arrests this weekend. the pe protestors bracing for more arrests this weekend. the police crack down on occupy camps in the bay area. the new numbers showing more americans backing the movement. a multi-car pileup in the east bay shuts down part of the freeway overnight. the fatal end to a good samaritan who pulled over. and we're getting out of iraq. what is next for our soldiers who will finally be coming home? it is 7:00 on saturday morning, october 22nd, thanks for starting your day here. we are glad you're joining us for a beautiful weekend here in the bay area. boy, temperatures above normal. >> very much above normal and it's going to be gorgeous throughout the rest of the weekend. those temperatures, well, i'll tell you how much above average

in just a little bit. but pretty clear outside right now. not a cloud in the sky of the shot of san francisco. this afternoon some clouds making their way back to the coastline, but pretty pleasant overall. your full forecast coming up. >> thanks, kristy. the occupy wall street movement continues to grow and now new numbers show it is gaining more support from america. about 37% of americans surveyed by the associated press and gfk say they support the protests and 58% say they are angry with american politics. at the same time, though, most who support the protests do not blame president obama for the economic conditions. more than 2/3 place either a lot or almost all of the blame on former president bush. now, the occupy camps have grown into sprawling communities in two bay area cities, san francisco and oakland. down in san jose officers closed down the small camp outside of city hall overnight. two people were arrested. one man was in a wheelchair. he was cited but allowed to go free.

in the meantime an impasse between occupy protestors in oakland and city officials continues there. in its latest public notice yesterday, the city, again, ordered occupy oakland to leave frank agable plaza. there are 200 to 300 people there so far and nobody has been packing up. instead, they sent a letter to the city administrator. it calls the park oscar grant plaza and says occupy oakland will do as they see fit. reporter: are you willing to meet that with some kind of resistance, a fight to stay here? >> a fight would be particularly slanted word. i would say resistance is a very good word for it. >> the city says the public cooking, densely-populated tents, poor santation and threats of violence have left the plaza unsafe and unhealthy, but it's not clear exactly who would decide whether or not to evict the protestors by force. today the protestors are planning a rally in the plaza at 11:00 followed by a march at

noon. house majority leader eric cantor canceled a speech after learning it would be open to the public and that some occupy protestors were planning to show up. even without cantor's appearance protests went ahead yesterday at the university of pennsylvania. the republican congressman had planned to give a talk there about the gap between the rich and the poor. home for the holidays, that is a reality for most u.s. troops in iraq. president obama just announced a complete withdrawal of nearly 40,000 men and women. that comes nine years after the shock and awe campaign. the u.s. just pulled the plug on months of negotiations over a u.s. training force in iraq. the iraqi prime minister refused to grant troops immunity. still president obama says the u.s. and iraq will move forward as allies. as news of the troops returning spreads, many are wondering if their loved ones will be among those coming

home. sharon chin on one family's fate and what soldiers have to look forward to once they're back. reporter: kim colonel david reb was supposed to go to iraq but got deployed instead to afghanistan this year. she had mixed feelings when she and her daughters herd american soldiers in iraq would be home soon. >> i kind of feel like they're so lucky because i would love to have ben in that place. reporter: but raab says at least her husband need not return to iraq. as commander of a combat stress unit, he stays in a relatively safe medical clinic area in afghanistan. in contrast, his last iraqi deployment in 2004 landed him in a dangerous combat zone. >> knowing that he won't have to go over there again is definitely a relief. i think that finality is important for closure. reporter: once her husband does return, raab says his job

will be saved for him because he's an active duty reservist. but many troops returning from iraq will be looking for jobs in a struggling economy. >> they need something to do to help with the depression and the transition and being isolated is not what the soldier needs. >> it takes a community to welcome home the warrior. reporter: joseph was founder and president of the san francisco-based coming home project. it's helped more than 3,000 returning servicemembers, their families and care providers with services ranging from psychological counseling to retreats. he says returning veterans will need to adjust to altered family relationships and unsettling financial conditions. >> many veterans have had their houses and mortgages foreclosed on them and they've had struggles in those areas, it can be a trouble or triple whammy coming home. reporter: sharon chin, cbs 5. >> only a handful of servicemembers attached to the

