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clinton. but trump supporters were also out in southern california today for a street party along hollywood's walk of fame which started at trump's star. they say now is the time to begin the healing process for all americans. >> demonstrators have hit market street today in san francisco. it was a peaceful protest but in the south bay, another political battle is brewing over a high school teacher who has been placed on paid leave for comparing donald trump to hitler. he told maria medina he would did again. >> hopefully we'll all learn from this. >> reporter: frank navarro doesn't know when he will be in front of the classroom again after a history lesson. >> why would you feel it's appropriate to do that? >> because it's true. >> reporter: he is accused of calling trump adolph hitler and racist. he says that didn't happen. he said he talked to his ninth
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great class about both presidential candidates. he drew parallels to hitler. >> he said he would make germany great again. donald trump said he would make america great again. hitler focused on the jews and that they should be removed from germany. donald trump is focused on muslims. >> reporter: navarro isn't the only bay area teacher in the hot seat after trump's win. a milpitas principal is on leave for using a profanity against trump. nar var row said he only stated facts. would you do it again the i would do it again absolutely. >> reporter: navarro says he is now getting online threats but he is also getting a lot of support. a petition on change.org calls for the reversal of his leave, has thousands of signatures. >> i'm amazed. >> reporter: the teacher says he can see why someone would be offended. but he says he was doing his job that he hopes he returns to soon. >> i think it's a heated time.
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i think we are polarized and that we had forgotten what it means to exchange ideas. >> reporter: in the east bay, maria medina, kpix 5. a bay area woman says a couple of trump supporters attacked her with eggs over her ethnicity. the woman posted this picture online. she says she was out walking her two dogs this week when a car full of people pulled up and pelted her! she says they also hurled a few anti-chinese slurs telling her to, quote, go back home while chanting trumptown. she says the attack left her emotional and she filed a police report yesterday. some san franciscans are taking a different approach. today people gathered at dolores park for an old- fashioned group hug. up to 30 people hugged. organizers say it's their way of reacting to the election of donald trump. >> humans connection and togetherness is how we are going to survive. and come together and they just
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wanted to move towards that direction as opposed to venting anger and burning things in the streets. this is a bit more positive way to express our togetherness. >> organizers say the turnout was good with people trickling in and out of the park all afternoon to join in. we are now four days past the election but it's not all settled yet. da lin shows us some bay area races are still too closes to call. >> reporter: four days after election night, people in fremont don't know who the next mayor is, too, close to call. >> cautiously optimistic. >> i knew it was going to be close but i would rather it be close the other way. >> reporter: the incumbent mayor bill harrison is down by about 12,000 votes to challenger vice mayor lily mei. she has 51.15% of the vote. while harrison has 48.51%. but the race is far from over. there may be as many as 20,000 ballots left to count.
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>> four hours that you're waiting for the results to come that night is probably the longest four hours. >> reporter: the key issue in the race has been over the pace of the developments. harrison is pro development while mei pledges to slow it down. >> we are not against growth but we look for responsible growth. >> we are the fourth largest city in the bay area. it's time we act like it. we need to provide jobs and housing and commercial activities. >> reporter: if mei maintains the lead and the becomes the next mayor, she would be the first asian-american female mayor in fremont. >> it's privilege to be the first in any role and any category and from that perspective, breaking that ceiling is exciting. >> reporter: it could be a while before we get the outcome. the registrar's office has until december 8 to certify the final election results. in fremont, i'm da lin, kpix 5. not the only place. in antioch the mayor's race also still too close to call. sean wright leads the incumbent wade harper by less than 200 votes.
