the biggest surprise of what they found in 2-year-old rowland, chemicals found in nearly anyone else in the world 6 times higher than in parents, twice the levels that researchers see in land animals. this is a serious warning said a scientist researchers on flame retar tkapbts. young children are exposed because they put their hands in their mouth and bodies don't eliminate chemicals as readily. to me i think very historically crystallizes what we are learning. that was a story in 2006 by the environmental working group where they analyzed the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies and found an average of 200 chemicals found to be toxic in every single baby, man made synthetic chemicals. when we see this picture that babies are being born into the world polluted with industrial chemicals it is time to say how can we do things differently? how can we do things differently? that is the question that essentially we took to the world's largest beauty companies starting in 2003 letters, phone calls. who thinks the companies were wanting to have this conversation? unfortunately they weren

. >> clearly, -- there are a few problems with the line to osaka and rowland. we will leave it there for the moment. let's stay with japan because the awesome task of clearing the mountains of debris is under way in parts of japan. just getting around the coastal region is a very difficult job. we are in the northeast. this is one place that was pretty much smashed to pieces. >> this is the center. you can see the cleanup operations are already well under way. the bulldozers are in. we have seen people all over town trying to clean up their homes, businesses, shops as best they can. there is a lot of mud in these places. the sea is in that direction. the water came up the high street smashing into these shops and businesses. you can see the debris. they are trying to make an impact on this. this is such a huge task. this is a thriving town. it was the center of japan's fishing industry. all of that now lies in ruins. what happens to this community of the future is very much an open question. at the moment, people are trying to clear as much as they can of all t

saturday will be fantastic for you before the showers rowland by evening.ody sees showers sunday. let's say good morning to george. >> george: the first of the act of the meter lights being activated. the first slowdown headed west. only affecting the customers that are using fast track this morning. cash customers get a good ride to the bridge. that seems to be offset somewhat. not tracking hot spots but we do have a problem on edie that may turn into one. first san mateo ride a smooth commute here as well as at the golden gate bridge for 1 01 south. i mentioned an accident on 80 it is at coulson, the left lane and the car pool lanes have been blocked so far no back up. it could turn 80 into a hot spot that it's out there for a while. mark? >> mark: the dow is up 126 points in three minutes since the opening bell. up over 1 per cent seeing show up rides in the nasdaq and the s&p as well. >> darya: final day of the three days of hearings in washington d.c. they are looking into the gas line explosion. we on half an hour into it, they will talk about pipelin

it placed aaron rowland and giants beat milwaukee 7-2. >> in glendale, they downed the dodgers, zitoe gave up one run. a's fell to the rangers 7-3. >> big events later today, locally, cal and stanford on the court in men's basketball and the sharks go for a ninth straight win when they host dallas. have a great day everyone. >> next at 8:30 the revolution in libya, rebels celebrate their first military victory taking control of an oil port city. >> in washington, the smart san food this is a strawberry pop-tart. and this is the warm fresh baked taste... of a strawberry toaster strudel. see the difference? pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. than listening there'to our favorite songs. there's nothing we love more than listening to our favorite songs. but our favorite thing is eating totino's pizza rolls. but our favorite thing is eating totino's pizza rolls. ♪ we're the kids in america ♪ oh, oh, oh >>> this morning, libyan rebels are celebrating their first military victory. taking control of an oil port city. they are fighting for muammar khadafy took back a city tha

you are starting to see the cells rowland and there's a lot of puddling going on in out here. the last cell that rolled through is any indication buckle up it will be above your ride today. >> reporter: 80 jackie greg your umbrella. emergency operations continuing japan a week after the devastating earthquake, the following tsunami. they're hopeful they can never a meltdown, they used water cannons on the ground with helicopters and dousing those reactors with water to keep them from overheating. the community steps in to help hundreds of thousands of families that have been left homeless. the unusual steps they are taking on working. >> reporter: japanese and government officials are cautiously optimistic about the state of the nonnuclear power plant in northern japan on thursday they connected the cooling equipment to diesel generator of allowing them to pop seawater into too of the reactors. they expect another power source on mom by friday. >> the work is continuing to feed the power into the power plant from outside. at the same time, the effort is going on in order to ev

snow will rowland appeared do know how we get grade? like paul will get snow.ahoe will get snow. at a ski weekend. >> today, marks the one -50 anniversary it since abraham lake and was inaugurated as our 60 president. he was sworn it a month after the previous president started to succeed. months later this double war began. he was assassinated in 1865. (music) >> 557 is the time. will be back with more.

ted rowland reports. >> she is concerned about the possibility that radiation could leak into the food she gets from this japanese grocery store in los angeles. >> i shopped here for the and i want to make sure that this fish is not with radiation. perhaps now is okay but two-three months i am not going to purchase any fish from japan. >> these are made from tokyo. two different concerns. one is the customers are not going to be able to get their products from japan. they are getting a lot of them. the other concern is radiation. fresh fish, vegetables, 30 percent of the fish from this comes from japan and customers are concerned about radiation. >> a good amount of people come in and ask about radiation. and the the fda this inspecting them highly. >> despite reassurance, the nuclear plant problems have not impacted the u.s. people on the west coast to not necessarily believe they are safe. >> i think the experts are not telling us everything. >> reporter: why? >> they do not want to cause panic. police are finding it in the food and in the water over there. -and even people so obviou

rowland da prices jumped 4.7% above january's increase but below december's rise.honda is recalling new models of the civic to prevent the fuel from leaking. it covers about 18,000 civics from the 2011 model year. honda says that half the case that covers a golf could break or crack and that could lead to a fuel leak. >> mark: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. we'll leave you with a live look at that from walnut creek sundstrand, traffic is moving smoothly. >> darya: welcome back to the kron 4 news. a double live look, you can see the report to the bay bridge is an easy ride plenty of sunshine even more son of the golden gate bridge things are looking good just for today. on sale for the day only. >> james: that is right, but that offer. which electrical but temperatures near 13 degrees: in novato. 7 in oakland, not at all. then we were of this time yesterday. it is no joke, it's a cold start. this afternoon will be nice. 9:00, in the '40's which is in a big improvement. a lot more 30's on the map in the