crosby was against that. so the information was changed. >> there's definitely influence going on. >> reporter: mike runs any' ac e water firm in pittsburgh. we asked him to look through presentations, city e-mails and public documents, then give his professional opinion. overall, do you believe that information was withheld that could have affected decision-making by the retirement board? >> the information on slide six ldderom the s dwihe december presentation. >> reporter: this is the original slide six. prt here's what was actually it would have been better to have both the prior and the current table side by side. >> reporter: and chiron agreed. after crosby asked if both tables were needed chiron's ceo replied yes. chiron asked him to reconsider, so he did. the presentation was changed. >> i've been at this over 30 years. >> reporter: gene is the ceo of chiron. did anyone with the city ever ask you to change or delete slides from your realization? >> no. we've had little -- when you say city do you incl

and tonight, pittsburgh and sydney crosby helping the caps call the buffalo.crosby scores. a goal and three assists tonight. 2-1 pittsburgh. crosby at it again. back hand pass. gets messy after that. but, it gets in the net. past miller and the penguins hang on to beat buffalo 0-3. caps back in the play offs for now. >> a little mls action for you. let's head over to rfk stadium. no score, first half. united on the run. sap chez not done yet. look at this cross. beautiful header right in the net. his first two goals of the year matching a season total for all of last season. united wins 4-1 and host seattle next saturday. >> he can elevate you know that? >> he[ male announcer ]now that? this was how my day began. got my bearings. ♪ a little bird told me about a band. ♪ an old man shared some fish stories. ♪ ooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but i still got to see her. we talked for hours. ♪ everyone else buzzed about the band. music, stories, adventures, memories. ♪ ...all at my fingertips. ♪ there's a wireless mind inside all of us. ♪ so, where to next? ♪ >>

>>> coming up, a rematch, scary moment for sydney crosby and derek fisher returns to l.a. you're watching "early today" o. >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. the house passed a $3.5 trillion republican budget mranl yesterday, largely along party lines. it would drastically change medicare and create only two income brackets. there's no chance of it passing the senate. >>> congressman paul ryan of wisconsin who wrote the budget plan is expected to endorse mitt romney for president today. former president george h.w. bush gave romney his endorsement yesterday. >>> the lawyer for andrea yates, the texas mother who drowned her five children in june 2001 is asked she be allowed a weekly two-hour pass to go to church. in a 2006 retrial, yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital. but her attorney says she is ready to rejoin society and live on her own. >>> canada will stop making pennies this year to save money. the copper-coated coins actually cost 1.6

i remember him saying, i can't breathe. >> emergency responders arrive four minutes after crosby and denton. >> everybody just started doing their job as far as taking care of the accident scene, ems was taking care of sean. it was so hot, the car fire was so hot and the smoke was so much, i remember having to back off because i couldn't breathe. >> they're able to get the blaze under control in just a few minutes. the officers are treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns, but it's sean whose life hangs in the balance. after numerous skin grafts and more than ten surgeries sean barnes wakes up from a chemically induced coma three months later to find that his life is forever changed. >> my mom was sitting there beside me in the hospital room, and she explained to me that i'd been in a bad wreck. came down to between me or the legs. >> sean remembers nothing about the accident. only that it was preceded by a night of heavy drinking with friends. >> i remember being dropped off at my apartment by a designated driver. somewhere in there, i don't remember actually leaving, but i did.

sidney crosby back on the ice for the first sim since december 5th. taking on the rangers. pittsburgh has remained one of the nhl's hottest teams thank to evgeni malkin. 2-1, penguins. crosby, 16 minutes of ice time. working his magic behind the net. plus three for the pens. when he was on the ice. well done for the 24-year-old. when healthy, the best play nor the world. later in the third, kris letang. also coming back from an injury. on the ice for all five pittsburgh goals. including that one from pascal dupuis. they have won ten in a row, the penguins. >>> thunder and the nuggets in the nba. the mile-high city. kevin durant. the steal. the score. he had 20 points. counts, and the foul. the nuggets trying to fight back. danilo gallinari, missed quite a bit of time this year with the injury. denver, 6-2 since the all-star break, down three. too much from k.d. wow, one more look. that's why he's the nba's back-to-back scoring champion. thunder now up nine. durant. more work. russell westbrook. part of the dynamic duo in oklahoma city. he had 23. thunder roll to an easy win

