we will fly 50 westbound in realtime. now, back to you. >>> at the top of the hour, we are following a developing story. the person shot in northeast washington has died. this happened just after 3:00 this morning at 11th and galloway street near fort circle park. police have are on the lookout for two suspects in a gray chevy tahoe. >>> look at the stories happening today. today is one of the first christmas mailing deadlines believe it or not. get to the post office today to send packages to military personnel who are serving overseas if you do it by parcel post if you want to get it there by december 25th. it is the cheapest way to get your gift there. >>> a concert in morgantown, wave were to kill the miners killed in april. it is for rtm, remember the miners. >>> at tysons corner center, a justin beiber buyout. 100 fans will move store to store buying everything with the teenager pop star's image on it and all the merchandise will be donated to the ainova fairfax hospital for the holiday season. >>> police are stayin

captioner is >>> your realtime captioner is >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald.rado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> launch a week after the vote and the counting won't be done for days. >>> the newest airport in the bay area is until the red. what has to be done to get taxpayers off the hook. >>> and after months of routine delays, it's total meltdown for thousands of muni passengers today what will it take to end the breakdown? good evening. i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. >>> people in oakland do want to know, who will be our next mayor? but it may be the end of the week before they find out. that is because the county elections office said late today, it is postponing a final count in

back to the realtime graphics, this time the focus will be on the outer loop in maryland. if you move it outside, lanes are moving wide open from 95 over to 270. everything on the inner loop as well, is clear. this is your live condition at university boulevard. a check on your travel times, 66 in the green from the fairfax county parkway to the beltway. 15 minutes on make it from 395 towards the toll road. 674 over to the beltway. a 6-minute commute. still ahead at 5:25. a check on the bw parkway traffic, mike, back to you. >>> metro is trying a new way to get the attention of pedestrians. >> the bus is turning. >> that's a talking bus. they're broadcasting a caution message before they turn in northeast washington. the washington metro area transit authority says the shouting buses are part of a test program to try to improve safety. >>> arlington police are cracking down on drivers who don't yield the right-of-way to pedestrians. [whistle]. >> police were stationed at several roslyn intersections yesterday. they handed out 33 citations to drivers and gave warnings to pe

. >> it's called in realtime and it's doing doing realtime with facebook and youtube where i have a flip camera when the television cames are aren't there and it's taking me through my journey when i go through the doctor's apaints and therapy like occupationaller that pi and acupuncture and you try to keep a really calming environment. and if it's a message to give to women, i would let them know, you need to be pared up with a good medical team, an omotion -- emotional team and whatever your spiritual team may be. just for yourself to go through all the things you go through, and the -- the realtime campaign really takes you through that step. i have good days and bad days. i feel very empowered, though, these days. >> yeah. >> i do. i feel the best i've felt in my life. >> you have 7,000 fans on facebook. you must -- this must be some sort of need for something like this. you must be reaching a lot of women families. men who are scared and don't know what it's like and you are giving them a window to that. >> well, not only that. but i noticed i picked up a lot more men and i think th

captioner is >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> good evening. breaking introduce. a shelter in place alert for people who live near the tesoro refinery near martinez in contra costa county. tonight, bay area air quality officials are calling this a major incident. a power outage at the pg&e substation at the refinery may be to blame. you can see chopper 5 live here a number of these large flares are burning and sending thick, black smoke into the air. and that could affect people's breathing. the people who live nearby. that's prompted county health official to send out a shelter in place warning. it was about 4:40 this afternoon. the outage forced them to burn off material in the pipeline causing those flares. now, we want to show you the neighborhoods that i

i don't know about that. >> i love the idea of asking your friends what do you think of this in realtime. >> subjecting yourself to the scrutiny of your peers. >> right. absolutely. your girlfriend will tell you glee was on heidi fleiss's frequent caller list and now charlie sheen is called to the carpet by an adult film star. this time sheen is calling fowl. >>> the finale of "dancing with the stars" happens tonight. who do you got? jen, kyle, bristol? we will take a look coming up next. [ sneezes ] client's here. whoa! that achy cold needs alka-seltzer plus! it rushes multiple cold fighters, plus a powerful pain reliever, wherever you need it! [ both ] ♪ oh what a relief it is! oh, i see. a throne for the tv... room for movies... your workout gear... non-stop football... it's a man cave! the boys next door will never leave. who says we want them to? >>> 6:24 right now. topping the look antitaint news this morning, charlie sheen has filed an extortion lawsuit against an adult film actress who came out and talked about the encounter she had with sheen at plaza hotel last month. capre and

