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working party and the skinheads, they had a permit for a rally. it was supposed to begin at noon, but it never really even got going. just as a white supremacist group called the working father begins a rally -- party, begins a rally, chaos. a demonstrator begins confronting the white supremacist. what happens next looks like a battlefield. counter protesters, many wearing masks clash in hand to hand could not bam -- combat. one man blindsided a woman smacking her hard in the head with a stick. boat sides had members stabbed in the riot. a bay area group called by any means necessary was part of the counter demonstrators. >> a couple of the nazis tries to -- tried to come out object the teps -- on steps. they had to cancel the entire
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thing. that's why the nazis are dangerous and we need to take them on directly. >> what do we do. >> shut them down. >> anyone who's going to join racist general side like this organization, they're not welcome. if they trip and fall in the process, that's good. they need to go. >> reporter: a tourist who was visiting equipment is with his son -- equipment is says he is up -- sacramento says he is upset. they're all about diversity. that includes everybody who has an opinion. apparently, they don't -- they don't want anyone descenting from their way it looks without resorting to violence. >> reporter: i talked to one of the counter demonstrators who tells me that they insist they did not come here to cause violence. they insist that it was the white supremacist group that struck first. i understand the police are --
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police are investigating to try and find out how they broke out. >> we'll check in with you again a little bit later. our other big story this afternoon, san francisco showing its pride. chopper 5 over the parade. hundreds of thousands of people lined market street and mark kelly takes us there on the ground. >> reporter: the 46th pride parade did not disappoint. >> the crowd was amazing and very enthusiastic. >> reporter: for politicians to people ho want to let their hair down, pride 2016 meant something different to everyone. >> however people want to segregate us, we will get over it because of all the support that we have. >> it's time to reflect on the progress needed. >> reporter: that progress was dealt a setback two weeks ago when a gunman killed 49 people at a gay bar in orlando. >> and we need to be more of a
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family and love one another and take care of each other. that's the only way we're going to survive. >> reporter: today's parade up market street ended at civic center plaza where the partying continued and the people kept pouring in. >> were the lines ever this long. >> i've never had to wait in line to get in. >> reporter: i'm here and one of the security checkpoints into the party and the line goes all the way down the block. >> it's for our safety, then they're appreciateiated. >> reporter: do you like seeing the metal detecters here? >> i thinks it's important to keep everyone safe. >> reporter: in san francisco, mark kelly, kpix 5. san francisco police say they had about 25% more officers out on the streets for this year's pride parade. so far, it seemed to be working. no major trouble reported anywhere. we will have more on the party under way coming up at 6:30. there's a lot going on this weekend. tens ever thousands of people packed in the raceway today for
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the nascar series. our photo journalist that's the sights and sounds. >> reporter: this is it. unbelievable. >> i don't know anything about nascar. this is amazing. >> people are going and they're going fast and it gets pretty intense. >> i've watched it on tv. it's kind of worse. you have to come. >> it's fast. it's fun. watch the cars. hoping for good crashes. >> you get to see the drivers technical skills. >> right turns and a lot of different turns instead of just left turns. it's morgue chaiing for the drivers. >> go fast, turn left, is not always fun.
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>> it's just about the skills. >> reporter: the sounds. >> it's exhilarating. >> i didn't think to bring earplugs. bring earplugs. >> just fun to watch cars go fast and, you know, it's a camaraderie for everybody. >> it's a mass of humanity enjoying one thing together. it's really nice. >> the people, the camaraderie is a good time. >> to be able to be here, it's a dream come true. >> it's a nail biting finish that came down to the last lap. we'll have the highlights coming up in sports. now, to the big wildfire burning out of control near bakersfield. here is the latest. at least 200 buildings are destroyed including 150 homes. the fire has consumed 58 square miles at the southern end of the sierra and right now it's
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only about 10% contained. chris martinez is in the community of south lake with the latest. chris. >> reporter: julie, we can tell you that there is question as to whether there may be a third victim here in this neighborhood. officials told us that they found some remains here. they're not sure if they are human or animal. they are not sure if that will be the third victim or if there my be -- might be more than that. they are out here with dogs, areas where this fire hit the hardest. looking for more victims and as they do that work, firefighters say they are starting to make some real progress. surveying the damage for the first time, this family found little here to salvage. >> i was pretty much ready to see it all gone.
