hours, senior government officials described how levels of radio activity at the plant have been fluctuating. >> at 3:30 p.m., this came down to 96.4. still, the level has come down to the level to cause no harm to human health. >> all six reactors at the complex have problems, but getting information about exactly what the problems are is proving difficult. this is what we think is happening. in reactor one, its outer building exploded saturday. there has probably been a partial melting inside. officials are pumping in seawater. reactor two, perhaps the most worrying, crucially a potential breach inside it. the first possible damage to any of the reactors, it is told this device, which handles excess pressure, may have been breached and could be one source of leaking radiation. reactor 3 is also in trouble are an explosion of the outer building, perhaps a partial meltdown, high level of radiation has been measured nearby and as we now know reactor four poses a threat as well. in a connector building, a fire did somehow start, although it is now believed to have been put out. a reduced workf

did say that he would pose a risk to human health as for the radiation in the plant itself last fluctuation is still very high but while the flow of love actuations this morning at eight o'clock is money eight hundred thirty eight make it might receive it's per hour sorry and then hour later it went down to three hundred sixty four not received as broward so still fluctuating wildly but outside that thirty kilometers out the radiation levels are pretty low i like that so let's talk about the blame game here some people are blaming the american company general electric they're the ones who designed the fukushima nuclear plant there others are saying it's the japanese government that should be held to account what are the people saying on the ground when you ron. the questions now being raised about the private eyes ation of japan's nuclear power is this the fukushima power plant was actually owned by the tokyo electric power company and the questions being raised now were said was safety standards compromised the profit out of any private enterprise profit is the main target obviously and th

. >> we still have that tsunami advisory up for fluctuations in wave heights. we did pass high tide at 3:00 this morning. use caution on the coast for some dangerous currents. we'll see green on the radar, but as we head through the afternoon, we will see a little rain heading through the north bay, but we will see rain dropping through afternoon tonight. you'll see 40s out there for the morning, jumping towards noon, you'll see 50s and 60s. looking at highs in the 50s to low 60s today, 62 around san jose, 57 for san francisco as we check out your seven-day forecast. oh, yes, it's a forecast you'll lose a little sleep over come tomorrow morning, we got to spring the clocks forward one hour and you're going to be springing the umbrellas forward as well as we wrap up the weekend, off and on as we go through the week. we'll continue to monitor the tsunami advisory through the coast. >>> coming up, the bay area baseball team doing its part to help the victims of the triple disaster in japan. stay with us. >>> this morning the oakland athletics are bringing out the

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. >>> it in l fluctuate in intense but definitely be out there during the morning commute and maybe up to the lunch hour but the evening commuting on to be okay. -- but the evening commute ought to be okay. >> and ponding on the road from last night. you can see the definite drying trend, as we look upstream to the north and west and look at all the snow in the sierra, a lot of fresh powder but a lot of problems up there. temperatures this morning running about one to three degrees cooler than this time yesterday. what is it right now? how about low to mid-50s, still pretty mild. by the afternoon hours, not much warming because it will take better part of the day and gets break in the cloud cover to get that sunshine. mid-50s along the coast. i would say upper 50s to low 60s for the rest of us. more showers tomorrow afternoon. thunderstorms are possible friday. that colder air will crank out showers for saturday and sunday. highs in the low to mid-50s. it will be cooler than that and more rain next week. good morning, sue. >> good morning, mike. we have an issue in livermore. you can s

it has fluctuated between 140 and 175,000. over half of the resources have been lost citywide. 5 resources centers have closed, and one has opened up. they are the primary solution to homelessness, and san francisco has demonstrated a strong commitment to affordable housing. some of the support of housing for these have maintained their housing. this is known to have saved the city $20,000 and other public costs. excuse me. at the same time, how funding in san francisco has been cut $1 million. district 6 is home to a disproportionate number of individuals that are suffering from mental illnesses. many of them self medicate and perform serious addictive disorders. they have to mental health clinics that are privately run. due to over 32 million in reductions to substance abuse, mental health, and funded programs in the past four years, the mental health system does not have close to the capacity to serve district 6 residents. there is a two-month waiting list. any reductions have his darkly had the impact in cutting off assist

