i agree with the carbon tax. >> you think carbon -- >> okay carbon isn't poison. >> i didn't say it was. >> this is the washington mentality. let's see what we can get in under the gun. >> christian, five seconds. >> yeah. i think we all agree that the timing is wrong, but jonathan, you are absolutely dead wrong, especially your being a market guy. you should recognize that the price of car done does not reflect its cost and the carbon tax is designed tho do that. but we shouldn't look at it as a big revenue raiser. we should look at it as a way to normalize the market and make it equitable. >> i want to stay on this environmental story because coming up, lights are still out for lots of sandy victims. now there is a plan t t t t t see you then. >> nearly three weeks after super storm sandy and thousands of people still without power. now calls to start burying power lines under ound everywhere to keep people out of the dark after future storms. but that could cost as much as $2 million per mile in many cities. tracy, do you think it's worth the cost to avoid the large scale power outag

we need carbon to live. carbon power is every element of our world and in fact, the more carbon we burn, the longer and better man's life has become and in fact, the less and less carbon and climate related deaths we've had the more carbon we've burned. so to start taxing carbon, it's like taxing breathing or blood, it will have a suicidal effect on not only business, but mankind in general. >> i want to know if al gore has a television at home. has he been watching what we've been talking about for the last year and a half? we don't have bloody time for a carbon tax right now! we have a lot more other this to talk about and these people, as we've said before, cannot find their way to the bathroo most days. you want to complicate itith a carbon tax that nobody even knows what the hell it is half the time! he's nuts? tell him to go back to the internet. >> as we talk about a potential carbon tax or other taxes, i go back to the issue of what happens to american businesses that are being saddled. we had a heal

i agree with the carbon tax. >> you think carbon -- >> okay carbon isn't poison. >> i didn't say it was>> this is the washington mentality. let's see what we can get in under the gun. >> christian, five seconds. >> yeah. i think we all agree that the timing is wrong, but jonathan, you are absolutely dead wrong, especially your being a market guy. you should recognize that the price of car done does not reflect its cost and the carbon tax is designed tho do that. but we shouldn't look at it as a big revenue raiser. we should look at it as a way to normalize the market and make it equitable. >> i want to stay on this environmental story because coming up, lights are still out for lots of sandy victims. now there is a plan to raise electric bills for all americans you can try strategies from independent experts and see wh criteria they use. such as a 5% yield on dividend-paying stocks. then you can customize the strategies and narrow down to exactly those stocks you want to follow. i'm mark allen of fidelity investments. the expert strategies feature is one more innovative reason serious i

and some of those carbons is carbon 14. so when you die-- or when anything that breathes in, that takes in carbon 14, dies, it becomes less and less radioactive; hence, radioactive dating, carbon dating. you've heard of that before. you wanna know how old an old tree is or something like that. you need to take a little-- that being the half-life, let me give you an example. you're with your friends, you're up country. you go into an old cave. and you say, "hey, you know what i think there was people in this cave long ago." and you dig down, you find evidence of an old camp fire. and down in that campfire, you find an old ax, maybe it's a caveman's ax or something, yeah? and that's the ax--the ax handle and everything. what you do is you take that ax handle, you come here to the university, go to the chemistry department. at first, just take a little tiny slit. they might wanna hog the whole thing for themselves, right? it's your artifact, right? take just the littlest, tiniest bit of flake of wood off there, okay? take that

in 2008, they put in place the carbon tax of $10 per ton of carbon. it has gone up $5 per ton every year. it is now $30 per ton of co2. that has allowed them to reduce income taxes, to reduce business taxes, and to incentivize the transition to clean energy. while the rest of canada since 2008 has experienced rising unemployment, sluggish growth and continued increases in carbon emissions, british columbia has experienced considerable economic growth a fairer tax system and lower co2 emissions. charles komanoff is joining us from new york to talk about this. if you want to talk about it, you can join us on the phone. you can tweet us at cspanwj. mr. komanoff, this idea of a carbon tax, is it just a partisan idea? are republicans and democrats considering this as an option? guest: that is absolutely right. one of the great things about a carbon tax politically is that it is a bipartisan idea. it is not a democratic idea or a republican idea. it is not a liberal idea or a conservative idea. it uses market-based principles, which makes it a little bit to