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when you drive up and you see everything is -- nothing's there. >> reporter: south lake was hit hard bitter skin fire where flames wiped out entire blocks of homes near lake isabella in curb county. it's devoured more than 36,000 acres forcing evacuations. officials continue to tally the damage here in the fire zone and they've found 200 structures were destroyed. at a community meeting saturday night, fire officials said despited making progress in their might, they're not allow many residents to return home. >> we still have a very ugly fire out there in extremely dry fuel and a lot of fuel with these winds, it can get up and running and blow back around. >> reporter: it's the largest of 7 fires burning in california and officials say there's an elevated fire risk
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throughout the week: at this hour, there are hundreds of residents remaining in area shelters. many of them as you understand, very anxious to get back to their homes or see if they're still standing. fire officials are saying they hope they will be able to do that possibly in the next day or two. back to you. >> we're hearing actually seeing that the winds are calming down. is it still very hot out there? are weather conditions helping or hurting, chris? >> reporter: so winds, that was one of the main problems when this fire start. they were pushing it. they have been much calmer. hopefully they will stay that way. it is really hot out here and it's supposed to be trip i will digit temperatures possibly out here. that is not a help to firefighters, but still if the conditions hold as they are now, they hope to have full containment possibly by wednesday or thursday of this week. >> good to hear. thank you. and you should know that hear in the -- here until the bay area, all burn permits are
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suspended starting tomorrow. this, of course, as fire season ramps up just about all outdoor burning is banned. there are exceptions for camp fires at campgrounds or on private property. for the second time in two days, an open police chase ended in a terrible crash. the latest one happened at 3:30 this afternoon on 38th avenue in carrington. one police car t boned another while they were chasing a suspect. this is what's left of one of the cars. in this picture you can see it in the middle of the intersection. we don't know how badly injured the officers are in that crash, but last night, another open police suv burst into flames when an officer crashed during another chase. he was going after a carjacking -- jacking suspect when he slammed into a pole near the high street exit. he was trying to avoid another car. he was able to escape the fire without getting hurt. other police crews caught up to the suspect and arrested him.
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in antioch, the brushfire caused $650,000 in damage. one home destroyed. four others damaged. it was windy and that made it tough for firefighters. good news though, nobody was hurt in that fire. a man is under arrest after his probation officer found a pipe bomb in his apartment. the bomb squad showed up and evacuated the complex on boris court yesterday afternoon. the bomb squad found a second he is lossive device. they were removed. it's unclear what he was planning to do with them. still to come, the bay area city testing out a blockade this weekend to keep cars from clogging up downtown. a california camper ends up batted willing a bear, auberge -- battling a bear. how his ipad made him an easy target. as we look towards san francisco, a sunday sore mucher. temperatures top 100 degrees inland. see if there's any relief in
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local streets to avoid freey c... in the south bay, if you are tempted to take a shortcut into one particular city's local streets to avoid freeway traffic, well, wait until you see what we are about to show you what's going on. >> reporter: yes. city leaders here were getting growing concern built d were overwhelming majority of drivers weren't here to shop or eat in the restaurants. they were just looking for a shortcut over the hill to santa cruz and they decided it was time to do something about it. wave upon wave. >> any street going south is a parking lot. >> reporter: upon wave of cars and drivers heading to the beach in santa cruz. >> there's gridlock that's shut counsel the -- down the town. >> reporter: so many, searching for a shortcut, they've often brought traffic to a standstill. >> people are passing through
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on their way to sand accrues and -- sand accrues and the -- santa cruz and the weekends have become a traffic jam. >> reporter: city leaders are concerned that it was making it difficult for residents and shoppers do navigate the downtown area. the next three weeks, they have decided to close the street in front of the on-ramp hoping that will force them to steer clear of the area altogether. >> i know people that live in town, and they don't go anywhere on sunday. everybody is in a hurry to get from point a to point b faster now and they're going to try every way they can. >> reporter: shelly says she's guilty of using traffic apps like waz earthquakes to save time -- waz oh, but she understand -- waze, but she understands. >> he all want -- we all want to make our towns better. >> reporter: it's a three week test, but business owners hope
