Leapin' Lizards er uh Amphibians

The Northern Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus)to be precise. I was shooting tomorrow's "What a Zoo" segment with The Toledo Zoo's Tim Herman. Tim was showing me a slimy salamander that had laid some eggs that hatched recently. He noticed that one of the salamanders in the exhibit was shedding its skin. Tim told me he'd only seen this once before and that the salamanders usually did this at night. Here's some of the video I shot. I sped some of the video up to 400X after the previous clip played at real time speed.



Thanks for watching.
-Billau

Live from Democrat Party

Right now I'm camped with Kristian Brown at the Lucas County Democrat Party's party at UAW Local 12. We'll be covering the Wilkowski camp's reaction to tonight's election results. Righth now the place is starting to fill up. Probably 50-75 people here right now and the crowd is steadily growing. A few of the Wilkowski supporters have told us how confident they are at this point. Right now we're 20 minutes out from the polls closing and we expect to have the results start trickling in in the next hour or so. I'll be tweeting the rest of the night with the latest.
-Billau

Election Day

Ok, so if you follow me on Twitter you know that I've already voted. My polling place is DeVaux Middle School or Jr. High whatever. Anyodd, the poll workers were very helpful and there was no wait at all. I'm here to give the "all clear" on the Sylvania & Douglas front. I'm working second shift today and I'll be at UAW Local 12 with Kristian Brown to bring viewers the latest from the Keith Wilkowski camp. I'll also tweet as much as I can. If you have any questions you would like posted on the tweet updates, send me a direct message and I'll get back to you.

-billau

Beyond the Soundbite

With 12, check that 11 (actually not really sure...at the time that this piece went to press I was still unsure what was happening about Trisha L. dropping out of the city council stampede) candidates running for six open seats on Toledo City Council, I realized many people probably don't really know who these candidates are. I worked with Bill Hormann today. He's in the middle of putting together a weekly piece that gives us a snapshot of who the candidates are that are running for city council. I decided to call this one "Beyond the Soundbite" because the candidates always have more to say than can be fit into a one minute and thirty second piece. Here are the full interviews with Polly Taylor-Gerken and Adam Martinez I shot today with Bill.


Polly Taylor-Gerken



Adam Martinez


I posted these two interviews because I shot them. If I shoot more of these I will post them. I may not post other interviews in this series that I do not shoot.

Thanks for watching.
-Billau