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the shootings over the weekend touched off four days of violent protests and we sent ben tracy city toim-- a city in crisis. >> reporter: protests turned into riots last night in anaheim. 200 police officers from surrounding cities were called in. the unrest began saturday when anaheim police shot and killed 25-year-old manuel diaz. protesters showed up and a scuffle began. in the chaos that followed, officers fired non-lethal bullets and lost control of a patrol dog. balice say diaz was a gang member reaching for an object in his waistband. his family says he was unarmed and running away. >> i watched as my son took his last breath. i watched as his heart stopped beating. >> reporter: genevieve huizar is diaz's mother. >> please stop the violence. it's not going to bring my son back. >> reporter: some residents in this latino community feel they are unfairly targeted by police who are trying to crack down on neighborhood gangs. >> i command you to disperse. >> reporter: protests grew after a second fatal shooting sunday of a suspected gang member who police say shot at them. at one po

ben tracy is there. >> save our schools! >> reporter: this year the los angeles unified school district laid off more than 4,000 employees, classrooms are so packed, some students don't have desks. superintendent john daisy was forced to eliminate half of his administrative staff because he could not afford to lose more teachers. how big are the challenges especially when it comes to finances? >> they're enormous. we have an overall budget in the last three years i've seen a $2.1 billion in reduction. we don't actually run the programs we used to. two years ago we ran $49 million worth of summer school. this summer it will be just under $1 million. >> reporter: last month the l.a. teachers union agreed to ten unpaid furlough days to save 4,000 jobs. the school year will be five days shorter. 18 days have now been cut from the school calendar in just four years. marie adams teaches high school math. she says with fewer teachers, classrooms that had 20 students now have 31. >> when you have, you know, ten more students in the

elaine quijano and ben tracy on cities in crisis. the supreme court upheld the president's health care law. but now several states are opting out. anna werner reports. what's behind this extreme weather? wyatt andrews say a government study out today names the culprit. and david martin on the unbelievable mountains of paper that stand between wounded veterans and their benefits. >> you're surrounded by paper. i am. i am. this is my daily life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you go to the official website for the city of scranton, pennsylvania, you will find this boast: "the future is here." well, city workers hope not because their pay has just been slashed to minimum wage. scranton is just one of many cities struggling to recover from the great recession. american cities have seen their revenues decline for five straight years. 72% of them are making personnel cuts. it's a problem most everywhere so we have reports from east coast to west. first, elaine quija

ben tracy, cbs news, anaheim. >> pelley: in las vegas today, lady luck was shining on some window washersgot stuck 35 stories up at the vidara hotel. firefighters climbed down from the roof to rescue them. they were lowered one by one. nobody was hurt. the rescue operation took three hours in 104 degrees tkpwrao +*e heat. we got some satellite images from nasa today that show greenland may be finely living up to its name. the one on the left is from july 8. the section in white shows the sheet of ice that covered the island's surface. the image on the right was taken just four days later. scientists say a blanket of warm air caused almost all of the ice on the surface to melt. it's an unusual event which hasn't happened in 123 years. nasa is also looking at mars on a mission straight out of hollywood. that's next. in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so p

ben tracy found out. >> reporter: san bernardino is a city with nearly 16% unemployment. the foreclosure rate here is three times the national average. has the recovery come to san bernardino? >> no. >> reporter: patrick morris is the mayor. >> we have a host of our residents who are not working, not paying taxes, don't have disposable income so they're not shopping. that's a problem for us. >> reporter: tax revenues have plummeted and the city now has a $45 million budget hole. it has cash to pay city workers for just one more month. the city work force has already been slashed 20% and employees have been given... have given $10 million in salary and benefit concessions. the city wants to renegotiate its labor agreements. right now san bernardino expects to take in $120 million in revenue this year, but it pays out $126 million to workers and retirees, so before a single city service is performed, san bernardino is already $6 million in the red. the city attorney now says that in 13 of the past 16 years budget documents were falsified, masking the depth of the problems.

