>> reporter: after the deaths of two teenage skate bombers in less than a year, l.a. city it giving police the power to confiscate skateboards and impose hundreds of dollars in fines. that includes a 10 mile per hour speed limit and no hanging on to moving cars. kyle chin, an experienced rider who prefers to call it downhilling, showed us the pads he uses and told us that most riders carefully choose where and when they ride. you make comparison with skiing. there is no traffic on a ski slope. no cars coming at you. >> a big issue with downhill skateboarding in particular when you compare it to skiing or other styles of skateboarding we don't have environments that are built for our use. >> reporter: he says the new law won't change anything. bottom line, the law is not going to stop you? >> probably not. it's my passion. it's something that i love. we're going to keep on doing it. >> reporter: neal karlinsky, abc news, santa monica, california. >> 40 miles an hour? >> brave, crazy, both? >> i can't make sense of it. many of them didn't have helmets. no pads. and do you ne

and he has been involved in public safety for a number of years and doing very momably serving the l.a. city attorney as well as his current position. actually, for me this has been a journey, it's not like a light switch went on yesterday. i have been involved in public safety for about 30 years. i have seen the war on drugs from the ground up. i have seen it as a police officer, young police officer walking, foot beat in south central and east l.a. i saw the revolving door, the impact that that revolving door was having in many communities and as i rose through the ranks, i began to take a different look at the way we dealt with crime and the way we dealt with public safety and as i evolved throughout the years, i came to the conclusion that what we had been doing with the war on drugs was leading us in the wrong direction. the impact that it had and not only in communities -- quite frankly in our entire community was creating a situation which doesn't necessarily make us any safer and frankly, i think we have criminalized an area i think should be really looked upon as a health issue more

l.a. all cities with mass transit, fine arts, architecture.y're all near bodies of water, have easy access to transportation. charlie, anything mathematical, logical? i don't know. you guys have all the experience in finding fugitives. don... ...remember how you could never lay off low and outside pitches? what?! sorry, but low and outside, you couldn't stop swinging at those pitches, no matter how many times you missed, no matter how much it hurt your average. charlie, what are you talking about? charlie: everyone has something they like to do, they can't help doing. you can't help but swing at low and outside pitches. what does andric do? what can't he stay away from? remember when we first talked to him, he was listening to opera? said he'd been at the opera the night they found lisa bayle's body. all four cities where he's lived, they have world-class opera companies. hey, you're right. see if there's any major operas in l.a. right now. that's why he sold his credit cards to a drug dealer for almost no money. yeah, to create a false trail,

and he has been involved in public safety for a number of years and doing very momably serving the l.a. city attorney as well as his current position. actually, for me this has been a journey, it's not like a light switch went on yesterday. i have been involved in public safety for about 30 years. i have seen the war on drugs from the ground up. i have seen it as a police officer, young police officer officer, young police officer walking, foot beat in south

after the deaths of two teenage skate bombers in less than ape year, l.a. cityundreds of dollars in fines. that includes a 10 mile per hour speed limit and no hanging on to moving cars. kyle chin an experienced rider who prefers to call it downhilling, showed us the pads he uses and told us that most riders carefully choose where and when they ride. you make comparison with skiing. there is no traffic on a ski slope. no cars coming at you. >> a big issue with downhill skateboarding in particular when you compare it to skiing or other styles of skateboarding we don't have environments that are built for our use. >> reporter: he says the new law won't change anything. bottom line the law is not going to stop you? >> probably not. it's my passion. it's something that i love. we're going to keep on doing it. >> reporter: neal karlinsky, abc news, santa monica, california. >> 40 miles an hour? >> brave, crazy, both? >> i can't make sense of it. many of them didn't have helmets. no pads. and do you need a law to tell, a young person, okay you can only go 10 miles per

l.a. is that our city council voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. so, good luck finishing that reggae album, snoop dogg. very bad news for pot smokers, as well as the makers of fun-yuns. and visine. we have a lot of marijuana stores here. 762 marijuana stores, to be exact. about 800 cupcake shops that rely on them for their business. our mayor is expected to support the ban, which would go into effect in 30 days, which means that the dozens of people who rely on medical marijuana to help them with debilitating illness and the millions of people who pretend to have illness so that they -- rely on it to watch reruns of "c.h.i.p.s." in the middle of the night won't be able to buy it legally. you have to go back to the old fashione

