>>brian: here's stanley roberts to found some people be giving that leaker will let townhomes locatedion hill in san jose. this is a homeless in heaven. your eyes us see the new, the and can lift is literally inside the front door of some of these home free lift ticket closer look up with all here. this is full of trash and rotten food. there closed with us some shopping carts most fluff trash. in this section they're four different 10 homes. if one of the officially left me speechless. if time is that by this man, he offered me a tour of the under half. he is driving this u-haul that ran at a fast so he left it there to give me a tour. under the overpass, and you will find more trash. , when trash. and plenty of disassembled us go to a few residents who say their faces in headlights and a listing will also lives here in. one homeowner tony she's afraid to leave her home in the sale and want the trash cleaned up facing the city has been slow scholiast remember, the u-haul he leaves driving for five days over due when it is funded by the owner. he was 45 please give the hon fence into

troy martinez, heather phillips, kevin guibarra, ramon caleb adams, brian bernard, ian o'toole, corey bray, robert reid, bruce kennedy. >> i have been a resident at parkmerced for 16 years. my daughter came when she was nine. she was upstairs at my home when my 12 year-old son was born there. i am speaking in favor of the appeal and against the expansion project. can we get this on? we live in a garden courtyard apartment. i probably spent $25,000 on the courtyard since i moved in there. i would like to speak about what we are going to lose. this is a japanese maple and weeping cherry. there is a population of birds. there are 34 different types of birds at least that have come to my courtyard. the courtyard and my patio is an audubon-approved wildlife sanctuary. there are often as many as 20 or 30 birds of one type at a time in my patio. this is all when to be habitat destruction. i have not heard anybody talk about the loss there. my wife could not be here today but wanted me to address some issues. she is chair of the health education department of san francisco state, the only university i kno

we have two reports, beginning with chief science correspondent, robert bazell, in tokyo. bob. >> reporter: brian, in another setback in the efforts to contain the crippled reactors, engineers have discovered that some of the pumps are damaged beyond repair. they won't be able to restart them any time soon. smoke coming first from reactor 3 and later number 2 forced some workers to evacuate. despite those setbacks, officials with the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission emphasize sea water is now reaching all of the troubled reactors and attempts to restore power continue. >> i would say optimistically things appear to be on the verge of stabilizing. >> reporter: however, in the food markets across japan, mounting fears the situation is not stabilizing fast enough. traces of radiation led government officials to halt shipments of milk from fukushima prefecture and leafy vegetables from fukushima and four other regions, some as far as 160 miles from the plant. officials say the radiation levels are not currently high enough to pose a serious health threat. still, japanese anti-nuclear activists warn

robert bazell in tokyo. bob, good evening. >> reporter: brian, the nuclear danger here remains ominous. already this is the worst reactor accident since chernobyl in 1986. >> reporter: a frightening scene just outside the evacuation zone. workers decontaminating residents with a new sense of urgency after conditions deteriorated rapidly. satellite photos of the crippled reactor show much of the damage. explosions at numbers one and three destroyed outside buildings. there's no obvious damage to number two, the reactor with the most severe problem a crack in the containment dome that's allowing radiation to leak out. and while the fire is out at unit number four, it's still releasing radiation, probably from the spent fuel rods like these stored in huge water tanks. >> just the spent fuel accident would be worthy of worldwide concern. and we have that on top of three reactors that are having core damage going on. it's a very, very bad situation. >> reporter: japan's prime minister urged calm and said there was no evidence the amount of radiation released so far threatened anyone outside

robert bazell in tokyo. bob, good evening. >> reporter: brian, the international atomic energy commission is now reporting engineers have laid a power cable to the site. that's very encouraging news in this metropolis of 30 million that's been downwind from the reactor. but the situation remains frightening. dramatic pictures on japanese television showed military helicopters dropping water on one of the damaged reactors. the water often missing its mark. the company that owns the plant said the drastic move which exposed the pilots to radiation was necessary, because unused fuel rods like these usually stored under deep water were at least partially exposed, vastly increasing the chance of a catastrophic release of radiation. >> these spent fuel rods had as much or more dangerous material in them than the fuel in the reactors. >> police began the water spraying operation in the evening but could not reach the building. >> reporter: in the next move, the company pumped water from military fire trucks, usually used to combat airplane fires, to shoot water from a safe distance. the entire operation is a race to get w

our own robert bazell in tokyo again tonight. bob, good evening. >> reporter: brian, with a new day beginning here in japan, simultaneous efforts will resume to try to contain nuclear fuel at those crippled reactors, but the situation remains dangerous and out of control. as part of the desperate struggle to cool down the dangerous nuclear fuel, firefighters from the tokyo fire department hosed down reactor number 3. smoke rising from the plant shows the effort is at least partially successful. in the next effort, workers are hooking up electricity to try to get the pumps running, but what if the pumps are damaged beyond repair. >> there's so many other factors, i'm not even going to start to guess how complicated that gets. >> reporter: beyond the reactor core pumps are needed to refill tanks like these containing the spent fuel rods. there's 1760 tons of fuel in the tanks, four times more than in the reactor. this photograph shows the damage near the fuel tanks at reactor 4. officials fear many tanks may have lost all or part of their water in the earthquake, leavi

