my legislation will establish a commission like many that have existed in the past to monitor the league's record of corporate citizenship, it would include representatives with special knowledge of issues that have been proven to be a problem for the leagues such as the heads of the department of justice office of violence against women, the federal communication commission and the surgeon general. and the commission would be responsible for submitting a report to congress in advance of the vote to reauthorize and renew the antitrust exemption rather than making it blanket and permanent. and other groups would have an opportunity to be heard and to submit their views, and there would be hearings, meetings, and other exchanges that would give all an opportunity to be heard on this vital topic and i hope that the congress will have hearings right away or as soon as possible on this issue. i believe that's that the professional ports lesion and in particular the nfl have an responsibility to train people, more than check the box orientation sessions and most important to punish acts of abuse and promote awareness of this terrible crime and to act in accordance with due process, establish rules that treat more stringently and strictly this crime of domestic violence, even though it may be prosecuted in the courts and they can act administratively with due process in accordance with standards that give the players the right and opportunity to be heard. but maybe more than important than all, these leagues should be accountable to help the survivors and victims, to are provide funds out of the tens of billions in their profits to support these services that are more necessary than ever. they should support the survivors, most of them women, who come forward, and have the incredible courage and bravery and strength to break with a situation of domestic violence. it is at that point of maximum danger, and turmoil in their lives, that they most need to reach someone and have someone reach them to provide the counseling and advocacy that they need and deserve at that moment of turmoil and pain. congress, the courts, all of us have a responsibility to do more and to do better and to demand of profession a sports leagues that they do more and do better. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. lee: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president, at some point today or tomorrow the senate will hastily consider and likely pass a massive hodgepodge spending bill to fund every last department and program within our federal government. even those programs and those departments that we know don't work. even those programs and those departments where we know that there's a lot of abuse and misuse of sacred federal funds. the alternative, if you can call it even an alternative at all, and the only alternative, is to deny funding for every last department and every last program within the federal government, even those programs and those departments that we know are absolutely essential. all or nothing. those are our only options, the only options we're given. we have no other choice made available to us. this is government on autopilot or alternatively, government without an engine. the problem, mr. president, is that by funding the federal government through a massive patchwork spending bill, we force the american people to choose between two equally bad, two equally unacceptable options. pay for everything in government or pay for nothing at all. either fund the entire federal government tomorrow at exactly the same level that we're funding it today, or fund nothing within the federal government, not even to pay our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, our marines, our judges or not even to provide care for our veterans or support for the most vulnerable among us. this kind of all-or-nothing proposition is dysfunctional. it's antidemocratic. and it prevents congress from doing its job, which i remind my colleagues, is to represent the american people and to be faithful stewards of their money, of the taxpayer money with which they have entrusted their congress. during the move august i held a long series of town meetings across the great state of utah. whether i was in cash county in the north end of the state or in washington county in the opposite direction or somewhere in between, the people of utah, democrats and republicans alike, were clear about what they wanted. they were clear about the fact that they were demanding action. they wanted action in washington. their concerns weren't always the same, some worried most about public lands, others were anxious about the economy and many, of course, were troubled by the growing crisis along our southern border. but they were all looking for answers. they were all looking for solutions from someone. everywhere i went they asked me what are you going to do? what are you going to do to get our economy back on track? what are you going to do to deal with many of the problems within our federal government that seem to go unaddressed for far too long? and i would tell them as a matter of law, and by operation of our constitution, members of congress have certain tools to address all of these concerns, but none of these powers is greater than the power of the purse. this is the power to allocate money, to fund the government, to fund its operations. it's what enables congress and only congress to reform dysfunctional government. impassioned within -- encompassed within the power to give money is the power necessarily to withhold money. in this case the power of the purse is the most potent and the most effective instrument congress can use to hold the executive branch accountable. so when the administration fails to follow the law, as our current administration has done so freely and so frequently, congress can demand answers and accountability by using the power of the purse as leverage. as several of these town hall conversations continued, in the course of those town hall conversations i began to notice at this point in my answer, many people began to look hopeful, hoping that perhaps something could actually get done in washington, hoping that perhaps some of the problems within our federal government could be corrected, could be reined in, could be turned around and set on a better course. but then i'd have to break the bad news and here's the bad news -- i'd have to tell them that all those things that their representatives should be able to do and have an obligation to do, like, for example, fixing broken government programs, ensuring the solvency of social security, medicare and medicaid, and impeding lawless actions by the executive branch, simply cannot get done because the democratic leadership in the senate insists that our federal government operate on autopilot. this is the pr problem with the tipping resolution whvment congress has only one opportunity to exercise its powers of the purse by voting for or against an all-or-nothing spending package -- an all-inclusive, all-or-nothing spending bill -- congress has essentially no opportunity to exercise its power of the purse, at least not in a meaningful way, at least not in a way that enables congress to dough manned accountability from -- demand accountability from government. in the continuing resolution we'll consider tomorrow, there are several provisions that zev their own consideration and debate, such as reauthorizing the import export bank, extending the internet tax freedom act, and authorizing military action in syria. none of these measures and certainly not something that could put american lives at risk, should be hurried through on an all-or-nothing vote. this is why the c.r. matters for everyone in this country. it is the principle reason our government is so dysfunctional and so unaccountable. a government on autopilot leaves congress effectively perillized, powerless to implement meaningful government reforms and powerless to hold the president and the president's administration accountable for their actions. this, mr. president, is not -- it is not how government is supposed to operate. this, mr. president, is not how this government is ever supposed to be allowed to operate. it doesn't have to be this way. there is a better way. indeed, as you can see in this chart, until just a few years ago, the better way was the only way. the house, as you can see here, has done this and is still doing it today. so let me explain what this demonstrates right here. free-standing appropriations bills that were passed by the congress for fiscal year 2006, we had 11 -- 11 separate individualized free-standing appropriations bills. we had 11. now to put that in context, that's more free-standing, independent appropriations bills than congress has enacted in all of the fiscal years ever since then, just in one year. that, of course, used to be the norm. it no longer is. in fact, lately we're not doing any of these things. now, it is important to point out that the house of representatives still routinely passes free-standing appropriations measures. for fiscal year 2015, the upcoming fiscal year, fiscal year 2015, the house of representatives has passed seven such bills. the senate has passed zero. not only has the senate passed none of its own freestanding appropriations bills, it has refused to pass -- in fact, it has refused even to vote on any of the seven appropriations bills passed by the house of representatives. the fact is, mr. president, that before the democratic leadership took control of the senate, congress would spend most of its time during the spring and summer of each year discussing, debating, amending, and eventually figuring out how much taxpayer money to spend and on what. congress would consider separate spending bills, one by one, individually. each of these bills would allocate a certain amount of money to fund the departments, the agencies, and the programs within a certain area of government organized by government function, like defense or transportation or homeland security or health care. and each spending bill ornl nateed in one of the correspon corresponding subcommittees in the house and in the senate. this, mr. president, is what we call the appropriations process. it made sense that it would take up most of our time because, as members of congress, we have a solemn obligation to represent the people and to be faithful stewards of taxpayer money, of the money that many americans spend many months of their lives each year just to earn so that they can send it to washington, d.c. the american taxpayer deserves better. the american taxpayer should be able to expect more out of congress. instead, they've come to expect so much less. but that's how congress used to operate, according to its own rules, according to historical precedent. and more to the point, according to basic principles of common sense. but, alas, times have changed. what congress used to deliberate on for months we now rush through in a single afternoon without opportunity for amendment, without opportunity for a full debate. what used to be the subject of open and robust debate is now trivialized and treated as a mere foremalt, as a -- as a mere formatitlity. mr. president, the american people deserve better. indeed, as i discovered while visiting frovisit with people fe corner of utah to another, the american people demand that we do better. i think we can do better. in fact, i know that we can. we have in the past, and we will in the future. but we have got to get the regular-order appropriations process back on track. we need to dispense once and for all with this mind-set that says we're going to fund the government with one bill. you're going to have one opportunity to vote on any and all matters relating to the funding of the federal government. it's a biary choice. you fund everything at current levels or you fund nothing. you keep it running just the way it is with no opportunity for mooningful reform ork you -- for meaningful reform or you don't fund anything at all and you accept all the difficulty that goes along with this. this is wrong. this violates our laws, procedures, and common sense. we have asked the american people to expect less. i'm here to tell each of my colleagues that it's time for the american people not to expect less. it's time for the american people to expect more. they are expecting more. they are expecting freedom. they are expecting for us to honor them by debating and discussing and voting on how we're going to spend their money. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. walsh: i was born during the baby boom time in butte, montana. things weren't always easy, especially in a tough, blue-collar town like butte. but it was still easier in those days to believe that the american dream was within your grasp. put in your time and you can earn a good living. work hard, and you can play hard. unfortunately, i'm less confident in the american dream for today's young people. unless politicians can put their partisanship aside and put the interests of this country ahead of their own. i am hopeful that this congress can once again behave like statesmen from half a century ago when the boom times of the 1960's also produced some restraint. i grew up in the morning shadow of the continental divide. butte was surrounded by some of the most fly-fishing in north america and huge areas of land known at the time as primitive areas. some of those blue-ribbon streams were separated by the smallest of divides from the most polluted waters in america. some of those primitive areas shared borders with the most valuable hard-rock mines and timber clear cuts in the industry. those same resources to insupport thousands of jobs in montana, but the boom times of the 1960's approved how wasteful and damaging unlimited production can be. today i applaud the lessons of restraint. this month is the 50th anniversary of the passage of the wilderness act. senators on this same floor in 1964 turned the primitive areas and administrative wilderness areas of montana and 12 other states into permanent protected areas. that same year, they also passed the visionary land and water conservation fund. several of the original wilderness areas are in montana, including one of the largest, the bob marshal wilderness. in montana, we just call it "the bob." imagine, a congress with the foresight to create a whole category of restraint. anyone who says the american dream is gone for good has never visited "the bob." last month i had the opportunity to hike with a local group of montanans up 2,000 feet to headquarter's pass on the rocky mountain front. we met a herd of mountain goats. when we got to the pass, we stood under the rocky shoulder of rocky mountain peak and looked into "the bob." today i am the proud sponsor of an important made-in-montana bill that would keep this land the way it is and add to the legacy of 1964. the rocky mountain front heritage act, first introduced three years ago, would protect almost 300,000 acres of public land. today i urge my colleagues to move a public lands package forward this year in order to reward the collective efforts of so many americans who worked so hard on bills like the rocky mountain front heritage act. the american dream today has a new chapter because of the wilderness act. a small portion of our public lands has been set aside, available forever for all americans to enjoy. in montana, we call this our outdoor heritage. despite news stories about the perennial idea of giving away this idea, support for public lands in montana remains deep and wide. the reason goes to the heart of what it means to be american. the american dream isn't just about having a job, it's about where we live and how we live. in montana, our public lands that support trout or elk or whatever adventure montanans seek are part of that dream, whether their boilermaker, a teacher, or an outfitter. it doesn't hurt that tourism has become a huge part of our economy in montana. today outdoor recreation supports 64,000 jobs in our state and almost $6 billion in revenue each and every year. like many montanans, i'm frustrated with how long it takes to conduct a timber sale or complete an environmental analysis on potential projects. we need to get our forests healthy and working again, creating good jobs and making our forests more resilient to file-- towildfires. this frustration shouldn't blind to us our incredible heritage of untrampled public land owned by you and me and every american. rather than government shut-downs and public land sell-offs, i urge this congress to find the same wisdom to look ahead 50 years from today. we need to support local collaboration and fully fund the land and water conservation fund. bills like the rocky mountain front heritage act, the north fork watershed protection act, the east rosebud wild and scenic rivers act deserve every senator's support. mr. president, thank you for the time. i yield the floor. senator mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. wicker: it is my -- mr. corker: it is my understanding that the majority leader son his way down. i have a unanimous consent that i'd like to offerrage i know that he wants to say a word or two. so i'll make some preliminary comments. when he gets here, out of respect for his time, i'll ask for that unanimous consent. but let me just move on by saying that the president gave a speech a week ago. we have a hearing today in foreign relations. secretary kerry and others to assess our strategy in iraq and syria related to isil. and, mr. president, i just want to say that these obviously are very important decisions. one of the pieces of this strategy instead of the president coming and asking for an authorization for the use of military force, which, in my opinion, is the sound judgment -- that is the use of sound judgment to come and ask us for that support, so the american people are behind his effort by virtue of the house and senate taking that up. instead they are not going to do that, and instead they're asking for the authority to do a very, very small piece of that, which is to train and equip some members of the modern vetted syrian opposition and to do so in the country of saudi arabia. so they're asking for an authorization to do that overtly, and it's something that many people have questions about. it's something that for many years, for some time i have supported and actually been very disappointed that the administration has left hanging the people in syria we encourage now to take on assad. that is a very important vote, mr. president, a vote that all of us should take as a free standing vote, but instead what is getting ready to happen is coming over from the house is a continuing resolution which funds government. so instead of voting on the continuing resolution, which is a totally separate matter and voting on arch the vetted -- arming the voted opposition, number one, we have the opportunity to weigh in on these two measures separately as the house is doing right now. instead what is going to be happening, as i understand from the majority leader, we're going to take up that vote in a combined way. and i just think that's a poor way to run the senate. it's a poor way for the people of the united states to understand where we are on important issues. and just to give you an example, i don't support the funding levels in the c.r. i voted against the murray-ryan budget. i couldn't believe that in such a short amount of time we were willing to do away with the budget caps that we thought so important to the fiscal well-being of this nation. so i don't support the funding levels for the continuing resolution and had planned to vote against it. and now there's a piece in it that's an important foreign policy piece and i think needs further debate where we're authorizing the arming and training of the moderate opposition through december 11 as a part of this bill. that, to me, is an inappropriate way for us to do business. i think every member of this body ought to have the opportunity to vote on each of those. so the request that i'm going to make when the senator gets here is not to change any of the wordage. i realize that time is of the essence. we have two bodies that sometimes don't act in concert in appropriate ways. but my unanimous consent is to ask that properly these be separated. the language be identically the same. and so what i've done is i have at the desk a bill that lays out the authorization for arming and training the vetted moderate opposition in saudi arabia and other places. i have that exact language that's coming over to the house so that the presiding officer, myself and others can weigh in on that issue. and once that issue is dealt with, again, it would take 15 or 20 or 30 minutes for that to occur, we could then move over to the continuing resolution, which, again, has a different set of supporters, generally speaking. so, again, i do wish this body would debate the issues of great importance to our nation. i know that in this hearing with secretary kerry on both sides of the aisle there are numerous questions about how this strategy is going to work in syria and how, with no ground force on the ground and us planning to train people in a very short amount of time, a very small amount of people, we're not going to give them very sophisticated equipment, how that ground game, that ground effort is going to be effective, i wish this body would take that up and debate it. to me, it's an important issue. it's an issue that i have supported for some time. at the same time the efficacy of it has changed. one of the things that's fascinating to me, general demsey yesterday all of a sudden we're going to train them -- by the way they have been organized because they want assad out. they have been fighting against assad and syria. but we're going to train them to fight isis, or isil, which has not been the rallying entity for the free syrian army to organize. so look, i plan to support publicly, as i am right now, this first phase of arming and training them because i've been pushing for it for so long; i worry about its efficacy. it seems like the goals of it until now are very different. but i'm okay authorizing that until december 11, and we can hear more about it. but, again, i don't support the funding levels in the c.r. so this is not an appropriate way for us to do business, mr. president, and i'm going to ask for unanimous consent -- i hope the majority leader is going to be here in a minute. i would like to get back to the hearing on syria we're having in foreign relations. i understand he may well be on the way. and with that, as a matter of fact, i may just pause for a minute. while i'm pausing, let me make the point i made earlier with secretary kerry at the hearing. i don't want to debate whether the president has the legal authority to conduct a war, a multiyear war a year that many people say may take up to a decade in another country against another enemy. i don't want to debate whether he legally can do that or not. i know that he's tying himself to the 2001 authorization, which i assure you, nobody was contemplating this. but i don't want to debate that. i know there's all kinds of article 2 people, all kinds of people that believe the president can do almost anything he wishes relative to military engagement. i just want to talk about how lacking in judgment it is for three senators, the president, the vice president and the secretary of state to attempt to do this over a multiyear period in a different country with a different enemy, and not calm that lax in judgment. that lax in judgment because bad things are going to happen. mistakes are going to be made. 5345 monday morning quarterback -- 535 monday morning quarterbacks makes no sense. selling that plan, selling how this is going to work is an important part of the process they are skipping. i see the majority leader is here. i know he's busy. i thank him for coming to the floor. i would like to ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the two leaders prior to the consideration of h.j. res. 124, the c.r., that the senate proceed to consideration of my bill. it is the exact same language coming over from the house, which is at the desk. that is the same language as included in the c.r. regarding syria. that there be up to four hours of debate followed by a vote on passage of my bill. is there objection? mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: reserving the right to object. my friend from tennessee is a fine senator, and he has the interest of the state of tennessee every step of the way, and of course our country. so my statement here has nothing to do with the kind of man he is, the kind of senator he is. but, mr. president, i just left my office where i watched the second of three votes in the house. the house just voted on the continuing resolution. it passed by an overwhelming margin over there. and the purpose of that is to stop another government shutdown. the continuing resolution includes the language on training and equipping the syrian opposition. that bill will come over here in a matter of an hour or two. the house has chosen how it wishes to address these two matters. that is the c.r. and arming and training the syrian rebels. as my colleagues know, in order to make a law, you need the senate to pass something and the house to pass something or vice versa. and then of course it's signed by the president. they have to be identical. if we wish to prevent a government shutdown, we have to pass this continuing resolution that the house will send us. i've had conversations with the speaker, and he's been very strong in stating what they're going to do over there. the senate committees are in the process, one of whom is -- one of the committees is the ranking member of that committee is the distinguished senator from tennessee, in the process of holding hearings to examine whether an authorization to use force is necessary, and if so, how much of an authorization, how it should be crafted. so i look forward to the foreign relations committee deciding what legislative action to take on this matter. but in the meantime, mr. president, we should pass the house-passed continuing resolution which includes the language on training and equipping syrian opposition and present to them, the people here an up-or-down vote on what we get from the house of representatives. we cannot have another government shutdown, so i object. mr. corker: mr. president? i want to thank the leader for coming down and thank him for agreeing to a time when we both can be here. i do want to say that we could deal with it exactly in the way that i laid out and keep the government from shutting down because we'd be passing exactly the same language. but i understand. i talked privately with the majority leader about this. i understand that -- i understand people don't want to do that over in this body. they don't want to separate the two. and i know that the majority leader, that's his right to object to dealing with these issues exactly the same language in the way that i just laid out. i do appreciate him coming down. i disagree very strongly with his approach. and with that, i yield the floor. mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i believe under the regular order that i'll be recognized for up to 30 minutes. and if not, i ask unanimous consent that i be recognized. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, with all the things that are going on right now, and i'm particularly interested in the hearing that we had yesterday on isis, it was a big deal. and i applaud general dempsey for his honesty in talking about how serious this war is that we're embarking on right now, the fact that we have just imagine the isis has grown, has tripled in the last three months, up to now well over 30,000 troops, with tanks, with heavy artillery. i mean, this is not -- i know the president has tried to use, make people believe this is just another rag tag terrorist operation over there, like al qaeda or taliban. it's not. this is war. this is a real serious thing that we're in the middle of, and i do applaud general dempsey and also secretary hagel for their honesty in the committee hearing. it is a difficult thing for them. but when the president has talked about, you know, no troops on the ground, no troops on the ground, we know we already have troops on the ground. you know, it just -- i think the american people have had a wakeup call, and they believe, they understand now how serious this is. in fact, there are two polls out last week. one of them was a poll that 77% of the american people know that, how serious this is and that the isis could affect and would affect and is affecting our homeland. and that was a big thing, that 70% of the people in america understand that. just yesterday the "wall street journal" poll came out along with abc, and they said the same thing. 70% of the people know that this is something that affects our homeland. when they talk about troops on the ground, i remember asking the question during that hearing yesterday, i said to the, to the chairman of the joint chief of staffs, martin dempsey, i said if the president says no troops on the ground, what if one of our airstrikes, something happens to one of those planes and we have the problem of one of the pilots bailing out? are you saying that we don't have troops on the ground to ensure his or her safety? and he said absolutely we will. so the point is that has been a question that people have to understand. this is war, we've got to win it. we can't take another chance. that's not why i'm down here. i think because of the distractions of isis and all these other things, a lot of people have forgotten about one of the most serious problems that's hampering our -- our economy, and that is what this president has done through his -- the overregulation that takes place since he first took office and failed to achieve his signature cap-and-trade legislation, he has been working tirelessly to try to do what he couldn't do through legislation with -- with regulation. and the regulations received most of the attention because they are the most expensive. it first started in 2003. i remember so much down here. in 2003 at that time the republicans were in the majority. i chaired the committee. they started off in 2003 with the first cap-and-trade legislation. and we defeated it. we defeated it ever since that time. and one reason we defeated it is because i was able to find out and i didn't know this in the beginning. people said global warming is real. it's all these bad things. we're all going to die. and yet, from the costs, we determined -- and this was -- came from not just me or others that were disinterested, but universities like m.i.t. came out with a study, the wharton school of economics came out with one, charles rivers. they all had the cost of this cap-and-trade somewhere between $300.000000000 and $400.000000000 a year. every time i hear a large figure, i go out and get the -- look at our population in my state of oklahoma and see what that cost means to a family. in my state of oklahoma, $300.000000000 to $400.000000000 a year would be a permanent tax increase for an oklahoma that files a federal income tax of three hundred dollars a year. we realize this would be very expensive. no one wants anything to do with greenhouse gas regulations when the cost is so high. i will show later on it wouldn't accomplish anything anyway. that's probably why the recent polls like gallup poll on global warming, it's the bottom of the national priority list. in their last poll, there is a poll of the 15 most things to be concerned about, and that's -- and global warming and climate change registered number 14 out of 15. and so this -- the people have understood, it's kind of like the -- they have understood now what's going on with isis. they know what the truth is. the pew research center show that 53% of americans either don't believe that global warming and climate change is occurring or they say if it is, it's natural causes. and this has been going on. this is something that has bothered me. you know, i can remember -- i'm going from memory now, but i used to use the example back when we first started looking at this as to how this is a cycle that's been going on for recorded history. in 1895, we got into a -- a cooling period. they were referring to it as the little ice age i think at that time. i could be wrong on that. anyway, that endured until 1918. then in 1918, that turned into a -- a warming time, and that went all the way up through 1945. now, this is what's significant. in 1945, then we started another cooling period. it happens that 1945 was the year that was recorded as the year when it had the highest amount of co2 emissions, and that precipitated not a warming period but a cooling period. of course that went on to about 1975, we went the other cycle, and now we're actually entering into a cooling period. god is still up there, we have always had these seasons, and people -- they would like to think somehow it's man that is doing it. they don't want any progress. they don't want people to be able to generate electricity and energy to take care of our needs. while my friends on the other side of the aisle act as though the public debate has been settled on the issue, obviously it's just the opposite of that. it probably explains why it has been difficult for tom steyer to raise the full $100 million that he promised to help democrats win elections this fall. you will remember in february that it was -- he announced that he would put up $50 million of his own money, and he did, and then he would raise another $50 million and there would be $100 million that he would put in campaigns for members -- for incumbents who would agree to try to resurrect the global warming issue because it has died in the eyes of the american people and try to stop the pipeline. well, he did this and the trouble is he's not able to raise the other $50 million. the last count was it's only $1.7 million that he has been able to raise from outside donors. nonetheless, of course he has his own -- his own $50 million. regardless, we don't know that he -- that he is spending the money -- we know he is spending the money he's got even though he hasn't raised other money. you can see on this chart a quote where he said -- and this is a quote. yeah, that's a picture of him right now, that's tom steyer. not a bad guy. he's got a lot of money. he said -- "it is true that we expect to be heavily involved in the midterm elections. we are looking at a bunch of races. my guess is that we'll end up being involved in eight or more races." so tom steyer's goal is to resurrect the global warming issue and tie try -- try to stop the keystone pipeline. i think it's time to talk about hypocrisy on the left over political spending. we spent all last week debating a constitutional amendment to limit political speech that is currently protected under the affirmative. democrats -- under the first amendment. democrats are talking about the koch brothers and all that. people are not aware that this type of activity with a man named tom steyer by his own admission. someone asked me the other day, i think we were down on the floor. i was the only republican to come down. it was kind of fun. they were having their all-night session. i made the statement down there. i said in case there is anyone with insomnia at home who is not asleep yet, this is a good way to do it, but i made the comment that this is something that we know is going on. i -- i stated that with all these races that are out there, they are trying to do something to -- in order to elect people to try to go back to what they have failed to be able to get through. and i think it's an appropriate time to talk about that hypocrisy. recent news reports have surfaced and described the democracy alliance. that's a -- an organization that aims to organize the policy objectives and funding streams of the left-wing liberal establishment. according to an internal memo that was leaked to the press a few weeks ago, the democracy alliance for the past nine years -- and i'm quoting now -- has aligned donors, leaders in the progressive movement -- that's liberal and political infrastructure in order to achieve victories at the ballot box and in policy fights, including those for comprehensive health care reform and supreme court confirmations, and this influence is estimated to be between $600 million and $700 million. "the washington post" just recently had this chart. this chart right here. it's kind of hard to read, but in the post it was obvious because each one of those dots is a liberal political organization, and they all join together and that's called the democracy alliance. again, this was in the -- i think 161 plus 21, 182 organizations are a part of this alliance. it details all of their agendas and what their -- that are being coordinated for the democratic political agenda by the democracy alliance. now, you will recognize most of the names on the list. it includes the center for american progress, media matters, america votes and even organizing for action, which incidentally, mr. president, is -- is president obama's political arm, his campaign arm. in april, this group convened a secret meeting in chicago to huddle with its deep-pocketed donors to craft a strategy and messaging for this coming year's elections. it was shrouded in secrecy and the memo prepared for attendees. these are all these people that you see on this that were to come in and meet in chicago. warned them of interacting with political reporters. in fact, it included a pages-long list of reporters who were expected to try to crash the conference along with the photos so folks could be on the watch for these people. the names of the people attending and involved were not given -- not going to be disclosed to the public, nor would any details be released about the discussions that are taking place. tom steyer and the democracy alliance are acting kind of like a cult. even as the democratic left pushes for the institution of a new constitutional amendment, we now know that initiative was nothing more than a political sham. at the end of the day, the liberal left wants an aggressive, secretive political machine operating on its behalf, and it looks like they have what they need in the democracy alliance. the key selling point for the democracy alliance pitch is to its -- to its contributors is the inseparable link to the deep and connections with the obama white house administration. the democracy alliance firmly believes it is the driver's -- it is in the driver's seat when it comes to setting policy for liberals in washington, and it wants its donors to know that. you know, there is nothing wrong with this. we have had a difference of opinion in philosophy. that's why we have political parties. this is more extreme than anything i have seen and more organized. one of the key goals of the democracy alliance is to promote -- quote -- an environment that keeps kids safe, unquote. this explains why the administration continues to push an extremist agenda of environmental mandates that will crush our economy. this is where tom steyer has really succeeded in being a part of the democracy alliance. he has managed to convince democrats in the senate to hold more than one all-night vigil on global warming, and these have come as the united states has been enduring one of its coldest years yet. just this month so far, noaaa at the commerce department has reported 246 record cold temperatures. wyoming already has 20 inches of snow in some places. it is unseasonably cold here in washington. one of these colder areas, my city of tulsa, oklahoma, where on saturday we set a record cool high temperature, only got up to 62 degrees, has never happened before. so that's not cooperating very well with people trying to convince people that the world is coming to an end because of global warming. it also explains why the president is continuing to aggressively implement greenhouse gas regulations after failing to accomplish this goal legislatively. these regulations will effectively prevent any new coal-fired power plant from being constructed and force our nation to rely substantially on expensive renewable sources. regulations like these would take us into -- in the direction of europe, which in many places has experienced electricity prices three times as high as they are here in the united states. you see there, they have been ahead of us in trying to stop fossil fuels, in trying to stop nuclear energy, and their rates that their people are paying are now three times higher than ours. but this is a good one here. if anyone doubts that these rules will have a negative impact on our economy, just look at australia. australia imposed a carbon tax on their economy a few years ago and it caused horrendous damage. it caused $9 billion in lost economic activity a year and destroyed tens of thousands of jobs. this is in australia. this just happened. it was so bad that the government in australia recently voted to repeal the carbon tax. do you remember all the talk about the fact that australia is leading the way and they are going to have a carbon tax, we should be following them? now they have just repealed that by an overwhelming vote and their economy is now better for it. in fact, it was just announced last week that australia experienced record job growth last month of 121,000 jobs. now, they said this is because they have repealed this -- this carbon tax that they had already -- that had passed. now, the -- they credit the repeal to -- this success to the repeal of carbon tax. in addition to these greenhouse gas regulations, i think it's important for us to recall the many other regulations this administration, the obama administration has already imposed on the american people and discuss all of the new regulations that have not yet come out. but they're working on it. some of these regulations they are holding off until after the elections so the people would not know the cost of the regulations, how many jobs are going to to be lost. first thing we need to remember the utility mact. mact means maximum achievable control technology. in other words, what technology has told us we can do to try to control these -- these releases. and so utility mact was -- was the first one that they successfully passed. in this case, the e.p.a. established a standard that was impossible for utilities to actually meet. this regulation is inappropriate under the clean air act and it's having a $100 billion annual impact on the economy and destroying 1.65 million jobs. they've already done it. they were able to pass that right down party
