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just starting to arrive at the rally tonight. many in the crowd believe that the verdict acquitting manning sends the message that he's not a trait torr. they believe the government is trying to openly prosecute a gay person. >> bradley manning is a truth teller. >> reporter: gary virginia is among those rallying in san francisco to defend manning. they say he has an obligation to leak the war crimes. >> this has inflamed passions on both sides. >> reporter: beth is president of the national institute of military justice. she said the verdict could set a precedent for how the
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government handles future leaks. >> the military judge seems to have decided that he should have known this would harm the united states. he was not charged with aiding the enemy because he didn't have that intent. >> reporter: as we come back out live you can probably hear that they just begun shouting their battle cry, we are bradley manning. this may not be the last rally. there is still sentencing to come. we're putting that together for 6:00. >> more details here. wikileaks founder issued a statement in response to the bradley manning verdict. it reads it is a dangerous precedent and example of national extremism. it cannot be tolerated and can
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never be that conveying true information to the public is espionage. continuing coverage on another possible bart strike. the transit agency and workers have five days left to try to avoid a strike. the union's 30 day contract extension ends this week. both sides reported little progresses this evening. we are live at the building downtown to see how far they have to go to avoid a strike. tom. >> reporter: despite the obvious urgency with all of this, neither side had face to face negotiations until this afternoon. they wanted to take $140 million salaries and benefits
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away from union employees. now it's granting them a $33 million increase. >> we're only days away from the deadline and we want them to know where we stood. >> reporter: bart wants a four year contract and the unions want three. bart says over tree years it raises pay 8% percent. bart wants employees to contribute 5% to their pension. workers want 3%. unions want to remain at the current $92 a month for insurance. >> the numbers that the bart board of directors are giving are false. it's a total miss representation of the facts. >> reporter: they going to put
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up with the increase. >> reporter: the union says bart surplussing money in the bank cost nothing. whatever the truth may be, it appears the gap is a strike provoking a business. >> stop trying to negotiate in the public and negotiate with us at the table. >> we apologize for the fact that the public has been dragged into our labor mess. >> reporter: bart says its long- term future depends on them taking care of these negotiations. >> we're finding out more about the prostitution and child trafficking sting. he is one of 21 bay area
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suspects taken into custody. he is charged with pimping. 21 have been arrested. 12 bay area juveniles were rescued during the operation. a san francisco sheriff's deputy charged with robbing a bank last year is now charged with new gun charges. he is accused of felony grand theft of a firearm. the charge stems from a complaint by a customer who says he paid for a gun but never received it. today he turned himself in but is now out on bail. the fbi has joined the investigation into vannism that caused a radio tower to fall
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over. terry reports on whether there is a way to work around the problem. >> reporter: these are shots of the 200-foot toppled radio tower. >> it's some type of cutting instrument, possibly bolt cutter or something but something strong enough to cut through a strong cable to remove the support from the structure. >> reporter: at 12:30 monday morning their sensor sounded. people who walk through the park every morning were flabbergasted by the vandalism. >> it's a long hike. to get to the top is about a mile and a half to get up there. if you carry a back pack it's pretty tough. you have to be in good shape for sure. >> reporter: several agencies have transmitters on the tower. luckily officials say there are
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other communications built in to pick up the slack. >> no one lost communication and there was no danger to the public. >> reporter: the damage is steep, more than $1 million worth. federal agents have now joined the investigation and are trying to figure out if this is vannism or if they were after copper. american tower owns the tower and they will construct a new one in a week. that is nothing short of a miracle as typical construction takes up to a year. san francisco firefighters dealt with a hazardous house fire this morning. it was a fire in a home on tucker avenue. they say they discovered a marijuana growing operation. they say fires like these are very dangerous because live
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electrical wiring are exposed. >> apply wood over windows, doors, sky lights so it makes it a trap for firefighters. if something goes wrong you're stuck because all of the exits are barricaded. >> the firefighters didn't find anyone inside but it appears that several live there. the cause was electrical in nature by are still investigating. power is now back on in oak land. they say it was caused by a sea gull that flew into a power line. it affected more than 1900 homes and businesses. several lines came down and one transformer was blown. it was a very emotional good-bye today for an 8-year- old girl whose life was cut
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short by gunfire. her tiny body was in a pink casket with hello kitty balloons tied on both sides. she died on july 17 when she open tornado door of a friend's home at a sleep over. she would've been a third grader this fall. a humbled county man accused of killing his wife and two daughters is now added to the list of 15 most wanted. he is considered armed and dangerous. he shot and killed his 4 and 8- year-old daughters and his wife. he poses an extreme threat to the community. the arch bishop of san francisco today responded to pope francis comment yesterday on the role of gays in the
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catholic church. he said the whole church owes a debt of gratitude to the pope for reiterating the church's esalfor those who have people, same sex attraction and feel alien nateed. he said gays should not be marginlized. who am i to judge them. you may see and hear unusual air traffic over the bay in about 15 minutes. military air craft will take a tour flying over the water north and west of the bay bridge about 2,000 feet in the air. double parking may soon turn into double the head cake. what one city leader wants to do. a family of a korean war
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veteran receives the remains of their loved one. how many can benefit from a new city program. i bet you're smelling smoke if you're inland. we'll talk about where it's at and how long you'll smell it, coming up. living on cloud nine withthat u. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible.
