missed opportunity, child protective services visited the property. they were inspecting after the state had taken custody of his three children. a former cps investigator tells nbc news that fire safety is supposed to be an important part of their assessment. the city also received multiple complaints in the last two years about the property. housing officials say an investigation was ongoing. but residents say no contact was ever made with them. the mayor s office says it will soon release the full record of the housing department investigation. the worst fire in oakland s history, many wondering tonight if officials missed possible warnings. nbc s stephanie gosk reporting. oakland officials declared a state of emergency to help the city receive federal and state money to cover the response and help local businesses affected by the blaze. kasie, president-elect donald trump put forward his vision for the armed forces at a rally in north carolina last night. invoking the service a
screwballed on the wall. confederate flags. how are they characterizing this and how much farther did this go, dan? reporter: it can only be described as an extreme form of taunting and raiseism. and we should point out that the alleged victim didn t go to the authorities. it was his parents who came to see him in his dorm room and saw this ugly stuff up on the walls and they alerted housing officials who thent alerted people. but this went on for two to three months. you mentioned some of it. all of this stuff on the walls, confederate symbols, pictures of hey dofl hitler. and verbal taunting. according to the police complaint, which is 24 pages, he was referred to as 3/5, which is a reference to the constitution s original formula
room was stribled in the dorm room. and he was referred to as 3/5. and the university official officials have apologized for what happened but they haven t said what if anything could have been done differently. take a look. stunning to me that it would be able to continue for a period of time without somebody saying this just isn t right, it just doesn t make sense. whether that s a student in the room, whether it s a student down the hall. reporter: now, the student in this case, the alleged victim, tried to stay below the radar. but when his parents came to visit him in the dorm room, they saw the ugly stuff on the walls and they alerted housing officials who then alerted police. this is how some of the people on campus are talking about it.
more than $16 billion through the end of september. that is much larger figure than the earlier for cast. a report suggests that taxpayers could be on the hook for all of it. first time in the mortgage insurance giant 78-year history. housing officials says the report does not include $11 billion in expected revenue together with other steps would restore agency reserves by end of the next year. we can only hope, huh? martha: we re looking at something coming in from chad pergram we ll bring you in a moment. all eyes are clearly on washington where congressional leaders and sit down on the first fiscal summit. you had labor leaders then the ceos and now members of congress convening at white house. how important is it they figure out some way to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. we ll talk to one of president reagan s former economic advisors to see what he thinks about that.
their for gnaw indicating was more than excruciating. that s according to a student who claims a randy rooney ruined her life. she says a roommate and boyfriend would engage in carnal activity as she tried to sleep mere feet away. see, gavin, that s how you talk about things. and now she is suing the school for $150,000 saying housing officials violated laws by not giving reasonable alternatives for escaping the bad living situation. she says she suffers from depression and add moved into a hotel where her symptoms worsened, which cannot help her case. i don t know. they say there and two sides and sometimes more to every