garner does not react even after a paramedic arrived. earlier another eyewitness captured the confrontation. police were arresting him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. garner refused to be cuffed. one officer appears to put him in a choke hold. garner, whose family says suffered from asthma, complained of being unable to breathe. officials say garner died of cardiac arrest while being transported to the hospital but the city's manager's office has not release add cause of death. the nypd banned the choke hold over 20 years ago but now they're launching a study into choke hold complaints over the last five years. garner's family is demanding someone be held accountable. his sister. >> he didn't die because he stopped breathing on his own. somebody took his breath away from him. >> reporter: an nypd spokesperson tells cbs news any information regarding this incident will be exam abouted by the bureau and the attorney. another has been placed on desk duty. anne-marie green, cbs news, new york. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," big tobac

. >> reporter: and james garner did.mark barger, nbc news. >> wow. what a career. a purple heart recipient. >> yeah, that stuff i didn't know. >> very active in civil rights with a heck of a career. >> a heck of a guy. i go back to the "maverick" days all the way forward to "the rockford files." >>> and now rob mayeda is here with your forecast for you. >> we are seeing interesting conditions out there. especially looking out near san jose over to the east of the hilltops. you are seeing clouds blow up sort of like macy's day balloons going for a ride in the east bay hills. over mount hamilton, you have towering cumulus clouds it is not producing any thunderstorm activity but it is quite a sight east of san jose. a cool 67 degrees in san francisco where the fog is the story there over san francisco. but you can see the lightning up in the sierra where the flash flood warning continues around yosemite. lightning to the east of gilroy and a few more up near lake county. what's interesting is some of the moisture from the s

garner seems to resist, one of the officers puts his forearm around garner's neck and other officers join in, and within seconds the 350-pound man is down. from the ground, garner cries ou out. >> i can't breathe, i can't breathe! >> reporter: for several long minutes, garner lays on the ground, not moving. >> he was saying stop resisting, it was like, i'm not resisting, i can't breathe. and i already knew. >> reporter: paramedics arrive, one is seen on the videotape speaking to garner. >> sir, answer the questions, okay? >> reporter: but they appear to do something. finally, garner is placed on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a local hospital. about an hour later, the father of six children is pronounced dead. >> it just snatched my heart right out of my chest, i'm an empty shell right now. >> reporter: the cause of garner's death is still unknown. autopsy results are expected in several weeks. but already, this case has taken on racial overtones. >> i do not believe that a white person would have been treated that way on staten island by the police. >> reporter: and prompted

. >> and remembering james garner. don dahler looks back on an actor who always puts gentle, good humor first. >> my work is my biggest joy. this is the "cbs evening news." captioning sponsored by cbs >> good evening, i am elaine quijano with a western edition of the broadcast. three days after the crash of malaysia airlines flight 17, outrage is growing around the world over how the rebels in eastern ukraine are handling both the victims' bodies and the physical evidence. more on that in a moment. but first, this has been the deadliest day yet in the gaza conflict. 90 palestinians were killed today, as were 13 israeli soldiers. two of them american citizens. that pushes the 13-day death toll to at least 425 palestinians and 20 israelis. the white house says president obama expressed, quote, "serious concern" over the escalating death toll in a phone call today to israeli-palestinian benjamin netanyahu. secretary of state kerry will soon be heading to the region in search of a cease-fire. and the u.n. security council

he's the same officer seen here allegedly choke-holding 43-year-old eric garner. garner later died.nd the videotape of the incident has gone viral, creating a firestorm of controversy. on the streets of staten island, where garner died, demonstrators blame the police for his death. >> something has to be done about the racist precinct. >> reporter: at a rally, anger and anguish. >> an unarmed man was subjected to a whoekwhoek chokehold. and the result is he is no longer with us. >> reporter: as sharpton speaks, garner's wife collapses by his side. at issue, whether garner was placed in a chokehold, in violation of new york police department policy. but also, did police officers pile on to him after they had him pinned to the ground? another potential violation of nypd policy that warns against standing or sitting on a suspect. law enforcement forces say garner had a long arrest record, mostly misdemeanor charges. for selling lucys, individual cigarettes purchased out of state. the patrolman's union issued a statement. sometimes they have to employ the use of force in order the get c