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that's in antioch. and contra costa county still needs to count about 120,000 votes in all by mail. some of them are from antioch. 32,000 provisionals are needed to verify. a young woman is dead after she was thrown from her pickup truck in a crash in antioch. she ran a red light, ran a red light and hit two other cars and wasn't wearing a seatbelt. it happened about 9:30 p.m. last night on lone tree way in antioch. police say the 23-year-old driver ran a red light and hit two cars. the pickup truck rolled over several times. the driver who was not wearing a seatbelt was thrown on the street and killed. investigators do think alcohol may have been a factor. the 2 other drivers were hurt but will survive. berkeley police are searching for a group of thieves who robbed the apple store on 4th street twice this week. police say the first incident happened on tuesday when
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aboutle men came into the store and stole -- 8 men came into the store and stole at least 50 display phones. the second happened thursday, this time four men came in and took at least 20 more phones. officers are checking to find out if the thefts are part of a larger pattern. there were three more attempted robberies in berkeley this week all targeting pedestrians. police say they were related because they happened near each other within 30 minutes of each other. meanwhile, police have a new tool to stop so-called porch pirates. how the stolen package to lead to the thief. >> california said yes to legalizing marijuana this week. what does that mean for employers who do drug tests? >> we are about to be treated to the biggest full moon in nearly 70 years. but the spectacle in the sky could cause a few problems on the ground. >> ah, that looks very familiar this time of year as we look live toward the bay bridge. a few changes coming up in the
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smoking rates have hit an all-time low. researchers there's been a huge drop in the number of people smoking. smoking rates have hit an all- time low. researchers say the number of u.s. smokers dropped by about 16% over the last decade. there were 45 million smokers in 2005. now, there's just 37 million. that number may head lower now that prop 56 passed. it boosts the current cigarette tax by another $2 a pack! on the other hand, marijuana use in california is about to hit higher now that vote verse made it legal for recreational -- voters have made it legal for recreational use but there are still a lot of gray areas to work out. drew vallejo wants to know what does it mean for companies that use drug testing to weed out
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impaired employees? >> it tests for thc. >> reporter: jeff hastings knows his drug. >> methadone, mdma ecstasy. >> reporter: he knows how to test them. >> we work with a lot of different labs. >> reporter: he owns a lab in sacramento which conducts drug tests for police and about 700 other employers. some say they are struggling to find clean employees. >> i think a lot of marijuana smokers are going to have the false impression that, oh, well now i can come to work stoned. >> reporter: and think can't even with legal recreational marijuana. >> the freedom to do something outside the workplace does not translate to freedom within the workplace. >> reporter: barbara is an attorney. >> the employer has a right to say, we want productivity at work. we want a safe workplace and we're not going to allow anyone under the influence of any intoxicating drugs or substances in the workplace. >> reporter: but there is a legal gray area. under the influence and in one's system are two different things. and both can get you fired. >> a big part of the misunderstanding of the problem
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that's out there is that folks don't understand the difference between presence in systems and intoxication. >> reporter: marijuana is stored in fat cells and can remain in a person's body for weeks. but that doesn't necessarily mean that person is impaired. >> we need research that's going to tell us, what's the level when you are under the influence? >> reporter: prop 64 doesn't address this issue. employers and police especially have no way of separating the two. it's unlike alcohol where the lines are very clear. >> there is no analog for .08 for marijuana. nobody knows the number. >> prop 64 does lay out $3 million a year for the chp to research and determine a legal limit for driving. it's something they are trying to perfect three years after legalizing recreational pot in colorado. concord police are trying to find a man caught on surveillance video stealing a package after somebody's pourch in broad daylight again in
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concord. police are hoping that this will stop him. in rancho cordova police have a strategy for thieves like him. thieves out to steal packages from porches stake out neighborhoods and follow delivery trucks. so they know where and when to strike without getting caught. so officers have started having drivers deliver some fake packages. inside a gps tracking device that is tells them exactly where the thief goes. >> we want to just let them know that they -- if they do steal packages in rancho cordova that they will go to jail. >> i think that's a good idea. no problem with that at all. >> according to insurancequotes.com, 23 million americans had packages stolen from them last year. several bay area agencies also plan to start deploying bait packages as we head toward christmas. a pop-up shop aimed at helping the homeless just opened in san francisco's tenderloin. here's how it works. customers buy essential items like jackets and backpacks but the buyers don't walk out with
