. >>> coming up on abc7 news, a breakthrough in dyslexia treatment. the product the fda has approved to help those with the condition. >>> and we have a live look from our sutro cam. quite a change from the hot, hot weather of last week. a cooling trend bay area-wide. >>> for both children and adults who struggle with dyslexia, reading can often be a challenge, but now a system of lenses has won clearance from the food and drug administration to treat certain symptoms associated that condition. here's abc7 news health and science reporter carolyn johnson with the details. >>> he laid at the judge's feet. >> for her reading jack's classic "the call of the wild" is less of a struggle than a few months ago. >> it was really hard to read because the words would float, the words would flip back and forth. >> she has been diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disability that impairs one's ability to read quickly and accurately. comprehension is often impacted as well. several months ago an optometrist thomas swanson fitted her with lenses. >> i was skeptical

. >>> coming up on abc7 news, a breakthrough in dyslexia treatment. the product the fda has approved to help those who suffer from that condition. >>> and we have a live look from our emery riel cam. it is currently 59 degrees in that east bay city. 69 degrees later on today. lisa argen will have your forecast, a cooler forecast, in just a few minutes. >> welcome back. it's 5:41 on this sunday morning. thank you for wake being up so early and joining us. we have for your viewing pleasure a live look from our exploratorium cam showing you some of the landmarks in downtown san francisco. it's going to be partly cloudy today in the mid-60s. nothing like last week when we had some 80-degree temperatures. quite a shift. lisa argen will be along a bit later with the full accuweather forecast. >>> for both children and adults who struggle with dyslexia, reading can often be a challenge but now a system of lenses has won clearance from the food and drug administration to treat certain symptoms associated that condition. here's abc7 news health and science rep

i knew they work for color vision but i wasn't sure for dyslexia. >> do you like one or two? >> dr. swanson says it modified light entering each eye. one theory is that dyslexic eyes aren't processing information at the same speed. idea with these lenses correct combination can balance the speed with which images will travel from eyes through key pathways in the brain. >> they discover that had by changing wave lengths by filters they can cause better communication. >> lenses have been used to treat problems for years but this doctor who serves on the board says the use for dyslexia is a departure, most consider the condition newer logical its treated by a learning specialist, an open tomorrow trift will treat visual inefficienciys of the system. >> critics point to the lack of research supporting the effectiveness. so far there has been one large scale study of 150 students sponsored by the company. supporters believe there will be a growing body of evidence as use becomes more wide spread. >> it's too new. very, very new. >> it's back from the road. >> very seen it work. >> the co

. >>> both children and acults who struggle with displex -- dyslexia, reading can be a challenge.ow a lens to treat certain symptom as sots soes yaited with the condition. >> on wintery nights he lay at the judge's feet. >> for this child, reading is less than a struggle. >> it's just really hard to read because the words were slipping back and forth. >> comprehension is often impacted as well, several months ago, this doctor fitted her with colored lenses. >> i was skeptical. i knew they work for color vision but i wasn't sure for dyslexia. >> do you like one or two? >> dr. swanson says it modified light entering each eye. one theory is that dyslexic eyes aren't processing information at the same speed. idea with these lenses correct combination can balance the speed with which images will travel from eyes through key pathways in the brain. >> they discover that had by changing wave lengths by filters they can cause better communication. >> lenses have been used to treat problems for years but this doctor who serves on the board says the use for dyslexia is a departure, most cons

you also can study something like, take, for instance, dyslexia, people who have trouble with reading, by knowing what parts of the brain are involved in the normal reading process that helps you to understand dyslexia. >> can you look inside the brain? >> you can look inside of it in surgery, but you can't do that normally, so you have pet scans, mri scans, cat scans. >> what's the best scans to see as much as you can deeply into the brain? >> it depends if you want to see structure or function. if you want to see structure, mr . function, meaning what's happening, look at pet scans or functional mri's, but to demonstrate looking at geography and looking at what is happening. >> so you do a lot of that? >> yeah, we do both of them, yes. >> that's neurology. >> that's neurology, uh-huh. >> your contention is that the average life-span is not only increasing, but you recommend that we consider our life-span in terms of becoming 100 years old, is that right? >> yes, that's certainly a good possibility. >> well, the statistics are on your side. there are more today, as we learned from st

