crude may be more flammable than conventional oil, and as more gets shipped via rail, will the focus return to building out pipelines? all that and more tonight on "nightly business report" for thursday, january 2nd. >>> good evening and happy new year everyone. well, a winter storm whipped through the northeast on this first business day of 2014 and on wall street stocks turned icy cold coming off a banner year. some say investors were booking profits after the runup and others are blaming a downgrade of apple for weakness in the tech sector that affected a range of other companies whatever the reasons, all ten ended lower and the first time in five years the first trading session of the new year ended to the downside. here is how the major averages closed. the dow tumbled 135 points, the s&p lost 16 points but gold rallied today after tumbling 28% in 2013, the worst annual decline in more than three decades. prices of the precious metal rose $23 an ounce today. crude prices fell ending at a five-week low at $95.44. >>> today may have been an ice patch. the 29% gain for example was

. >> small explosion had ensued, knocked over another flammable liquids cabinet which started a fire, also blew out some of the windows in the lab. >> sprinklers doused the fire. two employees were burned. firefighters say one was critically hurt. but in a statement, amgen says both workers' injuries were minor >>> cockroaches crawling on the slaughterhouse floor of a foster farms processing plants, that's when the feds -- what the feds say they found at the central valley facility. the plant completely shut down this morning. usda says they also found the insects in a handwashing sink and production tub. the outbreak has been going on for four months now. >> it's the same plant in livingston that was named in a salmonella outbreak last year that sickened 416 people. the feds allowed the plant to stay open then because foster farms proved they could control the contamination.

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a highly flammable frabbinged oil that the train was carrying. the national transportation safety board officials investigating the accident just released a report saying to keep accidents like this one from happening again, something has to change. or else major loss of life, property damage, and environmental consequences can occur. people from pittsburgh to vaneisha are fighting to keep companies from bringing in crude per day, including the very oil that fueled the explosion in canada. >> these three are like bombs on railroad tracks. >> railroad officials know the dangers and in november, the president of the association of american railroads suggested the industry build stronger tankers to cut down on accidents. >> we are recommending that all new tank cars designed to move flammable liquids be built to hire standards. >> today, the ntsb agreed and suggested that trains also develop new routes to avoid populated areas and do a better job of properly classifying hazardous cargo, or risk another catastrophic derailment. railroad industry offi

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canada border in july and explodes. 47 people die in an inferno created by the highly flammable fracked oil the train was carrying. the safety board officials investigating the accident just released a report saying to keep accidents like this one from happening again, something has to change. or else major loss of life and property damage and environmental consequences can occur. people from pittsburgh and others are fighting to keep this barrels coming in a day including this very oil that fueled the explosion in canada. >> these are like bombs on railroad tracks. >> reporter: railroad officials know the danger. in november, the president of the association of american railroads suggested the industry build stronger tankers to cut down on accidents. >> we are recommending that all new tank cars designed to move flammable liquids be built to higher standards. >> >> reporter: today, they suggested the train had new routes to avoid populated area and do a better job of classifying hazardous cargo. railroad officials say they are working with the feds on these recommendations. they releas

of course, it will be flammable. hence the knucklehead of the year award. >>> a dude fleeing police is faced with a bit of roadblock. >> there's a large school bus just ahead who tries to get around it? >> oh, no. >> how a tight squeeze got him busted. >>> and some lucky folks will get the amazing opportunity to -- >> lead the weenienermobile. >> find out how you can take a ride. >>> let's face it, there are no good goobers all over the planet, right up ahead in this police dash cam, driving that bmw is 20-year-old james poole is he is the no-good goober, in fact, reports say that he stole this bmw and his no-good goober friends are riding in the stolen vehicle with him. >> geez, he's getting really close to both lanes of traffic. >> you're right, he's slitting the lanes driving on very crowded and windy roads and the police tried to pull him over for reckless driving and when they turned the sirens on, he took off. it lasted eight miles of speeds of 90 miles per hour, put a lot of people's lives in danger but keep w

