the molding inside my newborn's room the molding at the bottom, that had turned brown. i mean the pipes were leaking. they said leave for 2 to 2.5 weeks and you'll come back home. we're gonna change the plumbing. a few days later i got a call they found mold inside the house. >> they came to an agreement with their landlord that they would move. >> i don't understand. they said you could move but they wouldn't - >> release my property. >> why not? >> they were going to check my stuff so i can move it out. and they kept saying we're running more tests running more tests and they've never released it. >> the landlord changed the locks and their possessions - everything from furniture to wedding albums - were left inside. the weeks turned into 6 months of calls and emails, but no real answers. >> like after being exposed to the mold my children got sick. >> we started noticing a difference. like he would have like a runny nose and he would have this cough. and we were thinking "is he getting sick?" is he... he's a child and... it wouldn't go away. it wouldn't go away. and

the epa's website has this to say about removing mold in a school. the remediation manager's highest priority must be to protect the health and safety of the building's occupants and remediators. it is also important to communicate with building occupants when mold problems are identified. school spokesman says it was an oversight not telling the parents about the mold. >> transparent si is important and it is important to get that information out and we do apologize for that. >> reporter: come why parents in this particular classroom say this is such a big issue for their children. in dodge park tracee wilkins, news4. >>> branches of the american military are being told to double-check their online privacy settings after threats from isis. several people from our area are among those named on what's being called a hit list. the islamic state posted the names of u.s. troops and their addresses online. the pentagon is not pulling anyone on the list off duty. defense officials say the list is a scare tactic but are telling all military members to be ext

days and now a local school district is apologizing for not notifying parents of the discovery of the mold in an elementary school classroom. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is in dodge park tonight with what the school system is planning to do about the mold. >> better to be straightforward, you know and let us know right away like this is what's going on. >> reporter: melvin rayes says his son's school dodge park elementary was not forthcoming about the black mold found growing in his son's first grade special ed class. >> he came home with a trum and started making all these things. >> reporter: he and his wife tried to figure out why he was so agitated. >> felt there was a change in school, and like i said, since my son is autistic he does need a routine on a daily basis. >> reporter: come to find out his son's class had been moved to the library due to black mold growing on the wall in their regular classroom. this picture was provided bay source inside the school. by the time melvin saw it -- >> as soon as you walked into the classroom you see thel just torn down a

claiming the machines are defective. mold starts to grow in the seals leaving residue on clothes and some manufacturers say the mold and mildew is often the result of customers not cleaning their machines out properly. >>> all right, well robert that joins us once again -- roberta joins us once again with a look at the forecast. >> it is stellar out there. a few more clouds later on this evening as well. good afternoon everybody. we have high temperatures once again above average for this time of the year. isn't this a beautiful view from oakland looking out towards san francisco. bit after a wave in that camera there. we'll explain why in a moment. but look at the stretch of numbers. average high temperature in san francisco is 62. already at 60. it's in the mid 60s in livermore and in concord. meanwhile, this is the view from lake observatory in the santa clara valley. the cliff house, nothing but clear skies. yep, the coast is clear. and now this is a beautiful view from the university of california and berkeley. air quali

but this house has the mold has the chickens has the dog feces. it's bad. it's bad. it's bad.s like -- i just want to vomit. >> reporter: debbie says this zombie needs to be killed with a bull dozer. our final stop, a zombie mansion. >> now zombies come in all shapes and sizes. >> reporter: once a pristine multi-million dollar lakefront home. once the crown jewel in an upscale neighborhood. >> squatters got in here. just vandals? >> looks like vandalism. >> every window smashed out. this is horrible. this was a gorgeous home. >> reporter: previous owners are now in jail, convicted of fraud. >> there's glass everywhere. >> everywhere. >> they've taken all the copper from the air conditioners. >> so we've seen this before in homes. anything that has any value in a zombie house will be stripped. >> they take everything? >> yeah. you've got a shoe, someone ran out of here -- well i didn't think it could get worse after the chickens but it did. >> we've seen lights back there at night. >> reporter: neighbor donna describes strange sounds late at night. >> we don't know what's back

