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one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 differents. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to

time the revolution was gathering the domestic momentum in the 1930's his family suffered as the homestead was taken away and moved into the wilderness and moved northward into siberia lived in exile he fled to kazakhstan and allegis living as a clerk at a real o yard when roadwork two broke out. his father had died in exile his brother was arrested and his family was ruined by the experience of the great patriotic war as it is called in russia, world war ii we experienced his relationship with the government and joined the army when world war ii broke out when they were in faded into the ukraine or the soviet union or russia and move to the front participated and tank battles which means he was wounded then he began to design weapons and was part of a broad constellation of soviet arms design centers. the soviet union did not make a good toilet or elevator or escalate you would not want to wear a soviet pacemaker but they invested intensely in arms design they make an excellent helicopter and still do them very good rifles and he became part of the consolation of designers and from there

to the track and the homestead florida final lap.heckered flag comes out and kyle edwards takes the wind. all eyes were on the 48 car as jimmy johnson came in second. he gathered enough point to win the series for the fifth straight year. the wizards are in detroit taking on the pistons. they are on top, 30-28. >> we will be right back with a final check of your forecast. >> we will be right back with a final check of your forecast. >> the extended outlook will take us through the entire holiday weekend -- starting off very mild in the '60s than a cold front moving through late tuesday night. cooler on wednesday and another cool front on thursday with temperatures in the lower 50s. showers on thanksgiving day and colder on friday and saturday. for your up-to-the-minute forecast, go to tbd.com. >> thank you for watching. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] we know you've got a lot on your plate at thanksgiving. which is why safeway has everything you need to get it all done. right now get a safeway frozen turkey for just 47 cents a pound. that's

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homestead, florida, the chase for the cup has never been so close.hat was the sixth fasters qualifying time in the field, faster than the other two racers vying for the championship. hamlin and harvick. kahne won the poll for sunday's race. >> okay. >> thank you, mark. >>> when they were born they made medical history. made medical history. >> ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> famous group of siblings, the sextuples of iowa if your honored 17 today. they made news by being the first surviving sextuplets. all the parents had to say, we're living with six teenagers. >>-- it is currently on display at the museum of natural history. >> it's called the hope diamond, ♪ ♪ [ dad ] yeah! [ cheers and applause ] [ male announcer ] achievement gets points for living life. earn pnc points for your credit and debit card purchases. ♪ find out more at pnc.com/getpoints. pnc. for the achiever in us all.

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it's miami, homestead, motor speedway, the race starts a little after 1 p.m.astern time and great to see nascar getting that type of dramatic finish for the season. >> not to throw you under the bus, how many points can you win with one of those things. maybe rick knows. >> enough to win for the second place racer, but not enough for the third. >> okay, thank you, rick, actually, for having to answer that. >> you know what, it's so early in the mork we forgot to get a lighting guy out here and as usual it's the time of year i forget my winter coat before going outside. >> the time of year where you get the flu as a result. >> of course, today is my friday and lose my saturday. there you go. take a look at the weather picture, there are things going on. cold air across the northern plains, but this is kind of that dividing line. 59 in kansas city, 29 in sioux falls so big differences in those temperatures there. the cold air is going to win out and a lot of us are feeling the first really winter plastic and stretching to the east at least by this weekend and fe

. >> mitchell: in sports, driver jimmie johnson finished second in today's race, the homestead-miami speedway, but that gave johnson enough points to win a record fifth consecutive nascar championship. and just ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news," thanksgiving turkeys with nothing to fear. >> mitchell: finally this sunday, of all of our thanksgiving rituals, it's the most recent and generous. we speak of the presidential pardon of the official white house turkey. john blackstone has the story of poultry spared. >> reporter: it is task facing millions of americans right now, choosing the perfect turkey for thanksgiving. but the bird named "just right" but the folks at california'sfo foster farms is going to wind up at a very special table at the white house. and they're proud of it. >> and they're proud of it. >> reporter: for four months foster farms has been nursing the presidential flock. one of those bird will be presented to the president. those deemed too ugly -- >> don't like his tail feathers. >> -- or too exciteable. >> you don't want it to to be jumping around the table. >

cincinnati hello patel's americans to stop complaining about others and look instead about other mistakes homestead or in some recently elected new congressman let's call it a trade war with china. another red stars in georgia as the country is about to introduce a ban on soviet symbols position says it's an ill timed pointless upturn and survive history about the government should focus instead on the real problems. that's the headlines up next it's a close talk with people up. the story. listen to. play. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm hearing about a new and invigorated republican party will soon make itself felt in washington how will this impact u.s. foreign policy in the ongoing war in afghanistan it could go either.

