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ANNOUNCER: Live from San Diego's more local news station, this is the KUSI News at 10.
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ANCHOR: It has been nearly two months since the landslide on Soledad Mountain Road. A handful of homes will be torn down, but there are six others that remain in limbo. Those houses may be livable but the homeowners can't move back in. KUSI's Steve Bosh has the latest.
SAM KAZANCHI: I am not allowed to live in my house. And nobody tells me when this will end.
STEVE BOSH: Sam Kazanchi and five others like him have yellow tags on their houses. They can go in to pick up something then turn right around and leave. Mr. Kazanchi has seen workers and others all through his property. They even park in his driveway.
SAM KAZANCHI: Without asking me, telling me, and now they say please, go and bring technicians.
STEVE BOSH: There are still several homes up here that are yellow-tagged. Now the city says the homeowners can return to these homes if they can prove at their own expense that the house is livable.
Mr. Kazanchi wonders why he should have to make that determination and bear that expense.
SAM KAZANCHI: I told them if I am guilty you prove that, not I prove myself innocent.
STEVE BOSH: The city will not make that determination right now. It's concern is the stability of the hillside and they're working against the clock.
CRAIG MCCLELLAN: The city now believes that when the rain comes, as it should any time, there may be further landslides.
STEVE BOSH: Thirty-three shear pins have been sunk into the ground to stabilize the top of the slope. Tomorrow they begin work on the water main that was there.
DAVID JARRELL: We're going to take out all the, the pavement and then excavate the water line that's, that runs through the whole. And, and then do some forensic work to see what the condition of the pipe is.
STEVE BOSH: Then they address the four houses scheduled for demolition. One belonging to Ben Faruzin [phonetic] might be saved.
BEN FARUZIN: It has deep foundations so it's somewhat more stable than some of the other homes, especially the homes that are in the hole.
STEVE BOSH: Here are the big questions that concern the homeowners.
CRAIG MCCLELLAN: Are they going to be able to stabilize the hillside? Are they going to be able to save and preserve the homes that are here and are they going to be able to restore value to the homes that have suffered a loss just by being next to the landslide?
JOSH STEPHENS: And some of these people are still out of their homes. So that's a continuing expense that these people are suffering that as far as we're concerned isn't something that they've caused.
STEVE BOSH: From Soledad Mountain, Steve Bosh, KUSI News.

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