tonight the report put blame on pg & e. pg & e records about the pipeline were critically flawed. >> some of this information was inaccurate. the pipeline was not seemless but had a longitudal -- not seamless, but had a longitudinal seam. >> the results were misinterpreted or ignored. >> reporter: ntsb staff also said that pg & e did not take precautions. investigators also say that pg & e did not take the right precautions leaving people in the dark. >> while the majority of the blame fell on pg & e the ntsb said there's a lack of government oversight and there's a need to create state and federal regulations for testing older pipelines. jana katsuyama, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now the ntsb made 29 recommendations among them it told pg & e to expedite the use of automatic or shut off valves. it said there should be improved recordkeeping. >>> ktvu's jana katsuyama has been talking with residents and first responders in that san bruno neighborhood. >> reporter: everyone though it's been nearly a year since that

tonight the report put blame on pg & e. pg & e records about the pipeline were critically flawed. >> some of this information was inaccurate. the pipeline was not seemless but had a longitudal -- not seamless, but had a longitudinal seam. >> the results were misinterpreted or ignored. >> reporter: ntsb staff also said that pg & e did not take precautions. investigators also say that pg & e did not take the right precautions leaving people in the dark. >> while the majority of the blame fell on pg & e the ntsb said there's a lack of government oversight and there's a need to create state and federal regulations for testing older pipelines. jana katsuyama, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now the ntsb made 29 recommendations among them it told pg & e to expedite the use of automatic or shut off valves. it said there should be improved recordkeeping. >>> ktvu's jana katsuyama has been talking with residents and first responders in that san bruno neighborhood. >> reporter: everyone though it's been nearly a year since that

what pg&e wants have to to have a trial on one issue, on liability whether pg&e was at fault. >> they issued this statement, our goal has always been and continues to be finding a timely resolution to these matters. we believe our proposal would allow a faster and efficient means to the resolution of these claims that the plaintiffs deserve. they believe the pipe manufacturer, n.t.s.b. chairwoman believes pg&e did make it our hire a substandard pipe maker. >>> pg&e will be doing more testing of national gas pipeline in san jose today. residents may smell natural gas but the utility says it's the normal part of the process. they convenient the gas into the atmosphere and increase pressure levels above normal to make sure the pipes don't leak. >>> this morning the group responsible for a series of bart protestors is vowing to do it again next week but last night's protest, no station closures and just two arrests. the only time things got intense was when protestors entered the powell, montgomery and embarcadero stations briefly. everyone obeyed police orders and stayed behind the barri

pg&e crews are running safety tests on a section of natural gas pipeline in san jose tonight. the testing taking place along shadow tree and rams tree lanes is sfeked it to run through tomorrow evening. it is all part of pg&e's on going effort to check 152 miles of pipeline in northern california for leaks that could cause another explosion similar to what happened in san bruno. so far no leaks have been detected. >>> and we have breaking news. an amber alert has been planned from the town of hollister. the kidnapping occurred at 4:00 this afternoon according to the sheriff's department. the victim, 13-year-old christina martinez. she is 4 feet tall, 85 pounds and was last seen wearing a school uniform with a white blouse and a blue shirt. the suspect in this case is christina's father, 34-year-old marcell low ramirez. he is 5 feet and a half, 150 pounds and has a tatoo on his left calf. ramirez is driving a white honda odyssey with the california license plate number 3wan638. if you see this car or the occupants, please call police. call immediately. an amber alert is issued t

. >>> just shy of one year later the feds say what a lot of people in the bay area were probably already thinking. pg&e was responsible. what the company did wrong. >>> police with guns on the second day of school. why children had to be evacuated and a suspect had to be rescued from his attempted escape. >>> dead 25 years but till shaping lives in the east bay. the legend heft behind by an imfamous drug dealer. i'm ken bastida. >> i'm dana king. the ntsb came out and said it. pg&e is responsible for last year's pipeline explosion in san bruno. the feds say problems included pipelines with faulty welds as well as faulty management and procedures. >> according to the procedures the dispatch center and scata center were not required to notify emergency responders of a possible gas rupture. further when the san bruno police department called the dispatch center there was a missed opportunity for the dispatcher to exchange information about the emergency. >> the ntsb says what could have been a 15- or 20-minute fire lasted more than an hour. ntsb investigators say a power outage caused that pipeline to s

