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more he turned to dr. salvador plasencia who allegedly asked chavez for the drug. court documents show placencia texted chavez in the months before his death saying "i wonder how much this moron will pay". >> dr. chavez is not at the top. so what the government wants from him is to ultimately to cooperate against the female defendant who is called the ketamine queen. >> reporter: investigators allege jasveen sangha ran a los angeles drug ring. and supplied the doses that killed perry. both placencia and sangha have plead not guilty and are awaiting trial. perry's assistant who found him dead and a messenger have already pleaded guilty. they along with d.a. dr. chavez will be sentenced next year and could phase prison time. >> only in recent times that we have come to understand that addiction is truly a disease. and if doctors take advantage of the vulnerable and they are responsible, people whose oath is do no harm, those people are
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going to be punished severely. >> reporter: i'm adam yamaguchi, in los angeles. >> ketamine is also at the center of a story in this week's 48 hours. in 2022, sarah harris was found unresponsive at the maryland home she shared with her boyfriend, dr. james ryan. ryan told police it was an overdose, but her mother believes sarah was murdered. "48 hours" contributor nikki battiste explains why. >> reporter: it was january 26, 2022 about 7:00 a.m. when police with body cameras discovered 25-year-old sarah harris at home with her 48-year-old boyfriend, dr. james ryan, who told them he'd last seen her the night before. >> you just found her unresponsive? >> yeah, i pulled her on to the floor to start cpr. >> reporter: ryan said he is sarah struggled with depression ad drugs. she had worked for him and sometimes stole from his office, where he kept the surgical anesthetics ketamine and
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propofol, both found in her body. >> did she do any drugs yesterday while you were around her? >> no, i was around her. >> reporter: authorities at the scene accepted dr. ryan's account, but sarah's mother, tina harris soon arrived, already suspicious dr. ryan was behind her daughter's death. >> and i went towards james and attacked him. i started kicking and hitting him. and screaming at him. >> reporter: sarah's sister rachel soon unearthed text messages between sarah and dr. ryan suggesting he'd brought her the drugs, and just weeks before she died, even dosed her himself. "if you wake up, i just went to change after i gave you ketamine just now," he writes. >> he's injecting her while she's asleep. >> reporter: detective ian who specialized in pharmaceutical cases before retiring last year says first responders may not have understood what they were looking at. he says cops usually see street drugs, not surgical medication
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and supplies like sarah had. >> usually what we see is burnt spoons, tin foil, not medical grade drugs. >> reporter: on march 22nd, 2022, james ryan was arrested and prosecutors charged him with a crime known as depraved heart murder. he plead not guilty, but assistant states attorney jennifer harrison says ryan showed a reckless disregard for human life. >> the act of giving her the drugs is handing her a loaded gun. >> that was nikki battiste reporting, and you can watch her story on the depraved heart murder tomorrow on "48 hours" at 10:00, 9:00 central, here on cbs and streaming on paramount+. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back. using these type of cleansers could be damaging and stripping your skin. i use new olay cleansing melts
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which is just the worst. >> reporter: even making a cocktail with ina garten is a learning experience, but boy is it worth it. >> cheers. >> cheers to you. >> olive oil, because it has a higher burning temperature. and the butter because it has great flavor. >> reporter: of course the kitchen in her studio in east hampton, new york -- >> this takes a little time, but time takes time. >> reporter: is familiar to millions of viewers. >> wow. >> reporter: of her emmy-award winning cooking shows on the food network. but still, someone warned me that you don't like to call yourself a chef. >> well, i'm not. i'm not a trained chef. >> reporter: in fact, as she writes in her new memoir, "be ready when the luck happens." back in the 1970s, she and her husband jeffrey were both working in economic policy jobs at the white house, where their after hours therapy, as she puts
