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good afternoon, i'm frank mallicoat. i'm michelle griego. kpix 5 reporter kiet do on s ties to the 49-ers and reac from his family. part of a major east bay fry is
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shut down, after a crash knd power lines onto the road. michael harris worked as an assistant coach and also was training to be a counselor at his alma mater. this all began early sunday morning when the coast guard got a call sometime around 1:00 of a boating collision a quarter mile from casino point near catalina island. a dingy carrying five people collided. my cool's father is former 49ers ceo peter harris who headed the team from 2000 to 2004. peter harris wrote on his facebook page, my son was killed this morning in a wasteful and tragic event. >> one individual was diseased. three were injured, and another individual was missing. >> of the other injured people, they included michael's girlfriend kelly. she is expected to make a full recovery. they both lived in san francisco. the person who is still missing, the coast guard suspended the search for them
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at sunset last night and resumed that search at daybreak today. michael's parents wrote on facebook the world has lost a truly spectacular young man. part of a major east bay freeway is shut down after a crash knocked power lines on to the road. the connector from southbound interstate 880, highway 238 isn't expected to reopen until later this afternoon. overnight an suv lost control on that offramp knocking down the pole carrying high voltage wires. the downed lines started a small brush fire which was quickly put out. crews hope to have that connector open by 4:00 today. if all goes well b.a.r.t. trains will run again between oakland and san francisco in time for tomorrow morning's commute, but for today, b.a.r.t. will keep running buses, keep passengers back and forth over the bay. the buses stop at the 19th street station in oakland and the transbay terminal in san francisco. >> still encouraging people to stay on their side of the bay if they can. we don't want to overwhelm the
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buses and especially if you're going on to an airport, we want to make sure you budget that extra hour of time to get to the airport. don't want to miss your flight. >> b.a.r.t. halted transbay tube service for the labor day weekend to perform repairs on the tracks. b.a.r.t. ridership down nearly 50% yesterday with about 85,000 riders using the system. b.a.r.t. expects about the same number of riders today. ferries were packed over the weekend due to the shutdown. more than 8400 people rode from oakland and alameda to san francisco on saturday. that's more than double the number of ferry riders compared to last year. a warning for people heading to the beach for the holiday. we could see strong rip currents and sneaker waves from the sonoma county coast to santa cruz. the surf is even higher in southern california. hundreds of swimmers are catching their breath after a treacherous swim across the golden gate. they braved the strong currents for the sixth annual golden gate shark fest. swimmers boarded a ferry in
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sausalito and jumped into the water at the south tower of the golden gate bridge. the tough swim ended in horseshoe cove. >> it was pretty rough actually. under the bridge it was -- i got off a little bit and had to readjust and swim toward the tower, the north tower, to be able to come in. >> but he made it. around 300 participants took part in the swim. >> no wet suit there either. senator bernie sanders now leading in the polls over hillary clinton in new hampshire. the state that holds the first presidential primary next year. cbs reporter don champion has the latest on the democratic race. >> bernie sanders travels to manchester new hampshire today riding a wave of good news. a new poll shows he surged ahead of hillary clinton there for the first time. if the presidential election were held today, sanders would beat clinton 41% to 32%. if vice president joe biden was in the race, the same survey
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shows him in third place with 16%. in iowa, clinton's 24 point lead in july has been cut more than half to just 11. clinton has been dogged by constant questions about her private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. she won the 2008 new hampshire primary and campaigned there on saturday. >> i've always thought this was going to be a competitive primary, and i welcome that. >> sanders has spent the past several days campaigning in iowa and said saturday. >> i think the secretary's people are getting very nervous about the energy and enthusiasm the campaign is bringing forth. >> clinton has more events in iowa today. vice president biden is still mulling over whether he wants to join the race as aides say he'll make a decision by month's end: don champion cbs news. >> bernie sanders supporters are getting fired up in san francisco too, a dance-a-thon a rally supporting the presidential candidate was scheduled for this morning but
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canceled at the last minute. supporters say they will reschedule. on this labor day, president obama is pushing for paid sick leave for hundreds of thousands of workers, mr. obama unveiled his executive order that will benefit employees of federal contractors during a rally with union workers in boston today. those workers will get a minimum of one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours they work. they could also use the leave to care for sick relatives. right now a funeral underway for an illinois police officer who was gunned down last week. this morning the casket of police lieutenant joe gliniewicz arrived at antioch high school outside of chicago. 52-year-old fox lake illinois officer was killed tuesday while chasing three suspicious men. a massive man hunt turned up some leads but the suspects are still at large. there's a new effort to free the kentucky clerk jailed for refuging to issue marriage license -- refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex
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couples. lawyers for kim davis officially appealed the judge's decision that put her behind bars five days ago for contempt of court. over the weekend hundreds rallied in kentucky to show their support for davis including her husband. >> and i talked to her on the phone. she's in great spirits. we're joking, laughing, cutting up. she said honey i'm just as comfortable as can be. >> republican presidential candidate mike huckabee plans to meet with davis tomorrow. the judge overseeing davis' case has indicated she could remain jailed at least a week. tomorrow the santa clara d. a. is expected to file criminal charges against three jail guards in the death of an inmate. one of them is counting on a clean shirt to clear his name. rafael rodriguez telling the news the guard's uniform he wore that night never got dirty. he says that proves he never laid a hand on michael james tyree. he was found debt in his cell at santa clara county jail last week. coroner says he died of massive
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internal bleeding from blunt force trauma. all three guards are being held on suspicion of murder in dublin. coming up, a wine once shunned by american is not widely popular. >> and we're just a day away from the debut of the late show with steven colbert, how the funny man plans to change things up. >> i can't wait for that. hi everybody, good afternoon on this labor day, it certainly is warmer today than yesterday but not quite as hot as will be tomorrow. the full forecast as the ,,,,,,,
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many wine drinkers are looking forward to enjoying the last days of summer with a
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bottle of rose. >> reporter tells us serious wine drinkers used to turn their nose up but this year rose is making a big splash. >> fields of grapes go into making their most popular wine, rose. >> so what do you think is behind the popularity of rose? >> you know, it's about the lifestyle. it's about summer. >> co-owner joey wolfer says sales of rose picked up a few years ago, and now they sell out by the end of the summer. >> each year you keep making more. >> and every year we're like we're not going to sell out more. it's not like an insecurity but it's like we can't believe we can sell out of that much wine but we do. >> wine spectator says rose is making a nationwide comeback. 30 years ago roses were made cheap and sweet and started to lose popularity. >> it was not considered a serious wine. it's not red. it's not white, you know, men don't want to drink rose, but really that has all disappeared as the quality of rose has
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gotten better. >> today's versions are crisp, drier and americans are buying it. from 2012 to 2014 u.s. sales jumped 80%, even brad pitt and angelina jolie are getting in on the act. the couple started their own french rose in 2012, and the wine is now popular among men. some are giving it the nickname brose. >> you don't have to know a lot about it and it goes with everything. >> rose sales are expected to go even higher. that has wolford looking at boosting production again next year. jill wagner, cbs news. >> i think it looks nice and refreshing, especially on a very hot day. >> we'll take three please. >> was that three boxes or? >> sure. >> hi everybody. you know, these are my heroes. these are my weather watchers and i'm just loving them today because on the holiday they are home, and they're checking in. my eyes to the bay area so i can see what's going in and
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around our microclimates. we have a 94-degree reading with robert sullivan. let's take a look at other notable numbers. lindsey patton in pacifica, reporting 87 degrees. the temperature's hotter in some neighborhoods than others but you'll see my forecast high temperatures for today. right now it's a bird's eye view of the city by the bay. the city of san francisco where our high temperatures are today are averaging 15 to 18 degrees above average. numbers 90 now in livermore, 86 in concord, santa rosa 85. relative humidity dropping into the teens today. this is what an offshore flow looks like. this is our view from mount hamilton. our mount ham cam looking out towards the santa clara valley. this is the ocean beach area where the coach is clear. sausalito looking towards san francisco, also blue skies, and we are now looking out from the east bay towards the bay waters in a westerly direction from
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the university of california, the lawrence hall of science. we have now entered a prolonged heat wave. it is going to be a spare the air day for our tuesday, and we will see fire danger increase here in the bay area as each day progresses. right now no hint of any kind of cooling. we do not have that marine layer offshore at all. we have the wind from really the deserts moving in towards the westerly direction, and that is what's producing that drier air mass across the bay area. as that area of low pressure continues to push away, it makes way for this huge dome of high pressure that encompasses this state. then you know what a seconding a anywhere very quickly, that means we have several days of a heat wave that we will be experiencing right here in the bay area. 90s through the interior valley, 80 monterey, 80 in the high sierra. what we need to know is that by tonight sunset at 7:35, our temperatures soaring to 85 degrees, 86 in san francisco, 90s around the peninsula, up to about 99 degrees for the hottest location of our inland
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areas. the northeast light wind 5 to 10 miles an hour, look at the highs tomorrow and hotter on wednesday, and slow cool off by sunday. one thing i want to mention is that we haven't seen this heat wave all summer long. here it is, the unofficial end of summer. we're hanging on to it. this is going to tax our system physically. >> it's hot. >> be very mindful of the kids and elderly. >> thank you. tomorrow will be a big night in television history as steven colbert takes over the late show from david letterman. susan marquez spoke with colbert about how he plans to put his own spin on the tv institution. >> steven colbert has been in america's living room for almost two decades. his first big role came in 1997 as a correspondent on comedy central's the daily show with jon stewart. in 2005 that role led to the spinoff show the colbert report. his name is in lights again as he prepares to take over as