that still and city government will not accept the small business commission not afraid to break the mold we'll challenge wasn't we've done in the past there's a better future for the homeless in san francisco and today is just the beginning thank you very much (clapping). >> several years ago when i had joined the sdpufks san francisco budget & finance committee i remember feel like we never had enough teachers or pens or enough paper and it was midway through office i realized there's the one thing the city and county city had too much it was land and what our surplus property would like and since this day this is the number one priority we know the the achievement gap is the opportunity gap we started thinking about values in our surplus property now the automatic is thinking about dollars let's build market rate housing on the site this used to be the site of fedex school it was we all had long kvendz whether what about a different surplus to build grocery stores where kids have access to healthy food and build affordable housing for teachers and kids this is what is keeping our kids

was found, but they don't know for sure that it is connected to the molddents have complained of any problems. coming up on news 4 at 6:00 after we started calling around and asking questions about this black mold another letter went out to parents. we'll toll you what it said coming up in just a bit. i'm tracee wilkins. back to you all in the studio. >>> it was a beautiful sunny day, doug as we walked outside and then, whoa, it's kind of cold out here. >> p you're lk it's gorgeous. you need the jacket. temperatures are well below average once again. look at this picture. it is a gorgeous picture. down towards national harbor you would almost think is this moving at all? this is a live camera. the potomac river just extremely tranquil right now. you can see a few of the cars streaming back along towards 495 as you move over the woodrow wilson bridge. one bus left over trying to get a look at the cherry blossoms. they'll be out in the next couple weeks. 44 at 7:00 37 degrees, chilly tonight. it is going to be another cold night. again, we're well below thav

. >> reporter: come to find out his son's class had been moved to the library due to black mold growing on the wall in their regular classroom. this picture was provided by a source inside the school. by the time melvin saw it -- >> as soon as you walk into the classroom, you see the right side of the wall torn down and black spots of mold. >> reporter: after he complained

you have the sunshade around the windows to break up u up the mold. >> we've been working with the planning department. >> everything else looks at good i've very supportive. >> commissioner wu. >> i'm very supportive happy to see the affordable project on the issue of the shadow there's a quality active crux to consider also so for me it is whether a public good being provided we could consider the shadow and am appreciative the last thing the project looks at i think there's going to be thirty percent unit for people that are at risk of homelessness i'm glad to see that. >> commissioner moore. >> i want 0 echo my sport it was in 2009 it has come a longs way a shorter building in its design and expression been an incentive building for those who didn't see the 2009 to put this on the overhead not to criticize the building it didn't celebrate the context and interpretation of tile to bricks thas this as a larger shadow allotment with zero tolerance so we as commissioner wu summarized approved the building because of the benefit of housing for the pur

and then we put them in the mold. but more of this. >> passed out. about the goal to reach $5,000. with the help of community donations she met her goal sooner than anticipated. >> how long did it take you? >> two months. >> how long were you expecting? >> five months. >> five months or more. >> the headstones were placed. we went to the cemetery. i spoke with the prosecutor's office. bill: whenever solve that. it was not just an appeal on facebook. an activity. that makes it a little more. >> the action as she took in order to raise the money active living way to remember your friends. that is beautiful. >> outside. governor christie spoke today. >> equating marijuana to heroin. heroin. moreover reason why he is losing traction. ♪ ♪ no other scents feel like glade. uplift your attitude with our clean linen fragrance. feel fresh and new. feel glade. girls: (giggling) girl: he's so cute. what should we name him? (mixed gasps) (snorting) new pet? get scrubbing bubbles. kill 99.9% of germs and destroy grime. with scrubbing bubbles for 100% problem solve

school in prince george's county is apologizing after failing to tell parents that black mold was found in a classroom. theid it should have communicated that students were moved from a classroom at dodge park elementary after mold was found in a wall. one dad told news 4 he found out when his autistic son came home upset. >> he came home with a tantrum. there was a change in school. since my son is autistic he needs a routine on a dahe information out and we apologize for that. >>> two staff members have complained of respiratory issues but it's unclear if that is connected to the mold. >>> and for the third time in recent months u.s. service-members are being urged to stay off social media. this after an isis-inspired hit list appeared online. tracie potts live with the latest u.s. response. >> good morning. they're not offering personal protection but as you said they are telling these service-members to scrub their social media accounts because the government thinks they weren't hacked but that isis got all of that information, names and photographs and titles and even home addresses from information t

