what about a religion based on body piercing? aryana arcona was suspected because of her nose ring. but she says she and her mom belong to the church of body modification and says her piercing isn't a fashion statement, but a spiritual one. >> the purpose of my nose ring is basically, like, it makes me feel whole. >> we believe that the mind, body, and soul are all one entity and that by modifying the body, you can bring the, you know, the mind and soul into harmony. >> the minister says his church is federally accredited and has 3500 members nationwide. authorities for the school district say they don't believe her nose piercing is necessary for her religion. >>> they are an unlikely pair, but poppy and butter milk share one incredible story. we'll meet them, coming up. boss: and now i'll turn it over to the gecko. gecko: ah, thank you, sir. as we all know, geico has been saving people money on rv, camper and trailer insurance... ...as well as motorcycle insurance... gecko: oh...sorry, technical difficulties. boss: uh...what about this? gecko: what's this one do? gecko: um...maybe

>> pierce was here for everybody at any given time. if we are going to rally the troops, we will be around for that. >> reporter: the 68-year-old was a village president in the 1980s. >> he has been a mentor for me and quietly behind the scenes and i always appreciated that. >> reporter: michael garvey remembers looking up to pierce when he was a kid. >> if that wasn't for term limits, he might have been village president. he was that popular. >> the owe need that county sheriff's department told wgn news that weather may have played a role in the crash, but the investigation is ongoing. >> minor injuries after a car crashed into a house in south suburban chicago heights. it happened early today in the 100 block of west 16th street. we don't know if the people injured were in the car or the home. the home collapsed when emergency crews removed that car. >> a levy along wisconsin river failed flooding the access road leading to black hawk park and stranding residents in portage who would not evacuate. officials had warned them that the

attorneys for the school district don't believe her nose piercing is necessary for her religion. >>> sending your child to daycare could help their development. >> a new shows how important child care can be. >>> firefighters have a message you can see, but it's really sending a message to the mayor. they've done it once, but what does their latest billboard say? everyone knows a fee is a tax. you raised some taxes during that period, particularly the property tax as well as a lot of fee increases. as you know, there's a big difference between fees and taxes. but...they're the same. it's a tax. it's a tax. it's a tax. it's a tax. there's a big difference between fees and taxes. fees and taxes are one in the same. if it comes out of my pocket, it's a tax. now he says it isn't true. we didn't raise taxes. what? still doing the same thing, paying out more money. typical politician. definitely. i could wear hats, if i partook in hat type things likeling in rcchirping) ♪ is this my husband? awesome cool hat, mom oh my perfect kids alright fourteen ninety nine i totally wear hats ♪ my comm

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supervisor chu: pierce's disease is a kind of lyme disease spread by this insect. do we have any of those in san francisco, is this just a preventive, monitoring grant? >> we do not have any in san francisco. all plant material shipped into the county is treated at the origin, which, generally speaking, would be in ventura or san diego county. they notify us when the shipments are arriving. we are also notified by the receiving handler and we will send an inspector out. supervisor chu: so this would allow the department to recover cost for that inspection work done at the supervisory level. >> yes. supervisor chu: any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i move forward with recommendations. thank you. item seven. >> item 7. resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend retroactively a grant from the united states department of health and human services in the amount of $631,739 to fund the project entitled "project for assistance in transition from homelessnes

. >>> a nose piercing controversy in north carolina. aryana lacana wears her nose ring as a religious symbol. they're members of the charge of body modification. but the school dress code forbids such piercing.  . >>> president put power over the nation's credit market in the hands of one of his old friends today but while the news so-called consumer protection czar is the answer to run away wall street practices, some say they're being silenced. credit card companies mortgage lepders and anyone else in -- lenders and anyone else in the financial world got a new person to answer to. >> the consumer financial protection bureau will be a watch dog for the american consumer. >> reporter: at the white house, president obama called elizabeth warren a friend from law school and tapped her as his new consumer protection advisor. >> thank you, mr. president. >> reporter: the president says the agency will make sure financial companies are treating their customers fairly, especially after the collapses in the hous