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it will turn the tide flooding. >> reporter: they've already seen an improvement even after just two days of this trial program. many of them say that they hope the change becomes permanent. kpix 5 in southern california, a camper learned the hard way he should have left his ipad at home. the glow from the screen attackedded a wear into his tent yesterday important at a campground near pasadena. both were startled, the tents collapsed. the bear scratched the man on his forehead in its hurry to get away. he needed 18 stitches, but he'll be okay. i don't know about the screen on the ipad either. >> yeah. he's probably due for another one. temperatures came up today over yesterdays readings and it's going to stay warm tomorrow. it approached 1 is00 degrees where -- 100 degrees in
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concord. concord hit 101 today. santa rosa, 96. gilroy at 101. not bad if you're close to the bay shoreline though. example, oakland, 79 degrees today. as for now, concord has fallen to 97. oakland, 69. in the city, we've we've -- we've got 64 degrees. warm if you're away from the water. double barrel highs in effect over four corners where it's been the fast few days over the air force base. temperatures remain near 100 degrees inland tomorrow. going to be close to what it was today. we don't really get a break until later in the week. we look for low clouds to come to the rescue, but they're not getting the message. usually in june, you talk about june gloom. there hasn't been much of that around. they're not making it very far inland. we don't have that sea breeze and so it's just not making its way toward the cooling effects of that sea breeze inland.
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so we'll continue with the coast and the bay fog tonight. it will be near 100 tomorrow and on tuesday. finally though by wednesday, thursday, and friday, we'll begin to back off century highs and go back into the upper 80s inland but not tomorrow. san francisco closer you get to the shoreline, the closer we are to more reasonable temperatures. 73 in san francisco. a mere 6 degrees above average but concord, 15 degrees warmer than we usually see this time of year. concord tomorrow, 100. san jose 90. oakland, 80. speaking of san jose, let's see tomorrow, 96 degrees, san hoe say at 9 -- but over at the shoreline in the mid-60s and pacifica at 73 degrees. union city tomorrow, 87. over in the east bay, 106 at brentwood. 100 at antioch. near the straight, numbers in the mid-80s.
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north bay looks nice and warm. napa, 92 degrees. sausalito, 82. extended forecast calls for cooling by the time we get to thursday and friday and next weekend. we should just be in the upper 80s by then. but between today and tomorrow and tuesday, which one is going to be warmer? it's going to be very, very, very, very close. it's going to go down to the last lap, which rings a bell in this man's mind. dennis live in sonoma. >> reporter: is it did come down to the last lap. there's one trailer left behind me. it's the victory -- victory trailer. we'll tell you about the finish when we come back. we've been with you from the beginning. we've seen each other through good times and bad.
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thrilling race here. tony stewart, this is his final race here in sonoma, hiss final career. he'll call it a career at the end of this season. stewart will announce his retirement. the fly over before the case, they are off and running. aj started the front row, took the lead on lap 9. he pulls around carl edwards and would take a pit penalty. 61 laps to go. kyle busch and denny hamlin battling for the lead. hamlin comes out ahead racing side by side. there were no wrecks today but four cautions. two caused by debris on the track. this little spring brought owl the -- out the yellow. it was key because it was great news for tony stewart who stayed on the track while everyone else pitted. he jumps out to the lead. he stayed out in front until the final lap. hamlin goes underneath the turn to take it. the race is over, you're
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thinking. not so fast. as they come around the final turn, stewart goes inside, hamlin goes outside, and smokes, cruises to the finish line. how about that? that is the best finish ever here at sonoma raceway. it is stewart's first win since 2013, snapping an 84-race winless streak and his third win at sonoma. >> i'm proud of that race. i'm not proud of that last corner, the last lap, but, i mean, 39 other guys would have done the same thing if they had the chance. i'm proud of the way i ran this last 14 laps. i maids a couple miss -- made a couple mistakes, but it reminded me of some of the days of old when we were here. dennis out there and his signal was iffy, he'll get back to him -- we'll get back to him. we'll do baseball. giants starter hadn't allowed more than two runs since may 2nd today going for his 12th win of the season. well, the dread lock wig is
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becoming more and more popular. phillies pitcher was wild. he hit connor on his footed to force home a run. two hit batters in the inning. he turned to dole out some pain. he nails michael franco in the elbow, possibly some receiptry distribution, both benches were warned. philadelphia would get their pay back on the scoreboard. cody gets through the middle to the game and he allows 6 runs in 6 inks and struck out two doctor doctor innings and struck out two. aaron judge he will thinks he has a home run. it's off the bricks. a run scores. he is thrown out at third trying to stretch a double into a triple and he probably wishes he stopped at second because in the 8th, carlos ties it up on a base hit to center. back and forth we go. am i making sense? bottom of the 9th, runner on second and he delivers with a shot down the line and then he