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them. instead it's delivered to homeless shelters and ends up in the hands of the people who need it. a cofounder who started the idea in london says it's an effective way to help out. >> the same concern that people have of handing over money on the street and not knowing where the money is going. people also worried in a similar way with an organization where is that money being spent? that's kind of what fuels this model and why we wanted to create something simple. >> the tenderloin museum is hosting of the store until just before christmas. san francisco police are looking for donations of clean blanket and socks to help the homeless stay warm this winter. blanket will be accepted 24 hours a day at the park station on waller street. donations should be marked, park crockett drive. and you can drop off socks at the central station on vallejo street. juliette, we have a beautiful night. i beautiful saturday night here in the bay area with mostly clear skies, fairly balmy temperatures, readings in the
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low 60s. as we look from the sutro tower, from city hall you can see the rainbow domed ediface in the little below center left. city hall and market street, the embarcadero, bay bridge all on full fine display tonight. concord at 65 degrees. oakland has 63. san francisco right now at quarter after 6:00 tonight61 degrees. even as we sit here innocently watching our own broadcast our own satellite is conspiring to display an unusual display in the sky. we earthlings are about to be treated to the biggest brightest full moon of the year. on monday it will be closest to us since january 1948 when harry truman was in the white house. and while the spectacle is unfolding in the sky it, will have a direct impact on what's happening on the ground. the gravitational force exerted
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by that unusually close moon the gravitational force being an inverse square law as we all know will bring some of the biggest and lowest tides of the year. of we get high high tides and extremely low tides. often call king tides. they bring the potential for minor flooding as we see here in some of the low lying coastal areas, the most famous low-lying coastal area the exit to mill valley off 101 northbound. always floods up like that this time of the year and you don't want to leave your car in that little carpool parking lot because it literally turn into a carpool! high pressure is off southern california and as that high noses into the bay area, warming trend is going to be coming up after a few high clouds over spread the bay area today. the futurecast is showing that we have clear skies around the bay area at 8:00 tomorrow morning. so this is how the day begins. look over to the left of this futurecast. the fickle finger of tule fog is returning, 'tis the season, so they get a little bit of it, first hint of fog in the central valley tomorrow.
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for us nothing but sunshine. a little cloudiness along the shore time. high pressure building plenty of sunday sun. sunday sun, a neil diamond song from 1970s for those of how might remember. midweek rain, chance of that in the north bay anyway by tuesday ninth, wednesday morning. otherwise, it will be sunny and warm for the most part this week. nevertheless, it's the season for walnut creek on ice this weekend. a mixture of sun and clouds and 71 degrees sounds good. marin will be on ice as well this weekend in san rafael, nice and mild. we have the ice rink set up at union square in the embarcadero. temperatures going to be a-okay for that as well as for the sunday street block party that's on the embarcadero with mostly sunny skies happening tomorrow. also it's not veterans day tomorrow but nevertheless for people who couldn't go to festivities on november 11, tomorrow on fisherman's wharf plenty of sunshine. travel weather forecast at redding 72.
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sacramento 73. fresno 77. lake tahoe and yosemite partly cloudy skies, should be beautiful. a beautiful time of year by the way to visit yosemite, not so many tourists out there. the leaves changing. the snow first few flakes coming down yosemite and fall and winter no better time. 48 at napa. 46 santa rosa. 50 in san francisco. and 52 in san jose. daytime highs tomorrow under sunny skies, we are going to be looking at temperatures ranging from about 70 to 75. it doesn't get much better. 73 at livermore. 57 san jose. 71 mountain view. 70 in san rafael. the extended forecast, we have sunshine tomorrow and monday. a few more clouds on tuesday. by wednesday the plot as well as the clouds thicken. a weak cold front will bring light showers at least the threat of them maybe to the north bay. after that, thursday, friday, saturday more sun and temperatures in the mid-60s. first half of the week then 70s. second half 60s. but that's what we expect for late november.
