of this young man named montravius king trying to run for city council in elizabeth city.e's a student at elizabeth city state university which is the locally historically black college. the chairman of the local county republican party has been challenging voters from that school. he got dozens of them purged off the voter rolls in april. then last month, he challenged the right of montravius king to run for city council in elizabeth city. he said because mr. king lived at school he couldn't be a real resident. going to college there doesn't count for a living there. and the real kicker is that the requirements for running for office are the same as the requirements for voting. so if college students in north carolina can be barred from running for office, can they also be barred from voting? the supreme court decided in 1979 students have the right to vote where they go to college. it's clear as day. if pasquotank county has this new precedent, would the precedent hold throughout north carolina? is it about voting rights in that county and north carolina, but other state

elizabeth, damascus is a city of nearly two million people like houston or philadelphia. are all the neighborhoods carved up like sara's? >> yes, they are. the rebel-held areas tend to be around the outside and the center of damascus is pretty firmly in government hands. as you saw, life in the rebel- held area is very difficult. a lot of people have left. thousands of people flooded into the center of the city here what where there's kind of a semblance of normality. people have jobs are going to work. there is food in the shops although it's very expensive. but, of course, that there's thunder of the artillery all day long and military checkpoints every few blocks. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer in damascus again for us tonight. liz, thanks very much. now, coming back home, in california illegal immigrants will soon be able to get a driver's license. state lawmakers approved the bill late last night and governor jerry brown says he'll sign it. but this is controversial so we asked carter evans to look into it. >> reporter: california's department of motor vehicles estimate

going up for auction, expected to bring in more than 18 million dollars in revenue for the city of chicago. elizabeth granoff, an attorney who represents medallion owners, says the skyrocketing market for taxi medallions could start to reverse because of the growing popularity of ride sharing appslike lyft and uber x. a lot of my clients have expressed concern about those types of applications and cars and medallions. our pay are concerned that the city of chicago is allowing those to be on the street. the owners of the taxicabs, and make the same amount of money we do. it is stealing business from the taxicabs. but the commissioner of chicago's department of business affairs and consumer protection insists a taxi cab medallion is still a sound investment. the department has a social media campaign encouraging consumers to take advantage of licensed chicago cabs. there will always be cabs in the city of chicago and this is a cab town and it's part of the transportation infrastructure of any large city. and so yes,'it is worth it.' the auction runs for a monthfrom monday through october 18. details ar

workers and supporters are planning a walkout in about 15 cities out walmarts. elizabeth the bottom line. >> these other cities where protests are being staged today this is one of the biggest walmart protest since the black friday protest staged against walmart. the union groups and activist groups and workers are saying walmart should pay an annual $25,000 in salary to workers. walmart is saying, listen, we give pay plus benefits. reinstate the workers who allegedly were fired after they protested in earlier actions against walmart. they are also saying reverse the 80 disciplinary actions against these workers. they are saying they filed 100 actions against walmart. we will be tracking this story throughout the day. dagen: unions try to boost their membership. thank you so much for that. president obama saying he did not set a red line when it comes to syria. the world did. donald rumsfeld does not agree. >> this president has tried to find a way to blame everybody or anybody for everything. leadership requires that you stand up, take a position, provide clarity and tak

when we do -- i've always encouraged elizabeth to look at when we have festivals in this city to really capitalize on parking because it's a need and to have some of that go back to the schools has been great. i know that other people think about that too because they reserve our lots well in advance and we charge them per car and they charge the folks -- other folks 12 times what we charge for a car and so that's frustrating but we get it. we're getting hip to that and in the coming years we'll figure out when those festivals happen, we'll secure the lot for our own revenue instead of generating revenue for others. i wanted to thank you. this makes this -- let's make this clear where everybody lies. it's not haphazard and who you know. it's not, you know, but i contribute so much to the school district or we're serving kids but we're actually recognizing our community groups and our non profits that have limited revenue and they do do great work in our schools as well as those such as the film industry who has been filming more recently and we connect a lot of folks to our schools on t