the undergrounding in broadband and fiber, first of all the mold, the outstanding model in the united states is chattanooga tennessee where they are getting great service for $25 a month. let's put chattanooga front and center. on that issue, the obama administration and sf puc under the obama administration did something amazing and has locked in the protection for internet neutrality, internet equality and the obama administration last a couple more years and that is going to change . if we are going to build a citywide public broadband open to all income levels, we need to start now. i would urge lafco to front and center this system. to get it ready to go as soon as we have cleanpowersf off the launch pad and elections which i think was listed in the agenda. this is a little bit more of a future thinking item like public banks. the voting has improved things but it's not doing what progressives thought it was going to do to improve the elections and make-up the board of supervisors. i think we should start changing the board of supervisors to' representation to bring a lot more pu

you have to break the mold and take the chance if you want to move on from the way things are. there is a precedent in history. you don't have to go back far. the u.s., an ally of the soviet union in world war ii. richard nixon in 1972 trip to china, that was quite controversial at the time. it did open up relations with china after 30 years of separation. barack obama made it clear he is open to normalizing relations with cuba. he says change is hard in our own lives and in the lives of nations, but that doesn't mean you don't take the risk. he sent from the beginning he would do the same with iran. one of his early actions in office was writing the letter reaching out to iranian leadership. now with what he sees as a more moderate leadership in iran, he says we cannot squander this chance. this is been his ideology all along. republican saying he is being reckless with national security and the u.s. will pay the consequences of a bad deal. anchor: thanks for that. before switzerland, secretary of state john kerry weighed in on the situation in syria, a country that has now en

companies that break the mold, convention, boundaries. and the future of technology, design, and industry. rachel: we were just in boston, which is the epicenter of the robotics industry. sam: it is. there are now more 100 robotics companies scattered around boston. the grand patriarch of this whole scene is irobot. many of these newer, smaller robotics companies were all started by former employees of irobot. rachel: irobot makes the roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner. sam: they do, and that is still their most famous robot, but irobot also makes robots for the military, the police. robots that will go anywhere you do not want to be or cannot be. ♪ >> so much has been done in hollywood around how robots will impact our lives. we set off to figure out what is keeping us from having the robots that we all dreamed of, and it has been an amazing journey. one of the exciting applications for robotics is to allow people to actually physically be somewhere they're not. if i could attend a meeting, if i could diagnose a patient from my office as

companies that break the mold, conventions, boundaries. d the future of technology, design, and industry. >> so far in our quest to find innovative companies and people, i have gotten to go to chicago and nashua, new hampshire. you just went to mexico. what were you doing there? rachel: i was snorkeling around a three-story fish farm called an aqua pod. >> what is an aqua pod and i thought fish farms have a bad rap? rachel: some of them do, because they are close to shore and produce a lot of pollution. aqua pods are moving fish farming into open ocean and producing them in a more sustainable way. >> the oceans are already in trouble. i think we have to think about restoring the ocean, improving the condition of wild fish. we can do that by growing in farms in the open ocean. ocean prime technologies is leading the advancement of the technology to make open ocean fish farming sustainable, affordable, and prompt. i think this will open up new territories. it will revolutionize aquaculture. this is from baja. >> rachel, we are about to see on

from, you know, the molding of the plaster to the layers of paint. >> reporter: two years and more than $90 million later the restoration is nothing short of spectacular. did you have any idea sort of how majestic it would be? >> no. but it's just got a great vibe to it. and it sounds awesome on stage too. >> reporter: now grammy award winning singer/song writer sarah mclachlan is helping usher in a new era for this architectural jewel. change the show or location or venue. >> everywhere i look it's grand and it's glorious. >> reporter: the company now running the theater estimates its rebirth will bring a much needed boost to the local economy. and along with it a renewed source of pride. >> i haven't been here since the late '60s. and to see it in this condition is just wonderful. >> theaters are the hearts and souls of neighborhoods in this community. and you start tearing them down and we just lose something that you can never get back. >> reporter: tonight in brooklyn that soul is alive once again. ♪ firmly in place for generations to come. erica hill, nbc news, brooklyn. >>> a gre

the mold spores are low. got a chance if a few flakes and a chance for thunder, all in the 7-day forecast, which i will present to you ri in one year 5.6 million hospital workers helped perform 26.6 million surgeries deliver 3.7 million babies and treat 133 million e.r. patients. now congress is considering cuts which could increase wait times reduce staff, and threaten your community's health. keep the heart of america's hospitals strong. for you and your family tell congress: don't cut hospital care. >>> eight games in four days and now finally the sweet 16 is set for the ncaa basketball tournament. top seeds fell and the virginia cavaliers are among those who will be watching from home. for some teams revenge is a dish best served cold. but for virginia, well they just can't seem to find the recipe. and the spartans head onto the regional. >> reporter: michigan state, a 7 seed bounced the second seeded cavaliers from the dance for the second time in two years. and they weren't the only tournament favorites

