. >> reporter: joe owns this chevron station at stevenson boulevard off of 880. he is all for clean air but says the small businesses can't afford the upgrade, and as a franchisee he is not getting help from chevron. >> a lot of sole proprietors like us, we don't have money to do all these things. >> reporter: if the owner can't come up with the money for the upgrade, they will be shut down. >> that's when i needed to step in to both save these businesses who wanted to comply in good faith and protect the environment to from this mru pollution. >> reporter: there is a grant, and joe didn't made the deadline to apply, and the funds dried up. >> they put the card in, here comes the gas. >> reporter: spilling a pool of toxic gasoline on the ground right here. >> this nozzle is bad nozzle, we installed it about a week ago. >> reporter: he spends his mornings testing each nozzle to make sure they are not leaking. other gas station owners we talked to say they solved the problem by removing the lock that allows the gas to pump on its own. the new system is not perfect.

chevron says it's committed to conducting business in a socially responsible manner. >> muni drivers br to lose a longstanding perk, free parking. that is a change hitting if operators particularly hard and some see it as pay back. abc 7 is live from a muni yard in north beach tonight with the story. >> as you know people have to pay for parking at their jobs but many drivers do not and they pull into the bus yard. but now, charging them can other city employees could necessary -- net the city $3.5 kblinl a year. >> muni employees have been able to park their cars for free at all of the muni bus yards as long as anyone can remember. starting in december they'll have to pay $960 a year. >> i got two kids in college now. it's kinld of tough. that puts a good hit on me.. >> the new fee amounts to a third of the 5.75% raise mandate bid city hall operators received. the transport workers were the only labor union refuse aid mayor's request for wage kons yegss. muni driver says this is pay back. >> yes. it is. yes. it is. it has to be. >> this isn't about pay back. it's finding alternative

we also learned that the clerk at this chevron station had been targeted in a similar manner. pacifica police are increasing their presence around the shell station where three suspects robbed and shot a clerk three times around 8:00 last night. the second robbery at that station that day. >> to hear that they robbed this gas station and that gas station and then came back later in the night to rob this gas station, that's completely crazy. >> reporter: concerned residents say they want quick arrests. >> it's scary because everybody is scared here. >> reporter: they haven't identified the suspects in either of the four hold-ups. but the store camera, fingerprints left at the scene and the eyewitness testimony of the clerk who is expected to survive could speed up the process. >> it's just scary. i'm thinking how can i -- how can i continue my job? >> reporter: this employee who works at the chevron station across the street from shell was held up by two men with a handgun last wednesday. >> he was holding it like this and like this. >> reporter: okay. >> going, hey, hey, we do

and there's also opportunities for foreign oil companies, repsal, bg, guelp, chevron, these companies have all bought exploration blocs in brazil, some of them are already producing and they're exploring for oil. and they will be producing more oil in the coming years. and brazil also plans to sell exploration licenses in the coming years. sell licenses. >> let's concentrate on petrobras in deep water. because clearly this is where the company is concentrated in. 85% of its production in brazil is in waters at least 1,000 feet deep. 20% of all deep water production across the globe is from petrobrasment so is deepwater drilling off the coast of brazil any different than say the gulf of mexico in the suchlt. -- u.s. in. >> yes, in brazil we have this thick layer of salt that is miles below the ocean floor. and this makes it difficult for oil companies to find the oil reserves. the salt makes it difficult to do seismic research. and only in the past decade have they developed the seismic equipment that can penetrate the salt layer and try and identify where the reserves of oil are. that

the crowd was so thick here that an ambulance that was trying to move from noe to the chevron station took 10 mnth minutes we knew we had to change what halloween evolved into. halloween became not a neighborhood celebration most neighborhood residents don't attend it's more walnut creek and san jose people coming to look at the people celebrating in the castro. >> many people of the lgbt community don't go because they feel most of the people come in from the suburbs. a question of residents not wanting their neighborhood invaded and torn up by people who don't have a stake in the neighborhoods. >> unfortunately there has been some, although a small level but some violence. some homo phobia, some sense on the part of the people who live here that people come to halloween to gawk and make fun that should not be acceptable anywhere in the city. >> people come to the castro for halloween because its the castro. they come for the people watching and the party holding a concert elsewhere in the city will not lure people away. >> its tough because i remember the days when we tried to have