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races home from second to win it. their 7th walk-off of the reason. they 2 of 3 from philadelphia. it's bruce's 800th career win. >> you did really well. >> i tried. >> pass it en your belts -- pass it en your seat belts now. you can tell -- it's a four game sweep in anaheim. snow cones went fast today in southern california. oakland's cocoa crisp hit his first gland slam since george bush was in the white house. santiago didn't get happy because marcus connects for his 14th home run of the year. as lead 6-2, but the hey lows come back -- halos come back. simmons drives in the tying run
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off ashford to tie the game. jeffrey ends it. the as win and keep the -- angels win and keep the as from sweeping. billy the third ranked 607th in the world and playing in a sponsor's exemption. of he tips in for birdie off the green. very next hole, he drains a birdie putt. a former navy lieutenant and alumni of the naval academy wins his first pga tour tournament. that's good stuff there. coming up in our next half hour, we will go back out live to sacramento where police are still looking for people who went on attack, tabbing 7 people at a neo-nazi rally. >> reporter: tight security at the center of the pride celebration, but that did not stop the party for thousands.
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i'll have that story coming up. >> it's just getting worse and worse and worse and worse. >> as bad as it's been, if not worse. >> it's a problem that has bugged san francisco for years. homelessness. before we go searching for answers, we're going to ask one simple question, how did we get here? that's coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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supremacist -- supremacist group. joe is live in sacramento where police are still trying to sort it all out and why it might not hard for police to make arrests. joe. >> reporter: it was quite a battle scene here on the grounds of the skate capital earlier today just before noon, two white groups clashed with counter demonstrators, many of them from the bay area. people got stabbed. there are a total of 7 stabbing victims. others had other minor injuries. i talked to one counter demonstrator who says he saw the whole thing begin. some of the white supremacists were doing nazi salutes, and then they attacked. >> we were talking about peace and love and how we didn't want any violence around us. it looks like they went after two black guys. one guy was on one side and one guy was on the other side. the next thing i know, a black guy was bleeding and a nazi was
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running. he had something in his hand. >> reporter: counter demonstrators grabbed the cam rat and the rearview mirrorrer. they -- reporter. they backed up, this crew did, and got a video from a little bit further. police tell us they have made no arrests. as you might imagine here, there are surveillance cameras everywhere, but many of the counter demonstratedders were wearing masks and investigators say that's going to make it very difficult from here on out to try and track down who did the tracking -- stabbing from their side. it's not clear whether they've identified members of of this group who did this stabbing on the other side. reporting live in sacramento, kpix 5. a big party under way right now at civic center plaza, a party to wrap up what has been a successful and safe pride weekend. earlier flags and -- flags and
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floats went up the street. hundreds of thousands of people were along the street. it all ended at civic center plaza. that's where we find belty. >> they are taking security seriously at the pride celebration for the first time there are medal -- metal detectors and wands at all entry points. they are doing bag searches. if you look over here, there are san francisco police officers at just about every corner. let's take you to the party for a moment. this is just one of many music stages, and the crowd really has not stopped dancing all afternoon. if you look around everywhere, people appear to be in a happy mood, showing their pride and their rain bows? just about every form. people have had varied experiences getting too the -- to the venue because of increased security this year at one point the line near hyde stretched several blocks and
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people waited in line, some of them, for more than an hour to get in. >> it was awful. i somehow was able to go through where there was less security. they were checking for -- if you didn't have a purse. >> it was rough getting in, but it was only about 20 minutes. i went to four different spots trying to find an easier way. >> we still partying and -- partied and had a great time. i don't think we need more and more security over the years, but it didn't bother me personally. >> reporter: san francisco police said this year they added up to 25% more officers in plain clothes and uniforms. we saw them on bikes, on motorcycles, and on foot. many people we spoke to say it was worth the wait for the extra security. in san francisco, kpix 5. across the country, new york city showed its pride. wendy showed us, like san