denny hamlin, your leader heading into homestead. kevin harvick trailing hamlin by 46 points.on back 15 points. lap 24, greg bevel slided into hamlin, the 11 car. goes sliding through the grass. hamlin would have to pit. his crew works on the front of the car. 80 laps to go, caution comes out. kevin harvick, at this point, 31 points behind hamlin. as leaders pit. harvick comes off of pit road first. nascar officials tell harvick's crew chief that he was speeding coming into the pit. they've got a penalty here. drops 98 points back. if that's not bad enough, harvick hits one of kasey kahne's pit crew. that guy is on a stretcher. final lap, things are great for jimmie johnson. yes, sir. fifth straight sprint cup title. the winner is carl edwards, but johnson is spinning out because he gets his fifth straight championship. two shy of richard petty and dale earnhardt for the most all-time nascar cup series titles. >>> in the nfl, the battle we've all been waiting for, peyton manning against tom brady. patriots/colts. second quarter, new england up 7. that's brady to his rookie tig

. >> [inaudible] i would say this is after they began to develop some homesteading entries. >> it was a large chicken ranch out there. lawson chicken ranch was along 19th ave. >> [inaudible] >> not exactly. he donated the land later to the city, though. sort of the farm house feeling of the richmond. >> there is a water tower with a windmill in the back. >> right, get your water from wells. that was the early boathouses. looking at that map, sporting men would come out in the horses, have little races with their horses and carriages and the sea horse races, maybe get in a card game, have a drink of the way to the beach. >> but this was when there was county land, so there was no gambling. the move people out to county for the race track. >> they were away from intense public scrutiny out there. >> my of the state is there were four racetracks in the city. -- my understanding. can you name them? >> pioneer, union, in the side, and oceanside. >> there ago. maybe there are more. >> we have a big article on race tracks on our website. outsidelands.org. >> the ingleside, you can still see

. >>> nascar ford 400 from homestead miami speedway.s the track on a stretcher with a leg injury. kevin harvick this time bumps into kyle busch, who crashes into the wall. car burst into flames. busch would get out of the car on his own. he's okay. on the re-start, jimmie johnson moves into second, where he would finish. carl edwards won the race, but the story is jimmie johnson wins his fifth straight sprint cup championship. the man is absolutely unstoppable. they call it his drive for five. and now he's got it in his rear seat. >> dennis, thank you. >>> some people in the bay area are packing for that thanksgiving trip to grandma's. how they are feeling about the new screening procedure you have to go through at the airport. and what a boycott by travelers might do to cause a delay. that story and more in 30 minutes. >>> that's it for eyewitness news at 5:30. see you back here in a half hour, and again at 10:00 and 11:00. until then, updates at cbs5.com. have a good night. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

. >>> nascar, 4400 from homestead miami speedway. 187, kevin harvick, first up, the big gain, look at this beautiful run. oh, sorry. in case you hadn't seen it, you're out doing early christmas shopping. anyway, do you guys have the nascar? we'll show you carl edwards -- tell you what, we'll tell you what's coming up on game day. bruce jenner talks about his olympic gold medal. >> so exciting to win, but then i was sad when it was over. what do i do tomorrow? >> jenner joined me in-studio right before his latest hall of fame honor right here in the bay area. more from jenner tonight on game day, reflecting on his career. have you watched keeping up with the kardashians? >> i have. >> no. >> oh, i have. >> amazingly, he's known more for that than winning the olympics. >>> nascar again! >> oh, there it is! >>> kevin harvick out of the pits and hits a hebe of kasey kahen's pit crew. lead tire changer leaves the track on a stretcher with leg injury. harvick this time bumps into busch, crashing into the wall. car bursts into flames. busch

their homestead was taken away, they were moved into the wilderness northward into siberia, and he lived as an exile. essentially a family of nonpeople. he fled that to kaszikstan and was sort of living as a clerk at a rail yard when world war ii broke out. his father had died from being in exile, his family, his brother had been arrested and family was ruined, essentially, by the experience, you know, of stalinist, the stalinist policies. and world war ii, they call it the great patriotic war in russia, reorganized his experience with his government. he joined the army and became a tank mechanic and was out in the eastern districts, i'm sorry, the western districts in eastern europe when world war ii broke out, when hitler invaded into ukraine and into russia and into the soviet union. he was moved to the front and participated in a tank battle in which claims he was wounded after he was wounded, he began to design weapons, and he became part of a very large constellation of soviet arms design centers. the soviet union couldn't make, never did make a very good toilet or escalator or ele