kron4 jeff pierce bart just about the accident. >> high-school students in nevada were faced with therdware lesson of tragedy this weekend as they try to come to terms with a heart attacks and it just before noon on friday. the to a life of a 74 and injured four others. one of them in critical condition. >> the vehicle was traveling westbound, at a high rate of speed. it be a coal loss control while the guards did it occur across over us of double lines directly to the path of oncoming truck. in the moral >> immemorial it will be held. high school senior mac's house knew all five of the victims. >> i went to middle school with isaac, i do not talk to him that much but it definitely newlywedsknew who he was, you oe one like. >> he was closer to more to young man will be a little like that the hospital. >> i saw him about a week ago we just chatted. do know that that was a loss on that i might be able the sale tied him and know him. the driver, he was ok, i've really didn't know in the well. >> the young drivers let his been no change for. >> we have arrested the driver of the bmw for d

jeff pierce went to oakland to see how the volunteers there were doing. >> saturday was the 25th annual international coastal cleanup bait. and oakland on and the event with its own baby. were hundreds came after the city's parks and coastlines to remove trash and improve waterways. >> friends of cells secrete were have been moved from drudge clean up the habitat restoration. >> replied during the rainy season, and tried to and hold the soil with knowing of soil to prevent erosion and sediment into the creek. we have rainbow trout in the grid which is very special and unique. and they need a school setting conditions and water that is not >> but not all also creek is a pristine, >> we have occur down the bridge park, they get a lot of trash. >> anything they put into the store a lens into the creek and intense by caring into the bay. >> i grab just days debate from piles of trash. >> we have quite a collection of urine debris and styrofoam paper cups candy wrappers, that sort of thing that comes out the storm drain. >> i'm trying to find a work site for this family of volunteers who cam

president pierce was overwhelmed with grief. he was unable to deal with the problems confronting the country. calvin coolidge had the same experience. he suffered the loss of his favorite son, his 16-year-old son who died of blood poisoning after playing tennis and getting an infected blister on one of his toes and the boy died after a week. behavior changed significantly. we sometimes forget that he was governor of massachusetts. he was president of the state senate and vice president of the united states and a member of the legislature and mayor of the sitter -- the city of northampton. he was respected and held in high esteem. by the press, constituents and as the president of the united states. when he was nominated for president, he succeeded warren harding. calvin coolidge was nominated and then a few weeks later lost his favorite child. his behavior changed dramatically. he worked for hours a day. he used to be described as the work force of american politics. after his son's death, he worked for hours a day. . four hours

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this is located on the sell side of hayes street between pierce and spinous street. proposal to demolish the one- bedroom units that was constructed in 1947, this would keep approximately one had a 75 ft. for storage and utilities and would reduce the total unit count from four units to three. this does not fit within the definition of a demolition or a dwelling unit merger. the unit is being demolished and this is not being merged into another unit. this does not have anticipation and the project will be analyzed with those -- both the merger and the criteria. the property will be closer into conformance and the density of the prescribed zoning. the building to be demolished is currently vacant. >> i wanted to apologize, i forgot to mention the final comment time. usually you repeat this after. i know you can do this for item number 10. >> i read this when i called the item. >> september 7th. this is on the record. the project sponsor. >> good afternoon. my husband and i have lived at 1020 hayes street since april 30th, 1997. we are requesting commission to remove a

jeff pierce went to oakland to see how the book volunteers did there. fog >> across lines to remove trash and improve waterways. a friend of salsa krieg's have been doing this for 16 years. hadn't places have gone from tragically at habitat restoration. >> we try to keep the native plants prevent erosion we have rainbow tribe in the creek. and they need water that is not full sediment. >> but not also secrete is so perceived. >> we have some areas that get a lot of trash. and also into the storm around town goes into the creek. >> a crew of just eight save the bay from piles of trash. >> this is quite a collection of trash and breather we picked up here styrofoam can rapper's cups. >> i'm trying to find work site for this family of volunteers to follow. they will either be looking at a launching base of plants or taken out trash. for >> this family volunteered. >> if we learned about community service and very firm fireman, >> mounds of trash about kind was picked up on this coastal cleanup day. some things that should never found their way to the trash