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[ dad ] jan? ♪ new at 5, the city of richmond is debating an unpreps departmented plan to help people keep their homes from being foreclosed. the city is considering using imminent domain. john is in richmond tonight with how it works and why some are dead set against the idea. >> are the plan is being watched closely by residents
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here and banks across the country. the lawn outside this home is well manicured and inside the fish are well fed. ducry is worried about her future. >> i'm like many oars. >> reporter: she says she owes $300,000 on her home that is worth $170,000 or less. she is hoping to benefit from a new city plan to buy under watt ever plans to allow financing at the lower value. 46% of the city's homes are under water, they're hoping for help from the lenders. >> their solution is to let the homes fall into foreclosure and that costs them money. >> reporter: the up shot is if the lenders refuse the city may use imminent domain to take
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over the loans. >> there is authority for richmond to do, if necessary, to condemn under water loans through the use of imminent domains. >> reporter: a real life 101 estate broker didn't like the plan. he said it will cause lenders to avoid lending here. >> we're talking about helping a small group of people based on the proposal. >> reporter: doris questions the motives. >> if i lose my home he may be the one to sell it and get the commission. >> reporter: other cities are watching what happens here before pursuing similar plans. home prices in the nation's largest cities shot up once again in may. the index show prices rose about 2.5% in april and 12%
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higher than last year. san francisco saw the biggest increase of 24.5%. analysts expect it to level off in the second half of the year. consumer confidence raised slightly in july. the index dipped to 80.3 in july down from june. higher gas prices and borrowing costs are the reason. former san francisco giants relief pitcher wilson sign add deal with the los angeles dodgers. he pitched for the giants for 7 seasons but didn't sign a contract after tommy john surgery. wilson thanked giant fans by saying even though i'll be wearing a different color, your
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impact in my life will be no different. bill is here to tell us about a haze we're seeing. check it out. this is smoke that's being transport. transported from oregon. the mostly cloudy is caught in this area here. you're noticing it up here, especially in the morning hours. air quality is in the moderate range. if you're susceptible and have respiratory issues, this kind of thing can be a real life 101 hassable for you. it's going to be around. the smoke has been there for the last couple of dies and slow to clear. it will be there again tomorrow morning. will is a lot of fog along the
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coast. we have the fog showing up in san francisco into the ballpark area. tomorrow morning, like today, fog everywhere. the conversion is really deep, around 2,000 feet. will is a cool bride of air from the moist flow of marine layer. you see the 82 in fairfield. so the winds, well, they're blowing out of the westerly area. concord, southwest, sustained at 22. that's a delta wind. fairly aggressively blowing. the marine layer has stretched out and stayed stretched out. that's why we're in the cooler moisture pattern which is helpful to air quality. it would be worse if this was not stretched out.