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we refer to this data a lot as "realtime data". it's only realtime as you're watching it. no different than watching a ball game and seeing the replay. once you're looking at replay, it's no longer live. we are no no longer looking at it in realtime. to view this data and watch this data in realtime is significantly different than going back post job and looking at it. so when you're staring as these traces, you have to wait a significant number of minutes in some cases to notice a certain trend. >> it's not -- >> i'm. we worked at one time on, did we ever animate this slowly? this left hand one? i can't remember that. i pointed out today. whenever b.p. wants to explain this data, they take it and flip it. do you agree as the expert here on sperr y sun. things that might be be aparent? >> yes. you can emphasize certain responses and make them look more or less significant. >> megan, you're right. that's start up here and keep going. this is this first kick line here. that's sort of what you would be seeing as it traces down there, right? >> right >> it's your view, i guess

>> reporter: you can feed this picture in realtime to the command center?> yes. >> reporter: the program is expensive. each predator costs around $18 million and the aircraft has limits. they're only cleared to fly inside a narrow zone along the border and can't fly at all in bad weather. still, to gasho, the air fleet is essential. >> this is sovereign u.s. soil and i think we need to defend it as such. >> reporter: and congress is sold. a fourth predator is on its try the mexican border. bob orr, cbs news, fort huachuca, arizona. >> couric: overseas, president obama finally made it to indonesia after postponing a visit to his one-time home on three different occasions. today he flew from india to jakarta, the second of four nations he'll visit on his asian trip. but he has to cut it short so air force one can avoid the ash cloud from the mount merapi volcano that's closing in on jakarta. our chief white house correspondent chip reid is traveling with the president. >> reporter: the president arrived in jakarta today for a brief visit that's part diplomacy

as we return to the realtime graphics ethic the focus will be on the outer loop. are starting to pick up between university and georgia avenue. overall no incidents. 66 eastbound, only a ten-minute commute from the fairfax county parkway to the beltway. inner loop is okay, as well. now, back to you. >>> making news now at 5:48. police in oakland, california shut down the station when people gathered at the rail station to protest a police shooting on monday. an officer killed a domestic violence suspect. >>> iraq's parliament elected a sunni lawmaker as its speaker. this is after a they reached a power-sharing deal which divides the top three government posts. lawmakers have been unable to form a new government in the eight months since elections there. >>> early detection pays off. jane fonda says she is cancer free after having a tumor in her breast removed a few days ago. the 72-year-old oscar winning actress said it was found during a routine checkup last month and was noninvasive. fonda says she is sticking to her schedule promoting her newest fitness dvd. a

over to our realtime graphics no other problems to report. we will zoom in to 270 and show you the southbound trip. the volume is starting to build around germantown road. a little shaky shot there. you are okay to the split. quick check on the travel times in virginia. 66 eastbound, from the fairfax county parkway to the beltway, 12 minutes and growing. the dulles toll road is okay and 295 is no problems making your way to the 11th street bridge. still ahead in the next report at 6:11, we are going to be traveling the gw parkway. back to you. >>> we bring you a check on the stories happening today. farooque ahmed is due in court this morning in alexandria. he's a northern virginia man accused of plotting a terror attack against metro. he was arrested last month and is held without bail. >>> a memorial set for today for sue ann marcum. she was the american university professor killed in her chevy chase home last month. tonight's memorial service starts at 8:00 at the bender arena at the au campus. the district begins inspections of dozens of

tell their friend brb, they can continue their string of conversations and those conversations in realtime can be cut indefinitely. the -- caught indefinitely. the founder of facebook -- >> if people want to have conversations on the facebook, great. they shouldn't have to use facebook.com or facebook.chat. wherever that conversation is going on, we won't be able to connect -- we want people to be able to connect. >> reporter: we spoke to a text expert saying it is facebook's way to try to win customers. google has been trying to provide extra capability for users but on streets of san francisco, there seems to be some issues raised regarding a social networking site. >> i don't fully trust facebook. i've actually -- i've never been really that trustful of all of the social networking applications. >> i don't use facebook. i -- i'm using yahoo!. i don't know how i feel about the competition between facebook and google. i favor gobble. >> reporter: everyone can sign up for their own facebook address. this is modeled more after a facebook message conversation. reporting live from san francis

