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doesn't continues to swing for a dodgers fan that may have fallen to the bay and frantic and they're turning to the public for help. what's next for health care in the space for the offer and advise on both health care and those needing jobs crews working around the clock on the wild fires in colorado and summer taking advantage of evacuated homes. thanks for joining us this morning. a lot of news to cover in the next hour work everything from high speed rail into the questions about internet privacy and questions of stop and frisk and comes to san francisco the lot of controversy bring about a discussion the mayor had about
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that and several new law's clinic in effect today. but first friends of the missing dodgers fan a man falling into the bay area are reaching out to the public to help. they're trying to find closure of for his loved ones. the left at&t park after the giants and dodgers came on monday night and they're walking near pier 30 and 32 when he vanished. there's thought he may have fallen into the date he had been drinking and cannot swim in the official search found nothing and it was called off on tuesday. for our friends and family it's been very rough but we've been trying to stay strong and pull together and the outer to support his family. a can even imagine what they're going through this point. the hand out fliers and hard about to search for clues. several new laws go into effect in california and the mandatory insurance coverage for maternity care.
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all group insurance providers must cover maternity services and another law recovering coverage for behavioral treatment for autism for children and young adults. and safe body art pact requires tattooing piercing artists to register with local government in the statewide health and safety standards. about a host of other new laws, and affected day one has not been seen anywhere else in the nation used car dealers the flags of the st. nicholas as junk and cannot buy the delicacy or produce it with more on that and a few more minutes with to laws discouraging bullying with prevention and training. this week health and job fair in the east bay aims to help people who are knock out some of the system. the fair and to help people looking for employment and health coverage because they tend to go to get it. many people feel the mainstream path to care is unavailable because of rising cost and it could lead to a vicious cycle.
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your not healthy cannot get up and goteborg and the morning mentally you have to have this mind set like i'm doing good and looking dead and feeling good so i can get up in the morning and i can go to work on time. couple in most of the elk truck and dumped some people that eventually would not have to come to st. prayers' to get health services. for more on how the ruling affects you and what californians think of the decision log on to our web site. in the headlines in least 13 people dead following vicious storms that hit the midwest and midlantic states this weekend. par and is forcing people to insure sweltering heat without air conditioning. some areas are in the state of emergency. betray sliced to the bedroom of this home in maryland killing a 71 year-old woman. horrible and still shaken
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because it couldn't just as well happened to us here. the hurricane force winds left a path of destruction from the midwest to the east coast on friday into saturday. the wind can in the southwest complete this part of the building off and landed in the parking lot we had feet away. the crews are walking around the clock to get the electricity back on. officials of declared a state of emergency and virginia and here in washington d.c.. power may not be restored for days in some areas and temperatures could hit a triple digits on sunday. down trees and making it difficult to get around the nation's capital and in nearby is falls church virginia residents woke up to limbs on their cars. greta the congressional come the country club in maryland
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received so much damage the third round of the at&t national golf tournament started almost six hours late in the pga officials and spectators because they couldn't clear all the debris around the course. authorities throughout the affected area say the clean-up from these powerful storms will take days. the wild fire near colorado springs is now 45 percent contained but officials say the weather is getting hotter and drier and it's not calling the help those fighting the most destructive was fire in colorado history. the flames of a destroyed 350 homes and, as springs the some residents are returning home only to find the they've been limited. could it almost as bad as your house being burned down because you for/leaded people leprechaun victims and people already suffering. police said its some
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arrests in connection the other fires still burning, of utah and wyoming montana and idaho. police and later shot and killed an armed respect happened is chairman and sheraton st.. officers or the suspect to show his hands the instead pointed a handgun at them and that's when they opened fire. to believe this man was involved in an armed robbery and wilson avenue and tried to get away in an suvs. the fifth police shooting in recent weeks and filet hoping the third time someone has been killed. in may a suspect pulled up a metallic officers thought was a weapon and another time a suspect was armed but only with the replica pelican. the latest case is stoping investigated. bart police used a taser on a 17 year-old oakland classmate of the boy allegedly punched a teenage girl in the face at the station following a huge fight
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involving 70 people at the station in san leandro. the use a taser gun after the boy refused to cooperate in one group from the taser can make contact so they're note electrical collet current. a two-year fema grants the department has had several rounds of layoffs because station 25 open with 10 new recruits. here is the catch will be up to the city to pick up the cost of the new firefighters and two years. the pit area air quality managers say that it's time for the open burning season. in effect between april 30th of next year. controlled burns said it to get rid of unwanted petition from land for animals graze in feed. the reality of high-speed rail and california and paying for it all. with many challenges facing sacramento this week in our conversation with the state senator on the fate of the line.
