they say 56 year-old adrienne martin was mixing in transferring three gases. methane, nitrogen and helium into a cylinder when the explosion occurred. the blast killed a veteran research engineer and injured a female employee inside of a lab at membrane technology and research. the company president says the injured employees is now recovering at home. the menlo park fire chief says over pressurization of those three gases could have triggered an explosion. that is one of the possibilities there are looking into. the president of a membrane technology and research wrote in a statement that adrienne martin was a skilled researches. he moved to the united states from his native country of romania. >> in menlo park city inspectors red tag to the building on saturday saying that it is unsafe to go and at this point. the fire to says it before the explosion they were unaware of any safety problems at this research company. this company passed an annual safety inspection about six months ago. >> it was a pretty nice day after the fall of today. sunny this afternoon

now back to you, rob and tanya. >> thanks, adrienne.ere is the rest of your labor day weather. another system brings evening storms to philadelphia, new york and boston. cooler in the nation's midsection. showers and thunderstorms from phoenix to the central rockies. >> 85 in salt lake city. 77 in seattle. near 90 in boise. chicago, detroit, and indianapolis climb to the 60s. 82 in boston. 79 in atlanta. and 81 in new orleans. >>> and president obama is spending this labor day wi workers and their families in detroit. yesterday, mr. obama promised federal help for those who are suffering the aftermath of irene. wabc's marcie gonzalez reports from northern new jersey. >> are you okay? oh, i'm so sorry. >> reporter: a word of hope from the president for people starting to feel they have none. madeline garcia is finally scraping out the muddy mess for the first time since hurricane irene roared through this area last week, leaving her furniture store nothing more than curbside trash. >> everything. the water come up to here. >> reporter: t

i want to thank adrienne and her staff at the office of the civic engagement. i know linda young is here representing the soviet minister's office, for working together with the community ambassadors program, with the staff, community agencies that are here today, constituents of supervisor chiu as well as maria cohen, and the police chief and his staff, making sure these areas are not only looked after, and permission is shared, but also that the presence there is one that is positive. in addition to being present, vital information can be shared with people who ordinarily might not understand what is going on in a particular area but the basic information. this program has been successful. adrian has reports on 22,000 transactions sharing information over the past year that we declared to be the pilot first year. because it has been so successful, david chiu and malia cohen protected some funding in the budget for that, but we combine that smartly with funding from lennar corp., who is also making a big investment in district 10 as well. i want to thank both

out what triggered explosion at his menlo park research company on friday afternoon. 56 year-old adrienne market was mixed against transferring three gases into a cylinder when the explosion occurred. the blast killed the veteran research engineer and injured a female employee inside a laboratory. the company president said the injured employee identified as jenny is no recovery at home. the menlo park fire department says the gases could have triggered an explosion. that is one of the possibilities there looking into. the president of the membrane technology research said that the man who died was a skilled engineer who had been with the company for five years. they've moved from their native country of romania for their daughter to further her music career. >> city inspectors or read had to this building saying that it is unsafe to enter. the fire chief tells me that this company did pass an annual safety inspection about six ago. >> we have a nice day to kick off this labor day weekend. more fall this morning. temperatures were a lot colder that we have seen. 60's for san francisco and

investigators are trying to find out what triggered the explosion at this resurges company 56 year-old adrienneferring gases into a cylinder when the explosion happened a killed that engineer and injured another female employee bu. the over pressurization of those gases could have caused a the explosion but president of membrane technology is said adrian martin was a skilled engineer and had written with the company for five years he lived in san jose with his wife and daughter they move from their home country of romania so it is their daughter could get a better education. before they explosion they are unaware of any safety problems this company passed as safety inspection six months ago. still >> become an assault morning in a quiet part of north bay >> we will be right back >> >> >> unless i hear screen you have liked follow and on the right is a picture of downtown centers his goal and downtown is still looking overcast >> we are taking a live look at the golden gate bridge you can see the fog is starting to lift you can see more of the bridge where waking up to morning fog and patchy dri

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adrienne martin died in the explosion. his widow has been quoted as saying unsay surroundings. i asked the security if they know when osha is coming but we do not know at this point. fire officials have to rebuild a laboratory inside because it was so badly damaged by the left. they think perhaps the chemicals inside, a methane the cylinder is split apart perhaps. they are expected to go through case files in painstaking detail to find out. black had a routine inspection a queue weeks ago. fire officials were already out here until early saturday, they will have to continue their vacation >> the time is a 2:00 pm. we're back with more in a couple of minutes. did not go away. >> the dow was down over 3 appoint this morning. now back over the 11,000 mark. this following friday there was a to the 53. with continuing reports about the whole global economy.2 >> the postal service is in a financial crisis. they're going to capitol hill and pacing a second straight year of losses of at least be a billion dollars or more. now the agency is asking congress for an immediate action beginn

"the real housewives of beverly hills" cast, gathered at adrienne maloof's home last week to discusstrong. >> there's so many men who their wives leave them and they don't kill themselveses. you can't feel responsible for that. nobody can. it was his choice. >> i've gone from, you know, feeling really sad to, at times, i felt very angry. you know, wanting him to think it's a very selfish act. >> reporter: armstrong did not leave a note. but members of the show speculated financial difficulties may have led to his suicide. >> i think in the town where we live in, where your financial status is so important, that there's this need to keep up this front of what you have. >> reporter: last night's controversial episode aired on bravo just three weeks after taylor armstrong's estranged husband took his life. >> they think it's the right decision to continue on with the show. but to make some changes in the edit room. and that means to edit out a lot of russell's appearances. >> reporter: last season, millions watch the couple's marriage unravel. >> i feel so disconnected. and i think it's

some of you may be familiar with adrienne rich, lesbian poet. the things that are not spoken about are also the types of harmful speech if you will. even though there are these over physical attacks what we are also seeing but don't hear as much about is the toll that he speech takes on people. with the peoples they had don't mind gave people but don't want them to flaunt it or why can't they just not act that way, or i really like you guys that don't think you should get married. these are forms of intolerance in this country that play out every single day. i am seeing ldp to people and the beauty of this forum is the firefighters, many are unemployed. i am not separating out but in fact speaking for the wholeness of us and the experience of violence. the third piece of intolerance i would talk about is the systemic in tolerance and systemic violence. we have seen this play out again and again in different movement across the country. you laid out a full plan, systemic and tolerance that played out and has continued to play out and these types