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forecast tomorrow, the high looks like today, not a big change. maybe a degree or two warmer. 85 in brent wood and antioch. those are the forecast highs. 84 in morgan hill. slight warm upcoming up. warmest spots on wednesday. thursday should be the coolest day of the week. temperatures friday, saturday and sunday start to trend up, back up into the 90s. those are the warmest in bay temperatures. we've got five days of this coming out ahead of this. if you like the cooler whether inland that's great. there is the five day forecast and we'll be back with the fog tomorrow morning. >> it's interesting to see how
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bad the haze is. >> smoke bugs people. it's not good for you but the smoke you can taste it. actress eye lean brennan has died. she had a long career of stage and tvand film roles. she was nominated for supporting actress for playing captain louis of private ben knowledge pry benjamin. she died from a battle with bladder cancer. i here by declare on oath -- >> the ceremony, the celebration and the man that took that samoset years ago. >> julie with what we're
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the east bay today. >> that i will bare true faith and alegion of evasion. oak land's paramount theatre provided the back drop today. the key note speaker was san francisco district attorney. he immigrated from cuba as a child. years later, after serving in the military, he went through the same process as these citizens. >> i still remember the emotional impact of officially becoming a u.s. citizen. as in the case of many of you i have been an american at heart for many years before officially becoming one. >> he says his wife, from mexico, was sworn in as a new american citizen earlier this year. many of these immigrated more than a decade ago.
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>> i'm excited. i'm excited because of being an american citizen. [ excitement ] >> those smiles are priceless. big name celebrities are getting behind a movement to put an end to solitary confine. they're speaking out against the practice of isolating prisoners to control gang violence. prisoners reason continuing with the hunger strike. 385 inmates have refuse today eat since july 8. new york city mayor michael bloomberg's ban on sugary drinks fails again.
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they moved to ban sugary drinks of 16 ounces or more. he plans to appeal the decision. breast feeding your baby may increase your baby's iq. they found babies breast fed gained foreign points on their iq. the findings appear in the journal of pediatrics. it's something many drivers do in san francisco but they may not want to do it more. why this city is getting tough on double parking. spending $70 on something worth 12-cents. it's an example solve wasteful spending at the pentagon. a decision that clears the
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living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible.
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some are questioning whether the officers are writing enough tickets. if you do double park you probably won't get cited. david stevenson tells us why that could be changing now. >> reporter: frank, law enforcement for more fines could be headed here for those who double park. it's part of the price of living and drive ng a busy city. >> it's a problem. the streets are narrow. >> reporter: they're doing a double take on double parking. supervisor scott weiner is calling for a hearing on whether the officers are enforcing the double parking laws. >> sometimes you'll have a delivery truck that shuts down an entire light rail. >> reporter: in fiscal year
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2011-12 they issued 1 million citations. 22,000 were for double parking. some drivers say it's a necessary evil. >> if we need to move we move. >> reporter: movers we spoke to say they pass the cost onto customers who fail to buy a parking permit. some are angered by the store's delivery struck tricks. >> they don't even try to find a spot. >> reporter: a hearing on double parking is set for mid september. a proposed bans on violence and vandalism is on the agenda tonight. the proposal is designed to prevent the type of violence such as that during the george zimmerman acquittal. police need the ordinance to
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prevent the violence before it happens. some say it's a violation of free speech. apple faces a new lawsuit for unpaid wages because of mandatory bad checks. employees often say they wait in lines for 30 minutes while employers check bags and this happens before lunch and when they go home for the day without compensation for their time. the santa claire sheriff's department is looking for the public's help regarding a man who attempt today hold up a bank of america last tuesday. the man demanded money from a bank teller and threatened to shoot customers t.teller refuse today give the suspect money and he ran away from the bank. anyone who can identify this
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suspect is urge today call the sheriff's department. right now a special election is going onto replace the santa claire super vise sore. he is charged with miss accuse of funds and fraud. we're live at the registrar of voters to see if the scandal had interest. >> reporter: you're right. we've only seen a trickle of voters showing up to help decide this very important job. keith raper dropped off his ballot and his wife's today. they need to replace the former super vise sore who resigned after charges of misuse of funds. >> i'm not sure where to go with that. >> reporter: voting is a good start. the district is off to a slow
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start. they say only 15% of registered voters had cast ballots. the registrar and many voters told us special elections are difficult with only one issue. >> i thought there were lots of things to do, to vote for. when i opened it, it was just one. >> reporter: getting out the vote was the top thing for both candidates. >> i think if people knew that the board of supervisors knew that they managed the hospitals they'd be more inclined to vote. >> reporter: candidate teresa allobar are a do agrees. >> all the distractions, the mail, the volume of mail people have been bombarded with is unprecedented.
