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clinton in the bay area addressing supporters. meanwhile, donald trump is firing back at his opponents and against allegation of sexual assault. good afternoon, i'm kenny choi. >> i'm michelle griego. kpix 5's anne makovec is live outside bill graham civic auditorium where hillary clinton is holding a fundraiser. >> reporter: she is inside the auditorium. the press is not allowed inside. she is inside and a lot of her supporters are still filing in. it's been a long line. the people are screened, sent through security, and filing into the auditorium for hillary clinton's fundraiser. you're taking a look at some of the video we took inside earlier today once she came in through a back door and was greeting her supporters.
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she spoke with some of her supporters at headquarters on van ness street here in san francisco. so that was a surprise to a lot of them when hillary clinton suddenly walked into her campaign headquarters here in the city. but organizers do say that this is the final event clinton will be holding in san francisco before the election november 8. >> we're making history here. >> reporter: thousands of people lined up outside of the bill graham civic auditorium for a noontime fundraiser for hillary clinton. >> just want her to get over the finish line. >> reporter: t turner's ticket today was a make-good from september. you remember when she got sick. she had to cancel her last san francisco public event. >> i'm excited because, you know, um, i'm interested in what she has to say. >> reporter: today those under age 35 only paid $45 to get in. >> are you cutting school? >> yes. >> reporter: her mom thought the lesson couldn't be beat. >> sees that example and role
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model and what she stands for. >> reporter: of course, clinton has been dealing with more fallout from emails leaked from her campaign. >> oh, i think that's passe. >> reporter: today it's clear, they are all with her. medias is not allowed. the attendees when they got an email they were directed not to talk reporters. some of them disobeyed that rule. anne makovec, kpix 5. >> thank you. donald trump doubling down on his attacks on clinton today while in west palm beach, florida, he denied the recent sexual assault allegations. the reports are a vicious coordinated attack by the mainstream media and democratic nominee. >> the corrupt political establishment is a machine. it has no soul.
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i knew these false attacks would come. i knew this day would arrive. it's only a question of when. and i knew the american people would rise above it and vote for the future they deserve. >> once again, trump called for clinton to be jailed. he had previously dismissed vulgar comments he made into 2005 about women as just locker room talk. developing news, two-car theft suspects are in custody in the east bay prompting authorities to lift a lockdown at a nearby high school. acalanes high school in lafayette was ordered to lock down after the suspect ditched this car by the campus. the suspects were found after officers and a k-9 went door to door in search of them. a live look outside right now. a few clouds in the sky ahead of our first rain. season. kpix 5's julie watts is here and julie, it could look different in a matter of hours. >> by this time yesterday [ sic ] i think we'll be in the thick of it seeing the front passing through the bay area late
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morning, early afternoon. certainly going to see some ponding on the roads, likely a little localized flooding with a lot of rain in a short amount of time. rain is still well north of the area. it's spreading south overnight into tomorrow. a high surf and flood advisory in effect for tomorrow. coastal flooding. ponding on the roads in the morning tomorrow. we'll time it out coming up in just a bit with our full forecast. back to you. >> thank you. across the bay area, pg&e crews are working to try to prevent power outages before the storm hits. kpix 5's maria medina reports from the santa cruz mountains. >> reporter: although pg&e crews are working around the bay area cutting vegetation around power poles, they are focusing here in the santa cruz mountains and, get this, they have a storm prediction model that tells them where all the dead trees are in our area. that's where trees or limbs are likely to fall or break during
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a storm and into power lines causing outages. they say with this storm, their model is showing the central coast and the north bay likely to have power outages. that's where they say they will have extra crews on standby. >> we're very concerned because we are experiencing record drought. a lot of these trees are dead -- dead or dying. in heavy rain and winds trees will come down causing outages and sometimes even fires. >> reporter: pg&e says they will activate their emergency centers once the storm rolls in and they get reports of damage meaning they will be working around the clock until everyone gets power back. in the santa cruz mountains, maria medina, kpix 5. >> we found more crews busy in mill valley. pg&e has nearly 700 crews cutting tree limbs around the bay area right now. new at noon, chopper 5 overhead about an hour and a half ago as crews tried to raise the boat that capsized into the bay over the weekend. this is about 100 yards off of
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pier 45 in san francisco. police tell us a salvage company will assess the 34-foot vessel and take it to an area where it can be inspected. the boat overturned and sank saturday afternoon sending 30 people on board into the water. sfpd marine units located it monday using sonar equipment. eight people were hospitalized after the incident including a 4-year-old boy. fire officials say all are doing well. u.p.s. is looking into an early- morning crash involving one of its big rigs in the south bay. two people were injured in that crash. it happened just before 5 a.m. on southbound highway 101 east of brokaw road in san jose. the truck collided with another car. and then overturned. two women had minor injuries. two lanes were blocked for several hours. shares of wells fargo are down more than 1.5% this hour. late yesterday the big bank's stop jumped up 2% in after-
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hours trading after ceo john stumpf resigned. wells fargo is accused of opening two million accounts without customer consent. still ahead, a music legend got an unexpected honor. ♪[ music ] for the times they are achangin' ♪ >> bob dylan has won a nobel prize. more coming up. >> plus reaching untapped talent around the country. how you could become one of cbs' next stars.