elizabeth. thank you. time now is 4:40. >>> sin city under surveillance. how police are keeping a close eye on the vegas strip. >> and speaking of surveillance, yahoo's ceo opens up about the government's spying program. when we come back. ,,,,,,,, [z vegas police have been usin cameras to keep an eye on pe for the last two months. >>> you might want to behave on the las vegas strip. does anyone do that on the las vegas strip? i don't think you behave in las vegas. >> police have been using 37 cameras to keep an eye on people for the last two month. some of them are posted at busy intersections. and they can zoom in close. the equipment costs roughly $300,000. >> big brother is always watching now. >>> yahoo and facebook have gotten a lot of flak for their role in the government's surveillance program. critics say they should just come clean about the whole thing. so why don't they? listen to what yahoo's ceo marissa mayer had to say. >> at yahoo on each request we review it, we scrutinize it we push back on a lot, we push back on a lot of local government

>> celbanner, good afternoon, elizabeth, i wish to address the commission today on the city's environmental compliance obligations related to today's action. the commission may not approve a not to exceed rate for cleanpowersf until it provides an environmental impact report. today's action is not limited to an adoption of a not to exceed rate, today the commission chooses shell energy north america for a segment of san francisco customers, the commission today also can convince the city to purchasing a product that consists almost entirely of renewable energy credits, these decisions are subject to ceqa because they will result in a reasonable foreseeable effects on the environment. as we explain in our letters, today action may increase the city's reliance on ghg emitting and toxic air pollutant emitting by switching to shell, the city wishes to [inaudible] resource portfolio, shell's portfolio that has a higher of known fossil fuel projection than pg&e, shell's non-fuel resource mix [inaudible] credits. today's action may also result in changed rates of air pollutant emissions from exist

live in the city's sunset district, i'm elizabeth wenger, kpix 5. >>> breaking news up in yolo countyt an update on this big hay fire in winters. some live pictures still very active there. fire crews say the winds have started to die down. it has burned at least 10 acres so far at the hay kingdom farm right after highway 505 in winters. firefighters have the flames surrounded. they are making progress. that fire started about 10:30 last night. crews say it caused about $6 million in damage. chp officers are now monitoring the fire. they want to make sure the heavy smoke doesn't create dangerous driving conditions near roads and highway 505 as you can see. >>> the man accused of killing a dodgers fan after wednesday night's giants game told his father that he stabbed the man in self-defense. 21-year-old michael montgomery from lodi is charged with homicide. his father marty tells the lodi news sentinel, quote, michael got jumped. denver and friends started swinging chairs and he stabbed denver. denver mouthed off about the san francisco hat. it wasn't even michael's hat." police colle

from that -- >> so in the progressive millennial future de blasio is the mayor of new york city and elizabethkaur, james peterson, tom, and victoria defrancesco soto. up next, three jaw-dropping words that could change the lives of millions. who uttered them and why. our very unusual foot soldier is next. ♪ i got to have faith >>> so this is when we bring you our weekly foot soldier, the little people who make big changes to their communities. usually our soldiers are not well-known but through determination and ingenuity have a real impact on people's lives. this week we couldn't resist highlighting a different kind you of foot soldier, someone who is a household name. our soldier this week is pope francis. we had our eye on the bish yop of rome since the day the conclave of cardinals elevated him to the papacy not just because i live in a catholic town and have a catholic husband and attended a catholic seminary that i find pope francis fascinating. the catholic church remains an institution of enormous policy influence. like it or not, the pope matters even for the vast majority of us you

elizabeth. [inaudible] the index starts in 1852. it's the city far. [inaudible] $52,000 acquired this property from the here -- heir -- [inaudible] which is the public housing authority. that is not historically accurate. this is the whole soil and water assessment tool [inaudible] these are all radical republicans. they still have those same street names today. this is where charles douglas settled. this is the 1871 city directly. douglass editor of -- he's living in -- [inaudible] i guess you use was stay. he was staying there. frederick douglass, jr. died in 1862. he lived his entire life on nickels avenue which is today mlk. as i mentioned earlier, washington, d.c., is a very special place in term of establish black middle class prior to civil war. when you have runways or contraband coming to washington from maryland, virginia, further down south. the free black community helped form it before the freeman bureau. it's 1875 print from harpers weekly. it shows washington, d.c. you can see here it's a newspaper boy, some sort of possibly like a poli