the water using to cool has fluctuated. today, the prime minister announced for a nuclear crisis center. he appealed for international experts to help a worst case scenario. the fuel rods are burning through the containment and releasing large amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere. while the government tries to stave off a big government catastrophe also the aftermath of the tsunami. in the town after town, no homes are left standing. no signs of life remained. flags are marker bodies are awaiting burial. the floodwaters have not receded in places. japanese surge from house to house searching for survivors with incredible stories. the 60 year-old a scramble to the roof of his house. the water went through his village. the receding water trucked into the ocean and that is where rescuers found him. 9 mi. of sshore. >> this disaster is raising serious questions about nuclear facilities. joining us on the phone about this issue is quarry repartee a spokesman from pg&e and the el diablo power plant. cory. are there any si

liberating them from the risk of currency fluctuations. >> from the manufture to the operator, lufthansa is also flying high. after last year's volcanic ash " -- cloud, they have had a game as opposed to the loss in the previous year's. this year over 13,000 flights per week. the world's second-largest power group has posted a 37% drop in net profits in 2010. one of the reasons the dip is so dramatic is because of the stellar showing in 2009. because of their asset sales. >> they get most of their assets from russia. now the its plot -- the supply exceeds demand. the result is a 1 billion euro loss for the company. >> the energy giant is also facing the new nuclear fuel tax. >> we have consolidated all of our units. during this time we will lay the groundwork for fully developing strategy in 2013. >> what it means in real terms is restructuring. 50 billion euros over the next two years. this could free market. >> batons the shares have grown in -- lufthansa shares have grown. our correspondent sent us a summary of the day's trading in frankfurt. >> success has been rated on wednesday. th

. >> oil prices have been fluctuating for weeks especially in the oil-producing companies. crude oil was down $1 after gaddafi declared a cease-fire. >> libya is one of africa's main oil producers but the crisis has cut production to a trickle. the foreign companies pulled staff out when the turmoil began. concerns remain this could lead to supply shortages. before the uprising they pumped 1.6 million barrels of oil a day. normally libya exports 85% of its output to italy. libya holds the biggest crude oil reserves on the african continent. >> to japan where it has been one week since the earthquake and tsunami that caused so much devastation. we now take a look at the japanese population and how they are coping with the aftermath. many people have lost everything. over half a million people are holess. survivors stood with the rest of the nation for a moment of silence. >> one week after the earthquake at 2:46 p.m. people observed a moment of silence to commemorate the victims. the death toll is almost 6500. 10,000 others are missing. relief workers also paused for a momen

sunshine and highs rise up to 12 in miyako and sendai and 13 in onahama but the morning lows, so the fluctuations you want to watch out for health issues here. all right, that is a look at your weather conditions for now, and here are some other cities across asia. >>> all right this just coming in to us. japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency says radioactive iodine 4,385 times the safety standard was found in sea water near the troubled fukushima daiichi nuclear plant on wednesday. this was the highest level of the radioactive material measured so far in waters around the plant. on tuesday, the plant operator, tokyo electric power company, detected 3,355 times higher than the standard. if you're just listening in, this is breaking news, we're finding out that radioactive iodine 4,385 times the safety standard was found in sea water near the troubled daiichi nuclear plant on against. that's what japan's nuclear and industrial agency was saying, this is the highest level of radioactive material measured so far in watered around the plant. earlier nhk reported the plant operator tokyo electr

we believe reactor number 2 has not contributed greatly to the fluctuation in the radiation readings. >> translator: the sandigu coast and also the metropolitan people, what do you advise us to do? >> translator: well, basically, as the prime minister has said, first of all, people living in the 20 to 30-kilometer radius area, we want you to remain indoors. do not go outside. but radioactive substances, as was said in past briefings, minimal amounts can spread to very far areas. however, these are at levels that may not cause harm to human health because of course the farther away you go the radiation level would be lower. so based on that knowledge, we want you to keep calm and act calm. so we can continue with our daily lives. well, yes, in the onagawa plant also we see some radiation levels reading. however, it is at a level that will not cause damage to human health. so that is why we are not asking people who are living in the area to stay indoors. it's only for the fukushima power plants. for people in the 20 to 30 kilometers radius i would like to read out the town or city name

unfortunately, the climate has these natural fluctuations that will be with us that allows for mega droughts. i don't know that it's come up but there's evidence in the california proxy record in medieval times, two periods of extremely dry climate in at least, the california and nevada region - fit occurred today would totally reset the way we all sort of think about,hydrology, i think. [inaudible] no. your not listening to what the models are telling us. they are telling us there still is the range of natural variability in precipitation eventhough temperature is changing remarkably. evidently that did not get through. but that's what happens. the characterization of precipitation is not unlike today. not rain verses snow, but the total water volume is still looking a lot like the modern climate. >> let me take a crack at this. it's a great question. its the barrier that a lot of water managers face. on the,pa leo climate, side the the past will help me deal with floods and droughts properly deal with them. if we had a better since of this from tree rings in the 1920s we would probably mak