we need to do something to prevent the flammability of the products that we're sitting on.ardants are an excellent tool when used appropriately. >> sreenivasan: and hirschler says even though the overall number of home fires and fire- related deaths have gone down dramatically, due in part to new building codes, fire alarms, and fewer people smoking, upholstered furniture remains a fire hazard. >> we're killing over 600 people a year from fires caused by upholstered furniture. so we're killing a lot of people. the revision, that is a disaster, that is going to cause a lot more fire fatalities in fire incidents. >> sreenivasan: but not all who battle fire agree. retired san francisco firefighter tony stefani: >> my view of flame retardants is they are not necessary. >> sreenivasan: stefani is a survivor of a rare form of kidney cancer and president the san francisco firefighters cancer prevention foundation. >> when we go into a building on fire, we're faced with a real toxic mess. and these flame retardant chemicals cast both furan and dioxin which have been proven to cause

than heavy crude. >> transporting it in 100 tanker car trains is volatile and flammable and explosive. it is really dangerous business. >> reporter: diane bailey is with the defense council. she says the chemicals used for fracking is very toxic. >> benzine is associated with things like leukemia in children. >> reporter: we asked west pack's art about that. >> it is designed to be odorless and safe. >> there was a safety alert issued. how does that warning affect the environmental warning report? >> it has already been addressed. >> that particular alert? >> oh, well, um ... as i said, the environmental report already covers crude oils that include the quality of the crude oil. so it is not possible for that sort of thing to happen. >> reporter: but tell that to the residents of castleton north dakota and in the town in quebec. callie and susan are not buying it. >> we have this wonderful new marina district downtown. for them to bring a project like that so close to our home? no. >> we are be known as a town that stood up and didn't allow this to happen to begin with. >> reporter: i

federal investigators say the chemical the oil contains from the process make it even more flammablethan traditional heavy crude. >> transporting 50 and 100 tanker car trains of crude oil that is volatile and flammable and explosive is really dangerous business. >> they say the chemicals known to be used in fracking are also very toxic. >> benzene is a very powerful cancer-causing agent associated with all sorts of health impacts, particularly things like lieu chemo ma in children. >> we asked the company's representative about that. >> the facility is designed to silent, odorless and safe. >> a safety alert was just released about this. how does that impact the environmental report? >> it has already been addressed. >> that particular alert? >> oh, well, as i said, the environmental report already covers crude oil that include the quality of the crude oil. so it is not really possible for that sort of thing to happen. >> but tell that to the residents of north dakota. >> completely surrounded by homes. >> these two aren't buying it. >> we have this wonderful, new district down here,

in july and explodes. 47 people die in an inferno fueled by what's called bakken shale, a highly flammable fracked oil that the train was carrying. the national transportation safety board officials investigating the accident just released a report saying to keep accidents like this one from happening again, something has to change or else major loss of life, property damage and environmental consequences can occur. [ protesting ] >> reporter: people from pittsburg to benicia are fighting to keep companies from bringing in tens of thousands of barrels of crude per day including the very oil that fueled the explosion in canada. >> these trains are like bombs on railroad tracks. >> reporter: railroad officials know the dangers and in november the president of the association of american railroads suggested the industry build stronger tankers to cut down on accidents. >> we are recommending that all new tank cars designed to move flammable liquids be built to even higher standards. >> reporter: today, the ntsb agreed and suggested that trains also develop new routes to avoid populated areas a

involving bachen shale oil possibly could be because oil from this region is more combustible, more flammablen traditional heavy crude oils. this coming from the pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration. we'll get more details as they become available to us. still, some stocks like couldn't nejt mo continental moving on this bit of news. >> dom, we'll look forward to more from you when it develops. >>> meanwhile, the weather people, they're so busy, we have to do the forecast today ourselves. so here's my forecast. watch out and get out the snow boots. there's the northeast, you can see, the storm moving in with very cold temperatures from erie, pennsylvania, all the way to portland, boston and rhode island. ten degrees in buffalo. not much fun there. watch out for lake-effect snow. 15 degrees in chicago. 14 in detroit. 16 in st. louis. those are the highs, by the way, not the lows. with the windchill, it's even worse. in albany, new york, minus 12. and we have advisories from indiana east to central pennsylvania. winter storm warnings covering all of new york state, vermont, ne