and three drivers go into the race at the homestead miami speedway, with the realistic chance of winning the championship. we get last night's sports highlights now from espn news. >> good morning. i'm steve weissman with your espn news update. we start with thursday night football in the nfl. tyler thigpen and the dolphins, hosting the bears. third quarter, 6-0, chicago. dolphins at their 33. thigpen to marshall. but marshall goes down. had the hamstring, would not return. more problems for miami. 9-0, bears. forte, 97 yards rushing and this touchdown. fourth quarter, julius peppers, one of three sacks in the game. bears win, with 700 regular season victories. >>> college football. former alabama head coach, bill curry, guiding his new team, georgia state, in tuscaloosa. 20-0, 'bama. georgia state punting and having issues. it's blocked. brandon gibson scoops it up. eight different players scored for 'bama. a.j. mccarren with a touchdown pass. at least georgia state got 30,000 bucks for playing. >>> to the hardwood. that's the freshman. harrison barnes. tar heels taking on hofstra. earl

. >>> at homestead, florida, final lap, karl edwards pursuit of victory, but all eyes or on no. 48, jimmywho came in second, but he earned enough points to and the sprint cup. >>> the news continues at 5:31. >> some of the big winners and the show stopping moment from the american music awards. >> natasha barrett at reagan national airport. could there be a sign the tsa might be backing down on its bscreening procedures? that story's coming up. >> it is a foggy morning. that story's coming up. >> it is a foggy morning. >>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> i think the tsa is out of control. >> i'm not looking forward to being patted down. >> security versus privacy, the conflicting stories about the controversial pat-downs antibody scans. good morning, washington. it's monday, november 22, i am alison starling. >> i am scott thuman. much more on that in a moment. we begin with traffic and weather. it's a faulty forecast -- foggy forecast. >> we do have thick fog. there is a dense fog advisory until 11:00 a.m. that usually only lasts until 9:00, but this w

homestead, florida, that is the story. they say finishing second never really matters. does though. jimmy johnson who began the day 15 points behind denny hamlin for the championship takes the championship, his fifth straight nascar championship. that is something the yankees didn't even do. >> gano's kick is good and the redskins win it! >> but the main event yesterday, redemption for the redskins. overtime win in tennessee to improve to 5-5. dave ross here to play monday morning quarterback. i'm so glad the redskins won but i'm glad that tennessee did not want to win that game in overtime. >> here it is if you want it, take it, and the redskins took it. redemption is the right word today for the redskins. i don't think i've ever seen a game where you lose seven starters, you came into the game mine us three hour starters. that is 10 guys out of 22. it is pretty amazing. you give up a punt return for a touchdown. you are on the road. you miss two field goals and you find a way to win the game. simply amazing. nothing but great things to say about the redskins today. oh

qualifying today for the final race of the nascar season, in homestead, florida.e for the cup has never been so close going into the final event. >>> jimmie johnson, gunning for his fifth straight title. ran a hot lap. that was the sixth fastest qualifying time in the field. it was faster than the other two races who were bunched at the top of the standings, including this guy. the points leader, denny hamlin. he qualified toward the back of the packet. kevin harvick. kasey kahne won the poll for sunday's race. last stop. laurel park. 9th race. dash to the wire. wedding scramble on the outside. ski doodle to the inside. neck and neck to the finish. who has got it. let's go to the slow mo. yes. it is the outside horse. ahead of ski doodle in the 9th race at laurel today. don't forget, thanksgiving week, free pies at the park. >> that's right. pumpkin usually. >> you know it. >> thank you, mark. be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> don't miss the cbs primetime lineup tonight at 10:00. followed by eyewitness news at 11:00. >>> well, it hasn't each been 24 hours. a

. >>> not a nascar, the sprint cup championship decided in homestead, florida at the ford 500, dennyn, you see him on the grass after bumping another car. jimmie johnson was second in the case. that was good enough for his fifth straight championship. only richard petty and dale earnhardt have more titles. >>> and another local team had to go to overtime. the maryland terps field hockey team playing north carolina for the national championship. tied at two, sophomore megan frazier takes the pass and puts in the game winner, maryland wins it's seventh field hockey championship and the fourth in the last six years. >> that's fantastic. congratulations. >> tens of millions of americans are preparing to travel this week. at 5:30, the latest on the efforts to protest those new more invasive security screenings at airports. >>> we'll help you get ready for the holidays with free shipping at 5:34. at 5:49 a new nonalcoholic drink that claims it can help you relax. it's 5:25. angie how are the roads looking? >> good morning, andrea. 50 westbound all lanes wide open from the eastern shore pas