and as a franchisee, he's not getting any help from chevron. >> a lot of sole proprietors like us, we don't have money to do all these things. >> reporter: if the owner can't come up with the money for the upgrade, the aqmd will shut them down. >> that's when i needed to step in to both save these businesses who wanted to comply in good faith and protect the environment from this pollution. >> reporter: state assembly member ira ruskin offered a bill to help. but he didn't make the deadline to apply, and the funds have since dried up. he used his life savings to pay for the upgrade, one he says is defective. >> so i put the card in, to pump the gas, here comes the gas. >> reporter: in fact, it happened while we were there, spilling a pool of toxic gasoline on the ground. >> so this nozzle is bad nozzle, which we just installed it only about a week ago. >> reporter: he spends his mornings testing each nozzle to make sure they aren't leaking. other gas station owners we talked to say they solved the problem by removing the lock that allows the gas to pump on its own. the aqmd admits the

detectives say the chevron across the street was hit just a few days ago. >> with the downturn in the economy we've had over the last few years, we get quite a few more, just like everybody else. >> it's shocking. why would you shoot them after you rob them? >> got to watch out now. getting shot three times, that's pretty brutal. no one should have that happen to them. >> reporter: the suspect in this armed robbery are described as three black men between the height of 5'7" to 5'11". they were dressed all in black. two of them were wearing ski masks. another wearing a halloween mask. it's believed they got into a getaway car, a late model toyota or sedan light blue in color. police are also looking at surveillance video from this gas station and looking at surveillance video from nearby businesses hoping to be able to identify these three armed robbers. reporting live in pacifica, vicky nguyen, nbc bay area news. >> that is one dangerous intersection. thank you. >>> well, nine duis and still somehow driving. a vallejo man is finally behind bars after being arrested for his tenth dui.

nasdaq down 38 bay area stock chevron google, oracle, couple all the trading negative at this hour >> an update on bay area weather 6:47 a.m. fog at the golden gate watching the tower i yardstick on how much the fog is dissipating fears it is foggy on the debt to decorate nell should we are getting heavy drizzle around the coast. fog trucker current situation as we watch the fog from of the above take a look at where it's beginning of getting the fog warming in the san jose area fog in redwood city to hayward livermore valley to clear around 40 and just moving out around five, 6:00 the fog moves and in the last hour to now but that some of the north bay valleys settled petaluma pretty to the as far as temperatures are concerned some large yesterday '50s right now around the bay area as we head towards 7:00 a.m. still in the '50s with the fog the public's up and we head towards noon 50 and fog around the bay the fog gone about 10:60 showing up just about 20 mi. in the bay pushing 70 bunions highs for the day up for '70s closed 8084 antioch out towards livermore's well generally '60s ar

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions chevron. this is the power of human energy. bnsf railway. and by the bill and melinda gates foundation, dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: victims of the great flood in pakistan protested today over lack of aid. they blocked a main highway in the south, even as fresh flood warnings were issued along the indus river. meanwhile disease began spreading among refugees in makeshift camps. we start with a report from special correspondent in pakistan. >> this is a disaster of an unimaginable scale. mile after mile all you can see is water and the devastation it has caused. so powerful that it took people, livestock, roads, bridges and entire villages with it. one million , about 28 million liters per second is making its unforgiving way to the southe

