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every day, always. >> you know, you have -- >> intimidated. or they try to intimidate us. >> a war of intimidation or a misunderstanding? police on duty platforms, the idea churn leaders have come up with to ease tensions. nine murders just this month in one east bay city. thing the tick police are now -- tactic police are not giving up on to stop the killings. dig tushed by cigarette -- disturbed by cigarette smoke wafting into their home. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. anyone who rides muni in san francisco knows every so often fare inspectors will ask to see the proof of payment. some are shaken by a death of a muni passenger who try today run away. -- tried to run away. >> reporter: it angers many in
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the bay view. police officers on the muni platform catching for ferry vaders and serious criminal activity on the train lines, some call it harassment. >> every day, always. intimidated or they try to intimidate us. all that you know. terrorizing our community. >> reporter: it was a fare check on a parolee from seattle last week that ended up in a gun battle with police. kenneth harding was killed. police say probably accidentally by his own gun. there has been tension in the community since. african-american church leaders have come up with an idea beginning tomorrow, they'll walk the platforms and pay the fares for those who can't afford it. >> is this sending them a wrong message that you can just get a free ride of muni? >> i don't think so, it will reduce the tensions. if you give them a ticket and you're a police officer, hell is going to break out.
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so the reduce all that -- the police that's doing that you know, we just step in. >> reporter: it's an opportunity to teach. ferry vaders they believe just simply don't have the money and don't think it's wrong to steal a ride. >> and that's the gangster part about it. that's what makes them criminals because they're breaking the law and stepping on the bus from the back and they're not supposed to do that. prevent them and teach them at the same time to pay your fare, pay your way. whatever you're doing. >> i it's beautiful. i think that it works because it won't be all the aggression from people jumping fares. >> reporter: no one believes what happens last week is about fare evasion, the shooting put the spotlight on the bigger issues plaguing the bay view. >> that was like a spark, like rosa parks on the bus. all they needed was a spark and it will set the world on fire. that shooting just brought on a spark that the punts need to pull together -- communities
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need to pull together. >> reporter: they will walk the muni platforms for a few weeks to see how it works using their own money to pay for the fares and at the same time it gives them the opportunity to reach out and teach. >> what did the police say? >> reporter: the police actually welcome it. they don't have to write tickets, why not? >> linda, thank you very much. well, two men accused of beating giants fan bryan stow on opening day are due in court tomorrow. sanchez and norwood will be arraigned in los angeles superior court. police arrested the men thursday and charges them friday. the men face one count each of mayhem, assault that produced great bodily injury and battery. they remain in jail with bail set at half a million dollars. tonight police are in a troubled bay area community are investigating another murder. don is behind the raising death rates in richmond. >> reporter: a shooting and
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killing spike is frustrated richmond police and their battle to reduce homicides. just days after announcing a crackdown. another shooting last night at 24th street and exchange place left a 20-year-old dead and one hospitalized with serious injuries. increasing violence now claimed nine lives this month alone. >> up until the month of june, we had six homicides for the year which was i mean incredible for a city like this that we've seen multiple homicides over the years. >> reporter: what will it take to stop the violence? >> cutbacks are never good and the way with our economy and government is cutting back, that's definitely not going to help the situation. we need more police out on the streets to trackdown on things. >> reporter: the latest shooting raises the homicide count to 21 for the year. the same for all of last year and doesn't include a homicide and several shootings in inincorporated north richmond. on tuesday, a broad daylight shooting took the life of a 20- year-old man in what police say
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is a continuing rivalry between gangs. >> now i've listened to the spot shotter recordings of the shootings and frankly it's just chilling the hear the screams of the kids as young as 5 and 6 years old right across the street from us and into the safety of the event center. this is absolutely outrageous and it's not something that we are going to accept or tolerate. >> reporter: the police chief chris mag nus says gang warfare is the reason for the violence. and if we have proximate cause -- >> if we have probable cause, we are doing that and stopping them. >> reporter: will it work? he is hopeful. >> oh, yeah, definitely i think it will work. like i said i really think that they -- they saw nothing being done so they felt like they were running the streets basically. >> reporter: in rich mondays, don knapp, cbs5 news. >> ron and the former long time spokesman for san francisco
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international airport has died. wilson spent 43 years working in various capacities for the airport. he became the airport spokesman in 1979 and was so familiar to television viewers that he was often recognized as he walked through the terminal. after leaving sfo in 2002, he became an aviation consultant. ron wilson was 70. a bay area teenager is among a group of teens attacked by a bear in alaska. they were hiking in the wilderness area about 120 miles north of anchorage as part of the outloor leadership program. the -- outdoor leadership program. the hiker reportedly came upon a mother brown bear and her cub and she attacked. one of the injured is victor martin of richmond. two of the teens suffered serious life-threatening injuries and two others are in serious condition and three sustained minor injuries. as norway mourns the more than 90 lives lost in friday's terror attacks, new details
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tonight about the possible motive. randall pinkston has the story. >> reporter: his 15 page manifesto attempts to justify violence to achieve his political goals, but an expert noticed a similarity to the writings of convicted unabomber ted kaczynski. >> he doesn't make any references to the unabomber. it's not really his own writing. >> reporter: thousands turned out for memorial services sunday. norway's royal family and government leaders wept for the victims. police continued the search for bodies of young people gunned down at a labor party retreat off the coast of the island. >> it's a well-known thing in norway that every year, this group goes to the island. >> reporter: analysts believe they were targeted to cripple norway's future liberal leaders. breivik is being held here at
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oslo's detention center. his maximum sentence would be 20 years, that's one of the hallmarks of norway's liberal society. a way of life breivik said in his manifesto he wants to change. >> the results will be the opposite. because we will be more open, we will be more inclusive. he cannot destroy us, never. >> reporter: but he's already destroyed the nation's sense of security. randall pinkston, cbs news, oslo, norway. all eyes on foreign markets tonight as international investors react to the lack of a debt limit deal in washington. after more meetings but not much progress, leaders from both sides returned to their corners tonight. democrats met with the president at the white house as both parties worked behind closed doors to avert a crisis. the speaker john boehner held a conference call to urge republicans to support a new measure. >> bad for our economy and bad for our country.