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francisco, they end are the 49 people killed in orlando. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands came to be loud and proud at new york city's annual gay pride parade. there were somber moments, too. 49 people in veils walked in silence to represent the people shot in the gay nightclub in orlando. 49 flags kicked off the parade, one held by new jersey resident sam wax. >> i hope i'm doing something to honor their memory. >> reporter: the owner of the club rode on the lead float. they were followed by original, which represents the gun control movement. parade volunteers mark this year with a different purpose. this woman is friends with a man who escaped unhurt. >> it was a traumatic experience for him. i was thankful he was all right, in that same breath, he lost so many friends that
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night. >> reporter: this is heightened security including police officers lining the parade route. there are counter-terrorism units and plain clothes officers in the crowd. security was tight at other celebrations across the country. >> we can't live in fear. if they scare us all away, there would be no pride. >> in chicago, the parade honored the orlando victims. they held up posters of the people killed. on to campaign 2016, a pair of polls shows hillary clinton leading donald trump, but exactly how far ahead she is is open to debate. open to debaashington post survey puts her ahead by 12 points. she also leads republican rival in a wall street journal poll but a slimmer margin of 5 points. very much anyone's race. the big question tonight is what will happen when the u.s.
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stock market opens tomorrow after friday's huge sell off the uk voted to break off with the european union. the markets in asia are open and it's up slightly. markets in south korea and australia are down. meanwhile, scotland's leader is threatening to block it. the first minister told the bbc she would consider advising scottish lawmakers to withhold their consent, though it's unclear what impact, if any, that would have. secretary of state john kerry is scheduled to meet with leaders tomorrow. in rome today, he said the relationship with grate britain does not change because of this vote. obviously it's a decision that the united states had hoped would go the other way. but it didn't. so we begin with a fundamental
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respect for voters in a democracy when the voters speak, it is the job of leaders to listen. >> the exit negotiations will be lenghty and complicated and americans are likely to have little to say in the matter. still to come, how the san francisco police department plans to put itself on display to repair the image in the wake of officer involved shootings. napa is turning into a tourist trap lately for people in cars, that is. what the city plans to do to ease the flow of traffic through wine country. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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starting with an inside loo how san francisco police are time for a look at the big stories around the bay area starting with an inside look at how police are trained in the use of force. >> the department will show off its training simulator on tuesday as it struggles to repair its image in the wake of officer involved shootings. the police commission has approved a series of use of force reforms, but they need to go through union negotiations
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first. supervisor john avenue los wants -- ala -- avalos wants to freeze it until it's immaterial plemented. that would amount to $200 million. >> this is actually putting in place clear standards about how we're going to hold the department accountable. >> he gives the budget freeze proposal at 75% chance of passing. the budget and finance committee will head to a board vote next month. the board of supervisors is looking for ways to beef you have its housing options. it will hear a presentation this week on increasing inventory at all price points. it will consider using up to $10 million in measure a funds to create an affordable housing program for renters. on tuesday in san jose, the city council will consider extending a program that allows faith based groups to provide temporary housing for the poor without any costly permits. 16 churches are signed up for
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the program which is set to expire at the end of the month. tomorrow, the oakland city council will vote on whether to ban coal experts through a terminal in the west part of the city. up to 10 million tons of coal could be transported each year. opponents are worried about safety and pollution. traffic will be flowing a lot more flee lee through wine -- freely through wine country. they are sink ron eyeing -- sink newsing the traffic signals to get the tourist traffic through town quicker while cutting down on air pollution. tomorrow evening, the national park service will hold a meeting in mill valley to talk about the on going parking problems there. summer traffic to the popular sight seeing spot is messy and after 300 parking spaces were eliminateled earlier -- >> everything we're trying to do is spread out the arrivals so we don't have 6,000 people
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coming on a single day. >> the reservation system is expected to he's the crunch -- ease the uncredit much, but it won't go into effect until next year. a lot of people will tell you, things are worse than ever. >> how did we get here is the most vital question you have to answer. >> six mayors, about a dozen different plans and still thousands of people on the streets. tonight, a look back at a crisis three decades in the making. a look at san jose as we consider the fact they've managed to warm up more today. we'll have a look at the forecast when we come back. we've been with you from the beginning. we've seen each other through good times and bad. sickness and health. we're with you san francisco, and you bring out the best in us. care.
