it was a laser strike and it appears that someone in east palo alto between poplar and roll march avenues was flashing it. kiet do shows us it's yet another example of the dangerous bay area skies. >> reporter: east pal oh alto has proven once again the skies over the bay area are some of the most treacherous in the country when it comes to laser strikes. >> it's very dangerous, very dangerous, because the light is so intense that it could blind us and then i wouldn't be able to fly the aircraft properly or safely. >> reporter: around 6:30 tonight chopper 5's cockpit lit up with a blinding green light. >> everywhere, it's like a disco ball, just everywhere. >> reporter: the powerful green laser was coming from an alley between two houses in the densely populated neighborhood. the suspect shined the light on the helicopter multiple times over several minutes. the dark net made it impossible to get a description. east palo alto officers on foot looking for the perpetrator but found nothing. >> you feel like iten dangers your life. >> these photos show what it looks like in the cockpit. nati

figure out what caused a virus that sickened 65 students, teachers and sap roepbs to a field trip to a poplar outdoor school t. started at a science camp that is run by the marin office administration. officials were attending a four- day outdoor program. the officials say those sickened had flu-like symptomsism the bomb squad was called in it today to remove six grenades from the garage of a home. the devices believed to be live grenades were found after 7:00 this morning at a home between 18th and 19th street. the grenades were inside of a paper bag. a relative discovered them while cleaning out the home after a 92-year-old man passed away. several neighbor homes evacuated while a bomb squad row not removed it. the bag ripped during this procedure and all four of the grenades fell out but did not detonate. >> past military people try to keep them as souvenirs. they are not things you want to keep. they can explode. >> after two hours the grenades were taken away and detonated by the bomb squad outside of the city. >>> new jobless figures release today show the number of people applying for

but these are humorous articles and they were very poplar in the times. one came out in about 1912. the other in the early 1920s. and it has hilarious raps on how howe and hummel opry. this book was written by a former new york district attorney who in tangled within a number of times. so i think they were motivated essentially by money. and then i also think they grew to enjoy their celebrity, so by the end of their career, they want to be part of high profile cases. so for example, if any of you have read the age of darkness, there's an opening scene in that book when the truck, mutilated trunk of a body washes up on the east river. is the space on an actual case in which a masseuse, he was stabbed, shot, decapitated, and then dismembered by his ex-girlfriend and her new lover. so he was thoroughly, thoroughly done in. eventually, his tormentors were caught and tried. actually in long island city which was just across the water. now, one of the defendants, a gentleman named william back shows up in court and he says, i don't have a lawyer. and there's a tradition in new york. it w

it appears someone from poplar and ralmar avenue was shining a later pointed at the aircraft. police searched on foot and didn't find anything. pilot say lasers put them and everyone else at risk. >> it's very dangerous. very dangerous, because the light is so intense, that it could blind us. and then i wouldn't be able to fly the aircraft properly or safely. >> a number of laser strikes doubled from 2009 to 2010 and now the bay area is actually tied for third in the nation with 80 incidents just last year. >>> a major boost for the bart extension to san jose as part of the president's new budget plan. the federal transit administration recommends money to run bart from fremont to the berryessa area of san jose. the plan is for 130 million federal dollars this year. that would help pay for new bart tracks and to start building stations from milpitas and to berryessa. >>> this could help drive up the sale of electric cars. the city of san jose working with toyota, uc-berkeley and the bay area air quality management district to set up charging stations around the bay. the air di

. >>> poplar burrito chain chipotle is under review for hiring illegal immigrants. they were supposed to hand over documents to immigration authorities proving all the workers are in the country legally. each location has 25 workers. they fired hundreds of workers a while back after a similar crackdown in minnesota last year. >>> americans are putting more money on their credit cards for the first time in more than two years. it is likely a sign that people are gaining confidence in the economy. auto sales finally showed increases in december and retailers are coming off their best holiday shopping in years. analysts predict people will continue to put more money on their credit cards as the year continues. >>> meantime, super bowl advertisers are apologizing this morning. scott mcgrew says it turns out the groupon commercials fell a little flat. >> not a lot of people liked those much. good morning to you. groupon, we'll talk about it. a lot of people uncomfortable with groupon's message. if you didn't see it, here's the example. it starts as an appeal to help the

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