mold of my chest. my bag was stolen at the airport and they found the mold and claimed it was a three breast prosthesisit was not a prosthesis. it was a mold of my chest. >> now, she says that -- >> it's like right on it. >> she claims she made calls to many different doctors to get this procedure. >> there was actually one surgeon that hung up on me. they just didn't take me seriously. there was another surgeon that told me i'm crazy and i should get myself checked at the hospital. >> she did find one that did it for $20,000. it was an hour and a half surgery and she also said that he made her sign a nondisclosure agreement. >> don't want to be crass. take your shirt off and prove it. >> i could never consider doing a topless shoot. it's just against the way i was raised. >> she was raised to have three boobs and pink hair but i was raised with some -- >> my mom ran out the door. >> it's weird. it's not pretty. >> i don't understand why you would do it. >> i wanted to make myself unattractive towards men sexually. >> so get an extra boob? that's not, logically, doesn't add up. >> men will come up and

all-time high in terms of employment and i'm sure that 2014 will be higher we have broken out of the mold of treading water for thirty years this chart is going to be different for the recent years all four sectors are growing. >> then relative growth because whether it's medium or audits the tech seethes drawing the attention around san francisco a lot of talk gets you know mentioned about well, the multiplier effect many people are talking about local i think people who are opening up sandwich shops as individuals or serve industries can you talk about where you think this is gone relative to each other are through the roof it is much more an out liar. >> first, let me agree with you about the multipleer effect when we say it is driving growth the tech and other export and the tourism industry generate the multiplier effects in terms of that have this i think the creative industries the tech sector is the faster growing sector in the earlier part of the recovery 2011 to 2012 the most growth we've seen in the temple percent range two to three times faster than the rest of the city but th

." ♪ companies that break the mold, conventions, boundaries. d the future of technology, design, and industry. sam: rachel, along all of our "brink" journeys, we've seen tons of new companies. talked to all these different innovators. you actually had the chance to attend singularity university. that is a college that i can apply to? rachel: you can apply, but you are not about to graduate with a bachelor's degree. singularity is not an accredited university. it is cofounded by ray kurzweil. their goal is to take on the world's greatest problems. sam: how do they intend to do that? rachel: they try to teach their students to think about technological progress exponentially. what happens tomorrow is not just a little better, but infinitely more powerful. >> there is a lot of change happening. it is all being led by the crazy technological breakthroughs that we're seeing. >> the world is changing more and more quickly. go back four years ago and people did not use social networks, wikis, blogs. the world will change even more in the next few years

nothing soothes my nerves like amateur athletics, where it's all about the molding of young minds, far corrupting influence of money. >> ncaa basketball which generates about a billion dollars a year for march madness -- >> college athletes are generating billions of dollars of money -- >> this new playoff structure has generated millions, maybe even billions in extra revenue for schools. >> larry: okay, so there's a little bit of money changing hands. a few billion here or there. but the money is all staying within the hall hallowed hallways of these educational institutions right? >> the current contract for march madness with cbs and turner broadcast is for how many years and how much money? >> 14 years and it's $10.8 billion. >> $10.8 billion? >> larry: whaaaaa?! $10.8 billion? man, i could really make it rain with that! >> oh, it's raining? does that mean the pool's closed? >> larry: there's no pool! go on! get! get! (applause) there's no pool. always keep a stick handy is what i say. that's a lot of money to air just the tourney. that doesn't even take into account national and r

moderate on the tree pollen and moderate on the mold. we've got ups and downs in the seven- day. i'll tell but your weekend coming up in one year 5.6 million hospital workers helped perform 26.6 million surgeries deliver 3.7 million babies and treat 133 million e.r. patients. now congress is considering cuts which could increase wait times reduce staff, and threaten your community's health. keep the heart of america's hospitals strong. for you and your family tell congress: don't cut hospital care. >>> as exhausting this winter has been for many of us on the east coast, there is a beautiful side to all of this snow and ice. bill shields is able to capture some of nature's wonder off the coast of cape cod. >> it is a cold, bleak landscape, black and white, with different shades of gray. but then the tide moves and the ice flows with it and it all becomes a dynamic winter scape. >> it's incredible. >> reporter: some of the ice is 3 feet thick. last weekend it dwarfed people. it produced a winter scene such as this. >> i've never seen anythi

