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i said you work there? he said yes. he said the boss man was shot. then i saw them behind a green suv vehicle with guns. they came by, they broke the front door down, went in with dogs, machine guns, s.w.a.t. teams. >> now, authorities have not said yet the condition of the chef who was shot. and it's also not clear at this time how many hostages might still be in the restaurant. the mayor says, though, this was not an act of terrorism or racism. we'll have updates as we get them. in the bay area, there's a problem with the water at an oakland high school. officials found unsafe levels of lead. kpix 5's jackie ward on the next steps from the district. >> reporter: the problem was brought to the school district's attention when the football coach started going across the street to his mother's house in order to make sure that his players had freshwater. ousd is taking the necessary steps now to solve this problem. the oakland unified school
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district says unsafe amounts of lead were found in the water here. now they say it's no longer any threat. >> we have no contact with any lead-based water. >> reporter: that's not enough to convince in woman whose children's go to mcclymonds high school and she wants to test them for lead. >> why didn't they notify us? >> reporter: it was in the cafeteria, water fountain in the football field and showerheads in the girls and boys locker rooms which are shut down. >> there is still the issue of the sediment on campus. it's an old building with old pipes. there's shedding of the sediment in the pipes. >> reporter: for now, these filters have been installed as a temporary fix and water dispensers have been placed throughout the school. students are encouraged to use the new free water bottles to access it. this filtration system and spigot by the football field have been installed recently. students couldn't get water from the fountains if they wanted to because they have been turned off.
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>> this school been here since 1950. so 1950 from now, that's some years. so we know the pipes need to be replaced. >> reporter: the long-term solution would be to replace the entire system in the high school. that could take longer than a year and over $2.5 million. jackie ward, kpix 5. since a lot of other oakland schools are aging like mcclymonds, the district says it will test the water in those buildings for lead, as well. berkeley and san francisco bracing for weekend rallies that are expected to attract white supremacists. this morning, a coalition of anti-hate, labor and faith groups will be holding doubter demonstrations and condemned bay area city leaders who didn't block the gathering of the ralliers citing free speech rights. >> politician and the cops in the bay area have more than enough legal tools to tell them they cannot rally here to
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prohibit their rallies to prohibit their behavior. >> members of the national lawyers guild said they will be at the rally and will provide legal representation to anyone arrested for protesting against the hate groups. we have also learned that former white house chief strategist steve bannon could be coming to uc-berkeley. the university invited him to speak on campus this fall and some reports say that he was invited along with right wing speakers ann coulter and milo yiannopoulos next month. the university is expected to release more information on that later today. new at noon, california supreme court upholds a measure to change the state's death penalty system and speed up executions. proponents say that the voter approved initiative prop 66 was a push to mend not end capital punishment in california by setting a five-year deadline on court appeals. critics say that the law will lead to rushed decisions from judges and leave defense attorneys without enough time to prepare their cases. president trump will be
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meeting with his legislative affairs team today to talk about getting his agenda through congress. mola lenghi reports about tax reform, border wall and healthcare. >> reporter: president trump took a swipe this morning at the two men he will need to get his agenda through congress. he tweeted: >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan was asked about the debt ceiling during a tour of the boeing facility in washington. >> we take our debts in this country. we will continue to do so. so i'm not worried that's not going to get done. it's going to get done. >> reporter: congress has until the end of september to raise the death ceiling and pass a spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. publicly the president and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell are united. privately, it's been report they are feuding and haven't spoken to each other in weeks.
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mcconnell focused on his agenda during a speech in kentucky this morning. >> this congress is interested in getting america growing again. >> reporter: the president blamed mcconnell again today for the healthcare failure in the senate. mcconnell joked about how hard it is to be the senate leader with a slim majority. >> it's a little bit like being a groundskeeper at a cemetery. everybody is under you but nobody is listening. [ laughter ] >> that's what you get with 52- 48. [ laughter ] >> reporter: the president has urged mcconnell to ditch the filibuster rule in order to sideline the democrats, something mcconnell says is off the table. mola lenghi, cbs news, the white house. to storm watch now, hurricane harvey is gaining strength in the gulf of mexico. it is expected to make landfall late tomorrow night or saturday morning in corpus christi, texas. some places could see more than 2 feet of rain. sandbags already in place in some places. neda iranpour is tracking
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harvey for us in the weather center. >> reporter: yeah. hurricane harvey picking up steam now in the gulf of mexico. it started as a tropical depression early this morning. that's what we were talking about. and now look. it's reaches these warm waters of the gulf of mexico, getting closer to the coast, it's picked up. it's a cat-1 hurricane. that means sustained winds of 85 miles per hour ahead of this storm. look at the rain that's coming down already near the coast. those areas of red and yellow, those are warnings. hurricane warnings people told to evacuate corpus christi. friday night into saturday morning, it also a category 3 with sustained winds up to 125 miles per hour. again, up to two feet of rain from this hurricane that's heading towards texas. place like houston being warned about this along with galveston, corpus christi, 30 counties right there the governor has declared a state of disaster ahead of the storm because of what's to come.