now. and from the army to center stage, it's miss america. this beauty queen has something no one has seen before. how she's daring to bear in a whole, new way. and why she's not allowed to hit them with her best shot. and good morning, america. robin on assignment this morning. welcome back to amy robach. we are covering two, big, breaking stories right now. the fire that destroyed so much of the jersey store. you see it right there. undoing months of rebuilding. those images so devastating. we're going to begin with an urgent crisis in colorado. >> the floodwaters there are out of control. you can see, there is a man who is racing to open the floodgates. he puts his own life in danger to open them. dramatic rescues through the day and the night. we'll bring you the very latest. such an urgent situation. >> a lot of information coming in right now, sam. >> you're watching a woman in the water in that video. she can't keep her balance in that heavy water. and she's just trying to get out of the area. we're showing you all of these pictures from the boulder area. we're talking about a very large area. let's go to new pictures coming out of big thompson canyon. that's between estes park and loveland, colorado. there are parts of eight western states that are under flood watches and warnings this morning. in that boulder at this loveland area, at least three highways are gone. i'm going to say it's four or five. we're talking about highways, gone. you see how the water is rushing so hard, it undermines the road surfaces and carves out below them, three to five to ten feet of ground. this is incredible amounts of water. you have to understand that this part of the area is right on the edge of the foothills. so, all of the rain that's been raining in the mountains is rushing right down into the small rivers, creeks and streams. you're getting pictures like this. the rainfall totals coming up with half a year's rain in just a matter of hours. that number right here, that ft. carson number, is ten inches of rain in four hours. our clayton sandell is right in the middle of it all. good morning, clayton. >> reporter: good morning, sam. overnight in boulder, we have a whole round of new evacuations. and look at this. a whole lot of new water. six inches to a foot where i'm standing now. and you can see behind me, people have abandoned their cars in the water, which is still rising to dangerous levels. overnight, flash flooding in boulder, colorado. the sirens have just sounded again in boulder. as growing floods have cut off almost every road to this city of nearly 100,000 people. >> flash flooding is imminent. >> reporter: a dam breach causing a surge of water, mud and debris to rip through this residential town. the owner of this home, frantically signaling for help. in commerce city, thousands of people told to evacuate immediately, as life-threatening rains overpowered yet another dam. >> oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. wow. we felt that. >> reporter: this morning, hundreds of residents in the remote town of lyons are trapped on the wrong side of a raging river. >> if the water comes over 24 bridge, this town is gone. >> reporter: it may be days before they're rescued. in the meantime, no sewage and no running water. all this, just a day after dive teams in boulder saved this woman and her dog. and this remarkable scene, a road completely wiped away. >> we have three cars in the water. >> reporter: rescuers braving the rapids to frantically pull out a car. a man discovered inside. he'd been under water for an hour. >> he found a pocket of air. and he was sitting there breathing in that pocket of air for a while until the dive team could get to him. >> reporter: after a few harrowing minutes, the man was freed. his injuries only minor. and this morning, officials believe that three people have been killed by all this flooding. they're hoping that number doesn't go up. once they're able to get into these areas that are still cut off. sam? >> clayton, so bad in that area, the residents are being told no matter how much water is around them, to shelter in place. get as high as you can. will the dams hold? there's additional rain coming, in some case, up to two inches of rain and we'll have the forecast later on this morning. george. >> thanks, sam. let's get more from jason stillman in lions, colorado. i know this has been a harrowing experience for you. you noticed the water start to rise on wednesday. then the middle of the night thursday morning, you wake up and everything is out of control. >> like nothing i've ever seen before. it's complete -- the rivers are just up and over the bridges. and our entire neighborhood and the lower part of town where we live, is just a big river right now. >> it's still underwater? >> it's still under water. >> it must be incredibly sad. >> yeah. like i said, it's coming up and over the bridges. a foot bridge that leads into our neighborhood, out yesterday. debris slamming into that bridge, finally it gave way. there's going to be a lot of repair that needs to be done to the town, unfortunately. >> i know you hope that everybody got out. but it feels like some are just trapped right now in that situation. >> yeah. i know of some people who are. and i hope they're okay. >> where are they trapped? >> in their houses. i think there's some people who didn't get out. and by the time they realized what was going on, it was too late for them. >> what's the most important thing all of you there need right now? >> people need food and water. that's the main thing right now that people need. >> such a distressing situation. we'll be thinking of you, jason. thanks for sharing your story this morning. >> sure. >> that water is coming in so hard and fast. we're going to stay on top of this. another tragic story to talk about today. a massive fire on the jersey shore. blocks of that iconic boardwalk destroyed. buildings gutted in an area that just recovered from hurricane sandy. gio benitez is there. good morning, gio, what a heartbreaking scene. >> reporter: it's unbelievable, amy. good morning, to you. at least 20 buildings destroyed. that boardwalk, almost entirely gone. and this morning, we're told firefighters went through hell to put this fire out. overnight, the flames still blazing out of control. the fire started at a custard shop, destroying the very same boardwalk ravaged by superstorm sandy last year. >> there's miles of just char and debris. it looks like a bomb went off. >> reporter: the collapsed rollercoaster nearby had become a lasting image of the destruction. >> how can we deal with it again? one after another. >> there it goes. >> reporter: the 20-mile-per-hour to 30-mile-per-hour winds pushing the fire north. burning six blocks wide, until firefighters created what's called a fire break, removing part of the boardwalk to contain the fire. >> that's where firefighters are making their stand right now, to stop the spread. >> reporter: just this may, governor christie toured this area with prince harry, to show how it's rebuilt. but now, disaster strikes again. and it was the perfect storm for a fire to burn out of control. for a fire to burn out of control. ironically, many firefighters were out of town, attending new jersey's annual firemen's convention in wildwood. and water supply issues, fire crews had to pump water from the bay. this area still reeling with water problems after sandy. and the heat was so intense, firefighters were cooling off in that same bay. all that's left, devastation in an area all too familiar with it. and this morning, we're told this fire entirely contained. but in the midst of all of this, there is amazing news. no one was seriously injured, amy. >> that's one good piece of news to take away from that devastating scene there. gio, thank you. >> such a hard year. we're going to get the latest on the crisis from syria. secretary of state john kerry's high-stakes diplomacy to get the syrians to give up their chemical weapons continues today in switzerland. abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz tracking all of the developments. a little tension between kerry and his russian counterpart yesterday. today, he's calling the talks constructive. >> reporter: he is, george, there's bound to be drama in complicated talks. but this morning, some signs of hope. this morning, before round two of talks, encouraging news. secretary kerry saying the dialogue thus far has been constructive. what a difference a few days and a threat of force makes. after denying for years he even possessed chemical weapons, bashar al assad now says syria will join the international chemical weapons convention, which would require it to declare and destroy its stockpiles of more than 1,000 tons of chemicals. but assad said syrian officials would take at least a month before turning over weapons, in what he called standard procedure. secretary of state john kerry flatly rejected the request. >> this is not a game. it has to be verifiable. it has to be credible. there ought to be consequences if it doesn't take place. >> reporter: while russia and syria want the threat of a military strike removed while talks continue, kerry said, that is not happening. >> president obama has made clear that should diplomacy fail, force might be necessary to deter and degrade assad's capacity to deliver these weapons. >> reporter: and while progress has been made, there's a long way to go before even the most basic trust is established. >> you want me to take your word for it? >> it's a little early for that one. >> but the goal is clear. both men agreeing that they want this resolved as the russian foreign minister said this morning. we want it resolved quickly, professionally and as soon as practical. george. >> okay, martha. thanks very much. at this critical moment in his presidency, president obama will sit down with me for an exclusive interview this week on sunday on "this week." let's get the rest of the day's top stories from josh. we're going to begin here with the u.s. consulate coming under attack in afghanistan. two massive car bomb there's went off. militants tried to storm the complex, firing guns at security forces. at least three afghan officers were killed in the attack. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. and it comes one day after al qaeda leader ayman al zawahiri encourages to keep on carrying out small attacks on the u.s., to, quote, bleed it economically, end quote. and an eye-opening headline for anyone that flies. the number of close calls between planes in the air nearly doubled last year. the faa said there were nearly 4,400 close call incidents, meaning planes came within 3 1/2 miles of each other, or 1,000 vertical feet. the agency attributes a more accurate tracking system, which they could perhaps use. on wall street, the big story this morning, twitter. going public. and, yes. that should mean some big money. abc's rebecca jarvis here with details on just how big. >> reporter: yes, josh. and the question is how big and for whom? this morning, twitter is one step closer of joining the ranks of google, apple and facebook. in a secret filing with regulators, twitter made its intentions to go public known. and then it tweeted it to the world. that was some big news for its 140 characters. now it's just a matter of time before anyone watching everyone can own shares of twitter. well, wall street expects the company is valued somewhere between $15 billion and $20 million. that's not as big as facebook's $100 billion ipo. but it's a huge amount of money. and especially huge when you consider that just a handful of years ago, no one had heard of a tweet. now, we're sending more than 500 million of them every single day, josh. >> not all from me, i promise. dramatic scene to bring you. in louisville, kentucky, a little girl fell into an abandoned well in the middle of a football field. you see here. then a coach there tried to rescue her, got trapped as well. they were 14 feet underground over an hour, before fire crews were finally able to pull them out. thankfully, both are okay this morning. an unusual visitor at the texas tech football game. look what showed up in lubbock last night, roaming the sidelines. a neighborhood fox. why not? good seats after all. having a tough time finding the exit. eventually, the fox did, thankfully. no one or fox was hurt. call it the best deal ever. united airlines, selling tickets on its website thursday for exactly $0. yeah. others, though, were forced to pay $5. the airline described it as a filing error. you don't say? either way, it did have people rushing to plan some rather unexpected vacations. >> during the time, i'm looking up everything. i'm like, we're going here. we're going there. like, we're going to go christmas in maui. >> where was i when this happened yesterday? wow. after about two hours. think about that. two hours, the airline fixed the problem. so, the question, should united honor those tickets? all the airline is saying so far is that it will. and i quote, do what's appropriate. >> i don't like the sound of that. >> i'm assuming do what's appropriate for united airlines. >> thanks, josh. >> you bet. now, to a shocking case of a photographer literally out of control. actress nicole kidman, slammed to the ground by a photographer on a bicycle. brand-new video has emerged of the incident. and john muller has the story. >> reporter: a terrifying moment for nicole kidman, knocked down in broad daylight on the streets of new york, after this cycling paparazzo, karl wu, collided with her on his bike. >> i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. >> reporter: while he was allegedly snapping pictures of the star as she returned to the carlyle hotel after a day out at fashion week. kidman let out a scream and grabbed her left ankle in pain. the star looked shaken. >> we see paparazzi do aggressive things all the time. this is hardly surprising. >> reporter: just a few hours later, kidman looked elegant and composed in a sparkling skirt and black sleeveless top at the calvin klein fashion show. wu was taken to the police station house and issued a summons for riding on the sidewalk. he told abc news, it looks bad. but an accident is an accident. it went down very fast. and i'm sorry it's happened. this wasn't the first time the photographer has become the focus of the story. wu claims one of lady gaga's security team assaulted him in 2010. when he was attempting to photograph her on a boston street. no word on whether kidman would press charges. but she told "entertainment tonight." i'm okay. i'm leaving the incident up to the police. >> celebrities have a price on their head like a hunted animal. that's why they said, enough is enough. this is dangerous to me. my family, my children. we're not going the take it. >> reporter: john muller, abc news, new york. >> wow. that was a tough bike -- >> sure was. >> he slammed into her. moving on, now, to another remarkable story of survival. two men escaping with their lives after a plane crash in alaska. they were forced to walk over eight miles through the wilderness before they were rescued. and one of them caught the plane's descent on camera. this north carolina man is lucky to be alive, after an adventure in alaska he will never forget. 65-year-old larry minton, an avid hunter, travelled to alaska last week for a moose hunt. his camera was rolling when the plane he was flying in failed and began to descend. >> i knew we were going down. only thing i said to the good lord, give us a safe landing. that's all i said, and he did. >> reporter: the pilot was able to land. but the plane had flipped over. uninjured, the two men were able to get out of the wreckage. after a day and a half in the wilderness, with no rescuers in sight, the men set off for town, 12 miles away. >> it's like hunting a needle in a haystack. >> reporter: armed with a battery-powered gps, their only food a pack of canned salmon and some trail mix. >> first thing in the morning, we would drink all the water we could and take it back with us. >> reporter: after three days of walking, attacked by nasty bugs, as they slept, they were spotted in a clearing by alaska state troopers. >> praise the lord that players were answered. >> reporter: minton surprised his family by telling them he's already planning his next trip, this time to new mexico. but until then, he's enjoying some of the creature comforts of home. >> a little tastier than canned salmon. so glad they are okay. >> he was drinking it out of a red solo cup, too. sam, huge storms last night in the northeast. but things getting better. >> as soon as the front went through, we got a fresh pattern of air. northern new jersey, 2 1/2 inches of rain. patterson, in particular, with those storms that moved through. watch that front and what happens behind it. look at the numbers here. 75 in new york. 72 in boston. boston just one of the areas that's been in the 90s three days now. portland, maine, in the 70s. still showers in the line of that. but it is so gorgeous behind it. charleston, 69 degrees. detroit, is that possible? at 63. absolutely incredible. here's where the heat is holding. atlanta, jackson, new orleans, houston, dallas. be prepared for that. orlando, kind of nice at 92. did you notice that during the cutaway, that was the list of weekend getaways? that was brought to you by pacific life. happy weekend, everybody. >> friday the 13th, too, everybody. coming up on "gma," the latest on the newlywed that confessed to pushing her husband off a cliff. why she's been release from jail. also, he is the mac-aholic that's eaten over 12,000 big macs over 30 years. and why he says, guess what, he's perfectly healthy. >> really? and the talk show host revealing she had secret plastic surgery to change her eyes. and how it boosted her career. and why she's not looking back. and from active duty to miss america. how this beauty queen is daring to bear in a whole new way. ♪ ♪ ♪ wrong turns on the road to your know yofuture. afford that's why we build tools like our career guidance system. it's kind of like gps, you know, for your career. it walks you through different degree possibilities and even lets you explore local job market conditions, helping you map a clear course from the job you want, back to you. go to phoenix.edu and get started today. 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you ask. we'll find out very soon. >> a lot of things coming up. we're going to switch gears and begin with the latest on the montana newlywed, charged with murdering her husband on their honeymoon. jordan graham is on bail, even though she confessed to pushing her husband off a cliff eight days after their wedding. the prosecution is fighting to get her back in jail and abc's ryan owens is tracking the case. >> reporter: the young bride the fbi says pushed her new husband off a cliff, eight days after she walked down the aisle, just took another walk, to freedom. jordan graham slipped out of this montana courthouse undetected late thursday. this morning, the 22-year-old is back at her parents' home, after a federal judge let her go until trial. authorities say she admitted to pushing cody johnson face-first off that cliff at glacier national park, during an argument this summer. johnson's friends cannot believe she's free after spending three nights in jail. >> she lost those rights, when she pushed cody off the cliff. she gets another day at home, where cody does not. >> reporter: graham is charged with second-degree murder. she hasn't entered a plea yet. fbi agents say she tried to cover up the crime for days before her new husband's body was discovered at the bottom of that cliff back in july. still, in this written ruling, the federal judge said the bride is not a flight risk. and that prosecutors didn't prove she's a danger to herself or anybody else. she has no criminal history. prosecutors are so upset, they filed a motion to revoke her release and send her back behind bars. a different judge could rule on that later today. >> knowing the fact that she was released today, the fact that she openly admits that she took a dear friend from us, it just boggles my mind. >> reporter: the judge did order graham to undergo mental health treatment. and one more thing. the new bride who gave up her wedding ring, just got a new piece of jewelry, an ankle bracelet. for "good morning america," ryan owens, abc news, dallas. and abc's chief legal affairs anchor, dan abrams, is here. i'm not a lawyer. but i think like a lot of people, she confessed to pushing her husband off a cliff. hu can she be out on bail? >> a lot of people are thinking that. number one, bail is not intended to punish. the purpose of bail is to make sure she shows up in court. and number two, make sure she's not a danger to the community. what the court in this case said, was that the prosecution had not been able to demonstrate sufficiently any -- either of those two things. even the prosecutors conceded she's not a flight risk. >> even the magistrate, the court, said there's a lot of evidence against her. >> it did. and that's one of the four factors to be considered here. the weight of the evidence. and the magistrate did say, there's a lot of evidence here. but we're talking about bail. we're talking about making sure that she shows up. she's presumed innocent at this point. that's the purpose of bail. now, the prosecutors are in effect appealing this. they're going to the district court saying, you're supposed to be a part of this process. you need to hold off on that magistrate's decision. we need to get her back in jail. i don't think they're going to win. but it's a close case. >> how does this play out? do you think there's going to be a plea deal? >> i think down the road there will be a plea. yeah. i think once you confessed to something like this, they charge you with second-degree murder, knowing there might be a plea deal of manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter. we'll have to see if they're able to work it out. i'm sure she wants a plea. >> thanks very much. now, to the big mac-aholic who says he's eaten over 12,000 big macs over 30 years. that works out to almost one every day. he says he's totally fit and healthy. abc's nick watt has his story. ♪ two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese special sauce on a sesame seed bun ♪ >> reporter: he has special sauce coursing through his vein. you can keep your egg mcmuffins, your fillet-o-fish. >> i eat what i like every day. >> reporter: that's a big mac. apparently in great health, is a >> reporter: you can keep your other things, he ain't interested. that's a big mac meal. this salesman, and vietnam vet. is a self-confessed macaholic. i eat one on wednesdays, one or two saturday. >> reporter: ten a week. he estimates he scarfed down thousands in a lifetime. he eats nothing else. except from his day of rest. >> sunday, my wife cooks meals and we eat family dinner. works out great. >> what is missing from his diet, it seems, are vitamins, minerals, fiber. the good news is, he's keeping his calories in check. 700 fewer calories that the average american man brings in. >> reporter: he eats them all in big macs. >> it has the major food groups in it. i'm not sure what's in the special sauce. but you put them all together. and it makes a fantastic sandwich. >> reporter: and the most surprising thing of all? the active 64-year-old claims his cholesterol is totally respectable. and he has a bmi that's alarmingly average. thanks to the daily big mac diet. for "good morning america," nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> or thanks to his mom and dad, the good genes he has. >> despite the diet. >> just guessing. >> i mean -- a lot of big macs. >> you were right. sometimes -- >> i do love one. >> hey. >> i'm no mathematician. but it's 24,000 all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion on a sesame seed bun. >> quick, sam. how about weather? >> my math skills are not impressive, george? >> let's get to the boards. when you look at this, it looks frightening. there were two waterspouts off of wisconsin. and they weren't picked up by radar. the folks watching them, took pictures. they are beautifully formed on the water. here's other things out in the water. looking at humberto and gabrielle. is this the "i" storm? looks like, yes, kind of moves into mexico and causes a lot of rain. that puts more moisture, in that southern part of the u.s., that southwestern part of the u.s. in the weeks to come for more rain. detroit, boston, new york city, also washington, d.c. look at the numbers here. kind of getting cool, comfortable readings. the next couple of day, even in the 60s. i'm mike nicco, even with the clouds lingering longer today, some minor warming is possible. look at the 80s inland, 70s around the bay and 60s at the coast and near 70 in san >> all of america's weather was brought to you by tylenol. >> and a little math. >> thank you, sam. coming up, the talk show host revealing she had secret plastic surgery to enlarge her eyes. why did she do it? and the photos that have gone viral of the dad wearing his own daisy dukes. he says it was all to teach his daughter a lesson. 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(balloons popping) ♪ ♪ ♪ good morning. i'm kristen sze. breaking news in san francisco where firefighters are checking out scaffolding hanging off a high-rise in the financial district. look at that. it's happening at the embarcadero. let's check out the commute with leyla gulen. it's also causing traffic on battery. we have a couple of lanes available, so they are blocking off one lane to take care of that. also, as we head into san jose we have this accident, not sure if it's one in the same but northbound 85 to 280 connector we have a two-car accident. now here's a look at the weather with mike nicco. good morning. thanks. temperatures close to average. 60s along the coast. 70s around the bay and 80s inland. here's your accuweather seven-day forecast. temperatures today, tomorrow some of the warmer ones. we'll fluctuate just slightly and cooler sunday through next week. thanks, mike. ♪ and it's a gorgeous friday morning here in new york. that happy crowd in times square. happy friday for all of you. let's go down to richmond, kentucky right there. eastern kentucky university. you know what that means, sam. gma u weekends up with you. >> look how beautiful that is. everybody going back to the school that made us who we are. eku is my school. everybody there. that's where everybody hangs out and gathers just before class. i don't think the dance team, the marching band, the real fighting colonel and everybody is normally out there. >> i'll bet you they stayed up all night. >> i think they did. >> and why not? they were studying so hard. >> right. studying. and i can't wait to throw this, the beautiful horse farms of kentucky, against the beautiful coastline of the pacific. we'll see which one you like better, america. >> i have a feeling which one america will like. >> i think we have -- hi, elmo. and cookie. penn state's not too shabby either. >> i have a little surprise for you. i believe that lara -- >> two big blondes in the house today. >> lara, didn't you make cookies for cookie monster? >> i did. >> cookies. cookies! >> you have to wait for them. you need to have some self-control. >> how long me have to wait? >> well, we'll see. >> me want the cookies. >> cookies, no timeout. let's be patient. >> trying to control meself. >> you can do it. we have a program to ensue. the very first miss america contestant to compete with exposed tattoos. it just occurred to me what sort of turn we were making. >> okay. >> it's okay. miss kansas. sergeant theresa vail. she's going to join us live and tell us why she thinks it's important to show off that ink. >> it's about self-expression. i'm off to miss america after the show. and the pictures that have gone viral. one dad wearing daisy dukes. oh. i know. i know. it's not easy. but he says, there was a lesson in it for his daughter. >> i'm not going to share that with my daughters. we'll get that story in a little bit. first, we have to get news from josh. >> sarina's safe, to say, george. we're going to begin in the emergency state of colorado. floodwaters rushing through the boulder area. breaching dams and wiping out homes and cutting off entire towns. the water is surging harder this morning. and it's filled with dangerous debris. thousands more people ordered to evacuate. many from downtown boulder itself. emergency crews have been working around the clock to pull trapped drivers from their cars. three people have died due to the storm. and that number could go up as rescuers reach those isolated neighborhoods. sam's forecast is coming up in moments. another devastating scene this morning. that destructive fire that gutted the iconic boardwalk along the new jersey shore. the fire started at an ice cream shop on the stretch of seaside park. it was badly damaged by hurricane sandy last october. and just rebuilt for this summer season. it blazed across some eight blocks. it destroyed at least 50 businesses, sending smoke so thick, it could be seen for miles. the fire was finally contained this morning. there is a bit of a silver lining here. no one was killed in the blaze. secretary of state john kerry says talks today about the future of syria's chemical weapons were constructive. but thursday, kerry rejected syria's request to wait a month before giving up those weapons. this morning, "the wall street journal" reports that syria has been moving its poison gas and weapons to as many as 50 different sites to make them harder to track. and the world's most visited museum has fallen victim to a massive ticket scam. authorities believe organized crime groups in china are behind the circulation of thousands of counterfeit tickets to the louvre in paris, costing the museum hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process. the museum says some of the tickets, which are in fact valid for a year, are tough to spot because they are almost perfect copies. i would bring you the last story here. but we're joined by our friends from "sesame street." elmo, come on up, bud. >> elmo is -- elmo is tying his shoes. >> and you can read. this is terrific for a 3-year-old. >> that's right. >> wonderful. what do we have here? >> here we go. look at these amazing new photos. the world's only known white humpback whales. they were taken in the waters of australia. and his name is migaloo. the pictures are the first, yeah. since he was first spotted in 1991. >> wow. >> how old are you? >> 3 1/2. >> wow. you're an awesome reader. >> incredible. and isn't migaloo fun to say? >> migaloo. let's get "pop news" from lara. and i have some friends, too, to help me out. abbi and rosita. good news for harry potter fans. we are learning j.k. rowling is teaming up with warner brothers to write her first feature film. this is not an extension of the harry potter series, the film is called "fantastic beasts and where to find them," which was the name of a textbook used by harry and his friends at hogwarts. rowling says she promised herself she would revisit the wizarding world if she had an idea that she was really excited about. and this is it. it's not an extension of the series. but it's a really big deal for harry potter fans. >> i love the news. more, more. more more. in honor of new york fashion week, subway, the restaurant chain, hosted its first-ever eco-friendly fashion competition. four designers created using only recycled subway material, like wrapper, napkins, salad bowls, lettuce, tomato. no, no lettuce and tomato. the winning designer said he spent 14 hours working on his creations, which are on display at a new york subway restaurant. he wins free subway foot longs for a year. >> how about that? >> congratulations. and finally, more, sam, this one's for you. >> okay. >> "sea rescue." >> yes, ma'am. >> if you were just named the world's ugliest animal -- sam, this isn't about you. >> i don't like to wake up and find i'm named the world's ugliest animal. it's a bad day. >> oh. >> this is named the ugliest animal. >> don't do split screen. >> do not do it. >> you would have a sad face, too. the poor blob fish -- >> it is a blob fish. >> from southeastern australia was given a dubious title in a competition to raise awareness for endangered animals. this endangered creature is a gelatinous mass. it allows them to float without actually having to expend any manager. blob fish -- blob fish -- i want to show the other person it looks like. >> no, i want to show the other person it looks like. >> i -- ziggy -- it's a combo of jabba the hut and ziggy. i never said it was you, sam. i only referenced you because of "sea rescue." the blob fish is now the mascot for ugly animal preservation society. >> let it all out. >> sam, there's one way to save yourself. do some weather. >> i can't. is that "pop news," everybody? lara spencer. >> oh. >> i like the blob fish. don't look so sad. >> no. don't be such a blob, sam. >> i love you sam champion. >> i love you, lara spencer. >> if we can go to the picture, please. boulder, we've been showing these pictures that have just been coming in. it will take a time for all of the situation to change. it's a situation that's not getting better. and it will take time for those waters to go down. they're rushing out of the heavy rains in the mountains. and there are a few days more >> here's hoping your friday's a good one. but no matter what happens, you won't wake up to the title ugliest animal on the planet. lara spencer. >> i love you. >> you win. >> thank you, sam champion, you beautiful creature. everybody, george, i know you're on your way to interview the president. >> yeah. you're in good hands. >> you're really leaving us? >> i have to leave. i have to go home. >> we'll miss you. >> good luck. >> good luck on miss america. >> thank you very much. here's what's coming up on our "gma morning menu." why this father is wearing daisy dukes. why not, really? 