tonight they sort of unveil technology never used before, actually tracking races in realtime.one of the things that we did was asked them to compare the abc news projection map, this was based on polling and all the data we've sort of pulled together in the few weeks before the midterms, with what they put together. you had your own sort of map forecasting the outcome tonight. how'd you do it? >> we're taking a look at which candidates had the most "likes" on facebook in the different hot races. what we found is in 16 of the 20 races we were looking at, we were actually able to accurately predict the results based on facebook. >> we knew the overnight broadcast is tracking overnight headlines and we are here too as well. i've asked some of the students here at asu to sort of weigh in with how different websites. you're on? >> i'm on slate. >> on slate? >> the headline is dear tea party, thanks for the senate, love, the democrats. >> you're on drudge, what do they have? >> i'm on drudge report and it says, on second thought, has president obama pretty -- giving the look. >>> wh

. >> monitoring the air in realtime with hand held instrumentation and it will be analyzed the bay area management laboratory. >> reporter: we don't know at this point the results of those laboratory tests. but the shelter in place order was called off around 8:00 last night. again, health officials warn that people with compromised respiratory systems could still feel the effects of the smoke late into the evening yesterday. tesoro is based in san antonio, texas. we've made several calls to figure out what the company's doing to trigger the power outage in the first place. at 4:00 yesterday the refinery's main power source and back up power source both went out. as of yesterday spokespersons for tesoro don't know what caused the outage. ktvu channel 2 news. >>> our coverage continues throughout the morning here on channel 2 and on our website at ktvu.com where you will find more video from the incident and other information. just look for the bay area news tab. >>> this morning former state senator will talk publicly for the first time following his loss to city councilwoman jean quan

>>> realtime is on its break. so they have time for us tonight. if you think they're water carriers at fox, wait until you hear what they said about her. >>> derrick pitts with the franklin institute and an announcement on the vote about worst persons. get me my space modulator. >>> president obama calls for more bipartisanship in the post-sh lacking era of his presidency, progressive group tries to stop the broken record and offers the president advice. screw all that, you're the chief executive, you have executive powers, use them. our fourth story, how-to blueprint for what the president can do without congress. one of its chief architects will join me. progress not positioning is the counsel given by john podesta and his progressive group, center for american progress, issuing a report today identifying 30 specific areas where mr. obama could act. the best part, no congressional consult required. the president can use his authority by issuing executive orders, use rule making, a9e management and diplomacy. to further his agenda. among the grou

still ahead in your next traffic report coming up at 4:40 we're traveling realtime. back to you. >>> it's been in the news the last few days but the prince george county corruption scandal continues to grow. >> the 22 year veteran sergeant, 16 year veteran and 3 year veteran officer is charged. >> the main indictment involving involving ticktock liquors. >> reporter: federal officers searched the store monday and were still taking boxes into the evening. in 2007 he paid tens of hows of dollars to off duty police officers to provide security at his liquor store. authorities had wanted it closed because of crime in the neighborhood. he also actively lobbied in the county for fewer restrictions on liquor sales. the feds allege he conspired with public officials known and unknown in this scheme. >> they would pay police officers in exchange for using their official authority to assist in the transport and distribution of untaxed cigarettes and alcohol. >> reporter: owner of prestige auto glass and auto parts was indicted. how is this relatedd with the charges against jac