when those bullets pierced through human flesh and you see blood and death. and you realize what. my. training was for. i had never seen firsthand a human being killed by bullets and it was really hard for me at that it's something i haven't been able to forget and that i will never forget. i remember the first time will. tell me about it you know why. it was. shows three. or four in the morning three. there were five of us of them lying in ambush. flat on the ground. one of us was always keeping watch. because we would always switch every fifteen minutes. all of a sudden i heard the sound of gravel rolling down. of the van i saw three fighters climbing towards us. whether it was very quietly very slowly only. i thought if i wake up the others there will be me. to shoot or not to shoot to be or not to be. i had no other choice but to open fire. i only had two seconds to shoot three men. suddenly it's not an exercise anymore look at the intro real. track to the bullet inside and hit the guy right here. i saw is face explode. with but the thick illicitly shoe i just hadn't time to s

pierce myrtle beach caib was a former -- mccabe was a fornler brookfield president in the 19le 0s and long time school principal in cicero. >> been a mentor to me and was always there to offer advice and quietly behind the scenes and i appreciated that. >> the national transportation safety board is assisting the faa in the investigation. >>> hundreds of people have been cut off from their homes in central wisconsin after a levee along the wisconsin river failed. flood waters from the river spimmed -- spilled into an access road yesterday and now some people in portage are stranded. officials had warned them about the levee after a week of heavy rainfall. people who did leave, may be out of their homes for a week. waters are expected to drop below flood stage by wednesday. >>> all -- grocery stores are stepping up security after some customers had their debit card information stolen. about 200 people in wheeling and buffalo grove recently had money stolen from their bank account. after using their debit cards at an aldy's store. aldy's says all affected terminals were removed from sto

the w w e smack them is to saturday night pierce live this is kron4 news at 530. >> 5530 information keeps coming in about the man behind a multiple murders. this is a picture of of ron. he is connected to out the murder of his girlfriends in the trend. two of her friends and at least one of her male house mates.

and i sleep pierced and crowned by my tomorrow. i dream the earth's heart is greater than its mouth, more clear than its mirrors, and i was lost in a white cloud that carried me up high as if i were a hupo and the wind itself my wings. at dawn, the call of the night guard woke me from my dream, from my language. you will live another death, so revise your last will. the hour of execution is postponed again. i asked, until when? he said, wait till you have died some more. i said, i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me, and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. this last poem has an epigraph, the cypress is the shadow of the tree and not the tree itself, and has no shadow because it is the tree's shadow. the cypress is in pieces like a shattered minaret. it's asleep in the road in its own aesthetic shadows, green and dark, just like it is. no one has been harmed. cars pass by, speeding over its branches, rising dust settling on their windows. the cypress is in pieces, but the dove that

comments come in 1 st bartender said, "it looks like the city is trying to rob peter to pay for paul pierce " and that is their take on it. -- to pay for paul." and that is their take on it. hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax. this has not been touched upon, the affect the public taxation will have on us. your fee is going to pushing up an extra dollar. this will be passed directly on to us. we will be paying tax on top of that extra dollar. it is not fair, and we want you guys to balance your budgets and us to balance our budgets. and with the taxes, we need to distribute them appropriately. thank you. chair avalos: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- and i am the father of three children residing in san francisco. i come from a family that has four generations of out of business. i watched my father drink for years. but little or no attention to the needs of a child. providing for me and my family and myself. institutions and funerals. today, i in recovery. -- i am in recovery. but there is funding for treatment facilities and medical services so that