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and a hug goes into effect today banning the culinary delicacies. then the force feed the ducks as well to create those enlarged livers < they served up to the final time chris e-reader actually doing a play on a movie course cold silence of the ducks because after today to no longer decrying. at all rights advocates protesting not set a restaurant in san francisco. shopping for an airline ticket could be confusing. the consumer watch explains donato hopes consumers figure out the real cost of an airline
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ticket by calculating the extra fees. you have to pay for baggage ask travelers about fees and the list goes on and on and is not always easy to figure a who is charging for what and how much. there's countless sets up to find the cheapest ticket often is not to do new tack on the hidden fees. and for tracking debit card feet this book says alan keyes. she can't get all of the airline options that she typically leads and then seeks back in which each airline will charge for it. fees vary by newly formed dollars.
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if i don't mind about using wi-fi for internet be the best. it's a tool that you used first. go there to find out what the fees will cost to each carrier and then tacked on to the cheapest ticket that you can find. baggage is a cornerstone of all researchers. baggage is the most common search and is also the most complex. you can pick it to dallas to check in your back and maybe to have the new pay another $200. the fees including those for changing your flat picking your seat but some airlines to still offer a couple of things for free. american airlines will give you a can of soda which is surprising. if you already booked a flight it also lets you search fees by airline but they warn that you still need to look out for things like that and fees for oversized bags and an alliance that will deploy your fees per each segment of your
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flight and the center to speak with someone on the phone or at the airport. if you have a consumer problem give us a call ahead to cbs san francisco web site. where is it going to end of like my grandfather says if you're traveling prepared for trouble. but if your traveling today and of the gulf to much trouble as far as the weather goes. this fog and the bay area this morning but that should clear up and give away to sunshine later today. will someone in today as yesterday and ended up even warmer at the bay bridge. the temperatures are living through the '60s toward the '70s and benchley later on today. the pinpoint forecasts. good morning.
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we're starting off with fog and low cloud cover and responded to the cold lake project in a morning and afternoon as the clock overpowered and to the shoreline. the forecast for temperatures to come down a little bit as a low pressure moves and over the pacific northwest with the numbers a little cooler today. with the potential for drizzle along the shore and out the door the numbers to the beach and in the upper 50s and the ground that they the sun will eventually come out and sunshine this morning but also places in the east bay it will take office and declared and everything burns back to the shoreline by midday the highway one up the coast toward san francisco and the great highway looks as if it will be persistently overcast keeping things in the multivocal signed with the bay expected to be in the low 70's. at the issue be " in most it
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overcast. if it out tomorrow for the airport some fog in the morning and sunshine los angeles 73 with denver some cloud cover and 95. it's hot back east with newarks to forecast of a high of 90 degrees and northern california looking for a high today of 61 after eureka rain yesterday and 92 redding and lake tahoe so cloud cover with 71 degrees at yosemite. the 10. forecast bay area looks like 77 degrees in san mateo pleasant in the south bay. for the north bay the database 58 n. santa rosa is 80.