i do have two ad ck and dyslexia. and due to that, our income is very limited. we need more low income housing at 20 and 30 percent. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> jerry and this is public comment on this team. >> i know. >> thank you. >> i have a request about the houses and i wanted to know, i know some of the places on mission bay is just bringing up to our attention today. and i wanted to know any places is w. i o -- street is one building is knocked down and i don't know what they are doing at that point. my question are they rebuilding that and another thing, that building. i think everybody moved out of that building to the other building. that's what i wanted to know. another part i wanted to know on how many more buildings you will make in the city and when you will build it. please answer the question please. thank you. >> behind the bridge line? >> no one? thank you. is there anymore public comment? okay. guys, seeing there is no more public comment, we are going to -- one more? is it on this item? okay. i'm with senior and disability

he struggled with dyslexia. he went to stanford and then in a burst of intuition he decided to become a foreign correspondent ov cro he settled in a poor neighborhood to help build a street from the ground up. instead of enjoying the lap of luxury, richard taught himself the culture and language bit by bit. he renders the common people of cairo with a maintenance and compassion. we see him struggle with early newspaper gave in freelance pieces like some latter-day benjamin frankly. he finally wound up in jerusalem with abc news before nbc in 2003. his reporting from baghdad set the standard. he was the only american to cover it all. he tells this story and another book, which will be studied by historians decades from now. at one point he notes the four psychological stages that all reporters go through while covering war zones. these four stages seem particularly relevant and poignant. stage one, i am invincible. nothing can hurt me. i am superman. stage two, what i'm doing is dangerous. i might get hurt over h

. >> new hope for people with dyslexia. it's not without a critic. >>> a new report is shedding light on disappearing honey bees. according to the report it's actually a combination of problems. factors in so called colony collapses include parasites poor nutrition and pesticides. honey bees are crucial to the u.s. food supply in addition to maiblging honey the bees pollenate 900 -- sorry, 90 flowering crops so they're crucial. >> this is fascinating. warren buffet did something he's never done before. sent out a tweet that read simply "warren is in the house". this is where you can see the numbers. almost 200,000 followers. he is known for being reluctant to invest in technology companies. he says he can't predict the future of those businesses so again, it's @ warren buffet look for a check mark on it two tweet s. >> amazing. >> wow. >> cool. >> stay with us. it's deja vu for sea lion pups. >> coming up next an update on their co >>> coming up a r.at 6:00 a hunt for a serial car thief. how he's managed to give police the

you can see individual letters in dyslexia but it doesn't make a word.i might see pretty green eyes, bright shiny teeth, beautiful woman but i'm not sure who it is even though i've known you for years and seen you every day. it's not being able to make sense of it and put it to the. doctors think it's much more common than people think and there's a continuum. some people don't recognize their own face in the mirror. other people might be, i'm not great with faces. >> so what causes this? do they have any idea if they -- >> they have no idea. some people have it since childhood and other people have a stroke and it brings on face blindne blindness. but they really have no idea. >> can you do anything, treat it, or just have to apologize, say, sorry. >> unfortunately some people just are really to some degree paralyzed by this and stay home and don't want to see other people. other people learn to apologize. some people might learn, suzanne malveaux, her bangs go like that. so we'll use a trick about one single aspect of a person's face. but really there'

i do have two disabilities, bad back and dyslexia. and due to that, our income is very limited. we need more low income housing at 20 and 30 percent. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >>

what it is is it's kind of like dyslexia for the face.t can't put together to form a word. ashleigh, i look at you and i can see that you have beautiful brown hair and you have glasses and you have high cheekbones, but if i had face blindness, i couldn't put together that this is ashleigh banfield even though i've known you for years. it's the putting it together part that is difficult for people with face blindness. and doctors tell us that it's more common than people think and there's a continuum. people might be like i need more time to figure this out, it can be mild or severe, but it's probably more common than we think. it's a baffling brain disorder. >> it's great that you describe it as dyslexia for the face, that makes perfect sense, but why just the face? why not say a road map or a brand of car or vehicle? does it apply to anything else other than people's faces? >> that is a great question. and it really does appear to be very face-specific. so one doctor i talked to at harvard, he says he has patients who are artists, very s

you could have sensory sensory, dyslexia, a ph.d. but many different labels in since they vary from a nuisance to debilitating you cannot tolerate a noisy restaurant or a train station but i was a little kid the loud sounds hurt my ears of let the child initiate another cannot stand florescent lights they flicker like a strobe light. sometimes using pastille r helps one thing i cannot stand scratchy close against white skin there's no way you will get will against my skin. and cotton does not it. but we need to be doing research and since three issues. a lot of papers show there are some circuits of the brain with facial recognition and we know about that and the monotonous studies how to separate problems by co-author as denigrate job to get material together. and one of might favor chapters talks about the brain scan. what basically shows up shows up with the eyes -- and activities i did but whiskey naked never keep them together in my cerebellum is 20 percent smaller and my fear center the amygdala was larger than normal that woul