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what we also expect is for juliette to say this. >> yes. coming up, this historic berkeley church nearly burned to the ground. how the community came together to help it rise from the ashes. >> straight ahead, a stunner at the top of college football! with balance of power implications! at least for now. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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already busy building "chris in the park." it's an annual attraction in it's not thanksgiving yet but workers in the south bay are busy building christmas in the park. it's an annual attraction in downtown san jose. they are in the process of transforming the plaza de cesar chavez into a wonderful winter wonderland with dozens of exhibits, glittering lights and a towering community giving tree. christmas in the park opens on november 25 and admission is free. members of the first conjugallal church of berkeley had a long way to go before they can go back to their building but they were hard at work today to help it rise from
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the ashes literally after a devastating fire. the three-alarm fire that ripped through the building on channing way and dana streets back in september, nobody was hurt. but the fire did do about $2 million worth of damage. kpix 5's jackie ward is live in berkeley to tell us what the people are doing to help rebuild. >> reporter: brian, as you can see behind me, the scaffolding is still up and you can still see the damage that the flames caused back in september. it's far from being fully repaired. but the people of the congregation are doing everything they can to help it rebuild. >> reporter: for six long weeks, something in leslie ferguson's life has been missing. >> every tuesday morning, i'm bereft. >> reporter: so today was a reunion of sorts for leslie and the other volunteers of the first congregational thrift store. >> we all sit around our big table and these ladies are in their 70s, 80s and 90s. i was a kid. >> reporter: the store was run out of the church's basement. it's uninhabitable and will be for quite some time. >> the fire was devastating
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but, you know, good things are going to come out of it. >> reporter: those had frequented the store are happy to see it return if only for the day. >> sad. but, um, the community is still here and it sounds like everybody is still kicking. >> i got a wallet and a jacket and a sweater. >> reporter: molly says services will be held about a mile away at another building and the turnout is great. >> people are coming and there's been a lot of joy and laughter on sundays. >> reporter: it will be another two to three months before services will will be held in their own building again and maybe as many as two to three years before their administrative building is back up and running it's a lot of work to rebuild. but everyone has a job now. we have our marching orders just like we're moving things forward at an appropriate pace. >> reporter: if you missed the recovery sale today there are still plenty of fundraisers happening to help them rebuild including one that's a week from today at the first congregational church in san francisco at 6:00. in berkeley, jackie ward, kpix 5.
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all right. >> that jackie ward is always around the feel good stories. >> i know. >> yesterday she did high school football. >> yeah. >> she did the biggest prep star in the country. >> yup. she is on that. >> now there's big college football. >> which is where that guy is going to be headed. college football up top we are talking about the number two team gone clemson is lost and stanford-oregon used to be a game to watch. but times have changed. this used to be a big deal. stanford, oregon, today in eugene. senior day for the ducks. but no answers for christian mccaffrey. mccaffrey and is gone! 71ian to the houses. scored twice in the opening quarter. later in the first, stanford up
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14-0. keller chris, looking for jj arcega-whiteside. from palley high school. yeah. 2nd quarter, here's the tip drill. the defensive back, watch and learn. alfierie, came down with it in the end zone. you have to stick with t three take-aways by stanford today. the oregon defense, boy, oh, how the mighty have fallen. mccaffrey's third touchdown of the half! 250-plus all purpose yards. stanford blew out oregon, 52-27 to improve to 7-3. >> this happened about an hour ago. clemson's sweeney upset with good reason his number two tigers in distress against pitt. watson to kaine. so the tigers led by 8 points. let's fast forward to the end of the game a minute left tigers up 2. panthers stop this drive. important. they stop wayne on fourth and
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one. so pitt got the ball back. 58 seconds left. and the panthers got the field goal range. chris blewitt didn't blow it! nailed a 48-yarder. he is the hero as pitt pulled off the upset, 43-42 ending number 2 clemson's undefeated season. let me just tell you what's going on. alabama is number one. they have already won, right? number 3 michigan, they're leading iowa. number 4 washington, losing to usc, 17-6 at the half. >> oh, wow. >> so we have a lot of moving parts. >> a lot of action. we have to get some tea for your throat. you'll be good to go. >> i just want to make it through the night. >> you will. you're a tough one. thanks, vern. coming up in our next half- hour, as president-elect donald trump works on his transition team to the white house, hillary clinton is playing the blame game. who she is pointing the finger at. >> plus why thousands of california national guard veterans are turning to president-elect trump for help.
