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now at 11:00, nine wunz troubles in san francisco after a big upgrade for the call center skipped out on some desperately needed public safety basics. plus -- >> we have a code of ethics for lawyers, not for all employees. >> the embattled alameda county d.a. responds after a recall rally got scrappy. and -- >> they are off. >> a world famous bay area man is stepping back from the competitive eating stage after a battle over vegan hot dogs. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi, i'm sara donchey. when you call 911, the last thing you want is to be put on hold or basically have someone not answer the phone at all, but over the past few months we've seen people in multiple bay area cities report those exact
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same problems. the issues with oakland's 911 system have got ton most attention in the bay. residents have reported waiting 20 minutes or longer to get somebody on the phone. some have called the dispatch system broken. it's manager we've been reporting on for years. >> we watch them break in cars and wait and break in cars and we call and call and call, and no one ever came. >> dispatchers are toiling literally with papers and pen writing down individual calls running across the room, giving it to the dispatcher and sending it to the officers in the field. >> this is a problem we've been closely following across the bay in san francisco. this 911 dispatcher told us months ago staffing shortages were leaving callers hanging. >> a lot of people don't realize how bad it is until you have to call 911 and you can't get through the phone. >> well, san francisco just poured millions of dollars into a new dispatch center, but our itay hod just checked in with the same dispatcher who says
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things are off to a very, very rough start. >> san francisco 911, what's the exact location of your emergency? >> reporter: when you call 911, all you care about is getting help and fast. >> how old's the patient? >> reporter: for the last 16 year, better wilson has been answering those calls day in and day out. >> you help people of their greatest time of need. >> reporter: as the president of the 911 dispatchers union, bert says behind the scenes at the city's department of emergency management there's a complex set of challenges and problems that will take time and money to fix. >> san francisco 911. >> reporter: in april, the city unveiled its new and improved 911 dispatch center, a $9 million renovation funded by a bond approved by voters four years ago. the remodel includes 55 now workstations, ergonomic chair, and a state-of-the-art facility, but bert says most of
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those improvement, though needed, are merely cosmetic. >> it's almost like lipstick on a pig. >> reporter: the day after the grand opening, bert says the center's computer system crashed for two and a half hours, forcing dispatchers to resort to what's known as manual mode. >> when a call comes in, everything's written down on a piece of paper. it's given to a runner so they can take it to the police dispatcher or fire dispatch. >> reporter: bert says that wasn't the only time. how many crashes have you had, say, in the last couple of months? >> i think about six to eight. >> there's no magic wand. >> reporter: mary ellen carroll, the executive director, she says the computer system is nearing its end of life. there is a larger $44 million plan to upgrade it, but that won't happen for another two years. >> there has not been an impact on the public or on the delivery of services. and you
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know, it prepares us for really much worse scenarios that -- for instance, if we were to lose -- massive power outage, we're pretty good at doing manual mode. >> reporter: department says that while that's not great it hasn't affected response times, what do you say to that? >> how would they know that? >> reporter: the goal for 911 dispatchers is to answer 95% of calls within 15 seconds. in february, the last data available, san francisco was at 73%. >> half of our calls are answered within three seconds. so we -- if you look at us comparatively to a lot of other call centers in the region, we're doing really pretty well. >> reporter: bert believes the department isn't doing enough to recruit and retain workers. he says since 2019 more than 60% of those who completed training have left. >> it's kind of hard to keep them here when you can't get days off.
