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can make up ground. >> reporter: behind us pacific pipe company one of the many that have pulled out of oakland, industry that's not here anymore. but the city council would like to have that filled with a new business, one that's making headlines all around the country. here's the story. reporter: like many american cities oak as seen a steady erosion of its once powerful manufacturing base, carnation, american steel, pacific pipe, del monte foods, chips, mothers cookies are just some of the big employers to exit leaving clorox and kaiser as the only big names left. well, now oakland city hall wants to replace those empty smokestacks with new ones. these new ones would be powered by a budding marijuana business. >> it's 60,000-square-foot. >> reporter: eddie is one of the new entrepreneurs hoping to buy one of the $211,000 permits the city is thinking of issuing to start a massive pot grow. he even has his factory location picked out.
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>> security is an issue but we are establishing a high-end security facility here with infrared cameras, motion censors, on-staff guard. >> reporter: and dan rush of the united food and commercial workers union already representing 150 pot workers statewide couldn't be happier about the new businesses coming to town. >> you have some of the larger grows under contract already, we are figuring 300 to 400 jobs per larger grow and so we're looking at 1200, maybe 1500 jobs. >> reporter: it's estimated that marijuana could turn into a $14 billion a year business if it were fully legalized. but if it gets that big, there is the chance that the feds might kick the doors down and arrest people. >> we'll get to that if we need to. >> industry is expanding at a phenomenal rate. >> reporter: if this is such an economic boom, why didn't the oakland chamber of commerce endorse the idea? >> they are still looking at where should these places be, how do we control them.
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i think it's very early in the process to really -- for us to be able to say don't do it, do it here. >> reporter: and the effect it may have on oakland' image? >> still remains to be seen. >> reporter: right now the city council is more interested on the effect on the budget. marijuana is a cash business and the city council and the city are getting their share first in sales taxes that they approved and now this. and i have a feeling that there's going to be more to come after november whether the initiative statewide passes or not because whether it's legal or not, they are definitely moving to legitimize it here in oakland. allen? >> phil, i couldn't help but think pacific pipe behind you there might have been make the wrong kind of pipes. this is going to actually -- this will spur other businesses, won't it? to playoff these big growth operation? >> reporter: that's right. that's before we even get into the subject of hemp and when start making clothes and shoes out of the stalks. >> phil matier, thank you. last night on this newscast we
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talked with a man who runs one of oakland's largest marijuana dispensaries. while he endorsed the move in general, he expressed concerns about possible fallout from oakland's decision to go to big pot. you can see that interview anytime on our website, cbs5.com. in the meantime, marijuana is still illegal and sheriff's deputies shot and killed one person during a marijuana raid. it happened on the eastern edge of santa clara county. deputies in santa clara and alameda counties were searching the hills near lime road for pot farms. that's when they say that a suspect was shot and killed. not clear why deputies opened fire, but investigators say it is not unusual for these raids to turn into shootouts. >> a lot of illegal marijuana growers are heavily armed due to the fact that they have a lot of money at risk. >> we are told no deputies were hurt. it's believed the deputies from santa clara county were the ones
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who fired the shots. oakland police hope surveillance video can help find two people responsible for the murder of a virginia man. >> two individual were scene moments before the crime it was committed. >> this surveillance video shows a block of webster street on sunday night moments before somebody robbed jinghong kang and then shot him. the man and woman in the video match witness descriptions of the killers. kang, a father of three, had just had his teeth cleaned, he was scheduled to interview for a job at google on monday morning. san francisco police want your help finding a woman they say robbed two banks at gunpoint. both happened last week. police say both robberies -- this woman walked in pointed a gun at a teller and demanded money. officers say she hit a bank of america on balboa in the outer richmond last monday, and another bank of america friday in diamond heights. she is described as latina, in