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here's the futurecast the next 48 hours. look at the colors of the yellow and red here. this is a significant amount of rainfall, flooding and wind dangers and storm surge ahead. so if you have friends and family in texas, call them to check on them. a massachusetts hospital worker just came forward to claim her big $758 million powerball jackpot. 53-year-old mavis from chicopee bought the only ticket matching all the numbers but before she went public about a win, there was a big mix-up by the massachusetts state lottery. cbs reporter jericka duncan reports. >> reporter: for over six hours the powerball jackpot ticket was believed to have been sold in a boston suburb but this morning, massachusetts lottery officials admitted there was a miss, 75 miles away, it was
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sold at this store in chicopee. >> this was human error. our internal systems -- and i want to be very clear about this -- our internal systems always had the correct information. >> this is powerball. >> reporter: last night, people across the country watched as one person won. the person beat 1 in 292 million odds. the more than $758 million prize is the largest won by a single ticket in u.s. history. but it's not the largest prize ever. in january, 2016, a $1.6 billion powerball jackpot was split among three winners. bob owns the gas station and store where the winning ticket was bought yesterday afternoon. he says he will donate the
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$50,000 that his store received for selling the ticket to local charities. >> we are happy and hope they share it. >> reporter: there was a winning ticket purchased at handy variety. but for "just" $1 million. the owners win $10,000. >> if the winner claims a lump sum she would take home $480 million before taxes. and she should then expect to pay about 40% in taxes. but yeah, plenty of cash left. california wasn't totally out of luck in this powerball drawing. one of the winning numbers matching five numbers bought a ticket in milpitas at the chevron. >> a second five number match was sold at lucky's on mission street in daly city. and a third was sold in newport beach. they haven't come forward yet. a major online retailer
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man. witnesses say: he walked into the rec center on campus last night, claiming he had a gun... police at uc-berkeley are looking for your help if you can identify this man. witnesses say he walked into the rec center on campus last night claiming he had a gun. and then he stole cell phones and wallets from several
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people. the suspect last seen heading west on bancroft way. new at noon, amazon's first "brick and mortar" store in the bay area is now open for business. kpix 5's jessica flores takes us inside. >> reporter: highly rated children's books, pictures, books with more than 10,000 reviews. just a few of the sections in the newly opened santana row amazon bookstore. >> what we're trying to do is integrate the best from on and offline into an experience that gives customers more information and also helps them get, you know, a new way to discover books. >> reporter: no browsing rows of book spines. the books face out. they are helping customers find books. here's another unique experience. this is called the if you like section. if you like this book, you'll love this book. >> it gives you insight. i see higher stars books. you want to read these.
