as syrian jets attacked areas in and around aleppo, the country's large's city on sunday. two bomb attacks were reported in damascus. >>> president mohammed morsi made the surprise move yesterday to order the retirement of the defense minister and chief of staff and commanders of the navy, air defense and air force. he canceled the military declared constitutional amendments that gave top generals wide powers. morsi also swor worry in a new defense minister and appointed a pro reform judge as new vice president. >>> a navy ship is in port dubai after colliding with a oil tanker. the ship was left with a gaping ten foot by ten foot hole in the starboard side after the accident. they say the porter can still operate on its own. they say the cause of the accident was being investigate. there were no injuries. >>> now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. in ohio an alligator hammil allr is recovering after the animal he showed bit down on his arm. children were among those who watched in horror for 21 seconds until the reptile released its gr

. >>> san jose once considered the safest large city in the country, a report released today crime isthe rise in every category from lot of fat to burglary to read, the one exception homicide from june it was down 10%. reporter kids don't as the mayor and police union what is going on >>> he has lived in downtown san is set for a quarter-century and then after 25 years, >>> it happened here >>> the family's car was stolen overnight he says it was no quinta inns since and is a police eliminated the auto theft unit. >>> did the police cuts have anything to do with that? >>> absolutely >>> san jose has suffered 10 years of deficits and led off police officers for the first time it-run to the size it was 25 years ago crime up sharply across the board. >>> doesn't have to do with cuts in police staffing? >>> i doubt that we have other cities that did suffer cuts and police staffing palo alto is the same size it is hard to do correlation and the statisticians have a tough time doing cause and effect. >>> the police union says the city's choices have come back to haunt them >>> when you/patr

we are a large city.i get to talk and write about the things we're doing, and i want you to know that the internment -- and permit, our commitment to greening are parts of what we're here to do because of the advocacy that you do across the country, keep of that work, keep reminding mayors like me and everybody else we have an obligation to take the greening ideas and put them into the urban setting. give our kids the chance to get dirty with their hands, but watch things grow as they grow. this is the only way i know how to run the city. i have worked in this alleyways for many years. worked in the dirtiest smelling streets of our city. i come out loving our people even greater. whenever graffiti we have is our challenge. whenever illegal dumping that goes on. it is the ability to excite and organize our communities around these issues that bring out the best of all of us. the investment in our neighborhoods is one of my number one priorities as the mayor of the city. and to have example after example of

in a city long considered one of the safest large cities in the country.he san jose police department is spending $800,000 in overtime to put more officers on the streets. but a response, say community leaders, should not end there. didi perez agrees. she's part of a group of mothers who used facebook to organize a rally at city hall set for tomorrow to call for peace. >> we're doing this to make people aware, to let our city council members know that we care about our children's future. not just our children. all children. >> reporter: and that rally is being called no more bloodshed no, more tears. it's set to take place in front of san jose city hall tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. live in san jose tonight, monte francis, nbc bay area news. >> monte, thank you. >>> and still ahead at 11:00, an alaskan grizzly bear mauls a man from southern california. tonight how his camera could provide clues as to why the bear attacked him. >>> plus, rattled nerves. dozen of earthquakes shake southern california strong enough to knock mobile homes from their foundations. >>> al

i'm a deputy police in a very large city. you know?'s the opportunity that san jose gives. that, unfortunately, is all we can offer and the training we have. other agencies can't do that. we obviously can't -- it's tough to discuss with them with measure b and the pension issues, but i feel we have a product we can sell. >> you have some of the finest police officers in the country. tell us about the pride patch on your shoulder. >> for me, i have a lot of pride. i have 14 years on. 17 1/2, i worked for a grocery store. i love my job. not a lot of people can say they get up every morning after 14 years and love to come to work. you know, it's fun to meet people that want to start on a new career. young guys and older people. we talk to them about the excitement of this job. every day, you come to work it's a new adventure. you get to meet all the different citizens of the city, different races, religions. it's very enjoyable. >> how about you? >> same thing. i enjoy every single day. you don't know what you are going to get into. very

it is once known as the safest large city in the country the crimes of a rise almost every category from auto theft to burglary and even rape. if the one exception is homicide carried this down to &. the police union president said the layoffs asserted last year could be a factor. >>> when/the patrol and staffing and the morales the toilet. and things didn't give. >>> the mayor says that he doubts the crimes collected to the police staffing. an oakland police are trying to find a killer who shot a man and a kentucky fried chicken try to. it happened just after 6:00 last night on seven third avenue and an international bazaar. the victim tried to drive away after you shot several times. the crash into a nearby building. his pronounced dead at the scene. the passengers expected to recover and no word on possible motives. >>> another robbery suspect in custody after a daylong standoff in redwood city. to surround a duplex on williams avenue before 9:00 this the morning. they arrested him when he surrounded more than 90 hours later. at the cemetery county sheriff's said he was behind five re

