watson park was closed almost six years ago after finding dangerous toxins in the soil. in one week the gates will reopen after the community fought to clean up the mess. damian trujillo is live at the park. good evening, damian. >> reporter: let's not undersell it, this is a big deal for the community here around watson park. the playground opened last month, and next week this fence next to me will come down, as the neighborhood will finally have its park back again. you'd be risking your health if you played here six years ago. this was once the home of what's called a burn dump. >> we found evidence it operated in the early 1900s, probably closed around the 1930s, and essentially burning trash and refuse materials. >> reporter: they found toxins including lead and cancer-causing chemicals. so the community has witnessed men at work in order to see kids

. >> it's a race against the clock for debbie watson. she has to find a job soon. beginning this month, the state is changing welfare limits from five years to four. after 48 months, benefits will only cover children. watson, who has moved in with family to cut expenses is on her 44th month. >> i'm hoping that i'll find employment before that time. i don't know how we're going to make it watson and 600,000 just saw an 8% cut in benefits on july 1. it's a double cham whamy for those nearing the end of eligibility period. a family with one adult and four children like watson was getting nearly $900 a month before cuts. the checks went down to $825 last month, and once exhausting all four years, the household of five has to survive on $725 a month. the state department of social services points out that while these families will get a small boost in food stamps, they've had no choice but to lower benefits given the times. >> this is all program areas have been asked to make contributions. we felt that this was the way to make a contribute wgs out terminating the progr

john watson porter took him in. no suitor did john porter take a quarter there's an three of his cousins show up, all of whom had ridden in morgan's command and just surrendered on the tenth of may in washington, georgia. these fellows were edward lowe hines, john heinz and james hines. they all came from bowling green, kentucky. these four fellows after taking up a while with john porter's uncle, decided to try to go home. they walked from madison, georgia to atlanta. atlanta was burned and destroyed. they went through atlanta and managed to higher a wagon, read a wagon and they take this wagon all the way to chattanooga. at chattanooga's they find they can hitch a ride on a freight train. they get on a freight train to nashville. at national they get off the freight train. they're afraid they'll get spotted by occupation forces but they managed to secret themselves on another train from nashville to bowling green and on june 10th, 1865, these four guys lined up in bowling green, kentucky in the home of edward hine

he shows up at john watson porter's house in may of 1865. and john watson porter took him in and no sooner did john porter take up quarters there than three of his dozens show up. all of whom had ridden in morgan's command with him, and all of whom had just surrendered at washington georgia on the 10th of may. and these fellas were edward hines, john hines, and james hines. they all came from bowling green, kentucky. and so these four fellas after taking up a while with their -- with john porter's uncle decided they'd try to go home. and they walked from madison to georgia. they go through atlanta and they lang to hire a wagon. rent a wagon, get a wagon from somewhere. they take the wagon all the way to chattanooga. they find they can hitch a ride on a freight train. they get on a freight train to nashville, at nashville, they get off of the freight train. they are going to get spotted with the forces. but they manage to secret themselves on another train from nashville to bowling green. and on june 10, 1865, these four guys lined up in bowl

we're live in watson park, i'm damian trujillo. >> very nice story. even though classes don't begin until next week, crime fighting around the berkeley campus is back in action tonight. the uc police department and the berkeley police department are teaming up once again tonight to crack down on violent crime in berkeley's south side neighborhood. neighbors, students and campus officials urged both police departments to bring back the pilot program for a second year. both campus and city officials agree, the joint pa tropicatrol positive change. they hope to reduce violent crime. >>> it's up to the governor now, a bill sent to jerry brown's desk today would require people who get paid to gather signatures for ballot initiatives to wear badges letting you know they're paid solicitors. supporters say voters deserve disclosure. opponents say the move would hurt the system of democracy by making it harder to collect signatures. the governor hasn't taken a public position yet on the bill. >>> well, it's a beautiful day outside, and jeff ranieri is enjoying