. >> it will take several years all this chevron stores. >> the nation's ongoing troubles or from increasing stress on government property for rams. a record number of americans are now getting some former federal a. >> a state-by-state analysis finds that one the other six people is now getting one or more kinds of aid. what and 50 million americans are medicaid, the federal program aimed friends way at the four. that is of the 17% since the recession started in december. more than 40 million people now get food stamps that's an increase of nearly 50 million%. close to 10 million receive unemployment sarah is. nearly four times the number from 2007. benefits have been extended by congress eight times beyond the basic 26 week program. enabling the long-term unemployed to get to 99 weeks of benefits. the case those p to end nearly 12 million back in january. along with unrolling crops have also gone up. this church is the change since october 2007 medicaid is the costliest. unemployment benefits to the biggest increase in dollar amount. >> consumer spending rose slightly more than expended in

chevron >> thank you. judging is for improved ride all around the bay area this deadly in the clear the bay bridge. you can see cars were sailing on by coming from 58080. once he passes k gates we do have some overnight construction in effect of 05. between the incline and treasure island that shutting down the two rating and lanes traffic is so light that there really weren't a factor driving time to much so does the minister in the foot of amazing to fremont. since there, conditions are slightly thicker, no reports of any problems or delays in either direction across the span. still clocking in the retro minutes from one end to the other. golden gate nice coming easy ride so brown is moving well. barely any cars headed northbound your ride from the rotor to san francisco 21 minutes. highway 375808 minutes. wrapping up with a shot of the south bay here's 101 san jose southbound traffic is getting along just fine it is hard to see those taillights rainout northbound is moving without delays your ride from

. >> chevrons is there is an issue may move slowly for you today they're having a repaving project under way rain now the work will go on from the presidio out to van ness. you can see all the workers out there the pavement is all torn up the back they'll have one lin allowing traffic. and the next few weeks to several other blocs will we backed up as well as crews worked on stores out there. plan accordingly. treasure island was officially handed over to sever those areas today they're being transferred from the navy to the city which operated there from 1941 to 1997 the plan is to build for autos, retail stores in zero hundred housing units thousands of them as a matter fact. is san francisco up to the u.s. navy hands it over. in a short seventh ceremony near gunnison and was speaker they transferred the georgian and over. the deal will cost them $100 million to purchase and will have to share some the profits of the navy. the plan to build housing, parks. the writer to will be creating or $3 million. ground breaking could come within the next year. kron4 news. >> tech news, blackberry

and frank gillander was in a similar way in giving whatever assistance chevron could. and we met immediately, because -- and i do recall it was a significant event. there's a lot of commotion in the room at that time. we have come a long way. to find something like this was quite emotional. so we met, and i spoke frankly about the seriousness of this. and i was frankly astonished that this could happen. >> is that what you noted in your notes? spoke frankly about the seriousness -- >> yes. it says i spoke frankly about the seriousness of this issue, and quite frankly was astonished that this could have happened. i told transocean to get photographs. to get with their subsea engineers and to understand what has gone wrong. when i heard this news, i lost all faith in the bop. billy stringfellow, clearly emotional at that point, told me, this is plumbed wrong. >> and to be clear, who is mr. stringfellow? >> mr. stringfellow was transocean's subsea superintendent who is effectively leading the operational side of the bop stack intervention. >> you have the words "-- billy

chevron is also trading down. darya. >> thank you, sales of new homes are down sharply following last month's slowest pace on record it is the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading. new-home sales fell 12.4% in july from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 276,600. >> officials say oakland is the highest murder rate. it is something they want to change. please will focus on what he calls hot spots. >> what we're trying to do is we're doing something that is called hot spot pleasing we're using technology to identify down to the block that the house on the block where crime is being committed we're trying to do is bring prevention and of course in pieces to those on the same hot swap. >> the justice brennan the fbi are taking part in the summit. >> we'll be back with more integral of minutes, or big story today is treaty which is backing up just little bit os/2 in the midst of a heat wave will have the latest on that. programming change, nbc's their in the giants' games of 8:00