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the fourth of july 4th cast will be cloud cover on the shoreline around sunset cash and go for coastal far work displays and and lynch denies enough to and the rest of the week of sunshine and london fog and low, cover and the shoreline. next week and more of the same. have a good one. canada ground running into renewed skepticism from fellow democrats on high-speed rail. the governor needs 21 votes in the state senate to secure funding for the will system or at least it started. the idea is to start construction in the central valley as soon as december. the state senator told me he still has concerns and he may not vote for it. the most a print of a public works project to settle the the largest in the state california and the summer between 10 and 25 percent funded and lots of these projects go over budget. but the pressure on the general
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fund have to be very careful on how we spend the funds. can promise of money from feds and we have our bond money but how much of the 68 is it going to cover and how much to ease the cop with. $3 billion to get rid of from the federal government and that's the pressure is to allocate the funds washington is threatening to take the funds away but there and someone else in the country and have to match that dollar for dollar the total fund at $13 billion to for expanded of it. credit the biggest issues to run a spent the first couple of billion dollars and you say you wanted done a los angeles san jose part of and a los angeles part of the line where the people are cut the header once the bullet train to be going to the central valley and what that stretch built first is that what the roof is? we don't to spend money where there's no use for and we
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have not identified the funding to finish the plan and what to spend it when there's immediate utility were there is congestion and our people need the services so we know we needed in the urban area is not so much taken from the political valley to los angeles or sentences go to put it with a reddish and the need is. the resistance tickets generally that i've gotten personally we believe there's enough flexibility in the federal grants that we have and a sense it's the urgency. flakes and the funds to $1 million in general fund obligation repurchased cut billions of dollars to health and human services and education. if you are up and sacramento cutting budgets and possibly education and other things in telling the voters that we need a tax hike in order to prevent the cuts had to justify spending it on high-speed rail. critically to justify it is to spend on passenger rail services
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now that may lead to a high- speed route in the future but that iraq shall have utilities. and part stopped few weeks ago because of the fire we knew it happened. why is the governor in washington say no. you have to ask them that and and and into that makes much sense to me personally. critics saw that as political pressure and let the sun shall valley to get this going for the presidential election. i don't know about that i think the reasons that make sense to me to have union jobs were be put them, but benefit to the republic and if you expend money that doesn't have any kind of utility for people and it comes to the general fund to lose your job to the public sector. this comes up for a vote this week could be as early as tuesday and could be friday and were supposed to take a break for three weeks in the electoral districts as of friday of course
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will we will have one stick of credit does the governor of the 21 votes he needs right now. he couldn't answer the question and what would be part felt first in the central valley is been speaking of the politicians in sacramento. it's not a sacramento its washington as well for the obama administration wants the example of high-speed rail traffic and got off to an amount per hour. that's the only place right now were reviewed, the structure you could say the test plans to see how they work to sell to other parts of the country. they say look to have a track and an engineering example trains can travel that far but there's no big winner because of them but the fed say no we want an example weaken shot of the people this a joke to in san francisco and san jose and out
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of los angeles the signal that will let go 80 mi. per hour it's not fast enough, but an example of high-speed rail. it's which comes first the feds say we want the example locals say what the money going into existing so we can get riders. that's very interesting. barry bonds back with the giants this time as a fan. a huge golf tournament delayed by severe weather in the east coast.
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if you been sent to congress this might be entering a job for today. about a parking attendant at the fairmont hotel for dozens of red-hot for worries million for a good cause the furry on a charitable foundation took a spin around the city to approach the 2012 fog rally that's an annual the celebration of california's open roads. still some people it would be a dream job. the set as a quick spinelli galaxy in one of the most dental games of their season. it was really something to watch prefers disturbing news from the 49 years in the south bay.
