, for homeowners.or renters, (202) 748-8001. if you get some sort of subsidized housing and you want to tell us how that is working for you, (202) 745-8002. for all others, (202) 748-8003. you can make your thoughts known on her social media platforms as well. let's start with brian in panama city florida on the line for renters. good morning. tell us what is happening in panama city. caller: good morning, sir. i'm very excited to say that here in panama city, we are very excited that we have a growing market. i'm looking forward to transitioning to becoming a homeowner. because i'm saving and planning and managing my money probably but i'm glad to see the market changing. i have heard from people, from friends -- we are on the right track. host: what do you pay for bets, if you don't mind sharing that? caller: i'm very fortunate because i live in a very low rate area. i pay $550 per month for 1000 feet. i have friends in manhattan who have to share rent. it is different. it is very different where you

that first one is to ensure the grantees are doing real homeowner rehab programs, that homeowners aret left to their own devices to try to manage their recovery. because when we get cdbg disaster funding it is because the scale of the disaster has been so large. it is too much to ask all homeowners to manage their own contractors and dealing with the process. that is one of the most critical points for us. earl: one of the most critical lessons learned is the lesson of preparation. i think katrina, rita, ike, gustav, the oil spill, and other dusters -- disasters have taught us to be prepared, has taught grantees to share information they would not have shared if not for those events before. it has taught us as a department to reach out to those grantees and encourage them to share across state lines, across boundaries. one of the jewels that came out of the golf course recovery -- gulf coast recovery is you have created a college of knowledge between texas, mississippi, alabama, and florida. that knowledge has been shared with our friends on the east coast with new jersey, new york st

that first one is to ensure the grantees are doing real homeowner rehab programs, that homeowners are not left to their own devices to try to manage their recovery. because when we get cdbg disaster funding it is because the scale of the disaster has been so large. it is too much to ask all homeowners to manage their own contractors and dealing with the process. that is one of the most critical points for us. earl: one of the most critical lessons learned is the lesson of preparation. i think katrina, rita, ike, gustav, the oil spill, and other dusters -- disasters have taught us to be prepared, has taught grantees to share information they would not have shared if not for those events before. it has taught us as a department to reach out to those grantees and encourage them to share across state lines, across boundaries. one of the jewels that came out of the golf course recovery -- gulf coast recovery is you have created a college of knowledge between texas, mississippi, alabama, and florida. that knowledge has been shared with our friends on the east coast with new jersey, new york

gretchen morgenson began with this program that homeowner set up to help these homeowners. what is this program. theou know this was signature program that the obama administration wanted to put in place to help homeowners and it started in 2009. we have a long arc of performance here to evaluate. as you remember in the crisis the banks got huge enormous bailouts and homeowners were really left struggling on their own. so the program as it was called was designed to really help them and combat the idea that only the banks got the bailout. so what we have been looking at recently is a report from the special inspector general of the charter program. went backr colleagues and analyzed how many banks turned down or what number of borrowers are turned down by the banks for the program and the numbers were startling. host: from your story, here is a quote from christy saying, we are constantly seeing problems with the way servicers are treating homeowners and not following the rules. i don't understand why the hasn't been a stronger policing. what is going on? guest: i don't kno

. >> they wanted to make sure the design incorporated views for every homeowner as they would throughout the community. the way the lot is positioned, that's to maximize the view for each homeowner and still maintain a great view of the strip. approximately 80% of our lots have incredible city views. the other 20% are interior lots that maintain interior views. >> the homes will always be surrounded by this natural beauty. the feeling that somebody gets when they walk into ascaya is indescribable. you see it from a plane. you see it on a postcard. but you don't understand truly what you have until you drive up in and see the magnitude of the layers of the bolders, of the mountains and you're immersed in what this project really is. it's this feeling of zen, but at the same time you look out and you've got this strip at your doorstep. you have this feeling, this energy that's all around you where, if you love nature and appreciate it, you'll come in here and feel at peace. and at the same time look out and see what las vegas has to offer. >> when we come back, the first home being build i

. >> homeowners staring down disaster as the rocky fire rages out of control. good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. >> and i'm brian hackney. the rocky fire in lake county has grown to nearly the size of san francisco. it is 27,000 acres. more than 42 square miles and it is 5% contained. 50 buildings have gone up in flames. half of them homes. thousands more are threatened. >> a triple digit temperature, very low humidity. winds that are helping push this fire through really steep and difficult access type terrain. >> for some homeowners it is too late for help. kpix5's andria borba spoke with one woman who lost everything. >> reporter: as you drive along morgan valley road, the blackened hillside becomes overwhelming. >> there are so many people down there whose houses are just ashes. and everyone we know that lives down there, they have nothing anymore. it is crazy. >> reporter: the rocky fire has burned hopes to the ground. among them, amanda o' connor's. her home used to beyond in area in pink fire retardant. it is usually a sign of safety, but it was too la