city. this one gives you a view into a different kind of l.a. we normally see in the movie. >> sure. city and the script. >> and she sent you the script years ago, right? >> yeah. she was like, what do you think of this? i read it and said, it's really good. who's playing jesse? >> you pitched yourself for the job, right? >> i threw myself into the ring. the entire self. not just the hat. >> rashida said she loved the chemistry between the two of you. this is a bookend to another movie i talked about this week. meryl streep and tommy lee jones were here earlier in the week. they have a movie called "hope spring." it's about an old couple that are trying to be together. this is a young couple that can't figure out a way to be apart. >> this is a way sexier "hope springs." >> you're going to hear from meryl on that one. >> i'd rather hear from meryl than tommy lee. but if you want to hang out, tommy lee, i'm into it. >> this is the first time you're not getting ready for "saturday night live" in seven years. how does it feel? >> yeah. it feels okay. i just started a beard competition wi

remember, the occupy wall street demo at l.a. city hall.mounts of abuse from the demonstrators and were very restrained. >> handled it well. >> of course, the whole world was watching. sometimes you see flashes of police officers who have a problem show who they really are. now, i want to underline that's a very tiny percentage of police officers. i think what the chief did, that officer will face administrative and criminal sanctions that sends a signal to every officer, that could happen to me. the real signal, what charlie beck did, by telling every captain, you have to heat eat a piece of this, play this at roll call and say is that who we want to look like and demoting the captain. that's the big message here. >> let's hopeless son learned. thank you, john miller. lot of people are speaking at the republican convention. ato dwhen something that's hard to paint, really wants to be painted? bakutew behr ultra with stain-blocker from the home depot... ...the best selling paint and im inne that now eliminates stains. ipaints over stained s

. >>> and the olympics are causing a problem, though, for officials at l.a.'s city hall. today thousands of city employees received an e-mail asking them to stop watching the games online at work. city officials say streaming the games has taken up a tremendous amount of bandwidth and could cause a crash. they also said that city employees aren't paid by taxpayers to watch tv and they should be focusing on their work. >>> if you're wondering where and when you can watch your favorite events, head to our website, nbcbayarea, click on the olympics tab and then scroll down. >>> coming up at 6:30, a heart breaking turn of events for three bay area olympians plus local reaction to that badminton tro controversy. >>> and only on the next bay area, a surprising rise in burglaries in the south bay. >>> a hot day where temperatures did get into the 90s, close to 100 in walnut creek. livermore at 94 and concord in the lower 90s. as we take a sneak peek at our forecast, it will stay warmer in the north bay. we'll take a look at some cooler changes coming up. >>> now an nbc bay area

a group called the refund transit coalition has identified 12 cities including l.a. and new york and chicago that have similar interest-rate swaps and estimates that taxpayers are shelling out $529 million per year on what it calls toxic deals. >> oakland's police department is in jeopardy of a federal takeover. a federal monitor has questioned the department's handling of the occupied protest as well as officers shootings and is also concerned about racially offensive photos in police headquarters. >> i am fighting for us to stay out of receivership and to make real changes so that is why i have asked the monitor to give us reports on the shorter time frame. >> the oakland police chief says the department continues to make progress in many areas in its effort to be in full compliance >> we expected to hear today from the man accused of kidnapping and killing morgan hill teenager's sierra lamar. we're told the guy never made it to court. >> were here continued in court today. antolin garcia-torres is scheduled to enter a plea hearing on august 29th but he was not in

l.a. was the only city to bid and california did it on the cheap, using the coliseum which had previously hosted the 1932 olympics, and relying heavily on corporate sponsorship. but they made huge profits and became the model for future games. it was the height of the cold war. four years earlier, america had led a boycott of the moscow olympics. so it wasn't surprising that the soviet union did a similar thing. in 1984, 14 countries stayed at home. among them, iran, libya, cuba and east germany. ♪ a hundred,000 people were -- a hundred thousand people were here for the grand opening, including a rocket man, and beneath every seat was a card and when held up and pieced together displayed the flag of every nation taking part. it was here the american sprinter carl lewis won four gold medals. britain's sebastian cow won. and on this track, bird and decker so famously clashed. 1984 is considered financially one of the most successful modern olympic games. >> if you saw a story about a bottle being thrown before the beginning of the finals had the bad luck of being sit next to a dutch judeo c

l.a. to new york city in about46 minutes. don't book tickets yet.t now, it is still an unmanned craft. they have to work out the details. >> than would be incredible. >>> stay with us this morning. it was not a child's play a mother and son rip-off toys r us. >> they have been doing it for decades. we will tell you how they werecaught and how much money police pulled in when they made the arrest. >> this is going to give you the hebbie-jebbies for you. check it out. this guy won for the record books. it's gross but we have details on one big snake. >> that's one nice looking pair of boots right there. actually 2 or 3. >> reporter: good morning. topping america's money, americans are charging more credit card debt is up 6% from just a year ago to an average of almost 5,000 dollars per borrower. the rate of seriously late payments is at an 18-year low. and there's another big ike in gas prices. the energy department says the national avere is 372 a gallon u8 cents in a week. and the west coast gas is averaging 3.95. a 19 cent jump. a new help on the w