crude oil being shipped may be more flammable than traditional oil. it will has a lower flash point. meaning it can ignite at much lower costs. in eastern montana and north dakota now the nation's second largest oil producer behind texas. a short time ago doctors speaking out on the current condition of the former israeli prime minister ariel sharon. >> his position deteriorating slow slowly. >> sharon's family remains at his bedside. he has been in a coma and living on a respirator for 8 years after the hit of political power back in 96. >>> the national inquirer reports that simpson is convinced he doesn't have long to live. the former football legend serving out a kidnapping and robbery sentence in a nevada prison. he isn't eligible for parole fo another four years. >>> edward snowden revealing the nsa is revealing a code cracking super computer that can access banking medical and even government records. all part of an $80 research program called penetrating hard targets. it is light years faster than classical computers. this as civil rights take

the person dropping his teen decided to light a cigarette in the car and the spark ignited the flammable same percent. -- same percent, the teen -- vapors and the teen jumped out of the car. the boy suffered burns to his arms and chest and he was airlifted to san jose. a short time ago, i was told the boy's injuries are not considered life-threatening. they believe it was all simply an accident. they say the driver of the car who lit that cigarette and triggered this fire is not facing any charges. alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> a hearing is scheduled in the case of a 16-year-old boy in the case of setting another boy on fire. richard thomas is brought up on charges for setting a young man on fire while wearing a skirt. they believe the case should be moved to juvenile court. >>> and they are now forcing marin county to scalp into a reserve today for the first time in years. this has not happened in decades but water officials will be getting it from downtown and even that may not be enough. >>> mandatory raging -- rationing will be considered next month unless we get a lot

firefighters trying to protect a third building which contains flammable material including paint thinner. a 3,000 foot line has been brought in from chicago because of the size. no injuries reported. >> a deadly plane crash in aspen, colorado. it shows the plane hitting the runway and bouncing before it bursts into flames. three pilots were on board at the time. one was killed. wind gusts were up to almost 30 miles per hour. a final report in the crash will be released in a few days. >> is the military about to abandon afghanistan? they presented the white house with a plan that would keep 10,000 u.s. troops in that region after this year but nearly no troops by the end of president obama's time in office. that's a much shorter time frame than lawmakers predicted. next month's olympic games leading the u.s. to step up and high-tech equipment for the russians. th this as the hunt is on for the three black widow terrorists. elizabeth prann is live with the latest threats. >> good morning, ainsley. moments ago we saw reports the hungarian olympic committee said there was one terrorist threa

a flammability concern. they have stop sale orders immediately. repairst clear when the will be complete. >> changes may be on the way for amazon prime service. it is now looking at increasing ae subscription fee to $120 year. right now it is $79. amazon says they do not expect to lose subscribers. costs for thel increase. especially by the weekend, it is temporary. we are in better conditions. let's take a look at our numbers. the top camera, a little bit of the ice broke up. 34 is the official high. 44 and 29 are the averages for today. at reagan national airport, 21 right now. lexington park, they have a good smoke -- no pack. you notice it is not dramatically cold like it has been. there is a surge of cold air coming across the border again. east, it isushes going to survive the airmass spreading eastward. we have a few days of temperatures heading our way. air, late onold sunday, the cold air will come in. it will not be this cold. not that brooded -- not that brutal cold. wins intoh to shift the low 30's. through the rest of the weekend, clo