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it, was hosting dinner parties for friends. >> and i just thought wait a minute, this is backwards. i love what i do after hours, and what i do during the day wasn't so exciting to me. >> reporter: just after her 30th birthday, she was reading "the new york times." >> and there was this little ad for a specialty food store called barefoot contessa. and i went home that night, and i said to jeffrey, i need to do something creative. and that was the beginning of it. >> reporter: they bought the shop for $20,000, taking a second mortgage on their d.c. home. jeffrey would commute on weekends, while ina ran the store. it seems especially surprising and daring because growing up it seems like you were not allowed to go off the beaten track in any way. >> it's not just that i wasn't allowed to go off the beaten track. i wasn't allowed to make a decision on my own. >> reporter: she was born ina rosenberg in 1948 and grew up in connecticut where her father was
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a doctor and her mom stayed at home. it seemed like a very comfortable life. >> it was a very comfortable life. >> reporter: but there was a family secret. you say that your father was prone to temper tantrums. he would physically beat you. >> well, he hit me, yeah. >> reporter: and sometimes drag you around by your hair? >> yeah, that was bad. that was bad. >> reporter: come on, you said at times you actually feared for your life? >> i think i wanted to fight back, but i was afraid he would kill me. >> reporter: did your mother protect you in any way? >> maybe she was as afraid as i was. >> reporter: but her life would change when she was just 16. while visiting her brother at dartmouth college, another student named jeffrey garten spotted her through the library window. what did you find so attractive? >> everything. absolutely everything. the way she was standing, she
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was laughing. and she was just beautiful. >> reporter: he wangled an introduction, and they were married in 1968 with jeffrey in his army reserve uniform. >> hi, sweetie! >> that looks great. >> reporter: while he is sometimes a congenial presence on ina's shows, he is also a noted economist. >> i'd love some wine. that would be fabulous. >> i saved all the letters he wrote to me when we were in college. >> reporter: ina credits jeffrey with giving her confidence after her miserable childhood. >> some of these i can't show you. >> why not? >> let's see. >> definitely not showing you that. >> reporter: but not about one key thing. were you scared that you wouldn't be a good parent? >> absolutely, 100%. jeffrey would have been a fabulous parent, just fabulous. >> reporter: and what did you
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think about not having children? >> i didn't think so much about it. i was very busy, just moving on. so it didn't bother me. >> reporter: ina threw herself into running the barefoot contessa with well-heeled hampton clients. i love the story about the woman who every week bought ten pounds of lemon chicken. >> grilled lemon chicken. and finally after weeks and weeks and weeks of this, i had to say what are you doing with ten pounds of grilled lemon chicken? she said "my cat likes it". >> reporter: but after a while, as ina reveals for the first time, she began to request the question the traditional mid century roles in her marriage and asked jeffrey for a separation. >> i love to cook dinner. but what i don't like is for somebody to expect me to cook dinner. i think there is a big difference. >> reporter: yes, that's a great point. >> so what i say is don't cook dinner. >> reporter: they clearly worked out their problems. >> you know, i love that it's a small town.
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>> reporter: ina moved to a store in east hampton. >> we had screen doors when you walked in. >> reporter: but sold it in 1996. she was restless and wanted to try something new. the east hampton bookstore. >> my favorite book store in the world. it's the best. >> reporter: so she turned her talents to writing cookbooks. the thing that really introduced her to the world outside the hamptons. her first published 25 years ago was a smash hit. >> i somehow connected with home cooks in a way that i couldn't have imagined. >> reporter: now she's done 12 more. >> i think it's kind of like exercise. the more you do it, the better you get at it. >> reporter: and with another cookbook on the way, and a popular tv show -- >> i'm here with stanley tucci, and he is showing me how to make a fish stew. >> reporter: ina garten says she is doing what she loves.
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and what's more, before he died, she got an apology from her father. >> he said, "i don't know what i was thinking." that was it. and i realized he tortured himself as much as he tortured me, and it was over. it was so simple, and it was so effective, and it meant everything. and then we went on to have a good relationship. >> that was rita braver reporting, and that is "cbs news roundup."
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all right.