his name was john watson porter. a railroad man, a banker, and he showed up at john watson porter's house and this is in may of 1865, and john watson porter took him in and no sooner than john porter took up the quarters there three of his cousins show up all of them have been in morgan's command and all of whom had just surrendered at washington georgia at the tenth of may and these fellows edward claims, john hines and james hines and they all came from bowling green kentucky and so these four fellows after taking a while with jon porter's kunkel decided they would try to go home. they walked from madison georgia to atlanta, and of course atlanta had been burned, destroy. they go through atlanta and they managed to hire a wagon, a wagon from somewhere, and they take this wagon all the way to chattanooga, and at chattanooga they find they can hitch a ride on a freight train. they get on the freight train to nash phill. at national they get off the street train they are afraid they are going to get spotted by some oc

watson, looks like it takes a 2/3 of the county transportation authority members and a majority vote of the ballot. >> the general fund purpose, so it would be the county board of supervisors. in your role as supervisors, you would have that opportunity. >> what is the timing on that in your estimation at this point? >> he has met all the time lines and is in good shape. the legislature recesses' thursday until august 15. when they come back, he will have four weeks to get it out of the assembly. after that point, augus15 will be the -- not august 15, september 15 -- whatever the friday is closest to the 15th -- for legislative action, and the governor would have 30 days to act on it. the latest, probably the fail- safe way to look at it is mid-

the "frank watson park" was built on a former dumpsite. it's been closed since 2005 because of contamination. anne makovec talked to neighbors who welcome the park's revival. ((mariachi nats)) a celebration for a park compared to a >>> the city didn't know there was any problem here at watson park until they started building a skate park in 2004. they did environmental testing and found lead and arsenic in the soil. >> everything that was here was either carried out on trucks or buried many feet below. >> reporter: in the early 1900's, there was a garbage struck and incinerator here. >> i grew up and played here since i was a kid. was i worried? not really. >> reporter: he's glad to see the new park. >> it's a real park so i can walk the stroller and my mom can walk the dogs. >> we're thankful it did happen this way. the crowd makes it twice as impressive. >> reporter: in san jose, cbs 5. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he

the city didn't know there was any problem here at watson park until they started digging to build a skate park in 2004. they uncovered some burned trash underground, did some environmental testing, and found contaminants like lead and arsenic in the soil. >> that really caused the project to get even more complex. >> everything that was here was either carried out on trucks or buried many feet below. >> in the early 1900s, there was a garbage dump. waste and ash had been buried for decades. >> you know, i grew up and played here since i was a kid. was i worried? not really. >> he's glad to see the new watson park with a dog run, playground, and soccer field. >> the real park, i can walk the dogs or walk the stroller while my mom walks and plays the dog in the park. it's really exciting. >> we are thankful if did happen this way and the crowd turned out so beautiful made it twice as precious. >> in san jose, cbs 5. >> nearly 10,000 runners took part in the giants race today. the race began at at&t park. fisherman's wharf and back to the ballpark. all participants got a metal, a t-shi

watson park was closed after finding dangerous toxins in the soil six years ago. next week the gates will reopen. the play ground, as you see, already opened a month ago. in just a few days, the fence also come down and the neighborhood will once again be able to enjoy its park. >> they've been waiting for this for a couple of years. it's a good feeling it's done. >> i had nowhere to play. i would stay home. >> the watson park project cost taxpayers $15 million. >>> we're still monitoring our breaking news out of japan. a 6. 5 earthquake before the top of the hour. it happened 70 miles east of fukushima, that nuclear power plant there. there are no video or pictures in just yet. we'll bring you updates as the story develops. a 6. 5 earthquake. >>> up next, steal it and deal it. it's not a new nbc game show, but something happening on the streets of a bay area city. tonight, why police say the record price of gold is a golden opportunity for thieves, and we show you the undercover video that reveals how the bad guys are getting away with it. and a bay area spike in

last year, bubba watson and martin kaymer.hought it would be dustin johnson as well but he incurred that penalty on the 72nd hole and kaymer won it. so, what you have here is you have jason dufner, 34 years old. he won three college tournaments at auburn where he was a walk-on player. two nationwide wins but never a pga tour win. he would join a very impressive list of golfers through the years whose first win was a major. names like nicklaus and tre vino and john daly. or you will have keegan bradley, a rookie, to win a major. someone winning a major in his first attempt at a major. that has only happened twice now in the last 100 years. you have ben curtis in 2003. then you have to go back before that to that storied u.s. open at the country club. nick: two totally different characters. we have one man who wears his emotions on the outside and one who has all of his emotions on the inside. so, i have no idea which way this will swing. keegan bradley came off playing the last three holes in 2-under as dufner playing them in t

