jose kept the regular fire crews busy. and caused traffic to come to a crawl. 7 inches from san jose and kal fire kept flames from spreading we are experiencing som weather conditions. get a heavy response into it as quickly as we can. today in the bay area it is kind of a busy day. we hired 42 additional employees today. that allows us to ban any kind of open burning that occurs outside. swimmers at the morgan hill were unaware of the grass fire that were going on. since many of them have already been trying to beat the heat. the climbing of temperatures you can easily find your dehydrated or heat chaugs and that kind of thing. in san jose robert, ktvu channel 2 news. that led to this three alarm grass fire along oak canyon near cherry lane road. it took fire crews 3-hour to get it under control. officials say it was sparked by a bird that through into a power line this 9 a.m.. the location made it a difficult reach. meteorologist rosemary will be here at 7:23 will
he s still at large. iran is blasting the united states saying it has no ties to this suspected plot. the spokesman for the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad, quote, i think the u.s. government is busy fabricating a new scenario and history has shown both the u.s. government and the cia have a lot of experience in fabricating these scenarios and this is just the latest one. i think their goal is to reach the american public. they want to take the public s mind off the serious domestic problems they re facing these days and scare them with fabricated problems outside the country. but in washington, the fbi director robert mueller said this was no fabrication, no joke. he says elements of the iranian government were ready to spend $1.5 million to hire what they believe was a drug cartel hit squad from mexico. this case illustrates that we live in a world where borders and boundaries are increasingly irrelevant. a world where individuals from one country sought to conspire
the largest and most powerful unions. they are fighting to make sure that the rich, the multibillionaires pay their fair share. we believe in that same concept. reporter: what started as a grass roots rally in this lower manhattan park two weeks ago, swelled into a nationwide movement. sympathy protests have been held in 50 cities from coast-to-coast. until we start coming together and acting out, no one is going to hear. no one is going to know it s going on. reporter: protesters united in frustrations and passion. this is the beginning of the people s revolution. reporter: a movement taking shape and labor experts say a step closer to turning inspiration into action. i think we are going to see a lot more politicians jumping the fray. reporter: protesters say they are prepared to stay here and camp out indefinitely. as their numbers grow, they could outgrow this space. the city may soon ask demonstrators to find a new headquarters. michelle franzen in new yo
so was her brother jamie. millions got to know him through his online presence. months ago he posted a video on youtube as part of the it gets better program. even in his sadness, jamie was reaching out to help others. hi, this is jamie from buffalo, new york. and i m just here to tell you that it does get better. here s a little bit of my story. december 2010, i thought i was bi, and then i always got made fun of because i virtually have no guy friends. and i only have friends that are girls. and it bothered me because we would be like faggot and they would taunt me in the hallways and i felt i never could have escape it. people would constantly send me hate telling me gay people go to hell. he said he got hate messages on the site formspring which allows kids to post anonymous comments about each other and to each other. but back then, as you hear, he said he rose above the negativity. i promise you it will get better. i have so much support from people i don t even k
a n lawsuit claims tacos at taco bl contain only 35% real meat but the popular chain is fighting back saying that s a wrong today, wednesday, january 26, 2011 captns paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today oa wednesday rning. i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. i m impressed you stayed up to watch thehole state of the union. not only the state of the union but the republican response at least one of them. i haven t seenhe other yet, but it was a different feeling in the room. think the seating arrangement had someing to do with it. it was the president s first speech before congress since the gop took ctrol of the house. he used thepportunity toush for unity in washington toeal with the ecomy. he even called for a five-year federal spending freeze to pro williness to work wit republicans. we llave much more straight ahead and talk about theew tone i washington with former presidential candidate and new york city mayor rudy giuliani.