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so i'm trying to find a common ground that's doable in the time that we have remaining. >> there's no question if my mind the government of america will not default. >> earlier boehner had been working on a two part plan to cut spending and raise the debt limit by $1 trillion. senate democrats are working on a plan to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending without tax increases. world markets are falling as a result of the failure to reach an agreement. several asian markets are down nearly 1% while markets in australia were down more than 1%. oil prices are also falling over investor concern that a lack of an agreement could damage the economy and reduce demand for crude. oil right now is below $99 a barrel. drifting out of this life. >> a half million dollars for a condo and some owners cover
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come by smoke and fumes. one woman's fight back resulting in drastic change. >> i think that hand holding day should be an international holiday for everybody. >> a bay area museum where touching is encouraged. an interesting mix of weather taking shape for the week as we'll see the fog and low clouds across the weekend. a bit of a warmup and chance of showers in the forecast as well l i'll have the -- well. i'll have the details in just a few minutes. ,,,,
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story residents of a new bay area condo are declaring victory tonight in a battle over second hand smoke. it's a story we first reported in february. julie watts joins us to explain the victory. >> reporter: and imagine that you pay a half a million dollars for a luxury condo only to be forced out by your neighbor's overwhelming cigarette smoke. that's what happened to one san jose woman, but her nightmare is now prompting change. >> it certainly was a wakeup call to us. >> reporter: hoa president is talking about the dispute that spread like -- well, smoke through his brand new luxury condo building. the access high-rise in downtown san jose. >> oh man. it still smells. >> reporter: it all started when one resident complained about cigarette fumes filling her condo. >> drifting like a fog out of this -- >> reporter: even though the city insisted the high-rise was built to code, unusually high levels of cigarette smoke were
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seeping into her ohm from the unit next door -- home from the unit next door. >> a free path of air to come down into the unit. >> reporter: monitors showed smoke levels in her condo were higher than in a cast foe. >> so we can see this very high peak of matter which has a pattern of every day when the neighbor comes home. >> reporter: she ended up suing and moving out, but her neighbors were divided. some feared banning smoking altogether would decrease property values. while others worried a smoker would move in next door to them. >> because of your report, it really helped galvanize us to do something about it. >> but that wasn't easy. many cities including san jose ban smoking in office builds and even in public parks, but not in residential buildings. something health advocates see as the final frontier. >> people think that you can just filter things out or you can improve the ventilation. but there's really no safe level of second hand smoke. >> reporter: margo with brief
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california said the only option for most multiunit dwellers is to change the building rules or c cnrs. they need to know that 90% of the clients or the possible customers are not smoking. >> reporter: in fact throughout the bay area, smoking rates average about 11.6%. now in some counties as much as 16% of the residents smoke. but in santa clara county, it's half that. only about 8%. that came as a surprise to her who soon discovered that going smoke free could be lucrative. >> property values increase. >> reporter: he also realized something about the smoking neighbors. >> a lot of the smokers that smoke with actually don't smoke in their units, they smoke outside because they know the effects on their health. >> reporter: he put the issue to a vote and to his surprise? >> the tally was 86 to i think 27. >> reporter: the access is now
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proudly smoke-free. >> this is about being fair and having every voice heard. >> reporter: now, five bay area communities have enacted no smoking laws in residential buildings and ironically unincorporated santa clara county is could be of the communities. -- one of the communities. i should know there are now designated smoking areas on the complex where smokers can go to smoke. >> it seems like another case of the smokers versus nonsmokers, how do the smokers feel about? >> they're understandably frustrated because there's fewer and fewer places to smoke, but it's my understanding that most of smokers actually supported the ban because as you heard it actually could increase property values. >> okay, interesting. thank you very much julie. appreciate it. all right, a cooler than average weekend and now we're about to get hit with a little bit of everything it seems. meteorologist jim reynard has
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the forecast. >> they keep the fog and low crowds playing on the coastline here from the greater bay area by midday leaving the ballpark in the shine for the afternoon. but as you can see the clouds have tot gone very far away for are they likely to. they'll be back first thing in the morning and temperatures will cool slightly still in the mid- to low 80s for most locations across the interior. mid 70s in the east bay and on the peninsula and on the beach, mid- to low 60s should be the norm for monday and tuesday. as we see a little cooler air mass moving into the area, thety moor ripple here to the north will bring the cooler air in in the beginning of the week and towards the end of the week, things will warm up as high pressure backs up from the heat wave inland across the rest of the nation, the high pressure system is expected to back into the area here bringing with it a chance of some showers out of the desert west for the weekend. -- southwest for the weekend.