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good morning. i have the sports for you to do with your coffee. the 49 are linebackers and it reportedly stabbed and east san jose house party of the weaken but to others are shot. the club did not release a statement saying that he is recovering from minor injuries during a " incident " and barry bonds watching the giants is reading weekend he walks ryan to force and a run to make it one to nothing on saturday plenty for the cincinnati starter who has one run and a complete game. days and the rangers josh hamilton is too good to some off of time the rangers won seven to two first to 50 in the bay. the stars and the seat over the weekend cross-the congressional country club the site of the
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at&t national but was delayed six hours. fans weren't even allowed on the ground tiger woods under 67 with one shot behind the leader and the california classic last night stanford stadium coming from three goals down to turn back the of the galaxy in front of over 50,000. but the footing over and the goal to knighted of on a corner kick and a 43 victory. we see a little later on ending game day he has the giants on his mind and as i said reunion weekend will be with parts of the 02 team later on. her a macintosh or pc a computer trace that may lead to higher hotel prices online. and tents thunderstorms
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and are stepping up after he goes missing by the san francisco bay >> a drastic solution to crime lab problems in oakland. >> extreme weather slams into the east coast and midwest. the damage left behind by the severe weather. welcome back to the early edition. >> thanks for starting or sunday with us on july 1st. new laws are going into effect here in california >> possibly some changes in san francisco's policy about searching people for guns. a controversial big debate we will be talking about. friends of the missing dodgers fan who may have fallen into the bay are reaching out to the public for help >> it will be conducting another search along the embarcadero to try to find closure for his loved ones. victor and a friend left at&t park after the game on monday
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night. they were walking your peer 30 and pier 32 when he vanished, believe to of fallen into the bay. they had been drinking and he is not able to swim. the official search turned up nothing and since then, his friends have been handing out fliers and yesterday they hired a boat to search for clues >> in the east bay the crime lab is dealing with huge challenges according to the alameda county grand jury report. new reports show the lab is underfunded and overworked. they're suggesting to consolidate the crime lab with the alameda county crime lab. the report found that more than 10,000 cases have searchable fingerprints at the lab but they go and search because of staffing sorted is. they say the land is too small and too old and it spread sheet system is inadequate when it comes to taking care of unsolved
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cases >> 13 people have died and 3 million are without power following storms in hurricane force winds in the midwest and atlantic. fallen trees are calling, causing problems, in some cases lethal. in maryland a tree crashed through a home and killed a 71 year-old woman >> i'm still shaking because that could have just as well happen to us >> emergencies have been declared in four states and washington d.c.. the governor of maryland says the fact that the storms were so unexpected has added to the challenge. crews are traveling from as far away as texas and florida to help untangle trees. >> the wait is over for some colorado residents who were forced to flee in the face of massive wild fire. authorities are allowing them to return home.
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as drew levenson shows us, the flames are only part of the threat to some of these empty homes. >> win the burden just came home after sleeping three nights at a friend's house. she and her fiancee evacuated when the walled canyon wild fire scrap within blocks of her home. she was thrilled to be back but shocked to find her car was gone, stolen >> it was a mazda, a limited edition >> thieves also broke into her house >> they came through the window >> they ransacked the place taking jewelry and computers >> you feel violated that there are people out there that prey upon victims and people who are already suffering. >> sarah cracker was still unpacking saturday, she took most of her precious belongings including the flag draped her father's coffin. she says it was stressful not
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knowing whether her home survived the fires. >> it's great to be able to get back to work and be home in my own bed >> there remain thousands of mothers who cannot get back into their homes. they still live too close to where the wild fires burn out of control. they're still staying in shelters or in friends' homes >> we're working as aggressively as we can to get people back home and businesses back to work >> sunday, people will be allowed back in for a short time to see what is left of their houses. firefighters say the weather is cooperating, allowing them to gain some ground on the fire. >> a hearing has been set for tuesday on disputed funds for the new 49ers stadium on santa clara. last week a county agency that oversees development said it would rather spend money on other programs like education. they had been earmarked for the
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stadium. now the 49ers have obtained a temporary restraining order. the team will go to court stressing that it they need the money but they're saying it will not affect the timetable for construction of the new stadium. >> several new laws are going into effect including mandatory insurance coverage for maternity care. all individual and group providers must cover maternity services. a new law called the safe body art act requires tattoo and pursing artist to register with the local government and meet health and safety standards. >> if you happen to be driving through france, you need to pack a breathalyzer in the car. french authorities expect you to test herself from now on to make sure your not over the limit. french drivers already need to comply with this law.