. >>> coming up, an nba finals rematch, a scary moment for sidney crosby, and derek fisher returns to l.a. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice? when you pour chunky beef with country vegetables soup over it... you can do dinner. four minutes, around four bucks. campbell's chunky. it's amazing what soup can do. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's... ... and mix a little more hop in our hip-hop. with the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles ... you'll want to get up and go. >>> welcome back to "first look." i'm lynn berry and here are some of the top stories making news this morning. the house passed a $3.5 trillion republican budget plan yesterday, largely along party lines. it would drastically change medicare and create only two income tax brackets, but there is no chance of it ever passing the democratically controlled senate. >>> congressman paul ryan of wisconsin, who wrote that budget plan, is expected to endorse mitt romney for president

me, quest and bing crosby. >> jimmy: bing crosby. >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] > drove a white van. [ laughter ] he double parked that white van everywhere. it's like -- everybody -- he sold fish out of the back before he played for the cowboys. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: everyone knew that. [ laughter ] >> he had porgies, flounder -- [ laughter ] yeah, my grandfather bought a lot of fish from him. [ laughter ] cause on fridays, we always had fish and spaghetti. >> jimmy: yeah. that's the thing you have. >> he made some hot spaghetti. he put -- he put that tabasco, that hot stuff in there. >> jimmy: fra diavolo. >> yeah. >> jimmy: now, the big game's coming up. >> you don't like fish and spaghetti? [ laughter ] you changed that subject quick. >> jimmy: no, well i -- i do. >> the big game is coming up. >> jimmy: the big game is coming up sunday. [ laughter ] >> yeah. >> jimmy: you got tom brady in the house. have you -- you've met tom brady before. >> i grew up with tom brady. [ laughter ] we was both in special ed school together. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ]

they'd been reading the meter of the neighbor and billing the crosbies. company promised to take care of this. so end of the story? not quite. >> they sent threatening qlerts of nonpayment, we're going to shut water off. and... they did nothing to fix the bill oogt family refused to pay the whole thing until the despite could be settled. in july the family received a final notice n december, last year, the water to the home was shut off. ironic. the home sits along the ocean. that is when they called 7 on your side and we contacted california american water. california american water said when it discovered it had been reading the wrong meter it moved to fix the error, quote, we inputted information and reversed accounts again, there was a human error on our part. and we apologize for that and have corrected it. the family has been credited. >> we love you, p on your side! >> and there is california american water tells us it's been reading the wrong meter since 2004. and pikes were caused by a leak in the neighbor's water pipes. >> oh, my goodness. >> th

patrick for james neil, sydney crosby for four assists. the pens won big, 8-4. nfl, steeler's wide receiver and dancing with the stars champ hines ward announced his retirement yesterday. he won two super bowls and played his entire 14-year career in pittsburgh. peyton manning finalized a five-year, $96 million deal. denver is out to win the super bowl jump from 75 to 1 to 8 to 1 overnight. >>> brittany became the second woman to dunk in an ncaa tournament game. one-handed jam cam and it's one girl you don't want to play in a game of horse. that's your early look at sports, i'm fred roggin. >> why ninja turtle fans are up in arms. which super model is having a baby and guess who's turning 50? plus, it's not for the faint of heart, but, apparently, it is for certain folks over 100 years old. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." two weather stories out there today. we've been watching the really significant flooding in louisiana. that's going to continue for the morning hours. watch out for thunderstorms around new orleans. we're watch

no points today for sidney crosby. >>> and we've got more hockey tonight on the nbc sports network. good matchup in chicago between the hawks and the caps. ovechkin and his mates holding on to the eighth and final playoff spot. right now a big game tonight over on the nbc sports network. >>> that's it. back to florida now. more final round coverage of the transitions championship. >> this has been the u.s. bank nbc sports report. u.s. bank, all of us serving you. >>> sang-moon bae, the only one of the four playoff contenders, without a pga tour win heading back to the tee at 18 to meet luke donald and company. in the meantime we show you how this four-man playoff was determined. jim furyk began with the lead with retief goosen and this is how he started his day. his third at the par 5 1st. >> it was not an easy bunker shot, not much green to work with but furyk made it look pretty easy. >> he played even par golf from there to post the 13-under number. garrigus came from the farthest back. he had a long birdie at 17. he began the day five off furyk's lead. so a birdie at 17. and the