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her 30s, 5'3" tall, about 130 pounds, with orange-ish or red- tinted hair. the cbs 5 newsroom receives countless press release every, single day from agencies, special interest groups, pr firms, far and wide. but today one really stood out. it came from amalgamated transit union local 192, which represents workers for a.c. transit. at the top it says, we are at work. there is no sickout. well, that may come as something of a shock to people who rely on those buses for transportation. ann notarangelo shows us the bitter labor dispute and the riders caught in the middle of it all. ann. >> reporter: allen, a.c. transit now says it's considering taking legal action against the hundreds of drivers who called in sick over the last three days. the people who take a.c. transit, the passengers, all they want to know is when will the bus service return to normal? we are not on a sickout. we're working. and those of us who can't aren't due to safety reasons. >> say that everything put forward by the other side is
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untrue, today's news out of acu is made up out of whole cloth. it's untrue. >> reporter: a.c. transit and its drivers union are about as far apart as they can be. the only thing they agree on is the current bus service isn't up to par. what have the last two days been like with so many people out of work? >> it's been hell because you come up to a bus stop and you're looking around to see if there is a driver. if there is no driver, you have to continue en route. >> reporter: some of the transit system's 250,000 daily passengers agree. >> the only thing that a lot of drives have an attitude because of the fact that they are mad and because of the fact that usually they have to work long hours or -- >> reporter: is the bus on time? >> give or take five minutes, which it shouldn't be give or take five minutes but it is. >> reporter: a contract dispute led to legal action and a judge is forcing both sides to enter into binding arbitration.
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in the meantime, a.c. transit imposed a contract on the drivers. among other things it freezes wages and implements a healthcare co-pay. a.c. transit also changed some shifts and routes they say to accommodate a change in overtime rules. the union says that change has caused unsafe working conditions. over the last three days, a number of drivers, about 20%, have called in sick. >> there are some operators who can't come to work. >> there are probably 230 people who are out today. there were similar numbers the day before and there were 290 people the day before. the numbers are the numbers. they are the same numbers the union has. it's disingenuous and it's dishonest for the union to say that there's not a rolling sickout. >> reporter: i just need for the record, you're telling me that 200 people did not call in sick in the last two days? >> what i'm telling you, i don't know, those are sam singer's numbers and a.c. transit hasn't been honest about anything up until this point. so i don't know.
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>> reporter: a.c. transit is looking into whether or not it can take some legal action against these drivers. now, on july 30, a judge will decide whether or not a.c. transit can impose this contract. allen, if the judge rules in the union's favor, then a.c. transit says it may lay off some of these drivers. >> you're saying 200 drivers, it begs the question on an average day how many call in sick? >> reporter: on an average day 100 drivers call in sick out of 1,000 total drivers so about 10% every day call in sick on average. >> so that's more than double. >> reporter: absolutely. >> thank you ann notarangelo. as if it wasn't hard enough to get your child placed in preschool... >> i don't know what else to do. i don't know where else i can take my child so that i'll be able to go to work. >> why thousands of children and their parents are about to find themselves out of preschool and the efforts to keep that from happening.
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forget privacy concerns. why one bay area neighborhood says it has good reason to dislike facebook. her election alone would be groundbreaking. how governor arnold schwarzenegger's pick for california's pick for california supreme court justice could change state law. ,, those people are happy 'cause they're gonna have a good time, and they've got extra money in their pocket. those are happy passengers. how much does it cost for those snacks again? nothing. at southwest airlines, when we have a sale, it's a sale. [ male announcer ] southwest airlines has flights starting at $49 one-way. book now only at southwest.com. [ rand ] how can you not want to get on the plane? come on and get on the plane. we're saving you money.