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"gma"-u. big-time. first, on the "gma heat index," we need to get this over with. the dad whose fashion advice for his daughter has gone viral. utah dad, scott macintosh, was getting concerned about the skimpy outfits his daughter was wearing. why wouldn't you do this? it was a creative way to get his message across. and i dare say, it did. reena ninan has the story. >> reporter: it's the fashion statement no teenage daughter wants her father to make. >> i know it sounds weird to try to embarrass her. i want her to know that she's a great work. >> reporter: this utah daughter of seven, donned these daisy dukes to teach his daughter a lesson about the virtues of modesty. when his 13-year-old daughter refused to wear longer shorts to their weekly family night, he took a pair of scissors and turned an old pair of jeans into this. >> are you kidding me? >> reporter: that was his wife's first reaction. >> i was embarrassed. but i was hoping it would be a really good lesson. >> you don't want to see this 52-year-old fat guy walking around in short-shorts. >> reporter: he kept wearing the daisy dukes, even while they played miniature golf. 24 hours after posting, the images have gone viral. >> what this father did was an excellent way to get this message across. it was creative. it was funny. it engaged the family. and it engaged the teenager. >> reporter: the lesson couldn't have been too painful for miley. the photo she posted of her dad on tumblr got over 130,000 comments. >> mostly learn the lesson about how he really loves me. >> reporter: did the lesson work? >> it got the point across, yes. >> reporter: and he hopes she will remember his motto. >> modest is hottest. >> reporter: for "good morning america," reena ninan, abc news, new york. >> that's a great motto. modest is hottest. >> i might have to steal that. >> that was good. good dad. we have something big coming up on "the heat index." something we've never seen before in the history of miss america. a contestant taking on the swimsuit competition with tattoos in full view. a bold decision she hopes will inspire young women to be themselves. if you've got it, flaunt it. and she sure did. miss kansas, daring to bear her two, large tattoos during the miss america swimsuit preliminaries. a jaw-dropping sight. >> we're going on stage, i was a little nervous. thinking, what will the reaction be? will i get boos? but i went out there. and i rocked it. you know. i think it's really about confidence. >> reporter: what are your tattoos of? >> the serenity prayer. it's my personal mission statement i like to say. >> reporter: vail is just the second member of the u.s. military -- >> for the past six years i've been an american soldier. >> reporter: -- to ever compete in the miss america pageant. a different type of active duty she hasn't quite gotten used to. which one is harder? >> right now, i'm going to say this one. i have to be girlie, put on makeup. fake eyelashes on stage. it's a new arena. whole new ballpark. >> reporter: but vail has good aim. a master archer, she planned on demonstrating her bow and arrow skills in the talent portion of the competition. but at the last minute, she was told projectile objects were forbidden. so, in just two days, she learned opera. ♪ shows tattoos and come out in a gown and sing opera. >> i wanted to show the judges i can be this poised, graceful, elegant woman. but i have a dichotomy. i wear cammo. i can put on combat boots. >> reporter: and carry a gun. >> i can carry a gun. >> reporter: on sunday night, she may be carrying a crown. >> the response of facebook and twitter messages, thank you for changing this perception of women that decide to compete. that's what makes it worth it. win or lose, i know i'm changing something. >> reporter: and here, now, joining us from the famous atlantic city boardwalk, is miss kansas 2013, sergeant theresa vail. now, we just heard how your fans reacted on social media to your tattoos. how did the other contestants reacted? and how have pageant officials reacted to your tattoos. >> they're supportive of all this. sharon pierce, the president of the miss america organization came out publically, says she supports what i'm doing. they embrace individuality and versatility. and the other contestants are so supportive. they think it's awesome. half the girls here have tattoos. they're just choosing to cover them. >> and speaking of being an individual and making sure everyone knows it, i want to list all of the things you can do. we learned that you taught yourself to sing in two days. a markswoman, a bow hunter, a skydiver, a boxer, a mechanic, you can skin a deer. and i heard you make a mean squirrel stew with sauerkraut. did i miss anything? >> yes, i do. no. i think you got it all. >> how did basic training in the army help you prepare for this competition? did some of those skills come in handy? >> yeah. the mental training, obviously. this is hard here. the long nights. the mind games. it's a mental game. and basic training, for sure, prepared me for this, i would say. >> quickly, i want to say thank you for your service. can't thank you enough. >> thank you. >> and best of luck this weekend. >> it's also a big deal at the pageant is back in atlantic city. back to its roots. >> thank you, miss kansas. sergeant theresa vail. >> and you mentioned, sunday night. tune two a special "20/20" "pageant confidential, the road to miss america." it takes us behind the scenes. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and immediately after, the 2014 miss america competition will be broadcast live from atlantic city, at 9:00 p.m., hosted by lara spencer. and chris harrison. that's right here on abc. we'll be watching. >> thank you. it's a wonderful event. i'm looking forward to it. and atlantic city. here we go. >> one contestant. that's going to be a great show. the time has come. it's been a great week. >> it really has. >> "gma"-u. we know all of you are going back to school. we wanted to take you to ours and really join you at yours. and so, we've gone to colombia. we went to penn state. we went to heaven. we went to southeastern louisiana. and today, sammy, we're going to kentucky. >> that's right. i'll put this as the slice of heaven for me. it's gorgeous. entire roads wrapped with horse farms. gorgeous, white fences. exciting, happy faces. at eastern kentucky university, this is where i got to go to school. >> eku. let's go. eku. >> reporter: eastern kentucky university, my alma mater. right in the heart of gorgeous bluegrass country. a lot's changed since i walked along richmond road, except for the southern hospitality that this region is known for. >> welcome back, sam. >> welcome back, sam. my name's katie jackson. a broadcast student at eastern kentucky university. an intern at wkyp, just like you. come on. >> reporter: 16,000 students proudly attend eku. that's 3,000 more than during my days. located in historic richmond, kentucky, the town is maroon, with school pride. ♪ daniel boone was a man >> this stop, daniel boone, they say it's good luck to rub his toes. >> reporter: and daniel boone's good luck rubbed off on me. how does the rest of the campus look today? >> it's a little different since you were here. but all of the broadcasting classes are located in this building. come on. let's take a look. >> reporter: mac computers replace the typewriters i remember. while the tools may have changed, students' dreams sure are the same. >> i want to have my own radio show. >> i dream of being an anchor. >> i want to go into news anchoring and sports reporting. >> reporter: the eku wall of stars. wait. i never expected to be there. >> it's very important to have a alums like sam. having his picture there, showing they can get there from here. >> reporter: my dreams was to do tv news. most days after class, i drove north to lexington, to wkyt, where i interned in the sports department for anchor rob bromley, who is still there today. >> i can remember sam. it's a pretty good hand to have. maybe we chased him out of sports and into weather from what he learned here. it's gone pretty good for him. >> reporter: working in tv while in college, was an incredible opportunity. but when i wanted to take time for fun, i had some brothers who were ready to provide. >> hi, sam. >> reporter: my kappa alpha brothers made sure there was plenty of fun at school. a visit with members today shows, it's no different. even the house song is the same. ♪ she's my kappa alpha rose >> reporter: what about my old digs? >> does this look familiar? we found your old dormroom. we're going in. >> reporter: that would be palmer hall. sixth floor. i guess it's not an all-boys dorm anymore. >> hey. come on in. how does it look? >> reporter: that's it. but it sure looked a lot bigger when i lived there. >> six floor palmer is where it's at. >> reporter: campus pride is evident everywhere. but especially at the season opener football game. go, eku colonels. >> 10, 5, touchdown. >> reporter: i got to say, for college life, i can't believe it gets much better than this. >> eku. eku, let's go. eku. eku, let's go. eku. >> colonels football. that's a big deal. 22 championships, by the way. >> it was fun watching you watch that piece. that was beautiful. >> i didn't realize how much i missed it until just now. and it was a wonderful place to go. katie jackson, i know you got a lot of people up this morning. thank you so much for showing me the school. and good morning to you, katie. i mean, it looks just as beautiful. but a lot bigger than when i was there. >> well, thank you, sam. we're so happy that you came back to our campus. we really want you back. we love you so much. you're our idol. and we have a few gifts for you. we brought in some e.k. stuff. come here, guys. we have some presents. first off, we got you some eku flip-flops. >> perfect. >> a jersey. >> i love it. >> this is for you to hang into your office. >> oh, that's great. >> i got you a sunday best cd. it's a local band here. you're going to love it. >> okay. >> last but not least, "fifty shades of grey." something we read all the time on campus. >> lara will love that copy, as well. >> are you ready for this, sam? >> i'm ready. >> there you go. >> thank you, ma'am. good morning. i'm kristen sze. state lawmakers closed out their final session of the year early this morning by raising the california minimum wage. governor brown says he will sign the measure passed by the legislature that would raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour next july and then to $10 in january 2016. right now the state minimum wage is $8 an hour. lawmakers also aprovered a bill to let undocumented immigrants get driver's licenses. the licenses will include a special mark that indicates the person is not allowed to vote or get social services. supporters say it could make streets safer. speaking of being safe out on the roadways, let's check in with leyla gulen. >> yeah, save us from the scaffolding hanging over buildings. in san francisco, battery and clay we have lanes closed off there. expect delays due to scaffolding that is hanging over a building right now. we also have this, it's a three-car accident southbound 101 at popper avenue into redwood city. lots of backup in the northbound direction as well. kristen. all right, leyla, thank you. we welcome back. we're still in the 50s and 60s thanks to the cloud cover outside. but will eventually leave us. maybe a little longer than yesterday, that's going to leave temperatures below average once again for most of us. here's ♪ sunny day everything's "gma" ♪ ♪ on our way to where the can you tell me how to get ♪ ♪ how to get to 44th street [ cheers and applause ] >> sam champion, you can bob your head to. hey, "sesame street" came to us. we know how to get there today. george, on assignment. on his way to interview the president. robin on assignment, as well. great to have amy robach by my side. we have very special guests here this morning. look who it is, everybody. >> a new season of everybody's favorite children's show is starting on monday. so, will you say good morning, america, to everyone at home, guys? >> good morning, america. >> very good. >> cookie has been trying very hard to be patient because he's very excited about some special, special cookies lara has for him. >> did you make him special cookies? >> cookie, no. not the camera. oh, cookie. you were so good trying to be patient. >> there went the camera. we just lost the camera. >> there's a camera down. who is going to pay for that? do you mind if i cry on your shoulder? >> all right. cookie, it's going to be okay, grover. cookie, you will get the special cookies i made. >> can we have some? >> i'm hungry. >> they sound delicious. >> they do sound delicious if lara made them. she is the first lady of rock. sharon osbourne is here. she will sit down with us to talk about a brand-new children's book. and what it's like to run a famous family. >> this is one of my true favorites. unvarnished. >> she'll tell you what she's thinking. >> have you heard? britney spears on "gma." he's going to reveal the cover art of her upcoming single. she looks unbelievable on it. the superstar will be joining us exclusively next week. a megalive event on tuesday. she has a big announcement. and she's choosing to receive it only on tuesday. >> everything is supersecret. everything. >> we don't know anything. guys, come on over here. it's opini ee's been a huge wee tory johnson. >> congratulations. >> so excited. tory's book, "the shift," is so fantastic. 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>> 82. 87. 92. >> and there's a 92. there's a 72. also, very good. next map. we'll talk about what's going on elsewhere in the country, as well, today. here's the national map. there's going to be serious flooding rain in the area we highlighted all day long. on the east coast, we're nice and dry. coming out of the great lakes, all the way to the northeast. it's beautiful in the northwest. that's the weather around the na good morning. i'm mike nicco, even with the clouds lingering longer today, some minor warming is possible. look at the 80s inland, 70s around the bay and 60s at the coast and near 70 in san >> all that weather was brought to you by pronamle. count, who is next is. >> wow. >> go. >> thank you, count. james gandolfini's last leading role. the "sopranos" star, finds love in middle age. it's called "enough said." we have a sneak peek that has a dedication that reads, for jim. in an exclusive first look. we go behind the scenes of the new romantic comedy, "enough said," starring julia louis-dreyfus, as eva. a soon-to-be empty-nester. >> i am tough. >> reporter: who embarks on a blossoms romance, with fellow divorcee, albert, played by the late, great james gandolfini. one of his last roles. >> my ex-wife, she put it in a flowly box. >> reporter: the film looking at mid life relationships and the hiccups that can surface along the way. >> but my personal war and peace. >> reporter: gandolfini's role of albert, is a departure of his mob boss days. >> he's not that guy at all. he's a dear, thoughtful, sweet, compassionate, mild-mannered person. >> it's stupid. >> they don't know it. >> reporter: the film's director calls gandolfini's turn on screen unforgettable. >> they're adorable together. the size disparity is really kind of charming, too. he's like a bear. and he gets to hold her with his hand. >> reporter: that softer size. >> a classic. >> reporter: something gandolfini's fans will relish forever. >> really? >> reporter: scenes from a beloved talent. >> want to kiss? >> reporter: lost far too soon. >> yeah. >> reporter: that hits theaters. julia louis-dreyfus will talk about making the film with her dear friend james gandolfini monday. here, sharon osbourne, is talking book, career, family. thank you. ♪ at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. it's halloween time and disneyland is ours! going down! boo! with haunted mansion holiday... space mountain ghost galaxy, and wicked fun in both parks, the disneyland resort just got spookier! visit disneyland.com/halloween trick or treat. welcome back. sharon osbourne is a true renaissance woman. i sat down with her to talk about her book, her career, and her family. some call her the first lady of rock. but over the years, sharon osbourne has made a name for herself. her latest venture, a children's book. osbourne's first called "momma hook knows best." what was the process of writing it? >> it's trying to find the right balance of keeping little ones entertained and also giving a good message. >> reporter: one of your good friends, simon cowell, are you going to give him this book? >> absolutely. he's having a little boy, he says. >> reporter: what kind of dad do you think he'll be? >> he'll be a great dad. i think he'll love it and probably will have more many kids. >> i was the bravest and most beloved pirates. >> reporter: the book is based around a popular cartoon, where osbourne creates momma hook. you have some pirate in you. >> definitely. i think i am a pirate. i never live anywhere very long. i'm always traveling. >> reporter: she laughs. but it's true. osbourne works a lot. juggling being a talk show host, a talent show judge, a music manager and a mom of three. >> reporter: it is a family tradition, though. you all are working a lot. >> i think it was something that was imbred from ozzy and i. we were working at very young ages. it's a trait that we have installed in our children, a good work ethic. >> reporter: part of that ethic is ensuring her children work for what they earn. >> they work their butts off for what they get. they're not trust fund babies. they've never been the type to turn up at a club and say, i'm not a member here but do you know who i am? >> reporter: this year is a big one for the osbourne family. jack is preparing to waltz back into the limelight. jack is going to be on "dancing with the stars." >> he is. he never stepped a step in his life. >> were you surprised? >> no. he said he wanted a platform to inform people that if you have a disability or if you have m.s., you can still do things that everybody else can do. >> reporter: and her daughter, kelly, is soon to walk down the aisle. how involved are you in the planning? >> well, i love her for this. she's like, oh, mum. i can't be doing all these arrangements. and you have to do this and that. just do it and i'll turn up. i'm like, really? and she's like, yes. you just do it. i'm like, done. >> reporter: it's clear that osbourne is in a good space these days. but after battling colon cancer and undergoing a double-mastectomy. she has learned that what matters most is family. >> this being a celebrity. it never losts. but your family does. i think it's my greatest achievement and my greatest gift. coming up, guess what we have more fun with the gang from sesame street. [ cheers and applause ] meet lana from louisiana. we've had so much fun, haven't we, lana, today, with "sesame street" taking over. they have a lot of visitors, too, who come to "sesame street." can't get enough of them. cameron mathison paid a visit. ♪ one, two, three, four monsters walking across the floor ♪ ♪ i like counting oh, you will see ♪ >> reporter: every year, stars from all walks of fame bring the constellation to "sesame street." where the biggest names become plain, old big kids. ♪ the a, b, cs and you >> reporter: this year, elmo and the gang invited "gma" for a sneak peek behind the scenes, as everybody's favorite fuzzy friends teamed up with their celebrity counterparts. >> i'm happy that another cool guy came to "sesame street." >> my nickname was grover because i had skinny arms and a pot belly. >> your cute, little friend, grover. ♪ i'm going to keep my head up high ♪ >> reporter: the celebrities come to have fun. but that's not the only reason. >> i'm anna. >> and i'm abbi. >> and elmo's elmo. >> we're going to tell you about the word absorb. >> reporter: when stars come to visit sesame street, parents are more likely to tune in. and research shows that kids learn best when viewing with a parent. >> i got to meet a bear. >> i'm a tiger. i'm not a bear. >> reporter: clever humor aimed at parents may be one of the goals of these visits. but i quickly discovered that while all of these folks come in a professional capacity to help teach -- >> another one? >> yes. >> we have to go home at that point. >> reporter: they are, first and foremost, fans of "sesame street." >> i think it was one of the most fun days i've ever had. >> really? >> yes. >> reporter: for "good morning america," cameron mathison, abc news, los angeles. >> it is always great to have them. i want to see -- i got a chance to take sarina to "sesame street," as well. it was phenomenal. she interviewed elmo. a 3-year-old interviewing a 3-year-old. it was such fun. such fun. all led so wonderfully by caroline. she is senior vice president and executive producer of the iconic program. >> happy to be back. >> we saw -- what does it mean to you to have them visit "sesame street"? >> we've used celebrities from the very first season. and they're really an educational tool. if we can draw the parents in and they watch with their kids, we know the educational impact is deeper. it's all by design. >> and the theme for this year is self-control. and that's more than just behaving. >> it is. the self-regulation skills, they're foundational. and they're the core skills that kids get ready for cool. half of the kids who enter school don't have the skills. >> i want to say, cookie monster has been so wonderful. all morning long, practicing his patience. >> his self-control. >> his self-control. lara, you have a very special treat for a man who loves his cookie. cookie, i think the time has arrived. >> i'm so proud of you. i stayed up all night baking for you. this is a great lesson of self-control. and you deserve it, my friend. go ahead, go ahead. i guess he likes them. oh, he's licking the plate. >> self-control. self-control. we want to thank everybody for dropping by. i want to thank my trusty little assistant here, lana from louisiana. we want all of you to know, caroline's wonderful program, new season begins on monday. cannot wait for it. >> thank you. we're very excited. we'll be right back. again, a special thanks to our friends from "sesame street." lara making the cookies. great self-control from you. it's a bittersweet day for us today. we send off two of our finest into the world. russ fortier and mary flood are stepping away from the program they helped make so great. we're going to miss you both so very much. >> thank you. >> come back. as for all of you, thanks so much for joining us. have a great weekend. and we'll see you monday. warm up your home embracewith fall's finest. share all of your favorite t.j. finds... at a price worth posting. see the real deal. search hashtag maxxinista and see the brands people are scoring. t.j.maxx. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. this week, a super low price on breakfast. honey bunches of oats is only $1.88 a box. arrowhead water is just $3.33 a case. make it a triple scoop. dreyer's ice cream is just $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. only at safeway. could save youeen minutes or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids were actually a mistake? 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attack and gunfight at u.s. consulate in western afghanistan. attack happened near the town here and suicide bomber detonated explosives and damaged fence at the perimeter and taliban militant ran through them and began firing on consulate building. early reports indicate afghan translator and 5 of the attac attackers killed. 7 civilian were injured. keep mop toring that for you and continue to follow it on twitter at our web site. now to the fire in new jersey. >> leave in doubt the destruction south of lincoln avenue is complete. l as soon as this is over, we'll picower selves up and dust ourselves off and get back to work. >>reporter: that is governor christy talking about the jersey shore hammered by super storm sandy now experiencing more misery from the massive fire. it broke out along the boardwalk in sea side park today and spread. this is the same area definite stated when sandy hit nearly 1 year ago. work crew completed repair to the boardwalk destroyed by storm water just before memorial day now this. latest on the news. >>reporter: the thick black smoke choking the area and blacking out the board walk. scorching flames tearing through the symbol of the jersey shore rebirth. one part of the sea side boardwalk that survived super storm sandy almost a year ago destroyed. >> feel like i want to throw up. after all the evident time and resources we have put in to see this going on is just unthinkable. >>reporter: unthinkable and out of control. just block from his where the iconic roller coaster wept in the ocean last october. fire apparently started in frozen cuss tarred stand thursday afternoon storming upward outward. high winds carrying burning ember like these up and down the beach front. involving does he says of business ins the sea side park section. >> we see businesses destroyed that were built in the summer it's really sad. >>reporter: in a desperate effortñr they tear through plank of the newly rebuilt portion of the boardwalk trying to stop the flames from spreading further. >> that's where firefighters make the stand right now. >>reporter: time lapse video shows one of the businesses firefighters couldn't save. >> there it goes. oh, no. >>reporter: flames devouring this building. skel the only now unsettling name fun town. firefighters hope this rain will help them as they continue working to put out the flames. cause of the fire is still under investigation and while no one was seriously hurt this is still devastating end to what was supposed to be a comeback summer for the jersey shore. this is abc news sea side park new jersey. >> about state of emergency in colorado tonight. rain there is staggering. by one estimate a year worth in just one day. and millions are in the flood zone. here's clayton san del. >> the rain tonight is relen relentless. about non-stop soak stretching up and down colorado rocky mountain. by 6:00 o'clock this morning near lafayette enough to wipe away the road suddenly. >> got to the scene 3 cars in the water. >>reporter: two drivers rescued but one car was upside down. rescuers brave the rushing water attaching cable pulling the car up right and suddenly a happened appeared. man inside strapped aleif and under water for 1 hour. >> about cease opened the back door if we found him under water. >>reporter: as they hand him a life vest the car tumble. finally they pull him free. all the drivers injuries were minor. day luge washing out roads and train track causing dam to fail. cutting off rescue team from the town of james town and lions surrounded by massive wall of debris and water. >> we have lost roads w. we have lost bridges. we have lost homes. cars. and we are just now beginning to try to assess the scope of the damage. >>reporter: there are new evacuation tonight in the big thompson canyon. >> might seem like the threat is abating but that's not the case. >>reporter: many ignoring the warning getting dangerously close to the worst flooding here in decades. in boulder that screws had the wettest 24 hours on record neighbors pitch in for mostly funeral effort to save homes. he's pumping seven feet of water out of the basement. >> like a jet then if count and that was it. water. everywhere. >>reporter: cal fire late today confirms the cause of the fire on mount diablo. blaming the 3100 acre fire a target shooter. the investigation is ongoing. fire began sunday interclayton. now 95 percent contained with full containment expected tomorrow. >> potential danger discovery in federal be in richmond. 22 years after fatal outbreak of legionnaires disease swept through the building we learn the bacteria that can cause the disease is discovered there again. employee relevant understandably concerned. laura has the story you will see only on 7 news jeans. >> i feel in nervous. >>reporter: long time social security administration employee carol griffin one of hundreds federal workers in the building richmond who received word. bacteria was found inside the pl facility. >> we told it was in the men and women bathroom l on the fifth floor and in the base, somewhere in the basement. >>reporter: according to employee memo obtained by abc 7 news, testing done august 27th foundal positive reading for legionnella from water sampling. goes on to say the doyvrs ri of the bacteria would have no impact on health and safety of building employees. that assurance is of little consolation to long time mye like griffin who worked here in 1991 when outbreak of legionnaires disease killed one woman and sicken more than a dozen others. >> i think there is a reason to be concerned. i got 622 years ago and i think could get sick again. >>reporter: it's bacteria that cause legionnaires disease. severe lung infection which includes knew money yeah. another form called pontiac fever a milder illness without knew money yeah. according to spokeswoman raymond the bacteria boiled out of the building in the water system used in the rest room sink separate from the drinking water. in richmond, abc 7 new news. 12-year-old girl about report her mother had been stabbed to death in nap a.police arrested the woman husband. happened in the 2800 block of this avenue and suspect from-year-old carlos hernandez vega in front of the home holding a knife. the daughter was not physically injured. she is now with other family members. domestic workers in california could be in line for pay raise. state legislature voted to approve over time for worker housekeepers and home health aide but deal only temporary and the governor still needs to sign off on it. capitol correspondent annette now with the story from sacramento. >> it's not easy providing health care to the elderly or disable. hours are often long. sometimes requiring care gives to sleep in a nearby room. domestic workers are currently exempt from over time pay. >> we feel like we are not there will sometimes being abused. >>reporter: he has been a care give for seven years and has missed out on a lot of time and a half pay that is standard in other professor. what would you say is the longest shift you have ever worked with no over time. >> 24 hours. l we sleep there. then sometimes 5 days t.work 7 day. all straight. no day off without over time. >> all members vote. >>reporter: lawmakers gave final approval to temporarily give domestic workers lake housekeepers and health care aid over time pay in california. after nine hours a day or 45 hours a week. study will help determine whether to continue it after 2017. >> this is to make it clear domestic workers provide crucial back breaking work for health care and people living with disable. >>reporter: proposal water down to exclude babysitters and bill no longer mandate this but republicans worry about affordability. >> bill costly for those whether can't care for themselves. seniors and other frail camp answer depend on private home care service to avoid institution tlal. >>reporter: the message to the governor is don't veto the 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[ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. >> battle over naming bay bridge heats up. state lawmaker approve a plan to name the western span of the bridge after former san francisco mayor and speaker of the assembly will brown but before fv filing the paperwork to stop it in its track. more now from wayne. >>reporter: it is one kind of honor to get your own table by window at this store. but how about a bridge with your name on it? well, former san francisco mayor and speaker of the state house willie brown has both. >> i'll probably still call it the bay bridge. >>reporter: strong votes by both bracket of the calf legislature the span will be the willie l brown junior bridge. maybe. >> this isn't about willie it's about. >>reporter: public citizen bob plant filed a stay in superior court saying the legislature pulled this off by bending rules for its own convenience public be darned. >> they bent the rules f.they didn't do that they wouldn't have been able to consider thi this. >>reporter: for instance the nomination needed to come from san francisco. it didn't. nor were there any public hearings and there is more. >> about facility named afterme. >> people whom you think then you feel so inclined. i'll be darn if you can be dead. >> too much government. if willie was high profile. yes absolutely. if this was simpl simple. to say no to this and call attention to if what amounts to hypocracy on the part of the legislators. >>reporter: years ago william shakespeare pose the question about a road what is in a name? in 2013 it's safe to say that is what used to be the bay bridge has become sweet for one man and stink for i.everything i have ever done in life is generated protest. that means it's quality. >>reporter: in san francisco wayne, abc 7 news. >> shasta county 68 homes destroyed by the clover fire double than earlier thought. the fire began monday in happy valley and now 65 percent contained. one resident in the middle of it all and took out camp are and started reporting. fichlt almost like being inside of a hurricane of fire. fichlt we thought the wind was moving it this way right in front of us and it just shifted and came right at us. fichlt tree falling right notch hair on the arm holding the camera started to like curling up and zing my hair. >>reporter: incredibly dangerous. flames were so intense people were struggling to leave. he started guiding thos and him and telling other homeowners to evacuation 8. i said throw it in and go. grab essential. grab family photo and pr papers and leave. >> there is not much left after the fire. he can relate. years ago fire destroyed his home as well. >> air traffic controller in washington international airport taken to the hospital after light anything hit the control tower. at least 5 lightning strike hit the air field knocking out communication and suspended flips for hours. another regional facility temporarily handled air traffic. airport tweet add picture of a plane waiting at the gate. the worker touched generator panel that wasn't grounded correctly just as lightning hit the generator and knocked him to his knee and left his arm and leg numb. we are told that he is doing okay tonight. runway completely reopen later this evening. >> we have seen crazy weather around the country experience. >> about really, really calm and quiet here but flooding in colorado. severe flooding. about warnings until sunday and this in sierra but we are if looking at this. sky inland and pattern in the bay area this is afternoon in the early evening thunderstorms rumble over lake tahoe just start to taper off in the last couple hours. time lapse view of the thunderstorm clouds over lake tahoe this afternoon from our heavenly camera and you can see quite active weather pattern but not active throughout the weather. quiet from the roof top camera across embarcadero, bay bridge. temperatures 59 degrees in san francisco. 62 at oakland redwood city. 64, 64 also in los gatos. 63 san jose. 59 hath moon bay. another live view from the camera back at what you can see of the sky line in san francisco with low cloud fog moving in. we have readings of 60 degrees santa rosa, 61 at napa and novato. 70 antioch and low to mid 60's at concord and livermore. live view of the bay bridge from emeryville in the east bay. forecast feature area of fog and locally inland warmer conditions most areas tomorrow and cooler pattern beginning on sunday. water vapor satellite image shows calm and quiet conditions in the bay area right now but there are little active system around us and the one that is really going to have an effect on our weather is low system in the gulf of alaska into the pacific northwest. not directly over the bay area but enough of a trough in the jet stream to feel cooler coming in by sunday. a little pre-fall preview of that cooling down. temperatures won't drop sliing but feel much is cooler more autumn like right now. low clouds fog at the coast and locally across the bay area inland. low pressure generally in the low 60's so pretty mild overnight. tomorrow our little warm-up continues and south bay high pressure upper 70's at santa clara and sunnyvale mid 80's at morgan hill and gilroy. peninsula upper 70's and he had wood city and mount view mid upper 60's on the coast at pacifica and a half moon bay. downtown san francisco high of 70 tomorrow. 67 in the sun set district. low to mid yits across most of the north bay from santa rosa to nap a.east bay high 73 at oakland. 74 hayward. newark sfichblingts inland east bay high in the mid to upper 80's. here's accu-weather 7 day forecast. >> 2 nasty warm days coming our way tomorrow saturday. upper 80's inland. manipulateder 70's around the bay. temperatures drop-off couple degrees on sunday and hold the steady pattern remainder of next week with virtually no change at all in the temperature pattern. >> inform rain to speak of. >> no rain at all. not yet. but we are approaching fall in 10 days so fichlt wet pattern could develop any time. >> thanks expense near still to come on 7 news at 9:00 p.jk rowling returns to harry potter for new film. >> exposing tattoo ♪ (woman) this place has got really good chocolate shakes. 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grew up in small alabama town. son of baptist school teacher and syrian father. what he calls the privileged life of an american child. jeans about you school team prom dates but by the aim of 22 he had come to hate his country. had moved to somalia where he joined this group. >> started in afghanistan. >>reporter: his flamboyant video glamorize terror put him at odds with other group leaders who vow to kill him. >> my life may in danger. >> in the end marked by death by fellow terrorists. brian ross abc news. >> federal government is launc launching new smart phone app to help catch fugitive child molestors. it's called operation predator. vick lee shows us how it work. >> open up the new smart phone april 1st mug you see. kevin trap is a 37-year-old paramedic once lived in the bay area. he disappeared last year after being indicted on child pornography charges. >> he is responsible for distribution of over 700 images and some video of child sexual exploitation. >>reporter: this page lists all fugitives pictures and pack ground ice hopes some one will know where they are. app makes it address for the person to contact investigators. you can either text on line or press the button which allows you to phone in the tip. the agency has already had success using social media to capture fugitives. in monterey ice arrested the child molesting after facebook photo. >> tips came flooding in and we were able to app rehenl the person. >>reporter: authorities hope the app will help find registered sex offenders who fail to check in with local police. the trouble is many are homeless and finding them is difficult. >> if you went through megan law and look searching for the people they wouldn't show newspaper designated area. >>reporter: last month the task force wept into encampment in san jose guadalupe river looking for 20 fugitives. only find a handful. also on this john dough whose identity are unknown. investigators first saw this man in video seven years ago. hoping the new app will lead to a name and his arrest. this is abc 7 news. >> more than 2 dozen disable veteran celebrating in yosemite tonight. 