as ben tracy reports, learning how to use that technology, takes you down a bumpy road. >> hitting the than just hitting the gas. >> the future starts now. >> our rides have been remade with all sorts of high tech touches. wireless internet, voice activated navigation. >> please say a command. >> she was even a dashboard concierge. >> it's a resourceful personal assistant. >> you can start the car and lock and unlock it with this ipad? >> yes. >> that's pretty cool. >> you name it, the car does it. it practically does your dishes. >> they're trying to lure new buyers. consoles now look like cockpits, yet some drivers are not quite sure they're ready for takeoff. >> congratulations. >> steve freed just bought a 2013 ford escape. before he can leave the lot, he has to go to tech class. >> there's 10,000 voice commands. satellite radio, usb, cd. you can have text messages on there. it will e-mail a full detailed diagnostic. >> he can control what happens when his teen daughter is behind the wheel. >> it can't go past 70 miles per hour. the radio can't be played past 60%. you can lockdown

for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. >> people are going to start going through the attic every superman that he kept from when he was a kid, including the very first superman. >> really? >> my grandmother threw it out. all of them. i don't know. he had 30 or 40 of them. i don't think he's forgiven her there are people in new jersey who wish they could go cold turkey. we're not talking about smoking. we're talking about turkey. they want the birds out of town, yesterday. stay with us. trust me on this. when your skin's healthy, you know it. the only facial moisturizer for me? cerave am. [ male announcer ] cerave am restores your skin's barrier. and has spf 30 for daily protection from the sun. visit cerave.com for a coupon. from the sun. by what's getting done. measure commitment the twenty billion dollars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to support scientists studying the environment. and the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last y

. >> as ben tracy reports, it was used as evidence in a court case accusing sea world of putting its when whale trainer ken peters dove into the water, he was ready for the finale of this 2006 sea world show in san diego. instead of the planned spectacle where the trainer is launched into the air, kasatka grabbed him by the ankles and thrashed him around and pulled him to the bottom of the pool. >> the trainer is in the water stuck with one of the whales. >> this chilling video that came out during a court case shows the whale holding peters underwater for at least a minute at a time. >> it goes on and on and on. it must have been terrifying. >> david kirby wrote death at sea world about whale attacks at the parks. he believes the whale was agitated by the cries of her nearby calf. >> imagine being a mother and your child is calling for you and you're not allowed to go comfort your child. you have to perform a show. it might make you angry. we see the whale pulling ken down to the bottom. then she brings him back up. you think, oh, thank god. she's not going to kill him. and he's try

ben tracy is here with us in the studio on how they're handling the situation over at warner brothers this weekend. none of the studios released box office numbers on sunday. for warner brothers, this was part of walking a fine line between responding to this very human tragedy and managing what could be a major blow to its business. >> "the dark knight rises" was the most anticipated movie of the year. and the most important for warner brothers' bottom line. it was expected to top $180 million this weekend. but estimates leaked to the media peg the box office take closer to $160 million. that's still the third biggest opening weekend of all-time. >> the instantaneous knee jerk reaction when news broke of this, is nobody is going to go to a movie theater because they're going to be afraid. that's not happening. americans are very resilient. they know this was an isolated incident. >> yet at a theater in san diego, seeing batman was not escapism. >>> it was different in the simple fact that i wasn't just engulfed in the movie. i was also thinking about my surroundings. what might happe

as ben tracy reports, the way we communicate online may have something to do with wanting a strongerface to face time is now taking place online. video chats are more popular than ever. but they're also making some people feel like they're not quite ready for their close-up. >> i saw a profile that i didn't want to believe that was mine. it was awful for me. there wasn't a chin. there wasn't any definition. >> christina engelhardt is a real estate agent in los angeles who talks online with her business partner in texas. she did not like what she saw. >> if people are seeing me the way i see myself, i wasn't okay with that. >> that's why christina went to see plastic surgeon, dr. jason diamond. who says picking out a new chin is like shopping for shoes. they come in all shapes and sizes. >> the way an implant works is it sits right on the bottom of the jawbone just like that to give it an extra little projection. >> on average, the surgery costs $5,000. it takes about a week to recover. >> what people are going for is a strong, sharp line. you don't want to see wavy lines and little t

for cbs ben tracy, los angeles. >> wow, what a treasure.or watching 9news now at 6:00 a.m. don't go through your attic just yet. we have more news for you. i'm andrea roane. >> that is unless you have a tv up there. make sure you put it on channel 9. i'm mike hydeck. good morning, monika samtani. >> good morning. >>> and anny hong is in for howard who is enjoying some time off. >>> a nice day. no triple digits. enjoy it. if you want to ge on that walk or jog --