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>> reporter: some voters are optimistic. >> the day is not over. there could be a string of cars behind me. >> reporter: not many behind him considering there are 118,000 voters in the district t.polls stay open until 8:00 p.m. oscar grant's father can sue the former police officer that shot and killed his son. the claim that johannes mehserle was rejected in that he was acting as was supposed to when oscar grant was shot. today's ruling uphold as lower court decision. [ inaudible ] >> these are scenes from fruitvale station, the movie that chronicals the shooting of
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oscar grant. congressman barbara lee organized tonight cease viewing. >> it was time to bring this film for my colleagues to watch here in congress. i think more members of congress need to be educated with regards to the real life 101 injun policies in the criminal justice scene. >> the film will also bring attention to the race relations. recycling workers walked off the job and held a demonstration in oak land today. they're leaving the facilities. 70 workers gathered in downtown oak land. they set up a demonstration to show why their jobs are hazardous. they say they make an average of $12 an hour. he was missing for decades. today the remains of a korean
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four people including three people were hurt after a car slammed into a day care this afternoon. this happened in kansas city. according to police the range rover rear ended a cadillac that was sent koreaning into the building. a federal agency has opened an investigation into a fire at a propane plant in orlando. police say they think equipment failure combined with human error is to blame. no one was killed in the explosion. several were injured, three critically. three former penn state administrators are standing trial accusing them of a cover up in the jerry sandusky scandal. a judge says there is enough
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evidence to bring the case to trial. they failed to tell police about a sexual abuse claim about jerry sandusky years ago. jerry sandusky was convicted last year of sexually abusing ten boys. nearly a quarter of the 4400 luxury vehicles stolen in the united states were taken in california new york was the number one city for thefts followed by los angeles and miami. they looked at a four year period. it's an emotional homecoming that was six decades in the making. a man's remains were brought
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living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible.
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procession that took 60 years to happen. a lost hero from a war long ago finally return today the bay area. the bitter sweet homecoming for joseph steinberg took place this morning at san jose international airport. his family can finally hold a proper funeral for the hero who had a long list of honors and awards. >> reporter: a show of support from the patriot guard riders for a hero they did not know. joseph steinberg was captured and held as a prisoner of war in korea. his family never imagined his remains would be found. >> he was missing and we never thought we'd ever hear anything again.
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this is overwhelming. >> reporter: his niece mar lean, is his closest living relative. the government collected dna and they were notified. >> it made me proud that the government has put forth the effort to find them. >> reporter: this shows a private ceremony this morning. they draped an american flag over his casket. the procession left the airport, a homecoming for a man that spent his life serving the military. >> he told me about being shot at and hiding behind banana trees. >> reporter: his service was a sacrifice that will be remembered. >> he's never been out of my heart or mind in 62 years. >> reporter: he'll be laid to
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rest at golden gate cemetary with full honors and will be buried alongside his three brothers who were world war ii veterans. a bay area congress woman is leading a charge against wasteful spending at the pentagon. she is investigating military payments to companies such as boeing. accord toga government audit showed that nails that should cost about 12-cents cost more than $70. >> they go ahead and purchase a spare part while they already have, in their supply, that same item. >> a boeing representative said the company is working to address the problem. happening now, a flash
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flood warning remains in effect for some parts of hawaii. tropical storm lossy was down graded to a tropical depression last night. high winds and heavy rain fall knocked out power on three of the islands. crews have restored power to all but about 500 customers. air travel to and from the island is back to normal. yesterday flights were cancelled. around the bay today, some of us saw more sun than we did today. it's been an unusually cool pattern in the bay air. it's lasting into the mid morning around early afternoon. these are the highs today. when you get out by antioch it's warm. you get on the outside edges of
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the bay area, non-bay area counties, you'll get the upper 80s, low 90s. 75 in free month. it's kind of cool, kind of mile. we talked about the smoke and there will be more tomorrow morning when you get up and out to work. fog forecast, there it is. you see it pushing its way in. it's in most bay area counties tomorrow morning. current numbers, 70 in napa. temperatures coming down. this is the moist cool air up over the hills. tonight look for possible drizzle in places. look for the fog to push inland hard. overnight lows are mainly in the 50s, mid-50s in most spots. below average temperatures is staying put. it's been there for a couple of
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days. it gives you 80s where there should be 90s and so forth. san jose get as little bit of a break but there will be patches. the fog is burning back quickly. right around the bay, model keeps fog in there. san francisco airport, fog may linger. 70s as you get up into the east bay hills. you'll find mid and upper 80s if you keep going east or north or south. most of the bay area tomorrow we're 70s and low 80s. 79 in concord, 85 in brent wood. santa cruise at 70, 83 at morgan hill.