the new property off homestead road has been used for decades by another silicon valley giant, hewlett-packard apple spokesman told the "san jose mercury news" the company needs more space because its current 57 buildings in cupertino are bursting at the seams. >>> 5:39. the president of south korea is vowing to increase troop strength on five islands just seven miles from north korea's shoreline. as whit johnson reports, tensions between the two countries are on the rise. >> reporter: north korea is threatening to strike again just days after launching a deadly artillery attack on the south. they warned of a second even third bombardment if seoul continues with what pyongyang calls their reckless provocation. the latest threat comes as u.s. and south korea prepare for joint naval exercises set to begin sunday. american officials hope that will send a clear message. but some analysts don't see the north backing down any time soon. >> the only thing that you have that your people can be proud of and support you for is military strength, then it stands to reason you can't make concessions. >> re

. >>> the final race for the chase in homestead, florida carl edwards the final lap takes his second consecutive checkered flag. second place goes to jimmy johnson who began the day 16 points behind danny hamil. he finishes 39 points ahead of hamlin and 49 better than kevin harvick and becomes just the seventh drive to overcome a points deficit in the season finale. congratulations to him. he has now won it five years in a row. >> talent beyond luck at this point. >> got to have a great racing team and he has. they won five. >> lots coming up on theness is a nissan sports extra. >> parents of small players stay tuned concerning alerts for your child's helmet. it may not provide enough protection as the experts first thought. >> avoid the commuter chaos. your traffic report is first on fox 5 morning news starting at 4:25. . >>> we are following a health alert every parent need to hear. even a small hit during a football game can cause significant damage. researchers at the university of south florida say several small hits over time can lead to significant long-term brain damage. they

clinching the lead at the homestead, miami, speedway.er is here and this came down to the wire. he did it cleanly, though. >> yeah, he had his fifth title and this might have been the most rewarding for johnson. with this victory he moves into third all time for nascar titles behind the great richard petty and dale earnhardt and he came in trailing in the standing to denny hamlin and eked out a second place finish and enough to give him the points title and congratulations to jimmie johnson, he was exuberant. that's not his personality. he is pretty buttoned up. good for jimmie johnson, five straight. >> harris: maybe he's teaching the jets how to celebrate. i'm not from new york, i'm from over in jersey and getting a soft spot in my heart, because they pull out the winds the last second and did it again against the texans today. >> the cardiac kids. the third straight last second victory, the last two on the road in overtime and today was the most improbable of all. if you're a jets fan, same old jets meaning basically every season they

i had to leave the homestead and he knew that i needed to have other experiences, i needed to grow, butt was a very difficult moment, you leave the family business, i mean, we were a real unit for so long. >> rose: he was born in my p milan. >> in the south of italy in a village called franco miskano, the town is lodger than the town is big, it is a small town in the camapna region. very agricultural. >> rose: made his way to london. >> to london. >> rose: and then to connecticut. >> and then to connecticut. >> rose: so the english you speak is a product of part of your boyhood? >> yes we moved to america when i was 13, yes. >> rose: and music by that time was what you wanted? >> i was -- i started taking piano lessons at the age of six. we had a piano in the house and it was just the thing to do, and my father sort of forced, forcefully encouraged me to take piano lessons so i did it like every young kid i was out playing football and getting up to god knows what. and, yeah, football was a passion, it was a real passion, but then i had a certain facility for the music and, you know,. >

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waters, the representative from southern california is someone very well known and not just in my homestead across the country for being a very strong leader, and i was a brand new 22-year-old legislative aide on the hill. i couldn't have been any more earnest are eager to be there and i had been given a job by a representative from florida who represented a number of seniors from daytona beach and he asked me when i joined the staff to be the veterans affairs committee aide and so there we went and it was one of my first days on the hill and we went there and in the veterans affairs committee room by montgomery from mississippi and i was sitting behind mr. james's chair and ms. waters walked in and i immediately knew who she was and i'd like wow, it's almost like the day of this is really working on capitol hill and i in congress. and she stopped and looked at me and she kind of caught her head and walked over and very polite excuse me, young man. yes, ma'am? she said are you committee staff. i told her no, i wasn't. but i worked for mr. james from florida i and i was an aide and a kind of