30 vets mark anniversary of the september 11 tragedy by climbing the summit to the most iconic with half dome and el captain. event sponsored by yes might natural park and pair docks sports non-profit organization with emphasis on adaptive sports. >> good news for california sea otter population. annual gee logical survey finds there's a slight increase in the number of oughters off the coast. the increase since last year and researchers say the increase is because of the record number of pup scientist say is encouraging for the population growth of oughters. california sea otter listed as threatened species in 1977. >> things not looking good for oracle team usa in the america's cup. kiwi 3 win away from withining whole thing making them nearly impossible to catch. heather has today action. >>reporter: team usa running out of time. >> we still have a couple of options with the boat. but we will make changes. in the day off. a little bit depend on the becomes but we will be pretty aggressive now. >>reporter: the kiwi were out in force. they would not be disappointed as they extend their lead by 2 more races. now having won 6 they need 3 more to take the cup back down under for the first i'm in 18 years. >> 2 more points so long way to goyshtion the skipper deen packer says 3 more races mate not sound like much but it's still a lot of hard work ahead. taking nothing for granted. team usa hoped to switch tack titions. san rafael made an error and replaced with those who fare know better today. skipper says there are still more changes possible to the boat itself. >> we can not give up. i can guarantee won't did that. keep fateing the whole which to the end. still a lot of racing. still convinced we can win races. >>reporter: if wash in red white blue fans from both teams. we asked this couple if why they think new zealand is winning. >> if all boat mechanic and they are whipping our pwutd. >> about there are so many of us on the oracle boat. >>reporter: next round of races comes saturday. this is abc 7 news. >> coming up at 9. new method of hip replacement surgery that claimants to get you back on your feet faster than ever before. before. >> life imitatesunbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? a little. 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(announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. situation. coming up at 11:00. fire nearly out but the work continues this evening. what crew are doing right now to prevent the mountain diablo fire from causing even more damage this winter. >> last minute sensitivity less sochbility administrators at one bay area hay school saying after cancelling a dance just a day before that event. >> tough lesson. larry here now with sports for us. >> first place athletic finish up the 3 game series this afternoon. increasing the lead over texas they the very upcoming weekend in arlington. stvl they celtsed for 8. capping off a 4 run third evening triple to center and help from alex presley. and a's more than enough for aj griffin. 7 innings. 8 strike out. pedro on there in the third. that is in and out a flash. 11th of the year and if he's healthy coming down the stretch they win and new 3 and a half games up on texas head fooing this weekend 3 game series. giants in l.a. to face the dodgers on magic johnson bobble head night. little magic. second writ that the wall but can't get to it. giants and defense falters. aj ellis and matt 3s away a sure double play. juan advances to third on the error and score. l.a. take the lead in the seventh. he doubles to the gap. 2 outs. and man at third. right now dodgers leading 2-1 and they are in the eighth. on to the nfl as if the seahawks need incentive against the 49ers on sunday. 49ers running back dixon is in the headlines with short sweet little tweet extra weight on the rack all week getting less sleep preparing for the she hawk. i love hostile environment. feel right at home. it's hostile. rice reply. l o l seahawks i'll be sure to relay the message to the fella. long nature for you and the 40 wineers. both of these tweet have been deleted. thankfully. niners like play off game. high scoring hard hitting a little extracurricular stuff out of bound. perfect 8 and home last year in seattle and the fans prepared to give the 9 they ar are. >> be ready to play when time to play and so just a matter of being ready and we know they are ready and we are at their place and always play really well at home with the crowd noise and just important if i any team to win at home. we are anticipating our best game. >> last december the seahawks defense did great job of about containing kaepernick in the offense. they stuffed the run allowing 82 yards on the ground in the game. former stanford cardinal sherman talkative fellow. if need to do it again on sunday night. >> incredible consistent run game. that's the bread and butter. they run a lot of my action. run a lot of play action pass because the running game so potent. once we stopt running game containment it was about cholesterol on everything else. >> thursday nature football jets patriots first series tom brady great play fake and wide open aaron dobson for 39 yard touch down. heavy rain hath time made for low scoring second half. traffic weather together on the 7. jets get within field goal in the third and powell take it in from 3 yards out. smith late run. interceptd with 48 seconds left. that was the third pick of the gym and then l men being men at the end. scuffling. patriots now 2 and o. 13-10 victory. fired up about the highlight. it's over unless somebody thinks the new zealand yacht kiwi capture america cup 2 more race today's and they were not even close. oracle made a move before the race replacing tack tition with if ben aimsly. things good looking good for oracle at the start. grab early lead up by 9 second at mark one but if leg 2 and 3 kiwi take control once again. catch and pass oracle. they won by 47 seconds in the first race today. then on to race no. 7 utter domination from the kiwi. skipper deen bark erwins the start and then the cruise into victory in all 5 leg. by a minute and 6 seconds. that is like winning by a mile. they need 3 more wins to take the cup. oracle basically desperate at this point. they need 10 victory. they are not get anything where close. >> first round championship of the fedex cup play off. tiger woods 3 back of the lead. one birdie on 9 for 5 under 66. the open a roll here with 7 straight birdie. no bogey. 8 under 63. on 17 there with a one shot lead. >> looking good rate now. >> if tonight they went through a slump few week ago. they have got and texas and they are riding high. >> perfect timing. >> we'll see. up by 3 and a half games head nag a weekend series sought a's pretty good shape right now. >> all right larry thanks for joining us for 7 news. for all of us here, we hope to see you of us here, we hope to see you on 7 at 11:00. mac: okay, it's 2:30 on a wednesday, philadelphia, pa. hello, america. mac here with another installment of project badass. as you can see, the ramp is about 40 feet down there.
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"nightly news" begins now. good evening from seaside heights, new jersey, on the boardwalk. the rubble behind us represents one of the disasters we are covering as we come on the air this friday evening. we'll have more in a moment on what happened here behind us and this compound tragedy now along the new jersey shore. first tonight, however, our attention is focused to the west in the reeockies. a desperate situation truly in and around boulder, colorado. a rising death toll, rising water. people both stranded and listed as missing. sadly, no stop to the water. nbc's miguel almaguer is in boulder tonight to start us off from there. miguel, good evening. brian, good evening. this is the boulder creek. tonight it is a raging river. it is torrents like this that claimed at least four lives. some 80 people are unaccounted for. while the rain here has stopped for now, the threat, the danger has not. surrounded by surging rapids, several communities along colorado's front range are islands. locals pleading for help he any way they can. >> an hour ago that road was there. >> reporter: a harrowing rescue at big thompson canyon. emergency crews used a zip line to bring this woman to safety. the national guard deployed to evacuate the town of lions. 1600 people trapped by rising water. are you happy to be on dry land, safe? >> yeah. >> reporter: 9-year-old alexandria, her mom and s siblings. >> you're trapped. >> reporter: with damage as farce as the eye can see, many remain trapped, some unaccounted for. holly stetson is worried. she hasn't heard from her father. >> we are anxious to get any word and see if he's okay. >> reporter: this is the reason why the national guard can't reach so many residents. roads have literally been washed away. this afternoon, helicopters became air bus withes. the governor says the flood stretches 130 miles. >> even just a foot and a half of water can knock people over. if possible, stay off the roads. >> reporter: in a university town, not everyone listens. with nearly a year's worth of rain in a single day, cities like longmont face an historic and catastrophic flood. some creeks and rivers are running 50 times above normal. evacuees got out any way they could. >> i had three boat rides, one surfboard, motorboat and a th canoe. we found lindsay looking at the road. >> it was absolutely terrifying. >> we were lucky to get out. my neighbor two doors down is missing. >> reporter: they rounded up molly, mr. fin and dr. watson as he took a last look at his home. what do you do now? >> well, one step at a time. >> reporter: tonight flowers is safe but worried as new storm clouds move in. miguel almaguer, nbc news, boulder, colorado. this is joe prior in commerce city where rising flood waters forced an entire neighborhood to quickly flee yesterday, leaving a modest pile of sandbags to protect bonnie's home. >> we had to carry the kids out on our back. we took maybe a set of clothes, panties and socks. we were just saturated. >> trying to get dried out. >> reporter: when she returned today her worst fears were realized. >> that much. >> reporter: that much water? the flood drenched many things including precious family photos. >> my kids, grandkids, yeah. no flood insurance. wasn't even in a flood zone. >> reporter: across town a dam breach prompted more evacuations. after the dam broke, this berm took over. this is what's keeping a massive amount of water -- 20 feet deep -- from rushing into the town down below. still, as a precautious, one neighborhood remains off limits. a similar scene in many community where is the weber home returned home to salvage items. >> what's weird is being told you can't go into your house. >> reporter: businesses are under water including david hayes auto body shop which employs ten people. >> my blood and guts are in here. i'm worried. >> reporter: usually homecomings are a reason tole celebrate. >> i don't know. >> reporter: tonight across colorado, too many homecomings are filled with a flood of heartache. joe friar, nbc news, commerce city, colorado. >> a big problem for those folks tonight. it's not like the source of the water is just going to turn off. weather channel meteorologist mike seidel is among our team members in boulder tonight. mike, i saw you first thing this morning. the water behind you was much closer to the roadway on that overpass. that has to be at least a small victory. >> yeah, it has tom down, brian. boulder creek in the middle runs at one to two feet. much more like a trickle. it crested at eight feet. it's come down today, but it's roaring through town. this is what happens in a city that averages about 20 the inches of rain in a year. picks up 75% of that in just a few days. now, there are more showers and thunderstorms in the forecast over the weekend across new mexico, hard hit today, and colorado. some of the rainfall totals could be another two to three inches. rain chance is pegged at about 50%. there could be localized flash flooding. early next week the atmosphere will dry out, the pattern will dry out. a state that's gone through horrible fires in recent years it snuffs out the fire danger and puts a big dent in a horrible drought. brian? >> mike seidel in boulder, colorado, tonight. thanks. let's bring it back to where we are standing tonight. you hear perhaps the off and on drown of television helicopters above us. for those of us who can trace childhood memories to this boardwalk and this stretch of shoreline generally, it was hard to watch pictures of yesterday's fire and not think we were watching the death of something great, at least a small piece of a great american summer tradition. we are in seaside heights tonight, just over the border from seaside park. behind us the scene of yesterday's inferno which at its height looked like a fire from another era, back how they used to burn before the days when firefighting equipment was invented. once it started there was little to stop it. it tore through the boardwalk like a blowtorch, whipped by 30 miles an hour winds, fuelled by old timbers and the tar on rooftops. it burned for hours, destroying more than 50 businesses. governor chris christie rushed to the scene and upon arrival said what a lot of people here were thinking. >> i feel like i want to throw up. >> reporter: it's a visceral feeling because of what they have been through here. >> we are now overlooking some of the damage. >> reporter: this was the place the whole world saw after sandy. it's where the jetstar rollercoaster ended upstanding alone in the water. it was ripped to pieces, but they launched a huge public works project and they rebuilt in time for this past summer. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: governor christie was here to cut the ribbon. he showed us around and was proud to show off a place getting up and running. >> i'm focused on rebuilding. >> reporter: the very spot we stopped to talk with the governor back then was destroyed yesterday. tim hussy re-opened his french fry stand after sandy and last night was forced to watch it burn. >> it is flattened, wrecked, gone. it's a goner. there is nothing left. >> reporter: after sandy, john vertarosa put out a sign reading boardwalk open. after the fire, the sign was all that's left. >> makes me wonder if i was bragging too much. >> reporter: police chief tommy boyd who was a local hero during sandy for the number of people he rescued told us today the fire was a body blow. >> we're taking a beating. this isn't fair. i'm waiting for the frogs and locu locusts. it feels like something out of the bible. it's heart-wrenching. >> reporter: everybody here had a story and remembrance today, even if it was reminiscing about a favorite grandson and his favorite ice cream order. >> he gets orange sherbet and vanilla mixed from the ice cream place. you know, it's just a piece gone. >> reporter: the fire started near the coors ice cream stand. the cause is not the yet known. it could have been far worse. this fire was stopped only after a hail mary pass by firefighters. >> we had a lot of very brave people risking their lives. >> reporter: they used heavy equipment to cut away a 25-foot section of the new boardwalk, a fire break just like fighting a forest fire. but the fire was moving too fast. it skipped over it, so they cut another fire break a block away. that one held. >> they had drawn a line in the sand and said this is where we are going to stop it. >> reporter: this storied place faces another season of rebuilding, another mountain to climb. >> seaside is strong. we have to re build. >> it's going to be hard. you know, any time you get knocked down. >> reporter: by the way, volunteer firefighters in this part of the world were all equal in this fight. 400 of them last night. and the rallying cry in this area, we are stronger than the storm. as you will see later nobody mentioned a storm and then a fire. turning overseas now, we continue to follow the syria story. president obama made it clear today any agreement on chemical weapons must be verifiable as the u.s. and russia continue their work on this plan to re move those weapons from syria somehow. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is in geneva for us again. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. after two days of talks, some of it tense and lasting until midnight just before we came tonight, officials claimed progress. specifically, they have narrowed differences over the amount of chemical weapons that assad has in his stockpiles. headed over here on the plane a top official said that would be a credit i call test of whether the russians were serious. it's important they agree on how much there is and where it is before inspectors can collect and destroy it. the president said again today that any agreement has to be verifiable and enforceable. but the administration knows the russians will veto any u.n. resolution that threatens force. officials say there are other ways the u.n. can punish assad, and they point out the president is not taking his military option off the table. kerry and lavrov are expected to agree on a shorter timeline for u.n. action on assad's chemicals. weeks not months as assad has been demanding. on monday the u.n. inspectors report back on the chemical massacre with circumstantial evidence, i'm told, but no hard proof tying it to the regime. brian? >> as they say, the whole world is watching. andrea mitchell in geneva again for us. still ahead for us this evening, some people are shocked. others are just pretending to be. nascar has a scandal on its hands with all the thrills and chills you would expect. and up and away. one man's flight of fancy. the goal -- europe on 300 balloons, just like in the movies. r eas you age... would you take it? well, there is. 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tonight oakland police looking for the gunmen who opened fire outside a popular hotel and injuring a cabdriver. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. they #r* hosting the ohio state football team in town to play cal and alan wang is there. >> shots rang out just as an abc sports anchor was about to go live in front of the marriott hotel in oakland. the camera captured this man run frght scene and police believe he may be a suspect. an ohio state football fan arrived to a crime scene outside their hotel. it is where the buckeye football team is also staying. there were two shooters firing at each other and a stray bullet struck a cabdriver at the taxi stand. >> when i heard the shot i went downright here by the tire. he was screaming call 911 i got shot. >> the cabdriver was standing in this spot when the bullets rang out from broadway. he was shot in the back of the thigh. one of the bullets struck the wall right here. there are at least three other bullet holes on the side of the marriott. the buckeye fans we spoke to seemed unphased. unphased. >> it is like any city, any place. >> it is an unfortunate state, our culture, i guess. it is something that can happen at anywhere, anytime. >> shootings are rare in the heart of downtown oakland. now they are examining hotel surveillance cameras and trying to identify the suspects. in oakland, alan weng, abc7 news. >> not since the bart strike of 1979 have managers taken the controls of bart trains. bart's top leaders say that's one of the options they are considering if the bart workers strike next month. sergio is live near the oakland bridge tonight. the bay bridge rather with what this could mean for commuters. sergio? >> anyone that has traveled over the newly reopened bridge says it is a nightmare getting to an on-ramp lately. contract negotiations are continuing, but if there is a bart strike obviously traffic throughout the bay area is going to be even worse. today one of bart's top managers said commuters should be planning just in case. the back up heading to the bay bridge has been extending well into the night lately and for drivers stuck in the afternoon commute, the prospect of another bart strike is unsettling. >> it was awful. i think it took me about an hour to get on to the bridge. >> you couldn't get out of the building. it took 10, 15 minutes to get out of the parking garage and bart wasn't working. >> right now the bart trains are running, but contract negotiations are contentious. >> if there is a strike we think the public will look at bart and say what are you doing to try to provide some type of skeletal train service. we want to be able to present to our board an option that includes limited service. >> that hasn't happened since 1979. back then trains with managers at the controls got rolling in the last weeks of a three-month strike. almost immediately after bart raised that option today, union leaders quickly raised the warning flags. >> i would be extremely concerned if they are thinking of running and having the managers run the trains. passenger safety is paramount and that would be compromised if they chose to do that. >> training behind the controls takes four months and managers could only start that training if there is a walkout. they are looking to charter more buses than were used in the strike earlier this summer. but with 28 days left until this cooling off period ends, bart managers are smacking contin general -- are making contingency plans. >> we encourage people to plan ahead and think about carpooling and flex hours and tele commuting. >> bart and the unions return to the bargaining table on monday to begin talks on the big issues, salaries and benefits. abc7 news. >> and this monday night drivers in san francisco will have to deal with an extra traffic headache. the on-ramp will be closed at 8:00 p.m. the on-ramp will re-open before the morning commute at 5:30 in the morningment the work is part of the central subway project which opens in 2019. a fremont police officer responding to a call rammed into a motorcyclist tonight and it turns out the injured rider also works for fremont pd. 2 happened about a block from american high school on fremont boulevard. that's where ama dates is live with the story for us. ama? >> carolyn, the northbound lanes of fremont boulevard were shutdown for six hours. they just reopened at 10:00. the newark police department is leading the investigation as they work to determine what caused the fremont officer to run into the motorcycle. tow truck operators struggled to remove a motorcycle embedded in the front end of a fremont police cruiser. 2* happened just before 4:00 p.m. as they responded to a non-emergency call. >> the police car struck the back of the motorcycle. the motorcycle rider was thrown to the ground. the motorcycle impacted the back of the truck. >> the six-year veteran of fremont pd happened to hit a fellow employee, a 29-year-old woman who worked for the department for about 18 months. >> it was scary. there was radiator fluid dripping everywhere. >> lori joe stevens is a waitress at dino's family restaurant and she saw the woman lying on the ground. we didn't see any blood or anything so we assumed that she was physically okay. they did take off her helmet after the paramedics arrived. she was moving her fingers and her hands. >> the woman was taken to the hospital for serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. the pick up truck driver and the officer were not hurt. in fremont, abc7 news. >> in the meantime, transit police in oakland are investigating collision between a bus and compact car with a family of three inside. it happened before 7:00 near fifth 1k3 brush streets. a bus ran the red light and hit a car that was turning left according to the people in the vehicle. >> the passenger side of the car , my wife -- when the light turned green she went. like she said, the guy went through the red light and the car spun around. stopped, the kid was screaming. gite driver of the compact said the bus driver came to her and apologized. the couple's 7-year-old daughter was taken to the hospital for observations. we think she will be just fine. new at 11:00, a warning for students and staff at stanford after a woman was tackled jogging on campus. she was running on the lake path just before 9:00 p.m. a man grabbed her and pulled her to the ground. she did manage to get away. police have a vague description of the man about 5 foot 6 wearing dark pants and a dark sweatshirt. a manhunt is underway in elsa -- in el cerrito as a man attacked a woman texting on her cell phone. the victim was walking under the bart station. this is the man police say punched the victim in her head several times and pinned her arms against her body. a nearby resident heard the victim cry off and scared off the attacker. he is described as in his 20s and about 5 foot 6 with stuby facial hair. full containment of the fire on mount diablo is expected tonight. officials say it cost $4.5 million to fight the fire. some crews are still moping up and patrolling the fire perimeter. authorities believe it was started by target shooting on sunday afternoon. it has burned 3100 acres at this point, but no structures were destroyed. new developments on the peninsula. a life saving warning system is back up and run. -- back up and running. the repairs to upgrade the system starts in august. it accelerated after officials discovered three of the eight sirens were working properly. the new system is able to broadcast voice messages in assisted of just a siren. it you ever -- covers a 30-mile stretch. beginning next month, restaurants in san francisco will have to stop using plastic bags for takeout and delivery. on october 1st, the plastic bag ban will expand. supermarkets and pharmacies have been forced to comply. restaurants will charge 10 cents for paper or compostable bags that will apply even to takeout sandwiches. right now the city is reaching out to restaurants reminding them the change is coming on october 1st. it is not over yet. next on abc7 news, month are rain and more flooding for colorado. entire towns cutoff by raging waters. and the number of missing people continues to climb. >> and what caused a massive fire that destroyed part of nerming new jersey's historic boardwalk. why they are calling the smoldering rubble a crime scene. >> and why the 49er fans may want to pack some earplugs. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. we have fog out there right now and we will look at your weekend wake up weather and when out of colorado. the number of people unaccounted for has risen to more than 170 as the state deals with heavy rain and deadly flooding. despite many rescues, hundreds are still cutoff from help. abc news reporter brandy hit is in boulder where people are bracing for more rain. >> water, weaver everywhere as far as the eye can see. these firefighters braved waters raging over their windshield to get to those who need help. in big thompson canyon, this man defied a wall of water to open the involves on the flood gates. farm are a wash leaving cattle marooned and a horse tethered in a pasture and now looks lost at sea. the day luge tossed around these trailers as though they were toys in a bathtub. tws too much for railways, highways and for many homes. >> the neighbor's house fell off and what was a little creek fell off and got swept away. there was just pieces of houses and appliances floating down. >> thousands have been evacuated. >> i have never seen it rain so hard. >> in estes park they use the zip line to save trapped residents. this man was pulled from his home after it was buried in mud. >> i was able to get him some water and a blanket. >> they can't get out and we can't get in. >> and authorities are bracing for more. >> we still have forecasts for flash flood warnings. we could very well be back in the same condition we were yesterday. this is a wait and see game. >> with raging floodwaters taking outen tear roads, the national guard is using four helicopters for medical evacuations and to deliver humanitarian aid. abc news, boulder, colorado. >> abc news has learned that the huge fire that destroyed much of the jersey shore boardwalk was considered suspicious. it broke out in a frozen custard shop. the flames driven by 30 mile-an-hour winds quickly spread destroying dozens of businesses. they called the ruins a crime scene. the boardwalk was painstakingly built after being battered by superstorm sandy. chris christie vowed that the boardwalk will rebuild again. well, this may have happened to you. you may have noticed it. some wells fargo customers say they are having trouble accessing their accounts. dozens took to the facebook page saying they could not pay their bills or withdraw money. one customer said he couldn't deposit his check and didn't get a receipt and couldn't take any money out. wells fargo admits there are issues affecting some customers, but didn't offer specifics. california health officials are warning not to eat an imported candy that can be dangerous. the latest batch of sugar candy tested at . 22 parts per lead. that's more than double to be considered contaminated. throw it out immediately. they import the candy from india and the recalled packages are 7 ounce and have a label that says batch number 12030. tonight google wants to know why one of its street view drivers crashed into a bus and then tried to leave the scene. it happened in inindonesia. the car which has a camera mounted on top of it slammed into a bus and then the driver panicked apparently and started to drive away only to hit another bus. it is unclear if anyone was hurt, but there was some damage to the google car. the tech giant is working hard with local police. sunday's game between the niners and the seahawks could be one of the loudest ever. a group of seahawks fans will try to break the guinness world record for loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium. the current record is a booming 131.76 decibels and that was set during a turkish soccer match two years ago. in comparison, a rock concert is 115 decibels. the human ear starts to feel pain at 125 decibels . and the bay bridge has a new honor. it is the widest bridge in the world. here is a live picture of the span from our emeryville camera. it measures 258 and a third feet wide. it now surpasses the portman bridge which is 213 feet wide. it is actually quite wide. >> spectacular really. let's get a check on our weekend forecast now. >> sandhya patel is here with the accu-weather forecast. >> dan and carolyn, the weekend is looking great, and if you have been waiting for cooler weather and possibly some rain, you may just get it. a week from today live doppler 7hd right now is showing you how foggy it is along the coast. as we take you closer the fog has crossed the san francisco bay into hayward and oakland and fremont right now and pretty gray skies. here is a view st -- a view of the fog. 56 in san francisco and 59 in oakland and sictz for redwood city and san jose and los gatos, 57 and foggy. from our roof camera you are looking at the overcast skies and here are your temperatures. 57 in santa rosa and 60 in napa and still olding on to the warmth from earlier. antioch 71 and concord 60. the highs today were in the upper 50s at the coast to the low 90s inland. we had our summer microclimates. you can see the visibility is just fine right now. the fog near the coast and the bay and mild to warm again tomorrow and we are looking at it to turn cooler for your sunday. here is a look at the morning. foggy for your early plans this weekend and it is just the bay and the coast. for the afternoon sunshine for most of the bay area. 70s, 80s, coast side, some lingering fog with 60s. typical, not so typical a little early start and we are expecting the possibility of rain as we head into friday. a chance of rain in about a week as the cold front comes in. we usually get our first rain unofficially here on halloween. we may see it a little sooner. we'll keep an eye on that and the radar is tracking it. tomorrow morning foggy around the coast and bay as i mentioned. mid50s to low 60s. if you have early plans you may want to grab the extra layer. tomorrow afternoon, 79 in the south bay in san jose and a sunny day in santa clara. on the peninsula, upper 70s palo alto and redwood city. 62 on the coast and pacifica and not much changing in the mission district. 68 downtown san francisco and you will see lingering fog. coast side 60s and most of the rest of the area in the 80s except sausalito. 91 clear lake so you are above the fog layer. head out toward the east bay and your temperatures will be close to average. 71 in oakland and 75 newark. inland 88 in fairfield and 86 in livermore. now if you are head together raiders game, this sunday they are taking on the jaguars. mild weather, mid60s at 1:00 and climbing up to the low 70s as we head into the latter part of the game. beautiful weather for the weekend. even beyond that. accu-weather seven-day forecast showing you just minor ups and downs until friday where it is cooler. 70s in the warmest inland valleys and we may be talking about shower possibility or rain possibilities. he is like, i don't believe you. >> larry is the doubter. >> he is the skeptic. >> we believe you. >> i will keep you posted. >> things worked out well for the a's tonight. >> it was a little tight. the skeptics doubted it. >> you make the call here. this was the difference in tonight's fight for first ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ with our new, improved peanut butter chewy bars. it is the showdown for first place on top of the al west. they are 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on to win it a score of 4-2. for years he was known as mr. mr. 59. the first man to shoot a 59 in a pga tour event and jim furyk did it today. round two this illinois. furyk played the back nine first. his second shot on the par 415 and pure perfection for eagle. he needs a birdie for 59. how about this approach? yeah. rolls is it in for the 11th birdie and that is a 59. a feet accomplished by six players in history. furyk is tied for the lead. it is floyd mayweather versus alvarez in vegas. i feel like i need to do ab ripper x tonight. the biggest gross pay per view in history. he is younger and stronger, but what about his preparation? >> are you ready? >> i was born ready. >> i like his confidence. high school football and head coach there and next to the old boss are to the spartans. chris williams dumps it off to antoine custer and we are hoping this is not custer's last stand. he is tremendous. 57 yards as at the la salle continues with a 151 game win streak. 40-13 is your final. abc7 sports brought to you by riverwalk casino. again. >> thanks, larry. a short-term solution. >> next, hear how this father used his fashion sense to teachers and his daughter a or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. this week, a super low price on breakfast. honey bunches of oats is only $1.88 a box. arrowhead water is just $3.33 a case. make it a triple scoop. dreyer's ice cream is just $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. wake up weather. temperatures in the 50s and 60s. lisa argen is here tomorrow at 5:00 a.m. dan and carolyn? >> thanks, sandhya. a a utah father made his own fashion statement to urge his teenage daughter to dress more modestly. they cutoff a pair of jeans and turned them into his own daisy dukes. >> scott mcintosh came up with the fashion statement after his 19-year-old daughter refused to wear longer shorts during the weekly family 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>> crazy kids. thank you for watching abc news. our friend at "gma" will have the latest in the morning. sunday don't miss george's exclusive interview with president obama. we're always on line at abcnews.com. see you back here monday. >> announcer: every day, more americans choose abc news. america's number one news source. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ with our new, improved peanut butter chewy bars. tonight oakland police looking for the gunmen who opened fire outside a popular hotel and injuring a cabdriver. