a lot of mold many mildew. and -- and mildew.city said they weren't responsible for the damage. they said they were not responsible because it was no ill doing on their end but of course any basement is totally mildewed and molded because of that. and also because of the dilapidated house that's owned by the city that's next door to me. >> reporter: and because of that, you're not able to get full insurance coverage because you're considered a liability. what have you done to try to resolve that issue? have the city come out and take care of that abandoned row home? >> no. i put a request to be done like i was telling you earlier. as recently as monday submitted our request talking about the structural damage of the house, the fact that the roof is collapsed. the windows have caved in and i reported this for over a year and there has been nothing done. >> reporter: kim we'll try to get someone out here during to day to help you resolve that issue but again back here on kirk avenue you can see the worker digging around the pipe to

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pretty soon you have mold and mildew and dry rot and they abandoned house and go stay with their children or wherever they can get into. in oakdale, what the lady was in a rest home and it was for sale for three years, but it took a long time to get her to agree to sell the building. by the time she went to sell the building, it was in bad shape and we are in the middle of a recession and there were no takers. i think it was the cheapest house in san francisco and they could not get a price for it. >> this is a follow-up on the crossover -- i understand where sometimes the people to make complaints might be confused about where they should go and there is crossover based on the coach and staff of my understanding was previously we used to have supervisors overseeing inspectors from both sides so it would not be so silent. one of the problems right now is not that we find that, it's the same property and the supervision right now is so silent, sometimes housing doesn't know there has been a building code violations and the building inspector goes in and as another with housing violation. i

17th street through the lobby door with busted lock under the sign that says no loitering past the mildew that curdled your brain up 3riccety stairs belly up below the broken window. in bed the mattress on the floor he shares with his older sisters johnitto will dreechl a baseball glove or the perfect tail for a kite. [inaudible] 24th street with the one seed always frozen near the bottom. but the family needs more than dreams that's why my mom, sisters travelled by bus pulled by something stronger than destiny to this 2 room battleground of survival. this minute as he treads mission mama in the apartment on a sewing machine, zig-zagy threads fine as spider webs running down pants late into the appeal yellow hours of her seemingly endless nights. the 2 sisters with fingers delicate as ballerinas stitch beads tiny as drops that will sell for hundreds of dollars of which they will receive 25. the baby will be in the cardboard crib. and lost in dreams thick as cataracts will be chanting prayers to my an gods after an alter of bee's wax candles and pepsi soda bottles. the inscents unravelling

. >> reporter: too much rain can dilute the flavor and lead to problems with mildew and disease.me can get to be the size of a newborn baby? >> yeah. small newborn baby. but -- a baby nonetheless. >> reporter: there is a down side, however, to hot, dry conditions. like potential long-term damage to young vines and smaller harvest. >> we continue with this dry weather, you're going to end up with less water inside that berry. so, you know, in terms of the wine output, you're going to have, you know, less quantity. higher quality. >> reporter: so while farmers brace for more bad news, vintners like this are hoping to reap mostly benefit from this dryer than normal growing season. cnn, virginia. >>> a scary moment for 173 passengers and crew aboard this united airlines flight. i'll tell you why they saw fireballs and spewing flames coming from a wing in the middle of their flight. you tell us what you want to pay, and we give you a range of coverages to choose from. who is she? that's flobot. she's this new robot we're trying out, mostly for, like, small stuff. wow! look at her go!

as you can see, the bulk of the types of complaints we have gone really have surrounded mold, mildew, hot water, plumbing issues. we have given you some percentages on the total number of complaints that come in on a leak -- yearly basis. of the 173 cases, we only have one active, the one that just came in. we do have a representative from the housing authority who told me earlier than that actually had been abated, and they will be sending us the information. so the question is, what did the mou do to improve things? it made things more efficient. as soon as we got the template within one to two business days, to send it to the entities within the house and a door that we traditionally worked with but also the general counsel's office. as soon as they got that as well, it meant that everybody of importance at the housing authority had the information we've got. let me separate that out from complaints that may go from the occupants of housing authority buildings directly to the landlord. that is a separate issue that the housing authority should address. i am not familiar with what t

mildew and cricket floorboards and the people down the street have no electricity. i wanted to go to the big city. to see tall buildings upham and have the exciting life. and move to new york and then to los angeles. one saying is that all of a sudden you feel very divorced from the east coast traditional upbringing. and was living in this city dating back to the 1950's. i felt very detached then i needed that in my life. seat one day i was in the shower and of my wife first into the bathroom of nowhere says if you could go back to college and major within a subject what would it be? i burst out history. i didn't quite put the pieces together or understand what it was i thought was missing in my life not that long after words and is fond of palace verdes peninsula and early july they hold a timeline event where re-enactment of all time periods show up they dress up in uniforms and talk about their particular moment in time. i did not realize people dressup best moments at that time. zero lourdes dressed up as biking list. one particular group was not there. i typed