because everybody knows oxygen is very flammable. >> yep.s need, oxygen, in order to survive. but you think that's impressive, now watch this. you have an a and w root beer can cut in half with the liquid oxygen on the inside. >> i like that. >> all that oxygen, real hot flames. >> yep. burns right through the aluminum. >> it was cool to see the frost kind of go away first. and then the whole can explodes. >> are you going to eat the pie? >> no. >> pie was unharmed, which was good. >> we're about to reveal the number one video. but if you want to check out the top ten that you skroyou voted d to right this minute.com and click on best of 2013. >> so here it is, your favorite video. and this number one, a tear jerker. ♪ i'm going to wake up missing you, wake up missing y ♪ >> possibly forget this precious little face? >> easily one of the most talked about videos from the past year. >> absolutely incredibly memorable. video went insanely viral, voted number one top pick of the year. and if you remember when the video first went viral, we were

in 2008 a group poured a flammable quick liquid today it was business as usual. they couldn't miss the fire damage. many had strong opinions about what happened. >> it's terror. the nature should be the same as any group attack. u.s. embassies. in foreign >>> a video says one of the arsonist saz man appearing to be air, wearing glasses and jeans. vic lee abc7 news. >> a santa rosa neighborhood vowed to rebuild a shrine set up for a 13-year-old boy shot and killed by a deputy in october. waits a 19-foot long shrine once displaying cards and candle that's went up in flames about 8:00 this morning. investigators trying to figure out if it was an accident or set on purpose. october 22nd deputy gelhaus shot and killed lopez as he was walking throughout the neighborhood. the gun designed to look like an ak 47 >> tonight a major break in the case of a murdered priest. investigators arrested the suspect today. the reverend was found found dead. many are stined by this. as are many people. leanne? >> people say his congregation was in eureka but he had followers in san fr

i said what sort of things are flammable.e solvents, the metals for machining, many things that are combustible. wasn't aware until i saw this woman looking for her husband that there are residential apartme apartments. >> she's looking for her husband but the word is everyone has been safely evacuated. right? >> reporter: he says as far as he knows everybody was evacuated in time. >> the confusion of he got out, she got out and who knows where they went. >> exactly, red cross will be headed to the scene. it is a massive fire that is burning there. we've seen red wood city fire. this continues to burn. there is no chance of going in it at all. just fight it from afar. >> that's the aerial look now. it looks incredible. if we go back to the ground it looks like a different situation. apparently the fire that's burning all of the flames are inside like bowl. >> exactly. look at that thick black smoke. we're not seeing evidence of white smoke at all that shows that it's dying down. stay away from the area if you are close to it

heavy crude. >> thank >> porting 50 and 1 hundred tanker car trains of crude oil that's volatile and flammable diane is a senior scientist with the national resource defense counsel. she says the chemicals known to be used in fracking are also very toxic. >> benzene is a very powerful cancer causing agent associated with all sorts of health impacts, particularly things like leukemia in children. >> we asked the the energy company about that. >> the facility is designed to be silent, odorless and safe. >> the department of transportation just issued a safety alert last week specifically about this crude. how does that warning affect the draft environmental impact report? >> it's already been addressed. >> that particular alert? >> oh, well, as i said, the -- the -- the environmental report already covers crude oils that include the quality of the ball ken crude oil so it's not really possible for that sort of thing to happen. >> but tell that to the residents of north da key that and quebec. >> completely surrounded. >> we have this wonderful new marina district down here, old town and for them

moving oil, and certainly a much more hazardous way, particularly when it comes to moving the very flammableatile, light oil from the bakken, and i think de facto, we have gone from bad to worse in how we're moving oil. and that's really the achilles heel, is we don't really have the infrastructure to move it. >> what is the solution? should we be building more infrastructure? >> well, again, there doesn't seem to be an appetite for pipelines, and remember, to fulfill the production goals of either the people in the shale place or oil sands we're going to need four to five keystone excels. if you are going to see go from 2 to 5 million, and i just don't think there is the public appetite for four or five keystone xl's, but that is what we would be talking in terms of building the infrastructure needed to facilitate the production people are talking about. >> but much of the oil traffic we're talking about on these rail cars is not actually destined for use in america. >> that's right. and of course the fraccers have wrapped themselves around the flag of energy independence, the u.s. in 1975,