. >> it's basically each individual homeowner is responsible for themselves. >> kevin is a sociology professor at tulane university who has been tracking redevelopment in new orleans. >> the city as well as other layers of government have said, people if they want to dom back to their neighborhoods they can come back but neighborhoods have to prove their viability. >> in the action of a government initiated rebuilding plan residents were on their own. the outcome: today's uneven recovery says got gotham. >> more affluent neighborhoods tended to be rebuilt faster than lower class neighborhoods. there were more resources that tended to go into more affluent neighborhoods. >> couldn't they reasonably argue we had our act together, yes we had more resources and those resources over the years have allowed us to be more organized, we've had a good homeowners association. >> yes and all that's very important and significant, it certainly is a driver of post-disaster recovery and rebuilding but we also have to look at there were programs that actually seeded and facilitated public access to

but what they don't know is this homeowner has fire power of his own.our robbery suspects run for cover in a real-life wild west shootout that takes place in broad daylight. it's the afternoon of february 5th, 2009, in tucson, arizona. a home security camera captures a chrysler 300 driving leisurely along this quiet street. but the occupants of the vehicle are not out for a casual drive. they're out for something more sinister. detective e.j. gueron. >> you can see the suspect's car drive by the house, by the residence. >> instead of proceeding down the block, the car stops abruptly. >> you see it stop as if it's casing the place. the garage is open. it appears the suspect sees this and sees it as an opportunity to commit the crime. >> within an instant, the car screeches around the corner and pulls into the driveway. four men jump out, guns drawn. >> they attempt to get into the house. the home onner sees them. >> the homeowner's standing inside the garage and senses trouble, but instead of giving in, he decides to take matters into his own hands. >> h

that's simply not true. >> homeowners automatically assume you're giving up your home. giving giving up the deed to your home, ownership to your home. that's the biggest misconception. a reverse mortgage, when it really boils down to it is just a loan. you're borrowing money. the difference is you're not making a payment on it regularly as you do on a traditional loan. that balance of the loan grows over time. you do end pent counseling by a third party. that counseling makes sure you're educate odd all the different options and make sure you know what you are getting into. >> in recent years there were a lot of defaults on reverse mortgages, but how could that happen if the people aren't triered make any payments? >> essentially there's no payment being made, and the only default that can come up is if you don't pay your taxes or insurance or you move out of the home. >> so federal government, well, they made some major changes to reverse mortgage rules. the new rules make it tougher to default by making sure borrowers can pay their taxes, their insurance, and their ho

by accepting these grants homeowners agreed to rebuild by a certain date but if homeowners chose not to rebuild than those homes with the d. did over to this day. in louisiana alone loaned 130,000 families received compensation. this was an average award of $69,224. 92% of those individuals selected the option to rebuild, where a person chose to deed their homes to the state rather than rebuild. >> again, how long does recovery take? from its low point in july of 2006 of 98,000 active addresses to 179,000 active addresses today the increase of 80,000 active addresses over the decades. most of these were likely supported in some form by the community development block grant or low income house credit assistance i was provided. 42,000 of the row homes were in orleans parish in approximately 15,000 affordable rental units have been developed in orleans parish. the tax credit program as well as with a small rental repair program. using cdbg funds. my read on this arc of her cover is that july 82007 was likely due to people that insurance or adequate insurance or needed just enough of the

that funeral homeowner is telling her side. >> she says the bodies were stored there for just a matter of hours. it comes as critics of janet powell are coming out of the woodwork. >> nbc 10's george spencer talked with her tonight live at central detective. george? >> reporter: powell told me by phone that this public story has become one of assumptions, the kind of assumptions that people make right or wrong when dead bodies are discovered. but as detectives here continue their work, some of her critics are coming forward. >> i was happy, actually. it's like finally car. ma. >> reporter: derrian austin said he felt an unexpected relief yesterday when news broke of three bodies discovered in this strawberry mansion garage just around the corner from the powell funeral home. he's been fighting that same funeral home since his mother died late last spring, alleging that the owner never repaid a promised $8,000 deposit. >> how she explained it to me, why she didn't give me my money back was because she had several property damages to her funeral home last year during the winter and she u

