and when we talk about mercury, when we talk about the mercury in air, toxic standards that we announcedhs ago. first off, 21 years in the making. these are standards that were called for in 1990. >> jon: right. >> the bush administration did some, they were thrown out by the court because they were trading mercury and no one wanted to be on the losing end of that trade, right. mercury is a neurotoxin, it destroys our children's brains, oftentimes before they're born. these standards are estimated to prevent 17,000 premature deaths each year, prevent 11,000 heart attacks each year, and half of the power plants in our country already have controls for mercury and arsenic and the dioxins in particular matter that you get to control along with it. the only thing we hear is it can't be done. and everything we know and every model that we run shows that it absolutely can be done. and that it would actually create jobs. someone has to build all those scrubbers and filters that deal with mercury. >> jon: so you got that one through. but there's another one, mercury and dioxin that you had to pu

>> we give it away. >> reporter: any worry about the mercury? >> i'm not aware of that. >> reporter: the study said fish higher like shark, white sturgeon have more of the chemicals while rock fish, king salmon are lower. a doctor led the first statewide survey. >> we are finding moderate levels of contamination, most of the areas that we have looked at. there are very few area that are totally clean, where all the fish why below all of the guidelines. >> reporter: he said a good lifting of what's safe and not can be found by googling my water quality and opening the first site that comes up, water boards.ca.governor. the bay, concentrations are prettiy, so, there you need to be more caution. >> reporter: it's difficult to sort out what to fish for and where. >> some are great source of nutrition, protein and omega3 fatty aci d and we don't want to scare people. >> reporter: but you are. >> no it's like many types of food, you need to be informed. >> reporter: the pacifica pier have relatively low concentrations of toxins in fish. >> remembering

thanks to him and his family it's a bottom feeder low in pcb's and mercury.ut very few were aware of a large sport fish containing mercury contamination. >> i'm a sport fisherman. >> and you eat what you catch? >> no. >> what do you do do with it? >> i give it away. >> reporter: the study points out that fish higher on the food change, shark, striped bass and perch have more of it while halibut, red rock crab and white croaker are lower. doctor jay davis led the first state-wide survey of contaminants in sport fish. >> we're finding moderate levels of contamination in most of the areas we have looked at. there are very few areas that are totally clean where the, all the fish were below all of the guidelines. >> reporter: davis says a good listing of what's safe and what's not can be found by googling my water quality and opening the first site that comes up, water boards.ca.gov. in the bay, some concentrations are pretty high and concentrations of me they'll mercury in some species are pretty high. so there you need to be more cautious. >> reporter: it's a bi

the mercury is a toxic metal. i will go back this morning and speak to the staff at cpsc to look at this issue, and if it is a hazard, we will work with the company to recall the product. that is how we operate. you know what is so good about having a website and hot line is we can hear from consumers. please let us know if you have products that you have experienced harm from, and we will look into those products. we want to hear from you. we are here for the consumer. host: according to the consumer products safety commission, a 403 products were recalled in 2010. is that correct? guest: that is correct. host: this tweet comes in for you -- guest: consumers union, safeforkids.com, keeping a baby's safe. there are a number of organizations that your research and are available as advocates for consumers. we have an number of what i call citizens inspectors. these are people who for years have gone into stores and bought products, used their own money to test their products, and they let us know if they find someth

that is the criteria from other legislation like the mercury warnings. i would appreciate your support. hopefully, state law will catch up with local law and we will be able to do something about what i think has become an increasing threat to our waste water system because of contaminants leaching into that, about people getting access to medications, pharmaceuticals that should not, especially our young people, because cdc had shown where fatalities and harm has been well caused by unregulated access during your support is appreciated. supervisor chiu: any additional discussion? roll call vote, please. >> [roll call vote] there are ten ayes. supervisor chiu: item 38. >> item 38, and ending the governmental conduct code to allow a former appointed mayor to obtain full time city employment within one year after leaving office. supervisor chiu: without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading. item 39. >> in 39 is on motion confirming the appointment of joel ramos. supervisor chiu: supervisor wiener. supervisor weiner: i am speaking in favor o