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>> he is known as the liberal mayor of a liberal city so why is mayor ed lee considering a law that might be in violation of people's rights? mike sugarman shows us what is behind the mere suggestion for frisk and search >> orders were down in san francisco until this month. 28 people killed before june and then can killed in june >> we definitely have had a bad month and we do not want another one >> nor does the mayor who in conversations with the chief, suggested the city consider the new york police tactics of stop and frisk >> if they feel someone is armed and dangerous they can pat them down before they question them >> the aclu knows all about it. >> it targets, purse of purposely targets communities of color and young men of color >> mayor lee who is a former
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civil rights attorney and a career and lefty did not want to talk about his conversations that here is what he told the chief >> the statement was that he wants to provoke a discussion, it does not want to rule out anything >> the chief is not a fan. in the southeast there were mixed opinions >> too many guns out here in the streets >> you can profile people can't just stop them. they just bought my granddaughter because she was in pasadena in an all white community looking for an apartment >> a study showed you york that a majority of stops for blacks and latinos, 80 percent had done nothing wrong and there was no dramatic impact of guns off the street. >> we will be talking a lot more about that proposal, or that discussion, but stop and frisk idea and how it may be different than what is going on in n.y.
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>> bus travel is about to become more frequent over the dumbarton bridge. starting tomorrow ac transit is expanding express service. the b-1 will cross the bridge three times more often and on db more trips are being added. also, all of the buses are outfitted with wireless technology. >> we have some high technology taking a look at the weather. fog around the bay but it will
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clear up. >> definitely great out there but it will be pretty similar to what we saw yesterday. current temperatures in the '60s all over the area. 62 at sfo. 64 in san jose. >> we're starting off with fog and low clouds along the shoreline. low clouds powered into the shoreline and with a low clouds around, the forecast is for temperatures to come down a little bit. we'll look for the numbers to be a little bit cooler today. potential for drizzle along the shore. out the door, and numbers near the beach will be in the upper fifties around the bay. some will eventually come out in spots. there are also places in the
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east bay that are forecast to have fog and low clouds. everything burns back to the shoreline by the middle of the day but highway one toward san francisco looks as if it will be persistently overcast. that will keep things on the relatively cool side at the bay. at the beach it will be cool and mostly overpass. if you're heading out tomorrow, 69 degrees at the airport. a few clouds in denver and 95 degrees. it is hot back east with an york city forecasts for a high of 90 degrees. we will be looking for a high of 61 in eureka. 92 in redding. some clouds for monterey if you're headed to the aquarium.
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81 degrees in morgan hill. 84 in brentwood. 79 in livermore. in the north bay, 58 in bodega bay. daly city, 64 degrees. the fourth of july forecast, we will look for low clouds around the shore line so it will be touch and go for any coastal fireworks display. sunshine in one, fog and low clouds along the shoreline. next week, more of the same. >> next time he teenage girl talks back to you can blame it on social media. britain's plain english campaign says that facebook and twitter are making grosbeak more
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aggressively. social networks demand that users write more concisely so the campaign believes that is leading girls to forget to use pleasantries. >> here is another twist on the technological social network front. pc or macintosh might make a difference shopping online >> orbit shows sometimes more expensive prices to macintosh users. it is not charging different prices but macintosh users see the more expensive rooms first. orbit makes the claim that macintosh users make more than a pc users and spent 20-$30 more per hotel night and tend to stay in for and five-star hotels more often >> for a closer look at the legal implications, we spoke with prof. robin feldman from
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you see hastings >> we put it to her that many people would be shocked >> i think most people have no idea how much information is being gathered on them constantly and what is being done so let me give you an example. when you go to web site, when you just click to go there, there is an instantaneous auction going on the second you get there in real time between advertisers bidding on getting their advertisements in front of you and they're using their information from where you been recently, word from your e- mail, but your zip code is and what computer you are using >> the legal basis is when your on an internet site, you are participating in a corporate enterprise. in other words, the company's own the information that is flowing through >> the companies to own the informations but we go back to the notion of privacy. you have all lot of privacy in
