in juliette, georgia, radioactive water flows from the tap. these problems may seem unrelated, but with a closer look, these two communities share a common denominator--coal ash, and lots of it. the discovery of coal in the united states dramatically shaped our energy future. today, there is no greater source of power than coal combustion. it's responsible for nearly 40% of our electricity. but burning coal generates waste. it's called coal ash, and every year in the u.s., 130 million tons of it is created. >> it's the largest industrial waste stream in america. you could fill the boxcars of a freight train that would stretch from new york city to melbourne, australia, with the coal ash that's generated every year in this country. >> the ash contains toxic metals. lead, arsenic, chromium, cadmium, others. and it even has radioactive substances. >> it's these pollutants, many of them known to cause cancer, that have people worried. and the big question is, where are all these toxins ending up? >> there's fly ash and coal dust... we'll go on the

. >> juliette goodrich said the students had a lot to say, too. >> reporter: just as school let out, we caught up with jessica urbina. it was her school photo pulled out of the yearbook because she wore a tuxedo. >> what do you think of all this support for you and what is going on? >> well i'm appreciative of everything. i'm so glad that my fellow classmates are rallying behind me. i never fete more loved than i do right now, honestly. >> reporter: today, her classmates rallied behind her big time dressed in ties, even tuxedo shirts. they were advised by the school not to talk, but the yearbook editor had a lot to stay. >> for them to take her out of the senior graduation, it is disgraceful to her. if i get in trouble for speaking out, that's fine. >> reporter: they say they welcome gay and transgendered students but the tux violates the dress code of the school administered by the archdiocese of san francisco. >> tonight, the school says it will revise its policy. it is not clear what it will be. >>> the family of one of the two workers killed by a bart train has filed a wrongful d

but just in case. >> thank you, juliette. i will remember that. hopefully i won't have to use that information. >>> all right. good morning, everybody. happy friday! we are going to check in on the bay bridge toll plaza commute where everything is very slow. it's slow, it's backed up from the foot of the maze with the metering lights on. traffic picks up past the metering lights heading across the westbound span. the san mateo bridge has been fine. just a little bit of sluggish traffic as you approach midspan. southbound 880 slow now leaving hayward bound for fremont. if you are heading for the golden gate, southbound traffic along 101 is fine. just keep in mind heading through -- to and through napa you can expect heavier traffic. we have the bottlerock festival, it will affect a lot of that traffic heading around downtown napa today throughout the weekend. that's a look at your "kcbs traffic." now to lawrence. >> all right. a lot of cloud out there this morning. the low clouds and fog have sunday, back onshore. big changes in the weather for thi

juliette. >> reporter: allen, these crimes were brazen, they were dangerous, and today these suspects were in court today, call it tough love or simply doing the right thing but the suspects' families say no one is bailing them out. >> are you going to go visit them in jail? >> i will visit them in jail and pray with them. >> reporter: the pastor and family friend says no one will be bailing out 19-year-old stanley sherman or 18-year-old anthony sherman after the two brothers went on a brazen crime spree that landed them and 25- year-old james miles of oakland behind bars along with a 15- year-old. >> sometimes you have to have hard experiences to teach you a lesson sometimes. this may be one of those times. >> reporter: the crime spree started at 10 a.m. in redwood city. two homes ransacked. then the suspects moved across the bay to fremont where they kicked in the door on via lagana and ransacked the place. then police say they went to this fremont park on paseo padre around 3 p.m. and held a mother at gunpoint as her children watched. >> one of them immediately pointed the gun at h

