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from cbs news bay area, this is the afternoon edition. >> breaking news, an oakland high school locked down after shots fired reported on campus and parents are desperate to get more answers. in the south bay, new arrests in a series of smash-and-grab burglaries, the pattern police are seeing. we are starting to see narcan available over-the-counter, where the
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overdose reversal drug is sold now and the push to make it cheaper. good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook, we are going to start with that breaking news, a scary situation for parents and students in oakland. a report of shots fired on the campus of skyline high school and that prompted a lockdown. anne makovec is following this for us. >> reporter: students were released within the last hour but the lockdown lasted about 2 1/2 hours, police did confirm a gun was found on campus. and at least one shot was fired on campus. four people were detained, two were eventually arrested. but, the good news, nobody was actually injured in this shooting. it started just before 11:30 this morning and there was a report of shots fired near skyline high school and the school was placed on lockdown. kids barricading in their classrooms. officers went through the campus to look for any additional weapons or evidence and that is when they found the gun. a lot of parents were gathered at the school to figure out what was going on, they had gotten the text message, they lined up outside waiting for information as most of their kids were locked down
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in the classrooms. this is just west of the east oakland hills. we heard from one mother who has had enough. >> these kids are not safe, the school is wide open, people shouldn't be able to walk into a school with guns and understand they have the suspects but we are still sitting out here and they look like they have more suspects. my kids won't be here until we get some information. >> reporter: we don't know anything about the people that were arrested today, police are not releasing any information including whether or not any students were involved, nor any details on the exact location of that shooting on campus. we know a lot of parents have concerns with the school district said they are going to be reviewing their policies after this event, we are going to keep you posted on air and online. we have an update on the oakland shooting we first told you about yesterday at 3:00. a woman is in critical condition after she got caught in the middle of a rolling gunbattle
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between two cars near lake merritt. she had nothing to do with it and was just an innocent bystander. so far no arrests have been made. in san jose, police have made several additional arrests in connection to a series of smash-and-grab burglaries that began all the way back in march. take a look at this video. thieves ramming right into and through the businesses to get access. police say many of those incidents involve smoke shops and most of the incidents involved a kia or hyundai vehicle. an internet trend this year shows how those cars can be easily stolen. police announced the arrest of one adult, vincent loredo along with six teenagers. laredo was not involved in the burglaries but he does have some relation to at least one of the juveniles. >> they are dealing with thousands and thousands of dollars of damages, but it's emotional trauma, having to rebuild your business, how to make ends meet. >> business owners who are concerned should make sure they have surveillance cameras and
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some type of alarm system and owners of those cars should take extra precaution. a tool in the nationwide fight against drug overdoses is now available over-the-counter. the nasal spray, narcan is hitting stores and store website. they approved it for sale over-the-counter back in march and as of today, rite aid has it available to buy online. walgreens says it will hit some stores today and be available nationwide on thursday. we checked cvs online, they say the nasal spray is sold out through the bay area. while access to narcan might be getting easier, some say the cost may keep people from buying it, the retail price, $45 for the two spray kit and lawmakers say that is just too expensive. liz ortega ordered a bill to cap the price at $10. jill biden has tested
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positive for covid for a second time, she is experiencing only mild symptoms according to the white house. both the first lady and president biden are in the high risk group of people ages 65 and older. so far the president has tested negative and he continues to test frequently as he prepares for a trip overseas. the first ladies diagnosis comes as covid cases ar spiking in the u.s., the cdc says covid hospitalizations were up nearly 19% in one week in mid-august due to the emergence of the new variant. heading into the fall season, doctors are advising eligible season people to get the new shot. >> we have every expectation that the new booster which will become available in mid-september should provide protection against severe disease caused by these variants going forward. >> doctors say if you are at high risk, you may want to consider wearing masks
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regularly again. in california, the health department said over seven days, the positivity rate is currently 14%, that is an increase of over 1.5% from the week before. marin county is leading with 18.5% testing positivity, santa clara county saw the biggest jump with a 3.2% increase. an oakland youth football team flagging big safety concerns. >> i know a lot of our kids are traumatized, a lot of them are losing sleep. but, parents are terrified to even drop their kids off. >> why they say they can't even play on their home field anymore. food banks desperately need our help more than ever, how some day volunteers are answering the call and helping the community bounce back. it's one of those beautiful afternoons, we are watching the marine layer streaming in over the golden gate, and everybody is pretty much average temperature-wise right now. by the weekend, there is a warm-up, some of us are going back into the 90s, we are going
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welcome back. for most sports teams, home field has its advantages but for a group of kids in oakland, they say it is just too dangerous to play there. instead, the east bay panthers say they are driving an hour away because of what they are afraid will happen in their own neighborhood. betty yu has the story. >> reporter: two shootings in one week, in and around carter park on 96th avenue in east oakland, both happened around the same time in the evening when kids with the east bay panthers football team were practicing. how many gunshots did you hear? >> too many to count, that is what caught my attention because it was a series of pop, pop, pop. >> reporter: he was sitting in his car waiting for his 13-year-old son carter, to finish practice, he said the park was full of people including kids playing basketball. >> some coaches and parents
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literally got all of the kids and got down, including my son, i know he was affected. >> reporter: oakland police said while they found evidence of a shooting, they did not find any victims. then last week, the coach and director said they told the kids to get down on the ground as one more than 100 gunshots rang out at the park. several homes and cars were hit by gunfire. >> it was horrible, people with masks came on the park, and another group of people, adults, came on motorcycles and started shooting at the park. >> reporter: luckily nobody was injured but the team and parents were so terrified, they will play in santa rosa for what would have been a home game. >> i know a lot of our kids are traumatized. a lot of them are losing sleep. the parents are terrified to even drop their kids off at practice.