[laughter] >> mark, we may not know about the radiation, but we do know about mercury in tuna, don't we? >> in terms of us? >> yeah. >> yeah, in terms of the effect on us, but we don't know as much as we should about how mercury and chromium and the other things effect the life cycles of fish. you know, when you do things in fishery management that are supposed to have a result -- for instance, you close off an area from fishing, and you fish in another area, and the idea that you closed off, the stocks rebuild, and sometimes they don't, and we don't know why. that's because there's a lot of things going on that we don't understand. >> thank you. on my left here. >> yeah,s movie, "inconvenience truth" brings the idea of climate control to the fore front -- >> could you speak into the microphone, please. >> sorry. the movie, al gore, you know, the " inconvenient truth" movie brought climate control to the forefront and afterwords there was push back and scientists wanted to debunk the statistics in that movie. did that have positive or negative effects on your research afterwards? >>

. >> host: in your kind of hometown newspaper the mercury news, san jose mercury news william shugart had an op-ed this past week. he is a professor at the university of mississippi and associated with the independent institute in oakland. he wrote while public investments in -- technological innovation sound like a good idea, the danger is that the funds will be directed toward politically popular projects rather than those with the highest economic value. remember jimmy carter's quest for a new synthetic fuel >> guest: that is one point of view. at intel we would disagree with that and as for the science foundation the national institute of standards and the department of energy they do crucial work. they produce the seed corn for great companies like intel so we collaborate with them and when president obama raised his spending levels for these types of agencies and departments departments 70% consistently since he came into office, that is a real plus for silicon valley and tech companies like intel. >> host: gautham nagesh. >> guest: we have seen a very political discussion over

supervisor mercury me. aye. supervisor of a los -- avalos? aye. 9 ayes and one no. >supervisor chiu: this ordinance is finally passed. >> item 18 appropriating 100900 -- $1,925,000 of the general fund reserve and the public library preservation fund balance to various departments for litigation expenses. supervisor chiu: roll call vote. >> [roll call vote] there are twn ayes. supervisor chiu: item 19. >> item 19, an amendment to a construction management service agreement for laguna honda, changing the amount from approximately $15 million to $16 million. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 20? >> approval of modification #one of lease and use agreement at san francisco international airport. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 21. >> item 21 -- resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of san francisco to reimburse expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness, authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing to submit an application and related documents to permit the issuance of residential mortgage rev

but according to the "san jose mercury news," the group's leader says the city has suggested the mounted unit will get axed and is sabotaging phrases efforts. city manager sent a memo saying that any reports about the demise of the unit are premature and that they don't intend to violate that agreement. this has been a tough year for the department. more than 100 officers have received layoff notices even though the police union has agreed to a 10% pay cut for only a year. the city wants the paycuts to be permanent. the city manager says if they don't get those permanent paycuts then everything will be subject to additional review and that includes a mounted unit but the city manager definitely wants to sit down and meet with that fundraising group and hopefully they will come to some kind of agreement and they will put this past them. >> at least they are talking, that's good news. kiet do live in san jose, thank you. >>> before you head out the door on this friday let check traffic and weather. and lawrence, we love the sunshine yesterday. >> yes. it was great. i think guys, it's going

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test revealed that her body contained mercury lead cosmetics. i felt violated charlotte reported. she was upset about the pesticide. i never used them in my house, never on my lawn. i bought organic whenever i could. her body contained several variations of organic chlorines designed to attack nervous systems of insects. i never bought it. isn't that trespassing. i tell this in my story of mary broon. mary never felt called to be an environmentalist she was nursing her 6 month daughter olivia and a story had been done by texas tech where they looked at breast milk samples, all were contaminated with rocket fuel. i was stunned, i thought breast milk was as pure as it came for food source. i was up all night thinking about it. i tell the story about michelle from california whose family was the first family to be monitored in the oakland tribune. it stunned even scientists. the tests found many of the same chemicals they found in charlotte's 5-year-old mic ala, she had recently spent a lot of time in nail salons. the biggest surprise of what they found in 2-year-old rowland, chemica