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>> san francisco 911. >> reporter: now he hopes the department will answer dispatcher's calls for help -- >> what's the exact location of your emergency. >> reporter: -- so that they can respond to yours. >> okay, thanks. >> so we've been following up on this issue. we talked to bert again. he told us the computer system crashed again this past saturday for more than four hours this time. tonight oakland homicide detective told us two people were arrested after a home invasion ended in a deadly shooting. police swarmed a house on 98th avenue near burr street around 6:00 yesterday evening. officers say they were responding to a holmbergry and then they found a person dead. homicide detectives say they're presenting the case to the d.a.'s office tomorrow. staying in the east bay, there are a lot of emotions swirling around the recall of alameda county district attorney pamela price, and those emotions were on display when a rally held by recall supporters this weekend turned violent. our da lin recorded a
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counterprotester who supported price telling crime victims they needed to, quote, raise their kids. that's when someone took a swing at him. today we learned an employee of the d.a.'s office was also at the rally, apparently taunting the family members of murder victims who support the recall, and he did it while livestreaming on facebook. but as katie nielsen report, d.a. price insists since he was off the clock, it wasn't a problem. >> and they started trying to get aggressive with it. and so this is the gang mentality that is coming from -- >> reporter: posted by desmond jeffries as he called safeco founder brenda grisham brenda gruesome at least half a dozen times and said crime victims' families were like a game. >> this is desmond jeffries, so i'm standing here -- >> reporter: jeffreys is listed on the d.a.'s website as a
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director of retention and recruitment and according to price is not bound by a code of ethics or code of conduct. >> we have a code of ethics for lawyers, not for all employees. >> protect -- as you can see, they are getting violent. >> reporter: she says what jeffreys does on his own time is his own business. >> mr. jefferies, to my understanding, has not violated any county rules or procedures by what he did on saturday. >> reporter: but according to the leaders of safe, the group trying to recall pamela price, when an employee of the d.a.'s office is taunting the families of murder victims, that crosses the line. >> when you are doing things like this and attacking directly to the victims' families, it's totally wrong. and it is not acceptable at all. $the safe organization went as far as to write a letter to the d.a.'s office and the alameda county board of supervisors demanding disciplinary action against jefferies and called for him to
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be fired. >> when you're looking for this office and you have the obligation to carry yourself at a high standard. >> reporter: during the press conference, price said he won't be punished and she will not be implementing any kind of code of conduct in the office. >> mr. jefferies is not facing any disciplinary action. mr. jeffreys, as far as i know, exercised his first amendment right on a saturday morning. >> it's only june and the recall isn't on the ballot until november, still about five months away. across the bay in san francisco, a group of people who live in rvs took to the streets to protest an upcoming parking crackdown. today they blocked off the entrance to the stones town mall, and as lauren toms tells us, they say now they'll have nowhere safe to go. >> yeah, i mean, it's like a little studio. for me it's fine. i got a little tv. i feel fortunate that, you know -- i feel lucky we're here. >> reporter: jonathan is one of
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a few dozen resident who is live in rvs along winston drive near lake merced. he tells our wilson walker he's lived there since 2019 with his cat. >> we did this to get ahead, to bite the bullet. living like this allows us to take care of tire, insurance, dental appointment, oh clothes for kids, back to school. not only rent's expensive, everything's expensive. >> reporter: in a matter of weeks they could be forced to move when the city starts cracking down on parking restrictions. >> i think there are people that just, yeah, we just rub them the wrong way. i don't know where they want us to go. we're just human beings. sorry i was born. sorry we were born, but we're all god's children, i think, so we should have compassion and empathy. >> reporter: the city planning to begin enforcing a four-hour parking limit, and today jonathan and a few dozen others temporarily blocked the road leading to the stones town mall in protest, demanding the city postpone enforcement again or find them another safe area to
