tv Eyewitness News Weekend Edition CW August 4, 2012 10:00pm-10:30pm PDT
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we are 24 hours from a spectacular landing on a red planet what nasa hopes to find with the latest mars rover. a lot of people thought i was too hard on him i know i did not want to be a statistic heil a community gets to get it to keep children safe i'm 82 years old more than 60 homes destroyed by a massive wild fire in oklahoma no accident. at this time tomorrow and if all goes well were waiting for nasa's mars rover to touch down on the red planet its mission to search for signs of life don knapp shows us now seven
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navigates a tricky landing. the most sophisticated contraption yet to study the soil and atmosphere of mars a nuclear power rose rover that was up rocks with the laser if it makes its way safely to the martian surface. after a half months the rover curiosity has reached the outer atmosphere the toughest part is ahead tomorrow night the lender tries to put the rover on the surface in one piece and in working order scientists say the landing strategy will produce seven minutes of terror a look at the animation shows what lies ahead in the blistering heat of a fiery entry into the martian atmosphere. i'm very confident and no fears at all the air shell and materials that protected it will take that high he pulls and slow down the two and a half billion
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dollar mission gets complicated a parachute eases down the lender must caring for rover and then cables will lower the six- foot rover to the surface that is falling a computer program with no input from humans. that is the " seven minute terror, " it takes 14 minutes for light and radio signals to get from mars to earth it will be seven minutes before we know it made it there or not. what is it looking for will look for one of the most important questions is their life on other worlds? this looks for the habitat for life on mars could life exists there now or ever existed in
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one piece of gear on board is a video camera that will record the descent to the martian surface for your viewing pleasure on youtube. for a link for more information on curiosity and what to expect go to cbs s f dot com click on links and numbers. new details tonight on amber alert in effect since last week it has been lifted a 16 year-old girl found safe near mexican border yunis mr. rodham and her boyfriend suspected murder one salazar jr. turn themselves into a border patrol agents. that not been seen since 2 men were found dead in monterey county investigators are traveling to san diego to return the pair to monterey county. as suspected gunmen in the tucson massacre expected to plead guilty. six people killed in the
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shootings in january 2011 congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 12 others wounded a source close as a psychiatrist will testify that jared laughlin is competent to enter a plea. he will then plead guilty and received a life sentence. it depends on the judge to allow it. oakland was to cut down on violence and especially by and against children the police chief called for a curfew. cbs 5 reporter lisa washington says parents are taking a different approach. another statistic on oakland crime since january more than 400 juveniles arrested for major and violent crime scan from homicide to car thefts and oakland pastor holds a parenting conference will reduce crime. and not excited about it just my son's done well i want
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yours to do well to. growing up i was his mother instilled his mother but we have formed a friendship as well she is a conference attendee and proud mother of our son she says there are challenges raising her son in oakland but determine for him to succeed. a lot of people thought i was too hard on him but i did not want him to be as statistic. the oakland police chief like to see a curfew for the city's youth but parents say that is not necessarily the solution what will you do when you get them off the street? i don't think we need a curfew, when need to get something on the inside of these young people this man says being a father and in the home is what is most important a lot of kids do a lot of
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fans a lot of broken homes. having a father is a good foundation for these families a mother can focus on the straight and narrow in oakland lisa washington cbs 5 a string of armed robberies are targeting craigslist users for robberies happened in upscale areas of north oakland people arranging to buy items like cars and electronics robbed at gunpoint when they meet for the transaction police device online shoppers to meet in well populated areas. a group in california trying to do something the legislature un able to do their walking neighborhoods all over the state that centers for prostitution reporter anne mackovic shows us they're raising awareness of a ballot initiative to stop sex trafficking. these girls need to be
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rescued and saved they are slaves dozens of people walk down international boulevard where pension prostitutes and john's do business she used to be among them they are literally in prison at around the corner or behind them is the bottom girl who is the look out and tells the pimp what is going on up and took her from reno when she was 14 he showed me some attention, i was so hungry for male attention she went willingly with their friend and knowing what was ahead. i was too young to speak out and have a voice the group is trying to raise money for proposition 35 and measured it that will be on the measure in november while the expected to pass. we are flunking the test to protect our children in california against perpetrators
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to sexually exploit our children the law would tighten restrictions on sex offenders require convicted traffickers to register as sex offenders and all registered sex offenders must disclose their internet accounts. this supporter used to be the chief privacy officer for facebook i saw a variety of the thames at exploitation we were worried at facebook as we expand would have to take a serious stand. she got the courage to call her mother after a month two decades later she worked to save the other girls. we hope that there is that one that says " i'm ready and want to go " anne mackovic cbs 5 two years after beginning began on the caldecott tunnel it will be another year before commuters get to drive in the
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completed tunnel last november machines digging through 3,000 ft. of mud and rock punched through, will hold is roughed out to full size. we are completing this safety passages between the third and fourth bores there will be seven of them we've excavated them and put the finishing touches on them. that includes working on the lining the caldecott and fourth bore expected to open late next year wild fire discord destroyed scores of homes in oklahoma may have been set on purpose. it consumes 60 holmes yesterday. residents returned today. dru levenson on the destruction and authorities said it was deliberate. people and luther, okla. saw their homes reduced to rubble and ash.
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oklahoma gov. toward the area with residence and saw the dozens of homes destroyed by the massive wild fire she called it heartbreaking. many people lost everything. most of the things as an dust i come back early thinking i pick something up and find some things that were protected but you can't pick anything up overnight firefighters got the upper hand on the fire that charred four square miles the oklahoma county sheriff's investigators that someone in a black pickup truck tossed done newspapers set on fire. in creek counting the fire forced people from their home. i've lived in this community all my life the region bone dry from the drought temperatures topped out at 113 degrees.