most of these products have toxins like mercury, lead, the we got out of our apartment 30 years ago. do you remember the pet food that they were shipping in that had rat poison? host: what would you like our guest to address? we will leave it there. guest: the should safety is a serious one and the government has been trying to put in place controls were by the consumer is protected from exports. the greatest casualty in the food safety problem is, of course, the chinese consumer. the mellow mien -- melamine, it was the chinese that were hurt. the exports were not tainted. the domestic product was. host: mr. orlins, before we leave, a couple of comments. where do we stand on human rights? guest: secretary clinton has been very are spoken about the chinese policy on human rights. vice-president by then made statements about china and human rights. again, our view is we need to see mo progress on human rights. it is not something that is particularly conducive to a discussion in public forum. again, i look at this from a historical perspective of what i first arrived in china, what it

today and tomorrow you'll be able to see mercury, mars, venus and jupiter all next to each other. some doomsayers believe that planetary alignment is an omen for disaster. researchers say history has dispilled that theory. >>> tomorrow will be the nicest day we've seen all season in terms of no fog, sunny, warm, temperatures near 90 or at 90 in the warmest spot. we go outside, one of the indicators we look for in that wind shift are the temperatures. right now santa rosa is 78 degrees. just two degrees off 80 degrees. that's a good 10 degrees warmer than it was last night. now come back tonight at 10:00 we'll look at the current temperature in santa rosa. i have a feeling it's going to be up there in the 60s. the air is sinking and warming. overnight lows in santa rosa they are in the low and mid- 30s. we're going to see overnights in the upper 50s and low 60s in the warm spot. high pressure is strengthen. that's a mechanism for further warming. further warming tomorrow by a good five to 10 degrees. that puts some areas upper 80s, low 90s. coastal sections you're in the 70s tomorr

in the front row is a media analyst, who publishes an was a key developer of the mercury center. next to him is an assistant professor of broadcast and electronic media at san francisco state university. next is the managing editor for local news at -- i'm sorry. he is not at yahoo!, right. he is editor-in-chief of patch.com, a division of aol that provides news to specific communities. very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san mateo counties, and he is the recipient of spj's freedom of information award in 2010. that is our panel. back to you, rose. >> before we start, i want to get a sense of who we have in the audience. how many of you currently work in the media? lots. how many of you used to work in the media? how many of you want to work in the media? ok, good. that will give us a sense of who we are talking with. great. every friday, we have a media roundtable and invite international, alternative, and mainstream jo

some fish in the bay contained mercury. the guidelines haven't been updated in 17 years.ions, women of child bearing age and children who are most susceptible to mercury poisoning should avoid eating shark, shark bass and white sturgeon in the bay. others should be limited to two servings a week and once a week for halibut and white croaker. we have a breakdown in the new guidelines at abc7news.com under see it on tv. >>> a frightening crosswalk accident caught on video. before you see it, we want to let you know everyone in the video is okay. pictures were captured by a red light camera in scottsdale, arizona, and it shows the moment a black suv ran over a stroller with a 4-year-old in it. amazingly, the suv's tires missed the little girl entirely. she was not seriously hurt. traffic experts are now investigating whether changes should be made to the crosswalk at the intersection. she is fine. so frightening. oh, my gosh. >>> 5:26. the most of the man arrested in a bryan stow beating case say the police have the wrong man. next at 5:30, why she says her son could haven't

about five years ago, i did signage for prop 65, on mercury poisoning. it was with the help of the department of and burn. i'm not sure if you were part of the department back then yourself. that was also a template we used. it has become commonplace in san francisco. we borrowed from that signage in this legislation of what those protocols were. i don't know if you would want to speak about this. i want to ensure we are working from a basis of continuity, not something we are lifting out of a hat, in creating a sign that we're asking you to comply with, but without sound rationale. >> i did not work on that specifically. >> this is certainly consistent with past efforts. in a designated location, certainly, we will make sure it is visibly located. supervisor mirkarimi: with regard to the delayed implementation of the program itself, my office received a request that this be amended to december 2011. >> you have an implementation date and then there is a two- month education period for us to go out and help them be in compliance. the enforcement date is