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live. 11-year-old hazel and her family were among those hopeful for a resolution. >> we want to protest for our home, our safety and be safe. that's all what i think about. >> reporter: four-hour parking signs went up in april, but sfmta says they won't start enforcing it until the road is paved next month. most people we spoke to said they'd be willing to find a new place to park but are worried about safety. >> i think for my parents we will park over there if it's safe. if it's not like with a lot of people that, like, are dangerous. if it's safe, yes. >> according to the city's point in time count, which is conducted every two years, the number of people living in vehicles is up by 37%. the issue of bringing giant pandas to the bay area is inspiring some people to wear panda suits inside city hall. the step forward that's just the beginning to getting the animals over from china. and from one bear to
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another, except this is not where you want to see one turn up. how a california family handled an unexpected guest who made himself very comfortable inside their home. it was hot inland for all types of mammals today. temperatures reached up into triple digit territory inland and the east bay. livermore and concord hit 100 degrees. upper 90s around santa rosa, but this was a one-day spell of hot weather. back to near normal temperatures tomorrow. we'll see if it lasts into father's day weekend coming up in the first alert forecast. >> paul, thanks so much. and he's one of the bay area's favorite unconventional athletes, why joey chestnut is stepping away from the competition that made him a household name. tonight -- >> no liquor at trump golf courses. in a related story,
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we are one step closer on a very, very long process to seeing giant pandas at the san francisco zoo. in a 9-2 vote of approval, city supervisors gave mayor london breed the green light to start raising funds, private money, to bring pandas over from china and build enclosures for them at the city zoo. >> pandas have an opportunity to draw large crowds and a consistency of support and will be an attraction here in san francisco. >> some people have been fighting against this plan, saying that the zoo is not prepared to welcome pandas. >> so the zoo has proved time and time again that they can't prop lir do a minimum job of taking care of their animals. >> the zoo and mayor have been pushing back against those claims, saying they will make sure the pandas are well cared for. now it's up to the mayor
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to help raise about $25 million in private funding to make this happen. it was a really nice day to be outside today assuming you were hydrated, you had access to shade, you had a/c, a lot of prerequisites, but it was definitely warm, especially inland. >> a lot of qualifiers there, but we are going to return to near average temperatures beginning already tomorrow. last week's little heat wave was two days long, this week's was exactly one day long. so not really a wave, just a really brief spike in temperatures. we return to normal temperatures as the heat dome backs away from the coast a little bit. we're going to be kind of in between those hot air masses as we head through the next several days with the desert southwest still cooking. but we're going to see average june weather taking over, including a stronger onshore breeze. we'll track that hour by hour coming up in just a minute or so. let's take a look outside right now from salesforce tower looking to the south. temperatures are mild inland, mid-70s in concord and livermore. right at 70 degrees in san jose. but exactly 60 in oakland and san francisco and
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down to the mid-60s already in santa rosa. not seeing much fog out there just yet, and we're not going to see a lot out there tomorrow morning, but there is going to be just a little bit trying to redevelop, mainly right along the coast. and maybe some of that trying to sneak inside the bay. i don't think there's going to be a big push into the inland valleys tonight or tomorrow morning. that's going to wait until tomorrow night into thursday morning what little fog there is will not take long to back up to the coast. and we should see a mix of clouds and sunshine along the coast. but already the beginnings of a more stubborn june gloom pattern beginning to take shape there. low temperatures for tonight are going to drop down to close to what's normal this time of year, still slightly above average, especially inland. 61 in san jose. mid-50s around morgan hill. the warmest spots far inland and the east bay. eastern contra costa county in the mid-80s. the coast dropping down to just above 50 degrees in half moon bay. just a couple degrees warmer in san francisco and oakland. one of the other cooler spot, one of the typical
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cool locations the petaluma. there you stay out of the upper 40s, barely, starting off tomorrow morning at 50 degrees. and temperatures tomorrow are going to warm back up, but only to what's normal for time of year. temperatures do look nice as the giants finish their three of this game series against the houston astros. temperatures going to be in the mid-60s for that first pitch at 12:45, and just kind of hovering there. not as warm as today, but we should still see plenty of sunshine overhead throughout the around before the fog makes a bigger push by tomorrow evening. filling in the rest of the map, temperatures reach to the upper 80s on the high end of the spectrum. a far cry from the triple digit heat we had today. only around 60 degrees along the coast. 60s and # 0s around the bay, mostly 80s for inland high temperatures. this is going to be a consistent theme along with some blustery conditions tomorrow and again on thursday. but that's part of why our temperatures are going to return to normal. strong ir onshore breeze pushing the marine air farther