ivan watson is on hand with all the details. you and i were both listening in to that conference as it happened. turkey has always been pretty clear on where it stands in terms of aid to the nchtc. it's already given them $300 million. >> reporter: that's right. it rushed $100 million in cash last month for to help the ntc pay salaries and just by food, an additional $200 million in the pipeline, actually the turkish government coming under some criticism from opposition parties here, questioning the means with which this money was transferred. but yet turkey has gone from a moment where the turkish prime minister who was receiving a human rights award from gadhafi last year, billions of dollars in turkish investment in libya, to now being a stalwart supporter of the ntc. and we heard the de facto prime minister of the ntc standing alongside the turkish foreign minister calling for the rest of the world to officially recognize the ntc as the government of libya. take a listen. >> i would like as i said last nig night, please do

ktvu's george watson traces the tracks of william randall hurst and the enormous castle he built along the california coast. >> reporter: he was born before the battle of gettysburg and he was to live well beyond the atomic age spanning the bridge to modern times. he started a publishing empire. he was married and with five sons. but everyone though married, he flaunted his affair with a movie star. he was throughout his life reviled and honored as he led his country men on a roller coaster of emotions. randolph hurst would be the citizen who would be king. william randall hurst wanted his newspapers to be fun to read. this is not a new idea but typical of hurst it was an idea that he seized and pushed to the limit. >>> a hurst newspaper was essentially three things, headline, comics and sports. hurst would latch on to a single story and blast it into the public with relentless glee. for days, the headlines would breathlessly glare out the day's latest. if the news wasn't interesting enough on its own merit then a hurst reporter would make it so. for example, without knowing yet exactl

. >> my name is diane watson. i lived at 1410 taylor in san francisco. i have the privilege of serving as the boat captain at the dolphin club. the disparity between some of the sections that have been referred to and the lives that we lead on the bay are striking. i would say that you look at the respect that has been given to recreational use, and we can give you numbers and pictures and stories and all kinds of things, but really, just to take that into very serious consideration, because it has been given short shrift. the other piece that is -- and i would prefer to look at it as a point, the cultural aspects of the cove and the bay. there are structural aspects that allow swimmers and growers to be safe. me interact with commercial traffic. we have ways to do this. that is also not known from somebody to just read that report. thank you. president olague: if you heard your name, you can start coming up, in the order really. >> good afternoon, commissioners and staff. is executive director of san francisco bay keeper. i am here on behalf of approxim

one block away, theodore watson has created an interactive installation that crosses over six street. spaces' begins with a photo capture station on the north side of the street that projects your face on to a building on the south side of the street. on opening night, the installation was an immediate hit with the crowd. we talked with the or what said about his remarkable installation. >> what inspired you to create this interactive piece? >> the work i typically do is kind of interactive installations or both indoor and also outdoor and public space. for me, what i'm most interested in is how we can use technology to make the city, which is typically quite a static environment architecturally speaking -- how can we make it come alive? >> what i love about your work is there is such sophisticated software and electronics and complex connections that all have to work together to make it successful, but yet, all of that is invisible to the people interact with the work. >> they do not realize there is all these cables and projectors and computers and all this technology behind the sce

cnn's ivan watson is covering the story from is sttanbul, tur. president that's very defiant and determined to stay in power? >> reporter: it's very interesting. i mean, he came out. this is the first time he's spoken to his citizens in more than two months, fredricka. he stands accused, according to a recent united nations human rights report of widespread systemic attack against the civilian population which may amount to crimes against humanity. that's the united nations. instead of talked about the need for a political solution, the need for national dialogue. he talked about constitutional reform like a technicrat. listen to what he had to say. >> translator: we are now in a transitional period. there will be elections. there will be review of the constitution and that they, of course, throw out this transitional period which is very critical and very sensitive. it is important that we continue with the dialogue and firstly we need to start dialogue at the level to talk about political and social and, of course, about the problems and the se

open all those around but did have to fight back from a set down to beat britain's heather watson. had lost the first set three six include a way back to take the second seven five before finally winning the decider six games to three the russian to use the three c. no she cast and crew. could have been better. i started really became over the first. half and it's always nice to be a very. special interest. of the year so. some point to draw. it is in our first season. so this is the part that i have to work on stuff more straightforward was supposed to be over as progressed around to an easy straight sets victory against france and stephanie flores gets all one of the reach the final here last year and feel she's playing well again at flushing meadows. here if you ask me personally i will never tell you this. because some things that i always love happy about but i think i'm. you know all right i think i will never tell of this ends until i win the whole thing. among other russians progressing there will be twenty four twenty five sees no need to try but i may recur olenka both ne

