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back now to our breaking news and there will not be a b.a.r.t. strike tomorrow. the trains will be rolling as the unions have agreed to continue to negotiate for one more day. >> but there's a possibility of a b.a.r.t. strike tomorrow night. deborah villalon is live in downtown oakland. there's plenty of acrimony to go around isn't it deb. >> reporter: there sure is. just when you thought this labor saga couldn't get any stranger it has. and there were all kinds of signals today that there was conciliatory movement on both sides. and then 10:00 tonight, boom it's collapse. state legislators came out. they were furious at b.a.r.t. for putting down a best last final offer. they want that offer taken off the table. they know the unions will not accept it. we have heard though from b.a.r.t.'s general manager she said this is it.
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the bay kwraáeur -- area is tired of this and it's time to make a decision. they said this offer will stand for two weeks for the unions to look it over. and after that a contract maybe imposed on them. she wants them to take it to their members. but from b.a.r.t.'s unions we heard this is a regressive offer. it's less than one they got two weeks ago and they know their members will not accept it. while they will not go on strike tomorrow. tuesday will remain a real possibility. the deadline is simply pushed 24 hours to midnight tomorrow night. so we're kicking the can down the road one more time as we have seen month after month after month. the bay area still in limbo with this b.a.r.t. contract. ken and heather. >> thank you, deborah. and for the thousands of
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passengers who get to ride the train tomorrow but tuesday morning, who knows. >> we want to get back to joe fonzi and get more of the nfl updates. >> the team that used to own the outdoor noise record was the titans. don't tell that to gernald he delivers a blow on the seattle catcher who's trying to make a tackle. does get in the way but he pays a price for it. lynch with his second touchdown of the game. the only two times the seahawks got into this one. a reminder of the physical nature of the game again in one of this weekend's marquee games. amandola left the game with concussion like symptoms. this one turned into a thriller. drew breas to kenney stills with 3:29 left in the game.
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kenney also added a field goal for the lead. the patriots won on one last drive. 10 seconds to play when tom brady takes the snap. he throws to the back. end zone. the patriots pull out a win and knock the saints from the ranks of the unbeaten. and the defensive struggle with the defending super bowl champions ravens. hard to defend this, rogers rears back. throws one as hard as he can. jordi nelson drags it. hang on for the win. green bay 3-2. the ravens 3-3. matt schaub continued. schaub was sacked by chris long and had to leave the game with an injured ankle who's fans were not unhappy to see him go. schaub would not continue the
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record straight to throw intersections. but the team streak continued. t.j. yates at the two. that will be a 98-yard return for six. the fifth straight week the texans have allowed one of those. the texans fall after losing big 38-13. elsewhere around the league, the steelers won their first game of the year at the extent of the bills. cincinnati improves to 4-3. jaguars loss to the broncos but did cover the 30-yard spread. the nick foles and the eagles over tampa. the lions outscore the rams 34- 0 in the second half and improve to 4-2 carolina. in the late game tonight, dallas sandaled the redskins in a match up of struggling teams. the colts are in san diego tomorrow night. high drama tonight in game two of the american league championship series. the boston red sox were 2 innings from heading to detroit
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down 2-0. tigers starter matt sherzer in command. steven drew, will middlebrooks and shane victorino have no answer for sherzer. he drops off the side for the third. he struck out 13 allows a single run in 7 innings, a big six for the tigers in what looked like a comfortable lead. miguel cabrera declared the green monster. and the red sox loaded the bases with two outs. david ortiz off benuet. the grand slam ties the game at five. hunter was stunned, but was able to continue. it was the tigers though who were most collectively stunned with johnny gomes at third and nobody out. gerald saltalamacia off portello. gomes with the win in walk off fashion and the celebration
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began. the series now heads to detroit even at a game each. they'll have an off day then play game three on tuesday. it is time for this week's list of games on which you can vote for your high school game of the week. this week's game north gate at concord. cupertino at monte vista. livermore at amador valley. and south san francisco at pacifica to vote for the game you want to see go to ktv -- ktvu.com and click on high school sports. that is it for this sunday night sports wrap. >> busy day news wise and sports wise. thank you for making ktvu your source for news and sports updates. a breaking news update. there will be no strike tomorrow. the trains will be rolling
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tomorrow. >> our morning news crew will be here to fill you in on anything that might happen in the next couple of hours regarding those b.a.r.t. contract talks. we're always here for you on ktvu.com. again the headline tonight. no b.a.r.t. strike tomorrow. those trains will be rolling. be sure to keep it here and ktvu.com for the very latest on what's happening next, have a good night everyone and a good week. you! soft-close drawers, farm sink! wher room? we had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. because your kitchen dreams can be big. ikea has it all.