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inland. the wind gusts beginning 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, continuing through 5:00 p.m. on thursday. the windiest conditions in the mid to late afternoon hours. the red squares indicate 30-mile-per-hour plus gusts in a handful of locations, which will get your attention but leaves us short of the wind advisory threshold, closer to 40 miles per hour. just a noticeable breeze. temperature dos go up and down. we look at the ten-day outlook for livermore p we're kind of hovering in the 80s. so some fluctuation within that range, but staying within three or four degrees on either side of what's normal for this time of year as we head not just through the seven-day forecast but even beyond that into the first day of summer, a week from thursday. temperatures are going to drop a little bit this thursday. inland spots staying just below 80 degrees on a widespread basis, and then back up into the middle portion of the 80s, which is warm but normally warm for this time of year. looks meant around the bay. we'll get back into that back and forth fog pattern beginning on thursday. so morning fog then afternoon
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sunshine around the bay with temperatures returning to the 70s after one day in the upper 60s on thursday. and fog is going to be more stubborn along the coast. you're used to that in the month of june. especially that noticeable onshore breeze. but things are looking good heading into father's day weekend now that today's heat is in the rearview mirror, there's nothing big looming over the course of the next stone ten days, sara? >> i love this positive paul. >> we try occasionally. >> bring him around more often, i don't know him that well. all right, thank you, we appreciate it. we were talking about pandas earlier, so why not bring up another type of bear some people are not too pleased having in their neighborhood, even it is a somewhat common occurrence. an uninvited guest has been making himself at home for weeks now. >> reporter: in this quiet monrovia neighborhood there is barely a sound on the street other than the birds chirping, but a bear has caused quite the
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stir recently. >> he seems nice. semilarge. he likes trash, that's one thing i definitely know about him. next thing you know, he's in the backyard with us. >> reporter: this bear named sampson by the neighbors has been making himself at home for the past two weeks. >> you can look out through what is about to be the nursery for the baby that we have on the way, and he was crawling under the house with the trash bag and then just munching down in there. >> reporter: on this guy you can see he is being tracked with a visible collar and tags. >> i've seen a mama and cubs back there before. bears are not uncommon, it's just the fact he wound up under the house and never paid rent. >> reporter: jamie tate said police and animal control have come out but no one could actually physically remove the bear for obvious safety reasons. thankfully, as of last night, the squatter left his spot. >> that's what we're hoping will happen with the washer. we'll leave it there for a couple days. if we don't hear from him, then we'll take it away and board it up permanently. >> reporter: unless the bear makes it through this temporary fix, he's not going to be
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making this his den any time soon. neighbors are just wondering where and when the bear will show up next. >> i work out in the yard during the day, and when i hear a noise i make sure it's not the bear. >> reporter: tina herzog has beared witness to these furry neighbors for years. >> i'd say every day for three or four years he's been coming around. he likes to harass me and get my plants. >> reporter: another bear made itself cozy in her crawl space in january. >> it's a little unsettling, but i don't want any harm to come to them. i'm really not sure what the solution would be. >> reporter: for now these neighbors have learned to just bear it when it comes to the bears. >> so another black bear named oreo, or nicknamed, has also made headlines down there for skavageing food in that monrovia neighborhood that. bear left the property holding cookies in his mouth. good taste. this beef over vegan hot dog has led to the ultimate professional eating breakup, why joey chestnut is stepping
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down from a world famous competition, vern? straight ahead in sport, a star 49ers running back checked off another box on his bucket list. and the giants bats could not figure
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you know what i like to tell myself when the giants don't do well? at least we have one of the best ballparks ever. >> just wasn't their night. >> just wasn't their night. >> it's like me doing highlights of world cup but i got to pronounce four-syllable names, just was not in the