. >> want to make sure people clear out anything from their front yard that is flammable, everybody sees the sketch of the suspect, that they have the 9-1-1 and hotline number for arson, and make sure that everyone who needs a fire alarm or batteries can get them. we can supply it. >> knock on doors and talk to people. person to person communication, seeing if anything has seen anything suspicious, and just raising awareness. people have seen something, they need to report it. reporter: this is a sketch that is being distributed by police and arson investigators. this man was spotted near a fire yesterday. that fire damaged the home of an elderly couple. they were able to get out safely. the sketch has been put together using images from surveillance cameras at neighbors' homes throughout the area where the arson fires are being set. the local fire union is helping out. they had put up $10,000 as a reward to help catch this suspected arsonist. reporting live in san jose, abc7 news. >>> new video in tonight investigators from a number of agencies today returned to the scene of a tedly hou

a group of people pour add flammable liquid on the gate in the rear of the building. the police believe there is not a connection in these attacks. >>> this first homicide of the year happened early this morning on east san antonio street. this is just north of the 101/680 interchange. >> reporter: we don't know all that much about this one. it happened very early this morning. it took an hour before anyone contacted police. officers have very little to go on. barely two days into the new year and san jose has another homicide to report at 12:30 thursday morning. shots rang out in front of a duplex. >> they found the individual, found him with a gunshot wound and started cpr. eventually they were declared deceased. that's when we declared it a homicide and started the investigation. >> reporter: the neighbor found the body of the victim. it was near this fence, which was riddled with bullet holes. >> i called the police. that's all i know. >> was he conscious? was he saying anything? >> no, he was already dead. >> do you recognize him? >> nope. >> reporter: the homici

explodes. 47 people died in an inferno fueled by what's called [ indiscernible ] shale a highly flammable fracked oil the train was carrying. today the national transportation safety board investigating the accident released a report saying the amount of crude shipped by rail across the united states has spiked 443% since 2005. and to keep accidents like this one from happening again something has to change. or else major loss of life, property damage and environmental consequences can occur. [ protests ] >> reporter: perhaps nowhere is that more clear than in the bay area refinery town. pittsburg residents are fighting to keep a company called wes-pac energy from bringing more than 200,000 barrels a day of the same oil that fueled the quebec fire to their town on trains. >> these trains are like bombs on tracks. when they derail, they explode. >> reporter: the benicia residents are facing off with valero over a plan to roll 70,000 barrels a day through the community. railroad officials know the dangers. in november the president of the association of american railroads suggested the indu

. >> a federal safety alert warns that crude oil from north dakota may be more flammable than we expected, after an explosive derailment there monday, this announcement came. the national transportation safety board is examining the safety of moving petroleum by mail. john seigenthaler reports. >> this is what happened monday when a train filled with more than 3,000 gallons of oil derailed in north dakota - the impact - igniting a fireball raising hundreds of feet in the air. authorities had to urge residents of a nearby city to flee. the cause is under investigation. federal transportation officials set out a safety alert saying, "everyone, the general public, shippers and carriers should be aware that crude oil from the montana and backen would be more volatile. the amount of crude oil moved on the rails has risen by a factor of 40 in the last five years. the new concerns come after a series of derailments involving crude oil trains, including the disaster in quebec that killed 47 people. >> the quebec disaster and the north dakota disaster are wake up calls from the rail and oil indust

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from the bakken shale reserve that stretches under north dakota and montana, saying it may be more flammable than other types of oil. the explosion in north dakota forced the evacuation of a small town. a previous train derailment involving bakken shale oil killed 47 people in quÉbec. the associated press reports a number of u.s. states have confirmed oil and gas chilling is polluting well water. the report examined quadra states that have received hundreds of complaints. in pennsylvania, authorities have confirmed more than 100 cases of drilling contaminating private wells since 2005. the state received nearly 400 complaints about contamination last year alone from the down from 500 in 2012. u.s. agricultural regulators have proposed lifting restrictions on genetically modified corn and soybean seeds that are resistant to the weedkiller 2.4-d. made by dowe is chemical and has been linked to a range of health risks including cancer and parkinson's disease. it was one ingredient in the toxic vietnam war herbicide agent orange. the proposal to lift restrictions comes amid pressure from farmers

