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we are sorry to report the death today of actress mary tyler moore. she was 80 years old and died at a hospital in connecticut. she had been ill for quite some time. moore won emmys for her portrayal of laura petrie on the dick van dyke show in the 1960s and in the 1970s as mary richards on the "mary tyler moore show." here on cbs. moore was nominated for an academy award for her role in "ordinary people." repeating now, actress mary tyler moore has died at the age
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of 80. there will be much more about her on your local news on this cbs station. as always on our streaming news service, cbsn, and right here tonight on the "cbs evening news." until then, i'm scott pelley. cbs news in new york. ♪[ music ] death coming up later today on kpix 5 news at five. good afternoon, michelle griego we'll have much more on the death of mary tyler moore later today on kpix 5 choose from at 5:00. good afternoon, i'm michelle griego. >> i'm kenny choi. our other big story today, coast guard crews searching right now for a missing san jose kayaker from chopper 5 you can see the man's kayak toppled over in the south bay. the search is under way in bay waters north of san jose's alviso area not far from the
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dumbarton bridge. kpix 5's anne makovec has the latest. >> reporter: the search has been going on all morning here from the dumbarton bridge south to the tip of the bay. a lot of the focus now is on some of the levees in the area where the tide seems to pool. that's where they have been focusing their search hoping to find this missing 35-year-old man. kenneth maldonado was last seen at 4:00 yesterday afternoon fishing from a kayak in the bay when his boat started taking on water and his friend tried to tow him to shore. but when the friend turned around -- >> the boat was upside-down. it had capsized and he no longer saw his friend. >> reporter: from the air and by water, the coast guard and four local fire departments have been searching ever since, calling this a missing persons case as of 10 a.m. >> the water is extremely cold, and it was very cold last night. so he could have gotten himself out of the water up on one of the levees, um, you know,
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there's still a chance. >> reporter: kenneth's girlfriend melissa spent the morning searching with his family on the bay, holding this picture of them in her hand. kenneth's truck is still parked at the alviso shore where he launched his kayak yesterday. his girlfriend says he does know how to swim. he didn't have a life vest on at the time he capsized. so as far as today's search, it's all going to sort of depend on how the tide comes in and out, how quickly they are going ability to do it but they do believe they will be able to finish the search by the end of the day. live in fremont, anne makevoc, kpix 5. and expanded search is under way at this hour for the body of a teenaged driver whose car crashed into the alameda creek. the 18-year-old skidded off niles canyon road saturday morning in a rainstorm. teams recovered her car yesterday but her body was not found with the vehicle and now searchers including family are checking the entire length of the creek. 18-year-old jayda jenkins was a
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student at william jessup university in rockland. she was studying to be a social worker. a live look now at the dow jones industrial average. it's up 145 points right now. the index made history this morning by surpassing the 20,000 mark for the first time. the historic milestone leaves the dow up more than 1600 points since president donald trump's victory in november. cbs reporter brook silva- braga is live at the new york stock exchange, where wall street finally broke through to new record territory! brook. >> reporter: hi, kenny and michelle. for more than a month folks have been making these hats in anticipation of the big moment. stocks shot up right after the election. but then the dow kind of hovered and struggled to break through that big milestone. until this morning. [ bell ] >> reporter: the dow jones industrial average broke through 20,000 points right at this morning's opening bell. >> it's a sign, a symbol that shows main street and wall
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street that our economy is getting better. >> reporter: stocks especially in the financial sector have extended higher since donald trump's election. on tuesday, he cleared the way to restart two major oil pipelines. but many economists and traders say the dow milestone is more psychological than significant because the index is a measure of just 30 big u.s. companies. the stocks that make up the dow often change. some are weighted more heavily than others. >> the market is clearly endorse, the fact of the policies that he promised. we haven't seen it bear out yet with the financial regulation. it will be great for the market. >> reporter: in 1972, with the dow cracking 1,000 points, kodak, woolworth and bethlehem steel were members of the index. 27 years later, the dow broke 10,000 with the help of newly added hewlett-packard, walmart, and there were also major selloffs. in 2009 the dow dropped below
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7,000 during the depths of the financial crisis. ever since, it has skyrocketed tripling in less than 8 years. traders say healthy economic and jobs data combined with high consumer confidence could bode well for strong market performance in 2017. the question now is whether the president can convert those policy priorities into legislation. but for today, the market is happy. now up 146 points, kenny and michelle. >> thank you, brook silva- braga. president trump is moving fast to fulfill his campaign promises. today he signed an executive order fulfilling his most famous pledge to build the wall along the u.s./mexico border. president trump just spoke about the wall during a visit to the department of homeland security and as weijia jang reports, from the white house, questions remain about who is going to pay for the wall. >> we are going to restore the rule of law in the united
