green. the second-largest city, los angeles, would like to be the greenest of them all. "america tonight" found big questions about how it's regulating massive oil fields. some residents say those oil fields are making them sick. who owns many of them. "america tonight"s okanagan went there to find out, and the answer may surprise you. >> this is the entertainment capital of the world. look closely, and you'll see a whole other kind of production going on. los angeles has one of the largest concentrations of petroleum in the world. and pumping oil is part of the backdrop of living in l.a. sometimes the drilling is behind the scenes. no office workers in this building. it's actually disguising an oil grid. and so is this one, down the street. many of the more than 3,000 oil wells are hiding in plain sight. like this building on a busy street in south l.a. >> it's remarkable. when you come here, you get the sense that whoever is running the activity is camouflaging the presence, you would not know that oil is distracted, except for the fact that every once into a while you

. >> the los angeles city counsel gave the ride sharing companies the green light at lax. angeles is the largest city in the country to allow them to operate along side countries. they still need to get permits at lax. >>> researchers learned a lot about hurricanes since hurricane katrina hit 10 years ago. forecasters are forecasting one of the lowest hurricane seasons. he says hurricane katrina proved that water front properties should be miles from the water. >> if you can create a buffer between the hurricane and the population even if it is only relatively small in terms of miles, healthy marshes south of new orleans, that can really put the breaks on a hurricane. >> hurricane katrina claimed more than 1800 lives and caused more than $15 billion in damage in new orleans and mississippi. >>> more on the developing news we told you about, fire that is burning in santa clara at the plaza. we are getting word a car ran into a gas line and broke the gas line. that explains the explosions people heard. three buildings are engulfed here. judging from the pictures here, it look

detroit beat the angels five to nothing. this saturday at greenay what will be the last free season game for many of the starters. that includes sam bradford. bradford will get the move snaps he's had all preseason. however, with aaron rodgers practicing with the second team today, it doesn't look like he will play against the eagles on saturday. eagles first round pick nelson agholor had a good camp and played well. but he knows there's lot more work ahead of him. >> only thing i'm okay right now at this point is the fact that i've had a lot of reps and i've put stuff on film to learn from. every dame i'm progressing. if i felt like something i should concern my well that's all i'll worry about. >> when he got here i don't think he underred the timing of offensive football in the nfl. in the game it's not like a one-on-one drill where you have all day to get open. you got to beat your guy and be where you're supposed to be at when you're supposed to be there i think he struggled with that early so i think once he continues to learn the game and l

. >> uber and lyft have the green to operate at l.a.x., the los angeles city council gave the okay sois now the larger air hundred to allow the services. until now they were the most closely guarded piece of the taxi industry stronghold in southern california. >> apple watch equals big business for best buy saying demand has been so high that it is making it sell more in stores. businesses report that best bay will really out the apple watch to 100 more stores by the end of september so it is available in 1,100 locations around the nation. >> mouth watering may nature be the first thing that comes to mind if you think of cafeteria food. >> tech giants are famous for showering employees with free food including photos of the most delicious dishes. look what is on the menu at google, crawfish boil, a lot of other famous food, and they have other famous food, and they have a cheese burger bar and cafe. >> can you not see it but it looks delicious. and they have life-sized chess pieces and sleeping areas and meditating areas. ahmed stating areas... >> they never leave work is what i hear.

angeles. gabriel ahora nos vamos con lo mejor del arranque de la pretemporada de la nfl. los patriotas iniciaron ante los greena suspencion para rom brady ya que al momento la esta apelando. brady se fue uno de cuatro para diez yardas. en el tercer cuarto alonzo harris le dio la ventaja a los packers grcias a su acarreo de 25 ayrdas terminaria el juego con siete acarreos para un total de 41 yardas y de paso los visitantes se quedaron con el juego 22 a 11. vo la ofensiva de los detriot lions pego temprano gracias a la gran atrapada de de golden tate quien recorrio 35 yardas para llegar a la zona de anotacion. despues de eso el novato de la universidad de nebraska "ameer abdullah" pego esta gran corrida de 67 yardas para poner a su equipo en territorio enemigo. termino siendo una paliza este juego. detriot 23 y los jets 3. vo en el juego entre bears y dolphins.. miami no pudo mantener a ventaja y chicago se quedon con el juego por marcador final de 27 a 10 gracias a buen juego terrestre que acumulo un total de 166 yardas. "perry" summo 89 de esas yardas con 10 acarreos con una anotacion, la corrida mas larga sie