by accepting this substantial grants homeowners agreed to rebuild by a certain date but if homeowners chose not to rebuild, the homes would be to get over to this day. in louisiana alone 130,000 families received compensation. an average award of $69,224. 92% selected the option to rebuild were 8% chose to keep their homes to the state rather than rebuild it. >> again, how long does recovery tape? from its low point in july 2006 at 98,000 active addresses to the 179,000 active addresses today, the increase of 80,000 over the decade. most of these were like is supported in some form by the block grant or low income housing tax credit assistance provided. 42,000 stayed rebuild grants and approximately 15,000 affordable units have been developed in new orleans parish. as well as with a small rental referral program using cdbg funds. my read on the ark or recovery is the first bomb through july july 2007 was likely due to people who have insurance or adequate insurance are needed just enough of the funds to recover relatively quickly. the rebuild from your three to seven was the lowest in

and black homeowners had a very large gap on the funds available to them based on the prestorm value of their homes. >> hill's organization launched a lawsuit against the federal government claiming the road home program was detrimentary. in 2012 it ruled it likely was. >> it's important to see how the history of segregation led to these lower home values and led to these neighborhoods with depressed home values. so policies like red-lining where banks would refuse to lend money to purchase a home in an integrated neighborhood. >> while the road home lawsuit resulted in more funds being paid out to some, hebert says her community is still suffering. >> it's not quite falling down but it's not really a good home. >> it's really damaging. i personally would not want to live next othis. it's because, the city has been sitting here for ten years with neglect. >> there's been progress here in the last couple of years. >> basically i asked the other councilpeople -- >> 32 of the east homeowners associations are now represented by one main group. >> and there's been more investment. a walma

is dan in texas on our line for homeowners. two are for calling.ive us a sense of the housing market in your community. caller: it is pretty wide open. a lot of houses going up for sale. what i believe is happening is that because of the community itself, we have one big college, tarleton state university and at the bottom, blue-collar's, which i include muscle, i have two or two full-time jobs, we are having trouble paying the mortgages that were out there as of 10 years ago. some of us that i know in this neighborhood, and it is getting to right now where with two jobs , layoff from a good company and has me working two jobs now, i really can hardly afford the payment. i have got a high interest rate know,and it is just, you could not make the payments. i could only make partial payments. at the end of it all, it added up to one big payment. i filed bankruptcy, i am not the only one in town doing that either, i just -- my comment is, to havedo need is help some kind of homeowners oversight committee that can .elp us keep us in our homes that's re

and tonight, critics say the utility is kicking homeowners while they are down. >> it is going to go over here. >> reporter: frustrated he told his wife to write the check. a check for $2,300. >> i wrote the check because we had no choice. >> reporter: no choice because their utility company national grid refused to reconnect their natural gas service without it. >> we shouldn't have to go to any more horror. we did it with sandy and i feel like they are making us relive all these things. >> reporter: after the superstorm, national grid waived disconnection and reconnection fees for struggling homeowners. but, this summer, quietly reinstated those fees. ms. willy says it is adding insult to injury. >> all the people here, it is long. from new york rising. >> reporter: it will affect hundreds, perhaps thousands of homeowners who have yet to elevate their homes to meet new >> people don't have the thousands of dollars at this point to shell out for that. >> reporter: assemblyman todd kiminsky sent out this letter asking them to reconsider. but the utility is firm. two years after the s

yesterday the man in charge of fema's program met with homeowners. and we have the story from long beach. >> we all as a community deserve more than the way we've been treated. >> reporter: marie pulled no punches as he opened her door to fema and the family just returned to their sandy-damaged home last week. nearly three years after the storm. it took so long, basil says because fema underpaid her storm damage claim. >> we should have got this right the first time and too many instances we did not. >> reporter: he issued an apology to a city where up to 500 sandy families have yet to return home. he's now urging sandy victims to reopen their flood claims so fema can determine if they were indeed underpaid. 144,000 homeowners in new york and new jersey are eligible. but so far, only about 12,000 have applied. >> i really want to move on with my life. >> reporter: linda won't reopen her claim, in part she says, because of a lack in trust in fema that isn't unique in long beach. >> the feeling is if i resubmit, they'll deny me and if they do give me s

into homeowners' hand said about the two-year mark.but that does not mean the recovery is moving more quickly or that it did move more quickly on the gulf coast than we are seeing in sandy. we are seeing in sandy is each of the grantees is doing a real reconstruction program and managing the process. new york state and new jersey are moving at a good clip. that said for families waiting to have their homes repaired, it is never fast enough. lines, areg the same there any lessons learned from katrina that have informed how h.u.d. handles disbursement of sandy recovery money? we could go on all day about the many lessons we have learned. that first one is to ensure the grantees are doing real thatwner rehab programs, homeowners are not left to their own devices to try to manage their recovery. cdbgse when we get disaster funding it is because the scale of the disaster has been so large. it is too much to ask all homeowners to manage their own contractors and dealing with the process. that is one of the most critical points for us. earl:

