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Than it first shared with residents. When you first arrived in 2007, and the navy said there was no Radioactive Material on Treasure Island correct. What did you find . Radioactive material. Don wadsworths company has worked on cleanup of radioactive sites on the island of viagas. In 2007 wadsworth and his team were hired to work at Treasure Island. Where they are still working today. When you first got to the island, what was your job . Perform surveys of areas that were being excavated for treatment for chemical contamination. Wadsworth said his survey found significant amounts of radiation throughout the island. In your professional opinion, should people be living at Treasure Island . No. Can you explain why . Well, just from these pictures that youve shown me here, youve got a significant contamination level. Hes referring to this picture obtained by the Investigative Unit from a navy report released to regulators last month. It shows radiation readings taken on bigelow court, a building that has never been leased to residents because its a known former solid Waste Disposal site. It wasnt until this year that the navy identified it on this map as being radiologically impacted. Wadsworth said its an example of the navys reluctance to reveal the nature and extent of radiation on Treasure Island. Do you feel the navy has actively tried to cover up this information . I really dont have a way of knowing what theyre doing. But certainly it does appear that way. The information that we get from the navy is all denials, saying everything is fine, and theres nothing to worry about. And they havent found anything that is of alarming at this point. Paris and cindy hayes have lived on the island for 11 years. Theyre among the two dozen families abruptly informed last month they have to move in april. They told us that our relocation was based on the fact that the navy needed to do more surveillance on the property. But it was not related to any Radioactive Material findings. But in this map, the hayes and five other residential buildings were identified as on or near areas of radiological impact. Like bigelow court, now need to be surveyed for radiation. There isnt evidence of radiological materials being buried where people are currently living. Treasure island director bob beck. How would you characterize how straightforward the navy has been in informing residents . I think theyve been extremely straightforward in informing the residents. Is there any radiation near the buildings where the folks are being asked to move out . Not right now. We requested an interview with a navy corpsman. We tried to speak with him before a public meeting. The meeting doesnt start for another 15 minutes. Thats not true. The official part of the agenda starts. We have a holiday session here. Youre interrupting that. So please refrain from interrupting that. Thank you. Youre not able to answer any questions during the potluck, sir . I said thank you. Thousands of people are lying. Its been a frustrating ordeal for the 2,800 people who live and work on Treasure Island whose voices have grown louder as more information surfaces, contradicting the navys claims about the contamination. So you come here and tell us what you want us to hear. But i think we should go back to whoever it was and let them know that were no longer buying. Done wadsworth said six years into his work at Treasure Island, he has this assessment. My job is to protect people and the environment. So its just not getting done. The navy reaffirmed it is working with regulators to, quote, investigate, and clean up contaminated areas on Treasure Island and that the state, city and navy do not have any data indicating a risk to human health to current tenants. In the meantime, a 1. 5 billion Development Plan for the land is on hold until the island is cleaned up. We will keep you updated as that cleanup progresses. Coming up next, we investigate, a visible change in restaurant inspections may be coming to Santa Clara County after our undercover report. Investigative reporter jana has the details after the break. Turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and theres nothing good for me around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of craving something that i cant have turn around, barbara forever ive been praying for a snack in my life and now i have a brownie ending all of my strife i finally found the right snack welcome back. Low scores and little accountability. Its been nearly a year since we went undercover to expose restaurants keeping Health Inspection results a secret. Our first report prompted the board of supervisors to take action, and change the way Santa Clara County provides you information. Tonight the investigation that started it all. Have you ever been been shut down or anything . Have you ever been shut down . Ever shut down . These restaurant employees dont know theyre on camera. Have you ever had problems here . No. Those answers are not true. Youre about to see when it comes to Health Code Violations in Santa Clara County, diners are left in the dark. How important is it that the public is aware of whats happening at restaurants . Its very important. Meet heather, shes in charge of the countys restaurant inspection. Since there is no grading system, the only way to know if a restaurant has been shut down, and why, is to schedule an appointment to view the records. But state law does require all restaurants keep a copy of the most recent inspections on hand. If you ask to see it, they have to show it to you. So we tested the system. To see who was willing to share. Hes the manager of this dennys in sunnyvale. Documents show it was shut down in late 2011 for a large amount of roaches. And inspectors found more roaches living at dennys just last summer. Kobe in santa clara said it was known as the best japanese restaurant, known by inspectors for the cockroaches at the sushi bar. Have you ever been been shut down . Instead of showing us freeport, they showed us the door. This is yummy buffet in south san jose. The latest inspection report, 16 violations. Of the ten restaurants we visited, only one showed us the report. Oh, great. Is