is directly related to this white smoke or not, but near the front gate the radiation reading is fluctuating hour by hour. but on the whole, it imposes no health hazard. but the -- and to the safety agency will make an announcement on this, but at one time last night we had a reading of 1,000 millisieve millisieverts. but this morning it has reduced to 800 to 600 millisievert. and the radiation amount near the front gate, at around 10:00 a.m. this morning, started to increase rapidly. and it has reached to the unit of millisievert. that's the report we have had. and so -- all the workers there have suspended their operations even the minimum ones, and so we have them evacuate in a safe area. they have evacuated in a safe area and for the detail, i will tell naoto kan as of 10:54 a.m. that the reading began to drop. and we are right now conducting the analysis by the experts but a possibility, the most probable thing, this is not fixed but the most probable thing is that in, just as in number two reactor, part of the vessel evaporation is coming out and that's making -- this is the cause of t

radioactivity levels have fluctuated at the plant. the 50 or so workers remaining inside were temporarily evacuated at one point to protect their health. an attempt to send helicopters in to douse the reactors was broken off. now officials are considering cooling the reactors with water cannons. a spokesman for the japanese government tried to reassure the public, saying radiation in the vicinity posed no immediate danger. but she added japan was considering asking the u.s. military for assistance. the nuclear emergency has forced the evacuation of more than 400,000 people. those in the affected area lineup for hours for drinking water, food, and other essential goods. most of remained, in the face of enormous hardship and confusing news -- confusing news. now some are growing anxious. >> i am extremely uneasy. information is so complex, and i cannot make any decisions by myself. i am really confused. >> emergency officials are checking people at shelters who fled the affected area for higher levels of radiation. but levels so far are

but their containment pressures are fluctuating.icopters carried out four water drops over unit three since yesterday. >> reporter: however, as one expert told "nightline" it's like using a squirt gun to put out a forest fire. since the earthquake the pumps that keep the reactor cool have been stopped. today, good news. a power line is close to being connected to two of the reactors. standing by, five high-pressure water pumps supplied but not manned by the u.s. to assist in cooling the reactors. >> we're working aggressively to support our japanese ally at this time of extraordinary challenge. we're saying expertise, equipment and technology so that the courageous responders on the scene have the benefit of american teamwork and support. >> reporter: meanwhile, deep inside the plant, a small number of workers armed with flashlights and fire hoses are working frantically to try to cool the molten core and reconnect crucial power lines. these are the only pictures. but today, a blog entry reportedly win by one of them describing the

the number of new arrivals fluctuates. often, there are more refugees at the camp at midday then the 8 organizations planned for that morning. this causes shortages. >> when we finish, the food, we still have people in line. that is the difficulty that we had.d. that happens sometimes because there are so many people in the camps. >> whenever a vehicle or riots, it is rapidly surrounded in the hopes that it is carried food. a u.n. employe at times to intervene and tell stipple to get back in line. -- a un an employee -- a u.n. employee tries to intervene and tells s ople to get back in line. >> we have to wait in line for hours and then we even find about the food. that is not what i expected. that rts. -- and then we even fight about the food. >> an employee tries to calm the situation. she knows what the refugees have been through and they just want to get home. she tells them to line up and then each of them can call home for two minutes. the red cross organized 12,000 phone calls and a week, for many families this is a

they need to be done on a regular basis because the market fluctuates. that is different from what the board of supervisors approved. another concern is the issue of what do we beat -- the rent credits, which is something that the budget analysts also point out. the authority would not pay any base rent whatsoever for piers 30, 29, and that they will need to be reimbursed to the authority at some point, but what the -- what is pointed out is that that investment could turn out to be incorrect, so the fact that the current agreement precludes any payment in terms of how deals with that, that is something that might be problematic for the city. we might be selling ourselves short in terms of that calm and then, there is a lot -- in terms of that, and then there is the transfer of properties in the event the authorities -- term development rights -- back to the port. the rent would be less than what they are entitled to by the authority. there are a number of items where i think someone can make an argument that there has been a material change in terms of