to rome carbon taxes cap and trade.manhattan project for alternative energies in the minute or so we have left your thoughts well i think we need to put a price on pollution make polluters pay i mean right now doesn't cost anything to just spew as much carbon pollution to the atmosphere as possible they don't pay the cost of the extra mile and i think you know ideally we should look does this country need more revenues is there some sort of debt problem around there so you know we could set up a carbon tax you could either give the money back to the people that you were you know or you could use it to reduce the deficit so i think we are going to need a price on pollution and then a big program to put to push more clean energy into the marketplace right dr stout that's been done by other countries european countries for for decades actually have effectively put a carbon tax particularly on gasoline on and diesel fuel hasn't worked. certainly their use of automobiles is not as you know they're not as reliant on automobil

-in carbon up out of the ground. in the form of coal oil and natural gas we're burning it in power plants and cars we're putting that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a trap c and guess what they. earth is warming up just like we expected it to and there really is no legitimate basis for disputed that the niners at this point you know i really have been reduced to a small number of ideologues who just they just can't accept the reality because it it turns their world view upside down and because of climate change is a real problem then we're going to have to actually have the government do some things to reduce the pollution that's causing them and these groups like competitive enterprise institute just look at the name it's not a science group it's an ideological group that's the goal is to shrink the size of government and so they just simply can't accept the reality you say ideology mitt romney at one point when he was governor massachusetts in fact he signed a cap and trade laws saying you know c o two is a

. >>> and more than a dozen people are recovering following a carbon-monoxide scare at their home. we are talking with people who were hospitalized and alex, what are the lessons firefighters say we can all learn from this? >> reporter: well, first off, there were no carbon-monoxide fire detectors inside this house and he wants to emphasize they are life savers. somebody inside the home started to feel sick with headaches and they decided to call 911. firefighters were called out to the house and found an entire family with carbon-monoxide inside their blood. 13 people including two young kids had carbon-monoxide in their blood and they went to the hospital. >> i am glad we called everybody because we had a lot of people here thanksgiving so everybody had to go to the hospital. >> fire marshalls tell us this call was a good reminder for everyone to have working carbon- monoxide detectors and gas is especially dangerous. >> reporter: carbon-monoxide is odor less colorless and you can't tell it's there. a lot of heating equipment, if they are not functioning properly, they can be emi

we are demanding less carbon emission we're getting it energy will be cleaner in the future less carbon emission just as there is less carbon emission today as opposed to years ago decades ago it's something that we're demanding and effectively that's how we're going to arrive at less carbon emissions governor johnson if the two of you agree that we have manmade climate change and that it's wackiness what's the appropriate role of the federal government and more specifically the federal emergency management agency. in responding to that. well first of all as a libertarian i want to point out that i think that fema could be drastically reduced in size and that contracts could be pre-arranged when it comes to responding to these emergencies i absolutely see a role when it comes to the. government in coordinating response the federal emergency. in the case of being able to bring in tankers for example for fire suppression in the case of of gasoline right now in the new york new jersey area i kind of have to chuckle at the fact that there is a gas shortage but does the gas shortage have to

in the state must eventually have a carbon monoxide detector.o. right now only one in ten homes in the state has one. here's abc7 news capital correspondent nannette miranda with the story from sacramento. >> actually i did not know it was a law. >> she lives in a home that uses propane. but like so many c. families, she did not know about a-year-old state law that requires single-family homes to have carbon monoxide detectors. cal fire estimates only one in ten homes does. >> i don't. i have heard lots of sad stories on the news of families of that perished because they didn't have one. >> carbon monoxide is known as the silent killer because the gas is odor less and color less. according to cal fire, an average of nearly 500 people die every year of carbon monoxide poisoning. it also sends more than 20,000 to the emergency room. that's why the c. o. detectors were mandated in california a year ago to save lives. november november is carbon monoxide awareness month because this is the time of year people start using heaters and don't know carbo

