robert lyles show us the neglect. >> rats and romps. >> reporter: he says it's one of the worst cases oakland has faced. >> locks on the doors. there will be chains shut with a padlock so if there was a fire you would be stuck inside. >> reporter: there was a fire and he says it wasn't smoke detectors that saved the tenants. >> they only woke up from the smell of the smoke. the reason that was is because none of the smoke detectors in the building was working. >> reporter: so the city sued this couple. we took the photos straight to miss gardner. >> illusion. >> reporter: you're saying this is an illusion. >> my manager says illusion. >> this is not a bedbug bite? what is it. >> drinking and drugs. >> reporter: she said they trumped up the charges. >> but city code enforcement found a decade of violations. >> everything i done, the judge never go there. i want to invite them to go see the apartment. >> some apartments are very beautiful. >> reporter: she didn't want us to go directly next door perhaps because that apartment's kitchen is filled with roaches. >> we come right next door

robert lyles shows us hours after the crash, several bicycles whizzed through the red light at the very same intersection where this happened. robert. >> i'm standing at that intersection and to understand what happened here, i show you, this is the embarcadaro. the victim made it across all six lanes which she didn't make it across was one lane and that is the bike lane. as you are about to see, crossing std lane could prove to be fatal. you're taught to look both ways. stay in the crosswalk. and never cross on a red. but on the embarcadaro. bicycle after bicyclist abandoning the rules of the road by regularly running the red light. >> i do see these guys moving pretty quick. >> combine speed with running the red and they intersect in one place. disaster. >> she is currently being treated with life threatening injuries. >> san francisco police are referring to this 77-year-old woman believed to be a tourist run down as she crossed the street. >> it appears at this point that the bicyclist ran through the red light. >> police are investigating how much speed this man generated before pl

reporting from concord, i'm robert lyles, cbs 5. >>> and other news making the bay area headlines, joe the right to negotiate for his plan to build a hotel complex across from the new 49ers stadium in santa clara. city con sieve gave montana's company the exclusive negotiating agreement for a year. >>> it didn't take long for gavin newsome to sell his home. his house was on the market five days ago. according to real estate websites, a purchase of the home is now pending. newsome and his wife moved to marin saying they need more room for their growing family. >> it is supposedly supposed to be funny, but not everyone is laughing. who steaming around the new campaign. >>> and you know what they say, it's all about location. why it could cost you more to ,, >>> a bitter divorce leads to a vicious attack and the story contains some graphic details. an orange county woman is being held on a million dollars tonight. katherine q. becker is accused of drugging her husband and slicing off his, yeah. with a 10-inch kitchen knife. she then threw the thing into a garbage disposal. >> officers and

robert lyles on what investigators think started it all. . >> well allen, that platoon of more than 100 fairfield firefighters has diminished and as you see behind me, to a smaller crew of firefighters manning a ladder truck. they are -- that one story high pile of melted crates. now firefighters go on to tell me it is much more than produce crates that burned here. they tell us it was solid gasoline. so you can understand that when they are stacked 20 feet high, how all of that turned into an inferno. and you're about to understand how the lack of water pressure helped this fire burn late into the night. >> how do you fight something that is effectively solid gasoline? >> it's very difficult. >> it has been high pressure hoses and foam fire retardant. blasting the blaze since just after 1:00. but at sun down, the flames refused to drown. >> any sense of the temperatures that this fire reached? >> close to 1,000, maybe 1500. if you go to the side of this complex where the grass is, you'll see the pole, the whole metal and they are bent like

robert lyles on what investigators think started it all. robert. >> reporter: just the past 30 minutes, that large platoon of firefighters disbanded, but they are still on scene as i step out of the way. that's evidence by that ladder truck that is still extended above a one story high pile of molten plastic. firefighters tell us what burned here was much more than produce crates. instead they describe it as gasoline in solid form. so they say that's why when a worker torched one crate, five acres of crates went up like a golden inferno. and you're about to learn why water pressure allowed this fire to grow out of control. >> how do you fight something that is effectively solid gasoline? >> it's very difficult. >> it's been high pressure hoses and foam fire retardant. at sun down, the flames refused to drowned. >> any sense of the temperature that this fire reached if. >> close to 1,000, maybe 1500. if you go to the side of the complex, you'll see the metal and they are bent like straws. >> that heat was generated by 15,000 plastic produce c