garner. he's very honest about it.ould have listened to him and take the handcuffs off of mr. garner so he could get some medical care. like we said last night on your show, lawrence, i think a lack of leadership here, sergeant training stepping in, defusing this situation. a good sergeant, new york's got a lot of them, would step in on a case like this and say everybody back off. mr. garner, what's going on? he's overpoliced, and that's what he is reacting to. he's constantly being policed for selling a cigarette. and the sergeant, a good sergeant would say, mr. garner, here's my card, you call me tomorrow at 2:00 and we'll talk about it. we're all leaving now. that's what the commissioner would want to happen. that's what every good logical citizen, that's what a top leader would want to happen. in the very worst case, he could have got a citation. if i was the sergeant, if bratton was the sergeant there, i think it would be defused. that's the way you want to get the police to think. think about defusing it, calming

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garner died latrias night of natural causes at age 86. omar villafranca looks back at the life of james garner for cbs. >> reporter: he was a tough guy. >> you aren't worried about me are you? >> reporter: he played a wandering gambler, a con man with a heart. >> i'm staying that's the deal. >> reporter: born in 1928 in oklahoma, james garner dropped out of high school to join the merchant marine. then at the urging of a friend, he stumbled on to his first nonspeaking acting role at age 25. at 6'3," with rugged good looks and part cherokee indian, he made an impression. after maverick ended in 1960, garner spent the next decade of the big screen before landing the other role that defined his career. ♪ cast as the laidback private detective jim rockford in "the rockford files" he brought humor and humanity to the popular whodunit series and it ran for six seasons into the late 1970s even making a brief comeback in the '90s. though health problems were slowing him down, garner kept working. and in 1994 he came full circle, teaming up with m

garner was in trouble? what did you hear? the cuffs off of him, put oxygen mask on his face, do some type of cpr. everybody's concern was his breathing. >> could you hear him say those words now that have been chanted at the rallies for him, i can't breathe? >> yes. >> you heard him? >> yes. >> did you believe his life was in danger at that point? >> yes. >> if bystanders could hear him saying, i can't breathe, we can clearly hear it on the tape, in that moment, do police officers take into account the atmosphere, what they're hearing, or is it just the use of force applied in this situation? >> when you're in it, you're not in it. you're sometimes not hearing everything that's going on around you. your adrenaline rush, the focus, all those things come into factor. the idea is you're supposed to have training so you don't have those things impede your decision making skills. but they should be looking at him. so when you do see the tape, you see that they're putting him down on the floor. he's saying, i'm not breathing. you h

the wave. >> reporter: garner's funeral is scheduled for wednesday. ron mott, nbc news, new york. >>> and we're back in a moment with a new world record already set this summer. >>> the national oceanic and atmospheric administration says the global average temperature hit a new high in the month of june after setting an all-time record in the month of may. the head of climate monitoring for noaa says the pacific and indian oceans are particularly warm right now. the u.s. did not set a record, in fact it was only the 33rd hottest june on record in this country. >>> tributes still pouring in tonight for the late-great james garner who brought a kind of rough around the edges charm to hollywood because he was rough around the edges. an oklahoma native, a recipient of two purple hearts in combat in korea, he raced cars for fun and became an enduring and easy going leading man. able to reach us when misbehaving while even in the way back driving at highway speeds. new views just released of prince george tonight. the royal couple released two photos to ma