dynamite, c-4 and uranium, a radioactive chemical used in dirty bombs or armor-piercing ammunition. those materials were found in both a storage locker he rented as well as in the house. apparently rittenhouse is a chemical scientist but the amounts of chemicals and the severity of them are what sh police raising eyebrows this morning. also who killed those two women. back to you. >> thank you. you can find much more on this story including unedited video from each crime scene. it's all on our website, cbs5.com. >>> oakland's police chief disagrees with the police officer's union on the impact of recent police layoffs. 80 officers laid off in july. last week union officials said crime in oakland has increased 8.5% since then. but police chief anthony batts is not connecting that increase with the layoffs. he says crime usually goes up in the summer and says that violent crime is actually down in oakland. >>> another round of steep cuts could be on the way for a.c. transit, proposing eliminating about half its weekend routes and most of its late night lines to help balance its budget

. >> one six-year-old leslie ramirez woke to a bullet piercing her arm and shoulder in the middle of night. her sister came running to help. >> i just heard a lot of screaming. my mom was crying. my little sister. she was bleeding from her arm. >> at 2:15 this morning, the little girl was hit by one of at least 25 rounds that blasted through the back end of its east oakland home on the corner of seminary avenue and east 16th street. police believe there were two to three gunmen. >> my dad, he jumped the fence to try to see who was it. but he said it was too dark. >> ten people live here, including three young children. but the only one hit was the six-year-old asleep in a room with her parents. >> every parent wants to think their children are safe when they're inside their homes and then you have bullets flying through and the child's struck. it's a tragedy. >> the little girl from green leaf elementary was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries but those no solace since this is the third time sans year of living there it's been shot at. they think he was targeting his 18-y

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dynamite, c-4 and uranium, a radioactive chemical used in dirty bombs or armor-piercing ammunition. those materials were found in both a storage locker he rented as well as in the house. so there's a couple of big questions here in vallejo. what exactly was all that material all about? we do know that he was involved with chemical science. some of it may have been used for his job. but we're talking about some serious materials. and then again, who killed these women? sydnie. >> anne, what an incredibly complicated story. how many police departments are involved? >> reporter: several. the chp and federal agencies including the atf. >> anne, thank you. anne makovec in vallejo. >>> find much more of this story including unedited video from each crime scene. it's all on our website, cbs5.com. >>> oakland's police chief disagrees with the police officer's union on the impact of recent police layoffs. 80 officers laid off in july. last week union officials said crime in oakland has increased 8.5% since then. but police chief anthony batts is not connecting that increase with the layoffs.

that's the radioactive chemical used in dirty bombs or armor- piercing ammunition. >> at this point what his motive was it to have that material present, we don't know. >> reporter: there was a body decaying in a bedroom and another one in the backyard and the suspect stayed in that house. it appeared at first, they were chopped up. investigators called it the a scene from "the sigh lens of the lambs." police sources say riddenhour allowed valdemoro to move into the house but then he turned into a terror. >> she would scream. and ee fran -- efren would tell her to shut up. >> reporter: now police, don't know if ritenhouse is the killer or valdemoro. we're told ritenhouse is a engineer for a company in suisun. right now there's evidence linked to the two bodies found in the house. there's also no explanation as to why all of those explosives were found in a house. while two bodies can be linked to valdemoro, right now three cannot. and authorities fear with his death last night answers of what happened to those three individuals may not be answered. >> that they found uranium. are they at

. >> it's sort of piercing. it's really annoying. obnoxious. >> reporter: does it make you want to leave? >> it's -- ah, it doesn't ke me want to hang around here. >> reporter: but will the mosquito work? >> the young people are making so much noise, even though it's actually s in place to deter the young people, but the amount of noise that they're making overwhelms the sound. i hope it works because there are toomany teenager it's. >> too many teenagers here on a regular basis. >> reporter: overrun with teenagers. >> overrun with teenagers. >> you can barely make it to the escalator sometime. the kids are everywhere. >> now pat says, he suggests blasting wayne newton at the chinatown metro to deter teens from gathering here. >>> well, there is much more a head on "news4 this week." do you know the best ways to save on your power bills? find out by taking liz crenshaw's energy quiz. >>> and lindsay czarniak takes former wizards' star, caron butler, to one of her favorite lunch spots. her mom's house. >>> driveners alexandria won't n