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>> today, bob dylan was award the nobel prize in literature for, quote, having created new poetic expressions within the great american song traditions. he won numerous other awards. cbs is launching a nationwide search to find talent for series and pilot. the drama diversity casting initiative is designed to reach untapped talent across the country. suzanne marquez reports it starts with an online audition that could land the next star in front of los angeles casting agents. >> reporter: every year, cbs hosts a comedy showcase in los angeles to spotlight diverse untapped talent. the audience is filled with managers, agents and casting executives from major networks and studios. >> some of the talent that we discovered from our sketch comedy showcase include kate mckinnon, justin hires jeffrey
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irons and others. >> reporter: it's how justin hires was hired which led to a cbs role in rush hour and now is cbs' reboot of macgyver. >> if it wasn't for the cbs comedy showcase i wouldn't have done rush hour, the tv series, and i wouldn't be doing macgyver right now. >> reporter: the cbs drama diversity casting initiative is designed to expand from comedy and reach untapped dramatic talent across the country. >> we want more diversity on cbs. and this really builds on other initiatives we have in diversity and this is just another step in diversifying the network both in front of the camera and behind. >> reporter: the focus is increasing opportunities for people who have been traditionally underrepresented. people of color, lgbtq actors and performers with disabilities. >> it's tough for people to get out to los angeles. so you're going to a lot of different places to make it easier for folks. >> we go out to the community. we find great talent and again to bring them to l.a. with the hope of creating a
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pipeline of new talent for our pilot season and long term to broaden the overall talent pool for cbs casting for pilots. >> reporter: actors 18 and older can submit a self-tape monologue at cbsdiversity.com now through friday, october 28. cbs casting executives will hold call-backs at various locations nationwide. starting in chicago november 2, 3 and 4. austin november 3 and 4. atlanta, november 7 and 8 and 9. and miami and san francisco november 10 and 11. >> what do the call-backs involve? >> this is going to be screen tests on one of the stages at cbs television studios at our radford lot and we are going to be putting the actors in real scenes and using those for the pilot process. >> reporter: they are planning to audition 14 to 16 actors with the benefits of exposure, access and opportunity. >> every casting office i walked into, you know, i had a certain amount of more confidence a little bit more belief in myself that i can do dis, i belong to be out here
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among all these other great and talented actors. >> reporter: in los angeles, suzanne marques, cbs news. >> to apply for the cbs drama diversity casting initiative, go to cbsdiversity.com. >> cbs also has a mentoring program that pairs aspiring writers with cbs righters for training and feedback -- writers for training and feedback and a directing initiative that gives candidates experience with some of the network's top directors. all right. time for a look at our weather. julie, you said you always wanted to be funny, huh? >> yeah. i always wished i could be funny. comedy was never my thing. thankfully, i have a long history with weather. i am a meteorologist and i can talk a lot about what's going on here in hi-def doppler. up north is most of the rain spreading south over the next24 hours and we'll see it for part of the morning commute. outside right now, temperatures are in the 60s near 70 degrees in concord right now. temperatures today will stay on the cool side. here is the storm. our first fall storm moving in
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and with it plenty of moisture. in fact, moisture plume very impressive already bringing heavy rainfall to the pacific northwest and the northern portion of the state. futurecast times it out for you and the models are slowing down a bit. the heaviest rain the front that is will move in through the northern portion of the bay area around 5 a.m. so just kicking off the morning commute. and then really make its way south about 9 a.m. right as the commute is winding down, we'll see that front heading through san francisco, portions of the east bay and then continues to spread south bringing showers around 3:00 when the kids are getting out of school to the north bay, although it is weakening and dissipating. then unsettled scattered showers and clouds continue friday into saturday. another round of rain, the next round of rain, the next front passes through, saturday into sunday during those overnight hours and then unsettled through monday. totals up to 4" for the north bay, up to 1" in the south bay. not everyone will see that much. overall this is a very impressive storm system especially this early in the
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season. in the meantime today we stay dry, mostly cloudy, temperatures topping out in the low 70s inland. 60s by the bay and along the coast. and your sunset tonight 6:34. sunrise tomorrow morning 7:18. by then i do suspect much of the bay area will be seeing showers. showers continue again the heaviest rain friday unsettled saturday, heavy rain again saturday into sunday but that system is weaker and then scattered showers unsettled monday, high pressure builds back in tuesday into wednesday and our temperatures build, as well. back over to you guys. all right, julie. thank you. the numbers are staggering. kidney disease kills more than 90,000 americans every year. that's more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. a northern california group is raising awareness now to fight kidney disease. allen martin is here with a special guest to explain. allen. >> reporter: michelle, kenny, i'm here with an author, many of you know him as host of forum on kqed radio but he is here to talk about the national kidney foundation's 28th annual author's luncheon coming up, kpix 5 a proud sponsor of that.