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have a pre-school to g because of state budget cuts, 2500 children in oakland may not have a preschool to go to. now, these are affordable preschools. it's based on the parents' income and in some cases they're free. the school district is scrambling and some parents are taking matters into their own
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hands as sherry hu shows us. >> reporter: she has a full- time job, is a nursing student and a parent. if her oakland preschool closes it will cause chaos and hundreds of dollars more each more for child care. >> i'm kind of sad because i don't know what else to do. i don't know where else i can take my child so that i'll be able to go to work. >> reporter: other families face the same dilemma since two dozen 3 to 5-year-olds are enrolled here at santa fe. the teacher has already gotten a pink slip due to take effect this month and two assistants may also have to look for new jobs. while a group of parents may not be able to save those three jobs it may be able to save the preschool. >> this is a takeover. we plan to take over these programs. >> reporter: matthew rainer is with oakland parents together. no car washes or cake sales to raise cash. it's an all out call to recruit
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parents and laidoff teachers at some preschools to keep them open. >> we don't have time. time is the issue. we need to act upon that right now. >> reporter: it's aing about it's tok help out the little kids -- it's a big task to help out the little kids and it has the backing of the school district. >> this is the first time we are looking at a strictly volunteer model so we have to prepare for different contingencies but we are very encouraged by the amount of enthusiasm and the commitment that's been demonstrated here. and it could be a model that could be replicated in the future. >> reporter: time is ticking as "oakland parents together" starts at santa fe and hopes to save six others. sherry hu, cbs 5. a final tribute today for a local music legend. hundreds of people packed the paramount theater in oakland for the funeral for walter hawkins. the grammy award winner died last week. he was 61 years old. he had batsled cancer for two years. the oakland native best known
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for the hit song "o happy day." >> the genius is the lyrics of the music. they are written very close to the gospel that's in the king james version and the inspiration and motivation with his writing that he puts in it is so stirring. >> over the course of his career hawkins was nominated for nine grammys. he won in 1980 for his rendition of the lord's prayer. all right. roberta, what do you have for us? >> wow, everybody has been talking about the weather today because, boy, are we a city of extremes. we have been talking about nothing but the low clouds and fog at the coast. but meanwhile compare that with this our mount vaca cam. today's high temperature so far only 75 degrees. almost 10 degrees below average. you might see the hint of that there a deep marine layer. flags are on the fly at nob hill. sea breeze up to 24 miles per
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hour. compare that with an air temperature that's only 55 in the city of san francisco. inland 70s with the abundance of sunshine and breezy. bayside we have the low clouds and fog trying to slip into alameda, oakland and towards el cerrito, as well. coastal areas totally socked in. not able to capture that sunset at 8:07. tonight due to that marine layer and coolerrer a aloft, temperatures will be cooler than they have been been. i'm up for that. 52 in santa rosa, mid-50s in san jose. 49, however, along the coast in pacifica. boy that date won't change on me. i keep working on t pretend it says wednesday. clouds are streaming back to the bay waters by about 2 p.m. and then it looks like we will
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see more sunshine than what we realized today. temperatures will jump inland. 80s throughout the trivalley. that's where we should be for this time of the year. about 4 degrees below average in san jose. 5 degrees below normal in san francisco. the extended cbs 5- and 7-day forecast, we are stuck in the stagnant weather pattern each and every day. hey, dana, you know what makes it so unique? san francisco is the only city in the entire country that can hold a marathon in the month of july t takes place this sunday. and the reason? because it's going to be cool in the mid-50s. >> yeah. that's a word you can use for it. i have another one. thanks, roberta. hey, is it worth having 500 million friends if you're still disliked? that's in two minutes. when you're 16, nobody wants to go through back surgery.
