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. now at 11:00, he has been the voice for a progressive movement in a liberal town now he has been voted out. how does his moderate replacement want to shake things up? >> for too long there is a focus on ideology rather than compromise. this republican governor is expected to serve in a key cabinet position. plus, terror in the skies just before touchdown. >> crash behind us was quite prominent. >> a passenger described the moment the plane he was on was
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shot. and this north bay native was recognized by the white house for his heroic actions on the battlefield. >> he does not just save the platoon he saved his country. >> he did more in a day than most americans do in a lifetime. >> why there is an effort to clear his name for what happened when he returned home. from kpix, there is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. hi, i'm sara donchey. this election has spelled big change for our country, obviously, and for several cities here in the bay area. we already talked about how san francisco is getting a new mayor who wants to send the city in a new direction. now it looks like the board of supervisors has been changed as well. dean preston served on the board since 2019. represents district 5 that includes parts of downtown, hayes, and hayes valley. over
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the weekend he conceded the race in what some might describe as a big upset. we talked to the man who will be taking his play. a tech entrepreneur on what could be a new era with moderates making their voices heard in city politics. >> reporter: the results are in. newcomer has beat out incumbent dean preston for san francisco's district 5 supervisor seat. some in the city may be surprised by that result. but he says he is anything but. >> i have been underestimated in my career from private sector to every time i run for office. we kept our heads down, did the work and we talked so voters. >> reporter: we met him here at a restaurant in the tenderloin he has been coming to since he was a kid. >> i think it is the best in the city. you can not beat their chicken. >> reporter: over a plate of chicken and rice, he shared
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with us his thoughts on why his campaign was so successful. >> for too long in san francisco there has been a focus on ideology rather than compromise, kind of textbook for housing and safety. we formed a collision of campaign that included people from progressives and moderate. >> reporter: he is one of the candidates that benefited this election as many san francisco voters are moving away from conservative to moderate. the co-founder of grow sf, working to oust dean preston and endorsed bilal. they say it shows the city wants change and new leadership to enact that change. >> we are seeing a return to common sense. the things we are trying to fight for in the city like public safety and good public schools these are just the basics. and what we had in
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city hall for so long were people who were not prioritizing the needs of everyday residents. >> reporter: bilal told me he is ready to work with fellow supervisors and mayor-elect lurie to tackle the needs. he supports the promise to declare a fentanyl state of emergency on day one. he also plans to work with lurie to tackle the city's housing issues. >> i think we approach things in a similar manner of we both recognize a lot of the issues in san francisco have been bureaucracy and unfortunately bureaucracy leads to corruption. and, so, we are both aligned on the way to solve our housing crisis to cut the red tape. >> reporter: bilal says he is optimistic that voters will see real change when the new leadership takes over. he says he is honored to be a part of it especially as the board's first muslim and south asian supervisor. >> reporter: in a statement posted to instagram, he tauted
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some of his accomplishments writing in part, quote, we ban evictions, paid back rents, tax the mega-rich for social housing, barred sfpd robots and pioneers hotels for homeless people, passed ground breaking rights for renters among other things. he thanked voters for electing him and he would soon announce his plans for the future. for national politics it has been clear since tuesday night that change is coming there too. tonight we are getting a better sense of how it will take shape. president-elect trump is filling key positions in his administration and putting an emphasis on allies and aides that were strong supporters in the past hour cnn discovered christie nomme is homeland security. overseeing customs to border patrol, fema, she joined trump on the campaign trail and was at one time on the short
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list for vice president. earlier this year she got national attention after revealing she once killed her 14-month-old dog for not being an ideal hunting dog. thomas homan will be border czar. stephen miller is expected to be deputy chief of staff for policy. he helped mastermind the muslim travel ban and trump ally congresswoman sfefanik will serve. we have more on who else is in ambassador has little foreign policy experience. but 40-year-old new york congresswoman stefanik has something he values more, loyalty. >> we the people will never give up on president trump. >> reporter: he defended trump after both impeachments. trump