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>> they are giants on the earth and they are disappearing. i'm chris martinez in central california. coming up, i'll show you the extraordinary measures one group is taking to save the world's largest trees. >> and putting a face on california's opiod epidemic. only on "5", the bay area boy who survived being hit by a car only to end up addicted to painkillers. ,,
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against president-elect dond trump continue to pop up ar the country. it's now the fourth day of demonstrations... the president- protests against president- elect donald trump continue to pop up around the country. it is now the fourth day of demonstrations. president-elect trump remains at trump tower in new york this
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afternoon as he continues to work on the transition process. the protests are now having an international effect. today turkish turkey issued a travel warning because of violence in the united states. >> reporter: from los angeles to new york city thousands of protestors pounded the pavement the fourth day to express outrage against donald trump. >> reporter: the protestors vended up here outside trump tower where the president-elect has been planning his transition to office.>> i can't have a president who supports race i, misogyny . >> reporter: a demonstrator was shot in a leg in confrontation with a driver last night. the "new york times" reports that hillary clinton held a conference call with top donors saturday and said that fbi director james comey's second letter to congress just before the election helped rally trump voters. in his first post-election
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interview with "60 minutes," trump recalled the phone call he received from clinton. >> she couldn't have been nicer. she just said, congratulations, donald. well done. and i said, i want to thank you very much. you were a great competitor. she is very strong. >> reporter: trump has no public events on saturday. but he did tweet once saying, this will prove to be a great time in the lives of all americans. we will unite and we will win. cbs news, new york. you can watch leslie stahl's entire interview with president-elect donald trump and the future first family tomorrow on "60 minutes," that's at 7:00 right here on kpix 5. at least one campaign promise has already been cut and it didn't come from donald trump but rather from a princeton polling expert who vowed to eat a bug on live tv
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if trump exceeded 240 electoral votes so this morning on cnn, he ate the bug and his words for breakfast. >> i was wrong. most people were wrong but nobody else made the promise i did. see that? here it goes. [ eats bug ] >> you're a man of your word, dr. wong. how was it, by the way? >> um, kind of mostly honey- ish, a little nutty. but, um, if it's good enough for a snake -- >> that, by the way, was canned cricket covered in honey. dr. wang says now he hopes to get back to discussing real issues. thousands of california national guard soldiers are now turning to donald trump for help. we report, they are hoping the president elect can stop the pentagon once and for all from taking back their bonuses. >> we would love a one-on-one face to face with president trump or president obama. >> reporter: sergeant brian is
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pleading for a president's executive order to end the california national guard's bonus controversy once and for all. thousands of soldiers like him were being forced to pay back large incentive bonuses given to them improperly a decade ago. >> it was devastating. >> reporter: after public outcry last month, defense secretary ash carter suspended those efforts to recoup money. he said a new plan will start in january and all cases will be reviewed by july. he isn't satisfied. he and his attorney filed this response as part of their class action lawsuit saying in part, plaintiffs appeal process took four years and is average at best. to review all cases within six months, january to july, would equate to the appeal process working at least 8 times faster. that's unrealistic. >> haven't done anything but kick the can down the road to the next administration. >> reporter: he says that next administration comes with uncertainty and unknown defense leaders so on behalf of veterans, on veterans day, this soldier is asking for more
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action. >> if they want to show appreciation for veterans, keep those contractual promises. >> reporter: he says the current plan doesn't address what to do about the promise of student loan forgiveness and veterans credit scores that have already been impacted by this. in los angeles, kpix 5. a suicide bomber killed four americans early today at an air force base in afghanistan. the pentagon says the blast around dawn killed two u.s. servicemen and two contractors at bagram airfield. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. officials say the suicide bomber may have posed as a worker and lined up with other people who typically wait to get into the base early in the morning. heavy security marked the re-opening of the concert hall in paris a year after a deadly terrorist attack there. ticketholders encountered lots of police barricades and body searches. the singer sting opened his show at the bataclan by asking everyone to observe a minute of silence. he said in french, quote, we