operators knew a shoddy repair job in the milpitas section was causing gas pressure readings to fluctuate uncontrollably on the peninsula. transcripts show what one operator said only minutes before the explosion and i quote, he said, we're screwed, we're screwed. so clearly he knew there was a major problem. on this 6-month anniversary the mayor of san bruno does not want people to forget. >> my greatest fear is that the hole gets filled and the street gets paved and somebody says didn't you guys have a fire or something in san bruno a few years ago. >> reporter: pg&e is also up against march 15th deadline to produce the proper records which prove its gas transmission lines are indeed safe. if it doesn't, the california public utilities commission is threatening to levee fines and sanctions against the company. this means pg&e has until next tuesday to complete sifting through more than a million documents. it says it has workers working around the clock, 24/7 trying to meet this deadline. live in san bruno, marla tellez. >> officers are off the hook for shooting and killing an unarmed b

. >> they continue to fluctuate. >> on the whole it oppose no health hazard. >> but 140,000 people are evacuated from near the nuclear plant. in tokyo 150 miles away, people are radiation badges and buying everything in sight. the natural disaster was probably worse. >> i think very likely the tsunami will considerably more people. >> the number that have died here exceeds 10,000 and hundreds of thousands are homeless. u.s. nuclear experts hope to solve the problem before it gets worse. >> scientists say the current levels of radiation don't pose a threat to people here in the u.s. but still, health stores and drugstores have seen a run on potassium iodide pills and kelp. it can help block the thyroid gland from absorbing radiation. experts say there is not necessary here. >> there is no need for those pills in california. >> japan's government is distributing potassium iodide to its citizens and walgreen's supplies are sending their full supply of pills there, as well. >> both houses of state legislature are scheduled to vote on governor brown's budget plan. there five republican sena

this amount is subject to market trends, it may fluctuate from year to year, as seen by the low of approximately $20,000 in fiscal year 2005, and a high of $164,000 in 08. excluding 2010, a non adjustment was posted. this is further detailed here and in the upcoming slides. annual expenditures increase through fiscal year 2009, however the increases were not drafted with the exception of fiscal year 2007. this amount includes a journal entry of approximately $176,000, which represents a transfer of patient funds to clear a cash deficit in a capital projects fund held by laguna honda. during the course of the audit, these funds were returned to the patient account and are included in fiscal year 10 income and adjustment total of 207,000. this item was discussed in finding 1.2 of the report and will be representative -- explained in our discussion of findings. net income deficit. while the spanish did not appear to be drastic, it was noted that apple you are out of the six fiscal years under audit, lebanon on the gift fund incurred net losses averaging a profit $130,000. well it does not acute --

which wildly fluctuates. so i think i don't gamble i just work in california water. you get the same sensation of putting it on the line all the time. we have a large capitol improvement program and it's part of the analysis and it mately the response we have done to some of these challenges. let me show you where our transmission line is. we go from the northern border to the mexican border. three thousand miles of pipe. it's now about 13 feet in diameter and we serve 3 point 2 million people a year and serve an economy of billions. there is my life. you are here. there i am. i'm that corner at the bottom of the pipes in a really bright orange yellow area. we get an average of 8 inches of rain per year. so we - there is very little we can do related to rain fall and local run off. our strategies have to be radically different than strategies that edward and chuck have sitting in portland and seattle and i think if there's anything you take away if there's not a one size fits all for any of this. not for california or the western states. you really have to customize

. >> the figures will likely fluctuate. i still won't use tap water for my daughter. >> reporter: radioactive steam was still rising from the nuclear plant 150 miles away. work continued, but there was a serious accident. >> three workers have been exposed to radiation. >> reporter: contractors laying electrical cable were exposed to more than 170 millisieverts of radiation. the equivalent of 17 cat scans. radioactive water seeped into their boots, burning the skin on their legs. two have been hospitalized. a doctor who studied the health effects at chernobyl says their prognosis is good. >> i would expect them to heal and this not to be fatal at all. >> reporter: still, the accident shows how dangerous the work is. until the reactors stop leaking radiation, many japanese, like erica ono, will remain very nervous. robert bazell, nbc news, tokyo. >>> one more note on this topic. a lot of people in this country with knowledge of japan have been saying the following, watch the way japan recovers from the current crisis they're

you can see estimates from 2002 through 2009 that show the fluctuation by age group, but we will not have any definitive data until the release of the census data. our next slide shows a trend that we have been seeing over the last decade, the population of you is more diverse than the adult population, which is, again, at a trend of no surprise. on the next slide, we are looking at the change in the number of low-income children by race and ethnicity. again, we are anxious for that census data because we know some of the estimates are over estimating the population. this shows a decrease in the number of asian american and african american low income youth. the next slide looks at some neighborhood data. this is from the 2000 census. it shows how the six neighborhoods in san francisco with the highest number of youths, aged breakout. as mentioned in the previous presentation, the excelsior has the largest in each of the categories. the five other top categories are listed. the next slide shows the huge proportion. the darkest eras are where there is the highest proportion. you will

