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game. maria medina caught up with the quarterback at levi's stadium today. >> i'm going to stand with the people being oppressed. >> reporter: 49er quarterback colin kaepernick is standing his ground about his choice to sit during the national anthem. >> this is because i'm seeing things happen to people who don't have a choice. people who don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and effect change. >> reporter: kaepernick explained in the locker room after practice today he made his decision based on what he believes are social injustices in our country right now. the example he gave, police brutality, claiming he's been racially profiled by police in the past. >> one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called and all of us had guns drawn on us. you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. that's insane.
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someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people who have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us. >> >> reporter: the quarterback has actually sat during the national anthem at all the preseason games. but no one noticed until saturday's game when he did it for the first time in uniform. he says many of his teammates support him. >> everyone has the right to stand up for what they believe in so i respect that first and foremost, whether i agree with what he did or not and the way he did it. >> reporter: kaepernick says he believes what he's doing is right, even if that means his decision has consequences on his career including getting cut from the team. >> i can't look in the mirror and see other people dying on the street that should have the same opportunities that i've had. >> kaepernick was actually asked to speak to his teammates about why he did what he did. he says they had an open conversation about it. some of the players told us they understand his decision. at levi's stadium, maria medina, kpix 5. reaction on social media has
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been fiery to say the least. fans had been posting video of themselves burning their kaepernick jerseys and other merchandise. thousands are also lashing out on twitter with comments like this. hope blaine gabbert wins the starting quarterback job for the 49ers. let colin kaepernick sit on the bench, just like he did for the national anthem. but many others are standing up for number 7, saying, quote, people are more upset about colin kaepernick not standing for the national anthem than they are about the treatment of those he's referring to. another supporter tweeted: love, support, and respect colin kaepernick for taking a visible stand against intolerable violence in the u.s. shots rang out on a bay area freeway overnight after chp officers say a man wandering in the road suddenly charged at them with a knife. kpix 5's jessica flores on the violent confrontation in belmont that shut down a stretch of 101 for hours. >> highway 101 is open now in both directions but a lot of
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questions remain. investigators have not released the name of the suspect and we just don't know how he ended up on the freeway in the first place. >> reporter: a chaotic scene unfolding on highway 101 around 2:30 a.m. chp says their officers shot the unidentified suspect on the northbound lanes. as a suspect came at the officer with a knife. >> ultimately the suspect produced a knife, held it over his head, and lunged toward one of our officers. >> reporter: paramedics rushed the suspect in critical condition to stanford medical center. no officer was injured. now the belmont police department is taking the lead in the investigation. trying to piece together why the man was on the freeway and what led to the shooting. according to chp the man was hopping over the concrete barrier walking on the southbound and northbound lanes and they don't know how he got on the freeway. >> reporter: chp shut down 101 freeway northbound at ralston in the early morning but they
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didn't find an abandoned car. investigators are trying to determine if the man walked on to the freeway. when chp did reach the man on highway 101, they say their officers tried other methods before one of the officers fired his gun. >> as they were trying to detain him, was resistive. they deployed a taser to no avail. >> reporter: at least four officers were there when the man allegedly lunged toward them with a knife. belmont police department is now working on collecting witness statements. belmont police department is leading the investigation, chp is conducting their own internal investigation. jessica flores, kpix 5. a man is behind bars in the east bay accused of going on a stabbing spree at the fremont b.a.r.t. station. police say the suspect robbed and stabbed two passengers with a screwdriver as their train approached the station last night. then he ran off and attacked another man who was on a bike. all of the victims are expected to be all right.