no points today for sidney crosby. >>> and we've got more hockey tonight on the nbc sports network. good matchup in chicago between the hawks and the caps. ovechkin and his mates holding on to the eighth and final playoff spot. right now a big game tonight over on the nbc sports network. >>> that's it. back to florida now. more final round coverage of the transitions championship. >> this has been the u.s. bank nbc sports report. u.s. bank, all of us serving you. >>> sang-moon bae, the only one of the four playoff contenders, without a pga tour win heading back to the tee at 18 to meet luke donald and company. in the meantime we show you how this four-man playoff was determined. jim furyk began with the lead with retief goosen and this is how he started his day. his third at the par 5 1st. >> it was not an easy bunker shot, not much green to work with but furyk made it look pretty easy. >> he played even par golf from there to post the 13-under number. garrigus came from the farthest back. he had a long birdie at 17. he began the day five off furyk's lead. so a birdie at 17. and the

sidney crosby, four assists. the kid has nine points in four games since coming back from a concussion. the pens won big, 8-4. >>> steelers wide receiver and "dancing with the stars" champ hines ward announced his retirement yesterday. he won four super bowls and played his entire 14-year career in pittsburgh. >>> peyton manning finalized the five-year $96 million deal. the move is making ways in vegas. denver's odds to win the super bowl jumped overnight. >>> finally back to basketball. baylor's brit nye greiner's became the second woman to dunk in an ncaa game. it came in a win against florida. one girl you don't want to play in a game of h.o.r.s.e. i'm fred roggin. >>> why ninja turtle fans are up in arms. which supermodel is having a baby? >>> guess who is turning 50. early entertainment headlines next. >>> it's not for the faint of heart but it is for certain folks over 100 years old. you're watching "early today." >>> well, welcome back to "early today." as far as weather, bring the umbrella from portland t

and never tuesday crosby can catch a break as if severing all concussions wasn't enough he is in the nose of a pop but if you can believe he did needed stitches and the number one relishes his pregame speech to stanford. yet to show them that i'm a different creature. >>> there was five minutes ago. >>>

crosby has missed a lot of times.had a concussion last season and concussion symptoms last season. this could not help. he was bloodied but did return for really the biggest star in the nhl. the isles did beat the pens. good to see crosby back on the ice. the nhl needs him. fans want to see him on the ice. >> absolutely. >> clearly, the buckeyes are the team for her. >> yes. go buckeyes. >> ok. >>> and good morning to you. i'm carol costello. just ahead in "cnn newsroom," 13 hours and counting. the $540 million jackpot. tickets are selling at a record rate, meaning the prize could grow even more before the drawing. >>> plus, new video from inside an indiana school bus that was picked up and thrown across eye parking lot into a building during a tornado. coming up later, hear the frantic bus driver making sure everyone is ok. >>> and the teams hit the hardwood today for a final practice before the semifinals tomorrow, but the obama administration has a stern warning for teams focusing on just the court and not the cl s

it was a former burlesque venue, it was owned by bing crosby, and herb caen was a regular. i will be pursuing that. and also, another issue that i think relates directly to this, i plan to work with the planning department on that, it is a moratorium on converting non- retail uses in the current center downtown conservation district. this district was established in 1985 to protect and preserve established theater, retail restaurants, and other uses in this important section of downtown. over the years, local businesses and entertainment venues have been displaced by national retail chains. more are threatened today. the theater district comprises the section of the district that is west, 2 mason st.. it is one of the city's last live entertainment venues, to be replaced by an escalator for yet another non-local retailer with intent to occupy 301 gary. we are losing our downtown and cultural, social heritage. the 18 month moratorium will give us an opportunity for comparative analysis of this district against what we see before us today. intelligent choices can be made to p

there are people like alex and david crosby, and joni mitchell, who tune differently to spur creativity to play around. there is a great sense of play in that. most of your pieces are in non- standard to make. among those, there are even some standard ones and you do not use those. >> you bring up an interesting point. a lot of times, musicians use these alternate to earnings as a way to escape what we know. sometimes we get trapped. i know that is a c sharp minor court, that is a b flat. where would i go from there? instead of listening to the experience, and the image, the mood, feeling of what you're trying to convey. sometimes, they bump up against each other. when you are doing a good job as a composer, improviser, you are sticking with the image, not bring about what the court is. >> one of the things that i get from your music is a strong sense of place and imagery. when i listen to your music and close my eyes, i see pictures of different things. a lot of people that i have talked to that have heard your music experienced the same thing. what has been said about japanese ink art