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states. before we go any further, i want to recognize the i.c.e. and border patrol officers in this room today and to honor their service and not just because they unanimously endorsed me for president. [ laughter ] [ applause and cheers ] >> that helped. >> we will build a great, great wall. >> reporter: federal law has authorized a border wall along the u.s./mexico border since 2006. congress has never funded it. president trump insists mexico will pay for the wall and mexico says that's not going to happen. also on the docket today, a trip to the department of homeland security to tighten up immigration policies for people coming from countries known to harbor terrorists. during a meeting with congressional leaders here at the white house this week, president trump says he lost the popular vote because of three to five million illegal votes for hillary clinton. this morning, the president tweeted, i will be asking for a
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major investigation into "voter fraud. " we will strengthen up voting procedures. >> it's so -- >> reporter: house democratic leader nancy pelosi struggled to respond to president trump's statement. but democrats say they will conduct their own investigation. they sent this letter to 102 election officials in every state asking for the names of everyone suspected of voter fraud. >> to suggest and to undermine, um, the integrity of our voting system is really strange. >> reporter: the association of state officials who run elections told cbs news, we are not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by president trump. weijia jang, cbs news the white house. >> and this morning president trump tweeted that he will announce a supreme court justice pick next thursday. the seat was left vacant by the death last february of conservative justice antonin anyone. cbs reporter michelle macaluso is at the supreme court with the information. >> reporter: president trump is
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set to have narrowed his choice for a supreme court justice to three top contenders. >> i anticipate what we're going to get from the president is a highly qualified well credentialed conservative jurist. >> reporter: the current front- runner is denver based federal appeals court judge neil gore schick. he is a former check to anthony kennedy. he sailed through confirmation to the appeals court. another leading contender is pennsylvania based judge thomas hardman. he is seen as a solid conservative. alabama based judge william pryor a former attorney general is also said to still be in contention. but he may be more problematic. democrats filibustered pryor's lower nomination because of his views on abortion. and senate republicans have told the white house that they are worried about his confirmation fight. senate democrats say they want someone with broad support. >> if the candidate is out of
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the mainstream, i can tell you i will fight and my caucus will fight tooth and nail against him!! >> reporter: democrats say even though republicans refuse to consider president obama's nomination of judge garland, they will still hold a confirmation hearing for president trump's pick. michelle macaluso for cbs news, the supreme court. it's a big letdown for middle class families with students in california's two public university systems. kpix 5's jackie ward joins us live from san francisco to explain why some scholarships will soon disappear. jackie. >> reporter: michelle, if approved this would be the first tuition hike in seven years. tuition rates have been frozen for the last six years. both workers unions and students look at this as yet another hit to the middle class. its day one of a two-day meeting with the university of california's governing board. on the table is a proposed tuition hike and negotiation talks with teamsters local 2010. jason represents the workers
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union and says some employees at ucla have been working without a contract for four years. >> we have seen real wages go down by 24% over the last two decades. wages are still low, about 70% of workers are either suffering hunger or food insecurity. >> reporter: this is happening while the uc system is seeing a significant increase in enrollment and decrease in state funding. the proposed tuition increase would raise tuition by 2.5%. >> when you cut wages on one hand and then you raise tuition on the other, you squeeze working families from both sides and that's not a type of public university that we need in california. >> reporter: but ricardo vazquez a spokesman from uc says 57% of students systemwide receive full financial aid. and still wouldn't have to pay tuition even if the tuition proposal was approved. >> we are at a point where we need to make an investment in the university, otherwise the quality of the education is going to suffer. >> reporter: this proposed tuition rate combined with governor brown potentially cutting the only financial aid
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program for the middle class has parents anxious about how they will foot the bill for college. >> we are scraping every piece together to try to make this work for my daughters. they deserve to go to university and ready to go. >> reporter: a uc spokesman says that middle class families receive an average of $8,000 a year. the uc regents will vote on this tomorrow. in san francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. ♪[ music ] secret service under investigation once again. >> what an agent is accused of saying about president trump on social media coming up. >> good afternoon, from our kpix 5 studios, where today certainly is a dry day. but we do have a storm. it's queued up ready to push into the bay area. we'll talk about the chances of rain returning. that's coming up when we come back. ,,,,
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suggested she would not take a bullet for president trump. the secret service is taking action against a senior agent who suggested she would not take a bullet for president trump. according to reports, the agent made anti-trump social media posts around the presidential election. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: this scene in reno shortly before the election is a reminder of what the united states secret service does every day to protect high- profile targets like the president. but this morning, the agency is looking into the social media statements of an agent who said she wouldn't put her life on the line for president trump. according to a report by the washington examiner, carey o'grady special agent in charge of the seek services denver district wrote this message on facebook in october saying, i would take jail time over a bullet or an endorsement for what i believe to be disaster to this country.