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bay area congresswoman jackie spear led a sit-in against gun violence today after sunday's services at a san mateo church. signs on easels showed pictures of shooting victims this year in the u.s. spear and other democrats are demanding votes in congress on universal background checks for gun buyers. spears is worried that after so many mass shootings, people may feel frightened at public gatherings. >> should be able to go to a church. should be able to go to the movie theater. should be able to go to a school. should be able to go to a dance club and not fear for your life. and we need to get sane gun safety legislation passed in this country, pure and simple. >> spear is no stranger to gun violence. in 1978 she was shot five times during a fact finding mission in to the jonestown cult in guyana where she was serving as a congressional aide. her boss and four others died in the shooting. donald trump will be back in the bay area tomorrow hosting a
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high dollar fundraiser in napa. some bay area clinton supporters are a lot more interested in the money trump has already made. >> welcome, everyone, to our press conference. >> reporter: just because hillary clinton is almost sure to carry california in the presidential election, that's not stopping her supporters in san francisco from talking smack about donald trump. today the topic was taxed. >> every major presidential candidate for the past 48 years has released their tax returns. that's a tradition. >> reporter: but trump defies political tradition on a daily basis and he has incensed his democratic opponents by not releasing his tax returns. today a pair of cpas, who also happen to be clinton loyalists, called on him to reveal his personal financial information. >> every taxpayer has the right to keep their tax return private but not every taxpayer is running to be president of the united states. >> reporter: they say tax
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returns reveal a lot about a person, from charitable contributions to business relationships. >> the public has a right to know what type of interest, potential conflict of interest, priorities that our next president may or may not have. >> reporter: and while most here are willing to forgive hillary clinton for wanting to keep her e-mails from public view, they are calling on her opponent to be more transparent in his dealings. >> when you step up to serve our country in that capacity, you actually have to let go of some of the privileges of privacy that the rest of us enjoy. >> reporter: and while democrats are demanding to get a look at donald trump's tax figures, the real number that matters is 72. the number of days till the electionment in san francisco -- days till the election. in san francisco, john ramos, kpix 5. >> they say they're questioning the reason he wouldn't want to.
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we shall show switch gears. we had a good deal of sunshine in san francisco today, contrary to what's been happening much of the month. in fact by one measure the city hasn't been quite this cool in august since world war ii. if current trends continue for the next few days it will be the first august since 1942 the mercury has failed to top 70 degrees in san francisco which is something of a fail i suppose. the latest forecasts aren't showing much of a chance it will do anything like that by the end of the month on wednesday. on the other hand the east bay has certainly gotten a break with lots of sun, but without searing high temperatures. a new wildfire forcing evacuations in calaveras county right now. they're calling it the willow fire, broke out about five hours ago east of the gold country town of san andreas. it's exploded across 300 acres since then. the willow spring subdivision is being evacuated at this hour and people in parts of mountain ranch are being warned they
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could be next. a party balloon knocked out fire to more than 6,000 pg&e customers in the mission district this afternoon. service was out for an hour after the mylar balloon drifted in to electrical lines near 15th and shopwell. it happens more often than you might think. metallic balloons are responsible for hundreds of power outages across california each year. the problem has gotten so bad, an assemblyman from hayward has introduced legislation that would slap a statewide ban on some mylar balloons. some b.a.r.t. riders will soon have a chance to do a little bit of shopping while they're waiting for the train. they're partnering with transmart to attract local and national businesses as early as this december. prospective tenants include gear deli chocolates, dunkin' donuts, and oakland retailer, oaklandish. the plan is to launch the shops at the busiest stations first in san francisco and oakland. oakland unified is starting
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the school year with something it hasn't had in years. a nearly full roster of teachers. school officials announcing today they only have four open teaching positions, all of which will likely be filled soon. this time last year there were 70 vacancies. the district hired 400 teachers leading up to the academic year. they say they did it by boosting outreach and signing bonuses. rescues don't get any closer than this. the officer who pulled off a last second say with an oncoming train bearing down. >> brazen thieves take off with a monster truck, hauling enough energy drinks to power a mission to the moon. >> and a major headache for california fans of the dave matthews band. how a tangled cell phone charger tangled up concert traffic for miles. ,,,,
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narrator: it wasn't that long ago. years of devastating cutbacks to our schools. 30,000 teachers laid off. class sizes increased. art and music programs cut. we can't ever go back. ryan ruelas: so vote yes on proposition 55. reagan duncan: prop 55 prevents 4 billion in new cuts to our schools. letty muñoz-gonzalez: simply by maintaining the current tax rate on the wealthiest californians. ryan ruelas: no new education cuts, and no new taxes. reagan duncan: vote yes on 55. sarah morgan: to help our children thrive.