witnesses tell kpix 5 reporter juliette goodrich it was a massacre. juliette. >> reporter: well, liz, those post office trucks sit right beneath those trees and while there are birds in the trees and birds can make quite a mess, so when they came to trim the trees, some of those birds fell some 30 feet to the ground and witnesses fear some of the eggs and nests may have landed in a wood chipper. five rescued chicks are now being cared for at the international bird rescue in fairfield. they are just one to three weeks old knocked out of their nests during tree trimming and injured from the fall. this little one's beak was damaged. >> none have any infections. they are healthy but bruised. >> reporter: they are black crown night herrons and nest in city owned trees around the post office and everywhere. the problem they make a mess and that mess was getting on the city's postal truck like it did though this parking meter. what is the protocol on tree trimming? >> hands off. you can't disturb them. >> reporter: the person in charge of trimming the trees

juliette goodrich tells us how much the value has shot up. >> reporter: the katrina family bought their home in 1998. >> we paid 400,000 for it. >> reporter: the previous owners were his wife's parents. she grew up in this home. and in 1963 ... >> bought the lot for about $8,000 and spent $25,000 on the house. >> reporter: it has had its share of remodeling. >> it was a beautiful fireplace. a nice stone from back then in the 60s , but the problem was it took up so much space up here and it was wood-burning. >> reporter: and the home has been updated with hardwood floors. >> it had the typical white carpet that was white. it had more marble in the house than a mausoleum. it was just marble all over the house. >> reporter: for decades, this established neighborhood had little to no turnover until about five years ago. >> the widows were passing away and new families were coming in so you are seeing more kids in the neighborhood. kids playing on the street. you come on the other hand the corner and you have a cone saying kids playing. >> reporter: the price for the katrina's home shot up i

. >> and good morning to you, i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it is 5:00 and out of the gate time for a little weather and, of course, the weekend, lawrence. >> it is friday! can you feel it, guys? we have some low clouds and fog sweeping onshore right now along the coastline. inside the bay and some of the valleys, as well. so change in the weather for the day as we head in toward the weekend. so cooler temperatures on tap for the day. still not bad. we'll find some sunshine in the valleys. 70s and low 80s there, a lot of 60s inside the bay but becoming mostly sunny. cloudy out toward the coastline. temperatures there in the 50s and the 60s. we have some cloudy skies over san francisco right now. and around the bay 40s and 50s. but by the afternoon, we'll see some sunshine as the fog pulls back to the coast. 69 in fremont. 75 in san jose. about 77 in fairfield. and 63 degrees in san francisco. let's check the roads now with liza battalones. >>> good morning. unfortunately, we do have slow traffic now for all of those driver

where you hang out with your friends. >> reporter: in pleasanton, juliette goodrich, kpix5. >> i just want to say, who sleeps in my bedroom now? >>> well, some crazy video tonight of a sink hole that swallowed an entire block. >> this is incredible. even cars disappeared. >> oh my god! [ screaming ] >> it is weird. watch the street lights go down. just amazing. a rainstorm caused the road in baltimore to completely collapse. cars plunges over the edge of a sidewalk and into the giant sink hole. chip reed says people just watched in horror. >> reporter: people described hearing a rumble and what sounded like thunder. >> it seemed to slowly but surely, it was sinking. >> reporter: as the grounds collapsed, the wall structure and sidewalk caved with it swallowing trees, lam posts, and parked cars. >> everything parked on that side of the street is on. >> reporter: emergency crews evacuated 19 homes and inspected gas and power lines. drivers returned to their parked cars hoping to find them where they left them. some were lucky, others were not. the debris and chunks of road way fell onto

. >> reporter: in oakland, juliette goodrich, kpix5. >> there are no reports of any eggs dying or anyggs destroyed. >>> tonight, a young mountain lion is back in the wild after he wandered into a mountain view complex. he was part of a research project at uc santa cruz. the biologist who put the tracking device on him was the same guy who tranquilized him last night. last night. ,,,,,, oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh...little help? i got you! unh! it's so beautiful! man: should we call security? no, this is just getting good. the name your price tool, still only from progressive. the mustard seed that makes french's yellow mustard. 100% natural from me to you. with 40% more free, there's more to love. french's. naturally amazing. islamic militants have kill hundreds of people in a borr town in nigeria. officials blame the same terro >> tonight, we are getting word that islamic militants have killed hundreds of people