knocked over another flammable liquids cabinet, which started a fire. also blew out some of the windows. >> sprinklers knocked down the fire, but two employees were burned. one was critically hurt. but in this statement, denies that, saying both workers injures were minor. >>> a yahoo! employee from oakland has been missing since new year's day. now a private investigator is involved in the case. sharon chin reports, friends say he was a brilliant employee. sharon. >> yeah, friends say they last saw him here in san francisco ringing in the new year with fireworks along the waterfront. then he just seemed to vanish. at his new year's eve party in san francisco, dustin diaz took these photos of his friend. they walked to watch the midnight fireworks. he snapped a photo and posted it before leaving in a car. diaz said he was happy. there was no hint of the emotional issues the private investigator says he had. >> we were having an awesome time. we were laughing. a lot of the photos are of him laughing. >> he had a past history of unstableness and it had to

about an hour ago, the bakken oil is more flammable, whatever that means, than oil. >> it means it burns. >> which is what it's supposed to do, by the way. oil burns and sometimes it snows in the winter. >> exactly. >> that said, donald, if i'm union pacific or norfolk southern and i have to refit my railcars, that's going to cost me a lot of money, eat my earnings. >> here's the thing. those railcars are not owned by railroads. they're owned by the railcar lease owers the chemical companies, et cetera. the railroads simply move them. but there's a much broader impact, whether it's through pipeline or crude via rail and the industrial america is where we're seeing real growth. in fact, intermodal e-commerce and industrial america are the only places we're really actually seeing economic growth in the u.s. economy. and norfolk southern's case in particular, we're seeing the use of technology and infrastructure to take loads off of the road and put them on rail. we're seeing the ability to take advantage of the crude via rail story, the industrial revolution restarting, if you will. and we

. >> we want to make sure people clear out anything flammable from their front yard. >> reporter: it is believed the arsonist struck a dozen times. >> an arsonist hitting the neighborhoods downtown. >> reporter: the latest, a classroom behind a church at 26th and san antonio, the second of two early morning fires. but saturday's fire is the most serious so far. two elderly residents were asleep when flames went through the house. a father and son broke the window and helped the couple to safety. >> this is 40 minutes before the fire was set. >> reporter: a security camera shows a man walking passed the camera four times between 3:11 and 4:22 a.m., the fire broke out at 4:23. he is picking random homes. >> reporter: the video is used by investigators to complete a sketch and profile of what they say is a person of interest. a white or hispanic male, 160 to 180 pounds, large frame glasses. >> he will continue to do it until he is caught. >> reporter: the fire department is offering a $10,,for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the arsonist, back to you. >>> it took fir

in march of 2008 the door was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire. ahead of the beijing olympics that summer, and before the torch was set to come through san francisco. damage was minimal. no one was hurt. a few months later in august, tomb rights protesters breached the consulate one hang off the roof. slow fell and suffered an injury. >> and a driver led officers in portrero hill around and around the neighborhood starting at 7:30 last night when the officers tried to stop a car that matched the description of a vehicle involved in an armed robbery. miss say that during the pursuit a gun was then from the car. the vehicle crashed into a pole at 22nd and connecticut. one person was arrested there. a second suspect got away. >> san jose police are asking for ones to come forward as they deal with the first homicide of the year. it is a sad early start to violence that has plagued the city. katie marzullo joins us from the crime scene. katie? >> >> the coroner is still working to identify the victim. they say he didn't have any i.d. but he was wearin