. >> reporter: to watson playing jeopardy, we love the idea of computers acting like humans.is silicon valley ibm lab, they do kind of. this computer chip is playing this game of pong. it's been playing for a while and it can move based on where it thinks the dot will go. >> today's computers are fast computers. they're terrible at recognizing a friend's face in a crowd. or appreciating the fragrance of a rose. >> reporter: prototype chips made not just to calculate, but change and adapt based on new information. here the ibm team teaches the chip to predict a number based on a few strokes of a pen. >> it doesn't know what it is, it's trying to reproduce what it's seeing. you're showing it things and it's trying to generate things you are showing it. >> this wall simulates what will happen in the future when it fires 256,000 neurons. that's some serious brain power. and ibm has high hopes. >> to touch every aspects of business, science and government, and to fundamentally improve the productivity of the society. >> i'm going to draw the number five. >> it's humans teaching co

open although she did have to fight back from a set down to beat britain's had the watson. sets three states and threw out her way back to take the second seven five before finally winning the deciding game starting set rather six games to three the russian the three seed knows she has to her. own could've been better. started to become of the first. coffin so it's nice to be a very. fresh interest. of the year so. some points in for a very strong. second or first season. just . for that to work on stuff. more straightforward was that one of the overs progress to round to an easy straight sets victory against france to stephanie for its gas on one of the over reach the final here last year and feel she's playing well again flushing meadows. you know if you ask me personally i will never rest. because it's something that i've always loved had the about i think i'm playing good tennis. you know i think i will know it's a lot of the songs until i win the whole thing. well the first major shock of the tournament so wimbledon champion patrick a v to crash out the five c. check h

checked on the disabled vehicle goal on to 80 just after midnight that's when they found douglas watsonead in his car investigators are saying they are not a suspicious death >> i hearing for one of the former officers charged with police corruption was scheduled to start today at the drug force commander new both the face a 17 count federal indictment that they engaged in phony operation prostitution rings and sold drug evidence that two male and are being held without bail gutters hearing is scheduled for today. all >> so starting ges merritt airlines will have at flight from to lost vaguest down to celebrate the first fight there will be a vegas style party an elvis impersonator showgirls and a blackjack table cake board. >> a look from our roof cam arm and the fog is showing up around the bay area state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to s

so, in fact -- many of you also -- rolled this out with towers watson so it's from the 2011 employer survey of purchasing value in health care, towers watson national business group on health and anybody who wants to see that -- you probably have it in your file someplace but i'm sure that ed would be happy to send it to you again. and that's where we got it in. and that information shows the mean and the tenth quartile and all that so it's very detailed. >> i have a question about the annual benefits limits. the survey found 59% employers are not making any changes for 2012. i assume that means that they're compliant for the most part employers are above the -- [inaudible] >> that's exactly right. yeah, most large employers didn't have any of the limits that are more contemplated in the law. they didn't have them to start with. and if they did, so most of them don't have to make changes and i think that's why. >> 41% do? >> right. well, part of the problem sometimes when you ask this of -- especially of a large employer, large company, they usually have multiple plans. -- i mean, by

. >> reporter: the city didn't know this was any problem at watson park until they started digging to build a skate park in 2004. they uncovered some burned trash underground. did some environmental testing and found contaminants and led in the soil. >> that really caused the project to get even more complex. >> everything that was here was either carried out on trucks or buried many feet below. >> in the early 1900s there was a garbage dump and incinerator. waste and ash had been buried fo decades. >> reporter: he is glad to see the new park with the dog run, playground and soccer field. >> it is a real park so i can walk the dogs or i can walk the stroller and my mom can play with the talking in the park. >> we are really thank fundamental it happened this way. and the crowd turning out makes it twice as precious. >> reporter: in san jose, anne makovec, cbs5. >> looks like such a big day. kim coyle has been saying it was freezing at candle stick. >> chilly. indeed cold under the fog blanket. it is indeed cold. warmer tomorrow. obviously not warm here. golden gate you can barely make