a commuter train and a city bus crashed in l.a. it. knock lad light poll to the ground. authorities say there were about 60 riders on the bussments none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening and the cause is still under investigation. >>> an earthquake struck southern cal and more could be on the way. you can see the tremors. most of the quakes were small to moderate size but the smallest registered 5.5. only one minor damage was reported. no one was hurt but even more tremors are expected in the coming days. >> this is cell phone taken friday night at the pennsylvania fair as the rodeo bum ran rampantly through. they were immediately caught but the fourth ran away. the animal was finally captured. officials said there were people taken to the hospital for injuries. >>> coming up, the republican national convention starts in tam amount of tropical storm isaac made changes in the schedule. find out what you can expect now. >> and gas prices are going high are and we've only just begun. how high will it go? >>> the perry ham community is -- perry ham community is

l.a. as a city would be destroyed for many, many years and wouldn't recover any time soon. >> although racialsions are running high, neighbors begin helping neighbors, regardless of ethnicity. >> when the riots started, i locked the store, and i went home. thank god i didn't have anything at all. so a black man was standing here. he said, i was watching your store, and i didn't let anybody to rob it. >> we heard that if you write "black on" on your business, that they wouldn't mess with you. mostly they was looking at white stores and asian stores. and i had a friend. and i had a next-door neighbor who had a chinese place, and i said, let us write "black on" on your place, and they might not mess with you. >> "black on?" and they look at that chinese food? i said, yeah, man. don't you touch that. don't you touch that. >> there was so many good people in that community that were angry about what had happened. and they were happy that somebody was there to try to make a difference, to try to put out these fires and save their communities. and they were there to support us in any way they possib

l.a. las vegas and new york city and texas and possibly also in michigan hawaii and maryland there are two producer adriano said oh explains how the software works and how you are actually helping to build the database every minute of every day whether you're out on the street working in the office or sneaking into the kitchen chances are someone's watching facial recognition technology was once something only side five flicks could dream up but now it's beginning to look a lot stranger than fiction the f.b.i. is planning on having a collection of over twelve million searchable frontal photos so here's how the process works you take a camera like this one then you take a picture like this. and then it's uploaded onto a database here's where the magic happens the picture is then cross reference with other pictures in the already existing data base pairing up you know your features like cheeks eyes what have you every facial recognition software has different methods algorithms if you will but you get the point facebook for instance is already employing similar technology and getting a lot o

he proposed a bill that would require restaurants to pos their restaurant tradgrad big cities like new york and l.a. already do it, and parts of maryland already with that information as well. by its people have the right to know that the places they are eating in are up to code and clean -- >> people have the right to know the places they are eating in are up to code and clean. >> eroded infestation and sewage control result in closures. other violations do not go public, but scott believes it is time they do. tracks i do not think we want to see them go out of business, but we want them to be a better service to the community. >> theity health apartment says they support the bill. they just want to be involved i how it will be implemented. i ask the 2012 london games are now in the record books. nothe -- >> the 2012 london games are now on the record books. the athletes are heading home. awaiting them, a special terminal complete with park benches and breadboxes with the british isles sendoff. the athletes are being asked to write down their greatest moment of ldon 2012 to be placed on a memory t

l.a. is warning city work tires stop watching olympics on city cup puomputers. computer meltdown the so many are watching olympics. nbc is streaming the games live on line. and it taxes band with computers. look, taxpayers aren't paying city workers to watch olympics on their computers. cut it out. cut it out. >> people are addicted like march madness. >> uh-huh. >> i am. >> exactly. >> also, world's longest yardstick sale will start in michigan, who knew. starts thursday runs through sunday along u.s. 127. so it is build as the the world's longest yard sale. going to attract bargain hunters across six states along 690 miles this weekend. northern end of the yard sale in addison, michigan. southern end point is gadsden, alabama. i love yard sales. awe you'll see sunny along the 700 miles. incredible too. also incredible story out of kansas. couple arrested sunday night. man and woman went into wal-mart, stole some ky jelly started getting busy in the wal-mart store in kansas. apparently they didn't do the full act, sexually fondled each other and accused of shop

l.a. to new york city in less than an hour could be one step closer to reality. now, the x-51 wave rider is being tested above the pacific ocean today. it the will be launched from the wing of a b-52 bomber. it is expected to fly 3600 miles per hour for 300 seconds before breaking up no the ocean. hope is that the technology will lead it a plane that would take passenger as cross the u.s. in 46 minutes. >> that would be nice. >> i'm all if speed and travel. but something about going from coast to coast in 46 minutes. it is a little too much for me. >> it sounds good. >> might want to check that a little bit. >> even then -- >> well, it is unmanned. i know a lot of places try to let robots run things these days but that doesn't always work. >> can you imagine what would happen if they actually fixed this and then it broke down like halfway. it would just be drama. >> it would be drama. >> i don't want to be a naysayer. >> right now, it breaks up into the ocean after it's done. so they have a long ways to go. >> we'll wait on that one. >> there will be other ways t