like the one portrayed in the mold the san andreas. scientists are now telling us that the chance of that is higher than before is up 4.7% to 7%. we now see the quake on separate false and it could actually jumped other fault lines. and all the faults that crisscross california the southern and andreas fault is it remains the most dangerous because it has not rupture in such a long time. >>reporter: scientists cannot be that precise. is not production. vickie liviakis kron 4 news >>reporter: mile they're coming out of the south and west. oranges sitting shy of the 60 degree area a temperatures in san jose. we're currently tracking incoming storms system and but it is running out of steam and falling apart and it continues to push to the north and east to the bay area. it looks very promising but looks can be deceiving there's rain in the upper and middle levels of the atmosphere but those rain drops are evaporation before they hit the ground. so right now we're still looking and dry and cloudy conditions. all the cold air is lagging be

so the kids take the material, mix it up with water, pour it in the molds, sets in 30 minutes, air-driesand then they paint the pieces. >> it takes that mold-making technology that we have and puts it into a toy. >> casting and painting molded shapes isn't my idea of a hit toy. >> we have the marble copter, the max traxxx, and then the new tracer racers right here, which is our hottest item. >> kind of taking racing with a track and cars to the next level. it's a car with two purple l.e.d. lights in it. >> and when they go over the glow-in-the-dark track, they leave traces on the track. i mean, it's really cool. >> very cool. can i see how the car works? >> yes. >> is there somewhere we can test it? >> on the track? sure. >> yeah. >> turn the lights off, pete. i came up with a patent pending where the tracks connect side-by-side so the kids could race. >> cool. >> isn't that neat? >> i love this product. >> it's pretty awesome. >> very cool. what's your favorite toy in the whole place? >> the aero flixx are awesome. this is a disc-throwing game, kind of like disc golf, and when you hit t

it is unclear if that is connected to the mold. >>> months after a news 4 i-team investigation, the federal government is set to convene a special hearing into the high number of pedestrians killed on railroad tracks. our i-team found more than a hundred people in the d.c. area had been hurt or killed while trespassing across tracks. nbc's tom costello has a look at the alarming national numbers. >> reporter: in georgia the chilling final moments of a film crew trespassing on a trestle seconds before a freight train plowed through killing 27-year-old sarah jones. >> what's going on? >> well, someone got hit by a >> reporter: the film's director randall miller, now sentenced to ten years for involuntary manslaughter. in indiana 13-year-old jeffrey billinger killed after taking a shortcut from school across nearby tracks. also in indiana a close call for these two women who somehow survived being run over by a train. the ntsb says train accidents involving pedestrians jumped sharply last year with 945 people struck by trains, two to three every day, and more than 500 killed. >> beautiful girl

over the weekend so we have high amounts of tree pollen and weed and grass, still low along with the mold. we will see 60 from san francisco up into the north bay and upper 60 to nearly 70 and mid-to-upper 60s along the coast and more sunshine as you head to the south and that is where our warmer temperatures are also into the east and southeast, like livermore and morgan hill at 77 degrees of the tonight with the clouds making around, fog is minimal along the coast and a little bit could develop along around the bay but it is cloudy like this morning maybe a touch cooler around santa rosa and napa at 48 and the rest of us in the low-to-mid 50s. here is a look at that plume of moisture. the bigger picture is showing the cold front that will stall this area of high pressure that is too stubborn. the high re-established dominance starting tomorrow on st. patrick's day. find yourself some cold clean beverages and enjoy. it will be a warm one out there. notice we are around 78 inland on thursday, and the coast is in the mid-to-upper 60 and a slight cooling friend when spring starts on friday

analysis did not consider the treasure island if a facility to be an emergency as defined deby the code mold was discovered in friegs almost a year ago during the planning process important the tear facility over last year there were several points that the city departments quo could have moved but they require the competitive bid progress for the temporary fire station on treasure island as a matter of fact to put this in context the emergency was discovered in march of 2014 and yet on emergency was not declared by the department until october of 2014 this is ridiculous that is not what emergency is under the section of the administrative code on page 10 of our report regarding the bond issue financing we point out that dpw tend to use one million dollars plus in emergency responses for earthquakes to partially fund this for the temporary fire station the initial part didn't exclude the fire station only treasure island that will be constructed by the developer in 2023 as part of the redevelopment of treasure island and those are intend for the seismic and safety improvement for the fire st