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my doctor has letters and pictures of other kids who've gone through the same thing on his walls and that really helped me not be as scared. i'm not worried about my back anymore. i wanna do that again! announcer: at sutter health, our story is you. for more stories, visit sutterhealth.org. announcer: at sutter health, our story is you. "meg whitman says she'll run california like her company..." seen this attack on meg whitman? who are these people? they're the unions and special interests behind jerry brown. they want jerry brown because, he won't "rock the boat," in sacramento. he'll be the same as he ever was. high taxes. lost jobs. big pensions for state employees. the special interests have chosen their governor. how about you? on the way back from vegas. the paint had been completely dust storm sanded off my new truck! i called my mercury agent, sarah,
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a lawyer for the company says it's not clear whether co- founder mark zuckerberg signed a there is confusion over claims with the owners of facebook. it's not clear whether the owner signed a contract that entitles a new york man to the majority of facebook. paul significant signed the contract last night saying he got 84% of the company. his lawyer showed a cop of the alleged document today to the judge in new york. facebook says it hasn't seen a contract. although facebook users love to click that little like button a lot of people dislike t for the first time the american customer service index included social networking sites. facebook scored a 64 out of 100 a point ahead of myspace t points them in the bottom 5% of all companies included in the study. users aren't the only people not happy with facebook. len ramirez shows us why some
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neighbors in the south bay dislike their efforts to get its employees to carpool. >> reporter: you'll see them circling palo alto's college terrace neighborhood at almost all hours. [ sound of engine ] >> i walk my dog at 7:00 and there are usually two or three buses circling. >> reporter: sleek, stealthy, black, smoked windows, they navigate narrow streets to shuttle facebook employees between buildings in the stanford research park but neighbors like cathy and margaret say the shuttles have created problems of their own. >> too many buses, too frequently, and too many hours of the day. >> reporter: she lives a block away from the facebook campus, miller lives right across the street. >> and we're on a hill. they gun up the hill. they have to accelerate to get up the hill, which is noisy, and then they, you know, beep, beep, beep going backwards. >> reporter: i notice shuttles running every one to four minutes sometimes two at a time. buses are rarely filled and often unoccupied according to
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the neighbors. >> i wonder if they could cut back the frequency of the shuttle buses to some extent? so it will be better for the neighborhood. >> reporter: it's a good question, but we didn't get answers from facebook. the company said it was too busy commenting on its 500 millionth user to comment on this story. but neighbors are willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt. >> they're not trying to make people miserable. they are trying to kept their employees happy. they are trying to keep the number of cars down. but there are just too many buses. >> reporter: neighbors are hoping for some sort of a meeting between facebook, the neighborhood and the city to come up with some sort of a compromise. they say that the buses are often just too empty and too many of them to make it worthwhile. in palo alto, len ramirez, cbs 5. well, it will be history for california. beyond her background, what the governor's nominee might bring to the state supreme court. [ yelling ]
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>> not just ready to fight city hall. this crowd wants it turned upside-down. the astounding salaries made by city employees while most residents earn less than $30,000 a year. i wanted to make sure that she understood that i regretted the circumstances and that i accepted full responsibility. >> two days later, and the saga continues to unfold. what the man who launched the whole fiasco has to say now that we know the whole story. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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[ male announcer ] southwest airlines has flights starting at $49 one-way. book now only at southwest.com. [ rand ] how can you not want to get on the plane? come on and get on the plane. we're saving you money. now that's a plane full of happy. [ employees ] grab your bag. it's on. [ ding ] schwarzenegger has nominated a new chief ju the state supreme court may be in store for a major shake- up. governor schwarzenegger has nominated a new chief justice a woman. she is filipina, so she would be the first asian-american chief justice. simon perez with more on her legal philosophy and how she would change the look of the court. >> reporter: 50-year-old tani cantil-sakauye is on track to be the next chief justice of the california supreme court after her nomination by governor schwarzenegger. >> she has been the first on a number of occasions and even if
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she has not been the first she has been the best. >> reporter: cantil-sakauye would be the first asian chief justice in california and would preside over the first majority female supreme court. her replacing retiring chief justice ron george tips the balance four to three toward women. any reason her? >> she was the best choice to fill chief justice ron george's shoes. >> she has been a judge for almost 20 years. >> reporter: starting in 1990 as a sacramento municipal court judge, then supreme court judge, then appeals court justice. she was appointed to all those positions by republican governors. just a month ago on the appeals court she decided a case based on a state law requiring only nurses give insulin shots to diabetic children in school. some schools had pushed to allow other trained staff to administer the injections. nurses were in such short supply, some students might not have been able to get the insulin they needed.
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in the end, cantil-sakauye up held the law. >> it's not the role of a judge to impose his or her own personal views. she understood that and she essentially said if there is a flaw in the scheme, it's for the legislature to fix it and not for a judge to try to rewrite the statute. >> reporter: both her parents were farm workers. her mother in the philippines, her father on sugar cane plantation in hawaii. cantil-sakauye is married to a sacramento police officer and has two daughters. >> i really expect her to be one of the best chief justices ever in the history of the state of california. >> reporter: a three-person legal panel must first approve cantil-sakauye and voters must do so on the ballot in november. on a personal note, one profile of her said she had a hard time finding a job out of law school so she supported herself by working as a blackjack deal nerine no n sacramento, simon perez, cbs 5 -- as a blackjack dealer in sacramento's.
