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Because a couple of years ago this hillside was on fire and the crews were filling up the helicopter buckets out of this lake which is now a dry lake bed, elizabeth lake. so this is one of the reasons why this is a powerful mudslide behind the houses, because, you know, the hillside burn didn't have any vegetation to hold on, and it has been four years, not enough rain to germinate any root structure to hold the hillsides in place. so they have that to contend with. and dump truck after dump truck has been coming up and down the road today, and they have 300,000 cubic yards of mud. they have t...

And a new reason to worry about the system that brings water to your home the american society of civil engineers infrastructure report card is giving this nation's drinking water systems a "d" grade. and that's raising questions about just how it gets fixed. let's bring in the past president of the american society of civil engineers. greg, welcome to you. look at these 249,000 water main breaks a year in the u.s.? how did we allow things to get this bad? >> well, thank you, yes, the problem seems to be from the fact that we frankly are underinvesting in our water systems in this country. to ...

Principal, and the teachers aligned with the principal, you can change the culture of the school and create buy-in from the parent, and that is impressive to see. it did not happensee. it didn't happen throughout the district, but it did happen in select schools, and it kind of illustrated that that can make a big deference if you haifferenc freedom to do it. >> thank you, the book is "the pri prize, who in charge of america's schools." >> thank you. morscenes like this could be happening. (ray) i'd like to see her go back to her more you know social side. she literally started changing. it ...

Renewed speculation that he will run. analysis straight ahead. >> $100 million! >> it held promise with a lot of money behind it, but is it paying off for one of the country's most beleaguered school systems. and leaky pipes, and america's rising tide of faucet trouble could be coming to a faucet near you. good day to all of you and with welcome to weekends with alex witt. we are following a developing story out of israel, and the west bank. palestinian protesters clashed with troops in israeli de facto capital of the palestinian authority. three palestinians were killed in the west bank, ...

Schools, the schools have been through tremendous down sooidzing, and cool consolidation, and the layoffs and the stress is obvious in the test scores. >> is this the reason why there were reports that some in newark did not actually welcome this these, because of that or something more to it? >> well, there was the -- there was the fear that the districtle schools were not going to farewell, and this that wasn't going to hep the district schools where 60% of the cool children still go. but it was done without input or warning for the people who were supposed to be taking care of it. >> they h...