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PG&E has agreed to pay a $40 million fine and another $85 million to properly decommission a total of 70 unused transmission lines like the one that sparked the Kincade fire two years ago, according to a deal announced by state regulators.

Crews began installing a 100-foot long steel casing deep into the ground on Tuesday, a test that engineers working on the troubled fix of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower hope will prove that modified construction methods will prevent more sinking and leaning at the troubled high rise.

There was a flurry of work at San Francisco’s Millennium Tower Tuesday, as construction crews resumed drilling for a key test on the stability of the soil around the sinking high-rise. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Millennium Tower fix engineers want homeowners to sign off on a plan to install a new test pile 200 feet down to bedrock to learn what triggered sudden settlement during their earlier work to bolster the already tilting high-rise.

Millennium Tower fix engineers want homeowners to sign off on a plan to install a new test pile 200 feet down to bedrock to learn what triggered sudden settlement during their earlier work to bolster the already tilting high-rise. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic and in some places, things seem to be back at square one. California is doing things a lot differently than Florida. So, what is working and what isn’t? Senior Investigator Stephen Stock reports.

After 18 months on the job, Good Samaritan Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. Klaus Thaler will be stepping down from his position in October. The pending departure comes after the Investigative Unit confirmed with multiple hospital sources another executive – Associate Chief Nursing Officer Damian Gulbransen— recently left her position at Good Sam after 11 months.

The chief medical officer at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose announced he is leaving. This comes after our Investigative Unit exposed serious violations that caught the attention of federal regulators. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen reports.

The head of San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection asked Millennium Tower officials Friday to hold off on doing more work on the so-called fix to the sinking problem until experts agree on ways to prevent more unexpected sinking and tilting of the structure.

Millennium Tower officials are assuring residents that work on the troubled “fix” for the leaning high-rise will restart soon, after project engineers refine construction methods so as to prevent future accelerated sinking and tilting of the luxury high-rise.

The troubled fix for San Francisco’s leaning Millennium Tower is close to restarting, according to the homeowner’s association. This after contractors put the project on hold when they learned it was doing more harm than good. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

San Francisco city Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Tuesday called for a hearing into what led the Millennium Tower to tilt and sink “alarmingly” further since construction started on what had been billed as a permanent fix for the long troubled building.

San Francisco city Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Tuesday called for a hearing into what led the Millennium Tower to tilt and sink “alarmingly” further since construction started on what had been billed as a permanent fix for the long troubled building.

Nearly a month into the school year, parents and teachers tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit they’re concerned about the growing number of COVID-19 cases among students and are calling for more testing to prevent future outbreaks. Candice Nguyen reports.

The Millennium Tower is sinking at a faster rate than the limit that had been set by engineers working on the fix for the troubled building, an analysis of monitoring data shows.

As our kids go back to school — the question for so many parents is should there be more COVID testing on campus? State guidelines require K-12 districts to provide access to testing. So what exactly does that mean? And is this an unfair expectation — for certain districts? Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen reports.

Nearly a month into the school year, parents and teachers tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit they’re concerned about the growing number of COVID-19 cases among students and are calling for more testing to prevent future outbreaks.

Even as they attempted to fix the sinking and tilting of the San Francisco Millennium Tower, the problem is getting worse. NBC Bay Area Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Deberken explains experts now believe the building is doing the opposite of what they predicted it would do when they started the fix.

Designers of the troubled Millennium Tower fix recently blamed the newly accelerated sinking on crews drilling “slightly larger” holes to install steel encased piles down to bedrock, documents show. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Designers of the troubled Millennium Tower fix recently blamed the newly accelerated sinking on crews drilling “slightly larger” holes to install steel encased piles down to bedrock, documents show.