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host of the late show. i recently sat down with colbert in los angeles. >> so what drives you? what motivates you? >> anything dumb to do. i like talking about -- i like talking about things that are happening in the news. i mean one of the nice things about doing a nightly show like this is that it's hard to get tired of your subject matter because it changes every day. >> colbert says the entire creative team from the colbert report made the move with him to the ed sullivan theater but expect a very different tone. colbert says don't look for the over the top politically charged character he played on the colbert rapport. >> we're still going to talk about the things we talked about before. i'm just not going to do it as a pundit. i'm not going to be trying to make you angry or afraid, which is what pundits do for a living. >> variety columnist says he shouldn't have any problem. >> steven colbert was the guy playing steven colbert. if he can ad lib as a version
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of steven colbert in character i'm pretty confident he can be pretty funny as stephen colbert. >> that's colbert's goal too. he says he approaches every job with joy. suzanne marquez cbs news new york. >> the late show debuts tomorrow night at 11:35. still to come, stepping out of low income neighborhoods into a world of medicine. two bay area students spent the summer working with doctors and are changing the color of a research staff at the same time. students rising above is in just a couple of minutes. >> and a reminder this labor day, if you got a consumer problem or a question e-,,,,,,,,
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it's a holiday so tony is whipping out the quick and easy meal. >> yeah, he's dishing up some tasty pasta on this labor day. here's tony. >> you heard of heirloom caprice salad, but a pasta. >> if you have anything left over from your caprese salad which you probably do. none of them are uniform shape so i don't want them to look uniform in the pan. i want them to be fun, i want them to be nice and we add
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those in request a little bit of pasta. we're going to take a generous amount of basil and drop it in. you're going to let all those flavors completely explode in that pan. again, none of this is going to be too uniform looking because i want it to look rough. and you don't want to cook this either. >> and that just melts inside there. >> going to heat up as it sits on top like this. you can pretty much plate it in the pan and then you put it on the plate. the mozzarella is going to sit in the middle, it's going to warm up and with your fork there you go. >> now that's a pasta caprese salad. beautiful. >> delicious. >> somehow my burgers won't be worthy. >> that looks really good. goes foe lippics and echocardiograms, two words you don't hear young people discussing with a lot of confidence. >> after the summer two of our students rising above can tell you all about them. kpix 5's wendy tokuda is here to tell us more. >> what i have here are some
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standards and then i have these rearguments. >> he's changing the color of the research staff at children's hospital oakland. >> and i'm adding my protein in here, and then i'm comparing it to the standards. >> he's one of 47 low income first generation students in a summer internship program at the children's hospital oakland research substitute, corey for short. at this symposium the interns present the findings. >> it's really awesome. >> i learned a lot from you and it's shaped my past. >> you actually taught me. >> they find it life changing, many of them come in without any experience, either in a clinical setting or in a laboratory setting, and their eyes are opened. they are -- they're wowed. >> the big goal is to diversify the medical field, jorge and
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yessenia are both students rising above who are also selected as interns. >> this is the first time i have actually worked with a doctor, talked with a doctor, not as a patient but as their co-workers. >> yessenia was studying the use echocardiograms, ultra sounds of the heart. >> a lot of these patients showed inconsistent echoes. >> nine weeks later they have language they never had. >> fraction shortening measures how much the heart contracts. >> yessenia has grown up poor, moving around a lot, but she always loved science, and the medical field. >> none of my family members are doctors or anything like that, so i kind of had to rely on secondhand experience from television. >> 33 patients were normal. >> this summer has changed that. >> i was always afraid to talk to professionals. they seem like big scary people. >> so that's what we hypothesized. however, we have our data here. >> now she explains her
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research with such confidence. >> and we added various conditions. >> jorge grew up in the fruit vail district of oakland, one of four children of a single mom. two of his sisters are disabled. it's one of the reasons he's interested in medical research. >> i'm very determined to be successful and be in a science related career to give back to the community and to my family. >> you never got scared of it. you always just pushed ahead. >> now both jorge and yessenia are a step closer to a career in the medical field, wendy tokuda kpix 5. >> and if you would like to help students like jorge get through college and step into ,,
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>> steffy: wyatt, come on! do it! >> ivy: wyatt, you can't! we need it! don't you dare delete that video! >> ridge: big day for all of us. hey, welcome to the team. >> thomas: thanks again, dad. i really don't want to let you down. >> ridge: you're not gonna let me down. we're gonna be great together. the three of us -- we're gonna create beautiful things. and you will make a great mom. >> thomas: and congratulations again. i'm really happy for you two.

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