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from south carolina... a shooting at an elementary school. right now, armed anderson county sheriff's deputies we are following breaking news from south carolina. say shooting at an elementary school. right now armed anderson county sheriff's deputies are on the scene. this is at townville elementary school. according to local deputies, one person is in discussion did i and a life-flight helicopter
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has just landed there. two students were shot and one teacher. two students were take to the hospital by life-flight. we don't know the status of their injuries. we are continuing to monitor the situation. flames are racing uphills and smoke is billowing as firefighters battle the "loma fire" in the south bay but there is some positive news today. kpix 5's maria medina is live in the santa cruz mountains with the update. >> reporter: you can see just how big this fire is with the plume of smoke behind me. we are expected to get an update from firefighters any minute now but what we do know is that the fire stands at 2,250 acres. it's only 10% contained. but a bit of good news this morning. firefighters say it did not grow overnight. they say more than 300 homes are being threatened and one home has burned so far and six
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outbuildings. >> i voluntarily evacuated myself. >> reporter: with the "loma fire" looming closer, tom ran from his home well before it fell under mandatory evacuations. >> the fact that it was getting closer and closer was, to me, a warning sign, not a danger sign but a warning sign. >> reporter: with little to no wind, cal fire says the "loma fire" took them by surprise as it multiplied in size doubling the first day in just hours. by the second day it had grown to more than 2,000 acres. the smoke could be seen for miles. >> they are right in getting us out of there. we shouldn't be there. >> how do you pick and choose what to put in your car when evacuateing? >> that's a good question. >> reporter: he brought a tv and radio to the nearby church- turned-evacuation center. hundreds of homeowners were ordered to evacuate as "loma
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fire" tears through the dry terrain, a waiting game for them to get the word they can return home hoping it wasn't in the "loma fire"'s destructible path. >> i would like the fire to be out before i go back. >> reporter: firefighters have been attacking this fire from the air for the last several hours. now, they say that the cooler weather has helped with the firefight. it won't be contained until monday. live in the santa cruz mountains, maria medina, kpix 5. cooler temperatures may be helping firefighters. roberta is here with a look. >> before we share with you just how cooool the temperatures have dropped today, we like to share with you the slate of haze as we look toward the loma prieta area. this is why we are anticipating moderate air quality through the santa clara valley through the south-central bay, east bay along the rim of the bay into
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the northern portions of our area. the cooldown began yesterday and today we have additional meltdown in these temperatures anywhere between 13 and 24 degrees cooler than on monday. meanwhile, the winds are on the other side of the story here pretty much all over the place variable to 15 miles per hour. winds are more consistent out of the north west to 15. that's not a good thing. the winds have been favorable for firefighting efforts. these winds are going to increase tonight. will be even more vigorous, more gusty by the end of the workweek. we'll talk about that and the potential of rain showers here in the bay area. that forecast is still minutes away. michelle? in petaluma, we are learning the cost of a devastating grass fire off highway 101. the total loss is estimated at $1.5 million. the fire broke out at around 3:15 yesterday afternoon and spread fast to trees and homes.
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it destroyed four homes and damaged 10 others. two people had minor injuries and one cat died in the fire. today, the bay area toll authority is hammering out a plan to fund a bart project to give people in livermore better commuting options. the mtc is considering taking money from bay area bridge tolls to put toward the livermore expansion project. that's about $1.6 million. but a lot of bay area cities are pushing for more bart stops. the main goal is to figure out how to reduce bay area traffic. today in oakland crews will repair security cameras in cesar chavez park. kpix 5 reported on the problem after a young man was killed in front of the broken cameras. the city has since purchased $3,000 worth of equipment to replace the surveillance system that was damaged in a flood. more parks and rec centers are on the list of places where cameras need repairs as well as places where dummy cameras now stand. the city plans to install
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functioning cameras in those spots as well. new at noon, the man accused in a bizarre high- profile kidnapping out of vallejo is set to change his plea to guilty tomorrow. matthew muller's attorney says his client will change his plea from not guilty in exchange for a possible lighter sentence. the 39-year-old had been charged with kidnapping after the march 2015 abduction of 30- year-old denise huskins. you may remember it as the "gone girl" case. vallejo police initially called it a hoax, of the department later apologized but faces a civil rights lawsuit. city leaders in san jose are taking up gun control measures today looking for a plan to secure and track weapons. the city's rules and open government committee proposed requirements including keeping guns locked up in the home and reporting lost or stolen firearms. vendors could also be required to track ammunition sales. anger is growing near san diego after police shot and killed a black man.
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officers now say 30-year-old alfred was not armed with a gun. we have a report on how it unfolded. >> you killed my brother! [ screaming ] >> reporter: video taken moments after the shooting shows a distraught woman who is identified as the man's sister. [ screaming and crying ] she said she called police for help and told them her brother was mentally ill and unarmed. officers confirmed they received that information and when they arrived at the scene they say the man was acting erratically and none compliant. >> he still won't get his hand out of his pocket walking all over the parking lot. >> reporter: this shows the moment before the shooting. >> at one point the mail rapidly drew an object from his front pants pocket, placed both hands together on it and extended rapidly toward the officer taking what and to be a shooting stance. >> reporter: one officer discharged a taser while simultaneously another opened fire. police have not said what the object the man pulled out was.