u.s. embassy will remain in iraq. joseph says of the 40,000 troops returning from iraq, 1/4 to 1/2 will come back with some kind of mental or behavioral condition like post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injury. a good samaritan is dead after two crashes this morning on interstate 880 in hayward. no one was injured in the first accident that happened just after 2:00 a.m. on northbound 880 just past the interchange with highway 92. then a woman got out of a car to help and another car slammed into her. she was thrown to the other side of the freeway and killed. >> the gem nature is to help one -- general nature is to help one another. but on the freeway at this time of night, you have to err on the side of caution. people are intoxicated, people are texting, a lot of things going on in the driver's mind these days. so in the end, no, it's probably not a good idea to stop. >> four other people were

critically injured. several lanes of 880 were closed and they reopened by 5:00 this morning. police say the man accused in the fatal cemetery shooting of a hell's angel member is alive and evading police. steve rouis is accused of killing steven at thatson. ruiz may be traveling with a woman named crystal ferguson in a gold chevy suburban. authorities believe her life is in danger. the murder that took place during a funeral for the head of the san jose chapter of the motorcycle club who was killed in a nevada casino, detectives say ruiz has two black eyes and other facial injuries consistent with being in a fight. earlier police believed that ruiz had maybe been kidnapped or even killed. a cruel case of animal abuse in berkeley. that is where someone fired 38bb guns pellets at a pit bull punny. berkeley animal care officials rescued that puppy who had clipped ears. they then found signs of

extreme abuse. now they're concerned there could be more dogs being abused. >> it's always concerning when you see abuse that's this severe and intentional. i mean, to shoot a dog 38 times takes a pretty sick person to do that. it's pretty heinous. so we always worry when we see something this severe that someone is out there that would do that. >> so far nine of the pellets have been removed, but the rest are going to require some extensive surgery. so right now berkeley officials have started a fundraising campaign to cover the cost of those operations. a formal declaration of liberation in libya is being delayed now until tomorrow. there's no explanation for that delay, but it may be linked to questions about the death of moammar gadhafi. after liberation a timetable calls for a new interim government within a month and elections within eight months. what is week it has been over there. back at home it looks like we are going to have a lovely, lovely weekend, if you like

warm weather and sunshine. >> it's unusually warm, well above average this time of year. for your weekend going to be gorgeous outside. today we're seeing 80s in the inland spots and nice and clear today. i'll tell you how long we can expect to see that last later on in the show. also scientists say they may have a new way to predict the next big one like loma prieta. why they think they can spot a quake from outer space. and coach jackson says he knows who's starting in the game against kansas city. still to come, what he has to say about the soldout game. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,

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the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a world where tobacco kills more people... than aids, drugs, alcohol, murder and car crashes... combined. we have a lot more work to do. people. what if this week marks the 22nd anniversary of the 6.9 magnitude loma prieta earthquake that killed 169 people. what if we'd had a warning? alan martin with a closer look at a study from japan indicating there may have been a warning almost 40 minutes before the 9.0 quake and

tsunami there back in march. reporter: the quake in japan was so strong scientists are studying the gravity field before and after the quake to see how it might have deformed the earth there. but another researcher went looking for warning signs that happened before the shaking. he says he's found one. this man from the department of natural history scientists at hakido university looked at data from the japanese gps network. he claims to see what might be a predictor to the fifth most powerful quake ever recorded, an increase in the total eelectric tron content in the inos sphere. the information was coming from gps systems. >> it's extremely accurate. reporter: darcy mcphee is a geophysicist with the usgs. >> a lot of researchers are using it to detect small movements. reporter: while researchers are currently using the gps

information, she says the study conducted in japan should not be taken as proof that quakes can be predicted. she says the researchers study of the japan quake, along with an 8.8 shaker in chile last year and a 9.2 temblor in sumatra last year did not take into account many of the variables that could affect gps data. >> there's a lot of unknown there is. so the anno, ma'am lows signals that the researchers are showing here don't necessarily take into account the changes in the satellites or space weather for that matter. reporter: the inonaspher at 666 miles above the earth's service is used to bounce radio signals for long-distance communications. we have long known that solar flares can disrupt those communications. >> radiation from the sun can cause changes essentially in the content of the charge particles in the atmosphere. reporter: mcphee says something else to keep in mind is these researchers studied

