Agree with what the businessowners are saying. Nbc bay areas Damian Trujillo joins us. How serious are the threats to leave downtown from the businessowners . Reporter things seem to be turning around. Now, the good news is the efforts of these merchants, the city and police, are actually working. Things are turning around. While some crime still exists, these merchants say its not the same as it was six months ago. There was a time not long ago when downtown san jose almost lost this as part of its landscape. What was happening outside the App Developers headquarters on south 2nd street had them thinking about making a change. There were some dangerous crimes. There was a gang almost that was involved. Reporter in fact, because of the violence, pingers ceo threatened to pull his business and his 60 employees out of the downtown area. We thought about not renewing the lease. I think a lot of people said, do we want to be here . And if its not going to change, then i dont think we can r
The king of pop taking us to a place with no name. Twitter with a blockbuster new debut overnight,. A rare behind the scenes video of Michael Jackson now revealed. Dont stop until you get enough. It is a good morning on this friday eve and the hits, they just keep coming. Incredible thing about Michael Jackson, right. Makes us a little sad we dont have him anymore but we have his music. Yeah. This video created using rare footage from when he shot, remember, in the closet. So they took outtakes from that and put it all together and well talk about that more. Were going to get to so much this morning. Beginning with that flash flooding. Two months worth of rain fall overnight in some areas and i know youve been tracking this, ginger. If you add july and august their average is up. In portland, maine, thats what fell in hours overnight so this is the scene there. Look at this from rhode island. Water rescues going on so many places in new england, receiving anywhere from 3 to, yes, over
Strangely. No one was injured. The deputy is an eightyear veteran. He was placed on administrative leave. A fivealarm fire destroyed a popular comedy club in fairfield. Check out those flames. That roof collapsed as the fire tore through the original Pepper Belly Comedy Club last night. 25 engines from around Solano County responded to the fire. Crews say it may have started inside the building. They are still trying to determine what exactly started it. San mateo county is holding a gun buyback today at the fairgrounds on delaware street. The county will offer 100 for handguns, shotguns and rifles. Turning in an Assault Rifle would earn you up to 200. In recent months, San Francisco, oakland and some other bay area cities have held gun buyback programs, with overwhelming response. The San Francisco giants fan who suffered brain damage after a beating attack is back in the hospital. Bryan stows family says he is now getting treatment for a large blood clot. His family says his doctors
Many people in the ancient world believed spices came from paradise. The egyptians mummified their dead with cumin, the chinese burnt cloves to commune with the spirit world, this is a clove tree. Now cloves that we use in cooking are the dried flowers and some Medieval Europeans that come from this tree. Believed nutmeg was the plant originated on some the only cure for the plague. Incredibly small volcanic pepper was so valuable islands called the moluccas, it was used instead of money, and centuries ago, thousands of people and it was pepper that the romans were so mad about. Lost their lives fighting over the little thing, because it was more valuable than gold. Imbued with magical properties, im in the roman ruins of baalbek, situated 50 miles sought after for medicines east of beirut in lebanon. And aphrodisiacs, with the power to build empires here in baalbek once stood the most impressive and destroy lives, temples outside of rome. This is the story of spice. They took 10,000 s
In india, home away from home, a catholic stronghold surrounded by muslim india. Like the chinese and the arabs before them, they came for indias fantastic spices pepper, cardamom, turmeric, ginger, and cinnamon. Indias keynote dish, the biryani, makes use of many of the spices which brought the portuguese to india. But many more spices are from the far ends of the spice trails. Can you guess which are native to india . Padma is on the case. Master chef Mehboob Alam Khan is inviting me to his home to cook his specialty the biryani. Ginger and garlic paste. Garlic and ginger. Now this is a common ingredient for all most of the indian cooking. Also give me some turmeric. Where did you learn to make this biryani . Oh, at my house, from my mother. Give me the red chilies. Some cinnamon stick. The lychee cardamom. And you leave the shell on . Now give me some onions. These have been fried, correct . This is fried crisp, fried onions, you see . And now you see i crush them with my hand. Now