safety regulators are investigating complaints concerning 2010 and 2011 mercury suvs.he glass on the lift gait shattered when people tried to open or shut it. a lot of incidents happened in cold weather, we are hearing. >> cold weather? what's that? all right. thank you. >> rub it in. >>> speaking of, let's check in with christina loren. good morning. >> speaking of the finer things of life, hi there, scott. just sipping wine this morning. made a couple friends. they don't say much and that's the way i like them. good morning to you. we are on top of judd's hill in napa. i'm with bob redell out here. he's starting early. you will get to catch up with him momentarily. let's get right to the forecast this morning. we have a great looking day on tap. it's going to get better as we head into tomorrow, near 90 degree weather. the weather headlines, you can see what we are setting up for today. patchy fog. after that, the deck of clouds breaks apart. mostly sunny skies by the second half of the day. the highs up into the upper 70s across the bay area. a gorgeous day. tap on

the mercury news reports that police officers will get a chance to respond. in the past, they've been accused of being overly aggressive. the independent auditor says she hopes this will improve the department's image. >>> the fight against moth in the wine country appear tos would be -- appears to be working. they've trapped just 57 moths in napa county. a.g. officials credit insecticide for reducing the moth population. they are considered to be a nuisance to farmers because they feed on their crops. >>> ahead -- a check on the gasoline prices. we'll tell you if the news is good. >>> also, beer prices may be getting higher. the reason ahead. >>> stocks are down today after warnings about the finances of several european countries, increasing fears the nation's debt crisis is worsening. the dow is down 11. nasdaq down 37. oil is down 2 1/2% mainly due to news about the stronger dollar, trading at $96.56 a barrel. meanwhile, the prices at the pump are starting to gun -- are starting to go down. according to the lund burg cervix the national average dropped 9

you may be able to see mercury, venus, mars and jupiter all clustered together. the planets will dance around in different configurations throughout the month. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,760, the nasdaq rose 28. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei was up 45 points but in hong kong, the hang seng dropped 44. after last week's giant commodities sell-off, china eased wall street's fears about global growth tuesday while paving the way for more american business. china not only posted an april trade surplus nearly four times better than expected, it agreed to open up its government contracts for more u.s. companies and let u.s. banks sell mutual funds there. >>> microsoft's mega deal to buy skype for $8.5 million fueled trade, but not microsoft. on the other hand, shares of ebay, which owns a large stake in skype, rose 2.5%. >>> a surprise departure by the ceo of boston pacific sent shares tumbling almost 9%. dean foods jumped on higher than expected quarterly profit.

according to the "san jose mercury news," back in 1995, there were 30 cases nationwide.re were 2,000 cases. and last year in the bay area alone there were 29 cases in 2010. craigslist undercover operations, facebook child safety, beyond google hacking, ios seizure and analysis, linux and browser forensics and gps interrogation just to name a few conference seminars. this is only available to law enforcement agents and attorney general eric holder again will be here on thursday. >> thank you, kiet do live in san jose. >>> memorial day weekend could be a hassle for people who have to drive over the bay bridge. eastbound drivers are going to have to take a detour near the toll plaza in oakland. it's expected to allow crews to speed up construction of the new eastern span's oakland approach allowing it to be completed ahead of schedule. bridge officials plan to provide details of that detour at a news conference later this morning. >>> if you like rain, you'll love your tuesday. kristy is serving up a wet and wild one here in the month of may. >> if you love rain, it will pi