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calling her an american first fighter, signaling the approach. stefanik is a fierce critic of the institution she is part of. >> we know the suna den of anti-semitism. >> last year blasting ivy league residents for tolerating anti-semitism on camp news that is your testimony today calling on the genocide of jews is depending on the contest, that is not bully or harassment, this is the easiest question to answer yes, ms. mcgil. her departure from congress. elon musk said it might be too dieses tow lose her from the house. musk's influence is growing after spend 100 million to elect trump he spent most of last week at mar-a-lago seen here on the golf course this
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weekend with trump's granddaughter. the caption, elon achieving uncle status. trump announced he is tapping former new york congressman zeldin to run the environmental protection agency. >> zeldin is a regular at mar-a-lago who defended trump during impeachment. he has been criticized for his voting record. today he vowed to surge domestic energy production, revitalize the industry. >> there is allegations the left-wing have been causing businesses to go in the wrong direction. >> cbs news has learned that florida senator marco rubio will be trump's nominee for secretary of state. tanks rolled through a wet downtown san jose today. the
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police, firefighters, others marched for veterans' day. there were special celebrations across the bay area today. in sonoma people visited the field of honor where 1,000 american flags were dedicated to veterans, first responders and active military. the city held the annual flag-raising ceremony and honored two world war ii veterans. a vietnam war veteran gave people this reminder why people should continue to care. >> just remember that we all sacrificed and the families sacrificed and the families are still sacrificing. i helped people even now being a member of the vfw. i do a lot to help other people and there is just a lot of people that have problems. >> luckily the sun came out for the veterans' day parade in petaluma. the theme was a salute to the coast guard, corvettes with retired veterans in every car. it is a special place to one veteran that
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became a hero in the vietnam war. a medal of honor recipient. after being recognized he struggled to return to civilian life and went down a dark path that landed him in some trouble. today, governor newsom announced he is starting the process to grant a pardon. it comes after one man made it his mission to clear his name. >> reporter: small town of petaluma has the second largest veterans celebration in the state. overlooking the annual parade, richard allen penry. given the metal of honor for what happened one -- medal of honor what happened one day in the jungle. >> he held off a larger enemy force and then singlehandedly evacuated people to an opening in the jungle where they can drop a jungle extractor. he did
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not just save the platoon but the entire company from ambush. >> reporter: a special interest in penry's story, not just for carrying 18 wounded soldiers to safety but what happened immediately afterwards. >> he was just sitting there, sitting on the log by himself just smoking a cigar shaking. and just all alone and did not want to be by anybody for obvious reasons. and, yeah. isolating one's self-is one of the first signs of folks that are experiencing severe trauma. >> reporter: cent penry had pt sd even though the term was not spoken yet. he began using drugs and two years after receiving the medal of honor was arrested on state and federal charges for selling $950 worth of cocaine. his younger sister, patty, says like everyone else, the brother she called butch, had strengths
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and weaknesses. >> i believe the judge that sentenced him also said that he did more for his country in one day than most americans do in an entire lifetime. >> reporter: sergeant penry died at the age of 45. in the last two years, one person is working to clear his record. petitions the governor and president for the crime. he is really doing it for those he served with in iraq and afghanistan. many of whom are still suffering in silence. >> i started reaching out to a lot of the folks that i served with. it is well known now that war trauma causes ptsd and that ptsd is leading to sued, high rates of drug addiction and other, you know, whatever people choose to cope in my generation and then it was clear to me that sergeant penry never stood a chance. >> the governor's announcement says the request has been passed on to the state supreme court for final approval. the request for a presidential
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pardon is still being considered. a commercial pilot had to think like a military pilot when gunfire started hitting the plane. not one but two airlines now saying they were shot while flying over a nation in turmoil. a drive up to the mountains to enjoy fresh sierra snow turned into an hour's long nightmare for some people. snow in the sierra, rain in the bay area. we picked up anywhere from a quarter of an inch to 3/4s of an inch of rainfall. we have more rain chances later this week. details coming up in the first alert forecast. this mix up on a toy box is being called wickedly embarrassing
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. tonight, there is violence and there is terror in haiti's capital. there were shootouts between police and gangs on city streets. several u.s. airlines are suspending travel to haiti after a spirit airlines plane was hit with gunfire as it tried to land. a passenger described the moment it happened. >> everything was normal and then the crash behind us was quite prominent. it sounded like somebody dropped a steel bowl of nails on the floor of the plane or something loud like that. and then the pilot hit the gas and we took off and we accelerated and there were quite a few g forces pushing into your seat as we went off. >> we have more on the flight that took a terrifying turn. >> reporter: video appears to show where gunfire struck the cabin of spirit airlines flight