i'm juliette goodrich, in for michelle. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat.nd i have a good feeling about it. >> it's friday. what's bad to feel about that? >> hooray! >>> fog has returned to the bay area. we'll see more of that through the weekend. some drizzle, too. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and as you would expect for 4:29 a.m., it is "friday light" at the bay bridge toll plaza. there is roadwork westbound. crews will be out there until 5:00. we'll talk about that coming up. >>> we begin with this story. n incident caught on camera in an east bay high school last week. you can see a student in a wheelchair getting hit several times. the person hitting him was a security official for the oakland high school. the principal says the student objected to the guard pushing his chair and spat at the guard. the student's injuries were so bad, he had to be taken to the hospital. that guard was arrested and is now facing felony charges. a letter from the principal says this incident

juliette goodrich, kpix5. >>> there was another scary incident at that same wal-mart last year. a guy crashed his car into the front of the store, got out and started attacking people. >>> last night, we told you amazon will hire hundreds of people for warehouse jobs in newark. tonight, they propped a big yellow thing right in the middle of justin herman plaza in san francisco. what is that thing, andria borba? >> reporter: that is the question of the night. many people are asking, but you know, you just have to see the story to fine out. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: it takes a lot in san francisco to get people's attention. but dropping a giant yellow box in the middle of justin herman plaza is not subtle. >> we didn't even understand. >> reporter: it is called amazon locker and at the moment, it has it own personal security guard. it is in response to this. a rash of packages stolen off of doorsteps this past holiday season. the idea is amazon will ship your purchase here. you will punch in an online code and presto, your package is in hand and not getting swiped off your doorstep

. >> reporter: in oakland, juliette goodrich, kpix5. >> there are no reports of any eggs dying or any eggs destroyed. >>> tonight, a young mountain lion is back in the wild after he wandered into a mountain view complex. he was part of a research project at uc santa cruz. the biologist who put the tracking device on him was the same guy who tranquilized him last night. >> he started moving around into downtown, mountain view. >> biologists say the mountain lion is saw to find a new home and a mate. >>> one minute, he was a normal seven-year-old. the next, he was so violent, his dad had to restrain him. tonight, the mysterious syndrome that finally has a name. >> coming up in weather, a chance for showers and a chance of 100 degrees. find out which days, next. everywhere i look, i see a country ready to move forward... and a congress standing in the way. their budgets are late; jobs bills are stalled... and special interests run rampant. as an economics teacher at stanford, i know education means good jobs. so here's my plan: i'd start teaching computer coding in public schools right a

and as kpix 5 reporter juliette goodrich test us, they say she went after the young girl because she was asian. >>> reporter: our first look at 20-year-old maria garate faces one charge of attempted murder, one count of assault with a deadly weapon and a hate crime. >> she targeted the family because they were asian and that she attacked them and that this is a premeditated willful clinton act on her part. >> reporter: police say a -- deliberate act on her part. >> reporter: police say they were in the walmart when garate started beating the little girl with a lugnut wrench. >> this is every parent's worst nightmare. >> reporter: garate tried to hit the girl the second time but the father got in the way and was hit. store security guards tackled her to the ground. an employee telling kpix 5, she was screaming that little asian ""b" word" deserved it. juliette goodrich, kpix 5. >> there was another troubling incident at that very same walmart on story road last year. a man crashed his car into the front of the store and then attacked four people. >>> investigators in lodi are looking

juliette goodrich introduces us to one family who fought hard to make their doctor believe their son was not well. >> our son was, you know, a fairly normal kid. >> reporter: and today, at the age of 12 -- >> this is -- >> reporter: paul michael appears to be just that. normal. [ screaming ] >> reporter: but in 2009, when paul michael turned 7, unexplained psychotic episodes began. >> in the night, he was tearing up the flooring. he took a knife to the office door. >> reporter: the nelsons videotaped one of his many episodes because some doctors didn't believe them. >> he was flopping around on his knees barking like a dog. >> reporter: over the past five years, paul michael has been hospitalized 50 times. removed from the by police 28 times and received inpatient treatment for two years. >> all of a sudden our kid is an angel in the christmas play to what you just saw. >> reporter: at the time, there was no name for it. test after test after test and still no diagnosis. then finally a blood test came back positive the diagnosis, "pans," pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrom

