>> ed foulke headed osha, the u.s.laces, from april 2006 to november 2008. in march 2008, he told congress that osha was on the case. >> we are doing the job. and we are getting to the places we need to get to. >> when we talked with foulke in 2008, he told us that some 50 of his 1,029 inspectors had extensive dust training. he says osha sends inspectors to companies with the greatest risk of a dust explosion. and it turns out there are a lot of those. you've identified 30,000 workplaces that are at risk. how many of those will you inspect over the next year? >> well, approximately 300 or more. >> if you do 300 a year, it'll take you 100 years to inspect all those places that you've identified. >> we're not gonna get into every work site every year. we're not gonna get-- it would be physically impossible from a monetary standpoint and on a personnel standpoint to get in every facility once a year or even every five years. >> [blows whistle] >> foulke blames employers for the dust explosions. too many companies, he says

i was terminated because i spoke out to cal osha, highway patrol, places that could help us. it is your jurisdiction to make sure that the public -- as a supervisor, it is your obligation to your constituents to make sure they have save transit vehicles in your district. but do you do that? no, you sit here and you pass b.s. litigation for the big businesses, you have got to be able to take care of your own infrastructure before you can enhance it. if you cannot do that, if you cannot make a basic decision on making sure your constituents have safe, reliable transportation, there is no need to expand it. commissioner campos: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> my name is cynthia carter. i am also a wrongfully terminated driver of the sfmta due to my filing a sexual harassment charge, due to me being a whistle-blower. something needs to be done. they need to go to sfmta management and see what is going on. when you file a complaint, like i did, sexual harassment charges, i was terminated. they came after me. i was terminated within a year of filing those charges. yet,

my name's richard, and i'm with the state osha program. and i'd like to see the person here with the highest authority, please. today, it is the job of osha-- the occupational safety and health administration, to keep workers free from health hazards by regulating their exposure to different hazards. jim, you have richard from osha in the front office. please come to the front office. all of our inspections are really a surprise to the employer. we cannot give advance notice to any of the employers. my name is richard, i'm with the state osha program. - and i'm here to do an inspection. - okay. some inspections are prompted by a violation or complaint reported by an employee; others are routine. ray barkley: they'll explain why we're out there, and then they'll ask to look at specific programs. well, let's just start and walk around the shop. and then they'll start their walk around, which is the inspection. this is interesting. tim, could you come here and-- ? yeah? this device shows whether an electrical circuit is grounded or not. and i

we had cal osha out here doing test weeks. >> cal-osha comes out because the state of california, unlike the city of new york or other places, in the state of california, cranes are inspected by the state, not the local jurisdiction. in the wake of the crane collapse in california in 1990, the board of supervisors passed legislation which is now still in it regulations in the building code that requires crane safety programs to make sure that the building department is collecting all the information, but we reply. we rely on kali should do the information, but we reply. we rely on kali should do the

irregularidad en sus empleos a la administracion de seguridad y salud ocupacional, en sus siglas en ingles osha todos ellos estan amparados bajo la ley federal. soy maria rosa lucchini, reportando desde maryland, ahora regreso son ustedes a papa y a pocos dias de la visita del papa tambien a cuba, el senador marco rubio y abogue por libertad de acceso a la internet para los cubanos.. tambien critican a la iglesia por no r organizado una reunion con los disidentes.. fernando pizarro nos cuenta mas... en washington continuan los llamados pque el papa benedicto xvi se reuna con disidentesn su va a cuba a partir del proximo lunes. si el papa visita cuba sin 1 encuentro con los disidentes seria 1 verguenza de proporciones biblicas. no todos quieren culpar a la iglesia cubana de no incentivar la reunion del ponte con grupos disidentes. decir que la iglesia cubana es colaboradora al regimen no solo es aburdo, sino que es 1 calumnia, es absolutamente incierto. la iglesia cubana ha logrado mucho para el bienestar del pueblo cubano. las obras de la iglesia son extraordinarias. y la iglesia ha sufrido muc

