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KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -
A Wyandotte County single mother thought she was getting a good deal on carpeting for her home but it ended in a big mess along with bizarre excuses from the salesman.
"I trusted him. I guess that's my fault, said Iliana Navarro, who reached out to KCTV5 News for help. "You live and you learn."
Navarro said she felt uneasy about the cash transaction with Wendel Wiley of Good Friends Carpet Company of Kansas City, KS, so she pulled out her smartphone and recorded the deal.
In the video obtained by KCTV5, Navarro hands over hundreds of dollars in cash for a down payment on her carpet and other materials.
"It's a pretty color," Wiley said on the tape.
"It is a pretty one. It is going match pretty much everything," Navarro replied.
Navarro then questioned Wiley."Do you have us all lined up or what?" she said.
"We had talked about doing yours on the weekend, ain't it?" Wiley replied.
A date was then set for the installation. In the meantime, Navarro moved her living room furniture and then removed the old carpeting to wait for the crew to come and install the carpet.
Jeff Radle was finishing up his first day at his new job when he got the call that his Chippewa Falls house was on fire.
His pregnant wife, Amanda, was out with the couple's 14-month-old child to pick up her son from school.
A neighbor saw smoke coming out of the roof of the home and reported the fire at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
When firefighters arrived, they broke windows and took axes to the foundation of the home to ventilate it.
Some construction and landscape equipment speckled the back of the house, where Radle was remodeling.
He said the family moved into the Chippewa Falls home two years ago after their trailer house in Cadott caught fire.
"We've been kind of flip-flopping back and forth, trying to live here," he said.
Fourteen firefighters from the Chippewa Falls Fire Department responded to the scene and called for backup from the Chippewa Fire District for an additional engine and personnel. No responders were injured.
Fire Chief Mike Hepfler said no pets were in the home at the time of the fire; the family dog was already outside.
Amanda Radle declined to comment, but tearfully thanked the fire department for grabbing her laptop that had family pictures on it.
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APIA, Samoa In many Pacific Island countries, Western-style home construction has been gradually usurping traditional architecture. But returning to indigenous practices of building and planning communities could be key to creating the disaster-resilient communities of the future, experts say.
In the Samoan community of Saanapu, for instance, local people, working with architects and environmental experts, are designing a new community center that will blend aspects of traditional Samoan architecture with solar energy, water tanks and the capacity to shelter up to 200 people for three weeks in the event of a disaster.
At the new center, it will be very easy for the village to come together and have a meeting and solve any problem, and it will be passed on that way to the next generation, said Popese Leaana, the traditional orator of Sa'anapu.
In Samoa, 70 percent of the South Pacific island states population of 190,372 people lives in low-lying coastal villages, many of which face high risks of devastation bygale-force winds, flooding, sea surges, and tsunamis.
In Saanapu, a village of 2,000 people on the south coast of the main Upolu island, abandoned dwellings scatter the foreshore, bearing witness to the ferocity of an 8.1 magnitude undersea earthquake and tsunami in 2009. Across the country 5,000 people and 850 households were affected by the disaster, including 25 homes in Saanapu.
Three years later island communities were again ravaged by severe Cyclone Evan, which hit during Samoas November to April tropical cyclone season.
Experts predict things could get worse. According to the Pacific Climate Change Science Program, wind speeds of Pacific cyclones are expected to increase 11 percent this century, while rainfall intensity will go up 20 percent.
People here have to live with [disasters] and [previously] they built their houses accordingly, so we need to learn from the past and offer new solutions to improve things for the future, urged Samoan architecture graduate Carinnya Feaunati.
For centuries, she said, the Polynesian people of Samoa have built structures appropriate to the climate and put them in locations to maximize social cohesion and effective governance attributes especially important in times of crisis.
Traditional architecture is epitomized by the fale, an oval-shaped open structure with timber posts supporting a steep domed roof. All of the building elements are "lashed" or bound together, originally with a plaited rope made from dried coconut fiber.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is set to retake the witness stand in a lawsuit accusing the government of imposing illegally harsh terms in the bailout of American International Group Inc. (AIG), capping a week of testimony from the architects of the insurers 2008 rescue.
Maurice Hank Greenbergs Starr International Co., AIGs biggest shareholder before the rescue, claims in the lawsuit that the government illegally took equity in the company and that a 14 percent interest rate on the rescue loan was extortionate. Starr is seeking at least $25 billion in damages.
Bernanke, set for his second day of testimony today in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, yesterday defended the higher rate, saying the $85 billion loan was intended to prevent the collapse of a systemic firm while the interest kept its shareholders from reaping a windfall.
The former Fed chairman, who was preceded on the witness stand this week by for Treasury secretaries Henry Hank Paulson and Timothy Geithner, has so far given terse, even dismissive responses under questioning by David Boies, and calling the lawyer for Starr a highly formal sir when answering.
He defended the easier terms given to banks and other institutions during the bailout. Low-interest lending was meant to get funds out into the system to improve liquidity, even though it was understood that the action might lead to a windfall for shareholders, Bernanke testified. There were offsetting considerations.
Earlier testimony and documents in the trial, which began Sept. 29, showed that banks paid less than 4 percent interest on their loans from the Fed.
Bernanke said that at the time of the bailout, he didnt know the basis for what a New York Fed official called a crazily high interest rate the government charged AIG.
