KQED KQED Newsroom July 19, 2014
Good evening. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. We devote the program to examining hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. It uses water, sand and chemicals breaking up rocks to increase oil and gas production. Fracking is not yet widely used in california. But questions about the environmental impacts in other states have triggered calls to ban it here. We begin where the issue is going before the the film vertigo. Today, just around the corner from the famous church, a different kind of drama is unfolding. A Grass Roots Group called san ber nieto rising has put an initiative on the Nove...