and frank gillander was in a similar way in giving whatever assistance chevron could. and we met immediately, because -- and i do recall it was a significant event. there's a lot of commotion in the room at that time. we have come a long way. to find something like this was quite emotional. so we met, and i spoke frankly about the seriousness of this. and i was frankly astonished that this could happen. >> is that what you noted in your notes? spoke frankly about the seriousness -- >> yes. it says i spoke frankly about the seriousness of this issue, and quite frankly was astonished that this could have happened. i told transocean to get photographs. to get with their subsea engineers and to understand what has gone wrong. when i heard this news, i lost all faith in the bop. billy stringfellow, clearly emotional at that point, told me, this is plumbed wrong. >> and to be clear, who is mr. stringfellow? >> mr. stringfellow was transocean's subsea superintendent who is effectively leading the operational side of the bop stack intervention. >> you have the words "-- billy

barry stocks of chevron trading higher google and half full of both trading head on the day as well. >> traveling to mexico elf be easier as alaska airlines analysis the flight will be available all week. runs nonstop wednesday saturday and sunday. spirit airlines have implemented their charges for carry on spirit the first airline to charge for airlines carry-on spirit $30 for anything in the overhead if you check into pay it jumps to $45. the airline hopes it will prompt people to bring your items on the plains. anything that fits in your seat is a break. we will be back as kron 4 continues. mt. tam sunshine above the fog thick fog at ground level. judge expecting to is your ruling on the contract dispute for ac transit the union representing drivers was to stop management from a contractor posen's to lead auburn trader can we end. there's an absolut'a static killed works it will end the gusher for good. they will train permanently close off the well. health-care workers at two local nursing homes beginning of fog a strike today over new policies protesting policies they say hurt w

h-p positive, google trading down right now but apple positive chevron slightly negative. built during positive as well. the trend is there more buyers than sellers. >> learning more about the sexual harassment claim the woman whose sexual harassment allegations led to the ouster of former hewlett-packard ceo mark hurd claimed her work with the company dried advances. the substance of the complaint that led to hurd's resignation from the world's largest technology company had not been publicly known until late tuesday. hurd denies making any advances on jodie fisher, who worked as a contractor for hp's marketing department. fisher helped hp customers and introduced executives to each other. hp determined that hurd didn't violate the company's sexual harassment policies in his interactions with fisher. crashed into several east palo alto homes and killed the three tesla motors employees onboard, the family of the youngest engineer has sued the estate of the dead pilot. the family of andrew ingram, a 31-year-old palo alto resident killed in the feb. 17 accident, filed the la

chevron down google down, a couple down, cul-de-sacs down, microsoft down as well everybody in the red this morning. >> searching for a man who attacked the least four women in an apartment complex since june 1st of the women was raped. the latest assault happened yesterday morning right here at the park regency apartments a woman said she was looking up by a man he had his hand over the mouth. she was able toñl@ escape out. will tran talks about the security changes that just three this morning. >> program urgency is a gated community over here gates blocking the road to enter the place if you live here i'm sure you have a device worried can push the gates will open. it is really easy to get into this place because of the park your car outside all you have to do is walk along the sidewalk in your inside the park regency maybe that's why now they have three security guards patrolling the place residents are being escorted to and from their units. they will be here 24 as a day for as long as it takes for the police to catch the suspect. walnut creek will tran kron 4 news. >> we spoke w

and frank gillander was in a similar way in giving whatever assistance chevron could. and we met immediately, because -- and i do recall it was a significant event. there's a lot of commotion in the room at that time. we have come a long way. to find something likehis was quite emotional. so we met, and i spoke frankly about the seriousness of this. and i was frankly astonished that this could happen. >> is that what you noted in your notes? spoke frankly about the seriousness -- >> yes. it says i spoke frankly about the seriousne of this issue, and quite frankly was astonished that this could have happened. i told transocean to get photographs. to get with their subsea engineers and to understand what has gone wrong. when i heard this news, i lost all faith in the bop. billy stringfellow, clearly emotional at that point, told me, this is plumbed wrong. >> and to be clear, who is mr. stringfellow? >> mr. stringfellow was transocean's subsea superintendent who is effectively leading the operational side of the bop stack intervention. >> you have the words "-- billy stri