tv CBS News Bay Area CBS October 17, 2023 3:00pm-3:31pm PDT
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from cbs news bay area, this is the afternoon edition. there is outrage among palestinians on the eve of president biden's visit to israel. a deadly attack in gaza that hamas says has killed hundreds of palestinians. from grad student visiting the bay area to soldier in just one week. we hear from this man now back fighting for his home country of israel. >> i want to travel. i wish i could be in san francisco right now but i am here. i really don't want to hurt anybody but i will do anything necessary to prevent these atrocities from
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happening again. i'm elizabeth cook . this is likely to escalate the conflict even further. a new attack has killed at least 500 people on the gaza strip and now the two sides are pointing fingers. this is new video of the hospital in gaza city in flames after an airstrike. hamas is blaming israel. israel military says the hospital was hit by a rocket misfired by palestinian militants. caught in the middle of all of this is pictures, thousands of palestinians who have taken refuge in the area after israel ordered the evacuation of the southern gaza strip. this is video from the hospital in gaza city which is a mile away where the injured are being taken. in the midst of all of this, president joe biden is heading to israel when what will be the strongest show of
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u.s. support yet. this is new video of his departure just minutes ago. tina kraus begins our coverage from tel aviv. >> reporter: the gaza health ministry says hundreds of palestinians are dead after an israeli airstrike hit a hospital in gaza. israel military denying this, saying it was hamas who fired a barrage of rockets toward israel, one of them misfiring and hitting the hospital. gaza's health ministry says hundreds of people were killed in a blast at a hospital in gaza city tonight. officials there claimant on an israeli airstrike of the israeli military says the palestinian jihad group is responsible for the attack. the carnage at the hospital has escalated the conflict. as israel continues bombing the hamas -controlled territory, palestinians scrambled to rescue children following an airstrike in the southern gaza town of brava. the producer describes what he saw. >> i saw dozens of killed
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people and dozens of injured. >> reporter: israel says it was targeting hamas hideouts and command centers. the attacks came amid a growing humanitarian crisis in gaza. food and other supplies are dwindling with aid stuck at the border with egypt. atop israeli officials said tuesday the country wants to make sure the aid does not end up in the hands of hamas. he also suggested the aid may be tied to the release of hostages taken by hamas. 21-year-old mia shim is seen here in images from a hamas propaganda video. >> i don't know if she was dead or alive . i am begging the world to bring my baby back home. >> reporter: the israeli army released video it says is of the airstrike in central gaza that killed a senior hamas commander, the most high profile member of the group killed in the war so far. 2000 u.s. troops are on standby to
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deploy to this region, not in a combat role but in a support role to help with things like intelligence and logistics as this war between israel and hamas escalate. >> thank you. one of israel's biggest hospitals is preparing for casualties of war. valence in hospital outside tel aviv has set up an intensive care unit. four floors underground and what was once a parking lot. >> this is a war in a different scale. obviously we can't foresee the future but we have to prepare for the work. >> departments located on the highest floors have been moved down to the basement to provide continuous care if that area comes under missile attack. there are monitors, ventilators and the capacity to perform some surgeries. the staff is bracing to treat traumatic injuries like those seen on the battlefield. here in the bay area, it was one week ago when our
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betty yu met this 26-year-old israeli grad student who was on a two week exchange program here studying the middle east when hamas attacked israel. now, he is back in israel as an idf reservist called to duty. that you spoke to him while he was in the barracks. >> do you have a vest on? >> i have my weapon on. i have a safe space a few millimeters from me. if there is a rocket launched at us, we go to a safe place. this means we have to sleep with our shoes on, with our uniform on. >> reporter: a 26-year-old idf combat officer is being called to war for the first time. he hugged his parents and his get
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your strength? >> reporter: he returned home from abroad to join the fight. israel has called up more than 360,000 reservists to active duty after the hamas attack. it is one of the largest mobilizations in the country's history. >> are you scared? >> of course. i don't want to die but i would rather keep on my life. i don't want to be scratched mentally or hurt physically but i know this is not only about me, this is about the future of my people . this is about the future of democracy here in the middle east. we are the only democracy and we want to keep it this way and we want to extend this