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and asking that all flammable materials be moved away from the home.they say they're doing everything they can to protect land and property. but need the help of homeowners. live in san jose, kimberly tere, nbc, bay area news. >>> obviously we desperately need rain. sunny skies across the bay area again today. let's bring in anthony slaughter. any chance we'll get something other than warm and sunny days? >> there is a chance coming up in the next seven-day forecast. a chance of rain as we enter the final week of january. you can see clouds building offshore right now. that's the sign of a cooler sunday on the way with that onshore breeze. temperatures not going to be as warm tomorrow. but you'll notice as we look at the week ahead, monday, tuesday, wednesday, we're back into the 70s. here's the thing, by thursday, i do think we'll be looking at a chance for showers in that forecast. there you go. 66 as temperatures fall as well. we'll talk more about the shower chance through the upcoming week in just a little bit. >>> still ahead, a car slams into a

but according to government officials, it's a type of oil that may be more flammable than traditionaloil. much of the oil from the bakken region reaches its destination by rail. the wakeup call for the freight train industry came last summer when train carrying oil derailed in a small town in quebec, canada. maurice, 47 people died as the oil burned. >> dubois: jeff pegues in washington. a new report out today calls into question one of the main goals of the health reform law. to get people to stop using the emergency room as their primary care doctor by making more of them eligible for medicaid. more than four million supreme signed up for obamacare will be getting their health care through medicaid but will that keep them out of the emergency room? that's the question. here is sharyl attkisson. >> reporte despite hopes that expanding medicaid would decrease expensive and unnecessary hospital visits because the poor would have access to doctors and preventative care today's study finds the opposite. previously uninsured patients who became eligible for medicaid are much more likely t

they're added to consumer products to meet flammability standards, though their effectiveness remains questionable. >> any furniture that you have that has polyurethane foam in it, which is most of our furniture, may contain toxic flame retardants. and those flame retardants don't stay put in that foam. they leech out and they end up in the dust in our house, where we're all exposed and particularly kids who are on the ground low, picking things up, putting their hands in their mouths, they're exposed to that dust, which is gonna have flame retardant chemicals in it. >> there are many different kinds of flame retardants. among the most studied are polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or pbdes. scientists have linked pbdes to a wide range of conditions, from delayed development to learning problems and diminished intelligence. >> the neuro-developmental effects--so that's exposures during pregnancy or early in life, linking to neuro-developmental effects in animals, have now been evaluated in two human studies. so there's one in a population in new york and one in a population in california

a group of people poured a flammable liquid on a gate in the rear of the building. the fbi doesn't believe there's any connection between the two attacks. >> it's what the city of san jose did not want to see. a homicide to ring in the new year. a man was found shot to death early this morning on east san antonio street. you see the map here. this is near the 101/680 interchange. two people came across the body and called police. there aren't suspects in custody at this hour. this is the first homicide of the year in san jose. it follows three consecutive years of an increasing homicide rate in the bay area's biggest city. >>> oakland is investigating its first homicide of the year which struck a nerve and angered a community. a 13-year-old boy gunned down, just blocks from his home, as he was returning from an event at the boys and girls club. at this time, police have no suspects. cheryl hurd is live in oakland with a call for action from the community. >> reporter: there's a community tonight angry and feeling helpless. and a brother can't believe she will be bur

. >> we want to make sure that people clear out anything that will be flammable from this front yard. >> reporter: it's believe they may have struck a thousand times. >> have you heard about the arsonist? >> no. >> they are hitting all the neighborhoods here downtown. >> reporter: the early sunday morning one behind the church of east san antonio, the second of two early morning fires. but saturday's fire is the most serious so far. two elderly residents were asleep when the flames roared through their house, a father and son broke the window to help the couple to safety. >> this is roughly 40 minutes before the fire was set. >> reporter: a security camera on the home who lives across the street, shows a fan walking past the camera four times between 3:11 and 4:02 a.m. the fire broke out at 4:22 a.m. >> knowing that he is picking that random home, mine could have easily been the one he burnt down. >> reporter: the video is used by arson investigators to create a sketch and profile of what they say is a person of interest. a white or hispanic male, 6-2, 160 to 180 pounds, slender dark

