we have to get rid of it. >> reporter: wilson walker, kpix 5. >> good story. beyond california the situation is worse. houston scaled back pick up programs. and waste management, the largest hauler closed 1/5 of its facilities. >>> starting wednesday you will be able to get from silicon valley to london in style. dreamliner service from san jose to heathrow. the daily non-stop will be a first for the airport. and the first u.s. cruise it cuba in 50 years is sailing away tonight. 700 passengers are on the american ship and they will be the first to dock on the island. it will stop in two ports. >>> someone in san jose will be able to afford a few trips. they won a million dollars playing powerball. a gas station sold a powerball ticket that matches 5-6 numbers and it is now worth $1.3 million. no one hit the jackpot last night so that means the next drawing on wednesday will be worth $350 million. >> we could use that. >>> we will fire up the kpix 5 doppler tonight. a lot of this is really because of the returns on the radars are ramped up. they increased the s

while their work may sound like the plot of a disaster movie, wilson walker shows us the threat and science are both very real. >> reporter: it is truly the stuff of hollywood. morgan freeman is the president. tayla makes good with her estranged father, and all of humanity is endangered by a threat from the heavens. here at lawrence livermore national laboratory, scientists are working to prevent that very disaster. >> no one has really looked at meteorites in this way before. >> reporter: to save mankind from a doomsday collision, brooks is working with these relatively small meteorites. rock that formed at the dawn of our solar system drifted through space for billions of year then fell to earth. >> came a long way to get here and we're pretty lucky to get to use them. >> reporter: using them means destroying them. because the team is considering two possible ways of deflecting a killer asteroid. >> to either use a kinetic factor. >> reporter: basically that's a space craft that would ram the asteroid and push it off course. option 2 is a bit messier. >> standoff nuclear explosion. >> rep

as kpix 5's wilson walker reports, the damage is done >>> reporter: when disaster strikes on a runway, fire suppressing foam can be a lifesaver. but for decades there was a hidden danger in the foam. >> turns out there are chemicals called fluorinated chemicals. >> reporter: the same used in product like teflon and scotchgard now considered a health threat by the epa. >> we know it's linked to several types of cancer. >> reporter: before the public was warned about these chemicals, we used a lot of them. >> it will fill a hangar up with foam in about 2.5 minutes. >> reporter: airports around the world, military and civilian, trained with that toxic foam over and over again. >> they just used a lot of the firefighting foam and really didn't think about it and just washed it into the water supply and into the creeks. >> reporter: and sure enough, the foam is still with us. >> once in our system or once they are in the bay or once they are in the environment, they last for a long time. >> reporter: recent testing has found elevated levels of pfc's in the water treatment facility near san

wilson walker shows us how the pieces are getting a second life. >> reporter: let's cross to the other end of the tunnel for the glimpse at the east bay section. the longest cavalier span was the bridge men's toughest job. >> there is a sizeable chunk on the dock in oakland and breaking this thing down will only take about three days. >> and our team is quite methodical. >> scattered across the massive truss, workers torched their way through the depression era steel and 30 minutes the last sparks fly and another chunk is pulled away and lowered and sliced into smaller pieces. this is a deliberate step by step process like the construction of this bridge some 80 years ago. >> the fabricated steel section swing into place with in fa nate care and precision. >>> there's the commute to and from work from those years and i got to tell you kind of a shell of its former cell. in those three chunks of the truss that got here three days ago, they won't last for another two weeks. >> all of the steel from the trusses, they will either be recycled or utilized for a reused art program with the ca