one of them from the attic where he tried to hide and got stuck. >>> a gas leak closed several highway offramps and evacuated a nearby business today. construction workers installing a street sign hit a pg and e gas line around 9:00 this morning on arnold industrial way. several nearby streets and offramps were closed while repair crews capped that line. one business was evacuated as a precaution. all streets were reopened by 11:30. >> a former san francisco giants employee is charged with embezzling more than a million dollars from the team. robin o'connor has been stealing money from employees, including players since last year. con ner, a payroll manager admitted to diverting money into a personal account. she returned that money to the team after management found out and was fired. o'coner allegedly made deposits totaling more than $1.5 million. o'connell was released on $500,000 bond. >>> and tonight, the giants released a statement saying that we are working with the federal authorities to ensure this matter is thoroughly investigated and that any wrong doing is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >>> coming up, something happened in the crane came crashing down. the ride

on the street. good evening, i'm dana king. >> and i'm ken. the ntsb came out and said it. pg is responsible for last year's pipeline explosion. >> problems included pipelines with faulty wells as well as faulty management and procedures. >> according to the procedures, the dispatch center were not required to notify emergency responders of a possible gas rupture. when the police department called the dispatch center, there was a missed opportunity for the dispatcher to exchange information about the emergency. >> the ntsb says what could have been a 15 or 20 minute fire lasted for more than an hour. ntsb investigators say a power outage caused a pipeline to surge beyond capacity and blow up. it was installed in 1956 and had no automatic or remote control valves to shut it off. pg and e released a statement following today's report saying that it has made several changes its gas policy, including reducing pressure on 1600 miles of gas transmission pipe lins. the company also plans to conduct testing. and says that it has increased its coordination with first responders and is

> a gas leak in concord closed several highway on-ramps and evacuated a nearby business this morning. construction workers installing a street sign hit a pg&e gas line at around 9:00 this morning on the 1700 block of arnold industrial way. several nearby streets were closed while repair crews worked to cap that line. the chp also closed the eastbound and westbound off- ramps from highway 4 to port chicago way. the owner of a bird store was concerned about what would happen to his birds if they were forced to evacuate. >> we do have one problem. we have -- this is a bird store. they are very sensitive to any kind of smells. if they tell us we have to get out, we have to move 400 birds. >> the employees were evacuated as a precaution. the birds stayed in the store. they were okay. the gas line was capped and roads re-opened by 11:30. >>> a school lockdown, a police standoff and a stuck suspect all tied to a series of armed robberies in the east bay. on just their second day back at school, students at horace mann elementary school had to be escorted from the campus by parents. near the school, police surrounded a home where five robbery sus

are proposing rules in response to the and bruno pipeline explosion that could have a major impact on pg&e. under the new proposed rules, older pipelines such as the one that exploded last year in san bruno will have to undergo pressure testing. transmission pipelines in rural areas will get the same attention as urban areas. gas companies will no longer be allowed to leavedefective pipe wells in place. 2/3 of the pg&e pipelines dade back from before 1970 and hundreds of miles have never undergoing to pressure tests >>> several community groups are suing the city of san francisco on a battle over cable boxes. they are attempting to stop or at least slow down a t t's plan to install more than 700 u verse boxes. the lawsuit would force the city to do a full environmental impact. city officials say that the study is not necessary. the boxes would house cable tv, high speed internet. critics say that the boxes are an eyesore. >> the campus at uc berkeley is adding classes. despite the budget short fall of 60 million-dollar, uc berkeley has enough money in reserve to cover that shortfall for