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some heart stopping surveillance video out of a train station in new jersey where a police officer pulled a man from the path of an oncoming train. a train is on the way, trying to get it off the tracks. there was just moments to spare, happened friday at a station in secaucus. you can see the man struggling against the attempts to help him, but the officer didn't give up, even when the train was right on top of him, and it pulled in to the station just one second after he pulled the man clear of the tracks. it's unclear exactly why the man was on the tracks to begin with. the transit officer victor ortiz is being hailed as a hero for the last second save. police are trying to solve a monster crime in southern california. reporter tom waite shows us thieves got away with a big rig pulling thousands of dollars of a different kind of fuel. >> reporter: they're among the most profitable sellers in convenience stores. such a hot commodity, someone was willing to pull off a monster heist, jacking this big rig and stealing more than $40,000 worth of the energy
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drinks from inside. >> you can't just hop in this truck and drive it. >> reporter: dennis cole owns the truck that was stolen. he says the pallet is full of monster energy drinks, loaded in to his truck on monday. dennis says the truck was parked in this lot where he rents a space so it could be driven out early the next morning. but the truck was not there. cole thinks whoever did this had a whole scheme in mind. >> they came and got the truck. they already had another truck sitting somewhere because they hurry up and ditched this truck, hooked the trailer on to that one. they had to go to another place where they could get to a trailer and off load it. then they ditched the trailer. >> reporter: police tracked down the cab and trailer in different cities in the inland empire, but all the product was gone. >> i'm a small company. i've worked 31 years to build this company. but when something like this happens, everything goes on hold, we don't get to haul our loads. >> reporter: the rig was stolen from the lot behind me here. as far as who took it, that suspect remains on the loose tonight, and what they plan to
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do with the energy drinks also remains a mystery. in corona, i'm tom wait, kpix 5. a tangled phone charger tangled up a long line of traffic headed for the dave matthews concert near san diego friday. police say a 19-year-old driver was on his way to the show in chula vista when the charger got tangled around his legs. when he tried to free himself, he plowed in to a utility pole, sending it toppling across the road. no one was hurt but the accident led to major delays for thousands of music fans heading to the concert. marine rescue groups are keeping a close eye on a humpback whale caught in a crab trap line off of central california coast. a whale watching tour spotted the large female on thursday feeding with a pod of several dozen off morro bay. the rope is wrapped around the whale's body and on to a buoy. they're trying to determine if she needs human help. let's introduce you to
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madeline, a tropical storm spinning in the eastern pacific and on its way to hawaii. this is something that's not going to be a big hurricane, it's going to be briefly elevated to hurricane status within 24 hours. you can see madeline sitting and spinning as it approaches hilo now, 885 miles east of the island, with winds only minimal, about 75 miles per hour. it will gain strength tomorrow and its track will lead it over the big island by sometime wednesday, early tuesday late. but by that time it will have some of the breath knocked out of it. nevertheless, a lot of rain and some winds and surf on the way for the hawaiian island chain. mount diablo, mild temperatures, 80 degrees in concord. in the city, mid 60s. 77 for livermore. 73 for santa rosa. tomorrow we'll cool down a little bit but all of these are incremental changes. low 80s inland tomorrow around the bay, near 70.