elizabeth cook. new at 6:00 mike sugerman with the jaw-dropping hotel prices during one of the city's most bustling weekske? >> reporter: liz, they are calling it a 100% occupancy and that doesn't mean every room is booked. i can get you a room because some hotels overbook. so it comes to 100%. you want a room? i can get you one. i'm not getting you a deal, though. 60,000 people in town for oracle world and hey, there's a place to stay right across the street. the "w" hotel. they got one room. $729! a night!! >> reporter: san francisco has plenty of hotel rooms. >> hello, hotel diva? hotel griffin. hotel vertigo. >> reporter: san francisco is virtually booked. unless you don't mind being taken to the cleaners while going to a hotel. four seasons. $745. you could pay more. that's the lowest price. >> it's the quality of the hotel, you're still paying over $500. >> reporter: mark from london is playing that for the prescott with his pal tony from scotland. they got here early and got a deal sort of. >> $250 first couple of nights, $500 conference night. so it has doubled. >> reporter: hotels if they have r

elizabeth lee. manager of the real estate department. the process for implementing the facilities use involves working with many different agencies including nationally recognized experts, leaders from the city's agencies, district staff and administrators, community organizations as well as service providers. there are three phases in this process. in phase one. we've worked with uc berkeley center for cities and schools in collaboration with the san francisco department of children youth and their families to develop the tier permit fee structure. in this phase one we mainly focus on indoor facilities during the school years. in phase two, we work with city technologies to put facilities use permit online and to offer a system to manage and track permits and invoices. and to develop the space and over all the impact on the district operations from increase use of our facilities. researchers from the uc berkeley center for city and schools have received facilities use policies and fees and other school districts in california and analyzed sfusd schools and developed an origination -- recommendation for a new fee structure for us. and also calculated specific use cost. their two types of cost.

elizabeth prann, thanks so much. >> thanks. >>> fox news alert now on a bloody terror attack rocking the city of nairobi, kenya. targeting nonmuslims in a shopping mall. it happened earlier this morning. several gunmen stormed an upscale shopping center firing ak-47s and throwing grenades into the crowd. the attack dikilling 22 people d injuring dozens more. carter powell has more from the mideast bureau. >> reporter: well, just until a few minutes ago, this battle had been raging for somewhere between seven and nine hours or so. we're getting news that the battle seems to be over. the police have killed or arrested all the gunmen. we don't know how many there were originally or how many are still alive. witnesses say the gunmen were carrying ak-47s, throwing grenades, they targeted non-muslims and westerners in this shopping mall. the shopping mall where the attack took place was an upscale sort of western part of nairobi, kenya's capital. there were reports there was a children's sort of event taking place at the mall when this attack happened. now, we understand the mall is owned by a wealthy israeli busines

elizabeth. thank you. >>> some developing news in western oklahoma. explosions from a chemical plant fire lit up the night sky an hour and a half west of oklahoma city.igh prompted crews to evacuate nearby homes. plant workers went home before the fire. nobody was injured. plant employees are waiting for the smoldering to cool off before they can go in and assess the damage. >>> an eviction notice sparked a shooting and four-hour standoff in contra costa county yesterday. it began at about 00

city hall is closer to 65%. >> more than half. bring change. >> let me tell you a coup elizabeth things about greg.e doesn't have a camp he just wanted to do this. he doesn't even want to make money. he just did it for his buddies. what's he working on next? latinos are the chances you're going to get audited by the irs? i love this guy. in san francisco, mike sugerman kpix 5. >> just rememberrings the house always wins. the program just started a couple weeks ago, but we posted a link on kpix.com. >>> turns out, you might be able to slow down aging. how bay area scientists think they've uncovered the secret to help you live longer. >>> and, it's not the place you may think of buying your brewski. coming up at tonight's consumer watch, why you might be tempted to buy beer next time you go to walmart. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, news out of our nation's cal tonight: where authorities are still looki for a >>> we're continuing to follow developing news out of our nation's capital tonight where authorities are still looking for a gunman who may have gotten away after this morning's shooting massacre at the washi