they will be able to make out mercury, mars, venus and jupiter in the skies overhead.enus and jupiter will be the easiest to spot hanging low in the sky to the east. the planets will be the brightest objects in the sky of course after the moon. eagle eye stargazers will be able to find mercury and mars to the lower left of venus. but there may be too faint or low to see without the aid of binoculars. >> try to do it before all of the clouds move in roberta. >> exactly. ding ding ding because we do have a marine layer hanging close to the coast. this is the live cbs 5 weather camera in napa in the north bay where today's high was 73 degrees. which is pretty spot on for this time of the year. currently in napa the number has dropped down to 63 degrees of winter out of the west at 16 miles per hour. a bit of a breezy to downright blustery commute especially a along the peninsula here or the immediate seashore where the winds are out of the west at a good 25 miles per hour. it is now 70 degrees in concord. if you are out and about this evening, a fog low clouds at the coas

number of fish found in the bay contain mercury and p cb. some species more than others of course. last time the guidelines were updated was 17 years ago so this is new information among the key recommendations women of child bearing age and children who are most susceptible to mercury poisoning should avoid eating shark, striped bass and white sturgeon caught out in the bay. other species such as salmon and brown rock fish should be limited to 2 servings a week. once a week only for fish like halibut and white poker. men and women over 45 years of age can eat more species more often but wave complete breakdown at our web site under see it on tv if you would like to go read more about it. follow the new recommendations updated for the first time in more than a dozen years. >>> 7 protestors face charges tonight after stunt that had 3 of them dangling from ropes below the richmond san rafael bridge. they did to it try to convince chevron and the sheriff hold investigators clean up toxic waste left behind by oil production inequador. jonathan bloom has the story. >>reporter: swaying i

san jose mercury news reports if a decision is upheld it would be the most far-reaching order yet to hit the utility following the explosion and fire in san bruno. eight people were killed and dozens of homes were destroyed. process for pg&e to verify the oldest pipelines could take five years at a cost up to $350 million. >> a berkeley man is calling for an investigation into his wife's mysterious death. she died in thailand where she worked for a travel company. she was sick and healthy which makes her sudden death so hard to understand. lisa amin gulezian has the story. >> i'm trying to come to grips we may never know. >> he is in mourning, his wife soraya died january 11th, two days before he was supposed to leave thailand and join her husband in brazil. a berkeley travel tour company she worked for. she did a six day bike tour in thailand. she died three hours after her husband got to her hospital room. now nearly four months later her death is still a mystery. she is one of seven people that suddenly died in a three-month period. many were staying in the downtown inn but she wa

. >> concentrations of mercury. >> toxins of fish caught in the bay area. the kinds that have the highest concentration. >> top the pole, waiting. i felt proud and then i was sad. >> 8-year-old boy takes over mayor of the california city. what he saw and what he did to change it? >>> mostly cloudy conditions. partly cloudy for tomorrow and chances of showers tomorrow night. i have your pinpoint forecast coming up. species caught in bay area waters could be hazardous to your health. >>> a warning for those who eat a lot of fish. some of the species caught in bay area waters could be hazardous. a large study of california fish. the study points fish higher in the food chain like shark, has more of the toxic chemicals. others such as white halibut, king salmon, and white rock kroeker have lower. >> we are finding larger amount ofs contamination. there's areas that are totally clean. all the fish are below the guidelines. >> the northern california coast has relatively low, and they encourage people to eat fish because they are a great source of protein. choose

$280,000 a year to pay for the stables, feed, vet bills and so forth but according to the "san jose mercury news" the group's leader says the city has suggested the unit will get axed and asabotaging fundraising efforts. the city manager's office sent a memo saying that any reports of the demise of the unit are premature and that they don't intend to violate that december agreement. this has been a tough year for the department. more than 100 police officers have received layoff notices even though the police union has agreed to a 10% pay cut for one year. the city wants those paycuts to be permanent. the city manager says if they don't get permanent paycuts then of course the mounted unit will be subject to additional review. and the city manager hopes to meet with that fundraising group later on this week or in the coming weeks and hopefully cooler heads will prevail. frank? >> let's hope so. i guess the truth lies somewhere in the middle there. thanks, kiet do live in san jose. >>> today pg&e will test more bay area pipelines for weaknesses in order to prevent another disaster like the o