huge earthquakes, all about magnitude 9. >> these are 1,000 times larger than your average earthquake that may happen in the bay area on the fault fault and -- san andreas fault. these researchers looked at smaller earthquakes and did not see anything. reporter: does this study move us any closer to predicting a quake? >> the results are intriguing, but a much more thorough analysis should be done before saying this is a technique or not. reporter: despite the earthquake, many consider the fault overdo for a major temblor of 7.0 or greater. if you have a question, log on, click connect, scroll down to closer look and send an e-mail. alan martin, cbs 5. 15 minutes after 7:00. we were just talking about our experiences with the little earthquake on thursday. certainly a wild week here in the bay area when it came to that. not too big, but enough to get everybody talking. >> it got me shaking. as i told ann, though, the dog

slept right through it. they're supposed to have this special sixth sense to detect it. my pmer anian missed it. it's pretty clear as we're starting out this morning. take a look at this shot from the inland valleys. we're seeing fairly clear conditions right now, a little bit of cloud cover if you're at the coastline this morning. inside the bay, though, mostly clear. we are seeing some areas of dense patchy fog in those inland locations, particularly north of the golden gate bridge this morning. but we should be pretty clear by the afternoon. so as you're making your way out the door this morning, pretty nice conditions, sitting even some 40s and some 50s. and this afternoon warming up into the mid-80s in those inland spots. lots of sunshine and clear inside the bay. coastline is going to be pretty clear this afternoon as well, maybe a few clouds returning to the picture in those afternoon hours. satellite showing that we're pretty clear the past few hours and even right now and that's because of that offshore flow keeping those clouds from pushing into those inland

locations. and this high pressure holding for the weekend, that means a warm weekend in store. this ridge also helping to keep temperatures warm. a little bit of moisture to the north of us, but that shouldn't affect us here in the bay area. temperatures throughout northern california looking pretty good today, lots of sun in sacramento at 83. 69 for lake tahoe, also sunshine in fresno. eureka seeing a little bit of cloud cover and temperatures there in the mid-60s. here in the bay area, seeing readings that are five to 10 degrees warmer than what we saw yesterday. 86 is the high in concord, same for livermore. seeing some high 70s inside the bay, 72 the high in san francisco. pacifica going to be in the 70s today also. great day to get outside to the beach. here's a look at how much warmer we are than what we are supposed to be for this time of year. highs mid-60s to low 70s for the most part. these numbers bumping up to the mid-80s in some spots, a range of three to 11 degrees of where we should be for this time of the year. we continue with that trend into sunday. more sunshine and warm temperatures. monday a little bit of cooling.

and then we start to see some breezy conditions kick up for tuesday and wednesday. and then we'll see a pretty pleasant end to the work week, though. we'll see numbers back into the mid-80s by thursday, lots of sunshine, nothing to complain about and this is beautiful weather to get outside and enjoy the fall crafts festival. about 85 degrees in danville today, maybe get a few little last minute halloween decorations and beautiful conditions, definitely sunscreen and sunglasses for everyone today. back to you. >> very good. thanks, kristy. you've heard of no child left behind, and now a new push to make sure no foster child is left behind. this week a virtual town hall for their state of education. duquesne hart a mentor with foster youth is here. thanks for being here. you have your own experience being a foster child. can you tell us a little bit about the challenges that you found? i think it's something that a lot of people don't really understand. they think you're a foster child, you get put in a good home. not necessarily the case? >> absolutely not. i was fortunate, i do live in a

small town, and so the people i have a great community, but i work with young people who are in homes that aren't very good. you know, there are homes where there's cameras, there's cabinets that are locked, they can't go anywhere, they have to stay at home all the time. they also have parents that don't care what they're doing, have no curfew, don't check on them. so when they come to school, it's really challenging, no one checks on them, no one monitors their attendance or their records or anything like that. >> there is that thought pattern that a lot of people who are foster parents are doing it for the money rather than out of the love for children. how pervasive do you think that is? >> i think it depends. i had a foster family who did it because they loved me and they loved my foster sister, but i see young people who i believe probably are in situations where their foster parents are in it for the wrong reasons. >> very, very difficult in addition to the fact that they've already come out of difficult situations. so you now work with the