we got a busy northerly component around the coast, santa cruz and down toward p apptos and watson vl. for the most of us inland, temperatures were running between 5 and 10 degrees below average. normally upper 80s around livermore, today 78, 81 in normalcc1: high is 88. stan jose and that strong onshore wind is going to bring in those low clouds, the fog once again tonight. probably some patchy mist and drizzle. here's the setup. i'm kind of a broken record, saying the same thing we said yesterday. the strong onshore flow continues. we'll get a bit more clearing at think tomorrow and that trend will continue. n fact, a bit of a warmingcc1: trend as we head through the middle part of this coming week. here's the setup for us.cc1: that persistent trough that's been sitting across the pacific washington 1: state, bringing in these weak disturbances, reinforcing the arine layer and giving us thec: onshore wind. most of the eastern two thieve thirds, that will build back towards the west over southern california. it's not going to be dramatic warming for the bay area, but i think you're g

russia's top seed maria sharapova had to fight back from a set down to beat a british teenager heather watson in the first round of the us open and avoided one of the biggest upsets and the tournament's history crop of the who's the third seed lost the first set six three to the nineteen year old who is ranked one hundred in the world and then the russian close they are back to take the second seven five before finally the riverside after six days to three the track of a notion has to improve by flushing meadows. to the brother. started being the beginning of the first. great american it's always nice to be a very very. special interest in the idea so in. some quality for a very strong. rather than a first is. just the way for that to work on stuff. well second seed get us on the right one hundred more straightforward progression into round two after an easy straight sets victory over france as stephanie thought it was crap or rather i thought reached the final last year and feels issue fine well ok let us. hear if you ask me personally i will be on when my best because it's something that i

and you saw similar conditions in 1989 in portions of the marie yarks watson vil. >> shot well a block same damage in '06 based on historic pictures, you saw the rebuilt building in the exact same shape. >> that's great and we're going to one more spot. here we are in one of san francisco's most historic neighborhoods on jackson street between montgomery and sampson. i understand from pat buscovich when san francisco was built, there were no addresses; is that right? >> no. actually your address was jackson between mont dwommery and sampson. that's all you got since there were so few people here. >> everybody knew who everybody was. this might have been on the wharf. we're right at the edge of the bay. if we take a look you can see on the alley here, this curvy line, which is one of the indicators of the edge of the bay, many of the streets down in this part of town were originally wharfs. >> the ships would come in forÑa few years until the '4 9 gold rush they would offload and theseñr were wharfÑi house buildings. gold hit and the ships never left. >> so we're talking about earthquak

the usa and although she wrapped i did have to fight back from a set down to beat britain's heather watson had lost the first set three six and claw their way back to take the second seventy five we thought finally winning the decider six games to three the russian piece that tracy knows she has to improve. oh it could have been better. if it became of the first. american thing so it's nice to be a very. special interest in the of the year so. some points in for a very strong. second or first season. just . to work on stuff. straight forward was upon rio his progress to see you at least in straight sets victory against francis stephanie for its gas as one of the over reached the final here last year and feel she's playing well again flushing meadow. here if you ask me personally i will never tell you when my best because some things that i always love happy about i think i'm playing good tennis overall. you know i think i will know it's all of this and is until i win the whole thing with. the first major shock of the tournament saw a woman champion petrak afraid of a crash at the five c. c

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for investors who are keen to jump in so there are some market at the moment peter watson from absences the range of interesting stories is actually quite limited. where you want to be if you have to be the marshal is going to be telecom selectable sumus and some select a new tool to select your team says the difficulty was have the election side to it but i do think when it becomes a cyclical starts you have to very careful financials in russia looks fantastic to be honest but the problem is that when you see a market that was also a financial crisis you are going to see financials being hit in europe and the us the russian banks that are listed and our previous sound will get punished by association. and i thought this is for now the headlines are next to the door and. down the year for sure on t. allocation your body phone i pod touch from the. geology of life on the go. video on demand exceeds mine old girls. are a chance for you now in the palm of your. question on the quality jobs call. the russians would. if you want someone from constant. stance on t.v. .