. >>> homeowner uses his i phone to stop a burglar had her tracks.ow the device tipped him off to the break in. dave? >>> not at 90 degrees for that long so it's still considered a heat wave but one thing in the morning doesn't last long f you're up early new enough 59 to 64 and -- 69 to 64 clear and comfortable. all the new updated and updated forecast coming up in just a few minutes. ♪ >>> firefighters batter link a raging wildfire in california getting a bit of a break. cooler temperatures and less humidity are providing the conditions firefighters need to try to get a handle on the huge fire. the fast moving flames spread across 47 house sand acres. tonight it's only 5% contained. more than 6,000 buildings are threatened. thousands have been evacuated and just in time, too. officials say two dozen homes have been destroyed. >> it's hard. i mean i have just pretty much grab my pictures off the wall, my kids baby books an couple outfits. it's hard. i don't want to leave anything. grab what i don't want to leave and that's about it. >> 8,000 firefig

. >>> and three years after sandy and the struggle to rebuild on long island continues, today homeowner got to question fema directly. plus janice has your workweek forecast. it is monday. >> it is monday. and we have got to get through it. and we did. it looks nice after tomorrow. and tonight we're tracking some thunderstorms that are moving into the catskills and poconos. what that will mean for your morning commute tomorrow, coming up. >>> have a tip for new york's biggest i-team? call 866-news-244 or e-mail tips at nbcnewyork.com. yoplait. the smooth and creamy yogurt your whole family loves. yoplait original with no artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavors, and no high fructose corn syrup. >>> turns out this fire that injured more than 20 people at a harlem high-rise was started by an extension cord plugged into a power strip. electrical. that's the word from fire marshals tonight. the flames broke out just before 11:00 yesterday morning. on the 16th floor of this building on broadway. 22 people were hurt. ten firefighters. all of their injuries are minor. mostly smoke inhalati

>> identify homeowners affected by hurricane sandy unable get home, make repairs to their assistance. volunteers and donations, they step in to make sure residents can finally return to their homes. here in rockaway where the group is headquartered they are working 17 job sites and have a waiting list of 15 homeowners waiting to qualify for help. they have provided assistance to 150 properties and fully rebuilt 102 homes in queens. the owner of this rockaway townhouse suffered heavy damage to their home and a rental property next door which also repaired. >> what we find here, new york city, and what they continue to find in new orleans is that there are hundreds and thousands of people that are still waiting to return home that still have unmet needs. >> reporter: with ten years passing since the devastation of katrina, and coming up on three years since sandy left havoc in its path. >> our aim is to not have a ten year anniversary where there are still families and homeowners waiting to return home. >> reporter: and friends of rockaway hope to return the 80- year-old homeowner to he

view. >>> it could cost foster city homeowners more to live in the houses they already live in. much of the foster city's levee system is insufficient, that means the city has to find money to build something new or residents have to start caring expensive flood insurance. michelle roberts is there, along one of the levees. and michelle, what's the problem? >> reporter: essentially, it's too short. this spot is about three feet high, fema suggested be raised another three feet. the city is thinking about building a wall, concrete or metal, that will separate the wetlands from where everybody lives. this eight-mile scenic stretch of foster city may soon look a lot different. >> i'm sure no one here will be happy about it blocking their views. >> reporter: greg lives steps away from the bay for 15 years and has never seen his neighborhood flood. but he's also not surprised fema has ruled this levee insufficient to protect homeowners from a 100-year storm and rising sea levels. >> i think eventually this was going to come. >> reporter: fema says 80% of the levee needs to be raised.

and thecompletely done homeowner a living in the house.ng and not happy severale things area years ago, the person who bought it, it flooded to -- the person who bought it, she could not have afforded to own a home otherwise. and she flooded. with her insurance proceeds, they -- she did a lot of nice of rate. not only did she repair the home, but she had these nice shutters and things installed and has worked really, really hard. is as far as you can see there and as far as you see there. people are getting ready to occupy. but there is only a handful of living in holy cross for now. there is no reason for this not to have been a focus area, especially since so many people in the lower ninth ward lost everything and have absolutely no ability to return. when you have lighted and abandoned countries, a property that tivo are selling for no money, that those cannot be let back into service and repopulated. so many people on the other side of claiborne avenue that really are lost. that is what breaks my heart, personally. all of these are rea