l.a. is that our city council voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. so, good luck finishing that reggae album, snoop dogg. very bad news for pot smokers, as well as the makers of fun-yuns. and visine. we have a lot of marijuana stores here. 762 marijuana stores, to be exact. about 800 cupcake shops that rely on them for their business. our mayor is expected to support the ban, which would go into effect in 30 days, which means that the dozens of people who rely on medical marijuana to help them with debilitating illness and the millions of people who pretend to have illness so that they -- rely on it to watch reruns of "c.h.i.p.s." in the middle of the night won't be able to buy it legally. you have to go back to the old fashioned way, asking your weird cousin for pot, but -- medical marijuana advocates are obviously upset about this. they made it known at the city council meeting yesterday, where the vote was taking place. one guy, gentleman named john walsh, i thought, made excellent points in this impassioned impromptu speech. >> now, i see people

l.a. now so we're a part of the city. so thank you very much. >> reporter: the event coincides with the dvd release of the marli documentary. -- >> marley documentary. the film was made with the family's support and features rare footage and never before scene performances of the late reggae legend. the first trailer from the upcoming thriller "zero dark 30" was just released. the action packed movie is about the special ops mission to track down osama bin laden. the film is from katherine bigelow, the oscar winning director of "the hurt lucker." faith hill and tim mcgraw are taking their act to las vegas. they'll be performing for ten weekends at the v.a. nearby shan -- venetian starting this december. tickets for the general public go on sale monday. the author of the "50 shades" trilogy is issuing a companion album. she chose the pieces that inspired her to write the ear rottic best sellers -- erotic best sellers. that's your eye on entertainment. teresa garcia, cbs news action los angeles. >>> good morning. thank you

the stalker fan who allegedly broke into his studio city, california mansion early wednesday. the l.al got into a "knock down, drag-out fight" leaving the suspect with a broken nose and jaw. the alleged intruder has a long record for thefts. i bet ll, after it, was like, "mama said knock you out." coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," a new study that links autism risk to older fathers. i'm terrell brown. this is the morning news. mmmm, just how satisfying is every spoonful of new light & fit greek? morning donut cookies chips, chips,...! silence those tempting thoughts with new light & fit greek. its creamy thick texture helps satisfy you. it has twice the protein of regular lowfat yogurt. and at 80 calories it's the lightest greek yogurt with fruit. cupcake! it's not gonna happen. new light & fit greek. be light and fit and satisfied. >>> the pentagon announced wednesday it will give a six-month extension to a pilot program that counsels american service members considering suicide. the suicide rate for active duty soldiers is up this year. national guardsmen and re

the third largest city in the country after new york and l.a., chicago has just issued the permit fort city's parade to mark the end of the iraq war, to say welcome home to the americans who fought the iraq war, to say welcome home and thank you. the chicago parade permit is for december 15th. it's designed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the end of the iraq war. mark your calendar, december 15th, 2012, chicago, biggest one yet. that ought to be a national event if you ask me. it's on the one year anniversary of the end of the war. the pentagon won't give their blessing to a parade in new york for some reason. and doing these things longer than a year from the end of the war is starting to seem like making the same mistakes as we made at the end of the vietnam war again. starting to seem weird, somy personal opinion, but chicago, december 15th, maybe the whole country should go. now look at this. this is interesting and political terms. the obama campaign a few days ago posted online this web ad, this web video about iraq veterans coming home and about the parades. watch.

new york city, chicago, l.a., but, you know, when it comes to texas, dallas, houston, i'm not sure --biggest cities are at 4 bucks and will stay there. stuart: is this just temporary? you know, hurricanes come. hurricanes go. pipeline issues come and go. refinery issues come and go. basically supply and demand in the fall. are we going to come back down again? >> we will. it will depend on how the hurricane goes. how much damage it causes. katrina caused damage that was left for eighth months to a year. -- eight months to a year. this is not going to be the strength that katrina was but we could be talking at least three weeks, maybe a few months. >> what about impact of labor day driving? >> that could be an effect. americans are hitting the road. prices are set to go up before they do that. people may be changing their plans last minute. stuart: cheapest gas in the country? >> el paso texas at $3.24, but with the storm coming, you may see that pop up as well. stuart: most expensive gas station in the country, where is sthit -- where is it? >> santa barbara california 4.99. >> that's