locall vancouver enacted a design compromise. ley: in this areathere was a menu of about a half dozen styles that builders were given to work with, but by far the most popular has been, in fact, this one, that i rather jokingly call the "neo-tudor," because it is a revival of what was the tudor revival of the 1900-1920 period. narrator: as long as developers built in details like traditional chimneys, steep pitched roofs and wooden facade work, the houses could be slightly larger than others. ley: i should say that this compromise has been amazingly successful, and it shows that perhaps there is a future for multiculturalism after all. narrator: but the push to build new home s en slowe thaby a housing marketa future for muldragged 30% lowerer all. by forces at several geographic scales. at the global scale, vancouver actually experienced a return migration to hong kong following its reunification with china in 1997. ley: first of all, people realized that the political situation was not as serious as they anticipated. and second

their son i knew or was born two years before his triumph at the vancouver paralympics. their daughter was born after his victory we got yeah she's now two her brothers four unfortunately their father has not been there for any of their birthday parties. and one two three. mama. butterfingers. into the deep. and with you. it's hard for erik every time he asked to leave home but he understands that will be more difficult to defend his title at the two thousand and fourteen olympics. than it was to win it for the first time. so how did i do. you a fifth before you must come second to the semifinals of the world in the final. just. you'll be fighting for medals agreed. every year more young and strong contenders take part working out pushes the limit of human potential and can affect the health of your beach my shoulders are sore. this year the right one has started leaking at the joint. it's been bothering me all season. recently eric has become interested not only in sports but also in political races a year ago he was elected deputy in the city council of his hometown. c

vancouver. not my joe kennedy. so, no, no bootlegging of any sort. here or and then we'll go across. >> could you talk a bit about the relationship between joe kennedy and his son john and to what extent john kennedy knew of his father's relationships with multiple women and whether that influenced him to follow that same path? [laughter] >> yes. [laughter] yes. and i think that there are no kennedys in the audience here, are there? [laughter] i think jack was much more predatory even than his father was. joe kennedy spent his -- joe kennedy and rose had an arrangement much like rose's father had had an arrangement with rose's mother that i don't embarrass you, and i do whatever the hell i want, says joe. and he didn't -- he tried not to embarrass rose. i don't think jack had that same, that same code. i think he 'em parissed jackie -- embarrassed jackie in a way that, you know, is inexcusable. gloria swanson, one of the things i found is i went to austin, texas, to see the gloria swanson papers

joseph kennedy who said in vancouver, have been born in vancouver, so no, no bootlegging of any sort. here and the local press. >> as you talk about the relationship between joe kennedy and his son john and to what extent john kennedy knew of his father's relationships multiple women and whether that influenced him to follow that same path. >> yes. [laughter] yes and i think there is no kennedys the audience. i think jack was much more predatory even than his father was. joe kennedy spent his -- joe kennedy had an arrangement muchly proves his father that i don't embarrass you and they do whatever i want. and he tried not to embarrass rose. i don't think jack had that same code. i think he embarrassed jackie in a way that is inexcusable. gloria swanson, one of the things i found as i went to austin, texas to see that gloria swanson papers. i teach phd students. i'm probably the only historian who's made the trip to austin, texas coaches are great archives, including the lbj library, to look at the gloria swanson papers. and that gloria swanson papers i found her handwritten notes but

june 15th, 2011, vancouver british columbia. its it's the nhl stanley cup finals. fst where the canucks take on the boston bruins in a winner take all battle. rich is a photographer who shot the games for the past decades. >> they're huge. i mean, it's the hottest ticket in town. >> when the bruins win the game 4-0 and claim the stanley cup in the canucks backyard, the fans don't take the loss well. vancouver sun editor dean waton witnesses the riot firsthand. >> i walked downtown and there were pillars of smoke coming out. you just knew it was a bad situation. they were flowing rocks at police officers and kicking in windows and it was a frightening experience. >> guys were coming out of the store like clowns in a mini car. just one after another. it looked like a mad black fry pie /* friday sale. as early evening turns tonight, tensions escalate and there's no end in sight to the looting an vandalism. the riot police take a stand, forming a wall and marching toward the rioters. local photography student records the actions from above when something catches her at

speaking to us this time from vancouver it was actually during the vancouver olympics dr. matÉ began by explaining his analysis of the mind-body connection. >> you know, the traditional medicines of china for 3,000 years, the ayurvedic medicine of india, and the tribal shamanic medicines of all cultures around the world have always taken for granted that mind and body can't be separated. now, western medicine has cleaved the two apart for, really, 2,000 years. socrates already criticized the doctors of his day for separating the mind from the body. and the irony in fact, the tragedy is that now we have the western science that shows, incontrovertibly and in great detail, that mind and body can't be separated, and so that any attempt to do so leaves the medical practitioner short of many tools to help clients. and, of course, it leaves patients short of what they need for their own healing. the point now is that the emotional centers of the brain, which regulate our behaviors and our responses and our reactions, are physiologically connected with and we know exactly how th