in conquer, robert lyles, cbs 5. >>> weighs as much as a healthy newborn baby. his first tv interview was with cbs 5. well now some are accusing him of lying. grace lee on how one prospector says he knows that the story is a fake. >> the story of the 8-pound washington gold nugget nestles high up in the mother load certainly painted a pretty picture, but its tail as the largest chunk of gold found in modern california history may be its undoing since it sold at auction for $460,000 in march, it got international news coverage after seeing it, some have come forward to say it is all a scam. >> it was the last nugget from california, he is wrong. >> australian gold prospector says the washington nugget is not from california at all. he and his partner found it in australia in 1987. >> and we can see it sticking out of the gravel. >> they called it the orange ruffy because of its fish-like shape and sold it for $50,000. when you compare the images with the washington nugget, the physical similarities are striking and they are exactly the same weight. 98 troy ounces

robert lyles on the gathering tonight to remember the man known as brother john. >> in the nursery rhyme, brother john is asked, are you sleeping? why tonight centers on brother john, nothing here is a fairy tale. in fact, this makeshift memorial is a grim reminder of the murder of brother john. >> he lost his life giving and touching other lives. so just to support him, you know, it's his spirit, it's amazing. >> the unforgiving streets of oakland, 29-year-old paris powell was brother john. >> that man is 29 years old. >> just after midnight wednesday morning, powell, his pregnant wife and two stepdaughters were sitting in their minivan offering a fish dinner to william holloway when the night exploded. >> brother john -- the guy fired three shots. >> brother john was taken off life support wednesday night. she returned to the scene. >> i'm a little apprehensive about coming out. even though he means a lot to our family, he meant a lot to the community. >> he had no enemies. a murder nay is inexpolitic baling. outrageous to the oakland police department who have no suspect description,

but putting his troubled past aside, robert lyles shows many in the bay view district are angry that this shooting happened in their neighborhood at all. >> i'm angry. i'm so angry. >> this weekend's officer involved shooting seems to have divided the bay view. >> do not interfere. >> i'm not condoning what the police did by far. i don't want to see nobody getting hurt, but you know, somebody who has a criminal record, how can you -- you can't protect the criminal. >> that's exactly the picture san francisco police paint of 19-year-old kenneth harding. already convicted of the rape of a minor and an attempt to force that 14-year-old girl into prostitution face seattle prosecutors. >> it's insane. you know, the police think that we're stupid. >> seattle police tell our sister station, harding was a person of interest with a 19- year-old there. just days before he was shot and killed in bay view. a sense of anger has been brewing since the shooting. much of the aftermath captured on cell phone video. saying harding was unarmed. dowed police said -- >> at one point he turned and fired u

robert lyles explained. >> countless cities have nighttime curfews, but less than a dozen bay area cities have a daytime curfew and that score card just changed when the city of concord voted to legalize a daytime curfew and this particular legalization hits both kids and their parents in the pocketbook. >> there was another series of residential burglaries in january of 2011. >> concord's cops say with a spike in break ins, particularly downtown, this city needs to extend its nighttime curfew into the daylight. they want to sight any kid walking the streets between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. when they should be in school. >> with this curfew, i need papers to walk my dog after school. >> 79 out of every 100 olympic high school students were true want. truant. we asked the teens. >> the conditions were bad. kids would leave whenever they wanted to. >> they put up fences around the school. >> daytime curfew would function like a traffic ticket. $100 for the first offense, $200 for the second. by the third, the ticket soars to $500 and failure to appear could lead to bench warrant. almost all

