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if you are tired of seeing drivers texting or on the phones to talk, you are not alone. police are cracking down. >> one person is in the hospital after a two alarm fire. >> a first of its kind march in san francisco today to protect a specific group of workers from age discrimination. >> and back to the rock. we'll take you to the unusual reunion celebrated today on alcatraz.
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>> it's an activity that's against the law. this week bay area law enforcement are stepping up efforts to ticket drivers who are holding their phones to talk or text while driving. john is live in berkeley tonight with the specifics on the one-day crackdown. >> this is one of the busiest stretches in the bay area. on tuesday police and the highway patrol will be cracking down on drivers using their cell phones illegally here and across the state. on the roads today there were plenty of obvious distractions for drivers, searching for something, a dog in the lap. but the worst according to the chp also causes the most driver crashes. >> you see someone weaving in and out of a lane, there's a couple of possibilities. are they falling asleep. are they possibly under the influence of alcohol or drugs. as you get closer and you make a closer observation, you notice they're either texting
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or talking on the phones. >> reporter: you know how many drivers text or talk while holding the phone. we talked at a gas station just off i-80 and every driver we met says it concerns them. >> you wonder if they're paying attention to what's going on on the road. so i know i think quite a few people do it. >> yeah, they're like wobbling, yeah. >> so what the concern for you as a driver on the road? >> my concern is they're going to run into me. >> reporter: the chp says since the law took affect two years ago, more than 1200 crashes statewide have involved cell phones. 16 people have been killed and 850 people injured. >> in order to safely operate a motor vehicle, it requires 100% of your attention at all times. when you're operating a cell phone while driving, you create a blind spot. there's a possibility you'll hit a pedestrian or you might not see that motorcyclist. >> reporter: every driver we asked said they never use their cell phones improperly. >> well, you know, it's illegal
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so can't do it. >> do you ever do it? >> no, i got enough tickets already so. >> reporter: the crackdown will happen on tuesday, then again on august 18, but chp stresses officers are always searching for improper cell phone use. >> the highway patrol is searching for whoever shot and wounded man this weekend on a south bay freeway. it happened shortly before 9:00 last night in san jose near mckee road. authorities say the driver of a white chevrolet trail blazer fired at a silver dodge durango hitting the durango four times. a male passenger was wound. his condition has not been released. the highway patrol describes the gunman at a latino male in his 20s. with a black goatee and mustache. vallejo police are investigating a deadly shooting that led to a strange car accident. police say an unidentified 21-
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year-old man was driving on beach street and central avenue around 10:00 30 pm when he was struck and killed by gunfire causing his foot to jam on the accelerator and sending the car into a home. the victim's foot stayed on the gas pedal until police came and shut off the car. no one in the home was injured. about two hours earlier a two a-alarm fire damaged a home in the 800 block of main street. the fire department said friars from the recently reopened fifth street station were dispatched to the scene. >> the vallejo fire department as much as their depleted right now, i can't even tell you put it in words how appreciative i am of them and how quick they came and how quick they put it out. >> they were here in like four minutes. >> investigators say the cause of the fire was a discarded cigar butt which was fanned into flames from the wind. officials say the fire caused an estimated $70,000 in damage. one person was rushed to
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the hospital last night in the east bay after a two-alarm aapartment fire. it started at an apartment complex in concord on the 1800 block of laguna street. a call came in about a burning tire which then spread fire to the building. rescuers pulled one person from that burning apartment. the victim was taken to the hospital. there's no word on the extent of his or her injuries. the saying goes, everyone talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it. this summer seems like just about everyone talking about how cool it's been around the bay area. some people are doing something about it. >> reporter: well, as you can see from the trees behind me, there is a breeze blowing here atwater world, california, in concord. that contributed to today's temperatures in the mid 70s as opposed to the much more normal for august 90s. water world management says that business is fine despite