. >>> a petition on change.org is calling on pgs to say better and ernie are gay. >>> finally, tv guide reports ashton kutcher taking over for charlie sheen on "two and a half men" is the highest paid actor. tmz says it's $800,000 to $900,000. regardless, that's still behind sheen's former salary of $1.2 million an episode. and they're all making peanuts compared to simon cowell who owns and appears on "the x factor." he's laughing all the way to the bank. >> it all kind of makes sense to me. better and ernie did share a room together. >>> this comes to us from news center 1 in rapid city, south dakota. where at mount rushmore a few locals took part in patriotic patchwork. a momento from one of america's darkest days recently arrived at the mount rushmore national memorial. the damaged flag is on a nationwide restoration tour. volunteers sfich together a selection of the flag adding their contribution to a symbolic repair job. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> a group of actors in hungary are really dedicated to their c

as before, we'll update our improvement plans based on the latest findings without delay. and pg&e says it hires 90 new engineers and working on safety procedures so federal investigators set to give you their findings. we'll update you. back to you. >> thank you, stephanie chuang in san bruno. >>> in the meantime, the proceedings in washington, d.c. have started, they have come up online. let's take a live look at what's happening right now. what we do know is that investigators who are leading this investigation are presenting their findings to ntsb so they will discuss everything from what caused the rupture to, uhm, the lack of paperwork that was provided by pg&e. they one able to find exactly where that ruptured pipe was manufactured and that is a big problem in this case but these proceedings ongoing right now and through the morning. >>> a shootout leads to a gas leak at an east bay gas station. kristy seifkin is in richmond where police are still trying to determine a motive for the gunfire and lots of shell casings there, as well. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.

the idea is if it were to collapse suddenly and all the customers were dumped on pg&e at a time when prices were high, this would be an amount equal to what the additional cost would before serving those customers. the cpuc has been moving very slowly on this. it is an open decision for them to make, how you do the method for calculating what that bond amount should be. that may require an appropriation to cover. we have been aggressive in those proceedings and are continuing to push the commission to try to make some sort of decision there. also, we talk about the termination provision. last is that there is the -- we have been given indicative prices from shell as we go along with after the contract is approved by the board of supervisors and signed by the mayor, we are thinking the contract would have -- it will contract would have -- it will specify terms under which the

the feds come down hard on pg and e for the san bruno blast.he reaction to the devastating mistakes. and how you can get paid to hack into facebook. join us for cbs 5 early edition ... beginning at 4:30. ,,,, >>> on the "cbs morning news" here's a look at today's weather. a storm system could bring powerful thunderstorms to parts of montana and north dakota. the great lakes will have showers and a few thunderstorms, the desert southwest could see an isolated storm or two as will south florida. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories on a wednesday, floodwaters from hurricane irene have washed out more than 250 roads in vermont and cut off a dozen towns, a similar story in new jersey, more than 600 people had to be rescued from the floods. >>> a growing wildfire in dry north texas has destroyed at least 20 homes and a fast moving grass fire in oklahoma city burned ten others. >>> a remarkable story of survival and recovery an arizona man fell face first on to a pair of pruning shears that ended up half way into his head. tucson sta

we show the breakout on how much of that pg&e bill is how much gas, how much electricity. we do the same thing on our water bill to save on costs and so we combine the water and sewer under one bill just like pg&e combines a electricity and gas. customers typically -- that is why we show them with two parts to the column. >> commissioner moran: in the term sheet itself, let me start with the simplest of questions. this is the parameter for contract negotiations. it seems it is really contract, not so much program. am i missing something there? >> there were a number of things describing the program. if someone was writing this in isolation but would not just be looking at contract terms. there are broader discussions at the beginning. >> the reason for my question is, not having seen non- counterparts of the program, i am not comfortable with the term sheet. if we are talking about how comfortable are we with the shell contract, that is one issue. if it is extending that to the rest of the program as yet unseen, i am not comfortable with that. >> maybe we can change the tit

we are not put it all off on pg &e, because we know that there are many issues, but this power plant was the number one largest single standing source of air and water pollution in bayview hunters point. for obvious reasons, we wanted to make it go away, but we started -- we decided that we were going to plant our feet and go after them, as we said, one goliaths at a time. >> the power plant issue, both potrero hill and bayview, you never hear one mentioned without the other. the spokesman did together to make sure they are getting rid of their power plants, and they look at which one was the worst, and the bayview one was the worst, and we got rid of that. >> the oldest power plant in the country. 77 years old, and we finally got it tore down by fighting. others tried to take the credit, but the community pushed the power plant down. >> i have a child suffers from the effects of this power plant and from the other pollutants. my job was to take it where it really counts. that is what we did. we formed mothers for environmental justice of on the hill because these guys were up at the