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simon perez cbs 5. plenty of anti-government sentiment in the country much of it against out of control spending. hard to argue with anyone who feels that way in the city of bell, california in los angeles county. population, as of the last census, 36,664. not exactly a big city. but it sure provides some big salaries. residents there just learned their city manager earns close to $800,000 a year. that according to the "los angeles times" makes him not only the highest paid city manager in california but possibly the country. the police chief there, $457,000. the assistant city manager more than $376,000. those two salaries larger than all their counterparts who oversee los angeles county. so how is the fine citizenry of bell take the news is dave brian shows us not sitting down.
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[ screaming ] >> reporter: an incensed crowd of hundreds of local residents, perhaps 1,000 at its peak shouted its anger over revelations that some top official in the city of bell are making huge salaries, nearly $800,000 a year in the case of the city's chief administrative officer. that's nearly twice the president's salary to run a city that's small. >> you cannot justify it for a city this size. impossible. you cannot justify a police chief that probably makes more than the head of the fbi. >> and these people here we elected to represent us turn our backs and steal money from ourselves, you know, we're all mad and the bottom is we're here to have him removed and kicked out. >> reporter: in english and spanish, the crowd which rally outside of bell city council
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meeting declared its full throated anger evening warning president obama that greedy city officials might take his salary, too. [ chanting ] >> reporter: the bell police chief form early the chief in former chief in glendale makes more than the police commissioner in new york city. >> some of the previous members of this department are in the federal penitentiary now. they asked me to bring best practices to this police department. and i have been diligently trying to do that. >> reporter: i talk to the president of the bell police officers association about that money. what is your reaction to what a chief in a city this small making that kind of salary. had you ever heard of that? >> we always heard rumors of what he was making but when that came out our jaws dropped. >> dave brian reporting in l.a.
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now, a solution may be as costly as the problem since the salaries are guaranteed the city would have to buy out the remaining values if those officials agree to resign. the white house and the secretary of agriculture are apologizing to a fired employee for her remarks on race. as joel brown reports, the controversial video clips that started it all didn't tell the whole story. reporter: agriculture secretary tom vilsack says he is sorry for firing shirley sherrod and has a new job for her. >> she has skills to help usda as we deal with trying to turn the page on our civil rights chapter. >> reporter: the former civil servant wants to think about it. it's been a long week. >> as it was unfolding, my whole thought was, this is so unreal. >> reporter: she gave a speech last spring to an naacp banquet in georgia. video clips of the speech posted online make it sound as
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if she supports discrimination. now she and others say the clips were taken out of context. sherrod and her supporters argue that the whole speech was about learning from mistakes and overcoming racial bias. civil rights leader wade henderson says the naacp acted too quickly when it first condemned the remarks. >> last week, they accused the tea party movement of tolerating racial bias and bigotry within their movement. and i think in the case of shirley sherrod they wanted to lean over backwards to make clear that they had to keep their own house in order. >> reporter: the clips of sherrod's speech first appeared on a website run by conservative activist andre breitbart. he told fox news the naacp at a dinner honoring this person is cheering on a person describing a white person as "the other." this is far worse than anything that's ever been alleged against the tea party. in addition to the job offer and apology from the agriculture secretary, sherrod also got an apology from the
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white house. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >> and vilsack called this a learning experience both for himself and his department. >> place to absolve anything from anything other than to accept responsibility for what i did. and i'm accepting that responsibility with deep regret. this is a good woman. she has been put through hell. and, uhm....... i could have done and should have done a better job. hundreds of new homes for the most difficult to adopt dogs. >> kids, let's go! >> how this san francisco woman is matching lovable mutts with people who can appreciate them the most. and an ankle bracelet that knows you have been drinking. how does it work? that's tonight's "good question." i'm dennis o'donnell. a play-off baseball game goes bad. >> get off my [bleeping] mound. you're out of here now get off my [bleeping] field. >> why an umpire was knocked
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francisco ordinance ordinance requiring minimum standards for dog care. and for years, she animal welfare and she helped write the san francisco ordinance requiring minimum standards for dog care ard for years she served on the animal welfare and control commission. but sharon chin shows us this week's jefferson award winner may be best known as an older dog's best friend. come on, kids, let's go. >> reporter: it's sherri franklin's life mission, saving older dogs. >> it is the reason i gets up in the morning is actually the because i know i can save an animal, place an animal in a great home. >> reporter: as a long-time spca volunteer in the 1990s, the san francisco hairstylist developed a passion for older dogs, those last to be adopted and first to be euthanized. >> what i wanted to do was rescue senior dogs so i started taking them home one at a time and cleaning them up and finding them homes.