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it was television that made james garner a household name. the show that launched him into fame "maverick" in 1957. he played brett maverick, more likely to talk his way out of a tight spot than pull out his gun. >> it won't bring you happiness. >> reporter: he had his share of big screen roles, acting opposite marlon brando, doris day and steve mcqueen. and opposite julie andrews in the americanization of emily. >> i really liked that film. it was the first film that i felt like i could really get my teeth in a little bit. >> reporter: nearly 20 years after his first television hit, garner found fame again in the "rockford files." the role of smooth-talking private eye jim rockford earned him an emmy. garner was also a celebrity pitchman. >> you made it to the top. >> the camera did. i just went along for the ride. >> reporter: in 1985, garner was nominated for an oscar, playing a widowed pharmacist in "murphy's romance." the korean war veteran and purple heart recipient found a new audience in 2004's "the notebook." >> i've never seen anyth

garner. but suspicious enough.frican-american or being a person of color makes you guilty of suspicion. and then the value of human life in cases such as these. what would have happened if anybody else had done this? this could affect anybody. this could have done anything to anybody. but eric garner did not deserve a death sentence for what he was alleged to have done. >> jim cavanaugh and mark thompson, thank you both for joining me. >>> coming up, how a liberal should answer charges of being a liberal. that's in the rewrite. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. she tried to kill us. no, it's only 15 calories. with reddi wip, fruit never sounded more delicious, with 15 calories per serving and real cream, the sound of reddi wip is the sound of

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>>acting never came easy for james garner. born james baumgarner, the actor described himself as a painfully shy introvert masking the condition only with effort. >>"mind over matter. i literally had to do it, saying, you can't have this attitude and be an actor and i had to change." >>garner pursued acting after dropping out of school to join the merchant marine. later, in the army, he earned two purple hearts fighting in the korean war. he got his big acting break in 1957 as the lead in the offbeat western series "maverick." >>"at that time there were like 16 westerns on television and we stuck our tongue in our cheek and made em smile and laugh a little bit and i think that was the difference." >>garner moved easily between television and film roles even before that became the rule for actors. the 1966 film 'grand prix' provided a glimpse into one of garner's long time fascinations: auto racing. the versatile actor landed the role of "jim rockford" in the detective series "the rockford files" in 1974. he won an emmy award i

>> reporter: garner can be heard crying out. garner died an hour later at a local hospital. his mother is devastated. >> it was like they wanted to kill him. >> reporter: at a rally organized by al sharpton's national action network, garner's widow broke down. [sobbing]. >> reporter: new york city police commissioner william bratten said the video shows a choke hold being put on garner. >> this would appear to have been been a choke hold. >> reporter: friends and neighbors have left a makeshift memorial where he died, as the city promises a thorough investigation. the new york police department said he suffered a heart attack, but the official results of the autopsy are pending. ron claiborne, abc news new york. >> good morning will have the latest on the investigation and the outage. "g.m.a." is after this broadcast. >> a pennsylvania boy is bouncing back after he was found bruised and starving to death. police say he weighed 25 pounds and look like a skeleton when he was taken from his home. the child was being home schooled and was allowed on the back porch where he would

get justice for eric garner. >> deblasio addressed the death of eric garner. >> a nypd officer placed him in a choke hold. a move that's prohibited by the department. >> we want to build that trust back. >> is this a rogue set of police officers? >> he can be heard 11 times saying he couldn't breathe. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >>. my husband was not a violent man. >> garner demanded justice for her late husband. >> he was a quiet man, but he's making a lot of noise now, and -- >>> good evening to you, i'm ari melber. lawrence has the night off. new developments in a story that draws outrage around our nation. eric beganer, unarmed 43-year-old father of six died at the hands of the nypd. the incident is testing the relative lly new liberal mayor new york and celebrated police chief. today they addressed the city together. their first appearance since the mayor returned from vacation last week. mayor deblasio said he's making major structural reforms to address this kind of failure. >> a number of steps have been taken aggressively, a number more will be taken. all with a com

health problems were star to go slow him down, garner kept working.nd in 1994 he came full circle teaming one with mel gibson and jodi foster this time as brett maverick, sr. >> this silly little creature is named maverick and my name is annie bell. i'll be taking has coach. >> so am i. >> this is the best job in the world being an actor and it's one of the toughest but it's one -- couldn't be any better. >> garner spent nearly 50 years as a leading man. omar villa franco for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> the actress who played mel gibson's young daughter in the patriot as died. sky was found dead in bed inside her houston apartment yesterday. she was just 21 year old. it was not immediately clear as to how she died. an autopsy is being performed. >>> faa continues its investigation in a fiery hot air balloon crash and explosion captured on tape. that is what happened when the balloon called the razz berry ripple struck a power line in massachusetts. five of the six people on board did suffer burns. this incident happened last night in a suburb near bos