back in 1995 according to the "san jose mercury news" there were 30 cases nationwide and then ten years later there were 2,000 cases. last year there were 29 cases filed in the bay area alone. this week's conference is unprecedented in scope. look at the seminars. craigslist undercover operations, facebook child safety, beyond google hacking, ios seizure and analysis, linux and browser forensics and gps interrogation. no this not open to the public. it's only available to law enforcement agents and again eric holder will be here on thursday. >> kiet do in san jose, thank you. >>> people who rely on the bay bridge can expect delays memorial day weekend. eastbound drivers are going to have to take a due tour near the toll plaza in oakland. -- a detour near the toll plaza in oakland. it's to allow the oakland approach to be completed ahead of schedule. in a few hour, bridge officials plan to announce details of the detour and we are going to have an update on cbssf.com. >>> if you like rain, many of us don't -- >> oh, come on. you're from the east coast, you were there so long is, you -- >

the "mercury news" says so far, prosecutors have found potential problems in 42 cases and have droppedharges in just one of those. in most cases, there's additional evidence such as blood alcohol tests using equipment at the police stations. >>> a chp officer accused of stealing electronic equipment from a target store will be in court this morning. shawn hammonds will be charged for taking xbox game systems. police say he stole merchandise from the store four times totaling $1,400 and authorities believe he sold them on the internet. hammonds has been with the chp for five years. he is on unpaid leave because of an injury. >>> more people are being robbed after responding to ads in craigslist. "the examiner" reports two cases in san francisco's bayview area this month. two people from san jose were robbed at gunpoint when they showed up at an address to buy a used car on may 12. the robbers wore halloween masks. well, then just last wednesday, a man from fresno was the victim of a similar robbery. there are no suspects. >>> time now 5:13. a budget crisis averted. a bay area city won't

. ---- en este mapa -creado por el periodico san jose mercury news - aparecen los homicidios registradosad hasta hoy. ---- y son 22. ---- en todo 2010, hubo 20 asesinatos. ---- le recuerdo que san jose alguna vez estuvo considerada como "una de las ciudades mas seguras de estados unidos".... stop for open ! roll open topvo ---en estos momentos se intensifica la busqueda de una niÑa de campbell de tan solo tres aÑos quien se cree ha sido vctima de maltrato...y esta desaparecida. ---la busqueda se realiza en el rea de san jos y se cree que la menor esta en algun lugar de la ciudad con su madre, jane marin, y el novio de la mam, george rodriguez.. ---si tiene informacin llame a la policia... al 911 . stop for nat !!!!! take nat 5 sec take vo - cesar ---- impactantes imagenes captadas en vivo por la television espanola ! ---dos sismos sacudieron la region de murcia hoy miercoles al sureste de ese pais. ---- dejaron al menos 8 personas fallecidas... varias docenas de heridos y daÑos en muchos edificios de la zona... ---los sismos tuvieron una magnitud de 4,4 y 5,2 en la escala de richter... -

the "mercury news" reporting posey's agent calling for a review of the rules involving such plays.t's possible buster posey will lose of the rest of the season with a broken leg and torn ligaments. >>> space shuttle endeavour flew over the area about a half hour ago. endeavour looked like a bright star approaching from the southwest moving directly overhead. a lot of cloud out there, lawrence. >> yeah. >> so if you missed it, nasa said the shuttle will be visible again on sunday. got to get up early, though, 4:27 a.m. >>> endeavour astronauts completed the last spacewalk of the mission a few hours ago. they examined the shuttle for damage and installed a 50-foot boom on the space station and snapped some photographs outside this marking the last time that any shuttle crew will perform spacewalks. moving forward, space station residents will do them from now on. >>> a scare in the air for one california woman. >> she had to fly a plane when her husband passed out. the couple flying from california to colorado. the 70-year-old pilot apparently stricken by altitude sickness. his frigh