it's t theype of thihing most homeowners f fear they'll hear when they hire a contractor. >>e've got to open the ceiling in the basement and everything else. >> 7 on your side hired eight different electricians and received eight different estimates for eight solutions to one problem. >> thiss man certificated and licens with 35 years experience in the fieleld, creed the problem. the outlets and microwaves stopped woing. an easasy fix foror anyone. we set up hidden cameras throughout the house and watch s t electctrician triried to diagnose t problem. our pducer posingg as the homeowner calalled t the electriciansns from craigslist, yelpnd yellow pages. and whahat he expxperienced. >> [inaudible] . >> was sometimes a bit surpriing. >>i don't knowow what's going o. >> speaking of surprises, eveve homeowner shouldn't bee surprisd to be charged a service fee. the priceces we were quotetedd d from 7575 to $100 just to come throh t dor and for a relatively s simple problem. >>>> this is a prolem i could have fixed myself that we created. >> here, and i canush and againin. >> bu

the homeowner said so. you got that right.can't stop them because there's no homeowner around to verify. questioner: you talked about the woman who moved into the ouse over there. sue: it's very negative, i hate to say it on the roader record. questioner: what's going on? sue: she's broken into. no phone to put in an alarm system. the usual suspects, like a lot of neighborhoods here. but there's a rat problem and she's had a horrible rat infestation. and she's had the exterminater out how many times. the rat -- rats attacked her dog and she had to take her dog to the vet. that's her last straw. i know she won't leave because i know her and she's very strong and independent. but she's a single gal living on her own and she has weathered, you know, everything in this neighborhood that's happened. but the one thing she can't stand is rats in her house. and they're river rats. but, look, the rats have so much, you know, this is disney world to a rat. you don't have any people or rat bait or anything to chase them away. and they ca

a recent story, a slack lifeline for drowning homeowners. gretchen, let's begin with this program that the federal government set up to help these homeowners. the home affordable modification program. what is it? >> you know, greta, this was the signature program that the obama administration wanted to put in place to help homeowners. it started in 2009. so we have a long, you know, kind of arc of performance here to evaluate it. as you remember, you know, in the crisis, the banks got huge, enormous bailouts. homeowners were really kind of left struggling on their own. so the h.a.m.p. program, as it was called, was designed to really kind of help them and combat the idea that only the banks got the bailout. so what we've been looking at recently is a report from the special inspector general of the t.a.r.p. program. she and her colleagues went back and analyzed how many banks turned down -- or what number of borrowers are turned down by the banks for the h.a.m.p. program. the numbers were pretty startling. >> yeah, and from your story, here'

the firstborns of genetic square and is alliance to endow for the park it will assess the golf homeowners association 15 per month and the project sponsor will match any contribution that the friends of james weldon johnson square raise up to $50,000 for the first two years pardon entered into a memorandum of understanding with the park alliance and is friends of james weldon johnson square to commemorate this demons and it will a last for 50 years the project sponsor received 62 signatures into the neighborhoods supporting the project i'm joined by the planning department staff and the project sponsor if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> for some plane my ipad the technological ability to pull up do you have a copy of the resolution thanks. >> so public comment i'm going to quickly reads off the names (calling names). >> unifying have 3 minutes each to speak on this item can be in any order. >> good morning i'm brad with the korea one the co-sponsors of the project just to reiterate what stacey said the projects 95 unit project 10 thousand square feet of space for

tonight we're talking about one homeowner who did lose everything. you take a look at the hills behind me, it's a very rural area out here. people have homes out there and some had to flee as the flames advanced. as you drive along morgan valley road, east of lower lake, the acres of blackened hillsides quickly become overwelming. >> i feel so bad. there's hundreds of people that live down there that just, their houses are ashes and everyone we know that lives down there, they have nothing anymore. it's crazy. >> the rocky fire has burned 16 homes to the ground. among them, amanda o'conner. her home used to stand beyond this area covered in pink fire retardant. it's a color during fire season that is usually a sign of safety. but, it was too late for amanda's home. >> from my porch, you could see the big pillar of smoke and you know, we were deciding what to do and then we turned around and the pillar of smoke was two times bigger. all right, we got to go. >> when they snuck beyond fire lines yesterday to see what was left, they were stunned. >> we a