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will not forget them. last november "islamic state" extremists targeted several locations around paris and killed 130 people including 90 at the concert hall. still to come, this child was prescribed painkillers after a bike accident. but the drugs did a lot more damage than the accident. >> by the time i was 19, it was just out of control. the worst drug addiction epidemic in the united states history. >> only on "5" the bay area family putting on a brave face on california's opiod crisis. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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the d-e-a says: the heroin substitute -- as u-47700 a powerful synthetic open yesterday nicknamed pick is being banned by the feds saying the heroin substitute formerly known as u47700 is such a public health threat it will be classified as an illegal schedule one drug. that's the most putting pink on
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par with drugs like heroin and lsd. one lab links pink to more than 120 deaths but it can be bought online for about $5. whether it's pink or a prescription painkiller, california leads the nation in opiod-related overdoses and we learned, doctors are even prescribe them to children. >> only on "5," one bay area man opens up about how he became addicted when he was only 11 years old and allen martin has the story. >> reporter: inside a beautiful home in san ramon, deborah and her 25-year-old son kent remember a time before powerful painkillers took over. >> never in a million years did i ever think that i would have a child that would have the disease of addiction. >> reporter: at age 11, kent on a bike was hit by a car. his doctor prescribed vicodin a narcotic. >> 11. 11. yeah. 11 years old. and that's when i first
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experienced opiods at all or any kind of opiates and i fell in love immediately. >> reporter: the feeling was irresistible. >> just a warm hug. it was just indescribable. >> at first i thought take away the pills and everything would be okay but soon found out that was not the case. >> reporter: from vicodin to narco, by 10th grade oxycontin and eventsly heroin. >> cheaper and achieved the same goal and high. >> sometimes if they can't get prescriptions they will buy pills on the street or turn to heroin. >> by the time i was 19, it was just out of control. >> reporter: kent is far from alone. >> this is bigger than any drug epidemic that we have seen to date. >> the worst drug addiction epidemic in the united states history. >> reporter: millions of americans are now addicted to painkillers. >> it's been caused by overexposing the u.s. population to prescription opiods. >> they are prescribed by a
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doctor and perceived to be less harmful. >> i trusted the professionals. >> reporter: he stole from his family to feed his habit. his mother vacuumed holding her purse. >> they will do unspeakable things. buy them on the street and online. >> reporter: with a click and credit line. >> you can google it and boy it. >> reporter: more californians today die from an opiod related overdose than a car crash, nearly 50% more. >> who would have thought that it's more dangerous to stand in front of a medicine cabinet than behind the wheel of a car. >> reporter: kent's former girlfriend died in his arms. >> it was a low and me resuscitating her and having to give her narcan and bring her back to life watching her turning blue, purple to, you know, green and white pale and coming back to life literally from not breathing and no
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heartbeat. it was really scary. >> reporter: his best friend overdosed and died. >> i spent hundreds and hundreds maybe thousands of days just playing russian roulette over and over again. i don't know why i have been so lucky but i just have. >> reporter: in the past decade the bay area has seen a breathtaking surge in opiod- related fatalities, e.r. admissions and hospitalizations. kent is lucky. he was arrested and thrown in jail. >> it's horrible to think that you're excited about your child going to jail. but for me, jail saved my son's life. >> reporter: kent sought treatment with methadone, is recovering and working full time. he participated at a memorial in walnut creek to remember those lost to a drug overdose. hundreds of names and faces all dead. >> it's killing people literally. and their families. >> reporter: his mother says the problem is so great in san ra mow, alamo and danville, she started a support group in san