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parts of nation are sweltering. we're making due with mild temperatures all this week. look at that stream of subtropical moisture on the way. funnel of moisture working its way perhaps toward the north bay by tuesday when there could be a few lightning strikes tuesday. then in parts of the north bay we shall see. skies will greet us tomorrow morning. we've got a large swath of low clouds over the east bay shoreline. as the day goes on, things warm up, sun comes out and we have a few high clouds from that plume of moisture coming in from the pacific. here's what we're expecting in general, things pretty much the same. low clouds at the coast, mornings and nights. temperatures remain at the low 80s inland. it will be mild all week long. something shocking could be coming in tuesday. we'll see. overnight lows, mid 50s. sun up tomorrow morning, 22 minutes before 7:00 for your monday morning. last week of august. wow. that went fast. travel weather forecast heading out of the bay area, 93 at
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redding. heading to mendocino, i'd like to be heading to mendocino. 59 degrees. mostly cloudy skies. 98 at fresno. here are the numbers for the bay area per usual, below average by about 5 degrees or so. san francisco tomorrow, 65. oakland, 69. and associate 80 degrees tomorrow. still nice. south bay, upper 70s, low 80s. union city, 72 tomorrow. 74 at san mateo. east bay numbers will be in the low to mid 80s for monday. up in the north bay we'll see numbers mid 70s, low 80s in a few spots. for ukiah and clear lake, warmer still. 83 for st. helena. extended forecast, we'll be looking for numbers to be in the low 80s all week, near 70 around the bay, and the usual night in to early morning low clouds. so the numbers not particularly high. if you want to see high scoring, we have to go over to mr. o'donnell. >> record day for the giants in fact, but they've got to beat the weaker teams of the national league if they expect to get in the playoffs. no signs of panic for san
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parade today in silicon val a festive pride parade toda silicon valley. people with colorful costum and banners moved along mart a festive pride parade in silicon valley. banners moved along market street and downtown san jose. the procession ended at a spot where a festival was going on featuring reggae and latin music. this year's theme was diversity, inclusion, and success. the pride parade has been going on for 41 years. great to see. the giants took on the braves and it's nice they won, considering the braves aren't having a great year. >> the braves have the worst record in baseball, in fact. while you're playing against the weaker teams in the league and the dodgers are playing against the best, this is normally the time you want to take advantage. you want to gain ground in the
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standings. we'll tell you what happened. coming off his worst start of the year, madison bumgarner and the giants needed a bounce back game and series win against the worst team in baseball. the giants hoping to stop the water from coming in that ship. bumgarner allowed three runs in seven innings but got plenty of run support. bottom of the 2nd, joe panik, huge game for him. 1-0 with the solo shot. same score, bottom 4. another one in to right field. two-run shot. made it 4-1. panik finishes the game. three hits, four runs batted in. giants made at&t look like coors field today. three batters later, denard span in on the fun. that's his 9th home run. a 5-1 giants lead. now the braves did come back to cut it to 5-3, then brandon crawford triples alley, scoring buster posey from 1st, and it's a three-run game once again. then two batters later, parker is called up from triple-a before the game. gets another triple. bringing home two more runs. parker had three runs batted in.
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giants finish the game with 11 extra base hits, four of them were triples. they win 14-4 to take 2-3 from the series. vin scully hoping to call some playoff games before he calls it quits. no score, bottom of the 8th between the dodgers and cubs. bases loaded. adrian gonzalez looks like he grounds in to the inning ending out. ben zobrist covers 2nd base too late. everybody is safe. the dodgers win 1-0. the as were in st. louis where they could help the giants out in the wildcard race. top of the 4th, davis, his 34th home run of the year. two-run shot. as lead 2-0. playing great baseball against good, good teams. 2-1 in the 3rd. stephen vogt connects his 11th home run of the year. 3-1 blast. 5-1. four runs batted in. bottom of the 7th. cardinals down 5-3. alberto rosario doubles down the right field line, scoring garcia. the lead is cut to one.
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rosario thrown out at 3rd to end the inning. next inning, danny valencia doubles home marcus siemian giving oakland a lead. valencia 3-4 in the game. they take two of three in the series. andrew triggs picks up his first major league win. with the dodgers and giants both winning, l.a. copies their two-game lead in the west. but the cardinals lost and the giants now lead st. louis by two and a half in the first wildcard spot. scoreless against south korea, bottom of the 4th, conner rush drives in the first run of the game with a bloop single. 2-1. first time new york has won the series since the johnson administration. nfl. sort of a jekyll and hyde game last night for the raiders who had fireworks on offense against the titans. defense, not so much.
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60-yard pickup by sharp. demarco murray finished the drive with a short touchdown. titans racked up 336 yards of total offense and won 27-14. jack del rio not too thrilled with the defensive effort. >> i take it real personal. i don't know what to tell you. i don't have a good alibi for it. it bothers me. you can't be a great defense doing that. so we have intentions. we've said our intentions. we're not shying away from that. we're not backing down from that. but it's got to be a whole hell of a lot better than what i saw tonight. bethpage hosting the final round of the barclays. rickie fowler came in to the day with a one-shot lead but barely gets it out of the bunker. he double bogeyed the hole and was 3 over for the day.