I have since learned something about it, but at the time I didnt know, Bernanke said. I understand the overall goal was to minimize the windfall to the stockholders of AIG from being bailed out, but I couldnt go term by term and explain them.
Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson were considered the architects of the U.S. response to the financial crisis.
In their testimony, Geithner and Paulson likewise defended AIGs tougher rescue package and testified that a failure by the New York-based insurer would have been catastrophic for the economy.
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For almost 15 years, Treanor Architects worked on a restoration and preservation project at the Kansas Statehouse.
Now, only months after the project was completed, the companys work is being recognized on the state and national level.
The North American Copper in Architecture organization recognized the project as one of 14 recipients of the annual award for excellence in new construction and restoration projects utilizing copper, according to a news release from the state Department of Administration.
Treanor Architects submitted the firms work to the organization as well as to the American Institute of Americas Kansas chapter.
Vance Kelley, principal architect within the preservation branch of Treanor Architects, said the NACIA honor is a more competitive, more stringent national award. It is quite an honor.
The process for Treanor began in 1999 when the company was selected to create a historic structural report about the Kansas Capitol that, at the time, had been open for nearly 100 years.
There were deficiencies in the building, Kelley said. And more were discovered as the four-phase project continued.
Kelley pointed to part of the project where workers focused on the area where the copper meets the masonry.
Even though crews had spent time examining the structural integrity of the dome before work started, some problems couldnt be seen until the project was underway, which meant the discussion of a new roofing material had to be put on the table.
There was 120 years of deterioration and some of it we couldnt see. Years of expanding and contracting made the metal brittle and cracked, Kelley said.
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GWEN IFILL: Much of our reporting on climate change has focused on the impact it could have on people or on the environment in which they live.
But one area that tends to get less attention is how climate change will affect wildlife. Theres a major habitat restoration project in San Francisco Bay thats trying to address that very issue.
The NewsHours Cat Wise has our report.
RACHEL TERTES, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: So, welcome, everyone, to our first morning of trapping.
CAT WISE: On a recent morning, a small group of volunteers clad in rubber boots gathered at a park on the edge of the San Francisco Bay.
RACHEL TERTES: So when the animal walks in, he sets the trap off.
CAT WISE: Theyd come to help U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials gather traps in a restored tidal marsh to determine if an endangered species, found only in this area of the bay, is making a comeback.
Wildlife biologist Rachel Tertes carefully opened the first trap and out spilled a tiny creature, just what they were hoping to find.
RACHEL TERTES: This cinnamon belly would tell us pretty much right away that this is a salt marsh harvest mouse.
CAT WISE: The endangered harvest salt marsh mouse is, well, pretty cute. Its lost about 90 percent of its habitat due to human development along the bay, and now, according to Tertes, it faces a new threat: climate change.
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Restored wetlands welcome wildlife and protect against future floods in San Francisco Bay Area
October 9, 2014 -
Get Involved, Be Prepared, Protect Your Family, Animals & Home.
The Mountains Restoration Trust (MRT) and the Monte Nido Fire Safe Council will sponsor a Fire Prepardedness Fair on Saturday, October 18.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., a home assessment tour of four houses, led by trained risk assessors, will demonstrate and explain what you can do to protect yourself and your home.
The Fair officially begins at 11 a.m. with presentations by representatives of the L. A. County Fire Department, National Park Service, MRT, the Monte Nido Fire Safe Council, the North Topanga Fire Safety Council, insurance companies and vendors.
All horse owners living in the greater Las Virgenes area, the Santa Monica Mountains, Monte Nido, Malibu Valley Farms, etc., will receive a free copy of the little red booklet created in Monte Nido that has gone all over the Nation: What Do I Do With My Horse In Fire, Flood, and/or Earthquake? provided by MRT. All you have to do is show up
Meet at the West end of Camino Colibri, Edenwild Tract in Monte Nido for both the guided tour and the Fair.
Please RSVP to Jo Powe at (310) 745-3642; jopowe@gmail.com.
This event is sponsored by the Monte Nido Fire Safe Council and MRT. Funding is provided by a grant from the Community Assistance Program of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, National Park Service, the Department of the Interior through the California Fire Safe Council.
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Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Friday, Oct. 10.
Butler County, MO
North and southbound Route 67 will be reduced to one lane while contractor crews perform utility work. This section of road is located just north of the Route 60/67 Interchange. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Monday, Oct. 13 through Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Route W will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews perform utility work. This section of road is located in the area of Shadowbrook Drive. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Monday, Oct. 13 through Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Route 72 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulders repairs. This section of roadway is located from Old Route 72 to Route B.
Existing lanes of Route 67 from CR 323 to Route 160/158 will be signed as Route C. The north end of Route C (existing Route 67) will remain closed for about two months as work is completed at the intersection of Route 67, Route C, and CR 323.
Cape Girardeau County, MO
Northbound Interstate 55 will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews perform pavement repairs. This section of road is located at the 96 mile marker underneath the Route K overpass. Weather permitting, crews will be working from Friday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 19 from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.
Starting at 8 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 29, contracted concrete slab repair and replacement will begin on Silver Springs Road between Independence Street and Bloomfield Road in Cape Girardeau. The work will cause lane closures. The expected project completion time is about four weeks.
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