we cannot see that. >> reporter: but while heco studied the problem, homeowners like carlton ho were left waiting. it had been a year-and-a-half that his system had sat unused. ho was left paying his regular electric bill: about $150 a month. plus another $240 a month in payments for the $23,000 solar panels he'd bought but couldn't use. >> hawaiian electric needs to and has taken steps to work with our customers to find solutions that works for them and works for the grid. it's been learning moments, for us within the utility. >> reporter: and for the solar industry which took a big hit when the utility slowed new approvals: there were hundreds of layoffs and stockpiles of solar equipment. but those solar customers waiting to turn on their systems or even get permission to start construction knew that going solar would still be a good deal: a system up and running would reduce their energy bills dramatically. in the meantime, non-solar customers, still the majority, were paying much more to maintain the public grid than those with their own panels on the roof, a disparity heco sugge

many homeowners are worried it's another attempt to grab water. >>> paul, where is the water?t coming anytime soon. this is why we try to store it up in the winter. >> november. >> yes. we have a very distinct wet season and dry season like a bank account. you want to put deposit into the bank account so you can withdraw it when you need it. now is the time to withdraw, but the bank account empty. here's a peek at the high temperatures today in the middle of the dry season. the pattern change we're talking about will yield cooler temperatures but no rain. san rafael 78. san jose today 77. hayward 73. morgan hill warm at 87. tonight lows around 60. vallejo 60. san francisco 59 tomorrow morning. if you are traveling tomorrow plan on haze and smoke in the sierra. a lot of fires several hours to the north and the winds are carrying the smoke into the sierra. so tahoe a hazy 84. fresno smoke and 101. ukiah 95 degrees. we have a ridge of high pressure to our south. it's moved and changed our wind direction. the breeze is coming in stronger today and felt refreshing because it's comi

the tiedup homeowner ran down the block to the coffee shop for help. they called police. the neighbor said the neighborhood which is known as "the graduate" hospital area is typically a safe one, but this home invasion is concerning. >> it's scary, i have a family and two little girls and my wife at home, if somebody breaks in with us, the same thing could happen to us. >> reporter: the police say even while you're home keep your alarm on if you have one. of course police are looking for tips as to what can lead them to the intruder including the stolen bike, if you know anything police want to hear from you, sharrie williams channel 6 "action news." >> a new jersey mom is demanding answers after her 3-year-old son was able to leave the day care without anyone noticing. little darrell walk out of the child care center and walked across hamilton avenue and knocked donlt door in tears -- on the door in tears. >> they just apologized and said it will never happen again. >> nobody from the day care returned our calls or efforts to reach them for comment. >> a 19-year-old cool

the tied up homeowner ran down the block to the coffee shop for help. they called police. the neighbor who lives nearby said the neighborhood is a safe one, but the recent theft and home invasion is concerning. >> i have a family and two little girls and my wife at home, somebody breaks in with us, the same thing could happen to us. >> reporter: residents met with police officers from the 17th district the advice that was given even while you're home keep your alarm on if you have one. of course, police are looking for tips asking what could lead them to the intruder, if you have any information police want to hear from you. sharrie williams channel 6 "action news." >> a process is underway that could cost pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane her job. the disciplinary board has informed kathleen kane she has ten days to show why her law license should not be suspended on an emergency bases. if the high court spends her license she will not serve as attorney general. she has been charged with purjury and obstruction of justice after allegedly leaking grand jury infor

. >> still ahead, "eyewitness news", melted siding, a problem causing homeowners thousands of dollars this summer. jim donovan's on your side with what you need to know. >> and then, listen to this, rapper 50-cent in court detailing his finances, but wait until you hear how much he says he's paying for his gardening. uh-huh. then, a program that's helping children with disability, enjoy water skiing. just great story here. we'll have this when we come back. good morning. >>> here's look at your headlines today on cbs-3. police cruiser and taxi cab collide injuring an officer and two others. the officer was responding to a call of a person with a gun at the time of the crash. it happened at 56th and haverford avenue in west philadelphia. >>> also, this morning police in holmdale new jersey are looking for a suspect who shot two people leaving a hip hop concert featuring j coal. the shooting happened in a parking lot near the pnc bank art center. eyewitnesses say the gunfire broke out after an argument. >> and firefighters continue to work to put out a massive wild fire in northern cali

the tied up homeowner ran down the block to the coffee shop for help. they called police. the neighbor said the neighborhood which is known as "the graduate" hospital area is typically a safe one, but this recent theft and home invasion is concerning. >> reporter: it's scary. i have family, two little girls and my wife at home, so she breaks in with us, same thing could happen to us. >> reporter: residents met with police officers from the 17th district, the advice that was given even while you're home keep your alarm on if you have one. police are looking for tips as to what can lead to the intruder including the stolen bike, police want to hear from you. sharrie williams channel 6 "action news." >> a new jersey mom is demanding answers after her 3-year-old son was able to leave his day care without anyone noticing. he walked out of the center in hamilton thursday morning and crossed hamilton avenue to get to the house knocking on the back door in tears. his mother reported the incident to police and the department of children and families. >> they apologized and said it

