. >> linda parker pennington and her family live on n a new home they bought three years ago from developer lennar for more than $900,000. >> we were told certified clean by the epa, navy, and we had nothing to worry about. >> pennington is part of a lawsuit against lennar and tetra tech for the impact on property values, but she is more concerned about what she feels is the unjust treatment of the hunter's point community. >> just also about the lack of concern about people of color who live close basically environmental racism. >> her neighbor, theo ellington is the father of a 2 day old son. he also invested his life savings into a new unit. >> deeply concerned about our health outcomes. as a father now, concerned about my child's outcomes. >> and lennar has said the lawsuit against them has no merit and will ultimately be dismissed. hirsh says it could take years to test new soil samples. in the newsroom, i'm kate larsen, back to you. >> all right, kate. back to you. >>> now to a scare in the east bay. thousands of bay point and pittsburg residents are back in their homes tonight. last

. >> reporter: linda parker pennington and her family live in a new home they bought three years ago for more than $900,000. >> we were told it was certified clean by the epa, the navy and we had nothing to worry about. >> reporter: pennington is part of a lawsuit. she's more concerned about what she feels is the unjust treatment of the hunters point community. >> it is about the lack of concern of people of color who live close basically environmental racism. >> reporter: her neighbor is the father of a 2-day-old son. he invested his life savings into a new unit. >> deeply concerned about our health outcomes. as a father now, i care about my child's outcomes. >> wow. that is scary. that was kate larson reporting. lennar said it has no merit and it could take years to test new soil samples stphraofp. >>> sheriff's deputies say a woman was jogging through jose avenue park wednesday morning when she stopped to use the restroom. a man followed her inside, pushed her into a stall and assaulted her. he is believed to be a transient and may have been riding a bike. deputies added patrols a

i'm linda parker pennington and a proud parent of a junior in the media program at the school of the arts. and the aapac was formed just in 2017. this is actually just our second year. and we started right after our principal started and he's been one of our biggest supporters and we're very blessed to have him. and then there are other folks here. yay. so our goals are to recruit, retain and celebrate african-american students and their achievements at soda. and among our accomplishments in our first year, the biggest ones have been to increase the enrollment of african-american students by 25% overall year over year. and that includes mixed race students who one race is black. and that has been done through our outreach efforts and providing guidance and support for 8th graders through the application and audition process. the second thing which is huge, we've conducted very well attended series of workshops for all parents on cultural humility and she's also helped train staff and teachers and admin folks. the major challenge faced by our african-american families is helping to bu

. >> reporter: linda parker pennington bought her townhouse 3 years ago in san francisco's hunters point, on land where the naval shipyard was once located. >> if they told us that it was clean and safe to move in then why wouldn't we trust that? >> reporter: trust started to erode after allegations that test results are from the basic cleanup were manipulated, and more recently, the discovery of this small radioactive disc, a navy deck marker from below the surface of the ground 50 feet from home.>> it was designed to be able to glow in the dark on a navy ship. it did so by being quite radioactive. >> reporter: the retired director of uc santa cruz program on environmental and nuclear policies that he has been studying it for 3 years. he met with residents thursday night to release his latest findings. he told me he looked into the path of hunters point to determine how to ensure the safety of the future.>> cleaning, sandblasting, burning hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive fuel, all of that could spread the radioactivity throughout the entire area. >> reporter: the key conc