assault on damascus and other cities, it would be the men from the national defense force along with the army who would be fighting back. for "cbs this morning saturday," i'm elizabeth palmer in damascus. >>> for more on syria we turn to president of plowshares fund and author of "nuclear nightmares." he's an expert on weapons of mass destruction. he's in our washington bureau. joe, good morning. >> good morning, sir. >> joe, we saw the president just returning from the g-20 summit and trying to gather international support for an attack on syria. how important is it for the president to have an international coalition of some kind here? >> well, the president is gathering support. the question is is it enough and will it come in time? he needs international validation for this case. clearly the american public is very skeptical about going to war. we have something of an iraq syndrome. the american public feels they were tricked into going into an unnecessary war, and they're very reluctant to do it again anywhere in the middle east for any reason, even though the case for syria is much stronger than it ever was for the iraq war. the president needs global validate

elizabeth. thank you. >>> some developing news in western oklahoma. explosions from a chemical plant fire lit up the night sky an hour and a half west of oklahoma city. flames leaping 80 feet high prompted crews to evacuate nearby homes. plant workers went home before the fire. nobody was injured. plant employees are waiting for the smoldering to cool off before they can go in and assess the damage. >>> an eviction notice sparked a shooting and four-hour standoff in contra costa county yesterday. it began at about 4:00 at a home on ashbourne circle in san ramon. brian webb explains what happened. >> reporter: an armored vehicle and cop cars coming down from a hill covered with million- dollar homes, something you don't see every day. >> we can't go up because we live right up the street so they told us we have to stay down here. that's about all they told us. >> it's pretty boring out here. nothing exactly is happening. this happens when we come back, so i guess it's not as boring as you would think. >> reporter: two deputies served an eviction notice at a home being foreclosed with a locksmith and property owner. the locksmith started to open the do

elizabeth palmer is the only american network correspondent in the capital city of damascus. >> reporter: president bashar al-assad has given his first major interview since president obama decided to seek congressional approval for a strike against syria. in it he said the world has failed to produce the slightest proof that his troops used chemical weapons. and as members of his government have done before, he pointed out that it was illogical that syrian soldiers would have fired weapons into an area where they themselves are operating on the very day that the u.n. inspectors were just a couple of miles away. president assad also described the middle east as a powder keg and said it would explode in the event of u.s. strikes. the violence and instability here have already created more than 6 million refugees in the last two years of this civil war. according to new numbers from the united nations commission on refugees, there are 2 million that crossed the border into camps in neighboring countries, mainly turkey and jordan and then there are 4.25 million more who are displaced inside

. >> $4 million is not a big hit in a city budget of roughly $4 billion a years but nor is it some point that much for larry elizabeth son, the oracle chairman who brought america's cup to san francisco. think he'll pony up? >> i would hope so. >> mike sugerman, kpix 5. >>> a blind rev and his seeing eye dog are hurt in a hit and run. >>> how the great graveyard shift in nappa could make your favorite wine taste better. >>> and, those winds will blowing. we will tell you how long it will last. then for something completely different by the weekend. the change in the forecast coming up. we will have that in a minute. >>> the proving if you're at greater risk of going to the hospital if you walk while on you cell phone. ,,,,,,,, when it's time to talk business security, talk to the leader. tyco integrated security. we'll create a solution customized just for you. and you can manage it all right from the palm of your hand. were walking down the stree east palo alto last night..n they were struck by a car. it happened on myrtle stree sparrow court. we're told the driver stopped at firs >>> blind and defenseless e. a reve