green are all there for three days of workouts to select the olympic team. klay's brother is a baseball player. trace hit his first major league homer tonight against the angels. teammates gave him the silent treatment when he got back to the dugout. white sox won the game 3-0. i am not sure which is worse for loyal raider fans. the carson proposal is going full steam ahead or that we are hearing nothing from oakland officials who have no plan to keep the silver and black in oakland. nfl owners listened to relocation plans. oakland had no viable plan to present while the carson project to build a $1.7 billion for the raiders and the chargers to share is making progress. they claim both the raiders and chargers are now committed to moving. >> it works for california. it certainly works for the l.a. market. now it works for the two teams playing in the most terrible stadiums in the league. raiders and chargers are committed to l.a. and they spent a lot of money. a lot of money. >> that does not sound good for raider fans. abc 7 sports brought to you by xfinity. crickets. where are you libby? >> all right. thanks, larry. thank you for joining us this evening. ab

green are all there for three days of workouts to select the olympic team. klay's brother is a baseball player. trace hit his first major league homer tonight against the angelsammates gave him the silent treatment when he got back to the dugout. white sox won the game 3-0. i am not sure which is worse for loyal raider fans. the carson proposal is going full steam ahead or that we are hearing nothing from oakland officials who have no plan to keep the silver and black in oakland. nfl owners listened to relocation plans. oakland had no viable plan to present while the carson project to build a $1.7 billion for the raiders and the chargers to share is making progress. they claim both the raiders and chargers are now committed to moving. >> it works for california. it certainly works for the l.a. market. now it works for the two teams playing in the most terrible stadiums in the league. raiders and chargers are committed to l.a. and they spent a lot of money. a lot of money. >> that does not sound good for raider fans. abc 7 sports brought to you by xfinity. crickets. where are you libby? >> all right. thanks, larry. thank you for joining us this evening. abc 7

green eyed monster. >> the more you interact with other people directly, the better you feel. >> abc news los angeles. >> i feel like fo many, o creates a shaking condition, did you see that poor guy in the graphic. he was shaking a lot. it's a terrible thing. >> i suffer from fomol. >> what is that? >> fear of missing lunch. >> can we get through this quickly then? >> he's going to be hangry real soon. >> let's take a look up the hudson river. we have a, you know, high clouds, sunshine, looking good here as we look toward the jackie onassis reservoir in the park and right up good old columbus avenue. 48% is the humidity. 79 degrees is the temperature. 72 here in massapequa to north port. up the hudson river valley, 77 and 82 over towards newark. these numbers are great, especially with a northerly wind coming right down the hudson river here and out across long island. still a couple of areas of clouds and a few showers in western suffolk county here right around brook haven headed towards the l.i.e. if you're traveling eastward today you're going to run into that. but you see the rest of the area, t

green jobs to tech. a lot of people don't know that los angeles is now the digital tech jobs capital of the country. we have more in l.a. county than even santa clara county in the heart of silicon valley, more than washington, more than in new york, more than in boston. we've seen a huge investment in infrastructure. we haven't waited for washington. we haven't brought an empty hat for washington to fill. we come with a hat that is half filled. we tax ourselves first. we have the largest program of any in the country with $36 billion for five new rail lines, a $10 billion redo of l.a.x. which if you've flown into, you know it needs it. we've seen a million dollars a day spent in the port of los angeles where 1 out of 50 american jobs can be traced to the ports of los angeles in long beach. 43% of our nation's goods come via sea into that port. it's critical for america's success. whether it's hollywood, which is our calling card to the world, whether it's international trade, which comes through los angeles, it isn't just a great american city, it is a gateway for this country, both in and out of t

green light to build a new stadium without going through a formal public vote. the rams have been demanding a new stadium and are threatening to move to, you guessed it, los angeles if the city doesn't build a new stadium for the team. a new stadium would cost nearly $1 billion with almost $400 million being covered by public funds. by the way, the owner of the rams stan kronke has a net of more than $6 billion. ali velshi talked about the financing of sports stadiums with victor matheson. who studied the financing of stayed yim. >> if you actually go down and look at game day and you see all those thousands of people spending money on hot dogs and tickets and all this you can't believe there's not some sort of gigantic economic benefit. when you look at the data whether it's employment whether it's income whether it's gdp, even things like travel related hotel occupancy everything like that you actually can never find large bumps associated with either new stadiums news franchises or things like the world cup or the olympics. >> let's see what the minnesota vikings site says about the new stadium scheduled to open in 2016. it says it's going to create 13,000 job

green jobs a year. that's how the deal was solved. three years later, with hundreds of millions spent, that created only 1,700 jobs and most of them were consultants. in los angelesls not a single project has been completed. most of these products, by the way, are replacing the light bulbs and there's no accountability, the oversight board has never held a single meeting, not one. since the law was passed california has taxed its businesses an extra 700 million dollars under the green banner, what does the golden state have to show for it, a consultant's employment charter, extras for the light bulb industry and not much else. meanwhile, california suffer under the greenies rule. highest prices in the land, sky high taxes and the highest poverty rate in the nation. we live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you. so you're a small business expert from at&t? yeah, give me a problem and i've got the solution. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep it all digital. we're looking to double our deliveries. ou