robert lyles explains why not everyone is happy about ultraviolet sterilization. >> reporter: ultraviolet rays may perfect your tan and sometimes take the blues away. now san francisco utility is using ultra violet lights to protect your tap water. >> it works best on really clean water. >> reporter: 300 million- gallons of the water is what is coursing through these 16-foot wide pipes. inside the pipes are black lights much like those popularized in the 60s. but as it suggests these lights pack a disinfecting punch. >> should there be something in the water it zaps it with the black lights and will kill microscopic organisms should they be present. >> reporter: but this wasn't their idea. the e.p.a. mandated it because customers currently drink unfiltered water. seems a bold move for gas meters that emit signals and residents that worry microwaves and cell phones pose equal dangers. we even found mention of radiation including ultraviolet. >> this is regular san francisco tap water. >> reporter: is hard for some to swallow. >> you are adding what? >> a ph taster. >> it is turning blue. >

robert lyles shows us both sides went straight to the cameras to tell their side of the story. >> thed evenly tempered vaneer cracked. >> i got a call from speaker boehner who indicated he was going to be walking away from the negotiations. >> obama claims a deal with the republicans was at hand, one that would raise the debt ceiling through 2013, by cutting defense and domestic spending, cuts to medicare and social security to achieve a $3 trillion deficit reduction. >> we have run out of time and they are going to have to explain to me how it is that we are going to avoid default. >> boehner snapped back. >> there was no agreement publicly, privately, never an agreement and frankly not close to an agreement. and so i would just suggest that it's going to be a hot weekend here in washington. >> the speaker of the house says what was rejected today was a cut, cap, and balance proposal. that would tie the debt increase to sweeping federal cut. but the white house balked. >> dealing with the white house is like dealing with a bull of jell-o. >> what's the debt ceiling? think about your

robert lyles shows us both sides went straight to the cameras to tell their sides of the story. >> normally cool and even tempered veneer of president obama cracked after this phone call. >> just got a call about a half hour ago from speaker boehner who indicated that he was going to be walking away from the negotiations. >> obama claims a deal with republicans was at hand, one that would raise the debt ceiling through 2013. by cutting defense and domestic spending. to achieve a $3 trillion deficit reduction. >> we have run out of time and they are going to have to explain to me how it is that we are going to avoid default. >> boehner snapped back. >> there was no agreement publicly, privately, never an agrement and frankly not close to an agreement. and so i would just suggest that it's going to be a hot weekend here in washington, d.c. >> the speaker of the house says what was rejected today was a so-called cut, cap, and balance proposal that would tie the debt increase. but he says the white house balked. >> dealing with the white house is like dealing with a bull of jell-o. >> what's th

robert lyles shows us the mounting damages. >> reporter: at vallejo franklin middle school this is not only going onto the school, it is the only way to get to the scene of the crime. three to five thieves the superintendent believes sliced through metal brackets. >> they know how to cut live wire and they know how to pull it. >> reporter: at least 1500 volts are flowing through this one pipe. >> very high voltage. this is 300 feet. >> reporter: the devil may care the danger these bandits are after the treasure inside copper wiring. >> $5000 just for the wire. >> in this one pipe? >> in this one pine. a rash in the month of july it has been 10 hits in july alone and we had 14 overall. >> reporter: spread over eight vallejo franklin has been hit four times. threr -- they are not only professional, they are fearless. someone interrupted the job a few days ago. what did they do? came back this morning to finish the crime. no fear. they don't believe in cuts. >> reporter: they may know there are fewer patrols because of the cuts. >> the police are doing what they can do. it will really com

robert lyles has been talking to neighbors who are seeing and smelling the disaster close up. elizabeth, ann mentioned that fire officials are saying that this is under control at least at this point. but as i stand in the golden ridge neighborhood, about two miles north of that fire, i want you to see what we can see here and that is still thing plumes of black smoke from the fire. as we pan down the street back to my left, you see this incredibly large subdivision. more than 100 homes of in the golden ridge neighborhood. the thick, black smoke that has draped this neighborhood throughout the day, residents say that it has been this severe since about 1:00 this afternoon. in fact, they tell me that it has been a lot worse. one of the residents who has been here throughout the day is named rammy hussein. he has taken photos and exactly what he has seen throughout the day. you said you first knew there was a fire because you heard fire trucks and their sirens. >> correct. >> reporter: give me a sense of what it looked like earlier in the afternoon. >> early in the afternoon we