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stars. >> yeah. >> what do you say after tonight giants fans? that's baseball, right? just could not get the key hit. could not get anything going with the astros at third and king streets. that's what it's all about right here. the kids, right? now here's your difference in the game. fifth inning, two on, two outs, and matt chapman. you never see this. errant throw? great job getting to it, but he threw wide. it allowed two runners to score. the four-time gold glover is human after all. astros won the game 3-1. winning tomorrow wins the series. as for the bats, first up, the good. brett wisely, third inning, swung on, gone. solo job tied the game at 1-1. now here's how it mostly went the rest of the way. the giants
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struck out 12 times. eight from starter ronel blanco. over to the a's. how about that? a's were in san diego, pass the hat. this padres fan said, no thanks. to the eighth inning, down two but not for long. tyler deep away and gone to tie it. but the a's run out of clutch hit cards. yeah, that was it. because top nine, kyle ripped one to pepco park warehouse, and that is how the padres walked it off. final of 4-3. the a's tomorrow will be in danger of getting swept for the first time in a month. pivot to the nfl. 49ers running back christian mccaffrey got a lifelong dream. today he became the first 49er ever to be featured on the cover of madden 25. that video game. you see, fairytales can
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come true. meantime, we saw willie mays in his birmingham black barrens negro league uniform. we saw a lot of mays at the exhibit across oracle park today. the giants, they play at mays birmingham hometown next week. the museum captures his whole career as the greatest five-tool ball player. giants team development boss jack bayer is also the museum curator. >> how about it, what goes around comes around, and sit coming around for giants playing in rick wood field, how about that? >> yeah, it'll be a very special game next week in birmingham, the home of willie mays. it's fitting that the giants are playing in the game that's a trib dwrut the negro leagues. >> that's going to be a big deal. the giants play the cardinals june 20th at rick woold field, the field mays used as his highlight reel stage before the giants came and got him right out of high school in 1950. >> and the rest was history, as
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they say. >> you got it. >> all right, very exciting. vern, thank you so much. this bay area native won't be defending the mustard belt, and it's all over a beef, vegan beef.
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all right, he ate more hot dogs than anyone for 16 years, but now bay area native joey chestnut has been banned from competing in this year's nathan's famous fourth of july hot dog eating contest. he's placed first the past eight competitions, but nathan's is booting him because chestnut is representing impossible foods instead a rival brand that sells plant-based hot dogs. >> they are off. joey chestnut. >> they're waiting to see if he finishes it off and does it again. looking to become a four-time 70-dog consumer. >> unbelievable. >> nobody has done it better. nobody has done it with greater consumption. >> whatever my body's telling me, ignore it. i know what my body's capable of it. >> the pieces on the face, the
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veins popping out in the forehead, it's just -- to me it's too much. i don't want to see it. >> yeah. >> in 2021, chestnut ate a world record 76 hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. he's also banked a dizzying number of competitive eating records, everything from chicken fingers, pie, pizza, and tacos. now with the mustard bit up for grab, anyone with the skills could take him place. the only one to beat him was matt stoney in 2015. vern, paul, there is also possible wild card entry spotted chowing down at the white sox/mariners game last night. >> enjoying that hot dog with the bun and everything. >> it's got ketchup. >> i think he found that one, that's why. >> that's a good boy or girl right from. >> mm-hmm, he's going to have to perfect the technique of
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dipping them in water. >> that makes me so happy. >> back to coney island, sara, there is a women's division. >> come on, man. you know -- i'm so -- >> you've got a bottom -- you're shaggy of the station. >> i know. i do, yes, i do eat a lot. i just -- it's -- >> little bursts. >> like once a month. >> you're not like a shark. >> it's like a camel. >> just unhinging your jaw. >> to be fair, joey chestnut has 1.2 million reasons -- >> hey, i get paid and i don't have to do that to myself this year. >> yeah. i wonder if the indigestion would be the same if you're competitively eating the vegan hot dog. maybe not. >> i wonder what
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liz neeley: you know, you've probably heard it said that some people have to hit rock bottom before they really come to the lord and give him their life. and that's what happened. i probably had a lot of anxiety at that point about my future, but as i began to study the word and a lot of dr. stanley's teachings and sermons, i began to realize that, through the love of jesus, god saved me for a purpose. ..)

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