taxpayers are saying enough is enough for a second straight summer protest some around the country's large cities but weary of last year's vast numbers of protesters who support leaders in tel aviv have refused permission for tense along its main boulevard in symbolic defiance paper tens have sprung up but for many of these people the tents are home and the protest is not temporary they're in for the long haul. shame on you mr netanyahu you should help the poor in the week i've been homeless for twenty years and no politician has ever come here they don't look at us as humans they think we're animals in the soup already people have set themselves on fire if nothing changes we'll all start doing it too by comparison not one person appears homeless and outposts like this one in the ground as the social protests continue more and more people are demanding answers to why the government is pouring money into new settlements at the expense of the poor in existing communities policy r.t. migwan outpost in the west bank spain's prime minister has given his strongest indication yet that the country might

the business is in the mid-sized to smaller communities who have even fewer resources than the large cities, less expertise. if you take options off the table, it will be, well, what we've done for the last 40 years, and right now we have some real challenges. so any good manager is going to want to have a maximum number of options. allbee: you've got to have a serious conversation with your constituency about what it costs to deliver the service that you're required to deliver and to deliver the service that they want. paolicelli: and i think, ultimately, the responsibility is going to be down to the user of this commodity. it costs money to operate these systems. there's a need to continually invest in these systems. there's going to be new regulations. it's all going to cost money. allbee: for all practical purposes, people are going to have to pay about twice as much for these services as they currently do. because a lot of the pipe that went in, a lot of the plants that went in, went in with very sizable portions of federal grant money, mechanisms that are no longer in place. narrator:

but, when you are the mayor of a large city and you are saying we are not going to grant permits to somebody, that should be grounds for dismissal. i mean, that's unconstitutional. you should be removed from your position if you are making those kinds of proclamations as mayor of a large metropolitan city. that's insanity. >> bill: i think that people should follow your advantage, carolla, your example i should say because you were denied a job at taco bell, which is the subject of your new book, but you, i did not hear you call for a boycott or a ms. cot or a girl cot of taco bell because they discriminated against you, wouldn't hire you and you rose above it. and that's what i think should happen here. last word. >> that's right. i polled myself up by my own harachi's. i tried to arrange a bean cot for a while. that didn't take. >> bill: didn't work. >> here i am today literally a millionaire and on the factor. >> bill: and goose stepping with bill o'reilly as jimmy kimmel would put it. >> that's right. >> bill: there you go adam carolla, everybody. new bolder fresher tour alert. miller an

. >> 110 new jobs for this area comparatively is just as significant as 1,000 jobs in a large city. >> reporter: an economy stuck in low gear, sputtering but still moving ahead. the november jobs report comes out just four days before the election. lynn? >> all right, brian mooar for us in washington. brian, thanks. elsewhere, the u.s. treasury department is under fire and fighting to maintain public trust after handing out billions of dollars to criminals. according to a startling government audit, the internal revenue service may have delivered more than $5 billion in 2011 refund checks to identity thieves. and federal investigators say $21 billion more could make its way into scammers' pockets over the next five years. the audit did find that the irs tracked down 940,000 fraudulent tax returns from 2011, including one address in michigan that was used to file more than 2,000 separate claims, but an estimated 1.5 million phony claims went under the radar. >>> well, kofi annan, the united nations peace envoy to syria, has resigned his post. annan blasted the syrian government for not

it was once known as the safest large city in the country but crime is on the rise in almost every category. one assumption is homicide. until june it was down 10%. layoffs that started last year must be a factor >> when you cut patrol and staffing, when morale is in the toilet, when overtime is the only way we can keep a lid on crime, things will give >> the mayor says he doubts the spikes are connected to the cuts in police staffing. he points out that other cities that didn't make cuts have seen increases in crime rates as well. oakland police are trying to solve a deadly shooting at kentucky fried chicken drive through. police say the victim tried to drive away after he was shot several times but he crashed into a nearby building and was pronounced dead at the scene. no word yet on a possible motive >> investigators are rolling out an idling fire truck for the source of the refinery fire in oakland, richmond. it had an air intake shut off of which would have prevented the diesel engine from overheating and exploding. state investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the vap

we have both grown up in cities where black and white tino neighborhoods are large sections of the city. large parts of the city. a fairly small part of the city. it was perfectly legal to discriminate. homeownership, renting apartments to these things called restrictive racial covenants. that wasn't outlawed until 1948 by the supreme court. the small area of the south side and small parts of the west side man you kept stuffing more and more people into a smaller ary and landlords kept cutting them into smaller apartments and charging people more and more rent for these things. the hickman family found is the frustrating thing. james hickman found a job that wisconsin's seal for the older generation and the room was one of the major steelworks makers in the country. massive plan on the south side chicago that is now gone. he struggled for a year to try to find these for a large family. when he finally found its ended up being at the hands of a man named david coleman who was african-american. wasn't as rare to have african-american landlords but they were a distinct minority in side of