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you're going to want to put your phone down and pay attention to this final story tonight. research now shows the average person spends 3 1/2 hours on their smartphone every day. a new movement is trying to get people to disconnect and reconnect. cbs' tina kraus introduces us to the unplugged club. >> reporter: it's a digital distraction few can ignore. you have to answer it? >> yes, i do. yes, i do. >> especially with social media, or you literally get roped in. you can't put it away. >> reporter: seeing so many phones in so many hands got british friends ben howsell and jake curtis talking turning the tide. >> we just want a group of people to put their phones away for an hour and engage in genuine more authentic conversation. >> reporter: the pair launched the unplugged club. >> we've got chess. we've got trivia. >> reporter: where admission comes with one rule, surrender your phone at the door. >> we want to bring back offline activities. these activities that you did before phones are a thing,
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drawing, painting. >> reporter: their first event at a cafe in southern england sold out. tables filled with friends and strangers opting for a tech time-out. >> i think it's a great thing to get people to open up and connect with each other. >> we all rely on our phones so much. it's quite nice to be without for an hour or two. >> reporter: a month later, phone-free fellowship is flourishing with more streamless social gatherings on offer. >> here we are, 36 phones in a box. >> we both think the world would be a better place if we weren't so addicted, if we didn't do two hours every night before we went to bed. >> reporter: they hope to gain more converts to the unplugged club where the only distraction may be your next move. tina kraus, cbs news, london. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast
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center in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪
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hello and thanks so much for staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. and here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." after just six hours of deliberation, the jury returns a verdict against police in the tyre nichols deadly beating case. liz cheney campaigns with kamala harris in wisconsin, while donald trump holds a rally in michigan. and israel sends new warnings to evacuate neighborhoods in lebanon, signaling a wider offensive is on the way. but first, an important development in the dockworkers crike. striking workers celebrated after news came from their union thursday that a deal had been reached to suspend the walkout until january to allow more time for negotiating with port
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operators. the dispute centers around wages and the automation of jobs at ports from maine to texas. the union representing around 45,000 members in ports on the east coast and the gulf of mexico says the strikers will now head back to work after three days on the picket lines. three former memphis police officers who have been convicted in a fatal beating of tyre nichols. although the mixed verdict acquitted the officers of the harshest charges, all were convicted of witness tampering related to the cover-up. nichols' death during a traffic stop in 2023 sparked national protests and calls for changes in policing. cbs' elise preston has more from memphis, tennessee. >> reporter: all three officers were found guilty of trying to cover up what happened the night tyre nichols was beaten, but not guilty on other charges, including the most serious charges like violating his civil rights. all three officers have been taken into custody. 29-year-old tyre nichols worked
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for fedex, was an avid skateboarder, lived with his parents, and wore a tattoo with his mother's name on his shoulder. >> my son loved me to death, and i loved him to death. >> reporter: but after police stopped him, body cam footage shows what happened next. nichols runs off. but then officers apprehend him. this took place less than 80 yards from his mother's home. he called out for her to help him. >> mom! mom! >> reporter: for some three minutes, memphis police officers punched, kicked and are seen hitting him with a baton, even after he was restrained. >> tyre nichols' death won't go unaccounted for. that is critical. >> reporter: two of the officers pleaded guilty and actually testified during this trial. nichols' family walked out and censorship said even with a mixed verdict, they feel like the officers are all being held accountable.
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elise preston, cbs news, memphis, tennessee. former congresswoman liz cheney is one of donald trump's fiercest republican critics, and now she's backing kamala harris. on thursday, they were both on stage together in wisconsin, one of those crucial swing states. the two women delivered a double-barreled denunciation of gop nominee donald trump, calling him a threat to democracy. cbs' bradley blackburn has more. >> reporter: campaigning in wisconsin thursday night, vice president kamala harris received an official endorsement from former gop lawmaker liz cheney. >> i tell you i have never voted for a democrat, but this year i am proudly casting my vote for vice president kamala harris. [ cheering ] she's working to unite reasonable people from all across the political spectrum. >> there is actually an honest question about whether one of the candidates will uphold the
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oath to the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: cheney was the top gop member of the committee that investigated the january 6th capitol hill insurrection, focusing on the actions of former president donald trump. >> he praised the rioters. he did not condemn them. >> reporter: after breaking with republican ranks, cheney lost her house seat in a congressional primary. at a rally in michigan, trump spoke for about an hour and a half. >> we are going to defeat lyin' kamala harris, one of the worst candidates ever. never had a candidate like that. and how about the vice president? that's going to be president some day? i don't think so. >> reporter: when asked at the white house, president biden said he's not surprised the presidential race remains tight, saying he thinks harris is, quote, going to do fine. bradley blackburn, cbs news, new york. and turning now to the middle east, where israel is sending out new warnings, telling people in even more
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communities in lebanon to evacuate their homes or risk air strikes. it's a sign of more intense fighting to come. a series of massive explosions rocked southern beirut late thursday night, shaking buildings half a mile away. all this while president biden is insisting war can still be avoided. cbs' imtiaz tyab reports israel is stepping up attacks by air while massing more troops along the border. >> reporter: israeli warplanes are striking beirut's southern suburbs relentlessly, reducing entire buildings to smoldering mountains of rubble. but in the city's central bashura neighborhood, a rare overnight israeli missil strike. one floor of the building blown to pieces, killing at least nine. to give you a sense of where we are, lebanon's parliament is just down the road. and for israel to strike the center of the city like this, so many people are afraid that more is to come.