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it will remain to the south but again it will be creeping into picture here for the next couple of days though. a deeper marine layer and a slight cooldown before that warmup returns for the end of the week. again, the low clouds and fog will be a factor here giving way to some afternoon clear asking probably later to clear than it was today as we'll see it linger a little longer at the beach especially. and then we'll look for the warmer temperatures to move into the area come the end of the week. but for tomorrow, still in the mid- to low 80s for the interior. mid- to low 70s for the east bay hills and in the mid- to low 60s on the peninsula and back to the beach. and then we see the warmup begin come midweek on here. by the end of the week, we'll be back to near normal and that will put us in the low 90s for the interior, but again we'll be looking for the mix of clouds and the slight chance of showers creeping at us from the south, we'll have to watch that and see how things develop at this point it looks like a long shot. but still it will be a factor come the weekend.
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so there you go ann. there's your warmup as promised. >> all right, thank you jim. well, captain america showed off the superpowers at the bob office this weekend. the new movie based on the classic comic managed to do something voldemort couldn't pull off -- he knocked off harry potter. it raked in almost $66 million on the opening weekend. "harry potter and the deathly hallows" part two dropped to second place. far behind was "friends with benefits" and holdovers -- today, it became they rounded out the top five.
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the weddings in celebrations began attempt when new york became the sixth and largest state to allow same sex marriage in new york city more than 800 couples said their vows at city hall. but the federal government does not recognize the unions. the newlyweds say their determination will not stop until the marriages are recognized by the federal government. but not everybody in new york is celebrating. same sex weddings met with protests across the state. about a dozen protestors from a group called citizens for decent community demonstrated in rochester, much bigger group took to the streets outside the united nations to demand that all new yorkers, not just membered of the legislate -- members of the legislature be given a way on whether gay marriages are legal. here in the bay area, another show of support for same sex couples. a museum security guard told two women they were not allowed to hold hands. anne makovec is here.
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>> reporter: the san francisco lesbian gay freedom ban kicked offhand holding day at the contemporary jewish museum. >> to really celebrate diversity and pride in the mount. >> reporter: that's the museum's director who had been playing a day for here for months to celebrate an exhibit on gertrude stein. they added the hand holding part later. the inspiration came from the incident last sunday when a security guard told two women to stop holding hands. he said it wasn't allowed in the museum. the director said the guard was wrong and was immediately removed. >> this goes completely against museum policy and values and our commitment to diversity. >> reporter: it was a teachable moment. how home phobia still exists and what that manes to foam -- means to people. >> it shows a connection, right and it helps you get through the city and pull each other
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along when you're walking too slow. >> exactly. >> i think that hand holding day should become an international holiday for everybody. there's nobody who doesn't need to have their hand held. including the guard who made the mistake. >> reporter: in san francisco, anne makovec, cbs5 news. >> tomorrow is the day for the san francisco giants as the reigning world champions, they're scheduled to meet with president obama at the white house and also he will recognize the team for giving back to the community. the meeting takes place at 1:00 our time. ed lee is expected to attend. the a's stage a very late rally against mariano rivera and if the giants' third base coach beats the throw home. should it count as two runs? that's tonight on sports.
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this year's post- season... the a sneak preview perhaps? giants, the rubber game with the team they could face in this year's postseason brewers, mccovey cove. only this case they're giants fans, not parrot heads. keppinger singles to left field. madison bumgarner scores or will he? bumgarner is in there. game tied at 1. giants added another run in the 4th and then bumgarner just money. seven and two-thirds, only one run allowed. allowed two or fewer walks and he has no walks today. turn it over to that man, brian
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wilson. the 1-2-3 9th. 2-1 the final. trying to rally against mariano rivera. mark teixeira with the double play. the a's lose 7-5. 21st and final stage of the tour de france largely ceremonial. cadel evans is enjoying some bubbly mid stage. evans becomes the oldest winner of the tour since 1922. first ever win for an australian. >> and then tonight -- game day you have a special guest? >> so tim ryan is our new nfl analyst on cbs 5. he's going to do the preseason games and he's got his own radio show right and i think he was under the impression that game day was four hours, he can talk. >> is there going to be a preseason dennis? >> de la rosa, we're going explain that -- there is, we're going to explain that to you tonight.
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