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>> reporter: shoppers here are loving having that new book smell back in their neighborhood. >> this is nice to have a bookstore back in here. >> one thing i'm kind of a book person, so it's fun to always browse even if you don't buy things. but i'm sure they will do very well. >> it's not old school. it's a customer-focused store designed to spur discovery. >> reporter: what you just might discover besides those highly raid books, perhaps the next hidden gem. in san jose, jessica flores, kpix 5. the north bay's smart train will start service tomorrow. the route runs from downtown san rafael to the sonoma county airport. commuters will be able to catch trains at 10 different stations. that's expected to ease traffic on 101 significantly by giving people an alternate route. and as a bonus, all rides will be free on opening day. taking a look at how the financial markets are doing, on wall street, the dow right now down about 24. the stock market hit record highs this year and the unemployment rate is at a 16-
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year low. but a new survey finds that most workers are still struggle. the careerbuilder.com found 78% of workers say they are living paycheck to paycheck. that's up 3% from last year. the website says the higher cost of living and stagnant wages are to blame. even one in 10 people earning more than $100,000 a year says they are waiting for payday to pay their bills. >> too many people are in debt and as they approach that retirement age, they're not going to be ready to support themselves and be able to retire. >> the data also shows that women are more likely than men to live paycheck to paycheck. of course, trimming monthly expenses helps. but the survey found most people are not willing to give things up like wi-fi and smartphones. >> that's right! >> time now to check weather with neda. right now, we are still seeing that thick cloud cover across the airport. but i just checked and it looks like flights are on time. here's in san jose, where there
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are some clear skies blue conditions out there. so cloud cover has left the inland areas and temperatures there warming up nicely. san jose 75 degrees right now. san francisco 60. livermore 74. oakland 63 degrees right now. so here's what we can expect for the rest of the day. the clouds and the drizzle going to linger right along the coastline. we are going to see more of that this morning. i know a lot of people were using those windshield wipers. seasonal today and tomorrow. hot sunday through wednesday. swirling conditions happening now southeast winds in novato at 8 miles per hour. fairfield feeling the breeze at 20 miles per hour. wind gusts strong through the afternoon. here's our afternoon highs:
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>> if you are at the coast you won't see the sunrise because clouds will stay stubborn and stick around but here's what we're going to expect come sunday through next week. this high pressure is building across the desert southwest. it brings monsoonal moisture most of the time and that is what it's going to continue to do. usually doesn't impact us this way. but it's so strong, that it is going to cause a significant in our temperatures up to 10 degrees if not more. look at this. 89 degrees for highs inland and jumping all the way up to the triple digits come saturday, sunday through monday, even into next week. whoo. get ready for the heat. and the bay temperatures will hit the mid-70s by next week even the coast, we could see that sun at the beaches. haven't seen that for a while. get ready for the beach. >> get the wet suit and go surfing. >> 104? you bumped that up from this
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morning. >> it's getting hotter. >> it's building. >> all right. >> thanks. still ahead using the love of fashion as a force for good. how a bay area woman is helping hundreds of charities. >> and we want to invite all you pet lovers to send us your questions about their health and well-being. just email us at pets@kpix.com and we'll have an answer friday at noon. who are these people?
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the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing.
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this week's jefferson award winner. she create a unique style of giving that makes giving stylish. sharon chin introduces us to this week's jefferson award winner. >> i love this jacket for you. >> reporter: when christena reinhard cleaned out her sister in-laws' closet, they hauled out 22 boxes of designer clothing. >> we sold the contents online. >> reporter: and gave the proceeds to an inner city youth nonprofit. >> they raised $43,000. >> we built a computer lab from old sweaters and handbags. >> reporter: a personal shopper and professional fundraiser, christena was on to something. >> we were like oh, my gosh, other women have stuff in their closets. i wrote a business plan, quit my job and we started "union & fifth." >> reporter: "union & fifth" is a three-year-old nonprofit that raises money for charities by reselling donated new or gently used designer women's fashions. >> beautiful. >> reporter: they are sold at
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"union & fifth"'s walnut creek pop-up or on its website atup to 90% off retile prices. >> we hand off 75% of the net proceeds to the charities the donor chooses. >> reporter: the remaining 25% goes toward running the nonprofit. these are $155 on the price tag. but $116 will go to charity. this was actress loni anderson. these two belonged to another actress. so far "union & fifth" has sold thousands of items and given nearly $750,000 to more than 330 charities. >> some earrings. >> reporter: take project glimmer the san francisco nonprofit they give jewelry and makeup to at risk females. executive director hopes to expand with $20,000 she expects to raise through "union & fifth." >> i have been amazed at how much in terms of fundraising has come through. >> reporter: so for fashioning
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heating but is it worth it? that and more at 5:00. >> so the heat is on. >> it's going to get here. and we have to be ready for it because this could actually be some dangerous heat. we haven't been used to this in a while especially inland. here's the seven-day forecast. sunshine through wednesday of next week. >> so the 104 on monday will make us happy to be at work in air-conditioning. right? >> yes. >> think about it that way. enjoy your thursday.
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♪ >> brooke: apparently liam and jarrett were very surprised by sally's designs. >> steffy: how did bill react to that? >> brooke: oh... we may not be having family dinners for a while. >> ivy: [ laughs ] you know, i'm surprised that sally felt confident enough to give jarrett a preview. and that liam wanted to go along with it. >> steffy: i'm not surprised. especially what happened last time. >> brooke: liam was determined to see spectra get a fair shot today. >> steffy: [ sighs ] that's my husband. he's a good man. he can't stand dishonesty of any kind. >> liam: so, we're printing the review as-is. >> jarrett: i haven't written it yet. >> justin: you might want to check the terms of your contract before you do. >> liam: i was there, too, justin. >> bill: dougy do-gooder here thinks that spectra did enough
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