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patrick reed chips in from off the green, went on to win by one shot. his first win of the year. he takes over the lead in the fedex cup standings. brad keselowski nearly took out a member of his pit crew trying to get out of there. elk grove's kyle larson, front row, both looking for their first career sprint cup victory. it's larson who gets the great jump to take the lead. from there larson would cruise to his first ever nascar win. the beer is flowing in the sacramento area tonight. the victory clinches the 24-year-old a spot in the sprint cup chase which starts in three weeks. coming up tonight on game day, more of the kaepernick stuff. we'll break it down. what does it mean for colin kaepernick's future with the 49ers? the bay area news crew will join me to take it down. >> i think it's important to note you posted his entire news conference on your facebook page and our web page. it is in its entirety. >> i think it's important to see
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colin kaepernick's comments in their totality because you can take one bite here, one bite there, and not really understand the point he's trying to make. i'm not defending him but i thought his eloquence was impressive. i thought it was to the point -- i thought he was passionate. but you have to see the comments to really make your own judgment. >> what's available beyond the sound byte. >> kpix.com. chicago police make a pair of arrests in a tragic shooting that killed the cousin of an nba star and left four young kids without a mom. >> while their boss took a day off from the campaign trail, donald trump's team was all over the sunday talk shows trying to help america make sense of his immigration plan. >> ever wonder what life would be like on mars? those folks can probably tell you after one extraordinary year they spent right here on earth. oppressed." ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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will you continue to sit? >> i'll continue to sit and stand with the people being oppressed. >> our top story tonight, colin kaepernick making a stand, saying he'll continue to boy caught the national anthem at 49ers game. today after practice at levi's stadium he said he made his decision based on what he believes are social injustices, adding he feels he's been racially profiled by police in the past. northbound lanes of highway 101 in belmont were closed for much of the early morning today after a chp officer opened fire on a man who allegedly charged at him with a knife. officers say they first tried to use a taser to detain the man but that didn't work. in the hospital tonight in critical condition. several agencies are now investigating what led up to the
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shooting. donald trump back in the bay area tomorrow for a high dollar fundraiser in napa. on the eve of his arrival, clinton supporters in san francisco called on him to release his tax returns. they say the public has a right to know what type of interest and priorities a potential president has. trump took the day off from the campaign trail but his team was hard at work. >> wendy gillette says his talk of immigration was the focus today. >> reporter: donald trump's campaign manager told john dickerson on cbs's face the nation the republican presidential nominee has not changed his stance on undocumented immigrants. >> first, there's still no amnesty. secondly, he's building that wall. that's been the centerpiece of his candidacy and vision from the beginning and it's not changed one inch. >> reporter: what has changed seemingly is his position on 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the u.s. trump's original plan laid out
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in november called for a deportation force to help send them out of the country. but in recent days, his campaign team has talked about what they've called a more humane approach. though they say trump's views have not shifted. >> what you heard him describe there in his usual plain spoken american away was a mechanism, not a policy. you're going to hear more detail in the next two weeks. >> reporter: on the democratic side, the chair of the party defended hillary clinton after trump called her a bigot last week. >> donald trump has not held an event in the black community. he's not gone to a black church as hillary clinton has done. >> reporter: the democratic presidential nominee spent the day fundraising in the hamptons. trump held no public events. wendy gillette, cbs news, new york. two brothers suspected of shooting dwyane wade's cousin in chicago are behind bars. darren and darwin sorrel were charged with first degree murder today. police believe they killed
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32-year-old nykea aldridge friday. the mother of four was pushing a baby carriage on the south side of chicago when she was hit for a bullet meant for someone else. >> nykea aldridge registered her child friday afternoon. she wasn't aware she'd be the subject of national headlines just hours later. she wasn't aware that her short life would stand as an example for what is a clear failure in the criminal justice system here in chicago. >> police say both of the suspects are career criminals who were out on parole at the time of the shooting. two people are dead, dozens more hurt after a bus carrying flood recovery volunteers collided with a fire truck in louisiana. fire truck was blocking traffic on an elevated highway near new orleans while police investigated an early accident. the bus then hit the truck and other cars knocking three firefighters in to the water below. a fire chief and a passenger in a car doyed. state police say the bus driver
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is an undocumented immigrant from honduras and he did not have a driver's license. also near new orleans, dive teams are searching lake pontchartrain for the wreckage of a small plane and two missing men. the cessna went down in the murky water last night. a private yacht picked up a woman who survived the crash but two men were also onboard and they haven't been found. at one point today police said the wreckage had been located. turns out the debris was not related to the crash. pope francis says he'll soon visit areas devastated by the earthquake in italy. >> speaking from st. peter's square, the pontiff offered words of hope and encouragement for survivors of the quake, saying he wants to bring comfort to all those who have lost loved ones. italy began burying its dead yesterday. the death toll has climbed to 291. scientists in hawaii now have a pretty good idea about what life on mars would be like.