hat rick for james neal, sidney crosby for assists, the kid has nine points in four games since comingk from a concussion, the pens won big, 8-4. >>> "dancing with the stars" champ hines ward announced his retirement, he won two super bowls and played his entire 14-year career in pittsburgh. >>> peyton manning introduced as the new quarterback of the broncos, finalizing the five-year, $96 million deal. denver's odds to win the super bowl to 75-1, to 8-1 overnight. britney greiner throwing it down became the second woman to dunk in an ncaa tournament game. one-handed jam came in a blowout win in florida. >>> that's your first look at sports, i'm fred roggin. >>> awesome. for another look at the weather, here's nbc meteorologist with the weather channel forecast. everybody is saying if you get the forecast wrong, you must dye your hair pink. so pay close attention. >> it wouldn't be that exciting. it's not that long. >> you with pink hair would be very exciting. >> we'll see. yesterday incredible around buffalo, buffalo being 80 degrees, in the middle to end of march is just unheard of.

they uncovered a photo of the girls on bing crosby's lap. >> it's more of seeing these artifacts of this incredible history. the millers, as i've come to know them, i think they were neat people. >> pattie and joan miller. they've got a lot of leads since releasing the photos but have yet to locate family members. >>> a man pled guilty to dui charges in the hit and run case. he hit ryan white and a woman with his truck last august in san francisco. white and his family were visiting from philadelphia. they had just left a giants-phillies game when the boy was hit. vargas fled the scene, drove to his apartment in hayward. police were waiting outside of the home and he tried to flee again. he'll get credit for time he's already served in jail and could be released as early as june. >> this has been hard for everybody. for them. for us. >> ryan white is now ten. he recently started going back to school. he is said to be better but is far from being 100% recovered. >>> jury selection in the trial is moving forward. but several major pretrial issues remain undecided. today the da's office res

if everyone was raised by two qualified caring parents, but all families aren't the waltons or the crosbys, but i have known so many cases where a great mom raised great kids and oppositely two parents with so many issues their kids turned out warped. everything is an absolutely individual case. then we heard from jg who claims to have been raised by a single parent in wisconsin and they are not nearly so nice about this. i want to know what makes him think he has the right to impose his opinions on others with how he raises children and how the children of single parents, which i am living proof and have been successful. each of my siblings have gone on to productive and successful lives. i will not say it's easy. raising children is not easy regardless of one or two parents. i think both of you have said it all, but in case you missed a spot our address is mailbag at wusa9.com and don't forget to include your name and where you're from. that is our report. i'll be right back here at 11:00 alongside anita brikman and long on any time you like to www.wusa9.com. we'll have the latest on thi

johnnycake road and crosby road and traveling in wood lawn forest park has -- i-95 south of mountain road 95 looking pretty good for the most part. all the way on the stretch down to the top side of 695. once you get to the top side of 695 this is what you will encounter fobbingy conditions a live look at 695 and providence road. fog limiting visibility to be safe and slow it down on friday morning drive. now let's check the forecast and we will send it over to lynette charles. >> reporter: good -- >> good morning. i feel like i am in groundhog day where the weather repeats itself over and over because we have the foggy conditions once again this morning and dense fog and we have a dense fog advisory until 10 for harford county and baltimore county and into the city. and also in frederick county and carroll county and howard county. so not as widespread as we were yesterday. but we still have patchy fog every where les along the eastern shore. three-mile visibility there four in dc. temperatures mild this morning and we are dealing with the muggy weather as well. 57 degrees in easton

is it possible to root for sidney crosby in this town. you better.here is sid the kid roasting buffalo on a friday night. a goal, three assists. pittsburgh beats buffalo. so your up-to-date standings, washington in 8th place. both buffalo and washington play tomorrow. coming down the stretch. wizards and 76ers. last night vastly won his jump shot in game 50. he does that better. dunks a lot better. martin stroking the pumpkin from deep. wizards win by 21. all right. let's talk about the nats. spring training. look at davie johnson doing a little teaching there and desmond doing a little hitting. my name is desmond. i kerry wood and i travel far. solo homerun. nats win 3-2. soccer action tonight. rare friday night for dc united. look at that. that head was made for knocking. dc united wins 4-1. all right. now we go down, drop it down to high school a little bit. 10,000 votes governing our coverage. lacrosse winning the poll and it's stone ridge at broad run. and let's check this out after the opening handshake. anybody going to cover mccloud. anybody?