. >> yes, tonight juliette goodrich shows us that one group is coming to the rescue. >> you can play. >> the bunny's have been spared from the death row. >> they had a lot of the adoptions in february and march. >> reporter: thanks to the society in richmond. the bay area's only bunny shelter. the only problem, they are at capacity, currently housing 40 rabbits. either they knew how to take care of them or they are ending up unwanted, letting them go. >> every day they would get a list of the shelter expected to be euthanized as many of them are unwanted easter pets. they would try to make it as fast as they can. >> so this is waffle and he is 9 months old. he would not be alive today if it was not for the house rabbit society with two sisters as they were adopted last week. and you've got, well, three brothers. you may have seen them as they are here shown on animal planet and their live web page. but like waffles, they also need a home. >> somebody will walk in the door and absolutely fall in love. >> reporter: in richmond, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. >> it is hard not to fall in lov

juliette goodrich shows us a bunch of baby birds took the fall. juliette. >> reporter: well, liz, those post office trucks are parked right under the trees. and those trees have birds and they make a mess. so when the post office hired a crew to trim the trees, some of the baby chicks fell 30 feet to the ground and witnesses fear eggs and nests may have landed in a wood chipper. five rescued chicks are now being cared for at the international bird rescue in fairfield. they are just one to three weeks old, knocked out of their nests during the tree trimming and injured from a fall. this little one's beak was damaged. >> so far none of these appear to have any sort of infections going on. they seem healthy but bruised. >> reporter: they are black crown night herons and nest in city owned trees around the post office and everywhere. but they make a mess and that was getting on the city's postal trucks. just like it did to this parking meter. what is the protocol then on tree trimming? >> hands off. hands off. you cannot disturb anything that's nestin

in san francisco, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. >> well, no policy change just yet. archdiocese of san francisco's policy requires all female students to wear dresses in their yearbook photos. we'll keep you updated. >>> san diego officials confirm at least one person has died in one of 11 major wildfires still burning tonight. now, calmer winds have helped crews gain ground on the front lines but the fight is far from over. cbs reporter bigad shaban takes us to the most difficult fire of them all the san marcos fire. bigad. >> reporter: liz, good evening. collectively the fires this week have burned about 20,000 acres in san diego county. here in san marcos crews are still working on assessing the damage but say they have seen at least five homes so far including this one behind me have been completely destroyed. will because of the fire. massive flames went through the camp pendleton marine base flaring up yards away from the building. two fires have burned more than 14,000-acre of brush around the compound. just south in san marcos, firefighters are scrambling to

juliette goodrich introduces us to one family. at first doctors didn't believe the stories about what their son was doing so they grabbed a video camera. >> our son was, you know, a fairly normal kid. >> reporter: and today, at the age 12 paul michael appears to be just that, normal. but in 2009 when he turned 7, unexplained psychotic episodes began. >> in the night he was tearing up the flooring. he took a knife to the office door. >> reporter: the nelsons videotaped one of his many episodes because some doctors didn't believe them. >> he was flopping around on his knees, barking like a dog. >> reporter: over the past five years, paul michael has been hospitalized 50 times removed from the home by police 28 times, and received in patient treatment for two years. all of a sudden our kid goes from an angel in the christmas play looking cute to what you just saw. >> reporter: at the time there was no name for it. test after test after test and still no diagnosis. then finally, a blood test came back positive. the diagnosis, "pans,"