. >>> new at 11:00 tonight, cal osha says a peninsula lab didn't keep its workers safe., it's facing serious violations after a scientist died at that lab last fall. adrian martin was blasted 15 feet in september after a pressurized cylinder exploded at membrane technology and research, located in menlo park. cal osha found pressure in that cylinder reached triple the level it could safely contain. the lab is facing $50,000 in penalties and improper worker training. >>> a schoolteacher says she did not kick or slap her special ne needs students. she appeared in the courtroom today and pleaded not guilty to nine charges of abusing two 4-year-olds at roosevelt elementary. she told the judge, quote, i never abused a child and i can't believe this is happening to me. the judge ordered her to stay away from the school and the alleged victims. she'll be back in court in may. >>> in the east bay, union city plans to reconsider its current restrictions on tobacco sales. the rules prevent the sale within 1,000 feet of parks, cities and libraries. now, the city says it will re-eva

and h.r. 7 eliminates osha protections for hazmat workers and allows bad actors to continue to receive hazmat compliant exemptions. so this body could have considered and passed the other body's bipartisan bill which passed that body by a vote of 74-22. that's half of the republican members in the other body, and we know how difficult it is to get that other body to get 60 votes to cut off debate on any resolution or any bill, even one saying i love mother would be hard to pass in that body. yet, for a transportation bill, they came up with 72 votes. that bill continues current funding levels, sustaining approximately 1.9 million jobs. the states will receive $3.8 billion more in highway construction funding than h.r. 7 over the course of two years. the senate bipartisan bill eliminates many of the gaping loopholes in current law buy american requirements, and the senate bipartisan bill does not contain poison pills like h.r. 7 such as provisions to strip osha requirements for hazmat workers and efforts to finance highway constructions on the back of middle class workers. i would note,

sickened a large number of people and that will be determined through an investigation through cal osha and solano county environmental health. >> thank you. we have more information about how a carbon dioxide is used commercially and how it affects the body. in food preparation it's used for such things as carbonating sodas and keeping foods cold. you should know dry ice is carbon dioxide in solid form, firefighters tell us people should have trouble breathing because it sucks oxygen out of the air. >> many workers getting sick are going to the sutter solano medical center in vallejo. that is where mark matthews is standing by. >> we're looking back at the area where the hospital set up thents afternoon and there are hospital staff set up the tents and cots brought in medical equipment for monitoring signs, doctor skbrorz nurses and hospital administrators have been out, drilling for emergencies like this. drilling twice per year. the first group arrived and the doctor told me all patients gorg to be okay. >> we have 14 transferred here, eight of them serious enough to go into the emer

cal osha are continue to investigate to find out why so many people here got sick. >> terry: this morning first lady michelle obama will be in alameda to commission a new coastguard cutter. she attended a re-election campaign fund-raiser. first lady was going to raise $175,000. >> i was really hoping to hear from her how she was going to support the young people who might not have the best opportunities right now. >> terry: after a visit to alameda today. she is going to go to los angeles for the nickelodeon kids choice awards. she will present an award to taylor swift. >> we have a new price tag for the high speed rail project in california, just over 68 building billion that is $30 billion less -- $68 billion and it's $30 billion less. they will have details on monday. it would stretch from merced to los angeles and that is a significant expansion from the so-called train to nowhere concept that originally linked central valley cities. >>> we were waiting for the storm. >> lisa: i told you it was coming. >> terry: i believed you. i see it and you cameras are getting wiped out. >> lisa:

. >> cal-osha will start their investigation, it will depend on them with the county environmental health, they will make sure that the building is safe, operations are safe and no one will get injured from their operations. >> reporter: most of the people was released but one man is still under medical care. the owners said they have never had an incident like this. >> our number one concern is for the health and safety of our staff. >> reporter: charles k -- charles clifford kron 4 news. >>> two weeks since a teen went missing the search is on for sierra lamar. they are now looking at foot hills in south san jose and possible evidence found yesterday is being investigated. all of that while hundreds joined the search for a fourth day and tonight sierra lamar's mother thanked those who donated their time and pleaded for her daughter's safe return. >> please, please, release her to me. i just want her safe recovery. i want her back with us. i just going to thank everyone out there, you know, that had continued these efforts and it -- nobody backed 79 it is truly amazing and i am grateful.