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enduring the bay area's coolest summer in nearly 40 years. >> we've been noticing a lot of folks coming out here from san francisco just trying to get out of the fog. we still have the sunshine out here. >> reporter: we learned the term cool is relative when we spoke with two girls from san francisco. >> this is definitely better than the san francisco weather, like it's warmer, but it's wendi. >> reporter: still, people leave the cold city for a lot warmer weather, especially if they're swimming. >> i thought it was going to be hotter than last year. >> reporter: 20 minutes away at six flags in vallejo, the overcast had cleared by 10:30 this morning. yet walking among the shortsleeve and tank tops were people wearing jackets, sweatshirt and sweaters. even this man from normally hot lafayette. >> i didn't expect it to warm up too much. >> it's been a very cold year. pretty much a lot of fog in the morning. breaks up in the afternoon. >> we expected it to be cooler
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than it is right now. i'm not really hot in the jacket though. >> reporter: even visitors from normally cold england were surprised at our weather. >> we come to california because it's usually consistently sunny and warm. this time it's a little inconsistent, isn't it. >> reporter: the economy and some lower than usual admission programs may have something to do with business increases at six flags. management even sees a silver lining in the cooler weather. >> what's nice about the weather is that a lot of people are actually purchasing sweatshirts. >> reporter: so if it's too cool for you, indian summer is just around the corner. so take heart, there is still time to warm up. >> it's what a lot of people are hoping for. if you want to go to tahoe and get some sun and fun, maybe things are a little different up there. not quite like that up there. >> that's right. showers and thunderstorms developing over the past two to three hours, across the whole spine of the sierra from lake
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tahoe, down forward yosemite. look at all the activity to our north, also to our east. from yosemite, as we come in tighter, that is some heavy rain. we have a flash flood warning in place until 7:00 this evening. rainfall rates about an inch, one inch per half-hour. already reports of flooding around the tahoe y. once again, a flash flood warning in place for this area until 7:00 this evening. back here in the bay area, no rainfall but plenty of low clouds and fog surging back into the bay. even for san francisco, in that misty drizzle in place, kind of felt like a light rain earlier this morning. you can see still a solid deck of overcast near the immediate shoreline. as far as current temperatures, you can see san francisco a chilly 59 degrees, hayward 68, san jose in the mid 70s at 75. for this evening, partly cloudy, fog concentrated coast side, also right around the
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bay. that will gradually spread inland. as far as for tomorrow, concord you can see clearing skies, but no 90s, no 80s, the forecast high in the upper 70s. we do have warmer temperatures in the forecast. muni light rail service is back to normal after being shut down for three hours this afternoon. the problem began around 11:30 this morning. a malfunctioning electrical signaling system forced muni to stop all underground light rail. muny provided bus bridges on city streets until the system was restored before 3:00 this afternoon. cause of the breakdown is still under investigation. three men suspected of robbing a bank are still on the loose tonight after authorities were unable to find them during a 12-hour manhunt. the robbery was reported at about 12:20 yesterday afternoon at bank of america on the 19,000 block of stevens creek
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boulevard. police say the three men were armed and ran off. officers with multiple agencies searched for the trio until about midnight. the sheriff's office is continuing the investigation. a big rig spill caused part of interstate 80 to shut down today. diesel fuel spilled from the truck in albany around 11:30 this morning. the highway patrol closed the lanes for more than an hour. that created a traffic jam all the way back to ashby in berkeley. by 1:00 pm the traffic was flowing again. tuesday will mark one year since the disappearance of 6- year-old hasani campbell. today a group dedicated to finding missing children opened a new office. the citizens for the lost society has helped organize searches, vigils and fundraisers in the campbell case and stands ready to help others. >> when a family member goes missing, the last thing that
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you should have to worry about is where do i get flyers, how do i pay for flyers? who can help me distribute them. how can we keep their name in the news media. >> police arrested the foster father and mother on suspicion of murder but no charges were ever filed and they were released. they left the bay area and now live separately in other parts of the country. new details are emerging in the hp sexual harassment scandal involving the company's former ceo. also ahead, it may be their summer break, but house speaker pelosi is calling lawmakers back to washington d.c. we'll tell you why. new details are surfacing about that shoot inning afghanistan that killed six americans on a medical mission. and the lead attorney in the proposition 8 trial is speaking out today.