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you are my best girl! >> reporter: sherri founded muttville in 2007 to rescue older dogs from being euthanized. she says muttville has saved more than 700 dogs aged 7 and older and paired more than 200 of them with senior counterparts. >> of course it came to me, what a perfect match: senior humans, senior dogs. >> reporter: she was inspired by her father's experiencing. he had terminal cancer. it lifted his spirits when he took in zeppy, a stray cat. >> it changed his life at the end. you know? it gave him a reason, you know, to get up and something to talk about. >> reporter: 66-year-old alfred olson tells sherri he is happy since he adopted zozo a year ago. he is a 10-year-old beagle mix who is deaf. >> she makes me laugh every day. she is so funny. when you feed her, she dances. >> reporter: sherri says she gets 50 calls a day to take
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older dogs from shelters but can't take them all. often their guardian has died or moved. many need medical attention. nancy mace is more than 100 muttville volunteers. >> 80% of the finances of muttville go into the medical costs for these dogs, and i know that we'll never know how much sherri perjury puts into that. >> reporter: cory, for example, came from korea. his leg is deformed from being raised in a chicken cage. sherri's own home is a temporary stop before dogs move to one of puttville's 30 foster homes or get adopted. >> are you going to come with us? >> reporter: she hopes one day she won't have to turn away another dog. >> you got your paper work and everything. we're going to find you a new home. >> reporter: for rescuing hundreds of senior dogs, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to sherri franklin. sharon chin, cbs 5 eyewitness news. >> i'll dance if you feed me, too. hey, that's great. to see the dogs up for
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adoption at muttville use our link at cbs5.com/jeffersonawards. this is san jose. 10 degrees below normal today. now the areas that will warm by 10 on your thursday as eyewitness news continues right here on cbs 5. ,,,,,,
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lohan. but how does an alcohol detecting bracelet like bastida has if not made fashionable, it was certainly made famous by lindsay lohan. but how does an alcohol- detecting bracelet like that work? ken bastida has tonight's "good question." >> and determine if drinking alcohol -- >> reporter: the judge said lindsay lohan violated a condition of her probation by using alcohol. how did the judge know? well, it was her bracelet. >> interestingly enough, a lot of people will initially deny it and say, oh, didn't drink, it must have been something else or i was in the room and somebody else had a drink. >> reporter: but unlike many defendants, this little ankle bracelet doesn't lie according to linda connolly with lca, the
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company that administers and monitors the device known as scram. for secure continuous remote alcohol monitoring. >> it measures alcohol as it evaporates out of the body, and then that information is stored in the bracelet and then transmitted wirelessly to the receiver once a day. it goes through the telephone lines into a secure network system. and then it's analyzed to see if someone has been drinking or if they tampered with the product. >> reporter: the bracelet works by measuring the sweat coming off your skin every 30 minutes. take this person whose bracelet revealed he got hammered about 8:00 at night. >> he reached a high of just below .14 at about 8:00. >> reporter: connolly says there are about 200 people in the bay area currently wearing these device. they claim about an 80% success rate. the defendants pay the cost, about $13 a day, to stay out of jail. >> saving money, i'm not going
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to bars, not picking up women. they say that they have actually saved money by being on scram. >> reporter: i need your good questions, send them to me at cbs5.com. a story in the sky and this one is massive. check it out. astronomers in the uk have discovered what they believe to be the most massive star ever. >> wow. >> weighs 256 times more than the sun. not only that it's 10 million times as bright. >> hm. >> it's about a million years old and right now doesn't have a name but astronomers are calling it r-136a1. >> that works for me. that is awesome! >> the r is after me. someone figured out that whole thing. >> you're a star. but we can see you. we wouldn't be able to see that one. we have so many things going on around the bay area this weekend including the san francisco marathon which is going to be conducive for the runners, cloudy, cool in the 50s. we also have the catfish crawl which is say great one and two- mile swim at uvas reservoir in