. >> its ninth on the list of top 10 large cities. it factored in things like quality of care, transportation,. and first was provost utah followed by madison, wisconsin. then omaha boston, and york. a new study says more men are getting help in the form of gps navigation systems. >> insurance company in australia found 64% of male drivers admitted to using gps compared with 50% of women. the study showed under drivers or more likely to use gps device is to find their way. many d.c. residents will soon see a big hike in their water bills. the average water bill in the district could rise by nearly $6 a month in october. that is when d.c. water will implement its rate tights and a big increase an existing surcharge. the surcharge is to help pay for a 13 mile tunnel for a northeast d.c. to the blue plains water treatment facility. >> researchers at the environment center look at storm data between 1948 and 2011 and found the frequency of extreme storms in the mid-atlantic increased 55% during that time. a severe storm that only happens

they are fairly large cities. it is also happening in small towns in california, too. the state has been moving to make it harder for cities to declare bankruptcy. it would make it harder to discharge pensions and other debts to public workers in a bankruptcy filing. there is a lot of jurisprudence on a cornerback. it is hard to get out of it. those are the deaths are really crushing all of these cities and many other states. gerri: tom grassley, the california treasurer spokesman said this to say. there is the notion that there is a willingness to step bondholders. it's not accurate. nobody wants to have the reputation. it closes the mark you for a long time. i guess that is true. on the other hand, if you are the poor guy who has raised taxes on a bunch of the people in your city, you just may not want to go down that road. >> yes, this is one of those things that we have nothing to fear, really. bankruptcy is a long recognize an honorable -- recognized way to get out of the crush of situation. gerri: we are talking about california, my friend he met donald trump is n

collision once every 4 1/2 years among residents large cities phoenix drivers have the best record. york's attorney general looking at whether the fast growing industry is deceiving customers with misstatements about ingredients and health value. subpoenas have been issued for amp and monster energy. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king with the bloomberg business report. >>> former senator arlen specter if the hospital -- in the hospital said to be battling for his life. the 28-year-old was diagnosed with a new form of cancer six weeks ago. the former pennsylvania senator was hospitalized yesterday after apparent flare-up. he made national headlines in 2009 after leaving the republican party to become a department kraplt he retired from the senate after losing the 2010 primary he served in the nat for 30 years. >>> -- gilead has won federal approval for a new hiv pill, gilead calls the once a day pill combine two existing drugs with two new medications. 88 to 90% of patients have under tech able levels of hiv in their blood after taking the drug for 48 weeks. >>> two devel

the rise in some areas citing the labor department the unemployment rate rose to nearly 90% in large citieseantime, general motors reporting 38% drop in quarterly profit losses in europe were not as bad as projected. stocks did fall yesterday after the fed declined to do more to stimulate the economy. do you prefer going out to eat or drink? its might depend on where you live. east on west coast prefer to dine. people in the heartland prefer to ding, -- prefer to drink. eating towns have more expensive real estate than drinking towns. the only affordable top eating towns are seattle, portland and providence, rhode island. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king with the bloomberg business report. >>> this weekend nasa has a date with mars as the curiosity prepares to land after traveling 125 million miles, the spacecraft carrying the rover will perform a complex landing on the planet's surface. an astro by in mountain view is -- an astro biologist in mountain will be analyzing a laser on top of the rover. >> we can say hey, zoom, zoom, that rock or target is interesting. we should go

those once known as the safest large city in the country. the crime is on the rise in almost every category there for all theft to burglary and rape. the one exception is homicide. until june was down 10%. the layoffs that started last year must be a factor. >>> we'll/metro t/the staffing and morales the toilet. in the overtime as the only way to a lid on crime. he does the crime spikes are connected to cuts in the police staffing. he says that other cities that did not make cuts such as paul watteau and sunnyvale and some increases in crime rates there. >>> a long standoff in redwood city has left the rest of an arm or respect. the swat team surrounded a duplex before 9:00 this morning. define the arrested him when he surrendered more than nine hours later. he was behind five recent armed robberies and markets and restaurants in the area. investigators say he were led to the duplex by people who recognize the suspect from surveillance video made public on wednesday. >>> some occupy protestors give a arrested after taking over presents almos