they're asking that all flammable materials be moved away from the homes. they need the help of homeowners. >> as soon as tomorrow, we'll actually see the relief for air quality. we're not going to get any rain tomorrow, but you'll notice right now, we have a marine layer building offshore. you can see how it is really building from space. this is going to be a morning fog that we deal with for tomorrow morning. and that does mean cooler temperatures for tomorrow. however, though, you'll notice as we look ahead to the upcoming week, monday, tuesday and wednesday, we start the slow climb back into the mid-70s. here's the other thing that we're tracking. there's the relief we're talking about. some showers into the forecast as we head towards thursday evening. we'll detail that coming up in just a little bit. >>> now, to a developing story on a deadly mall shooting in maryland. a gunman carrying large amounts of ammo shot and killed two employees inside a crowded mall in columbia before turning his shotgun on himself. officers found the bodies in a skate shop

fire officials said the area is so dry that it will take several days of rain to change how flammablegerous it is st >>: here in berkeley take a look at this tree that's down right in front of this home. as you can see behind me is a very large tree. " the large branch crash down it's not. thankfully no one was hurt. this was in part because of the high winds overnight. it is also a red flag warning in effect anticipated by the dry conditions. the national weather service says the winds could kick up to 40 mi. an hour. here in berkeley terisa estacio kron4 knows. >>darya: more on the wind warm weather right now is that of clocking the land where caught in the speeds. >>george: more than one hot spot. still tracking extremely slow going into walnut creek interstate 680. a vehicle fire that happened southbound around south main street jamming up the ride not only into the san ramon valley. out of concord and pleasant hill on both to 42 and 68 n d southbound direction. and the bay bridge westbound met valley back up. an accident out toward the base of the end line and so that slow the me

that shake shingle, they are highly flammable. so that was one of their main tactics when they got here was to keep that exposure from catching which they succeeded in that. three-alarm fires. all of the firefighters are okay and the two people who live here are fine. obviously the home is severely damaged. no word on the cause. reporting live in san jose, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks, bob. we'll continue to check with you throughout the morning. >> we also have breaking news in milpitas where police are investigating reports of a home invasion robbery. it happened about midnight on tahoe drive near yellowstone drive. the police department says homeowners told them three men entered the home, took stuff and ran away. the police department would not say if the men broke in or were let in or say whether the men were armed. peggy bunker is at the police department. we'll have a live report from her coming up in about a half hour. >> in the meantime, we check in with meteorologist christina loren. this thursday morning, g

. >> : tyler was halting sales of six popular models due to concerns of flammability concerns with see seeps seats. >> : the 2013 and to sell the 14 models have been halted. the line >> : right checks has announced the recall of 216,000 strollers. after eight people reported injuries from pulling on the release strap. one company says one person had a thing or partially amputated. bob motioned solar's strode into those 11 to 2013 >> : pinpointing a few sporting showers and over the coastal waters as we zooming toward the north bay petaluma seen some light rain right now. you can see activity it is very spotty about the status evening until early tomorrow morning. the core of the system is slated to the southeast, slowly this is what organa expect cloudy activity up there. this is life itself through the bay area until 12:00 until midnight tonight. also to see snow in the sierra which will talk a little bit later. mclemore and definitely see a lot more activity than it was showing here. as we move into the town clock are that's more like it spotty showers to the delta. to deliver more b

>> this is the second time the consulate has been targeted by arsonists in 2008, a group poured flammable liquid on a security gate outside the building but no one claimed responsibility. investigators believe that it may have been related to china's crackdown in tibet. >>> a man in his 20's in is critical condition at san francisco general a car hit him while crossing the street. it happened at 5:00 p.m. yesterday. police say the man was walking outside the crosswalk against the light weapon the car hit him. alcohol was not involved but speed may have been a factor. he is the sixth pedestrian hit in the past few days in san francisco. >> two big steps today in the battle over jahi mcmath the 13-year-old oak girl declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy. the family will urge the judge to order children's hospital oakland to insert tubes into jahi mcmath to provide air and nutrition so they can have her moved to another place. they say a facility in new york has agreed to care for jahi mcmath. children's hospital oakland refuses to insert the tube saying jahi mcmath is brain dead although