good afternoon, i'm juliette goodrich in for michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. new details on the va scandal. eric shinseki has stepped down as the va secretary. today he apologized in public and then resigned in a private meeting with president obama. kpix 5's anne makovec joins us in the newsroom with an update on what the president told reporters today. >> reporter: former secretary eric shinseki apologized and called the findings in the report totally unacceptable and then the man in charg stepped down. >> eric shinseki resigned. >> reporter: the president accepted the resignation with regret but it was secretary eric shinseki's decision. >> he would be a distraction from the task at hand, which is to make sure that what's broken gets fixed. >> reporter: the task at hand involves fixing widespread problems inside the va medical system. whistle-blowers say hospital administrators ordered staff to lie about wait times in order to boost pay and bonuses. as many as 40 veterans at the phoenix va facility may have died while waiting for care. >> the misconduct has

industry has changed and it is not working to her advantage and then we have the great character of juliettarnes, which is a great foil to that because she is a product of the way the music industry is now, which is very much about the internet and multimedia. and all that. it is a really great -- the character is a really great representation of somebody who has worked hard to find her own voice and put it out into the world and is now having to find different ways of doing that. tavis: i mentioned these two characters. the city and the music. the show puts out a soundtrack every year. it is a delicious thing to listen to. the fact that you guys have this connection to t-bone in the first season, how lucky can you be? >> i have been such a huge fan of his for so long. how lucky to be able to work with her as well. when she came to me with this role and talked to me about it, she said that t-bone was going to be really involved. tavis: did you know that he was her husband? >> yes, i did. toying with the idea of playing a character who is singing and the voice is so important, to have an opp

in san francisco, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. >> now, the school also did release a statement late today and it says, the events have sparked a campuswide dialogue which will result in a revision of policy. >>> breaking news from the santa cruz mountains. within the last hour, a fire has broken out near the summit on mount madonna. cal fire says so far it has burned at least 5 acres. there are homes in that area but so far they are not being threatened by these flames. chopper 5 now on the scene as you can see right now. there's a cloud of smoke coming from that fire zone. now, we are going to keep monitoring this situation more updates as we go along tonight. but for right now, the smoke in an area not threatening homes. >>> right now investigators are looking into whether a firebug is behind a dozen suspicious grassfires in novato. in the past 24 hours, fires broke out in several locations around highway 101 and 37 interchange. two of them were set at homes. kpix 5's brian webb reports this is not the first time novato residents have had to worry about a firebug. brian. >> reporter: a

i'm juliette goodrich.ing hit several times at oakland high school. the person hitting him was a security officer. and that guard was arrested and now faces felony charges. >>> facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg and his wife are donating $120 million to help schools in low income bay area communities. the donations will be spread out over five years. the money is expected to go toward new schools as well as equipment, training and programs at existing schools. >> traffic and weather coming up. safeway understands you got to make every dollar count these days. that's why they have lots of ways for you to save. real big club card deals, the safeway app and gas rewards. this week, large, red seedless grapes are just $1.99 a pound. foster farms fresh whole chickens are only 99 cents a pound. and gatorade is just $3.99 an 8-pack. there's more savings to love... at safeway. >>> good morning. slow traffic for highway 37. this is in the westbound direction leaving vallejo. stays heavy into novato because of an earlier

. - there'd be no wedding without juliette. - wait a minute, what about the groom? - guys have it easy. all nick has to do is-- is not lose the ring and make a speech. - what ring? what speech? yeah, yeah, i got the ring. - and what about the toast? - it's getting there. - it better be there by saturday. - saturday. this saturday? nobody gets me. trubel, dinner! - yeah, no, we get you. trubel, come on! we're hungry! we wanna eat! - i'll get her. - no, you sit. i've got it.