. >> san jose statistically, again, is one of the safest large cities in america. however, if you're the victim of that one violent crime, that statement means nothing to you. >> reporter: i was just told by an officer that several officers are being released from the scene, but this could be an active investigation scene for several hours. officers have been busy over the past eight days, saying there have been ten shootings, eight officers hurt and seven homicides, including this one. >>> one person was killed this evening in a fiery crash on highway 4. the accident happened in the westbound lanes just before 7 p.m. the compact car lost control and was then hit by an suv. the compact car went airborne and went off the highway. they tried to rescue the driver. two people in the suv also suffered injuries. >>> there's word tonight of a significant increase in the number of homes that have now been destroyed by that massive ponderosa fire that is burning out of control tonight near redding. we spoke with a cal fire representative and learned that a new survey of the

. >> san jose statistically, again, is one of the safest large cities in america. however, if you're the victim of that one violent crime, that statement means nothing to you. >> reporter: i was just told by an officer that several officers are being released from the scene, but this could be an active investigation scene for several hours. officers have been busy over the past eight days, saying there have been ten shootings, eight officers hurt and seven homicides, including this one. >>> one person was killed this evening in a fiery crash on highway 4. the accident happened in the westbound lanes just before 7 p.m. the compact car lost control and was then hit by an suv. the compact car went airborne and went off the highway. they tried to rescue the driver. two people in the suv also suffered injuries. >>> there's word tonight of a significant increase in the number of homes that have now been destroyed by that massive ponderosa fire that is burning out of control tonight near redding. we spoke with a cal fire representative and learned that a new survey of the

in the next category of large cities, slightly under a million inhabitantses, end ap liss, indiana -- indianapolis, indiana came out first. >> which city is the overall number one on the list? that would be sue falls, south -- sioux falls, south dakota. boise, idaho came in a close second. notice the places out in the wide open spaces. >>> 6:09 now. we're going to go live to pensacola. scott broom is in the sunshine state. >> our weather today, howard says it's going to be beautiful. sunny skies, highs in the 80s, low humidity. find out how long this spell will last when 9news now returns. >>> it is going to turn out to be a gorgeous wednesday around here. we start with many temps still in the 60s. by noon sunny, 81. light north, northeast winds 5, 10 miles an hour. going to push our high to about 85. look for that about 3:00. by 5:00 we're back down to a very comfortable 83. >>> on the northbound side of i- 95 at the fairfax county parkway, crews dealing with major delays due to a tanker truck fire that happened overnight. you will find lane closures and no access to the fairfax coun

lost their sense of sensibility, and their ability to pay attention to their surroundings in large, dangerous cities. >> as long as you're able to keep a lookout. i don't have the headphones on all the time. i'm able to hear you because it was not on full-blast. >> adding extra patrols in the area of the surrounding stations, surveillance cameras are also being used >>> tropical storm isaac turning toward the dominican republic and haiti. and it's threatening to strengthen into a hurricane which could take a shot at florida as the republicans gather for their national convention in tampa. the mayor of tampa says that the republican national commit seready for any problem -- committee is ready for any problems. but it is his decision whether to evacuate. >> there's multiple decision points and decision makers. as it relates to the convention,ing that is internal to the rnc. they have a process in place, they have to get a nominee out of this event. i'm sure they have taken precautions and thought of every scenario. as it relates to tampa proper, that is my jurisdiction. that would be my call. >> fore

because the price of fuel has gone up so much, and the electrical power cuts are so frequent in the large citiespeople aren't able to buy the fuel to power generators in order to charge, you know, the electronic devices. >> so what does all of this indicate to you? >> well, it is basic day-to-day living has come to a complete halt. if you talk to people in aleppo and a ga mas kus, and what nick paton walsh said, there is some degree of normalcy in damascus and aleppo and go from one neighborhood to another neighborhood and have fighting and shelling in one neighborhood and two neighborhoods away, people are trying to go ability their lives as tense as life there is, because of the price of food is higher, and they are afraid that the fighting might get to them. >> what does this mean when you look at at the explosion and where it took place, because nick brought up a good point, because this is a psychologically damaging here and this is a psychological war going on and not just the fighting taking place. how are people actually dealing with something like that to happen in the heart of the capi

chicago is a large city so people are starting to take cover. there were pictures earlier from michigan avenue. you could see the traffic there earlier at a standstill because obviously some of it caused by this concert going on and you know people going to the concert, now having to leave. i would imagine that putting people there in a bit of a predicament. rob, how long do you think before this comes in and then leaves chicago? >> you see the radar. we just froze the animation there so you see the latest shot there taken at two minutes after the hour. the storms are moving at a very good clip. in the next five minutes you'll start to feel the rain drops and the down draft in chicago. you'll be in the thick of it i would think by quarter after the hour for sure. and like i said earlier, should be out of it by 45 minutes after the hour. it will be a harrowing 20 to 30 minutes for sure as these storms make their way toward lake michigan. >> we'll watch it here on cnn. rob, don't go far. i'll need you. thank you very much. our meteorologist rob ma