robert lyles, cbs 5. >>> cracking down on speeders. why the chp is stepping up enforcement on the bay bridge. >>> plus, it comes as no surprise to drivers. just how bad bay area roads rank nationwide. and how about tropical storm don? barrels down on texas tonight. why some folks are welcoming it with open arms. ,, ,,,,,, ,, crunched the numbers and numbe particular >>> there is a new crackdown on people who speed on the bay bridge. the chp's crunched some numbers and found a particular time of day is like almost anything goes on the bridge. christin ayers on how the spike in speeders was discovered and the time period the chp is targeting. >> the "s" curve is starting. you can see the sign is marked 40 miles an hour. you can see the rumble strips. >> reporter: a barrage of speed deterrents from flashing lights to reflecting signs. >> it's almost information overload when you get on the bridge. >> reporter: the one thing drivers likely won't see, speed sensors built into the bridge. they have been there for a couple of years now. and t

police believe he didn't follow the rules of the road yesterday, but robert lyle shows us hours after the crash, several bikes went through the red light at the same intersection. >> reporter: you're taught to look both ways, stay in the crosswalk, and never cross on a red, but on the embarkdaro, our cameras captured bicyclist after bikist abandoning the ruling out of the road by running the red light. >> i do see these guys running quick. >> reporter: the speed, and running the red, they intersect in one place, disaster. >> she is being treated with life-threatening injuries. >> reporter: san francisco police are refer together 67- year-old woman believed to be a tourist run down as she crossed during the night of the morning rush hour. >> it appears at this point the bicyclist ran through the red light. >> reporter: police are investigating how much speed the man generated before plowing into the woman. witnesses heard her scream and then watched her horrified as shy felt head-first to the asphalt do you see the bicyclists runs the light? >> reporter: sometimes they do. >> reporter:

robert lyles shows us hours after the crash, several bicycles whiz through the red light at the very ntersection. robert. >> witnesses tell san francisco police the elderly woman made it across all six lanes of the busy road safely, but there was one leat yet to cross and that's the bike lane and as you are about it see, crossing here could prove to be fatal. you're taught to look both ways. stay in the crosswalk. and never cross on a red. but on the embarcadaro, bikist after bikist abandoning the rules of the road. >> now combine speed with running the red and they both intersect in one place. disaster. >> she was being treated with life threat ping injuries. police are referring to the 67- year-old woman believed to be a tourist run down as she crossed at mission street during the height of this morning's rush hour. >> it appears at this point that the bicyclist ran through the red light. >> police are investigating how much speed this man generated. witnesses say they heard her scream, and watched horrified as she fell head first. >> do you see bicyclists running the flight. >> som

robert lyles on why bay area doctors are misdiagnosing the problem and a word of caution.e pictures are startling. >> you know, there's a lot of money up there. >> reporter: david malone knows san francisco streets and that includes where to find snow. >> right there on 16th and mission by the bart station there. it's readily known as you can cop everything there and it's really insane because everyone knows that there's undercover cops all around that area, too. >> reporter: but that didn't stop malony's 28 year-long literal nosedive into what the streets call gutter glitter. in no time, the atherton native had spent every time and was robbing and stealing to support his habit. >> i was doing an eight ball a day at my peak which is a whole lot. it's 3.5 grams. >> reporter: proof that the so- called addiction of the 1980s is actually thriving in the 2.0 generation. >> it's everywhere. it's everywhere. >> reporter: but modern day cocaine is packing more than an instant high. it's eating users. >> the body is eating away at itself. >> reporter: the internist and addiction sp