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six of them just completed a year-long mars simulation. they lived inside that dome in isolation, they could only go outside while they were wearing space suits. officials say the simulation was the second longest of its kind. nasa founded the study. it was run through the university of hawaii. >> so they were in hawaii. >> yes, at the top of the mountain. so i guess that's sort of mars-like. still to come, it was the sex assault case that made national head lines and sparked a vicious backlash against a bay area judge. now the ex-stanford swimmer at the center of it all could walk out of jail a free man in just days. >> it's a story you first saw here on kpix 5, exhausted san francisco police officers camping out between shifts. the move the city could make this week to get them out of those rvs. narrator: it wasn't that long ago. years of devastating cutbacks to our schools. 30,000 teachers laid off. class sizes increased. art and music programs cut. we can't ever go back.
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ryan ruelas: so vote yes on proposition 55. reagan duncan: prop 55 prevents 4 billion in new cuts to our schools. letty muñoz-gonzalez: simply by maintaining the current tax rate on the wealthiest californians. ryan ruelas: no new education cuts, and no new taxes. reagan duncan: vote yes on 55. sarah morgan: to help our children thrive.
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bay area this week. all eyes will be on the san clara county jail friday.. to see if brock turn
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time for a look at some of the big stories happening in and around the bay area this week. >> all eyes will be on the santa clara county jail friday to see if brock turnen walks out the door. he's sentence for sexual assault. it's standard practice to release county inmates who serve 50% of their time as long as they keep a clean disciplinary record. turner had faced up to 14 years for assaulting the victim while she was unconscious. critics want the judge who handed down the six-month sentence removed from the bench. the santa clara city council has some officers so overworked, they resorted to sleeping in rvs outside of police headquarters. mandatory overtime forces them to work up to 17-hour days and some say they simply don't have time to go home between shifts. tuesday's vote could shift 47 detectives back on to regular street patrol to help with the shortage but at least one council member says it's just a
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short-term fix. >> we need to offer our officers more money. there are many things i think we can do, declaring emergency isn't going to get the police officers out of their mobile homes. it's actually going to exacerbate the problem. >> mayor sam liccardo says the long-term solution is for voters to pass measure f. the proposal on the november ballot would boost officer pay to hire and retain more police. repair work is set to begin thursday on a marin county road that's been closed for months. the fairfax road was damaged in a mud slide last march. part of the shoulder gave way. repairs along the 8-mile stretch should be finished by november. we'll get our first look tomorrow at muni's fleet of the future. the first of the vehicles will be unveiled in sacramento. muni plans to roll out the new fleets starting sometime next year. community college leaders from across california will meet on oakland tuesday to try to figure out a way to offer
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tuition-free education statewide. lieutenant governor gavin newsom will also attend the conference aimed at developing strategies to cover the cost. and a bill to prevent children from being left behind on the school bus is headed to the governor's desk. it would require every school and youth bus to be equipped with an alarm that goes off whenever the engine is turned off. to turn it off, the driver would have to walk to the back of the bus and would presumably see any children who might still be onboard. state lawmakers are set to vote tomorrow on the overtime pay hike for farm workers. agricultural workers only qualify if they work for more than 10 hours a day. the new bill would bring them even with other california workers who get time and a half after eight hours. supporters say it's all about equality that's long overdue. >> it would finally end in california the ugly and disgraceful 78-year exclusion of farm workers from the same eight-hour overtime protections that all other american workers have enjoyed since the 1930s.