children can cause neurological damage, causes behavioral problems, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia. studies show that children who are exposed in utero can have permanent neurological changes that put them at risk later in life for learning disabilities that lead to failure in school and iq loss. there are a whole series of problems that we never even thought about in the old days, so to speak. >> it's shocking that we know that children can be prevented from any kind of lead poisoning if they are, live in a home that is lead free. and this is no longer, you know, a priority of the country. we still have many homes millions of homes that contain lead that are endangering our children. >> is it the cost of getting rid of the lead from homes that are already established and we're living in, is that the main barrier? >> for some it is. but the history of public health, and that's what we are, historians, is rife with examples of decisions that are very costly that we decided are necessary for the population as a whole. but somehow because we have in some sense accepted a definition of

you can have sensory problems with dyslexia adhd many different labels and sensory problems vary from a nuisance to being so debilitating it can't tolerate a noisy restaurant or a the train station or any kind of place like that. when i was a little kid and a school bell went off it hurt my ears. one of the ways you can help to sensitize that is let the child initiate that sound. their other kids that can't stand fluorescent lights. they can see them flicker like a strobe light. sometimes glasses help. sometimes using pale pastel paper will help. one of my big things is i absolutely cannot stand scratchy clothing against my skin. the thing that i have found is some cotton itches and other cotton does not hear the sensory problems in this area but we need to be doing research. we need to be working on century issues. we have a lot of papers that show yes there defects in the circuits of the brain whether on facial recognition and things like that. we know all about that but we are not doing enough studies on how to deal with sensory problems. in one of the chapters of the book and my c

struggled with dyslexia. he went to stanford and then in a burst of intuition he decided to become a foreign correspondent by moving to cairo with out really knowing a lick of arabic. he settled in a poor neighborhood to help build a street from the ground up. instead of enjoying the lap of luxury, richard taught himself the culture and language bit by bit. he renders the common people of cairo with a maintenance and compassion. early him struggle with newspaper gave in freelance pieces like some latter-day benjamin frankly. he finally wound up in jerusalem with abc news before nbc in 2003. setreporting from baghdad the standard. he was the only american to cover it all. he tells this story and another be studied byll historians decades from now. at one. keynotes the four psychological stages that all reporters go through while covering war zones. these four stages seem particularly relevant and poignant. stage one, i am invincible. nothing can hurt me. i am superman. isge two, what i'm doing dangerous. i mig

engel's own story, that of a young man who struggle with dyslexia, while growing up in new york city.e went to stanford, and then in a burst of bravado and intuition, he decided to become a foreign correspondent by moving to cairo without, get this, really knowing a lick of arabic. he settled in a poor neighborhood to learn the street from the ground up. instead of enjoying the lap of luxury beloved by some foreign correspondents, richard taught himself the culture and the language bit by bit. in his book he renders the common people of cairo that he met with amazement and compassion. you see him struggle with early newspaper gigs and freelance pieces like some latter-day benjamin franklin. finally, winding up in jerusalem for abc news before going to nbc in 2003. richard engel's reporting from baghdad set the standard. he was the only american to cover it all from the early days of victory, into the civil chaos, the ultimate successes of the surge. he tells that story in another brilliant book, war journal, my five years in iraq, which will be studied by historians decades from now.

that of a young man who dyslexia while growing up in new york city. he went to stanford. of bravado and decided to become a foreign correspondent by cairo without, get this, without knowing a lick of arabic. he settled in the poor to learn the fabled arab street from the ground up. instead of enjoying the luxury enjoyed by some correspondents. he taught himself the language bit-by-bit. we see him struggle with early newspaper giggles and freelance some latter day benjamin franklin, finally up in jerusalem for abc ins before going back to nbc 2003. richard engel reporting from baghdad set the standard. the only american to cover it all in the early days of vickery to the bitter slide civil chaos to the ultimate successes of the surge. that story in another my liant book, war journal, five years in iraq which will be historians decades from now. at one point, he notes the stages all l reporters go through while covering war zones. four stages seem particularly relevant and particularly poignant. one -- i'm invinceble. nothing can hurt me. superman. stage two -- what i'm doi