safeway. ingredients for life. >>> it's something we're probably ingesting all the time and not realizing how much tap water we're drinking. >> tap water worries. the same chemical that made erin brockovich a household name is now in the bay area's waters. good evening, i'm denise aguirre. >> and i'm tom sinkovitz. george has the study that you should be aware of. george? >> reporter: think of this the next time you use tap water from the sink. a watchdog agency tested 35 cities and found high levels of a chromium 6. out of 35 cities, san jose has the fifth highest level of chromium 6. we talked to the family tonight who is thinking twice about drinking san jose tap. >> just tonight i was washing that lettuce with the san jose tap water. you try to do things that are healthy and safe for your family and then you end up finding out the tap water could have a really dangerous chemical in it. >> courtney and her husband jeremy were stunned when they heard that san jose's tap water has a high leve

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only at safeway. ingredients for life. basketball were created. >>> three pointers dribbling free throws. been 119 years now since the original rules of basketball were created. >> yes and today those rules sold for millions of dollars in new york. anthony mason shows us the other artifacts up for auction. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. three remarkable artifacts of american history were sold at southerbies today. >> they are icons. >> reporter: the first. >> the kennedy lincoln emancipation proclamation. >> reporter: first was the document signed by lincoln that freed the slaves in 1863. >> and i also collect things having to do with american history. >> reporter: bought by robert kennedy in 1964 it sold today for more than 3. 7 million. >> that is custer's last flag. >> reporter: general george armstrong and his 7th calvary all died at the battle of big horn. the flag sold for 2. 2 million. the last item for up sale would bring the highest price. two pieces of paper. >> and to think without those two pages ther

only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> tonight's headlines. 21-year-old specialist derek simeneta was one of six troops killed in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan sunday. he attended belmont high. a second californian was also killed. specialist of san diego. the governor commended them saying their sacrifice is a reminder of the value of our freedoms. >>> german doctors believe this man 44-year-old timothy ray brown, an american living in berlin has been cured of hiv and leukemia following a blood stem cell transplant. he underwent the transplant in 2007 for leukemia and doctors say he's now been hiv symptom free for three years. this could pave the way for new treatments. >>> and it's not officially winter yet, but bone chilling cold continues to beat the great lakes and-- canada. ohio has been hit by a second major storm. cleveland has 2 feet of snow. more is expected throughout the midwest. and in ontario, snow trapped hundreds of cars requiring rescues. >>> details on our forecast coming

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only at safeway. ingredients for life. state is beginning a change- >>> well it turns out the check is not in the mail for tens of thousands of californians on disability. this week the state is beginning a change-over to a whole new payment system for most state benefits including unemployment. on the consumer watch julie watch watts shows tuesday bumpy start. >> she relies on state disability to feed her family. but the latest payment is four days late. >> my car insurance is due for my children and i, i don't have funds in the account to cover that. i don't have very many groceries. >> reporter: instead of a check she got a letter saying the next payment will come in the form of an american bank debit card. when she phoned and asked where the car was he told me it was going to take 7 to 10 business days to get those cards. >> reporter: they admit there is a lag, but say it's not that long. >> there is some lag getting us over to bank of america to make the card and get knit to the mail. it might take a day or two longer

safeway. ingredients for life. >> the driver of an airport super shuttle is being questioned by police after a series of reported hit and run grosz's in northern virginia this morning. we are live at dulles airport with the latest. >> we are live on westbound 66 where most of these crashes happened. we know at 9:30 this morning a super shuttle was moving west, and hit at least six vehicles. that vehicle kept going and went out the airport access road. you can see, airport authority police told the shuttle over when it was in front of the main terminal. there was no one in the banned except for the driver. that man has been arrested. he has not been the identified yet but he left in his wake all this wreckage. we understand one person had to be transported to a hospital. now there are several agencies try to work together to figure out why this all happened. >> certainly, they are examining the driver. is there any talk of drunk driving, a medical condition? >> i am sure that will all be taken

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safeway. ingredients for life. >>> you've got to be on the ball and look at everybody. pay more attention because you never know. >> new tonight at 11:00, a stranger may have saved her life at a bay area grocery store. >>> a kidnapped virginia girl is found alive and unharmed in san francisco because of a popular tv talk show and a very alert viewer. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm tom sinkovitz. >>> and i'm jessica aguirre. a 12-year-old girl found here in the bay area after a desperate search over a week and spanned 2500 miles. the journey ended friday, but it ended in a safe area of san francisco tonight. the kidnapper and possible killer is in jail tonight. police say he may have killed the girl's mom, his girlfriend. nbc bay area's cheryl heard is at the san francisco jail. but cheryl, the girl rescued because of a tv show. >> reporter: this story is pretty amazing. the suspect is here at the san francisco county jail and virginia authorities are on their way to take him back to their hom

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only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> a bay area teacher's efforts to educate his students are going beyond the call of duty. he is using his talents to bring new books into the school district. we find out what is going on. >> tyler and his students have been busy. students are helping with the task of unpacking and logging thousands of donated books. the donations are part of an idea to get books donated and it's working better than he imagined it would. >> we can't keep up with the number of books that are coming up. we will open up the books. >> reporter: his friends had made their album available for free download if you donate a book through amazon.com. the idea has been a hit and in less than 3 weeks they received 7,000 books. keep in mind there are more obooks coming every day. >>> we are seeing light showers at this hour but much more to come as we head into the weekend. you can see we have light showers at this hour. not very much but as we move in to tomorrow we will get this stream of

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only at safeway. ingredients for life. welcome back we are focused on the weather is we were through the week. on to the next week. 7 day around the bay a break in the middle san francisco north bay and the spade rain rain now. the high will be 55 staying cool and then we have often and showers dragging into tomorrow. by wednesday thunderstorms there were thunder storms yesterday it probably hurt the sky. thursday and friday we get a real bright. you get things done right before christmas when the rain returns. heavy saturday and sunday. we are also getting delays at s f o on arriving flights one hour and 20 minutes for the arriving flights for to lace oakland and san was a say they are on time. >> of british police arrest fall plan on three cities over suspected terrorism plot. they were detained in london and wells. the suspects will be questions on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks and say the arrests were necessary we are waiting for more delays. >> authorities in mexico say oil thieves are blamed on this mass o

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