alameda county office of education. what are you seeing as the challenges in the educational system for these kids? >> i think part of what i'm seeing is part of with the older youth, it's placement change. with placement change comes a lot of school changes, and so with every placement that they move, they lose about six months of educational attainment which means that they get farther behind and they're not graduating with their peers and a lot of them -- i have a young woman i work with who 16 with zero credits and we are expecting him to graduate or want him to graduate and it's not the reality. >> the challenges they are facing are amazing, first coming out of a difficult home, then adjusting to a new family. and with the schools, adjusting to different course work in addition to trying to find new friends. >> absolutely. >> unbelievable. so there was the law we were talking about that just came into effect that allows foster children to be cared for up until age 21, that will be helpful. >> yes. it will be implemented in january of 2012 and it's really cool because what happens is

youth can leave the system and then decide, oh, i need some more support and go back into the system. there's criteria and eligibility requirements, but it really does give them the flexibility to kind of have that when parents say i let you hang yourself and you come back, they pick themselves back up. >> 18 years old need that, that's for sure. and talk about this no foster child left behind. >> i think that yesterday, actually, the senate passed the no child left behind through the help committee and they included a piece of -- or a provision that talks about educational stability for foster kids, making sure they got to stay in school origin that they began. i think that's important. when kids are moving, they tend to, like i said, move schools a lot, so really trying to make sure they are stable one place, they get their friends, their teachers. building relationships with their teachers is really important for having educational success. >> tell us quickly about the

virtual town hall meeting. >> on wednesday we had a virtual town hall meeting in sacramento with chapin hall, senator lan drew, senator grassley and a gentleman, i think assistant secretary for hhs or acs, mr. sheldon, and we talked about some of the challenges, we talked about the research what was going on in the field in terms of foster care. senator landrieu and senator grassley talked about some of the legislation they're pushing and we got to hear from foster youth interns from the congressional coalition of adoption and we also got to talk to some programs who are working in sacramento with young people in foster care. >> i'm sure you are an inspiration to a lot of foster kids out there. thanks for being here this morning. >> thank you so much. >> with the alameda county office of education. raiders coach hugh jackson has made up his mind about which quarterback will start tomorrow at the coliseum and

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get a win in new jersey. ino football, in hockey action, the sharks get a win in new jersey and in pro football the raider's head coach is not saying who will start as quarterback against the kansas city chiefs. but one thing we do know tomorrow's game in oakland is sold out. kim coil has more in sports. reporter: good morning,

everyone. the raiders have sold out their fourth straight home game and that means if you don't have a ticket, you can see the raiders and chiefs sunday afternoon on cbs 5. as for the other big announcement we've been waiting for, hugh jackson says he's made up his mind who will start at quarterback but we'll have to tune in sunday to find out. >> everybody that i've seen, i mean, i could use jacoby back there if i had to. we have all kind of different packages we could use, anything and everything is up and available right now. >> i can't take the suspense anymore. high school football, the annual bruce mahoney game, sacred heart cathedral blows out their crosstown rifles 38- 14. the irish snap a five-game losing streak against the cats. sharks and devils, joe thornton playing his 1,000th game. final minutes sharks down 3-2. pavelski ends up with the puck and that's a good thing for san jose. his third death goal of the --

his third goal of the season send it is into overtime. the sharks finally take the lead. this ends a three-game losing streak. that is a look at sports. we'll see you tonight at 5:30. coming up occupy san jose shut down twice in 48 hours. we'll give you the status of the other bay area occupy camps. and home for the holidays, what led to the complete drawdown of u.s. troops in iraq. plus the man accused in the deadly shooting at a hell's angels funeral still on the loose this morning. we'll be right back. california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a world where tobacco kills more people... than aids, drugs, alcohol, murder and car crashes...