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ramon, alamo and danville. >> doesn't matter your race, color, house you live in. it is here. >> reporter: allen martin, kpix 5. >> allen continues his reporting tonight at 11:00 with the opiod painkillers that are not what they seem to be. the powerful drug our kids are buying online that is fooling even the experts. >> hm. well, we have been reporting for weeks on a surge in wild turkey sightings. but after today a lot of those birds could be headed for thanksgiving tables. >> and we have also a few changes ahead in the weather department. that's coming up. >> depending what happens tomorrow in arizona, is this the beginning of the end of 49ers general manager trent baalke? losing team drastic issues, no clear-cut answers in sight for this football team. ,,,,
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but in the great outdoors. starting t it's owe open season on turkeys not just in the supermarket but in the great outdoors. starting today through december 11, wild turkeys cap can be hunted, two turkeys per season and only one per day. there are about 250,000 wild turkeys in california. that number is expected to be reduced by about 10,000 once the fall hunting season is over. spring turkey hunting starts up again at the end of march with a different set of rules. we want to wish a very happy birthday to the bay bridge. it turned 80 today. it opened to traffic on
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november 12, 1936. president franklin roosevelt officially opening the bridge with a golden key. before that, cross bay commuters had to take the ferry. the whole thing cost $77 million to build and it cost 65 cents to cross. until 1962, cars drove in both directions on the upper deck. trucks and trains traveled back and forth on the lower deck. about 9 million vehicles cross the span that first year. now it carries more than 100 million every year. >> i have a funny story about this. i don't know if i have enough time to tell you but i just may. this was told me by a famous bridge builder in the area. i'm going to make this up number but around 1950 they were waiting for like the 10 millionth of person to cross the bridge, maybe the 1 millionth, i'm not sure. so it was a big press events of the it's in the early '50s and they know again i'm making this up that the 10 millionth person is going to cross the bridge. so the press is out there.
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they got all the cameras poised, waiting for this, you know, this -- this epic number to cross the bridge. and finally the car comes up and they go this is the car, this is the car. sir, step out of the car! step out of the car! so we can take a pictures of you. and the guy goes, put the cameras away! don't take a picture! and the press goes what? there's a prize -- this woman is not my wife! [ laughter ] >> ah! oh, no! >> and they went, okay, go. [ laughter ] >> so let's be careful out there. we have a look toward the famous bay bridge right now. the numbers around the bay area are in the low to mid-60s. 65 degrees in concord, san francisco 59. san jose 64. santa rosa 58 degrees. low pressure off the pacific northwest. and a few high clouds will be filtering into far northern california but for us as high pressure builds in we are going to be looking for things to warm up around the bay area. not dramatically, but we'll be in the mid-70s so that warming
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trend coming up the first half of the week and then showers wednesday, mostly north bay. not much. and then dry the latter half of the week so. except for wednesday, a dry week ahead. futurecast for tomorrow looks fantastic. mostly sunny skies, clear tomorrow and tomorrow evening and low clouds on the shoreline by tomorrow night but it will be a beautiful sunday for the bay area. so as neil diamond once sang sunday sun for tomorrow. rain in the north bay a minor deal otherwise sunny and warm and there's just a little bit of an eyebrow raised at the fact that we're not getting much rain this coming week because in november things do begin to ramp up in the rain department. so let's stand by on that, though. walnut creek will be on ice for tomorrow, sun and clouds and 71 degrees. that should be fun. marin on ice as well, san rafael will be mild and 70. sunday streets block party the numbers will be in the mid-60s. and the embarcadero, mostly
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sunny skies for for tomorrow. look good for the veterans day parade not on veterans day but nevertheless for folks who didn't get to it on the 11th, that's at fisherman's wharf tomorrow with good weather. travel weather forecast 59 degrees for eureka, mendocino mostly cloudy and 61, some clouds in fresno and 77 degrees. overnight tonight, a little bit of a nip in the air. 46 degrees in santa rosa. 48 for napa. 47 at fairfield. sun-up tomorrow morning at 13 minutes before 7:00. and forecast highs for tomorrow will be looking at them in the low to mid-70s. wow. not bad for mid-november. and in the extended forecast, looking for mostly sunny tomorrow temperatures in the low to mid-70s. we'll cool off a bit on wednesday and slight chance of showers coming into the north bay wednesday. after that, we don't really warm up but we'll dry out. thursday, friday, saturday more sunshine, temperatures do no better than the 60s so if you like warm november weather, we have sunday and monday to serve it up. that's looking good and so is mr. glenn. >> speaking of somebody who