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the house of representatives will return to work on tuesday to vote on a 26 billion-dollar jobs bill. house speaker pelosi called pore the special session after democratic leaders broke a republican filly bustner the senate that had been blocking the measure. the measure would give states $10 billion to save the jobs for as many as 145,000 teachers. $16billion will help states cover medicaid costs. most republican lawmakers are expected to vote against the bill because of their concerns about the budget deficit. the bodies of 10 aid workers killed thursday in a attack in afghanistan were flown today to kabul. the group's driver was the lone survivor and says he was spared because he was a muslim. >> reporter: secretary the state hillary clinton is blaming the taliban for the horrifying massacre of 10 workers in afghanistan. they were doctors, nurses and staff returning to kabul after several weeks in a northern province providing eye care and
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other medical treatment. their bodies were found friday. six americans, one german, one british citizen and two afghans. they've been flown to a military base. local place have said that was robbery, but the taliban claimed responsibility accusing the workers of being spies and preaching christianity. conflicting statements from u.s. officials. the ambassador said we don't know if the taliban were responsible. but secretary clinton said the taliban stopped the workers on a remote road on their journey, led them into a forest, robbed them and killed them. she goes on, we also condemn the attempt to justify the unjustifiable by making false accusations about their activities in afghanistan. colleagues say he lived in afghanistan for decades and raised his children there. >> it breaks our heart because he and his wife had been there for over 30 years doing wonderful things to assist people in that culture.
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he was an ophthalmologist and was working in an area where there's terrible problems. >> reporter: also part of the mission, the british dr. karen woo. a nonprofit dental group says a 51-year-old colorado dentist was also on that team. the government's point man on the gulf oil spill today said authorities will require bp to finish pumping cement down its relief well in the gulf of mexico. there have been some confusion earlier this week when the oil giant wouldn't commit to the procedure. but admiral allen said today he spoke with bp and the work would move forward. the well was sealed this week following a complex operation known as a static kill. the next step is the bottom kill procedure which is expected to seal the oil well for good. >> well, it needs to be sealed from the bottom. we've sealed the casing pipe interest the top. we need to drill into the area
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outside the wellbore and do that with the relief well and that will be happening this week. >> any report today indicates the deep water horizon oil rig had a history of maintenance issues. internal bp documents identified almost 400 maintenance tasks that were overdue. the rig exploded in april. president bush's former solicitor general shocked many conservatives when he took up the cause of same-sex marriage. the attorney spoke this morning on fox news sunday about the victory. >> the supreme court has said that marriage, the right to marry a person of your choice is a part of liberty, privacy, association and spirituality guaranteed to each individual under the constitution. >> olson went on to say the u.s. district judge's decision was not an act of judicial activism but an act of judicial
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responsibility. the case may ultimately end up before the supreme court. the associated press is reporting that the ousted hewlett packard ceo settled with the woman who accused him of sexual harassment. the harassment accusation set off a chain of events leading to allegations hurd falsified expense reports for dinners he had with the woman. this ultimately led to his forced resignation from hp on friday. the woman at the center of the scandal came forward today. she is 50-year-old jody fisher. she knew hurd through her contracts jobs with hp's market be -- marketing department. she was paid more than $5,000 per event to greet people. coming up, we'll have the latest on a bombing today, just days before the scheduled u.s. handover to iraqi authorities. police in mexico clash with
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>> reporter: iraqi commandos showing off their skills. a division of the iraqi army communed some of its security measures during a ceremony, a welcome site as the u.s. prepares to hand over control of all duties to iraqi security forces. this is making good on president obama's stated intentions to end all u.s. operations by the end of august. >> the success we've had against al qaeda and iraq specifically has in fact affected them. >> reporter: but despite the dwindling of major hostilities between local rebels and troops, violence continues to playing the country. a bomb went off next to a police patrol in eastern baghdad. a car exploded near a restaurant in a busy area in the city. and the death toll from explosions at a market has risen to more than 40. the city's police chief says the explosions were caused by a
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malfunctioning power generate, but some just aren't buying that. >> the chief of basra claims this was caused by a malfunctioning power generator. this is not true. >> reporter: he says american forces are patrolling in a support role with their iraqi counterparts and the remaining force of 50,000 soldiers by the end of august should be enough to handle any unexpected surge in violence. >> it's really about how we continue to sustain stability and you have to do that through continued development economically, continued development politically as well as the continued improvement of the security forces. i think we have a plan to do that beyond 1 september. >> reporter: aside from this recent rash of violence, the general says progress is happening. in the last two years he says the iraqi government has moved forward significantly. and with the signing of new oil contracts, their economy is improving as well. in other news of the world, in mexico today four federal
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police commanders have been suspended from duty in juarez after allegations from other officers of links to drug traffickers. on saturday a crowd of 200 federal police officers detained one of their superiors at gun point alleging that he had connections to drug cartels and had participated in kidnappings, killings and extortion. and in india, two ships collided off the coast. one a container ship ran aground on a sand bank and is leaking fuel into the ocean. the indian coast guard airlifted 33 crewmembers to safety. the other ship was carrying coal and made it to port. officials are blaming the accident on human error. and in spain today, first lady michelle obama and daughter sasha were welcomed by the royal family. they joined king juan carlos, queen sophia and the princess for lunch at their residence on the island of my york can an.