"this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." >>> they are fed up with the drugs and crowds at the cal palace. tonight some community leaders say it is time to try a new tactic. >> reporter: don knapp is there where people are demanding action. people are sick of the raves and have gone to the city leaders to see if they can stop the difficulty with young people and the noise and the stress in the neighborhood with some legislation. just because they live near the cal palace, says marion brown, neighbors shouldn't have to put up with the parties. >> when they are out of control the police units come and get things organized. well, people run from this cal palace. they run around the neighborhoods and go knocking on people's doors trying to get in because they are all -- the people that have attended this have been on drugs or whatever. >> reporter: one week ago radio station live 105 sub sonic spook fest ended with 17 party goers hospitalized with alcohol and drug overdose. six months ago two people were left dead and led to several drug arrests. the community leaders are saying en

as we've pointed out each flash here is realtime cloud to ground lightning.ower 45,000 feet down state. and the heavier cells are in your lower suburbs. you can see the visibility reductions in our southern suburbs due to haze and moisture. here's where the lightning is occurring. here's what the rain has looked like so far. this is doppler plotted rainfall since 7:00 this morning. here's what's on the way. here's our local area rainfall. you can see how the southern suburbs have gotten more than we have. our rpm model thins the rains out beyond 10:30. we get patches of light rain to come through. and we'll awaken tomorrow with cloudy skies and sprinkles in the area. but you'll see another batch set up. it turns pink on the backside which means it's mixing with sleet and so forth. look at the weather advisories up north. these are frost and freeze warnings. tornado and flood advisories. pretty active pattern. here's the corridor of 4 inches of rain that will run from south of st. louis up through indiana and indianapolis and pittsburgh as you see there. a rea

>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. . >>> good friday afternoon. i'm allen martin. get ready for storms and cold weather. tracy with what we can expect over the weekend. >> yeah, we're going to kick things up a notch around here. here's live look outside towards the transamerica building. no more sunshine. just a whole lot of clouds that are going to be filtering into the bay area well into the afternoon and the evening. that's when we expect rainfall to start to move in, as well. here's our hi-def doppler. we have been looking at light sprinkles throughout much of the morning and now move into the early afternoon. as we continue to move through the evening, that's when we're expecting the rainfall, the chance of rainfall, to increase across the bay area. here's your afternoon forecast. plenty of clouds expected, chance of rainfall moving in and cool temperatures. highs today in the mid-50s at the coast, upper 50s at the bay, 60 inland. more rainfall expected over the course of the weekend, thun

. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald.aption colorado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> police step in as bay area uc students protest the rising cost of their education. but with a shrinking state budget, at the might not have a choice. i'm allen martin. >>> more than a dozen students have arrested as the board of regents prepares to vote on that tuition increase. anne makovec live at the ucsf mission bay campus with more on the confrontation. anne. >> reporter: yeah, allen. 16 people arrested this morning, there were several hundred protestors out here. there are still a few dozen at this hour. things have calmed down significantly since there were some serious clashes between protestors and police. some were arrested. some were shoved and some were pepper sprayed. but they wanted their voices to be heard. >> we're feeling really hurt and disgusted about what's going on. >> reporter: so much so, protestors were involved in several scuffles with police, some in the parking lot as they tried to block the regents fro

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>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> lightning, heavy downpours, even some snow heading for the bay area right now. some say it could lead to another gas pipeline disaster. what pg&e is considering in san bruno now that the weather is getting colder. >> reaching out to families of servicemen and women missing in action. how the government is bringing home long lost heroes and bringing closure to bay area military families. good evening. i'm ann notarangelo. >>> a bit of a break from the rain earlier today for much of the bay area but part 2 of this winter storm is here right now. expect temperatures to drop and winds to kick up. there is even thunder and lightning in some parts of the bay area. meteorologist lawrence karnow is tracking the coldest part of the storm sweeping through the bay area. >> it's that cold part of the storm that makes the atmosphere unstable. lightning strikes over the bay and along the peninsula and there's more to come, folks. so don't be surprised if you do see that

>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> welcome. i'm allen martin. musical instruments, paint, vintage cars, pieces of rock history blocking to neil young went up in flames today. mark sayre is in san carlos to show us damage at this warehouse fire. mark. >> reporter: well, allen, the clean-up has been under way all morning long. damage is estimated at $750,000 but many are ear replacage. the fire on corey road just west of the 101 broke out just before 3 a.m. the fire crew had to cut through the front door to get in. it went to a second alarm. when firefighters arrived they had no idea what was inside the warehouse or who it belonged to. >> mr. young had a lot of his musical equipment in there ball of it was -- a majority of it was contained within storage containers that they use for traveling when they are on the road. he had a lot of film material in there that's firefighters protected with a lot of material to keep it from water damage and the quick action by firefighters did definitely reduce his loss. >> reporter: neil young