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needs to be dried out. nfl up tomorrow! 49ers business. i have yet to find a fan willing to give trent baalke a vote of confidence. he would have had a hard time with the popular vote but chip kelly came to his defense when asked if baalke was spending too much away from the team to scout college talent. >> he is only a phone call away so if something were to happen, right, we could have a conversation. >> of course i like to speak to you. >> but on a day-to-day basis, there's not really --you know, unless there was a explosion in the kitchen or something. >> i'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened. >> dr. strangelove, love it. hey, nhl. sharks in tampa tonight. first period patrick marleau ran into the goalie here. the puck went into the net. they called it a no goal after a six-minute review, they gave
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him the goal. 1-0 san jose. second period now 2-0. mark edward vlasick made it 3-0. this is final, sharks won final of 3-1. hey, baseball. the a's made afirst move of the off-season trading danny valencia to the trade.a.l. west rival seattle for a minor league pitcher paul blackburn. valencia hit .237. 17 home runs, 51 rbi last season. remember this? j.t. snow scooping up little darren baker in the 0-1 world series? dusty's son was 3 at the time. guess what, he is all grown up now and yesterday, baker signed a letter of intent to play baseball at cal next year. he will graduate from jesuit high school in sacramento this spring. bishop o'dowd opener against terra linda and joe
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deluca put it up top. 35 yards. quinn brennan, 42-7 at the half. bishop o'dowd. dragons the number two seeds spank terra linda 56-14. they are 10-1. they have encinal next. cal bears under the lights at washington state.18-point underdogs. hey, the opposing head coaches go way back. sonny dykes once upon a time was mike leach's offensive coordinator in texas tech. now for the washington state players, well ... cougars marks is underwhelmed. >> it's always fun to be able to play those guys but it's not like a --we --we mark cal on our schedule like, oh, wow, can't wait to play cal. that's the one. >> whoa! >> the bears beat the cougs in a shootout 60-59. that was in 20 14. that's the last time the bears were in pullman but the times have changed. washington state, they are unbeaten in pac-12 play. the cougs are ranked 23rd in multiple polls and here's the gruff lovable mike leach on the topic. >> i don't care. if it's not that one then it's somebody else's, you know, it's everything from something this media journalist guy or some
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guy in a garage with a computer that he plays on a lot, you know, i mean it's going to be out there one way or the other. all right. so just to catch you up to date, clemson the number 2 team in the nation they have lost, alabama won, washington huskies are losing at usc and michigan currently winning over iowa. so it could be a little shake- up. >> all right. stay tuned later on. thank you, vern. well, it is one of california's natural wonders and it's in jeopardy. still to come, the team of scientists on a global mission to save the giant sequoias by cloning them. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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mighty sequoias are still standing. chris martinez reports on cloning the trees. >> reporter: this giant sequoia has survived thousands of years. it's one of the largest trees on the planet but it's in jeopardy. man has cut down more than 90% of them. pollution and climate change threaten what's left. >> i'm going up. >> reporter: arborist is on a global mission to save them. >> there's got to be something special about this tree how it lived so long and gotten so big. >> see you at the top. >> reporter: we climbed with jacob's team to the top of a towering sequoia. >> how are you doing, chris? >> this is amazing. [ laughter ] >> terrifying and amazing. >> reporter: up here is where their work begins. >> we're about 180, maybe 200 feet on top of a giant sequoia. >> reporter: climbers collect the tips from branches. >> this is the newest growth. this is exactly what we want. >> reporter: scientists will use that genetic material to
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essentially clone the tree. >> each one of these little things is a tree. >> reporter: the trees are grown in this lab in michigan nurtured from sprouts until they are large enough to plant all over the world. >> we have literally produced about a quarter million trees at least and got them planted in the ground. why is it so important to do this? >> it's not for us, it's for the future. it's a gift to the grandkids, to the kids. >> reporter: a gift they hope will continue to grow for thousands of years. chris martinez, cbs news, sierra nevada, mountains. >> the group is funding the tree cloning mission through donations and many of the climbers and scientists are traveling and working on the projects on their own dime. thanks so much for watching. we'll see you back here at 11:00. or news throughout the evening the lat est is always on our website, cbssf.com ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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