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. they #r* hosting the ohio state football team in town to play cal and alan wang is there. >> shots rang out just as an abc sports anchor was about to go live in front of the marriott hotel in oakland. the camera captured this man run frght scene and police believe he may be a suspect. an ohio state football fan arrived to a crime scene outside their hotel. it is where the buckeye football team is also staying. there were two shooters firing at each other and a stray bullet struck a cabdriver at the taxi stand. >> when i heard the shot i went downright here by the tire. he was screaming call 911 i got shot. >> the cabdriver was standing in this spot when the bullets rang out from broadway. he was shot in the back of the thigh. one of the bullets struck the wall right here. there are at least three other bullet holes on the side of the marriott. the buckeye fans we spoke to seemed unphased. unphased. >> it is like any city, any place. >> it is an unfortunate state, our culture, i guess. it is something thahappen at can happen at anywhere, anytime. >> shootings are rare in the heart of downtown oakland. now they are examining hotel surveillance cameras and trying to identify the suspects. in oakland, alan weng, abc7 news. >> not since the bart strike of 1979 have managers taken the controls of bart trains. bart's top leaders say that's one of the options they are considering if the bart workers strike next month. sergio is live near the oakland bridge tonight. the bay bridge rather with what this could mean for commuters. sergio? >> anyone that has traveled over the newly reopened bridge says it is a nightmare getting to an on-ramp lately. contract negotiations are continuing, but if there is a bart strike obviously traffic throughout the bay area is going to be even worse. today one of bart's top managers said commuters should be planning just in case. the back up heading to the bay bridge has been extending well into the night lately and for drivers stuck in the afternoon commute, the prospect of another bart strike is unsettling. >> it was awful. i think it took me about an hour to get on to the bridge. >> you couldn't get out of the building. it took 10, 15 minutes to get out of the parking garage and bart wasn't working. >> right now the bart trains are running, but contract negotiations are contentious. >> if there is a strike we think the public will look at bart and say what are you doing to try to provide some type of skeletal train service. we want to be able to present to our board an option that includes limited service. >> that hasn't happened since 1979. back then trains with managers at the controls got rolling in the last weeks of a three-month strike. almost immediately after bart raised that option today, union leaders quickly raised the warning flags. >> i would be extremely concerned if they are thinking of running and having the managers run the trains. passenger safety is paramount and that would be compromised if they chose to do that. >> training behind the controls takes four months and managers could only start that training if there is a walkout. they are looking to charter more buses than were used in the strike earlier this summer. but with 28 days left until this cooling off period ends, bart managers are smacking contin general -- are making contingency plans. >> we encourage people to plan ahead and think about carpooling and flex hours and tele commuting. >> bart and the unions return to the bargaining table on monday to begin talks on the big issues, salaries and benefits. abc7 news. >> and this monday night drivers in san francisco will have to deal with an extra traffic headache. the on-ramp will be closed at 8:00 p.m. the on-ramp will re-open before the morning commute at 5:30 in the morningment the work is part of the central subway project which opens in 2019. a fremont police officer responding to a call rammed into a motorcyclist tonight and it turns out the injured rider also works for fremont pd. 2 happened about a block from american high school on fremont boulevard. that's where ama dates is live with the story for us. ama? >> carolyn, the northbound lanes of fremont boulevard were shutdown for six hours. they just reopened at 10:00. the newark police department is leading the investigation as they work to determine what caused the fremont officer to run into the motorcycle. tow truck operators struggled to remove a motorcycle embedded in the front end of a fremont police cruiser. 2* happe 2* happened just before 4:00 p.m. as they responded to a non-emergency call. >> the police car struck the back of the motorcycle. the motorcycle rider was thrown to the ground.the motorce back of the truck. >> the six-year veteran of fremont pd happened to hit a fellow employee, a 29-year-old woman who worked for the department for about 18 months. >> it was scary. there was radiator fluidng ever. dripping everywhere. >> lori joe stevens is a waitress at dino's family restaurant and she saw the woman lying on the ground. we didn't see any blood or anything so we assumed that she was physically okay. they did take off her helmet after the paramedics arrived. she was moving her fingers and her hands. >> the woman was taken to the hospital for serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. the pick up truck driver and the officer were not hurt. in fremont, abc7 news. >> in the meantime, transit police in oakland are investigating collision between a bus and compact car with a family of three inside. it happened before 7:00 near fifth 1k3 brush streets. a bus ran the red light and hit a car that was turning left according to the people in the vehicle. >> the passenger side of the car , my wife -- when the light turned green she went. like she said, the guy went through the red light and the car spun around. stopped, the kid was screaming. gite driver of the compact said the bus driver came to her and apologized. the couple's 7-year-old daughter was taken to the hospital for observations.we thl we think she will be just fine. new at 11:00, a warning for students and staff at stanford after a woman was tackled jogging on campus. she was running on the lake path just before 9:00 p.m. a man grabbed her and pulled her to the ground. she did manage to get away. police have a vague description of the man about 5 foot 6 wearing a dts and a dark sweatshirt. a manhunt is underway in elsa -- in el cerrito as a man attacked a woman texting on her cell phone. the victim was walking under the bart station. this is the man police say her headhe victim head several times and pinned her arms against her body. a nearby resident heard the victim cry off and scared off the attacker. he is described as in his 20s and about 5 foot 6 with stuby facial hair. full containment of the fire on mount diablo is expected tonight. officials say it cost $4.5 million to fight the fire. some crews are still moping up and patrolling the fire perimeter. authorities believe it was started by target shooting on sunday afternoon. it has burned 3100 acres at this point, but no structures were destroyed. new developments on the peninsula. a life saving warning system is back up and run. -- back up and running. the repairs to upgrade the system starts in august. it accelerated after officials discovered three of the eight sirens were working properly. the new system is able to broadcast voice messages in assisted of just a sit you evera 30-mile stretch. beginning next month, restaurants in san francisco will have to stop using plastic bags for takeout and delivery. on october 1st, the plastic bag ban will expand. supermarkets and pharmacies have been forced to comply. restaurants will charge 10 cents for paper or compostable bags that will apply even to takeout sandwiches. right now the city is reaching out to restaurants reminding them the change is coming on october 1st. it is not over yet. next on abc7 news, month are rain and more flooding for colorado. entire towns cutoff by raging waters. and the number of missing people continues to climb. >> and what caused a massive fire that destroyed part of nerming new jersey's historic boardwalk. why they are calling the smoldering rubble a crime scene. ack some pack some earplugs. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. we have fog out there right now and we will look at your weekend wake up weather and you've got to try this sweet & sour chicken helper. i didn't know they made chicken. crunchy taco or four cheese lasagna? 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thompson canyon, this man defied a wall of water to open the involves on the flood gates. farm are a wash leaving cattle marooned and a horse tethered in a pasture and now looks lost at sea. the day luge tossed around these trailers as though they were toys in a bathtub. tws too much for railways, highways and for many homes. >> the neighbor's house fell off and what was a little creek fell off and got swept away. there was just pieces of houses and appliances floating down. >> thousands have been evacuated. >> i have never seen it rain so hard. >> in estes park they use the zip line to residents. this man was pulled from his home after it was buried in mud. >> i was able to get him some water and a blanket. >> they can't get out and we can't get in. >> and authorities are bracing for more. >> we still have forecasts for flash flood warnings. we could very well be back in the same condition we were yesterday. this is a wait and see game. >> with raging floodwaters taking outen tear roads, the national guard is using four helicopters for medical evacuations and to deliver humanitarian aid. abc news, boulder, colorado. >> abc news has learned that the huge fire that destroyed much of the jersey shore boardwalk was considered suspicious. it broke out in a frozen custard shop. the flames driven by 30 mile-an-hour winds quickly spread destroying dozens of businesses. they called the ruins a crime scene. the boardwalk was painstakingly built after being battered by superstorm sandy. chris christie vowed that the boardwalk will rebuild again. well, this may have happened to you. you may have noticed it. some wells fargo customers say they are having trouble accessing their accounts. dozens took to the facebook page saying they could not pay their bills or withdraw money. one customer said he couldn't deposit his check and didn't get a receipt and couldn't take any money out. wells fargo admits there are issues affecting someomers, but' customers, but didn't offer specifics. california health officials are warning not to eat an imported candy that can be dangerous. the latest batch of sugar candy tested at . 22 parts per lead. that's more than double to be considered contaminated. throw it out immediately. they import the candy from india and the recalled packages are 7 ounce and have a label that says batch number 12030. tonight google wants to know why one of its street view drivers crashed into a bus and then tried to leave the scene. it happened in inindonesia. the car which has a camera mounted on top of it slammed into a bus and then the driver panicked apparently and started to drive away only to hit another bus. it is unclear if anyone was hurt, but there was some damage to the google car. the tech giant is working hard with local police. sunday's game between the niners and the seahawks could be one of the loudest ever. a group of seahawks fans will try to break the guinness world record for loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium. the current record is a booming 131.76 decibels and that was set during a turkish soccer match two years ago. in comparison, a rock concert is 115 decibels. the human ear starts to feel pain at 125 decibels . and the bay bridge has a new honor. it is the widest bridge in the world. here is a live picture of the span from our emeryville camera. it measures 258 and a third feet wide. it it now surpasses the portman bridge which is 213 feet wide. it is actually quite wide. >> spectacular really. let's get a check on our weekend forecast now. >> sandhya patel is here with the accu-weather forecast. >> dan and carolyn, the weekend is looking great, and if you have been waiting for cooler weather and possibly some rain, you may just get it. a week from today live doppler 7hd right now is showing you how foggy it is along the coast. as we take you closer the fog has crossed the san francisco bay into hayward and oakland and fremont right now and pretty gray skies. here is a view st -- a view of the fog. 56 in san francisco and 59 in oakland and sictz for redwood city and san jose and los gatos, 57 and foggy. our from our roof camera you are looking at the overcast skies and here are your temperatures. 57 in santa rosa and 60 in napa and still olding on to the warmth from earlier. antioch 71 and concord 60. the highs today were in the upper 50s at the coast to the low 90s inland. we had our summer microclimates. you can see the visibility is just fine right now. the fog near the coast and the bay and mild to warm again tomorrow and we are looking at it to turn cooler for your sunday. here is a look at the morning. foggy for your early plans this weekend and it is just the bay and the coast. for the afternoon sunshine for most of the bay area. 70s, 80s, coast side, some lingering fog with 60s. typical, not so typical a little early start and we are expecting the possibility of rain as we head into friday. a chance of rain in about ant cs the cold front comes in. we usually get our first rain unofficially here on halloween. we may see it a little sooner. we'll keep an eye on that and the radar is tracking it. tomorrow morning foggy around the coast and bay as i mentioned. mid50s to low 60s. if you have early plans you may want to grab the extra layer. tomorrow afternoon, 79 in the south bay in san jose and a sunny day in santa clara. on the peninsula, upper 70s palo alto and redwood city. 62 on the coast and pacifica and not much changing in the mission district. 68 downtown san francisco and you will see lingering fog. coast side 60s and most of the rest of the area in the 80s except sausalito. 91 clear lake so you are above the fog layer. head out toward the east bay and your temperatures will be close to average. 71 in oakland and 75 newark. inland 88and 86 fairfield and 86 in livermore. now if you are head together raiders game, this sunday they are taking on the jaguars. mild weather, mid60s at 1:00 and climbing up to the low 70s as we head into the latter part of the game. beautiful weather for the weekend. even beyond that. accu-weather seven-day forecast showing you just minor ups and downs until friday where it is cooler. 70s in the warmest inland valleys and we may be talking about shower possibility or rain possibilities. he is yo don't believe you. >> larry is the doubter. >> he is the skeptic. >> we believe you. >> i will keep you posted. >> things worked out well for the a's tonight. >> it wasight. little tight. the skeptics doubted it. >> you make the call here. this was the difference in tonight's fight for first there is more money coming in. they love the biel show. the first inning and call him yo heines s. 3-0a's in a flash. settle down over here. 9-2a's before texas rallies with a 6-run eighth. this made it 9-8. texas looking for more and bell bell -- beltray trying to go from first to third. did he? look at the replay. he was safe, but they called him out. that saved the a's. runner at second and sean doolittle 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i'll have more in our next report. >> thank you. this morning oakland police are searching for the gunman outside a hotel. an abc news crew was there when the shots rang out in front of the marriott. hotel is hosting the ohio state football team in town to play cal. abc7 news reporter allen wong has more on the search for the suspect. >> shots rang out just as an abc sports anchor from columbus, ohio warnings about to go live in front of the marriott hotel in downtown oakland. >> we just had begun fire over here. >> the camera caught this man running from the scene. it appeared after the ohio state football team arrived to a crime scene outside their hotel. it's where another team is also staying. there were two shooters firing at each other and a stray bullet struck a cabdriver at the stand. >> the guy who got shot was standing right next to me. when i heard the shots i just went down right here by the tire. he was screaming call 911, i got shot. >> witnesses say the cabdriver was standing right in this spot when the bullets rang out from broadway street. they said he turned away to run and was shot in the back of the thigh. one of the bullets struck the wall right here. there are at least three other bullet holes on the side of the marriott. but the buckeye fans we spoke to seemed unfazed. >> that's like any city anyplace. this can happen anywhere. >> i heard it's an unfortunate state of our culture, but it's something that can happen anywhere at anytime. >> still, police say shootings are rare in the hort of done town oakland. now they are examining hotel surveillance cameras, trying to identify the suspects n oakland, allen wong, abc7 news. >> police are investigating a car crash that killed a teenager and injured a second person. it happened after 7:00 last night on hillcrest avenue. a car hit a curb and slammed into a tree. a teenager inside the vehicle who is believed to be under 18 died at the scene. a second person was airlifted to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. the cause of the crash is not known, but investigators believe speed may have been a factor. fremont police officer who was responding to a call rammed into a motorcyclist and the injured rider also worked for fremont pd. it happened by american high school on fremont boulevard. we have more. >> reporter: tow truck operators worked to remove a motor psyche emembedded in front of a police car. >> the police car struck the back of the motorcycle. the motorcycle rider was thrown to the ground and then the motorcycle impacted the back of the truck. >> the six year veteran of fremont pd happened to hit a fellow employee, a 29-year-old woman who has worked for the department for about 18 months. >> it was scary. there was like radiator fluid dripping everywhere. >> she's a waitress at the restaurant. she saw the woman lying on the ground. >> we didn't see any blood or anything so we' consumed she was physically okay. they took off her helmet after the paramedics arrived and she was moving her fingers and hands. >> the woman was taken to the hospital with serious, but nonlife-threatening injuries. pickup truck driver and the officer were not hurt. in fremont, abc7 news. transit police in oakland are investigating a collision between a bus and a car with a family of three inside. it happened just before 7:00 last night at the intersection of fifth and brush streets. a transit bus want the red light and hit a car turning left, according to people inside the vehicle. >> i was in the passenger's side of the car. my wife went -- when the light turned green she went. like she said, the guy blew the red light, nailed us. the car spun around a couple times. it dropped. kids were screaming. >> the driver of the car said the bus driver came to her and apologized. the couple's seven-year-old daughter was taken to the hospital for observation. this morning there's a warning for students and staff at stanford after a woman was tackled while jogging on campus. she was running on a path tuesday night just before 9:00 p.m. a man grand her and pulled her to the ground but the woman managed to get away. there is only a vague description, about 5'6", wearing dark pants and a sweatshirt at the time. a manhunt is underway in so leto who attacked a woman who was walking on a path while texting on her cell phone. it happened monday night. victim was walking alone on a parkway under the el~cerrito park station. the man punched her in the head several times and pinned her arms next to her body. another person heard the attack and scared off the attacker. a fundraiser will be held today to benefit the mother of a hardware store employee who was stabbed to death last month. 34-year-old david agnew walked into the ace hardware on san pablo dam road and stabbed 51-year-old stone on august 4th. he was arrested a short time later. our media partner reports today's fundraiser is held from noon to four and the event will include food, music, ralph prizes and a silent auction. closing arguments will begin monday in the penalty phase of the trial of convicted serial killer joseph naso. yesterday they heard from one of his former modeling clients. she said while he believes he's guilty, she does not believe he should get the death penalty. he was convicted last month for killing four women in the 80s and 90s. he could receive life in prison without parole if he doesn't get the death penalty. bart officials say they have options to consider if bart workers strike next month. we have more on what it could mean for commuters. >> the backup heading to the bay bridge has been extending well into the night lately. for drivers stuck in the afternoon commute, the prospect of another bart strike is unsettling. >> it was awful. i think it took about an hour to get under the bridge. >> you couldn't get out of the building. it took ten, 15 minutes to get out of the parking garage when bart wasn't working. >> right now bart still is running but contract negotiations continue to be tenuous. >> we want to present to our board an option that includes limited service. >> that hasn't happened since 1979. back then trains with managers at the control got rolling in the last weeks of a three-month strike. almost immediately after bart raised that option, union leaders quickly raised warning flags. >> i would be extremely concerned if they are thinking about manage managers run train. the passengers' safety is paramount and that would be seriously compromised if they chose to do that. >> training takes four months and managers could only start the training if there was a walkout. they are also planning on utilizing buses, but with days left until the cooling-off period ends, bart managers are making contingency plans and they are hoping commuters are too. >> we urge will people to plan ahead, think about carpooling, think about flex hours, think about telecommuting. >> bart and the workers return to the table monday to talk about the big issues, salary and benefits. abc7 news. monday night drivers in san francisco will have to deal with an extra traffic headache. the on ramp to i-80 at 4th and harrison streets will close. it will reopen the next morning at 5:30 a.m.. it is part of the central subway project that opens in 2019. a life saving warning system back up and running in the county. things sped up on work after officials discovered only three of the eight sirens were working properly. the new system is able to broadcast voice messages instead of just a siren. the tsunami alert system covers a 30-mile stretch from pacifica pescadero. the owner of a long time search service center near the port of oakland was removed. oakland pd was there yesterday as sheriff's deputies served the eviction. the city plans to build a new state of the art truck service center on the land. the city says the business was given two weeks notice to move and the owner agreed to be out by july, but the owner said the city never gave him specifics until thursday. this morning cal fire officials say full containment of the morgan fire is expected by 6:00 tonight. crews are still mopping up and patrolling the fire perimeter. they believe it was started by target shooting on sunday afternoon. it burned more than 3100 acres but fortunately no structures were destroyed. officials say the firefight has cost four and a half million dollars. it's been a really, really warm week while that fire was burning. what are we looking at now, fran? >> a really nice day in store. not quite as warm. i have a chance of rain also in the accuweather seven-day forecast. a live shot at some low clouds over san francisco right now. >> thank you, francis. also next, more rain and more flooding for colorado. entire towns cutoff by raging waters and the number of people missing continues to climb. and the 49ers fans are heading to seattle [ daughter ] hi mom. hey honey, the trip's great, very relaxing. are you sure you can't make it? but you 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>> it will. we see northwest winds this afternoon. 15 to 25 knots. we will see good speed out there. a lot of sunshine for this. live doppler 7hd sweeping around the bay area picking up kai quiet condition right now but things are going to change by the end of this work week. a live view from the kgo roof cam shows some fog developing, some light fog. low clouds moving n we will see that near the coast. it's currently 55 in san francisco. 58 in oakland and 58 in san jose. here's another look. golden gate bridge you can see across the span. we still have low clouds overhead as well. and even some morning fog developing near the coast and bay and possibly the north bay valleys. mild to warm temperatures this afternoon and then slightly cooler for tomorrow. here's why. we will show you the water vapor image. this shows the moisture in the upper levels of the atmosphere. an area of low pressure. a narrow ridge right now bringing us the quiet conditions. but this area of low pressure is going to bring us the stronger onshore flow tomorrow, bringing us cooler numbers. and another low pressure system diving south from the gulf of alaska with the cold front might bring as you chance of rain on friday and even into saturday. we will watch it lowsly and update it for you as well during the week. today look for more sunshine and pleasant conditions around the bay area. 79 in san jose. a lot of upper 70s inth south bay to mid-80s low 80s morgan hill. palo alto 77. 52 pacifica. downtown san francisco 58 degrees and also in the north bay low to mid-80s through petaluma, santa rosa, sonoma and napa. 70s in the east bay. and we will see 70 in berkeley, up to 78 in castro valley. interior areas quite warm, as well. getting into the upper 80s today. and some low 80s near pleasanton. also for tonight you can expect the fog to move in once again with temperatures in the 50s to near 630 degrees. we will see -- 60 degrees. we will see similar condition overnight. around the state a heads-up if you are planning to go to the sierra. quiet right now but we could see some afternoon thunderstorms develop once again with the warm air rising. so partly cloudy conditions there with a high of 81. 91 in sacramento. and 86 in los angeles with partly cloudy conditions. pretty hot in palm springs at 108 degrees. here's your accuweather seven-day forecast. so look for another beautiful day today with mild to warm temperatures. upper 80s inland to mid-60s along the coast. tomorrow you will notice temperatures just a little bit cooler in the inland areas and around the bay, as well. then we will be near average through the work week. fairly quiet until things start to get cooler on friday. that's when we are watching the slight chance of rain move into the bay area. possibly even into saturday. i'll keep you posted. >> not great time but good to see some change. >> yes. >> thanks, francis. tomorrow night's game between the 49ers and the seahawks could be one of the loudest ever. a group of seahawks fan will try to break the guinness world record for the loudest stadium knows. the record was set during a turkish soccer match two years ago. the loudest rock concert 117 decibels and the ear starts to hear pain at 119 decibels. you might want to grab some ear plugs for the game. they run about 7 bucks a pair and they might dampen the noise of what the seattle fans call the twelfth man. >> yikes. i will watch from home. next a short term [ crashing ] hen your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. ♪ tum, tum tum tum tums! we run errands. we run to the grocery store. in fact, the average american drives fewer than 29 miles a day. the 100% electric nissan leaf goes two-and-a-half times that on a single charge. it's a car. it just doesn't take gas. 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send me the bill. i'm waiting for the bill. i want to sign t we thought this was so important we had to move and strike while the iron was hot. >> that spurred a last minute frenzy getting the driver's license bill to the governor's desk. surprisingly that and other bills got republican support. it comes at a time when the party is trying to make inroads with latinos. >> the federal government has failed to do something for 25 years. >> he said california must do what it can. >> i'm in a state officer but we have to retook what the federal government does or does not do and this is something we could do. >> the governor said he changed his mind and now supports a driver's license bill because it's becoming clear the feds probably won't act on immigration reform any tim soon. in sacramento, nannette miranda, abc7 news. a 13 your old long lawsuit against manufactures of lead-based paint is wrapping up in san jose. ten counties are seeking $1 billion to cleanup residences. reporter david louie explains what's at stake. >> the use of lead-based paint was banned in 1978 but the risk remains in older homes and buildings. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention projects more than half a million children may have unhealthy levels of led. the paint industry said it didn't know for decades that lead and paint were dangerous. when it did it paid fees to support education and prevention programs. but five companies are being sued by three cities in seven counties that say that isn't enough. >> they don't remove the lead paint from homes. so until you remove the lead paint from homes, children are still going to get poisoned and that's the remedy we are seeing in this lawsuit. >> oakland, san francisco and the bay area counties of santa clara, almeda and solano are using the state public nuisance law for the lawsuit. the attorney general for california points out a similar strategy in other states have failed. >> seven other states, supreme courts have looked at this very same evidence, the same issues, and in every instance sided with the manufacturers. >> the lawsuit seeks over $1 billion to help remediate the hazard. santa clara based haz mat has been testing for lead contamination for years. cleanup can be achieved by removing chipped surfaces and repainting or a more aggressive means. >> the painting is a short-term meditation and the encapsulate not of putting something over it is long-term and then there's the remove. >> close arguments are scheduled for monday. the judge has 90 days to render a decision. in san jose, abc7 news. happening today san francisco giants employees will prepare for a potential disaster by holding an evacuation drill. it take place at at&t park at 9:00. the team's front office and security staff, local law enforcement and ballpark venders will all take part. giants are away this weekend playing a serious in southern california against the los angeles dodgers. coming up next on the abc7 saturday morning news, it's moving day for a local technology incubator. so many start-ups have been born there, the company needs more space. and let's take a live look outside right now at the golden gate bridge. things moving along very easily traffic-wise. frances dinglasan is in with frances dinglasan is in with your forecast and she unbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? 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[ laughs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] bold flavors for the bold hearted -- progresso heart healthy soup. >> welcome back. so glad you are with us. it's 5:40 on your saturday morning. this is a live look at the san mateo bridge right now. quite a few clouds on there, but certainly no slowing down, no traffic to speak of. and a little bit cloudy out there, as is the case in most places right now. but things will clear up. you are looking at mild to warm temperatures today. frances dinglasan is with us this morning and she will fill you in on all the details in your town. stanford is a university known for graduating students who start companies. in fact, we've covered a lot of them on abc7. now the university is investing in those young entrepreneurs in a totally new way. abc7 news reporter johnathan bloom explains. >> in the parking lot of the aol building inial at, a big leather couch is being wheeled and hoisted into the future. it's a couch many young entrepreneurs have slept on if they made it that far. >> he will sleep under the desk sometimes. code, code, code for 15 hours straight and then lion the floor and sleep for a couple hours and get back up. >> it's that kind of passion that makes a perfect fit here at start-x, the start-up accelerator born out of stanford university. it's a learning program for entrepreneurs who are passionate about an idea. >> when i say passionate, i don't mean that they think it's cool. it's they can't sleep at night because they are thinking with it. >> he started it two years ago. this is your desk, the messiest one of all? >> yeah, i'm not too clean. >> now he's packing his things. start-x isn't shutting down. far from it. after helping to hatch 136 start-ups, including the building toy company for girls and six dot which makes a braille labeling machine for the blind, start-x has outgrown the space they gave it to get off the ground. now with a $3.6 million grant from the university and the hospital, it is heading out on its own. >> basically this entire space will be for our company. >> even with more money to rent more space, nobody is planning to spread out and put their feet up. it turns out working shoulder to shoulder is one of the things that's made them so successful. >> we will probably take this out and in this space we can have ten people sitting here. >> sitting close quarters creates accidental teamwork. >> they overhear and they say, oh, yeah, i can help with that. it happens all the time. >> stanford is part of the teamwork. they will contribute to the start-up capital they can get. you might say it's a contribution to a different form of education. in palo alto, johnathan bloom, abc7 news. 5:43. frances dinglasan is in for lisa argen this morning. are you the bearer of good news this morning? >> i think i am, actually. we are going to see some sunshine and mild to warm conditions this afternoon. although we are starting off with some low clouds, as you can see, from this live shot from the exploratorium looking out toward the bay bridge. do i have a chance of rain and i will be talking a little bit more about that very shortly. >> francis, thank you. also next, a close play is crucial in last night's a's-rangers game as the two teams battle for the a.l. west >> welcome back. it's 5:46 on your saturday morning. here's a live look from our hd roof cam. you see the ferry butting in the foreground and bay bridge in the background, a little obscured by clouds. san francisco, you are looking at 68 degrees this morning. frances dinglasan -- i should say today. 68 today. cooler right now. frances dinglasan will have the details for you coming up in a little bit. good news for san jose sharks fans. tickets go on sale today. fans can buy tickets to 2013-2014 regular season games starting at 10:00. also today the sharks will host a freeskating event. from noon to five fans will have the chance to skate, meet sharkey and other sharks personalities. it take place at the sap center on santa clara street in san jose. in sports this morning a fifth-ranked stanford is in west point to play army and later today number four ohio state meets cal at memorial stadium. kickoff at 4:00 p.m. last night the southerns a's played the struggling rangers to start a weekend series between the a.l. west top two teams. here's abc sports news director larry beil with highlights of this morning's sports. >> good morning. it's the showdown for first place in the a.l. west. it was looking easy for a while last night in texas for the a's cruising out to a seven-run lead. what could go wrong? a's came in leading by 3 1/2 games. yoenis cespedes, his 21st homer of the year. highs his numbers from last year. at one point the lead was 9-2. but texas rallies. a 6-run eighth, a two-run single by alex rios makes it 9-8. texas looking for more. adrian bell take. and cespedes throwing and he is out! but he was really safe and the ump made a brought call. that saved the a's. got toll of nine. sean doolittle little gets him looking to end it. a's hang on 9-8. they are now four and a half up with just 15 games to play. giants and dodgers in l.a. cotton candy, one of the primary food groups at the park. madison bum garter gave up two runs in the game. a former giant juan uribe, knocking in pablo sandoval. part of a three-run inning and the giants win by a scarf 4 i have 22. >> for years al was known as mr. 59. jim furyk did it yesterday. round two of the bmw championship in illinois. playing the back nine his. his second shot or the par 4, 15 and it's a perfect eagle. on nine, his final hole of the day, needs a birdie. how about this shot. knocking it stiff. setting up his 11th birdie of the round. 4 of 59. a feat accomplished by only six players in history. furyk tied for the lead with snedeker at 11-under par. the biggest growing pay-per-view fight in history will take place tonight in las vegas. floyd mayweather against canelo. >> are you ready? >> i was born ready! >> that's confidence. high school football, in stockton, the new head coach for the spartans. next to his old bass there. all de la salle. chris williams dumps it off to antwan custer and this is custer's last stand. 57 yards. de la salle wins their 29th consecutive high school basketball game. be sure to join us for college football, notre dame and purdue kicking it off at abc7 and at 5:00. and we will see you with another lexus edition of "after the game." i'm larry beil. what can people expect today for weather? >> i think they can expect sunny conditions, mostly sun my and temperatures in the upper 60s. it will be a great day to be outdoors in san francisco. but i would avoid driving. street closers for the parade and a lot of traffic near the embarcadero for the america's cup races as well. but it will be a nice day to head outdoors today. picking up quiet conditions around the bay area. we will show you a live shot of the low clouds of that moved in overnight from the coast. we are looking at the beautiful bay bridge. i just love this new bay bridge. you see the low clouds there. that's filling in right now from the coast. currently it's 55 in san francisco and 58 in oakland. 59 in los gatos and 57 in half moon bay. another shot. this time from our roof camera looking out toward the other end of the bay bridge. you see the wind there blowing the flag. we will see northwest winds this afternoon, 15 to 25 knots for the race around the bay. and also we will see mostly sunny conditions, as well, near the bay. it's currently 56 in santa rosa. 55 in napa with a possibility of some more fog developing in some of the valleys in novato currently 54 but already warmer in antioch, 60 and clear. concord 57 degrees. we are looking at the san mateo bridge camera. i did encounter some drizzle this morning so you might need to use your wipers a little bit as well. we can still get some morning fog near the coast mainly and then mild to warm temperatures this afternoon. slightly cooler tomorrow. so here's why. i want to show you the water vapor image which shows moisture in the upper levels of the atmosphere. right now we have this ridge, the orange is the dryer air. this bridge bringing us quiet weather. then we have the area of low pressure that will kind of sweep toward north, bringing us some slightly cooler conditions tomorrow. but what we are really watching is this other area of low pressure from the gulf of alaska. and with this associated cold front it might drop down far south enough to bring us a chance of rain friday and into saturday. we will be keeping an eye on that one. we will be updating it and letting you know. but for today have the sunscreen ready in the south bay. you will need it if you are heading to the santa clara art and wine festival. 78 there. 84 in morgan hill. 79 in san jose. look for upper 70s as well through menlo park, palo alto. 52 pacifica and partly cloudy conditions. sunset district 65. in the north bay quite warm and mild, as well, from 85 in calistoga up to 91 clear lake, 80 san rafael. look for 70s throughout the east bay. warm spot 9 in hercules. and 71 in oakland. also if you are heading to berkeley around 70 degrees. 4:00, game time for the cal bears versus the ohio buckeyes. also upper 80s in the inland areas, 88 in fairfield, 86 in livermore. earlier this week we saw numbers near 100. around the state we will see some 80s and 90s. sacramento, 81 tahoe. look for afternoon thunderstorms that could develop once again with the warm air rising. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. so pretty nice conditioned to with a lot of sunshine for most everyone except along the coast. temperatures dropping down a few degrees. a bit cooler tomorrow. then near average. holding steady through most of the work week. friday you will notice a dip in temperatures and that's when we are talking about the slight chance of rain. >> all right, francis. thank you. next, dream of riches with another huge power ball jackpot. we will tell you how much the next [ crashing ] hen your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. ♪ tum, tum tum tum tums! >> the jackpot has swelled to $317 million after nobody successfully matched all six numbers in wednesday night's draw. that's an estimated cash value of more than $176 million. the largest jackpot in power ball history was $590 million, which was just earlier this year. next on abc7 news at six, gunfire breaks out near an upscale hotel. we have the frightening moment captured on video. and there's already a plan b, an option bart is considering if there's another strike. and there's juicy chicken best foods is the secret to making parmesan crusted chicken so juicy so delicious it's your secret to making dinner disappear best foods. bring out the best >> good morning, everyone. i'm katie marzullo. it's 6:00 a.m.. we will start off with a quick look at the weather. here's meteorologist frances dinglasan in for lisa argen this morning. good morning, francis. >> good morning, everyone. temperatures right now in the 50s and near 60 degrees. already clear in concord at 57. 58 in oakland. and 56 in hayward. so we could see some patchy fog spilling in to some inland valleys this morning and some fog near the coast, as well. here's how the day plays out. the clouds throughout the morning hours, even some drizzle. temperatures in the mid-50s to low 60s. and then this afternoon we will see a lot of sunshine foremost everyone. mild to warm numbers from 60s along the coast to upper 80s inland.