homeowners are paying keenan other guards agreed. >> pam: the cold war between communism and democracy. melted away today in the havana sunshine. u.s soldiers raised the american flag at a new embassy in cuba. the two countries. only 90 - miles apart.are restoring diplomatic relations for the first time in more than half a century. but not everyone is pleased. in miami. the pro- castro and anti-castro cubans clashed. cubans who fled to miami when fidel castro took power. waved signs that said. - "obama coward. shame on you." relations. actually started in july, when cuban diplomats inaugurated their embassy in washington d.c.. >> brian: it's going to be a hot weekend for the bay area. a weather system that's been making for relatively mild weather this week is finally going to push off to the east this weekend. behind it, offshore winds will develop and we will get very little to no cooling from the sea breeze. expect afternoon highs saturday and sunday to get up over 100 degrees in the east bay valleys. the south bay will be up into

gretchen morgenson began with this program that homeowner set up to help these homeowners. what is this program. theou know this was signature program that the obama administration wanted to put in place to help homeowners and it started in 2009. we have a long arc of performance here to evaluate. as you remember in the crisis the banks got huge enormous bailouts and homeowners were really left struggling on their own. so the program as it was called was designed to really help them and combat the idea that only the banks got the bailout. so what we have been looking at recently is a report from the special inspector general of the charter program. went backr colleagues and analyzed how many banks turned down or what number of borrowers are turned down by the banks for the program and the numbers were startling. host: from your story, here is a quote from christy saying, we are constantly seeing problems with the way servicers are treating homeowners and not following the rules. i don't understand why the hasn't been a stronger policing. what is going on? guest: i don't kno

common mistakes homeowners make when deciding to rent out their home. and cofounder of my lodge tax. thank you for joining us. we have a number of events in the bay area outside lands this weekend, beta breakers, gay pride parade, certainly a great opportunity to make some money rent out your home. what are some things we should know before we make that decision. taxes and registration requirements, at least. >> exactly. anybody that's renting a home in san francisco needs to collect a 14% city tax. before they can pay the tax they have to register with the city. they have to get on a city registry now do this at the treasury and finance office. and then you collect the tax from your guest and is then the tax is paid monthly. so there is actually a series of registration licensing and then ongoing tax filing requirements that each person engaged in this needs to do. if you're on air b and b they pay the city tax for you so that makes it convenient. but it's something that's important to stay on top of, especially when the industry is really trying to po

the homeowner was told "you have to replace the window." no, you don't. yes, they're single pane, not the most efficient but storm windows, if those are deficient you can get a storm win defor $120 as opposed to replacing $600. and if you have a basement, you have to use a sump pump. this is a sumpro. these alternate back and forth, it uses a battery inverter meaning these regular pumps work, the regular ones when they're plugged in, it's not a bilge pump and these things will work up to three days with no power. >> wow, thank you, lou manfredini! love you, buddy. go to klgandhoda.com and click the connect button for a chance to have lou answer your question next time. >>> the home is where the heart is and so is lilliana. >> she has your luxe for less trends and home decor. >> and if you're what's the most important thing your parents do for you? they buy me food. they make sure i'm never lost. well... they pay my allowance. encourage me. they sing us a lullaby at night... a lullaby at night. oh! now i remember... why does it matter that cigna covers pre

so maybe they can motivate homeowner to rent out again. please don't create law to on the surface it looks like it's helping the tenant. however, on the other hand, it's hurting their rights, because it's discouraging rental properties and decreasing the number of rental units. please make law that the homeowners and tenants can survive and live peacefully in such a nice place in san francisco. that is why i am opposed to this law. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is -- i'm vice president of the chinese realtor association of america. i opposed to this law personally i was a tenant for more than 10 years, and my parents were first-generation to come to the u.s.. they worked as laborers, working-class. they make minimum wage to support me to go to college, to have an education. as part of an immigrant and minority in san francisco, we want to have a piece of property to call a home. that is why we saved up every single penny that we earned, after 12 years' of living in san francisco. finally we became homeowners to