elaine quijano and ben tracy on cities in crisis.me court upheld the president's health care law. but now several states are opting out. anna werner reports. what's behind this extreme weather? wyatt andrews say a government study out today names the culprit. and david martin on the unbelievable mountains of paper that stand between wounded veterans and their benefits. >> you're surrounded by paper. i am. i am. this is my daily life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you go to the official website for the city of scranton, pennsylvania, you will find this boast: "the future is here." well, city workers hope not because their pay has just been slashed

ben tracy knows just the spot. >> reporter: ah, paradise. the sun. the sand. the palm trees. need to get away from it all? but if a week in hawaii isn't in the cards, don't despair. you can taste the tropics right here on the mainland with a visit to your local kiki bar. >> that looks delicious. reporter: from the tiki in los angeles to the may tie in fort lauder dale the bars and restaurants those shrines of bamboo and umbrella drinks so popular in the '50s and '60s are back. and a whole new generation is getting their polynesian groove on. what does the word actually mean? >> tiki was the name of a polynesian demi-god meaning he was man and a god at the same time. >> reporter: quite an entry way you have. >> it's a little bit like tiki disneyland. >> reporter: the book of tiki. it was pure escapism. it was like the island and the urban concrete jungle. you can make yourself believe you were on some south sea island. >> trade winds seem to blow. reporter: yet the tiki craze was actually born -- where else -- in hollywood in 1934. the brain child of a former boot legger and s

. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. >> it's confusing. >> it would be niceof it. >> well, you don't have to opt into it. some of it is standard. but for the first time we have one with a navigation thing. and i find it's more distracting to try to get it to tell me where to go than to actually look at the road and read the signs. >> yeah. >> there you go. >> so you put yourself in >>> you'd be amazed how far you can get with a -- yes hummus. we'll show you how the state department is using food as fuel for diplomacy. is it working? that's ahead on "cbs this morning." ♪ jif to go goes here, goes there ♪ ♪ jif to go goes anywhere ♪ jif to go goes here, goes there ♪ ♪ jif to go goes everywhere ♪ goes here, goes there ♪ jif to go, wherever you go it's my turn. mac 'n cheese... mashed potatoes and gravy! mac 'n cheese. mashed potatoes and gravy what are you doing? what are you doing? mac 'n cheese! should we tell em we got two free sides? and miss this? say "mashed potatoes!" never! [ male announcer ] buy any kfc 10 pc meal or larger and we'll throw in 2 more lar

. >> trayvon martin's parents are sybrina fulton and tracy martin and joined by their attorney ben crumpnice to see all of you. sybrina, i will start with you if i can. i know you had a chance to watch this interview. what did you think of what george zimmerman was saying? >> my first thought was that i wish that trayvon was here to tell his side of the story. we're just hearing one side of what actually happened. >> tracy, what do you think, he walked through numerous descriptions. he walked through obviously his side of the story of the pursuit which he said he was not running after him. he walked through the struggle with the gun. if you could have asked him a question, what do you want to know? what would you have liked him to describe in more detail? >> i just would like to know why did he even get out of the car? why was my son so suspicious? what made him rush to judge my son and thinking that he was a criminal or pursuing some burglary? >> the pursuit i think is going to be and correct me if i'm wrong, mr. crump, a big focus in this court case because, and sean hannity asked him

ben bernanke telling congress, we could be looking at another recession. john? >> traciethank you very much. >>> still to come on "today in the bay," four people accused of killing a man they say was a teenager's pimp go to court today and then they could go home. we'll tell you why. >>> a new program promising to give some teachers a big-time pay raise causing some controversy. we'll let you know why, coming up. >>> and there's a new proposal to tax you for every mile you drive around the bay area. we're going to take you how it all would work, coming up next. >>> new this morning, a pay-per-mile driver's tax could become a reality right here in the bay area. good morning. i'm marla tellez. we're live on the road this morning with that story, coming up. >>> teachers could get $20,000 extra to turn their backs on other fields. but not everyone's happy about this. we'll tell you why. >>> i think most people are pretty happy about the weather forecast today, because we are celebrating the upper 70s inland, the upper 60s bayside, and hey, upper 50s, low 60s at the coast. lot