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that could cause flooding a damage. the national west virginia is bracing for a new round of heavy rain that could cause flooding and damage. the national weather service has issued a flash flood watch for tomorrow for nearly two dozen counties. areas already hit hard by flooding are expected to get more rain and that could cause some streams to break their banks. at least 24 people have died since flooding began thursday. it tore through roads and bridges. some communities are still without electricity. >> you see on the news this is always somebody else until it's you. i really -- it really sets that
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in. this could be anybody, but today it's me. today it's not their family. it's my family. >> reporter: there are getting federal assistance, but some people may not go back home. tens of thousands gathered along the panama canal celebrating the expansion by doubles the capacity. the $5.25 billion project went online two years late, but better late than never. 30,000 people and 8 foreign heads of state are attend willing the fest tiff -- attending the festivities. we had a day of 100 degree plus readings inland. it was 56 degrees at point rays and nearly 50 degree spread which is an incredible temperature distance of 35, 40 miles. it's most stable air offshore in the country which is that
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marine layer offshore keeping us cool by the shores, but it's smoking hot inland. livermore, 100. san francisco managed just 69. as we look toward diablo and the numbers know, it's warm at concord, 97 degrees. in san jose, 81 degrees right now. here's how we look. high pressure double barreled high. the four corners around yuma, there's two lobes of high pressure and that will cope this onshore flow, the sea breeze mean entertain the low and the gull of alaska -- gulf of alaska. still not seeing 'marine influence into the inland valleys. it's too shallow to work its way in. the future cast, we don't have much in the way of cloudiness tomorrow morning. it's offshore not doing us much good. we'll have a clear day on monday and that means temperatures will be about the same tomorrow as they were today. it's not going to change much
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on tuesday either. so even though people aren't exactly rooting for an encore, it will be near 100 degrees tomorrow, well away from the shoreline, but still cool near the coast. finally we'll get a break on wednesday and ease it off on thursday and friday. tomorrow, well above average in concord with a forecast of 100 degrees. san jose 90 and oakland, 80. down in in the south bay, 80s and near 90. east bay, 106. livermore all about 100 degrees. mentee of sunshine -- plenty of sunshine. cloverdale near the century bark. extended forecast is calling for a break on wednesday. weak system passes to the north, temperatures come down friday, saturday, and sunday, but in the meantime, we're going to have to deal with the heat. we've got more coming up after a break. stay tuned. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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if you haven't said it yourf - you've probably heard it : homelessness in san francis has it's the most explosive camp city i have ever seen. >> it's in a state of emergency. they can't overlook it. >> reporter: if you haven't said it yourself, you've heard it said. homelessness has reached a breaking point. what if we told you san francisco's homeless population hasn't changed much at all in the past ten years. >> why stop there? this is a problem 35 years in the making and tonight, kpix 5 goes back to the very beginning. >> reporter: what kind of work do you do? >> me, nothing. >> they become street people or bums. there were people who were
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sprawled out, but it wasn'ted widespread visible homelessness until '82. you're talking over three decades. >> reporter: napa state hospital under funded and under staffed for years, it took a collision of events in the 1970s. massive cutbacks to mental health, a wave of struggling veterans, the cost of living was rising so fast that we were on our way to rent control, and we had a brutal recession. all of that happened at the very same time when the government was largely getting out of the business of low income and public housing. just ask the folks that lived here in the western addition. >> having 40 units was an agreement that was made in 1965 when the urban renewal process began to get under way. actually, we were promised 200 units. >> in the mid '70s. richard nixon decides we're not going to build puck lib -- public housing. >> we lost billions and billions of dollars in
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affordable housing funding. that's go to lead to homelessness. that's why '82 is not an accident. >> reporter: the hospitality house, a shelter for the homeless and the unemployed crowded at midday. at night, people are being turned away. >> elected officials, the reagan administration, fine stop sign, it's a temporary problem. it's all prairie. >> reporter: as part of the program, the homeless were to be temporarily housed in hotels. >> 1,000 units here. >> if anybody thinks that local government or a mayor is going to restore or fill that void that is created when you lose that funding, it's never going to happen. >> reporter: the problem gets worse and worse and worse. social service workers say the problems right now are serious, but they predict the worst is still to come. the mayor unveiled a plan to create housing for the homeless that could be a model for the nation. >> it was the -- we finally got a mayor who understood the problem. >> when we need not have any