my basement is -- still has a lot of mold and mildew. and it's mostly because there's ava carpet house next door to me and they couldn't get into the house to pump out their water. that water has been sitting and of course whenever it rains since it has no roof. just more water that's zitting and constantly seeping into my basement. my basement stays moist at all times. it just says wet. >> reporter: that's got to be frustrating and the city again telling you that they really can't do anything about it because this was -- a water main break that happened because of natural causes but again this happened last night and brings back a lot of bad memories for the people who live around here. right now they've been able to do a lot of work and they're waiting for that new section to arrive so they can replace this one. this is the 16-inch water main break, a nine foot crack right there. people who live along this street of kirk avenue and the 2800 block will not have their water until this main is completely fixed. again they hope to have tha

but i'm still living with the mold and mildew from the last flood. >> reporter: all right. well thank you for joining us. again we'll stick with you throughout the morning and hopefully get you some help out here but back out here live on the 2800 block of kick avenue. public works crews are doing their best to fix this water main. until they do water is shut off to the homes in the area and also you should know that the roads around here, kirk avenue and the 2800 block where it meets abbotston street will be closed until they can fix this completely. live in northeast baltimore, linda so, abc2 news. >>> annealed ily michigan got couple on -- an elderly michigan couple got an overnight surprise. he had been drinking and he hopped into bed with the couple. they quickly jumped out and immediately called police. the house was double the legal -- the legal limit for being drunk and also told police he left his children home alone. he's charged with burglary and child neglect. >>> walgreens employees in trouble this morning for stealing money but this is no run of the mill crime

. >> you don't want have to worry about powdery mildew. >> how much time do we have left?0 seconds. >> ken likes to contribute to us a lot. he wants to know how to stop yellow buds from falling off the tomato plant. back when we had 98 and won degree temperatures, the branch wants to save itself and aborts the buds because it doesn't have enough water. you're going to have to wait for cooler nights to get that going on again. >> watering doesn't help in that regard. >> more heat is the trigger. water does and we talk about adding calcium to the soil but it's primarily the heat that caused a lot of that drop. >> it's a danger you have in hot months of july and august. kerry, thanks for joining us this morning. next week, more on your garden on your sunday gardener. if you have a garden question, send it to sunday gardener. you can also go to our website, wbaltv.com. >> 9:29, 79 degrees on tv hill. swine flu and whooping cough in the headlines these days. information you need to know. >> the gagets that can make a business college student's life easier. >> clouds in place ke

. >> basically, mold, mildew, fungus, that's what we're dealing with in the shower.hese won't make you sick like infection but will make asthma worse. if you see mold you have an issue you want to deep disinfect with bleach, or buy a disinfectant with bleach. any hard surfaces, you think it's getting wet, getting cleaned on its own, no, you want to clean it. >> the sponge. >> the sponge you clean the shower you don't want to clean other surfaces. if you're deep cleaning once a week, get disposable sponges and toss them. loofah, people like to exfoliate, skin cells are food. wasn't to make sure it dries within use, get rid of it every month or so. >> those you say replace -- >> every couple of weeks. they are holding onto cells. >> towels. a lot of people share towels in the bathroom. i think my husband and i do, which is kind of gross. >> not the best idea. >> not a good idea. >> again, when you're toweling off you're touching saliva, dead skin cells, you don't want to be mixing. color coding is a great way to keep track of whose towel belongs to whom. you want to be

house crooked floorboards and dead mice underneath them, and it smells thatime and it is full of mildew. the people down the street didn't have any electricity. i didn't think anything of it. i wanted to go to the big city and be an actor. i wanted to see tall buildings and skyscrapers and have an exciting life. so i went to new york, and then i went to los angeles in 2003. one of the things that moving to l.a. from east coast does when you are 30 years old -- is that all of a sudden, you feel very divorced from this east coast, sort of traditional upbringing. that happened to me when i was out here. i was living in a part of the city that felt very new. it took me back to the 1950s. and i felt very detached. all of a sudden, that thing that i took for granted, growing up in a log cabin, living next to amish people. all of a sudden, i needed that in my life. one day, i was in the shower. i was scrubbing, and my wife burst into the bathroom. and she said, out of nowhere, if you could go back to college right now and major in any subject, what would it be? and i said well, that's a good q

. >> reporter: too much rain can dilute the flavor and lead to problems with mildew and disease.me can get to be the size of a newborn baby? >> yeah, a small newborn baby. >> reporter: there is a down side, however, to hot, dry conditions. like potential long-term damage to young vines and smaller harvests. >> we continue with this dry weather. you're going to end up with less water inside that berry. so, you know, in terms of the wineout put, you're going to have, you know, less quantity, higher quality. >> reporter: so while farmers brace for more bad news, vineyards are hoping to reap mostly benefits from this drier than normal growing season. athena jones, cnn, virginia. >>> cnn newsroom starts at the top of the hour. fred is here to tell us what she has in store. >> as usual, starting noon eastern time, our brilliant minds, the legal guys will be along with us, richard and avery. they're goug to talk about how everyone is accustomed to fees when you fly, you have gas fees, airline fees. how about passenger usage fees? some passengers are suing. spirit airlines is saying what