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>> reporter: leroy said he wants opd to increase patrols in the area. >> i do feel like the oakland police department has not done anything to secure these kids safety. what we offer is get the kids off the streets so they don't turn into these people that are shooting. >> asked somebody that was born and raised here, you can tell it is worse. i don't even allow my children to walk to the grocery store that is near us. when i was growing up, i would want to a corner gas station that was in our neighborhood all the time. >> their next practice is today and they have been trying to reach out to other cities and teams in other towns to use their fields but so far no luck. they are hoping someone will reach out to them by tonight. fillet how is making a name for itself in the real estate market, a recent study shows the city leads the nation when it comes to homes selling for over asking price.
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>> if you ask how the real estate market is in vallejo -- >> it is not the norm, we are finding a new normal. >> he was surprised to find a study shows that homes in vallejo are over any other metro city in the u.s. >> we are not in an earthquake zone, fire zone, we have about $1 billion in the pipeline of new infrastructure coming in. >> that means people pouring into vallejo, either out of state or other high-priced parts of california. >> people are getting a great value, it is a great value coming here. you get a lot for the money and people are seeing the opportunities of what they can do here. this put on the market for $608,000, and i put it up for 583. san francisco,
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i think politics aside, they are disappointed with so many things that are happening with nordstrom closing, the high rate of decline, et cetera, they are looking for new areas to get involved. >> reporter: 10 has lived in the area for decades and he has seen how it changed. with this new attention, he is happy to share the story. >> you can probably tell i'm a big fan of vallejo. >> for as much criticism that san francisco gets, it ranked second in the same study, homes are selling for more than $31,000 above asking price. san jose was fourth behind rochester, new york and last place in the study, key west, florida with homes selling for $44,000 below asking price. inflation and the impacts of the pandemic have only increased the need of bay area food banks, second harvest feeds hundreds of thousands of people every month. shawn chitnis is showing us how volunteers are working to help
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their community thrive. >> people come here because they want to volunteer, they want to be here. >> reporter: after almost 20 years, steve not only wanted to be here but kept coming back to second harvest, taking on more responsibilities as a volunteer. >> doing okay? everything going all right? >> reporter: and now he is the team leader overseeing the packaging of this fresh produce, working two shifts per day. he first sign up to volunteer as a way to give back to the community. steve remembers years ago, meeting somebody while on his way to second harvest that reminds him why they do this work day after day. >> a woman ran up behind me and asked me, well, basically she said i'm a research scientist, a phd, i've been laid off from my job, i'm about to be evicted because i can't pay my rent and i have no food in my refrigerator. can you help me? >> reporter: and while that
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happened early into his time as a volunteer, he noted that this still remains the case today. >> this can happen to anybody in our community. >> reporter: and right now, one in six people living in san mateo and santa clara counties get food donated from second harvest. half of them are kids or seniors. >> each one of your viewers has the opportunity to make a contribution to the community. only they can answer whether they will or not. >> second harvest is looking for help, you can donate cash to help them buy more food in bulk or you can volunteer your time to get the food out to families in need quickly. with school back in session, it's not just parents spending more money, a lot of teachers are also digging deeper into their own pockets to make their classroom ready. the classroom association says more than 90% of teachers are
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spending more of their own money on classroom supplies. the union estimates that during the 2023-2024 academic year, teachers will spend $800 or more out of pocket an inflation is making it even harder for teachers to stretch those dollars but the cost of crayons and pencils up nearly 19% year-over-year. >> with the high cost of inflation and prices, teachers are concerned. we are seeing a demand across the u.s. for core essential school supplies. >> i would buy a bunch from target, so when a kid needed it, i would go to my stash that i bought. >> in february of this year, according to the bureau of labor statistics, there were nearly 150,000 more openings in public education. those are
