in san francisco, mike sugerman, cbs5. >>> you never know who will move into an abandoned building. sometimes drug users. sometimes homeless people. and sometimes a makeshift maternity ward. who set up shop in a bunch of california town homes. >>> and it sounds like a group of davids teaming up against a goliath threatening to take their homes. we dug deeper and looked closer. tonight a warning for anyone facing foreclosure. >>> and the show will go on just not in the castro. why britney spears' big bay area show is being moved just days in advance. surprise. >>> one police department may be more familiar with theft cases is reporting a welcome surprise. a good samaritan in richmond found a large bag of cash on the street and turned it in. it was in the city's hill top area. police can't say the exact amount that was in the bag only that it was well over $100. they also don't think that the cash is linked to a crime. >> the hill top area is not known for street level drug dealing and organized violent crime. i would say that it is very easily could be somebody who has a professional

mike sugerman, cbs 5. >>> roberta, we definitely earned this gorgeous weather. please tell us it's going to stick around. >> not only is it going to stick around for a few days, but because of the gorgeous weather, that is all largely responsible to high pressure, we are going to be experiencing by midweek near or record warmth here in the bay area. it's live, it's our cbs 5 weather camera looking past the bay waters where the small craft advisory has allowed to expire. so far today we have realized high temperatures pretty much in the 60s across the board. official sundown tonight at 7:28. a few clouds in the distance will be lurking around. sunnyvale after a high of 73 is in the mid-60s. redwood city at 70. a pair of sixes in napa and mid- 60s in pleasanton where currently it's 64 degrees. temperatures tonight overnight, bottoming out in the 40s. again we'll have anywhere from partly cloudy to clear skies. your pinpoint forecast what we see to the north of us is an area of low pressure and that's pretty much where it's going to stay. the jet stream is veering

mike sugerman in san francisco. thanks, mike. >> you will like that and you will like this weather. >> do you think? >> it is really funny because some people really do like the rain. they embrace it and other people really enjoy sunshine. so it is a little bit of both. i think it will make everybody happy, dana. you nailed it there. >> this is our live cbs5 weather camera looking out toward the bay waters where today we experienced 58 degrees. 68 degrees in gilroy. quarter inch of rain at tops spilled out of the clouds. otherwise, just a few traces anywhere just south of the golden gate bridge. a little bit of drizzle still to be noted with temperatures in the low 60s. we will have a layer of clouds and also some patchy fog developing. lows dropping between 38 degrees in santa rosa to the mid-40s across the central bay and also the santa clara valley. so upstream we are watching yet another area of low pressure. this one right here that will throw a few clouds in our forecast tomorrow. so we will refer to it as a pa

with artery clogging in berkeley, mike sugerman, cbs 5. >> now makes me want to try it at least once. >> that gal was right. if you are going deep, go deep. don't think about it. enjoy. >> exactly. >>> 4:57. he spread hate in the bay area. now the leader of a skinhead group has been murdered. the tv episode that put that group in the national spotlight. >>> and protestors upset about the cost of a college education are in jail this morning expected to be in court later on today. we'll tell you what happened coming up next. >>> and day 3 of the investigation into the san bruno pipeline explosion. the shocking information firefighters did not know until the explosion happened. ,,

mike sugerman reports. what did you find? >> reporter: allen, it wasn't good. kids in east oakland have a hard enough time as it is and today, they are life got harder. this isn't what was supposed to be happening today at east oakland pride. but clean-up took the place of teaching today. the school tried to recover from a ransacking it took over the weekend. >> bad. >> reporter: this second grader and pals played on a freshly painted playground. that's something good that happened over the weekend here. but something bad happened this weekend too. >> one of my students had been robbed in their homes. and so coming to their safe place which is their school just brings up trauma. a lot of trauma. no longer their safe place. >> reporter: 30 classrooms were broken into. the principal's office smashed with an axe. a safe in his office gone, not sure what was in it. several projectors with hundreds of dollars each gone. those left behind covered in dust for fingerprints. eight top of the line mac computers yanked from the computer lab locks busted open. they left th

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mike sugerman, cbs5. >>> a new report shows alzheimer's is having a much bigger impact on caregivers than first thought. dr. kim mulvihill shows us how the debilitating condition is affecting family and friends of patients. >> reporter: russell patterson left his full time job in new york for another job he never expected. taking care of his 77-year-old mother edith who has alzheimer's disease. >> i had my own life. hi an apartment in manhattan and i knew something had to be done. >> reporter: patterson is one of an estimated 15 million americans now caring for someone with alzheimer's or dimensia. 37% than reported last year. >> their friends and family are giving up their time. >> reporter: alzheimer's targets the brain and memory, thinking and behavior. a person's ability to speak, walk or even eat can eventually fail. the new report from the alzheimer's association also highlights the toll the disease can take on the caregiver. >> people caring for people with alzheimer's disease report a very high level of stress. and actually, over a third of them report living with depression.