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thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> it's a big fundraiser. very important. you have a line-up of tremendous authors, such as yourself but enough about you. let's talk about some of the -- [ laughter ] -- as the joke goes. >> we'll let that adjective slide, tremendous. it's a singular extraordinary event. i think it's the best literary luncheon in town and the nation. they manage to round up excellent authors of different stripes. we have an astronaut, a woman who wrote a book on persian cooking, a child's author -- child's books, we have jerry rice and calvin -- >> fantastic. >> famous from the new yorker. and i have been doing it a number of years and i can't tell you how important it is in terms of renal research and helping with kidney disease. they raise an extraordinary amount of money and it's fun. it's a great events. >> the details are there. we'll give the website in just a minute because it's coming up on the 22nd. you're there because it's a book about jewish humor and
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what it all means. why tackle the subject of jewish humor? >> i wanted to find out why jews are so funny. [ laughter ] >> they have been dominant for many years in america. it's almost like a business that they've been really leading. almost say hegemo nic if you were an academic like me. i wondered why. it's not just a joke book. it's a book about humor. >> it's doing well. >> doing well. much better than i would have expected. second to an obscure figure by the name of bruce springsteen. >> who's that guy? >> michael, we look forward to the luncheon. thanks for being with us. >> you can find ticket information. the author's luncheon at kidney nc o.co organize. we'll be right back. ,,,,
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tobacco companies knew that smoking kills. and they lied about it for decades. now they're lying about prop 56. if you don't use tobacco, you don't pay. smokers pay - their fair share of the 3 billion in health care costs all taxpayers are paying now. and there's one more thing: our kids. every state that's significantly raised tobacco taxes has reduced youth smoking. please. vote yes on 56. if we can save even a few lives, it's worth it.
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part of what makes san francisco so unique is its diversity. for 21 years this week's jefferson award winner has been teaching and sharing her brazilian culture. allen martin shows us how she is keeping a one-of-a-kind art form alive. if you've never experienced it before.. you probably don the name.. ler - jefferson ♪[ music ] >> reporter: if you have never experienced it before, you probably don't know the name. >> capoeira, right? >> reporter: capoeira is a combination of many things. >> its art form incorporates
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every art possible. it's a martial art, acrobatic, dance, music . >> reporter: and marcia treidler is one of the best at teaching it. so good in fact she is the first woman to hold the title of mestra "cigarra." it started in brazil. slaves from africa mingled with portugese colonized the country. >> they allowed the slaves after hours to practice music, drumming, singing, dance. so they found this amazing way to preserve the culture and create this art form that today is respected all over the world series. -- all over the world. >> reporter: marcia has been teaching for 35 years. the past 25 at her nonprofit studio called abada-capoiera in san francisco's mission district. in order to teach more than 20,000 students each year, she also takes classes into schools all over the bay area. >> all over the place, san jose, santa clara, oakland, berkeley. so we us will have a performance group who go to the schools and do that type of work.
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>> reporter: reaching students like alazan flores who was not quite three years old when she was introduced to capoeira. >> so my mom is there and she said you know what? here's strong women, good example, i wanted my daughter to hang out with them. >> reporter: 20 years later, alazan is one of marcia's teachers. so is elias gonzalez. >> i was doing other different martial arts and i just wanted to try something different. >> both he and alazan say marcia is more than a teacher. >> a mentor that a lot of teenagers like myself at that time needed. we needed somebody to look up to and she has been that. and not only here in capoeira but also in everyday life. >> reporter: while marcia's teaching will one day come to an end, capoeira she says will continue. >> it's forever. i'm not going to continue forever but the organization itself i hope will continue forever. >> reporter: so for her decades of
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then -- it's thursday night football. th coming up later a special edition of kpix 5 news at 4:00, and then thursday night football with the san diego chargers hosting the denver broncos. kickoff at 5:25. our pregame coverage starts at 4:30. you better make sure that your line-up is okay for fantasy football tonight. >> they are playing against each other. >> can't wait to get the results. >> my team is terrible. so -- >> back tomorrow and rain. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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[ knock on door ] >> quinn: [ gasps ] sweetheart! what a wonderful surprise! come on in! i thought you were the morning shift nurse here to relieve glenda. having the round-the-clock care has been really incredible. it's been comforting to know that eric is in such good hands. >> wyatt: how is he? >> quinn: well, it's gonna be a long road to recovery, but he's making progress every day. i'm going to make him better. i don't care if nobody believes me. >> wyatt: i believe you. you're good at always getting what you want. >> quinn: eric had me put that back up after ridge took it down. i know things have been really
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