homeowners own individual financial and other resources.ut the city has a planning commission. they are understaffed, like everything is here but the city's plan is what we have been doing for the last year, which is neighborhoods need to get organized. neighborhoods need to prove their viability. mr. nagin was very controversial when he said that. people were saying why should we have to prove our viability? it seemed very unfair. but when you look at it and you look at what has happened in some of the other neighborhoods that are coming back, maybe we did not have the best job if he or maybe they didn't have a lot of wealthy people could afford it who are doing tremendous work. people bother viability from the people who live in that neighborhood with their determination and severe as that proved a neighborhoods viability. so in the end, a neighborhoods strength is not due to the brick-and-mortar in the buildings. it is due to the residents and homeowners and how much they believe in coming home. announcer: the holy cross area of the lowe

so maybe they can motivate homeowner to rent out again. please don't create law to on the surface it looks like it's helping the tenant. however, on the other hand, it's hurting their rights, because it's discouraging rental properties and decreasing the number of rental units. please make law that the homeowners and tenants can survive and live peacefully in such a nice place in san francisco. that is why i am opposed to this law. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is -- i'm vice president of the chinese realtor association of america. i opposed to this law personally i was a tenant for more than 10 years, and my parents were first-generation to come to the u.s.. they worked as laborers, working-class. they make minimum wage to support me to go to college, to have an education. as part of an immigrant and minority in san francisco, we want to have a piece of property to call a home. that is why we saved up every single penny that we earned, after 12 years' of living in san francisco. finally we became homeowners to

the funeral homeowner does have valid license. according to detectivesly. we'll have the latest on the investigation coming up at 6:00. iain. >> dave, thank you. >>> crews are still working on a water main that caused a huge sink hole to open up in kensington. fox 29 was there as workers from the philadelphia water department continued their work this morning. hole opened up last night right near the intersection of tulip and huntington streets. no word yet on when those repairs are expected to be finish. >> refreshing changes in your fox 29 weather authority. live look at center city right now. the rains gone. so is the humidity. light little breeze outside. looks like this is the weather trend that we can most definitely get used to. chief meteorologist scott williams, thank you. >> lucy, absolutely beautiful if you're stepping outdoors right now. the humidity is lower. more of a dry heat right now. high pressure is moving in overhead. here's the front that brought part of the area some clouds as well as a couple of scattered showers early this morning. b

just about every homeowner said it sure looked and sounded like one. news 4 new york. >>> thank you. the jersey state troopers with canine units are scouring the woods near the pnc bank. they're looking for the suspect in the shooting that left two men wounded after a hip-hop concert. >> this went down just after 11:00 p.m. as that concert ended. a man says the motive was easy to figure out. he says he heard the victims making comments about the body of the shooter's girlfriend. >> you know, he was defending his woman's honor. >> reporter: he says that was the motive for last night's shooting and these pictures show the aftermath. the gunshot victim laying on the ground being attended to by emergency workers. after a sold out concert headlined by j cole ended, people started shuffling out. he took his 13-year-old daughter to that show. he said he heard some loud pops as he and his daughter walked to their car. he thought a prankster was lighting fireworks. >> turned and saw a guy with a gun in his hand and saw the flashes and we started running. >> rep

according to city records as early as last summer, the city had already asked the homeowner to fix this fire escape and to paint it over. as you can see, that still hasn't been done. >> fire hazards. >> reporter: neighbors here on wood vine street in queens say they call 311 constantly. a clear danger in their minds, especially since there have been fires in the past. thankfully, the fires weren't so serious that evacuation wasn't an issue. the building recently changed ownership and the new landlord says when they receive violations, they make repairs. a required new york fire marshal says there are dozens of things people never think about until it is too late. >> you want to make sure all the rungs are in place. you want to make sure nothing is rusting away. how long do you think it is going to take to move those four flower pots? >> reporter: most violations are discovered after complaints from residents rather than routine inspections. >> good idea to do your own inspection right there. >>> that's going to do it for us. thank you for watching. >> stay with us as the news continues

homeowners in occidental say they face water cutbacks but the vineyards haven't.backs don't apply to the 60,000 acres of grapes in sonoma county. homeowners are complaining. >> share your thing. the wine growers aren't doing that. they are hoarding the water. >> wine is not something you have to have. you have to have water. >> the united wine growers of sonoma county want to create their own irrigation district. many homeowners worry it's another attempt to grab water. ♪[ music ] >>> there's a huge fire burning in the far east bay. in the far east bay. we'll have an update on go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us. get your first month's payment plus five years wear and tear coverage. make the most of summer... with volvo. ,,,, a new sea chance to tryew look. something different. this summer, challenge your preconceptions and experience a cadillac for yourself. ♪ the 2015 cadillac srx. lease this from around $339 per month, or purchase with 0% apr financing. foand millions moremericans lwho