this acceptable . It absolutely is not acceptable. I am disappointed that the restaurants are not providing you with truthful information. Or any member of the public. What i do want to emphasize is that the public can get this information in other ways. Like going to the countys website. But even if you go to the trouble to look it up, the information is vague. While it shows categories of violations, it doesnt give any details of what inspectors found. Take these two restaurants. Both cited for vermin. One major, one minor. But what does that mean . We pulled the files. The minor violation was for fresh rodent droppings and one rat caught. Major was for a dead fly in the whisky. These two restaurants showed enforcement action taken. But why . Files show one was closed for a fire, the other infested with cockroaches. This report on a fast food chain in san jose just says enforcement action. I would have to look at the file and look at it a little more closely. This is the first time ive seen this. How are customers supposed to know what it means if you dont know what it means . Im looking at this right now for the first time. And i would want to take a look at this a little more closely. And review it before i can respond to this particular case. Do you see why im having trouble looking at this, how someone at home could have trouble understanding what that means . Yes. I agree that there are improvements that can be made in this system. I think Santa Clara County could do more to help people understand what that information means. Dr. Phillip leslie is a professor at uclas business school. He conducted this study in los angeles, after the city started its letter grading system. He found foodborne illnesses dropped almost 30 in three years. He says having information in the window incentivizes restaurants to stay clean and allows diners to make an educated choice of where to eat without having to ask. Even if all restaurants did have that information on hand, at the restaurant itself, people are still not going to ask for it. Thats an awkward moment in a restaurant. You dont want to start out that way. And even if you do, in Santa Clara County, sometimes the answer is hard to swallow. Our investigation prompted the board of supervisors to demand sweeping changes. Including revamping the way the county puts inspection information online. To make it clear for diners. The board also formed a committee to evaluate possible grading systems. Next month theyll vote on it, meaning Silicon Valley could finally have a scoring system that holds restaurants accountable. Coming up next, we investigate rising violence, where bay area residents go to enjoy the outdoors. Investigative reporter elycee kirsh ner takes you inside. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. Delicious, but say i press a few out flat, add some beef, sloppy joe sauce and cheese, fold it all up and boom delicious unsloppy joes perfect for a school night. Pillsbury grands biscuits. Make dinner pop. [ angelic music plays ] toaster strudel best morning ever [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. Toaster strudel [ female announcer ] try new pillsbury heatngo mini pancakes. Welcome back. This next report involved armed drug dealers protecting their valuable crops, illegally grown on public land, from National Parks to indian reservations. Its causing serious safety concerns as they inch closer to hiking trails, and to communities. Just over the hill from sequoia in Kings Canyon National park, its one of hundreds of illegal pot grow sites. And its getting busted. By agents from the Fresno County Sheriffs Task force. One arrest made. You have a medical marijuana license . 300 plants confiscated and several shotguns found. Its a violent activity. Its drug smuggling. Traffickers are now growing thousands of plants at a time year round on some of the countrys most fertile land. Then selling it for up to 50 a gram. Or 22,000 a pound. And they want to protect those valuable crops. We had six murders at grow sites last year. We have shootings, Home Invasion robberies, and other types of crimes at grow sites almost daily. Reporter on public lands in 2007, the u. S. Forest Service Found nearly 600 firearms and weapons. And made around 2,300 pot related arrests. Most are now part of large marijuana growing operations like this one, located deep in the Six Rivers National forest near eureka. During a raid in august, agents found more than 5,000 plants here, protecting the garden they also discovered this 21yearold Mexican Foreign national with a loaded 9 millimeter semiautomatic handgun. We came back in here to do a reclamation of the site. Reporter darrell rush is an assistant special agent in charge with the u. S. Forest service. Hes along for the cleanup of the site. They picked up trash and found a knife in a tree. We see more and more of these people in the groves. They are armed with either side arms or rifles. Reporter unlike decades ago, many grow operations are controlled by mexican drug cartels. Because its cheaper to grow it here than to smuggle it in. According to the u. S. Forest service, 80 of the cultivators on National Forests are Mexican Foreign nationals. There is a big concern of bumping into Something Like this. They dont want to bump into them. They dont want to get involved. Reporter that concern is shared by hikers and those living in nearby communities. The potential is there that i could be attacked. On your own land. Mmhmm. Reporter dawn blake is a member of the hoopa tribe. The tribal land and the forest have become overrun by illegal pot growers. Theyre armed. You know, i dont know what their frame of mind is. I know that they have a resource to protect and they have a job. It has an impact by folks not being able to do what were accustomed to doing for thousands of years. Reporter ryan jackson is a councilman for dawns tribe. He said fear is also keeping tribe members inside. And unable to do many sacred practices, like burial rights and basket weaving, something thats been passed down through generations. Why are those areas so appealing to growers now . Theyre not traversed very often, so they have a little bit of cover from not being seen. Certainly