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control. san jose has already closed up shop.. the occupy camps growing out of control. san jose has already closed up shop. the camp in the east bay now on notice. tens of thousands of troops getting ready to leave iraq. what they can expect when they arrive home here in the u.s. and buy your place in the united states. the price tag on the american dream for the foreign investor. it is just about 7:30. welcome back to "weekend early edition." thanks for joining us this morning, i'm an mack a vic. >> a gorgeous weekend in store, sunshine, temperatures just as warm as we saw yesterday, in fact, even warmer. outside right now it's pretty clear and that means that we're seeing actually some cooler conditions, sitting in the 40s

in santa rosa right now, 50 in fairfield and in livermore, freemont at 53. very cool in pacifica, 46. certainly warming in store. i'll tell you how hot we're going to get a little later on in the show. >> thanks, kristy. in the meantime, the occupy wall street movement continues to grow. now some new numbers show it is gaining more support. about 37% of americans surveyed by the associated press and gfk say they support these protests. 58% say they are angry with american politics. at the same time most who support the protests are not blaming president obama for the economic conditions, more than 2/3 place either a lot or almost all of the blame on former president bush. occupy camps have grown into sprawling communities in two bay area cities, san francisco and oakland. down in san jose officers closed down the small camp outside of city hall overnight. two people were arrested there and one man was cited, but allowed to go free. in the meantime, an impasse between occupy protestors in

oakland and city officials continues. in its latest public notice yesterday, the city again ordered occupy oakland to leave frank agowa plaza. there are between 200 and 300 people there right now and so far no one is packing up. instead, they sent a letter to the city administrator, it calls the area "oscar grant's plaza" and says that at that occupy oakland will do as they see fit. >> are you willing to meet that with some kind of resistance, a fight to stay here? >> a fight would be a particularly slanted word. i would say resistance is a very good word for it. >> the city says the public cooking, depsly-populated tents, poor santation, threats of violence have left the plaza unsafe and unhealthy, but it's not exactly clear who would make the decision whether or not to evict the protestors by force. today those protestors are planning a rally in the plaza at 11:00 this morning, followed by a march at noon. president obama says all

u.s. troops in iraq will be home by the end of the year except for a few that will stay there to protect the u.s. embassy. as danielle nottingham tells us, it is a welcome decision for military families, although republican presidential candidates are critical. reporter: the iraq war began with shock and awe in march of 2003. it costs nearly -- it cost more than 4,500 american lives and more than $805 billion. now there's an end in sight. >> the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. reporter: president obama announced the end of the war after a teleconference with iraq's prime minister. the u.s. pulled the plug on months of negotiations to keep a u.s. training force there after iraq refused to grant troops immunity. >> it's one less place we gotta have boots on the ground. reporter: salters families are excited and relieved by the news. >> it's very worrisome to know that you have your oldest two children in a war area and you

can't do anything about it. that's why i'm so glad that this is over. reporter: president obama says the end of the iraq war fulfilled his campaign promise, but some republican presidential hopefuls are calling it a political stunt and a job undone. gop frontrunner mitt romney says it's "an astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition." congresswoman michele bachmann calls it "the end of an era of america's influence in iraq and the strengthens of iran's influence." president obama says the u.s. and iraq will move forward as allies. he's invited the prime minister to the white house in december to discuss both nations' plans. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >> and with many of those troops returning right here to the bay area, some families are wondering if their loved ones will be one of those coming home. when they do return, troops will have to be able to tough the economy, obviously and a

struggling job market. >> they need something to do to help with the depression and the transition and being isolated is not what the soldier needs. >> of the tens of thousands of troops returning from iraq, 1/4 to 1/2 will come back with some kind of mental or behavioral condition like post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injury. a formal declaration of liberation in libya is being delayed until tomorrow. there's no real explanation for the one-day delay, but it might be linked to questions about the death of moammar gadhafi. after the liberation, a timetable calls for a new government within a month, elections within eight months. a crash at a previous accident scene on interstate 880 in hayward killed a good samaritan this morning. no one was injured in the first accident that happened just after 2:00 this morning on 880 northbound just past the interchange with highway 92. a woman saw the accident.