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your home. when you go out in the world you have made a decision to go forward and the notion is you shed some privacy. the internet has been analogize to leaving your home so even though i might think i'm perfectly private, allot things you as someone who has left your home >> what is the real consequence. if they show me cheaper hotel rooms i am cheap and i will pick a cheaper hotel room. what is the problem here? >> from a consumer's standpoint, the fact that people gather information on meat isn't so terrible but i want to be able to know what they're getting on me and what they're doing with it and to have some choices >> if a gathering of the information, for years we were afraid of big brother, that the government would be monitoring your every move. instead we have corporate or whatever, they're gathering all of this information while you're
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on your computer and right now they are selling it to the highest bidder so they can track all of your interests and everything your clicking and then put together a profile and, what are the rules about how they distribute that? >> the rules vary by jurisdiction. how do we create incentives that will drive technology towards the things that we wanted to do? imagine that when you go on your search engine and to search for sunday morning news shows and it 10 of them come up and then you see an icon that says cbs five morning news very good on privacy and has very friendly privacy controls >> a very interesting topic. we will be talking more about it for years >> the tactic one bay area
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>> stop and frisk just by looking suspicious. that is a new proposal by the san francisco mayor with the goal of getting guns off the street >> it is generating controversy, especially in these parts of the woods. we turn to the political insiders. >> it was a brand name program in york city that was later shown by the aclu and others to indicate racial profiling. they stopped 700,000 people and
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87 percent were hispanic or african-american >> did it work? >> it would depend on who you talk to. most of the people would suggest that but when they were arguing that it was racial profiling, they said it also reduces crime >> racial profiling is one of august topics >> no question whatsoever, and when you have numbers as the chief referred to, 87 percent of the people turned out to be either african-american or hispanic, that generates a demonstration of 78,000 people on the street saying it is unadulterated racial profiling >> what we do as opposed to that? >> all of our detentions are based on reasonable suspicion as allowed by the constitution with respect to people so will rights and all of our searches are for officer safety >> we're talking about statistically if an overwhelming
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majority is stop it is considered racial profiling but with look at our statistics. you have had 24 gun arrests in san francisco in june. of those, 19 were african- american. in effect, the same statistics as stop and frisk in york. >> the difference is, stop and frisk isn't just attention, you need probable cause to make an arrest. all of those guys had to have a gun to get arrested >> he will need to take the heat no matter what because out there in the streets, the critics will accuse him of not adhering to his own discipline, suspicions of improper conduct that resulted in you being stopped. let me assure you one thing, there's not anyone who would object to keeping guns off the streets in the african-american community >> the question is how? mayor ed
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lee says i'm tired of people pointing fingers at each other and we have had a discussion about guns and how to get them off the streets, he wants to stretch the argument further to possibly stop and frisk. do you think it goes anywhere? >> i don't think it will go beyond where the police department will sanction where it is going. they are the ones who will need to execute it and having been mayor for eight years, i can assure you that your better off arguing with a police department internally >> i found that interview interesting because when we actually took a look at san francisco statistics on targeted police operations it sort of match what their fears were on racial profiling so on wondering how much is semantics of what you say you will do verses what you wind up doing anyway. also, the victims of gun
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>> here's a look at this morning's top stories >> the search begins this morning along the embarcadero for him missing dodgers fan. he vanished when he was walking with a friend after the giants' game monday night. >> firefighters now have a 45 percent contained and over the wild fire near colorado springs. officials are still concerned about the weather which is getting hotter and drier >> at least 13 people have died in storms that hit the midwest and mid-atlantic. power outages are forcing a lot of people to deal with sweltering heat. >> let's take a last look at the
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weather in the bay area. the morning fog will clear up >> similar to what we saw yesterday. it live look outside along ocean beach. of the extended forecast calls for 70 degrees and the fourth of july should be nice. still up in the air in terms of what kind of clarity we will have. to grown men got to live the life, live the dream of every kid who was ever paid with a hot wheels track >> they reenacted a double loop using real cars. >> they set a world record when they drove through a 66 ft. track at the next games in l.a.. if they had driven slower than 48 m.p.h.
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