>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good afternoon. i'm allen martin. any minute now we expect to learn the fate of former bart officer johannes mehserle. mark sayre shows us what's happening right now. mark. >> reporter: well, allen, the sentencing hearing for johannes mehserle has been under way all morning in a los angeles courtroom. that hearing got off to a noisy start with a protest outside of the courthouse. one protestor in fact was arrested a short time ago. cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom, but superior court judge robert perry has been reading excerpts from the more than 1,000 letters and postcards that he has received from members of the community. mehserle has been behind bars since the jury reached its verdict on july 8. also, today his defense team is asking the judge for a new trial. among other claims, mehserle's attorneys say they have uncovered new cases of officers confusing their guns with their tasers. the former bart officer fac

>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. has just issued the all-clear after examining two suspicious >>> good afternoon to you. i'm allen martin. >>> a bomb squad has just issued the all clear after examining two suspicious bags found in the cargo area at boston's logan international airport. that cargo area was evacuated after dogs picked up a suspicious scent after a routine inspection after they passed two duffel bags with a nigerian address in the delta building. state police say the packages have bedding material. passenger flights weren't affected because the cargo building is a mile away from the passenger gates. but another scare today when two passengers on a u.s. airways flight from charlotte, north carolina to denver were questioned by authorities. and in phoenix, a passenger aboard a southwest airlines flight found a fully loaded ammunition clip belonging to a police officer. the plane landed safely. no other ammunition was found. >>> other breaking news this afternoon, one person is killed in a boating accident

"this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." >> that's maddening. it is totally maddening. >>> a father shot and killed while walking with his daughter. one year and no progress. why police don't make an arrest even though they know who do it. >>> back to wondering what illegal looks like. but this time in california the arizona style immigration law being proposed right here in the bay area. >> it is not real and not illegal for now. the emergency push to outlaw synthetic marijuana. >>> the day after thanksgiving means shopping. how stores hope to get your attention this holiday season. >>> good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm dana king. it is another cold night across the bay area. temperatures will be near freezing for a second night in a row. here is roberta with how cold it is going to get. >> roberta? >> dana, how about already below freezing across the south bay. it is freezing. 33 degrees. clear skies freezing in the east bay community in pleasanton and this is why. for the second night in a row a freeze warning has been issued for northern

"this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." >>> it is cold now. we are talking cold that hasn't been recorded since 1906 in one area and 1894 in another. >> vallejo 34 degrees. east bay 38. check out belmont along the peninsula. clear skies. winds have now calmed and air temperature is at 40 degrees. we are anticipating temperatures subfreeze tonight. freeze warning in effect for northern and eastern portion of our district. everywhere else has a frost advisory tonight. temperatures are plummeting into the 20s and 30s. coldest areas will be the north bay. in fact, san rafael, the record is 27 degrees set back in 1894. 116 years ago. tonight we are forecasting very close to that at 29 degrees. record in santa rosa 24 set back in 1931. we will pinpoint the areas we anticipate those records and tell you about the next couple of nights as well. dana, that's coming up a little later in the newscast. >> brrr. thank you. >>> we are going to head outside. kiet do got the short end of the stick. where are you, freezing? >> reporter: who wants to be behind

captioning sponsored by cbs >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> a tuition protest out of control. an officer pulled a gun. >>> gunned down in front of a church, what witnesses saw during oakland's latest homicide. >> and what about the struggle to keep oakland's police force adequately staffed? and that other struggles you won't find in today's state of the city address. good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm dana king. >>> the prospects of another tuition hike for uc students touched off violent clashes between protestors and police today. about 300 protestors tried to make their way into the regents meeting at uc-san francisco mission bay. one officer even drew his gun during the standoff. simon perez is in san francisco with the tense confrontatio

appear or you can manipulate them using motions and gestures and movement. 3-d tech technology and realtimeeras will push that into a realm where you will start to be able to sit on your couch and say channel up, channel down, volume left, right. >> reporter: and what about 3-d? it anymore make is -- its nickname is 3-d glass, but it is not glasses. you don't need glasses and don't need batteries. the resolution is thousands of pixels per inch, but since they are holographic pixels, it is thousands of holgels per inch. the company is barely two years old, but it is already responsible for many new connections between us and our devices. a really touching story. with the next step of interactive tee, richard hart, abc7 news. >>> well, a bay area man who revolutionized the internet with the netscape browser thinks he has a better idea. tomorrow mark andrisan will launch a new browser called rock melt. it is built on the idea that most on-line activity revolves around social media sites like facebook and twitter. it tries to minimize the need to roam from one site to another by putting everyth

. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> good afternoon. a bay area high school teacher arrested on campus for allegedly having sex with a student. there is a concern there could be more victims. anne makovec has stunned reaction from students and parents in fairfield. >> reporter: apparently this teacher was arrested on campus last night spent several hours in jail and then was released this morning on a $50,000 bond. obviously, people here parents and teachers are shocked and dismayed. >> oh!! wow! ! >> reporter: that's the reaction at rodriguez high school in fairfield after this 27-year-old english teacher was arrested on campus last night accused of having sex with a male student. >> everybody is shocked. like, whoa, miss killings. >> reporter: the student was 16 at the time, he is now 17 and killings is charged with statutory rape which police say occurred in her vallejo home. they are also looking into the possibility that other students may have been involved with killings. >> for a teach

captioning sponsored by cbs >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald.tion colorado, l.l.c. >>> the holiday season officially upon us. when the cold snap might break. >> sometimes you see people going through things and that means something to them. >> not content to just feed themselves, the small army of your neighbors who made sure everyone had a meal today. >>> and yes, a whole lot of people have set aside the turkey to get ready for some serious shopping. >>> happy thanksgiving. i'm allen martin. dana has the night off tonight. >>> on on this thanksgiving, be grateful if you have a means to stay warm. it will be very cold. most of the bay area will reach near

>>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> good afternoon. i'm allen martin. >>> traffic moving on the bay bridge again, this is after police negotiators talked down a suicidal man at the height of the rush hour. anne makovec with how this started with a claim of explosives. anne. >> reporter: that's right. he was threatening to kill himself and blow up the bay bridge here behind me. we just got this picture of the man that police say is responsible for the shutdown of the westbound bay bridge this morning. 51-year-old craig carlos valentino from antioch didn't harm himself or anyone else in the end but he does have some suicidal tendencies. we got a hold of his sister in antioch and showed us this text message from him this morning, saying today carlos took his life after he learned his wife was having an affair with a married man. this afternoon, carlos is alive. >> he called 911 and made the threat of explosives and possibly blowing up the bay bridge. >> reporter: that's how it started in the middle of the morning rush hour on the upper de

and the utility says it's installed software to monitor realtime performance and better analyze the risk of explosion. >> we have many ways to mitigate risk before a failure, but we wanted to look top to bottom, how could we improve? and these measures have really -- that we've taken have really helped improve and in fact our numbers are re-- our reliability numbers have greatly improved here in san francisco. >> reporter: now, last year, pg&e customers on average experienced more outages than the customers of utility from all over the state. and pg&e says that as a result of these safety improvements, this year those numbers have improved. those improvements plus some others cost $200 million over three years. allen? >> sharon, you mentioned the number of more than 100 of these covers are going to be replaced but i'm wondering, what's the percentage? there have to be a lot more than that in the city. >> reporter: they are going to start out with 125. that will be done by the end of the year. that's roughly 10%. the next ones will be done next year. so they are going to be being done in

"this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." >>> thousands of people told "stay in your homes." martinez refinery spews black smoke for hours but why these flames mean safety procedures work. >>> fighting crime with math? the same formula used to try to predict earthquakes is helping police catch bad guys. it works they say. >>> state and federal agents with guns drawn looking for illegal dairy. a new battle over a particular type of milk that many say is the safest, healthiest thing you can eat. >>> a major flareup at a teesoro refinery. robert lyles on what set the whole thing off. >> reporter: tasero is saying tonight the six flaring stacks out behind me that are died down are all the result of a massive fire outage. now they say an investigation is underway with pg&e to figure out what led to that power outage but we have learned even if they finds the answer there is one thing missing from this refinery that means they can't guarantee it won't happen again. >> to me, it doesn't seem reasonable. >> reporter: randy lewis lives down wind from the stacks he can see them flaring