will return again overnight. but if you have dinner plans out, patchy clouds will return and temperatures will start to drop down into the upper 50s to low 70s. watch out for a chance of rain this week. i'll tell you all about it with my accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. katie. >> francis, thank you. this morning oakland police are searching for the gunman who opened fire outside of a downtown hotel, wound ago cabdriver. an abc news crew was there when the shots rang out. abc7 news reporter allen wong has more on the search for suspects. >> shots rang out just as an abc sports anchor from columbus, ohio warnings about to go live in front of the marriott hotel in downtown oakland. >> we just had begun fire over here. >> the camera captured this man running from the scene. he may be a suspect. it appeared after the ohio state football team arrived to a crime scene outside their hotel. it's where the buckeye football team is also staying. there were two shooters firing at each other and a stray bullet struck a cabdriver at the stand. >> the guy who got shot was standing right next to me. when i heard the shots i just went down right here by the tire. he was screaming call 911, i got shot. >> witnesses say the cab driver was standing right in this spot when the bullets rang out from broadway street. they said he turned away to run and was shot in the back of the thigh. one of the bullets struck the wall right here. there are at least three other bullet holes on the side of the marriott. but the buckeye fans we spoke to seemed unfazed. >> that's like any city anyplace. this can happen anywhere. >> i heard it's an unfortunate state of our culture, but it's something that can happen anywhere at anytime. >> still, police say shootings are rare in the heart of downtown oakland. now they are examining hotel surveillance cameras, trying to identify the suspects. in oakland, allen wong, abc7 news. >> knew this morning, mrs. in antioch are investigating a car crash that killed a teenager and injured a second person. it happened after 7:00 last night on hillcrest avenue. a car hit a curb and slammed into a tree. a teenager inside the vehicle who is believed to be under 18 died at the scene. a second person was airlifted to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. the cause of the crash is not known, but investigators believe speed may have been a factor. a fremont police officer who was responding to a call rammed into a motorcyclist and the injured rider also worked for fremont p.d. it happened by american high school on fremont boulevard. we have more. >> reporter: tow truck operators worked to remove a motorcycle embedded in front of a police car. the accident happened just about 4:00 p.m. as the officer was responding to a nonemergency call. >> the police car struck the back of the motorcycle. the motorcycle rider was thrown to the ground and then the motorcycle impacted the back of the truck. >> the six year veteran of fremont pd happened to hit a fellow employee, a 29-year-old woman who has worked for the department for about 18 months. >> it was scary. there was like radiator fluid dripping everywhere. >> lori is a waitress at the restaurant. she saw the woman lying on the ground. >> we didn't see any blood or anything so we assumed she was physically okay. they took off her helmet after the paramedics arrived and she was moving her fingers and hands. >> the woman was taken to the hospital with serious, but nonlife-threatening injuries. the pickup truck driver and the officer were not hurt. in fremont, abc7 news. transit police in oakland are investigating a collision between a bus and a car with a family of three inside. it happened just before 7:00 last night at the intersection of fifth and brush streets. a transit bus ran the red light and hit a car turning left, according to people inside the vehicle. >> i was in the passenger's side of the car. my wife went -- when the light turned green she went. like she said, the guy blew the red light, nailed us. the car spun around a couple times. it stopped. kids were screaming. >> the driver of the car said the bus driver came to her and apologized. the couple's seven-year-old daughter was taken to the hospital for observation. this morning there's a warning for students and staff at stanford after a woman was tackled while jogging on campus. she was running on a path tuesday night just before 9:00 p.m. a man grabbed her and pulled her to the ground but the woman managed to get away. there is only a vague description, about 5'6", wearing dark pants and a sweatshirt at the time. >> a manhunt is underway in el~cerrito for a man who attacked a woman who was walking on a path while texting on her cell phone. it happened monday night. victim was walking alone on a parkway under the el~cerrito park station. the man punched her in the head several times and pinned her arms next to her body. another person heard the attack and scared off the attacker. the attacker is being in his 20s, 5'6" with stub by facial hair. a fundraiser will be held today to benefit the mother of a hardware store employee who was stabbed to death last month. authorities say 34-year-old david agnew walked into the ace hardware on san pablo dam road and stabbed 51-year-old stone on august 4th. agnew was arrested a short time later. our media partner reports today's fundraiser is held from noon to four and the event will include food, music, ralph prizes and a silent auction. nats at the he will rancho sports bar. closing arguments will begin monday in the penalty phase of the trial of convicted serial killer joseph naso. yesterday jurors heard from one of his former modeling clients. she said while he believes he's guilty, she does not believe he should get the death penalty. he was convicted last month for killing four women in the 80s -- 1970s and 90s. if the injure is not unanimous on -- if the injure are is not unanimous on their decision, he will receive life without parole. bart officials say they have options to consider if bart workers strike next month. we have more on what it could mean for commuters. >> the backup heading to the bay bridge has been extending well into the night lately. for drivers stuck in the afternoon commute, the prospect of another bart strike is unsettling. >> it was awful. i think it took about an hour to get under the bridge. >> you couldn't get out of the building. it took ten, 15 minutes to get out of the parking garage when bart wasn't working. >> right now bart trains are still running but contract negotiations continue to be tenuous. >> we want to present to our board an option that includes limited service. we want to present to our board an option that includes limited service. >> that hasn't happened since 1979. back then trains with managers at the control got rolling in the last weeks of a three-month strike. almost immediately after bart management raised that option, union leaders quickly raised warning flags. >> i would be extremely concerned if they are thinking about manage managers run train. the passengers' safety is paramount and that would be seriously compromised if they chose to do that. >> training takes four months and managers could only start the training if there was a walkout. bart is also planning on utilizing buses, but with days left until the cooling-off period ends, bart managers are making contingency plans and they are hoping commuters are too. >> we really encourage people to plan ahead, think about carpooling, think about flex hours, think about telecommuting. >> bart and the workers return to the table monday to talk about the big issues, salary and benefits. abc7 news. monday night drivers in san francisco will have to deal with an extra traffic headache. the on ramp to i-80 at 4th and harrison streets will close. it will reopen the next morning at 5:30 a.m. it is part of the central subway project that opens in 2019. a life saving warning system is back up and running in the county. the tsunami sirens have been down for more than a month. things sped up on work after officials discovered only three of the eight sirens were working properly. the new system is able to broadcast voice messages instead of just a siren. the tsunami alert system covers a 30-mile stretch from pacifica to pescadero. >> full containment. the morgan fire is expected by 6:00 tonight. it's 95% contained right now. authorities believe the fire was started by target shooting on sunday afternoon. it has burned more than 3100 acres, but fortunately no structures were destroyed. officials say the firefight has cost $4.5 million. it is 6:10 now. francis is in with our forecast. i think looking at san francisco we have mr. america's cup races today. >> they will lock like they are flying with winds from the northwest around 10 to 15 miles an hour. you see slightly breezy conditions right now but a lot of us still under the low cloud cover spilling in from the coast. i'll let you any when you can expect some sunshine. >> thank you, francis. next, flooding for colorado. the number of people missing continues to climb. also the twelfth man. going for a record. why 49er fans heading to seattle for the game this weeken build your own omelette with all the fixings. and help others at the same time. for every omelette purchased this week at denny's, america's egg farmers will donate one egg on your behalf to a no kid hungry partner to help end childhood hunger in america. >> we have developing news right now. 34 people are hurt after a greyhound bus overturned in ohio this morning. the accident happened around 4:00 in the morning eastern time about 26 miles north of cincinnati. the bus was carrying 52 people on its way to detroit. police say injuries range from minor to severe. no word yet on what caused the crash. we will keep an eye on it for you. we are also following developing news out of colorado. the number of people unaccounted for has risen to more than 170 as the state deals with heavy rain and heavy flooding. hundreds are still cutoff from help. brandy hit, abc news, is in boulder where people are bracing more more rain. >> water, water everywhere. as far as the eyes can see large parts of colorado are drowning in flood waters. these braved over waters to get to those who needed help. in big thompson canyon, this man went over a wall of water to open valves on floodgates. farms are a wash, leaving cattle maroon and a horse at pasture lost at sea. looks like these trailers were toys in a bathtub. it was too much for railroads, highways and many homes. >> the neighbor's house fell off into what was a little creek, now a raging river, got swept away. >> gone. >> it's gone. pieces of houses, appliances floating down. >> thousands have been evacuated. >> i have never seen it rain so hard. >> an estes park, rescuers used these zip lines to save trapped residents. this man's home was buried in mud. >> i was able to shovel into the door, get him a blanket, water and food. >> others can only wait and hope. >> they can't get out, we can't get in. >> with raging floodwaters taking out entire roads, the national guard is using at least four helicopters for medical evacuation and also to deliver humanitarian aid. abc news, boulder, colorado. >> abc news learned a huge fire is now considered suspicious. the fire broke out in a frozen custer shop on the board walk. flames driven by winds quickly spread, destroying dozens of businesses. investigators are calling it a crime scene. the boardwalk had been painstakingly rebuild after being battered by super storm sandy last year. the governor vowed the boardwalk will be rebuilt again. california health officials are warning people not to eat an imported candy. the latest batch of the candy tested at .22 parts per million of lead and that's more than double the level california considers to be con testimony natured. health officials said to throw it out media. the candy is from india. the packages are 7-ounces and will have a lab he will that says batch newspaper 12030. more races scheduled today in the america's cup finals but time it running out for oracle team's usa. the trophy could belong to emirates team new zealand tomorrow. they now lead 6 to minus 1. they need just three more victories to claim the cup. oracle needs 10 more. new zealand inched past in race six and then they led the whole way in race 7 to beat them by over a minute. today's races are schedule for 1:15 and 2:15. so last saturday i was out there. the weather was beautiful. it was gorgeous on the bay, despite the outcome if you are rooting for oracle. >> we are going to see another gorgeous day. a great day to head outdoors anywhere around the bay area. still cloudy along the coast. quietest conditions except for some of the patchy fog developing along the coast and possibly filling into some valleys. here's a look at live doppler 7hd, showing you not much going on in terms of rain or precipitation. and i also want to show you this beautiful live shot from mt. tam. you can see some of the clouds, breaks in the clouds, in some of the lights from the city below but midwest of us under the low clouds right now. we are getting a preview of the sunrise at 6:51. current temperatures mainly in the upper 50s. 55 in san francisco. 58 in redwood city and 59 in los gatos. we will show you a beautiful view from the exploratorium camera lacking out toward the bay bridge. a little bit of low clouds over the bridge as well. and we will see some breeze city conditions this afternoon with winds from the northwest. look for 55 in santa rosa right now. 56 in napa. and 60 in antioch. 57 in concord. check out this other great shot from the east bay hills. we are looking at vollmer again. most of us won't get to see the sunrise this morning because we will be under the low clouds. we've got the morning fog near the coast today. mild to warm conditions this afternoon, and then look for slightly cooler numbers tomorrow. so here's what's happening upstairs. the water vapor image shows the moisture level in the upper levels the atmosphere. we have the area of low pressure, we have a ridge right now, the orange showing quiet conditions. quiet today with the narrow ridge. but the area of low pressure will kind of sweep to our north, breath us slightly cooler numbers tomorrow. then another storm system. this is going to come down from the gulf of alaska and would be associated cold front. might bring us a chance of rain friday and saturday. we will keep an eye on that one. today look for very pleasant saturday with lots of sunshine in the south bay. 79 in san jose. 75 in santa cruz. look for 77 in sunnyvale. more upper 70s through redwood city. palo alto and mountain view 64. 62 pacifica. downtown san francisco, mostly sunny conditions. 68 degrees for you there. and 65 in the sunset district. also in the north bay a lot of 80s. 85 in calistoga. 81 petaluma and 83 novato. mostly 70s in the east bay. if you are headed to the berkeley game, cal bears take on the buckeyes, around 70 degrees with lots of sunshine. it will still be comfortable for the game this afternoon. upper 10s in the inland areas. we were at 100 earlier this week. now we will see about 88 in antioch today. overnight lows also fairly mild. typical for this time of year. mainly in the upper 50s for the most part with the exception of maybe some locations near 60 richmond and antioch. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. look for a pleasant saturday ahead with mild to warm numbers. tomorrow we come down a little bit. near average temperatures. and fairly quiet through the work week until things start to drop down on friday. temperatures coming down as the cold front moves in and that will bring us a slight chance of rain friday and saturday. so enjoy the day. we will have a nice one ahead. >> thanks, francis. tomorrow night's game between the 49ers and seahawks could be one of the loudest ever. a group of seahawks fans will try to break the guinness world book record for the loudest roar at the stadium. the current record is 141 decibels set during a turkish soccer match three years ago. in comparison the loudest rock concert and sandblasting are 115 decibels. the human ear starts to feel pain at 125. good luck 49ers fans if you are there in person. and next, a short term solution. how this father used fashion to try to teach his daughter a lesson. 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[ male announcer ] yep, subway broke the 200-calorie breakfast barrier with tempting subway fresh fit breakfast sandwiches like the steak, egg white & cheese. >> welcome back. it's 6:24. dan harris is joining us from new york to tell us what is coming up at 7:00 on "good morning america." good morning, dan. >> good morning, katie. coming up, we have breaking news. there was a greyhound bus that overturned in ohio in the early hours of the morning. there is word now dozens of potential injuries here. emergency crews and helicopters have been rushing the injured to local hospitals. also this morning, new pictures out of the flood zone in colorado. look at the trailers carried away like they were toys. they are calling it a 1,000-year flood. ginger is on the ground and covering the whole thing, the daring river rescues and the towns cutoff from the rest of the world and the forecast, which unfortunately calls for a lot more rain. plus only on gma on a much lighter note, an salute i have look at a 54-year-old daredevil. this man is known as the jet man. he's flown over the grand canadian, even the swiss alps. how does he do this and how much does that thing cost some news this morning on the video which has gone viral of actress nicole kidman getting knocked down from the paparizzi on a bicycle. what it says about our culture. and we are learning more about the man on the camera. it's coming up. >> nicole kidman aside. it looked like he plowed into a group of pedestrian, right? >> it was a phenomenally unsafe things to do. we will tell you about what's going on. >> thank you, dan. we will be there at 7:00. >> thanks. >>. >> a father in utah made a fashion statement in order to urge his teenage daughter to dress more modestly. these pictures of scott mcintosh went viral after he cut off a pair of his jeans and turned him into his own dad's daisy dukes. he came one his fashion statement after his 19-year-old daughter, miley, refused to wear longer shorts during their weekly family nights. >> coming up next, governor brown signs a historic agreement with the government of china. we will tell what you the purpose of the cooperation pledge is. and the paint industry under pressure in the courts to get the lead out. yours could be one of 5 million homes that needs >>. >> welcome back, everyone. we are coming up on 6:30 and starting this half-hour with a quick first look at the weather. frances dinglasan is in for lisa argen this morning. >> good morning, everyone. temperatures in the 50s to near 60 trees with a lot of cloud cover that's spilled in from the coast. 55 san francisco, 60 san jose but clear in concord. 57 degrees there. and you can expect a lot of sunshine. another beautiful day ahead. temperatures will be in the upper 60s to upper 70s around the bay. sunny and mild. a long the coast we will see partly cloudy conditions and cooler numbers, as well. low 60s to upper 60s. and inland areas, you can possibly pull out your daisy duke shorts. it's warm, upper 70s and upper 8 ostrander. we are keeping a chance -- 80s. we are keeping an eye on the chance of rain coming into the forecast. i'll have the details. >> thank you. new this morning, secretary of state john kerry said the u.s. and russia have reached an agreement on a plan to secure syria's chemical weapons. the plan comes as president obama says the world must stand ready to act if diplomacy fails. the president said poison gas cannot become the new weapon of of choice for terrorists. >> the use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world is an afront to dignity and the threat to the security of people everywhere. as i've said for weeks, the international community must respond to this outrage a dictator must not be allowed to gas children in their beds with impunity. and we cannot risk poison gas becoming the new weapon of choice for tyrants and terrorists the world over. >> syria has agreed to a russian proposal to turn over their chemical weapons. human john kerry says if they do not comply they will seek a u.n. resolution that could authorize military action. happening today bay area demonstrators will hold a protest over the response to the crisis in syria. there have been several similar events in the recent weeks, including some staged in front of senator feinstein's home and office. it will be today at 1:00 on the pedestrian path of the bay bridge's new eastern span. >> governor brown and a high-ranking chinese official have signed a landmark agreement to fight climate change. the signing took place in downtown san francisco yesterday. the memo of understanding calls on china and california to curb carbon gases, reduce energy consumption and invest in clean technologies. currently china produces more greenhouse gas than any other country. governor brown said china's pollution problems are also california's. >> a buildup of greenhouse gas spreads throughout the entire world and greenhouse gas comes from africa, from china, from california, from texas, from great britain, from all over. >> a chinese government representative said the agreement is vital to help china meet its clean energy goals. a joint task force will meet periodically to share research on climate change. this morning domestic violence victims have more rockies. a law signed by governor brown will allow domestic victims to include social media was part of a restraining order. the new law is designed to protect victims from online harassment. >> back in the day there had to be physical injury but that isn't the case anymore. there are several ways for somebody to intimidate and harass somebody. now that social media is such a common thing, if somebody has bad intent, that's one of the tools they are using. >> the state legislature has given approval to a bill to give california driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. more on that now and other measures from abc news capitol correspondent nannette miranda. >> it's a banner year for immigrants living to california illegally. since congress won't pass immigration reform, the state legislature governor brown numerous proposals that helped the more sent than 2.000000 who are here. >> it sends a message to washington that california is serious about the need for comprehensive immigration reform. >> they will crack down on consultants who help immigrants save a place in line for legal immigration. and others can obtain a law license even if they are undocumented. there's also the trust account, -- trust account. prohibit being local law enforcementment from turning over immigrants to the feds when arrested for minor crimes. but the big one is giving them a driver's license, which was thought to be shelved for the year. the state senator ricardo says in a meeting monday night members weren't reluctant to sign a driver's license bill. >> they were what are you talking about? send me the bill. i'm waiting for the bill. i want to sign it. so we thought this was so important we had to move and strike while the iron was hot. >> that spurred a last minute frenzy getting the driver's license bill to the governor's desk. surprisingly that and other bills got republican support. it comes at a time when the party is trying to make inroads with latinos. >> the federal government has failed to do something for 25 years. >> cherry farmer, turned state senator, he said california must do what it can. >> i'm in a state office, but we have to react to what the federal government does or does not do, and this is something we could do. >> the governor said he changed his mind and now supports a driver's license bill because it's becoming clear the feds probably won't act on immigration reform any time soon. in sacramento, nannette miranda, abc7 news. a 13-year long lawsuit against manufacturers of lead-based paint is wrapping up in san jose. ten california cities and counties are seeking $1 billion to clean up residences. reporter david louie explains what's at stake. >> the use of lead-based paint was banned in 1978 but the risk remains in older homes and buildings. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention projects more than half a million children may have unhealthy levels of led. the paint industry said it didn't know for decades that lead and paint were dangerous. when it did, it paid fees to support education and prevention programs. but five companies are being sued by three cities in seven counties that say that isn't enough. >> they don't remove the lead paint from homes. so until you remove the lead paint from homes, children are still going to get poisoned and that's the remedy we are seeing -- seeking in this lawsuit. >> oakland, san francisco and the bay area counties of santa clara, almeda and solano are using the state public nuisance law for the lawsuit. however, the former iowa attorney general, who speaks on behalf of the industry, points out a similar strategy in other states have failed. >> seven other states, supreme courts have looked at this very same evidence, the same issues, and in every instance sided with the manufacturers. >> the lawsuit seeks over $1 billion to help remediate the hazard. santa clara based haz mat has been testing for lead contamination for years. cleanup can be achieved by removing chipped surfaces and repainting or a more aggressive means. >> the painting is a short-term remeditation and the encapsulate method of putting something over it is long-term and then there's the removal. >> close arguments are scheduled for monday. the judge has 90 days to render a decision. in san jose, abc7 news. happening today san francisco giants employees will prepare for a potential disaster by holding an evacuation drill. it takes place at at&t park at 9:00. the team's front office and security staff, local law enforcement and ballpark venders will all take part. the giants are away this weekend playing a serious in southern california against the los angeles dodgers. coming up next on the abc7 saturday morning news, it's moving day for a local technology incubator. so many start-ups have been born there, the company needs more space. and at 6:38, let's take a live look outside. this is the view from our camera. you see the low clouds hanging tough as the sun starts to come up. but it's going to clear up. frances dinglasan is in this morning. she will are the forecas shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? a little. 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>> yeah, i'm not too clean. >> now he's packing his things. start-x isn't shutting down. far from it. after helping to hatch 136 start-ups, including the building toy company for girls meca, and six dot, which makes a braille labeling machine for the blind, start-x has outgrown the space they gave it to get off the ground. now with a $3.6 million grant from the university and the hospital, it is heading out on its own. >> basically this entire space will be for our company. >> even with more money to rent more space, nobody is planning to spread out and put their feet up. it turns out working shoulder to shoulder is one of the things that's made them so successful. >> we will probably take this out and in this space we can have ten people sitting here. >> sitting in close quarters creates accidental teamwork. >> they overhear and they say, oh, yeah, i can help with that. it happens all the time. >> now stanford is part of the teamwork. they will contribute 10% of start-up capital to any start-up capital they can get. you might say it's a contribution to a different form of education. in palo alto, johnathan bloom, abc7 news. >> 6:43 now. frances dinglasan, glad to have you here this morning. >> thank you. we have a beautiful view from the east bay hills camera to mt. diablo. we will get to see the sunshine, and i'll tell you how warm it's going it be in your neighborhood with the accuweather forecast coming up. >> thanks. a close play at third plays crucial last ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ with our new, improved peanut butter chewy bars. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. this week, a super low price on breakfast. honey bunches of oats is only $1.88 a box. arrowhead water is just $3.33 a case. make it a triple scoop. dreyer's ice cream is just $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. >> last night the surging a's played the suddenly struggling rangers to start a weekend series between the a.l. west top two teams. here's sports director larry beil with the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning. it's the showdown for first place in the a.l. west. it was looking easy for a while last night in texas for the a's cruising out to a seven-run lead. what could go wrong? a's came in leading by 3 1/2 games. yoenis cespedes, his 21st homer of the year. ties his total for last year. 3-1, a's. at one point the lead was 9-2. but texas rallies. a six-run eighth, a two-run single by alex rios makes it 9-8. texas looking for more. adrian beltre. base hit. rios trying to go from first to third. cespedes throwing, and he is out! except he was really safe and the ump made a brutal call. oh, he was in there. that saved the a's. bottom of the ninth. sean doolittle gets him looking to end it. a's hang on, 9-8. they are now four and a half up with just 15 games to play. giants and dodgers in l.a. cotton candy, one of the primary food groups at the park. madison bumgartner gave up two runs in the game. in the sectionth, the two-run blast by a former giant, juan uribe. 2-0. kershaw had the giants shutout until the 7th. the excuse-me single. knocking in pablo sandoval. part of a three-run inning and the giants win by a score of 4-2. >> for years al guiberger was known as mr. 59. jim furyk did it yesterday. round two of the bmw championship in illinois. playing the back nine his. his second shot or the par 4, 15 and it's a perfect eagle. on nine, his final hole of the day, needs a birdie. that's for the 59. out of this approach shot. knocking it stiff. setting up his 11th birdie of the round for a 59. a feat academy accomplished by only six players in history. furyk tied for the lead with snedeker at 11-under par. the biggest grossing pay-per-view fight in history will take place tonight in las vegas. floyd mayweather against canelo alvarez. alvarez is younger and stronger, but what about his rep operation? >> canello, are you ready? >> i was born ready! >> that's confidence. high school football, in stockton, the new head coach for the spartans. next to his old boss there. all de la salle. chris williams dumps it off to antwan custer and this is custer's last stand. 57 yards. de la salle wins their 29th consecutive high school football game. be sure to join us for college football, notre dame and purdue kicking it off at abc7 and at 5:00. we will see you after that with another edition of "lexus after the game." i'm larry beil. >> there's a 5k a gets underway at 9:00. what can runners expect. >> temperatures will start to climb into the low 60s and clouds breaking up. a lot of cloud cover for everyone. you might even get a little drizzle, depending on where you are. closer to the coast is more likely at this point. we have a beautiful view from emeryville looking out toward the gray skies over the bay area right now. we will see sunny conditions eventually. by this afternoon plenty of sunshine for most everyone. 55 currently in san francisco. 58 in oakland. and it's 60 right now in san jose. more clouds over the golden gate bridge. but not much fog right now. eventually it will warm up, as well. santa rosa 55. we could see some patchy fog develop in some of the north bay valleys. 56 in napa. livermore, 60 degrees as well. i just had to show you this beautiful sunrise shot from the east bay hills looking out toward mt. diablo. sunrise, 6:51. we are just seconds away. you do have to be in the higher elevations there to catch some of this sunshine because we are still under a lot of these clouds right now. low clouds and fog mainly near the coast and bay. mild to warm temperatures this afternoon. it's going to be another gorgeous day. beautiful for saturday outdoor plans later on. then slightly cooler tomorrow. so i want to show you the water vapor image. this tells a nice story what you can expect the next few days. bay lick it shows moisture in the upper levels of the atmosphere. the orange area shows the dry air and the areas of green show the low pressure of the storms, the wet weather. right now there's a narrow ridge. but starting tomorrow we will see an area of low pressure kind of brush to our north. this will bring a slightly cooler numbers tomorrow. another area of low pressure, a storm with a cold front is what we are watching coming from the gulf of alaska, bringing us a chance of rain. a little bit early for the season starting on friday and possibly into saturday. we will keep an eye on that for you. have the sunscreen ready if you are headed to the south bay because it will be sunny and mild. temperatures in the upper 70s to even low 80s. gilroy 83. sapp clara. 78 for the art and wine festival today and tomorrow. menlo park, approximately at, 64 half moon bay. san francisco 68 degrees. partly sunny condition there. in the north bay it will also be very comfortable. 80 in san rafael. look for 83 in sonoma. and in the east bay, 70s for the most part. from 70 in berkeley for the game today. bears versus the buckeyes. to 79 in hercules. look for warm conditions in the interior areas. upper 80s in fairfield and antioch. 83 in pleasanton, and 86 in livermore. now if you are traveling around the state, it's quiet right now in tahoe, but possible afternoon thunderstorms with a high of 81. los angeles 86. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. we've got mild to warm temperatures today. temperatures coming down a few degrees tomorrow. holding steady near average through most of the work week until friday when you will notice that cold front will bring temperatures down and also a slight chance of rain. >> all right, francis. thank you. next, dreaming of riches with another huge power ball jackpot. we will tell you how much guys, you took tums® a couple hours ago. why keep taking it if you know your heartburn keeps coming back? 