next, we have simon crosby. he is an entrepreneur, who has just launched his latest company, and he might tell us a little bit about it. before that, almost just about a month ago, he was the cto of citrix systems. he got there by selling his last company to them. that company has developed some of the key virtualization technologies, which enable the cloud. he made a big contribution. thank you for that. last but definitely not least, we have jeanette tomlinson, the cto of our very own, dear city of santa francisco -- gina, and sen. she has had a very daunting task of taking the legacy infrastructure of the city and moving that to a professional data center. but also, setting up a virtual private cloud and making a foray into the public cloud. she offers a unique perspective as a large government user on cloud computing. she was also the cio of the san francisco municipal transport station at 40, and she was also managing clorox's data centers previously. thank you for being here. with so much brainpower and pr

attic came across a lot of pictures and things, and we had a special exhibit -- her name was nancy crosby, she died a couple, three years ago. we had a special exhibit of that. and in tribute to this observance today, we have put that exhibit up, and you'll see it on display there in the galle gallery. i hope you'll take a look at that. when i think of the korean war, i think very frequently of the words to me of brigadier general anna mae hayes, can chief of the army core and promoted to brigadier general. she served in world were ii in the china, burma india theater. but in the korean war she served in korea. she told me it was far more difficult, the service -- thall met in korea than what she encountered in world war ii. i only wish she could be with us today. and one of the nurses wrote quite an extensive little thing that talked about sort of like a diary about her service. and i want to quote very briefly from it, because i've always been very touched by it. on august 6 th we arrived in chung one at noon with five new nurses. a school is again our home, but we're 17 to a room. flee

bing crosby couldn't sing about -- ♪ pennies from heaven >> reporter: no penny loafers, no penny candythe sad truth? these days, a penny made is a penny wasted. as we discovered on a trip to the mint last year, a penny doesn't even buy a penny anymore. more than any other coin around here, they make pennies. and each one of these things costs about 1.8 cents to make. in other words, almost 2 cents to make a penny. and over the past year, it has gotten even more expensive. it now costs 2.4 cents to make a cent. and yet, just last year, the mint made 4.9 billion pennies. do the math. that's $118 million spent just to make $49 million worth of pennies. the only other coin we lose money by making is the nickel, which now costs 11 cents to make. but the penny has mighty defenders. there's a group called "americans for common cents," funded by the mining company with a monopoly on selling the zinc now used to make pennies. and honest abe. as the lincoln library told us, they'll fight for the lincoln penny, right down to the last cent. so, chances are, no matter how little it buys, or how muc

they mingled with the likes of bing crosby. and performed on the hoffman hayride. friends of the twins take comfort knowing they left this life together, just has they began it. >> they were always together. i never saw them by themselves, when i come to think about it. they were always, both of them, were -- it was clear that the two of them were quite close and enjoyed each other's company. and didn't feel like they needed anybody else in their world. >>> a federal judge wants injured giants fan bryan stow and the los angeles dodgers to settle. his attorneys want at least 50 million for stow's long-term care. and they filed a civil lawsuit and a suit in bankruptcy court against the dodgers, as well. the civil case is on hold now. but attorneys for the team are asking bankruptcy judge kevin gross to throw out the claims. he did not make a ruling today. he put off a decision until march 21st. >> this comes after nbc bay area's investigative unit revealed the mayor may have used an exaggerated number to sell his pension reform. this morning in sacramento, legislator

in crosby road, we have an accident in catonsville. disregard the spelling.ill road in westminster, another accident location. a gas main break blocking the northbound side of philadelphia road and old joppa road. that will set you back a few minutes if you normally take northbound philadelphia road. take pulaski highway. this is 83 at york road. fog is an issue on the harrisburg expressway. this is 97 at 100. fog not as heavy. traffic looking very good at this hour. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. for that we go to kurt kronke of the mta system. good morning. >> we're off to a great start this morning on the marc trains. no delays on the penn, camden, and brunswick lines. light rail and metro subway on time. a diversion at ford and lawrence. guaranteed or home will arrange for a free ride home when personal emergencies occur. you can call for more information. i'm kurt kronke. now back to john collins. >> good morning. we have a little less foggy conditions than yesterday. there's a 90-minute dela