from roads or other houses. So thats a huge appeal. Reporter appealing because of the density that public land offers in california. At the same time, areas that so many cherish. This is huge. It just doesnt affect our county or our state. It affects the entire country. More than 12 million plants were found on National Forest service land in california from 2008 to 2012. Thats the most in the nation. Followed by tennessee, and oregon. To put that in perspective, both states had 30 times fewer plants. Law enforcement says if youre hiking and you see a water line like the pipes we showed you in our report, it is most likely connected to a grow site. Coming up next, we investigate kids are playing russian roulette with their lives. The frightening results of Prescription Drug abuse. How california is the first in the country to use the internet to fight back. Welcome back. Its a growing nationwide problem with often deadly consequences. Misuse of Prescription Drugs. According to the centers for disease control, more people now die from misuse of painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined. But california has a new approach to curb this problem, becoming one of the first states in the country to address it, using state law. He was loyal, charismatic, passionate a. J. s father reads what no parent should have to read. Eulogies written by a. J. s friends which were read at the 19yearolds funeral less than a year ago. No matter what he did, a. J. Kept his beat. A beat that last december stopped. I want people to understand that, if their child died this way, it doesnt make them bad people. It doesnt make their kids bad. They just made a mistake and it cost them everything. A talented musician and 4. 0 student in his class, he just started his freshman year at uc santa barbara. No one could have predicted a few months later one night and one pill would take all that away. Not a day goes by for not kicking myself for understanding the problem with prescription pain medication. It was opana, a pain medication that a. J. Took at a party. A drug not prescribed to a. J. , a drug that combined with alcohol turned out to be deadly. I wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. It hurts. While the loss and pain remains raw for a. J. s parents, they are not alone. Deaths resulting from overdosing or misusing Prescription Drugs are going up all over the country. According to a study by the group trust for americas health, Prescription Drug deaths have quadrupled in the last decade in west virginia, kentucky, iowa, and indiana. Here in california, deaths are up 30 . And according to the kaiser foundation, california is handing out the most prescriptions in the country. With nearly 400 million scripts filled in 2011. Theres a lot of pills floating around this state. And its pretty scary. Bruce goldberg serves as special assistant agent in charge of the dea field office. He says teens have easier access to Prescription Drugs than ever before. Kids are playing russian roulette with their lives by ingesting things that theyre not aware of how dangerous they are. These drugs were meant to alleviate pain, and theyre causing too much pain. This rising problem prompted state senator of walnut creek to begin fighting four years ago to get a special system to track Prescription Drugs and the doctors who write them into law. They finally voted to fund the system and the governor signed it into law only last month. The idea, to stop doctor shopping by letting prescribers see a patients prescription record. Its a system that the senator says may have helped avoid two bay area tragedies. The personal stories made a big difference to me. The personal stories of bob pack of danville and april rovero. Her son, 21yearold joey was at Arizona State university four years ago when he took a trip to l. A. With friends and doctor shopped. He then later overdosed on a combination of Prescription Drugs. Its terrible losing a child. I dont know of anything else that could be any worse than this. I truly dont. Just because its a prescribed pill doesnt mean its okay. Bob packs 7yearold and 10yearold were both killed nine years ago when a driver high on muscle relaxers ran them over. Its been a motivator for me since the tragedy with my family, to try to do something about it, and hopefully prevent a tragedy that would be similar for someone else. That motivator resulted in this new law, which funds secure system. I do think by doing what were doing in c. U. R. E. S. , well make a difference. I dont want anybody else to have to feel this. Jeanette and rick speak out now, in hopes of inspiring other parents to talk to their children about the threat of Prescription Drugs. This tremendous young man didnt get to live the rest of his life. To get this law passed, lawmakers had to make concessions. That included dropping a provision that would have required doctors to use it. So even though 200,000 prescribers in california must enroll in this system, actually using it is voluntary. The senator hopes to tweak this part of the law in the coming years, and we, of course, will be staying on top of this story. Thats our show. We thank you for watching. We invite you to join us regularly here on nbc bay area. Because we investigate. Good night. Justin bieber arrested. How you can win a date with george clooney. Why arnold went undercover. And chilli takes on the kardashian. Hi everybody. Welcome to access hollywood. Weekend edition im shaun robinson. We start with Justin Bieber arrest in miami for drugs drinking and drag racing. Billy has the details. I was starting to believe the rumors but. But you look like you are doing good. First case this afternoon is Justin Bieber. Dui arrested without veils. Not uttering a word during the appearing in front of miami judge it took less than 5 minutes to determine the amount of bond. Total bond would be 2500 dollars. Discuss continue wearing a red jail issued jump suit indicating he was kept away from the general jail population and held in isolation. Before the hearing justin posed for this smiling mug shot. And joining me from w tv j in miami entertainment reporter roxanne vargas

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