she got out of her car to help and then another car slammed into her. she was thrown to the other side of the freeway and killed. >> the general nature is to help one another. we definitely want people to help each other, but on the freeway at this time of night, you know, you have to err on the side of caution. it's dark, people -- there are intoxicated drivers, people texting drivers, a lot going on in the drivers' minds these days. in the end, no, it's probably not a good idea to stop. >> four other people were critically injured in this accident. several lanes of 880 are closed, they reopened again by 5:00 this morning. police say the man accused in the fatal cemetery shooting of a hells angels member is alive and is evading police. right now steve ruiz is accused of killing steven tausan, a fellow hells angels member. ruiz may be traveling with a woman, crystal ferguson in a gold chevy suburban and authorities believe her life is in danger. the murder took place during a funeral for the head

of the san jose chapter of the motorcycle club who was killed in a nevada casino. detectives say ruiz has two black eyes and other facial injuries consistent with being in a fight. earlier it was believed that ruiz had either been kidnapped or killed. a cruel case of animal abuse in berkeley. that is where someone fired 38bb gun pellets at a pit bull puppy. berkeley animal care officials rescued that puppy with clipped ears and they soon found signs of extreme abuse. the puppy is going to need extensive surgery. berkeley officials have started a fundraising campaign to cover the cost of those operations. lawmakers have come up with a way to light a fire under a depressed housing market. buy a house, get a visa. two senators are introducing a bipartisan bill that would give residents visas to any foreigners who spend at least half a million dollars to buy a house in the united states. and the proposal could mean a big boost for the local real estate market. >> we think this is a huge

opportunity in the real estate business to help the community and to help everybody get rid of some of this distressed inventory by getting an investment coming from outside the united states. >> last year bargain-hunting foreigners spent about $82 billion in residential real estate. around here lovely skies for the weekend if you like warm weather. this is the time to get out there. >> it definitely feels more like summer than fall. we get to enjoy that in the bay area, cold during the summer and you finally get the warmup once summer is technically over. beautiful outside right now, clear skies and temperatures that are well above average. we'll tell you how much above average a little bit later in the show. also lia calls these treats naughty. i wish we could say it like liam does. others say they are just plain good. this week's bay area food stock coming up in "liam's list." we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

glasses can be a nuisance, especially for the developmentally disabled. sharon chin on how this week's jefferson award winner is

giving them the gift of sight for free. >> try your best to relax your eyelids. reporter: with eye surgery, wille mi na can set her sights on playing sports without glasses that fog up or fall down. >> [ indiscernable ]. reporter: she says she cannot afford laser surgery. op thalmologist michael fur long is doing it for free. >> it's really exciting for my staff, we get energized every year this time of year so that we can provide these services. reporter: dr. furlong started the gift of sight program from his san jose office in 2002. each year he gives about 10 people in need free prk or lasik. two elective laser surgeries that insurance doesn't cover. dr. furlong also offers free preand post-op care. he's helped several at nonprofits but has a clear vision of helping the developmentally disabled. >> they see better with their glasses, but many choose not to wear them or they don't fit appropriately or they're just heavy anden convenient, they lose them all the time.

they live with suboptimal vision and this is a way to provide them with excellent vision. reporter: the doctor has focused on hope services the past six years, a nonprofit that helps developmentally- disabled clients that help acquire life skills and jobs. he's also performed the surgery for staff members like willemina. >> he's awesome. he has a great heart, helping people. reporter: in all, dr. furlong has provided free surgeries for 65 patients, that's $450,000 worth of surgeries and more than 400 donated hours. hope services client robert faber says he can now clean more donated bicycles to sell. dr. furlong corrected his eyesight three years ago. >> i was so happy about it. i can see a lot better. i don't have to wear glasses anymore. reporter: hope services president and ceo john christianson says he's seen many clients develop self-kfns after the free eye procedure. >> -- self kfns after the free eye procedure. >> it truly is a gift of sight.

>> what can you see? you can see everybody, right? good. reporter: and as dr. furlong expands his paying practice, he hopes to extend the gift of sight program throughout the bay area. >> you can lean back. congratulations. >> thank you. reporter: so for giving free laser eye surgeries to those who can't afford them, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to dr. michael furlong. sharon chin, cbs 5. >> what a guy. those smiles are priceless. a lot of warm weather lovers around here are going to be smiling today and tomorrow. boy, for the foreseeable future it looks good. >> absolutely. i'm smiling today and most people will be for the next several days because it's going to be nice and warm, a beautiful end of october, kind of that transition into fall where we actually start to see some more wet weather. but it looks dry for the most part for the next several days. and we're pretty clear outside right now. take a look at the shot of the golden gate bridge where we're often socked in with fog during the summertime. this is that sign of transition