what they call the fourth year of klan when it came back was the klan of david duke which pierce in the late seventy's and really david duke was all about the idea of kind of let's get rid of the ropes let's put on business suits let's hold meetings and motels we need sort of get out of the cow pastures and into the motels. greensboro was an amazing moments that came relatively late. in the century at a time when people really did not expect the klan to be picking up weapons and murdering their enemies in open daylight let alone on t.v. the fact is that's precisely what happened. to the. report of a group that had organized to have an anti clinton inspiration and conference and when the third nine hundred seventy nine. i was one of the coordinators of the march so i was kind of busily looking in on this not the only thing and it was actually standing on the street corner for a little while not far from seeing the smith. line of cars. moving very slowly came down the street and cindy said it's weird it's it was weird she said no cops here. she was right and cindy was dead moments later.

that's the radioactive chemical used in armor piercing ammunition or bombs. >> what his motive was to have that material, we don't know. >> reporter: they're also at a loss as to why rittenhouse stayed in a house with a body decayed in there and in the back yard. initially made them appear to be chopped up. investigators called it a scene from silence of the lambs and are operating under the assumption it's the remains of administrate and allen. that's when valdemoro. that's his corvette in the garage. >> she was screaming outside that door. she would scream and the husband would say go inside, shut up. and he'd look at me saying don't mind her. >> reporter: now police don't know if rittenhouse is the killer or valdemoro. the corvette showed up today abandoned. weeks away from the house where police say valdemoro bludgeoned to death. >> we're not sure highway dispute was about on that sunday but it was somewhat related to the housing situation or the romantic situation. >> reporter: valdemoro was dating cindy tran. he kidnapped her tuesday night leading police on a chase. investigativ

you just want to cook them until they're tender when you pierce them with a knife. you can--what you're gonna do firsd is you're gonna puree these. you can use a blender, a food processor--whatever you want. i like the food processor becae you end up with a nice texture. and we're gonna puree this until it's--there are no chunks left. [whirring] so granite is just a french word for granita, or shaved ice. you need sugar in it or else it won't scrape at all. it'll be completely rock lid. so what we're gonna do is just pour it into any dish you have. leave yourself overnight. and here we have one that i did a little earlier. it just freezes perfectly flat. you'll take a fork and scrape it just so you end up with your consistency of, like, shaved ice that you get at the fair or anywhere. you can do any fruit. you can do coffee, basil--anything--just make sure you have sugar in there. so now we'll just spoon some into our serving dish. and then to garnish it, i like to use products similar to what it's made of, or that complement the flavor, so i'm gonna use fresh pluot

we're really excited about, so this is the chapter that we hope they will support more work at the pierce, but now, i will have an opportunity to extend this period and then also, a poster. you recently had an in house event. we are moving. what is interesting, some of you may have seen that we have the old palace of fine arts from 1969 with a photograph of frank oppenheimer, said this was a piece at pier 15, where our current director was with him, so for you, thank you very much. [applause] we look forward to seeing you at the site. >> i have one speaker card. then the commissioners, members of the public, thank you for letting me speak today on this. i promise i'm not here to speak about anything but jennifer. jennifer and i work together for six years. i think six or seven. it probably felt like 60 years. but from 2000 through 2006, and when i met jennifer, it was the third lease i had done with support, and i can tell you, having done the first two, with nick dempsey, it was a different experience. [laughter] i can also tell you that from when i met jennifer, and you had the good tas