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she ended the post with, i am with her. an implicit endorsement of hillary clinton. >> hello, how are you? >> >> reporter: in the report, o'grady says her post was in reaction to this now infamous 2005 video where mr. trump made comments about women. but after posting the comments o'grady said that she had second thoughts saying, as soon as i put it up, i thought it was not the sentiment that i needed to share because i care very deeply about the mission. the secret service is aware of the postings and tells cbs news that the agency is taking quick and appropriate action. any allegations of misconduct are taken seriously and swiftly investigated. >> come on, get over here. >> reporter: on sunday, president trump singled out secret service director joseph clancy while at a law enforcement reception at the white house telling the room he has felt safe with their protection since day one. secret service agents are barred from engaging in
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political activity. we did reach out to agent o'grady but have yet to hear back. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. hi, everybody. boy, did we start off cold this morning dropping down to 30 degrees in livermore so one of our faithful viewers richard westwood sent in this photograph from livermore where he had to scrape the ice off his windshield this morning. won't be as cold tonight overnight. this is associated with an area of low pressure that wants to bring more rain into the bay area but shearing off at the scenes as it banks up against the ridge of high pressure bringing us dry weather today. boy it felt like it rained about each and every day through the month of january. leaving with us 150% of where we should be for this time of the year. well above average since october. please be very mindful of your conservation efforts. we have done such a great job and it's a way of life. so we had the rain, the tahoe
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area had the snow. 330 inches of snow so far this season. the area of low pressure that brought us the recent rain, hail and thunderstorms, it is out of here progressing in an easterly direction. high pressure right here. keeping this low to the north of us we're seeing clouds drift in but the rain will remain well to the north of the bay area. this is your futurecast. clouds in and out of the rain in the coastal waters. otherwise traveling within the state today and throughout the central valley, fog overnight. 31 in the high sierra after starting the morning at 4 above zero. more flurries in the forecast from that low on thursday. otherwise, it's bluebird skies lots of sunshine through the weekend. our temperatures into the 50s
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from the coast to the bay. sundown at 5:26. tonight 30s and 40s. 34 in the tri-valley. extended forecast does call for a few clouds on thursday. otherwise, serving up sunshine friday through tuesday. make it a great day. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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a review in the journal of the american medical association lable baby monitors that track
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vital signs might create more problems than they prevent. a review from the ama says there's no available evidence supporting the safety, accuracy, effectiveness or the role of these monitors. >> dr. narula reports. >> reporter: 7-month-old jordan wasn't always the healthy baby he is today. born six weeks early, his mother jamie says his oxygen levels kept dropping during his stay in the neonatal intensive care unit on monitors around the clock. jordan was released after three weeks. >> we were concerned that not being hooked up to the monitor, we couldn't see his heart rate. >> reporter: they bought a baby monitor against the advice of the nicu nurses. >> we got it anyway. it was worth every penny. >> reporter: devices like the owlet are the focus of the jama viewpoint. authors call out smartphone
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linked wearables. the devices measure baby's biometrics like pulse, oxygen and send them to parents' apps. in a statement, they acknowledged a lack of evidence behind certain products. but they said they are actively addressing and resolving these concerns. >> there's no evidence that they will help kids and there's some evidence of potential harm. >> reporter: the pediatrician and co-author of the jama review says there's no way to prove their accuracy and they can lead to false alarms and unnecessary treatment. >> they could come into the emergency room, they may end up with blood tests or x-rays. >> reporter: because the companies don't make specific medical claims, they are not regulated by the fda. >> we're not saying that we're depending on this monitor. you can turn on the or off the alarm. >> reporter: they created it after their baby girls contracted rsv an infection that causes breathing trouble. doctors told them to check the infants' breathing every 45 minutes. >> we thought well, what
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happens between zero and 45 minutes? >> reporter: they enlisted a team of injuries and designed a sock with sensors that monitor oxygen levels and heart raids. >> we said that if we saved one child's life, in being able to create the product for somebody, that it was worth it. >> reporter: the doctor says while he doesn't advise it, he urges parents who use them to use tried and tested recommendations for prevention like always having your baby sleep on his back and leaving nothing else in the crib line blankets or stuffed animals. tara narula, cbs news, new york. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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could the bike sharing battle be over? how the company "blue go go" is working with the city of san francisco coming up at 5:00 could the bike sharing battle be over? how the company blue gogo is working with san francisco as they celebrate their soft rollout of their blue rentable bikes. that and more at 5:00. the latest on the death of mary tyler moore on cbssf.com. ,,
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♪ >> steffy: here, get me, get here! get me, get me! home sweet home. >> liam: it is now. >> steffy: home sweet home. [ laughs ] >> liam: i can't believe it. we're back, baby. >> steffy: i know. >> liam: we're back. >> steffy: [ laughs ] >> liam: and your marriage, your marriage to wyatt. oh, my god. it's over. there is literally nothing stopping us now. >> steffy: finally. >> quinn: so you went through with it? the divorce judgment has been approved? >> wyatt: yep. i love steffy. i loved calling her my wife, but i can't force her into feeling the same. >> quinn: [ sighs ]

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