>> jimmy: has katherine from vancouver -- do they have office parties in vancouver? let's see. >> no, never have. j >> why not? >> because i used to work for my dad. >> that's a very good reason. next? >> have you ever hooked up at an office holiday party? >> we have a unanimous vote here. >> yeah, i have. >> what happened? >> you know what? i probably shouldn't say. i'm married. >> jimmy: it doesn't mean he was married then. who else? >> my name is marina. i'm new york city. brooklyn, new york. >> have you ever hooked up at an office holiday party? >> jimmy: hang on. what's happening back there? what's her answer? let's see. >> no. never. >> nothing under the mistletoe? >> jimmy: you don't have gladiators walking around in their underparents? illinois we have one more. >> joseph brown. >> have you ever hooked up at an office holiday party? >> jimmy: most say yes. let's see. >> oh yes. >> what happened? >> starbucks has their holiday party, and i ended up making out with my store manager. and that's how i lost my job. >> jimmy: there you go. a naughty little elf. eve

the disappointment of the two thousand and ten vancouver olympics seems a long way away for russia's women's curlers victory at the recent european championships has given them renewed confidence as baby the reigning olympic gold medalist on their route to big shereen going to see that over the skid into a lot of the headlines for her displays and rightly so however their head coach thomas philips has also played a major part in getting his team to realize fair potential. in the beginning to learn from. just how do a marriage and how the game should be but also. what kind of people are. spoken a lot together and i think the way to where that how to work with them and. it was really i think it's a question of didn't each other that i think that the main point was that we have confidence loops is originally from just one side sooty has been involved in coaching for most of his life and was more than happy to give a master class to russia's up and coming generation there's not much he misses about home as he spends around half the year in his native switzerland and he's continuing to go

venue is something really special this this venue is beautiful we love the pacific coast see i'm in vancouver but it's nice to be in a brand new venue that's made just to figure skating and you can tell that you know that it's of it's a beautiful rink and they put a lot of money into it it's going to be this nice another figure skating story who came up just short of the grand prix gold was america's ashley wagner the twenty one year old losing out to japan's mao asada to take silver but hopes to such results could be improved if she makes it to those impacts i think that the u.s. lady has a very deep in town to be out there are a lot of ladies that are really trying to get on to that olympic team but i think that i'm setting myself up to be in a good position to be on the team so four hundred twenty three days are left before the opening of the twenty fourteen winter olympics during this period hopefully all the plans will come to fruition and the organizers to deliver on their promise to make the sochi games in russia the most successful in history. calls for a party moscow. has always post

virtue and squat more settled for silver at the ground bringing losing top spot to their runners up in vancouver americans meryl davis and charlie white the two pairs or the front runners for gold in salty and testing the ice well in advance has helped boost the call for themselves these are they've been called foals for me skating in a brand new venue for a new event or something really special this this venue is beautiful and we love the pacific coast see i'm in vancouver but it's nice to be in a brand new venue that's made just for figure skating and you can tell that you know that it's a bit it's a beautiful rink and they put a lot of money into it it's great to be this nice another figure skating star who came up just short of the grand prix gold was america's ashley wagner the twenty one year old losing out to japan's mao asada to take silver but hopes this such results could be improved if she makes it to those impacts i think that the u.s. lady has a very deep in town to be out there are a lot of ladies that are really trying to get on to that i don't think team but i think that i'm sett