city into a blood bath. they're really hoping and feeling fearful and hoping that president obama will find an alternative to military strikes as a way to responding to those chemical attacks. >> bob: elizabeth thank you very much ka calista you were with some of the rebels this week. what are you hearing? >> good morning, bob. the rebels we traveled said they want the strikes to happen and happen soon. their concern is that the longer the delay, the more time president assad has to move things around. they also told us that they're concerned that if the strikes are want severe enough, they may even have a counter productive effect. in other words, it may do little to diminish assad's capacity to kill, but anger him enough that he would retaliate against the syrian people. we asked in what ways they were planning to capitolize on the strike fist they do happen. they told us they're planning all sorts of military operations, but the reality is that these rebel forces are still very fragmented and still very disorganized. and there's really no coordination going on between the u.s. military and the rebel groups. so it's unlikely that they're able to plan any major operations, but certainly if

elizabeth cook. new at 6:00 tonight our brian webb is live in san mateo county where the help wanted signs are starting to pop up all over the place. brian. >> reporter: it seems like citiesies across the bay area are back to hiring so when you pick up an application, there's an actual job waiting on the other end now. so how long has it been since san mateo hired this many people? longer than carol groom has been a county supervisor, that's over five years. what does it feel like to hire again? >> well, it's good because we're going to get some people that hopefully have been unemployed or this is a better job. >> reporter: the county will fill 207 positions over the next few years with a voter- approved tax. most will go to the new county jail for women and to handle obamacare officially these positions considered temporary. but long-term, who knows? >> if they are successful in the county there may be a future for them. >> our job growth is beating the national avenue, our wages are beating the national avenue. >> reporter: this economist tells me the bay area economy is bouncing back. san mateo isn't the only local government hiring. san jose plans on hiring 109 worke

a lot of cities and counties have to get creative to pay for the things we used to take for granted. kpix 5s elizabeth cook with the one bay area county that hit a jackpot with a new funding source. >> reporter: you have the beautiful sonoma count -- . >> you have the beautiful sonoma county coast line, you have the russian river. the number two wean country destination in the world. >> reporter: sonoma county can boast about many things: great roads not one of them. >> over the last 20 years, we have not funded road infrastructure projects like we should have. >> reporter: at 1600 square miles, sonoma is the largest county in the bay area. state highway dollars are distributed largely based on population. >> so even though we have double the number of road miles of santa clara, we are a pitance when it comes to the number of gas tax dollars coming in and invested in the county every year. >> reporter: to help build that gap, the county is spending $50 million on road projects and for a little extra help, they're going where the money is. >> two, one! >> hey! >> this is a rare thing that a tribe is pa

elizabeth. >> and the nimitz freeway is definitely our hotspot. one, two, three crashes now all in the same area between hayward and union city. so this one is coming in southbound 880 by "a" street multiple vehicle crash just like the other two blocking lanes just like the other two. fortunately our two earlier crashes including one approaching alvarado niles has been cleared but look at that a long line of red sensors backing up from san lorenzo all the way down past union city. if you are traveling northbound, that looks okay right now. all the traffic is really just heading southbound. northbound traffic if you are approaching oakland this is what it looks like near the oakland coliseum. not a bad ride towards the macarthur maze. heads up a traffic alert in effect in fairfield, a stalled transit bus, chp saying to use american canyon as your alternate. here's a live look at the golden gate bridge. chp issued a dense fog advisory around midnight and you can see the reason why. dense fog causing visibility issues this morning across the span not enough to impact your drive time. 14 minutes out of san rafael. for more on your

elizabeth bagley, she works for the institute of war. she is fluent in arabic and has spent an enormous amount of time studying the opposition, a city in syria. she just published a very interesting article which i commend to you. sitting behind me is ambassador robert ford. he has spent time in syria. the has been done enormous amount of time working with them and helping to understand is dynamic. i just do not agree that the majority are al qaeda and the bad guys. it is not true. there are about 700,000 oppositionists. about 15% to 25% might be in one group or another that we would deem to be bad guys. there are many different groups. and sometimes they are fighting each other, even now. the general belief, there is a real moderate opposition that exists. and our allies in the region are now in a disciplined way funnelling resistance to the moderate opposition. >> i get when you're saying, but there are moderates. the briefings i have received are that it is at 50% and rising. these fighters coming globally are not coming in as moderates. they're coming in as jihadist. i also want to hear from the secretary and from the general as well. >>