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freedom to the palestinians. we want the people in gaza to live a better life. a better life cannot be lived with a terrorist organization like hamas. >> reporter: his unit is focused on slowing hezbollah 's momentum from the north. >> i know morale is really high. they know they are doing the right thing. they know this is our time to take down this terrorist organization. we will do everything we can to minimize the civilian casualties. me as a student, i want to travel. i wish i could be in san francisco right now but i am here. i really don't want to hurt anybody but i will do anything necessary to prevent these atrocities from happening again. >> we will continue to follow the latest developments out of the middle east and we will bring you the latest information on air, streaming on the free news app and on our website, www.kpix.com where you will find live updates. how san francisco's mayor wants to give police more tools
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to fight crime. we walk along with a patrol you may not know anything about. a security force has been around the city for more than a century. new images just in from deep in space. the unusual discovery and what it could teach scientists. enjoy this beautifully serene afternoon. we are watching a time lapse of the marine layer. tomorrow, things get more interesting. there is a heat advisory we need to talk about. at the same time, dangerous surf for anyone near
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right now, there is still no speaker of the house. republican jim jordan from ohio hoped to snag the seat today but he failed to receive enough support. the first round of voting needed 217 votes and he got just 200. jordan is not giving up. he is seeking to replace kevin mccarthy who was ousted just two weeks ago. the oakland mayor just delivered her first state of the city address. she laid out her vision for the city, focusing on public safety, homelessness and economic opportunities. >> i am dedicated to a more robust and dedicated police department with an engaging presence on our street and
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specialized units to tackle specific crime. the urgent need to make oakland safer is why we are hiring civilian police investigators, investing hundreds of dollars in funding for 24 hour a day crisis response and investing even more to prevent sex trafficking and supporting trafficking victims. >> we will have much more on the state of the city address coming up tonight at 6:00. across the bay in san francisco, mayor london breed has introduced a new ballot measure that would give police officers more power and tools to fight crime. it is called safer san francisco. mayor breed lands to put this ordinance on the march 2024 ballot . it would give officers access to technology like drones, ease restrictions on police chases in the city, reduce paperwork requirements for officers and reform practices from the police commission. >> we want to see change in san francisco. we don't want to hear about it, we want to see the change in our policies and
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our investment to get our city to a better place. >> the measure would require the police commission to speak with local businesses, community members and retired police officers if they want to make changes. we reached out to the san francisco police commission per their response but have not heard back yet. a supplemental security force has patrolled san francisco since the gold rush but not a lot of people know about it. we walk to the beach with the last member of the patrol special. it does a little before dusk and ellen is on the lookout for anything suspicious. >> i have caught six burglars in the last three years. two of them have had firearms on them. >> reporter: for more than 47 years, he has been patrolling his beat, driving his unmarked car through the marina district
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and pacific heights. >> we have an increased homeless population and approximately 70% of them have a drug, alcohol, or mental health problem. >> reporter: even though he looks like a police officer, he is not. he is part of patrol special, a group of san francisco crimefighters that have been around since the gold rush, an ancillary force overseen by the sfpd. they have dedicated uniforms, badges and even guns. their powers, however, are limited. special members can apprehend suspects but they can't arrest them. perhaps the biggest difference between them and police officers is who pays their salary. >> we get paid by the citizens and the residents and the businesses in our particular area to provide additional police services to them. >> reporter: alan charges
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anywhere from $65 a month for residences to a few hundred dollars for businesses. tonight, he gets a call from one of his paying clients, worried about a homeless man who seems to be unstable, yelling on a stoop and refusing to leave. ellen arrives before the police and within minutes defuses the situation. >> you can't be down here. >> okay. >> at one point, the city had more than 450 patrol specials but the program has been phased out after police officers began off-duty patrols to make extra cash. alan is the last patrol special left in the city and a 68, he is hoping to retire . a spike in crime and severe police snapping shortages, there have been discussions to bring back the program. aaron peskin is the president of the san francisco board of supervisors and says it is a win-win for the city.