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951 as it was about to land at haiti's port au prince airport with 48 on board. a flight attendant suffered minor injuries to flying debris. it was over a neighborhood 550 feet off of the ground when it began to quickly climb diverting to the dominican republic. here you can see bullet holes in the fusalage. >> airlines really node to make sure they understand these sorts of things can happen in some of the countries where we have political unrest. >> reporter: they say they are aware of gang-led efforts to block travel to and from the port au prince airport. spirit says the safety of our guests and team members is our top priority the article suspended service to haiti. >> also tonight, jet blue said it looks like one of its planes
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coming from haiti was shot. in a statement to cbs news today a flight to port-au-prince landed safely but a post inspection they found a bullet hole in the plane's exterior. jet blue is suspending all flights to the country through december 2nd. we could get more rain after early morning showers across the bay area today. a storm system has been dumping snow in the sierra. actually getting to the mountains has been kind of a problem. spinouts along highway 80 forced cal trans to close the highway in both directions leaving people stranded. tonight, the highway is soap, the roads are clearer, the caltrans cameras show some big rigs are opting to stay back until things get better. this is the time of the year where we hear warnings from you and you are pretty clear about when people should not be trying to make that drive. >> right, we normally would not
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be concerned about a foot of snow saying okay, it will be disflt defendant when it difficult when it happens, clouds over the valley. a lookout over san jose and the moisture evaporates from the lowest levels of the atmosphere. mix of clouds and sunshine. in between storm systems, the next one moving in on wednesday. not as organized. access to as much moisture as today. still, showers by wednesday afternoon and evening with a few lingering showers still possible for thursday and friday as l. either day looking like a wash out. a descent chance for additional moisture later on this week. clear skies right now over san francisco, the temperatures have been dropping off t. is 54 degrees downtown, one of the warmer spots along 57 and oakland. now, 45 degrees already in santa rosa the temperatures will not be in free fall especially as some of the fog
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develops. we are going to continue cooling off as we head through the rest of tonight. let's take a look at the forecast. low temperatures by early tomorrow morning, we will start off especially in the north bay valley, on the chilly side, upper 30s there. sounds chilly, it is chilly, not that far below normal for this time of the year. temperatures across the area beginning in the 40 exps warming up within a couple degrees of what is normal for this time of the year. middle 60s in the north bay valleys, the temperatures there, close to average. elsewhere, maybe a degree or two below normal. middle 60s inland, lower 60s around the bay, middle 60s down the peninsula and around 60 degrees along the coast the difference between the cool location and half moon bay at 59 and the warm of the spots in fairfield, san jose at 66 degrees, only 7 degrees, not that much of a difference. this is the time of the year to narrow down the temperature difference between coastal communities and inland. the next chance of showers moving in on wednesday. radar simulation from one of the
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forecast models, 7:00 a.m. through 10:00 p.m. on wednesday. light, showers concentrated in the north bay. everyone has a chance of showers heading through especially wednesday afternoon and evening. that activity moves out a couple hours after sunset. but the parent storm will be close enough that we will see continuing rain chances thursday and friday. if you add up all of them together we are not talking about a real significant amount of moisture. in fact, if you add it from up wednesday to thursday to friday we are talking less than 0.10 of an inch. most of us in the 0.10 range more than that in the santa cruz mountains and north bay. getting as much as possible. once we are passed monday we are looking at more limited rain chances. back into a pattern above average rainfall will be farther off to the east. 6-10 day outlook and a pinch starting to happen of drier than normal conditions expected in that time frame. let's take a look at the seven-day forecast. we have
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those additional rain chances, not just wednesday, thursday, friday, we added a rain chance to the forecast late sunday, sunday night, that will be the last chance that we see for several days once the system moves out as the sun comes up on monday. we will be dry for the rest of the week. temperatures running close to normal. lower to middle 60s inland, lower 60s around the bay. for the most part, upper 50s along the coast. the warmest days to struggle to get to 60 degrees, we will keep you updated. >> we are grateful for the rain. >> absolutely. >> all right, paul, thank you. tonight, mattel is dealing with a horrible mistake. the wrong web address was printed on toy boxes for the new movie wicked. supposed to send them to a website about the film, obviously, instead it linked to a porn site. yeah. we are talking to parents who say they can not believe that happened.