. >>> translator: numbers can always fluctuate but there is no problem with temporarily higher levels if they stay within the legal limits. we will continue to make publicly available the results of the water testing. so i urge the public to stay calm. >> tokyo metropolitan government will gather 240,000 bottles of water to families as some are worried about the health of their babies. radioactive material has been detected in five other prefectures around the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. iodine 131 has been detected at in a substance that is not found nature. they believe it was carried by the wind from the plant to surrounding areas and then washed down in to the area by rain. >> 110 or 20 days the radioactive materials will go to the ocean so much of it will be out of the daily cities of the people. >> professor murano says people should not overrearkt when they see small changes in levels, but he warns that a small radioactive substance is emitted from the nuclear plant, the radioactivity will continue for sometime to come. >>> in south korea, bottled water producers are

instead, monetary measures have not factored into policy discussions for quite some time because fluctuations and money multipliers and velocity made brought measurement elusive. financial innovation has been such a force that forecasting methodology based on the money price level of connection came to be viewed as unreliable for policy-making. it's worth remembering however that it was paul volker's return to a focus on money growth that led the way to defeating the great inflation. the fed success shed the stage for an extended period of controlled inflation approaching three decades. one closing thought, chairman volcker took extraordinary measures and response to extraordinary times. he was able to do so because the bedrock principal of central bank independence in the formulation of monetary policy was respected. the eventual unwinding of the necessary but hisor

seems to be flux wedding, although the immediate advice may not be to avoid -- because this is fluctuating, although there is not immediate advice to avoid tap water, many people are still avoiding it. we saw yesterday but many people taking up the city government's offer for those with young babies to have a supply of water to be able to pick it bought from municipal offices. there is a great deal of concern, and it must be said there is still quite a shortage of bottled water in the shops. should we see those levels rise again, it will not be long before there is quite a lot more widespread worry about the water supply. >> thank you, mark worthington. >>> the funeral for elizabeth taylor has taken place in los angeles, just a day after she died of heart failure. the service took place at the forest lawn cemetery, where many of her fellow celebrities are laid to rest. our correspondent said it was a very private affair. >> as someone who lived in the spotlight and seem to enjoy and relish the spotlight, this was a very low-key event. it took many people in los angeles by surprise that it

>> that number fluctuates depending on the actuarial report. we have thrown out numbers around 10%. that seems to be standard. it could go up to 28 and it could go back down again -- >> you are talking about proposition d where the contribution to the retirement system went below the cost, that money would be deferred to the of retiree health trust. i am assuming that is what you -- supervisor chu: i just wanted folks to make sure that if the city's required contribution is lower, we would contribute at lower amount because of proposition d, the city would be required to continue to pay the normal cost, which is roughly about 9% or 10%, even if it is not required by the actuaries. that would provide discipline in the budget to make sure we pay a certain level and to our pension every single year. it also allows us to put money into the retirement trust fund with the alternative to put it to the health side if we need to. >> it is a separate trust for that money. any differences between 9% or 10% in the difference would go into the other plan. >> i apologize i misunderstood your ques

pressure vessel is reported to be holding pressure, the fact that radiation on the site has been fluctuating but not rising all suggest to me that on balance it is more likely that the leak has occurred from somewhere else other than the reactor pressure vessel. but it's not clear. >> couric: the japanese government, meanwhile, is now encouraging evacuations in a wider area than originally proposed, as we have just heard. should people were closer than that 19-mile radius be worried now? >> you know, i think as a matter of fact they will be worried. the situation is volatile and the situation is dangerous. i think it's worth emphasizing that there's already 500,000 displaced people without adequate food, water, or shelter in japan at the moment. so broadening the evacuation zone comes at a very high cost for the evacuees themselves. >> couric: and a day after we heard that radiation levels in tokyo drinking water were unsafe, today the government says they're fine again. how do these levels change so quickly? >> well, katie, there's a number of factors that are simultaneously operating. if t