[laughter] we're from vancouver. about a year ago, we wanted to get into political humor. we did comedy, journalism, all kinds of stuff, but we have televisions in canada, so we were catching the breeze from what was coming up from down here watching the conventions, and for the past two years, everyone announcing their candidacy for the president of the united states, and 10 -- so we've seen your candidates, and, frankly, they scare the shit out of us, so we thought canada would be a great candidate for president so we are running canada to be the president of the united states. not brian, not the canadian government, but the people because we love america, we love our big brother, we want to help. we're here to help, all right? we did a campaign video in january, went viral, about a half million views in the first two weeks, thrilled with that, got a lot of media, cnn, bbc, a lot of acronyms, and so we took off, did another couple videos, build a steady stream of followers, liked our message, and thins we had to say, and three weeks later, there was a book deal, and this

frankie broke his string of bad luck, but for the last 10 years, he's been the best damn jewel thief in vancouver. 10 years, huh? hmm. you think someone killed him for his anniversary present? i don't know who did it, but i won't be surprised if it was the same guy who was in here a couple of days ago asking about frankie. what guy? never seen him before. good-looking guy, early thirties maybe, but talked soft, real soft, but i could smell it on him. smell what? he was a killer. they smell like death. i gave up. i gave up on the boy. i'll never forgive myself if he dies. what's wrong with him? a hemangioma, a tumor in his liver. i could see it, but i just couldn't grasp it. i don't know why. you're losing your powers. it happens in the last 48 hours. 48 hours-- that's when she found me. a collector always makes contact at the 48-hour mark. the devil arranges it that way so he can watch the client squirm for the last two days. i only wanted to help. now derla santos is dead, and that boy-- you didn't kill derla santos. sofia did. because of me. for a year now, i've been moving from one filipino co

because we lived right, well, on vancouver island. >> stephen: the cover of this album, we have that cover up on the album right there. i didn't realize how much i liked jazz you got some heat for this. why did you get heat for this. are jazz women not allowed to be attractive? >> well, the title of the-- well it wasn't about being attractive. well, though that was fun to play dress up. i was just playing out of the dress up box. >> stephen: okay, sure, don't need to know. (laughter) >> publicly in the dress up box. but a lot of the idea of the flapper in the 20s, there is sort of a darker side was alfred finny johnson pictures of the-- girls were dressed very provocatively. and i was tracted to the song in glad rag doll which i found t is little painted lady, it isn't 5 foot 2 eyes of blue. it's little painted lady, and-- . >> stephen: about prostitutes. >> basically. >> stephen: we're all adults here. >> but if you listen to the lyrics you can find those same glad rag dolls today as you did at that time. i found it still-- . >> stephen: i wouldn't know, i'm married. >> it was still

the bus was traveling to vancouver from las vegas. the driver survived but was too badly hurt to speak with police. >>> here is your new year's eve forecast. up to a foot of mountain snow in the southern rockies. 5 inches from kansas to southern illinois. thunderstorms from much of texas, oklahoma city, little rock and memphis. rain and mountain snow in the pacific northwest. flurries from michigan to northern new england. >> chilly from the west coast to the midwest and northeast. 20s in the northern rockies. just 2 degrees in fargo and 14 in minneapolis. 30s from chicago to new york. so just bundle up if you're in fargo. >>> the first lawsuit is on the way after the connecticut school massacre. the family of one of the children who survived is seeking $100 million from the state. the initial filing says the little girl suffered emotional and psychological trauma. the attorney says the state should have known something like this might happen and taken steps to prevent it. but $100 million. they say it's more about the principle and m

we have a corridor between eugene, oregon, and vancouver, british columbia. we have achieved in the last year up to 880,000 passengers and our growth is increasing year over year. we have invested over former to $80 million in the capital and operations and amtrak cascade which is what we call our program. it was not until the recovery act came that we were able to make significant capital and press structure improvement on the rail itself, pink, double tracking. all those amenities double benefit high and higher speed rail and more frequent service for passenger rail also has ancillary benefits to our freight rail a in our state. we are very trade dependent and one of the things we are careful about in not only updating our passenger rail program and plan for the feature is to look at both freight and passenger rail movements and how we can coexist in the same corridor together. that is our plant. we have received $800 million of the high-speed rail program money. we have five projects currently under construction with another of five coming in the next year

in a treacherous section of the blue mountains called dead man pass as the bus was heading back to vancouver from las vegas. the drive survived but was too badly injured to speak with police. >>> nasty weather being said to have caused dozens of accidents across the country. >> here's jim dickey. >>> these early morning temperatures this morning. 5 in burlington, 9 in portland. 18 in boston. now, we switch gears the north central portion. these are your daytime highs. only 9 today in minneapolis, 18 in omaha. that arctic haair is surging in. it will lead to light snow across the plains and ohio valley. >>> time for the rest of the new year's eve weather. snow expected, thunderstorms in much of texas. oklahoma city, little rock, memphis. showers from seattle to portland. flurries around the great lakes, western pennsylvania, and northern new england. >> 20s in the northern rockies. 30s in the pacific northwest. still can't believe we're talking about 2013. >>> have no fear. your milk prices will not be soaring after new year's. >>> and major document for kim kardashian and yan west. 2013 prom