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♪ something has changed within me. >> reporter: the beloved reteling of the witches of oz is said to capture audiences in theaters this month. but wicked's popular frenzy has taken an unscripted turn. collectible dolls geared to families linked to an adult website printed on the boxes. >> that is scary. >> reporter: this mom was looking forward to taking her 7-year-old to soak in the magic of the film. tonight she is alarmed >> that should not be with children's toys, you know. kids a lot of times like to almost play with the packaging more than they do with the toys. also, they have access to ipads and so that is just not okay. >> reporter: target, walmart, amazon, kohl's and best buy yanked the dolls. resellers are casting in. listing them for big bucks. >> how do you not catch that. you want to hope it is a
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mistake. >> the company issued a statement to our l.a.-based sister station saying it dopily regrets the error and warning parents that they misprinted website is not appropriate for children which, yeah. obviously. straight ahead in sports, did the nfc west race get even closer tonight? klay thompson is back in the bay area. his thoughts on his first
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catherine depalma: in my lifetime, i did not come to know the lord until i was 43 years old, so i had an entire childhood and adulthood apart from the lord, knowing of god, but not knowing christ, not having a relationship with jesus. there's a lesson that i learned from dr. charles stanley. we think something's too small to bother asking god about, but every little detail of your life you should be checking with him on. so, don't only pray in the dark times, but pray when things are going good. pray to think him, pray to worship him.
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. i would say we have plenty to talk about when it comes to the 49ers >> does not have to be pretty as we saw on sunday. >> as jim harbaugh always said as long as i have one point better than the other guy. >> one of your favorite phrases. >> that is all that matters. nfl up top. the 49ers, okay, they got it done. one in tampa to keep pace in this tight nfc west. if the rams had gotten over tonight on monday night football that division would have been tighter. so-fi stadium. a moment of silence
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for former coach robinson. friends of john maddon en. now, tua tagovailoa quick hit to hill. the dolphins got just the third win of the season. 23-15 the final. l.a.'s three-game win streak was snapped. so, the rams, they missed a chance to pull into a tie for second with the 9ers in the nfc west. l.a. is now 4-5 and tied for third. arizona leads the division half game ahead of san francisco. staying with the 9ers, fourth quarter yesterday, brock purdy, scramble, a 9-second play before he let it go found george kittle, the toe tap, kittle was able to keep his feet in play. he practices that
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every day in practice. any way. despite having trouble. >> trying to find brock in the back. hard to see. one of the only shortcomings is he is not the talent quarterback, he just dropped a dime like he always does. >> does it surprise you? >> it used to? not anymore. three or four years ago but that is george kittle, man. hockey night in philadelphia. sharks, barkly, got licks in. they were down 3-0. yet, fight to come back. tied the game with 2-1/2 minutes to play. wow. now, the game went to a shootout. they got it. travis scored to give them a 4-3 win. it is only san jose's third loss in the last eight games. nba, this is it. the eve of the return of
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captain klay. 18,000 of these will be distributed tomorrow so they can tip their cap to klay thompson, the four time nba champion. thompson was back at chase center on monday practicing with his dallas mavericks team. it will be quite a scene tomorrow. thompson he is doing his best to downplay it. >> good to see people, obviously. but to me it is just another regular season game in november. >> were you surprised they are giving up the captain's hats? >> i guess it is a good thing for the fans. kudos to that. >> all right, now, there will be a video tribute planned as he is introduced. it will be emotional. get there early. steph curry will say a few words to the crowd before the game. sara, i tell you, this has the build up of being a memorable night. it could be the biggest return of a former bay area clampion against his former team in a regular season
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game. >> crazy. >> ahoy mateys >> have you seen that spider-man meme of all of them pointing at each other that is how it felt in a san francisc
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. if you walked into daloris park, you might be confused. hundreds are of spectators came to watch a look-alike contest. about 20 people who bear a striking resemblance. the prize $50. it is a lifetime of bragging rights. a man from san jose was crowned the doppelganger. some people hoped that he would show up. but that did not pan out. they got the
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