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five day forecast, thins start to warm up but things are slow. 86 tomorrow. thursday is the coolest day. it's not a bad pattern. it's a great pattern. air quality is still sketchy. you can see the smoke over the bay today. the smoke from the oregon fires is filtering into the bay area. this is potentially the last summer month for the kids who are heading back to school. thanks bill. target teamed up with the salvation army to make sure needy school kids got what they needed to start the year. they were taken on a shopping spree at target for shopping supplies. one single mom said this is the first time that she and her six
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kids have participated in the program. >> it's a great help because it's very expensive. it's like $400 worth of stuff and i thank target and salvation army for helping me. >> they were able to get back packs, school supplies and uniforms. a salvation army spokesperson said similar things are planned to help others (. >> it's a crime that has many to ask how low can you go. >> reporter: stealing from a cemetary. what families say are missing from these graves. back to julie for what we're working on at 6:00. >> reporter: an auto repair job turn intoed a home burglary. the trick these men allegedly use today steal tens of
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it first plan while visiting an amazon facility in tennessee. he wants to crate for jobs but offered something for businesses. >> i'm willing to work on reforming the corporate tax code as long as we use the money for a significant investment for creating middle class jobs. >> a spokesperson said the president's plan is a repackaged old proposal and republicans want to link any corporate tax over hall with changes in the individual tax code. the hiring process has been for twitter in sunnyvale. they're filling position for 8,000 feet of new office space in the downtown area. when we looked on the twitter website there was one job
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posted for an engineers. they must be awesome, passionate and nice. new at 5, flowers, pictures and american flags stolen from a sacred place. vandals hit grave sites in santa cruise. rob ross shows us some of the victims were infants. >> it's a shame because it's beautiful out here. >> reporter: people visiting oakwood memorial in santa cruise ta cruise are asking the same question. >> is nothing sacred anymore. >> reporter: kathy says thieves stole momentos from her parent's graves and others. >> i was heart broken that we can't come to visit my mom and dad and leave things that mean something to us. >> reporter: the items stolen
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have little monetary value but for me, thieves stole from the gave sites of four babies. small teddy bears and figure reasons were stolen. he said it happened between 7:00 friday night and 7:00 saturday morning. >> we had our crew walk the cemetary and the creeks near by where there are homeless camps. >> reporter: no lick. at many of the violated grave sites, stonable items have been replaced. loved ones are hoping it stays. >> total frustration that somebody would really think that they had the right to come in and do this to people with babies that are here. i mean that's pretty bad. >> reporter: the cemetary is considering adding more lights to this area and hopes who is
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responsible will show respect for the people buried here and their family. now at 6, the search is on for people who scammed a couple in their 90s out of thousands of dollars of cash. rallies going on for the bradley manning verdict. the fire danger can'ts to increase. >> we're living in probably the most flamable real life 101 estate in the world. >> we'll tell you why and what home owns can do to protect themselves. good evening, i'm julie. i'm frank summer field. a couple in their 90s scammed
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out of thousands of dollars. there is important evidence that police hope lead them to the thieves. ken. >> reporter: frank, the con started here at the st. francis square parking lot. police say it was a routine, tried and true scam. the police say the suspects were caught on tape. take a look at these two men. it's a rare photo to see. con artist typically live in the shadows. >> they're good images. >> reporter: detective say tropical storm two suspects driving this white suburban targeted the victim as they were pulling out of the parking lot. >> they intercept tornado elderly couple saying they noticed the damage on their car and could help them out. >> reporter: the
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