. >> there were returning to vancouver after a tour. the owner of the bus company has not commented yet. police in montgomery county have canceled their silver alert this known. they had been looking for 77- year-old mrs. tyler after she was last seen yesterday morning in gaithersburg. u.s. found unharmed this morning in virginia. coming up, for many of us, keeping new year's resolutions can be a challenge, but we will show you some ways to use your smartphone to stay on track. and the new year means big changes for some same-sex couples in maryland. new laws go into effect tomorrow but not for everyone. plus with a playoff spot secured, the rush is on for redskins fans to get their hands on team colors as quickly as they can. meanwhile, a live look outside. gorgeous morning with >> you are watching abc 7 "news at noon," on your side. >> overseas, a lot of the celebrating is already under way. we have live pictures of the vatican, where you can see services for this new year, 2013. pope benedict walking up to the altar. we still have le

he went off trail at the cypress mountain ski resort in vancouver and got lost in this desolation. helicopters were searching for two and a half days. global bc news talked to a few rescuers. >> we had to do two 150-foot repels all in loose rock areas. the first team getting down was getting bombarded by falling rocks. >> this search went into the night. they had to bring in a larger helicopter, and that helicopter brought such a strong downforce, it's like standing in these snowy trees in hurricane conditions. >> there went any snow left on the trees when we left there. you can imagine the ice chunks and stuff that hazards your eyes. unbelievable. >> look at the helmet cam footage from one of the rescuers. if you notice, there was a quick shot of a waterfall in that video. that's where the rescuers repel down. >> he, i believe, is on the south side of the creek waving his arms. >> eventually they caught up with sebastian and rescued him. he's okay. this whole rescue operation around $100,000 it cost. people are not happy with him. >> is he going to be held responsible for any of t

the bus was on its way to vancouver from las vegas. >>> the father of the gunman who opened fire in the connecticut school has claimed his son's body. a spokesperson for the family says that peter lanza claimed the remains of adam lanza. adam lanza killed 20 first graders and six adults at the sandy hook elementary school after shooting his mother earlier, in her home. >>> well, christmas is over and it is time to start getting rid of those decorations. officials in washington, d.c. say they will begin to pick up trees and wreaths today. they will continue doing that through january 12th. all you have to do is place the tree where you normally leave your trash for pick up, no bag is necessary. >>> coming up ahead on 9news, i'll introduce you to a program that is changing women's lives. a hero central report is coming up next. >>> also, new year's eve already 2013, and other places. we'll show you what is happening there, right after this break. >>> where waiting for midnight to celebrate the new year. but guess what? they are already celebrating in sidney australia. , they are a little

a distressing encounter at the vancouver international airport caught on camera by another traveler. it's october 14th, 2007. 1:28 in the morning. the royal canadian mounted police respond to a report of a man acting strangely in the international arrivals area. >> how are you, sir? he speaks russian, and that's it. no english. >> the confrontation quickly escalates. officers order the man, seen through the glass partition, to move back into an open area. he puts his hands in the air and turns around. they surround him and appear to try to communicate. police say he has an object, later identified as a stapler, in his hand. one of the officers fires a taser gun. sending 50,000 volts of electricity into the man's body through two darts attached to a wire. he falls to the ground, screaming in pain. >> hit him again. hit him again. >> the man writhes on the ground in agony. officers pile on top and attempt to handcuff him. but a struggle ensues as airport personnel look on. officers continue to subdue the man. >> from what we know, they tasered him at least twice, possibly more. witness

if you have any plans flying out of vancouver or seattle check on the flights there as that fog could be delaying them. denver with a high of only minus 1. chicago at 1 here on your friday. let's take a look at the european continent. first the british isles. all this cloud cover is moving towards the east. what's that bringing is very gusty winds and even some heavy rainfall as that system continues to push overhead. south of that, though, i to cross iberian peninsula, things are dry. high pressure there and keeps that system to the north and over much of central europe. rear decent here although we're watching this system. now the balkans continuing to linger. this will bring gusty winds, 100 kilometer winds. could see strong thunderstorms as it works its way off there towards the eastern mediterranean. your temperatures in athens 16 for your high. to start off your weekend milder in the west in london and paris. that system comes in moving warm air from the south both looking at 11 for your high on your friday. let's take a look over towards japan here first where we have this syst