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an ohio state football fan arrived to a crime scene outside their hotel. it is where the buckeye football team is also staying. there were two shooters firing at each other and a stray bullet struck a cabdriver at the taxi stand. >> when i heard the shot i went downright here by the tire. he was screaming call 911 i got shot. >> the cabdriver was standing in this spot when the bullets rang out from broadway. he was shot in the back of the thigh. one of the bullets struck the wall right here. there are at least three other bullet holes on the side of the marriott. the buckeye fans we spoke to seemed unphased. unphased. >> it is like any city, any place. >> it is an unfortunate state, our culture, i guess. it is something that can happen at anywhere, anytime. >> shootings are rare in the heart of downtown oakland. now they are examining hotel surveillance cameras and trying to identify the suspects. in oakland, alan weng, abc7 news. >> not since the bart strike of 1979 have managers taken the controls of bart trains. bart's top leaders say that's one of the options they are considering if the bart workers strike next month. sergio is live near the oakland bridge tonight. the bay bridge rather with what this could mean for commuters. sergio? >> anyone that has traveled over the newly reopened bridge says it is a nightmare getting to an on-ramp lately. contract negotiations are continuing, but if there is a bart strike obviously traffic throughout the bay area is going to be even worse. today one of bart's top managers said commuters should be planning just in case. the back up heading to the bay bridge has been extending well into the night lately and for drivers stuck in the afternoon commute, the prospect of another bart strike is unsettling. >> it was awful. i think it took me about an hour to get on to the bridge. >> you couldn't get out of the building. it took 10, 15 minutes to get out of the parking garage and bart wasn't working. >> right now the bart trains are running, but contract negotiations are contentious. >> if there is a strike we think the public will look at bart and say what are you doing to try to provide some type of skeletal train service. we want to be able to present to our board an option that includes limited service. >> that hasn't happened since 1979. back then trains with managers at the controls got rolling in the last weeks of a three-month strike. almost immediately after bart raised that option today, union leaders quickly raised the warning flags. >> i would be extremely concerned if they are thinking of running and having the managers run the trains. passenger safety is paramount and that would be compromised if they chose to do that. >> training behind the controls takes four months and managers could only start that training if there is a walkout. they are looking to charter more buses than were used in the strike earlier this summer. but with 28 days left until this cooling off period ends, bart managers are smacking contin general -- are making contingency plans. >> we encourage people to plan ahead and think about carpooling and flex hours and tele commuting. >> bart and the unions return to the bargaining table on monday to begin talks on th issd benefits. abc7 news. >> and this monday night drivers in san francisco will have to deal with an extra traffic headache. the on-ramp will be closed at 8:00 p.m. the on-ramp will re-open before the morning commute at 5:30 in the morningment the work is part of the central subway project which opens in 2019. a fremont police officer responding to a call rammed into a motorcyclist tonight and it turns out the injured rider also works for fremont pd. 2 happened about a block from american high school on fremont boulevard. that's where ama dates is live with the story for us. ama? >> carolyn, the northbound lanes of fremont boulevard were shutdown for six hours. they just reopened at 10:00. the newark police department is leading the investigation as they work to determine what caused the fremont officer to run into the motorcycle. tow truck operators struggled to remove a motorcycle embedded in the front end of a fremont police cruiser. 2* happened just before 4:00 p.m. as they responded to a non-emergency call. >> the police car struck the back of the motorcycle. the motorcycle rider was thrown to the ground. the motorcycle impacted the back of the truck. >> the six-year veteran of fremont pd happened to hit a fellow employee, a 29-year-old woman who worked for the department for about 18 months. >> it was scary. there was radiator fluid dripping everywhere. >> lori joe stevens is a waitress at dino's family restaurant and she saw the woman lying on the ground. we didn't see any blood or anything so we assumed that she was physically okay. they did take off her helmet after the paramedics arrived. she was moving her fingers and her hands. >> the woman was taken to the hospital for serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. the pick up truck driver and the officer were not hurt. in fremont, abc7 news. >> in the meantime, transit police in oakland are investigating collision between a bus and compact car with a family of three inside. it happened before 7:00 near fifth 1k3 brush streets. a bus ran the red light and hit a car that was turning left according to the people in the vehicle. >> the passenger side of the car , my wife -- when the light turned green she went. like she said, the guy went through the red light and the car spun around. stopped, the kid was screaming. gite driver of the compact said the bus driver came to her and apologized. the couple's 7-year-old daughter was taken to the hospital for observations. we think she will be just fine. new at 11:00, a warning for students and staff at stanford after a woman was tackled jogging on campus. she was running on the lake path just before 9:00 p.m. a man grabbed her and pulled her to the ground. she did manage to get away. police have a vague description of the man about 5 foot 6 wearing dark pants and a dark sweatshirt. a manhunt is underway in elsa -- in el cerrito as a man attacked a woman texting on her cell phone. the victim was walking under the bart station. this is the man police say punched the victim in her head several times and pinned her arms against her body. a nearby resident heard the victim cry off and scared off the attacker. he is described as in his 20s and about 5 foot 6 with stuby facial hair. full containment of the fire on mount diablo is expected tonight. officials say it cost $4.5 million to fight the fire. some crews are still moping up and patrolling the fire perimeter. authorities believe it was started by target shooting on sunday afternoon. it has burned 3100 acres at this point, but no structures were destroyed. new developments on the peninsula. a life saving warning system is back up and run. -- back up and running. the repairs to upgrade the system starts in august. it accelerated after officials discovered three of the eight sirens were working properly. the new system is able to broadcast voice messages in assisted of just a siren. it you ever -- covers a 30-mile stretch. beginning next month, restaurants in san francisco will have to stop using plastic bags for takeout and delivery. on october 1st, the plastic bag ban will expand. supermarkets and pharmacies have been forced to comply. restaurants will charge 10 cents for paper or compostable bags that will apply even to takeout sandwiches. right now the city is reaching out to restaurants reminding them the change is coming on october 1st. it is not over yet. next on abc7 news, month are rain and more flooding for colorado. entire towns cutoff by raging waters. and the number of missing people continues to climb. >> and what caused a massive fire that destroyed part of nerming new jersey's historic boardwalk. why they are calling the smoldering rubble a crime scene. >> and why the 49er fans may want to pack some earplugs. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. we have fog out there right now and we will look at your weekend wake up weather and [ maragno ] if the car was invented today, it would run on the most affordable energy source available. it would charge overnight. every morning, you'd wake up with a full tank, ready to go. if the car was invented today, it would be the 100% electric nissan leaf. with over 200 million gas-free miles driven and automatic hov lane access, the question isn't "why electric?" it's "why gas?" 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cattle marooned and a horse tethered in a pasture and now looks lost at sea. the day luge tossed around these trailers as though they were toys in a bathtub. tws too much for railways, highways and for many homes. >> the neighbor's house fell off and what was a little creek fell off and got swept away. there was just pieces of houses and appliances floating down. >> thousands have been evacuated. >> i have never seen it rain so hard. >> in estes park they use the zip line to save trapped residents. this man was pulled from his home after it was buried in mud. >> i was able to get him some water and a blanket. >> they can't get out and we can't get in. >> and authorities are bracing for more. >> we still have forecasts for flash flood warnings. we could very well be back in the same condition we were yesterday. this is a wait and see game. >> with raging floodwaters taking outen tear roads, the national guard is using four helicopters for medical evacuations and to deliver humanitarian aid. abc news, boulder, colorado. >> abc news has learned that the huge fire that destroyed much of the jersey shore boardwalk was considered suspicious. it broke out in a frozen custard shop. the flames driven by 30 mile-an-hour winds quickly spread destroying dozens of businesses. they called the ruins a crime scene. the boardwalk was painstakingly built after being battered by superstorm sandy. chris christie vowed that the boardwalk will rebuild again. well, this may have happened to you. you may have noticed it. some wells fargo customers say they are having trouble accessing their accounts. dozens took to the facebook page saying they could not pay their bills or withdraw money. one customer said he couldn't deposit his check and didn't get a receipt and couldn't take any money out. wells fargo admits there are issues affecting some customers, but didn't offer specifics. california health officials are warning not to eat an imported candy that can be dangerous. the latest batch of sugar candy tested at . 22 parts per lead. that's more than double to be considered contaminated. throw it out immediately. they import the candy from india and the recalled packages are 7 ounce and have a label that says batch number 12030. tonight google wants to know why one of its street view drivers crashed into a bus and then tried to leave the scene. it happened in inindonesia. the car which has a camera mounted on top of it slammed into a bus and then the driver panicked apparently and started to drive away only to hit another bus. it is unclear if anyone was hurt, but there was some damage to the google car. the tech giant is working hard with local police. sunday's game between the niners and the seahawks could be one of the loudest ever. a group of seahawks fans will try to break the guinness world record for loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium. the current record is a booming 131.76 decibels and that was set during a turkish soccer match two years ago. in comparison, a rock concert is 115 decibels. the human ear starts to feel pain at 125 decibels . and the bay bridge has a new honor. it is the widest bridge in the world. here is a live picture of the span from our emeryville camera. it measures 258 and a third feet wide. it now surpasses the portman bridge which is 213 feet wide. it is actually quite wide. >> spectacular really. let's get a check on our weekend forecast now. >> sandhya patel is here with the accu-weather forecast. >> dan and carolyn, the weekend is looking great, and if you have been waiting for cooler weather and possibly some rain, you may just get it. a week from today live doppler 7hd right now is showing you how foggy it is along the coast. as we take you closer the fog has crossed the san francisco bay into hayward and oakland and fremont right now and pretty gray skies. here is a view st -- a view of the fog. 56 in san francisco and 59 in oakland and sictz for redwood city and san jose and los gatos, 57 and foggy. from our roof camera you are looking at the overcast skies and here are your temperatures. 57 in santa rosa and 60 in napa and still olding on to the warmth from earlier. antioch 71 and concord 60. the highs today were in the upper 50s at the coast to the low 90s inland. we had our summer microclimates. you can see the visibility is just fine right now. the fog near the coast and the bay and mild to warm again tomorrow and we are looking at it to turn cooler for your sunday. here is a look at the morning. foggy for your early plans this weekend and it is just the bay and the coast. for the afternoon sunshine for most of the bay area. 70s, 80s, coast side, some lingering fog with 60s. typical, not so typical a little early start and we are expecting the possibility of rain as we head into friday. a chance of rain in about a week as the cold front comes in. we usually get our first rain unofficially here on halloween. we may see it a little sooner. we'll keep an eye on that and the radar is tracking it. tomorrow morning foggy around the coast and bay as i mentioned. mid50s to low 60s. if you have early plans you may want to grab the extra layer. tomorrow afternoon, 79 in the south bay in san jose and a sunny day in santa clara. on the peninsula, upper 70s palo alto and redwood city. 62 on the coast and pacifica and not much changing in the mission district. 68 downtown san francisco and you will see lingering fog. coast side 60s and most of the rest of the area in the 80s except sausalito. 91 clear lake so you are above the fog layer. head out toward the east bay and your temperatures will be close to average. 71 in oakland and 75 newark. inland 88 in fairfield and 86 in livermore. now if you are head together raiders game, this sunday they are taking on the jaguars. mild weather, mid60s at 1:00 and climbing up to the low 70s as we head into the latter part of the game. beautiful weather for the weekend. even beyond that. accu-weather seven-day forecast showing you just minor ups and downs until friday where it is cooler. 70s in the warmest inland valleys and we may be talking about shower possibility or rain possibilities. he is like, i don't believe you. >> larry is the doubter. >> he is the skeptic. >> we believe you. >> i will keep you posted. >> things worked out well for the a's tonight. >> it was a little tight. the skeptics doubted it. >> you make the call here. this was the difference in tonight's fight f mom? did nana ever give you cheerios when you were a little kid? yeah, she did. were cheerios the same back then? cheerios has pretty much been the same forever. so...when we have cheerios, it's kind of like we are having breakfast with nana... yeah... ♪ yeah. you're so smart. it is the showdown for first place on top of the al west. they are cruising out to a 7-1 lead. i tell you, we are generating so much cash from river rock. thank you again for joining me. should we get to the a's highlight in texas 1234* here we go in the first inning. 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less than full compliance by the assad regime. >> diplomatic deal, from a certain strike to asking congress for permission to strike to, hey, we're going to secure syria's chemical weapons. i'll look at the agreement and what happens if syria does not deliver. and come hell or high haert, the jersey shore has survived both now. we're live with the investigation into the boardwalk inferno that is still smoldering today. all those stories in just a moment. but we start with developing news in colorado at this hour where the death toll from that historic flooding is now at four. the latest victim was a woman whose body was found friday. water swamped her car, swept her away. that was north of boulder. today, the national guard is back in the town of lyons, northwest of boulder. guardsmen there are helping residents get out. officials have urged the entire town of 2,500 to leave. >> an hour ago, that road was there and passable. >> but several small remote towns in colorado's front range are still cut off because of washed-out roads like this one inside the big thompson canyon. >> you know, it's a sinking feeling when you realize that if someone above -- or someone in the area calls 911, we are not going to be able to help them. that's a very difficult position as a sheriff, as a government official to be in. but that's been the reality the last several days. >> nbc's joe friar is in boulder, colorado, for us this afternoon where the floodwaters have dropped some, i understand. but it remains a very dangerous situation. joe, police said this morning that there were still roughly 170 unaccounted for. but i understand that there's a big asterisk there. can you explain that for us? >> reporter: yeah, right now, it's actually i think hovering around 200, the number of people who are considered unaccounted for. the sheriff says those people aren't missing but just people they have not been able to hear from at all possibly because they don't have any power or any phone service. it could be that some of them have gotten to higher ground but haven't been in touch with loved ones. but the sheriff says there's a high possibility that some of these could turn into fatalities. we're getting the first few drops of right we've had all day. it's been largely clear. that gives us an opportunity to show you we haven't seen much of and that's the mountains and hills that surround boulder here. so much of the rain that they saw in the past week accumulated there and has been running down into the creeks and streams down below here in boulder. you see the boulder creek still running at a good pace although the level's gone down quite considerably in just the last day, especially day. the dry weather today has given the national guard an opportunity to fly in for the second consecutive day using helicopters to jamestown, rescuing hundreds of people who have been trapped there since the floods began. they're also still going into the town of lyons using tall vehicles able to access the flooded roads and as many as 2,500 people need to be rescued from there. >> joe fryer for us on the ground in boulder, colorado, jim, thank you. from that historic flooding there in colorado to a punch in the gut fire on the jersey shore. right now, firefighters are still closely watching what remains of the boardwalk at seaside heights. there have been reports of some small flare-ups overnight. but officials say they expected that. this fire happened on the same stretch of boardwalk, the same stretch that was wrecked by hurricane sandy less than a year ago. nbc's michelle franzen is live in seaside heights, new jersey, for us. how dangerous are the flare-ups that i was just talking about? >> reporter: those flare-ups are still occurring, those hot spots smoldering. they're expected to continue here for the next couple of days. it just gives you an idea of just how much of an inferno this was that raced through this boardwalk. as crews get in there, as investigators in there, as they start shifting around and moving some of that debris to try and sort of investigate the cause of this blaze which is still unknown, they put air into those pockets that are still smoldering and that feeds it. they expect that to happen for the next few days. there's a lot there that would have burned, still left to burn, still very hot from that day. as i mentioned, no cause yet known in that investigation. they continue their efforts. they're going to sift from that section of the boardwalk all the way over to this point that you see here. from this point on forward, about 20% of the boardwalk is still relatively unscathed with just little pockets here and there. and some of the businesses remain open, craig, at this hour. there's been a lot of speculation as to what exactly investigators will be looking for. we've got arson investigators. the atf here, that is standard procedure, we are told. with a fire of this magnitude, they say it will be a process of elimination. it's standard procedure and they're going to make sure they cover both possibilities of arson all the way to just an accident being fueled by those 30-mile-an-hour winds the other night. >> just four months after that stretch of boardwalk reopened after superstorm sandy. michelle franzen, a big thank you to you. i'll talk to the mayor of seaside heights in the next hour. new hope today in the stand-off with syria. more on that in just a moment. first, though, a look and listen at the last 14 days. remember when secretary of state john kerry made the moral case for war two fridays ago? we need to ask, what is the risk of doing nothing? he said that. then this -- >> it matters because if we choose to live in a world where a thug and a murderer like bashar al assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity, even after the united states and our allies said "no," and then the world does nothing about it, there will be no end to the test of our resolve. >> so just a day later, his boss, president obama, said essentially, we should hit assad. but i hear you, war weary people. so i'm going to go to congress and ask permission. then they put out videos like this one. women and children, victims of a chemical weapons strike. now this, word a few hours ago that the united states and russia have agreed on a tentative deal and a time frame for syria to turn over its chemical weapons. in geneva this morning, once again, secretary of state john kerry -- >> we said at the outset that to accomplish our goal, this plan had to produce transparency, accountability, timeliness and enforceability. it must be credible and verifiable. if fully implemented, we believe it can meet these standards. >> what a difference two weeks makes. gail lamond joins us and edward santorum. gail, once this plan is approved, it calls for, among other things, syria to provide an inventory of its chemical weapons stock within one week, international inspections to start by november, chemical weapons should be destroyed or removed by the middle of 2014. how likely is it that syria will agree to the plan and actually comply with the terms of the plan? >> i think those are two separate questions. how likely are they to agree to it? probably more likely than they are to comply with it. that's what you hear from a lot of people who have just been following this policy whipsaw. your set-up was perfect. we've gone from doing just enough to saying, enough is enough in two weeks. and then in another two-week period, we've gone from calling assad a thug and a murderer to ostensibly negotiating with him. it is incredibly telling that we are talking about a deal in geneva rather than a trial at the hague while all these atrocities continue to go forward. >> how did we get here? what do we know about precisely what happened behind the scenes that led us to this moment? >> i've been doing a lot of reporting and having a lot of conversations on this. and there are three realities that have always been very hard to square. first, the president didn't want to get into this war. secondly, he'd also said assad had to go as early as 2011. and third, america is not a country that likes to watch citizens get butchered in real time as we have in syria. so i think there has been an on-again, off-again just-and-time foreign policy where they've tried to do as much as they could within those three parameters at are almost impossible to square with one another. >> this is a major turnaround for the obama administration in just a couple of weeks. how do you think that this particular plan that we're just hearing some details about for the first time, how is this plan going to be greeted on capitol hill? >> on capitol hill, this was not a place for people who wanted to join obama's war. we saw going forward over the past few weeks when obama talked about going to congress, most people on capitol hill didn't want to do it. he wasn't going to get the congressional permission he wanted to go to war in the first place. there's been some criticism so far from capitol hill of obama and how he sort of maybe changed positions and moved around. but the end result is the war that congress didn't want isn't happening -- it looks like. and the war the america people didn't want isn't happening and the war that obama seemed reticent about isn't happening either. so the white house is definitely thinking this is a victory. we've already seen today obama called john kerry and congratulated him on the deal. we saw white house official ben rhodes, spokesperson for the national security council -- or foreign policy talking about it being a great and tireless work by kerry. the white house feels pretty good about this. it is the result that a lot of people in congress were saying that they wanted, which is not to have military action happen. >> and we should note here, the white house released a statement a short time ago as well applauding the plan. but the president did add, quote, if diplomacy fails, the united states remains prepared to act. at this point, gayle, how real do we think congress is taking the president's threat to use military action? >> or how real is syria taking the president's threat? if it were hard to get the hill to go forward -- i totally agree with that -- in the shadow of people being gassed to death, can you imagine several months down the road? you talk to people who have been working on this for months and there is enormous frustration that nobody is talking about the killing and the atrocities and the shelling that goes on even today. in damascus and while people are having conversations about chemical weapons -- i think that that is where you've seen a real narrowing of the scope of how americans want to get involved in this war. >> evan, is the prevailing sense there inside the beltway that this is a victory for president putin, not so much a victory for president obama? >> the interesting thing about the putin thing, i think putin's been a galvanizing force in the president's favor. you've seen -- obviously he put his op ed out in "the new york times" that caused a lot of controversy. obviously russia helped to broker this deal that's happening in geneva today. but on capitol hill, people who were not such a big fan of what obama's been doing. when they saw that putin op ed, they got kind of fired up. putin saying, you guys aren't so exceptional, stop talking about how great you are, basically, really galvanized a lot of people. i think in the long run, if you see a deal fall apart and the white house can pin that on russia, which the white house is trying to do, that could actually help obama and the white house get military action to occur if they wanted it to happen. >> the result being far more important than the process. gayle and evan, a big thanks to both of you on a saturday afternoon. always appreciate your insight. it's not just syria. why are parts of the middle east always in chaos? 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and that's pretty cool. ♪ as we look at the complex crisis in the middle east, a lot of folks are asking, how did we get here this time? why does it seem there's never calm and peace in the region? the politics of the modern middle east can be traced back to agreements made by france and britain at the end of the first world war. there's a new book and it traces many of today's conflicts back to those roots through the focus of one man, britain's t.e. lawrence. scott anderson is a veteran war correspondent and also the author of "lawrence in arabia" war, deceit, imperial folly. it's a fantastic read and a b t bestseller as well. . the e. lawrence, maybe the best-known figure of that time. americans know him from the epic film "lawrence of arabia." how big a role did he play in the agreements creating the map of the modern middle east? >> he was hugely influential. he played a private equitital role during world war one in the middle east. he was the chief british liaison officer to the arab rebels who allied with the british. he got put off to the side at the paris peace conference afterwards, however. >> the 20th century, most middle east countries we're familiar with were part of the ottoman impeer. but the united states did have some input. >> right. >> what role did the united states play in creating this post-ottoman middle east? >> well, they had an opportunity, that's probably a better way to put it, of heading off the carving of the partition of the middle east between the british and the french. woodrow wilson at the paris peace conference famously came with the idea that people had the right to self-determination and it was going to be a continuation of the imperial a era. however, he ended up acquiescing to the british and french carving up the region. >> did western control -- did it doom prospects for peace from the very beginning, then? >> it probably did. the idea of arab nations, arab peoples and muslim peoples going under christian and european control seems pretty unlikely. and it proved very unlikely right from the get-go. >> what if anything could western powers have done in those early years that might have stabilized the region? >> probably to divide the area along the sort of ethnic and sectarian lines that always existed. this was a system that the ottomans had where they gave individual tribes, clans, sectarian groups a huge degree of autonomy. so the idea of joining these different disparate groups together and calling it a nation like iraq was a recipe for disaster. >> "lawrence in arabia" by scott anderson, it's a bestseller now. fantastic read. it's a very unique way to tell an important story and very timely now as well. thank you so much for stopping by. >> thank you. pope francis is putting the pedal to the metal in a brand-new used car, much to dismay of his security detail. the pope says he fully intends to drive the vintage 1984 renault. recently gifted to him by an italian priest. there it is right there. pushing his down-to-earth papal reputation. he's even started making personal calls to unassuming faithfuls, earning him the nickname the cold call pope. ♪ ♪ you make me, make me, make me go crazy ♪ ♪ you make me, make me, make me go crazy. ♪ it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. 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united says it was human error, not a technical glitch, that led to the zero dollar tickets in many cases. the anniversary of september 11th and the current middle east conflict drew the attention of cyber warriors this week. they claimed responsibility for taking down some twitter accounts affiliated with fox television. according to data breach, planned september 11th attacks against banking institutions and governmental agencies turned out to be uneventful, with no evidence of any of the sites being disrupted. kevin is a former world renown hacker. he spent nearly five years in prison for computer-related crimes. he's a senior partner at flashpoint global partners and shane harris is a senior writer on cyber security at "foreign policy" magazine. evan, let me start with you. in broad terms, are we at all overplaying the political and terror threat that's being posed by these shadow wi online groups or is our concern legitimate? >> depends what you mean. are there cases where there are individuals who claim or suggest they're going to carry out a far-reaching attack and it doesn't pan out? yeah, it happens all the time. a guy the other day called him the al qaeda electronic army who threatened to take out air traffic control systems and didn't come close. for every one or two of these guys, there's a range of other actors who are capable and interested in doing this. we're seeing an escalation. we saw an iranian-backed group launching service attacks. now more sophisticated attacks by the syrian electronic army. and the e request is, what's beyond that? >> shane, you did some interviews with the syrian electronic army. what was your impression of them and their capabilities? >> well, i think that right now, their capabilities are still what we might call fairly low level, they call themselves vandals in effect. defacing websites, hijacking twitter accounts. experts say they've gotten a lot better in their techniques recently and have wondered whether there was some outside assistance involved there. the person i interviewed said, no, we don't have any outside help. we've gotten pretty good at this on our own but they didn't seem to indicate that they had plans to escalate their attacks beyond what we've seen so far, some of these acts of basically online vandalism. my impression was that they felt that a really devastating attack or cyber warfare, that they didn't have the resources to do something like this. >> kevin, i understand you are in moscow at an internet security conference, insert joke here. but how concerned are professionals there about cyber terrorism in general? >> well, with the syrian electronic army, i believe they have moderate skill level. what they did is used what we call a social engineering attack to trick one of the isps that had access to the domain server system. when you put in disney.com it comes back with an i.p. address because that's what the computers understand. they were able to manipulate and basically hijack the domain. it wasn't really that sophisticated. i wouldn't call it cyber warfare. i would call it some teenagers or young adults out there basically doing hacktivism-type activities. >> what's happening at that conference that you're attending in moscow? >> i was hired keynote conference a couple of days ago here in moscow on computer security. and they were interested on how their businesses and enterprises could be attacked and what they could do to mitigate the risk, especially in relation to social engineering attacks, which is exactly what the syrian army used to hijack twitters and twitt twitter's domain. >> let's talk about domestically here what our lawmakers can and cannot do and have and have not done. congress hasn't been able to pass a comprehensive cyber security people. you have various committees and subcommittees that have jurisdiction over various aspects of cyber security. is this a case of congress not willing to do enough on cyber security or is this a case of congress not knowing precisely what to do about cyber security? >> he's a lack of motivation and also probably a lack of knowledge. a lot of people out there don't realize how dire the situation has become and how major u.s. corporations feel now that they are under siege by adversary that is they can't touch or see and they don't know who they are. it's also potentially a lack of knowledge. it's fair to say as well that most lawmakers are not internet security experts. and they're relying on people underneath them to feed them the right information. if they don't get that information, if they're not aware of how serious this problem is and how the mechanics work and where these groups are and how they're proliferating it at a relatively rapid pace, you can guess where we go from there. >> shane, we continue to hear new revelations of the extent of the national security agency's massive eavesdropping program as well. you wrote something this week in "foreign policy" i want to put on the screen. the nsa has spent billions of dollars on a secret campaign to foil encryption technologies that individuals, corporations and governments around the world had long thought protected the privacy of their communications from u.s. intelligence agencies. does the government seem to have a focused plan to use all this information without violating the privacy of american citizens? >> i think their plan has been to collect as much information as they can and to try and do it within the law. but to focus more on collecting the information first. the piece that i wrote in "foreign policy" about general alexander, the director of the nsa, a number of people i spoke to had very strong criticism for him saying they felt he was pushing up against the limits of privacy law. and in many cases doing things that may be legal but may not be necessarily advisable. the nsa has pushed, we saw it with the encryption story, to really foil encryption around the world, to try to collect as much data as they possibly can. i don't think there's been so much of a strategy on how to make sense of all that information. what we're seeing now is really just how very massive that surveillance net has been. the questions we should be asking now are, is it working? is it actually keeping us safer or sit becoming a potentially huge threat to privacy and civil liberties simply because most of it's secret and the powers that the agency has amassed are extraordinary and unprecedented? we haven't had an opportunity to debate that and what the limits should be. >> kevin, i want to talk to you about how businesses are handling customers' personal information. this week, the state of connecticut reached a settlement with citibank for about $55,000, a drop in the bucket for a company like that. credit card information of more than 360,000 customers nationwide was accessed by hackers in a 2011 security breach. only connecticut and california have taken citi to court over the breach. how would you characterize how corporations are handling their responsibility to protect customers' private information? >> with respect to credit card information, companies are supposed to be what they call pci compliant. they have to follow these rules, they have to get tested. they have to meet these 12 requirements. but companies hire me all the time to actually break in their systems using technical exploits by social engineering, by employees, by gaining access to their company's facilities. in a lot of these cases, as an ethical tester, we're able to breach the client's network and get access to credit card information even though the client is encrypting it in the database. you know why? >> are you able to do it with relative ease? >> we're able to get legal access to it because we're doing a test. that's because the clients are keeping the encryption keys in places where we can gain access to it. they're doing it sloppily, which now if a real blackhead hacker group breaches that client, now they can get access to everything. >> i want to talk about something else here, evan colem coleman, that got a lot of people excited. apple announcing its new iphone is going to be using fingerprint encryption -- this fingerprint thing instead of a password. is this going to be a game -- in addition to it being really cool, is it going to be a game changer for privacy protection? >> it's more about theft, basic theft. the problem is there's an entire market for apple picking. people grabbing iphones off the secret. by employing these additional protections, you're seeing a better ability for users to prevent their iphones from being stolen and expropriated. but we'll see whether or not that has implications for online security as well. >> evan, shane, kevin, thank you, gentlemen. appreciate your time on this saturday. >> thanks. the nfl controversy that will not go away. the commissioner's warning, some new ads from native americans and gameday protests now. also, fighting street harassment one poster at a time. meet the woman behind today's big idea next. ♪ [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today, that's easy. ge is revolutionizing power. supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. using data predictively to help power entire cities. so the turbines of today... will power us all... into the future. ♪ his day of coaching begins with knee pain, when... 