organization organizational, over the last two years osha has put in place a new examination program. it had changed way. >> examination materials are standardized. and working with the division of risk, strategy and if i nabl gajz -- over the last few years, 42% of exams have identified significant findings, up by a thirty, since 2008:. it's risen by half, from 10 to 15%. one such referral has. during the resulting examination, they previously a failure that koz ep forcers more than $200 billion. >> thank you pho ron's invest s investors, arch they made an enforcement division. they revamped their operations putting talented attorneys back on the front lines, kregt such int and spring wod. >> while i won't steel all. including some of the most complex cases we've ever worked on. we retained orders for 208 billion dollars in penalties and disengorgement. of course the most will be. if congress agrees with my request to raise the tap on what, we would have the appropriate cases return even larger sums to investors. in the area of financial crisis related cases, we filed charges against

this he started with pizza restaurants this, plant produces frozen items and there is now up to cal osha to figure out exactly what happened and what made all of the people so sick. >> there are so many patients that paramedics had to take them to different hospitals to treat them all. >> there is center solano medical center. all of them but one have been treated and released. the one checked into the hospital we're told is in serious condition. earlier today the hospital set up tents in the parking lot behind me. doctor skbrorz nurses evaluated patients. this was a triage area where justin was brought in. >> i didn't feel symptoms but i have seen other people, they said they're feeling fine, then, they said they couldn't breathe then falling and painting and throwing up. and it was just scary to see your co-workers going through that. >> the patients were arriving and the doctor said was an evaluation of symptoms they were showing. >> we evaluate them for sweating and headaches and stable saigs. and there is main thing making sure they don't go into cardiac problems including cardiac a

by 2009, citing three more deaths at the refinery, osha found that bp had not solved the problems theymillion, the largest in the agency's history. bp agreed to pay more than $50 million but disputed the remainder of the fine. in early 2011, bp announced plans to sell the texas city refinery, saying it was no longer profitable. well, that's this edition of 60 minutes on cnbc.

osha requires companies to conduct air plugs testing.do you test the air? >> i think this is basically, turned out to be real hype. >> reporter: actually, osha takes formaldehyde so seriously, workers are required to wear res pr praters like this. we went straight to the stop to hilda soliz. >> we do this for a reason. we have laws in lace to protect people from harming themselves at work. and people that are coming in and being exposed to the product shouldn't have to be exposed to something as dangerous as formaldehyde. >> reporter: 4 of the 16 salons said that it doesn't contain any formaldehyde at all. sit in the original? >> it's not. >> it has no formaldehyde. >> reporter: clearly, they were relying on the old labeling. >> they say it doesn't have it. i can show it coyou on the bottle. okay, here. >> oh, contains no formaldehyde. >> if they lie to me, i lie to you. i lie because i don't know. >> reporter: sit confusing. here's hair care advice from the cabinet secretary. >> they're going to use any products with formaldehyde, i say

when osha tested, some were five times the legal limits. cancer in the long term. yet every year, millions of american women risk it all in the hopes of getting smooth, sleek hair like this. i smoothed my hair with a flat iron. in the past, women have told us they love brazilian blowouts. >> i can't believe my hair looks like this. >> i kind of feel like a million bucks. >> reporter: salon workers risk more. they're exposed every day. osha requires any company that handles formaldehyde to conduct air pollution testing. not one of the salons we visited said they do that. do you test the air? >> i think this is basically, turned out to be real hype. >> reporter: actually, osha takes formaldehyde so seriously, that if the fumes are over the legal limit, workers are required to wear respirators like this. >> this is very serious. >> reporter: we took our findings straight to the top, to u.s. labor secretary hilda solis. >> we do this for a reason. we have laws in place because we want to protect people from harms themselves at work. and people

now, again the local authorities and cal osha are still investigating. they are trying to figure out exactly why so many people here got sick today. reporting live in vallejo, sergio quintana, abc news. >> thank you. >>> oakland police are investigating a shooting and car crash involving a taxicab. they were over the scene moments after it happened. after 6:30 it was at cole street and foothill boulevard in east oakland. at least one person was injured by gunfire. officers closed off the street, and they are still trying to piece together what lead to the shooting. there was no word on the condition of the victim. >>> today marks two weeks since the disappearance of 15-year-old sierra lamar. she left for school in morgan hill and hasn't been seen since. today hundreds of volunteer searchers turned out again, and now the search strategy will change this weekend. abc7's thomas roman is live in morgan hill at the command post. >> we are here at the search headquarters at burnett elementary school. today saw the largest group of volunteers since sierra lamar