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morgan hill and not so warm for that. but nevertheless it's going to be a great day in morgan hill. it's in a reservoir so not too cold there. how about san jose? look at this right here, this is what 75 degrees looks like. problem? should have been 84 there today. that's typically the average high for this time of the year. this time around let's head to the beach. this is what 54 degrees looks like. it's include and windy. the winds are out of the west at 24 miles per hour. and the temperature never did climb above 55 degrees at the beaches. currently livermore at 67 after realizing a high today of only 76 degrees. a good 10 degrees below normal. san bruno in the 50s. san francisco 52 degrees. and there you have sausalito at 53. so obviously if you are out and about on this wednesday evening, you definitely require a jacket away from the inland locations. bayside around the coast the winds continue to whip up out of the west a good 25 miles per
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hour. now, this is the marine layer. let me get out of the way so you can see it over the pacific. it's playing tag with alameda, oakland, el cerrito. it's going to march over the dublin grade and work 60 miles inland so everybody will wake up in the clouds on our thursday. it's high pressure, it's in command, but we have this area of low pressure just parallel to the coast. that's enhancing that marine layer. so the bottom line is, temperatures stay below average next to the bay of water but will begin to warm up ever so gently inland. temperatures tonight for 49 degrees in pacifica, 56 degrees concord, clayton, walnut creek. tomorrow's daytime high stacking like this into the 80s in san jose through the almaden valley. 70 in san mateo. ands across the bay 75, 88 in walnut creek. 90 brentwood to mountain house. and backing all the way through
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discovery bay in fact. north of the golden gate bridge, no sunshine stinson beach through inverness into bodega bay including dillon beach, as well. 76 degrees in novato. west winds up to 15 miles per hour. extended forecast calls for nothing. take a good look at that. absolutely nothing. it's a stagnant weather pattern. temperatures will be around 90 inland. how about this? i know dana wants to try this. >> no. >> this is hang gliding in yosemite. what a view that is. and hey, david, thank you so much for sharing all the fun with us here at cbs5.com. we want to see your photos and video, as well. i'll try a lot of things, but i don't know about that, allen. >> no. coming up on eyewitness news at 10:00 on the cw, 11:00 on cbs 5, the case involved more than 100 alleged victims who say police wrongly arrested them. now a settlement is reached.
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how much it's going to cost the city of oakland. a local baseball coach goes to jail for hitting an umpire. i'm dennis o'donnell. and a local prep star signs with the warriors. next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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"meg whitman says she'll run california like her company..." seen this attack on meg whitman? who are these people? they're the unions and special interests behind jerry brown. they want jerry brown because, he won't "rock the boat," in sacramento.
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he'll be the same as he ever was. high taxes. lost jobs. big pensions for state employees. the special interests have chosen their governor. how about you?
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been charged with battery >> the story of this kids baseball coach is really -- it's unbelievable. even the players i heard the kids were just ashamed of what happened. >> they had to witness this happen and the vallejo team was in the lead when it happened and they had to forfeit the game. another unfortunate incident we hear far too often. a vallejo baseball coach is charged with battery against a sports official. the umpire requested his face not be shown in this report. >> i have never seen anything like this. >> pretty insane. >> reporter: that doesn't begin to describe what happened sunday at wilson park in vallejo. a disputed call in a play-off baseball game between vallejo and sonoma turned ugly. >> he call him out, i thought it was safe he got ejected and punched him. >> reporter: the vallejo coach david davis was allegedly so upsets with the call that he
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punched umpire david abbott in the face knocking him uncan. emergency units responded. the umpire never saw it coming. >> i ejected him. he kept arguing. i said no, no, whatever. and then he pointed up towards my partner at home plate. i started to turn my face up towards home plate and that's when he nailed me. my head exploded and -- my head exploded and the next thing i know i'm looking up at the sky with probably 10 or 20 people around me. >> reporter: there were a couple of close calls earlier in the game, one against each team. so what escalated this already tense situation to violence? that is still disputed. >> umpire was out of line by saying what he said. he said i told you once, i told you twice to get off my bleak field. i told you get off my bleeping field. you've out of here. you're field.