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the king gave mrs. obama some seeds to take home and plant in the white house garden. bahrain's foreign minister said the country has no plans to ban some blackberry services because of security fears. the announcement follows a recent move by saudi arabia to block email services. bahrain officials say the hand- held device does raise legitimate concerns. the blackberry maker is in talks with saudi arabian authorities regarding the ban. one in six americans struggle with hunger, including millions of children. and the problem often gets worse during the summer. but as reported, there's a program trying to bridge the food gap. >> reporter: at the frederick douglas community center in southeast washington, a week of summer camp ends with a bag of
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food. canned soup, nutrition bars, vegetables and more will over the weekend fill stomachs that might otherwise be empty. good nutrition is critical to children's growth and development, but in this city, only a fraction of the kids who need this food can get it. >> the demand is very high. currently we're serving about 700 kids in our weekend bag program. there's 3,000 kids on the wait list. >> reporter: why is the demand so great? well, about 19 million american kids qualify for free or subsidized lunches at schools like this. for most of them in the summer, no school, no meals. this 2-year-old loves the raisins. this 9-year-old gobbles the fruit. her brother snacks on the healthy chips. they get what they like and what they need and it stretches the family food budget. >> you've got four kids to feed. is that tough in the summertime? >> yes, it's much harder in the summertime than it is during
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school days. because they're home more. so it's hard. >> reporter: in these bad economic times, charities are struggling to provide enough food for everyone in need. right now only about two million children across the nation are able to participate in summer weekend bag programs which are entirely funded through private donations. a bill making its way through congress could provide some federal money. >> we could sure make a lot bigger dent in this problem if there were some federal resources available. >> reporter: but for now they do what they can for these kids to make sure the long hot summer isn't a hungry summer as well. members of an elite club met today on alcatraz. >> alcatraz island celebrates another anniversary by celebrating its living history, a history that is fading over time. hundreds of people gather in san francisco for a march against ageism.
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a reunion was held on alcatraz island today bringing together some of the men and women who used to call the rock home. one of those returning hadn't been on alcatraz for about eight decades. ken is in san francisco with a live report. >> reporter: well, the 76th anniversary of alcatraz may not seem as notable as the 75th or 100th anniversary, but every year that passes is important, because more of the living history of the island in the form of its former residents
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are lost. for those who chose this day for a tour, their timing. >> the 75th anniversary of the opening. >> reporter: was great. at his desk in the main cell block was 75-year-old jim albright who still fits into his original uniform. >> i stayed here until 63 when they closed and i was the last guard out. >> reporter: the national parks service calls other former officers, inmates and residents of alumni of alcatraz, a group which grows smaller with every passing year. >> bill long passed away a couple of weeks ago. >> reporter: the average age is probably 80 years or better. so little by little we are losing some of that alumni. >> reporter: this park ranger says albright and others represent a living history, not just of the federal prison, but also when it was a military prison prior to 1934. >> when it was military, it was
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just perfect. now i'm looking at all the paint peeling off the walls and i think, oh, good grief. >> reporter: 93-year-old betty says alcatraz was pristine when she moved here in 1929 with her army family. this is the first time she's returned since leaving at age 17. >> i guess it's because i wanted to relive a little more of my life at that time. i'm getting old now and i just thought it would be nice. >> where i tried to escape. >> reporter: robert lucas said he felt trepidation returning to alcatraz on this anniversary. >> looks probably about the same. >> reporter: the former prisoner has not set foot on the rock since 1959. today he shared his story with fascinated tourists. >> if i can get it out. i'm not used to talking in front of people. >> reporter: but talking is what the parks service hopes these alumni will do. albright put his story to paper and suggested former prisoner lucas do the same and share his
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history of alcatraz. >> i told him you better write a book, because once you're gone all the memories are gone. >> reporter: the park service estimates there are less than 80 inmates and guards, former inmates and guards of alcatraz still alive. napa county's district attorney is urging residents to report cases of elder abuse. the county's offering training segs to educate the public on how to recognize and report elder abuse. the d.a. stresses the person reporting the abuse may be the only person to know about it. reportable threats include physical abuse, neglect, self neglect such as refusing to eat and financial exploitation. to report such problems call adult protective services. hundreds of people in san francisco marched today to fight age discrimination. they walked together in the fog of christie field after a warm-