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>> it is like having your own private security guard who also is a law enforcement officer and will do any job big or small. that brings peace of mind to our residents and makes our city safer. >> reporter: not everyone thinks this program should be revived. the president of the san francisco deputy sheriffs association says these officers undergo a lot less training. plus, not everyone can afford them. >> it is better to have more police officers and deputy sheriffs on the streets making the arrests and putting the criminals in jail. >> reporter: alan believes doing away with patrol specials is a mistake. >> we are the eyes and ears of what is going on, hoping for a renewal of the program while wearing his nearly half-century of service as a badge of honor
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. >> there has been some progress on the staffing front. the department says its latest class of recruits was the largest since 2020 and applications are at a five-year high. to first alert weather mac now. we are warming up. temperatures are about to climb even more. let's get straight to meteorologist darren peck and our virtual studio. >> we've got to take this all in order. as pretty serene as today is, i've got a heat advisory to talk about for thursday and friday. then, we have to talk about the high surf advisory at the same time, which will add an element of risk for anyone trying to escape the heat at the beaches. after that, there is a dramatic cooldown for the weekend, a very small chance of rain. there is even some light snow in the sierra. there is a lot coming our way. let's get to the most important one of all of that and that is the heat advisory. look at the timeframe of there. it is the inland valleys but it includes the
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city and the santa clara valley. this is not an overwhelming heat wave. we are going to look at the numbers and a second but that is your heads up. the heat advisory goes until thursday at 11:00. here are the daytime highs. you are already jumping up into the mid-90s for tomorrow. thursday will technically be warmer but wednesday is the day when this catches your attention because those numbers are 10 degrees warmer than what we are doing today. notice the big jump in temperatures for wednesday. know that you have another day just like it, except a little warmer on thursday. then, it will get noticeably cooler, fast . there will be a lot of wave energy coming our way. look at the daytime highs by saturday. dramatic turnaround. much more on that in the 7-day forecast. let's talk about that risk at the beaches. if you take a look at the big picture, the storms are putting a lot of energy into the atmosphere.
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right now, those storms will get directed around us. when we look at this in a particular way, you can see how there is a block in the atmosphere. this is like they're hitting a block and getting split because the center of high pressure is so strong. that is when we are at our hottest temperature but it does not last long. it rakes and we get the low pressure that develops here. that pulls the cold air our way. there is one other element. even if the atmosphere is directing the storms for the next two days up and over us, the wave energy does not follow those rules. the wave energy is getting directed at all of us. if we take a look at we will be, the deeper shades show you the higher wave heights and that is why the national service has put out a high surf advisory. this will be dangerous at the beaches. at the same time, we are getting temperatures in the mid-90s inland and anyone lucky enough might want to go to the
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beach. pay close attention to the surfline. the other thing is, this is very small but the dramatic cooldown for the weekend comes along with a subtle chance of rain, barely anything measurable in the long-range forecast. we don't have rain officially for saturday or sunday but it is interesting to watch. if you look at the long-range forecast taking us into sunday, it wants to paint a little bit of snow in the sierra. we will see how this all plays out on the big picture. the microclimate we are going to look at is the one that will fuel this warm-up and that will be the inland valley. we will start inland. take a look at the numbers here. thursday, 95. look at wednesday, 93. then, look at the cooldown. an increasing clouds. we are not putting rain in the forecast yet but there is a small 10% chance at this point and it is a dramatic cooldown. it is fall. we will
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watch it closely and let you know if that changes. nasa is reporting a new discovery thanks to the james webb space telescope. for the first time it has detected tiny quartz crystals near an exoplanet. each is only one millionth of a centimeter. 10,000 of them could fit across a human hair. the crystals contain silica which appears in beach sand and it is used to make glass. they made this discovery in the cloud of a planet about 1300 light-years away from earth. up until now, the atmospheres of most exoplanets contain magnesium and not quartz. they say this finding could help them understand the materials used to form other environments. pretty big. the 49ers hoping to get back in the
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facing the vikings on monday night football but that means three of their key players also get an extra day to recover. >> christian mccaffrey is waiting on the imaging. deebo samuel 's shoulder will be day today. trent williams, ankle. day today. >> williams finished on a sprained ankle. deebo was injured on the very first play and mccaffrey was limited to one carrion the second half. adding insult to injury, rookie kicker jake moody missed the game-winning field goal. 49ers fans thinking this is why they should have re-signed robbie gould. his teammates have his back. >> i would never put that on him to say that we lost this game because of him. i always look to myself first to see what i could have did better in defensively as a group. >> it is going to sting right now but if we had to do it again, we will trust in jake again. jake has done a great job all year and we will continue to believe in him. >> with the red and gold
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something that may take you back to your childhood. this was fun for us to see. you can now vote for one of the next finalists for the national toy hall of fame. you would recognize some of these. four inductees will be chosen by a special board but one will be chosen by the public. in the running are the fisher-price corn popper, my little pony, perez, pogo stick and the original transformers. they have ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, president biden is on his way to the middle east right now as a diplomatic crisis now unfolds. the summit of leaders in jordan canceled after a deadly explosion at a gaza hospital kills hundreds. here are tonight's headlines.
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