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but they now know it wasn't a gun. >> they didn't say anything. he didn't hear no rights, he had no rights, being that he was a black man he automatically had no rights. they shot him 5 times and he is mentally challenged. >> reporter: tensions intensified at the scene as a growing crowd of people demanded answers. but police are urging calm. the names of the two officers have not yet been released but we do know that they both have 20 years on the force. they are veteran officers. and they are now on administrative leave. the local police department here is conducting their own homicide investigation that will be reviewed by the local district attorney's office and the fbi. [ non-english language ] , cbs news, el cajon, california. to campaign 2016. hillary clinton is joining an old rival to try to boost her support among millennials while donald trump makes several stops in the midwest. craig boswell is tracking both candidates from the white
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house. >> reporter: donald trump court polish-americans during a morning campaign stop in chicago. >> the polish people are great people. a trump administration will be a true friend to poland and to all polish-americans. >> reporter: hillary clinton is in new hampshire this afternoon for a joint appearance with former democratic rival vermont senator bernie sanders. clinton's emails were again the focus of a hearing on capitol hill where fbi director james comey defended his decision not to prosecute her for mishandling classified emails while she was secretary of state. >> if anybody else had done this like a soldier or serviceman who did virtually the same thing, um, they would have been prosecuted and were but not hillary clinton. and that's a double standard. >> they would be disciplined. they would be in big trouble in the fbi if you did this. you would not be prosecuted. that wouldn't be fair. >> reporter: the campaign for clinton and trump are still spinning monday night's debate [chuckling] and dealing with some of the fallout. for trump, the fallout continued after he commented tuesday about a former miss universe. he said alicia machado gained a
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massive amount of weight and that it was a real problem. >> what we never have seen before really is a presidential nominee with some regularity attacking private citizens. >> reporter: trump has rallied today in iowa and wisconsin. craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. >> stern words from the secretary of state to russia today. the state department says during a call to russia's foreign minister john kerry threatened to cut off all contact with moscow over syria. that is, unless the russian and syrian government attacks in aleppo ends. kerry expressed concern over the attacks on hospitals, water supplies and other civilian infrastructure in aleppo. the u.s. reportedly plans to send additional troops to iraq! sources told the "associated press" an unknown number of servicemen will be deployed to help reclaim mosul from muslims. mosul is the second largest city. an official announcement is expected today.
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dignitaries from around the world are mourning israel's warrior for peace. former israeli leader shimon peres died after a massive stroke two weeks ago. critics call the 93-year-old a dreamer as he worked tirelessly for peace in the middle east. he received the nobel peace prize in 1994 after he secretly helped broker the oslo interim peace accords with the palestinians. a funeral is thursday. a live look in san francisco where the state treasurer is set to make a major announcement regarding the wells fargo bank scandal. the details next. >> plus, claims that it's not just wells fargo using shady practices. why some say it's industrywide. >> and blackberry calls it quits in the smartphone game. where the company says it will focus its business instead. ,,
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since he look at san francisco city hall.. where california hn chiang new fallout for wells fargo this noon. this is a live look at san francisco's city hall where california state treasurer john chiang is set to make an announcement. the san francisco-based bank was recently fined $185 million over its last scandals. he called the scandals, a legal and ethical outrage that cannot go unpunished. he is expected to announce a host of sanctions that include suspending investments by the treasurers office in all wells fargo securities. employees are accused of opening more than 2 million fraudulent accounts to boost sales numbers. wells fargo now says it's getting rid of retail banking sales goals by the end of the year and it's firing more than 5,000 employees for opening the fraudulent accounts. but as omar villafranca shows us, this may be a symptom of a
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larger problem in the banking industry. >> i accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business. >> reporter: john stumpf was contrite last week as lawmakers quizzed him on wells fargo's hyperaggressive sales tactics. oscar gashes sa was a personal banker for a chase bank outside dallas. garza says aggressive sales tactics aren't just a problem at wells fargo. >> deceptive sales trade practices is across the industry. it's systemic. it is not specific to any branch. >> reporter: garza says he made under $12 an hour and that the only way to make extra cash was to meet certain sales goals set by managers even if that meant signing up customers for financial tools they didn't want. were they sales goals or quotas? did they have to be made? >> they were quotas. they had to be met. there were consequences for not meeting them, termination. >> reporter: he claims the manager in his branch was aware
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employees used questionable ids to open accounts. >> never a direct order but there was definitely, um, i'm going to turn a blind eye. do you what you need to do to meet that quota. >> reporter: a spokesman for chase bank disputed some of garza's claims telling cbs news we don't have formal quotas that if not met would result in termination adding any manager who would encourage illegal activity and create a negative culture would be terminated. >> they have to sell services they can at all costs. >> reporter: judy conte works at the national employment law project which compiled a report on aggressive bank sales tactics. it cited bankers from a variety of financial institutions all with similar stories saying managers pushed workers to meet almost impossible goals and to ignore it when consumers say no. omar villafranca, cbs news, dallas. and let's take a live look at the big board and see how stocks are doing. you can see the dow is up about
