it's called hexavalent chromium or chromium 6. and it was made famous in the legal case that was dramatized in the movie erin brockovich. chromium 6 is a heavy metal that gets into the ground water natural or by leaks from hazardous waist sites. it can cause cancer when inhaled or as seen with lab animals when ingested in drinking water. today the state of california set a level at which chromium six does not pose a health risk 0.02 parts per million. city water in san jose is 67 times as much so what's next? well, the state department of public health now needs to set a standard as close to the public health goal as possible. it could take up to two years. state official need to figure out if it's possible and if we can afford it. >> should people drink bottled water in the meantime? >> reporter: i think it's safe. i think it would be safer if we got rid it. that's the bottom line. it's so important to good health to drink water and i'm not telling people don't drink it. we are drinking day. it's there in different parts of the s

they settled an a level for chromium in drinking water. with the new standards for every million people who drink tap water is there is likely to be one case of cancer. the danger in water were 1licized in aaron brock ovich. >>> police towed cars away from streets by uc san francisco. there are problem trees, this is video we took earlier today. police say heavy wind and rain may cause the trees to become weak and fall on homes or cars. many neighbors oppose tree clearing say it will do more harm than good. >>> dense fog we saw in that video from san francisco this morning. here is a live look. temperatures beginning to recover. mr. thereis fog in san francisco right now, 60 degrees. latest on fog tracker, low clouds from the beach towards san francisco, ocean beach, golden gate park. breaking up closer to pacifica but more low cloud cover down to the south. forecast headlines for today, thursday, fog, once again, another round of fog tomorrow morning. the weekend we will stick with that theme, here is a look at the current numbers. you ca

billion gallons of khowst slurry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic marjorie chromium and there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in the sludge there is a lake of the sioux point eight billion gallons of coast guard sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards up on top of a mountain. there's two hundred twenty eight people to the school and the sophistication of engineering that goes into the construction of the is a suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one hundred seventy two both a little creek there was this disaster where one of these impound it's basically blew out millions of gallons of this nasty sludge and water went barreling down a small holler and killed one hundred twenty five people just roll with it four thousand houses a thousand cars you know hundreds of people were injured. besides the danger of flooding while you know the residents are concerned about the health effects posed to school children from the cold processing facility located directly behind marsh fork elementary so it's three h

we did a back-painted shower where everything in this shower was chromium green. and -- yeah. >> nice. >> and including the floors. and so it's all back-painted glass. so you don't want to -- i mean, gosh, i could slip -- you could slide on a thing like that. and so it's this non--slip glass. >> i wanted to know what kind of glass is made of -- in tanks, where you can shoot through. >> the answer is it's a laminated glass. they're using a -- but instead of laminating it with a polyvinyl beautate, they're using their own product, which is a different kind of acrylic that they've got proprietary rights on, that is more gummy, it's something that they have formed there. but it's essentially like a sheet plastic, but of a different configuration, and extra clear, that they laminate between pieces of tempered glasses. those pieces in the tanks are about that thick. and they are slanted so that they can't see glare. and what we have to do in a tank, or -- on the inside, where you are shooting from, is you have to put a laminated piece of glass or plastic to the inside.

who, you know, who just jets around the world and puts up or would put up a 40 story building on a chromium dump along the turnpike extension in jersey city spirit and nobody ever questioned. >> and no one question. so he says if this guy is who he says he is and i can't find one reference to him on google, this is a meeting i'm going to take a pass. >> that's a long list. the higher-ups. >> the mayor of hoboken, 23 days in office. >> and he took more than he was even charged with spirit and also went back for more. >> correct. >> weight. that raises an issue i've always had about some of these things. he took cash, fedex envelopes, for his campaign. is that the same thing as taking it for your pocket? the deputy mayor of jersey city, the former for must wean who is now in her '70s, she took money but it was for the mayor's campaign of which she was the treasurer. to my way of thinking that's a little us venal than taking it to put in your bank account. >> doing "the jersey sting" we don't hold ourselves out as scholars of jewish law or a source of jewish law or federal criminal statutes, a