as mike sugerman explains school officials think it will help students in the long run. >> i'm going to graduate. >> reporter: in the movies as in life, d is a passing grade. barely passing but passing. >> a d grade doesn't represent the quality of learning that students need to go forward in life. >> reporter: so san mateo high school, like a handful of other districts around the nation, are talking about getting rid of the d grade. >> at a time where the federal government, the state government, everybody in society is saying we need to get students to proficient. a d is far below proficient. >> reporter: school board member peter hanley said you either have a grasp of the subject or you don't. if you don't get a c you should fail. >> there are a number of students that look at what's the minimum i need to do to get through this course. and i think they are a lot of students who if there was no d grade, instead of getting a d they would get a c because that's the minimum they need to get through the course. >> they get a d grade, they are not -- it is telling us they are not prepar

mike sugerman found out that's not too far from the mark, is it, mike? >> reporter: uhm, i don't know how to take that but thank you very much. [ laughter ] >> reporter: it's the highest tech way to do. it's bleach. it's the same stuff that's in this cleaner, sodium hyper chloride is what the city wants to use to clean up our water but some people as you say think that idea styx. san francisco's a beautiful place. but some parts stink. >> oh. number 2. oh. like poop. >> reporter: in some parts of the city, you don't even have to be near a storm drain. >> stinks. >> reporter: particularly on hot days, some neighborhoods smell bad, bad, bad. >> every city with a sewer system has sewerroid doors associated with it. >> reporter: i found that out a few years back during a tour of san francisco sewers. since then things have gotten stinkier. environmentally low flow toilets help cut down on the amount of water we use but less water means the sludge backs up and raises a stink. so the city wants to spend $14 million for a three-year supply of sodium hypochlorat

mike sugerman reports. >> reporter: halleluia, the website is back up and running within the last couple of minutes. bank of america's online banking site is running. for the better part two of days it wasn't. i didn't get any confirmation from bank of america but i'm a customer and i can get online now like millions of others can in california. you know, you really don't understand how much you use this thing and how much you depend on it until it goes down. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: using the bank used to be hard. >> the bank offers us many services... and like mr. frank adams, most of us use the bank. >> reporter: mr. frank adams didn't have online banking then. nor would he have had it today. >> online banking right now currently down. they are experiencing some technical difficulties with the service. it should be -- they don't have an estimated turnaround time yet but they are saying within the next one to two business days it should be up and rolling. >> reporter: could it have gone down on a worse day? this is the first of the month! >> trying to pay my mortgage today. and online

mike sugerman, cbs 25. >>> well an itsy bitsy spider turning into a major problem. why the eight-leg citer is forcing recalls of some mazdas. >>> and there is a mystery off the coast. what is killing the california sea otter. >>> the day it will rain this weekend, we'll pinpoint that day, plus snow in tahoe. all as "eyewitness news" continues right here on cbs5. ♪ [ male announcer ] unrestrained. unexpected. and unlike any hybrid you have ever known. ♪ introducing the most fuel-efficient luxury car available. ♪ the radically new... 42 mile per gallon ct hybrid from lexus. ♪ welcome to the darker side of green. cross. hundreds of of californians are >>> a warning tonight from anthem blue cross. hundreds of thousands of californians are about to get a steep rate increase. the changes mean higher could payments ands deductibles for policy holders. some will have to pay 40% more for coverage this year than they did last we're. >> it's for consumers, especially when there isn't really another option for people, these individuals, health insurance. >> every time there's a

and as mike sugerman shows us, this year you can even get more madness than ever. mike, this is your type of story. >> reporter: absolutely. for a couple reasons. we are here at pete jr.'s my favorite sports bar in san francisco right across from the ballpark and, yes, you can see all the games in their entirety. that is the good news. the bad news it is going to be hard to find. have you ever heard of tru t.v.? >> no. >> you're not alone. >> are you going to finish these chips? >> let's go to the story. >> madness of march madness begins just trying to find some of the games. >> what the heck is tru t.v.? >> what is tru t.v.? i imagine it is a network that shows live things happening. maybe more documentary styles than drama style. >> sort of. >> get out of the box. get out of the box. >> this is operation repo. today the hosts are repossessing a bus. >> what channel is tru t.v.? >> 4. >> 4. no. >> tru t.v. is on different channels on different cable and satellite systems. >> what channel is tru t.v.? >> 246. >> you know that? >> i do now. >> ever watched it before

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