robert lyles shows us the neglect and how the gavel has fallen. >> rats and roaches and mold and mildeweporter: neighborhood law attorney jesse newmar says it's one of the worst landlord- tenant violations oakland has faced. >> raw sewage floods into apartments, locks on the doors that are chained shut with a padlock so if there was a fire you would be stuck inside. >> reporter: there was a fire at 1733 seminary and newmark says it wasn't smoke detectors that saved the tenants. >> they only woke up from the smell of the smoke. and the reason that was is because none of the smoke detectors in the building were working. >> reporter: so the city sued this woman and her husband john calling them -- >> slumlords is really the only appropriate word for it. >> reporter: accusing the couple of permitting bedbugs to feast on renters at four east oakland apartment buildings they own. so we took the photos straight to mrs. gardner at one of the those buildings on 23rd avenue. >> illusion. >> reporter: you're saying this is an illusion? >> yes. >> reporter: it is not a bedbug bite? >> no. >> what i

robert lyles shows us it's getting zapped. >> reporter: ultraviolet rays may perfect your tan and sometimes even take the blues away. well, now san francisco public utility is using uv light to protect your tap water. >> it works best on really clean water like hetch hetchy water. >> reporter: 300 million gallons of hetch hetchy water is what's coursing through these 16-foot-wide pipes. inside the pipes are black lights much like those popularized in the '60s. but as this demonstration suggests, these black lights pack a disinfecting punch . >> should there be something in the water it's hit with the black light so it's a treatment process that will kill microscopic organisms. >> reporter: this wasn't their idea. it was mandated because they drink unfiltered water. still it seems uv is a bold move for a region that opposes gas meters that emit signals and residents who worry microwaves and cell phones may cause problem. it's hard for some to swallow. you're adding what to the water? >> it's a ph tester. >> reporter: because marianne says her business is exposing the dangers at your tap. >>

robert lyles. >> just in the last 15 minutes we learned new information about a high speed chase that started in fremont and. it started about eight when the driver of a silver mercedes refused to pay over. two men in the car drove off at times going 70 miles an hour. they were busted after the highway patrol put down spike strips. police thought they were the two suspects wanted in connection with several murders but now they are saying the men aren't the suspects but the car is registered to one of the suspects. >> one day after the fire at the plastics plant in fairfield, the area's air quality is back to normal. the e approximate, a office is testing air samples but officials say that's eightieth plastic that was burned wasn't worse for the environment than a wildfire this are checking to see if there is any water contamination. >>> a man who brings food to the homeless is on life sport after being shot in the head. he is known as brother john and he had just given a homeless man a hot meal when someone in a van shot him. his wife was grazed by a bullet. she will be okay. their ch

. >> robert lyles, cbs5. >> why it will be harder to get that speeding ticket off your record. >> it'sled the university of california, so why are there far more students coming from out of state? >>> and the nugget is real. the story is not. why it may not actually be from california's gold country. ,, denny's new tour of america menu. 50 star cuisine. the new tour of america menu. starting at $4.99. only at denny's. america's diner is always open. >>> it is now more difficult to get that speeding ticket erased from your diving record. a new law went into effect today to close a loophole. it prevents repeat offenders from attending traffic school. the dmv got frustrated with those attending two to three times a year because the courts weren't communicating with each other. the dmv will create a centralized center. >> at uc berkeley this fall, there will be new students from out of state. 26% of new freshman and transfer students are not coming from california. the chronicle says that is an increase of 23% compared to last year. those from out of state pay about $35,000 a year. the boo