carbon monoxide levels dropped.we ventilated the hotel used a natural ventilation blowing air--hotel. we also have mechanical means of evaluating the insulating the hotel. we have monitoring of equipment where we can sample the air we have sample the air the levels have been dropping. all this event and to the point where they are back down to acceptable levels for exposure. >> that boy is offline out. >> yes correct that boiler has been taken off line. >> let us show you the same again. you see the ambulance there was no need for that it was here for precautionary measures. what happened was they evacuate it a couple of hundred of people they tell them to stay outside the was a shelter in place. is he the canopy where they could stay. some of them just checked into a nearby hotel i did not know if they get reimbursed. some people are leaving because they're going to the airport. it has been a cold long night. i got a couple of text from people who are in town staying here and or sang this is awful the alarm kept go

tax or putting a price on carbon carbon emissions because they want to know how do they make their business systems for the future what is going to be the cost of this so i mean even exxon mobil of all companies is asking for a carbon tax really really and so when the environment until it's considered the same table with exxon mobil and be asking for the same thing you know we talk about a carbon tax. the terms of tax tax restructuring a tax shifting put a tax on carbon lower taxes on payroll or an income so that it could be a neutral revenue neutral tax so that most of americans will end up better off than they are going to have a carbon tax and use the money to pay for the destruction of global warming i mean he helped rebuild new jersey while part of the money could go to help restructure part of the money could help go to the technologies that we have today like wind energy and solar energy some of the fastest growing energy sources in this country actually starting from a small base of course but they're moving quickly because because it's the way of the future it's when you invest in

i haven't seen carbon monoxide poisoning since i was a student in chicago. >> tests showed the carbononoxide was high, but just about the amount of a heavy smokier. his wife said he didn't smoke. he believes readings were a result of the good work by paramedics.. >> the fire department supplying oxygen so quickly, i think that is why the level was lower. >> after consulting with paramedics, firefighters decided to go back to the hotel to test the grounds for carbon monoxide. they ice shaited the co in a guests were evacuated. a phone shallly bigger disaster prevented. >> we're kind of like detectives.. >> yes. >> this is kind of like a real live quote, episode of "house" or something. >> neither say they think of themselves as heros.. >> i just am a small piece of the big puzzle that i'm glad that the diagnosis i made led to the safety of a lot of other people that could have been seriously injured. >> well, you know, in most carbon monoxide cases it's usual will he a suicide attempt or a gas leak in a house. now, this one happened in a hotel, an unlikely place fr a carbon monoxide le

. >>> more than 100 people were sent to the hospital after carbon-monoxide scare. here is more on what pg&e discovered in their investigation. >> reporter: no update on how all of those people are doing after they were exposed so some kind of carbon monoxide here in the heights. firefighters were called out here and a total of 14 people had to be transported to the hospital and those parents had carbon-monoxide in their bloodstream. pg&e arrived at the house and they were not able to find where that gas was coming from. we spoke with one neighbor nearby and she was forced to evacuate and of course was worried about everyone who had to be treated. >> a few had high carbon- monoxide readings and we are okay but i tonight know about the family right now. >> now that pg&e representatives who came here did check all of the plie answers but -- appliances but could not find the source of the carbon-monoxide. they are saying they don't have an update on their current conditions at least as of right now but as you can imagine this is an ongoing investigation, alex savage kt