coming out stanley roberts hits the road to find the biggest. >>brian: aubrey coming in from the rain over the next few days. more to do with coming up. >>brian: here's a beautiful shot of the golden gate bridge from this evening. we did manage to squeeze out a little bit of sun today after the heavy rain this morning. it moved out about 10:00. tonight we're looking at dry conditions, a lot of people out about this evening where we have temperatures in the low 50s. at least it's not raining. 52 san francisco, hayward, upper '40's = pleasanton. the radar shows we have a couple showers out there for tonight. some still in to the sierra this evening, also a few showers around your recap. for the most part the weather, just holding out until tomorrow. we have another weather system arriving for the afternoon. there is lake tahoe, the snow still coming down a little bit there this evening. for tomorrow, look for the chance for snow but improving conditions for next week. in fact it will be nice just about everywhere. " in this era and the bay area. in the me

we will begin with our chief science correspondent, robert bazell, on the immediate nuclear danger there. bob, good evening. >>> brian, in what could have been the third explosion in four days, tensions are mounting in the struggle to avert what threatens to become a major disaster. until today, two reactors were in serious trouble. on saturday, there was a hydrogen explosion in one. at 11:00 monday, cameras recorded a similar blast in the second. shortly afterward, the chief cabinet secretary informed the weary and anxious public. a few hours later, officials revealed the cooling had failed at a third reactor, putting it in the same dangerous condition, and the japanese nuclear agency reports there could have been an explosion there within the past few hours. the government and the company that owns the plants said neither of the earlier explosions had harmed heavy steel vessels or the metal and concrete domes that contained the nuclear material. the explosions did destroy lightweight structures that enclose the entire reactors. still, evacuations continue, because the danger persists that fuel rods, which have part

. >> reporter: and, brian, to help families with small children, the government announced it will make bottled water available throughout the affected area. >> robert bazell in tokyo tonight. >>> as we mentioned, a lot of folks have questions about food safety. many are wondering which foods we get from japan. just last night, as we said, the feds announced they're halting the import of some foods coming to this country from the affected area of japan. that hasn't stopped people from being concerned about it, though, about fish and produce on store shelves. our report from nbc's kristen welker. >> reporter: at this little tokyo grocery store in los angeles, business is brisk. the shelves are stocked with seaweed and fish from japan. the leafy greens are grown locally. owners insist it's all safe. >> all that we have here are not affected by the earthquake or nuclear power plant issue. >> reporter: the u.s. food and drug administration has banned all vegetable, fruit and milk products from areas impacted by japan's nuclear crisis. >> the step that fda implemented is an additional step in the global food safety net to safeguard the u.s. food supply.

robert bazell, nbc news, new york. >>> that's our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. and we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> his new job is to police the police, but is that possible when he used to be one? i'm traci grant. we'll dig into the potential conflict of interest facing the new d.a. coming up. >>> shouting from the rooftops pleading their case. look at the video here. there could be another long night and vocal night for uc berkeley students, and now they promise to make it harder for campus police tonight.

brian will pay play it. the seniors hum and he plays it by ear or find sheet music for his repertoire of 100 songs, music to the ear of 90-year-old robert. >> he is very versatile in that sense. and he can play almost anything you name. >> for brian, making music is just one of his community service projects. he also fundraises for the local food banks. >> how much is that check for? >> $10,000. >> $10,000. >> he raised even more than he managed for cbs 5 food for families holiday food drive. the money came from friends, family and local businesses. he raised enough to buy $20,000 food for the alameda county food bank. >> as teenagers we have a lot of time on our hands. >> they even profiled brian on a recent feature on community service. >> i have had everything that i want since i was a child. and so i just want to give back a little of what i have gotten. [ music ] >> reporter: to urge others to give, brian formed a community service club at school. and he is training his 13-year- old brother spencer and justin to take over his volunteer projects when he goes to college. their mother says serving together brings family harmony. >> it

and that was robert marital activist and founder of rosenberg berg fund for children out of the son of julius and ethel rosenberg. i also discussed the rosenberg case with brian bakker national coordinator for the answer coalition and see not only president of russia government i asked them if it's fair to say that it's a connection rather and that his wiki leaks are private first class bradley manning in the modern day rosenberg here's what they have to say. what bradley manning is accused of doing is releasing classified documents that the new york times published and that other mainstream media in europe published but what's important is that the military is treating him as if he could be and the charges are being prepared so that he could be sentenced to life in prison or executed for releasing these documents but the new york times suffer at the present and in that case too we're in you hear the republicans and conservatives in congress and in the media saying yes bradley manning should be if need be executed to to send a message to other people whistleblowers so in that sense i think there is a comparison even though some of the fact headlines are diffe

roberts kron 4 news. >>pam: carry sits down with the national league's most valuable player cody ross. good news concerning brianwith all the sports. >>kimberlee: right now www.kron4.com, prepare for rain the rest of the week by visiting our comprehensive weather page. if our meteorologist give you all the updates about rain totals and what to expect for the day. our live doppler radar will show you where the rain is hitting how and where the storms are headed over the next few hours. the sure to check out of links section with information on how to prepare for flooding on www.kron4.com. >>gary: good evening everybody, santa clara and usf in a tournament known as the college insider dock combo. if it couldn't be wise guy and beetroots fall, it costs $30,000 for a home team to have a guy came in this event. it's one of those deals he did make the ncaa but you want to give your chance of exposure. here's former coach. >> another single game rivalry game. i don't think those other two games mean anything. but i think this is another rivalry game that san jose and usf has had forever. (music) >>gary: baseball by the