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up rally. author barbara rose booker organized the march. she's seen 24 years claim about age discrimination in the workplace. >> anything can happen at any age. we must celebrate our age and stop hiding it and lying about it and that's why i'm here. >> booker is planning another march in los angeles this november as well as more marches in washington and new york city. the woman accused of almost 70 counts of child sexual assault is due to appear for her first court appearance tomorrow. the 42-year-old of livermore was arrested last week on suspicion of having sex with two 15-year-old boys over a year and a half period. police say she's also suspected of allowing two other children to shoot a bb gun out of the window of her suv while she drove. she's being held on $4 million bail. she's scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow. the california bill that would send some sex offenders to prison for life is
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undergoing changes. the bill would put more offenders in prison without parole but would be expensive and may increase overcrowding. the bill's author is offering amendments including moving petty thieves from prison to family -- county jail. the bill is named for chelsea king, the 17-year-old girl who was murdered by a repeat sex offender. the senate appropriations committee is set to consider the bill this week. tomorrow the same committee may hear a bill that will allow cars in california to have a video event recorder on the dashboard to continuously record the drivers view. the bill would require that information be saved when there's a crash or another sudden event. supporters say the recorders would promote safe driving habits and reduce accidents. opponents warn the device would be used to record conversations without a passenger's notice. finding a grocery store in
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some urban areas of the country can be difficult. now the same problem is being seen in rural america. alicia has more on the shift in how people shop and sell groceries. >> for sure. i know all the employees. >> when i first came in the door, one of the employees said, hey, how's it going? >> reporter: joe shopped at rick's market in lacrosse, kansas, since he was 5. >> there's not too many of them left. >> reporter: but hometown grocers are a dying breed. according to research by kansas state university in the past three years, 82 grocery stores have closed in rural communities here. >> we also have information from iowa and the situation is practically identical there. >> reporter: k-state launched the roral grocery initiative. david proctor's research team found if people don't have access to fresh foods they buy groceries at convenience
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stores. >> more high sodium foods, more foods trans-fats and this leads to all kinds of increased health-related diseases. >> reporter: such as obesity and diabetes. rural america has some of the highest rates. just in time, the lack of a store chased out would be residents. >> so they come to victoria and his wife didn't see a grocery store and she says nope. >> reporter: according to k- state, there are three culprits. dwindling world populations, big box stores and shopping patterns. folks around here don't mind driving long distances. it's slowly killing the small towns they live in. the country landscape can be a food desert despite the acres of growing crops. most distributors are regional with minimum orders, too big for small town stores. they collected donations to build what's now a community-
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owned place. >> we're all helping each other. >> reporter: it also serves as a distribution center for surrounding towns in need of a lifeline. when the news returns, a tornado rips through the upper midwest leaving a path of destruction. >> nothing like that around here. it was unseasonably cooler again today. mark will be here with a look at the work week weather forecast. what this droid does will change how you do movies.
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this does hit films on a 4.3-inch screen so big, the way you see them will never be the same. introducing the new droid x. pre-loaded with blockbuster. the next generation of does. take a look at these pictures. strong storms in minnesota and north dakota this weekend spawned several tornados, including this one which wiped out a farmhouse.
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a dispatcher said the owner and his wife were away at the time of the twister. these pictures were taken by so- called storm chaser you hear there, someone who seeks out and photographs tornados. there were so many tornados weather experts weren't sure exactly how many swift twisters moved through the area. let's check in now with mark. we have some wild weather up in tahoe. >> just about 175 miles to the east. we have some showers and some heavy rain. some very heavy rain and strong thunderstorms in that area. right now on the maps, the coverage showing up here. as we come in tighter. you can see closing in on tahoe city. rainfall rates once again about an inch a half-hour, one inch per half-hour and a flash flood warning in place until 7:00 this evening. a look at how the satellite looks with the clouds producing the rain and the thunderstorms. back here in the bay area, we have the lower clouds, fairly stable weather pattern, but a cool weather pattern.