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dioxide and 10% less hydro-carbon.this company is offering the cleaner burning fuel at 4 location ins the bay area with more in the works. >> we are showing what the future is going to look like and we hope that others will follow suit and follow our example and bring cleaner fuel to the public. >>reporter: at 4.23 a gallon the biodiesel cost the same as regular diesel. however they expect the price to fall into the same range as gasoline as it ramp up production. vice president of fuel at the company. >> we have one facility in the united states today that is producing of demonstration scale quantity of our oil. that's in peoria, illinois and we are building commercial plant. one is down in brazil pwuchlt we have others that we haven't yet announced but coming on line in the near future. >>reporter: deman also expected to be strong among commercial states such as delivery van and service vehicle. they see a broader market for the algae base oil and working with the airlines, car makers on alternative fuel to reduce fo

i am interested in carbon tax.nk it will happen and i think so because it is irresistable, a gunner of money coming to washington and that is why it will happen? >>guest: i don't think so. there are a number of ways to do this that does not hurt the poor or the middle class. we recognize because we have the super storms and nor'easters, we have to do something. we can do this in a way that doesn't hurt the middle class. >>stuart: if you tax carbon, basically you are putting a tax on natural gas, on coal, and oil, somehow you are taxing them, aren't you? >>guest: absolutely. >>stuart: so the cot -- cost of the energy goes up and we all pay for the energy. how do you make sure that ordinary people do not pay the carbon company. >>guest: one way that has been discussed by the congressional budget office is a payroll tax rebate for those in the lower income brackets so we shield the middle class and the poor from the effects of the tax while still getting the benefits of reduced carbon tax, rather, reduced carbon emiss

one guest was taken to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning last night. firefighters declared the area safe 5:00 this morning and let everyone back in. >> today is the start of our campaign operation 7 save a life to raise awareness of carbon monoxide and smoke alarms. terry mcsweeney is live at fire station 3. >> reporter: the operation is kicking off here in oakland a short time ago abc 7 combining its forces with the fire departments around the bay area to let everybody know that these simple devices and in some cases free devices, can save a life. abc7 and bay area fire departments are banding to prevent casualties from fires and carbon monoxide. >> idea of exit drills, smoke detectors, paramount to saving lives. advantage to the fire department and citizens. >> reporter: operation save a lie teams up with oakland, san jose, san francisco, menlo park and santa clara county to increase awareness and the number of in homes. the alarms are available to those who can't afford one and seniors are donated by home depot. batteries last a decade. >> it has a

one guest was taken to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning last night. firefighters declared the area safe 5:00 this morning and let everyone back in. >> today is the start of our campaign operation 7 save a life to raise awareness of carbon monoxide and smoke alarms. terry mcsweeney is live at fire station 3. >> reporter: the operation is kicking off here in oakland a short time ago abc 7 combining its forces with the fire departments around the bay area to let everybody know that these simple devices and in some cases free devices, can save a life. abc7 and bay area fire departments are banding to prevent casualties from fires and carbon monoxide. >> idea of exit drills, smoke detectors, paramount to saving lives. advantage to the fire department and citizens. >> reporter: operation save a lie teams up with oakland, san jose, san francisco, menlo park and santa clara county to increase awareness and the number of in homes. the alarms are available to those who can't afford one and seniors are donated by home depot. batteries last a decade. >> it has a

however, we checked the residents and they had showed signs of carbon monoxide on them. >> carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas that can cause lightheadedness and can be deadly. they require carbon monoxide detectors in all home. >>> the coast guard continues its search for a teenager whose parents drowned north of eureka. the teen jumped in to save the family dog who had been swept out by 10-foot waves, they ended up in the water trying to save each other. the parents bodies were found but the son is still missing. rrested randee damar williams early yesterday morning.. they say he went to a party and shot a 17- year-old boy. witnesses reported hearing at least sx shots.. when police arrived. the teen was dead. williams was later arrested at his h. a san jose man is under arrt in the murder of a teenager earlier this year. morgan hill police picked up 18-year-old jacob haro on thanksgiving day. he's accud of shooting a 16- year-old y to death in san jose in may. police in san jose believe e killing was gang- related. a 23-year-old man was shot and wounded in the same inciden. >>>

it's really a revolutionary thing, to put a price on carbon. that's kind of the whole idea behind it, to make businesses field their bottom line. i think it's safe to say there will be winners and losers. the state said, we want to see clean energy grow in the state. >> you say it's revolutionary. but it's been done in europe, right? >> they have a very large carbon trading scheme. some people say it's been very successful. it has had some problems. california is saying they've learned from that and they're going to design this market to be more efficient. >> okay. well, it's a complicated system and we'll talk about another complicated system here. hari sreenivasan. there's a lot of new information about how the digital world helped in the last campaign. and maybe made a big difference. >> right. >> you've been looking into that. >> you know, what's interesting is this is the first time the campaigns had access to not just all of the 500 points of consumer data about you that already exist, this time they were able to combine it with all of yo

