. >>> bank of america forclosure freeze is over for half of the u.s. not california. in 23 states next week the bank will ask judges for approval to start cesar izturising homes again. -- start seizing homes again. here and other states, they will continue to suspend them while it checks if the proceedings were done legally. >>> the country's largest lender announced the moratorium after the bank was accused of filing documents that worker did not read. >>> a mixed bag for one area dmv office. it was promised an ungrade and then closed for renovations. now it won't be able to reopen. >>> it doesn't appear the security guards being missed. >>> while cornering the market on coffee, starbucks is considering more adult benches. the pilot program being tested right now. >>> unseasonably cool today, the day that will pan ought to be the warmest. we will continue right here on the cw. on jerry brown. jerry brown opposes the death penalty. even for cop killers. he signed an inmates bill of rights. one supreme court judge that brown appointed was so liberal... he voted to stop

they are among more than 600 forclosure being sold in northern california this week. some of the homes are going for half of their original values. some bargain hunters say it's a mixed blessing. >> when the bank sells a home for half price, it completely destroys everybody's home values in that neighborhood. that's not going to stop what's going on, so i want to buy a vacation home near the ocean and that's why i'm here today to hopefully get one for 50 cents on the dollars. >> besides oakland, the auction group sold homes in fresno and sacramento and will hold an auction in modesto tomorrow. >>> more than a dozen homeless people have a roof over their heads tonight. creative housing liberation took over a vacant building in san francisco today. about 15 homeless people moved in. police showed up but so far have not evicted the new residents. organizers say they are going to have to stay put. >> there is many reasons that these buildings stay vacant. profit is one of them and we think that human lives are more important than property values. we're going to stay house

i'm focused on the 35,000 delawarians who are without work and those facing forclosure on their homes and i'm focused on getting our statened our country back to work. [applause] and folks, as i've gone up and down this state and listened to folks and spoken over the last nine months, i've said over and over, and this is what i want to fight under washington, i want these six words to mean something again. made in the u.s.a., manufactured in delaware. [applause] i understand what happened in the republican primary. people are angry and frustrated and feel angry and mad about the endless bickering in washington, and they are concerned. but as i've met with folks, i've listened and what they want is is to take america back. but that's not where i come from. that's not where i think you come from. together, we want to take america forward. [applause] now i take very seriously the idea that this election is a job interview. i want to go to work for you. and i think it's important for us to look at both candidates in the campaign i'm currently in. ien spent eight years working for one of d

a third of those were distressed sales, which include forclosures. the results were much more than economists expected, and mark the second straight month of rising sales. but as suzanne pratt reports, the housing market is getting hammered by headwinds. >> reporter: yes, there are finally signs of life in the housing market. and they even include a few signs like these. the lowest mortgage rates on record, coupled with more affordable home prices, are attracting buyers. still, economist michael gapen says september's recovery is just a bounce back. >> we saw a very sharp dropoff in sales and activity in the summer months. so, we believe what we're seeing now is just a more normalization of activity-- a stabilization of activity at low levels. >> reporter: experts agree the residential market is likely to remain depressed for the foreseeable future. stubbornly high unemployment reduces the pool of willing shoppers. on top of that, the supply of unsold homes is just too big. total housing inventory fell to 10.7 months in september. that's down from au

an investigation into whether or not there's be massive forclosure fraud across the country.lling for a national moritorium on foreclosures. the issue at hand is did banks or did they not issue fraudulent documents on foreclosures. if they did, a lot of people who were foreclosed on shouldn't have been. jpmorgan halted foreclosures in 23 states. bank of america has done that in 50 states. but all these banks argue there may have been technical problems with their paperwork process, but say no foreclosures have happened that shouldn't have. jpmorgan's ceo this week said we don't think there are any cases when people were evicted when they shouldn't have been. we spent a day with a lawyer here in new york p who is representing a number of homeowners in this situation, trying to save their homes. he strongly disagrees. >> i think you cannot forclose on a home unless you have the legal documentation to do so. we're still a nation of laws. we have rules of evidence in court. you can't continue to go in and purger yourself every time you go into a courtroom. people need to be walke