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pretty bleak numbers, teachers are so imported and when you hear those numbers, it is staggering because you know that teachers don't make that much money and yet they are spending their own money to help our kids. >> which was such an example to hear her story, finding ways to make it happen, peer gold to have teachers like that. >> and we all have that one teacher who made a huge difference in our lives. >> we will switch gears, i want to show you the warm-up coming our way because the numbers for the weekend for the inland valleys, you are going back to the 90s. we are going to do this seven-day forecast for concord, this is going to apply pretty broadly for most of the inland locations. we will be in the low 90s by the time we get to saturday and sunday. current numbers outside for san jose in the mid-80s , current numbers
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in concord are also in the mid-80s. and if we take a look at what is happening on the big picture to drive the temperatures right now, we are sitting right at average for now but as we get into the weekend, we are going to see the numbers warming up a little bit weird and when that happens, you can see where the warm air is going to go, that is going to transition to a warmer weekend. let's look ahead over the next 12 hours, these are the highs today. mid-80s, concord will top out at 83, pleasanton was 83 today, these are the numbers for tomorrow. we are pretty similar to today, those are pretty close to the currents , right now it is pretty much 83 degrees in concord and 83 in san jose, upper 70s for much of the bayshore. as we look at the plan for tomorrow, a little bit of the marine layer is creeping back in, we will see some clouds in the bay that it's not going to be terribly widespread and we are seeing less of this over the next few days. this is part of that warming trend. so, we are not seeing so much of
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the fog extending as we get into september. the funny thing about that, september didn't get a fun play on words like that, it's not in play as we get into september. and we have less of the marine layer over the next couple weeks. that is what it looks like for san francisco and oakland, plenty of sunshine for oakland and there's the take away in the forecast, a warm-up by next weekend. for oakland, you are back up to near 80, if we look at north bay and south bay numbers, the north bay numbers are going to be close to 90. san jose is in the mid-80s and when we look at the top line, this is the one that we started out with and now we fit all the numbers in. we are going to be in the low to mid 90s by the weekend. think of tri-valley, inland contra costa county and the beach will stay in the 60s.
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vern glenn explains. >> this is a volkswagen red and gold report. >> after a seven month all season, it is finally game week for the 49ers. get ready for the opener, sunday in pittsburgh. yes, sir. it's about that time. it'll be the 49ers first trip to the steele city since 2015. jim sulla was the coach and they were blown out, 48-13 as a part of a 5 and 11 season, eric armistead was a rookie that year and he wasn't interested in going down memory lane. >> i remember a lot about that day, it wasn't a good day for us. it's going to be an amazing atmosphere, we have great fans, football city. i remember that, the atmosphere is going to be great. some things i want to talk about in that game, they can look at the score and see
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what happens. >> other sports news, just weeks after winning the latest women's world cup title, the head coach of the spanish national team has been fired. jorge has been a controversial figure in spanish football for a while with at least 15 players calling for him to be ousted. he also defended football federation chief, luis rudy alice who is forcing criticism after forcing a kiss on a player during the world cup championship celebration last month. coming up, popular items from one burger chain, how they are spicing things up big time. and remember, you can watch as anytime, anywhere on our streaming service, cbs news bay area, find us on the
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coming up tonight at 5:00, will this fall season be a reset for offices? how some companies are changing the rules when it comes to remote work. we know that they are known for their burgers, but shake shack is spicing things up, it includes a hot chicken sandwich, which is back for the fourth time. there's also the new spicy shake burger, spicy fries and spicy cheese fries. the fries are available now, the sandwich and burger will launch on friday that customers can get early access using the shake shack app. i'm ready for dinner. it's a little early, but it looks good. >> do they offer a mild version for those who are not so good with the spice? >> or just order ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight the breaking news, the former head of the proud boys sentenced to 22 years in prison.
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