. >>> carbon monoxide sent more than a dozen people to the hospital in san francisco. the fire department was called to 1223 courtland street about last night over a carbon monoxide leak. there were 14 people at the home that were taken to the hospital. they're expected to be okay, but city officials and pg&e are still trying to figure out what caused the problem. >> when we arrived, we checked the residence with our air monitors and we found no sign of carbon monoxide. however, we checked the residence and they had shoddy showed -- showed signs of carbon monoxide on them. >> it's a colorless, odorless gas that can be deadly. they now order carbon monoxide detector in all homes. >>> a fight between teens ended with one boy's father opening fire. randy williams went to the party and shot a 17-year-old boy. witnesses reported hearing at least 6 shot. when police arrived, the teenager was dead. williams was arrested at his home. >>> two women became the latest homicide victims, both shot to death in east oakland early sunday morning. that brings the number of murders this

san francisco firefighters say the family had a working carbon monoxide detector in the home. but the family told firefighters they had heard the de ect iter beep -- the detector beeping and they thought it was a low battery. firefighters and medical technicians are helping a mother and her small children into an ambulance on court land avenue in -- vernal heights. firefighters and several ambulances were called at 7:00 p.m. after receiving calls of people feeling faint possibly due of carbon monoxide poisoning. >> they did have co readings in their system. we have 11 patients being transported for further observation. >> people transported are family members and friends visiting from the thanksgiving holiday. she was visiting in the lower unit when the firefighters arrived. >> the neighbors came down and told us we should get out because the uh -- the alarms were going out and they tested positive for carbon monoxide. >> when firefighters tested for carbon monoxide the readings were negative, but the home's co alarm was emitting a steady beeping sound. >> they said it was goi

can't you just see the carbon tax? here it comes.any this wednesday morning right before thanksgiving. we give thanks for this company. andrea tantaros is here, co-host of five on the fox news channel. and a real estate mogul is also with us. and nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. let's check the big board. wednesday before thanksgiving. not much volume, virtually none. the dow is up a mere 42 points, but back above 12,800. here's the big story this day before thanksgiving. the big story is the unions. they are exerting maximum pressure on travel and shopping during this thanksgiving week. first to the airports, 1,000 union workers planning to march on los angeles international airport. that could tie up traffic, make it difficult to get to the airport. the problem there at the moment is fog, as you can see. similar situation at o'hare in chicago. angry union workers planning a protest there could be some disruption. wal-mart workers, threatening something similar on friday. huge shopping day, workers say

no carbon-monoxide detectors went off. but it is interesting, hotels were given an extension until january 1st of next year so had they been in place, firefighters may have been able to figure out this problem much sooner. firefighters were called out to the embassy suite. they called out hazmat and found high levels of carbon month objection period. they evacuated the building and traced the like to a faulty boiler. >> they were checking the levels and the levels were too high so they were not letting us in until just now so they kept everybody out for about four hours. >> there were a few people in their hoboken and it was -- robes and it was pretty interesting. >> a lot of them headed out to the restaurant. >> what are you going to do? >> well, i will hang out until we decide whether they will let us in and again they were just allowed back in and firefighters tell us they were actually here around 6:30 and they transported a man to the hospital and we don't know if indeed his illness was carbon month objection period p