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look. good evening and welcome to a second look. i'm julie haener: tonight the ongoing crisis of gun violence among bay area young people. behind the headlines of the latest homicides there are people working to prevent homicides and help survivors. we talked to those in one program that go straight to the hospital to make a change. >> right there, right there. we have a green emblem on the back of his shirt. police are working hard to get criminals off the street. in this case they arrest a suspected drug dealer before violence erupts. but many times officers are called to the scene after a shots are fired. >> you want to make sure that you preserve your life by taking another. >> reporter: kendra simmons is a youth intervention specialist
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that helps steer youth away from violence. >> if you get upset at 5:00 you can have a gun by 7:00 and by 8:00 someone can be dead. >> reporter: this young man says he was almost killed in a recent drive by shooting for doing nothing more than sitting on his own front porch. >> they started shooting and i just started playing dodge ball with the bullets. >> reporter: he ended up at oakland hospital. doctors greg victorino is chief of trauma. >> it is a public health issue. the inner city violence, gunshot wound victims it has become a huge pandemic here. >> reporter: as soon as the youth is hospitalized, the healing process by agains. but here it involves an immediate intervention. >> when i identify a specific
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candidate for a person. a young candidate that's here for some type of violence, then i go to their bedside and i talk with them. >> reporter: nick patar works with a unique program called caught in the fire that helps injured teens for months. he says on this day, three new trauma patients are interested in getting help. >> we have an 18-year-old male, his name is buick 22 with a gunshot wound to the back. actually he looks like he's going to be a quadriplegic now. >> reporter: they're talking to injured clients here every day. these caught in the cross fire counselors are especially good at relating to injured teens because they've all grown up in the same community. >> i've been a victim of violence. i've been a perpetrator of violence. so, i know what that all is about. i know what the frustration is. i know what the way to survive.
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>> reporter: youth alive created the program hoping to reduce retaliation, reinjury and arrest. by offering young people positive alternatives to violence. one of tina johnson's clients is this man who asked us to protect his identity. earlier this year he was rushed to highland after he was shot in a carjacking. when his family visited him at the hospital, he says they talked retaliation. >> there's no way i want to handle this but we're trying to keep him from handling it. >> reporter: they credit the program for helping them get out of the violence. >> who to contact when things like this happen to you. >> reporter: intervention specialists understand why it's essential. >> you have 14-year-olds that
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don't feel like they're doing to live to see 18 so they might as well live for today. >> reporter: last year they say 99% of the teens in the program were not reinjured during the year. >> that program across the program, has the best outcome of any injury prevention program nationwide. last month the organization that runs the caught in the cross fire program honored its founder sherman spears. spears began the program two decades ago. in the years since, spears has had to step back from the program. meanwhile the program he started has gone nationwide. ktvu's rob roth talked with sherman spears shortly after he began his caught in the cross fires program. here is rob's report from 1995. >> reporter: 25-year-old sherman spears will spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair paralyzed from the chest down because six years ago
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someone shot him on the street. >> i was shot three times. once in the head, once until the neck and once in the head. >> reporter: spears was shot here. he says a friend of his had been in an argument over a debt of $5. >> when he came back my friend wasn't there. so he basically, asked me where my friend was and when he was coming back. i felt i wasn't complying to his answers. i didn't answer the way he wanted it so i was shot. it was a wake up call. a way that put into realization what a violent lifestyle can lead to. i know a lot of kids out there don't know. because me myself nobody ever told me that this could be a result of my actions. >> reporter: so he often visits victims of violence and trains other students so they can help other teenagers in crisis. >> if we can find a way to make young people understand that violence is something that
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doesn't have to happen. i mean it's not an inherent, part of our culture. we'll be on the track for a better future. >> sherman spears says he will make a decision shortly after this shooting he will not let it slow him down. >> it will be very easy for me to say that, well you know, i've gotten shot and i want to go hide away from the world. but if i did that it wouldn't change any environment and it wouldn't change the risk from my position. still to come on a second look, a second look shows youngsters where they can end up if they engage in gun violence. >> it's over. >> a bit later survivors talk about the long road to recovery from a bullet wound. >> follow second look on facebook and twitter. [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around.
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two jobs. this one he coached young students and in the other he prepared young kids for burial. he decided to bring his young football players to see the grim result of gun violence. >> reporter: you have the receiver, i got the running, back, let's go. >> there's two years in this coach's day. coaching the bears. >> i got johnny a job here working with me. told me he had to live so he could take care of his son. johnny got shot 15 times. >> reporter: and there is a killing season. that sometimes brings former players back to him at this oakland mortuary. >> i have to go pick the bodies up. there ain't nothing nice to go pick up somebody that got hit seven, eight and 15 times.
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>> he doesn't show them bodies but uses them to prepare them for a funeral. >> where we used to have like michael jackson's poster on our wall, they actually have shrines with the rest in peace. >> reporter: in oakland last year, 58 of the city's 125 homicide victims were under the age of 25. >> it's real sad watching people die and looking at them get buried in the ground. it's real sad. >> reporter: coach walker say it is problems for young men here on the streets of oakland an arsenal of weapons and a lack of role models. >> my dad hangs on the streets and i always wanted to be like him but, i'm not -- i'm going to get a job and be myself. >> after my dad died i am just thinking about where do you end up when you died.