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>> growers warn the change could force them to cut workers' hours. an earlier version of the bill introduced in may fell short of passing by three votes. amazon is trying out something that could turn out to be pretty popular with its employees. a 30-hour work week. right now a few dozen people are involved in the pilot program. they'll work monday through thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. additional flex hours will get the weekly total to 30. still to come, a painful struggle for millions of americans. >> i woke up with my arms hurting and i thought i was having a heart attack. >> the promising new drug being tested at stanford that could soon help the ease for arthritis sufferers. >> as we have a look outside, plenty of sun around the bay area. we'll see if that's going to change as we head in to the work week. it's all coming up as we head in to autumn this week. that was fast.
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charles osgood is saying "goodbye." it's that good morning to -- he said good morning to us every day. now charles osgood is saying goodbye. he announced he's stepping down as the host of cbs sunday morning. >> for years now people, even friends and family have been asking me why i keep doing this, considering my age. i am pushing 84. it's just that it's been such a joy doing it. who wouldn't want to be the one who gets to introduce thesis
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terrific storytellers, and the producers and writers and others who put this wonderful show together. i want to thank all of them and all of you, our still growing audience, for all of your support and encouragement. it's been a great run. >> they don't make them like that anymore, do they? charles osgood has been a reporter and anchor since the water cronkite days in '71. he's hosted since '94. osgood will anchor his final television broadcast september 25th. but as he likes to say, we'll still see him on the radio. he's continuing his osgood file on cbs radio. the cdc estimates by 2040 nearly 78 million americans will be diagnosed with some form of arthritis. we found out a new drug being tested at stanford could soon provide much needed release. >> reporter: deborah holmes knew something wasn't right. >> i woke up with my arms hurting and i thought i was
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having a heart attack. >> reporter: it wasn't her heart. testing revealed deborah had rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder that causes the body's immune system to literally attack itself. a patient's joins, skin, eyes, and even heart can be affected. >> very painful. >> reporter: and very debilitating. r.a. is a progressive disease often with a grim outcome. patients have a 50% chance of becoming crippled within 20 years. >> we saw improvement in their stiffness. why-- we saw improvement in their swelling. we saw improvement in their ability to function. >> reporter: more than 500 patients across 24 countries took the r.a. drug for nearly six months and most, like deborah, felt much better. >> i think it's somewhere
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between another step and a breakthrough. >> reporter: it's an inhibitor and works by interfering with enzymes that signal an inflammatory response in the body. but doctors caution it's not a cure. >> the disease is definitely still there. but it's a lot more manageable. i don't have the swelling that i once did. >> reporter: still, deborah says since the trial she no longer needs her crutches or a handful of pills to get by. she's still taking it daily. >> i'm happy about that. i'm very, very thankful. i can smell the roses. i can enjoy it. >> it still needs usda approval. the drug's manufacturer has filed for it. >> let's hold out good thoughts that it all works out. today sunshine around the bay area for a change. all burned back to the shoreline quite early until things warmed
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up a little bit. the wind shaking a little bit. oakland, 69. san jose, 72. santa rosa, 73. high pressure is well offshore. pretty much abeam san francisco. but that low that you see to the left central portion of your screen, the high to the south, look at the perfect funnel in between them, guiding subtropical moisture toward the bay area. we'll see high clouds tomorrow. potentially see maybe dry lightning strikes on tuesday in the north bay. we shall see. all coming off of subtropical moisture that's spawned the tropical storm in the eastern pacific. for us we just have low clouds to worry about tomorrow morning. look at the high clouds coming up for parts of the day. going to be interesting tomorrow. for the most part. the coming week, which sees us go from summer to autumn, at least not astronomical autumn but kind of the loose definition is autumn kind of begins on
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september 1st and it's feeling like it around here. usually mild weather will continue all week long. tomorrow san francisco hit 65. concord, 84. san jose, 80 degrees. oakland, 69. down in the south bay, numbers will be in the mid 70s with warmer readings in cupertino and los gatos and morgan hill. east bay tomorrow, low 80s will do it for the most part. north bay, usual clouds in the morning. then high clouds will be increasing in the afternoon, leading to -- we shall see. 79 in sonoma. 81 in novato. 78, santa rosa. still very warm, ukiah, 83 degrees. 87 degrees at clear lake. tomorrow afternoon when you see those high clouds floating overhead, you can think wow, a tropical storm out there that this is all coming from. extended forecast, we'll be looking for the clouds in the morning. unusual in terms of high clouds and maybe a lightning strike in the north bay tuesday. we'll see. temperatures, low 80s inland and