fire officials say the carbon monoxide detector likely saved their lives. >> carbon monoxide detectors are very important because it's odorless. you can't smell it. and you won't know it until you start getting signs like a headache or something like that when you're already exposed to it so it's very important to have one in your house. >> starting last year state law requires any home with an attached garage to have co2 detectors. multi-unit buildings have until january 1st to comply. >>> the hospital that treated bryan stow for months after he was brutally beaten outside the stadium last year wants the dodgers to pay up. san francisco general hospital is suing the dodgers for more than $1 million in reimbursement for the brain trauma care provided to stow. the hospital lawsuit comes after stow's family filed their own suit against the team and its former owner in u.s. bankruptcy court. the case could set a new precedent for whether sports teams can be held accountable for third party actions at their events. >>> well, you'll feel it if you walk out the door, temperatures certainly d

basically if you look at the temperature affects of carbon dioxide right now i would suspect that if we go to the end of this century you will see a warming but it's going to be a lot less than people think probably about i would say one point six degrees over the course of the twenty first century that's not in consequential but it's also not the end of the world and people are going to adapt to it ok adaption here and i mean ok richard please can i come in here yeah well power patrick and what have you right in saying you're talking about an effect from c o two a low. one point six degrees you say about the effect of c o two alone no no no no that. no no our climate models have an interesting characteristic that people on television are told about which is the ones for the emissions scenario that we are on tend to be a constant rates of warming in other words once a warming rate is established that rate is maintained that rate has been established and it turns out feet it's not nearly as high as the mid range estimates from those models that's in the model here and all that's in th

let's solve this. >>> carbon. this election all comes down to carbon. president obama hates carbon and is committed to electric batteries and carbon. these two fuels are obama's path to national energy self-sufficiency. romney, he doesn't care how green the fuel is. he just wants north america to be energy self-sufficient no matter what. and embraces american and canadian fossil fuels as a way to get there. i have searched endlessly for economic issues that the president has direct control over, meaning you can buy them, bingo, as soon as you find out who wins tomorrow night. given the fiscal crisis in our country, i don't believe that a president can have much say over a huge budget decision anymore. things are complex. things are too limited. i don't see individual companies benefiting from taking the direction of a fractured congress. i also think there can be no huge shift in tax policy under romney as long as congress remains gridlocked, which seems to be the most likely outcome regardless of who takes the house. if it's possible that governor romn

and he didn't get any carbon monoxide readings in either case. firefighters came out here about 7:00 last night on cortland street in the bernal heights neighborhood in san francisco. a total of 14 people had to be transported to the hospital after being exposed to the colorless, odorless gas. firefighters say those patients did have carbon monoxide in their blood stream. a pg&e representative here on scene responded and was not able to figure out where the gas was coming from. one neighbor told us this carbon monoxide scare actually forced her to evacuate. >> we got a knock on the door from our neighbors and they told us that there's like carbon monoxide leak upstairs. they told us to come out of the house. when we got out, there was a fire truck and ambulances up and down the street. they took the whole families to the hospital. >> reporter: i just checked in a couple of hours ago with the san francisco fire department dispatch center. i asked how the family members are doing. i wasn't able to get an update on their current conditions at the ho

new at 11:00, a carbon monoxide scare. nearly a dozen people including toddlers got sick after they were exposed to the gas that is called the silent killer. they may owe their lives to safety equipment some of us may not yet have in our homes. monty francis has the latest from the scene. they got very lucky. >> reporter: that's right. a utility crew is on the scene searching for the source of the carbon monoxide that sickened 11 people. all are member of the same family. they were having a family gathering earlier tonight. members called 911 at 7:00 after a car robert moncrief knox side de detector went off in the home. several family members kpain complained of headaches and sore throats. fire crews arrived and used monitors to test the home and found no high levels. they pick picked the family members fingers and found high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood. there should be a cautionary tale and stress the importance of having a co detecter in your home. >> carbon monoxide detectors are important because it is od

but the home didn't have a carbon monoxide protector. butting the home at risk. >> colorless, odorless. you could be in the room and you would never be aware of it till you saw systems. >> single family homes and two unit buildings are required to have carbon monoxide detectors. starting january 1 that includes all san francisco apartment buildings. carbon monoxide detectors do not take the place of smoke detectors and every home should have both. >>> if you are planning to buy a tesla model s get your order in because the price is going up. right now it is $57,000. in a month that will bump up to $59,000. that increase is 4.5% but it won't apply to any cars already ordered or ordered by december 31. >>> getting in the game. powerball is coming to california. why some people say it is a bad bet. >> a woman attacked in her apartment over night, why police think it could be connected to three other cases. >>> complete bay area news coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00 p.m. >> a grad student wakes up to a horaif