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in southern lebanon, israeli strikes are only intensifying as israel continues to mobilize its forces along the border, and as the number of dead and injured across lebanon continues to skyrocket. at this hospital in the southern city of sidon, we met this man who suffered a traumatic brain injury from the force of an israeli air strike. his friend kareem kareem shows us his own head injury. "israel is killing women and children who are innocent," he says. children are not carrying weapons and rockets. it's wrong. according to the w.h.o., at least 28 health workers have been killed in israeli strikes across lebanon over the past 24 hours alone as the country's already frail health system strains from so many casualties. says emergency dr. al anine. >> our greatest fear is to receive a very big number of the patients and you're going to
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deal with them. >> as a doctor, that must be very painful. >> yes, yes. because we saw what happened in gaza and we don't want it happen here. >> reporter: are you afraid that's what's going to happen? >> yes. >> reporter: imtiaz tyab, cbs news, beirut. elsewhere in the region, an israeli air strike in the west bank killed at least 18 people, according to palestinian health officials. israel says it killed the head of the hamas network in the area on thursday. the palestinian authority is calling on the international community to put a stop to the escalation, calling the situation urgent. coming up on "cbs news roundup," we'll take you to the front lines in north carolina where volunteers and national guard troops are desperately trying to help people in hard-to-reach communities devastated by hurricane helene.
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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the death toll for hurricane helene has surpassed 200 and could still rise. nearly half of the people lost lived in north carolina, where rescue crews are combing remote mountains, devastated by mud slides and washed out roads. cbs' skyler henry is in the city of asheville and spoke to the mayor. >> yes still in a crisis mode. we are still in the search and rescue mode. >> reporter: six days after the flood, the search for the missing continues as the death toll rises in asheville, north carolina. >> there are people that died in this storm that lived in homes, in areas that had never before experienced flooding. so when you're thinking about do i need to evacuate, there were a lot of people that thought well, i'm probably fine where i am. >> reporter: we met mayor esther mannheimer in the designated biltmore village. she surveyed the damage with
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president biden wednesday. >> he understands that this is going to cost billions, and it's going to take a long time in a sustained effort to rebuild our community in western north carolina. he understands that, and that commitment is there to stay with us until the end. >> reporter: fema has more than 1500 people on the ground in the southeast distributing supplies. the president has deployed one thousand soldiers to help, and there are countless volunteers. >> there are people saying how many people they have, what kids they have, what ages they are. so they come and pack them up. it's basically like a little grocery store. >> reporter: we are in the shiloh neighborhood here in asheville at one of the distribution points where the community is coming together to bring all sorts of goods here. you see the essential water, food, supplies. there is even dog food down here to try to make sure everyone and even all the pets have everything that they need. >> yeah, take whatever you need. take what you need for your neighbors. >> reporter: the nonprofit beloved nashville is brimming
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with donations. >> of course. you guys just getting water and paper goods? >> yeah, and water. >> how bad it is where y'all are? >> well, we still don't have no lights and water, but it's a blessing for the help. you see how the community coming together? >> we're a strong community, and we're being put to a test. but i think we're rising to that challenge. >> reporter: the mayor also told me today that even some of the newer structures that were built above the flood stage flooded any way. and as the city begins to think about the rebuilding process, climate change needs to be a factor. skylar henry, cbs news, asheville, north carolina. turning now overseas, ukraine's military officials say they are withdrawing from the town of volidar, retreating to protect their soldiers on the front lines. over this summer russian forces pushed deeper into ukraine, helped in part by a weapon called the glide bomb. it's a soviet-era ordnance fitted with wings and satellite navigation.
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as holly williams explains, glide bombs have been able to get around ukrainian defenses, but ukraine's military hopes to change that. >> reporter: the russians have started using cheaply produced glide bombs to terrorize kharkiv and other ukrainian cities. they use old soviet-era ammunition, some with over a ton of explosives, retrofitted with wings and gps. at this monitoring center, a special forces detachment of the ukrainian border guard is scouring the skies for the russian aircraft that launched the glide bombs, and warning those in the line of fire. at a different location, colonel maxim balagura told us the glide bombs have changed the war, sapping the motivation of ukrainian soldiers on the front line. >> so the russians have got smarter? "of course," he told us. "one can never underestimate the
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enemy." russia's now occupying around 20% of ukraine. capturing of in february. a ukrainian logistics hub in the east of the country. by some estimates, the russians are gaining ground faster now than at any time since the early stages of the war in 2022. around 100,000 russian soldiers have been killed in the invasion, according to u.s. officials. but vladimir putin didn't seem to mind, with a population over three times the size of ukraine's, russia's planning to draft more than 130,000 extra soldiers by january. >> that was holly williams reporting. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be
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multiple colorado middle schoolers were arrested this past week, charged with bringing replica guns to school. replica guns shoot metal pellets or bbs, but they're designed to look like real guns that shoot bullets. earlier this year a new york teenager carrying a replica gun was shot and killed by police. as cbs' anna werner explains, the guns are easy to buy, and making the job of police officers more challenging.
