don t know what the quantities are. sol is the director of the environmental group, he says that there s been concern about radioactive contamination on treasure island for decade. he says the revelation could complicate plans to build a 7,000 residential high-rise on the island. the city s position is the navy will take care of it, we ll just build the buildings, we ll make sure the buildings get built. the former navy base use internal e-mails uncovered by our media partner, the bay accident show the u.s. navy attempted to prevent health officials from putting their concerns about the radioactive cleanup to writing. a navy manager, quote, said i don t believe comments will be needed but a health department physicist won t be needed anyway. the navy took 1,600 soil samples and tested them only for contamination, not for radio activity. the e-mails certainly are cause for concern if not alarm. former san francisco supervise aaron peskin is suing treasure island s
and then i got up to turn the water on, there was no water. er the san francisco public utilities commission says there was a water main that burst causing tens of thousands of gallons of water down to bay shore boulevard flooding several homes and a few businesses. we had a lot of construction in the city which can disturb some of the pipes so it s a combination of age, obviously there was no earthquake involved. the water also flooded our lady of the visitation school and the children were evacuated to another nearby school where their parents picked them up. a counselor at the school shared this cell phone video with us which shows just how fast the water rushed past cars and into the school. at the peak, more than 2,000 homes were without water service. residents in the area are going to be experiencing low or no water pressure. and crews are working on it right now. reporter: crews capped the pipe just at 1:00 p.m. officials say the water was not sewage, but fro
good evening. it s being called a natural disaster and a national disaster now of epic proportion. we could be in it for the long haul. the drought of 2012 is shown to have far reaching effects. as you ll see in a moment. the numbers alone will get your attention. 65% of the u.s. population living in a state severely affected by the drought. one economist said the losses to farmers start at $18 billion. here is how it hits home. the usda is estimating a family of four in this country can expect to pay $615 more for groceries in the next year. we have seen the pictures of the corn crop. tonight some more fronts in the drought across the country where members of our team have fanned out and are standing by. we begin with nbc s kristen dahlgren in woodrow, colorado. kristen, good evening. good evening, brian. we re at a ranch here that lost hundreds of acres to a wildfire earlier this year. things could have been much worse. take a look. you see just how dry this grass is here
good evening. well, they re off. now it s a fair fight, now that we know the gop ticket, it s two on two from here on out and the campaign for president appeared to enter a new stage today, all four men in the race were out campaigning and for the new man, paul ryan, incoming fire on his own record and a not so warm welcome to the big leagues during his appearance today at the iowa state fair. we have all of it covered tonight beginning with nbc s peter alexander traveling with the romney campaign in florida. peter, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening to you. after what the romney campaign says was a triumphant weekend vice presidential rollout today the realities of this tight race have settled in with president obama rejoining the campaign trail and both sides launching fierce new attacks. a newly energized mitt romney returned to the campaign trail today in the key swing state of florida, touting his new running mate, paul ryan. paul ryan and i are going to g
questions about a new year s eve fight that left her in tears and a bruised arm. she s been in venezuela for more than a month following domestic abuse charges filed against merkarini who mayor lee is about to remove from office. here on the stand is merkarini s former campaign manager. we will have a live report from city hall coming up at 6:30. we all know that in case of emergency, we re supposed to dial 911, but what if the dispatcher can t reach the right officer in time. for years that was the complaint from police officers in oakland who said that their radio system just didn t work. that system was replaced last year to the tune of $18 million. problem solved, right? no, a new report and the police union now say the new system is worse than the old one. here s the story from oakland. reporter: it works sometimes. you never know where nor when it s going to work or not work. reporter: oakland police officers say they radioed for help. and it falls on deaf ears.