she beat pierce, 7-6, 6-3. this is the arthur ashe court there.us advances to the quarterfinals where she is a regular. at bottom of the screen puts this thing away. nice lob. gets it over without the return. >>> we've been saying this for weeks, tiger woods in jeopardy of losing his number one ranked world title, but phil mickelson has struggle this summer but not this weekend. third round of the deutsche banc championship in boston. nice birdie for phil on this hole right here. here's the skinny for fill mikkelson now, tied for sixth place. if mickelson wants to take over the number one spot, he has to finish fourth place or better and tiger needs to finish out of the top 24 for that to happen. >>> final tloily tonight, a wil days for the sharks. the ceo abruptly resigned and now an old friend wants to return, but the sharks say no thank you to the old friend. owen nolan, one of the most popular players in franchise history, said i want to end my career here. sthesharkli decne the sharks declined. >> good night. d.

. >> one six-year-old leslie ramirez woke to a bullet piercing her arm and shoulder in the middle ofhe night. her sister came running to help. >> i just heard a lot of screaming. my mom was crying. my little sister. she was bleeding from her arm. >> at 2:15 this morning, the little girl was hit by one of at least 25 rounds that blasted through the back end of its east oakland home on the corner of seminary avenue and east 16th street. police believe there were two to three gunmen. >> my dad, he jumped the fence to try to see who was it. but he said it was too dark. >> ten people live here, including three young children. but the only one hit was the six-year-old asleep in a room with her parents. >> every parent wants to think their children are safe when they're inside their homes and then you have bullets flying through and the child's struck. it's a tragedy. >> the little girl from green leaf elementary was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries but those no solace since this is the third time sans year of living there it's been shot at. they think he was targeting his 18

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our current wind speeds a lot in the team's starting to come down in redwood city and hayward piercing gusts of up to 30 mi. an hour in just a couple hours ago. tonight into tomorrow, fog close to the coastline receiving a bike tour morning that fog will be widespread. temperatures will be even cooler as we head into tomorrow and the winds will continue so the 3:00 our temperatures only in the lower '70's and are warmus inland spots. will take a look about temperatures and your extended forecast coming up in just a >> bit> tropical storm for mean it soaking the lodestars state tonight dozens of pilots are closed by flooding in san jose and dallas is expected to get a month worth of rain in just a couple of days. >> her mien and made landfall late last night to these pictures from padre island is an idea of the intensity of the downpour. today her mien is making its way through central texas curbing northeast. by thursday afternoon it will be in oklahoma. much of east texas is under a tornado watch. but this picture shows one of the fun of clouds forming. flash flood warnings a row for

. >> reporter: ryan was traditionally home-schooled like his younger brothers, austin and pierce areow. meaning mom, karen, was his primary teacher. that's changed now that he's in high school. >> if you already have the file from a different class you don't need to download it again. >> reporter: it's 11:00 and ryan is in history class, with 82 other students spread across the state. while the teacher lectures ryan and the others can type in questions, answers, problems. there's even time before and after class for students to chat online, of course. >> it does have more of a high school feel. like you have to be at this class at this time, without the walking. >> and like real-world high school, ryan has to adapt to different teaching styles. >> it was a change. i know my mom. but the teachers, i don't know as well. >> if there's a transition period in which i'm letting go. >> reporter: still, karen said the virtual model gives them what they are looking forward right now, a challenging curriculum as well as a little more learning independence for rye kwan. but mom, still able to k

pierce points out, in many cases we will know as a city if they're workingÑi with another employer.ld potentially have a full-time job at theñr committee college and the city. the weber, to the extent they are worki,g within the city entirely -- however, to the extent they're working [ the city entirely and holding full-time jobs, we're working withÑi thexd department, primary the department of health, as noted in the report, working with them to adopt a practice of not giving people those jobs. i think a potential reform that could be considered prospectively might be limiting pension-able earnings within a year, as an example. another finding is using a three-year average to determine if final pension compensation. that was before the board and voters. that is sort of the general accepted method for -- i know what to say spiking because that assumes there are nefarious deeds going on. they may just be a person getting a promotion in their later years. what you want to do is ensure the compensation is paid at the highest level as possible. some of that can be dealt with through man