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it's been the overall story for the past 3 to 5 weeks across the region. the clouds already socked up coast side. over the bay bridge, out toward oakland, berkeley, emeryville and also richmond. a look outside, a couple cameras we picked out. the golden gate bridge, temperatures in the upper 50s, and san jose enjoying unshine. as far as temperatures for today, most areas cooled off a little, but especially inland from saturday's highs. you can see the hot spot not so hot. pacifica only 59 degrees, santa rosa in the upper 70s. we have the fog and the drizzle, especially this morning right around the coast and right around the bay. fog expected for tonight. we will be able to warm things up as we do head into next weekend as far as the amount of the warming, we're still trying to figure that out. but temperatures trending upward in the, at least in the long range outlook. for tomorrow temperatures really not a big change. you can see the range mainly in
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the 50s, 60s around the bay, quite a few 70s. a few lockes barely making it up in the low 80s by monday afternoon at 3:00. this has been the cold front, this area to our north and west. we're still tracking the fog. temperatures cool off a little as we head into tuesday and wednesday. then we begin to warm things up by thursday and friday. you can see the key impacts with the fog, a factor for tonight, possibly once again some drizzle first thing tomorrow morning. temperatures most areas tomorrow 58 to 79 degrees. we begin to bump up those numbers a little bit by thursday. for tomorrow, the overcast out there. definitely bundle up. maybe partly cloudy skies well inland. then into the afternoon hours, more sunshine inland, partly cloudy skies around the bay. still some patchy fog lingering coast side, also for san francisco. there's the eventual temperature range for most of
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the region. fairfield in the upper 70s. still holding on to those breezy conditions, winds out of the southwest approaching 25 miles per hour. temperatures inland not see hot, mainly in the upper 70s for your monday afternoon. san francisco right around 60. your five-day forecast, we have to go through another cooling trend before we warm back up and you can see evidence of our thinking there for thursday and friday. temperatures inland not so hot by friday in the low to mid 80s. by the weekend we could be talking about a few spots approaching 90 degrees. the tough economy has prompted many people to look at new ways to try to get things they need, but can't afford. laura takes a look at an idea becoming popular in one community. >> if you need more dirt, there is a pile of dirt. >> reporter: it isn't easy for corey smith to keep up her front lawn in new york with a baby on the way.
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>> moving bushes and doing intense weeding i can't really do anymore, so it's fabulous that i have help. >> reporter: help she isn't paying for. she earned this help through a system called time banking. it's a growing movement of giving and receiving for free. >> i think it helps to really weave in a deeper richness in the community when people are helping one another. >> there's this great moment at the end where people are like, they just look at the garden we've done for them as a gift and they feel like they then ned to pass on that gift again to someone else. >> reporter: time bank members earn hours or so-called time dollars for each hour you give of your time. there's no money involved and everyone's service is of equal value. that's why these money-free community banks are now popping up across the country in these tough economic times. >> as people are more and more suffering from unemployment and lack of resources, they're turning to time banks when those exist as a way to save
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money. >> reporter: kristine is the cofounder of woodstock's group. >> it helps people to sustain their lives because if they can get free services through the t money to spend on other essential items. >> reporter: cory earns her hours by teaching yoga to other time bank members. thurman gains her hours by giving massage their foy dogs. >> i see it as a very good way to receive services that i wouldn't otherwise -- that i would otherwise have to pay for. >> it's a currency of the heart. it starts there. it doesn't start with greed or what i can get out of it. >> reporter: in new york, fox news. although. >> coming up, a major falter for the world's top golfer. tiger woods put together his worst tournament of his career. >> hear what tiger has to say next in sports wrap.