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>> reporter: in late june in utica, new york, police shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who had run from them and wound up in a struggle with an officer on the ground. the teen was holding what police thought was a handgun. >> it's a 22. >> reporter: it was only later at the station police say that they discovered the gun wasn't a real firearm but a pellet gun. utica police chief mark williams told us he can't talk about the officer's actions because they're under investigation, but he did want to talk what the gun industry refers to as rebecca guns. >> they look like the exact same weapon, a firearm as a glock. >> reporter: those replica guns fire small metal pellets, or bbs. in decades past, many replicas were plastic and advertised as toys. but now many replica and even toy guns can be indistinguishable from regular firearms. >> it's a challenge because they look so real.
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>> reporter: jim baltazar teaches police use of force for the atf. >> it looks so real that officers are going to have to react as if it is a real gun. >> reporter: this is the kind of pellet gun police say the teen in utica was carrying, a look-alike for a 9 millimeter glock handgun, made by company umerex under a license from glock. if it were a toy gun, federal regulations would require a bright orange tip. but pellet guns are exempt. we wanted to know how that pellet gun and the real firearm compare when held by a person. so we set up a camera to get the head-on view with no one standing behind it for safety along with a side view. here is the first gun, now the second. baltazar says even he wouldn't be able to tell the difference. >> i think it would be super human to be able to tell the difference in the midst of an interaction with a suspect, certainly on the street. >> reporter: it just looks too real? >> it looks too real. if you think you can tell the difference, would you bet your life on it? >> reporter: the result of many
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interactions between police and people holding replica guns has been death. in the past decade, more than 300 people nationwide have been killed. and lindsey nichols with the giffords law center blames the gun industry. >> they the ones profiting off this. they are the ones who knew. they know that these guns can be mistaken for real guns. >> reporter: in fact, a warning in fine print tells users "do not brandish or display it in public. police and others may think it is a firearm." laws in 23 states and the district of columbia restrict possession or sales of those guns, yet those replicas seem easy to get. >> wow. >> reporter: we found numerous listings on facebook marketplace that appeared to be selling pellet guns, unidentified toy guns or mystery guns, often in violation of facebook owner meta's policy. facebook removed the listings after we asked about them, but claimed to us in a statement that its systems automatically remove over 98% of problem listings. >> if they weren't manufactured
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in the first place, they wouldn't end up in facebook. >> reporter: gun manufacturers including glock and pellet gunmaker umerex did not respond for our multiple requests for comment. but back in utah, police chief mark williams says -- >> i hold them responsible. what you're basically doing is endangering lives. >> reporter: in the past ten years, at least 19 children who had replica guns were shot and killed in interaction was police. i'm anna w
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voting has now begun for the annual fat bear contest at alaska's natural preserve. anyone can vote fattened up to survive the winter. grazer is the defending champion, but check out chunk who weighs over 1200 pounds. while these bears are positioned to eat as many salmon as they can, others have lost their hab habitats. cbs' elise preston explains they too are trying to fatten up before hibernation and are increasingly raiding people's homes. >> hey, he is right there. he is right there. >> reporter: there is no boundaries here. this bear barreled its way through a southern california home, rummaged through the fridge, and left a big mess. >> they're getting more brazen, they really are. >> reporter: but it's not just california. brushes with bears are drawing shock and awe all over the internet. this bear charged out of a man's
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garage while he was putting groceries away. the encounter in quo coquitlam, british columbia. >> human encroachment is to blame for bears' shrinking natural habitat. but this time of year bears are prepping for hibernation and are on the hunt for food. >> they're going through garbage cans. they like to go through dumpsters. they're attracted to of all things bird on the ground. they might be attracted to fallen fruit. >> reporter: what happens if the bear makes it to your yard? find an escape, get out. at the same time we encourage people to be big and be loud. certainly never turn and run. >> reporter: before it even gets to that, experts say you can avoid face-offs just by locking your door and securing your trash. ise preston, cbs new
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