city cannot force them to pay. >>> day 3 of the bay bridge, i wonder how we're faring right now? >> i don't know. let's check in with elizabeth find out. >> it looks good right now no big delays at all getting across the span with the new more graceful curves. the "s" curve is ancient history right now. so green on our sensors on 80. if you are continuing farther south along the peninsula this is a live look closer to candlestick. northbound and southbound 101 moving at the limit this morning all the way down towards san bruno. check the rest of the bay area, we had a lot of overnight roadwork on northbound and southbound 880 but now all those yellow sensors which were showing speeds under 40 miles per hour, we are looking better in hayward and towards downtown oakland. this is a live look. the headlights by the way, that's southbound traffic and it continues to cruise all the way down towards the san mateo, dumbarton bridges and continuing even more farther south on the southbound 880 ride near 237, silicon valley commuters look really good right now all the way out towards sunnyvale. so yeah, no big hot spots. our thursday

city council is considering a highly controversial youth curfew to cut down on crime. the curfew would ban people younger than 18 from being out after 10 p.m. >>> 6:02. let's check traffic with elizabeth wenger. >> suddenly things are not looking too good. we in fact have two pretty bad accidents. i'll mention one here it is the traffic alert now out in vacaville but we have learned the person driving serious injuries not sure of the extent yet but it is eastbound 80 lagoon valley road. police are on scene so they believe lanes will be blocked for a half hour more and you can see no slowing on the sensors yet but i think that's going to change here any minute. southbound 880 at high street up to 20 cars on the shoulder with flat tires. there's some sort of debris in the road. chp can't say what it is but they were doing some roadwork along that stretch overnight. all the roadwork has cleared but there may have been something left behind not sure at this point. here's a live look farther south. this is near 66 and the oakland coliseum. everything appears to be okay down towards hayward and about 10 minutes ago they turned on the metering lights over at the bay bridge toll plaza. now we

elizabeth bagley, she works for the institute of war. she is fluent in arabic and has spent an enormous amount of time studying the opposition, a city in syria. she just published a very interesting article which i commend to you. sitting behind me is ambassador robert ford. he has spent time in syria. the has been done enormous amount of time working with them and helping to understand is dynamic. i just do not agree that the majority are al qaeda and the bad guys. it is not true. there are about 700,000 oppositionists. about 15% to 25% might be in one group or another that we would deem to be bad guys. there are many different groups. and sometimes they are fighting each other, even now. the general belief, there is a real moderate opposition that exists. and our allies in the region are now in a disciplined way funnelling resistance to the moderate opposition. >> i get when you're saying, but there are moderates. the briefings i have received are that it is at 50% and rising. these fighters coming globally are not coming in as moderates. they're coming in as jihadist. i also want to hear from the secretary and from the general as well. >>

elizabeth bagley, she works for the institute of war. she is fluent in arabic and has spent an enormous amount of time studying the opposition, a city in syria. she just published a very interesting article which i commend to you. sitting behind me is ambassador robert ford. he has spent time in syria. the has been done enormous amount of time working with them and helping to understand is dynamic. i just do not agree that the

elizabeth bagley, she works for the institute of war. she is fluent in arabic and has spent an enormous amount of time studying the opposition, a city in syria. she just published a very which iing article commend to you. sitting behind me is ambassador robert ford. he has spent time in syria. the has been done enormous amount of time working with them and helping to understand is dynamic. i just do not agree that the majority are al qaeda and the bad guys. it is not true. there are about 700,000 oppositionists. about 15% to 25% might be in one group or another that we would deem to be bad guys. there are many different groups. and sometimes they are fighting each other, even now. , there is abelief real moderate opposition that exists. and our allies in the region are now in a disciplined way funnelling resistance to the moderate opposition. >> i get when you're saying, but there are moderates. the briefings i have received are that it is at 50% and rising. these fighters coming globally are not coming in as moderates. they're coming in as jihadist. want to hear from the secretary and from the general as well. >> i agree with secretary kerr