they have brought us to the planning commission, cal osha, the spca. three times, even our children's pets have not been abused. they have reported our home vacant and abandon while we were living there, both to the city agencies and to our mortgage holder. whose interests are they serving, and what is their goal? on may 18, 2011, mr. butler appeared before this very commission with blatant arrogance, he showed photographs çlr home, and this is in the archives -- you can all watch it. he said, "when we go down into the garage" -- let me assure you, over my dead body did i give permission to this man to enter my home. there appears to be no limits to which mr. butler will not go to achieve his goals. a fairly even breaking into my home is acceptable practice. once aware of our interests, in 550 states, they have transferred their campaign for harassment to that property. last week, during their request for a discretionary review hearing, the sole supporter of that motion -- [bell rings] >> thank you. the speaker. >> good morning, commissioners. i am was

i also talked to an official from cal osha. he says that they have not gotten any information or any violations from this plant, and this investigation could take about a month. reporting live in villejo, nbc bay area news. >>> new details in the case of the so-called speed freak killers. the remains two of teenage girls found in an abandoned well have been identified. investigators in the central valley say the remains have been identified as 19-year-old kimberly billie who went missing in 1984 and 16-year-old joann hobson who vanished in 1985. forensic expert have yet to identify a third body uncovered from the well in lyndon. death row inmate wesley shermandine is linked to the 15-year killing spree. the search for remains began last month after he gave maps of boneyards to a bounty hunter in exchange for $33,000. >>> a troubling discovery in the search for sierra lamar. crews found bones but confirmed this afternoon they were animal bones. nbc bay area's marianne favro with more. >> reporter: yes, detectives spent the after

secondly, there is a system now of retaliation against muni drivers for raising sexual- harassment, and osha complaints about the state of the buses. you voted $60 million for the tunnel, but the buses are falling apart. there is mismanagement and people are being killed. the have untrained drivers. it is killing the people and the public and drivers are being state code. this has to change and we have to stop it. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> this 9/11 will be 911 days from the sabbatical cycle. i this found that out sunday. the sabbatical cycle is extremely important in the first coming of jesus christ. in daniel chapter 9, the angel interrupted daniel's prayer and told him there would be 70 sabbatical cycles, or 490 years, and the messiah would come. the first coming of jesus christ was based on a sabbatical cycle. i believe the second is related to the sabbatical cycle. harold camping does not understand the year of jubilee. he thinks he does. march 21, 1996, began the year of jubilee. it was the first state to the countdown of the second trumpet, which happened 2000 days l

now, again the local authorities and cal osha are still investigating. they are trying to figure out exactly why so many people here got sick today. reporting live in vallejo, sergio quintana, abc news. >> thank you. >>> oakland police are investigating a shooting and car crash involving a taxicab. they were over the scene moments after it happened. after 6:30 it was at cole street and foothill boulevard in east oakland. at least one person was injured by gunfire. officers closed off the street, and they are still trying to piece together what lead to the shooting. there was no word on the condition of the victim. >>> today marks two weeks since the disappearance of 15-year-old sierra lamar. she left for school in morgan hill and hasn't been seen since. today hundreds of volunteer searchers turned out again, and now the search strategy will change this weekend. abc7's thomas roman is live in morgan hill at the command post. >> we are here at the search headquarters at burnett elementary school. today saw the largest group of volunteers since sierra lamar

so that's very heavily regulated by cal osha for safety concerns. >> and not by the city of san franciscowe don't regulate that at all. >> that was big in the regulating world. >> you have to clean buildings. >> they're swaying it inboard. as we would say. >> the original design for old buildings were, they would open up the window and there were these two bronze hooks. and the guy would hook himself up and hang on the outside of the building, close the window and wash the window from outside, hanging off these bronze hooks. now, there's no way i would do that but they found people to do it. >> why would people use bronze? it's not just corrosion resistant, very highly corrosion resistant. >> it is a hard material. not soft like copper. >> on high rise we have cladding, this is from the outside of the building, very unusual. >> this is about four ircht incs thick. when they build this building, the bank said money is no object. so in most buildings you will see in san francisco, the veneer is 3 centimeters thick with a concrete backer. >> and then as you go up, you sort of get lower and l