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document it, and no only that they interrupted regular procedure of the defenses of the aircraft from homestead air base would take off to interpret cuba, and that was automatic standard operating procedure was interrupted and it had to have been from the white house. they were told to stand down battle stations at the precise moments that brothers of rescue needed to prevent the shootdown, so i am pointing me castle at castle for the shootdown, the natural enemy, and the clinton administration for aiding and abetting the shootdown of the brothers to the rescue plane. >>>> were you in cuban air space? >> international air space, and no matter where we would have been, there's no reason for a mink airplane to go out there. civilian aircraft with civilian pilots when they have been notified we had a search and rescue mission and contacted by radio. they know what we are doing there. we had been doing it for years, and they chose to kill a at that time, and the u.s. government having previous knowledge did nothing to prevent it. >> now, there was a flight over cuba; is that correct? >> there has b

it is due creative edge, there homesteading, they're going back and even urban areas.his wild crafting. >> and in some sense this is symbolic. >> yes, and i did this for 40 days. >> and now you are living in that department foin an apartmew york? perhaps that is also tend fax 12th! [laughter] >> and also, this is 10 x 12. my website, there are ideas about how we can do this. >> how? you live in new york. >> two-course of what is my 12 x 12? to ask yourself, toy, simplicity, that i can do. for example, and deepen the can enjoy and grow their own food. and also, with public transportation, with solar panels on a pair roof. >> and to some extent this is wonderful but isn't this just a feel-good solution. perhaps is not even making a dent on the problems of the world. we are over 11 is, that we really over living at. >> and i was working abroad, a conservation projects and when i came back i saw the hyper consumption in this country. it is really that this entire planet is affected by our economic model. to take smaller steps your coming into a better psychological being b

our parents and grandparents and those that came before them, those that homesteade homesteadd hots,those who populated the countries under the homestead act to go find a place and build a farm and raise a family, they had it thank you. but they built communities and built a country. and they did the right things. they made tough decisions. it's not a tough decision for us to say, all 100 of us want tax cuts. oh, yeah? well, i'd like it if nobody paid taxes, if nobody had to pay taxes. but who's going to pay the cost of things we do together, build schools to educate kids, build roads to travel, pay for defense so that we can protect this country, and on and on and on? so, i didn't come to talk about that, but i couldn't resist at least the urge to say, our requirement -- our requirement for this country -- is to look look well ahead to ask, how do we retaint capability in this country that we still will remain a world economic power? this country needs jobs. this country needs the resurrection of a manufacturing base. you will not long remain as a country a world economic power if y

where they decided to drive that stake in the ground and declare homestead, i don't know how that process goes through one's mind, i never read nor have i heard how they were thinking. i know this, they came to live free or die on the prarie and took the state motto of new hampshire and transposed it to the midwest, where you had freedom-loving people that wanted spaces and opportunity and put their spikes in the ground, however they got started and they built a house out of sod and started raising kids and turned the land into farms and ran calt and found -- cattle and found ways to live free or day on the prarie. we understand why. why are my neighbors proud, independent. they don't want to be dependent upon government but the opportunity opportunity to work, succeed, support their church, neighborhood and schools. that's all they asked for. the proudness, the independence, the industry, that's what has built america. and we took the cream of the crop and gave them the opportunity here under the banner of freedom and liberty and american vigor rose up, this experiment of freedom and lib

my name is jeff homestead and i served as epa form almost five years from 2000 to 2005 and i was proud to say was in the air office which does produce much more benefits than we just say any other part of the federal government. here is my question. epa has made enormous progress over the last 40 years, and most people would say that the low-hanging fruit has largely been harvested and now as we continue to try to clean up more and more we are finding that the next increment of pollution reduction does turn out to be more expensive and epa acknowledges that and all of its analysis. the next time is more expensive. there is certainly concern in certain parts of the industry in a way that we are headed towards a future in which we really are the industrializing as the cost of the next increment gets higher and higher, that it just is no longer possible to have a significant manufacturing sector and epa even recently in a couple of rules has acknowledge that i think it is in the cement for example that a number of them can no longer stay open and meet the standards and then those plants g

my name is jeff homestead and i served as epa form almost five years from 2000 to 2005 and i was proud to say was in the air office which does produce much more benefits than we just say any other part of the federal government. here is my question. epa has made enormous progress over the last 40 years, and most people would say that the low-hanging fruit has largely been harvested and now as we continue to try to clean up more and more we are finding that the next increment of pollution reduction does turn out to be more expensive and epa acknowledges that and all of its analysis. the next time is more expensive. there is certainly concern in certain parts of the industry in a way that we are headed towards a future in which we really are the industrializing as the cost of the next increment gets higher and higher, that it just is no longer possible to have a significant manufacturing sector and epa even recently in a couple of rules has acknowledge that i think it is in the cement for example that a number of them can no longer stay open and meet the standards and then those plants g