you can hear garner pleading with police to led go of him. police confronted the 6'3", 350- pound father of six on suspicion of selling untaxed loose cigarettes. garner, who had asthma, died of cardiac arrest an hour after the incident. choke holds are against nypd policy. the mayor is promising a thorough investigation. the city's medical examiner's office says more tests are needed to determine the exact cause of garner's death. his funeral is scheduled for wednesday. craig boswell, cbs news. >>> one of the officers involved in that incident had his badge and gun taken away. another is on paid desk interna continues. >>> an out of control wild fire is keeping hundreds of people out of their homes in north central washington tonight. many of them may not have homes to return to. massive wild fire, which was started by a lightning strike on monday has destroyed over 100 homes and burned 215,000 acres. hot weather and high winds pushed the fire into a cluster of small towns in northeast of seattle and fire officials say the damaged totals coul

the altercation starts with just two police officers talking to garner.rounding him. one puts him in a chokehold. another 30 seconds go by. now seven officers surround him. he's not armed. he's down. soon after garner's motionless body lay on the sidewalk, hands cuffed behind his back. from the moment this video started we know it takes ems at least four minutes until they show up and the lack of urgency is stunning. >> sir, is everything all right with you now? ems. >> sir, ems is here. answer their questions, okay? >> he can't breathe. >> no cpr. no sense of urgency. no trying to revive him. how do we explain an illegal chokehold? how do we explain policemen doing nothing while they see the chokehold? how do we explain ems workers taking four minutes before they do their job as emergency medical service? there are too many unanswered questions. too many people involved. that's why there is outrage and that's why we are going to stay on this until all those questions are answered and the people involved held accountable. thanks for watching. i'm al sharp

then we'll pivot to a conversation i had a while back with james garner, who died over the weekend at the age of 86. his career spanned more than 50 years. i had the honor of talking with this very private man, who actually disliked media attention of any kind, back in 2004 for the very first year of this program. we're glad you can join us with a conversation with dr. carolyn finney and a reprise of our conversation with james garner, coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >> a recent survey commission said by the national parks service showed that only 7% of visitors to the parks center are african-americans. latinos also underrepresented. dr. carolyn finney explores this disconnect in an important new book called "black faces, white spaces," reimagining the relationship of african-americans to the great outdoors, which combines environmental history with cultural and race studies to give us a critical insight into why this has occurred and what we can do about changing it. dr. finney, it's an honor to have you on this program. let me start by asking why these numbers for blacks and latinos at th

garner, that's part of the problem.he problem is discretion of police is employed differently when it comes to black and brown people than when it is applied to white americans and others. i think that's part of the difficulty. >> you have brought us to our want to go right after the break which is this notion that even the "new york times" weighed in and mr. deblasio was elected to address exactly this. in addition to the human consequences to this family. i'm bringing you back, michael, when we come back. don't wait for awesome... totino's pizza rolls... ...gets you there in just 60 seconds. >> it is too early to jump to any conclusions about this case. we must wait for all the facts and details of the incident to emerge. but i assure all new yorkers there will be a full and thorough investigation. >>> that was new york city mayor bill de blasio holding a press conference last friday the day after eric garner died. while the response in the aftermath of garner's death is swift and has not stopped call to the resignati

it was a tragic case of eric garner. >> eric garner is the staten island man who died in police custody after an alleged chokehold. >> mr. garner was selling what's called in new york city loosies, untaxed cigarettes at 75 cents apiece. >> jon: sure, that's how it starts. but the next thing you know, that guy's selling gum one stick at a time and pringles by the chip. [laughter] pringles singles or springles, as they're known on the street. well, we can at least hope eric garner's senseless death marks the end of excessive force by police. >> the new york city police department says up to 1,000 reports of suspects being placed in illegal chokeholds may now have to be reviewed. >> nypd officials say the entire force may have to be retrained. >> jon: okay, retraining lesson number one: this is a camera phone. when that is pointed at you, officer, stop strangling the person. [laughter] for more, we turn to senior... [cheering and applause] oh, okay. i'm sorry. i didn't know senior black correspondent, i didn't realize we were talking about racial issues. i thought this was going to be the