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when the wind comes up and a bit flams it looks like dynamite it gets scary it will take days to four firefighters to put out all the blazes. dru levenson cbs news a judge reports marked a wall street rally but the unemployment rate went up. to 8.3% in july despite companies adding 163,000 new jobs the conflicting numbers are not confusing to those out of work. well qualified americans have been discouraged in the job market. 45 year-old camilla give up her job search two years ago. it was humiliating to look for a job i got tired of the rejection tired of trying and looking it is so hard. she says her graduate degree
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in psychology and chinese language skills landed her temporary jobs the social services, counseling agencies, and i cannot find anything? no one could my job is just the availability. it is not there. people like her make the unemployment rate feel fire says this economist if account those folks discouraged are working part- time because they cannot get full-time work the unemployment rate 15%. much does not qualify for jobless benefits how you survive? a live on savings and day to day i have a very tight budget, i manage. i just, it is america, there are
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ways. hoping to someday rejoin the work force she ponders as second graduate degree to become a guidance counselor. back-to-school shopping $100 a kid and i have four kids back-to-school shopping and the reason more money spent this year might surprise you. after 50 years mystery surrounds the death of marilyn monroe when hollywood experts say keep the memory fresh and what is member mesmerizing about the blonde bombshell. we have doppler radar lighting up showers thundershowers in some
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kids enjoying summer vacation hate to face this reality back-to-school displays are all over rebekah jarvis shows as retailers expect a growth and sales even though families expect to spend less. it starts earlier every year. with the summer sun broiling the deals are under way for notebooks and acoustics and computers. a dedicated this entire day to back-to-school shopping spending on back-to-school will average $689 per family of from $604 last year totaled
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spending expected the $30 billion and when you include dorm furnishings and supplies it is $84 billion. they projected an uptick in spending not necessarily a sign of recovery rather signals a coming population boom. we see an increase in spending because there are more children going off to school according to statistics a record number of students and school this fall and that is expected to climb 7% per year until 2020. it is $100 a kid and i have four kids. teenagers told a research group their parents plan to spend less this year these kids are told by their parents cannot get that new computer live with what you got the cannot afford a three or $400 purchase retailers are optimistic that with more kids going to
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class in the fall school spending will get a boost. rebecca it jarvis cbs news tomorrow marks 50 years since the death of marilyn monroe and the blond bombshell continues to capture the hearts and imagination of for fans why the monroe missed the fascinates a half century later. 50 years this week since the death of marilyn monroe the fascination of for a hollywood life and career continues. this family came from miami, florida to see her brentwood home of clothes or she was found dead august 5, 1962 at age of 36. timothy gray and the editor in chief at friday a mystique about her whole life she was beautiful and
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successful get lonely and sad she died under mysterious circumstances. she was married to the biggest baseball star joe dimaggio and the most intellectual playwright at the time arthur miller her life was like a hollywood novel which mesmerizes fans. she but a playfulness she was smart you want to know her better, that has kept her fresh and classic she was a big store in its start in the 40's '50s and '60s her state controls and image that keeps her contemporary and iconic decades later. when you realized the impact in a short time and still remains 50 years later it is interesting. here's prove how popular it marilyn monroe still is bad that
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halter dress she wore, and the seven year itch last year it sold at auction for $5.6 million. did you notice some sprinkles out there? i did. you said you had doppler going. there is fog at the golden gate there's a lot of fog and sprinkles and sprinkles in sausalito tonight you can see it is spotty we look at the doppler with a few sprinkles along the shoreline a little bit coming into the city and south bay a thunder bumper. you could get a few drops tonight. 61 at concord. temperatures mostly high fifties and low 60s.
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it is being driven by high pressure over the, now u.s. and a low pressure produces this funnel or this moisture comes up. about 35 lightning strikes in the south bay. time lapse here it comes from monsoonal moisture over california it lets out of the bay area tomorrow we get increasing sunshine and that means temperatures go the other direction, that will come up 10 degrees tomorrow with more sun and clouds mixed in. we get clouded us along the shoreline. out the door tomorrow clouds along the coast party sunday at the bay and inland. future cast shows this stuff goes to the north, people back during the day and sunshine for much of sunday. low clouds back tomorrow night.
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look what happens here, a few people taken in the side of the glacier off of greenland, part of it slips away splashing into the ocean and it causes a many tsunami the boat cannot get away fast enough and hit by the wave. no one was hurt. the propeller and steering mechanism on the boat damaged. photographer snapped this photo of the moon rise beyond london's tower bridge the full moon in perfect sync with the olympic rings.
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baseball no an outfielder and cal alum signed to a minor- league contract with the giants he was released by the nationals late july. giants and rockies picked up or they left off last night. buster posey and a two run homer in the second period gave san francisco a 2-0 lead. and joe cabs off the four hit night. giants won an 11-6.
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more drama for the a's today. he blows the say for the second straight night. blue jays tied up. it goes to extras. in the 11th, the jays' winning 3-1. at two galt third round of the bridge down. he sinks the birdie putt. he's in second place one stroke back trail in jim furyk. his only birdie of the day 11 under par. you're gearing up for football absolutely next friday vikings and 49ers only on cbs 5 that does it for us eyewitness news at ten news always on at on cbs s f dot com see you at 11 good night.
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