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the next thing is it [ bleep ] get off my [bleeping] field. >> i did not use any four- letter words, foul mouth or anything like that. >> reporter: as a result, vallejo's team forfeited the game despite leading at the time of the incident. >> try to teach our kids talk it out walk it out don't hit. >> the umpire is considering legal action. meanwhile david davis faces a maximum fine of $2,000 or a year in jail. look up the term journeyman player and you will find watson's name. he was drafted by montreal in 1999 went from montreal to the mets in 2002, the as in 2003, across the pacific to japan in 2006 to toronto in 2007, south korea in the off season, back to the mets in 2009, finally to oakland this year. why a geography lesson for watson? in the second inning today against boston watson smacked a fastball over the scoreboard for his first major league home
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run. what a moment! it tied the game at one. same score thinked inning. lumberjack cust hits one clear to berkeley two-run shot his fourth in the last eight games 3- as. goi with his ninth win. season. -- gio gonzalez with his ninth win. slick double play turned by mark ellis and cliff pennington, 6-4 the final for the as. they take two out of three from boston. they have moved over the .500 mark. giants got one of the sweetest wins in recent memory against the rival dodgers last night. mattingly served as the dodgers manager after joe torre was ejected. he met with the pitcher in the top of the 9th. he stepped back on to the dirt. bruce bochy noticed, called attention to it. according to baseball rules, that counts as two visits to
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the mound. the pitcher must exit. >> huh? >> so the all-star closer is out. here comes the soon-to-be waived george cherelle andres torres then delivers a go-ahead two-run double. the giants come back from four runs down to beat the dodgers 7- 5. baseball rules say that mattingly should have been ejected and broxton should have stayed in the game to face just one more batter. either way big move by bochy. more fallout for the dodgers. the league gets fined -- suspended pitcher clayton computer shaw for five kershaw for hitting a batter. two others fine and and suspended for the pitch. torre will sit out tonight. it turns out that new warriors forward david lee did not break his finger yesterday's team usa practice but won't play for team usa this summer. he suffered what doctors call a
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mallet finger injury. he is expected to make a full recovery before the season begins. meanwhile the warriors iq and basketball iq just went up a few points. they signed harvard guard jeremy lin the all ivy league guard from palo alto scoring nearly 10 points per game in the summer league for the mavericks. >> wow. >> my dreams would that play in the nba and now i get to do it for the warriors a team that i grew up watching. my dream was that i would play in the nba. when i walked in the locker room an hour ago and saw my name tag up, that was crazy. >> to me, it's like a sitcom like some fake deal that we're here. it's like this isn't really happening. it wasn't that long ago, you know, we were coaching junior high, high school, and playing for the local nba team? i mean, it's the most incredible story. >> you going to talked talk, you got to walk the walk! >> and there are reports that
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former cowboy head coach jimmie johnson will be competing in this fall's edition of "survivor" on cbs. >> you win. >> he will win! >> unless jerry jones is on it, too! [ laughter ] >> the 67-year-old intends to remain working as a football analyst. our network won't comment. how about them cowboys! >> how about them cowboys! >> you knew it was a matter of time before they got celebrities in to spice up "survivor." he has the personality. he has that competitive fire to add to the program. >> you could explain the dodger rule about stepping on and off the mound? >> i'd love to but there are only 10 seconds left in the broadcast. >> two visits to the mound, the pitcher is out. >> see my blog. >> see you at 10:00 and 11:00. ,,,, ,,
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