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good evening, everyone. thanks for joining our early sunday edition of sports rap. tiger woods is still the number one ranked golfer in the world, but after this week's performance in the wgc, it looks like he needs both a golf coach and a sports psychologist. tiger started today in akron, ohio, 78th in the 80-man tournament. he shot a seven over 77, finished 30 strokes behind the winners. tiger's tee shot smacks a spectator right in the mouth. this week he finishes 18 over
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par. it's the worst tournament of his pro career and tiger is not happy. >> absolutely not. shooting 18 over par is not fun. i don't see how it can be fun shooting 18 over. especially since my handicap's supposed to be zero. so i need to hit the ball better, i need to chip better, i need to putt better. >> to you want to play on the ryder cup team? >> definitely not, not playing like this. i mean i wouldn't help the team if i'm playing like this. no one would help the team if they're shooting 18 over par. >> you're not surprised. we're all surprised. >> been a long year. >> so you think it's more mental. >> it's been a long year. >> well, phil mickelson could take over the world's number one ranking if he finishes fourth or better today, but this is phil on that same par 3, 7th hole. phil finished in a tie for 46.
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tiger and phil certainly didn't look like the top two golfers in the world this week. kenny perry who turns 50 on tuesday, shot of the day, sixth hole. now you see it, now you don't. that ball flew right 32 the hole for a slam dunk eagle. kenny perry, the winner of the wgc is hunter mahan, he shot a bogey free 664 and wins by two shots over ryan palmer. he earns 1.4 million bucks. to be the best you must beat the best. today they evened their season record against texas. all-star pitcher trevor cahill extended his scoreless trek to 23 straight innings. he earned his 12th win of the season. bengie molina hits it, cocoa gets it. that's good extension. it stays scoreless and you've got to like that. but then coco takes darren oliver right down the third-
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base line. that's a double. cliff pennington races home from first to tie the game at two after seven innings. let's play small ball. kurt suzuki delivers this sacrifice fly ball. that sends crisp home with the tboad run. it's their first lead of the game. both teams commit two errors today. he game over, a's win 3-2. they're now 6-6 against the rangers so far this season. but they still lead oakland in the standings. matt watson was hospitalized with kidney stones before the game, so watson will not make the trip to seattle for tomorrow night's game. brandon morrow, well, morrow flirted with history today. he was one out away from a no hitter against tampa bay, but
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evan longoria gets credit for the single. the ball pops right out of adam hill's glove. but no problem, next batter. morrow fans the next batter. that's his 17th strikeout of the game. morrow earns his first complete game shut-out. >> well, the braves own the best home record in baseball. atlanta even used several of its b team players to overcome the giants. giants lost friday and saturday, but today san francisco scores first. second inning, uribe doubles off derek lowe, the big burly pat burrell scores. giants starter jonathan sanchez, he just couldn't hold the lead. the braves backup catcher hits a tee shot, this is the first home run of the year for ross. he makes it 2-1 atlanta. sanchez serves up another fatty
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to infante. a solo homer for infante. 5-2 in the 7th. giants trying to find some spark. ishikawa, a deep shot off peter moylan. 6-3 in the ninth when saito strikes out the side. braves win today 6-3. giants have lost four of their last five games. they host the cubs tomorrow night. arizona fans campaigned for the d-backs to sweep san diego, but e padres enjoy a laugher in phoenix today. this solo homer off saunders. jerry, jr., three hits, scored four times. padres lead the giants by two in the west division. giants still have 10 more games it play against those padres beginning with three games this next weekend in san francisco. coming up, nascar hits the road
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the only time juan pablo montoya took a checkered flag was three years ago on the road course in sonoma. that was 113 sprint cup races ago and these road courses are very tight. lap 66, boris said plays a little heavy metal with tony stewart. said is done. tony stewart manages to finish 7th. jimmie johnson and denny hamlin also play a little tag. somewhere in that smoke hamlin hits johnson. johnson eventually got back and finished 28th overall. but juan pablo montoya led 74 of the 90 laps today, cruised to his second career sprint cup race. and nfl rookie hazing is alive
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and well. this is denver broncos quarterback tim tebow sporting his new friar tuck hairdo. it may take some time for tim to regrow his hair but at least he's won the respect of the broncos veterans. that is sports for this early sunday edition of sports rap. a's win, giants lose. >> the hair is gone. tonight on the 10:00 news, not, the debate over the glass plate photographs claimed to be taken by famous photographer ansel adams taxi yet another turn. we'll have the developments tonight on the 10:00 news. that's our report. >> have a good night.
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