. >> new this morning we are learning actor james garner has died. a look at his work and how he is leaving a mark in hollywood. >>> new los angeles police have confirmed garner passed away. >> starred in maverick and the rockford files. he was 86. mark barger reports. >> this is jim rockford. at the tone leave your name and message. i'll get back to you. >> reporter: whether he played a private eye, a roguish western gambler or smalltown pharmacist, james garner laid back charm and man's man appeal won his fame in it tv and movies. >> old-fashioned boy at heart. >> reporter: the oklahoma native's first notoriety came in the '50s in "maverick". >> the only time you kick quit when you're winning is after you've won it all. >> reporter: garner found movie success romancing julie andrews, chatting up marlon brando and taking on the germans in "the great escape". >> said one of my problems is i make it look like it's easy. i appreciate him saying that. he knows for a fact it does not come easy. >> reporter: but it seemed to with what many considered garn

. >>> plus, hollywood acting legend james garner has died. a hot air balloon accident caught on camera. and much, much more for this monday, july 21st. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm dara brown. international outrage is growing following the downing of a malaysian airliner near the border of ukraine and russia. there are reports that pro-russian rebels have placed hundreds of bodies at the site in refrigerated box cars. this comes as investigators press tore more access to the site of the crash. interim president of ukraine honoring made a statement about the crash site. >> ukrainians discovered 272 bodies, to 51 of which are already loaded in a freighter refrigerato refrigerator. we sent two trains, four cars of which right now are located in tores city. these gorillas do not allow the trains to leave the wrar. russian president vladimir putin lashed out today, saying russia is doing everything possible to let experts investigate the scene. lawmakers in washington say putin immediate to do more. >> i would say, putin,

. >> what eric garner's family says they will do now. and up next i'll talk live with the reverend al sharpton who will speak at the funeral. and we'll talk with the man who recorded this video that sparked national outrage. plus, the democrat running for governor in arkansas is responding to a horrific domestic violence case within a vicious plan of his own. mike ross will join me live from a state that ranks among the worst when it comes to violence against women. plus, a security breech in the world famous brooklyn bridge with camera and security all over the historic site. how did someone or a couple of people scale to the top? we'll have a live report on the new security concerns. join our conversation online. you can find me @"newsnation." and my team is at "newsnation." i'm at tamron hall. ♪ start a team. join a team. walk to end alzheimer's. visit alz.org/walk today. yeah?om. we got allstate, right? uh-huh. yes! well, i found this new thing... called allstate quickfoto claim. it's an app. you understand that? just take photos of

several more officers come to surround garner and one puts garner in a choke hold, dropping him to the"i can't breathe, i can't breathe." then late this weekend, a new seven-minute video showing his motionless body on the sidewalk. four emergency workers, two medics and two emts arrived to find garner unconscious, but did nothing to aid him. reports now say garner should have been immediately placed on a stretcher and his airway breathing and circulation checked. none of this happened. sources at the scene claim one medic had no equipment with her. why was there seemingly no urgency. garner died of cardiac arrest en route to the hospital. there is no justification for the actions on the part of police nor the delinquency of the emergency workers. the four emergency workers have been placed on operational restriction and the cop who put garner in the choke hold has had his badge and gun taken. across the country there is another video that's gone viral. sparking similar outrage in the community. in this video, 51-year-old marlene pinuck is punched repeatedly by a patrol officer on the s