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83 points. a big shift for blackberry. it will stop making smartphones internally to focus on software. instead development of its phones will be left to blackberry partners. while popular in the '90s, they struggled to keep up after the iphone was introduced in 2007. you may have felt some shaking in santa clara county this morning. a small 3.2 quake was centered along the california areas fault near mount hamilton 10.5 miles east of downtown san jose. let's check the weather with roberta. >> let's see what's shaking in the weather department today. hi, everybody! good afternoon. this is it! it's the return of the marine layer. we're able to pick it up from our transamerica pyramid view. you can see alcatraz in the foreground but not angel island. we have blue skies above that. we have temperatures responding to the sunshine. it is 72 degrees in santa rosa
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after dipping this morning to 46 degrees. it's in the low 60s in san francisco. 84 degrees in livermore. yesterday we realized a high temperature there of 99 degrees. charlie raines one of our faithful weather watches in vallejo says it's 77 degrees there and it's a nice day. thanks, charlie. you're pretty spot on. we do, however, have a bit of a haze inversion layer across the bay area. i'll share that with you momentarily. but right now here's what you need to know. clouds are lining the seashore. we definitely have cooler temperatures today with the hazy skies. and we're going to see cooler temperatures each day all the way through friday. here is your air quality report. and due to the "loma fire," we have moderate air quality from the santa clara valley looking all the way up into the north bay. the return of this right here, the marine layer roughly about 800 feet deep rolled in with it some cooler air mass pushing on short, temperatures coming down 10 degrees away from the bay. futurecast, i want to you play along at home. by tonight, let's say 7:00, we see the return of the stratus,
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lining the san mateo coast pushing back onshore. 6:00 tomorrow morning, we wake up with areas of fog. and then watch what happens way over here. planning out a little bit early but computer models suggest an area of low pressure dropping out of the gulf of alaska pulling down some cooler air mass and with it, some precipitation. we are looking at anywhere from a tents to i aquarter inof -- a tenth to a quarter inch of rain in the north bay mountains sunday afternoon into the evening. we have a slight chance just south of the golden gate bridge on your football sunday. but today, for midweek, 60s, 70s and 80s out of the triple digits into the high 80s and a few low 90s inland. there's your sunset tonight and by then we'll realize 91 but that's far inland. brentwood tracy oakley, discovery bay, mountain house, look at the autumn-like conditions on thursday, friday, saturday. are you ready for some football? >> yes! >> 49ers sunday, a chance of a sprinkle or two but meanwhile, tonight, big game at at&t park. the shark on the mound for the
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good guys. go giants. and dress in layers. >> why is that voice only for football not baseball be? >> are you ready for some football! [ laughter ] >> i have a lot to learn. [ laughter ] still ahead, getting a price break on the apple watch. why one company says it's going to foot some of the bill for its customers. ,, because she doesn't know that it kills 40,000 californians... every year. because she doesn't understand what cancer is. because she can't spell emphysema. because she is a butterfly, who fights fires. because she is my daughter, and the surgeon general says that raising tobacco taxes... is a proven way to make sure she never smokes.
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ell, today's tip of the day is going to be is sugar pumpkins. they are great to cook, higher in sugar content. they have thick walls which means they hold up well especially when it comes to baking. look, it's fall time. it's pumpkin time. probably going to be around even past halloween. and they are great to cook w pumpkins are loaded with nutritional value. they are a superfood! loaded with nutritional value. let's talk about selection and storage. when you buy them, nice and orange all the way around. and nice and heavy. thick walls. very, very important. when you bring them home, although they look like something that could last for a long time, pumpkins don't. shelf life is very short. i would say cool, dry place about a week any longer they will start to break down on you. pumpkins in the market. it's time. wait for this part of the season all year. a pumpkin pie and cookies are outstanding. 'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. nd always remember to eat
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fresh and stay healthy. health insurance giant aetna plans to subsidize apple watches for some of its customers. aetna is creating apps for the watch to help customers track prescriptions and talk to doctors. the company says it plans to work with employers to provide the watches at little to no cost. we'll be right back. am an iraq veteran. lowering drug prices. dollars to defeat it. am an iraq veteran. lowering drug prices. dollars to defeat it. vets" in voting yes on prop 61.
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elementary school shooting in south carolina.... sheriff's deputies say one teenager is in custo students w the latest on an elementary school shooting in south carolina. sheriff's deputies say one teenager is in custody, two students were flown to a hospital, one teacher was also injured. the kids' injuries do not appear life-threatening. the coroner is investigating a death about a mile and a half away. and we'll have more on kpix 5 news at 5:00. have a great day. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,, ,,
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>> ridge: i betrayed you. "betrayed" -- that's a big word. >> eric: what else would you call it, what you did to me? what you all did to me? you had a chance to support me, to come and witness me committing my life to another person, saying vows in front of god and family. family. there is no family. you weren't there. >> steffy: we did it because of quinn. we wanted you to see how we feel about her. >> eric: and what happened instead? i saw how you feel about me.

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