the mercury news quoted one source as saying the amount of the settlement is $225,000. >>> this is whatome people in chico are seeing today on the way to work and it is one of several billboards going up around town pushing for more officers on the street. the police officers association is paying for them. the message includes gangs are hiring, why aren't we. and too many criminals, too few cops. like many other northern california cities, chico is under a tight budget, limiting the number of police officers it can have on the streets. >>> ac transit are going up, scheduled to start august 1 with the $0.10 increase for adults and $0.05 if for youth, seniors and the disabled. ac transit says the increase will bring in about $2 million, but that will not be enough to close the agencies $15 million budget gap. as a result, another round of service cuts could come some time next year. >> the bay area is still getting high marks in a new report. but look at which cities provide commuters with the best access to public transportation. the new workings institution says the san jose, santa cla

the stamps feature the first "mercury" spacecraft and allen shepherd, the first astronaut with a stampll to himself. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather. here's nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning, bill. how's it look? >> it's quiet still. shh. >> we like to hear it. >> we still have a disaster on the mississippi river. we had so much snow that melted in april in the northern plains, then all the recent heavy rain and tornado outbreaks. and the mississippi river is the problem area. this is the memphis location in major flood stage. they'll go up within a half foot of their record. in the memphis area alone, they're saying about 2,500 properties will be flooded. that's a lot of people with all their items and property ruined. you can see on this map here, these are the big cities on the mississippi river that are going to see major if not historic flding over the next two weeks. we're now watching that crest north of memphis. it's going to crest in memphis next week. and then we're going to watch it cresting to the south of there in greenville about the 17t

---el influyente diario, "san jos mercury news" apoya, por medio de su pgina de opinion editorial, elroyecto de ley, que -de promulgarse- otorgara la legalizacin a miles de estudiantes indocumentados que han cursado estudios superiores en california... ---segn el diario, el valle del silicio se beneficiaria enormemente de esa reforma, ya que actualmente existe una escasez de trabajadores de tecnologia altamente calificados... stop for open ! roll open top vo ---para "sobrevivir a la crisis", el alcalde pide la declaracion de una emergencia fiscal y de seguridad publica en san jos... ---chuck reed, dijo que se tienen que controlar los gastos excesivos para los fondos de pensin. take fs ---reed deline un plan que fija lmites a las prestaciones de jubilacin. --- limita las contribucione s de la ciudad a los fondos de pension a un 9 por ciento... ---aumenta la edad para que los empleados jubilados puedan recibir el monto total de sus pensiones... ---y tambien aumenta a 20 aÑos, el tiempo que una persona jubilada debe haber laborado para poder gozar de beneficios de salud al jubilarse... t

the mercury news is quoting chuck reid, it's a personal matter so he's not going to address it. he has been mentioned as a possible candidate for mayor. when asked about the impact on the arrest on future political plans, he says he hasn't considered it yet. >>> live nation and online deal site groupon are teaming up, forming a new website called groupon live which will offer deals on tickets, concerts, sports, theaters and arts and other live events. people aren't spends as much on entertainment, live nation says today's deal will allow them to fill those empty seats. and instead of covering are the news now, the bay area's largest newspaper is making news, named the fastest growing newspaper in the country, along with the "l.a. times" and "chicago sun-times." usually nowadays newspapers around the country are merging to stay alive. a group called the business inside named the merc one of the 25 papers that have the best chance of being around in ten years. >> let's hope so. we need newspapers to stay around. they're vital. let's turn things over to jeff ran ne r ranieri. >> we

how about a little mercury in your mascara? better believe t researchers tested 49 makeup products, 100% contained nickel, 96 lead, along with heavy metal used to make -- beryllium, in aircrafts and satellites. so some lip glosses even contain arsenic, a known poison. they may be linked to heart and lung problems and cancer. but the cosmetic industry says the levels are low. >> good for us, huh? >> we'll be right back. ,, ,,,, up there. an isr >>> well, today's tip of the day is going to be is artichokes. each and every week i like to do a tip on a produce item of a best buy. artichokes are coming in with such value and flavor, it's incredible. but also, artichokes you can find the thornless chokes. those are the chokes with no thorns whatsoever and they have more of a globe color to them, more of a globe shape. you know what? i don't like those artichokes at all. they don't have any flavor. these have the flavor. when you buy them, nice and green like this, a little bit of discoloration is okay. just a little bit. not too much