. >> this is carbon monoxide awareness week. working to make us aware simple dedoctors can save lives. >> and fire departments are banding together to prevent casualtis. >> idea is education is paramount to saving lives. and operation save a live teams up with fire departments in oakland, san francisco and santa clara counties. and and are donated. these alarms last a decade it has a lithium battery lasting 10 years. never needs to be replaced for the life of the alarm. >> carbon monoxide odorless and inadvise yichblt causing 500 people to be evacuated from embassy suites this morning. monday, this week, abc 7 launched a carbon monoxide awareness week focusing on fire department and co awareness. >> help is available. >> sometimes, people will take them down. because maybe they're too close to a kitchen so. we give advice on where they can locate them. and won't be a nuisance alarm. >> during course of operation 7 save a live, 3300 smoke and carbon monoxide alarms will be given out for free f you're not either of those keep in m

we could lessen our carbon footprint and talk about better energy use. that's perfect for us. that's what we're going to ask this challenge to present for our next improve sf challenge for the city. and that's what we'd like to engage people in. and then hopefully, some time after this challenge is announced, and if we can get the best ideas out there, we will be engaged with you to select the best answer. and if there's an idea out there that can answer that question about how to inspire people, then hopefully wq can go into november a hack-athon sponsored by green biz and others to develop an app that everyone can use. that's a great challenge. that's going to be so worthy of contributing to a goal that we've had about reducing our carbon footprint as a city. it's not just the households. once we get that data out we could look at the data from a community.re level and look at e data from a citywide level to see what we can do. i'm encouraged by that. i didn't want to give my data up to pg&e for various reasons. now iú] want to give it up for this challenge because i know pe

, we checked the residence with our air monitors and we found no sign of carbon monoxide. however, we checked the residence and they had showed signs of carbon monoxide on them. >> the battalion chief said most of the victims suffered only minor exposure. they checked the house and could not find the source of the carbon monoxide. >>> violent clashes continue in egypt between supporters and critics of the recently elected president. security officials say a teenager was killed and dozens more were injured in dominor yesterday when protesters tried to storm officers. the protest began over president morsi's vision to give himself unprecedented powers. morsi contends his decree is temporary. >>> when office holders get their paychecks next month, they'll find them smaller. top officials from governor brown and 120 members of the state legislature will be getting a 5% pay cut. the pay cut is minimal compared to the cuts she took when she left san francisco for the the state job. she will earn $100,000 less than her san francisco attorney's job, gascon. but money isn't the peo

at least 11 people have been sent to the hospital following suspected carbon monoxide exposure. it happened in the bernal heights neighborhood. jade hernandez is live at the scene. >> reporter: we just heard from the battalion chief and told us many of those sent to the hospital have just been released. that's within the last few minutes. a gas representative is still checking all of the apartments in that duplex right behind me with the lights off. now the san francisco fire department says 11 people were transported to the hospital after the adults, there were eight adults, three children registered for high levels of carbon monoxide in their bloodstream. now a dispatcher received the call about 7:00 after hearing a carbon monoxide alarm sounding. >> basically we got a knock on the door from our neighbors and told us there was a carbon monoxide leak in the house. when we got out there was a fire truck and a lot of ambulances up and down the street. >> reporter: now some symptoms of the carbon monoxide poisoning, some of the residents had headaches and scratchy throughouts. the