>> juliette binoche, bryan cranston, ken watanabe. aaron taylor johnson. >> "godzilla." "who knew" with our crowd after your local messages. >> you love that. >> limp over. >> nice talking to you. ♪ what does the fox say >>> we are back with more of "today" on this winesday wednesday. we're ready to play our weekly trivia game called "who knew?" since it is national pet week, we're about to test your knowledge of all things pets and pop culture. kathie lee is across the street at the nbc experience store ready to hand out 100 bucks to anyone who gets the question right. and those who don't, lucky them. they get a katie lee cd. any hoo. here is veterinarian dr. katie nelson. hi. are you ready? >> i'm ready. >> let's play. >> these three ladies have just graduated from med school. they're doctors, too! congratulations. >> thank you. >> from staten island. which a-listers once famously owned a pet pig named max? you know this one, right? >> i do. it's "b," george clooney. >> george clooney? he owned a pot belly pig? >> a vietnamese pot belly pig. his name was max. he had hi

juliette binoche plays an art teacher that comes into the school, starts telling the kids that art isarts a battle within the school about whether words are more important than pictures. and at the same time, it looks like we're on each other, but we're kind of falling in love at the same time. >> i was going to say, you could call this a romantic comedy, unless that term makes you cringe. >> no, i think it is, yeah. but it's also very moving. they're both sort of carrying issues with themselves and there's very emotional stuff in it as well. the film rests on the relationship between me and juliette binoche. >> and your character jack marcus, mr. mark, as the kids call him. he has his charms, but he's kind of a bitter, sometimes mean washed up kind of guy. >> i think he is. he came to the school as a big star. he had written a very successful book. and he's got very tired and jaded. i think the whole arrival of juliette binoche's character kind of wakes him up and galvanizes him and gets him going again. >> now, you have to memorize long stretches of dialogue for this. i mean, you're

and i rise today to bring attention to the case of juliette diaz, an independent afro-cuban journalist who was unjustly detained by castro's thugs simply for photographing the brutality of the state security forces of fidel and raul castro in havana. the detention of this young journalist is not just the example of the regime's efforts to silence those who are critical of its actions but it also shows how ruthless the castro brothers continue to be in their policy of repressing independent voices and violating human rights. there's no independent press in cuba, and many journalists are afraid to speak out against the dictatorship for fear of incarceration. that is why it is so important to support the free flow of information on the island so that the cuban people can exchange ideas to promote democratic principles and the rule of law. thank you, mr. speaker for the time, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from the district of columbia seek recognition? ms. norton: i ask -- the speaker pro tempore: does the gentlelady seek unanimous consent?

. >> i was in a hot tub with henry kissinger and juliette krause, and then made sweet love until them not like some fake anchor, like you or colin. >> oh, but you're a co-host on "the view." [ laughter ] >> that's a fair point. >> barbara's last day on "the view" is friday. she said she hasn't exactly figured out what she's going to do with all of her free time. but she certainly has earned it. >> does anyone believe that she's actually retiring? she's so good at what she does. >> i think she's taking the summer off. she'll be back. >>> we all tend to take fireworks displays for grnted, but you're about to meet one adorable toddler who reminds us just how magical the experience can be. >> yeah! >> i love that. >> that is 2-year-old connor. he's warned to keep his ears plugged but he just can't contain his excitement. he is watching fireworks before a wwe wrestling event. >> so cute. >> no poker face on connor. >> not at all. >> and that is >>> all right, we're back with a woman at the center of one of the most explosive scandals of the past decade. tiger woods's ex-wife elin nordegre

chairman, i rise today to honor john hobald, a native of juliette. he was one of the unsung heroes of the apollo program. they cited president kennedy's famous speech made in this room in a joint session of congress more than 50 years ago, to commit this nation before this decade is out to land a man on the moon and to return him safely to the earth. politicians like to imagine that anything is possible if the right politician and speech writer can muster just the right words to stir a country to action. but engineers know differently. if you do not have a workable engineering concept and a set of design parameters that respect both resource limitations and engineering reality, then no amount of fine words from politicians is going to make any difference. dr. john hobalt provided that crucial program a success. john came from humbling beginnings, working 16 hours a day on his family's dairy farm where he developed an early interest in aviation, building model airplanes in his free time. he graduated from joliet township high school and joliet junior