. >> we are able to look at the realtime metabolism of the cell. >> reporter: doctors say for the first time they can see tumor gross, precise aggressiveness and signs of spread all in seconds. researchers say it's superior to current imaging, can cost less and provides unprecedented detail. >> information that can help clinicians and patients make, you know, educated decisions rather than just guesses at what's going on. >> reporter: 67-year-old merck says prostate cancer runs in his family but he doesn't get biopsies. >> it is a great piece of mind, every time i get the doctor's report, i think -- >> reporter: researchers collaborating with ge say they are exploring this technique for brain and kidney cancer also to pinpoint heart disease and for diabetes. they say it is a potentially very powerful diagnostic tool. reporting live health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> if you recently applied for a new driver's license it's going to take longer than usual to receive it. the dmv says it's about two weeks behind in processing licensed applications across the sta

"this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." >>> he says he is prepared to put himself on the lineaccused of beating up a priest he says raped him 35 years ago. that man appeared in court today while outside a powerful show of support for him. first, kiet do has the 911 calls made during the attack at a retirement home. >> 911 emergency. >> i need the police immediately. >> reporter: a frantic 911 call made from this rest home for retired priests. and father jerald is getting beaten in the lobby. badly injured and bleeding and the caller is horrified. >> what's the issue? what is going on? >> some guy is getting beat up. >> could you please hurry up. >> reporter: investigators believe this man, william lynch is the attacker. listen closely and you can hear the fighting and cursing in the background. >> i have several other questions. i'm going to get officers started and i'm going to ask you some questions while i get them started, okay. >> yes. >> reporter: lynch turned himself in last month and is now charged with the savage beating but he says he is using his trial to publicly s

"this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." >>> good evening, ken and dana are off tonight. black friday, the biggest shopping day of the year for both retailers and consumers. it is winding down. but for those willing to get up early, brave the cold and give up part of their holiday, the deals did not disappoint. >> going to get those deals. >> he was going to get those deals all right. shoppers were willing to trade time for money. many say having a shopping strategy though helps get the best deals. >> we have kind of planned and plotted outside what we were going to go for. right now i've got some people getting some other kind of stuff. >> marketing experts say companies are putting more and more emphasis on black friday. they say to expect even more tactics next year to entice shoppers and that could include opening their doors even earlier. >>> many shoppers go after the black friday deals for themselves but when it comes to shopping for kids what do they want? and does it have anything to do with what parents actually buy? the answers may surprise you. let's go to rob

. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald.aption colorado, l.l.c. >>> it's scary. >> revealing scans, touchy patdowns, what's in store for anyone flying on one of the busiest travel days of the year. >>> good afternoon. for many people this is the first time flying since the uproar over the new tsa security america's. anne makovec is life at sfo checking on the thanksgiving travel crowds and whether this opt out protest materialized. anne. >> reporter: not so far and it's noon on one of the busiest travel days of the year. this is the security line behind me at sfo at terminal 2 and you can see it's not backed up at all. things are moving very, very smoothly. so the protest that a lot of people had talked about did not seem to materialize into more than just a few people speaking their minds. it's one of the busiest travel days of the year and airline passengers are prepared for the worst. >> we're here about four hours early. >> reporter: a grassroots boycott of the tta's heightened security measures has been rumored for week

>> reporter: you could feed this picture in realtime to the command center. >> reporter: the programexpensive. each predator costs around $18 million and the aircraft has limits. they're only cleared to fly inside a narrow zone along the border and can't fly at all in bad weather. still, to him, the air fleet is essential and congress is sold. a fourth predator is on its way to the mexican border. bob orr, cbs news, arizona. >>> in other news, actress betty white is proving that there's little that can slow her down these days including fulfilling a girlhood dream. tuesday, white was made an honorary forest rangers by the oopdz u.s. forest service complete with hat and smoky the bear. the 88-year-old had wanted to be a park ranger when she was younger but women weren't allowed to have the job back then. white says her parents would have been over the moon. congratulations. >>> this morning on "the early show" an update on the stranded cruise ship off baja, california. i'm betty nguyen. this is the cbs morning news. c bv s morning news. if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol

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