bing crosby's restaurant shut down on new year's eve. a restaurant called corners' tavern plans to open. >>> castle rock state park will be able to stay open because of a big donation. a group is giving $250,000 to keep it open for one year. it was one of 70 parks slate toddles save the state $22 million. >>> officials approved a shuttle service around north shore. they hope to have it running between tahoe city and king's beach. it will cost $22.50 a ride. enjoyed to try it out and if it works have a water taxi. backers think it could help their bid for the winter olympics. >>> we are on storm watch today. it has been a couple days. not a single person complained to me. >> we need the rain. this weather system today stalled out over the bay area. if this was last year, we would have a lot of flooding. but this year the ground hasn't reached saturation. the santa cruz mountains 9 inches of rain over the last couple of days. coastal hills, they have seen 8- 9 inches of rain in some places. the rest of us 2-3 inches. a very productive stor

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young they were regulars on this show the hoffman hayride and had entertained the troops with bin crosbyrities. >>> the search of an elderly man missing in san francisco. plus coyotes in san francisco and why some say there's no need for concern. >>> back here in 10 minutes, the winds die down and it gets downright cold in your neighborhood. there's going to be frost tomorrow morning and freezing temperatures. >>> fears that a sunken ship might add more pollution to a port that is already polluted. (laughter) sorry i'm late, i was in the 16th century looking for pete's pen. (laughter) guys, guys. take it easy, ok? pete's mom is videochatting me, and she wants her pen back! ok, alright, well. i just got one. so... yeah, you've got a little... yep, i can feel the wet patch. don't look at it. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. (car horn) paying with your smartphone instead of cash... (phone rings) that's a step forward. with chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyone's checking account. i guess he's a kicker... again, again! oh, no you don't! take a step forward and chase what

they got help from sidney crosby of all people. pittsburgh beat buffalo 5-3. buffalo's loss means the caps currently hold the eighth and final playoff spot in the eastern conference. that's your sports in a minute have a great day. >> amber, thank you. >>> time, four minutes away from the half hour. district announced schools have permits to grow medical marijuana. where the drug may be sold and what residents think of new neighbors. >>> how would you expect to be compensated if your pilot had a mental breakdown mid flight. jetblue just announced what it's jetblue[ male announcer ]at it's for the dreamers... and those well grounded. for what's around this corner... and the next. there's cash flow options from pnc. solutions to help businesses like yours accelerate receivables, manage payments, and help ensure access to credit. because we know how important cash flow is to reaching your goals. pnc bank. for the achiever in you. >>> welcome to "news 4 today. >> here is a look at top stories we're following this morning. someone in maryland is a mega millionaire.

they toured in the uso with bing crosby and other celebrities. >>> the effort today here in san franciscoo re-create an iconic movie scene, and when you can see the final product. >>> bill martin tracking freezing temperatures tonight. but what about the rest of the week? he's back with a complete bay area forecast in a moment. >>> in a story you'll see only on 2, we learned how the solar storm that will hit earth around 4:00 tomorrow morning is part of a more expensive problem than originally thought. over the next day or so energized particles from the sun will create auroras. the solar storm will likely contribute to expensive damage to our power grid. >> economic loss due to events like this, just normal events is about $5 billion a year. >> while solar storms rarely cause major power outages, they do cause numerous small power disruptions that add up over time. the sun is in an active 11 year cycle with more solar storms expected to come in years to come. >>> the fda has sent the makers of arrow shot caffeine inhalers a warning letter saying inhalable caffeine are false and misleadin

a lawsuit was served against russell crosby and mike moehle. they allege the retirement board paid an independent consultant for a report on future retirement costs that used outdated and inaccurate information. the report they say produced a dollar figure of 431 million by 2015. a number used when negotiating pension reform with unions. a lawsuit claims this report had no benefit to the retirement board, so it was a prepare of fiduciary duty to request and pay for it. >> the defendants in this lawsuit had one of the service providers to these pension plans perform services which had nothing to do with administering the plan and only had to do with supporting an outside political agenda. >> in a prior interview with nbc bay area, he requested the report on behalf of the city manager's office, he told us the numbers were accurate with the data that was available at the time. >> if you have any story ideas we want to hear from you. call us at 888-996-tips. >>> san francisco struck a deal with the nation's largest department store chain today. mac