to fall where we're seeing more clear conditions. that's the case elsewhere in the bay area, seeing clear conditions in our inland spots. beautiful shot here over the top of the city. a few low clouds out there and we are seeing areas of patchy fog north of the golden gate bridge this morning. but by this afternoon we should be clearing out nicely. so as you're stepping outside this morning, very pleasant, clear and calm for the most part. another warm afternoon in store, and then we continue to see warming as we make our way into the end of the weekend. that offshore flow is keeping this cloud cover well out into the pacific, not seeing it push into those inland locations, at least into the afternoon hours. and high pressure holding temporarily, that's going to bring us those warm conditions today, this ridge also helping with that. now, we do see some moisture to the north of us in parts of portland, but we shouldn't see any of that moisture make its way here to the bay area. dry conditions for us and for the rest of northern california. 85 is the high in redding, lake tahoe topping out at 69. fresno at 85, sacramento at 83 today. and the temperatures we're seeing today are well above where we should be for this

time of year. take a look at the averages, seeing some high 60s to mid- 70s. look at these numbers for today, between three and 11 degrees above normal for this time of year. highs in the bay area today look like this, 84 for mountainview, redwood city topping out at 86. a few low 80-degree readings in our inland valleys. high 80s down in pleasanton and dublin. north base seeing high 80s as well. sunday pretty similar conditions and then monday we see a slight dip in temperature and then we see some breezy conditions as we make our way into tuesday and wednesday, but then continue with our warming into thursday and friday, bumping those inland numbers back up to the mid-80s, lots of sunshine in store, and today and tomorrow if you head to the ferry building, you can wander on outside, enjoy the harvest festival, expected to be around 70 degrees. they have demonstrations and apparently a make-your-own pickle demonstration which could be fun. >> that's interesting.

i thought it took a long time to make a pickle. >> you'll have to go to the demo and find out. maybe there's a quick way to make one. thanks for that, kristy. if you're ready to get hungry for pickles or whatnot, imagine having bacon for breakfast, lunch and dinner. one bay area food truck can make that happen. liam serving up more guilty pleasure treats. reporter: greetings food fans. on the list this week four terribly tasty trucks serving up killer cuisine. first a taste of sigh gawn, little -- saigon, recently a winner of choice awards. the food is flavorful and cooked with a whole lot of love. my favorite dish, the garlic noodles, yum. next the rib whip, a truck serving tantalizing barbecue. the ribs are ridiculously good, but the three-layer mac and cheese with a paprika cake is reason to get in line. now, if you love bacon, you

will love bacon bacon. this truck taps into the porky pig in all of us. you can order the bow ket of bacon -- bouquet of bacon, you can run off the calories tomorrow. our final truck stop, a sweet ending at pacific puffs. this naughty little melt-in- mowr mouth treat is the brain child treat cooked up by their mom. it is naughty, but, oh, so delicious. there they are right now. you'll find them off the grid at various locations around the bay area. find them also online, on twitter and my full list at cbssf.com. that is your "food for liam's list" for this weekend. cheers. we are now ready for breakfast. only liam could make us hungry for something like ribs at 8:00 a.m., not even. today a special event connecting book fans with authors. we're going to introduce you to

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good cause. today is the national kid rubbing shoulders with best- selling authors all for a good cause. today is the national kidney foundation author luncheon. cbs 5 is proud to be the media sponsor of the event and children's author katherine otoshi joining us now for more. thanks for being here this morning. >> thank you. >> you are an acclaimed author. >> it's exciting to be here and i'm proud to be part of the national kidney foundation. >> tell us about your books because we've got a few different things going on here, your wonderful books, but also the wonderful cause that this event is raising money for, the kidney foundation. let's talk about your books first. >> well, today i'll be talking about "zero." it's about a big round number, and when she looks at herself,