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>> reporter: the smith brothers just children know all about life and death. 9-year-old kavio, 10 yield tavio and macio have played for the football team. his father macio sr. had been assistant coach until he got shot and killed. >> my nana came up running tears running down her cheeks shouting we have to leave, we have to leave. >> we were just waiting and the doctor said your dad didn't make it. >> reporter: macio jr. struggles to fill the gap his father left behind. the tenth grader in high school says that he has attended a funeral for every year he's been alive. >> to know what your life is long if you let it be. >> reporter: his father was coach walker's partner and friend. >> when i first went to get
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macio i zipped the bag open and zip it back up because i could not believe they were gone. >> reporter: they return with their teammates to the same funeral home where their father was eulogized. >> right now there's kids out there, 22, 23, and 25 years old. >> reporter: for this harsh lesson but one that family members say is necessary. >> i think you need to keep it real. it shouldn't be sugar coated. they need to know exactly what the consequences are for that lifestyle. >> reporter: how real, walker has the youngsters climb into cremation boxes. >> are you all right? >> no, sir. >> how does that feel? >> bad. >> we're in a funeral home right? >> yes, sir. >> that means that if you're in here you're gone. everybody is able to play a game tomorrow but you're gone. when you see this happen. when you see us at the back of the funeral and you see us do this.
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it's over. that's your book right there. >> reporter: coach walker ends this lesson with each boy speaking in front of his peers what they learned. >> you certainly don't need to be hanging around in the corner. you can end up in a casket right here. >> reporter: when we met them they were undefeated. a 25 game winning streak. >> i'm not stopping. i'm not stopping. you know what people say you can save one. that's not enough for me. you know, one, that's not enough. i'm trying to help all of them. >> to keep those young players on the field and off the streets to keep them alive. when we come back on a second look. an innocent victim talks about living with the horrible aftermath of being hit by a stray bullet. and a bit later the struggle to cope with a deadly school shooting.
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tonight on a second look gun violence and teenagers. do teens understand what damage a bullet can do when it hits the human body. doctors at one bay area hospital decided to show the reality of gunshot wounds in an effort to prevent gun violence. in 2004, ktvu's bob mackenzie took a look. >> another week in the bay area another teenager shot dead. through the youngsters who do the shooting really know what a bullet does to a human body? by the end of this story, they will. jason as we'll call him in this report is one of the lucky ones he can walk and talk. though he can't feel anything on his left leg.
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can't digest his food well and deals with pain daily. jason says he was walking down the street when someone in a car driving by hit him twice. >> it just stung. the second one hit my stomach and i fell on the ground. then my legs went numb i couldn't feel my legs. >> reporter: the first slug shipped off a -- chipped off a piece of jason's leg. his stomach filled with heart. the second slug exited through his back. doctors at highland hospital saved his life but he'll never be the safe. >> anyone who has been shot who request survive may be permanently injured. incapacitated, maybe in a persistent state where they can
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never talk to their relatives again. >> reporter: if young people really understood damage bullets do will they be less inclined to shoot. the police department offering classes for teenagers considered at risk. >> now he requires help 24-7. someone to wipe his back. someone to feed him. >> for the most part young people are thinking along the line that they're invincible. and that's the problem. until someone in their neighborhood or in that group of click that they run with sustain an injury. then it brings it home. >> the youngsters in the class haven't committed any crimes. but they're showing behavior, fighting cutting school. that makes them candidates for violence. >> if you wanted a gun yourself would you be able to get one in
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your neighborhood? >> uh-huh. >> how long would it take you? >> not very long like a day. >> students attended the class as well as parents. >> it's a difficult time for kids. >> reporter: just what does a bullet do to a human body. to find out we went to the sheriff's shooting range in san jose where we hung up a 40- pound section of the beef. santa clara county medical examiner joseph ohara would show the results. using weapons all available to criminals who with cash to buy them. >> blood vessels and tissue are all lacerated. >> sometimes in all the talk about shootings, we forget the innocent victims. the people who are simply in the wrong place at the wrong
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time. and who's life was changed forever because of it. last year, ktvu's rob roth talked to a young woman who is living that same story. >> for gutierrez the anguish of gun violence is as close as a mirror. >> i have this deformity now and i have to see it in my mirror every day. >> reporter: her fate changed in san leandro boulevard in east oak land. she was a striking beauty who was working as a model when her friend driving her to help her mother pulled up to the stoplight. >> the next thing that happened is something that i never thought would ever happen to me. >> a bullet fired through the back windshield, ripped into her jaw, cheek and mouth. kerry's description. >> i touched my
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