. >> reporter: in oakland, robert lyle, cbs 5. >>> and a memorial for a man, his buddies tell us was the nicest guy in the world. deputy sheriff killed while trying to help his friend's daughter. a dozen motorcycle officers led the recession to the auditorium. jim was unarmed and off-duty when he tried to break up a fight between his friends daughter and the exboyfriend. the exboyfriend shot and killed him. >> jim was very generous, kind- hearted. he's the type of guy that would do anything for you. many people were surprised, they didn't have to ask in order to get help from jim. >> if you needed anything, he'd do it for you. if you needed your car washed, he'd wash it. he was an absolute great all- around guy. >> reporter: matteson's murder was the first from the sheriff's department's in more than 100 years. >>> the santa clause fired from the macy's in union square for telling a racy joke has died. he was found as i had hotel today. he worked at the bar after macy's dumped him and the bar gave him a lifetime contract to play santa. he was 69 years old. >>> and in oakland, the may

robert lyles shows us why. >> still wears the ribbons of mourning. >> we knew him personally. >> theted owner of the restaurant, a fixture at the corner of 39th and international for decades. just before dawn on april 8, gunmen turned compos' life dream into a horrifying murder scene. >> it's frustrating to know that someone can commit this murder and be walking among us. >> for those that built their dreams, it was enough. >> we have made some very specific demands. >> that demand born out of this city promise. >> we are going to innone date that area in the future, to make sure residents are safe. >> today, oakland police installing the first of 17 digital cameras. 13 more will hang high above foothill and fruitvail. these electronic eyes in the skies -- for a reasons you know. >> it is believed that the shooter ran which way? >> believed the shooters took off in a vehicle that was waiting. >> a camera six doors down didn't capture the murder suspects. the new high resolution cameras will allow cops to zoom in on faces, even license plates. in exchange fruitvail merchants -- >> wil

robert lyles shows us these guys are the very definition of bold. >> at vallejo's ben franklin middle school, up on the roof isn't a song. it's the only way to get to the scene of a crime. >> they are professionals. they know what they are doing. they are technicians. >> operating with surgical precision says assistant superintendent. 3 to 5 thieves went through heavy duty bolts and brackets. >> they know how to cut live wire and know how to full it. >> about 15 00 volts are going through this pipe. the danger these bandits are after the treasure inside, copper wiring. >> about $5,000 just for the wire in this one pipe. it's been a rash in the month of july as we communicated out. it's been ten hits in july alone and 14 overall. >> spread over eight campuses, franklin has been hit four times. >> this band of thieves is not only professional, they are fearless. something or someone interrupted the job that started right here two days ago. so what did they do? came back this morning to finish the crime. >> no fear, they don't believe it. >> cuts mean fewer patrols. >> what about police

robert lyles with the story. >> reporter: it has been three months in oakland's fruitvale district still wearing the strings of mourning. he was 58-year-old jesus compost. the owner of a restaurant. a fixture at the corner of 39th and international for decades. but just before dawn on april 8th gunmen turned his life dream into a horrifying murder scene. >> it is frustrating to know that someone can actually commit this murder and still be walking among us. >> reporter: so for those who have also built their dreams in the fruitvale they want more. >> we have made demands out of what we respect. >> reporter: born out of this city promise. >> we will unindate the area in the very future to make sure -- to make sure residents are kept save. >> reporter: between high and fruitvale. these electronic skies. >> it is believed the shooter ran this way. >> it is believed that the shooters took off in a vehicle that was waiting. >> reporter: but a camera just six doors down didn't capture the fleeing motor suspects. it was recording the opposite direction. so the new $1500 high resolution cameras

robert lyles has been talking to people watching the fire and joins us now. robert. >> reporter: you talked about fire officials getting an upper hand on this fire and quite possibly the winds are creating a slight effect right now. as i step out of the way, what you can see as i stand about two miles north of the fire is a wave of flames and thick column of smoke billowing into the clouds. as our camera pans to the left, this is nerve-racking for the people who live in the subdivision called the golden ridge subdivision. again, about 100 homes here about two miles north of the macro plastics company. right now, as fire continues to burn, what is most ominous to those living here is the sky. this fire has left a black dense cloud deck over the neighborhood. rami hosseini grabbed a home camera and captured what he described as something out of an apocalyptic movie. >> early afternoon we saw thick smoke behind me where you can see flames from behind the building. behind there you saw giant smoke going straight newspaper a mushroom cloud shape and then progressiv