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fairly cool-ish along the shoreline. that's weather. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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breathtaking scenery americs to offer. the been thousands of people spent the weekend outdoors enjoying some of the most breathtaking scenery america has to offer. the national parks have been offering free admission all weekend to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the park service. a summer tour of the national parks holds special meaning for one photographer. >> after two decades of traveling the world, he's back home telling america's story. >> we all have the compulsion to interact with the world in some way, to do something with our experience, whether it's to write in your journal or paint
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something. >> reporter: for david gutenfelder, that interaction has been through a camera lens. for the past 20 years he's been making up for lost time. >> i grew up in iowa. i'd never been anywhere. i didn't have a passport. never seen the ocean. i really had the hunger to go and see something for myself. >> reporter: in his 20s, he went to tanzania to study. he was planning to be there for a matter of months. he stayed for seven years, covering the rwandan genocide and nearly every other topic that came up for the associated press. after that, a decade in the middle east, including war zones in iraq and afghanistan, where gutenfelder adopted the crazy concept of taking professional photos on amateur devices. >> i published them, and people said is he crazy? >> this is five, six years ago. >> this was 2011 in afghanistan.
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why would this guy take a phone to the front lines of the war in afghanistan? you fast forward to now, the argument seems absurd. there's a half a billion people using instagram. everyone is a photographer now. our country is more visually literate than ever before. >> reporter: but it wasn't until gutenfelder was in pyongyang, north korea that his photography made him famous. >> no one ever really worked there, never really seen it. >> how is the north korea that you saw different from what the perception of what north korea is? >> it's a rough, tough, isolated, controlled place. but while all that is true, all the things we think, at the same time because of that, we think in america there's no life there at all. it's like a facade, that there's nothing, it's the truman show and behind it there's absolutely nothing there. through photography i realized
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there were real people with real lives, real people trying to live like everybody else in the world. >> i feel a little bit like rediscovering my own place, my own home. >> reporter: in the summer of 2014, after two decades of constant travel around the globe, he accepted a new assignment with national geographic, to photograph yellowstone. >> this is my entire reason for coming home 20 years after i left, was to come home and photograph the national park. i'd never photographed in america. i'd never been to yellowstone. i'd never seen a bison. i'd never seen a bear. >> if you're coming up with a reason to come home after 20 years, the national park is a pretty good reason. >> yeah. it really felt like the perfect homecoming. i went pretty far flung to try and do some good for the world, i guess. i went pretty far away to try and find purpose for myself as a
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photographer. so that's been i think the thing i've been thinking about the most, which is photographing my own country and the things that are wrong and right about my own country. >> reporter: since then he's photographed his family's fourth of july party in iowa, covered the trump campaign in florida, and president obama's visit to yosemite for the 100th anniversary of the national park service. >> this is something that america can be very, very proud of. and this is something i'm proud of. i wanted to celebrate this and to try and explain what's important about it. and to try and convince others how important it is to have this kind of place and protect it. >> but it does have the wanderlust bug. he's home but he's not done traveling. he's going to feature cuba in the novit of national gegraphic.
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firefighters appear to be getting a hand on the willow fire east of san andreas. it's 15% contained and evacuations are being lifted. no word yet on how that fire started. >> we appreciate you watching. 60 minutes is next. >> for news throughout the evening, the latest always on cbssf.com. we'll see you back here at 11:00. ,,,,
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captioning funded by cbs and ford. we go further, so you can. >> kroft: the man in the gray coat with the german accent is an undercover investigator posing as the representative of a fictitious african minister who wants to bring millions in questionable funds into the u.s. >> if it's not in his name... >> yes. >> then he needs what is known as a straw man. >> kroft: it's part of a hidden camera sting operation to see how willing american lawyers might be to offer advice. >> so we have to scrub it at the beginning, if we can, or scrub it at the intermediary location that i mentioned. >> there is a clear pitch consistently presented in every one of these tapes of what amounts to an incredible number of red flags that scream corruption. >> kroft: dirty money? >> dirty money.

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