it's risky to party who look to dictatorship we call it or do our police and they're all fighting for osha sleep over who's going to go to the white house is so they can take up residence and to take the orders from their corporate paymasters some analysts say the system works in a way to avoid any real change in the way america's government and special interests play special role the extended primary process we have in the us gives special interests like. military contractors or others it gives them time. i'm jus monitor the election process and put in resources to attack anyone who's not going to use are going to give us those that are state rules favorable to them so we just make it hard for an outsider to surprised establishment some believe congressman ron paul who would fare better as an independent as his distinctly anti-war rhetoric this stances him from the other republican front runners political experts say someone like paul stands no chance of winning the nomination because at the end of the day the two parties always though they were mainstream candidates. presented with just

and h.r. 7 eliminates osha protections for hazmat workers and allows bad actors to continue to receive hazmat compliant exemptions. so this body could have considered and passed the other body's bipartisan bill which passed that body by a vote of 74-22. that's half of the republican members in the other body, and we know how difficult it is to get that other body to get 60 votes to cut off debate on any resolution or any bill, even one saying i love mother would be hard to pass in that body. yet, for a transportation bill, they came up with 72 votes. that bill continues current funding levels, sustaining approximately 1.9 million jobs. the states will receive $3.8 billion more in highway construction funding than h.r. 7 over the course of two years. the senate bipartisan bill eliminates many of the gaping loopholes in current law buy american requirements, and the senate bipartisan bill does not contain poison pills like h.r. 7 such as provisions to strip osha requirements for hazmat workers and efforts to finance highway constructions on the back of middle class workers. i would note,

. >> osha is here and will start their investigation. they will check to make sure that the building is safe and that their operations are safe. >>charles: the owners say they have never had an incident like this before and will cooperate with inspectors. >>pam: as our team coverage continues with haaziq mediacom he was at the center salon of medical center in a vallejo when the first workers arrived. >>haaziq: an emergency triage was set up to treat workers from the food processing plant who were exposed to hazardous fumes. as many as 70 employees in the building when a hazmat situation occurred. buses were called in to expedite transporting workers to the hospital. and once they arrived there were examined by doctors and nurses. >> we treat patients both inside and outside. we just want to make sure that we are set up to treat anyone who comes to the facility. we are fully staffed and our physicians are available and ready. >> temperatures in the '50s and '60s. still we are under mostly cloudy conditions right now. we do have a storm s

both sides of the ocean with all this i suppose it's fair to say that it's some kind of cold war and osha but there is a desire to. speak tough talk tough when it comes to foreign policy in order to sell your campaign to the wider population among the most hardline anti russian politicians are those who also preach unilateralism in foreign policy which means the u.s. can and will decide whatever he chooses with the rest of the world an idea which flourished after the soviet union's collapse well in new york cons are having a particularly difficult time or use the idea that they can no longer simply snap their fingers and call the shots just ten years ago in the united states that it was possible to think not really how the iraq war came about in new york on running the show in washington they didn't see the need to consult with great powers to determine whether their course of action once it's acceptable to the reset policy was put forward in theory to overcome the cold war mindset but a number of differences still remain between russia and the u.s. one of the biggest u.s. plans for a mis

osha city is waking up to clouds -- ocean city is waking up to clouds. clear and cold tonight. freeze watches and warnings, especially north of baltimore. watch out for temperatures to get near freezing as to head west. potted plants, bring them inside. make sure your pets are inside. up to 70 on wednesday with a chance for thunderstorms. >> kind of busy and several accidents. we start on northbound 83 in part it and traffic in possible accident. in manchester, route 38 york road, another accident to avoid. another accident in bel air. at middlesex road, that is the latest accident. not seeing a lot of delays. looking good on the north side traveling through park filled and over towards towson. the j.f.x. is running smoothly into town. -- traveling through parkville. this is greenspring. traffic is building over towards the j.f.x. as you make your way over towards the west side. 795 checking out fine out of owings mills. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> thank you. sarah francisco police believe a man killed five people. a man is charged with five counts of murder. the