that will take a lot of carbon out of the atmosphere. we doubled the production of clean energy, which promises to reduce the utilization of fossil fuels for power generation. and we continue to invest in potential break-through technologies that could further remove carbon from our atmosphere. but we haven't done as much as we need to. so what i'm going to be doing over the next several weeks next several months is having a conversation, a wide-ranging conversation with scientists, engineers, elect engineers, elected officials to find out what more can we do to make short-term progress in reducing carbons. and then, you know, working through an education process that i think is necessary as discussion, a conversation across the country about what realistically can we do long term to make sure that this is not something we're passing on to future again rations that is expensive and difficult to deal with. i don't know what democrats or republicans are prepared to do at this point. this is not a partisan issue. there are regional issues.

san francisco firefighters say the family had a working carbon monoxide detector in the home. but the family told firefighters they had heard the de ect iter beep -- the detector beeping and they thought it was a low battery. firefighters and medical technicians are helping a mother and her small children into an ambulance on court land avenue in -- vernal heights. firefighters and several ambulances were called at 7:00 p.m. after receiving calls of people feeling faint possibly due of carbon monoxide poisoning. >> they did have co readings in their system. we have 11 patients being transported for further observation. >> people transported are family members and friends visiting from the thanksgiving holiday. she was visiting in the lower unit when the firefighters arrived. >> the neighbors came down and told us we should get out because the uh -- the alarms were going out and they tested positive for carbon monoxide. >> when firefighters tested for carbon monoxide the readings were negative, but the home's co alarm was emitting a steady beeping sound. >> they said it was goi

fire officials say the carbon monoxide detector likely saved their lives. >> carbon monoxide detectors are very important because it's odorless and you can't smell it. you won't know it until you start getting signs like a headache or something like that. it is very important to have one in your house. >> starting last year, state law requires any home with an attached garage to have co detecto detectors. >>> a deadly weekend on california roadways claimed 27 lives, including six people from the bay area. one of those deadly crashes happened saturday night on highway 50 near placerville. when a driver of a prius slammed into a minivan. three members in the prius died. a 4-year-old placerville van were killed. five others were injured in the crash. investigators are looking into the cause. >> an investigation leading into the impairment of that driver. >> the witnesses say the cause may have been a deer. they are often seen in the area and drivers are forced to swerve to avoid them. >>> in the meantime, police are looking for someone who hit and killed a woman sunday night walking north

>>reporter: carbon monoxide can be a silent killer. odorless invisible that caused 500 people evacuate from the embassy suite in burlingame this morning. it could have been much worse. >> on monday of this week we lunched the carbon monoxide awareness week by airing the series of of stories focusing on fire safety and awareness. >>reporter: you pulled the battery from the alarm, help is vaibling. >> sometimes people will take them down tl because maybe they sound or too close to kitchen or something like that. so we give them advice open where they can locate them. while still protecting the area of the residence and at the same time won't be a nuisance alarm for them. >>reporter: during the course of operation 7 save a life 3300 smoke and carbon monoxide alarm given to needy and seniors. this life saving device cost 20 to 40 dollars. in oakland, 7 news. >>> if you would like more information on operation 7 save a life go to our web site and look under see it on tv. tips on protecting your family and your home. it's not can i to do and

. >>> in overnight news, a carbon- monoxide poisoning scare sent 14 people to the hospital and thereill a search as to where it came from. alex savage has more on how they are trying to figure this out. >> reporter: pell a pg&e spokesperson said one of their representatives was here until late -- well, a spokesperson from pg&e said one of their representatives was here until late last night and tested and did not get any carbon-monoxide readings in any case so the source is unclear this morning. though a total of 14 people were transported to the hospital after being exposed to the colorless odorless gas. they were sent to this house and firefighters checked out the family members and they say they had some carbon-monoxide in their bloodstream. a pg&e spokesperson came to the house but was not able to figure out where the carbon- monoxide gas came from and we spoke to a neighbor who was concerned about family members. >> we are okay and a few people had to be sent to the hospital and we are okay but i don't know about the family right now. >> reporter: i just checked in with the san