garner's career spanned nearly six decades. the 86-year-old laid back charm won him fans of all ages. on the small screen he made the mark in two huge tv classics in the '50s. maverick and -- >> jim rock ford. that '70s hit. the rock ford files. on the big screen he romanced julie andrews in the americanzation of emily, chatted up marlon brando, and earned best actor playing opposite sally field in murphy's romance. >> one of my problems is i make it look like it's easy. i appreciate him saying that because he knows for a fact that it does not come easy. >> james garner is survived by his wife, actress lois clark and their two daughters. >>> we want to take you to sports right now. rory mcilroy took it home at the british open. he held off rickie fowler. tiger woods finishing with 23 strokes behind behind mic icill. his dad, jerry, and some of his friends making over $340,000. from the bet placed nearly decades ago. he won it at 25. the odds of it happening 500 to 1. c . >>> richard sherman hosted a softball game which hosted a

garner appears to resist. >> one officer puts his forearm around garner's neck as other officers join down from the ground garner cries out -- >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> his eyes rolled back of his head and then he just was not responding whatsoever. >> garner was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. his cause of death unknown. >> nobody should have to die while being arrested. but mr. garner's medical condition may have been the cause of it and not the action of the officers. >> reporter: the mother of garner's infant daughter anguished and angry. >> they murdered him. they hurt him. they killed him, you know. >> new york police commissioner william bratten acknowledges the video appears to show a police officer applying a choke hold on garner, a move prohibited in the nypd. >> it is defined this would be a choke hold. >> reporter: now police and prosecutors work to find out why this arrest resulted in the suspect dying. new york city's mayor says he calls it troubling. he was supposed to leave for vacation but posedtpon it for one

the issue, now, is whether or not eric garner had due process. whether or not he was judged, sentenced, and executed right there on the spot just because of probable cause which he denied the allegation of what he was doing. so, you know, i think that we have to look at this very, very carefully. there has to be accountability. and if mayor de blasio is going to be a different type of mayor, this is going to be addressed any differently. for a change, there has to be some accountability and some type of punishment for those involved in this case. >> yeah. jim, i want you to speak to that point, particularly because mark is putting his finger on that gap between what the mayor said, hey, i'm open minded, and what the police commissioner said which is apparently at this juncture, he's already figured out race wasn't a factor. that strikes me as putting a thumb on the scale and that matters a lot in the tone that is set for the police. and i want to read to you something that a lawyer who's been involved in some of these cases told the "new york dai

♪ >>> and remembering james garner. >> hold it a minute, huh?> the star of "the rockford files." >> this is no time to be afraid, birdie boy. >> and leading many who charmed us with his role for half a century in hollywood has passed away. >>> hey, good morning, everybody. let's get straight to our lead story. new developments in the downing of mh-17. here's what we know at this hour. in the latest outrage at the crash scene -- pro russian rebels have taken away 196 of the bodies recovered thus far. there seems to be no real plan for what to do with the remains right now. >> meanwhile in the netherlands, the country where many of the victims lived and from where the flight originated, church services were held as anger grows over the disregard for the dead. and thousands of miles away, malaysia airlines announced hours ago it's retiring the mh-17 flight number out of respect for its crew and passengers. our coverage beginning this morning with abc's terry moran who is at the scene. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. what is

one of them puts his forearm around garner's neck. more police join in pinning him to the ground as he cries out. >> i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> reporter: the father of six was rushed to a local hospital where he died. >> they snatched my heart right out of my chest. i'm an empty shell right now. >> reporter: the incident has stirred racial tensions in the city. >> an unarmed man was subjected to a chokehold and the result is he is no longer with us. >> reporter: as he spoke, garner's wife collapsing by his side. at issue is whether garner was placed in a chokehold, a tactic banned by new york police. >> as defined in the department's patrol guide, this would appear to have been a chokehold. >> reporter: police officers also appear to sit on garner once he was on the ground, which could violate another nypd policy. two of the arresting officers have been placed on desk duty while the incident is investigated by both police and prosecutors. this is pending autopsy results that determine the cause of garner's death. tonight the