. >>> federal investigators helped pin the blame squarely on pg and e for the pipeline disaster. the transportation safety board formerly unvailed its findings yesterday. it concludes pg and e's safety practices led to the deaths of 8 people and the destruction of 38 homes. specifically, the safety agency points to pg and e's failure to detect a critical welding problem in a pipe that was installed back in 1956. >> if pg and e personnel had inspected the inside of the pipe the missing well should have been detected, therefore an ininspection was never performed or if it was performed the results were misinterinterpretted or ignored. >> reporter: pg and e's final mistakes came in the hours immediately following that deadly explosion and fire. the safety board says the utility is largely to blame for the chaos and confusion among emergency responders. there are now recommendations but many people wonder if it's enough. >> now the ntsb made a total of 29 safe tiff recommendations. the agency is hoping the disaster will be a wake up call for both government safety agencies and for am

here is the man in his own words on pg&e and how this past year has been a tough one. >> i was very happy with what happened they deserve what they got. for a long time they took forever to check really what went wrong for this but in the long run this company that they deserve. i miss the people i lost some friends they were great friends of mine will never see them again, and this should never happen to anybody. i now wish this on my worst enemy. it is just sad to see what happened grief over what, lives, that is what it is. i cannot even sleep at night the only time i sleep good is in the middle of the day because i know i can run out somewhere at night you hear a boom, and yukon you do not know what to do--you hear a boom and you cannot run out. and after something like this ever bite is wants to go home, everyone is tired in the community in the does want to go home. >> just across the street and other family has not been so lucky they're still battling to try and rebuild their home. we will have that story tonight on kron4 news at 6:00 p.m.. california assemblyman jerry hill represe

pg&e, tara moriarty is live where residents are getting some answers a year later. some of them have chose ton rebuild their homes -- chosen to rebuild their homes. >> reporter: one womanremembers a letter pg&e sent to homeowners stating it was raising rates to repair the pipeline explosion. she said that wasn't done and now they need to be held accountable. so farther ntsb has slammed the investigation saying this has been a difficult investigation because of pg&e's shoddy investigation. last year's explosion killed eight people, injured 38 and destroyed eight homes. they've still not determined who was responsible. maria bar who nearly lost her life in the explosion says she still has nightmares from that day. >> i was sitting in the middle of my house on my cell phone when the explosion happened. in the middle of the night, any sound i hear, it's amazing but it doesn't go away. >> reporter: bar hopes today's report will set pg&e straight to avoid another disaster. the pipe was installed. 5 hads -- 54 years ago and investigators have determined that some sections of it were substandard. now, the nsb -- now the ntsb will talk about a slight surge in gas pressure minut

pg&e. that power bill includes their electricity and natural gas. they get one consolidated bill. if they were to continue to opt in to the program that would be $7 per month for their family budget to incur. they could go from pg&e energy which is 16% renewable to 100% grenoble with clean power and for that customer household it would be $7 per month. that is 25 cents per day. many san franciscans -- this represents 43% of all households and that would allow them to enjoy that opportunity of choice. tier 2 is $16 additional. you can see the dollar's per month or cents per day make it affordable to go to that 100% screen option -- green option. this is a chart you have asked me to do in the past when we have looked at water and sewer. i would like to walk you through this. it is telling for what the household budget or the family purse can afford. if a customer were to continue to participate in the clean power sf program, they would have a family budget between tier one to tier five. an average cost of $20 per month. less than $1 to said that they have clean energy. that is in add

the release of a report o of a yearlong investigation and a verbal assault on the pg&e. >> you are going to hear about a troubling explanations and a system of oversight. government agencies a placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment to public safety. >> reporter: with congresswoman jackie speier and the mayor and city officials in the audience, n.t.s.b. chairwoman put pg&e and the state puc in the crosshairs. the investigation begin with an inspection of the 28 footÑç section of the pipe sending natural gas to fuel the flames. >> this is enough gas to serve the entire city for a month and it was released in less than two hours. >> the investigation could not answer questions. >> it was compounded over the years by a litany of failures. including poor record keeping, inadequate inspection programs and integrity management program without integrity. >> chairwoman implied the pipe was made by the request of pg&e, something the utility denies. pg&e released a statement this morning about its efforts to improve safety in its gas transmission lines saying they are creating a separat