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homelessness. >> the people that were working on that for the city took it incredibly seriously and you can see it in the final document that was produced. >> that final document now sits on a shelf here at the public library, what's called beyond shelter. it was a plan to get people off the street and into housing that would be tied to whatever health or clinical treatment someone night need. >> they are probably the ugliest difficult problem we've had in the last 50 years in this country. >> reporter: art can rightfully claim a plan that was ahead of its time, but before it ever really had a chance to work, time and politics caught up with art. >> just seeing chopper 5 -- the earthquake threw a lot of things off. the city doesn't have the resources and then things are falling apart. >> as a result, it just keeps getting kicked down the road. >> reporter: the matrix program was designed to get them off the streets within a year of the -- >> we were forming a traffic
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force to write another plan. >> reporter: the public are demanding action here by the police department and by me as the mayor of san francisco. >> what they're saying is let's sweep everybody out of there that looks homeless. >> each mayor comes up with their own, quote, plan in order to get elected and stay elected. >> we have shelter space. we have drug treatment on demand. >> some people say things are worse now for the homeless than ever. >> that may very well be the case by the mid '90s. some estimate of the street upon lation had topped 8,000, a number significantly more than we see today. by then, the public was exhausted with this problem and the politics surrounding homelessness started to sound like a broken record. >> you've out matrixed the matrix. >> they plan on trying to remove homeless people from san francisco. >> that way i don't have to remember what i ever said.
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>> i would argue, continue do to do what you've done to get what you've got. >> he got people who would not want to fund homeless services to feel like this was a responsible thing to do because it's going for housing. >> you got that? >> basically, yeah. >> with your money? >> yes. >> of course. >> it's about getting out of the shelter business to the extent we can. >> that extra housing money actually moved the needle by 2005, the population had dropped about 28%, but then, the numbers simply froze. >> the second term, it's been implemented, we still have a homeless problem. there's no more money to deal with it. >> from there the years passed and little has changed. a decade of the status quo leading nearly everyone to ask whether we're making any progress at all. >> or is it just shuffling from one deck chair on the titanic to another? >> reporter: i can hear some of you screaming at your
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television right now saying, we spend $250 million on homelessness and have 7,000 people on the street. you know something? you're right. this week gearing to -- we're going to look at what we get for that money and why it doesn't seem to change what we see in front of us. more importantly, how can we do better with the resources that we have? stay with us this week. a lot more to come. >> the beginning of the report was that there is a correspondence between the lack of funding and the increase in homelessness on the street. so you would think the solution is the solution simply building more living space? >> think about the other big challenge we face in san francisco. working people can't afford to live in san francisco and the notion that we're going to come up with 6,000 more units for homeless people is a scaleable challenge. then there's the other question, which a lot of people transcribing to bring up is the numbers and dollars. you hear people run the basic
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math on there's this will people, this will dollars, i can tell you that those people are probably wrong so we're going to look at all of this as to how -- >> that will be this week. >> all this week. >> thank you. you will be hearing a lot more of these stories about homelessness this week as we join other media outlets for the homeless project. for our part, we'll be taking a closer look at the problem and some possible solutions for the next several nights in our 6:00 newscast. in the meantime, thanks for watching. 60 minutes is next and we'll see you at 11:00 tonight. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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>> for an incredibly savvy, clever almost a criminal genius that el chapo guzman was, he ultimately was done in by very simple tastes. >> whitaker: what do you mean? >> tacos, tequila and chicas. >> turn someone to your right and left, remind them i love you! >> "i love you!" >> scott pelley: the day begins with a chant they call "the affirmation." >> you can be -- >> pelley: you can be any good thing you want to be. go and conquer.
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