. >> reporter: wilson walker, kpix 5 through and the meteorites were donated specifically for this research. >> and we think of things falling from the sky, we have rain as a possibility. >>> i like that. you're right. a chance of showers in parts of the bay and other places will see sunshine. let's show you what's going to out the door. chifly --chilly in napa and 49 in redwood city and 51 out the door in san jose. jackets are necessary if you are with to head outside right now. this is the rain shower chance that anne was mentioning. right now, it's off the coast and low pressure could move farther this afternoon with a chance of pop-up showers later this afternoon and it will mainly stay in the north bay if we see it at all and even a chance of thundershowers even though that chance is low. noticed over the weekend, saturday, the showers? it's because of the low pressure, and it's still not budging today or tomorrow. here's a summary of what to expect, a partly cloudy start, coastal fog and afternoon clouds and partly cloudy fog for everyone and north bay showers and high temperatures, c

. >> reporter: in alameda, wilson walker, kpix5. >> despite the health hazards, the epa does not have the authority to ban them or make companies disclose where they are manufacturerred. >>> we have climbed to the top of the ladder of temperature. up 23 degrees over the past three days. santa rosa, you only hit 70 saturday. today, you were the warmest spot. 93 degrees. we begin the slide down. it will be a significant one. that is tomorrow. great silhouette of coit tower earlier this evening. now, it is still 71 degrees in san jose. nearly 70 in concord and oakland. overnight, we will stay in the 60ed in a few spots. that is very warm for us. concord 60. free mono, 60. pretty close to 60 in san jose. 57 in san francisco. we will start the day off mild. after a very warm day because of this. high pressure teaming up with low pressure. rain for southern california. what we got was a northeast wind. ocean chilly, the air above it chilly. but with the wind coming from the opposite direction, didn't matter. we were 15 to 20 degrees above average today. tomorrow, we will be three degrees co

. >> wilson walker, thank you. >>> we're going to continue this theme, a town once booming during the gold rush. is now seeing a green rush. a huge land grab as people hope to make big bucks growing pot. we'll show you where they're trying to weigh in on the action. it's all happening tonight at 11:00. for now, we thank you for watching. 60 minutes is next. >> the latest is on cbssf.com. we'll see you back here at 11:00. and if i haven't said it already. happy mother's day. >> same to you. ,,,,,, we need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. ,,,,,, my name's scott strenfel and i'm a meteorologist at pg&e. we make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. so every single day we're monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. during storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. learn how you can be prepared at pge.com/beprepared. together, we're building a better california. captioning funded by cbs and ford. we go further, so

wilson walker shows us the problem may get very expensive for all of us. >> reporter: at least we in a robbing people. >> in the dead of night, five nights a week, a man will call daniel goes to work at this san francisco dumpster. >> this whole thing takes about two hours. >> actually he goes to work inside the dumpster harvesting the drinks at one of the city's well-known tech companies. >> i know 20 of these are free every day. >> and not exactly legal, the nighttime scavengers that comb through the trash cashing in on a market. >> you are already paying for it. >> it is easy to forget but in 1987 california is encouraging and subsidizing recycling with the redemption deposit. something we pay because we decided that recycling is worth it. >> like you said, these are heavy and these are not. they have a lot of these. >> and the game is all about weight because all of this stuff is going to land on a scale. >> it is classic. almost 71 pounds. >> and that weight translates into cash. >> $21.80. >> where it gets messy. >> commodities are in the dumpster. >> the scrap goes down but as

wilson high was stabbed on his way to school in the morning. >> what we need and i've asked the npd, greater police presence, whether it be on bicycles or police walkertutions like gds or wilson high school to have their security officers out and about and visible. >> reporter: while police have no suspects in either attack, they don't believe they're related. >> there is no correlation between the incidents. >> reporter: officials at georgetown day school sent home letters to parents saying the student was not seriously injured and police came to the school to give kids tips on being safe. >> try to walk in groups, be alert of your surroundings, do not engage the suspects, and call the police if you're aware of any unusual persons or activities. >> reporter: in those cases of the armed robberies done at knife point, police have made arrests in those cases. as for the two students that were attacked, they say those students are expected to recover from their injuries. jim, back to you in the studio. >>> new revelations about the charity planet aid. tonight, an i-team exclusive looks into its possible ties to a controversial group and a fugitive on th

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