police say garner resisted arrest but friends and family say garner was a father of six who sufferedm asthma. at a rally with the reverend al sharpton this weekend, garner's family recommended a full investigation into his death. >> like so many new yorkers, i was very troubled by the video i reviewed. i have instructed commissioner brat ton to ensure it will be a full and thorough investigation of this incident. >> nypd policy does not allow choke holds to subdue people in custody. >>> an information surrender way in hayward. what may have caused a fire for a fire of wooden palettes that started 3:20 yesterday afternoon near industrial way. firefighters say gusty winds were blowing the embers throughout the neighborhood and say the sparks set off a second fire at another business just down the street. crews were able to quickly put out both fires. >>> some people living in contra costa county have exceeded expectations for water conservation due to the draught. in april, the district asked customers to cut water use by 15%. the district says people have done even better than that, s

garner died over the weekend he was 86 years old. is brian balthazar, brian great to see you. >> and you. >> why did james garner work, why did he stand out in your opinion? >> he had a combination of grit and wit wit. he didn't have that picture-perfect guy, but he had an appeal to several generations. maverick in late '50s and early '60s, the rockford files, and the quie from the notebook, that was ryan gosling as an old man. >> when i looked at the new york times biography obit on him, i was surprised how much he worked. in the '50s, '60s and '70s they did a tremendous amount of work. >> maverick was a defining role although it was only three seasons that people still remember him for. >> he was a democrat right? >> he was a big democrat. people went after him to run for office. i'm a democrat. it's okay we thil you'll win. he was staunchly opposed to actors running for office. he was in the march on washington. he held hands with diahann carroll. and he was partial native american, and he was, many don't know, a marijuana smoker.

a police report of the arrest was related to garner selling untaxed cigarettes although witnesses at the scene tested the scene the police approached gardner simply for breaking up a fight and the man recording a video of the encounter even pleaded with officers not to go after garner who was simply doing the right thing in a potentially violent situation and fortunately for garner officers did what they often do when they run into a minority they quickly moved to arrest him put him in a choke hold until he lost consciousness and eventually died in the video garner who was as magic is heard struggling to utter the words i cannot breathe as police continued to strangle him to death the worst part of all is that this happens all too often in new york. city in an almost unbelievable statistic of wall street journal reported that in two thousand and eleven the n.y.p.d. stopped more young black men in the total number of young black men in all of new york hopefully eric garners death will galvanize enough outrage to finally put an end to this institutionalized racism so not one more new y

actor james garner has died.horities say that the star died from natural causes inside of his los angeles home last night. his tv credits including maverick and rockford files. garner was nominated for an oscar in 1985 for his role in murphy's romance. james garner was 86 years old. >>> in other celebrity news this morning it is official, people magazine's sexiest man alive is off of the market. sorry, ladies. singer adam le vine married yesterday. maroon five singer and victoria secret modeled tied the knot in a tent in mexico. 300 family friends and family members attend that had wedding. >>> do you think you have what it takes to be a contestant on the hit show survivor? well, cb is. three is hosting a casting call this saturday july 26th. join us at the trump taj mahal in atlantic city friday noon to 3:00. just log on to our web site at cbs philly.com/contest for complete details. >>> it is 7:20 right now. coming up on "eyewitness news" carol answers your pet questions in this weeks ask the vet. >>> an option

garner was killed.y were strip searched where their pants were pulled down to their angst and officer pantaleo engaged in a public strip search, touching their genitals and other private parts in public view. he then arrested them without any reason and falsified the basis for the arrest and ultimately the charges were dismissed. >> and $30,000 was paid out. and that was taxpayer money paid out. and there is also another lawsuit pending on this particular officer that they won't discuss because it is still going through the system. again, my question was you weren't surprised, then -- were you surprised that he was still on the force or that he was involved in another incident? >> unfortunately, sadly, i wasn't surprised because this is what we see day in and day out. >> okay. >> this is all i do. and in this type of situation where the officer did something that is not allowed, engaging in a public strip search, unfortunately the department doesn't respond to that. >> lou palumbo, before you respond to