she sees a hole in her center and she feels empty inside. she wants to learn how to count and she wonders how could a number worth nothing become something. so it's about self-esteem and finding value in yourself and in others. >> it seems like that's an important thing when you're writing a children's book because you almost have to, like, the spoonful of sugar with the medicine to teach a lesson, but not have kids know that's exactly what you're going for. >> children's picture books is all about boiling things down to its core essence. it's kind of like poetry. >> i know a lot of people that aspire to write books, particularly children's books because they're so much fun. how difficult is it to actually get published to make it happen? >> it's not as easy as you would think. there's definitely a process and you have to really work hard at your craft. for me i took children's book workshops. actually, one of the places i did was the passage and it was a wonderful way to learn how to improve your writing and illustrating, but, yeah, sometimes it takes many years and you have to persevere for

what you want. >> why did you decide to do this? >> i have always loved children's picture books and i loved being read to by my parents. and for me children's picture books are kind of a windows open -- you know, that opens doors for you to learn about different countries, different places you can go, different perspectives. >> and these are kind of cool too. we've been showing some of the pictures from the books. they're more like art than the cartoony sort of big picture books that we've seen. how did you come up with that concept? >> these are a little bit different. i'm actually a representational illustrator where cats look like cats and mice look like mice. so my books are very different because the blobs of color actually did represent children's faces where red, green, purple and orange were representative of skin tones. so instead of using pink, yellow or gold-skinned tones,

for example, i thought what if we used these unusual skin tones to talk about in a very subtle way prejudice and differences. >> talk to us a little bit about the luncheon today and the national kidney foundation, why this event is benefiting that foundation. >> what's really exciting about it is we have all these wonderful people from doing all sorts of -- representing all sorts of different stories and walks of life, and we have michael kraussni, for example, who is always emceeing and melissa clark and eric larson, best-selling author russell banks. and all of us have joined together to do this event because we're excited about how our community can contribute to this very important event. >> it's going to raise a lot of money. if you want to go, the 23rd annual authors' luncheon taking place this morning from 10:00 to 3:00 at the mariot marquee here in san francisco. you can purchase tickets at

kidneynca.org. and are tickets still available for this? >> yes, they are. >> not too late. thanks for being here. >> thank you so much. author and founder of kids' books katherine atoshi. we're going to be right back. ,,,, ♪ [ ukulele strumming ]

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e second time, the c here's a quick look at this morning's top stories. for the second time the city of oakland is ordering protestors to leave frank agowa plaza. but members of occupy oakland who are camping out there say they are not going anywhere. could be the makings of a showdown in oakland. a woman died this morning as she tried to help out at an accident scene on interstate 880 in hayward. a car slammed into her, throwing her onto the other side of the freeway. four other people have critical injuries. police say the man accused in the fatal cemetery shooting of a hells angels member is alive and evading police. steve ruiz is accused of

killing steven tausan, a former hells angels member. it was believed that ruiz had been kidnapped or killed. michele bachmann brought her presidential campaign here to the bay area this week. according to former mayor willie brown it didn't help at all. >> she is not entertainment at all, unlike sarah palin who came from a wilderness, no one had ever seen anyone who speaks english coming from alaska, this woman is from the middle west and she is supposed to be a part of the party politics with 23 kids or whatever the number she claims an elected member of congress. she is supposed to know something. she knows less than sarah and she's not nearly as entertaining and funny. >> love that, willie. we're going to have more on the gop race for the white house tomorrow on "weekend early edition." plus how do republicans and democrats respond to the occupy movement sweeping america. that is on "weekend early edition" tomorrow starting at 7:30. it'll be exciting. time for a last look at weather, speaking of an

exciting time to make plans outdoors. >> definitely get outside today. if you haven't made plans yet today, this is the time to get outside and nice tomorrow. it's going to be nice around the bay area. temperatures range from three to 11 degrees above average this time of year. coastline seeing temperatures in the mid-60s and even up into the low 70s. a little bit cooler as we make our way into monday and then some breezy conditions for your monday and tuesday, the end of the week, though, looking really nice, lots of sunshine and back into the 80s in those inland spots. nothing to complain about in the weather department. there is a high fire danger. >> that is true. we'll have to wait and see, especially tuesday into wednesday as we see those winds kick up. it's been dry conditions, haven't seen a lot of precipitation yet this fall, so we will keep our eye on that. >> thanks for that. thanks for being with us to start your saturday morning here with us at "weekend early edition." we hope you enjoy the rest of your day. our next newscast is coming up at 5:30 this afternoon.

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