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[ cheers and applause ] >> flashback to this very day in 2001 when president george bush gave that rousing speech standing on the rubble at ground zero. 12 years later, i had the chance to talk to the director of the 9/11 memorial museum about how important -- precisely how important that museum is going to be for children born after that world-changing day. >> teaching is really critical, understanding that there are children in grade school now who weren't alive when 9/11 happened. for them, it's history. now to today's big idea where one woman is responding to street harassment in a very unique way. brooklyn artist tatiana has decided that she is fed up with the cat calls and whistles. so now she is speaking directly to offenders with paintings like this. it's public art project that she's calling "stop telling women to smile." it's a fascinating project that got our attention. good to see you. >> thank you. >> what inspired this? how did this come about? >> street harassment inspired it. it's something that i experience all the time and have for years now. and i wanted to address it with my artwork. >> and this is the unique way that you came up with to address it? >> yes. >> and how was that born? >> well, i'm an artist and recently i started working in public art. so the idea to address the situation where it happens outside in the street made the most sense to me. >> instead of monju, you use real women who have been victimized on the street. what have they told you about how this project has impacted them? >> a lot of their experiences are the same as mine. we all experience street harassment. a lot of their stories are what inspired the captions that are on the posters. they appreciate it. they proficient having their faces and voices actually outside in the street talking to men. >> my name is not "baby." that was my favorite one. i think a lot of folks, especially guys, they hear about this and they're like, really? this goes on? this is commonplace? you see it in movies or tv shows, construction sites, things like that. but this is a real problem. >> it's a real problem. i'm glad people are realizing it's a real problem. a lot of people have said, why is that street harassment? so this project is bringing that to their attention, that this is real stuff that real women go through. >> critics of your work say you're overreacting, that you're being uptight. what do you say to those critics? >> i would say that i am not. this is something i experience every single day. how it affects my day and how i feel about it, no one can tell me that i'm overreacting over something like this. >> and telling a woman to smile is probably on the milder side of some of the things, i would imagine, that women hear when they walk down the street. why call this project "stop telling women to smile"? >> because it brings you in. if you don't think that stopping telling women to smile is a form of street harassment, then you question it and it forces you to look at the rest of the series. telling women to smell is one perspective on street harassment that i personally do not like at all and i don't appreciate. that's why i wanted that to be a part of it. >> your installation is being displayed in new york right now. what's next? >> to travel with it. i want to recreate the project in different cities across the country, possibly internationally. i'd like to learn how street harassment affects other women in other regions of the country. to travel with it is the next part. >> what's been the reception so far, on the whole? >> on the whole, i've generally been getting a good reception. a lot of women e-mail me, message me telling me that they appreciate this, thanking me for it and telling me their stories of street harassment. i really didn't realize that so many people were passionate about it, that so many people experienced what i experienced until i started doing this. >> it really is fascinating. thank you so much for swinging by to share a little bit more about it. tatiana, thank you so much for forgiving me -- did i butcher the last name? did i get it? what is it? >> you're leaving out some letters. >> pronounce the last name for me properly. i tried so hard. tatiana, thank you so much. appreciate you swinging by. do you have a big idea that's making a difference? 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"the washington post's" editorial board weighed in. we hope, too, that mr. snyder, finally understands that the team's name, no matter it's storied tradition or importance to many fans, is a racial slur of native americans so offensive that it should no longer be tolerated. that editorial was a direct response to the man that runs the league, roger goodell, who changed his tune a bit this week saying, quote, if we are offending one person, we need to be listening and making sure that we're doing the right thing to try to address that. meanwhile, this weekend, one of the groups trying to get the team to change its name is running this radio ad. >> it is the insult native american parents heard as their children were taken and sadly it is the racial slur the nfl continues to use to describe the team that represents our nation's capital. >> dave is a sports editor for "the nation" magazine. always good to see you. roger goodell, "the washington post," several noted sportswriters now. the list of people for the redskins to change their name, that list is growing. are we at a tipping point now? is there change afoot? >> we're certainly reaching a tipping point. let's talk about why we're reaching that tipping point. the number one reason is that native american voices themselves are finally part of this discussion. you mentioned the united nation radio ads. they're going to be picketing at lambeau field this weekend and they're going to bring banners and signs inside the stadium as well. when roger goodell says if this is offending even one person, we need to take it seriously and you have people stepping forward and saying, you know what, actually, it does offend me that on the highest possible cultural platform, an nfl team is named after a racial slur, that is going to create the kind of atmosphere that could lead to the changing of the name. >> dan snyder, the team's owner, quoted as saying, never, you can use caps, closed quote. what if anything would motivate snyder to seriously consider changing a name? and is there a compromise at all? >> i don't think there's a compromise on this particular issue. i think perhaps you could have a compromise where the team still sales merchandise that has the redskins' name on it while selling something new. that could maybe be pitched to dan snyder as a way of saying, you're not going to lose money by giving up your lucrative brand, you'll make money. if there's one thing dan snyder has shown himself good at, it is making that money. this is somebody who had people selling beers inside the bathrooms at fedex field which some might say shortens the distance by which you have to process that. but that breaks every health cold violation and still dan snyder did it until it was shut down. this is not somebody who likes to lose money. if it could be pitched in a way where he can make money, that's the only thing i think that could make the change in his mind. >> the other big controversy, that "sports illustrated"tory dealing the use and abuse of money, sex, drugs around the oklahoma state university football program. here's the question. how surprised should people really be that money, that sex, that drugs are involved in major college football programs? >> two issues to unpack here. if this was a sherlock holmes novel it would be called "the scandal that wouldn't bark." a lot of people are telling me this is being greeted with a big yawn. why? because talk about passing a tipping point. we're at a point right now where in the ncaa and college football, they've signed a $6 billion contract with espn. they destroyed all the traditional rivalries in college football for realignment to make more money. for a lot of folks, it's just, of course this is going to happen. the entire system at this point is so recognized that it's rife with corruption. the only people who believe in amateurism at this point are people are believe in unicorns and a flat earth society. i want to make this point. the part of the story that deals with the using of women as a way to entice people, using sex as a way to entice 17-year-old young men to go to schools needs to be discussed much more because i think that kind of connective tissue between the using and abusing of women, of thingafying women and the instances of rape culture we've seen in football needs to be much more discussion and i hope we don't paper over that. >> dave, one of my favorite sportswriters out there. always enjoy your time, sir. thank you. >> my privilege. up next, today's receding waters are revealing even more damage from colorado's historic flooding. right now, at this moment, rescuers are searching for unaccounted residents. also new evacuations are under way. we are live on the other side of this break. you want to get an m. but going back to school is hard... because you work. now, capella university offers a revolutionary new way to get your degree. it's called flexpath and it's the most direct path, leveraging what you've learned on the job and focusing on what you need to know so you can get a degree at your pace. and graduate at the speed of you. flexpath from capella university learn more at capella.edu i remember thinking there's a lot i have to do... check my blood sugar, eat better. start insulin. today i learned there's something i don't have to do anymore. my doctor said with levemir® flexpen... i don't have to use a syringe and a vial. levemir® flexpen comes prefilled with long-acting insulin taken once daily for type 2 diabetes to help control high blood sugar. dial the exact dose. inject by pushing a button. no drawing from a vial. no refrigeration for up to 42 days. levemir® (insulin detemir [rdna origin] injection) is not recommended to treat diabetic ketoacidosis. do not use levemir® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause symptoms such as sweating, shakiness, confusion, and headache. severe low blood sugar can be serious and life threatening. ask your health care provider about alcohol use, operating machinery, or driving. other possible side effects include injection site reactions. tell your health care provider about all medicines you take and all of your medical conditions. get medical help right away if you experience serious allergic reactions such as body rash, trouble with breathing, fast heartbeat, or sweating. flexpen® is insulin delivery my way. covered by most insurance plans, including medicare. ask your health care provider about levemir® flexpen today. bjorn earns unlimited rewards for his small business. take these bags to room 12 please. 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is that the thinking? >> longmont does not have that many. we have three unaccounted for. but it's the same theory. we believe they've gone somewhere and we just can't reach them at this point. >> how did your town fare during the floods? >> we had significant flooding that damaged many of our bridges in our city. right now, we have only been able to return three of the bridges out of about eight. it effectively cut our city in half. >> what at this point, sir, has been the most challenging part of dealing with this disaster? >> i think for us it was the split city, getting around in our community with our emergency personnel engineers. that's been the most challenging. we were split by the river and we had operations on both sides of that river. >> 700,000 folks evacuated there -- 7,000, excuse me. >> yes, we evacuated 7,000 homes. we have since returned all but about 1,500. we still have about 1,500 active evacuations in place. >> how many rescues? >> we've done a lot of rescues. fortunately we got ahead of this early because of the way the river is flowing. so we started our evacuations very early. so those were minimized. we did have to do a number of rescues from homes for people that had mobility issues. but those were accomplished without any injury. >> what's been the primary focus today? >> today we are monitoring the river. we just had rain a few moments ago. we're closely watching, we're expecting rain in the mountains. so we're closely watching the rain and monitoring the river. >> the threat of more rain, i know that was the concern a few hours ago. how real is that threat right now? >> it's still very real. we're cautiously optimistic. but any additional rain with these flowing rivers right now is going to have a significant impact in our community. we'll have resources ready. we're going to be staffing our eoc center throughout the evening and we'll be prepared for evacuations at any time during the night. >> jeffrey satur, police commander in longmont, we'll let you get back to it. thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you. >> as we just mentioned, the national guard is now back in the town of lyons, it's northwest of boulder. guardsmen are helping residents get out. officials have urged the entire town of 2,500 to leave. darren overstreet is with the colorado national guard. he joins us by phone right now from their command center outside denver. darren, what's the latest right now? how many rescues have we had today and how many are we in the process of conducting? >> hi, craig. thanks for having me on. we have rescued 800 people over the past couple of days. and we're going to continue on as the local authorities need. one of the problems, i know in new york, you guys are very familiar with flooding effects from hurricane sandy. and here, unfortunately, we don't have a shoreline for this to rush off into. so it keeps rushing downstream. unfortunately we're afraid that we may be going into more and more communities as this continues to rush downstream. but we're ready to help our citizens as we need. >> darin, these folks that you're rescues, are these folks that didn't heed the evacuation orders? >> this game on very quickly. to be honest, from those municipalities, i can't speak to the evacuation orders that went out. that's more the sheriffs. but just having been here and as a citizen, this came on very quickly. i don't know how much warning we really had about the possible impacts that this could have. >> we were told a short time ago that it's realistic to expect that the death toll in that area is going to rise at some point from four to who knows how many. is that also what you're hearing? can we expect the death toll to rise or can we expect to rescue all the missing and the folks who are stranded? >> as the national guard, we are more of the response capabilities. so we'll respond to the taskings that come to us from the sheriffs and the lieutenant commanders. we're not necessarily really tracking projection figures such as that. >> sure. darin overstreet, colorado national guard, we'll let you get back to it, sir. thank you. >> thank you so much. from that historic flooding in colorado to the punch in the gut fire on the jersey shore. right now, firefighters continue to closely watch what remains of the boardwalk at seaside heights on this saturday because there have been reports of some small flare-ups once again. officials are saying that they expected that would happen. a short time ago, new jersey governor chris christie met with business leaders in seaside heights. >> some people are telling me how sad they were for all of this. i said, time for sadness is over with. it's legitimately a sad thing. a couple of days to mourn, now we have to move on to get to work. >> michelle franzen live for us in seaside heights, new jersey. let's start with those flare-ups, michelle. how dangerous are those? >> reporter: well, the dangerous flare-ups could be dangerous if the wind starts picking up again. but for the most part, like you said, they're expecting those hot spots to continue for the next few days. that's just because they are getting in there for the first time in a real way to move some of that debris to start their investigation to try and pinpoint exactly where this fire started and why. they still don't know. they are not speculating at this hour. they say everything is still on the table. it will be a process of elimination in terms of whether they rule out arson, whether it was an accident and the whole spectrum that they will be looking at during this time. as you mentioned, the governor a short time ago meeting with the business owners. 30 to 40 of them that in this area back here, this stretch, 80% of this boardwalk that lost their businesses to that inferno several days ago, a little bit of tough love that you heard from him. there's also a lot of determination going forward. but admittedly many of those owners say they don't know the path of how they would rebuild, even if they get that chance. they know that they want that chance. craig? 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[ flo chuckles ] [ whirring ] hey, how's that atom-splitting thing going? oh! a smarter way to shop around -- now that's progressive. call or click today. you are looking at new pictures from colorado where they have a state of emergency in place. major flooding there. major flooding has already killed four people. right now, rescuers searching for at least 170 who are unaccounted for. thousands more are homeless. the national guard is even helping people evacuate from especially hard-hit areas. there is some good news on this saturday afternoon, though. the weather channel's mike seidel tells us that the boulder creek area where we have seen some of the worst flooding has dropped nearly five feet since cresting on friday. the boulder county sheriff says he's starting to feel a little bit better about the situation as well. >> we are actively rescuing people, actively pulling people out of those communities. for the first time in a number of days, we feel like we're making progress. here's a quick look at the other top stories making news right now. tropical storm ingrid is bringing heavy rains and major flooding to mexico's gulf coast today. according to the national hurricane center, ingrid is getting stronger and could become a hurricane before the weekend's out. a recipe for disaster in hawaii where hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses are spilling into the sea from a storage pipeline. the thick, sticky substance is coating the ocean floor, sucking the oxygen out of the water. it's also killing lots of fish as well. officials are still trying to figure out just how to clean up that mess. and is george zimmerman a ticking time bomb? apparently the police chief in lake mary, florida, where zimmerman lives thinks so. in an e-mail exchange published by the website think progress, the chief wrote that zimmerman is a, quote, sandy hook or aurora waiting to happen. back in june, zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of trayvon martin. earlier this week, though, zimmerman was questioned, then later released for allegedly threatening his wife. back to politics now, though syria seems to be occupying the president's full attention right now, many thought that immigration reform would be topping his agenda this summer. this is president obama's weekly address from back in june. >> smarter enforcement, a pathway to earn citizenship, improvements to the legal immigration system. they're all commonsense steps. they have broad support, from democrats and republicans, law enforcement and clergy. so there's no reason that congress can't work together to send a bill to my desk by the end of the summer. >> summer's almost over. that bill's not on the president's desk. there's one group that's taking matters into their own hands. the roman catholic church, believe it or not. the u.s. conference of catholic bishops is now urging its priests to advocate for immigration reform from the pulpit and tell congregants to call their congressman. joining me is father thomas reese, senior analyst for the national catholic reporter. father, always good to have a father on the show. >> thanks, craig. >> why is immigration an issue for the catholic church to take up? >> well, immigration is an issue for the catholic church because it's an issue of human dignity. it's an issue of protecting families. we're for family values. and here we have families being split up, being torn apart because -- and children being separated from their parents because they're being pulled out and sent back to their countries. this is a question of human dignity for us. it's a question of respect, of love for our brothers and sisters. and we feel that they should be treated better. >> the issue has been somewhat taken off the front burner in washington right now. do you think that that is something that has helped or hurt immigration reform advocates? >> well, i think that the bishops wanted to launch this campaign. they knew it was not going to be a campaign of one weekend. this is going to be a campaign that's going to go on for the rest of this year and maybe even into next year because this is something that's got to be done. we have around 11 million undocumented people in the united states. lots of these families have children in them, 3 million children that are living in homes where one or other of the parents is undocumented. and three-quarters of these children, almost, are american citizens. we've got to be concerned about these. the american people want a path to citizenship. the problem is it's just not a big priority in washington. and what the bishops want to do is have the catholic people write their congressman and say, this needs to be a priority. >> i want to talk about motivation for a second. there was a piece talking about the catholic church's involvement in immigration. they raised an explanation, quote, one possible reason why the catholic church is keen to cultivate hispanic immigrants could be that if some of the immigrants or many socially conservative, their voices could become louder on topics like contraception. how much does this push for immigration reform? how much does it help the church on other political issues as well, perhaps? >> this is a real stretch. one-third of the catholics in the united states are hispanic. we're very concerned about these people. the catholic church is made up of immigrants who came to an immigrant nation. we remember when the italians came, when the irish came, when the pols came and how they were discriminated against just like the hispanics are discriminated against today. you don't have to have some conspiracy theory to explain why the catholic church is concerned about these people. the bible tells us that we should be -- we should have justice for immigrants, we should reach out to strangers in a stranger land. the prophets in the old testament said this to the jewish people, remember how you were immigrants in egypt. the holy family were refugees in egypt. our whole biblical tradition is about immigrants and refugees. this comes from our concern for people, our theology, our love of neighbor and just plain justice. >> father thomas reese, thank you, sir. i feel like i don't even have to go to church tomorrow as well. thank you for your time on this saturday afternoon. >> thank you, craig. let's take it to the brain trust. christine niedermayer runs a blog, goldie taylor and keaton dawson is the former chair of the south con gop. christine, let's talk about immigration for a second here. this idea that it's -- it's just one of these domestic issues that really has been pushed off the front burner as the obama administration deals with the crisis in syria. immigration advocates have been very clear from the beginning that they would to move forward. 100 protesters were arrested outside the capitol thursday. does the president have enough political juice left to get congress back on the immigration reform track? >> he does, but this has been the story of this year for him because his agenda has been to deal with a number of different issues. and every time he tries to deal with that, something comes up like nsa or the irs or the egyptian turmoil and then recently we have the difficulties with syria. what's going to happen, i think, it's going to happen for two reasons. the republicans know they need the hispanic vote next year and they cannot go through the next election without this measure going through. number two, there is some concern that the president may decide to take action unilaterally to deal with some of the deportation issues and other immigration issues. so it needs to happen. but what's happening in congress is i think there is some hope on the republican side. there was a memorandum just this past week that eric cantor sent out to the republicans in the house indicating that they needed to deal with this bill by november 1st. they probably won't but they'll probably deal with something and then get resolved in a conference committee down the row. >> "washington post" this week reporting is that through the end of june, 43 states and the district of columbia have passed a total of 377 laws and resolutions related to immigration. why aren't states creating legislation that in the end may conflict with federal legislation once it's passed? >> those voters are always close to home. you're getting ready to get into the 2014 election cycle. primaries are around the corner. much like you saw the colorado vote, politicians are taking a look at this. it's a core issue they're going to be very careful with. i want immigration addressed. the republicans have an opportunity to do probably the right thing. but at the end of the day, when you start talking abortion, gun control, immigration and then you mix that with primaries that are coming up, a senate in play and a president whose political capital is unaring out, it's a dicey mix. >> is immigration reform dead? if it is, who killed it and who gets blamed for its death? >> it's dead on arrival in a comprehensive way. we see executive action take a step forward in terms of guest worker programs and other things that he can do by executive order, maybe. but will we see a comprehensive bill come out of this congress that looks at stemming the tide of immigrants coming across the border illegally, giving a pathway for citizenship for those here already, i don't think we're going to see that kind of legislation. i've got to tell you this. i'm here in the south. i'm an evangelical. my jesus was an immigrant. he lived and worked in a land foreign to his own. if you are moving from a christian tradition, you ought to be about humanity. about giving people a refuge where they seek one. i think it's good for us really as a country to make sure that this happens. but i'm not so certain that those tea party based republicans are going to let something like this see the light of day. >> i definitely don't have to go to church tomorrow. here's the question i want to pose. if comprehensive immigration reform does not happen, people will say, oh, it was syria, oh, it was egypt. but at the end of the day, you have to wonder even if those things hadn't happened, would we have gotten comprehensive immigration reform or do we now have an excuse? is there going to be a political excuse as to why it did not happen? >> certainly in the house, which is where the ball is now, the senate passed their bill in june. it's sitting in the house. there's a big split in the house over this bill because some of the republicans on the judiciary committee want to enforce against immigrants first before they pass a bill. i don't think it will be the excuse but it may delay it into next year. and if it gets to a conference committee and a stronger senate bill next year, they can say that's what -- >> when we come back from the break, we're going to talk about politically what the battle over syria has done to this white house. what if anything it's done to the white house. there are a lot of conflicting opinions out there. many of those opinions right here on the brain trust. come back, right after this. you really love, what would you do?" ♪ [ woman ] i'd be a writer. 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did we see an opportunity for comprehensive immigration reform? i saw none of that coming to growth in this legislative agenda. and it really has less to do with what this president is able to do and more to do with what this congress needs to be able to tell its constituents back home in their very red districts. >> you brought something up a second ago. you mentioned what happened in colorado this week. that's a story that's been glossed over to a certain extent. another state where you've got a state acting on its own with regards to gun control. colorado earlier this year passing tough new restrictions on gun control. this week, two colorado legislators who spearheaded that legislation, ousted in a recall election. first time that's ever happened there in colorado. what we saw happen out there in colorado, is that essentially enough to effectively kill gun control efforts nationwide, you think? >> it's enough to have politicians back off from it. once you take a look at -- i understand only 17 states have recall legislative language there. but it's enough to make a politician say, do i really want to fight this fight? is it one that's worthy? and it was an overreach. when you look at the poll numbers, background checks are universally understood by the public both democrats and republicans. the monumental thing, it was a small vote turnout but they were in districts where the president won 19% and 21% of the vote. these are colorodans who said they thought it was an overreach on the legislation. what it means now is the president's base has become less. john kerry, joe biden and barack obama advocating a military strike of war, that's what the president's lost is a really solid base that's been for him the whole time, not in congress but out in america and 2014 is bearing down on them. >> they're not advocating a call to war right now. >> it's a stretch but that's what it was earlier. >> christine, you wanted to chime? >> i was going to say, i think this colorado vote, you could read too much in it. i'm a former state legislator. the unique thing about this, single voters have had an impact in election over time. they have much more impact in this election because it was a special recall instead of a general election. therefore the voter turnout was lower and the chances of the impact of the anti-gun votes was greater. a lot of money was poured in from each side. but i think members of congress already know the nra is a powerful force. i'm not sure it changes the dynamic that much. >> goldie, gun control, immigration reform, syria, president obama stuck his neck out on each of those. he made very public appeals for action and so far, nada on all three. whatever happened to the power of the bully pulpit? >> i don't know that the power of the bully pulpit really works if you don't have a congregation out there willing to move with your language. so he didn't really have a strong congregation to begin with. the other thing is this president is not up for reelection. that means if you were a progressive, if you were a democrat of any stripe and you disagreed with this president on a piece of policy and you couldn't do it before, you can do it now and you can do it more loudly. we've seen a lot more of that. what i've said is that both parties have some work to do before 2014, the republicans have their own level of complex fractures going on that they need to heal. but democrats particularly, we've seen this play itself out in this current legislative agenda. they've got some fractures themselves. and i have got to wonder if they're going to be able to pull it back together by the time 2014 rolls out or even 2016 and heal as one party again. up next, political redemption rejected. >> sadly, we did not win this time. but i could not be more proud of the campaign that we ran. >> i say to the public, all of us should serve, participate. i tend to do so in different ways. >> turns out new york city voters were not willing to forgive and forget after all. what that means for other scandal-scarred politicians. no two people have the same financial goals. pnc investments works with you to understand yours and helps plan for your retirement. talk to a pnc investments financial advisor today. ♪ the brain trust is back. christine, straight scoop policies. goldy taylor. dawson taylor. let's start with what happened here in gotham this week. anthony weiner. eliot spitzer. for a while they looked like shoe-ins. for those of you west of the hudson, by the way, former new york governor spitzer lost his job after a prostitution scandal. weiner lost his job after inappropriate pictures were public and then he didn't stop when he said -- so anyway, that's the primer for those of you not following the story. you would expect new york city voters to be more forgiving. >> you would but they're ripped up in the tabloid for weeks. their situation is so different than mark sanford's. >> she doesn't waste any time. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. look at. the infidelity rate in the country is pretty high and recent poll back in may said 28% of americans don't hold -- hold that against their politicians. only 28%. so the difference you have here is that you have infidelity with another marriage for sanford and you have the sexting and the prostitutes and i think it went beyond the pale of what the american public was willing to accept. and then, you had the issue of trust saying he had stopped and then still continued the conduct. >> the campaign went on. he started to become a complete caricature of himself. it really was just one sideshow after another. i mean, is it that simple? is it just -- were those the only differences between weiner and spitzer and sanford and david it haver in louisiana, as sfwhel. >> they all took their clothes off or forced the wrong people at the same time. and that's the mistake to the american public holding it against them. i'm like you. it's the way they ran their campaigns. and the new yorkers saw it for what it was. mark sanford's a different story. he spent a year asking for forgiveness, did the forgiveness. >> he was also running in the same district. >> he was. >> same base of people. >> ran against lulu bush. it was entertaining but let me tell you. he's a better politician than those two. >> goldy taylor, i don't want to open a can of worms here but also one of the things we discovered this week, if you are to believe several of the newspapers it also looks like in addition to losing an election, they are going to lose their wives, as well. what message can we draw from this? >> well, i think there are a couple of things. number one, i think if you have some fidelity in the marriage, you will have problems in the context of your relationship with yourself and voter. running around on your wife or husband you run around on the voter. whether or not somebody can, you know, get themselves together, to get out on a one to one tour and really talk to people from the goodness of their heart and talk about rebuilding that line of trust between them and the voter, i think they do deserve a second shot, absolutely. but the idea that a man and woman who are in for all practical purposes a marital and divorce after things like this is not surprising to me. those marriages tend to be built on the public life and when the public life falls apart for good, then suddenly you see the marriages following suit. you know, i find it unfortunate that it is happening to anybody. but i don't know that it is our place to say or remark about it or say that it says anything more or less about the candidates on their wives. >> i have always wondered, especially in the case of eliot spitzer, here's a guy that, i mean, really put his wife and family through hell and then all of a sudden you emerge and you decide you want to do it again. it really does baffle me. lawrence o'donnell got to the heart of it. public service is a noble effort when done well. but you would think that some people would stay away from public service if the don't have their own house in order. >> no. i think the satisfaction having served myself in office and having worked in the house and the senate in washington, i think there's a motivation. self adulation, the ability to get stuff done on issues, al truistically and pulls them back in and then what's he do, spitz we are a short-term stent. >> you have to keep your -- >> on television and didn't get the juices going so -- >> you know what? goldie taylor, i said this before. i think this is one of the true marks of our society and how far we have come when there's a woman that pulls a stunt like the stunts we have seen and she manages to pull through unscathed politically, as well. do you think that that will ever happen? or women just smarter than that? >> i don't know that women are any smarter, less smarter about these kinds of things. i understand by some psychology women and men have fidelity issues for different reasons and motivations and are we going to see a time of a woman in public office with a fall from grace due to these kinds of reasons? that's inevitable. we are all human beings with our own different pieces of fault. does that mean that she won't have, you know, the same kind of ability to have that second bite at the apple? >> yeah. >> that remains to be seen. given what we understand about, you know, gender politics today, i don't know that she's going to have that same opportunity that some men are having coming back again and again. >> all right. we are out of time. katon, you can't talk about gender politics on this saturday afternoon. a big thanks to you and you, as well. i'll be back tomorrow 3:00 eastern. dr. bill cosby is joining me tomorrow and talk about whatever he wants to talk about. the millionth customer.s abe would you mind if i go ahead of you? 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